I have my Desire Z for about 5 months, and now when i want to slide out my keyboard, the screen sometimes stays in portrait mode and pressing the keys doesnt work. when i slowly slide out the keyboard and have it out halfway, the screen flips, but when i slide it further, the screen goes portrait again. I am using a pouch with a magnet, which sometimes confuses my device, thinking the keyboard is slid out while it isnt. but my problem happens without the magnet intefering. Could this have anything to do with it?
I don't know how to fix your issue, but never a good idea to have electronics near a magnet
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The slider itself uses a magnet to figure out wether the keyboard is slid (or slided) out or not. I'm not sure but i think it is pretty common (i know the htc touch dual also uses a magnet). Anyway, i've tried to keep the back side of the phone away from the magnet of the pouch and so far everything is working fine again. So i guess the sensor was just confused
Have to remember polorization homie. Put a magnet by itself on a tv and see what happense even though there are magnets within tv.
But if its a case with a magnet designed to hold electronics there is nothing to worry about
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I had the same issue, i had a loose ribbon on my keyboard
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soulcrusher said:
I have my Desire Z for about 5 months, and now when i want to slide out my keyboard, the screen sometimes stays in portrait mode and pressing the keys doesnt work. when i slowly slide out the keyboard and have it out halfway, the screen flips, but when i slide it further, the screen goes portrait again. I am using a pouch with a magnet, which sometimes confuses my device, thinking the keyboard is slid out while it isnt. but my problem happens without the magnet intefering. Could this have anything to do with it?
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i bought myself a capdase leather flip-case which has a magnet right under the camera.... that magnet is to blame .... but the weird part is the case never interfered when i was on froyo ... but suddenly stopped working(started messing up with the keyboard) after updating to gingerbread.... sadly i found no fix to this ,,, so its $30 down the drain....
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I'm pondering about getting a MT3GS to replace the G1. However, one thing I like about the G1 is that it has dedicated call and hang up buttons, which are not present on the MT3GS.
And I heard that capacitive touch screens have issues dealing with gloves...
What's your take on this?
I've Never once had a problem with not having dedicated call and hang up buttons. Never bothered me. As For gloves, I've used plenty of latex mechanic's gloves without issue.
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I just tried mine and it prevented me from registering any touch on the G1 screen.
Does the optical trackpad recognizes glove-covered fingers?
my g1 works fine with mechanic gloves on also, not thin gloves but. thick gloves is what i wear. still works just fine
well almost all the phones are moving in the touch screen direction these days,so suck it up because this is the reality of life
999phonebug said:
I just tried mine and it prevented me from registering any touch on the G1 screen.
Does the optical trackpad recognizes glove-covered fingers?
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Depends on the gloves. Winter ones will not work with the trackpad or the capacitive touch screen. Mechanics gloves, rubber gloves, etc. that heat can transfer through however will work on both the screen and trackpad.
I don't use gloves, so I can't comment on that at all, but I can say that not having call/end buttons isn't a big issue. It has the phone button on the screen, that leads to the HTC SmartDial app that is vastly superior to the Google phone app.
happened to set my epic down on my wifes camera case, which has a magnetic closure flap...the phone was asleep when i set it down, but when it got close to the magnet, the screen turned on and skipped the "drag to unlock" screen...ive tried it numerous times since, and get the same result...
anyone else experience this?
Must be like blackberries. When you pulled them out of their case the screen would turn on and when you put them back in the screen would turn off.
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I remember reading about the magnetic sensor in a list of specs but this is the first time I've heard of it actually being triggered. It would be nice to see some cases that take advantage of this feature.
I just pulled a hard drive magnet off of my cubicle wall and tried it. Doesn't work for me.
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I just pulled a hard drive magnet off of my cubicle wall and tried it. Doesn't work for me.
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Sign of a true techie...we have hard drive magnets hanging around for absolutely no reason.
I just did the same thing with the same results.
othan1 said:
Sign of a true techie...we have hard drive magnets hanging around for absolutely no reason.
I just did the same thing with the same results.
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lol, yeah I work in IT on a military base and we have alot, i mean ALOT of hard drive magnets. theres probably 20-30 on each cubicle cabinet door. lmao.
sweet spot seems to be about where the LED flash is....
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sweet spot seems to be about where the LED flash is....
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Yup, that works for me..but doesn't go to the lockscreen, immediately goes to the the home screen.
I would assume it is for either the home media dock, or an upcoming car dock, so it automatically goes into the proper program when in place.
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I would assume it is for either the home media dock, or an upcoming car dock, so it automatically goes into the proper program when in place.
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Hope they plan on putting out a maintenance release for that..I just installed Car Home, locked the screen and put the magnet next to it and it came on in landscape mode, but just on the home screen.
Would be nice if we could use something like tasker and create a couple of actions depending on the proximity of a mgnet...
Haha all I "use" the magnet sensor for is with the Tricorder app, magnetic flux option. =P Might help to find the best spot... (I guess I'm not cool enough to have hard drive magnets at work.)
It's for the slide-out keyboard. Hold your phone in portrait and keep the magnet to the left of the LED flash. The screen will re-orient itself to landscape. Move the magnet and it will go back.
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It's for the slide-out keyboard. Hold your phone in portrait and keep the magnet to the left of the LED flash. The screen will re-orient itself to landscape. Move the magnet and it will go back.
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Uhh..what?! Its not for the keyboard, I do know that. But I don't know what its for.
It's for the keyboard. Put your phone in landscape mode with the on screen keyboard open. Put the magnet on the phone and the on screen keyboard will disappear.
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It's for the keyboard. Put your phone in landscape mode with the on screen keyboard open. Put the magnet on the phone and the on screen keyboard will disappear.
