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Disable buttons for kid use?

I am positive that there are others out there that occasionally allow kids to play with their phone. Also, I am positive that I am not the only dad who has kids that like to touch the buttons.
I have toddler lock which is OK, but I would like to show my youngest 19mos a cartoon, but I want to try and disable the buttons or screen, so she doesn't turn it off or mess it up?
Any thoughts, other than shock therapy every time she presses the home key? Maybe an app (like toddler lock) that has a pattern to turn the buttons back on? Maybe like toddler lock except have whatever is running on the droid be the background?
Thank you in advance!

Are you talking about hard or soft keys?

I know that for touchscreens,(not sure which OS), there's an app. My buddy has this app that displays colors for his daughter to play with and when she touches it, it shows stars and such. If I can dig anything up, i'll reply back. I'll shoot him a text, too.

Do you want to disable the touchscreen or the four buttons on the bottom?

Just disable kids.

Why not actually play with your kids instead of stuffing some electronic device in their face to give you more 'me' time?

rocko73 said:
Why not actually play with your kids instead of stuffing some electronic device in their face to give you more 'me' time?
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Ugh, do you have kids? The phone is a great tool for times when you have a little one at a restaurant and they're not happy about sitting there. I honestly don't know why people even feel the need to post crap like this.
And the app that locks the phone down is called Toddler Lock.
I'm interesting in an app that will lock the touchscreen down for movies. My little ones love watching them at restaurants or the grocery store, but they accidentally touch the screen and it pauses the movie or stops it all together.

rocko73 said:
Why not actually play with your kids instead of stuffing some electronic device in their face to give you more 'me' time?
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Wow that was helpful. No advice but you did manage to slam his/her parenting ability with nothing to base it on.
To the OP - I don't know of any apps to lock the buttons, but I found that many of the "finger painting" apps go to full screen so the kids can draw with it without getting lost.
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dornstar said:
Ugh, do you have kids? The phone is a great tool for times when you have a little one at a restaurant and they're not happy about sitting there. I honestly don't know why people even feel the need to post crap like this.
And the app that locks the phone down is called Toddler Lock.
I'm interesting in an app that will lock the touchscreen down for movies. My little ones love watching them at restaurants or the grocery store, but they accidentally touch the screen and it pauses the movie or stops it all together.
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Yeah, I do, and that's why I said you should actually play with them in lieu of handing them the phone.

dkranes said:
Wow that was helpful. No advice but you did manage to slam his/her parenting ability with nothing to base it on.
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Didn't 'slam' anyone's parenting abilities. I offered a suggestion.
You don't give a kid a gun and then post a message saying 'any device that will keep the gun from going off while the kids play with it?'.

rocko73 said:
Didn't 'slam' anyone's parenting abilities. I offered a suggestion.
You don't give a kid a gun and then post a message saying 'any device that will keep the gun from going off while the kids play with it?'.
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Seriously? You're equating a child watching a cartoon on a phone to giving a gun to a child??
Why don't you do your trolling over at reddit. You'll get more mileage there.
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dkranes said:
Seriously? You're equating a child watching a cartoon on a phone to giving a gun to a child??
Why don't you do your trolling over at reddit. You'll get more mileage there.
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Two things kids shouldn't be messing with, your phone or your gun, not a stretch.

[Q] Dead (?) screen strip

all right. I've found various things about this on the web regarding other HTC phones, but I can't seem to find if anyone else has had this problem with their shift... This morning I realized that the "clear" button in the notification dropdown on CM7 wasn't working for me. I wrote it off as a weird bug. But then I tried to play angry birds, and I can't drag them back, they just fall right off the slingshot.
So I zoom in and I can pull the birds back, but when I get to this strip on the screen, they fly off without my picking my finger up.
Besides the clear button, screen presses generally seem to work, atleast when I'm selecting icons in landscape mode from my home screens. But the n1 style live wallpaper will respond to touches in this "strip" of screen by shooting off the lines around it instead of in it. Also, when I tried to drag to a different homescreen and stop in this strip, it will bounce back. same thing with notification bar. If I try to start dragging the screen from this "strip" I get no movement. The weird thing, of course is that this part of the screen isn't completey dead in terms of responding to touches, because it does register on my device that it is being touched, but drags, the notification menu clear button, the live wallpaper, and, of course, angry birds act funky when I use this part of the screen.
I guess I have to go back to sprint. I think I'm just going to flash a stock rom, but not unroot it.
I also don't have time, so I'm kind of just hoping it will go away.
ANYWAYS... anyone else having touchscreen issues with their HTC EVO shift?

