Hi folks,
I have a problem with the screen of my Active when wet (eg. under shower). When water splashes on the screen (even small drops) my screen goes like crazy. It acts like I'm touching the screen with every single splash of the water drops. (It does this when screen is unlocked of course). It also makes it impossible to control with finger when drops are splashing. I started to think that wet finger control is a sort of scam.
I've imagined listening to music and be able to use the phone while in shower before I purchase this rugged phone. However I see it impossible now.
Is it some sort of a mulfunction? or it is supposed to behave that way. How does yours behave?
BTW I have the screen protector on that came affixed with the phone.
Thanks!
It is my understanding that the nature of the screen itself is such that working with water on the screen is not efficent. The reason why is that a capacitive screen acts by charging the screen with electricity and then monitoring the change in this charge as you touch it.
Water, just as your fingers, can absorb the electric charge on the screen and the screen would detect that as a touch. Therefor with some or much water on the screen it would be rendered unuseful (as the water would make the phone detect false input, as long as its on the screen).
There is however the possibility that this is not the case, but if so I am not aware of this. Possibly you could try some alternatives to controling your phone in such conditions when the screen is not useable.
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Armeddy said:
It is my understanding that the nature of the screen itself is such that working with water on the screen is not efficent. The reason why is that a capacitive screen acts by charging the screen with electricity and then monitoring the change in this charge as you touch it.
Water, just as your fingers, can absorb the electric charge on the screen and the screen would detect that as a touch. Therefor with some or much water on the screen it would be rendered unuseful (as the water would make the phone detect false input, as long as its on the screen).
There is however the possibility that this is not the case, but if so I am not aware of this. Possibly you could try some alternatives to controling your phone in such conditions when the screen is not useable.
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If that is the case what SE referring to as "Wet finger tracking" is? They must have done something so that the water on the screen does not effect (at least that much) the control.
After all St17i is a rugged and waterproof phone. Or at least I bought it because it is.....
Dude I'm sure it is waterproof.
Don't u c a difference between waterproof and frigging underwater capabilities... I say u ask too much maybe I dnt ask enuff
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It is my opinion that there is a noticeable difference from using your fingers on the screen when they are wet from using your phone while in the shower.
Even so, I don't really find it as a very big downfall. The reason I'd buy that phone is not it's ability to resist water damage as the possibility of throwing it at people without it breaking easily. But that is just me perhaps..
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does anyone know of a way to fix a small scratch on the screen of the htc thunderbolt?
I think that your only choice will be to replace the screen, if it bothers you enough.
Maybe use a screen guard in the first place?
Take attention away from it with a bigger scratch.
yeah as the guy's were saying above, you'd either have to replace the screen or put decent screen protector on it to minimize the screen' appearance.
if it was the body of the phone, then that's a different story...
I have a small one on my phone and I noticed that the darker the screen is while it is turned on the easier it is to see. If you turn the bightness up to middle or more you can't see it while on the phone or internet. Just try not to look at it while the phone is off, I tend to keep trying to rub it off and just make it worse....Why didnt I use ghost armor...oh wait I know why cause the Thunderbolt has Gorilla Glass.....I am not buying stock in that strach proof technology.
Gorilla Glass has turned out to be the biggest bull**** the tech industry has seen since antenna fate's flawless design
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I S-OFF`ed my EVO 3D, flashed a custom recovery and a custom ROM (LeeDrOiD's latest), so I'm not on stock (if that's what's causing this).
Back in January, when it was cold outside (5-10 degrees), at times, after extensively using the phone outdoors (like 15-30 minutes), once I went into a warmer place (warmer by a few degrees Celsius, like 5 or so), the touchscreen was completely unresponsive. I could only lock or unlock the phone, but was unable to do anything else (which means using the touchscreen or capacitive keys, for that matter). I figured it may be because the screen was very cold or something...
I had to wait ~30 minutes for it to recover!
I figured that has something to do with the screen being somewhat covered by a very thin layer of water/ice or something... which rendered it almost completely useless (I was still able to drag the lock ring up a milimeter one time, out of ~20 attempts ).
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Now, it's almost April. It's warm here, alright, which means no more moisture outside (regarding the temperature, at least).
But there was drizzle outside yesterday, and I had to text someone. Several tiny water drops landed on my phone's touchscreen (not too much, covering like 1 centimeter in lenght), and the phone began to register mistaken touches...
