So I had a perfectly fine Motorola MOTO X Style and all of a sudden, without notice, the navigation bar at the bottom stopped responding. I could figure out it wasn't a hardware issue because that part of the screen would still be responsive when the black navigation bar was there.
So i decided to root and unlock my phone and I've been trying to put several roms, i tried with crDroid and with pureXMM from this very same forum , and sometimes it would work and others it just wouldnt. Now i'm up to a point where I installed a new rom and it still doesnt work. i don't get why, it now doesn't work even in the TRWP recovery app. and my latest rom is pure slim (also from this very same forum) and now the whole bottom area won't respond to anything (not even the keyboard space, because I disable the navigation bar and keyboard is pushed down because of the empty space and it just wont work. I have no idea of what could be causing this problem. but it feels as if there is an invisible spacer on top of that bar that impedes the whole bar from working.
i'm so confused, any ideas?
I had a similar issue just recently. Using the developer options I was able to see that the presses under a certain line are not registered anymore. Strangely enough, after charging the phone over night, the issue is gone. I am now dreading its return and start to search for a new phone as it seems from your comments that this is a hardware defect and not a software issue...
troin said:
So I had a perfectly fine Motorola MOTO X Style and all of a sudden, without notice, the navigation bar at the bottom stopped responding. I could figure out it wasn't a hardware issue because that part of the screen would still be responsive when the black navigation bar was there.
So i decided to root and unlock my phone and I've been trying to put several roms, i tried with crDroid and with pureXMM from this very same forum , and sometimes it would work and others it just wouldnt. Now i'm up to a point where I installed a new rom and it still doesnt work. i don't get why, it now doesn't work even in the TRWP recovery app. and my latest rom is pure slim (also from this very same forum) and now the whole bottom area won't respond to anything (not even the keyboard space, because I disable the navigation bar and keyboard is pushed down because of the empty space and it just wont work. I have no idea of what could be causing this problem. but it feels as if there is an invisible spacer on top of that bar that impedes the whole bar from working.
i'm so confused, any ideas?
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Sounds like it's hardware, try changing size of navbar in custom room to 125% to temporarily solve
Spencervb256 said:
Sounds like it's hardware, try changing size of navbar in custom room to 125% to temporarily solve
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that's pretty muth the only thing left I can do.
The bottom part of the screen no longer works for me.it was weird because it worked for a starter but then it just stopped working. the first half inch more or less of my screen is senseless
so im having the same problem on my xt1572. Im running Aicp 7.1.2 Navbar suddenkly stopped working. so i went to dev options and enabled show touch on screen and sure enough it didnt recognise touches below the navbar start line. so i did what was suggestedand clean flashed, same problem, and then i increased navbar height, now the navbar is working but the strange thing is the show touches settings is still turned on and however much i increase the navbar height the touch is never recognized beyond the strat of the navbar so im thinking its still a software issue.
viggyv said:
so im having the same problem on my xt1572. Im running Aicp 7.1.2 Navbar suddenkly stopped working. so i went to dev options and enabled show touch on screen and sure enough it didnt recognise touches below the navbar start line. so i did what was suggestedand clean flashed, same problem, and then i increased navbar height, now the navbar is working but the strange thing is the show touches settings is still turned on and however much i increase the navbar height the touch is never recognized beyond the strat of the navbar so im thinking its still a software issue.
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Beyond the strat? If it's still not showing touches I'd be inclined to say hardware. I don't know what it is, but these screens don't seem to hold up very well..
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Beyond the strat? If it's still not showing touches I'd be inclined to say hardware. I don't know what it is, but these screens don't seem to hold up very well..
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I am also suffering from this nav bar issue. Tried factory reset, 1st time it solved the problem, but it started again. I reset again, but it didn’t fix.
It seems like the culprit is nav bar. Then is the problem in hardware? Did anyone try replacing the phone screen?
My thought is,
1. Since the nav bar area seems to be causing the problem, it maybe a bug, so software issue.
2. The battery heats up alotttt, which may also cause some issue. And battery is just beneath the screen.
Please if anyone has a solution, please inform. TIA
IftekharAziz said:
I am also suffering from this nav bar issue. Tried factory reset, 1st time it solved the problem, but it started again. I reset again, but it didn’t fix.
It seems like the culprit is nav bar. Then is the problem in hardware? Did anyone try replacing the phone screen?
