Touch strange behavior - Atrix 4G General

I just get the Atrix and I am making a few tests on it. I found a strange behavior on touch that might be something related to software. To reproduce just follow the steps:
1) Download and install any app to test the multitouch. Multitouch Test or Multitouch Vis Test from market.
2) Inside the multitouch app, put one finger on the touch panel and do not move. The app will show a circle indicating your action.
3) Wait for almost 15 seconds without move. You will notice that the circle will disappear.
4) Start moving your finger. It's going to get crazy.
I noticed it for the first time when I was playing Trial X. I start to accelerate the bike and a few seconds later the bike do not accelerate anymore.
The problem does not happen if you touch the panel and move your finger. It only happen if you do not move.
Sorry about the english. I hope I made myself clear.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/47362

Tikerz said:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/47362
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Thank you for reply. I think I'm not the only one with this problem.
Sorry opening this thread. I didn't find before.

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problem with rotation

im having an issue with rotation. for some reason opera will only rotate from portrati to landscape sometimes.
i installed gyrator2 and on the black screen it also doesnt seem to pickup the difference between portrait and landscape.
i have calibrated and it says successful, i also know the sensors are working as i can play the ball sensor game fine.
any help appreciated.
Im having the same problem sometimes.
i have not installed Gyrator yet.
im not sure why the levels game works but gyrator doesnt seem to see the settings, is anyone else having this issue? im reluctant to get a replacement as the balance game shows it working fine.
Sometimes mine wont rotate but that is due to the phone being more flat than stood up when i rotate it.
Also i think that if the processor is doing something at the time, like booting up Opera, it doesnt pick up the change in rotation and stays in landscape.
Try it when Opera has fully loaded and make sure the phone is not flat and see if that helps.
that doesnt help, gyrator does not even register a change, it just says undeterminable or 'face up'. seems to register face down but not portrait or landscape.
I sometimes have to give my HD a gentle tap to remind it to switch
It's kinda cute really - turn it round, nothing happens, give it a little nudge to wake it up LOL
Yes, I do realise quite how sad that makes me sound... LOL
TTDegs said:
Yes, I do realise quite how sad that makes me sound... LOL
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Hahaha, kinda cute to give it a little nudge?? Yeah, you Better realize how that sounds lol
dozerz said:
that doesnt help, gyrator does not even register a change, it just says undeterminable or 'face up'. seems to register face down but not portrait or landscape.
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Oh, the oddness. My phone registers everything except face down!! Meaning, it won't mute when I place it face down (have the option activated in the registry). So strange. This probably goes a way in explaining why some people couldn't get the face down to work, but that doesn't help, what would help is to know how the heck different phones register different gyrometer activity.
Probably because of all the different calibration tools out there, because honestly, I hadn't tried the face down thing before installing and using stuff like GRemote, Gyrator, GController, etc.
nin2thevoid said:
Hahaha, kinda cute to give it a little nudge?? Yeah, you Better realize how that sounds lol
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I'm saying no more on this, to save myself digging an even bigger hole...
TTDegs said:
I'm saying no more on this, to save myself digging an even bigger hole...
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A wise decision
I had the same. But it seems like the problem occures only when Opera is loading page. later on everything seems to be OK.
I haven't got any aditional software installed

[Q] Atrix touch screen off

Ok,
does anyone else notice that the Atrix touch screen location seems a bit off?
I really notice it during browsing the internet and it seems it needs calibration. I cant say how many times I have had to click back an redo my clicking action. It seems that when you click its not accurate...
Any one else notice?
Can it be recalibrated?
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Yeah I've noticed this too. It's not too bad but it is moderately annoying.
Lazyboy006 said:
Yeah I've noticed this too. It's not too bad but it is moderately annoying.
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SAME HERE
Yep, same problem here but only happens in the browser. No problems typing at all but I always click a link and it seems to click a link or two above my intended selection. This problem was also even more prominent when I tried to use the firefox browser which seems to be the only browser that will allow me access to my schools website..sticking through it for now in hopes that a software update will fix it unless other users aren't having this problem, maybe just need to exchange this particular device.
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BBock9 said:
Yep, same problem here but only happens in the browser. No problems typing at all but I always click a link and it seems to click a link or two above my intended selection. This problem was also even more prominent when I tried to use the firefox browser which seems to be the only browser that will allow me access to my schools website..sticking through it for now in hopes that a software update will fix it unless other users aren't having this problem, maybe just need to exchange this particular device.
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After reading your post I agree with you. I mostly notice the problem with the browser. I do notice it slightly when typing but this could be do to me coming from an Iphone 4 with the keyboard being slightly different.
I dont know if you tried the browser Skyfire, but this was the only browser that I could make changes and save them when accessing the Google Voice settings from my phone. The standard browser, firefox, and even opera didnt display the full page so I was unable to actually save my changes.
Skyfire has its annoyances as well but its the best I found so far...
Thanks
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Well Mine was annoying to type in landscape cause the spacebar was about 1mm higher then it looks. Felt like I was typing a "B" to hit the spacebar.
That was annoying but now, now I have the Nexus screen flip-out! Any time I type or touch the screen the thing flips out. It has a area that is seeing a perminate touch or something.. there is a app on the market that allows you to see where the touch points are. I'll have to down load it and then show someone at ATT to get it replaced... I'm irritated cause at this point I've got a lot of work in it and I cna't just make a nandroid and then restore on my next device..
Sorry about the double post, its not letting me edit my last.
BBock9
sticking through it for now in hopes that a software update will fix it unless other users aren't having this problem, maybe just need to exchange this particular device.
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If it is like the Nexus, no software won't fix it, or at least never did. They claimed they were "looking into it" BS for you'll replace it soon enough..
Is anyone else having the touch flip out issue? with multitouch visulizer or multitouch tool see what you get. I ran visulizer on mine and after about 2 min it had a perminate point on the top right corner, eventually it locked up to the point of not being able to use it.
Well hopefully there is a fix for it...I kind of put myself in a tight spot as I installed adeo rom prematurely and as far as I know there is no going back to stock yet. On top of that im pretty sure DG is done done with the atrix so unless someone picks up where he left off and I can getback to stock, ill have to live with the problem. Stupid me...
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So it isn't my imagination, or my fat fingers. ONLY IN THE BROWSER. I'll touch something, and something a good 1/4" below it gets selected.
I'd say calibration also, but that doesn't explain why only in the browser. (I miss my Palm stylus!)
Are any of you facing this same problem?
https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/362784#362784
Posted videos of the problem there.

