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Help GS2 returns to home screen when I tilt or turn it. Why?

Miths000

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I just got a Galaxy S 2 a few hours ago - the first smartphone I've ever owned - and while I'm sure I'll run into a whole slew of interesting and puzzling things over the next few days, right now I've run into a severe annoyance I can't find any obvious reason or solution for.

It seems that whenever I turn or tilt the phone in just about any manner within in an application (the gallery and video player were the first places where I notice it), I'm sent right back to the homescreen. I've been able to reproduce this from seemingly all or most screens, but it doesn't seem always seem to be equally sensitive, sometimes a quick upwards tilt is required to be returned to the homescreen, other times a 90 degree turn and a quick tilt.

Either way it's annoying as hell, as I've accidentally been kicked out of applications several times now. The gallery application in particular seems extraordinarily sensitive.

I've triple checked that motion activation is turned off. What can I do to rid my phone of this silly and fairly unpredictable behaviour?
 
It seems I can also get it to jump in and out of all manner of applications and screens I've had open at some point by flicking the phone in various directions?
Is this really normal behaviour? And if so, is there any pattern to it? And still more importantly, can I turn it off so I don't get those occasional unwanted exits from the gallery and various other apps?
 
Well this is just plain embarrassing - it looks like I have my own right thumb to blame for this head scratcher. I have apparently been completely oblivious to it regularly being placed on top of the back button, causing all manner of unwanted inputs :p. Perhaps I should turn on the display of those two buttons again until I start getting to their location :).
 
Well this is just plain embarrassing - it looks like I have my own right thumb to blame for this head scratcher. I have apparently been completely oblivious to it regularly being placed on top of the back button, causing all manner of unwanted inputs :p. Perhaps I should turn on the display of those two buttons again until I start getting to their location :).

:-) Glad you had a happy ending!
 
It still happens on rare occasions. It seems that my fat thumb likes to place itself on that back button particularly when I rotate the phone :).
 
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