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About the common screen bug: Start Menu popup when thumb tapping

Hi,
lot of users had reported the Screen Bug:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_1BAiU_7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNv8FMy_mVU
This bug will popup your starmenu when:
- you are using "huge" thumb while tapping the display (xt9 sms writing for example)
- cpu is overheating (because it's near the diplay area)
I'm working to solve this issue via software.
Project moved to my website:
http://www.xiaprojects.com/?section...ols&action=HTC Trinity - P3600 Screen Bug Fix
Changelog:
0.0.10 Bugfix, now work on all WM6.1 themes and also new "Transparent" feature make it invisible! a good starting point to put TopBar by default in P3600 roms
thank you!

Sounds great! I have this problem so I would be keen to find a solution. Good luck and thanks in advance!

Exellent project.
Im testing now

Great program.
Since i've installed it, i have not been able to provoke the star menu poping up. Usually I could provoke it by randomly tapping the today screen, but not anymore...
This has been the most annoying bugs of the telephone, and i'm very happy that it seems to be fixed...
Thank you so very very much...
BeeBo

10x a lot stefanux ) i've started the TopBar program and tried it , wrote down a couple of e-mails and sms'es, and the start menu did not pop out even once , thank you again for your work

hmm.. i thought its a hardware issue? i used to have start menu problem.. sent in for screen replacement.. now my camera pops up from time to time ha..

ha! All this time I was wondering why my battery status kept popping up at random.. I never thought it was a screen problem. Maybe on my next disassembly I can sand down the bezel or something.

Stefano,
I am wandering if this program need to be place in the startup folder so that it will get started ? (please forgive me if you think this is a silly question).
Thanks for the great problem.

stefanux .... Thank you !!! although your intention was to let us capture the false pressure coordinate and feedback to you, somehow after running your little proggy, like the others i was not able to reproduce the start menu problem anymore. fyi, i did manage to reproduce the problem right before i start your little proggy.
will report again if the problem comes back after a soft reset Hopefully, this would make this most annoying problem go away.
again, thanks !

perfect
Hi,
good work, it just perfect for me, finally got rid of this only unbelievble bug.
thnks.

grate work

Excellent Tool! Thanks for posting it. Is there a way to prevent you from running it multiple times. Since you don't see anything on screen you are tempted to keep clicking on it - since your not sure its running. Maybe the second time you click it can popup saying its already running. But otherwise this thing rocks.

miata said:
stefanux .... Thank you !!! although your intention was to let us capture the false pressure coordinate and feedback to you, somehow after running your little proggy, like the others i was not able to reproduce the start menu problem anymore. fyi, i did manage to reproduce the problem right before i start your little proggy.
will report again if the problem comes back after a soft reset Hopefully, this would make this most annoying problem go away.
again, thanks !
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hi again, finally i manage to reproduce the start menu drop popup thingy. somehow, its harder to reproduce when your program is active.
However, manage to capture the coordinate of the fake pressure, 4 out of 4 time 0:0.
Hopefully this helps

omg, if this works..it will solve one of the biggest headaches (unfortunately, not all) i have with this phone!!!
Edit: Running this app and randomly touching the screen still results in the start menu popping up. I've noticed someone saying it works after a while. Does that mean this app takes some time before it can adapt to the pressures being applied at the start menu? Also, what is TopBar-diags.zip for?

Good !!!
miata said:
hi again, finally i manage to reproduce the start menu drop popup thingy. somehow, its harder to reproduce when your program is active.
However, manage to capture the coordinate of the fake pressure, 4 out of 4 time 0:0.
Hopefully this helps
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I'm searching for this!
later I will relase 0.0.3 thank you!

TotalNub said:
omg, if this works..it will solve one of the biggest headaches (unfortunately, not all) i have with this phone!!!
Edit: Running this app and randomly touching the screen still results in the start menu popping up. I've noticed someone saying it works after a while. Does that mean this app takes some time before it can adapt to the pressures being applied at the start menu? Also, what is TopBar-diags.zip for?
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Try 0.0.3 when ready, diags may help to find which coords are "fake"

I'm using the diag version. Oddly enough, even when the start menu pops up, the box where it displays the coords is still labeled with "Start!".

TotalNub said:
I'm using the diag version. Oddly enough, even when the start menu pops up, the box where it displays the coords is still labeled with "Start!".
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try 0.0.3 and test if it fix the start menu....

hi stefano
just a minor feature request is it possible to fix the big for landscape screen orientation as well?

i notice another prob.. usually i ignore my alarm (default wm alarm) on my trin, but when i woke up in the morning, i can see the notification blinking between calendar & notification.. i'm annoyed with that problem.. is it normal?... can someone point me how fix that?..

[BUG] DCv2.05: Pressing menu twice to unlock screen pops up menu on homescreen

Has anyone found a fix for this yet? Only issue I've found thus far with the ROM. Otherwise, it's great!

Doesnt do that for me...

It does for me on the newest Fresh ROM. Doesn't really bother me being that I rarely unlock the screen that way. If I had someway to disable that method of unlocking alltogether, that would be better IMO.

