Full QWERTY keyboard - This may help with Android development - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pocket-PC-T...zer_Ersatzteile_Werkzeuge&hash=item1e5c714970
Here's it in action
http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=962&pictureid=3464
This may help with Android development
Thanks you muckelmaus !
As a somehow hardware freak, I love that crasy keyboard for the my Xda 1, Xda2,Xa2i,xda3(2s). After you open the case you slip the outer keys to the sides and at the end the inner keys hower from underneath the outer and click into position.
Amazing for everyone who ever saw that. You connect it to the Data connector at the bottom and insert a SDIO WLAN SD-card and start your (opera mini) browser or every other proggi by hitting just two keys. Magic or together with my Alpine with backpack (backup Battery with additional SF slot and Build in graphic card.) Switched upside down landscape mode to get the CF GPS Mouse to the top and TT7 with 7.35cards or Primo1.2!!
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Ajaba said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pocket-PC-T...zer_Ersatzteile_Werkzeuge&hash=item1e5c714970
Here's it in action
http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=962&pictureid=3464
This may help with Android development
Thanks you muckelmaus !
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hmmm

I am almost tempted
but I like the larger keys

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Touch screen dont work after i open keyboard

After I open hardware keyboard on my QTEK 9100 - screen does not react to touching. How could I fix this or is this normal to Wizard?
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Touch screen dont work after i open keyboard
After I open hardware keyboard on my QTEK 9100 - screen does not react to touching. How could I fix this or is this normal to Wizard?
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Hey Dude U need get Ur fone checked its not normal. first u haVE TO check connection of the strip which connects the two part the cell i.e ur lcd screen and battery box part if connetion is fine that mean strip mite crack within it has to be get changed if not plug it properly.
What this dude above me is trying to say, is that the small ribbon cable that connects the screen to the rest of the phone may be damaged in some way, and you do indeed need to have your device checked out.
drawgas said:
After I open hardware keyboard on my QTEK 9100 - screen does not react to touching. How could I fix this or is this normal to Wizard?
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Did you try a screen realignment? This usually fix most touch screen problems.
switch housing case now when i tur on phone i get on a bright white screen. any suggestion would be great
might have something to do with the flex cable. maybe it was misaligned when you installed your new housing, or may have gotten loose due to the open/close thing. sometimes, i wish that there was a software that would disable the automatic screen rotation when you slide open the keyboard - that way, i will not have to go through that alignment bit almost everyday.
drawgas said:
After I open hardware keyboard on my QTEK 9100 - screen does not react to touching. How could I fix this or is this normal to Wizard?
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flash back to a base WM5 rom, like T-Mo 2.26 and see if that solves it. i had the same problem and this did the trick. from there i flashed back to wm6.1

