My Omnia II is doing something I have never seen a phone do before.

It simply never goes to sleep. I have it set to turn off after 2 minutes of inactivity, or 5 minutes if plugged in. What happens is, after a period of time the screen dims, and then suddenly it pops back up to full brightness. I have checked Task Manager and there is NOTHING running that could cause this.

ALSO, almost equally annoying, there doesn't seem to be any button that will turn this thing off, other than of course pressing and holding the lower right button to turn the device completely off stone dead. Both my Samsung i700 and i760 had a button you could push that would turn the screen off. The phone was of course still on Standby and would light up if a call came in.

This phone, I'm having a hard time keeping it charged because the screen never turns off, and I can't turn it off manually.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

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simplitek
Orange County CA
Samsung SPH-i700 >> i760 >> i920 Omnia II

you can turn the screen off(barring whatever is wrong with yours) with the half height button above the camera button. If that doesn't work then you have something installed keeping your screen on. I would suggest a hard reset if you can't figure it out.

I think I may have stumbled across the solution to my own problem. When you mentioned the half-height button, I went looking for it. Problem is, I had purchased one of those silicon "sleeves" (or whatever you call it) to kinda protect the phone if it should be dropped, and make it easier to hold on to.

Problem is, the sleeve doesn't really have cutouts for the buttons on the side, and you are supposed to push those buttons right through the sleeve. But when I tried to push that half-height button through the sleeve, since the camera button was slightly taller, I would end up pressing that button instead, and the camera would come on.

I experimented with taking off the sleeve and not only could I press the half-height "off" button, but now the phone goes to sleep after however many seconds just as it is supposed to.

So, bottom line, the silicon sleeve was doing something, I'm not sure what (pressing one of the buttons continuously, maybe?) and that kept the phone from going to sleep.

The sleeve was just an interim solution until I find a case I like. Meanwhile I think I am going to take a razor blade and cut openings in the sleeve for all the buttons to see if that frees them up so that the phone will go to sleep as it should.

So, in a roundabout way, your suggestion about the half-height button solved my problem. Thanks so much.

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simplitek
Orange County CA
Samsung SPH-i700 >> i760 >> i920 Omnia II

that would definitely do it, well at least you figured it out.