So I was all ready to take my iPhone into an Apple Store to have a genius look at it, because I was having tons of problems with it:
Every morning Id start playing music in shuffle mode, and Id head off to work. But midway through songs, it would start skipping to other songs. And then once it skipped to a particular song, it would come out of shuffle mode and only play songs within the new songs album. Then songs would sometimes continue to skip, but in album order.
Also, sometimes my phone would mysteriously call people while in my pocket! I would often get asked why I called someone, when I knew I never did -- but when I checked my recent calls, sure enough...the proof that I did was there. A couple times this has happened when I was WITH someone, and suddenly theyd pick up their ringing phone and my name would be there, and they would ask How are you calling me??
Other times Id take my phone out of sleep mode, and it would be on the Weather page, or Calculator -- and I KNEW I didnt go to those apps.
I was beginning to think my phone was possessed! After all, how could these things happen when the phone was in my pocket and I wasnt touching the screen?
Well I finally began to figure it out...and Im embarrassed to admit, it took me a couple of weeks till it hit me.
The weirdness was ONLY happening when I DIDNT press the on/off switch before putting the phone into my pocket -- and if the front of the phone was facing my leg. Since I knew the phone always turned off by itself within a few seconds anyway, I assumed it was no big deal to put it in my pocket while still on. After all -- its not like I could touch it again while it was in there, right?
Wrong -- apparently the pocket lining in my pants is thin enough that my leg can still touch the screen and do weird things! Well at least I dont have to take it in for repair anymore. I make sure to always turn it off before it goes in my pocket, and now I dont have problems.
So has this happened to anyone else?
Every morning Id start playing music in shuffle mode, and Id head off to work. But midway through songs, it would start skipping to other songs. And then once it skipped to a particular song, it would come out of shuffle mode and only play songs within the new songs album. Then songs would sometimes continue to skip, but in album order.
Also, sometimes my phone would mysteriously call people while in my pocket! I would often get asked why I called someone, when I knew I never did -- but when I checked my recent calls, sure enough...the proof that I did was there. A couple times this has happened when I was WITH someone, and suddenly theyd pick up their ringing phone and my name would be there, and they would ask How are you calling me??
Other times Id take my phone out of sleep mode, and it would be on the Weather page, or Calculator -- and I KNEW I didnt go to those apps.
I was beginning to think my phone was possessed! After all, how could these things happen when the phone was in my pocket and I wasnt touching the screen?
Well I finally began to figure it out...and Im embarrassed to admit, it took me a couple of weeks till it hit me.
The weirdness was ONLY happening when I DIDNT press the on/off switch before putting the phone into my pocket -- and if the front of the phone was facing my leg. Since I knew the phone always turned off by itself within a few seconds anyway, I assumed it was no big deal to put it in my pocket while still on. After all -- its not like I could touch it again while it was in there, right?
Wrong -- apparently the pocket lining in my pants is thin enough that my leg can still touch the screen and do weird things! Well at least I dont have to take it in for repair anymore. I make sure to always turn it off before it goes in my pocket, and now I dont have problems.
So has this happened to anyone else?
