Has anyone tried the capacitive stylus from Boxwave? I've used a Palm for years, and find I miss the stylus. So, anyone????
I'll probably buy one this week, unless someone else has made the experiment
If so, I'll report back. Amazon has 2 versions, regular and mini. The mini even has a cute little tether that plugs into the headphone jack.
Bearcat
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should work fine :l if its made for the ipod/iphone im sure itll work on the mts
bearcat668 said:
Has anyone tried the capacitive stylus from Boxwave? I've used a Palm for years, and find I miss the stylus. So, anyone????
I'll probably buy one this week, unless someone else has made the experiment
If so, I'll report back. Amazon has 2 versions, regular and mini. The mini even has a cute little tether that plugs into the headphone jack.
Bearcat
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I am curious if this would work. I kinda dont think so, but I dont know much about if there is anything inside a stylus to make it be recognized by a touch screen. If it is just plastic then doubt it will work.
Capacitive stylii (I'm thinking that's right, but I really don't care ) have a method of conducting electricity from the hand to the screen. Most are made of metal and have a conductive foam tip that transfers the current to the screen as your finger would.
Any *capacitive* stylus should work fine on the Slide's screen assuming you're directly holding the stylus (so no gloves in the winter).
I thought they used magnets to produce a magnetic field.... Didn't think about something to conduct from the hand tru the tip... Very interesting.
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I thought they used magnets to produce a magnetic field.... Didn't think about something to conduct from the hand tru the tip... Very interesting.
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God, I hope not. even a tiny magnet in a case will screw up your compass
i heard something about using a wienie (sorry if misspelled) as a stylus on capacitive screens works. just that it'll make your hand and phone smell like wienie.
ive used it but i still prefer my fingers
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i heard something about using a wienie (sorry if misspelled) as a stylus on capacitive screens works. just that it'll make your hand and phone smell like wienie.
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What?! A hot dog or a penis, lol... Well, it is skin so... hey, what do ya know! it works! I doubt I can use my new stylus in public though
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What?! A hot dog or a penis, lol... Well, it is skin so... hey, what do ya know! it works! I doubt I can use my new stylus in public though
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hahahahahaahaha, i was talking about a hot dog wienie, but the other should work too cuz its skin. and of course you can, you just might get arrested.
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hahahahahaahaha, i was talking about a hot dog wienie, but the other should work too cuz its skin. and of course you can, you just might get arrested.
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Yeah, I read about the hot dog stylus and using anti static plastic (from a hard drive, ram, or video card, etc. (Sensitive computer parts are wrapped in) rolled up in a stick formation. I guess you could wrap a pencil in the stuff too. But heck, mini styluses are sold for $5 and up to $30 for a high end model. None work perfectly, I hear. I might try a mid range model for 15-20 and see how they are...
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What?! A hot dog or a penis, lol... Well, it is skin so... hey, what do ya know! it works! I doubt I can use my new stylus in public though
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It didn't work for me. I was pressing most of the buttons at once. ;P
"It didn't work for me. I was pressing most of the buttons at once."
well put the hot dog down then lol
UnkzDomain said:
Capacitive stylii (I'm thinking that's right, but I really don't care ) have a method of conducting electricity from the hand to the screen. Most are made of metal and have a conductive foam tip that transfers the current to the screen as your finger would.
Any *capacitive* stylus should work fine on the Slide's screen assuming you're directly holding the stylus (so no gloves in the winter).
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Im pretty sure you can use them with gloves on...... at least thats what they all say in the ads
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Ok so on the tilt 2 it has a strap/charm hole to put well a strap or charm on ur phone, and i used it alot! But recently the little plastic piece in the hole that holds the charm/strap snapped off on mine, Does anyone have any good suggestions on what I could do, I'm rather clumsy so a strap is rather needed
Where on your Tilt2 do you have such a hole? Mine does not.
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Where on your Tilt2 do you have such a hole? Mine does not.
