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Increase the sensitivity of Touch Screen

I just came across this tweak on this website:
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/Minimize_tapping_Pressure
I tried it and it works great. I now use less pressure on the screen.
What ever you do, don’t set the value below the default of 7526. If you do, you may set it too low, the sensitivity will be too low and you will have to perform a Hard reset.
Here is the tweak from the website listed above:
Minimize Pressure when Tapping the screen
Ever got used to tapping without screen protectors and suddenly you put some screen protector and have a pecuilar feeling (some-what like tapping harder than u normally do) due to the increase thickness of the protector?
Well i have gone to that and finally ive done some simple tweaks to my xda mini.
I also figure out this could lessen normal wear and tear(scratching of protectors/PDA screens) since lesser pressure is applied to Tap the screen
here's what i did..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Drivers\Touch
If not there try here:
HKLM\Drivers\Touchpanel\ Pressure Threshold
or find 'Threshold'
Change the value of Pressure Threshold.(INCREASE value ONLY!!!)
what i did is set the value at 11880.
i tried doubling the default value. until i have reached my desired setting.
now,its like tapping soflty without having a feeling that i have screen protector. Also less stress on the stylus and screen and faster tapping.
WARNING: Only INCREASE THE VALUE BUT NEVER THE DECREASE THE DEFAULT VALUE.
Lowering the value of Pressure Threshold means you need to apply more pressure in tapping than you normally do.
ive tried this and when i soft reset, the screen won't react even if i apply deep pressure in tapping so i needed to do a HARD Reset!!!
So don't ever think of lowering the value, JUST INCREASE but NEVER LOWER!!
Tweak open for comments.
thanks...

Thanks, this tweak worked wonderfully!
I dont use a screen protector (for now at least) and I noticed an improvement in sensitivity as well when I set it to 11880.

disabling the touch pad configuration at startup
is it possible to disable the touch pad configuration at
the initial start up.my touchpad isnt functioning and i
wish anyone would help me with a rom that doesnt allow
you to configure the touch panel so you can go straght to
the system.
my Pda is
tmobile MDA USA
IPL 2.26.
SPL 2.26.
GSM 02.25.11
OS 2.26.10.2
thanks in advance

rusar said:
is it possible to disable the touch pad configuration at
the initial start up.my touchpad isnt functioning and i
wish anyone would help me with a rom that doesnt allow
you to configure the touch panel so you can go straght to
the system.
my Pda is
tmobile MDA USA
IPL 2.26.
SPL 2.26.
GSM 02.25.11
OS 2.26.10.2
thanks in advance
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I posted a thread about this before. Nobody answered but I finally found the answer on my own. What you have to do is to make sure you have a storage card and put a file called welcome.not in the root of it. There doesn't have to be anything in it, you can just open notepad and save the blank file with that name. That tells the device to skip the whole welcome bit with the touch screen calibration and all that.
I may not have the name exactly right, it's been several months. But if you do a search on threads started by me you can probably find it.

i saw this in another link and they said to put it at 240, i listened and i had to hard reset. thank you for clearing things up buddy

hey, the link for the program is bad i was wondering if any one could post the a link for it i have looked everywhere. I have a prob. alighning screen and would like to see if changing the sensitivity will somehow help.

Use Schap's Advanced Configuration Tool. Saves you a ton of brainwork, since it's just doing the registry edits for you. Can also be used to tune your Bluetooth Stereo setup, and a host of "basic" UI modifications.

Hi all at this forum
The Link±
Increase the sensitivity of Touch Screen
I just came across this tweak on this website:
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocket...pping_Pressure
dont work anymore...
Has anybody got an actial link???
And... Does this work for a samsung i900?
With regards
VArmand

Works great for me - thanks colouro

For the max senstivity set both fingerpressure and threshold to -1 or FFFFFFFF in Hex..

