Hey all,
I'm experiencing a strange touchscreen phenomenon. I'm rooted and was previously using xtrSense. Recently I switched to xtrROM and while I LOVE so much about this ROM, I have been experiencing some touchscreen issues that arise with increasing intensity and are making my experience with this phone increasingly frustrating. I seem to encounter dead parts of the screen; consistent areas where the touch screen becomes unresponsive or acts strange.
Examples:
Keyboard - There are consistent letters that just will not recognize when I press them or can only be accessed by starting on one letter and then sliding over the the one I want, e.g. the L and M in landscape, the V, I and caps toggle in portrait. Other things go in and out as well, i.e. the sensitivity of touching one letter. There are times when the keyboard just wont consistently settle on one letter when I try and select one.
Other buttons - I am consistently having issues selecting buttons in gmail, like the OK button on a pop-up window. I have to play the rotate my screen game to get the button to work. Also, the OK button in the window of many SENSE programs, like alarm clock and mail. I press in the area of the button all over and I get nothing, but the CANCEL button right next to it work without fail.
I do have other screwy touch screen issues at times as well, e.g. my home, back, menu buttons won't respond, or will think they're part of what is displayed on the touch screen. I also on occasion have bizarre issue switch the LP dock. It won't find it's home and will constantly shutter between two rows.
The question is, has anyone else experienced this, either with the ROM and/or LauncherPro? I'm going to be re-flashing the ROM, and maybe even loading up some other ROMs to see if that alleviates the issue, but I wanted to first see if before I go through this if anyone has been through it before and can impart some hard-earned knowledge. I've tried to do some digging on the forums but didn't find much of anything.
Any advice would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
ckfalls said:
Hey all,
I'm experiencing a strange touchscreen phenomenon. I'm rooted and was previously using xtrSense. Recently I switched to xtrROM and while I LOVE so much about this ROM, I have been experiencing some touchscreen issues that arise with increasing intensity and are making my experience with this phone increasingly frustrating. I seem to encounter dead parts of the screen; consistent areas where the touch screen becomes unresponsive or acts strange.
Examples:
Keyboard - There are consistent letters that just will not recognize when I press them or can only be accessed by starting on one letter and then sliding over the the one I want, e.g. the L and M in landscape, the V, I and caps toggle in portrait. Other things go in and out as well, i.e. the sensitivity of touching one letter. There are times when the keyboard just wont consistently settle on one letter when I try and select one.
Other buttons - I am consistently having issues selecting buttons in gmail, like the OK button on a pop-up window. I have to play the rotate my screen game to get the button to work. Also, the OK button in the window of many SENSE programs, like alarm clock and mail. I press in the area of the button all over and I get nothing, but the CANCEL button right next to it work without fail.
I do have other screwy touch screen issues at times as well, e.g. my home, back, menu buttons won't respond, or will think they're part of what is displayed on the touch screen. I also on occasion have bizarre issue switch the LP dock. It won't find it's home and will constantly shutter between two rows.
The question is, has anyone else experienced this, either with the ROM and/or LauncherPro? I'm going to be re-flashing the ROM, and maybe even loading up some other ROMs to see if that alleviates the issue, but I wanted to first see if before I go through this if anyone has been through it before and can impart some hard-earned knowledge. I've tried to do some digging on the forums but didn't find much of anything.
Any advice would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
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I have not had this experience at all. I used to use both xtrSENSE and xtrROM for several months, although I currently use FroShedYo. It frankly sounds like a hardware issue.
Just to eliminate the possibility, you could 1) do a fresh FULL wipe and flash of xtrROM, 2) go back to xtrSENSE or even better restore a nandroid of your xtrSENSE from before and verify if the problem still persists, or 3) try a completely different new ROM just to see what happens.
If the problem still happens on other ROMs, which I'm very sure it will, then you will know it's a hardware issue and if your phone is either still under warranty or you pay for insurance, then I would exchange it for another Eris.
Yeah, I figured as much. Like I said I am going to do some ROM work, but it may come to admitting that the hardware may be going bad.
Thanks for the reply.
PS GO BUCKS!
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When I do a soft reset, my phone is fine and everything works okay. However, after the first time the screen cuts off to standby, when it resumes the buttons on the bottom panel (Home, Back, Call, End, Select) no longer function. I can confirm that they all function perfectly prior to standby, and after the fact, none of them.
I'm wondering if this is a known issue, and if there's anything I can do to patch it or look it up. I've tried a few different roms, and it's a constant issue. Even after a full wipe with Task29 and a reflash with two separate roms, the behavior sticks. As soon as the phone comes back from standby mode the buttons just fail.
If it's at all relevant this is a Sprint Touch Pro. If no one can help me and there's no alternative I ask for help finding a way to disable standby entirely. Sure keeping the LCD on constantly will drain the battery, but being able to use the answer and hang up buttons, and the camera FAR outweighs that.
Well, I haven't been able to find anyone with a solution, but I've worked around the issue a bit by installing Keepawake 1.1 and setting it to run when manilla is running. Now my phone never sleeps, and the face buttons work. I'm currently looking for a small piece of metal I can mount over the power button to prevent accidentally triggering standby mode. Then my phone will be mostly usable again. Hopefully someone can shed some insight as to the cause of it all, but for now at least I may have found a way to work around it. We'll see how it affects my battery life.
edit:
Most helpful recommendation (aside from a solution to the root of the problem): could anyone recommend a way to disable the power button, or possibly remap it to launch task manger or something useful?
edit2: Remapped the power button to lock the phone using RaphKeyboardConfig. Works okay for now. Between this and keepalive, my phone won't go into standby if left on it's own.
