Hello there, i'm new in all this stuff of android devices and more.
I've bought a cheap tablet to begin with, it's a Skytex Skypad Pocket.
The issue here it's that it was working ok, but then i messed up with busybox and i had to flash. After flashing, the interface changed a lot (since the beginning and after flashing, the android version is 4.0.4 ICS), but that's not the point.
The only issue i have is that the accelerometer is inverted for portrait. I mean, It works great for "up and down", but when I tilt it left, it points right and if I tilt left it moves right. I though it was an app issue, but it does it also with the "auto-rotate" function. Also, I've used Elixir to check and in fact, the accelerometer is inverted for left and right.
Any suggestion? I've flashed a lot of times getting the same.
Maybe someone can help me with messing with the ROM? (tinyurl(dot)com(slash)9y6p7un)
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Hey guys, my friend bought a TELUS Hero on eBay a while back, and now she's having troubles with it. So she wanted me to help her put another ROM on it to see if it would fix some issues.
Here are a few details:
-Currently she uses it with AT&T
-The bottom portion of the screen seems reluctant to work, but she says that part of the screen works when she puts the phone in landscape mode and tries pressing something like backspace, p, or something similar.
-She has the same issues with other keyboards (she's tried Swype).
So here are my questions:
Is it just a broken screen? If not, what are some of your favorite ROMs available? Also is it even worth touching the radio?
Thanks for any help/insight anyone can provide.
Now, I know this is not the ideal place to post this kind of issue. I have already posted a thread on the Yarvik Support Forum, but I have also read (on their and on this forum) that their support can be a bit... unsupportive. So I would like to repost the thread I have created there, here.
Dear Yarvik Support Team,
My sister and I have quite recently each bought a Yarvik Xenta TAB10-201 tablet. My sister purchased it first, and I, being the forever criticist I am, followed a week later.
In general I am impressed with the tablet. It provides good quality for its price, and while it obviously cannot be compared to 'main brand tablets', it still is a very good tablet.
However, there have been a few things that bother me about the tablet and prevent me from really enjoying it, and I wonder if you could be able to help me.
The tablet sometimes has the issue that it does not register the touch inputs correctly. I mainly notice this while browsing the web (using Chrome & Stock webbrowser);
it can be very hard to open / close tabs, and when I am scrolling the tablet often opens links that I wanted to scroll past. It then can also be hard to open the links I did want to open.
Now, the problem described above is not that big of an issue. It can be an annoyance and I would like to see it fixed, though. The bigger problem is that when I hook up my tablet to the provided charger, and I want to browse a few webpages and / or want to play a game on the tablet, it does all kind of 'phantom touches'. What I mean by that it is that while I do not press on that particular area (or do not even press at all), the tablet still seems to think I have touched that particular area and thus unwantedly launches an app, or unwantedly closes a webpage I was still browsing. It even gets so bad that when I try to unlock the tablet while charging it jumps to the camera app unlock and takes a bunch of pictures. Now, the weird thing about this is that it only happens on my tablet; my sister's tablet (as I mentioned earlier, exactly the same) does not have this problem with either her or my charger. My tablet does have it no matter which charger is used.
I have already looked for a solution on your forums, but have not found a sufficient solution. Some people did provide a solution in the form of 1. Reflashing my firmware, or 2. Installing a custom ROM. I would like to know which solution you can provide for me. It could also be that the touchscreen is simply damaged; I would then like to send in my tablet for repairs.
If any of you would be able to help me, or have had a similar issue (and preferably fixed it), that would be great. Thanks in advance!
Guys, first of all great forum, excellect tools (like entons rootkit for A71 acer tablet) and splendid advices on many problems. I´m confident to find one for my current problem. If this is the wrong thread, please excuse but I haven´t found one for the Acer A71, so I went to the Android-Thread.
Okay, here´s what happened: I have a rooted (Entons rootkit) A71. Worked perfect for month now. Yesterday I unplugges it after charging. When I switched it on, the screen showed inverted colours. When I try to look at a picture or to watch a video, everything is inerted, too. . I allready unrooted it, made a factory reset, wiped the cache. I have digged into tons of threads in different forums. All that I have found was, that there is a switch you can find in accessability for changing from inverted to normal and back. But this one I do not find on my tablet. I ´m desperate now since I use my tablet for reading (which is still possible), for typing (which is no longer possible) and for videos (which is not longer possible). What to do now?
Datas: Acer iconia B1-A71, Android 4.1.2, Build Acer_AV051_B1-A71_1.25800_WW_GEN1, Image:Acer_AV051_B1-A71_RV05RC05_WW_GEN1, Image-P/N: FM.NLCAO.01Y, Kernel 3.4.0
Would be greatful for any answer.
Thanks a lot in advance.
I have just received this same tablet to repair with the same problem.
Mine would seem to have a damaged screen as its even inverted when in Recovery mode.