g1 key problem

My g1's DEL key is stuck, I have to press really hard to use it.
Does anyone have similar problem? Any solution?
A new keyboard would probably be the answer as it is the only key that is malfunctioning. If it were the whole side of the keyboard I could see it simply being bent a bit, but it doesnt sound like that is the case.
And by keyboard I dont mean the part you see, the button area is a separate piece behind that. Fairly easy to swap out if you are careful and patient.
If not, send it back to HTC and there is a good chance it is under warranty still.
Heres a link to a Pcb Keyboard, Should be what you have to problem with...
http://cnn.cn/shop/tmobile-inner-keyboard-p-5056.html
i was expecting solutions like opening it and remove obstacles...
no warranty for me as my g1 was imported, i was too eager for android
i brought my g1 to beaches a few time so i won't be surprised if some sand got stuck in the gaps
Well, Go on amazon and buy a torx screwdriver(s), For THIS MANUAL/GUIDE. Page 18 has the tools you need, I would also recommend latex/Hospital gloves + Compressed air...... good luck. What were ya doin with it?.... shoveling and making sandcastles....
opening the g1 just takes a bit of patience, I've opened about 6 now, and my primary one a few times, once to replace the pcb board for external speaker issues. I did have some dirt on my keyboard pcb board which caused 6 characters to show up everytime I hit the "a" key, and once i cleaned it with a non abrasive lens cleaning rag it worked fine. just be extra careful of the ribbons and the connections from the lcd housing to the mainboard(which you have to remove to access the screws to remove the keyboard.) goodluck
Keyboard Issue
My keyboard doesnt always type a space when pressed.
Only if i hit the direct center of the spacebar the sides arent as sensative anymore.
Is there anything I could do?
pr0cl1v1ty said:
My keyboard doesnt always type a space when pressed.
Only if i hit the direct center of the spacebar the sides arent as sensative anymore.
Is there anything I could do?
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i get same problem and mine hits the . key and space at same time sucks dont it
pr0cl1v1ty said:
My keyboard doesnt always type a space when pressed.
Only if i hit the direct center of the spacebar the sides arent as sensative anymore.
Is there anything I could do?
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Same problem with the space bar
I have to hit ini the center.
I tryed to open G1 without the kit, and i failed (isn't easy).
It's very annoing when I write
If I decide to keep G1 I'll buy the kit to open it, and maybe a new keyboard too.
But Sholes/Droid/Mileston is asking me to buy itself (but.. I buy g1 only 5 month ago )
I solved the problem!!!
I used this: http://www.duecielectronic.it/g20.htm on the keyboard, without open the phone!
The product is a dry contact cleaner (by the way it's liquid.. but it's work.. I used removing battery) and I used on the keyboard without open the phone.
Now my space bar is perfect!!
!! Before the contact cleaner isn't evaporate, the keys seems broken (you can't press them, because there is the liquid.. I have pressed keys so the liquid moved and now the key are perfect)!!
Sorry for my bad english!!
yep
My d and f keys get stuck and sometimes the get some how double pressed, e.g. dd ff df

