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Got my first CDMA Nexus on the day released. Was running IMOSEYON's Kernel at 1.42ghz and phone suddenly rebooted. Nothing I did from that point on would write to memory. Tried 2 or 3 ways to restore factory image but it didn't clear sdcard (as it's supposed to). Tried to relock bootloader using fastboot and it would say it did so but was unlocked again upon a reboot. Finally returned it under insurance. Had to pay deductible since it was permenantely rooted even though I think there was an electrical problem in the memory write circuit.
Got new phone and all was well until I dropped the thing last weekend on tile and cracked the screen (first time in 4 years of smart phones). Everything still worked, but returned it under insurance after restoring factory images (successfully). Another $100 bucks down the drain.
Got new phone. Set everything up and it started random reboots - particularly when charging. Reloaded CMR recovery that had worked so well. Still randomly rebooting.
Insurance is sending me my 4th phone in a month and a half (free this time). I broke one, but two out of three appear to have been duds. Quality control issues???
Anybody else having this kinda problem? I've used (rooted and rom'ed) an HTC Incredible, Droid Charge, Asus Transformer and Kindle Fire with no (permanent) problems. This is, frankly, disappointing.
HAve you tried using your phone stock without messing around with ROMS or bootloaders and custom kernels?
The majority of problems I've had with these types of devices have been with non-stock units...
It's probably because you are over clocking. Charging and using the phone with an overclocked processor generates a lot of heat. The phone will reboot on its own to save it from frying.
Scan the forums, other than your cracked screen you are describing known or soon to be known issues with the SGN.
I'm also on my fourth SGN. First had a line under the screen that looked like a crack. The next two had the lock up reboot issue and the one I'm on now isn't showing all the virtual SD space that all the others I received had, it's two gigs short.
It appears that quality control at Samsung is not as comprehensive as it should be.
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If you want to complain on the phone then you should have stock room, if not you should complain in the rom thread. It sounds as if you have not had problems with the phone itself(on any of the phones), it sounds as if you have tampered with it. If so you shouldn't complain about the phone.
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Scan the forums, other than your cracked screen you are describing known or soon to be known issues with the SGN.
I'm also on my fourth SGN. First had a line under the screen that looked like a crack. The next two had the lock up reboot issue and the one I'm on now isn't showing all the virtual SD space that all the others I received had, it's two gigs short.
It appears that quality control at Samsung is not as comprehensive as it should be.
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How much space shows? Mine is 13.3 gb.
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How much space shows? Mine is 13.3 gb.
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My total capacity shows 28 GB.
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I'm also on my second defective Galaxy Nexus in a week. The first had horrible banding even at full brightness and a glitchy accelerometer or compass. You could open Google Sky Map and sit the phone on a table and watch it jump around the night sky. The new one has a creaky case, a green cluster of dead pixels in the center of the screen, and all of the greys are royal purple. Not cool. Samsung needs to work on their quality control.
If my third is a bum unit, I'm going either Razr MAXX or D4.
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Scan the forums, other than your cracked screen you are describing known or soon to be known issues with the SGN.
I'm also on my fourth SGN. First had a line under the screen that looked like a crack. The next two had the lock up reboot issue and the one I'm on now isn't showing all the virtual SD space that all the others I received had, it's two gigs short.
It appears that quality control at Samsung is not as comprehensive as it should be.
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Can you please explain what lock up reboot issue means?
I am on my second sgn after discover a hair like crackon the screen.
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Can you please explain what lock up reboot issue means?
I am on my second sgn after discover a hair like crackon the screen.
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The phone would become unresponsive and reboot itself. Sometimes it would say the headset was connected and I would lose the microphone and speakers which was terrible when I was on a call because the other party couldn't hear me any more and I couldn't hear them. It was terrible. Sometimes it would force reboot multiple times in the course of a few minutes. I even tried just running plain stock but it made no difference.
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Hi there, lately I got a strange issue:
Sometimes my screen vould go unresponsive, the phone vibrates twice and It will show the recent apps. The capacitive buttons from the bortom do not work either. Wherever I touch the sxreen the recenr apps list would dissapear, if I touch rhe screen again, they reappear, but otherwise rhe screen is unresponsive. I can switch the phone off, then back on, and also unlock the screen, but then it becomes uresponsive again. This is happening randomly, for intane right now my phone works great. This was hapening on Andromadus audacity b 5 and alsi on sensewich b 7. Anyone else experiencing this or has a solution? Rhanks in advance.