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Its on the back at the bottom center, right above the charging port, love the icon btw
Right here
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Right here
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that is so obvious is not for a strap!, the only thing i can come up with is that is for some kind attachment whole for like an accesory or maybe a craddle, but definetly not a strap, i dont think, lol
the phone is too heavy and you prob snapped the plastic cover off a lot too didnt you?
but i would love to really find out trully what kinda accesory would attached to it
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that is so obvious is not for a strap!, the only thing i can come up with is that is for some kind attachment whole for like an accesory or maybe a craddle, but definetly not a strap, i dont think, lol
the phone is too heavy and you prob snapped the plastic cover off a lot too didnt you?
but i would love to really find out trully what kinda accesory would attached to it
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Its called a hanger hole, its in the manual
http://www.htc.com/us/support/tilt-2-att/tech-specs/
No my plastic cover never came off
Anyone got and idea of how to fix it?
Looks like the holder is part of the phone frame. If the little T-shaped tab broke off, you may be SOL on fixing it. Perhaps you could buy a broken Tilt 2 off eBay (I've seen them) and transfer the part, but taking a phone apart and putting it back together correctly is not an easy task.
I never would have guessed that hole was for a strap or charm, although that's quite apparently what its for. The T-shaped tab under the battery covers sure doesn't look strong enough for the purpose.
never had a hole on mine, whered u get that from?! lol
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Its called a hanger hole, its in the manual
http://www.htc.com/us/support/tilt-2-att/tech-specs/
No my plastic cover never came off
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oh... so you can wear the phone as a pendant... ya cause its so small and light i might mistake it for a necklace...
Same thing happened to me - I keep thinking how lucky I am it didn't go flying when it broke. I was able to loop the hanger through the square just to the left of where the "t" was - I can provide a pic shortly. Its been working so far...
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oh... so you can wear the phone as a pendant... ya cause its so small and light i might mistake it for a necklace...
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I never, ever would have guessed that that hole was for hanging the little charms off of. I once wondered why this phone didn't come with something like that when most phones did.
Amazing what reading the manual can do~!
love hanging charms
sorry about your luck.
yep, i love hanging a charm or a cute screen cleaner from the charm hole.
been using it for a year..hope mine doesnt do the same
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Same thing happened to me - I keep thinking how lucky I am it didn't go flying when it broke. I was able to loop the hanger through the square just to the left of where the "t" was - I can provide a pic shortly. Its been working so far...
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Oh please do
I use a strap for mine. It works wonderfully!
Wow that's great. Does anybody know where to find a strap that would be good to wear my Tilt2 around my neck please? It would be great for working while wearing a wired headset. Hate keeping it in my pocket and I'm not happy with any of the holsters. Especially that oem one. That sucker will help a guy lose his phone in a hurry...
EDIT; Nevermind. I figured out to search for the words phone and lanyard on ebay. Decisions, desisions.
Memory card lanyards work fine too. I'm using a lanyard for a SanDisk MicroSD adapter for my phone. It works great.
Whoa, that little plastic bit holding the weight of a Tilt 2 on a lanyard or wrist strap? Sounds like tempting fate to me. I never have used a wrist strap on a phone and this definitely doesn't inspire me to try it now, lol. HTC should have built something a little more substantial than that into the frame if they wanted it to be really useful as a hanging point for the phone. I have been wondering where the strap on the HTC accessory page was supposed to attach, now I know.
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Whoa, that little plastic bit holding the weight of a Tilt 2 on a lanyard or wrist strap? Sounds like tempting fate to me. I never have used a wrist strap on a phone and this definitely doesn't inspire me to try it now, lol. HTC should have built something a little more substantial than that into the frame if they wanted it to be really useful as a hanging point for the phone. I have been wondering where the strap on the HTC accessory page was supposed to attach, now I know.
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You are correct. It does look cheesy. However, so far so good. I do think it is important to be certain that the string of the lanyard is seated to the base of the "T" opening really well. Fortunately that is easy to pull off. Also I don't think I'd swing it around by the lanyard with the cover off. After a few weeks of using a wrist strap and a neck lanyard I don't see any signs of stress on the plastic. So maybe it will hold out.