Anyone Got 2.3 Bugs?

So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
Second, and the most annoying thing I noticed, is the back lit buttons stop lighting up after a certain period of time. The soft buttons under the screen and the slide out keyboard still work, they just don't light up. Rebooting fixes the problem.
Third is the built in battery manager seems to have some issues as well. Although it seems to inherently do a better job of saving battery life than in previous versions of Android. On my phone it sometimes won't come out of it's no-syncing state and allow data usage. Other times it will allow data usage after waking back up, but data seems extremely slow. Again a reboot fixes the issue.
And the last thing I noticed today. Although I haven't had any noticeable signal issues or dropped calls, I was getting drastically different signal readings sitting right beside a guy with a DROIDX at work. As in he was showing full 3G service and I was only showing one bar of 1X and like a -100 RSSI. I realize it's two different phones, but my understanding was that the X and the original 2 were pretty similar.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed any of these things or if I'm the only one with some bugs? Or if anyone has any ideas about a solution for any of the issues?
FYI I'm far from an expert, but I'm not a complete Noob either. Although I don't have a ton of posts I've been hacking my cell phone since the days of my Razr and have had and rooted three Android phones to this point.
Anyway, thanks a bunch guys!
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Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.
kiwilit43 said:
So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
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You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X
kwheel596 said:
Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.
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I noticed the same thing. And actually LauncherPro in general wasn't working too great for me after the GB install. I actually kind of like the stock launcher in GB so I ended up deleting LauncherPro anyway.
phoffer said:
You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X
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Yeah sorry I should have gone into more detail. Yes I did delete all entries I saw that referenced Swype, including the ones listed on the link.
To be even more specific when I try to do anything with Swype it says "The applitcation Swype (process com.swype.android.inputmethod) has stopped unexpectedly."
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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mines the same and its weird cause it only does it to games
also i have the problem of the backlights only working when they want to.
Maybe Google's way of telling us to get off the games and get to work?
silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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Glad I'm not the only one with back light issues.
And I actually just noticed the games disappearing this morning. Weird.
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The backlight issue bugs me to no end. I try to figure out how to restore it without rebooting but no success so far.
One other issue is that I can't access the multitouch keyboard. I disabled it because I really never used it, but then I felt like using it one day and there is no place to check to use it. I have SwiftKey installed as my only 3rd party keyboard
I'm having an issue with ridiculously low volume on phone calls......any fixes out there because it's hard to use your phone, as a, you know, phone, when you can't hear the other person on the line. I may have to SBF back and wait for the official 2.3 if it doesnt improve.
Rebooting takes care of the call volume problem.
Rooted Droid 2 running Froyo 2.2 with the 2.3.20 update
Yeah I had the low call volume too, I think everyone did. It went away after the first reboot.
As fas as the games disappearing. Someone mentioned Bejeweled, that's one of the ones on mine that keeps disappearing. There are a few that do it, I don't remember exactly which ones, but Bejeweled and Stupid Zombies are two that I remember always disappear.
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I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.
silverfang77 said:
I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.
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What screen was it on before? They were disappearing from screen two to the right of my home screen.
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my games are on the 2nd page to the left and for me its stupid zombies, angry birds, angry birds seasons, and angry birds rio that keep disappearing, the other 4 game shortcuts i have don't disappear. I also tried reversing where they sit and the same 4 shortcuts disappeared, even sitting in different locations.
Hmmm, who knows. Even though all of mine weren't disappearing, just certain ones, it got annoying to me. I just deleted the shortcuts from my screen and pull up the games from the launcher now.
It is strange that its only certain games, and that we all seem to have the same ones disappearing.
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I believe that's where it was on mine as well.
Hopefully I wont jinx myself by posting this, but I think I found a solution to the back light issue. Applied it this morning and haven't had any issues yet. If anyone is still reading this thread, I will post up results and the fix tomorrow if it continues working.
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We are indeed reading the thread and eagerly anticipate your backlight solution.
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[Q] Tapping

