Galaxy S5 :: Why Are Letters And Numbers Turning Into White Blocks
May 5, 2015
After a while on my phone, my home screen numbers start to turn into white blocks. Then it starts to spread to the actual words on my phone (i.e. the dates). It is fixed by restarting the phone, but is there any way to fix this properly? Is there something wrong with my phone?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5. Its not rooted. But I am running Nova Launcher as my default launcher. It causes my lock screen to kinda glitch out. The letters and numbers on the pin lock screen are turning into solid white blocks. I know if I restart my phone, it fixes it. But I'm just curious as to what causes it.
Samsung s5 keypad letters and numbers turn into white squares/rectangles and doesnt go away until restarted. I could show a screenshot but theres no upload here.. My phone is 3 weeks old and this happened atlest 2 times already..
Lock screen today started displaying blank white boxes where there should be numbers and letters, as seen in picture below. It still unlocks fine however.
Upgraded to Lollipop at the weekend so i'm assuming a bug related to the update.
My phone was working good. I tried to update the software using SE update service. When I press C and connected the cable the software checked connected phone and replied product can not be identified, remove the cable and reinsert the battery. I did so. But now phone is not working when I try to switch it on, the screen just blinks with a light but no text on the screen. I tried to flash the phone too but it is also not wokring XS++ shows something link this.
20:14:53| XS++ v3.1 (Darwin) Ready ! 20:14:53| Executed on Microsoft Windows Vista 20:15:03| 20:15:03| Attempting to open the interface... 20:15:03| 20:15:03| TURN OFF PHONE! 20:15:03| Hold 'C' button on phone and connect phone NOW. 20:15:03| You have 30 seconds... 20:15:03| 20:15:03| Baseband ID: 8040 20:15:03| Protocol Version: 3.1 20:15:03| 20:15:03| Sending db2010_cid00_prodid_p3l.bin... 20:15:03| Applet ID: 061113 1250 ALUCXC125872_COMPACTPRODUCTION_ID_LOADER P3L 20:15:03| This is a PRODUCTION_ID loader 20:15:03| Activating GDFS... 20:15:03| Phone name detected! 20:15:03| 20:15:03| Profiling SEMC phone... 20:15:03| Platform: DB2010 20:15:03| OTP CID: 49 20:15:03| EROM CID: 49 20:15:03| EROM Color: Brown 20:15:03| IMEI: 35255701xxxxxx 20:15:03| Phone ID: K750 20:15:03| Region: APAC_1 20:15:03| CDA: CDA102337/101 R5A 20:15:03| Firmware Version: R1CA021 20:15:03| EROM: n/a 20:15:03| Ready for operation! 20:15:32| Custpack information 20:15:32| Custpack: APAC_1 (CDA102337/101) (K750) 20:15:33| Generic(non-branded) custpack: Yes 20:15:33| Allowed languages: en, id, ms, tl, vi, zs, 20:15:33| 20:15:35| 20:15:35| Sending db2010_cid49brown_flash_r5a.bin... 20:15:35| Applet ID: 060316 1339 104_DB2010_FLASHLOADER_R5A_CXC1326738 20:15:35| This is a FLASH loader 20:15:35| Now flashing firmware main... 20:15:37| Flashing c:usersfais@ldesktopk750_r1ca021_main_eu_1_cl_red49.mbn 20:15:37| Header type: BABE 20:15:37| 288 flashblocks
Sometimes companies will advertise a toll free number with letters. I am having a problem dialing these numbers on my BB since I cnat spell out the letters on the phone. So how would I dial the numbers? For example 1-888-22-peace.
I am experiencing a problem in Skype and a pre-release version of Smart Office 2 with the keyboard on my E6 (as yet without Belle refresh). When I type in lower case within the numeric field, instead of letters I get numbers and symbols.The phone is working perfectly otherwise.
I try to buy an app from AppStore. To confirm the payment, I have to write in my password (both letters and numbers). The keyboard that pops up has both a number and related letters on each key, but no other 'special keys', How do I toggle between numbers and letters to write my password on this type of keyboard?
My daughter has bought a Curve 8520 in january and put her personal code in there with letters. Now we can suddenly not use the keyboards letters to unlock the device.Probably a combination of keys which I can't find in any blog or website
I dropped my phone in water and then I dried it with a blow dryer put it in rice. Then it turned on a seems to work fine except when I use the keypad only the number symbol comes up or a square. Like no numbers or letters come up. I cant type messages. And when I scroll through my inbox it marks all the messages. I am confused I think my number lock is on or something.
I wanted to re start my iphone because it was acting kind of slow . I held the home button and the lock button at the same time to re start it . I did it and i saw my apple logo but a few seconds later white letters started appearing on my screen.. i tried re starting it again connecting to itunes but it doesnt recognize it . How to turn it back on?