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I'm experiencing similar issues on mimicry. Specifically my capacitative buttons are giving me a headache. I'm currently on elite mod with ics touch buttons enabled for safety. Haven't faced the capacitative buttons issue yet since 2days but my entire screen stopped responding to touch(tested with keyboard to make sure the phone didn't hang) randomly...
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The phone isn't hanging, on sensewich beta 7 when I press the trackpad I get the mouse pointer wich I can move, just the touchscreen and the capacitive buttons are playing crazy. It is also very hard to replicate the issue, so sendig the phone in for repair wouldn't do much good, because there is a good chance for it to behave normally...
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Same with me dude. I'm able to use the menu button on the keypad to confirm that the phone didn't hang. At times there are only random areas of the screen which won't repond to touch. Guys please help us confirm as to whether this is a hardware or software issue..
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Edit: Flashed EliteMod CM7 only to find out that this issue remains to persist. Looks like i'll have to get it repaired.
I am very curious how you would replicate the issue for the service tech. If you just send it in, most probably they would send it back to you saying it's all good. If you do send it for repair, please update this post with the findings.
Thanks,
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Nobody else experiencing same issues?
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Definitely not an underclock issue?
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Definitely not an underclock issue?
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I was thinking about that as well, and I have set min speed to 844 mhz (stock) and I have the same issue, so I don't think it is that.
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+ setting to performance doesnt change a thing either? Sorry, i'm all out of any other suggestions.
Hey i returned my phone to stock froyo 1.34 with s-on.. First day capacitative buttons started working. Second day the non functional horzontal strip in the middle of my screen started working. I'll stay on this stock for a week to test my screen thoroughly and then decide whether its a software issue or hardware. By the way i actually opened up the phone to every part and then put it back together, maybe this is what helped me.
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+ setting to performance doesnt change a thing either? Sorry, i'm all out of any other suggestions.
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Unfortunately not, I set the governor on performance, but to no avail. I have no idea what's causing it, as it is very random. And it happened to me on both andromadus and sensewich roms, so I doubt it is rom related. I am just too lazy to return to stock and see if the problem persists...
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I see that lately a lot of "screen not working" issues appeared. Could it be kernel or ICS related?
Anyone sent it in for repair and already got it back. What was fixed?
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Whether I'm on froyo stock or gingerbread stock my capacitative buttons aren't working. Even parts of the screen take random inputs without my interaction. Areas which have the issue respond perfertly to my touch on the lockscreen(lockscreen always works perfectly). I'm giving my dz for service tomorrow. Let's hope. It gets fixed.
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Whether I'm on froyo stock or gingerbread stock my capacitative buttons aren't working. Even parts of the screen take random inputs without my interaction. Areas which have the issue respond perfertly to my touch on the lockscreen(lockscreen always works perfectly). I'm giving my dz for service tomorrow. Let's hope. It gets fixed.
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Please keep us updated. If u can find out what was fixed it would be great. Thanks.
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Ok, yesterday I unrooted and returned to stock completely and since then my phone is working fine. Will do som more testing before returningfor warranty
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Hi,
I'm facing a similar issue ever since I rooted my device. The touch screen behaves strangely at times (becoming totally unresponsive in morning when I use it after around 6 hours of inactivity), the hardware buttons don't respond either. I keep on rebooting the devices, fixing the permissions etc. and then after some time, life comes back to the touch screen and the buttons. They also become unresponsive at random and it is very irritating when you pull your device to call someone or receive a call and then it does not respond .
Also there is a horizontal strip in the touchscreen that doesn't resister any touch (I cannot play 'Frontline Commando' due to this). Strawmetal! is your device still behaving properly after all the fixes you did? Have you reverted to ICS yet and found the phone working properly? This issue is draining all the charm of having a rooted mobile away :crying:
I do not think rooting is the problem here. My phone was rooted and my problem started only a few weeks ago after my son dropped it on the kitchen tiles... Now I reverted to GB stock and this moening I had the freeze once or twice. However, I don't need to restart the phone, power button does the trick for me. All I do is switch off and back on. And the screen and capacitive buttons are responsive again
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Hi Regius,
I agree rooting may not be the problem but there are chances, though slim, the roms we are using they have some problem. In my case, I have another probable culprit: I was caught in heavy rain. Though I protected my device but I doubt that some moisture seeped in. I rooted it after that so cannot say clearly what is behind the issue. Since I saw that Strawmetal is also facing similar issue, I made a wild guess. Now I'm trying to muster enough courage to dismantle the device and reassemble it. I can also notice a small smudge inside the screen at the top-right corner (perhaps this is a proof that moisture seeped in).
