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It seems the touchscreen of my Desire gets less responsive at random times. Anyone else who has this problem as well?
The touchscreen of the Desire is very sensitive in most cases. But it sometimes (randomly) becomes less responsive. I have to give more pressure for the screen to register the touch. This is especially annoying when typing an e-mail or text message.
But for example: when sliding between the screens at the homescreen (Sense), you have to barely touch the screen to slide. When my 'problem' appears, I can actually feel and slide on the screen but nothing happens. When applying more force it does work, but is not as comfortable...
When I reboot the problem seems to be gone for a while, but at some point it becomes less responsive again.
Obviously I have tried uninstalling apps and widgets and see what happens then. But the problem remains. Hard reset/factory reset appears to be working at first, but again after some time the screen becomes less responsive again. This can be after a few minutes or after a few hours. The only way to 'solve' this is to reboot the phone again.
So! Is there anyone who is experiencing the same problems? Because of the factory reset (and obviously not installing any apps after that reset) it seems to me this is some sort of hardware problem.
Any takes on the issue?
I only get such a problem when my hands are sweaty or sticky and when the screen is smudgy. I'm a cleanliness freak though so I naturally keep my hands and the screen very clean avoiding this problem. Otherwise everything is pretty darn consistent on my side... except for one oddity.
I struggled with this phone for months and then gave up trying to type or even just use the touchscreen while it's laying flat on any surface. Most of the touches just never registered, honestly. Even when applying a lot of pressure. Until last week, quite unexpectedly, the touches started registering perfectly. Just as good as when holding it vertical. I was quite amazed and baffled at how something just changed automatically to improve it significantly. The only other observational change in sync was that some apps that kept changing the phones layout based on the way I'm holding it even when I had disabled this feature (like the Tapatalk XDA app) have started working correctly as set now. Just all of a sudden.
I haven't made any setting or config change. I did root a while back but unrooted very soon after by flashing the stock T-Mobile ROM and things were still as bad as the beginning. That's something like 2 months back.
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Ok, weird!
Since I am able to reproduce this with and without installed software (hard reset, no sim, no sd, no nothing) I can only assume it's some sort of hardware problem.
So off to repair department it goes! Thought I'd post it here and perhaps someone would have a solution saying:"Oh! That's this or that". You never know
What I found is sometimes it's unresponsive but it's *puts on black roll neck and jeans* the way that I'm holding it.
I think if you squeeze the phone too much it registers a touch on the side of the screen. Also so times when I'm using it one handed the ball of the bottom of my thumb touches the screen and this is registering, making the rest of the screen unresponsive.
I'd consider this to be the problem first (as annoying as it is). I used to have the 2nd problem on the iPhone, but not the first. It's a bit upsetting but I got over it.
RaptorRVL said:
It seems the touchscreen of my Desire gets less responsive at random times. Anyone else who has this problem as well?
The touchscreen of the Desire is very sensitive in most cases. But it sometimes (randomly) becomes less responsive. I have to give more pressure for the screen to register the touch. This is especially annoying when typing an e-mail or text message.
But for example: when sliding between the screens at the homescreen (Sense), you have to barely touch the screen to slide. When my 'problem' appears, I can actually feel and slide on the screen but nothing happens. When applying more force it does work, but is not as comfortable...
When I reboot the problem seems to be gone for a while, but at some point it becomes less responsive again.
Obviously I have tried uninstalling apps and widgets and see what happens then. But the problem remains. Hard reset/factory reset appears to be working at first, but again after some time the screen becomes less responsive again. This can be after a few minutes or after a few hours. The only way to 'solve' this is to reboot the phone again.
So! Is there anyone who is experiencing the same problems? Because of the factory reset (and obviously not installing any apps after that reset) it seems to me this is some sort of hardware problem.
Any takes on the issue?
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Are you using a screen protector at all?
Since you have the same problem after performing a hard reset, maybe you should consider taking it back to the vendor for a warranty repair or replacement as it could be a faulty digitizer.
If you can't guess what happened from my title, then let me elaborate.
When leaving a nightclub in camden last saturday night, I whipped out my phone to navigate to the bus stop when the heavens bucketed it down on me. Well shortly after getting on the bus and texting my flatmate to see if they are still up and want a game of COD, the screen starts flickering and the contrast went all weird and I lost my mobile signal. So rebooted the phone, still the same (at this point the brain still hadn't clicked that it could have been water damage). So I decided that I should reinstall the rom whilst on the bus, still the same (mine is rooted and running Liquid Smooth beta 3.2). It was only when the phone felt particularly warm at the back that it occurs to me that it's water damage so that was when I decided to take the battery out.