X1 SoftTouch (cab now available): improve your screen's responsiveness

Here's how to improve your screen's touch responsiveness, especially if you primarily use your finger to navigate. I have now uploaded a .cab to make it easier to do the tweak. Method 1 (easiest, thanks, Fards) is the .cab method. Method 2 (thanks, Glithramir) is for those who know how to edit their Windows Mobile registry. Method 3 is an alternative method.
Method 1:
1. Download and install X1 SoftTouch at the end of this post (there are no settings or anything... just installing the file creates the tweak)
2. SOFT RESET YOUR DEVICE
3. Enjoy!
Method 2:
1. Use a registry editor such as SKTools
2. Navigate to or search for:
HKLM/Drivers/TouchPanel/PressureThreshold
and
HKLM/Software/OEM/TFLOSettings/FingerPressure
(eg search on "pressure" and you'll find both)
3. Edit the values to any VERY VERY high value such as 999999999 (nine 9s)
*** CAUTION: do NOT change either of these fields to anything less than about 2000 because if you go low enough you will make your touchscreen unresponsive, at which point it's tricky to change it back (learned the hard way)
4. Soft reset
Method 3:
1. Make sure you have Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 installed on your pc/Xperia (thanks tri3dent, gundamboy, MidiAmp); if not, do this:
1a. Install Activesync on your pc.
1b. Connect the device with the pc and sync it.
1c. Download Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 to your PC (not directly to your Xperia) from http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/...49-3C6B-42F1-9FD9-0041345B3385&displaylang=en.
1d. Install the .net CF 3.5 from your pc
1e. Follow the onscreen prompts.
1f. Look at the phone's screen, you will be asked to approve an installation, select yes.
1g. You're done...
2. Download and install Shap's advanced config tool 3.3 (props to Shap):
http://www.touchxperience.com/en/advanced-configuration-tool/downloads.html
3. Scroll down to "HTC TouchFLO" (close to the bottom) and expand it
4. Click on "Pressure threshold," then below you will see a drop down menu.
4a. Click on "Custom" until a field appears allowing you to enter a number.
4b. Change "Pressure threshold" to: 999999999 (yes, that's nine 9s)
4c. Make sure you hit enter if you are using a keyboard so that the value gets entered into the field
5. Change "Finger Pressure" to 999999999 (same number) using the same process
*** CAUTION: do NOT change either of these fields to anything less than about 2000, or less than "Very high" in the drop down menu, because if you go low enough you will make your touchscreen unresponsive, at which point it's tricky to change it back (learned the hard way)
6. Click "Done" below in the bar then click "Ok" to reset your device
Notes:
If you used the recommended "firm" taps when calibrating your screen, the X1 the SoftTouch tweak should lead to:
- substantial improved responsiveness with finger use
- moderate improved responsiveness with stylus use
If you used very light touches when calibrating your screen, the X1 SoftTouch tweak should lead to:
- moderate to minimal improved responsiveness with finger use
- minimal to no improved responsiveness with stylus use
- The tweak works for everything, not just if you have TouchFLO installed
- If you uninstall X1 SoftTouch, your original screen sensitivity settings should return
- I didn't notice much difference in touch responsiveness with registry values over about 1,000,000, but it doesn't seem to hurt to put in extremely high values, which is why I used 999,999,999

Heya, just enabled this on my X1i and it works like a charm!
No more pressing against the screen so that the touches will work, ahh it's wonderful. Thanks a lot for posting this!

I think I need to read the direction carefully next time I changed the setting to "Very High" and voila! Stuckville... Luckily the X1 has keyboards and the awesome pad (I named the directional/optical pad that).
If somebody got stuck accidentally (not like me), just use the d-pad to navigate and press tab on the keyboard to move between dialog boxes.
The config tools been available for a while, but super thanks for the nine 9's trick. Although I seldom use the screen, but it's an improvement I think. As I mushed the screen not touch it, so I don't quite feel the sensitivities changed.

Sorry for a stupid question, how do I install the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5?
It's in a .msi file and xperia doesn't recognize the extension.

Install it on the pc while your Xperia is connected, it'll prompt for install within xperia sometime during the installation.

gundamboy said:
Install it on the pc while your Xperia is connected, it'll prompt for install within xperia sometime during the installation.
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Yup, that's pretty much it...
But for more detailed explanation:
1. Install Activesync on your pc.
2. Connect the device with the pc and sync it.
3. Install the .net CF 3.5 from your pc.
4. Follow the onscreen prompts.
5. Look at the phone's screen, you will be asked to approve an installation, select yes.
6. You're done...
Afterward, install the advanced config cab.

Midi_Amp said:
1. Install Activesync on your pc.
2. Connect the device with the pc and sync it.
3. Install the .net CF 3.5 from your pc.
4. Follow the onscreen prompts.
5. Look at the phone's screen, you will be asked to approve an installation, select yes.
6. You're done...
Afterward, install the advanced config cab.
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Nicely done, hope lots of people try this out because it's quite an improvement from the old finger pressing that I did.

if you mess up and turn it down too far, just use my mobiler to fix it if you're having trouble.