Coincidentally, I used Strawmetal's directions for rooting that he has put at one place. Wonderful effort on his part.
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One more issue that I forgot to mention: I cannot pull down the notification bar directly (as we did in gingerbread) but have to manage it via launcher settings. I remember this issue got corrected occasionally when I used sense based roms initially.
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Well guys returning to stock seemed to work for an hour. But then it started all over again. So fearing i would lose all control of the capacitative buttons i rooted back and am using Elitemod with the on screen buttons enabled. My capacitative buttons have comepletely gone out( no amount of reboots, kernels would fix it). So 2 weeks ago i took it to a htc service center. Heads up*(I'm living in a metropolitan city). The guy there says that they are not *authorized* to open the hardware of the phone. They only look into the *software issues* which I guess is just flashing an RUU (F*** you HTC). He says they haven't received replacement parts for many phones since 3 months and he recommended me to leave my phone with him so that he could contact me when and if the parts arrive(facepalm). I quietly walked out and went to another service center where they told me the same thing, but that they would send my phone out of the country and I would have to pay $30 for the shipping whether or not my phone is fixed. Charges for repairs would be extra. So all I did was hit up ebay and ordered a digitizer for $40 on August 1st. I got shipped by the seller today. I'll be receiving it by 24th of this month.
In the meanwhile I needed a rock solid phone for my regular use and I knew that if I got an android, it would mostly remain in the recovery mode. So I got myself a Nokia E6($370). This is giving me 6 days of battery backup on heavy usage. Standby is rated at 30 days( I guess it'll give me 20).
Let's hope that I get a working digitizer from that seller and it will fix the issue on my beloved DZ.
Finally HTC go dig your own A**!!
EDIT: Before all these problems started my phone slipped from my lap and slid across the floor without taking a single scratch. This drop might have been the cause.
Hi Strawmetal,
Just one more check: install a sense based rom (4.0 would be better as they are not as heavy as 3.5) and see if the buttons respond! Just a gimmik but I realise by device responds better when one a sense rom.
And HTC is dying its death...they are closing business in some countries, shares are falling
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Hi All
For the last couple of months my desire has had an intermittent problem with the touch screen. All of a sudden it decides you're trying to pull down the "notifications" screen when you're just touching the touch screen, sometimes it also decides you're trying to hold and drag when you're just tapping the screen, sometimes it simply stops responding. These problems are usually solved by tapping the top button and putting the phone on standby then tapping it again and waking it up - although sometimes it then won't let you drag down the screen unlock until you repeat the on/off standby procedure a couple of times. The problem varies on connecting my phone to my computer.
Given that in between these instances the touch screen works as normal I'm guessing it shouldn't be a hardware issue, but the intervals between these problems appear to be getting shorter (either that or I'm just getting more annoyed by it recently). I've had a quick search of the forums and haven't immediately found anyone having this precise problem. Is it likely a question of trying factory reset and if that fails sending it for repair?
Thanks in advance
Similar issues. Don't think this is hardware.
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Gotta know more about the phone first. Is there a custom rom? Have you tried flashing to stock?
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Gotta know more about the phone first. Is there a custom rom? Have you tried flashing to stock?
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I'm having same problem, mine started couple weeks after I installed cm7.2, I tried another rom, no luck
Its definitely not software. I've tried froyo, gb stock with s-on and no root. I've been on ics roms cm7 roms but this problem occurs on all. I'm giving mine for service today.
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Well since the OP didn't respond here's my suggestions. If you think it's software then just flash to a stock rom. You should find a number of them lying around the forums, and instructions on how to flash. This will mean your phone is unrooted and will need to be rooted, as well as taking care of installing a recovery and etc. This should correct anything wrong with the software.
Otherwise you busted the digitizer, which is actually very cheap to buy on Ebay. You will have to take the phone apart which can be time consuming.
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Its definitely not software. I've tried froyo, gb stock with s-on and no root. I've been on ics roms cm7 roms but this problem occurs on all. I'm giving mine for service today.
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Hello,
Any luck with the Tocuh Input, is your phone back from service? I am also facing the same issue....
