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Black shadow at the screen Bottom

I noticed this small shadows at the screen bottom especially at all white screen.
Try to do a screen alignment to see it....I tried 2 HTC sets and it's the same.
The hermes screen is NOT like this...they are perfectly clean !!!
Anyone has noticed this ?

Ya, I noticed this too.
I can only notice it on all white screens. The shadow is uneven and wavey and seems to extend upwards for about 5 pixels.
Sorry no solutions from me... just confirmation.

Me too. Another thing that I noticed is that the screen is fisically slightly too much aligned to the left.

sectorlord said:
I noticed this small shadows at the screen bottom especially at all white screen.
Try to do a screen alignment to see it....I tried 2 HTC sets and it's the same.
The hermes screen is NOT like this...they are perfectly clean !!!
Anyone has noticed this ?
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Yep, mine too. I think that they are all like that. I've heard of this issue in another thread as well.

The shadow on mine one isnt that bad, tbh, you have to really pay attention to notice the shadow.
The screen is very slightly aligned too far to the left, but it doesn't really bother me.

soft sparkle in the screen ?

Just got my unit today and love it.
Only notice a soft sparkle (like when you splash water on any LCD screen) but it's very soft and only noticeable at certain angle.
quick call to friend who has HD2, same problem.
anyone else have that problem ?

it is not a problem, it's how this capacitive display is built. at certain angle You will also notice a grid of lines and tiny dots.

sg10 said:
Just got my unit today and love it.
Only notice a soft sparkle (like when you splash water on any LCD screen) but it's very soft and only noticeable at certain angle.
quick call to friend who has HD2, same problem.
anyone else have that problem ?
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It sounds to me like you've noticed the grid in the screen. This is part of the capacitive screen design, and not a fault or issue. It's there on everyone's phone, but as you've obviously seen, it's so unnoticable normally that you just forget about it.
Is it that, or something else?
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Or you could you read the post above

just curious, how come I didn't notice it on iphone ? lower screen resolution + smaller screen ?

sg10 said:
just curious, how come I didn't notice it on iphone ? lower screen resolution + smaller screen ?
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I couldn't say why you didn't notice it, but it is there.

screen calibration

is there a way to calibrate the screen? sometimes feel the click is not accurate.

no, these screens should not need calibration anyway. If you're talking about the click being off a little on the home screen I have that as well, but it seems to be limited to the Live Wallpapers. If its off by alot you should send it back for replacement.

when i click the dot, sometime the search box pop up. the dot is above the search botton

dot? what dot?

melterx12 said:
dot? what dot?
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I think he means the dots at the bottom of the screen to move from one screen to another on the Home launcher. The dot(s) is/are right above the search button on the bottom right of the screen.

oh, yeah that does not sound normal. try restarting and if the issue persists you mgiht want to consider sending it in.

I've noticed sometimes random touch events happen, I'll touch something, and something else gets activated more than half the screen away.

bofslime said:
I've noticed sometimes random touch events happen, I'll touch something, and something else gets activated more than half the screen away.
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here u go
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=04134c63c784258e&hl=en

bofslime said:
I've noticed sometimes random touch events happen, I'll touch something, and something else gets activated more than half the screen away.
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are you sure you aren't touching another part of the screen?
Sometimes the palm of my hand touches the bottom left of the screen and that will cause random touch events.

You need to touch slightly above the dot. Otherwise your finger is very close to the google search soft key.

dwang said:
are you sure you aren't touching another part of the screen?
Sometimes the palm of my hand touches the bottom left of the screen and that will cause random touch events.
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I know for fact that sometimes I DO touch other parts of the screen like with my palm, etc by accident. however there have been cases where this wasn't happening and I still have miss touch events.
Example. I was holding my phone with my fingers in landscape with my left hand, and using only the pointer finger of my right hand to touch something in the middle top of the screen, at which point the phone pulse vibrated and the quick search screen popped up.
I posted to the google link outlining the different events that I have noticed. Multitouch would fix point averaging between somewhere you're accidentally touching and where you intended to touch. This however isn't the only thing going on, as I do believe there is some random strangeness occurring. I never had any such issues with my G1.

bofslime said:
I've noticed sometimes random touch events happen, I'll touch something, and something else gets activated more than half the screen away.
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it happens to me,too, i thought it is caused by my palm touched the edge of the screen when i clicked using finger, but it is not. when i restart the phone, it,s gone.

mattyboy247 said:
I think he means the dots at the bottom of the screen to move from one screen to another on the Home launcher. The dot(s) is/are right above the search button on the bottom right of the screen.
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yes. that's the dot.
I read from another reviewer, he said the sensor of the soft key is located a little above the icon for the key. this may cause the problem.

cuitao said:
yes. that's the dot.
I read from another reviewer, he said the sensor of the soft key is located a little above the icon for the key. this may cause the problem.
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This messes up pretty much everyone I hand my phone to look at/play with. Its fine if you're aware, but it does show a sign of less refinement in a device that would have been nearly 100% free of hardware design flaws.

I feel the same way, especially with the soft-buttons and the "p" key in portrait mode. Last night after walking a bit outside my key-presses were atleast an inch off.....I attributed that to my fingers being a little staticky.
Othertimes my fingers just never work on the screen for a few seconds, rubbing my fingers together fixes this problem.
Something to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing I guess

I find that sometimes my fingers wrap around the phone and just touch the front edge of the screen while holding it, causing random key presses. I guess I'm still used to holding the wider and less sensitive Touch HD.

Odd Screen Dead Spot

I've been having a weird screen issue lately, independent of rom or kernel; my screen won't respond to touch input directly beneath the status bar.
For instance, if I touch an icon or button at the top of the screen, it does not respond at all... Unless I rotate the phone into landscape mode and select the command.
The status bar itself works fine, I just have to tilt the phone to use the area of the screen underneath it. Weird.

Just a shot in the dark, do you have a screen cover that might have lifted a bit?

ca1ne said:
Just a shot in the dark, do you have a screen cover that might have lifted a bit?
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I have a matte, anti-glare cover, but it's tight as a drum. Not even an air bubble.

Similar thing happened to my last phone. Only it was the bottom corner. Never found a solution. Ended up getting new phone.

Screen Question - Being able to "touch" outside of visible screen?

I hope i"m describing this right, but basically I wanted to see if this is normal (i've never owned a tablet before) that when I try and hold the Nexus 7 when reading e-books (holding it like I would my kindle) my thumb is outside of the screen resting on the black border, but the screen picks up my touch and thinks i'm interacting?
Is there normally a little bleed over for the digitizer outside of the screen? Or should I consider this an issue?
This isn't a product killer, but super annoying when trying to use it to read ebooks.
Thanks!!!

xenogear74 said:
I hope i"m describing this right, but basically I wanted to see if this is normal (i've never owned a tablet before) that when I try and hold the Nexus 7 when reading e-books (holding it like I would my kindle) my thumb is outside of the screen resting on the black border, but the screen picks up my touch and thinks i'm interacting?
Is there normally a little bleed over for the digitizer outside of the screen? Or should I consider this an issue?
This isn't a product killer, but super annoying when trying to use it to read ebooks.
Thanks!!!
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If you have soft thumbs, it could be your skin bending/flowing causing it to touch the screen when it doesn't appear to be. This happens to me a lot

Get a case.