I must say this method really good! every touch is so great and accurate! everyone should do this tweak to improve your Xperiance^_^

This indeed is amazing, i was a bit doubtful when i read the post at first but i tried it and i no longer have to push hard for the X button on the corner of the screen! yay

Yeah it works really good
Thanks

Yes, I have no idea why these settings aren't included out of the box. I figured there might be some adverse effect from the settings (?like draining the battery or sacrificing touch vs stylus use), but there are absolutely NONE as far as I can tell. Just a touch screen that's on the way to being like capacitive.
I think it's theoretically possible to make it even MORE responsive. Have you noticed that when the backlight dims the screen, the very lightest touch wakes it up? Can we take it even further? I'm sure the Advanced Config is just editing a registry entry so that might be the place to start looking.

I was hesitant too, but after making the changes I must say it is a noticeable improvement! The only potential downside I could even consider is reduced battery life, but there is no reason for me to suspect that this will be the case.

net frame work already exsists oin this rom
i get the above message but whn i try programe ist says that i will need a newr version of net
will i need to reinstal firmware update ?

Cant this be done by simply editing the registry?
HKLM/Drivers/TouchPanel/PressureThreshold
HKLM/Software/OEM/TFLOSettings/FingerPressure

works like a charm mate
Good find

I increased my values like this:
PressureThreshold:2124 -> 8496
FingerPressure:977 -> 8496
I dont experience a very big difference. I didnt want to increase too much apart from the default values.
What exactly does the registry keys do?
Another interesting find:
After doing a new screen alignment it reset the values to:
PressureThreshold:2399
FingerPressure:1084
So.. I guess it adapts the values depending on how hard and precise you press the screen when aligning... ?

hmm is there a problem with the default screen?? can someone enlighten me ?

just to confirm:
If i install net framework 3.5 will i loose any programs or settings on the xperia?
Thank you

Nope, it just adds the framework to your phone. Can't remember if it prompts for a reset, but afterwards you can just install the advanced config.

Dimming the screen?

Hi!
I just got my new topas and I am wondering if there is a possibility to reduce the brightness of the screen when needed. As a biologist I often observe wildlife at night and look for a way to keep the screen so dim that I can just barely use it in the dark. This would help me keep my visibility down and my night vision up.
Is there any way to do this?
Best regards
Jamie White

Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548402

Hmm, doesn´t look too easy to use, but I´ll give it a try. Thanks for the quick reply!

The simplest way is to "turn the backlight off" which, with the Topaz, means a very dim backlight. You might find a small app to do that, for which you can put the shortcut in the start menu.
Alternatively, if the dimmest setting of the backlight when it's on is dim enough, you can make a shortcut to take you straight to the wm power settings page. I think the shortcut is: "20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,3" (without the "", just save the plain text file containing the characters as a yourname.lnk file and put it in \windows\start menu\programs folder.

Thanks Pete!
I just made the Lnk-file you suggested, but it´s still opened by word when I run it. I might have to make the file on my pc at home and see if that works out.
I think if I use a red and black desktop theme instead of the blue one I could do with the "backlight off" - option, although I have to try it out in the woods. I´m alway amazed how bright even a little light seems when you´ve been in the dark for some hours.

I just made the Lnk-file you suggested, but it´s still opened by word when I run it.
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That's probably because WM file explorer is hiding the true extension (.txt), all you're doing is adding ".lnk" as part of the main filename. Get another file manager, I recommend Total Commander, which shows all files and their true extensions. It's even got a built in text editor, so you can modify and save your file without using Word.
The other thing I've realised since posting my reply, is some of the Control panel shortcuts don't work quite how they used to in previous versions of WM (although they won't do any harm if wrong).
I also came across this the other day http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485141 which I haven't tried yet but sounds just what you're looking for.

Touch screen delay after wake up

Don't know if its only me:
- Press END key (goes to standby)
- Press any key (wakes up)
- Quickly tap any icon --> Won't react
You need to wait about 1 second for touch screen to be enabled. No big deal but sometimes you are quick and this kind of "retards" your intention and forces you to do a 2nd tap.
Anyone?

pckshd said:
Don't know if its only me:
- Press END key (goes to standby)
- Press any key (wakes up)
- Quickly tap any icon --> Won't react
You need to wait about 1 second for touch screen to be enabled. No big deal but sometimes you are quick and this kind of "retards" your intention and forces you to do a 2nd tap.
Anyone?
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Works fine here. At least I need a second to reach the top of the screen.

here the same but you must be really quick

Yup, annoyes the hell out of me, unlock the phone and use my other thumb to slide to unlock, nothing happens, have to try again and it works.

