I recently got a 2nd gen 360 for the first time and love it. However, I have noticed an interesting issue that i have been able to replicate but not find any other information on. When the watch is cool like just sitting on the table, everything works fine; but when the watch is worn and comes up to body temp after an hour or so, the top half of the screen stops registering, and after wearing the watch for a few hours, it starts to ghost touch in the "dead area". I turned on the dev options so I can see the touches and map out the pointer location to prove this. Factory resetting doesn't help and everything is completely up to date so it definitely appears to be a hardware issue? Has anyone else seen this or have any input on it?
Motorola agreed this was something outside of my control and sent me a replacement. Still curious if anyone has any ideas or theories.
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Am I the only one experiencing an overly sensitive Sense UI? Perhaps I'm missing a setting. I have looked all through /etc and can't find any way to adjust the sensitivity.
Anyone have a solution?
Touchscreen Spaz-out
I will say: occasionally my touch screen will just go bat-**** crazy, registering even the slightest movements as "clicks". The phone is completely unusable; god help you should you be in the lock screen.
Now, after observing this for a couple of days I have a hare-brained theory: it's related to how hot the device is. I've noticed that it happens after extended periods of use, or when it's plugged into the wall charger. Just unplugging it grants a short reprieve, and a refractory "cool down" period generally fixes it. Also it'll work sorta if you press down on the screen like you're trying to kill your phone.
Can anyone else confirm this?
I was getting a lot of the jitteryness and screen lockups before I loaded MR2, everything seems pretty fine now. I had more problems with my wife's myTouch than the eris for once last week.
I do not have any issues like this (I do have all the updates though)
-Chr1831
My nook tablet was opening apps like Facebook and google search and typing unusual letters in the search and status boxes. Anyone seen anything like this? It honestly seemed like the device was being controlled remotely. I wasn't even touching the device and it was trying to type letters. My device has been rooted for about two weeks. I've not seen anything like this until tonight.
What was your battery charge? There are reports of the touchscreen acting weird when the battery is low.
yea, sounds more like a glitch in the touch screen. this happened on my phone. I would warranty it. Make sure you unroot first
It sounds like a defective unit... I have a Droid X that does the same thing; started happening about a month or two out of warranty. I've factory reset / SBF'd it a million times and it still happens, rooted or not.
For me, it seems to happen more frequently when the screen is dirty (but also happens when perfectly clean), and especially bad if I am wearing clothing that generates static electricity (fleece and other synthetics). Makes me wonder if the screen isn't grounded properly.. the phone has a lot more flex in the chasis than it should and sometimes flexing it in just the right way will make the problem stop.
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Thanks much for the replies. The battery was very low and I was sitting in a chair that could generate static electricity. Also noticed little bits of dog hair caught between the case and the screen. Not sure I'm going to return the unit just yet. It could have been a fluke. The only time I've seen a machine act like that is when someone controls a server at work remotely. It was really strange and seemed like a program was attempting to type on its own.
One other caveat is that I had installed Aurora on the tablet earlier in the night. It's a browser by Mozilla in development. It was running really sweet so I don't think that had anything to do with it. I did notice that the tablet was locking up on a couple pages and really sluggish for a bit while using the default browser. It then responded fine until the ghost took over.
One other question if anyone is still listening: if this happened to you did the keyboard come up? It didn't appear when the letters were being typed in my case.
I was thinking a cover and possibly a shield may be in order. I've got a year, so it if happens again even one time I'm going to return the unit- after unrooting of course.
My Nook Color will do this as well when it has been zapped by static electricity and when there are a bunch of finger prints all over the screen (usually when the finger oil gets built up around the edges of the screen it starts).
A good wipe down with a microfiber cloth (with the screen off) fixes it for me. Granted this is Nook Color and not my Nook Touch we're talking about, but I figure the behavior could be similar.
Good luck!
Merrell
Weird, I could swear there was a thread about this, but now I can't find it for the life of me.
Anyway, it's a known issue- no need to panic and return the NT.