The same happens when I try to use my phone with my fingers BARELY wet. I have to wipe the screen ENTIRELY to make sure it's not registering 10105909 touches all by itself...
This is ridiculous. Not even the HTC Desire (which had only 2 multi touch points, and even those, not so accurate) didn't have this problem! Nor the Desire HD.
Am I the only one?! Are you experiencing this, too?!
Same
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As far as I know there is a small current running on top of the screen. Any kind of moisture will make your screen go crazy. Thats why I use a screen protector, because my sweaty hand dont play nice with any touch screen phone like the Evo 3D
darkbones85 said:
As far as I know there is a small current running on top of the screen. Any kind of moisture will make your screen go crazy. Thats why I use a screen protector, because my sweaty hand dont play nice with any touch screen phone like the Evo 3D
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As a matter of fact, I do use a screen protector. I've used MOMAX Anti-glare, MOMAX Clear, and right now I'm using a no-name crappy sheet that makes the screen look all wavy and shyte... I'm gonna apply a MOMAX Clear again soon.
Still, that's not the issue. Screen protector or not, the issue remains.
If you ever had such problems, please tell me what device are you using. CDMA, or GSM (for Europe - golden or for US/Asia, like me - red)?!
Same here, even when screen is completely dryed out.. What can we do about it?
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rahditzz said:
Same here, even when screen is completely dryed out.. What can we do about it?
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I cleaned the screen with my blouse after I've been playing on it outside for 30 minutes. Cleaning did nothing...
Yesterday, it was raining. Not too big rain drops, but I let about 20 of them to cover the screen, some were little, a few were huge. The screen performed wonderful (in the time I tested it : scrolling across the menus, typing a fast message, probably less than 20 seconds).
What the hell...
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NO responses?! Come on, I can't be the ONLY guy this is happening to !
There are 2 common types of touch screens. Resistive, which respond to flexing a thin sheet of plastic, and capacitive, which responds to an electric current. Resistive is not accurate so no one really uses it anymore except on knock off Chinese tablets. We have capacitive touch screens, same as apple products and every other popular android phone.
Any kind of moisture will interfere with the touch screen. Even if the air is very humid. There isn't much you can do if you are having those issues. And all electronics have specific temperature ranges they will function in. I don't know what the evo is rated for, but I'm sure it's somewhere.
Best advice is to keep dry. And no, a screen protector won't do much to help.
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gk1984 said:
There are 2 common types of touch screens. Resistive, which respond to flexing a thin sheet of plastic, and capacitive, which responds to an electric current. Resistive is not accurate so no one really uses it anymore except on knock off Chinese tablets. We have capacitive touch screens, same as apple products and every other popular android phone.
Any kind of moisture will interfere with the touch screen. Even if the air is very humid. There isn't much you can do if you are having those issues. And all electronics have specific temperature ranges they will function in. I don't know what the evo is rated for, but I'm sure it's somewhere.
Best advice is to keep dry. And no, a screen protector won't do much to help.
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I know... I just thought the 3VO might be faulty, since, as I said, the Desire and the Desire HD never had this problem only with a few water drops...
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Have any of you experienced something like the screen registering a touch even if you didn't really touch it (or it didn't feel like it did) while having the finger very close to the screen?
Its something that happened me very randomly and not so frequently with my iPod Touch, but now with the S3 is something definetively more frequent, and sometimes is annoying, very weird!
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Is there any particular reason on why it happens, or anything that could be done to 'fix it'
Its just a little nuissance,for example after typing a letter in the keyboard, in just one press it will register 2 or even 3 touches, one before really touching, when touching, and one after touching (being 3 times very rare and 2 touches a bit less than uncommon)
Weird, though the s3 screen is super sensitive I haven't experienced any double touch so far. Try testing your screen using multi touch tester and see if you can trace anything weird there
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Just wondering......can it be affected by static electricity?
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I've had this a few times, but not so much that it's annoying. I'm using a generic e-bay screen protector. Anybody else who is having this phenomenon got a screen protector on, or are you going nekkid ?