My thought is,
1. Since the nav bar area seems to be causing the problem, it maybe a bug, so software issue.
2. The battery heats up alotttt, which may also cause some issue. And battery is just beneath the screen.
Please if anyone has a solution, please inform. TIA
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Some of my friends had this problem too. They had to replace a new battery and some even a new lcd. Battery caused this problem.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/help/solved-navbar-responding-t3993049
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So I bought a used N4 sold as is because the seller said he had some issues with the ROM and the touch sensitivity and all it needed was a stock ROM flash. I took up the challenge and flashed stock 4.4.4.
While I'm at the home screen everything's fine, as soon as opened the app drawer there were random touches all over the bottom half of the screen. Some were shown in the center and many at the bottom left corner but most were just random. I mean like 7-8 touches per second. The same happened whenever I went into play store, Opera or Chrome. Didn't test it further since I decided to try another rom.
Flashed Purity ROM and at first glance it worked flawlessly. Not random touches in home screen, app drawer or settings. Then I flash Gapps and the same thing happens with Play and Opera.
The funny thing is that the problem persists but at different circumstances. Can't pinpoint the exact cause. Should I get a new screen and try? Or maybe something else is at fault there?
I've been having the exact same problem as you. It started after I replaced the screen and the usb flex.
Ghost touches 1-2 each second only on some apps (none on homescreen or settings). I noticed that it happen in 4.4.4 app drawer but not in the 4.2.2 app drawer. I got almost no ghost touches on 4.2.2 messaging app also. It happens in almost any app, like play store, dropbox,chrome....
I thought it was the battery so I replaced it, but it did not fix it.
I have been trying to troubleshoot the problem but I ran out of theories. I wish the best luck to find the solution, as I almost gave up on it. If you happen to solve it tell me.
I think i found out what's causing this issue.
My theory was that apps with a lot of white would trigger the ghost touches. So I tested with flashlight screen apps that only show white on the screen. As expected the ghost touches only started to appear when i turned the flashlight on.
Therefore my theory was correct.
In my case I will contact the seller that sold me the screen to see if I can get a replacement.
I've had the intermittent touch screen issue, just above the capacitive buttons and also the ghost touches.
Started about 2+ weeks ago.
I reverted back to the stock "HOME" launcher instead of the Google Now launcher and that seemed to have fixed the issue.
I will have to keep an eye out to see if it lasts.
Nexus4 Ghost touch navbar fixed (for rooted only)
Nubrig said:
So I bought a used N4 sold as is because the seller said he had some issues with the ROM and the touch sensitivity and all it needed was a stock ROM flash. I took up the challenge and flashed stock 4.4.4.
While I'm at the home screen everything's fine, as soon as opened the app drawer there were random touches all over the bottom half of the screen. Some were shown in the center and many at the bottom left corner but most were just random. I mean like 7-8 touches per second. The same happened whenever I went into play store, Opera or Chrome. Didn't test it further since I decided to try another rom.
Flashed Purity ROM and at first glance it worked flawlessly. Not random touches in home screen, app drawer or settings. Then I flash Gapps and the same thing happens with Play and Opera.
The funny thing is that the problem persists but at different circumstances. Can't pinpoint the exact cause. Should I get a new screen and try? Or maybe something else is at fault there?
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Hi everyone. this is my first post. i may make some grammar mistakes, because english is not my native language.
I found a solution for the ghost touch issue on my nexus 4, so maybe it can help who is having the same problem.
1- Download and instal the NOMone Resolution Changer on Play store
(this is my first post here, so i cant paste de link here, but you will not have trouble to find it)
2- when asked, Allow superuser
3- open the app and change the height resolution to 1250. (it worked for me, but make some tests to see if you need to disable a bigger part of the screen to avoid de problem)
This is not the best way to keep using your phone, because you may lost a part of the usable screen, but worked for me.
Thanks!
I workaround this issue avoid using undervoling in the kernel, and avoid lower temperatures in phone, yes as you read ... this issue give my crazy when my phone was to hot and I tried to cold my phone using one ice cube in screen and back, the temperature of the phone down but ghost touches appears again, so played some videos to warm the phone again and dissapear again.
Don't ask me about how it works, or relation with screen, digitizer or battery, I don't understand but help me to workaround the issue.
Hey all.
So I got my MXP about a month ago, as my faithful Nexus 6 has long been deteriorating (#RIPshamu), and I wanted to try something a little different. I love the device and have almost gotten it tweaked and set up just the way I like it. However, I'm currently facing an issue that I can't seem to fix.
