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Am i the only one with this touch screen problem ?

Sometimes the touch screen is WAY off and only restart is fixing it. Noticed this 2 times already.....

I've noticed this too. I was using the browser, and my screen presses were registering as all sorts of random things (like pressing the middle of the screen would press the zoom button). Restarting the browser seemed to fix it.

Add it to the nexus one issue list.

Postal76 said:
I've noticed this too. I was using the browser, and my screen presses were registering as all sorts of random things (like pressing the middle of the screen would press the zoom button). Restarting the browser seemed to fix it.
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that's from a lack of multitouch. your hand is probably just barely touching the lower corner of the glass. when you press again in the middle, it registers on the softkeys. it is one of the things I *HATE* about this phone. I always seem to be touching the screen on the very edge. you almost cant use it with just one hand.

I find that I do that with my HTC Magic sometimes as well, the 'webbing' between my thumb and index finger sometimes touches the corner of the screen and brings up the 'app menu' in my left hand, or the 'add widget' menu in my right hand (sense ui). Just another general thing about touch screens and their placement

the four touch buttons arent that accurate. didnt have this problem on the droid. i rarely miss it there but on the nexus is becoming 50/50 chance of it not registering.

Lol how are you guys holding the phone, i always use it one handed and havent expirienced this, i guess everyones different.

bradsh1 said:
that's from a lack of multitouch. your hand is probably just barely touching the lower corner of the glass. when you press again in the middle, it registers on the softkeys. it is one of the things I *HATE* about this phone. I always seem to be touching the screen on the very edge. you almost cant use it with just one hand.
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This not necessarily a problem with this phone in particular. It is a phenonema that happens on all capacitive touch screens (that do not have multitouch). I work with them all the time (much larger scale) and the slightest touch on a border results in what appear to be calibration issues.
Multi touch takes into account for this, non multitouch does not.

This has happened to me also. Same exact thing, in the browser, the touch was way off, really way off. I was pressing the middle and the zoom button pressed. It was on the table so I know my other hand didn't touch it. It was also vibrating sometimes when I pressed the middle of it. Restarting seems to have fixed it for now.

happened to me in SMS and browser and the only fix was restart the phone.....so its not me accidentally touching the screen in another point.
ps. its so bad that i couldnt even use touch screen to power off the phone. i had to use track ball. (now i know why its there )

I've had this problem as well as other with touch screen. Sometimes I will hit an icon on the main screen and it will jump screens. When I'm in the menu's i hit one of the options and it goes to the one underneath it. I'm CLEARLY hitting the option I want and not the one below so it is infact a hardware problem in my case. I will be in the browser and hit a button and it will exit out of the browser, very annoying! Mine is unlocked but I wrote HTC so lets see what they say.

its a known prob with this phone, ppl are complaining all over Google forum, its very annoying, when it happens it doesn't just happen in the browser, also in text message n home screen ect...

jamesyb0i said:
I find that I do that with my HTC Magic sometimes as well, the 'webbing' between my thumb and index finger sometimes touches the corner of the screen and brings up the 'app menu' in my left hand, or the 'add widget' menu in my right hand (sense ui). Just another general thing about touch screens and their placement
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Webbed fingers are gross.

I have now experienced this definitively once. It happened while using the dolphin browser. I wiped the screen off, set it on a table, poked with only one finger, and could not for the life of me get the software keyboard to click on the correct button. Just wouldn't happen. Had to restart the phone to fix it. But it's only happened once since I got the thing on launch day.

^ same thing for me. Does the OTA fix this, I have not received it yet. Wish I saw this before I created a thread, sorry.

s15274n said:
^ same thing for me. Does the OTA fix this, I have not received it yet. Wish I saw this before I created a thread, sorry.
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i dunno, but touches (especially multitouch) seems ALOT more responsive and accurate than before i did the new update... i used dolphin prior and pinch zooming seemed jittery and like the phone didnt want me to do it... now everything seems smooth as butter!
obviously this is only short term though, but hopefully this fix will also address some of the calibration issues (that i also experienced) that the N1 has been known to have...

Possible orientation issues after 2.2?

Sometimes, and I notice it mostly after unlocking it, the screen orientation is off (I'll be holding it "in portrait", but the screen is in landscape mode). Instead of switching immediately to portrait, or even after a couple seconds, I have to hold it in landscape then back to portrait for it to switch.
I only started noticing it after installing 2.2 last week, and it doesn't happen all the time. Has anyone else seen this behavior? I haven't calibrated the compass since 2.2, and after 2 minutes of rotating the phone around on 2.1, on at least two different occasions, I said screw it and stopped (before the calibration finished). Could that by why?

Also, maybe it's the launcher (ADW), but sometimes click-holding a widget/app shortcut on one of the screens is "wonky". Sometime I can click-hold it and the phone will vibrate and I can drag it to the trash or move it around no problem. But then sometimes it just won't activate. I just tried to delete a widget around 20 times. I click-held for anywhere from 1-3 seconds, and no vibrate. However, after I let go, it activated the program. WTF? Eventually it worked, but it really shouldn't take that many attempts.