So I've noticed that with the edges of the defender case being raised as they are, they can inhibit your swyping ability if you've got big fingers and are trying to use a word that has the letter P in it. almost impossible to get it to register without mashing your finger against the edge of the case
edit: my bad, shoulda put this in accessories!
Yea it does. For me the 1 is a bigger pain, gotta "shave" some off I think
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Maybe some sanding is in order.... That sucks.
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So I've noticed that with the edges of the defender case being raised as they are, they can inhibit your swyping ability if you've got big fingers and are trying to use a word that has the letter P in it. almost impossible to get it to register without mashing your finger against the edge of the case
edit: my bad, shoulda put this in accessories!
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main reason i did not get one .. had this problem with my evo4g and the case
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main reason i did not get one .. had this problem with my evo4g and the case
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I had this issue with my ballistic case on the evo.
Maybe try a different keyboard app? Also, voice to text works really well with this phone. Dont know why more people dont use it.
I had the problem with the keyboard and search icon in the market. I just use Shapewriter and the hard search key.
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Maybe try a different keyboard app? Also, voice to text works really well with this phone. Dont know why more people dont use it.
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Its too slow for me, also when Im in class I dont want people hearing what Im saying.
I have not experienced any problems with this and my otter box...
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I noticed this too, it gets pretty annoying
This is what I did with a dermal tool to make my Otterbox Defender easier to use when I'm swyping. The edges where the keyboard is located was "sanded" down so swyping has been a lot easier for me since the mod to the holster. I also dremaled out a hole so I can access the volume rocker without having to remove the phone from the holster. And I thought the tab to remove the phone from the holster was protruding too much so I also dremaled it down. Now it's slightly harder to remove the phone from the holster, but I don't intend to remove the phone from the holster very often.
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This is what I did with a dermal tool to make my Otterbox Defender easier to use when I'm swyping. The edges where the keyboard is located was "sanded" down so swyping has been a lot easier for me since the mod to the holster. I also dremaled out a hole so I can access the volume rocker without having to remove the phone from the holster. And I thought the tab to remove the phone from the holster was protruding too much so I also dremaled it down. Now it's slightly harder to remove the phone from the holster, but I don't intend to remove the phone from the holster very often.
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that looks great
Same for me. I download the Gingerbread Keyboard from the market and its much easier to press those buttons now. The hardest for me is the search button in market.
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Maybe try a different keyboard app? Also, voice to text works really well with this phone. Dont know why more people dont use it.
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+1 why type when you can talk?
I really like the modified holster case!
I too don't like how extra bulky the defender series is for a regular user like myself. I can see its perks for construction workers or something, but for me, the commuter series was plenty perfect for my new baby
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I dremaled down the release clip too. I like it way better now. I might go out to home depot and refresh my dremal bits and cut the port and button holes too.
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I dremaled down the release clip too. I like it way better now. I might go out to home depot and refresh my dremal bits and cut the port and button holes too.
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The release clip definitely needs to be dremaled down. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that felt that way.
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Androidious said:
I really like the modified holster case!
I too don't like how extra bulky the defender series is for a regular user like myself. I can see its perks for construction workers or something, but for me, the commuter series was plenty perfect for my new baby
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This case is perfect for me as I work in a paper mill building scaffolding.
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Hey, have I just noticed this last night. If you use the top of the magic pen on the screen, it works just like your finger does. More specifically, it works like a capacitive stylus would! This wasn't advertised as a feature, was it? If not, I'm glad I figured it out. It makes it so I only have to use my fingers sporadically.
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HOLY CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!!!
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It's an old trick to use the negative side of a battery on a capacitive screen for a makeshift stylus. Since the negative side of the battery is cap side, it takes advantage of said trick.
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Actually it has nothing to do with a battery..