PS: I think clocking my kernel at 800 instead of the 1200 I was using might have something to do with this?
Was running at 800 to preserve battery life, but back at 1200 after a nandroid restore and the problem seems fixed.
2 be clear, I had this issue on CM7 and MikFroyo, so I don't think it could be software related. But CPU clocking related.
Yeah, I also doubt that is the case.

My screen had a freek out. With out touching the screen it would open and close apps jump screens and when I touched the screen I would get no response at all. Had to RUU and send it in for a new phone it was in the connection with the screen. So the sooner you ask for a replacement the better.
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did you just call? any tips? I'm wondering if I can handle this over the phone or not. Also - what did you do while you were waiting for the new phone to come in?

turns out it was the friggen screen protector. however, before I realized that I called my local repair shop and they said that they would be able to swap my phone out for a new/refurb one for $35. Too bad it isn't actually an issue, because I've noticed that the phone is a little less responsive to touch even with the screen protector off... it's just that its not clearly an issue at this point.

I actually had a similar issue with a replacement phone where the left side about 1/8" wouldn't respond (couldn't press q button on keyboard at all). After some research I found out about a great lil app to test screen touch response and any bad areas and it helped me diagnose that it in fact was the screen having a fault...look up "touch test" in the appstore and it should narrow down where and if your screen has a bad area that's not responding...it helped to get my in-store replacement in and out the store since I could show them the issue right away along side an in-store model. I hope this helps and I that I read the post correctly. Let me know if it helps you.
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My screen had a dead line going across the middle of the screen but only when swiping side to side, for some reason vertically it was fine....
unrooted, went to sprint store repaired in less than 30 minutes...

onefasttreopro said:
I actually had a similar issue with a replacement phone where the left side about 1/8" wouldn't respond (couldn't press q button on keyboard at all). After some research I found out about a great lil app to test screen touch response and any bad areas and it helped me diagnose that it in fact was the screen having a fault...look up "touch test" in the appstore and it should narrow down where and if your screen has a bad area that's not responding...it helped to get my in-store replacement in and out the store since I could show them the issue right away along side an in-store model. I hope this helps and I that I read the post correctly. Let me know if it helps you.
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Awesome tip, dude. This will help me get a replacement for sure. The issue came back and this is solid proof it exists. Gonna make it hard for anyone to pretend there isn't a problem. Thanks!
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No problem...glad to help...it definitely saved me time...I installed it on my phone and the stores phone and compared them side by side...that way they can't give you a BS answer of "screen needs calibration" etc etc. Lemme know how it goes.
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Sorry didn't respond faster. I just called them and they sent me a new phone next day and I sent them the old phone. Easy as pie no problems with the reps or the techs they didn't argue about it at all. It did take a long time on the phone because they were checking the phone settings no sure what this was but oh well. Just remember to ruu back.
Killer Shift

So they ended up still pretending that there wasn't an issue, saying that maybe it was just the touchtest app. It took a while to convince them that it wasn't just an app.. but after I left it with them for an hour (an hour where I'm sure they did nothin) I came back and showed them the issue again, compared it to the shift that they had, and they finally agreed to order me a refurb. A hassle, but a necessary one.
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Sounds like they just hated looking bad and that you had proven them wrong so they put up a wall...nonetheless I'm glad it ended up working out and hope the replacement phone works out for ya...
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onefasttreopro said:
so they put up a wall...
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Agreed..It's awful how there is no set policies when it comes to service. Your fate pretty much rests with the tech you happen to get. Some are easy to get along with and some (obviously) aren't.
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The Refurb is great... oh, and FYI - don't use displex on touchscreens hahaha.

[Q] the daily show killed my nexus 7 !

So, here is what has happened to my Nexus 7. It worked flawlessly for a few weeks after I bought it. I installed the daily show app and it still worked fine. Went to a friends house to play cards and had the 7 in my pocket. A few hours later I pulled it out of my pocket and the screen was black with random pixels and lines flashing in random colors. I just let it sit there for about 10 minutes, then tried a re-boot. It rebooted fine but the message "Unfortunately the daily show has stopped" or something like that. It then worked ok (I removed the app) but still does the random black screen thing and sometimes shuts off when I want it to only be asleep (annoying when I use it as my morning wake up alarm). I can't believe the app itself was the problem. My guess is maybe it overheated and got damaged by running while in my pocket? I didn't have a pattern to unlock it, only the circle to slide, so I can imagine that it might have started while in my pocket somehow. Should I try and get a new nexus 7 or is there something I can do? random reboots and shut offs are not cool...

you say you had it in your pocket...did you by chance sit on it?
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rex.regis said:
you say you had it in your pocket...did you by chance sit on it?
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haha. no. I thought about that right away, however it was in my front pocket. in addition to which physically it looks the same (i.e. no obvious bends or warping on the surface)

thats odd maybe the app has caused it to over heat and that can cause data corruption. I would try to reset it back to factory or if your on a custom rom.. Restore a previous backup in cwm... If still no luck..
go all the way back by wipe and factory rom new download...
Hope you get it resolved.. Keep Your tablet out of your pocket... Get a nice purse. Giggles. well or shoulder bag..