When the battery gets critically low, sometimes the NT will seem to have a mind of it's own and everything you describe starts happening. Apps open themselves, random text types itself, touchscreen completely unresponsive, etc.
I've seen exactly the same thing, and also at first wondered if it was a remote hack. Then I noticed the pattern that it's only during extreme power lows.
Just recharge to at least a minimal level and there's no problem.
zaptoons said:
Weird, I could swear there was a thread about this, but now I can't find it for the life of me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1431091
Ah. I knew I posted there, but thread is strangely missing from my 'find all posts..' results.
macrossmerrell said:
My Nook Color will do this as well when it has been zapped by static electricity and when there are a bunch of finger prints all over the screen (usually when the finger oil gets built up around the edges of the screen it starts).
A good wipe down with a microfiber cloth (with the screen off) fixes it for me. Granted this is Nook Color and not my Nook Touch we're talking about, but I figure the behavior could be similar.
Good luck!
Merrell
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Same thing happens to me but I only switch the screen off and on and then it goes away.
As has been mentioned, charge it, clean the screen, wash your hands. This should take care of the "autogibberish". As far as opening software... do you mean that it is opening foreground applications? Or that software will just load in the background? If the latter, this is NORMAL behavior of Android -- it will load software into memory so that it is instantly available when you try to run the software. If the former, probably related to the dirty screen.
I do NOT believe that this is a hardware defect. It rather is a side-effect of a LARGE touch surface. The bigger the touch surface, the more likely it is to be subject to random static charges.
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Today something strange started happeneing. When the pen is a short distance from the screen, the flyer starts to pick up the pen's movements.
Yesterday I was using it and this was not happening. I didn't update anything overnight so this has me a bit baffled.
Last week I added a screen protector but the pen has been working without issue since. Well until today. This on the official HC ROM.
Any thoughts?
Battery may be getting weak.
I'd check the batteries.
how long has it been used?
i had taken it off the battery probably 2 hours earlier.
anyway i switched it off for some time (30 or so minutes) and since then it has stopped the behaviour. strange.
milomak said:
i had taken it off the battery probably 2 hours earlier.
anyway i switched it off for some time (30 or so minutes) and since then it has stopped the behaviour. strange.
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Check the scribes batteries....
I had similar issues and replacing the battery did not help.
I ended up opening the entire pen mechanisim, (un screwing the front and back portions) and cleand all the electrodes,
The pe is working well again.
This happened to me. I took out the battery, and then screwed the back on as tight as I could, and it worked properly again.
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Does your tablet pickup strong frequency?
My flyer also show strange behavior yesterday on one particular place.
My pen is battery off but most of the time tablet pickup all finger touch as pen touch, take screen shot and cannot navigate with finger touch. Reboot didn't make any changes.
After 20 minute tablet become back normal function. I suspect on place that happen. Probably tablet pickup some frequency and though as pen is nearby and reply every touch as pen touch.
I cannot verify since cannot go back to that place.
I have this problem all the time in class, I think I figured out how to fix it and avoid the problem.
To fix it: Remove the battery and wait about 10 seconds.
To avoid it: I have a nasty habit of playing with the two input buttons. I think that if you press both buttons together at the same time or even possibly some odd combination, it causes the board to crash and thus you get the behavior described.
Hallo,
I had the problem too, but getting out of the battery doesn't help. The other day suddenly it works again (and i set my Flyer off and on without success the day before).
I have no explanation for this behaviour. I know for sure I didn't press both keys.
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I have a HTC Jetstream and faced similar problem. But faced the problem only after wiping the screen. May be too much static which caused the pen's scribe field to be amplified creating this strange phenomenon. When I swept my hand across the screen and tried or after a while of use-like 15min or so, the problem self resolved.
Sent from my HTC PG09410 using XDA
If the buttons are facing up the problem goes away
Having a problem with ALL keyboards (swift, flext9, stock) when tying to type letters on the bottom row (z,x,c,v,b n,m). When trying to input these letters the phone will input the letters directly above. I've read it can be a software or hardware issue. I have pulled the battery, wiped cache, wiped dalvik cache, and ran a superwipe. I was going to try and clear data for the stock keyboard (htc_ime) but cannot find it under Application-Manage application-All. I also tried looking under Application-Manage application-Running; what I found was Touch Input but no options to clear anything. Where is the htc_ime found?
