A peculiar problem has been pestering Canadian Nexus S owners, particularly those with the phone tied to Rogers’ network. The phone will randomly launch functions normally associated with the search softkey without ever laying a finger on the capacitive button. This has the rather annoying effect of launching the search box or voice search randomly during normal use of the phone, across apps, and without any clear reason why. What sounds harmless at first actually looks quite irritating as demonstrated in the video below.
A rather lengthy thread has cropped up at the Google Mobile Help Forum, with some 500 responses corroborating the claims. The issue seems exclusive to Canadian Nexus S users and it has been suggested that the bug is tied to the phone’s data connection or signal strength in some way. The first complaint was posted back in April, and June 3rd brought word that the problem had been pinpointed and a fix was on the way. Now over a month and 300 replies later, a fix has not reached Canadian Nexus S handsets and Google support gurus have been absent from the thread.
At its worst this bug renders the Nexus S basically unusable, a pretty serious issue that you would think would deserve immediate attention from Google, but still many are left dealing with the unresolved issue. Any readers up north experiencing similar stresses?
[via Google Mobile Help Forum]