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by Suppafly 712 days ago
Honestly, I think Samsung has one of the worst android interfaces. It looks approachable, but most any activity is harder than on others that are truer to the stock experience. That said, every manufacturer has some stupid things. My Moto phone always blanks the screen when you are talking, which is great, but then makes it difficult to actually get the screen to stay on if you need to use it while talking.

>I need the remaining KM until that turn, in large numbers, Google.

One thing with maps too is that it decided to default to auto mode when using the app, but auto mode won't bring up the keyboard, which sucks if you need to make changes to your route and aren't wanting to use the voice mode.

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> My Moto phone always blanks the screen when you are talking,

I don't know exactly what model of phone you have, but most smartphones have a proximity sensor which is used to intelligently blank the screen only when it is at your head. Not uncommonly this sensor gets dusty or dirty, causing the issue you describe.

It maybe something to do with that, because it doesn't happen if I use the phone sitting on the desk, but once I've tipped it to my ear, even after I tip it down to look at the screen it'll lock the screen, I unlock it, it immediately locks it again, I unlock it, etc over and over.