When I have a dark gray image on screen, such as the dimming when you pull down the notification bar over a white screen, the left side of my screen flickers rapidly from dark to normal, as if changing brightness. It is most noticeable on higher brightness settings, but plenty present enough on lower ones anyhow. I have made sure that no odd display tweaks in GravityBox are interfering with system presets, and I can't figure out what might be causing this.
I'm hoping it is software-related; I bought the device off-contract and without warranty, as I do with all my handsets, but if the problem is with hardware I should be able to fix it on my own so long as I know what part is causing the issue.
I'm running TruPureXMM with FrankenClark kernel. (systemless SU, magisk/systemless-xposed if any of that matters to you). Can provide logs upon request, but things seem normal to me at first glance.
Anyone else experienced this or have a fix?
I too am running TruPure and Frankenclark. I've been having a similar issue with the display, except it's the bottom half of the screen that is dimmed. I've also noticed that the 'dimming' takes on vertical lines of color depending on what the screen is displaying. The 'dimming' has consistently been transparent for me.
I originally thought that it may have started because I changed some settings using kernel adiutor, however changing those settings back did not fix the issue. I've yet to try returning to stock. I've also noticed the same display issue on boot up and in TWRP, which suggests a hardware problem, not a software one.
Some research online suggests that there is a known display bug with the Moto pure, and that the temporary fix is to reboot, but that doesn't solve the problem for me.
I think I'll try reverting to stock first, and if that is unsuccessful, then I'll try to reseat the display connector.
so i recently replace my mtxp screen and everything was working perfectly until one day i was watching a youtube video and tried using my navbar buttons and they were unresponsive..did everything from rebooted..clear cache..reinstall rom...same problem..its like the bottom of the screen is unresponsive and only works when screen is locked...
anyone else with the same problem/solution?
Hi, I have the same situation: the screen was replaced some 9 months ago and worked fine until a few days ago, when the navigation bar stopped responding. I think it happened during watching a video (on facebook or YouTube) as in your case. I've also tried everything you did, but for no avail. The interesting thing is that the screen itself is reaponsive in that area e. g. during the Setup wizard or on the lock screen (e.g. the button to switch on the camera is working fine). I think I had some similar issue with another android device (LG 4X) when I was using a non-stock ROM (CM) and there was some issue with the installation of Google Apps. As I'm using the stock ROM for my Moto X Style, my best guess is that it might be a potential Google Play Services update that is causing this issue.
Maybe this theory could be checked by installing a third party ROM without Google Apps (I'm not sure if that is possible) to see whether the navbar works that way or not.
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Hi, I have the same situation: the screen was replaced some 9 months ago and worked fine until a few days ago, when the navigation bar stopped responding. I think it happened during watching a video (on facebook or YouTube) as in your case. I've also tried everything you did, but for no avail. The interesting thing is that the screen itself is reaponsive in that area e. g. during the Setup wizard or on the lock screen (e.g. the button to switch on the camera is working fine). I think I had some similar issue with another android device (LG 4X) when I was using a non-stock ROM (CM) and there was some issue with the installation of Google Apps. As I'm using the stock ROM for my Moto X Style, my best guess is that it might be a potential Google Play Services update that is causing this issue.
Maybe this theory could be checked by installing a third party ROM without Google Apps (I'm not sure if that is possible) to see whether the navbar works that way or not.
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Hopefully I will figure it out.. It's definitely a software problem triggered by a update or system app.. My work around for now is using a nav bar app from the playstore
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Hi, I have the same situation: the screen was replaced some 9 months ago and worked fine until a few days ago, when the navigation bar stopped responding. I think it happened during watching a video (on facebook or YouTube) as in your case. I've also tried everything you did, but for no avail. The interesting thing is that the screen itself is reaponsive in that area e. g. during the Setup wizard or on the lock screen (e.g. the button to switch on the camera is working fine). I think I had some similar issue with another android device (LG 4X) when I was using a non-stock ROM (CM) and there was some issue with the installation of Google Apps. As I'm using the stock ROM for my Moto X Style, my best guess is that it might be a potential Google Play Services update that is causing this issue.
Maybe this theory could be checked by installing a third party ROM without Google Apps (I'm not sure if that is possible) to see whether the navbar works that way or not.
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Hopefully I will figure it out.. It's definitely a software problem triggered by a update or system app.. My work around for now is using a nav bar app from the playstore
Hi, I have switched on the "Show touches" feature in the Developer options to see whether the screen is detecting touches in the bottom area of the screen: it actually doesn't. It is not an issue on the lock screen though but it is for the navigation bar. So, it seems it is the hardware that is acting up, after all...
