fix:proximity sensor for samsung phones

[nikme 177]

this solution is to fix the proximity sensor which goes bad sometimes and even after the call the screen stays black until the person on line cuts the phone or if you press the power button this happens due to dirt and dust accumulating over sensor.

so to check if your sensor is working properly do the below test

to check sensor dial *#0*# and select sensors(tested on note 2,s4,note 3)

when u put your hand on proximity sensor screen turns green with vibration and when u lift your hand it turns back to white but if it doesnt turn white after removing hand that means the sensor has a problem so we lower the value at which the sensor responds

note :-you need to be rooted to follow this procedure

open cmd

and change to your adb folder and type the following command

adb shell (you will get a notification on your phone screen accept it)

su (give root privilege in phone)

echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/proximity_sensor/prox_cal

echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/proximity_sensor/prox_cal

NOW

cat state # put your finger on the sensor and check the value (my came 255)

now remove your finger from sensor (it came 51)

cat state #

This returned 255 #finger on the sensor and 51 #blank value

and then do

cat /sys/devices/virtual/sensors/proximity_sensor/prox_cal
this returned 0,60 45.....so my offset was 0. Ths sum of offset and #blank value was 0 + 51 = 51 that is equal to 33 in HEX.

so i increased to 55 and hex value 37

then

echo -en $'\x37' > /efs/prox_cal the value 37 will change according to your phone do the above math

chown system:system /efs/prox_cal

chmod 644 /efs/prox_cal

sync

reboot

now the sensor is working you can check again by dialing *#0*# and do the test again

Edited April 17, 2014 by nikme