Hi guys,
Device: Version is G9 101 TURBO 8GB (A101).
Issue: depending on how you hold the tablet, lots of ghost touchs appear on screen and cause undesired touches. Example: if I hold it on the left side and try to use Google Maps, maps get crazy and start moving all over and zooming in/out.
I see some people complaining about it, but it's still difficult to see if it's a hardware or software problem.
Some people say reverting back to firmware 3.2.80 fix the problem, but I tried to downgrade the firmware with official and rooted versions and been unsuccessful (official gives error 221 because you can't officially downgrade and the rooted one flashes Archos logo nonstop).
I also tried to install CyanogenMod but installation fails after I select the ZIP file (stops at creating data ext4). Maybe because it's not rooted (I only have SDE installed).
Others apparently sent it to Archos for repair but I haven't seen the results - did them fix the problem?
If you experienced this issue, could you please post your solution?
Thank you!
ijrr said:
Hi guys,
Device: Version is G9 101 TURBO 8GB (A101).
Issue: depending on how you hold the tablet, lots of ghost touchs appear on screen and cause undesired touches. Example: if I hold it on the left side and try to use Google Maps, maps get crazy and start moving all over and zooming in/out.
I see some people complaining about it, but it's still difficult to see if it's a hardware or software problem.
Some people say reverting back to firmware 3.2.80 fix the problem, but I tried to downgrade the firmware with official and rooted versions and been unsuccessful (official gives error 221 because you can't officially downgrade and the rooted one flashes Archos logo nonstop).
I also tried to install CyanogenMod but installation fails after I select the ZIP file (stops at creating data ext4). Maybe because it's not rooted (I only have SDE installed).
Others apparently sent it to Archos for repair but I haven't seen the results - did them fix the problem?
If you experienced this issue, could you please post your solution?
Thank you!
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Just a follow up: I went back to the store and replaced for another one (same model) and this one works perfectly.
If it matters, the first one had serial number beginning with PR13 and the new one has PR08... maybe it helps someone.
I actually have the same problem. My A101 G9 got its LCD broken some time ago, I ordered a new display and replaced it myself (because Archos assistance was really awful, they sent me the tablet back with the transport costs added only) and now i had this strange issue in the bottom right corner. It's now impossible to use. I thik it's a digitizer glass issue, can you help me?
hmmm... I have no idea what might being happening there...
In my case I replaced the unit for another one and it's been working fine BUT after charging I noticed I might get ghost touchs in the corner too but in that case calibrating (inside Settings > Repair) fix the issue.
The unit I had before, nothing was fixing... so probably a hardware problem.
maina19 said:
I actually have the same problem. My A101 G9 got its LCD broken some time ago, I ordered a new display and replaced it myself (because Archos assistance was really awful, they sent me the tablet back with the transport costs added only) and now i had this strange issue in the bottom right corner. It's now impossible to use. I thik it's a digitizer glass issue, can you help me?
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Ok, my A101IT has been slowly but surely giving me the F*U "finger" and I'm really getting sick of it. I'm about as sick enough to newly take up the sport of Disc Golf and use my A101IT as my starting first disc frisbee!
Here are all of my problems:
1) Completely dead USB port.
2) WiFi turns itself on only half the time when the device is turned on from being off. (Device's Wifi Setting reads "Error" most of the time when device is turned on from being off, yet the device is always connected AND authorized with correct network password at my home).
3) Now my soft buttons on the far right side of the screen have vanished and I cannot get them back whatsoever.
Side Notes:
I have never uninstalled or "accidentally" deleted anything I wasn't supposed to but I will say I do have it permanently rooted to FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method. One-by-one these problems stared happening about a month ago. I'm considering upgrading to FW 2.3.26 but I don't know if that will fix my WiFi problem? Also, how do I get my soft buttons back?! Hell, for that matter can ANYTHING be done to fix ANY of the above?! Also, I had previously installed a 3rd-party Wifi Manager and that still didn't work.
