Hi, this is weird. The proximity sensor has nothing to do with light. You can be in a pitch black room, take the phone from your face, and it should switch to speaker phone if you are using voiceover.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Gigi wrote: > Ok, after this, I guess I'm done with this subject here. My husband and I > just discovered something which some of us need to know about. Apparently, > the phone needs light to do this because I guess it's using the camera next > to your face to know it's up there. After Kevin's suggestion, we cleaned the > ear thing and also the camera lens. Then we did a test with screen curtain > on. Guess what, if the light is low (which of course yours truly would never > know about), then it doesn't work. My husband, after we turned screen curtain > on, went into a dark place. It didn't work in the dark place, but did in the > light. So, I guess you can, if you don't want it to work, just turn screen > curtain on. If you do want it to work, turn it off so it can get some light > from the screen. > > Regards, > Gigi > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Scott Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> WOw! I honestly don't get it either. I have had very good luck with Apple >> Care and pretty good luck with the folks in the store. Personally you can >> call it what you will, but I'm thrilled with 98% of the features, >> experience, and so forth with the APple products I own. I of course >> understand that all is not perfect, but let me make some observations here >> that are based on experience. >> 1. SOme of the problems people encounter are of their own making. In other >> words they simply have not learned how to use a feature or do not understand >> some aspect of the product. Hey not a negative statement, but instead just >> fact. SOmetimes this is just a result of not having read any information and >> only basing assumptions on what they have read on an e-mail list, which are >> not the only source of information. >> 2. Third-party apps can cause problems and may impact operations of the >> device. In fact several applications that are installed can mess things up. >> WHy? Hell who knows, but it simply is possible. I have seen this with folks >> who could not get the screen curtain to activate when VO was turned on, poor >> battery life, and so forth. Hey, Apple does the best it can to ensure apps >> do not cause problems, but reality is that you can have the perfect storm on >> your device. >> 3. User error. Yes people do make mistakes and that is apparent by some of >> the questions I have seen posted here and on the VI Phone list. Hey it is ok >> to be wrong and ok to make mistakes. However, it helps to have read the >> manual and understand how features work and what could affect the operation >> of a feature. I realize thread is more about the speakerphone; however, this >> applies across the board. >> >> Now as far as the speakerphone I may be recalling incorrectly, but it seems >> to me that you can toggle the speakerphone such that removing it from your >> face will keep the call on the earpiece and not the speakerphone. Of course >> I'd also ask the question if the phone is in a case and perhaps the >> proximity sensor is being blocked. Lots of possibilities. Oh and one final >> note, the APple Care folks are not actually APple employees unless something >> has changed recently. THey actually work for a vendor that provides support >> services. I only found that out because I had a chat with one of the support >> folks and he said something he probably should not have said and I got him >> to tell me. :) >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:22 PM, James Mannion wrote: >> >>> I have never heard of or experienced this change. Taking it away from > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
