I don't know if this is a known issue or I'm the only one but do you guys have problems with the proximity sensor. I sometimes hang up when talking to people on the phone. Is this me or an issue with the rom?
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I had that same problem with my old Motorola Droid because it had the prox sensor on the upper left hand corner of the screen, and many times, my ear would not always cover it and so the screen would turn on by itself and then my cheek would hit the END button. Later, I got a new Droid and the new one looks the same as the old one except I noticed the prox sensor is now on the upper right hand corner of the screen and now my ear seems to always cover it correctly.
But back with my old phone, I found an app that worked perfectly to aide in this problem of your ear always uncovering the prox sensor. It is called 'MyLock Phone Tools' (available from the Market), and what it does is lock the screen (evident when the screen has a green tint to it), and to unlock the screen manually, I set it (through the app settings) to unlock using the camera snap picture button. I also set it so it answers calls when you hit that camera snap button as well. So basically, you get a call, phone is ringing, so you'd hit the camera snap button to answer phone, then say you had phone against your ear and the phone screen would turn on when prox sensor would uncover, but screen will now stay fully locked, but if you need to pull the phone away from your ear to type in dial pad options, the screen now is on with a greenish tint to it. Now simply get in the habit to use your small pinky finger (if left handed), or to use your thumb (if right handed) to hit the camera snap button and the green tint goes away and screen is now enabled and buttons all work. Then when you put phone against your face screen turns off due to prox sensor getting covered and now becomes locked again so that if screen falsely turns on again, it will show the green tint and be locked again. Try this app, it will work good as a bandaide to this problem.
Like I said though, ultimately though, this is a hardware problem and was revised by a newer hardware which most people have never noticed. I found this out on my own. I guess only certain people experienced this issue depending on where their ear was located on their head or by their habits of how they hold their phone (according to a forum thread I read about where the guy said Verizon told him the issue did not occur with everyone). At that time though, this guy said Verizon never had the hardware revision, but I assume there were enough people who had been having this issue that resulted in the hardware revision. I hosed my old phone and had to buy a new one on eBay so I stumbled across the new revision by total accident.
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