Please help because I'm about to lose my mind here! .... I'm seriously starting to doubt Archos for sure now and as the rest of the year progresses with a more passionate hatred! Knowing that there has been vast amounts of proof (on XDA here & ArchosFans) that the Gen 8 A101IT is **** and is not really expected to work let alone turn on after 6 months of being perfectly new just makes me wonder how "reliable" the new Gen 9 series A101IT's are going to be.
P.S. - I bought mine off eBay from this guy who bought the A101IT as new back in March '11 and used it maybe 5-6 times so I bought it off him in late April '11. Nothing was on the device and everything was wiped clean. From the time I bought it off him-to-the end of May I never had any problems whatsoever because at that point I thought Archos was the best tablet company on the market but that all changed last month.
Any and all suggestions are welcome! If I use it as my first disc golf frisbee what color should I spray paint it? Or maybe take it out to my local gun shooting range and use it as target practice?
spicy_puerto_rican said:
Ok, my A101IT has been slowly but surely giving me the F*U "finger" and I'm really getting sick of it. I'm about as sick enough to newly take up the sport of Disc Golf and use my A101IT as my starting first disc frisbee!
Here are all of my problems:
1) Completely dead USB port.
2) WiFi turns itself on only half the time when the device is turned on from being off. (Device's Wifi Setting reads "Error" most of the time when device is turned on from being off, yet the device is always connected AND authorized with correct network password at my home).
3) Now my soft buttons on the far right side of the screen have vanished and I cannot get them back whatsoever.
Side Notes:
I have never uninstalled or "accidentally" deleted anything I wasn't supposed to but I will say I do have it permanently rooted to FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method. One-by-one these problems stared happening about a month ago. I'm considering upgrading to FW 2.3.26 but I don't know if that will fix my WiFi problem? Also, how do I get my soft buttons back?! Hell, for that matter can ANYTHING be done to fix ANY of the above?! Also, I had previously installed a 3rd-party Wifi Manager and that still didn't work.
Please help because I'm about to lose my mind here! .... I'm seriously starting to doubt Archos for sure now and as the rest of the year progresses with a more passionate hatred! Knowing that there has been vast amounts of proof (on XDA here & ArchosFans) that the Gen 8 A101IT is **** and is not really expected to work let alone turn on after 6 months of being perfectly new just makes me wonder how "reliable" the new Gen 9 series A101IT's are going to be.
P.S. - I bought mine off eBay from this guy who bought the A101IT as new back in March '11 and used it maybe 5-6 times so I bought it off him in late April '11. Nothing was on the device and everything was wiped clean. From the time I bought it off him-to-the end of May I never had any problems whatsoever because at that point I thought Archos was the best tablet company on the market but that all changed last month.
Any and all suggestions are welcome! If I use it as my first disc golf frisbee what color should I spray paint it? Or maybe take it out to my local gun shooting range and use it as target practice?
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To be fair, some of this has nothing to do with Archos. You need to reinstall your firmware. If your soft buttons "disappeared" without you setting the board.prop, something is seriously wrong with the UnionFS.
As for the rest of it, you are an early adopter, that's the price you pay for wanting a tablet before the hardware was viable. Buy a second gen Transformer or Xoom if you want a "finished" product.
I don't blame you for not knowing(definitely not flaming you or anything), but Archos has, and will always be, a pioneer. They were the first to make an mp3 player, the first to use a hard drive in media players, the first to have color screens, the first to have touchscreens, etc. There are heavy costs associated with pioneering, so they simply aren't going to make as good a product as the rest, because they get theirs out at least a year before the other companies can get to market.
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To be fair, some of this has nothing to do with Archos. You need to reinstall your firmware. If your soft buttons "disappeared" without you setting the board.prop, something is seriously wrong with the UnionFS.
As for the rest of it, you are an early adopter, that's the price you pay for wanting a tablet before the hardware was viable. Buy a second gen Transformer or Xoom if you want a "finished" product.
