My fascinate has suffered from phantom soft key presses for awhile now. I just flashed the newest version of Gummy ICS and noticed there is an option for an onscreen navigation bar (similar to the one on my continuum) so I was wondering if you can disable the hardware softkeys at the bottom and keep the on screen ics navbar in tact as your primary buttons and hopefully fix the issue? Just an idea.
cjplasterer93 said:
My fascinate has suffered from phantom soft key presses for awhile now. I just flashed the newest version of Gummy ICS and noticed there is an option for an onscreen navigation bar (similar to the one on my continuum) so I was wondering if you can disable the hardware softkeys at the bottom and keep the on screen ics navbar in tact as your primary buttons and hopefully fix the issue? Just an idea.
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This would solve your issue...but you're basically throwing away precious screen space.
A better option would be to flash a custom kernel with electric bill's fixed implemented in it. Or if you're good with a soldering iron you can fix the hardware itself, See his thread here.
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Can anyone assist with a couple of questions I have:
1. Since installing all the various bits of software on my IIi the screen rotation icon has disappeared from the bottom right of the today screen. Is there a way to get it back?
2. Because of the above, I re programme the camera, button 3 to rotate the screen, however it seems to default back to Camera after a soft reset. Is this a know problem?
Cheers
a18041967 said:
Can anyone assist with a couple of questions I have:
1. Since installing all the various bits of software on my IIi the screen rotation icon has disappeared from the bottom right of the today screen. Is there a way to get it back?
2. Because of the above, I re programme the camera, button 3 to rotate the screen, however it seems to default back to Camera after a soft reset. Is this a know problem?
Cheers
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We have been discussing this over on TekGuru. It is a problem others are experiencing as well and so far no one has figured out a way to get it back or what causes it to disapear. Presumably you still have the screen rotation icon on your O2 Active Screen.
If you use or decide to use SPB Pocket Plus, you can use it to put screen rotation icons on your Today Screen.
The other thing to do is to assign it to a hardware button as yu have done. I assigned it to the calendar button when holding it down (I am using Vito's ButtonMapper which allows each hardware button to do two different functions).
It does not default back to the original setting after a soft reset but it may be that the camera button works in a different way.
Thanks for the update, my only thought on this is that it seemed to disappear after I added the additional software from the o2 CDROM.
Hopefully this will be fixed in the next ROM update, which hopefully will include Blackberry support
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!
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?
I've had this problem on my GSII (SGH-i777) since playing around with ICS roms, in both AOKP and CMD.
What happens is, after locking it, or a program is supposed to wake it from a blank screen, nothing happens when pressing the power button. The phone is still on and the buttons on the bottom still light up and I can feel vibrations and sounds, but I cannot get the screen to come back on without rebooting.
I'm not sure what causes this and it seems to feel semi random, but I suspect it may be connected to the locking animation in some way introduced in ICS (the emulation of turning off a CRT monitor).
I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and knows a good fix to avoid it (other than going back to stock firmware).
What app are you using that is supposed to wake your phone? Just my opinion but it sounds like an issue with the app.
PS. Crt off animation was introduced well before ics.
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I've had this problem on my GSII (SGH-i777) since playing around with ICS roms, in both AOKP and CMD.
What happens is, after locking it, or a program is supposed to wake it from a blank screen, nothing happens when pressing the power button. The phone is still on and the buttons on the bottom still light up and I can feel vibrations and sounds, but I cannot get the screen to come back on without rebooting.
I'm not sure what causes this and it seems to feel semi random, but I suspect it may be connected to the locking animation in some way introduced in ICS (the emulation of turning off a CRT monitor).
I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and knows a good fix to avoid it (other than going back to stock firmware).
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Try turning off CRT in system setting / ROM Control / General UI / uncheck CRT off animation. I have it off and never have a problem in AOKP
This guy probably didn't wipe everything before posting. Yes this includes your data.
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Since I bought my Atrix, the lights of the buttons are like on the image below: back and search are fully dark. On full brightness, is OK (but menu and home is always a little brighter)
Is it normal? Until today I did not mind because the button work OK and I don't want to send to assistance only for that.
Does anyone know what can be? At my research, I found that the backlight of buttons is the same as the screen , right?
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At my research, I found that the backlight of buttons is the same as the screen , right?
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Nope, not at all. Those are two backlights controlled separately.
No idea what's going on with yours. As far as I know, soft buttons are backlit with a few white LED-s, I guess some of yours are just giving out.
Mines the same on CM10.
Sent from my Nexus 7 on official CM10