I had this problem on my G2 a while back. It was a hardware problem so I ordered a new touchscreen and replaced it myself.
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htc desire z touchscreen details
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I had this problem on my G2 a while back. It was a hardware problem so I ordered a new touchscreen and replaced it myself.
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Hello Whiskey_Tango / Others,
Can you please let me know the details of the touchscreen component that you ordered for your G2? My HTC desire Z touch screen has also gone bad (unresponsive at multiple points) and I feel that changing the hardwre should do the trick.
If possible, let me know the touchscreen specs (model / part number) as well as any online website from where I can order it !
Many Thanks !!
From eBay search for HTC g2 digitizer
Be careful to get the one for the vision not for the magic
should be about $20
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From eBay search for HTC g2 digitizer
Be careful to get the one for the vision not for the magic
should be about $20
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Thanks for the quick response. Before coming here, I had a mobile service shop take a look at my handset and he had mentioned that for HTC desire z, the "touch screen" comes with the "display" attached to it. Did he meant the digitizer only or (digitzer + LCD screen) or he was simply trying to rip me off ?
I am very sure that there is nothing wrong with the display on my handset, its only the touch functionality that is not working properly.
Which one of the following do I need to search on EBay?
gultek.eu/htc-spare-parts/digitizer-touchpad/desire-z.html
or gultek.eu/genuine-parts/lcd-modules/htc/desire-z-hd3.html
or both?
Thanks again in advance !!
You need just the digitizer, if you're doing it yourself it takes about an hour if you've never done it before, don't buy the lcd if you don't see a flaw in it.
Some people sell the whole front chasis with lcd, digitizer, front bezel all connected for ease of replacement. May be easier but you will only shave of 30min tops and spend 3x as much
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yeah this happens to my G2 a lot. I got my phone fixed a while back (2-3 months ago) becuase the colors on my screen were screwed up and the ear piece was broken. i took it in and he replaced a couple of cables. it worked fine but now sometimes the screen is just having a straight up seizure. it flips through pages so fast and it goes from page 1-2 and back and forth and then the virtual keyboard presses multiple keys and just its crazy. i feel like the guy that fixed my phone didnt plug in a cable all the way. but yeah thats my problem. i dropped my phone the other day and ever since my phone hasn't gone into a seizure lol
Hi, did you solve your problem? I have the same with my desire Z. It click alone in several place on my screen.
And I ask me if the problem don't come from the lcd digitizer control instead of the touch screen digitizer
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Its definitely not software. I've tried froyo, gb stock with s-on and no root. I've been on ics roms cm7 roms but this problem occurs on all. I'm giving mine for service today.
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Hi, did u fixed your phone? can you tell me what was the problem.. even my phone is acting crazy.. wil that be fixed if i change the screen digitizer?
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Hi, did u fixed your phone? can you tell me what was the problem.. even my phone is acting crazy.. wil that be fixed if i change the screen digitizer?
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Yes replacing the digitizer did fix my problem. And a year later the replaced digitizer started giving problems. So I ordered 2 extra digitizers off ebay. Both of them turned out to be duds. Surprisingly the second digitizer(which I replaced a year ago) fixed itself.
I think Im having the same problem,
bottom part of screen (including the home, menu, back, search buttons) aren't functioning half the time,
is there any service manual, or link to information as to what I need to tear apart on my DZ?
should this be enough? EBAYLINK
what do I need to replace the digitizer?
Okay, I haven't actually used this phone in ages, over a year, but a friend of mine is long-suffering with a BlackBerry and I feel obliged to end her suffering. There are two problems:
1) She wants Sense 4.0.
2) The digitiser is smashed and non-responsive. (A replacement has been ordered)
Now, I am sure that there is a few Sense 4.0 ROMs lying around here due to the fact that HTC released the Desire C, which has the same resolution screen.
So, I started to go through the process of unlocking bootloader, flashing recovery etc and fell at the first hurdle. When I had this, I didn't even look at the developer options, which seems to have screwed me over, because USB bugging is disabled.
So, basically, does anybody know how to enable USB debugging without actually using the screen? Or anything that could enable me to get all of this done now, so I can just replace the screen when I get it and give her the phone?
Nope. Gotta have the screen! And there's not a single sense 4 rom and there never will be. Desire C is armv7 the WFS is only armv6; it's not a case of screen size, but processor compatibility
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Ouch.
Indeed, you're going to have to fix the screen first.