Same issue. I have LP+. I disabled auto-rotation in settings\display as a temporary fix.
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I have the same issue after unlock too. I've noticed that I have to hold it in portrait for a few seconds and tap the top to get it rotated. Quite annoying since it happens all day long. You're right, this didn't happen before froyo.
Anyone have skills with re-mapping buttons? I would love a dedicated button to rotate screen. I wouldn't mind the camera button remapped for that. Full Press=Rotates screen/Half Press=Locks screen in that rotation.

thats odd im on rooted 2.2 and dont have that problem with adw installed on it. it could be the accelerometer. i notice it other times not after unlock. usually i do have to wait a second and tapping it does help which leads me to belive its the accelerometer. however if this is a really big issue for alot of people then a button to auto rotate the screen would be very helpful.

Did anyone try calibrating their compass after moving to 2.2 and see if that fixes the screen orientation issues?

Sapo, I have. After doing that it wasn't happening for a little while (maybe a day or so), but it's back now for the last week, and it's happening more often. And I tried what someone else suggested, tapping on the top of my phone with a finger, and that flips it around to normal every time.

happens a lot with mine too, unrooted, still running moto blur...several apps open that way, email, messaging....not always though, so it's a bit puzzling.

I would try using the Stock Blur Home to see if its just ADW

see the post above yours

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I would try using the Stock Blur Home to see if its just ADW
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see the post above yours

screen shakes/moves around on its own

howdy from texas guys,
I'm on cm7 build 26 but this has happened on miui builds too... every so often, and it happens quite a bit, ill be browsing online and the screen shakes and moves around randomly. This makes it impossible to read forums since it's so shaky. Closing out the browser doesn't help. I think the screen is super sensitive whenever it gets like this because I can press buttons on screen without touching the screen simply by hovering my finger over the button. I find that the only thing that alleviates it is to lock the screen and unlock again.. but even that is temporary at times.
So, any thoughts on the problem? I also have the otterbox case on if that matters.
Thanks

It's probably just a cm7 bug. Just flash the next nightly and see.
Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"

deliriousDroid said:
It's probably just a cm7 bug. Just flash the next nightly and see.
Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"
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he already said he also had the problem on MIUI...... so its obviously not cm7 causing the problem. But, back to your question. you say that you can press buttons without pressing the screen? well, thats freakin impossible because the screens can ONLY react to he touch of a human, something with heat or something like that. if its occuring on both roms i would say its your G2. I have never experienced this problem on my G2 tho...

Kevin001111 said:
he already said he also had the problem on MIUI...... so its obviously not cm7 causing the problem. But, back to your question. you say that you can press buttons without pressing the screen? well, thats freakin impossible because the screens can ONLY react to he touch of a human, something with heat or something like that. if its occuring on both roms i would say its your G2. I have never experienced this problem on my G2 tho...
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Oops, skipped right over that. I was just thinking over to the cm7 nightly thread, just recently they were discussing something that sounds very similar.
Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"

Kevin001111 said:
you say that you can press buttons without pressing the screen? well, thats freakin impossible because the screens can ONLY react to he touch of a human, something with heat or something like that.
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i assure you it's possible. all i have to do is make a motion like im pressing the button on screen but stop before i actually touch the screen and it will activate/press the button without me touching the screen. this doesnt happen as often... the shaking screen happens quite a bit and the no-touch button pressing happens only when the screen goes out of control but doesnt always occur.

mikeatron said:
i assure you it's possible. all i have to do is make a motion like im pressing the button on screen but stop before i actually touch the screen and it will activate/press the button without me touching the screen. this doesnt happen as often... the shaking screen happens quite a bit and the no-touch button pressing happens only when the screen goes out of control but doesnt always occur.
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The force is strong in this one. Hmmm?
Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"

Completely disable button backlights?

Hey guys,
I've searched but I can't find an answer. I'm using an Incredible S ROM on my HD2 at the moment that leaves the hardware keys constantly on when the screen is on - I don't like this, and don't ever need the backlight for the keys as I know where they are now. Is there any way I can disable this totally?
Thanks,
Zuka

Bumpity bump

zukа said:
Hey guys,
I've searched but I can't find an answer. I'm using an Incredible S ROM on my HD2 at the moment that leaves the hardware keys constantly on when the screen is on - I don't like this, and don't ever need the backlight for the keys as I know where they are now. Is there any way I can disable this totally?
Thanks,
Zuka
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Hey,
if your build is using the same init script as rafdroid you can try this:
create a file called "config.txt" on the root of your sdcard copy/type this line: auto_btn_backlight=0 - then reboot.
this is also worked with dandiest builds, so Might work for you.

Hi, thanks for your reply
I'm not running one of Raf's or Dandiest's ROMs, mine doesn't have an init script so this won't work. Is there any other way? Seeing as those ROMs have different button backlight drivers I'm assuming there has to be a way to control their on/off states

I'm not trying to be annoying by bumping, but this keeps falling off the radar and I'm sure there's a way to do this, if anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be awesome

zukа said:
I'm not trying to be annoying by bumping, but this keeps falling off the radar and I'm sure there's a way to do this, if anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be awesome
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Sound like an unstable ROM. My only advice is to try a different one. If you like pure android you can try tytung's ROM. It's the best, just follow my sig.

