If you are reading this I'm sure you are wondering why would you ever need this. Let me explain....
About 2 months ago, I got the brand new 32gb wife nexus 7 2013. It's such a great machine I couldn't have been happier. Fast forward to 4 (only 4) weeks later. I'm standing at a bus stop I notice something that looks like a hair sticking out of the top of my touchscreen. I pull it and not only does the hair come out but also a time chunk of touchscreen and then the whole screen just cracks from top middle to left middle.. To so I was angry would be an understatement. Now that same weekend I had plans to go away. So I put the nexus back in its box. Went away and tried not to think about it....
On Monday when I got home I took it out of the box so I could take pictures and hopefully get some help from Asus... I was dismayed to find a second crack had appeared starting right at the end of the first crack going down to bottom middle.. Now the touch screen had hardly any working touch at all... After a few weeks of no help at all from Assholes I sorry I mean Asus I just gave up.
Until I tried a bluetooth mouse and suddenly I could use my nexus again. Now it wasn't Perfect but it was use able. So I got the idea to turn my nexus into a tiny notebook. I got a bluetooth keyboard with touch pad and it works great for one little problem. Since the crack, the nexus is showing lots of phantom touches especially when using cool reader so it starts randomly changing pages and chapters... Same with playing movies and anything like Web browsing. ..
So I was wondering if any of you devs or idea people out there new of anyway to either just disable the touchscreen with a code or is it possible to make a toggle so I could turn it off when I'm using the mouse or keypad???? Thanks for any help..
I would imagine there's a way to remove the touchscreen driver, which would render it inoperable. Check the threads on changing that driver out. Heck, you could probably flash a blank drive file over it.
Thanks.
Thanks dude I'll give it a try. But I'm personally not so save as to know how to do that... But still thanks for the advice
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After the sprint service reset my phone and killed my calender, I got an automated message asking if my problem was resolved. Well then I pulled over and brang up the dialing pad on the screen and started trying to press the numbers but as with 90% of the time they do not work. I started licking my fingers and pressing on the display and started *****ing and my 17 year old daughter asks my what I am doing , she than says why don't you calibrate my display. That would be great if there was one! She has. An lg touch and hers has one but mine don't she asks? Now I need to know how to make mine work before I poke my finger through the screen. I can't even hang up the phone 50% of the time. Is there a secret way to use this touch screen or do I just have to use the right finger and licking my fingers to make it work just ain't right.
Capacitive touch screens, do not need to be calibrated, unlike their cheaper cousins, and if you are having accuracy issues you need to either Odin the phone or bring it to Sprint and let them do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
Licking your fingers?!? That's totally unnecessary good sir/ma'am. Capacitive screens work by picking up the electrical charge that we have in our bodies. So when we touch the screen, that charge is sent to the display, the sensor and cpu do their thing and figure out where the screen was pressed. That's why you can't use the screen with gloves on (like winter gloves). Anyway, it just sounds like the phone is acting wacky.
Have you just tried rebooting to see if that fixed it? Or turning the screen on and off a few times? My phone acts weird on the lock screen sometimes and just turning off the screen fixes it.
There are a few threads here that address accelerometer problems but if the screen is just not picking up your touch, you may want to take it to Sprint.
that would be sir and it is just one of many problems my phone has. I reset it ,sprint reset it, I am crossing my fingers I got a dud . I was suckered onto the shorter waiting list and had the phone since launch day and in the beginning it was told to me by radio shack that android 2.2 was shortly comming and was going to fix all these problems I am having. I love the phone when it is working correctly but now I am just tired of the issues and promisses not being fullfilled. I read the article in the posting and it explaines different kinds of capacitive tec, gut wich one does the epic have. my wifes epic is so sensitive that it senses 1/4 inch away at times. mine is a luck of the draw and her phone is not mine so I dont use hers enough to see if its really better. I *****ed to sprint enough ,and it took this long, that they are sending me a new one. I doubt they are sending me a new one and expect they are sending me a refurbished one to test. I want to make sure its not something like my fingers not having enough energy to sense or cosmic rays are making my page back button go wacky by itself at random when texting or browsing.