I also noticed when in the dialer that I cannot input *, 0, #. Instead when I press these keys it will input 7, 8, 9, the keys directly above.
I am slowly beginning to believe this is hardware related, but what is weird is that yesterday after wiping cache/dalvik the keyboard worked normally. However, after some time passed, it reverted back to having issues again.
Is there anything else I can try? Could it be possible that the ribbon for the digitizer is loose rather than the digitizer just failing?
Maybe something you did mest up your Calibration you can check by going to.
"Settings ---> Language&Keyboard ---> Touch Input ---> Text Input ---> Calibration tool."
And see if that fixes your problem.
Seems to be known HTC problem for years and they haven't fixed it.
install a free app called 'Draw' from the Play store. When you open it the screen turns black and then slide your finger around and it will leave a line. This will show you if all areas of the digitizer are working. Press your options button to get the menu.
On mine Evo3d the problem started with it randomly starting to start programs or even make a few calls. I now figure that is from the digitizer acting up and behaving as if there was touches in the problem area which happens to cover the stripe of screen about from 1 to 2cm up from the bottom. 0 to 1cm is ok, then 1 to 2cm is bad, then the rest of the screen is ok. What has happened over time is that section of screen no longer seems to trigger phantom touch behavior but it does not register horizontal movement. On the Draw program vertical lines draw fine, horizontal ones leave nothing. Lines drawn at an angle skip and leave vertical lines across the defective area. Unlocking the phone with the Sense ring became almost impossible and I missed numerous calls. Even now that I switched to the slider unlock it is almost all in the bad zone and I have occasional problems getting the phone unlocked.
References are phone held vertical.
The problem originally happened on the stock rom, rooted. I figured it was a software thing so wiped the phone and took the opportunity to install LeeDroid. The problem still exists.
Using the calibration tool or any of several other suggestions does nothing.
Oddly touching keys works for typing and even SlideIT keyboard works though the line it leaves jumps around like crazy. I can't play some games that require that area of the screen. On programs that allow rotating I can usually get it to work as this moves the problem to a different area.
I really don't like friends with iPhones and other brands laughing at my phone.
I started searching Google and there are a LOT of other complaints going back several years and on numerous models, but no real solution. I am disappointed that the response from HTC seems to be that failures are within what they consider acceptable because the solution seems to be return the phone as it is a hardware failure though they do not admit to it. Some people report having the problem within a week on a phone that they left completely stock to see if it really was a user software thing. Some have had the replacement phones quit within a short time as well which makes you wonder if they even replace the digitizer when they recondition them. The actual complaint probably never makes it to the tech so if it works good for 10 seconds out it goes.
I am not very happy with the 'return it' solution since I have a $25 Zagg protector on the screen I will lose and it takes time to set up a new phone, and from the sounds of things the replacement isn't a guaranteed fix. Finding out that it is a known quality control issue that is still present after numerous years has soured me on HTC. If it was a rare occurrence I could understand but not when I read so many reports.
My last flip phone was indestructible and from Samsung. After all the hassles with crappy charge connectors and keyboard contacts from dust at work on a Motorola flip it was a true pleasure. I intend my next phone will be Samsung.
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@mugsaway
when you need to type those keys in the dialer try turning your phone sideways as the dialer should rotate.
Can someone give me any ideas why my tablets doing this?
Lately it seems that when I try to touch the screen to start an app or select a menu item or basically touch anywhere on the screen
it seems to activate in 2 spots like I'm touching the screen in 2 locations.
Anyone got an idea of what could cause this?
I was wondering if extra capacitance can cause it from being in the keyboard case I got for it or being warm although it doesn't feel that warm to me even though I have it on almost constantly and the ac adapter always connected.
I'm stumped and can't seem to find anything with Google that's like this problem.
Please help.