Was I hallucinating?

[Sellador]

Originally Posted by Humpa

The problem you describe is exactly what would occur if the stylus sensor failed. Your phone behaves exactly as it should if the stylus was removed.

As a tech, I would first determine if the stylus switch was defective. No sense trying to troubleshoot software if the problem is hardware.

Sounds reasonable, but I don't think that's the problem. It doesn't behave any differently with the stylus in or out, and if it is locked and I remove the stylus, it does unlock the device and turn on the screen. That suggests that the sensor is working. I take your point that a hard reset could be definitive on the question, but I'm not prepared to do that. I am happy with the new behavior and don't want it to go away, so I'm not going to start over configuring the phone from scratch because of something that I'm just curious about.