Lol, if cosmic rays are bombarding your phone, we all have a lot more to worry about than the responsiveness of your phone! Sounds like you may have just gotten a bad phone. I would be pissed if Sprint tried to give me a refurb phone. There's a command somewhere in the scripting history on the phone that will tell you whether the phone is refurb. I don't know how to do that. I bet someone on this site does though. I guess the bottom line though is that the phone just needs to work.
And to your wife's phone, yes, the phone can be extremely sensitive. Sometimes, I swear that I didn't touch the screen but the screen registers a touch just because my finger was really close to the screen.
Finally, you may want to flash your phone. If you are not comfortable using ODIN or adb, get Sprint to do it. And not just a factory reset through the settings menu. I mean resetting the phone through recovery or download mode. Good luck.
My screen has wobbled since I bought it, but unfortunately I didn't have the common sense to get it replaced during the 30 day trial period. It's been getting worse, to the point that it wobbles even with the keyboard out, and when tapping the screen it makes a clicking sound as it hits the back part of the phone.
Has anyone developed a fix for this? I am not averted to opening the phone up if it's not super difficult.
Nobody has tried to fix it and if you take a look at the slide mechanism you'll see why, there is no way to tighten it.
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Xinlitik said:
My screen has wobbled since I bought it, but unfortunately I didn't have the common sense to get it replaced during the 30 day trial period. It's been getting worse, to the point that it wobbles even with the keyboard out, and when tapping the screen it makes a clicking sound as it hits the back part of the phone.
Has anyone developed a fix for this? I am not averted to opening the phone up if it's not super difficult.
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I had this issue on two of the first Epics within the first 30 days. It was disappointing how they could have those issues on such a large number of phones. I didn't come across any solution while looking for one. If you can get it replaced somehow, and get one that doesn't wobble, try for that.
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Xinlitik said:
My screen has wobbled since I bought it, but unfortunately I didn't have the common sense to get it replaced during the 30 day trial period. It's been getting worse, to the point that it wobbles even with the keyboard out, and when tapping the screen it makes a clicking sound as it hits the back part of the phone.
Has anyone developed a fix for this? I am not averted to opening the phone up if it's not super difficult.
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I took mine to the sprint store and I watched the tech disassemble my whole phone. He tried to tighten the mechanism but it didn't help at all. So I started talking to him about the problems I've been having about not being able to update my PRL or profile and the poor battery life I've been having since updating to EC05 and ended up ordering a replacement. It will be a refurb but I decided to roll the dice and hope that I get a phone that isn't as bad as my phone when it comes to screen wobble. Drives me crazy when I have the phone closed and it teeters like an unstable table when I'm using the touch screen.
I bricked my phone 2 days ago and got a new replacement for free and no more wobble
my old one wobbled like crazy which i had since it came out and one of the first people to get it..
So the newer builds definitely have improved sliders
i can confrim this cause all my family has epics and non of theme wobbled like my first phone and they all got them like 4 to 6 months after it came out
my new phone doesnt wobble at all now
my old one did even tho i never dropped it or i was never rough with it
the new one is great
Looks like you got a new refurb one
good luck and hopefully no wobble
Mines woobled out the box. I always bought htc phones and this is my first non htc phone. And let me tell you something. Htc phones wooble more and lcd screen fail all the time. So I didn't get bothered at all by the epics slight wooble.
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I did a search and found this thread instead of starting a new one happy..
Anyways has anyone found a fix for this yet? i got mine yesterday and its a bit wobbly.
I gave up on trying to get replacements. The one I have now has a wobble but hasn't gotten any worse than the day I opened it.
I don't use cases, but I tried one at the store and it actually stopped the wobble. Get a case as a workaround?
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I did a search and found this thread instead of starting a new one happy..
Anyways has anyone found a fix for this yet? i got mine yesterday and its a bit wobbly.
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Within a couple of months my screen would wobble from front-to-back when open. It hasn't gotten any worse and I've had my Epic since a week after release here in the U.S. I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much, especially since there's not much you can do about tightening it.
I heard if you get a new epic that will fix your problem.
I must have gotten lucky. I've never had wobble problems and even after dropping it multiple times without a case it is still perfect : )
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for some reason just in a sudden my wildfire has lots of scanlines. it seems asif the lines, which are horozontal btw, are with a pixel space distance from eachother. but when you touch the screen there is one line that dissapears... even in boot and recovery it is showing this problem...
any help appraciated...