Xerxes321 said:
Has anyone found a fix for this yet? Only issue I've found thus far with the ROM. Otherwise, it's great!
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only does it when using sense for me but i switched to launcher any way

ABNinja said:
only does it when using sense for me but i switched to launcher any way
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Yeah. I only use SenseUI, so that's what it must be...

hmmmm, still doesnt do it for me.... oh well.

Xerxes321 said:
Yeah. I only use SenseUI, so that's what it must be...
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I think it is a result of using the HTC Lockscreen rather than the stock Android one.

This happens on the Fresh 2.0d and DC2.05
It is driving me NUTS!
Any idea how to fix this?

Installing Espresso or DROID launcher from this thread will fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657728

have you tried pressing menu once?

I'm almost positive that this has always been a feature of the HTC lock screen even in 1.5
If you don't fully slide the lock screen a message will appear stating either fully slide down the screen or press menu

rljetsetradio said:
have you tried pressing menu once?
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Just brings up the lock screen.

doojer said:
Installing Espresso or DROID launcher from this thread will fix it:
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That's hardly a "fix". That's like saying you can fix the low tire on your Porsche by buying a Yugo....

I would pay cash money for a ROM that got rid of the double menu press to unlock.

subliminalurge said:
That's hardly a "fix". That's like saying you can fix the low tire on your Porsche by buying a Yugo....
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I would say the issue is hardly a "bug".
But, if you want it fixed, I've given you an option. I don't know if I'd compare installing the espresso launchbar or DROID launchbar to downgrading from a Porsche to a Yugo.... but, if you were really interested in fixing the issue without using espresso or DROID, you could install one of those launchers and then reinstall the stock launcher and see if the problem stays away.
Or, you could wait until someone else figures it out for you....
All I know is that I am running DamageControl v2.05 and no longer have the menu pop-up issue.

Droid launcher does resolve that issue. I have come to like the style of it for now until the next version of this rom comes out. This is an issue with flipz rom as well. The Droid launcher works good on each rom.

Just to everyone is clear, the problem is new with the recent roms DC and Fresh.
Pressing menu once brings up the lockscreen, pressing menu again unlocks the screen AND brings up the white menu popoup. It should only unlock the screen and not open the menu.
I have installed the black droid launcher onto fresh and I no longer have the problem.

yea i have teh same problem, and its annoying as hell as thats usually the way im used to unlocking my phone, and what they mean is, click home once to wake up phone, click again to unlock and it also brings up the home menu, it never did it on any other rom. its annoying

Bielinsk said:
Just to everyone is clear, the problem is new with the recent roms DC and Fresh.
Pressing menu once brings up the lockscreen, pressing menu again unlocks the screen AND brings up the white menu popoup. It should only unlock the screen and not open the menu.
I have installed the black droid launcher onto fresh and I no longer have the problem.
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Just to be clearer. This was a built-in function from 1.5, its on page 10 of the Sprint manual. HTC considers this to be a feature, not a bug.

dcdave63 said:
Just to be clearer. This was a built-in function from 1.5, its on page 10 of the Sprint manual. HTC considers this to be a feature, not a bug.
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Incorrect. On stock 1.5, from the lock screen, you could press menu to unlock instead of swipe. Now, if you press menu from the lock screen, it will unlock AND pull up the menu.
Regardless of whether this is a feature or a bug, it was not like this in stock 1.5.

Physical Keyboard

So I'm running the Mikshifted G rom v1.1 and the only problem I have is that when I try to use the physical keyboard random apps will pop up. For instance, I'll press the 'e' key and a browser pops up or something. I guess it's mapped to some quick key or rather, I don't really know. It also seems to decide when to do this. So is there a setting anywhere or a way to just make it stop? I find it a nuisance as I don't really need some kind of quick key setting thingamajig.

You should ask this in that thread so they can answer you a little quicker. But I would try rebooting first then if that didn't work boot into recovery and wipe the dalvik cache.
Sent from my PG06100

Try hitting the magnifing glass button on the bottom row. I had this issue pop up randomly too when I had some other keyboards installed, or when id hit it by accident, used to kill me, now I know how to fix it
Sent from my Evo Shift running CM7

You might have some settings left over from your previous setup, if you didn't do a full wipe. You can go to menu-settings-applications-quick launch, and see if there are any shortcuts setup. What they are and clear or change them. Next time try askin in the thread for a quicker response.

Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate the info. And I'll make sure to post any future questions in the appropriate threads.

No big. Just trying to make it so you get help resolving your issue quicker.