I am getting that, but is not a show stopper for me. have you try to use the 3rd party locking screen app?

i use s2u2. same problem here. no unlocking in the first one or two seconds after wakeup... does the processor maybe take some time to speed up...?

I don't think its the processor because its actually fast. Must be some internal software delay, maybe the touch screen driver 'wake up'...

Similar problem existed in the HD, i have it, and i tried out a fix posted by one of the forum members, as follows:
1.Make a file named - "welcome.not" and place this in the root of your storage card.
2. Hard Reset your device.
3. You will not be asked the screen calibaration thing, and this will solve your problem.
(How to create "welcome.not" = open notepad on your computed, and safe the blank notepad file with double quotes as : "welcome.not"
This will make the extension of the file as .not
Hope this helps!

Insane Devil said:
2. Hard Reset your device.
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Did you mean reset? or clearing the storage

CLEAN STORAGE. (A hard reset, my friend!)

Before making a hard reset i would wait for maybe other fixes or something as i cant imagine that HDs and HD2s problems are the same... Also i didnt figure out this bug on my old HD, even without "welcome.not"...
You can even start the screen alignment whenever you want. So what happens if you do an alignment after applying your fix? Problem back again?
Last thing: I would not recommend a hard reset with your SD-Card in the device as it ruined all my data on it. At least backup all you stuff from the card somewhere on the PC and try this fix with an empty storage card.
EDIT: I completely forgot: there is no screen alignment taking place after a hard reset on the HD2

Insane Devil said:
CLEAN STORAGE. (A hard reset, my friend!)
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Well that's weird because I read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2139034&postcount=5 that it only needs a reboot and people confirmed it work that's why I was confused.

Insane Devil said:
Similar problem existed in the HD, i have it, and i tried out a fix posted by one of the forum members, as follows:
1.Make a file named - "welcome.not" and place this in the root of your storage card.
2. Hard Reset your device.
3. You will not be asked the screen calibaration thing, and this will solve your problem.
(How to create "welcome.not" = open notepad on your computed, and safe the blank notepad file with double quotes as : "welcome.not"
This will make the extension of the file as .not
Hope this helps!
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I posted an updated fix here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587931. If you don't want to hardreset, go into the registry and find HKLM\Hardware\DeviceMap\KEYBD and look for the entry "First Calibration." If it's there and the dword is 1 then change it to 0 and manually softreset. That achieves the same thing as bypassing screen alignment. Manually aligning the screen creates this entry, which is why if you use welcome.not and then later realign your screen, the problem comes back. To solve that you have to change the reg key again. I don't have an HD2 so I cannot confirm if the reg is there or if this would work on it, but it may be worth a try.
S3

dont have my hd2 here at the mom (repair) but would be excited about testers and answers. Just cant figure out how screen alignment and wakeup-delay go together...but the thread mentionend in post above makes me hope

on a german leo the key does not exist

jayjoe said:
on a german leo the key does not exist
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Neither in WWE Rom.
But there is a PassCalibration already with value 1.

Mines has the same problem, not very often but the problem is there. After wake up the tap just does not move or register my touch and because hd2 has such a large screen, they should have put the slide to the middle or at the bottom and not all the way to the top to slide unlock the phone.

@Skywatch:
For getting the slider on the bottom, search for Dusk lock screen in the HD Apps forum, and install that and u will get it on the bottom, it looks lovely! and I have 100% belief that it will work on the HD, as its the same OS and Screen resolution.
@All:
Regarding the Welcome.not, i read in the HD forum regarding the tweak, and it clearly said to HARD REST, or Re Flash your device and only then it will work. not with a soft reset.
This is to skip the Screen Calibration which happens after a Hard Reset and that has to be skipped.
if you have done this, and later you re align your screen, then the tweak will fall off its place. Another HardReset or ReFlash will be required.
No problems doing it with a mSD full of data as i have been flashing that way since past 4 years, without any problem. But, up to u!

pckshd said:
Neither in WWE Rom.
But there is a PassCalibration already with value 1.
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pckshd, what are the other key entries besides PassCalibration?