[Q] Menu button flashing issue

Hi to everyone in this forum. I've recently received as a present a new toshiba folio 100, but, since I'm experiencing an annoying menu button flashing, I've thought of it as a software problem so I upgraded the folio using the foliomod1.3c and applied the rotate patch and also the 1.3c fix patch. The menu still flash with no apparent logic. I've tried to kill all applications running and it's still there. It seem to come up and down at random. I ask to all in this forum: do you believe it's a hardware issue or is a software issue? Because if it's a hardware issue I'm going to try to have a new folio from toshiba. I'm overall very pleased with the work that Dexter made to make the folio an usable machine but this flashing is driving me crazy. I use the folio basically as a portable scientific pdf reader so I need to concentrate on what I read and this flashing is really annoying. I would like very much to thank you all in this forum in advance for all the suggestion/help you could provide.
use my "foliobuttons" app
teknoraver said:
use my "foliobuttons" app
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I have a request that serve All those who suffer MENU crazy button .
Is it possible to prepare application you can setting ON/OFF the MENU button
Most of the time useless button.
sometimes button jump after 10 minutes, sometimes after an hour
Usually I fix the problem by changing the settings with FolioButtons 1.1.
If you could add to FolioButtons on/off operation for menu Buttons was the best.
Hi teknoraver,
Can you add enabled/disabled menu button in foliobuttons application ?
flashing on...
teknoraver said:
use my "foliobuttons" app
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I am pretty desperate about this issue, because none of the methods seem to help...
Right now the buttons work opposite- Menu button flashes mad and none of the other 3 responds...dont know how it happened
Just a thought- while the folio is booting up the menu button ALREADY flashes! I have zero understanding in there but isn't it a process that loads / starts early in the line?
I appreciate everyone's effort trying to solve this bug as it makes this handy tool a useless pile of crap.
I was wondering how many folio users are suffering of this crazy buttons madness.
Mine was crazy from the very beginning; I sent it back for repair and toshiba only did a firmware restore... Nothing changed at all!
It makes my folio almost unusable!
bye bye crazy buttons
After two weeks of testing and a complete breakdown of my folio100, I finally find the problem or just crazy buttons and freezing of the screen.
I drag a thickness in the screen in the bottom right corner of the screen to isolate the audio connector and it works better than a miracle again.
The only downside is that the screen comes out slightly from the slot but nothing really bad.
The thickness I put slightly too big or-1.4 mm I'll Demount next week to put a finer and I'll try to take pictures in passing.
Note however that the loss of waranty is innevitable.
Sorry for my bad english ;-)
I think it's a hardware issue and even a build quality issue.
If i hold my folio at the side of the buttons, i get the flashing buttons problem (even the foliobuttons app will not help), if i hold it at the other side, i've got no problems at all.
Do you have an animated background? Because I saw that some people had this issue with an animated background...
Hi Mshr73, nice first post indeed
Could you post some pictures of what you did?
Mshr73 said:
After two weeks of testing and a complete breakdown of my folio100, I finally find the problem or just crazy buttons and freezing of the screen.
I drag a thickness in the screen in the bottom right corner of the screen to isolate the audio connector and it works better than a miracle again.
The only downside is that the screen comes out slightly from the slot but nothing really bad.
The thickness I put slightly too big or-1.4 mm I'll Demount next week to put a finer and I'll try to take pictures in passing.
Note however that the loss of waranty is innevitable.
Sorry for my bad english ;-)
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seems to get better...
I really don’t want to be too quick on this, but Dexter’s 1.4 seems to bring relief to this issue - for 2 days I have been running this mod the menu button stopped flashing!!
Any similar impressions on this?
vietnamibalzsam said:
I really don’t want to be too quick on this, but Dexter’s 1.4 seems to bring relief to this issue - for 2 days I have been running this mod the menu button stopped flashing!!
Any similar impressions on this?
