Worried about your phone's proximity sensor? Follow our step-by-step guide to resetting it and say goodbye to call frustrations.

Today, most modern Android devices are kitted out with a bunch of sensors. Learn how to build apps that retrieve information from the device's environmental, motion and position sensors, and then ...

The ambient light sensor tracks how bright your surroundings are, the proximity sensor knows when you're on the phone, and the GPS captures your location using satellites.

Android O takes that a step further and will actually turn the display off again if the sensor is covered. Again, imagine putting the phone back in your pocket after checking ambient display.

Sensor manufacturer Ams launched this week a new in-display ambient light and proximity sensor solution for smartphones equipped with OLED displays which essentially makes those modules invisible ...

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The proximity sensor is small in size, but its value is great for devices. But with the correctness of its work in smartphones, Xiaomi did not work out. And this problem accompanies the company ...

So what does Android's Nearby Connections 2.0 bring? First is that proximity-based data passing functions completely offline.

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