Hello all, clueless wooter here. I've been reading the forum for about a week now in preparation for receiving my Gtab, and I truly have not seen this issue raised anywhere else, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone.
On good advice from users here, I tinkered with the gtab using just its out-of-the-box OS when I first got it. I quickly realized that like everyone else I would be picking up a different ROM due to the gtab's lagginess and lack of features.
So I put in clockwork and tntlite 4.3. Everything worked great, I followed all the steps as laid out here, etc. Only one problem: the Home button on the right side of the tablet does not work at all.
This isn't a huge issue, since the screen-based home button on the left side is perfectly usable. But I'm worried that this lack of functionality might point to a bigger problem, so I thought I would ask about it. The other three buttons on that side all work just fine, and the tablet has no other issues that I have found.
Download the screen calibration app from the apps and themes forum. It may reset it. I have had loss of button functionality and this has fixed it.
Also you couuld look into button remapper and button savior. The combo lets you remap the soft buttons to whatever you want (or just turn them off) and puts a small tab wherever you want that when pressed pops up an icon for the search, home, menu and back buttons.
This let me map the buttons to arrow keys which makes surfing the intertubes way easier and never accidentally hit the home key in the dark when playing with the tab in bed.
Hope that helps
i thought the same thing and even filed for an rma but it works if you go into the apps ie the icon on the screen with lots of sqaures then hit the home button it takes you back out of the app manager.. it is not supposed to take you to your home page.
mbsocol said:
Hello all, clueless wooter here. I've been reading the forum for about a week now in preparation for receiving my Gtab, and I truly have not seen this issue raised anywhere else, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone.
On good advice from users here, I tinkered with the gtab using just its out-of-the-box OS when I first got it. I quickly realized that like everyone else I would be picking up a different ROM due to the gtab's lagginess and lack of features.
So I put in clockwork and tntlite 4.3. Everything worked great, I followed all the steps as laid out here, etc. Only one problem: the Home button on the right side of the tablet does not work at all.
This isn't a huge issue, since the screen-based home button on the left side is perfectly usable. But I'm worried that this lack of functionality might point to a bigger problem, so I thought I would ask about it. The other three buttons on that side all work just fine, and the tablet has no other issues that I have found.
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Home button malfunction was a known bug in TNTL4.3 Fixed in one of the supplements. Scroll down to the changelog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
Hey, I was just playing with my phone this morning and noticed a strange problem... The top part of my screen, just under the notification bar, does not respond when touched, if an app is running. For example, I cannot hit the location/search/layers button in gmaps, or the search button in market (this is only in portrait mode btw), but on the main screen, it responds just fine. This problem did not exist yesterday either, and I have already tried rebooting, and that did not fix it...
Might want to provide a bit more info if you want help.
I.e. What rom are you using, what kernel, any speedtweaks, etc.
Oops, sorry, it just seemed to fix itself randomly, but I am running CM7 1.2/MR2 radio, no other tweaks, just in case anyone else has the same issue in the future...
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Hey, I was just playing with my phone this morning and noticed a strange problem... The top part of my screen, just under the notification bar, does not respond when touched, if an app is running. For example, I cannot hit the location/search/layers button in gmaps, or the search button in market (this is only in portrait mode btw), but on the main screen, it responds just fine. This problem did not exist yesterday either, and I have already tried rebooting, and that did not fix it...
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Im hoping it was just a fluke for you, but keep an eye on the issue, if it happens more it would sound like you could have a bad digitizer (its what controls the touch screen)
So it happened again today, not sure what set it off, but this time it wasn't just the top part of the screen. Phantom presses would happen, the notification bar would go halfway down and then pop right back up, the 4 buttons on the bottom wouldn't respond... I did a battery pull, and it seems to have fixed it for now, should I be contacting verizon to replace this one? It is a replacement of my original one (which bricked)...
Until recently I had a phone with no search button. this was frustrating, so I rooted and altered the keypad layout file to change the trackball click (a nice bouns feature on phones, it turns out) to launch the search function. However, there was a problem: occasionally, it wouldn't work. not all the time, just sometimes. I figured maybe it was a side effect of the hack, that maybe the stock rom I had just got confused sometimes thinking there shouldn't be a search available at the time.
But recently, I upgraded to a new phone that does have its own search button, a real one. but once in a while, it won't work. the other face buttons do, just not this one, sometimes. this is both when launching google search fromt hehome screen, and the in-app search function.
and thinking back, my first Android was sometimes like that too, but I just thought it was due to the search "button" being one of those capacitive spots (shudder) that just tend to be naturally less responsive at times.
so, what gives? is this a common thing on some phones, i.e. does the function lag or something? to be clear, on all three phones, I never had problems with the other three buttons.
Hello XDA Community
I recently started having some strange capacative button problems. This did not occur while I was running a no-sense script on top of ARHD.
Almost as soon as I started running bulletproof by xboarder, this problem occurred. I don't really see anyone else running his ROM with this problem.
Occasionally, these buttons work fine as they should and are super responsive. However, when they don't work, I can leave my finger over it for three minutes and nothing would happen. A work-around that only works around 60% of the time is by either
1. locking and unlocking the scree
2. pulling down the notification bar
3. locking and switching to the phone application
4. continually press it and pray to god that it works.
Are my buttons broken or is it just software issues? I'm really concerned because I've been looking VERY forward to ICS. I don't want to get it and still have these problems occurring. Please help?