Absolutely Crazy

[NastyNeil]

Has anyone ever had this problem:
This happened to me twice today. The first time I was talking on my phone via Bluetooth, and the second I was talking on the phone using my headphones while at the gym.

Earlier today with the Bluetooth in my car I was talking on the phone using my car's bluetooth and had to leave the car, so I just turned the car off and when I got out of the car I ended my phone call non Bluetooth. As soon as I ended the call, the phone started spazzing out and vibrating and showing all of my screens and just going absolutely crazy and eventually stopped.

While at the gym about an hour ago I was listening to music on my device through my amazon MP3 app when I received a phone call. It paused my music when I answered the call. I spoke for around 40 seconds and then when I chose to end call it started spazzing out again and nothing would stop it for a while until I finally put the phone down flat. Pressing the power button while the phone was in the frenzy did nothing but take screen shots. When I was finally able to get it to calm down I held the power botton and hard reset the phone.

I have owned this phone since launch day (in store) and this has never happened. Two days ago I did take the phone to a sprint service center to have my wifi checked out (which turned out to be a problem with the positioning of my own home Belkin router, and they did do a factory reset of the phone. Could this have caused some type of problem?

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Since the hard reset the phone seems to be fine with no problems.

 

[Pew446]

The screenshot issue makes me think your home button is stuck... Now that I think of it that sounds like exactly what it is.

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[NastyNeil]

It only started taking screen shots when I pushed the power button to try and power off the phone. The phone just went scitz and wouldn't stop. It was truly bizarre.

 

[NastyNeil]

Oh, you said home button. How does the home button get stuck?

 

[ginglish]

Power button and Volume Down will also take screen shots.
Could Volume rocker be stuck? Do you have it in a case?

 

[NastyNeil]

Yes the phone is in a case, but I don't think what you are saying is the problem. It is hard to explain without actually seeing it, LOL. It was like the phone was possessed by the devil himself. I was just Flashing and vibrating and showing each of my 7 screens. My immediate reaction was to try and just hold the power button and power off, but all it did was take screen shots. Setting it down and letting it just calm down on it own was the only thing that got it to stop. After that I hard reset it and all is well since. I have even tried to do the same things I was doing when this happened and it hasn't happened again.

I hope the hard reset fixed it.

 

[monkeypimp]

was it showing your 7 screens in the same way when you hit the home button it shows those screens?

 

[NastyNeil]

It was showing them that way and then as individual full screens and also the screens in my recent apps. It was as if the phone had memory of every thing I did on the phone the last day or two and was very quickly doing a repeat of it all at once. It was truly the craziest thing I have every experienced with the phone.

 

[kbp08tls]

Definitely sounds like your home button is on the fritz somehow. Vibrating - which would be the haptic feedback from pressing the home button. Screens going crazy - from pressing the home button. Taking screen shots when pressing power - because the home button is already being registered as being pressed. And whatever is affecting your home button may be affecting your recent apps button as well.
You need to return your phone.

 

[NastyNeil]

Is it possible that when I took off my otterbox defender case yesterday to clean the phone, and the actual screen protector itself, that it caused this problem. I used windex to clean the inside of the screen protector and maybe I didn't let it dry enough before putting it back on the phone. Maybe it caused it to stick or do something weird to the home button or any of the 3 menu buttons. When I did the hard reset I also took the case off the phone and wiped it with my shirt before putting it back on. I have been trying to recreate the problem and have not had any problems at all.

 

[kbp08tls]

Could be that when you put the case back on it applied just enough pressure in the area of the buttons to make your phone go nuts.

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[NastyNeil]

Interestingly enough I was talking to a friend of mine earlier who owns the HTC One X for AT&T. I was explaining to him my problem and he started to laugh. He had the exact same problem and it was because he had never turned off Fast Boot since getting his phone. Leaving it on always prevents the phone from ever really going to sleep or resetting issues or cleaning out things on the phone taking up memory. Once he unchecked fastboot this issue never happened to him again. I have since unchecked fastboot as well, I shut the phone off for 5 minutes then powered up and then did a reset and so far no issues at all, and in fact the phone feels a bit faster. Just a heads up to anyone like myself that didn't know this. I always just felt that the fastboot option was great because it literally restarted the phone, well, fast. Even unchecked this phone boots up pretty fast.

 

[NastyNeil]

Well either way, doing it didn't fix the problem of my phone going crazy and having something wrong with it. Got a new phone and I have no problems now. Fast boot for me isn't that much faster than unchecking it so I'm just going to leave it unchecked.

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