It is actually at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH\
Other values are AlignScreenNeeded=0, CalibrationData=287,479 57,96 57,864 518,864 518,96 and some more...
These values are from a fresh hardreset, never calibrated, and actually HD2 does not prompt for alignment. So I don't think the issue is related to calibration.
Delay still there

Artas ROM guide to (near) perfection

Dear Note 3 fans,
I have been fighting for almost a month with my new Note 3. I have tried an overwhelming amount of ROMs, but the ROM of artas182 is the only one, where it worked. I have posted a lot of questions and I have been sending a lot of PMs to developers. Unfortunately, nobody gave me an answer, nobody has provided help.
Hence I have no other choice, but to use this ROM. It is stable, but there are a lot of
glitches and a lot of inconvenience. At the price of many sleepless nights, I have finally managed to solve almost all of them and I have decided to publish a little guide, with the hopevthat it might be helpful to somebody:
Problem 1: SD card is not being seen from a PC, when the phone is connected to USB.
Solution 1: well, I still didn't find a real solution for this. But there is a nice workaround - use TWRP 3.0.2-1. When it's necessary to copy files to the SD card, boot into recovery - now the SD card is visible from the PC. I know it's cumbersome and it's
far from perfect, but it's way better than opening the phone, taking the SD card out or copying stuff to the internal memory and moving it then to the SD card
Problem 2: Everything looks huge. TouchWizHome is not looking nice with a grid of 4x5 on a 5.7" display !!
Solution 2: Install an app, called DPI changer and set a more appropriate value for DPI.
As far as I know, 420 is a standard, I have although set it to 400, because I desperately
needed to get things smaller. Now we've solved one issue, but caused several other glitches, which I will describe here.
Glitch A: The grid is still 4x5. There is a huge wasted space around the icons.
Solution A: I tried to put a lot of modded TouchWizHome.apk files and replace the original one, but no matter what I tried, I was always getting an error message "Unfortunately TouchWizHome has stopped". Hence the solution is to install another launcher. S Launcher is the closest to TouchWiz. But I decided to use Next Launcher, as it provides a really different looks to the phone and I like all those 3D effects (they remind me a little bit on the Linux Compiz). Now I have a 5x5 grid. Beautiful!
Glitch B: The dialer seems to be with hardcoded DPI. The buttons only cover part of the screen and they leave an unsymmetrical white space on the screen - UGLY!
Solution B: Install Zero Dialer. Set it as the default dialer (Settings / Default applications) and then go to Settings / Application manager and disable the original phone app.
Glitch C: The camera app is also with hardcoded DPI settings. It looks ridiculously small on the gorgeous 5.7" screen and leaves a lot of black space around the app. Worse, touching the buttons doesn't work. One has to kinda tap next to a button, in order to hit it. Terrible !!
Solution C: Install another camera app. I personally like Camera zoom FX. This causes glitch D.
Glitch D: It's not possible to set which camera app is being invoked from the shortcut on the lock screen.
Solution D: Download BlackRose ROM (BlackRose_Marshmallow_Note5_NewUx_v1_Light.zip). Open the zip file and go to
System\priv-app\SamsungCamera5 and extract SamsungCamera5.apk from there. On the phone, open Root Explorer and go to /system/priv-app/SamsungCamera3 and copy SamsungCamera5.apk there. Rename SamsungCamera3.apk to SamsungCamera3.apk.bak. Rename SamsungCamera5.apk to SamsungCamera3.apk.
Set the permissions to 644. Go to /data/dalvik-cache, scroll to the end of the list, and going from the bottom, look for a file, containing the name SamsungCamera3. Delete it and restart the phone. Now we've successfully replaced the stock camera with an app with better resolution. Now it only leaves a small black strap at the bottom of the screen. The buttons are working fine now!
Problem 3: When you long-press the power button, the 3 icons for setting the phone to mute, vibration and sound are missing.
Solution 3: Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution for this one! I would be very very
thankful, if somebody would advise how this can be solved. Maybe it's possible to replace the whole power menu ? I have tried Lockscreen vibrate widget, but I didn't find a way to make it show up on the lock screen
Problem 4: The alarm does not produce ANY SOUNDS at times. It might be related to charging.
Solution 4: Install and use Timely
@artas182x - MANY MANY THANKS for providing the only custom ROM with working encryption. I hope that you will not be angry about this post, on the contrary, you would hopefully embrace it as a contribution for establishing the leading posistion of your ROM