I don't blame you for not knowing(definitely not flaming you or anything), but Archos has, and will always be, a pioneer. They were the first to make an mp3 player, the first to use a hard drive in media players, the first to have color screens, the first to have touchscreens, etc. There are heavy costs associated with pioneering, so they simply aren't going to make as good a product as the rest, because they get theirs out at least a year before the other companies can get to market.
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And they were the first, who did an android tablet
The A5It for 200€ i had this it was very laggy but after some fw updates it was good.
I sold my A5It to a friend, and now he get Cyanogenmod..(propably)
Bubu said he work on that
This is another hope for me:
If A5IT, stock 1.6, gets Gingerbread(2.3.4), i think we'll get HC or ICS
Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0? Installing UrukDroid also got my soft buttons back on my screen via the "Small Buttons" setting on UrukDroid AND fixed my Wifi connection problem I was having before and it seems to be real neat and a hell of a lot more stable than Chulri's Method but I have one (probably) minor problem. Whenever the device gets turned on from being off OR I go to install a Google Market App it gives me an error message that reads... "The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I don't know if it has been asked on how to fix that problem with the process thing because I skimmed over some of the UrukDroid Installation in the Dev's forum but I didn't find anything on how to solve it. So are there any solutions to this so I can get rid of this annoying little message??
Also, it shows that the version of my FW is 2.1.8 but I get this notification to upgrade to FW 2.3.26 and I'm just wondering if it's a good idea to upgrade? If I upgrade to FW 2.3.26 will I lose my permanent root access with UrukDroid 1.0?
spicy_puerto_rican said:
Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0? Installing UrukDroid also got my soft buttons back on my screen via the "Small Buttons" setting on UrukDroid AND fixed my Wifi connection problem I was having before and it seems to be real neat and a hell of a lot more stable than Chulri's Method but I have one (probably) minor problem. Whenever the device gets turned on from being off OR I go to install a Google Market App it gives me an error message that reads... "The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I don't know if it has been asked on how to fix that problem with the process thing because I skimmed over some of the UrukDroid Installation in the Dev's forum but I didn't find anything on how to solve it. So are there any solutions to this so I can get rid of this annoying little message??
Also, it shows that the version of my FW is 2.1.8 but I get this notification to upgrade to FW 2.3.26 and I'm just wondering if it's a good idea to upgrade? If I upgrade to FW 2.3.26 will I lose my permanent root access with UrukDroid 1.0?
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You can't upgrade through Uruk, just ignore the message. As for the force close, try installing Arctools from Appslib, and using it to reinstall the Google applications.
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Ok, well it seems that something major was wrong with my permanent rooted install of FW 2.3.20 via Chulri's Method so I figured why not try to install UrukDroid 1.0?
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Did it help with the dead USB port?
I wouldn't count on that.
The 101 ( the first few batches ) is known to blow the usb port, that's why archos quickly accepts RMA on it.
If you bought it at Saturn/MM try to talk to them.
Well here is what I ended up doing to solve the "disappearing soft buttons.":
- I completely and fully reformatted my A101IT to factory settings.
- Reinstalled UrukDroid 1.0
- Flashed Chulri's Kernel to get permanent root access for FW 2.3.26 at 1000 MHz
(Found out that the OC to 1200 MHz for FW 2.3.20 will not work whatsoever for FW 2.3.26, but Chulri's Method of Permanent Root Access works on FW 2.3.26 only to an OC of 1000 MHz. I now see that the above case is pretty obvious but not at first to noobs like me when I first started out).
- Rebooted
- Device works now but the Wifi thing keeps on happening but less often.
As a side note:
No, removing Chulri's Method and Installing UrukDroid 1.0 did not solve the dead USB port. I didn't think installing UrukDroid 1.0 would solve it anyway since it's a deep hardware issue. I'm assuming in due-time the USB port eventually dies because the battery is too close in proximity to the USB port on the inside when it heats up and probably gets so hot from normal use that it unsolders the USB port from the motherboard after a certain amount of time possibly because the USB port and the battery coils and its connections are probably improperly heat resistant. Kind of like the Xbox 360's Ring of Death I would imagine. I went through 5 of them, from the most basic one to the top-end Elite and every one in-between years ago but that's a different story altogether, lol. Don't you just love technology sometimes....? I vote that this is all FUBAR.
