Good day.
Sick and angry as my phone changes its settings by itself to whatever; I suspect the ear touching the display and hands holding it by the edges where buttons are.
There is applications to hide the settings icon but it is not the icon access what I want to lock, it is the alteration of settings while not manipulating the 'settings' but holding or pulling the phone out of a pocket.

Perhaps a password hurdle to any change, specially audio/sounds settings that can/become accidentally changed just by handling the unit ? Too many times the ringer not sounding; the microphone muted, the earphone at a minimum level, the keypad disappearing, the speakerphone option icon not showing... Sometimes by pulling the phone out of a pocket, a call is hung-up because the edge or display buttons get pressed when grabbed. When rings; the screen lights up and becomes active to touch. If pulled from a pocket to answer, who knows what is being touched.
Third phone the provider gives me because of this behavior they cannot prevent. What can solve this ?

 

Can't you just close apps down, but leave the power on, when you put your phone in your pocket?

 

Not sure what your exact problem is, maybe rewrite the post a bit.


If you are looking to only allow answering calls after unlocking your phone:
- often in settings you can enable 'use fingerprint to answer calls'.
- some dialers offer more features, such as answer after unlock.
- there are app-lockers, you can add your dialer so you would need to unlock before answering.

the volume buttons only change media volume on lockscreen, so this is less of an issue?
Long press power button can be an issue, can often be disabled in setting.
and to address "who knows what's being touched": Only The shortcuts and the call operations are permitted, the rest is restricted behind your unlock.

XDA or AndroidCentral might be the better forum to visit for Android knowledge:
https://xdaforums.com/t/when-i-rece...alling-without-entering-the-passcode.4638709/
https://forums.androidcentral.com/threads/how-do-you-disable-volume-control-on-lock-screen.1040172/

 

Some of the phones have "accidental touch protection" maybe check if your phone has that option.

 

Thanks, gentlemen. Rewriting...

The 'smart' phone rings in your pocket. I believe at that moment the screen turns-on and becomes touch-enabled.
At that moment pulling a phone out of pocket, edge buttons and screen are accidentally operated doing an unknown action which I suspect alters sound settings. Many times that handling action hangs-up the call.
How to avoid that ?

- With applications closed, the above still happens

- I have a vulgar android with no "accidental touch protection"

 

Good day.
Sick and angry as my phone changes its settings by itself to whatever; I suspect the ear touching the display and hands holding it by the edges where buttons are.
There is applications to hide the settings icon but it is not the icon access what I want to lock, it is the alteration of settings while not manipulating the 'settings' but holding or pulling the phone out of a pocket.

Perhaps a password hurdle to any change, specially audio/sounds settings that can/become accidentally changed just by handling the unit ? Too many times the ringer not sounding; the microphone muted, the earphone at a minimum level, the keypad disappearing, the speakerphone option icon not showing... Sometimes by pulling the phone out of a pocket, a call is hung-up because the edge or display buttons get pressed when grabbed. When rings; the screen lights up and becomes active to touch. If pulled from a pocket to answer, who knows what is being touched.
Third phone the provider gives me because of this behavior they cannot prevent. What can solve this ?

Hola Miguel

Two months ago I bought a Samsung 16 5G to replace a 7yo J7 16. Both insisted / insist more or less recurrently in enabling Blueettoth or GPS, putting the screen in a completely dark state or making a video call immediately after closing a WhatsApp chat with someone.

I have noticed that this is more frequent when the ambient humidity is very low and the sensitivity to the touch increases noticeably.

I tend to carry it in my pants' pocket, keeping the screen side out of contact with my leg. The number of random calls it has made was excesive.

I don't think there is a "master" control to avoid this.

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Hello,

On my samsung there are settings for touch sensitivity and unwanted touching on the display page in settings.

Bertus

 

Yes Bertus!!

 

Thanks, fellows.
My thinghy with Android version 11 does not have that feature; but found something else that I had to define a sweep pattern among 9 points in order to unlock Sort of a graphic password; never used before. Engaged it and now cannot find where in 'settings' to disable if does not work. Will try...

Found it! At the bottom last option for display settings.