Good job it wasn't the Jeremy Kyle show, That kills everything.

[Q] Touchscreen Issues Presses keys by itself etc...

Hi guys...Just bought a N7 for my GF as a X-Mas gift and while it's great when working, there is a major touchscreen issue going on.
Let me first say I have searched and searched and came up with a lot, unfortunately it seems the problem was "fixed" by google with official updates. Well not in this case. I am on latest 4.2.1.
The issue is, the touchscreen will completely rearrange itself somehow. Example- if you click on something in the upper end it will click something randomly at the bottom of the screen. Another issue it, if you click on search/browser address bar and start typing, there is a ton of lag , and any number of things happen like, again, something else will get pressed at the bottom, or it will do nothing, and then suddenly start hitting a key (again, with the keyboard popped up at the bottom) like x over and over again, filling the page with 10-20 X's...
As soon as I put it to sleep and wake it up/unlock...it immediately goes away, just to come right back in a few minutes.
She does have a case on it with a magnet to auto wake, so I told her to take it off and see if it keeps doing it. It does...so no go there...
I want to call google for support, but am scared of getting a dumb rep that will tell me to power off the device etc...you know the drill...by the book pre-written crap they tell you to do, that solves nothing.
Any help would be much appreciated...and again sorry if this is something well known and simple to fix, but again, all my research dates back to june posts about issues already fixed via updates.
Thanks in advance!

Have you already tried a factory reset as after most recent update? You will lose all data but worth a shot. May need to RMA.
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Ill try it
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Factory reset...ok for a while..then it started again...
Got it all figured out tho....if you ever so slightly twist the body to the left the screen will not respond at the bottom and will start pressing itself randomly....sometimes even touching the bezel will do something. ..then twist it a bit to the right and all is well...
Sh*t built product obviously. Had it in a case before even turning it on.
Going back...hopefully replacement will be better.
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accordex said:
Factory reset...ok for a while..then it started again...
Got it all figured out tho....if you ever so slightly twist the body to the left the screen will not respond at the bottom and will start pressing itself randomly....sometimes even touching the bezel will do something. ..then twist it a bit to the right and all is well...
Sh*t built product obviously. Had it in a case before even turning it on.
Going back...hopefully replacement will be better.
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Ahh. You got the floating screen issue. Asus knows of it and will fix it.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Screen-Malfunction?

Hello, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S5 and hope someone can provide a decent answer.
So, I'm really clumsy and I dropped my phone on the floor, and then it started acting up. At first the screen would just be black when I pressed the home-button or the on/off-button, but it would still be "active" in the sense that I could touch the screen and feel the vibration of touching a letter or so. Then I switched it off and on again, and the screen would light up with the SAMSUNG Logo but then go dark, and when I kind of "pressed" the phone together, the screen came back, but then if I accidently pressed the on/off-button to lock the screen it wouldn't come back on again. And now the phone has gone to a whole new level of ****ed up, because now when I turn it on and given that the screen works, my phone is playing the Star Wars intro but a lot faster. Not literally the Star Wars intro, but the screen is kind of flowing upwards and then it duplicates from the bottom and it just keeps going faster and faster.
What can I do?

TedDelRey said:
Hello, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S5 and hope someone can provide a decent answer.
So, I'm really clumsy and I dropped my phone on the floor, and then it started acting up. At first the screen would just be black when I pressed the home-button or the on/off-button, but it would still be "active" in the sense that I could touch the screen and feel the vibration of touching a letter or so. Then I switched it off and on again, and the screen would light up with the SAMSUNG Logo but then go dark, and when I kind of "pressed" the phone together, the screen came back, but then if I accidently pressed the on/off-button to lock the screen it wouldn't come back on again. And now the phone has gone to a whole new level of ****ed up, because now when I turn it on and given that the screen works, my phone is playing the Star Wars intro but a lot faster. Not literally the Star Wars intro, but the screen is kind of flowing upwards and then it duplicates from the bottom and it just keeps going faster and faster.
What can I do?
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Get your screen repaired, sounds like a connector is broken or loose.
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Rakuu said:
Get your screen repaired, sounds like a connector is broken or loose.
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I asked for a price offer and they said about 250$ to change it, and for about 500$ I get a new one, but at the same time, 500 is fkin much.

TedDelRey said:
I asked for a price offer and they said about 250$ to change it, and for about 500$ I get a new one, but at the same time, 500 is fkin much.
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If you think you can you could do the repair yourself.
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