Usually my fingers glide smoothly on the Prime's screen (I don't use any screen protector). Occasionally they become a bit sticky: swiping becomes hard, there is tangible resistance from the screen. It becomes particularly annoying when I need to repeat swiping many times, e.g. when scrolling a web page.
I'm not sure why and when then happens. Perhaps the problem lies in sweaty hands. On such occasions, I tried washing my hands very clean and drying them thoroughly, but this doesn't seem to help. They still feel a bit humid and do not glide on the screen effortlessly. Or perhaps the screen becomes too greasy and dirty? But again, cleaning the screen doesn't help on such occasions.
As I said, this doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it makes using the tablet rather unpleasant.
Anyone else with similar problems? Any solutions?
I have been having these problems with all my touch screen devices. It feels like my finger is jumping half an inch, then touch, then jumping again... Same for you? I haven't come up with any solution yet. This doesn't happen often though, so it's not a problem for me.
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This thread could possibly be the most revolutionary, topping all the ICS OTA rooting stuff out there. The answer to this long-sought but rarely asked question will surely be a revolutionary new find for any and all touchscreen devices.
tl;dr, I don't know. Cool to find out though.
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use baby powder.
Maybe try cleaning your screen and then washing and drying your hands?
Last time I cleaned my screen: I wet the microfiber cloth from the tablet and wrung it out, wiped the screen; then dry wiped with the microfiber cloth from the dock.
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i started noticing this playing Order and Chaos on my Prime. the multi-touch has a tendency to glitch out.
i open another app, force quit the newly opened app using the Asus Task Manager and suddenly it works fine.
From being a sufferer of palmar hyperhidrosis (wiki it), I know your pains very well. Here's a list of what you could do when the hand sweating starts:
1) Find a cool place with a draft of wind to the hands (you could blow on your hands, but make sure no ones around!)
2) Cool down your body temperature (drink something cold, go outside for a few seconds, etc.)
3) Wash your hands with water at max cold (and might as well use soap) and/or submerge them in cold water
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Hi all,
I had a big spot (3'') at the middle of my tab. It seems it is related to case warping and NOT related to temperature, etc. What I am describing worked for me and my tab now has a perfect screen (this is the 7th day).
I solved it by doing the following:
1) put the tab on a flat table. The screen should face upwards.
2) with two fingers push down at the top left and top right corner at the same time. You should try to "bend" the top corners towards the table. This will pull the screen away from the digitiser.
While you do this you should see the spot shrinking. If it does put some more pressure until it completely disappears. Don't put too much pressure to break anything
If, while you push, the spot doesn't shrink then stop and try the bottom left/right, perhaps your tab is bent there...
Hope it helps.
DISC:
I am describing here what worked for me... it might not work for everyone... don't blame me if it doesn't work or if it makes the situation worse.
Putting in the fridge less than 10 minutes works for me
Sending mine back to Samsung to have the LCD replaced worked for me. It's obviously a flaw in the design and the rush to get it to market without thoroughly testing it is the root of the problem.
Why on earth would you try to fix something like this yourself? You won't fix it, and its likely you will make it worse (battery damage etc)
This is why manufacturer gives you warranty, with gtab you have 2 yrs of it... I just send it few weeks without won't kill you but at least you will have fully functional device...
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Mmmm Sure this helps?
I'm kinda scratching my head over all these fridge repairs for the Newton's rings problems. There shouldn't be a single 10.1 Tab anywhere on the planet that isn't in warranty. Just get it repaired/replaced.
None of the published fixes worked for mine anyway. Tried refrigerator, freezer, blowing, pushing, twisting, etc.
Verizon is replacing it. Just get it fixed right.
My biggest concern is the couple of reports of folks getting it back from Samsung and having the exact same problem reappear after 2 months. I am not sure anyone has conclusively confirmed an "improved" screen being installed during warranty service.
Could indicate the hardware is just fatally flawed for being subjected to heat >80F and any kind of pressure on the screen.