Maybe this is the same with you?
A quick google shows a handful of people with the same problem.
The device has some really poor design with the ribbon that connects the screen as some components rest against the quite flexible back cover.
So either one of these tiny components has been damaged or the device dropped and the screen has actually cracked along one of the edges.
What a pity the "invert colors" option is not enabled in the settings app as manually inverted images display fine.
If this was a high end device i'd unlock it and install a custom ROM and have a look into enabling colour inversion somehow but alas i'm not sure this little sucker is worth my time especially as the battery is on its way out now too.
Good Luck.
[EDIT] SOLUTION; it would seem my hunch regarding the crap placement of components on the screens ribbon cable was accurate.
Just found this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56422766&postcount=220
tried the soldering solution:
http://goo.gl/XmpfP7
(feel free to do a better job than i did haha)
It works!
Normskilight thank you very much. It works perfectly!!. I could fix my tablet. For my it was a kind of miracle, jaja.
Thank you again!
Well guys, my english is really bad so, i pasted the text what i posted in htcmania translated with google translate.
"First of all I must clarify that I am fully co desperate ... mostly because of not knowing what the **** is wrong with this phone.
I'm going to summarize everything.
A few weeks ago my mother told me that your screen is not rotated, then got into the menu of Samsung (* # 0 * #) to check that it was not a failure of the sensors and indeed it was, or seemed to be.
So far, all sensor data threw least the magnetometer and accelerometer. I tried everything, I integrate mobile disarmament, pass a neodymium magnet plate by carefully etc. Everything to do with the unit did. There was no other option for these sensors are damaged and most likely they were to touch plate change. Finally the phone could use so I will pay my S3 (which works perfectly) to my mother I stay with this as he gathered the money to buy a plate and change it.
Days later I started to lose my job ROM and the install CM12.1 got everything perfect and when you start the phone and turn perfectly broken screen, I was shocked, the first thing I thought is that perhaps CM12 using the front camera or other sensor to rotate the device, in order to assure lower the app CPU-Z to check the sensors and I find that the accelerometer data perfectly cast, lower Sensor Kinetics to make it a fabulous test and walked the other hand the magnetometer (compass) He never responded.
I thought, "Well I hit and walked out"
But it was not so fortunate who had since returning to Stock (4.3) I meet who do not respond, but I get confused the next day back to my job and under various Roms to try in my home-based CM10, 10.1 , 10.2, 11, 12.1 and a pair based on stock. Well. The accelerometer only I worked in 3 Roms, the 3 based on CM12.1.
And here most of my questions arises.
You likely they are to be a problem Soft?
If it were, returning to a stock should solve tried 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.3 and nothing.
But on the other hand I think if directly Hardware not work at all, that is because Lollipop works and not lower?
I want to clarify that it is no coincidence that works in Cm12.1 since I reinstalled and reinstalled and perfect furula (only the accelerometer)
You think? There is a possibility that there may be some partition where deleted files are communicating sensors? If so, I have possibilities to operate the accelerometer in all Roms and recover the magnetometer restoring those files?
HELP PLEASE NO LONGER DO BOYS."
The sensors only works in Roms based on CM12.1 (5.1.1)
I could run only the accelerometer in that roms, magnetometer never responded
How is posibble what the sensors works in CM Roms and not in Stock roms? Damn guys, I'll set fire to this phone.
Folks,
I'm not sure if this issue occurred during 4.4 Kit-kat, but it definitely has happened on Lollipop.
I purchased a 612 in Japan a few months ago. The Lollipop update wasn't coming through for me (and I had some Wi-Fi frequency issues), so when I finally saw an apparently official 612 American (I'm American) ROM to flash, I diligently followed instructions and successfully installed 5.0. I've since upgraded to 5.1.1 using Sony's PC Companion.
Anyways, onto the issue, which I believe this is the ONLY community on the net that could possibly help me with.
In Netflix, and seemingly ONLY on Netflix (as in, not via the Videos app, YouTube, etc), when a movie has high speed panning/action, there is a tear in the first 1/3 of the screen (a vertical one), toward the SONY logo. When I flip the tablet 180 degrees, it's on the opposite 1/3 of the screen!
The ONLY thought I have is that maybe the Japanese models physically have a different refresh rate than the US ones, and in flashing my unit, I managed to run into that issue? And perhaps Netflix is one app that doesn't VSYNC properly? I've tested every thing under the sun and while I originally thought it was happening only after I pulled the notifications tab down from the top, I recently had it happen without touching anything after a fresh restart.
I LOVE this tablet, but honestly, Netflix in bed is a HUGE use case for me. I'd LOVE to solve this issue. If anyone can help (and please let me know if more info is needed btw), I'm exceedingly grateful.
Just noticed the same thing on my UK sgp612 running lollipop. Dud you find any solution?