Could possibly be a loose or worn connection, i dropped my Willy (still tickles me that slym) on a tiled floor and had a few dots that seemed to get bigger and smaller of their own accord, not saying you should do this but i accidentally dropped mine again and it fixed my problem.
Probably a loose connection between the screen and motherboard or the screen is beginning to fail.
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ever tried to open the front? or is it even possible to open the front without breaking it? cause else i will try and see if there is a wire loose...
Just do not drop it in hope to fix something lol
Good luck!
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ever tried to open the front? or is it even possible to open the front without breaking it? cause else i will try and see if there is a wire loose...
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If you look on youtube, there are videos showing how to open it up, its not difficult but there is a cable which folds around at the bottom of the screen for the backlights on the buttons, just be careful you don't tear it or your button lights won't work anymore. It may just need a little clean out. If that doesn't fix it then new screens are cheap enough but i've said it before n i'll say it again, is it worth spending money on?
Maybe time to think about an upgrade.......
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i do have an upgrade i have a sensation xe since 4 weeks, but a friend of mine borrowed this one cause his died 2 weeks ago and it all was still good untill last weekend... but i might wanna try to look for the video and indeed clean it, maybe it helps... thanks for the info
Im brand new to HTC products im usually the galaxy guy and the ATT rep convinced me that the ONE M8 would be the way to go today since my S4 got stolen last night ... however i am generally pleased with the device i was wondering if anyone else has issues with the keyboard in portrait orientation. Long story short the HIGHLY used keys on the left side of my keyboard will not recognize my input using my left thumb... i have to literally take my right thumb across the device to input the E, R, T, and sometimes even S keys... is this something I am doing wrong or does anyone else have issues like this ( seems like its almost not sensitive enough to read the input or something i can hit it 100 times with my left thumb and nothing but hit it once with my right and it takes it )... When i turn to landscape to type it seems to do alright but my habits usually keep me in portrait so this is a real irritant if you can imagine. Any thoughts at all or anyone else have a fix for this? Considering returning to the store tomorrow to explain my grievance. Side note... I have tried different keyboards from the play store with the same issue... :crying:
Sounds like a defective left thumb.
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Im brand new to HTC products im usually the galaxy guy and the ATT rep convinced me that the ONE M8 would be the way to go today since my S4 got stolen last night ... however i am generally pleased with the device i was wondering if anyone else has issues with the keyboard in portrait orientation. Long story short the HIGHLY used keys on the left side of my keyboard will not recognize my input using my left thumb... i have to literally take my right thumb across the device to input the E, R, T, and sometimes even S keys... is this something I am doing wrong or does anyone else have issues like this ( seems like its almost not sensitive enough to read the input or something i can hit it 100 times with my left thumb and nothing but hit it once with my right and it takes it )... When i turn to landscape to type it seems to do alright but my habits usually keep me in portrait so this is a real irritant if you can imagine. Any thoughts at all or anyone else have a fix for this? Considering returning to the store tomorrow to explain my grievance. Side note... I have tried different keyboards from the play store with the same issue... :crying:
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sounds like a defective device.
Dinstall screen touch test from play, it will show every touch point on you phone. Seems like you have a defective digitizer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...utm_medium=organic&utm_term=screen+touch+test
Someone told me that the M8 has a very active screen all the way to the edges... i think ive figured out that its my fat hands that are rolling onto the screen somewhere while trying to type text messages causing the device not to recognize my input. The way i hold the device i guess is the issue because even during calibration it gave me issues with the left sided letters.... so i guess i have to either find a new way to hold the device or get some kind of case to accommodate my fat hands and tight grip on the device .... any tips or tricks on how to hold these things when texting to keep my hands off the screen? I tend to hold the device more in my palms than fingers for safety im a bit clumsy and i think thats the issue.
So I had to turn off the OUYA for about a month for some renovations and last night turned it back on.
I was excited and happy to see 2 system updates come down.
For some reason though after the updates both my controllers touch pads do not work
They are super sensitive and no matter were I run my thumb it just decides it wants to go all the way to the bottom left regardless.
Very annoying. Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks
Never had this problem before, but may be if you take it apart and change the batteries or something. I know this sounds lame but sometimes that helps. You can also try re-syncing the controller from start...