I kept having issues with the stock keyboard... I couldn't get punctuation to kick in half the time on long press, and was getting doubled key presses instead. Someone suggested using swiftkey (I hadn't looked at in years!) and that works perfectly for me.
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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 all, clueless wooter here. I've been reading the forum for about a week now in preparation for receiving my Gtab, and I truly have not seen this issue raised anywhere else, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone.
On good advice from users here, I tinkered with the gtab using just its out-of-the-box OS when I first got it. I quickly realized that like everyone else I would be picking up a different ROM due to the gtab's lagginess and lack of features.
So I put in clockwork and tntlite 4.3. Everything worked great, I followed all the steps as laid out here, etc. Only one problem: the Home button on the right side of the tablet does not work at all.
This isn't a huge issue, since the screen-based home button on the left side is perfectly usable. But I'm worried that this lack of functionality might point to a bigger problem, so I thought I would ask about it. The other three buttons on that side all work just fine, and the tablet has no other issues that I have found.
Download the screen calibration app from the apps and themes forum. It may reset it. I have had loss of button functionality and this has fixed it.
Also you couuld look into button remapper and button savior. The combo lets you remap the soft buttons to whatever you want (or just turn them off) and puts a small tab wherever you want that when pressed pops up an icon for the search, home, menu and back buttons.
This let me map the buttons to arrow keys which makes surfing the intertubes way easier and never accidentally hit the home key in the dark when playing with the tab in bed.
Hope that helps
i thought the same thing and even filed for an rma but it works if you go into the apps ie the icon on the screen with lots of sqaures then hit the home button it takes you back out of the app manager.. it is not supposed to take you to your home page.
mbsocol said:
Hello all, clueless wooter here. I've been reading the forum for about a week now in preparation for receiving my Gtab, and I truly have not seen this issue raised anywhere else, so I hope I'm not repeating anyone.
On good advice from users here, I tinkered with the gtab using just its out-of-the-box OS when I first got it. I quickly realized that like everyone else I would be picking up a different ROM due to the gtab's lagginess and lack of features.
So I put in clockwork and tntlite 4.3. Everything worked great, I followed all the steps as laid out here, etc. Only one problem: the Home button on the right side of the tablet does not work at all.
This isn't a huge issue, since the screen-based home button on the left side is perfectly usable. But I'm worried that this lack of functionality might point to a bigger problem, so I thought I would ask about it. The other three buttons on that side all work just fine, and the tablet has no other issues that I have found.
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Home button malfunction was a known bug in TNTL4.3 Fixed in one of the supplements. Scroll down to the changelog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
Until recently I had a phone with no search button. this was frustrating, so I rooted and altered the keypad layout file to change the trackball click (a nice bouns feature on phones, it turns out) to launch the search function. However, there was a problem: occasionally, it wouldn't work. not all the time, just sometimes. I figured maybe it was a side effect of the hack, that maybe the stock rom I had just got confused sometimes thinking there shouldn't be a search available at the time.
But recently, I upgraded to a new phone that does have its own search button, a real one. but once in a while, it won't work. the other face buttons do, just not this one, sometimes. this is both when launching google search fromt hehome screen, and the in-app search function.
and thinking back, my first Android was sometimes like that too, but I just thought it was due to the search "button" being one of those capacitive spots (shudder) that just tend to be naturally less responsive at times.
so, what gives? is this a common thing on some phones, i.e. does the function lag or something? to be clear, on all three phones, I never had problems with the other three buttons.
ok so i have a huge problem...i dont know whats causing it all of a sudden but im on the updated KOA rom and out of no where my keyboard is bugged out, i hit a letter and maybe 1-3 random keys take action....ive tried re flashing, wiping caches, different roms....and still have the same issue...and i think my phone itself is acting up as far as random key presses when im pressing another key....what is this !? and how do i fix
Yeah weird stuff happens with the keyboard sometimes. I'm using switfkey, and it only ever bugs out in the browser search bar.
I dont know what is causing it, but I cannot seem to type work a crap since the OTA. Not sure if they changed the layout just a hair, if they changed the sensitivity, the hotspots for each key or what but its annoying.
I seem be having a lot of trouble with the spacebar and hitting "b" and "n" way too much instead!
Don't know how to explain this but so bear with me.
If i go to type a text message. the keyboard takes a while to recognise im typing so my message will miss the first few letters.
anyone else have this problem?
I had a kinda problem with my keyboard a few weeks back. I would be typing and it didnt matter what keys i tapped it would show random letters on screen but would type perfectly fine in landscape mode.
To start with i just installed swift key keyboard and everything was fine.
But after that i reflashed the same firmware back onto my phone and now my stock samsung keyboard works perfectly.
Hooe this helps.
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