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My dock (I'm from the UK so dock and tablet come together as one package) only seems to fully work about 25% of the time. Most of the time when I connect it I don't get a mouse pointer and I can't use it to type :-( The tablet recognises the dock being connected as in the notification area it says "You can now use the keyboard to type" and the tablet charges from the dock. However, only the top row of the keys do anything - so I can lock it, mute the sound, turn off wifi etc fine, but none of the other keys work. The other 25% of the time when I connect it the mouse pointer instantly appears and I can type fine. The bar always goes to the lock position, so I'm assuming I am connecting it correctly.
Apart from this the tablet works fine - no dust or dead pixels, good wifi, minimal light bleed, so I'd rather not return it and get another one with other issues. maybe a loose connection on the dock?
Anyone else with the same issue, or who can help?
I had some problems with the dock functioning, but it seems to have gone away after plugging/unplugging a few times. Now it seems fine.
I am also from the UK and have the same problem I have tried to remove the dock a few times and sometimes it works. It never worked first time. The table is perfect with Bluetooth and GPS working. My main problem is that it takes ages to boot up compared to my 101, about 4 times as long. I will wait a couple of weeks see if an update sorted it then return the thing back to Comet.
No problems here. Did you guys get the firmware update? I am using MobileDock version TF201-DOCK-0206, that got pushed to me the first time I docked my TFP.
Bimboy said:
No problems here. Did you guys get the firmware update? I am using MobileDock version TF201-DOCK-0206, that got pushed to me the first time I docked my TFP.
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Yes I have the same version TF201-DOCK-0206 thanks for the reply
I'm from Austria, but got the package with tab and dock too, i think thats regular in EU. I have no problems with my dock. Maybe you've pressed the "disable mousepointer" button? it's next to the bluetooth button on the dock
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I'm from Austria, but got the package with tab and dock too, i think thats regular in EU. I have no problems with my dock. Maybe you've pressed the "disable mousepointer" button? it's next to the bluetooth button on the dock
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Thanks, Hadn't noticed that button. If the dock isn't working (which is about 75% of the time) and you press that button to disable the mouse pointer and then press it again to reenable it, the mouse pointer will work for a short time, but the keyboard still won't work in this scenario. If you leave the mouse pointer to disappear you can't get it back again until you press that button twice again.
So its still not working properly but there can't be much wrong with it if you can press a button to get the pointer on again. Maybe it will be fixed by the ics update on thursday?
Mine has a little issue where after not using it all night the dock will not funtion. There is no mouse pointer at all. Once I pull it off the dock and put it back on it works just fine the rest of the day. Anyone else have this issue?
Got it working again by rebooting and then re-docking a couple of times (typing from it now). Been working for 30 mins - scared to leave to go into sleep mode in case it fails again ;-)
Closing and opening the hinge seems to help, but probably best wait for todays update before worrying too much!
Got this from ASUS support today;
Could you please await the firmware update that is due to be released this comming thursday?
If the firmware update has failed, please back up all your data and try the recovery back to factory settings as per instructions below:
1. Press and hold the power button and choose <Ok> to shut down.
2. Remove any SD cards from the Eee Pad.
3. Press and hold the <Volume Down> button, then press and hold the <Power> button. Keep pressing them both until you see white writing on the screen. You may then release them.
4. Wait five seconds until you see an icon in the middle of the screen labeled "Data Wipe".
5. Use the <Volume down> button to highlight "Data Wipe"
4. Press the <Volume up> button to execute the process.
6. After the "Wipe Data" process finished, it will automatically reboot and start normally.
Didn't do a wipe, but I'm still seeing this occasionally after updating to ICS 9.4.2.7. Open/Close seems to persuade it to work.
Select Asus keyboard as input and the keyboard will work. EOT
Changing the keyboard setting doesn't always work. Sometimes the special/shifted keys get mapped wrong too. It's all related, but some point in the process seems unreliable.
Mine does the same thing. I have to reboot the tablet while off the dock and then plug it in at times for it to work.
Same here. Bought from PC World in UK.
Is this a software issue? If not, I'll get it swapped.
I have the same problem with the dock, i tried everything. Hardreset , factory reset, reboots with and without dock on prime but nothing changed at all, the dock is working about 10% of the time and that is completely random.
There doesnt't seem to be a loose contact between dock and prime, because I tried to move around the dock and the prime in every direction while they were connected and the keyboard was working at that time without problems and without losing connection or an error message.