Oh, I have a Board Version 6 by the way.
I have a problem with a touchscreen. This can be seen that in the lower left corner of the screen, the phone detects a second touch. I put a screen shot of the presentation of how it looks in the test. This occurs on every rom 2.3 +, excluding Glsmt 2.1. When I plug the charger problem disappears. Whoever knows how to fix it?
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I have a problem with a touchscreen. This can be seen that in the lower left corner of the screen, the phone detects a second touch. I put a screen shot of the presentation of how it looks in the test. This occurs on every rom 2.3 +, excluding Glsmt 2.1. When I plug the charger problem disappears. Whoever knows how to fix it?
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this problem is fixed in INDIAN firmware S5830DDKQ5
which software u used for this touchscreen test?
enter *#*#2664#*#* in dialer .
edit: okay ,but i need european firmware :\
adinq said:
enter *#*#2664#*#* in dialer .
edit: okay ,but i need european firmware :\
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Why do you NEED European firmware?
I thought that there would be no Polish language . Nevermind . I install it ,and problem was disappeared
but the problem exists in Cyano Ace Port from BehradGH and currently there is no possibility to install fix
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My mistake. Problem still exist in S5830DDKQ5 .
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enter *#*#2664#*#* in dialer .
edit: okay ,but i need european firmware :\
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this code is not working in cyanogenmod
enter 'dev tools' and next 'pointer location' .
Hi
someone fix this bug?
My motorola atrix is a problem with the touch after I managed to release "root", you have to play lower down the keys to be hit from above, in addition to the menu buttons do not work, but half of it straight up works best, does anyone have any solution?
Perhaps a better bios reset, or a full format! hardware will be? or software?
Somebody help!
bahia1 said:
My motorola atrix is a problem with the touch after I managed to release "root", you have to play lower down the keys to be hit from above, in addition to the menu buttons do not work, but half of it straight up works best, does anyone have any solution?
Perhaps a better bios reset, or a full format! hardware will be? or software?
Somebody help!
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i think u got better chance if u ask in ur device specific forum
This problem is fixed in KPY, i have this one "GT-S5830_XEU_S5830XWKPY-S5830XEUKP1-S5830XWKPA-S5830XWKPY4" and problem is gone.
I have the same problem..
My phone registers random touches in the lower right area, approximately above the middle of the home and back button. I have Indian firmware S5830DDKQ5, and the problem started just after I upgraded to it by official Kies update. Before this, in Froyo, this never happened. I thought maybe it was a hardware problem in my phone or the screen protector was causing it, or maybe something broke due to some fall to the ground, but you have the same problem, originating from 2.3+ roms, so perhaps not. I have not tried any rom except the stock one.
icemanhi, you say it is fixed in XE/XW KPY but KPY would come before KQ5, wouldn't it? I'd like to not go to an older firmware, because we don't know what the changes between them are.
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My phone registers random touches in the lower right area, approx. above the middle of the home and back button. I have Indian firmware S5830DDKQ5, and the problem started just after I upgraded to it by official Kies update. Before this, in Froyo this never happened. I thought maybe it was a hardware problem in my phone or the screen protector was causing it, or maybe something broke due to some fall on the ground, but you have the same problem, originating from 2.3+ roms. I have not tried any rom except the stock one. Please help me fix this... It gets irritating after some time.. it's not rarely but quite often, 4-5 times a day. Even when the phone is kept undisturbed on a flat surface untouched it still happens...
icemanhi, you say it is fixed in XE/XW KPY but KPY would come before KQ5 and I don't want to put something other than the stock official firmware. I cannot just keep changing roms either, I don't have time for that..
Please if anyone has a fix then share it.
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take your phone to samsung service center and tell them about this problem
But...
I can't make the problem show up on demand.. the people at the service center will say, show me what happens, but it's random, so I can't show it to them. Then they'll say, "the problem is not happening in front of us, so we can't do anything." Still, I'll ask, but would prefer a different solution. Thanks.
