S6 that locks after timeout, requires 2-3 home/power presses to wake up. Help?

[waqqas31]

Hello,

Apart from dreadful battery life, my S6 has behaved pretty well, until a few days ago.

If I leave it alone and let the screen lock timeout elapse (10 minutes), I will need to press a mixed sequence of home and power buttons to wake up the screen. E.g. Home-home-home (3 presses) will not wake it up, but Home-Power will, and so will Home-home-power, etc.

If I interact with the device before the device times out, the screen wakes up with just one press of the home or power buttons.

The only app that I have interacting with my home key is "Screen Off" (manual standby-and-lock app), which is set as my Device Assistance app, but I have had that installed since Day 1 (in December), and no issues such as the present one have popped up (until now).

Any help in finding the culprit to this odd problem would greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[B. Diddy]

Have you tried uninstalling Screen Off, just to see if that makes a difference? Even if you've had it installed for a while, it's possible an update to either that app or to your system might have caused some sort of conflict.