I had the same problem.. I called sprint and they didn't know so the only way I could fix it is thaking the baterry out
Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk

Extreme alpha lulz v3 impressions: place to post your thoughts

So I've been using the ICS alpha lulz v3for a few days. I'm here to report that so far its mostly very good. Its fairly quick, nor as fsst as miui or cm7 but very good. One thing ive noticed is that ocasionally at the lockscreen the soft buttons stop responding. I can get them back by holding down the power button untill the shutdown/airplane mode menu comes up. Also the launcher prefrences menu comes up blank. One question, how do you get to the new drawr type thing that shows apps running and alows you to kill them by sliding them over?
My .02$
Thanks

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So I've been using the ICS alpha lulz v3for a few days. I'm here to report that so far its mostly very good. Its fairly quick, nor as fsst as miui or cm7 but very good. One thing ive noticed is that ocasionally at the lockscreen the soft buttons stop responding. I can get them back by holding down the power button untill the shutdown/airplane mode menu comes up. Also the launcher prefrences menu comes up blank. One question, how do you get to the new drawr type thing that shows apps running and alows you to kill them by sliding them over?
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Are you referring to alphalulz v3 or teamhacksung build 3? Th build3 is the latest. I honestly like alphalulz v3 and th build 2 the best... because the browser is so much smoother. Th build 3 seems to be having random bootloop issues.

You can bring up the multitasking thing by long-pressing home. And it doesn't kill the apps when you swipe them, it just clears them from that view.
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capacitive buttons malfunction

I am on LXdroid 0.2 ROM. 366 BB.
Rom running stable since it's release-
This week I observed the phone hung twice.
Today - after ride home - I saw- the back button didn't work!
I restarted - thinking of it as a bug!
Even then it was inactive- I pressed harder
And - it worked - sorta glitchy now.
Then - all three buttons failed to work after some time!
I pulled battery out- restarted - and again the back button was inactive.
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I let the device go to sleep- woke it up.
And- all three buttons work nice!
No extra pressure- just like before!
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Folks- am I seeing EOL of my device?
:crying:
I would want to stick to it - at least till Quadcores became the norm..
Please advise,
Sony.
P.S. No new apps or anything - in the last few weeks.
EDIT- Back button needs some amount of force! to be used now.

besony said:
I am on LXdroid 0.2 ROM. 366 BB.
Rom running stable since it's release-
This week I observed the phone hung twice.
Today - after ride home - I saw- the back button didn't work!
I restarted - thinking of it as a bug!
Even then it was inactive- I pressed harder
And - it worked - sorta glitchy now.
Then - all three buttons failed to work after some time!
I pulled battery out- restarted - and again the back button was inactive.
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I let the device go to sleep- woke it up.
And- all three buttons work nice!
No extra pressure- just like before!
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Folks- am I seeing EOL of my device?
:crying:
I would want to stick to it - at least till Quadcores became the norm..
Please advise,
Sony.
P.S. No new apps or anything - in the last few weeks.
EDIT- Back button needs some amount of force! to be used now.
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the phone is quite vulnerable if it is not inside something that protective... even so.. you might want to try this... just rub the capacitive panel for few minutes and then restart... that should do the job.. taken from _n0p_ advice...

Maybe you need a rom have capacitive button on status bar to reduce have to push phone capacitive button frequently
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Have you tried using an app called button savior. Works like a charm
Sent from my Dell Streak using xda premium

for now it's ok.
deysmacro said:
the phone is quite vulnerable if it is not inside something that protective... even so.. you might want to try this... just rub the capacitive panel for few minutes and then restart... that should do the job.. taken from _n0p_ advice...
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Just did exactly that ( hoping for some mumbo jumbo to happen ) expecting it to heal itself
For now - it has healed. :gulp:
Well- I use a silicone case- and I am sure it only sits in my (loose) pockets for 1 hour of commute.
rest of the time it is pampered in A/c environment and non-humind climate of my city.
Still - I will try to keep it cleaner.
nom051205 said:
Maybe you need a rom have capacitive button on status bar to reduce have to push phone capacitive button frequently
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That would be a last resort!
is there anything like that already!?
anthmur said:
Have you tried using an app called button savior. Works like a charm
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Will def- try that!
Thank you all for such prompt help.
For now- it's working fine :fingers-crossed:
Cheers,
Sony.

I'm working on one of cm7 rom from HD2 and HTC Desire, found that cm7 have softbutton on statusbar.
You can choose which soft button you want to show in settings/cyanogenmod settings/tablet tweaks.
I include in this zip file newer camera.apk, if you don't want it just open this zip file use winrar / 7 zip then delete it.
Remember, always nandroid backup before flashing anything.
Hope this can help save your capacitive button.

nom051205 said:
I'm working on one of cm7 rom from HD2 and HTC Desire, found that cm7 have softbutton on statusbar.
You can choose which soft button you want to show in settings/cyanogenmod settings/tablet tweaks.
I include in this zip file newer camera.apk, if you don't want it just open this zip file use winrar / 7 zip then delete it.
Remember, always nandroid backup before flashing anything.
Hope this can help save your capacitive button.
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interesting.. will try this one out and see how it performs
EDIT: working great

nom051205 said:
I'm working on one of cm7 rom from HD2 and HTC Desire, found that cm7 have softbutton on statusbar.
You can choose which soft button you want to show in settings/cyanogenmod settings/tablet tweaks.
I include in this zip file newer camera.apk, if you don't want it just open this zip file use winrar / 7 zip then delete it.
Remember, always nandroid backup before flashing anything.
Hope this can help save your capacitive button.
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Superb!!!!!!
My cap buttons are fine for 2 days now! So - looks like that was just random.
But,
I am installing the zip and using these buttons as much possible!
Cheers to your efforts!
Thanks,
Sony.