Anyway, now that I've set the scene and the background story, the problem I have now is that the camera doesn't work and I've tried multiple camera apps. All I get is a grey screen, the camera icons doesn't work and I get a message saying "Gallery isn't responding". At the same time Gallery sometimes work and I can't view any videos via MX Player or play anything on youtube (the menu and links are still there though). And my mobile signal just drops to nothing and I have to reboot.
Any ideas on what I can do? I've done the following:
Hardware reset and reflash my phone
Tried different versions of LiquidSmooth Rom
Made sure I'm using the correct version of Gapps
Attempted to run Z-Device Test to no avail, the app just hangs
I've let it dried
Cleared the cache, enable/disable gallery
Cleared the cache on Media Storage app
Used multiple camera apps
Tried to use the camera in the lock screen (just get a black screen)
Since it's water damage I cannot imagine flashing anything will make a difference.
Should have immediately pulled battery and put it in rice asap.
Always a good idea to keep a small plastic bag in your car/bag/briefcase for just that situation.
Yeah.. I had hopes someone in the forum would go, "That doesn't sound like water damage, you can fix it by doing this". Sigh.... It's amazing how one hardware fault can affect things like youtube whilst everything else is fine.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that someone will see this and know of another possibility.
Just got this tablet yesterday. A big part of my usage will be playing clash of clans (just too addicting). So, when I got home with the Tab last night I played a couple hours of CoC, running stock.
First thing I noticed, the screen is in fact beautiful. Even on the lower brightness settings the colors pop which is amazing.
But... I started to notice touch sensitivity issues in CoC almost immediately. In the game you have to click little buildings to select them / collect resources and such. I noticed that the screen seemed to not be registering some of my clicks. In the most extreme case I'd have to touch a building 2-3 times before it would actually register. Has anyone else had this issue? I've got a couple theories:
1) The screen may be registering my clicks as little tiny swipes instead of presses. Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity on this?
2) Screen may be defective (seems worse on the left side, but could be my imagination)
3) This is just a CoC issue / compatability with the Tab S
Clear Data,Cache and retry maybe it's just a lag?did you face any heating problem?
I recommend you to 'tick' show touches option in Developers Options!
echoboomer said:
Just got this tablet yesterday. A big part of my usage will be playing clash of clans (just too addicting). So, when I got home with the Tab last night I played a couple hours of CoC, running stock.
First thing I noticed, the screen is in fact beautiful. Even on the lower brightness settings the colors pop which is amazing.
But... I started to notice touch sensitivity issues in CoC almost immediately. In the game you have to click little buildings to select them / collect resources and such. I noticed that the screen seemed to not be registering some of my clicks. In the most extreme case I'd have to touch a building 2-3 times before it would actually register. Has anyone else had this issue? I've got a couple theories:
1) The screen may be registering my clicks as little tiny swipes instead of presses. Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity on this?
2) Screen may be defective (seems worse on the left side, but could be my imagination)
3) This is just a CoC issue / compatability with the Tab S
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I play clash of clans. This is happening because you are lagging. Just close all other apps before playing. Its all smooth for me
DUHAsianSKILLZ said:
I play clash of clans. This is happening because you are lagging. Just close all other apps before playing. Its all smooth for me
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Hmm, still happening tonight. I did a fresh reboot and made sure only CoC was running in the task manager. Still had the issue with missed clicks, maybe about 1 in every 8.
enable the deiveloper options (google if you don't know how, it is easy and required to be able to playdeus ex the fall for reasons)
Under developer options there are 2 options under input enable both of them. That will give you a graphical representation of your touches and swipes.
While we are in settings check device/display for touch sensitivity and try checking or unchecking the box to see if that helps you out.
one last thing if you are comming from a smaller screen device you may not have have noticed but touch screens are not pixel perfect in the best of worlds. And on a smaller screen with less pixels it tends to be easier to hit the area you want. Check to see if you are not hitting somethine else by a building by placing walls surrounding a building like a mine or a pump then touch to collect.
This is happening for me also, and it is really annoying. Clash of Clans is the main thing I use the tablet for.
I tried enabling the developer options like was suggested, and it is still happening. Even with the graphical touch and swipe showing where I tapped on something, Clash of Clans is apparently ignoring the action.
Use stylus
It works better if you use a stylus. I have the same problem but I have not yet found the ideal solution. Therefor most of the time, I keep on using my Motorola Xoom to play with CoC.
echoboomer said:
Just got this tablet yesterday. A big part of my usage will be playing clash of clans (just too addicting). So, when I got home with the Tab last night I played a couple hours of CoC, running stock.
First thing I noticed, the screen is in fact beautiful. Even on the lower brightness settings the colors pop which is amazing.
