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How to END a Call?

andpete1

Newbie
Nov 6, 2009
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The Droid is a very fun device and I love playing with it. But it is a PHONE first. I've made lots of calls today but I personally, have not ended any of them. They always end with the other person hanging up and my screen going to the home screen. The display will not wake up during a phone call unless I slide the phone open. Has anyone else experienced this? I understand that you dont want your cheek to press any buttons, but there has to be an easier way to wake up the phone.

Summarize the problem - I want the display to wake up while in a phone call without having to slide out the keyboard
 
The Droid is a very fun device and I love playing with it. But it is a PHONE first. I've made lots of calls today but I personally, have not ended any of them. They always end with the other person hanging up and my screen going to the home screen. The display will not wake up during a phone call unless I slide the phone open. Has anyone else experienced this? I understand that you dont want your cheek to press any buttons, but there has to be an easier way to wake up the phone.

Summarize the problem - I want the display to wake up while in a phone call without having to slide out the keyboard

Pull the phone away from your head and the screen should wake up. The phone has a sensor that puts the display to sleep when it is on your ear. Just give it a couple seconds.
 
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Yeah thats what motorola said. I guess my screen sensor? must be defective?

I put the phone on a table. I make a call. The display IMMEDIATELY goes dark, whether its by my face or not. Will not wake up without sliding the keyboard out.

The display will stay active though if I have the it on speakerphone.
 
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Yeah thats what motorola said. I guess my screen sensor? must be defective?

I put the phone on a table. I make a call. The display IMMEDIATELY goes dark, whether its by my face or not. Will not wake up without sliding the keyboard out.

The display will stay active though if I have the it on speakerphone.

Unfortunately, it does sound like the sensor is defective (or you found a setting I can't find). When I make a call on the table, the screen stays lit. Once I put my hand over the sensor (same area as the LED notification), the screen goes dim.
 
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Unfortunately, it does sound like the sensor is defective (or you found a setting I can't find). When I make a call on the table, the screen stays lit. Once I put my hand over the sensor (same area as the LED notification), the screen goes dim.
The proximity sensor on my Moment works just like this. Sounds like he may need to return it and get a new one.
 
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No I do not have a screen protector on.

Theory - they set up the phone at the store today with the factory plastic screen protector still on it. Do you think that when it initialized everything for the first time that it got a bad reading or something? So that maybe a hard reset without the screen protector might fix it?
 
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No I do not have a screen protector on.

Theory - they set up the phone at the store today with the factory plastic screen protector still on it. Do you think that when it initialized everything for the first time that it got a bad reading or something? So that maybe a hard reset without the screen protector might fix it?
It couldnt hurt to try a hard reset before returning it, but I have my doubts about it correcting the problem. Who know though..
 
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Heh, I guess that app may be useful for those with dysfunctional proximity sensors, however, I just do it the old fashioned way, which is to pull the phone away from my ear and hit the end button.

By the way, if your proximity sensor really isn't working, IMO, it's worth taking in for a replacement, rather than using some roundabout way to emulate a end call button.
 
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