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No way pal, I guess I'm in the opposite situation. It still happens to me, and sometimes I think it even got worse... well, I can always look at crazy keys as a "special feature" that no other tablet will have!!!
I just tested without thickness under the screen, with foliomod 1.4 and after a few hours I again the problem of crazy buttons.
Mshr73 said:
After two weeks of testing and a complete breakdown of my folio100, I finally find the problem or just crazy buttons and freezing of the screen.
I drag a thickness in the screen in the bottom right corner of the screen to isolate the audio connector and it works better than a miracle again.
The only downside is that the screen comes out slightly from the slot but nothing really bad.
The thickness I put slightly too big or-1.4 mm I'll Demount next week to put a finer and I'll try to take pictures in passing.
Note however that the loss of waranty is innevitable.
Sorry for my bad english ;-)
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Well, I just finished dismantling e reassembling my Folio. Following your hint, I cut a piece of paper and put it between the audio connector and the back of the screen (yes, it was metal vs metal). I'll see whether it's gonna work or not. Crossing fingers for now.
Not that I'm so confident in leaving a piece of paper stuck right where the DC input is .
BTW, did you try with a smaller thickness? Even if this is the problem, I'm wondering whether a piece of paper would be enough or not.
thyself can someone. post pictures of before and after details?
we will be much appreciated
i didn't have the crazy buttons issue this far in 2 weeks, just my home butten needs to be pressed harder. I'm pretty sure it's hardware related, i read often that users experience it when changing from an warm room to a colder one, or in regions where its verry humid(some circuit closes maybe...). so Mshr73 is on the right way as far as i can tell.
Dexter's 1.4
^Sbk79^ said:
No way pal, I guess I'm in the opposite situation. It still happens to me, and sometimes I think it even got worse... well, I can always look at crazy keys as a "special feature" that no other tablet will have!!!
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Really sorry mate, I hope it will solved this for others too...
Anyhow, it is so disturbing, that I was already considering to send the tablet back to Toshiba...
I'll try to do this weekend if I do not have too many customers. I post the result Monday.
Mshr73 said:
I'll try to do this weekend if I do not have too many customers. I post the result Monday.
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I'm looking forward to your pictures, too... because my trial simply didn't work.
I tried with both a single piece of paper and then with 2 pieces wrapped in tape. I put these spacers between the back of the display and DC/audio connector.
In both cases, the crazy keys phenomenon started to happen after 15-20 minutes of usage.
In most cases, it starts to show when I unlock the device. As soon as I unlock it, home and menu buttons light up with no apparent reason and go crazy for 10-30 seconds.
Then, I even tried to loosen just a little the screws (I read, somewhere in the forum, of a guy who said that he solved his crazy keys and screen lag problems this way). I mean, all screws are now locked but not too tight. Well, I have to say that I don't have any screen lag anymore (I even removed the piece of paper, from the battery area, which used to solve the issue before) but crazy keys still happen. I'm going slightly mad
^Sbk79^ said:
I'm looking forward to your pictures, too... because my trial simply didn't work.
I tried with both a single piece of paper and then with 2 pieces wrapped in tape. I put these spacers between the back of the display and DC/audio connector.
In both cases, the crazy keys phenomenon started to happen after 15-20 minutes of usage.
In most cases, it starts to show when I unlock the device. As soon as I unlock it, home and menu buttons light up with no apparent reason and go crazy for 10-30 seconds.
Then, I even tried to loosen just a little the screws (I read, somewhere in the forum, of a guy who said that he solved his crazy keys and screen lag problems this way). I mean, all screws are now locked but not too tight. Well, I have to say that I don't have any screen lag anymore (I even removed the piece of paper, from the battery area, which used to solve the issue before) but crazy keys still happen. I'm going slightly mad
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Well ... with a piece of paper the problem Come back.
I handed a piece of cardboard and the problem disappears.
I think that to raise the screen to solve them but I'm still not 100% sure.