I've had it too but very rarely. Don't think it's much of a problem. Capacitive touchscreens work based on the electrical charge our skin possesses so your static charge theory might be right(correct me if I'm wrong)
http://www.mobileburn.com/chtml/definition.jsp?term=capacitive+touchscreen
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I'm guessing wearing wool or nylon clothing here might be part of the problem! Also atmospherics can play a big part. I seriously don't think this is a hardware problem at all imho.
Yep i get this too, can espically see it on the 'test' screen where you are drawing on it, sometimes my finger passes right over it and it registers it. I'm going with static electricit and the screen protector generating a little current just before your finger touches as the culprit.
Hey folks,
I'm looking to buy a used phone on ebay. The description says that the screen has a slight scratch on it that can't be seen when the phone is turned on...only when it's off. Having never had a scratch on any of my phone's screens, I can't easily verify that claim. Does this have the ring of truth to it?
If you've had a slight scratch on your screen, does it really only appear when the phone is off? What about when the screen is dim? Or what about at different angles, etc? Does it pretty much always just disappear?
Thanks
MSmithXDA said:
Hey folks,
I'm looking to buy a used phone on ebay. The description says that the screen has a slight scratch on it that can't be seen when the phone is turned on...only when it's off. Having never had a scratch on any of my phone's screens, I can't easily verify that claim. Does this have the ring of truth to it?
If you've had a slight scratch on your screen, does it really only appear when the phone is off? What about when the screen is dim? Or what about at different angles, etc? Does it pretty much always just disappear?
Thanks
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I have a few scratches in my screen that are really only visible from slight anez, when the screen is off,and when the screen is solid white
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I have super tiny (1/100 of a millimeter in width) ones that are only visible when the light (only direct sunlight) hits it just right, other than that I forget that they are even there
Probably from being placed in a pocket
Awesome. Thanks guys.
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Awesome. Thanks guys.
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I even have a dent on the screen and it's barely visible when the LCD's on, so a hairy scratch that won't be noticed while the screen is on sounds like true
I had a small crack in my screen and I never noticed it while using the phone unless you really look for it, small scratch you will be fine won't even notice it
Hello everyone,
Seems like LG g2 screen is not responding to nails. Or I'm the only one with defective unit ? Google doesn't answer this question.
ALso i have noticed that screen is not as sensitive as my previous samsung galaxies... i can always touch the screen very gently so it won't respond. It is a not too big deal for me, but it's interesting.
I have tried this with screen protector and without.
Your comments ?
Cut your nails. It gives better hygiene.
space15 said:
Hello everyone,
Seems like LG g2 screen is not responding to nails. Or I'm the only one with defective unit ? Google doesn't answer this question.
ALso i have noticed that screen is not as sensitive as my previous samsung galaxies... i can always touch the screen very gently so it won't respond. It is a not too big deal for me, but it's interesting.
I have tried this with screen protector and without.
Your comments ?
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Hello.
You're right about the G2 not responding to nails. It has a capacitive touchscreen which basically means that when you touch the screen with your finger, your fingertip, which has an electric charge, disturbs the electrostatic field of your screen and thats what your phone interprets as an input.
Now your nail, which is made of keratine, can conduct an electrical charge but it's highly dependent on the water content of the nail, but a more important factor is the contact area between the screen and the nail. Since a nail touching a screen only touches very few mm^2 and a fingertip often touches about 0.5 cm^2 there's a big difference in the electrical charge that is transferred. Thats also the reason why if you touch the screen very gently you wont get a response either.
Final note: some phones require less electrical current to distort their electrostatic field thus registering a touch easier, and some phones actually have a resistive layer so you can use your phone with gloves. It's just not this phone.
I hope this helps.
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Hello.
You're right about the G2 not responding to nails. It has a capacitive touchscreen
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Actually the screen is made very sensitive so that it can work with gloves on, nailbed, pen tip, pocket multi tools, knives!
U better return it and ask to replace the unit!
Fingernails working on my g2.
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laofan said:
Fingernails working on my g2.
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Yes Im also reading articles that G2 should work with nails and gloves on. Maybe it depends on carrier ?
Any other thoughts ? Does anybody having issues with screen not working using fingernails ?
I assume for girl with long nails this phone would not be usable :fingers-crossed:
you must have wet fingernail to response
Mine doesn't work with fingernails?
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Knock on put the touch display always on, so the voltage is very low on LG g2, not like Samsung phone wich is more reactive, even with glows