KS3 fixes a problem in my case. But after the installation CyanogenMod 7.1, issue returns Any suggestions to fix it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUpBOPeQf9w
I made the video showing how it looks. Please help.
adinq said:
KS3 fixes a problem in my case. But after the installation CyanogenMod 7.1, issue returns Any suggestions to fix it?
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try researching on the file or lib responsible for touchscreen settings
if we got that i think we can solve this problem.
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Hello have a good day,
As the title shows I have an archos 80 g9 1.2ghz edition I have searched but my problem with my tablets touchscreen is different from others. i gave this tablet as a gift to my sister upon vacation here in the Phils. Several weeks ago, we updated the tablet to Archos latest stock firmware 4.0.7 and it runs good after the update and played several movie streaming afterwards. While streaming movies the tablet keep on playing and wouldn't respond to touch. We turned off the tablet and let it rest for a while and sure upon booting it up again it works that seems it has no problem, but after several minutes the touchscreen hangs again and won't respond. I turned off and recalibrated the tablets touchscreen upon next boot but it's still the same as usual it hangs after several minutes of use. I have tried forced calibration in the recovery several times and the results is still the same. Have re- installed twice the official archos 4.0.7 firmware but nada still get the same results. The last thing I do because I thought maybe its a firmware issue was to install surdu petro custom 4.0.7 rom which I have flash successfully. Ihave formatted the disk prior to flash to clear it of any previous files but the tablet still behaves the same.
I know its only the touchscreen because even if the touchscreen hangs when I paired my sgs2 as a remote to the tablet it still responds and function as it should only I cannot control the tablet to the touch. I just want to ask if someone had experienced this situation and how you dealt with it. If it is a hardware issue thus anybody tried to open the tablet maybe a connector to the touchscreen digitizer is loose that when the tablet heats with use, the connector expands and lost contacts. i really need an insight on how to do these. Shipping the tablet back for warranty would cost more since I have brought already the tablet here in the Philippines. Any guide or solution is greatly appreciated. Will be trying to install older firmware later.
Thanks in advance
edit: already seen some teardown and pics from this forum and will do a teardown fix if firmware flashing won't work.
A new Hyundai Rock X IPS tablet.
Loaded Android v4.1 stock Firmware.
Turned off at evening as always. Turned on next morning routinely but waked up without Touch function which makes the tablet unusable..
Reflashed several time w/ FWs of the last two version of factory.. Every time the same result. Booting up w/o touch facility and not possible to start and execute initial settings and use the tablet..
It is bricked some way..
As it is not recovered by flashing with factory FWs, what would be the reason? Hardware failure ? But screen is okay, only no response to touch.
What do you suggest ??
I am away to China and no chance to ask service and replacement..
But if it is screen hardware failure maybe a new screen (as spare part) may be purchased and replaced..
Do you think Hardware ? Could it be disconnection of some part such as digitizer ?
Unfortunately i just experienced the same problem. Searching on Google and it seems its becoming a common complaint. I think its a hardware problem.
P. S.
Mine is just 4 days old.
Hi,
My Z4 just asked to update the ROM, and afterwards, the screen has areas that are no longer touch sensitive.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks for any ideas!
Jim
Have you tried rebooting, then opening the Diagnostics app and running the touch screen test? If there are still dead spots showing in the test, you might want to flag it to Sony support.
I'm not certain if it's a software or hardware issue, but I have found both pre and post-update, that the touchscreen occasionally becomes less responsive, to the point that trying to use a drag gesture doesn't work without the touch dropping out. This happens every couple of days, and I suspect it's to do with throttling as it coincides with very sluggish performance. Seems to resolve itself when left for a few minutes, or a reboot.
Yes! I thought it was just me. I have a tempered glass screen protector and removed it to confirm whether it was causing the issues. Also ran the diagnostics which ran just fine.
It seems to be perfectly fine after a reboot and then the longer you go the worse it gets.
Hoping that this is fixed in the 5.1.1 update whenever that happens.