But... I started to notice touch sensitivity issues in CoC almost immediately. In the game you have to click little buildings to select them / collect resources and such. I noticed that the screen seemed to not be registering some of my clicks. In the most extreme case I'd have to touch a building 2-3 times before it would actually register. Has anyone else had this issue? I've got a couple theories:
1) The screen may be registering my clicks as little tiny swipes instead of presses. Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity on this?
2) Screen may be defective (seems worse on the left side, but could be my imagination)
3) This is just a CoC issue / compatability with the Tab S
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I bet you guys using marshmallow os wright ? I have this problem too.. i suspect thr os isnt compatible to coc, or the coc isnt compatible to marshmallow. We need some fixes from both.
echoboomer said:
Just got this tablet yesterday. A big part of my usage will be playing clash of clans (just too addicting). So, when I got home with the Tab last night I played a couple hours of CoC, running stock.
First thing I noticed, the screen is in fact beautiful. Even on the lower brightness settings the colors pop which is amazing.
But... I started to notice touch sensitivity issues in CoC almost immediately. In the game you have to click little buildings to select them / collect resources and such. I noticed that the screen seemed to not be registering some of my clicks. In the most extreme case I'd have to touch a building 2-3 times before it would actually register. Has anyone else had this issue? I've got a couple theories:
1) The screen may be registering my clicks as little tiny swipes instead of presses. Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity on this?
2) Screen may be defective (seems worse on the left side, but could be my imagination)
3) This is just a CoC issue / compatability with the Tab S
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I have a Samsung Tab 3 and recently the touch screen has gone haywire. I drop a troop at 12oc and heal spell drops randomly at 6oc or wherever. I click on the screen and the screen zooms in and out irradictly . Trying to do a raid must less a war attack is impossible. Anyone have the same issues? Can't play at all atm. Really frustrating
Hi.
My Z1C seems to have a similar case of faulty display as described in some other threads here, but actually a bit different. The phone is stock, not rooted, running 5.1.1
Whenever I do something, there are ghost touches in the upper quarter or third of the screen. They only happen when I am not touching the screen myself. It happens no matter what I do. When I browse internet, it clicks links, when I scroll contacts, it calls people, when I am on facebook it gives likes etc... It seems like the more demanding task the phone is performing, the more ghost touches.
I turned on the developer settings and the "show pointer location" option, which leaves track of the last touch on screen, so I can research the issue.
I found out that when the phone is on home screen, it happens very rarely or not at all - the track of my last touch stays until screen turns off.
When I jump into the touchscreen service test, it does not happen at all. I can draw a line around the whole screen and it stays higlighted indefinitely.
In lock screen, it also doesn't happen.
I tried it in Sketch and it confirmed what I thought, when I was just sketching, from time to time a dot appeared in the upper part of the screen, but when the phone was downloading or installing in the background, the screen literally had seizures. I touched and released and then a storm of dots started to appear around the top part of the screen. It stopped after 5+ seconds, and after another input from me, the screen got another fit, drawing more dots.
I don't have any experience, but I think that since the problem doesn't happen constantly and it doesn't even happen at all in test mode, it could be a SW mistake.
I have found this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2691849 and I'm willing to try, but 1) my phone is still under warranty and 2) I have never done a root so I am not too eager. Do you think I should try that? Or has anyone found another solution for this problem?
Thanks.
Slivovidze said:
Hi.
My Z1C seems to have a similar case of faulty display as described in some other threads here, but actually a bit different. The phone is stock, not rooted, running 5.1.1
Whenever I do something, there are ghost touches in the upper quarter or third of the screen. They only happen when I am not touching the screen myself. It happens no matter what I do. When I browse internet, it clicks links, when I scroll contacts, it calls people, when I am on facebook it gives likes etc... It seems like the more demanding task the phone is performing, the more ghost touches.
I turned on the developer settings and the "show pointer location" option, which leaves track of the last touch on screen, so I can research the issue.
I found out that when the phone is on home screen, it happens very rarely or not at all - the track of my last touch stays until screen turns off.
When I jump into the touchscreen service test, it does not happen at all. I can draw a line around the whole screen and it stays higlighted indefinitely.
In lock screen, it also doesn't happen.
I tried it in Sketch and it confirmed what I thought, when I was just sketching, from time to time a dot appeared in the upper part of the screen, but when the phone was downloading or installing in the background, the screen literally had seizures. I touched and released and then a storm of dots started to appear around the top part of the screen. It stopped after 5+ seconds, and after another input from me, the screen got another fit, drawing more dots.
I don't have any experience, but I think that since the problem doesn't happen constantly and it doesn't even happen at all in test mode, it could be a SW mistake.
