Does your iPhone 4 proximity sensor do this?

**geekinc** · 07-04-2010, 10:16 PM

I noticed that if I cover the sensor with my head or my ear, it does not work, but if I use just about anything else that does not interfere with the capacitive touch screen then it works fine.

Does your new phone do this too?

**EliteABombAZ** · 07-04-2010, 10:28 PM

My proximity sensor works fine. However... I found a funny (intentional??) quirk. Try initiating a Facetime call and cover the camera with your finger... it will refuse to connect until it picks up a picture of "something."

**ach9552** · 07-05-2010, 02:12 AM

i've had my face mute or put my call on speaker several times now. pretty annoying

**itsmemuffins** · 07-05-2010, 03:51 AM

That is weird. I can get the proximity sensor to kick in with just a finger. I would say yours is defective.

**mbranscum** · 07-05-2010, 07:12 AM

Wirelessly posted (Nexus One: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)

Same has happened a couple of times to me too.

**megadan76** · 07-05-2010, 08:08 AM

Seems like expected behavior... don't want your hand to turn off the screen, but when it's pressed against something it goes dark. Makes sense to me.

**geekinc** · 07-05-2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by megadan76

Seems like expected behavior... don't want your hand to turn off the screen, but when it's pressed against something it goes dark. Makes sense to me.

Problem is that the screen doesn't turn off when it's pressed against my head, so like some of the others, my face drunk dials and mutes people while I am talking to them.

**Gern Blanston** · 07-05-2010, 09:46 AM

If you set up your iPhone 4 from a backup, you might try restoring it and setting it up as a new phone: i have read that some are having success in getting the proximity sensor to work correctly by doing this.

**itsmemuffins** · 07-05-2010, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Gern Blanston

If you set up your iPhone 4 from a backup, you might try restoring it and setting it up as a new phone: i have read that some are having success in getting the proximity sensor to work correctly by doing this.

I set my phone up as new and have had zero problems with the phone in every respect.

**iphonechamp404** · 07-05-2010, 10:09 AM

alot of you guys just have bad phones.

**lithic** · 07-05-2010, 12:41 PM

There is a long 62 page thread over on the apple support forum on this subject. I had this problem in my 1st 2 calls with the phone. I then restored and set up as a new phone and have not been able to replicate it. I think it may occur on longer 10 minute + calls so I'm not sure if my issue is resolved. But the sensor seems to work normally when testing with my finger.

**wookiee2cu** · 07-05-2010, 12:43 PM

I've had the screen become active about 3-4 times now during calls since I got it (6-23). Also having bluetooth issues with my voice sounding muffled.

**mbranscum** · 07-05-2010, 01:00 PM

I heard its not working right because the glue hasn't dried good yet. It will be ok in a few days!

**geekinc** · 07-05-2010, 01:26 PM

I have restored twice as a new phone with the same results.

**TheRupp** · 07-05-2010, 01:31 PM

I want to request a "****** music warning" next time. Thanks.

Anyway, kinda funny because my Droid actually WON'T wake up out of proximity mode, and I then I can't hang up