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digthemlows
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September 8th, 2010 09:00
Stock 1.6 US Phone Bug??
I can recreate this every time. Call someone that wont answer so it goes to their voice mail, once it starts ringing set it to speaker phone and once I do I cannot disconnect the call. The screen doesn't work.....the only way to stop it is to shut off or take the battery out............anyone else have this?? I can hit the home key and do all kinds of things but the call never disconnects, I see it flashing in the notifications bar............when I go back to the call I still can't hit "end" ........... anyone else have this??
So far the phone works great for everything except a phone, I get the most little bugs and glitches when answering or hanging up from calls.
Ok the auto brightness thing did not work. So, I downloaded a free dailer app from the Android App Store via my phone. I installed it and it seems to work without the bugs. Based on this it would seem to be a sofware problem with the native dailer app. I hope this helps.
P.S. The name of the app was SuperDail. I chose it becase it was free and had pretty good raitings
duncandisorderl
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Posted September 9th, 2010 07:00
try installing "tedd's droid tools". it says it's a beta but it works fine on my streak. I've yet to experience the exact scenario you describe there, but my problem was using the streak "conventionally" & then having the thing go to speaker or drop the call because the screen was touched by my ear.
this app stops that happening; it seems to kill the screen completely during calls unless you hit a certain labelled spot for a long-press, & allows you to answer calls with the camera button.
I suspect, therefore, that this would at least "intercept" the mechanism that's causing your lock-up.
hth-
duncan.
The third party app does not work for incoming calls the native phone app is launch by default. I do not know if there is a way to change that. On thing I did notice, at least on my specific device. If you hold the hone in landscape orientation the issues are not present. I only seems to happen when the streak is in landscape mode. I turned off automatic rotation. But when calls are answered it started off in landscape mode. And I could not automatically rotate it to portrait mode. So, I leave automatic rotation on and just manually rotate the Streak to portrait mode to make and receive phone calls - still not a good user experience. But maybe it will get you through some of those calls. Perhaps the promised 2.2 update will fix this bug :emotion-2:
Jason3850
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Posted September 8th, 2010 22:00
I have the exact same issue. I just got my phone last Friday. I called Dell tech support and they suggested that I do a system restore. I did this twice with the technical support agent while were were on the phone. This did not resolve the problem. I found a user on another blog that claims chaning the auto brighness setting fixed the problem. I have not tried this yet.