As soon as I'm working with the dock for a few minutes or when the Prime (while connected to the dock) is turned back on from sleep mode, either the dock's keyboard or the touchpad or sometimes both stop working.
I'm using the DE version of Android 3.2.1 as firmware,
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Select Asus keyboard as input and the keyboard will work. EOT
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Nope! ASUS keyboard is already selected - I've tried every combination of keyboard it makes no difference to the functionality of the dock. full keyboard only works 10% of the time, mouse pointer only works about 25% of the time, the top row of keys works 75% of the time, and dock charges the tablet 75% of the time.
On the odd occasion when all the keys do work, they only work for up to 30mins or so, or until it sleeps :-(
A user on transformerprimeforums.com as tried a different a second tablet with his dock - and it worked fine. Which assumes his tablet is the issue? Which is a bit weird as I would have assumed an issue with the dock. Anyway, mine is going back (both tablet and dock as it's one package in the UK) and I'm going to try a second one. Any issues with the second one and I'll give up and get a refund :-(
Problem persists for me on TF201-DOCK-0206 .
Although sometimes irratic and difficult to replicate, I've found a way that normally works.
When booted undocked, then docked after lock screen displayed, MobileDock works.
When booted docked, MobileDock still charges, but isn't fully functional.
I've installed all firmware updates so far. No change.
I also have the same problems with my TF201-DOCK-0206 as mentioned in this thread. Was hoping for the last update to solve it, but it didn't.
What I found out is when the keyboard works, keep the Caps Lock light burning if you don't use the keyboard.
I'm not sure if it is a soft or hard issue, but I don't think it has something to do with bad connections/connectors. More like a component goes into sleep mode and won't wake up the normal way.
Hi all,
Love switching roms. Recently the middle row of the touch keyboard stopped working... tried flashing different roms. Tried fastboot -w, formatting the system partition before reinstall... did full wipe and wiped dalvik cache.
On a new ROM now and the issue is still present. The touch only seems to be an issue with the keyboard, tried different keyboards with different roms and it's like I have a dead zone in the middle... and whether I use the keyboard in landscape or portrait the issue is present with the middle row.
*EDIT- this is not a keyboard issue... the deadzone is there from my home screen too... hardware? :-( *
I've search through these forums without luck, hoping someone can shed some light on this problem!
Thank you,
Try put an app icon there and click on it, see if it responds. If not, then most likely a h/w problem.
<argh>. i have a quarter inch strip right in the middle that goes from top to bottom that doesn't seem to respond to touch anymore. like a deadzone. icon skips that quarter inch when i try to drag it across my homepage...
Edit: Solved! See post #3 for information on how I solved this.
Long story short I got an AT&T Atrix from a friend with an Atrix Lapdock. I'm not 100% sure of the details but he had opened the Atrix (to replace the digitizer I think) and messed up the screen to where the backlight turns on but it's always black. The digitizer still works. He wanted me to factory restore the Atrix so I did so via the Lapdock by going into settings and selecting factory restore. After it booted up again it did not boot into Webtop mode. Well great, now I'm running the phone blind.
I think I was at the "Emergency calls only" screen since clicking the bottom of the screen above the soft buttons, then towards the top, played dialtones, so I got a SIM card (out of my Sprint Touch Pro 2, just for the sake of having any SIM card in it) and rebooted with the SIM in it. I'm at a different screen now, where I can make the motor buzz by tapping the soft buttons, and if I hold the Menu (4 squares icon, leftmost soft button) it pulls up a keyboard. I believe this is the Motoblur setup screen. As stupid as it may sound, I tried entering the "123/alt/abc/e/123/alt/abc/e/b/l/u/r/o/f/f" command by eyeballing the screen, but I don't think I deactivated it since it seemed like I could still interact with this screen the same way. I tried pressing (what I felt was) 123/alt/abc on the phone, and using the Lapdock to input the letters, but that didn't seem to do anything either.
ADB is definitely not enabled, I can launch fastboot (or any of the fastboot options, such as "Fastboot" "NVFlash" "BP HW Bypass..." etc, I wrote these down and just blindly input however many Down presses to activate it).
My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
Strangely, while I was in the presumed Emergency Calls mode without a SIM, either me spazzing out on the screen or some weird luck got the Entertainment Center to appear. However I could not navigate it at all using the Lapdock, not through arrow keys or using the mouse. I've never gotten that to happen again.
If this is a failure, my main purpose in getting these from him was to use the Lapdock as a small and luggable HDMI monitor (via adapters) so I'm not too disappointed, but it would be nice to have the Atrix working as much as it did prior to factory-restoring it.
