Re: Frozeo phone

On 2025-04-20 21:26, VanguardLH wrote:

db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:

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This phone combine the Power button and fingerprint reader.  The problem
with that design is sometime you are trying to power off the phone, but
it instead thinks you are trying to scan your fingerprint.

Just use your nail.

 Another
design defect is using the Power button to sleep the phone.  You want to
power off, but as you withdraw your finger then it thinks you want to
come out of sleep mode.

Not a problem. Power off is a long press.

 I have the same setup on my LG phone.  Although
I have 8 fingerprints recorded, seems the first one (right index finger)
is the one more likely to get the Power button to work as a power button
instead of trying to scan my finger or to go on/out of sleep mode.  It
may help to go into the Android setting to General -> Lock -> Power key
instantly locks to turn that off.  Another option under the fingerprint
options is to enable/disable using the fingerprint scanner to unlock the
phone.  Quite often I press the Power button to unlock, but it
immediately relocks as I'm drawing away my finger, so I have to press
and release the Power button VERY quickly to unlock.  Still a bit flaky,
but not as much.  I have to apply and hold my finger until the buzz ends
for recognizing my finger, and then slow press in the Power button to
lock.  To unlock, I have to press the Power button very quickly (press
and withdraw fast) to unlock; else, it thinks it is supposed to relock
right after unlocking.  Next phone I get will have the fingerprint
scanner under the front glass instead of combined with the Power button.

I have two motorolas with the finger sensor on the power button, and it is not a problem at all. It is well designed.

 

I also tried sticking a paper clip into the small hole at the top, which I
thought is for a reset, but no good there either.

 My guess is you stabbed the headphone jack.
 https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g100-10791.php
 Says it has a 3.5 mm [headphone] jack.  That's disappeared in a lot of
newer phones forcing you to switch to Bluetooth headsets.  Carlos' guess
was a mic port, but I think that would be too small for a paper clip
unless it was a thin mini-clip.

It is the exact size for a paper clip. I just tried carefully without pushing it inside, half a millilitre.

There is no recessed Reset button in any cell phone I've ever seen. It's
a phone, not a router or cable modem.

Right. And it would be documented.

 

What would do this?

 An app.  Look at what you've installed.  You might find a lot of them,
especially if you used them only once or twice over a long time, are no
longer needed, or there are non-adware apps to do the same thing.

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Cheers, Carlos.