I faced a similar problem some time ago. Unfortunately, the digitizer has to be fixed first
Alrighty then. I've seen many reviews saying the far right side of the screen often does not respond on replacement, is this true? I was looking at one on Amazon, although the seller is "HTC" I don't buy that for a second.
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I'm very curious on how you proceed on this. I got the same phone and exchanged a non-responsive (shattered) digitizer to a new one which also seems like it is totally unresponsive.
I have read that you need to go into diag mode and calibrate the phone after exchanging digitizer, which seems impossible without USB debugging is set to ON. Unfortunately mine is set to OFF and I'm stuck with an unresponsive digitizer...
Did you get it to work?
How are the tablets bought in the new yr? Does it still have screen issues like us early adapters?
My first run N7 2013 has no issues at all
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I guess I should clarify the question is for people that bought theirs very recently like in Dec/Jan timeframe
My point is that like everything else it's more than likely you will get a good device, the percentage of bad devices is always low, forum posts aside
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I bought my Nexus 7 in December. I am not noticing any major issues so far. Although sometimes there are ghost touches after many hours of continuous usage.
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after having mine for a month im noticing what i thought were just software issues.
Screen stops responding to touch randomly or takes ages to notice you have your finger on somthing
and loads of coloured splodges on the screen when showing a dark image !
grr !
i love it though but once you notice its hard not to notice!!
Mine is just a couple of weeks old, it has difficulty registering touches when laying flat
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You would think Asus and Google would quietly fix the hardware on new batches. Probably a design issue that cant be easily fixed. Yes yes kudos to the ones that doesn't have screen problems.
Have mine (LTE version) about a week or so, it sometimes fails to register touch when it's on desk.
but I notice another thing that , its back is not flat?? it can spin on my desk
Had this device since it was released, it had the screen issues(incredibly annoying on apps like PS Touch and the keyboard), now bought a Note 8, rapidly noticed the better screen responsiveness. I got curious about that too, I wonder if they fixed that for the new batch, I knew that not all flo devices had those problems but nevertheless still a shame if they haven't fix that by now.
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Had this device since it was released, it had the screen issues(incredibly annoying on apps like PS Touch and the keyboard), now bought a Note 8, rapidly noticed the better screen responsiveness. I got curious about that too, I wonder if they fixed that for the new batch, I knew that not all flo devices had those problems but nevertheless still a shame if they haven't fix that by now.
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Based on the responses....apparently not.
Mine had pretty bad issues when i first got it (initial release batch), the device was even crap enough that opening youtube app would hard reset the tablet every time. After the various updates that got rolled out, there is nothing wrong with my device. So they certainly fixed things for me following customer feedback.
I bought mine back in December and it misses touches in the upper region of the screen unless it is ground with either you hands or the charger. I did a few experiments to try and fix it, one thing I noticed when I tied a thin copper wire to the USB port is that it only took a finger on that piece of wire to ground it out and it worked perfectly. My question is whether there is a ground source inside the device where I could possibly solder this wire to in order to ground it out (ie. Battery ground or something)
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First nexus 7 (2012) worked flawless for over a year, gave it to mother as she needs to learn technology and bought the 2013 in November
The non presses and random presses plagued me from the start of this one but I was naive and pretended not to notice, after a few weeks I did get annoyed and wanted my old one back! (But didn't) so being I needed mine for school I didn't want to RMA right away so I kept trying to find fixes for awhile longer. About 2 weeks ago I got fed up and was about to RMA it but then decided to just try the latest factory image (haven't used stock anything in a long time)
And well, haven't had one issue with touch since!
So to all with the common touchscreen issue I suggest trying pure stock KOT49H first along with bootloader, haven't had a chance to test any custom Roms for it yet as I've been too busy but I added twrp and rooted it and still zero issues so at least for me it has been fixed
Still one of the best buys out there, even with the 2 months of annoyances
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I got my N7 2013 in early December. There's a small piece of dust under the screen, near the middle. I didn't even notice it until a few weeks ago. I can see it when I'm thinking about it, but most of the time I just ignore it or just fail to notice it.
Got my N7 2013 at the end of January. No problems initially, then a few small annoyances with a crossword puzzle app that I was willing to blame on the small letterboxes. Yesterday it did a full freeze, no responses to any touches anywhere. A power reboot cleared it up. I could blame it on the 4.4.2 upgrade which I did pretty soon after I got it, but this thread leads me to believe I should be going for an rma.