I have found a thread about this issue with a workaround to increase the height of the navigation bar by xposed: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/help/navigation-buttons-issue-t3497985
I'll try either that or by installing a custom ROM that has that option built in - e.g. AICP 12.1 (Android 7.1) seems to have such setting.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/help/solved-navbar-responding-t3993049
Same problem here - at least in my case also a hardware issue after replacing a broken screen. Thought (as many did) it was software because TWRP, lockscreen etc works, but if you actually try touching only the downmost parts of the TWRP or lockscreen buttons, it won't react. "Show touches" from developer tools also shows touches being registered only just above the normal navigation buttons.
I am currently using XPerience-11.1.2-20171004 with OpenGapps and Magisk installed.
After a while the symbols/colours which are shown in the statusbar, can be seen in the navigationbar.
This started a while ago (round about 1 month) and happens on every Rom for me.
Examples are attached under the post. If somebody has the same problem or has a solution i would be very grateful!
try caliberating your display there are a plenty of apps for that
or your display might have been damaged
or you can also try removing the display and again putting back this can fix the problem
I just calibrated my display with an app. But the pixel glitch still happens. How can this be a hardware issue?
hallodrix said:
I just calibrated my display with an app. But the pixel glitch still happens. How can this be a hardware issue?
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check if the glitch exists while in recovery mode
i am also a newbie
Hi,
I've a moto g5 plus which is not accepting any touch to the navbar area. Even when I enable the one nav button feature, the navbar keys hide but I cannot touch or register response to that. I don't think it's a hardware issue but if it is, how should I check it?! I'm currently using fluid navbar guesture app to navigate.?
The problem appeared suddenly when I was on Android 7.0, I thought ota will fix this problem. So I updated device to 8.1. But problem did not solved. So I tried hard reset, but no luck. If somebody know what exactly the problem is, I'd be glad. The device is not rooted nor the bootloader is unlocked.
How do I install stock oreo rom? I think this should fix it but I'm not sure.
Please help.
If you have your warranty you should get the device checked, that sounds hardware unless you rooted (you didn't) and touched something
What was the last thing you remember doing before this trouble started?
Does the screen touch works at the bottom? Does the navbar register the touch but it doesn't do anything? Can you see your lockscreen?
M1810 said:
If you have your warranty you should get the device checked, that sounds hardware unless you rooted (you didn't) and touched something
What was the last thing you remember doing before this trouble started?
Does the screen touch works at the bottom? Does the navbar register the touch but it doesn't do anything? Can you see your lockscreen?
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Hi M1810, thanks for replying.
I've been told it's hardware issue by service centre but they not even touched my phone, that's another story perhaps. I don't think it's a hardware issue as I'm doubtful about how only the navbar portion of my screen became unresponsive only and not other part of screen?!!!
Last thing I remember doing is switching between one nav guesture feature toggling on and back. But it was working fine then for some time. It just suddenly stopped working. (This is the reason I think this is a software issue. With the moto nav bar feature.)
I've enabled the show touches from developer option. The taps not even getting registered on the bottom portion. Other than that, there is no problem. I can see lock screen but cannot touch the bottom three icons, the camera and google mic thing.
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Hi M1810, thanks for replying.
I've been told it's hardware issue by service centre but they not even touched my phone, that's another story perhaps. I don't think it's a hardware issue as I'm doubtful about how only the navbar portion of my screen became unresponsive only and not other part of screen?!!!
Last thing I remember doing is switching between one nav guesture feature toggling on and back. But it was working fine then for some time. It just suddenly stopped working. (This is the reason I think this is a software issue. With the moto nav bar feature.)
I've enabled the show touches from developer option. The taps not even getting registered on the bottom portion. Other than that, there is no problem. I can see lock screen but cannot touch the bottom three icons, the camera and google mic thing.
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If not even the lockscreen lower part reponds then it's hardware.. if updating/reseting did not solve it
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If not even the lockscreen lower part reponds then it's hardware.. if updating/reseting did not solve it
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Last question.... Can I install stock 7.0 rom by using this guide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5...e-npn25-137-67-5-fastboot-t3694738/amp/) )?! I'm currently on updated oreo 8.1. or should I flash the oreo based pixel experience rom?!
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Last question.... Can I install stock 7.0 rom by using this guide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5...e-npn25-137-67-5-fastboot-t3694738/amp/) )?! I'm currently on updated oreo 8.1. or should I flash the oreo based pixel experience rom?!
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I don't know for sure, i recommend you to ask in that thread, ehat i know is that it is not recommended to install custom ROM's if you're currently on 8.1 stock