Showing posts with label nexus 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nexus 4. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 January 2014

[Workaround] Broken proximity sensor on Android phone

Unfortunately, I had to fix a broken screen on a Nexus 4.
I ordered a replacement screen on Amazon for 50€.
Then I followed those instructions on YouTube.
It was quite easy... Then I turned on the phone and all was working.

After rebooting, the touch screen was working only if I put 3 fingers on it.
I did a factory reset (probably at first power up the system checks the digitizer version or revision) and it fixed the problem.

Then I tried to do a phone call and... Guess what?!?! The proximity sensor was (is still) reporting always 0 as value.
The video was not mentioning about possible issues with it.
But Google does :) ...

Tried to open the phone and test but I got nothing.

Since I cannot root (I installed an app for my bank which requires phone activation and doing it 4 times per month is quite a waste of time and money) the only option would be a dialer with proximity option or a proximity sensor overrider (or develop an app myself).

I found Proximity Screen Off Lite.
Works great as workaround for broken proximity sensor.
You can set to automatically power on (or off) the screen if proximity sensor is covered for a certain amount of time. But this would make it power on also when it placed in a bag...
Luckily, there is an option to enable it only during calls.

It made my day!

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Google Nexus 4 and Epic Citadel DEMO

Today EPIC Games released the Citadel Demo of Unreal Engine 3 for Android on Google Play.


I managed to install the "quite" heavy APK (130MB) and run it....
Looks awesome... Not so many dynamic lights (so maybe we will have to wait for real case scenarios)... Also no objects in movement... Nice reflections and good clipping.


Results are impacted by the number of screenshots I took during the Benchmark and some App updating as well in the meanwhile. FPS are limited by VSync (60Hz).





It is possible to move in the scenario and perform some benchmark.

On the Nexus 4, I ran the benchmark setting High Quality and Force AA 4x on Android Settings.
Good job Epic Games!