My diamond 2 got a little scratch on front bottom metal part.i mean below the soft keys.i don't know how but im really depressed now.is there any way i can remove or clean it ?
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My diamond 2 got a little scratch on front bottom metal part.i mean below the soft keys.i don't know how but im really depressed now.is there any way i can remove or clean it ?
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The only Metal I have on my TD2 is on my storage card...hehehe
Under the softkeys is the scroll bar which is part of the digitizer. There is a thread about replacing this, just search on it.
I'm using a gel skin, I find it difficult to press the small x and ok buttons on the top right of the phone without having to peel the skin back just a little to use the buttons. Is it possible to move them to the center or even a little to the left where they are more accessible with one hand instead of using two?
Thanks
teddyofseattle said:
I'm using a gel skin, I find it difficult to press the small x and ok buttons on the top right of the phone without having to peel the skin back just a little to use the buttons. Is it possible to move them to the center or even a little to the left where they are more accessible with one hand instead of using two?
Thanks
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Cant be done. Try 6.5.x roms for more finger-friendly
I totally agree that the X is not accessible with a gel skin. Is there a cab that would allow this? Would someone please make a cab app for this? Thank you!
Thanks for the responwell that kinda blows. I will look into other roms and see what they can do.
much appreciated
Why not use the back hardware key (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen? It has the exact same effect...
MAMeingast said:
Why not use the back hardware key (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen? It has the exact same effect...
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You are correct. Thanks!
is there an app or a tool that I can use to see how "responsive" my screen is? I just want to see if I have the "improperly grounded" issue
wildcard said:
is there an app or a tool that I can use to see how "responsive" my screen is? I just want to see if I have the "improperly grounded" issue
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if you haven't noticed a problem, then there either isn't one, or it doesn't affect you. it's when you go looking for problems that you find them. just leave well enough alone!
Ok, but how do you test? Ive seen apps where u can draw lines and stuff but I can't find anything on the market. What is a good app?
wildcard said:
Ok, but how do you test? Ive seen apps where u can draw lines and stuff but I can't find anything on the market. What is a good app?
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The grounding issue can be seen when you put the phone down on a surface ( non conducive) and try to operate the phone. Mine is most severe on the upper half of the screen, like when sliding the top bar down. Then touch the back cover and try it again.
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The grounding issue can be seen when you put the phone down on a surface ( non conducive) and try to operate the phone. Mine is most severe on the upper half of the screen, like when sliding the top bar down. Then touch the back cover and try it again.
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Yeah, I only know it when I'm trying to slide the notification bar down when it is lying on the couch or something. The rest of the screen is fine.
Putting it down flat and trying to pull the top bar down I would say is the easiest way. I have problems with it
Sent from my EVO 4G suckas!
The app Multitouch Visible Test in the Market will let you see up to 2 touch points on the screen. I use it for everything I test with.
I found out that i have a little bubble at the upper right side of the Home Button....is there anybody with something similar ?
It became quite annoying as i tend to look at it instantly when i use the phone..
Don't look at the screen shield, i removed is just to check then i managed to reinstall it but it's way too far from perfect...
is it under the screen protector or actually under the screen?
Levus said:
I found out that i have a little bubble at the upper right side of the Home Button....is there anybody with something similar ?
It became quite annoying as i tend to look at it instantly when i use the phone..
Don't look at the screen shield, i removed is just to check then i managed to reinstall it but it's way too far from perfect...
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It looks to me as you have a screenprotector applied, look in the bottom right screen corner where its cut. Never seen or heard of bubbles in a glas screen itself
Levus said:
I found out that i have a little bubble at the upper right side of the Home Button....is there anybody with something similar ?
It became quite annoying as i tend to look at it instantly when i use the phone..
Don't look at the screen shield, i removed is just to check then i managed to reinstall it but it's way too far from perfect...
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It looks to me as you have a screenprotector applied, look in the bottom right screen corner where its cut. Never seen or heard of bubbles in a glas screen itself
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For sure screen protector
Hi all. After buying a Kindle (booooo) for somebody for Christmas I remembered the broken NSTG I had in a box for years. It was given to me broken after a hard fall and the screen was kaput with just a lot of horizontal line and the occasional "ghosting" if you pressed the physical buttons. I couldn't really tell if the touch was working because the screen was so bad.
Anyway, I bought a replacement screen which was definitely for a NSTG... but the ribbon for the glow connector was in the wrong place (I bet there's several revisions a noob like me just didn't know about) so I abandoned it.
So just now I've attached this screen anyway and it works great, looks beautiful... but the touch doesn't work. I'm sure I'm not blocking the IR array and everything fits back together nice and tight. I don't see anything on the PCB but does the IR commonly break with a fall?
Assuming I now have a NSTG which is really just an N... is there any future for this little thing? How much can I do with it purely via the USB port? If I could even open a book on it and read using the physical buttons it would be somewhat useful, or I see other people turn these into display screens for messages etc.
Any ideas welcome!
I've never had a NST*G*.
Do you have ADB working?
You can use my diagnostic app Touch-1.0.apk in the sig.
It will show you if anything is responding.
If you have ADB working you could use AdbGrab.exe which will mirror the screen and let you click.
I'm not sure if they ever fixed the screen format problems on the NST/G.
The NST/G sort of had USB host mode, but it's not the easiest thing to get working without touch.
You certainly need either ADB or touch.
I use a Glow3 as a status display. You could do that.
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I've never had a NST*G*.
Do you have ADB working?
You can use my diagnostic app Touch-1.0.apk in the sig.