Keeping my fingers crossed that I get mine back with some sort of new and improved screen.
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Tried this myself and it worked perfect!!! Thanks so much!!!
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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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.
Hello all, and XDA developers,
I'm a short time lurker, and flasher, but that's besides the point. I've started my own business repairing phones and I've gotten very good at it, I have extremely fair prices, and this is putting me through college.
I've ran into an issue and I can't figure it out. I try to stay up to date on phones since my job requires that I work on phones, and although I couldn't find all the information about the hardware under the screen of the SGS4 i decided to replace a broken glass screen any way..... well now I have a dissatisfied customer on my hands and i'm doing everything in my power to rectify the situation.
What I did:
I used a heat gun to lightly heat the screen of my customers broken phone, like I have done many times before with other models of phones. I scraped off the old glass, cleaned the glue out thoroughly with alcohol and a small piece of microfiber (like for cleaning screens and glasses). I laid down 3m tape (possibly in the wrong place). Put the new glass on, and PRESTO done.......
The result:
A beautiful new screen, but the wake up motion doesn't work any more (where you swipe your hand across the screen w/o actually touching it), and the screen automatically blacks out once a call is placed. This may be because of where i placed the tape, but a new issue has reared it's ugly head...... It's typing now... by itself.... during calls and at other times. She wanted a different color for the screen and i told her that I will replace the screen and fix the issues all in one motion, but I'm not sure what is making it type on its own. Does anyone have any clue as to what could be causing this issue? I have until the afternoon of 9/25 Central time (UTC-06:00)
Thank you to everyone for existing, this forum, even if it doesn't resolve this issue, is simply a work of art by mad geniuses from all over the planet. I love everyone of you.
I love this phone but this screen freak out is so bad sometimes that I dread having to type a text message.
I *THINK* the reason it freaks out is because my hands are even a tiny little bit sweaty when i try to use it.
This problem seems to be all over the internet:
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...ltra-touch-screen-problems/td-p/360568/page/3
Have you guys experienced it? I'm about to try a screen protector but is there anything else I can do to fix it? Turn down screen sensitivity somehow maybe?
Thanks!
I have the same issue and yes it's well known. I haven't tried it yet but a lot of people suggest that the ASF is the culprit and you'll have to take it off.
i have the same problem
The ASF is the culprit as far as i know and nearly everyone here has it
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I put a screen protector on as soon as I got mine, and the only time it freaks is when there is actual water drops on it.
I've read that the Nexus 7, Nexus 5 and other newer models do also have some issues with false inputs, or "ghost touches". A lot of people are reporting that the issue is completely gone in Android Lollipop, so Google may have incorporated some new code that can better tell apart touches from fake touches, like the iPads and others have, so I guess you'll have to wait a bit to see if it's true.
I have that problem too. It actually got worse after removing the ASF.
I used paint thinner to remove the leftover glue so maybe that is the cause? Can paint thinner screw up my screen or is it simply because there no more layer between the moisture on my skin and my phone's screen? Getting a tempered glass protecter would solve this problem if that is the case, correct?
Had the same issue.
I removed the ASF, cleaned the screen with alcohol and then applied a Tempered glass for better resistance to torsion.
Never had any ghost touches since then. Lovely device!
The same thing happens to me, I think it's the moisture that freaks the phone out, my phone also does that when I take a pencil to it. Just dry it, and good to go.
Guys thanks for the responses.
For the record I got a tempered glass screen protector and the problem 100% went away.
I can now use my phone in the shower and it works fine even in the rain!
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I've read that the Nexus 7, Nexus 5 and other newer models do also have some issues with false inputs, or "ghost touches". A lot of people are reporting that the issue is completely gone in Android Lollipop, so Google may have incorporated some new code that can better tell apart touches from fake touches, like the iPads and others have, so I guess you'll have to wait a bit to see if it's true.
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I have a Nexus 7 2013 LTE & dont have the problem. (luckily)