Keyboard Dock thoughts

Just got the dock today and wanted to share a few thoughts..
kind of clunky to attach but may just take some getting used to. Once attached feels just like a netbook
Loving the keyboard shortcuts. There's even a key to take a screenshot!
Have been trying to figure out whether there's any need to touch the screen when docked. Only thing I see so far is unlocking the tablet. You can even scroll within widgets
Wondering if there will be any apps that will allow for remapping keys. (i.e. assigning a key to custom app or shortcut
The overall feel is very nice and compact. The piece that holds the tablet looks weird when it's closed though.
The whole thing fits inside my Gtablet sleeve perfectly.
All in all, worth the money IMO. I can't stand typing on a touch screen and I can see that this will be my primary method of typing on this thing.
Post edited to remove thumbs up. Not stable at all
2nd edit (5/11/11) back to thumbs up after updating to the beta dock firmware
awesome.. want mine now!
mb2k said:
Just got the dock today and wanted to share a few thoughts..
kind of clunky to attach but may just take some getting used to. Once attached feels just like a netbook
Loving the keyboard shortcuts. There's even a key to take a screenshot!
Have been trying to figure out whether there's any need to touch the screen when docked. Only thing I see so far is unlocking the tablet. You can even scroll within widgets
Wondering if there will be any apps that will allow for remapping keys. (i.e. assigning a key to custom app or shortcut
The overall feel is very nice and compact. The piece that holds the tablet looks weird when it's closed though.
The whole thing fits inside my Gtablet sleeve perfectly.
All in all, worth the money IMO. I can't stand typing on a touch screen and I can see that this will be my primary method of typing on this thing.
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Have you encountered the glitches with the touchpad being activated and the keyboard suddenly not responding? a number of us have including me. Disabling the touch pad seems to prevent the disconnections but really annoying nonetheless.
scion676 said:
Have you encountered the glitches with the touchpad being activated and the keyboard suddenly not responding? a number of us have including me. Disabling the touch pad seems to prevent the disconnections but really annoying nonetheless.
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I've experienced it as well. Hopefully the next update will correct the problem, since the touchpad functionality w/gestures is very nice (when it works).
BTW, how do you disable the touchpad???
not once. been using it all day, in and out of the dock
nowhere2010 said:
I've experienced it as well. Hopefully the next update will correct the problem, since the touchpad functionality w/gestures is very nice (when it works).
BTW, how do you disable the touchpad???
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Fourth button on the top row of the dock, the one with a slash on a dock symbol. It doesn't solve the problem unfortunately, at least in my experience.
samarth1 said:
Fourth button on the top row of the dock, the one with a slash on a dock symbol. It doesn't solve the problem unfortunately, at least in my experience.
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Thanks - unfortunately it doesn't help me either.
Where was you dock from?
What firmware does your dock have?
Oh great! Now I'm starting to have issues.
1st I noticed the I was missing all apps from my home sreen. Dock/Undock fixed it.
Then I notced a big time lag in my typing. No biggie still better than touchscreen.
Then while playing around in Gallery I lost dock. Dock/Undock fixed it.
Also, the wifi is beginning to intermittently turn off. hitting wifi button fixes.
Now the lag is more noticable. Typing with it now and the letters show up about 1/2 second later. Sucks cause I was just beginning to learn neat tricks with the dock. For example, I was using 2 fingers to scroll, but learned it's easier to just hold 1 finger still and use the other finger to scroll.
Hope there's firmware fix made available soon.
nowhere2010 said:
Thanks - unfortunately it doesn't help me either.
Where was you dock from?
What firmware does your dock have?
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I got my dock from AmericanTV in Peoria, IL on May 5th. Its running the default firmware it came with, whereas the tablet I have updated to the latest 8.2.3.9 firmware from the Asus website.
samarth1 said:
I got my dock from AmericanTV in Peoria, IL on May 5th. Its running the default firmware it came with, whereas the tablet I have updated to the latest 8.2.3.9 firmware from the Asus website.
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Thanks - I'm running the latest firmware as well for the tab. I'm assuming the dock firmware is what it shipped with (EP101-0207).
One other question: When the dock freaks out, does your battery status icon show a question mark over it?
No refresh button is a real bummer. I think this button is far more useful than say, the auto light button.
The backspace button is also really far for those of us who have smaller hands. But, this is something you can just get used to.
Does the hardware keyboard support languages other than English? Can you change the predictive input dictionary language and/or the keyboard layout?
Can you type, for example, German or Japanese on it? What about typographical symbols that don't have a dedicated key (like dashes)?
Delay, there are supposed to be regional keyboards available in the future.
I don't have mine yet, so I can't expound on detail regarding settings in the TF, but I doubt one will be able to simply change the language of the keyboard without changing the language setting of the whole OS. Also the keyboard will probably still output English characters.
Got my dock yesterday, and UPS just dropped off my TF a couple hours ago ( ).
Anyway, I just 'mated' the TF to the dock for the 1st time, and it did not sound good / did not go well. Didn't want to go down, and it seemed like it was getting hung up on something. I slid the latch over, and pulled the TF back out and a tiny little piece of black plastic fell onto the desk (very tiny... like 1mm x 1mm).
I finally got it to dock ok, but the little sliding latch isn't automatically sliding all the way to the right. It only goes about 1/2 way, then I have to sort of help it along to get it all the way over.
Anybody else had this problem? I'm wondering if I have a faulty dock.
the_gunner said:
Got my dock yesterday, and UPS just dropped off my TF a couple hours ago ( ).
Anyway, I just 'mated' the TF to the dock for the 1st time, and it did not sound good / did not go well. Didn't want to go down, and it seemed like it was getting hung up on something. I slid the latch over, and pulled the TF back out and a tiny little piece of black plastic fell onto the desk (very tiny... like 1mm x 1mm).
I finally got it to dock ok, but the little sliding latch isn't automatically sliding all the way to the right. It only goes about 1/2 way, then I have to sort of help it along to get it all the way over.
Anybody else had this problem? I'm wondering if I have a faulty dock.
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Is it supposed to go all the way over? I've just assumed that it was designed to only go halfway. Now I'm really curious what other people's docks are doing.
Mine only goes halfway if my TF isn't clicking in completely to the dock. It does go all the way over as long as I push down and get both sides to click in.
I haven't had any problems with the dock yet, no problems with wifi, no problems with touchpad *knocks on wood*. I did experience some lag typing into forms, but no more so than with touchscreen keyboard on stock browser, so I don't think that was dock dependent.
The only issue I have with the dock is I don't believe there's a button to the multitasker. I want to be able to move between programs more easily while docked. I don't want to have to touch the "monitor" every time I want to multitask. Also, I need the touchpad to register pinch to zoom. I'm hoping these get updated soon.
Has anyone tried an SDXC (not SD) card in their dock yet?
Yes it is suppose to go all the way over. If it's not going all the way over for you, then the transformer is not COMPLETELY flush with the dock. Meaning that, when you close the transformer down with the dock it should be smooth all the way around.
strikethreeout said:
No refresh button is a real bummer. I think this button is far more useful than say, the auto light button.
The backspace button is also really far for those of us who have smaller hands. But, this is something you can just get used to.
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menu+r on the stock browser works.
here's the list of shortcuts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071739&highlight=shortcut
madsquabbles said:
menu+r on the stock browser works.
here's the list of shortcuts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071739&highlight=shortcut
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Those shortcuts wont work for me, wierd. In stock browser.