It will show you if anything is responding.
If you have ADB working you could use AdbGrab.exe which will mirror the screen and let you click.
I'm not sure if they ever fixed the screen format problems on the NST/G.
The NST/G sort of had USB host mode, but it's not the easiest thing to get working without touch.
You certainly need either ADB or touch.
I use a Glow3 as a status display. You could do that.
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Thanks for reply. I've used ADB before for Android phones, is that what you mean? Like I said, if I could get the Nook to page 1 of a book via ADB I'd be very happy because then I could use the physical buttons to change the page.
If the screen mirror app allows control then that would be cool and really resurrect this old thing!
Yes, by ADB, I mean ADB.
It's kind of hard to turn on now if it wasn't on already.
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Thanks for reply. I've used ADB before for Android phones, is that what you mean? Like I said, if I could get the Nook to page 1 of a book via ADB I'd be very happy because then I could use the physical buttons to change the page.
If the screen mirror app allows control then that would be cool and really resurrect this old thing!
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If you root with NookManager (all actions with hardware buttons), you could use the NookTouchModManager apk to assign functions to the hardware buttons (using the adb utility to make the selections). That would give you 10 actions (regular and long press).
Is that enough to read and run the library? Maybe. You'd have to play around.
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I can get the screen to mirror, but there is no response to clicking with the Windows pointer. Maybe not for Android 2.1?
Oh, yeah, "input" didn't get "tap" until later.
Does tab key and enter do it?
Arrows, PgUp/PgDn, Home, Escape, Enter...
F5 refreshes the Windows screen in case a command took too long and you only have an interim screenful.
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Oh, yeah, "input" didn't get "tap" until later.
Does tab key and enter do it?
Arrows, PgUp/PgDn, Home, Escape, Enter...
F5 refreshes the Windows screen in case a command took too long and you only have an interim screenful.
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No, it's pretty funky. "Tab" (with or without anything else) invokes device search. "Home" seems to work. Sort of. Arrow keys crash the program. Not sure about pgup and pgdn. Sort of like tapping on a blank spot on the screen. "Enter", for me, first highlights then eventually opens one of the launcher folders.
So it's pretty random. Touch input on the screen is not reflected on the mirror without F5.
Looks like this would not get user where he would need to go.
Without touch, the device is pretty much cut off from the world except for interaction with the hardware buttons (or, more cumbersome for routine use, ADB). I'm sure someone could come up with a display use that would rely on the buttons for user interaction of some kind, but that would take some programming.
Edit: BTW, Touch-1.0.apk does not run correctly on the NST/G as far as I can tell. There is some screen flashing and then back to the home screen. Logcat is pretty complex (and lengthy). Nothing jumps out at me.
Don't hit the buttons too fast. This is not a robust thing.
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If you root with NookManager
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I'm only reading the instructions in the FAQ but this seems to require some touch selections during the install from SD card.
Edit: OK I've done the backup and root. I can not get screen grabs over to my PC via ADB. But I can't interact with the screen so I can't click anything.
When I was fiddling with the SD card I accidentally selected English from the language menu... but I could not reproduce this with any amount of manipulation. Maybe the IR isn't completely dead at all?
Looks like the end of the line then for this Nook. The thing I really like about it is that it has physical buttons so I don't need to touch what I'm reading. I might go to ebay and buy a second hand one!
Thanks anyway.
Clean the bezel really well. A wet cue tip all around the inside. A dry cue tip to dry. Repeat.
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Clean the bezel really well. A wet cue tip all around the inside. A dry cue tip to dry. Repeat.
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OK I didn't give up just yet. I scrubbed the bezel within an inch of its life but it didn't help. BUT now I've taken off the back and when I pinched the bezel in one particular place the touch is fixed! But only while pinched. The bezel or PCB or something must be warped in some fashion? I notice right behind the "sweet spot" around the power button there are two rubber pads that push into the PCB, maybe they aren't doing their job correctly?
Anyway, now I have a somewhat reproducible way of registering touch I can try to do the FACTORY route and get to the homescreen.
Yes, the bezel position is very tricky.
You can try taking it all apart and using new 4mm double-sided sticky tape.
It will probably end up worse than you started.
If you try, definitely have ADB working already so that you can start Touch-1.0.apk for troubleshooting.
Renate said:
Yes, the bezel position is very tricky.
You can try taking it all apart and using new 4mm double-sided sticky tape.
It will probably end up worse than you started.
If you try, definitely have ADB working already so that you can start Touch-1.0.apk for troubleshooting.
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I have gotten to the point of a book being displayed! Now at least I can use the thing as a reader!
It isn't obvious to me what is the correct spacing to have between the screen and the IR black bezel (bambadam) and I thought I had it really well centred. Maybe not though and could be worth redoing.
I can push that touch app using adb now? Do I do that in RootManager or at any time at all?
Thanks for the help, real signs of life now!
DannySolo said:
I can push that touch app using adb now?
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Yes, just adb install Touch-1.0.apk
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Yes, just adb install Touch-1.0.apk
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I've done that... but where is it? There's no apps in the regular launcher. I see "Home" and "Relaunch" and neither have an app tray.
Maybe I need to do something else.
I dunno. Try this: adb shell am start -n com.temblast.touch/.Touch
This app is super. Why did I think the IR array was just a grid? Anyway I now see the left-right works fine all the time but the up-down has some line that seem permanently on and others that can be activate with the same pinching the bezel trick.
My first guess is there's a block at the top of the screen somewhere and the up-down isn't registering because there's a sensor always on?
Do a screen grab.