disable screen alignment with vol up/down+tap screen

[cfong]

Sprint TP2 has a hardware backdoor to screen alignment. It's pressing volume up and down at once then tap screen.

The problem is that this condition is too easy to meet. On TP2, the volume up/down switches are under a single piece of plastic that seesaws. If something hit the middle of the up/down key, it'll get both switches underneath pressed. In a pocket or pouch, something is always touching the screen.

In more times than I care to count, I pull out the phone and found it wanted me to align its screen. The screen alignment is above everything. It'll do nothing until it's satisfied. It's like a dog that refuses to fetch until it has its back scratched.

Any way to defeat it? S2U2's lock doesn't defeat it.

Thanks.

[jerryyyyy]

This alignment BS is enough to get rid of this phone. Could anyone every imagine Apple doing this. I have been working on it for 5 minutes after a hard reset.

[jerryyyyy]

I finally figured out why it was taking me so long to calibrate: I was bracing my hand on the screen while calibrating and it was picking up my braced hand as the calibration (duhhh).

[nrfitchett4]

wow, another problem i have had the fortune of avoiding. haven't had that happen in 4 months of heavy use. at least now i'll know if it does, why it happened.

[Deimoss]

Did not expect to replicate this on my custom built WM 6.6 Rom with 2012 Manila.

Replicated the bug on the first try

[frazell]

Just wow... How did they not fix this...

[Oditius]

Originally Posted by cfong

Sprint TP2 has a hardware backdoor to screen alignment. It's pressing volume up and down at once then tap screen.

Thanks.

Now this is cool, the USCC TP2 does that too. You have to press it in the center in-between the two buttons to make it work, but that isn't too had to do with my big thumbs. And now that I know it can happen, I will now probably start accidentally doing that. Sorry I can't help you bypass that, but it is another feature that I have learned it can do. And who knows? By the time I get to upgrade to the TP3, I might have learned almost all the features.

[Robodoc82]

Damn. I was wonder how the heck that always happens. I get a text and it wakes up and I'll pull it out of the belt case and it's on the alignment screen. At least I know why now. Thanks!

[Boo Boo]

does anyone know what the allignment exe is called?