Problems I'm having with the Nexus S

[6tr6tr]

I've had three main problems:

1. Screen freezes occasionally when it was off and a call comes in

This is where it was sitting on a desk or in my pocket, a call comes in and the screen lights up with the call info and green/red buttons but it's unresponsive to any touches. Anyone know if there's a fix for this? Do people on Cyanogen/etc get this as well?

2. Navigation unable to get GPS signal if GPs already on

Normally, I have GPS off to save battery and then I'll start the navigation app which asks me to turn on GPS (sending me to the settings page), I'll turn it on and hit "back" and it works perfectly. But if GPS is already on when I start Navigation, it says it can't find a GPS signal. I even restarted the phone - still can't gett GPS. So I then turned off GPS, started navigation app, it told me it needed to turn on GPS, I do that, hit "back" and BOOM, it has a signal.

3. Battery life is horrendous

Is the only way to fix this via rooting and clearing battery stats?

Anyone know of fixes for these issues? Anyone else getting them? If I could fix these three, the Nexus S would be perfect!

 

[gabbott]

Normally, I have GPS off to save battery and then I'll start the navigation app which asks me to turn on GPS (sending me to the settings page), I'll turn it on and hit "back" and it works perfectly. But if GPS is already on when I start Navigation, it says it can't find a GPS signal. I even restarted the phone - still can't gett GPS. So I then turned off GPS, started navigation app, it told me it needed to turn on GPS, I do that, hit "back" and BOOM, it has a signal.

Strange that you are seeing that, but I was going to say that turning off gps when you aren't using an app that needs it isn't saving you any battery life. Unless you have an errant app using it unknowingly, it just sits idle. In that case, you would need to address the errant app.

I always leave my gps on, and have not seen that issue you are experiencing yourself. Perhaps try just keeping gps on all the time and see if the issue goes away.

As far as a battery, one tip, do you use wifi a lot? If you are on a wifi signal quite a bit, set the wifi sleep policy to never. That will keep the phone on wifi for data when the screen goes off instead of trying to get a 3g/4g signal which would be more drain on the battery.

 

[Label facing right]

I've had three main problems:

1. Screen freezes occasionally when it was off and a call comes in

This is where it was sitting on a desk or in my pocket, a call comes in and the screen lights up with the call info and green/red buttons but it's unresponsive to any touches. Anyone know if there's a fix for this? Do people on Cyanogen/etc get this as well?

I've had this happen from time to time, I've noticed that it seems to happen when the screen has lots of fingerprints on it. I've either cleaned the screen or pulled the battery and it usually fixes it. Also worth noting, this has happened on almost every phone I've had, NS4G, Evo 4G, Palm Pre, and also on my girlfriends Intercept. So I don't think it's soely a NS4G problem but just a problem with some smartphones in general.

 

[6tr6tr]

Strange that you are seeing that, but I was going to say that turning off gps when you aren't using an app that needs it isn't saving you any battery life. Unless you have an errant app using it unknowingly, it just sits idle. In that case, you would need to address the errant app.

I always leave my gps on, and have not seen that issue you are experiencing yourself. Perhaps try just keeping gps on all the time and see if the issue goes away.

As far as a battery, one tip, do you use wifi a lot? If you are on a wifi signal quite a bit, set the wifi sleep policy to never. That will keep the phone on wifi for data when the screen goes off instead of trying to get a 3g/4g signal which would be more drain on the battery.

Thanks for the wifi tip! I just changed it so hopefully out helps a little.but even when I'm out and have wifi off it's still poor battery life.

 

[6tr6tr]

I've had this happen from time to time, I've noticed that it seems to happen when the screen has lots of fingerprints on it. I've either cleaned the screen or pulled the battery and it usually fixes it. Also worth noting, this has happened on almost every phone I've had, NS4G, Evo 4G, Palm Pre, and also on my girlfriends Intercept. So I don't think it's soely a NS4G problem but just a problem with some smartphones in general.

I don't know, I've never had this on any other phone, and I had a pre before as well.also my screen was super clean with no finger prints.

 

[j_grouchy]

As far as a battery, one tip, do you use wifi a lot? If you are on a wifi signal quite a bit, set the wifi sleep policy to never. That will keep the phone on wifi for data when the screen goes off instead of trying to get a 3g/4g signal which would be more drain on the battery.

How do you change the wifi sleep policy? I don't see a setting for this...only the on/off toggle and the network notification toggle.

 

[gabbott]

How do you change the wifi sleep policy? I don't see a setting for this...only the on/off toggle and the network notification toggle.

After you go to the wifi settings page, hit the menu button and you then go into an advanced settings page.

 

[Label facing right]

How do you change the wifi sleep policy? I don't see a setting for this...only the on/off toggle and the network notification toggle.

Under the Wifi settings menu tap the menu button and you should see a pop up with advaced, click that and I think sleep policy is the first item.

 

[crzycrkr]

I've never had any of these issue. Maybe try a factory reaet?

 

[skidmark]

I've had this happen from time to time, I've noticed that it seems to happen when the screen has lots of fingerprints on it. I've either cleaned the screen or pulled the battery and it usually fixes it. Also worth noting, this has happened on almost every phone I've had, NS4G, Evo 4G, Palm Pre, and also on my girlfriends Intercept. So I don't think it's soely a NS4G problem but just a problem with some smartphones in general.

I have had this happen a few times, and what has worked for me is hitting the power button to turn off the screen, and then hitting the power button again to turn the screen back on. Then I was able to swipe to answer as normal, without ignoring the call (bc I hit the power button).

 

[6tr6tr]

I have had this happen a few times, and what has worked for me is hitting the power button to turn off the screen, and then hitting the power button again to turn the screen back on. Then I was able to swipe to answer as normal, without ignoring the call (bc I hit the power button).

Thanks, I'll try that. It's a work-around, not a solution but if it works, that's fine.