In the current UI of the Phone, while in a phone call, the icons for speaker, keyboard and mute are all high up the screen. This means that when holding the phone to your ear (like a proper person would do, on-speaker calls outside closed rooms are for savages), you run the risk of having your ear touching those icons.
Solution: move these icons to the lower end of the screen, just above the [end call] button.
With a working proximity sensor this shouldn’t be a thing. I can’t recall it ever happening to me.
Well, happy for you that it works for you. It does not for me and happens all the time that I mute myself, which is bloody annoying. Even more annoying are people that question your actual experience.
The solution would still be to sort out the proximity sensor on your phone, not to make workarounds for things not doing what they should.
And how do I even know whether that sensor works or not and how do I sort that out? Mind you, this has been a problem on my Sony Xperia 10-II from day one I got it.
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And you clearly are making a habit of being as hostile as possible in the most passive-aggressive manner to any user that is not showing the innate knowledge that you somehow acquired. How was I supposed to know that there even is a proximity sensor? All I know is that the bloody phone mutes itself too often. Way to chase away whatever userbase there is remaining…
Yeah, that’s a valid concern. A user not necessarily is able to know, what causes a problem. Still as @attah mentions, this is clearly a bug. Have you tried search the forum for similar reports?
I now am looking for info, but have not found it yet. And to the rest, a more helpful answer would have been:
“It seems that your proximity sensor is not working, please look at X to troubleshoot it”.
This person however now has for three times answered any of my forum questions in the most unhelpful manner possible and I do not get how they get so appreciated for being so abrasive.
Btw. I have the same problem!
Via another thread I got the answer: csd-tool. And it seems the proximity sensor is indeed off, despite the light sensor working.
Do you maybe have a screen “protector” without proper cut-outs on?
Performed the test without any protectors.
Can confirm on Xiii, too. It happens always, when i do not press the phone with the whole surface on the face. I think this causes the proximity sensor to release the interruption of the display and then you “touch” some buttons with your ear or some other part of your face.
I do not know how good recognition works on other oses or on different hardware. But proposal to shift the buttons to the lower end as second measure does not sound so stupid to me.
Sounds like a candidate for a patch to the UI for those who would like it moved.
Does anyone know what qml file needs editing?
Most of the time calls work fine, but every now and then I put a call on hold or , less often, I mute myself - both inadvertently.
I correlate it with adjusting the phone position during the call, but I don’t have a clear pattern to reproduce it.
X10III, no screen protector.