I have no idea what just happend to my blackberry bold!Out of no where it stops working!!! I turn it on and it goes to a white screen with little black letters that sayJVM Error 517 reset!!How can I fix it?
Upgraded phone from Samsung Galaxy S4 to Samsung Galaxy S6. Incoming TXT continues to work normally, but I cannot send an outbound TXT while VPN is connected. If I disconnect from VPN, TXT works fine again.
Same carrier - Verizon. Same messaging app - Samsung Messaging. Same VPN provider and account. Using OpenVPN on both. Also tried the VPN Client that PIA provided -- same results.
Same results whether I am using WiFi, or if I disable WiFi and only use Verizon normal wireless. Wife's GS5 using same OpenVPN and same SMS app and same network works perfectly.
I contacted my VPN provider, PrivateInternetAccess, who promptly blamed my Wireless Provider, Verizon. They stated that I had to tell Verizon to provide a "NAT unrestricted IP address".
On my lock screen and on some of the other screens on my phone instead of text I am getting large blocks covering the text. This goes away for a short period after restarting but always comes back after a few hours.
Ever since i got it, its been working perfectly. But for the past 5 days it keeps turning itself off when im trying to delete an image, helf way through a book, texting friends and even taking pictures.It just turns itself off and comes up with a loading symbol and it even has 50% battery or more everytime. i never can turn it back on for at least and hour.. Ive done a reset to normal settings using my itunes but it still turns off..or should i just phone up orange (network provider) and get them to send me another one ?
When I try to type in numbers on the Home screen to place a call, the numbers are not displaying in the white block box that pops up. The numbers are inputting but do not display, if I type the correct numbers and press send it will call. However, when it starts ringing I get a "Note: Call Forwarding Active. I do not know if these two problems are related. I don't even know what I did to activate call forwarding. Letters and Numbers will display when pressed in other applications so I do not know what did to screw it up because they displayed before when I typed. This phone is a Straight Talk - E71.
Right, I've had my blackberry for a few months now, it was bought from someone else. Only recently, my phone has been turning itself off and giving me the "white screen of death" but I've always managed to get passed it by removing the battery then restarting it. But today, it has turned itself off, reloaded to the main screen where it then freezes, the screen goes white and it says "app error 523 - reset". Ive clicked reset about a billion times and it keeps doing the same thing over and over again. I downloaded blackberry desktop/device software but it won't find my device. I tried that app wizard loader thing, but that didn't work either. And yes, my phone is charged.
I have a BB Bold 9780 which I have purchased in Oct 2011. The display screen has been turning white for some strange reasons all by itself and some times it is ok. I have not purchased it from the service providers
I turned off my phone then I put the SIM, after that I turned the phone as usual: Sony Ericsson -> Rogers -> then a blank screen with a white line on the above of the screen...
I purchased a Blackberry 9780 18 months ago. The screen keeps turning white and would return to normal in minutes or even hours. I obviously tried to do a full reboot, remove and replace the battery but it does not resolve the issue. Is this a defect? Although I do not see anything on the screen except for white, I can still receive call and make calls using the speed dial.
My Curve 8520 wont turn on. After being asked to 'reboot' my phone, it will only go to a white screen and says 'App Error 200' There is a button to 'Reset' but when I click on it simply turns the phone off and when it comes on again it just returns to the white screen.
I've been trying to log into my wifi connection but having problems. The phone says that it is connected to the wifi and the name comes up on the screen however the wifi logo remains gray which means that I am not actually connected properly.
I turned my phone off then on. In the process of it starting up it kept on turning on and off by itself. I had no chance to do anything before it wouldn't turn off again. The battery said it was full but everytime it turned back on I could see it was loosing life. I went to plug it in to charge but that wouldn't help as it wouldn't charge while it was turning on and off all the time. I tried to take the battery out. I have taken the memory card out. Now it has frozen with a white lit up screen.
Sometimes when I'm typing on the keyboard, some of the letters are not registered even though the touch is. I'm using swiftkey btw but it's happening on all the keyboards I use including the Samsung one.
Since the last update (August 2015), whenever I type some letters letters (one, sometimes 2) from the beginning of the word disappear before I can finish typing the word. This causes autocomplete to think I'm typing a completely different word.
E.g., I tried to type "think" - the "t" disappeared by the time I had gotten to the "i"(despite it initially appearing initially), making the phone think that the word is starting with "h", and leading to issues when I press space (despite typing think perfectly, the phone autocorrected to the nearest matching word starting with H as "h" was now the beginning letter)
This has only been an issue since updating my phone this week. I thought it might have been the swipe function messing up, but turning that off, it's still causing me issues when I type normally.