The conditions that this occurs does seem extremely sporadic. After playing Star Wars Uprising for ~45 minutes yesterday morning, the touch screen failed to recognise any swipes or taps, to the point I had to force a restart with the power button to exit the game. After leaving the Z4 for 15 minutes, no issues at all.
Last night I managed to play the same game for over 90 minutes, and today for another 90 minutes with no problems at all.
I'm starting to think that it could be performance throttling, alternatively I have noticed the screen getting particularly warm above where the SOC sits. Could this temperature be affecting the screen sensitivity? Using CPU-Z I have found some of the sensors reporting around 70C, battery around 35C, though this is after running intensive games. I'm unsure if the upper temperature is normal for this type of chip or not.
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I have the very same problem:
Tempered glass from IVSO and the original case from Sony.
Since the update the touchscreen is VERY unresponsive.
I removed the case (!) and it got better (seriously, WTF?).
Does it mean to remove the tempered glass will solve the problem?
But it was fine before upgrade to 251. Sony sucks...
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I reset to factory settings, and that may have cleared it up... but I'm not positive.
I'll update this thread when I play with it some more.
Did anyone have success with removing the screen protector?
OK - I can confirm that a factory reset after the upgrade does not solve the problem. My tablet cannot pass the touch screen diagnostic.
2xmanman said:
Does it mean to remove the tempered glass will solve the problem?
But it was fine before upgrade to 251. Sony sucks...
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I removed the case, not the screen protector.
But some issues are left, so i hope for the next FW-Update...
An update:
I reached out to Sony's support group. They suggested downloading the PC companion app and having it reflash the .251. This does a factory reset.
This made the touchscreen response significantly worse.
My next step is to see if they will let me downgrade to the previous release, because the tablet was working flawlessly on that release.
Sony support says you can't downgrade to the previous rom. I found flashtool, but can't find the old rom to flash onto the tablet. Still looking...
Noticed the same thing after the update.. Hoping for a fix soon as it was flawless before the update.
Now simply browsing is annoying because it either misses swipes or registers them as longer swipes, causing the page I'm trying to read to scroll down super fast as if I flicked it when I actually scrolled slowly. :crying:
There is no update coming. Sony does not acknowledge that the problem exists.
Need more people to post on Sony offical forum, tell them this problem.
I'm hoping the .253 version helps this problem. It doesn't appear to be available for anyone yet.
jbresee said:
Sony support says you can't downgrade to the previous rom. I found flashtool, but can't find the old rom to flash onto the tablet. Still looking...
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Here is a complete tutorial about flashing any firmware on your Z4 tablet, even downgrade to an older one.
http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/03/1...peria-lollipop-using-xperifirm-and-flashtool/
I flashed Nordic version of 28.0.A.7.24 firmware and my touchscreen sensitivity is back to normal
If you have any questions about the flashing procedure feel free to ask.
I had this exact problem after updating to 224. Ran the Sony Pc companion program on my windows pc and did a full software restore on my z4. problem solved.
laggist said:
I had this exact problem after updating to 224. Ran the Sony Pc companion program on my windows pc and did a full software restore on my z4. problem solved.
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I'm not sure whether is it because of root or Xposed, but after doing a factory reset, the touchscreen seems a bit more responsive. It is after rooting or installing xposed that the problem comes back up.
riveria said:
I'm not sure whether is it because of root or Xposed, but after doing a factory reset, the touchscreen seems a bit more responsive. It is after rooting or installing xposed that the problem comes back up.
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Ah, I also have intermittent touch problems. Until now I kept thinking it's because my finger is too cold or something, but I have it since upgrading to .224 also. Rooted and running Xposed v.85.1.
jelbo said:
Ah, I also have intermittent touch problems. Until now I kept thinking it's because my finger is too cold or something, but I have it since upgrading to .224 also. Rooted and running Xposed v.85.1.
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Yea, I kinda think it's either because of root or Xposed that's interfering with the touch sensors. But I'm kinda leaning onto to Xposed that's causing the problem.