...what?
Why does my ROM sound unstable? The button backlights aren't actually causing a problem, I just don't need them. Ever. I'm looking for a way to disable them, but I like (love) my ROM after months of searching

zukа said:
Hi, thanks for your reply
I'm not running one of Raf's or Dandiest's ROMs, mine doesn't have an init script so this won't work. Is there any other way? Seeing as those ROMs have different button backlight drivers I'm assuming there has to be a way to control their on/off states
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Hey
guessed u didnt have a rom from raf or dandi, they havent released an Incredible S build yet.
mind telling us which Incredible S you have or is it a secret
& you are right, it has nothing to do with stability, its the newer light drivers, this was implemented to fix the led notifications, not sure if you can change this (always on) behavior without going back to the old drivers.
p.s. how do you know your build doesnt have an init script, have you tried the config.txt?

Hey mate,
I'm using Korand's stripped down Incredible S build - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019489
The reason I'm assuming it doesn't have an init script is because, apart from the battery percentage icon, I think everything else is stock, judging from Korand's first psot. It's hard to tell because there's not much support for the ROM
I wouldn't mind going back to the old light drivers though, or just rendering both the notification LEDs and button backlights inoperable. Don't use either really

bumpity bumpity yeah

zukа said:
Hey guys,
I've searched but I can't find an answer. I'm using an Incredible S ROM on my HD2 at the moment that leaves the hardware keys constantly on when the screen is on - I don't like this, and don't ever need the backlight for the keys as I know where they are now. Is there any way I can disable this totally?
Thanks,
Zuka
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Theres an app in android market for that...its called "ADJ Brightness" which basically allows yoy to adjust and lock the screen brightness. It can be set to extremely low (much lower than android lowest setting...or extremely high, again higher than android default max
But if you hit menu then chose "options" there near the bottom you will see the option to Lock the button lights OFF...works a treat and saves me a lot of battery jiuce. Also in this options menu you can chose to have the little charging led either On or Off...I find this used in conjunction with "button saviour" and another app that allows me to wake the phone with the volume rocker means i dont need to use the H/W keys at all
Dont know if this is what your after but hopefully it may help.

Thanks Con, I installed the app
It does let me control the hardware buttons, allows me to turn them off, but whenever I press them they just come back on again, despite checking "always off" in the settings
But at least this shows that they can be controlled, even on an HD2
any other ideas?

Ah, sorry zuka, i have only just noticed this as well...yes it seems the backlight does reactivate when i again use the buttons. However i am using Rafdroid 4.2 rom which allows the backlight to off after 10 seconds. So i guess your issue does lie within your rom
I no longer use the hardware buttons (or very rarely) instead i opt to use the onscreen replacments within button savior, Which is why i didnt notice that the backlight does re-activate when the buttons are used...this seems to overide the adj.bright app. But like i say my light is only on for 10 secs or not at all using adj & BS.
Sorry dude am at a loss as to how you could fix this as it does sound frustrating

Nah, thanks for your reply anyway. It's not like this is a horrible bug, it's just annoying because I don't want the hardware buttons at all, I know that they can be controlled but I just can't figure out how to keep the damn things off...
if anybody has any other ideas, I'd welcome them. at this point I'm stumped

Has anybody been thinking about this for a while and has a solution?

Hey
ADJ Brightness should do the work for you
just play with the setting( Menu-option)
lock screen brightness, so it stays off.
good luck
tried this app a while a go and it solved this problem.

Screen goes black when keyboard opens

Hi,
My DZ is clearly defective. It first happened on CM7 and this is stock rom. Check it out for yourself. Whenever the keyboard it pulled out, the screen fades to black. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm posting this as I see a lot of screen problem threads and wondering if maybe this is a new one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAohfyfuso

I beleive the cable has been damaged. Im talking about the one under ur screen, when you slowly slide out the keyboard
Sent from my Desire Z

Did you manage to find out why it's happening? It started to happen to me as well. It doesn't seem to be a software issue since I tried different ROMs (CM7, MIUI, G-Lite) and same thing happened. I did notice later on that if I tried to open the keyboard slowly, the screen would unlock and turn on just fine. If I slide the keyboard fast like I usually do, the phone unlocks, the soft buttons and the keyboard light up, but the screen stays black.

thatmarksguy said:
Did you manage to find out why it's happening? It started to happen to me as well. It doesn't seem to be a software issue since I tried different ROMs (CM7, MIUI, G-Lite) and same thing happened. I did notice later on that if I tried to open the keyboard slowly, the screen would unlock and turn on just fine. If I slide the keyboard fast like I usually do, the phone unlocks, the soft buttons and the keyboard light up, but the screen stays black.
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I had very similar behavior on mine and it was the ribbon cable, I can't really think of another thing that would cause that
Sent from my Bulletproof G2