How to disable hw capacitive buttons in JB?

HI, since I've always had issues (from stock rom up) with hw capacitive buttons (home/back/search/menu), I would like to disable them, maybe my Folio is faulty on them (randomly the back button fires by itself, even if the tablet was left alone on the table).
So I ask Artem or anybody who knows it: I can build from sources, what is the minimal diff I can make to the sources? Is it sufficent to comment out line 'CONFIG_KEYBOARD_FOLIOCAP=y' in tegra_betelgeuse_android_defconfig?
Thank you.
piergi65 said:
HI, since I've always had issues (from stock rom up) with hw capacitive buttons (home/back/search/menu), I would like to disable them, maybe my Folio is faulty on them (randomly the back button fires by itself, even if the tablet was left alone on the table).
So I ask Artem or anybody who knows it: I can build from sources, what is the minimal diff I can make to the sources? Is it sufficent to comment out line 'CONFIG_KEYBOARD_FOLIOCAP=y' in tegra_betelgeuse_android_defconfig?
Thank you.
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nice question . some times i have the same problem.
+1
Sent from my folio100 using xda app-developers app
raptor92 said:
+1
Sent from my folio100 using xda app-developers app
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may be its a bug....
when this happens to me, i click one time on power buttom and than wake it up again. but this isnt the fix solution for the problem, just solves it temporarely
ans solution?
one "solution"
Hello, posting for the first time =)
Anyway, i've had a problem with folios crazy buttons and screen response since day one.
Nothing really changed for me with rom updates and different apps. I have tried it all...
I had enough and finally unplugged that little cable that connects into circuitboard
of those buttons and power-led. This is really no solution but takes care of that problem =)
It also disables power indicator led, so that's a little inconvenience =/. But since unplugged,
touchscreen started to work in every way better like its more responsive and doesn't "freeze" anymore.
But this requires you to disassemble your folio to get to touch with the cable to the circuitboard.
Removing plastic back cover isn't enough, but you Dont have to detache the screen from faceplate.
I'll plug it back on when there's a software fix for buttons behavior. Meanwhile enjoying peace from
button madness =D. Sorry if poor english, i'm Finnish
Justuz said:
But since unplugged,
touchscreen started to work in every way better like its more responsive and doesn't "freeze" anymore.
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After disassemble screen seems to work, but after some time is starts again and I don't have "crazy" buttons though.
I'm using mouse and keyboard and it's comfortable.

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