It's just a metal conductor touching your fingers with a large contact area, you could use a frozen sausage!
Use the back of a teaspoon on the screen and it works just as well!
Take care though, the metal can easily scratch the screen.
Best thing to do is attach a small piece of conductive foam (the soft black kind that delicate IC's are sold in) to the top of the pen.
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Actually it has nothing to do with a battery..
It's just a metal conductor touching your fingers with a large contact area, you could use a frozen sausage!
Use the back of a teaspoon on the screen and it works just as well!
Take care though, the metal can easily scratch the screen.
Best thing to do is attach a small piece of conductive foam (the soft black kind that delicate IC's are sold in) to the top of the pen.
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I will somewhat disagree.
While the pen may act as a conductor, holding the pen with a pair of insulated pliers and using it upside down also works. Thus, it is the battery as well
Sometimes I shouldn't be allowed to play with stuff when I get bored.
Regardless, it is a neat unintended feature
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I will somewhat disagree.
While the pen may act as a conductor, holding the pen with a pair of insulated pliers and using it upside down also works. Thus, it is the battery as well
Sometimes I shouldn't be allowed to play with stuff when I get bored.
Regardless, it is a neat unintended feature
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Agreed, it will work this way due to negative charge on capacitive coupling but we always look at MISS (Make it simple, stupid!)
If i can explain to readers, a better use of their pen with a nice bit of conductive foam on the top (EVEN if the battery is missing or completely flat) then that is the best option in my opinion, no need for confrontation.
Oh, BTW, your choice of pliers will have an effect on your experiment! If they have any metal content, the capacitive coupling pick-up from your hand is increased, just try it with non-conductive plastic tweezers/forceps and it won't work... We ain't talkin miiliamps here, were talkin nanoamps...
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Actually it has nothing to do with a battery..
It's just a metal conductor touching your fingers with a large contact area, you could use a frozen sausage!
Use the back of a teaspoon on the screen and it works just as well!
Take care though, the metal can easily scratch the screen.
Best thing to do is attach a small piece of conductive foam (the soft black kind that delicate IC's are sold in) to the top of the pen.
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List if things that worked
1 frozen sausage
2 popcicle
3 Starbucks straw with frapp in it
4 back of pen with battery taken out
5 sweat from my face from laughing so hard
Ps this all works on my EVO 3d as well
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Neat that those things work and all, but how cumbersome is it to use
some hulking monstrosity as a makeshift stylus that is intended to be used for delicate/precise touches such as drawing? Wrap a leaf blower in foil and connect that to 300 feet of copper wire which is spun around your body and leave a length of wire as long as your finger coming off the top of your hand and you don't even have to hold it!
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Hey, have I just noticed this last night. If you use the top of the magic pen on the screen, it works just like your finger does. More specifically, it works like a capacitive stylus would! This wasn't advertised as a feature, was it? If not, I'm glad I figured it out. It makes it so I only have to use my fingers sporadically.
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Yep this is a little old-- New news is that when Honeycomb drops it's supposed to have support for the pen tip to be used as the stylus.
So I just got a View, and for the most part it seems to be a well-crafted device. But, when I press on the front side of the plastic piece on the bottom (right above the charging port), it makes like a cracking noise, like the plastic doesn't fit right. Does anyone else have this? I'm trying to decide whether it's major enough to try to send in for warranty/RMA, especially since I took the OTA to HC and now want to HTC unlock to flash back and do S-Off for some rom action, which I think would void the warranty :-/
Mine is very solid, no cracking at all.
just got mine today and it does have that cracking noise ..
Hmm okay....well so far is 50/50 lol so maybe its common. I noticed that the plastic piece on the bottom can be slid forward and lifted off the charge port, and the noise seems to be coming from the gap between the screen border and the plastic piece over the charge port. So, maybe I'll try putting something in the gap to see if it stops. I feel stupid doing a warranty claim for something so trivial.
no cracking here, but i got something i do not like.
the screen is not fitted correctly on the lower side of the device.