I have clumsy fingers (essential tremor-inherited). Maybe I was a dummy getting a tablet.
But tapping on icons (like the Chrome icon) is frustrating. My finger is right on top of it. But I have to do it 3 or 4 times often.
My nexus 10 could be funky, but probably it is me. You don't double tap do you?
Sometimes I think my tap is too long or too short.
It might be you.
Check to see if the Nexus 10 is registering your "taps" as "drags" to move the homescreen.
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It might be you.
Check to see if the Nexus 10 is registering your "taps" as "drags" to move the homescreen.
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When I unsuccessfully tap, a box comes down from the top (a speech box?).
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When I unsuccessfully tap, a box comes down from the top (a speech box?).
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A box? Does it say anything and can you get a screenshot of it?
Using the Dolphin Browser, you are supposed to swipe your finger left and right to get to bookmarks. Sometimes it works with hard swipes.
Sometimes not.
It is fully charged with the plastic off the front. I wonder if there is something wrong with the screen sensitivity.
Google Play determined it was a problem with the screen. Back it goes.
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Google Play determined it was a problem with the screen. Back it goes.
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How does Google Play diagnose problems with your tablet? I've never heard of anything like this...?
I'm interested in that too.
There is also an option in the developers setting to see where the touch points are registering that you can check.
jonstrong said:
How does Google Play diagnose problems with your tablet? I've never heard of anything like this...?
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He was surely referring to Google's customer service (admittedly an awkward way to describe them).
Fromako said:
He was surely referring to Google's customer service (admittedly an awkward way to describe them).
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OK, that's plausible...

Anyone using Google's new buggy Navigation app?

The original Navigation (The blue arrow) app was awesome. It had live traffic updates and would re-route automatically and never dropped signal!
Now Google forced this new app on us, Navigation is no more but has now merged into Google Maps (it's a good thing but it's in beta)
Why the hell would I want to use a beta app?
BUGS ENCOUNTERED:
- If you manually press the power button to turn off the screen (whilst using the navigation), the route guidance will reset back to 'Select Destination' when you turn the screen back on!
That's so annoying and dangerous for me especially when you're on the motorway doing 70mph!!!
- Once you enter your destination and select 'Start' on the bottom right, there's a 50% chance the app will force the shutdown of the app.
This has happened often to me 50/50. Worst thing about it is, you can't just re-open the app or disable/enable GPS to fix this bug, you have to reboot your bloody phone!
- Map Orientation view messes up
Even though the original Navigation app had this bug, it was not as common as it is now. Also, there's a bigger delay in automated view change (when you turn direction, etc) This causes problems which forces you to zoom out of the route guide just to see ahead because the app is so stupidly slow to change direction at your pace.
- Stupid places of interest that you don't give a @~!* about!
Why can't I choose what I want to see on my map! I don't care about the best bars and shops in town when I'm on a mission!
Orientation bug is the worst and most annoying for me. Its never the constant behind the back POV... which is ANNOYING!
However, when I press the power button (while in navigation) so I can turn off the screen, and subsequently turn back on the screen, Maps FCs. Always. Once again, ANNOYING.
I felt like Google took 2 steps forward and 3 steps back with this one (while trying to hard to compete with Apple Maps).
Powering off the screen whilst navigating doesn't FC for me, but when I turn the screen back on, I have to click on maps to get navigation back, annoying
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So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
slaphead20 said:
So I guess all you guys have provided feedback to Google?!........
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
Remove new version and search for the old apk and don't update it .
jje
MazingerZed said:
I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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That's very helpful feedback. They can take that right there and use it to improve the app. Not that stuff in the first post. That's useless information. Nope. The most useful information you can give them is a good whinge and a demand the old stuff back. Pfft, feedback, what's that?
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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I did, I told them to give me back the old version and go beta test it on people who actually want to beta test it..
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slaphead20 said:
Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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But Slappy, do you really think someone who gave this as feedback on how to improve the app has the intelligence to know that?
Also the app will have passed Google's in house testing, they however don't have every single Android device, and every single stock and custom rom in existence therefore there could be device specific problems, have you asked people using other devices if they see the same problems?
After a large scale update most apps have teething problems, but they will fix them very soon.
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Guys, it's this simple
Settings/application manager/maps/uninstall updates.......navigation comes back as separate app
So simple
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That's how I did it. Then used Titanium backup to detach maps from the market. No more updates
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