DanAdamKOF said:
Long story short I got an AT&T Atrix from a friend with an Atrix Lapdock. I'm not 100% sure of the details but he had opened the Atrix (to replace the digitizer I think) and messed up the screen to where the backlight turns on but it's always black. The digitizer still works. He wanted me to factory restore the Atrix so I did so via the Lapdock by going into settings and selecting factory restore. After it booted up again it did not boot into Webtop mode. Well great, now I'm running the phone blind.
I think I was at the "Emergency calls only" screen since clicking the bottom of the screen above the soft buttons, then towards the top, played dialtones, so I got a SIM card (out of my Sprint Touch Pro 2, just for the sake of having any SIM card in it) and rebooted with the SIM in it. I'm at a different screen now, where I can make the motor buzz by tapping the soft buttons, and if I hold the Menu (4 squares icon, leftmost soft button) it pulls up a keyboard. I believe this is the Motoblur setup screen. As stupid as it may sound, I tried entering the "123/alt/abc/e/123/alt/abc/e/b/l/u/r/o/f/f" command by eyeballing the screen, but I don't think I deactivated it since it seemed like I could still interact with this screen the same way. I tried pressing (what I felt was) 123/alt/abc on the phone, and using the Lapdock to input the letters, but that didn't seem to do anything either.
ADB is definitely not enabled, I can launch fastboot (or any of the fastboot options, such as "Fastboot" "NVFlash" "BP HW Bypass..." etc, I wrote these down and just blindly input however many Down presses to activate it).
My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
Strangely, while I was in the presumed Emergency Calls mode without a SIM, either me spazzing out on the screen or some weird luck got the Entertainment Center to appear. However I could not navigate it at all using the Lapdock, not through arrow keys or using the mouse. I've never gotten that to happen again.
If this is a failure, my main purpose in getting these from him was to use the Lapdock as a small and luggable HDMI monitor (via adapters) so I'm not too disappointed, but it would be nice to have the Atrix working as much as it did prior to factory-restoring it.
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wow....thats something.......you still int blur account setting (it uppen when you use a different sim card)....
try to wipe in fastboot
load new rom image that can skip motoblur account set up (like nottach)
when reboots click menu and then right corner down (skip set up) then it should be able to go in webtop mode..
hope it works
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My next plan is to print off a screenshot of the Atrix keyboard to-scale with the screen and use that as a guide to input the "bluroff" command, hopefully doing that will get the phone into a state where it can activate Webtop.
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Posting to say this worked fine! I used Photoshop to print a screenshot 1.961" wide, carefully cut it out, taped it to the front, called up the keyboard (longpress the menu button, you'll feel it buzz long then very short), and carefully tapped out the Motoblur override. Took a few tries since you can't see what you're tapping (go slowly and use the tip of your finger) and the paper in the way makes it less sensitive. The phone doesn't buzz or anything when it does this, but if you put it on the Lapdock you'll see the swirly small red Motorola M icon signifying Webtop is loading, instead of the big red Motorola M icon that jumps around now and then. Also I had set the language to Spanish during my blind mashing, luckily I'm familiar enough with it to where I could change the language to English easily.
You can activate Motoblur through Webtop after you bypass the initial setup, I'm doing that right now.
htchd2fix I was considering loading up a ROM and seeing if that gave me more luck, but I wasn't sure how they handle Blur and all that, but anyway thanks for your step by step
I've attached the screenshot I used of the stock Atrix keyboard, and a Photoshop PSD I made that I used for printing, scaled to (more or less) the Atrix's width, cleaned up a bit, and with a black 1px border to assist in cutting. To whoever made the original screenshot (you're probably on XDA), thank you!
I'm leaving the screenshot taped to the Atrix for now so I can brag about its e-paper display
My tablet is HKC P077A with 8GB ROM, 512 RAM and a 7'' Touch screen (Android 4.0.3). I am having 2 problems
When I switch on the tab, first "HKC" logo comes to screen and then disappears to show "android". This is standard. But after that the thing wont move forward. Just keeps on showing "andriod" with a flashing like thing implying the loading process. But after long wait there is no start screen and nothing changes. It just hangs there....
But if somehow got it to get into normal working(I donno how, but It sometimes boots ok and gets into normal working mode, with home screen and apps and everything). So once I get it right the other problem I am having is that the touch is giving VERY bad response. I have to click at spots multiple times to select that thing. Also the response is very slow. Its like the tablet is hanged. But when I tried connecting a mouse (through OTG) and everything works fine again. Is my touchscreen gone bad..??