I have found this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2691849 and I'm willing to try, but 1) my phone is still under warranty and 2) I have never done a root so I am not too eager. Do you think I should try that? Or has anyone found another solution for this problem?
Thanks.
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As You have warranty, I would strongly suggest that You go for a repair. I had the same issue in beginning, ghost touches appearing randomly, going away only after reboot. I was rooted and xposed, so went full stock without restoring any apps or data from internal storage, yet the problem remained, thus ruling out the point that it was software problem. And then after a week or so, that much part of screen stopped responding to touch entirely. You can see details over here, Another user had same problem as Mine and had the same end result,
OK then, I'll go for a repair. Thanks for the tip.
Slivovidze said:
OK then, I'll go for a repair. Thanks for the tip.
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I am having exactly the same behaviour as you described .
Ghost touches happening on the upper part, and triggered when a demanding task is running.
Actually I didn't realized completely about this, I thought it was just random, but right now after I saw your post, I tried an app similar to Sketch while upgrading apps or playing a video in the background. And dots in the upper part start appearing crazily.
Did the phone repair solve your problem ? Mine is not in warranty, so I'll have to pay for it.
But also in my case, before this thing happened, I got some water damage and that upper quarter of the screen stopped responding.
After replacing screen+digitizer I got this very specific behaviour you described.
karamaz0v said:
I am having exactly the same behaviour as you described .
Ghost touches happening on the upper part, and triggered when a demanding task is running.
Actually I didn't realized completely about this, I thought it was just random, but right now after I saw your post, I tried an app similar to Sketch while upgrading apps or playing a video in the background. And dots in the upper part start appearing crazily.
Did the phone repair solve your problem ? Mine is not in warranty, so I'll have to pay for it.
But also in my case, before this thing happened, I got some water damage and that upper quarter of the screen stopped responding.
After replacing screen+digitizer I got this very specific behaviour you described.
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In my case, I realized that I bought (probably) a badly re-fitted phone. Display's backlight was visible around screen panel edges, where I'd say it shouldn't be visible at all. I decided to return the phone and got a refund.
Sorry for not being able to help you.
Slivovidze said:
In my case, I realized that I bought (probably) a badly re-fitted phone. Display's backlight was visible around screen panel edges, where I'd say it shouldn't be visible at all. I decided to return the phone and got a refund.
Sorry for not being able to help you.
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Ok. The aftermarket screen I got has that issue with the screen edges also. Very probable you are right.
In my case I water damaged myself. It seems that after 2 years of intensive use, waterproofing is gone, by accumulation of slight hits or so, never had a single crack on the screen. I read many posts reporting this happening, even with much less use time.
Too bad, I loved the phone, but I'm afraid that sending it to repair will mean to change the PCB or similar for a complete fix, which can come to a ridiculous price.
Seems it will be time to move on...
Yeah. If you want it fixed properly, you'd need to send it to Sony, and for the money it would cost you, you can probably gen a new phone. Sadly, similar phones aren't made anymore.
I have a HTC One m8 and the top half inch of the screen does not respond but occasionally it does sometimes for a little while. The top half inch generally tends to work when the battery is charged to 100% but sometimes that doesn't happen either. if it helps I use a tempered glass as a screen protector and the screen does not have any physical damage and it doesn't help when u boot into safe mode. I have also tried a hard reset.
Coincidentally i am working on a phone with the same problem (not mine). After a lot google research the owner decided to use another Launcher (Smart Launcher). This did not fix it entirely, if you are in Apps you can use the statusbar, but its not working on homescreen. I dont know why it behaves like that, but surprisingly many people get problems like that. I tend to believe that there is some software problem involved, because changing Launcher or using custom rom has been reported helpfull/fixing the problem (not allways tho..).
Now he had some other troubles with this phone and in the process i did a reset, that did not fix things as you said. I will install a custom rom next and will report back next week.
So i was wrong with saying a new lauchner solved the problem. Statusbar(sb) was accessible in home screen but not in app, said it wrong in the other comment. Now i had some time to test this and i can say that at least the phone i was working on is broken.
The top part does not recognize any touch input. The reason the sb showed some reactions is, that the launcher had a bigger trigger area (i guess), so you could pull it down. But still the top part was not responding. I tested it with stock, S-Rom and one Nougat Rom (dont remember), none of that showed an input in the top part.
Solution for now is different launcher or app that pulls down the bar. There are still some problems in daily usage, that this will not fix, so i guess its time for a new phone.
I am facing same problem. Is it any update which was pushed by HTC which makes the top 1 inch unresponsive ocassionally.. Indirectly, a marketing gimmick to push us by a new phone. So if it is really like that, who would buy a HTC phone again anticipating same problem again. Might go for Samsung (my own preference). huh !!!