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Yep....that makes sense....just tried it, and understand what you're saying....
Thanks for the info....
on my G2 the trackpad is horrible sometimes it takes up to 3 swipes to get it to register a swipe this only applies when using the trackpad to scroll up and down,left to right work fine maybe im not doing something correctly maybe theres a way to calibrate the pad but ATM i dont know what to do...is anybody else experiencing this?is it wide known?should i get another G2?
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I've had it with the issues. I also have the trackpad issue, plus signal dropping all the time, even when just sitting on my table. Sometimes it drops completely and signal does not come back, even enabling and disabling airplane mode. I have to reboot the phone to be able to lock on to a signal. Also, my hinge is too loose. Even while using it in car, a slight bump on the road makes the screen close over my fingers. I'm calling for a replacement today.
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on my G2 the trackpad is horrible sometimes it takes up to 3 swipes to get it to register a swipe this only applies when using the trackpad to scroll up and down,left to right work fine maybe im not doing something correctly maybe theres a way to calibrate the pad but ATM i dont know what to do...is anybody else experiencing this?is it wide known?should i get another G2?
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Mine is working fine. I have noticed that it moves by itself when I'm in bright sunlight, or in a car and the sun is going behind trees, it will move the selection around my screen. A little annoying but almost never happens.
If my finger is sticky or sweaty it makes it harder for it to read my swipes. But with a clean dry hand it works almost perfectly. Too bad it doesn't register diagonal swipes.
If you hold the shift (arrow up) key down while in a text window, you will get an arrow cursor for your trackpad. It's a good way to test it out because you can see exactly how it moves.
As far as calibrating it... No way to do so that I know of.
Very strange: when I put my MyTouch 4G in my car cradle (it's a generic one: http://www.officedepot.ca/a/products/494874/Gilsson-Universal-Windshield-Mount-Black/) the screen generally will not respond to touch making it essentially impossible to use.
I did notice that if I cover the back camera with my finger, the screen does respond to touch, even after I remove my finger. But then other strangeness occurs like it never times out to sleep mode and if I force it to sleep by pressing the top button, when I press the button again there is no lock screen and I need to cover the camera again to make it recognize touches.
I actually had a similar issue with my last phone (an Acer Liquid E) although using a hack to increase the touch sensitivity seemed to fix it on that phone.
I don't understand what is it about being put on a cradle that makes the phone behave this way. I have checked that the arms of the cradle aren't pressing any of the buttons and, in fact, just resting the phone in the cradle with the arms extended beyond the width of the phone does the same thing.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks!
probably time to return the cradle haha. but seriously speaking that just sounds super weird. especially the part where you say if you cover the camera the touch screen works. haha.
Does your cradle provide power ti the phone through use port? Generally this happens when there is voltage going to the phone that is interfering with the touch screeb, like using a generic charger.
I've seen this. It was caused by the cradle pressing in on the volume control. Adjust your phone on the cradle so the volume isn't touched and see if that solves it for you.
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No the cradle doesn't supply power it's just a generic holder. I did check that the arms aren't pressing any buttons as that's the first thing I suspected. Even with the arms open so that there is a space between them and the sides of the phone, so long as the phone is resting on the cradle (just by gravity) this happens.
The fact that covering the camera temporarily seems to fix it is also really strange. I almost started believing the phone can detect the dash of the car through the camera and shuts itself off so you don't play with it while driving. But that seems a little far fetched.
I've had the same behavior with my generic car dock as well. It's very sporadic (maybe once a week), and I can't figure out the cause. But for my $10 it's good enough until there's an official dock that's custom fit.
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Very strange: when I put my MyTouch 4G in my car cradle (it's a generic one) the screen generally will not respond to touch making it essentially impossible to use.
I did notice that if I cover the back camera with my finger, the screen does respond to touch, even after I remove my finger. But then other strangeness occurs like it never times out to sleep mode and if I force it to sleep by pressing the top button, when I press the button again there is no lock screen and I need to cover the camera again to make it recognize touches.
I actually had a similar issue with my last phone (an Acer Liquid E) although using a hack to increase the touch sensitivity seemed to fix it on that phone.
I don't understand what is it about being put on a cradle that makes the phone behave this way. I have checked that the arms of the cradle aren't pressing any of the buttons and, in fact, just resting the phone in the cradle with the arms extended beyond the width of the phone does the same thing.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks!
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So it's even weirder than I thought. Turns out this doesn't only happen with the car cradle, but also sometimes when the phone is lying on its back. Tends to be more likely on a soft surface like my couch or a carpet, but it's also happened on my work desk. In these cases slightly repositioning the phone seems to fix it. Also, it doesn't seem to happen if a charging cable is plugged in, so at least that should be a workaround for car use. It happens when waking from sleep. Once the touch input is responsive, it remains so regardless of what position the phone is put in until the phone goes to sleep.
I put up a video to demonstrate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NX_3uds_Ek
The other thing I noticed is a purple light that comes on underneath the touchpad when its pressed. It's not really visible by eye but for some reason the camera really picks it up... Is that the pad's touch sensor?
do anyone of you notice this bug...
1) when the phone is placed on table flat(with screen facing up), there is nothing wrong...
2) when the phone is place upside down (with screen facing down, when you have the phone on bed and over your head), then without having the stylus pen actual touches the screen, the screen senses it and leave a mark.
it even can activate any icon...
is this me only or general bug?
It effects all Notes. Its a known issue with this digitizer.
Basically touch is registered without pen actually touching the screen when you are using it laying on bed where screen is facing down. It registers from about 3-4 millimetres away.
I'm trying this right now as I post this and I can't seem to replicate the issue...
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I'm having this same issue..didn't realize that it only happens when it's faced down..well,hope there'll be a fix soon.