I am already done with, reset (from "settings> backup and reset") [I cant find how to do factory reset on this model from "off" state(read below)]
I have tried to get into reset screen by pushing "Power Button+Vol up" button. Then I know the tab gets turned on (I can hear a small white noise from the loudspeaker) but nothing comes to screen. So the "Robot with heart open" is never shown. I also tried using "power button + Volume down", this takes me to a screen written in chinese. Now, I don't know Chinese but from the look and feel, its a troubleshooting window, where I can check weather components of my tablet are working (eg. I click one menu(with difficulty), then the front cam turns on, another menu makes loud sounds from speaker and another flashes many colors in screen etc). I found that most are ok except something called "T" (On the screen, its the last item to the right, is it "touchscreen"??)
So, what can I do to get my tab to work smooth again..? Is the touchpad having trouble..? Need I do any specific troubleshooting..?? Any Ideas on which key combinations to get on to the "factory reset" menu from off state..??
Also can u please specify the key combinations to the tablet factory-reset menu from "off" state.
I am running Blastagator TWRP 3.3.0-0 on an LG G2 with a screen hardware problem. The screen is no longer touch sensitive in the center of the lower part of the screen. Updates to Lineage on this device do not automatically install Magisk, so it needs to be installed manually through TWRP each time I update Lineage. The problem is that installing any zip file through TWRP requires confirmation by moving the slider across the screen, through the dead spot. When I try to do that, the slider drops back as if I lifted my finger off the screen. The same thing happens if I let the screen time out - I can't get past the lock screen without the slider, so I have to crash TWRP and reboot.
Is there an alternative to sliding across the bottom of the screen? I can recompile TWRP if there's a flag in the source code. I've tried sideloading Magisk, but I can't do it because I have to swipe across the bottom of the screen to start sideload mode. If I try it through the ADB command line on a connected LInux system, I get "sideload connection failed", presumably because I haven't put the phone in sideload mode. All roads lead through that sliding bar.
It would be frustrating to have to trash the phone just because of a single bad spot on the sensor. Once in a blue moon the bar slides and I can get Magisk to install, but it's frustrating to keep trying for five or ten minutes hoping I get that one shot.
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I am running TWRP 3.3.0-0 on an LG G2 with a screen hardware problem. The screen is no longer touch sensitive in the center of the lower part of the screen. Updates to Lineage on this device do not automatically install Magisk, so it needs to be installed manually through TWRP each time I update Lineage. The problem is that installing any zip file through TWRP requires confirmation by moving the slider across the screen, through the dead spot. When I try to do that, the slider drops back as if I lifted my finger off the screen. The same thing happens if I let the screen time out - I can't get past the lock screen without the slider, so I have to crash TWRP and reboot.
Is there an alternative to sliding across the bottom of the screen? I can recompile TWRP if there's a flag in the source code. I've tried sideloading Magisk, but I can't do it because I have to swipe across the bottom of the screen to start sideload mode. If I try it through the ADB command line on a connected LInux system, I get "sideload connection failed", presumably because I haven't put the phone in sideload mode. All roads lead through that sliding bar.
It would be frustrating to have to trash the phone just because of a single bad spot on the sensor. Once in a blue moon the bar slides and I can get Magisk to install, but it's frustrating to keep trying for five or ten minutes hoping I get that one shot.
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I believe you can disable the lock screen in the options totally (the slider thing). Not sure though but yes, it's a crap design. Hope someone is able to help
Did you trying to use mouse through otg cable..?
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eyobaaa said:
Did you trying to use mouse through otg cable..?
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Wow. Does it work? I didn't even knew it did lol. Thanks for the tip. Hope OP sees your post and gives it a try
Brilliant! That worked. It appears the mouse has to be plugged in at boot time, but if it is, the arrow appears and the mouse and slider are fully functional in both system and recovery.
By the way, I get around the dead spot on the keyboard when booted into the system by using one of the many Set Orientation apps that allow me to turn the screen upside down. I haven't found an app yet that needs touch sensitivity at the top and bottom of the screen at the same time. Well, games, but I don't play games on an LG G2
I wonder if a Y cable will work on the USB port, so I can plug in a thumb drive for storage and still use a mouse to move the slider to start the backup?
BTW, I checked the TWRP settings screen. There is no setting that affects the slider.
Thank you, eyobaaa.
Glad to hear that the Y cable things i didn't test it why don't you give a try..
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I'll have to buy one to do that. Probably next week.