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  • My android phone is being a nob.
  • thegreatape
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    1) Every call answered goes straight on to the speaker. I can’t find where/how to turn this off.

    2) The screen auto rotates even with that option turned off.

    Anyone know how to fix these?

    aracer
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    Get an iPhone 😈

    aracer
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    Get an iPhone 😈

    scotroutes
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    Don’t get an iPhone unless you want to double post everything.

    thegreatape
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    OK, tried that, but can’t find an iPhone in my house 🙂

    tomhoward
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    Sounds like a fault with the hardware, rather than the os?

    How to fix? Get an iPhone.

    scotroutes
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    Have you tried switching it off and on again (seriously)?

    A complete reset (carefully saving all data first)?

    aracer
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    Oh I posted that from my android phone

    As you suggest, when I’ve had similar weird problems, turning it off and back on seems to sort them out.

    thegreatape
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    I have, fixed the auto rotate but only temporarily, it starts up again after a while.

    thegreatape
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    Switching off that is, not a reset.

    oldnpastit
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    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8[/video]

    matt_outandabout
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    What phone is it?

    Mine has an answer button I can drag to ‘answer’, ‘speaker’ or ‘voicemail’ – I do hesitate to suggest it, but user error?

    btbb
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    Had a problem answering calls on a Nexus 5 and the issue was traced to the screen protector I’d put on. Removed it and it works ok. May not solve your problem though!

    globalti
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    Do a hard reboot, by taking the battery out, which you can’t do with an iPhone. Solves everything.

    thegreatape
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    Well I thought I’d backed it up but seem to have lost everything after a factory reset. Which didn’t solve the problems.

    TheFlyingOx
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    Does it show a little car in the status bar when someone calls you? Speakerphone and screen rotation sounds like it thinks it is in one of those car phone cradle things…

    thegreatape
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    No, doesn’t do that.

    Drac
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    You have to take the battery out to a hard reboot. How prehistoric.

    scotroutes
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    Very few phones (Android or otherwise) let you take the battery out. It’s usually a key-press combination

    CountZero
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    Do a hard reboot, by taking the battery out, which you can’t do with an iPhone. Solves everything.

    On an iPhone, you can do a hard reset just with a button combo.
    And being able to take out the battery totally compromises the structure of the phone: you can’t have a waterproof or water-resistant phone and be able to take out the battery.

    thegreatape
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    After all that, it appears that both problems were being caused by fluff in the mini USB port – presumably causing some sort of short circuit that made the phone think it was in a car holder or something???

    fasthaggis
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    Are you saying it was a fluffing problem all along? 😛

    thegreatape
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    Appears so. You’d think a man that had to empty his navel of fluff every day would think to check this straight away.

    cp
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    An iPhone wouldn’t have got dust in its socket 😉

    roger_mellie
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    No, an iPhone would’ve just run out of power.

    boriselbrus
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    And being able to take out the battery totally compromises the structure of the phone: you can’t have a waterproof or water-resistant phone and be able to take out the battery.

    Well that’s bollocks. My Galaxy xcover3 has a removable battery and is waterproof to IP67 – 1m for 30 minutes. I also have cameras and GPS units which do the same. Maybe your comment should be “apple can’t make a phone with a removable battery which could cope with anything more than a steamy bathroom”.

    Drac
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    No, an iPhone would’ve just run out of power.

    Androids never run out of power? They’ve invented perpetual energy?

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