It is not in line with the rest of the metal part, in fact is aprox 1 mm above it.
If you look at it you may not see it but if you swype your finger you can feel the edge of the glass.
But otherwise it is well built device.
I do not think i am going to try to replace it(or maybe i will).
That's ok. I almost ripped my bottom off looking for the sd card slot.
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Well, mine has a loose volume keys, it gets annoying...click click click click click!
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Mine does the click when you press on plastic at bottom as well. I got mine from bens during the sale a few weeks ago. What about you?
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Well, mine has a loose volume keys, it gets annoying...click click click click click!
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Lol my View has that too! Click click click
Also afflicted with the click. Kind of annoying bit of cheapness/shodiness on an otherwise very solid device. Wondering if a silicone cover would help mask it...
I have something similar but it was on the top camera cover. Where it wraps around directly under the power button it didnt seal right, and there was a gap that irritated me. After trying to fix it with no luck I ended up sending it back to amazon and bought another. New one perfect.
After a pint or two at the pub, the lighted buttons wiggle and wave at me. Should I return the unit, or stop drinking so much?
So I just got my Note II last night and so far I love it. However, the S-Pen isn't working correctly (or I just don't know how to use it). When writing a note, the writing begins as soon as my pen is close to the screen and all my writing is connected and I can barely read it. Also, if I use the pen to select an app, sometimes it doesn't detect the pen and other times the item is launched as soon as the pen is close. I read that you need to keep the pen at a 45 degree angle, which I have tried, but still doesn't work very good. Is there a way to reset the pen feature? Is there some feature I need to enable/disable? Is it because of my Zagg screen protector?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I want to use the pen but can't with the current issue.
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Cary2238
you tried the pen banging method? Seems to work for some at least on overly sensitive pen.
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you tried the pen banging method? Seems to work for some at least on overly sensitive pen.
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You mean just bang the tip on something like a desk?
You should try to keep the pen perpendicular to the screen or 90°. Not 45°!
Does you pen nib move in and out when you put your finger on it? It should move in and out slightly. Maybe just under 1mm. You should only be able to write when the nib is pressed in. If you are able to write without the pen nib being in contact with the screen the nib is probably getting stuck.
I do not suggest you bang it against a hard surface although many claim that it works. You could try tapping it repeatedly against a hard surface (a hand mirror!?) to see if you can loosen it.
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You should try to keep the pen perpendicular to the screen or 90°. Not 45°!
Does you pen nib move in and out when you put your finger on it? It should move in and out slightly. Maybe just under 1mm. You should only be able to write when the nib is pressed in. If you are able to write without the pen nib being in contact with the screen the nib is probably getting stuck.
I do not suggest you bang it against a hard surface although many claim that it works. You could try tapping it repeatedly against a hard surface (a hand mirror!?) to see if you can loosen it.
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Thanks Dmwitz. Taping it several times seems to have loosened the tip and the pen works a lot better. :good:
I am having the same issue as the OP is having. I've tried the tapping mentioned but doesn't seem to help.
Weird how this is happening. If i can't figure out out I'll be returning mine for another one.
Ok, I had to really bang on the tip but all seems to be much much better. I just kept on letting the tip of the pen bounce off the top of my glass top table and then went into a new "note" and tried it, now it seems to be working likes is supposed to.
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I am having the same issue as the OP is having. I've tried the tapping mentioned but doesn't seem to help.
Weird how this is happening. If i can't figure out out I'll be returning mine for another one.
Ok, I had to really bang on the tip but all seems to be much much better. I just kept on letting the tip of the pen bounce off the top of my glass top table and then went into a new "note" and tried it, now it seems to be working likes is supposed to.
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I had the same problem. The bang method only made it worse for me. It got to the point where I couldn't use it. I returned the phone and got a new one. Doesn't do it anymore. Glad to hear it is working better but I have a feeling it's going to happen again. Worse case, they are only $30 on amazon.
Best of luck.