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[TEST] touch screen/calibration issues... may have figured some things out?

Ok, so over the course of time I have owned my phone I think I may have found one of the reasons for the phone to go out of calibration in terms of touch accuracy but I just want to make sure its not just my phone doing it.
What I have noticed is that if I hold my phone at an awkward angle for a few minutes (typically 5ish minutes) the calibration will go out of whack. This notoriously happens when I have my phone in navigation mode and just laying on my lap (landscape mode). Today I was driving and I got a text mid way to where I was going so I picked the phone up to hit the talk-to-text button (which is really nice for texting while driving by the way) and it was out of calibration, could not hit the button to save my life. Similar has happened when I held the phone at an awkward angle while watching a movie laying in bed. So I would like to see if anyone gets similar results holding the phone at an awkward angle for a few minutes, I would say give it 5-10 minutes for an accurate result. Try doing things like holding it literally upside down while its in landscape mode and then switching it back to portrait and type on the small keyboard again. I would go into a program of some sort that you can test touching all areas of the screen with.
Now, it seems like before the OTA update, I would have to reset the phone and sometimes that wouldnt work still. However now (and I have tested multiple times with consistent results) that if you lock the phone and then unlock it, the calibration seems to be adjusted again.
Let me know your results.
**For the record, I have had a very positive experience with this phone since I purchased it but I have been able to replicate the "touch screen issue" many a times and would just like to get to the bottom of the issue if all else to just avoid it or tell others how to avoid it happening to them because it is quite annoying.

it sounds like a software hiccup i would hope it would be getting patched sometime..... but as of now i dont know of anyone that's got a fix for it. i have the problem from time to time but i just lock and unlock and its fine, kind of annoying but not something that makes me want to throw it out the window or anything.

Judging from the behavior, I'll place my bets on it being a software issue rather than hardware. There seems to be some hiccups between the accelerometer and the screen getting confused about angles/tilting.

didnt happen to me before upgrade. Its happened a couple of times since.
My phone had been on charge and I had changed to setting to disable it from sleeping while on charge. I had turned the screen off but it must have woke up I went to use it and couldnt hit any keys.
I thought it may be something to do with it being awake for a long time - but it could be coincidence.
I can confirm that putting the phone to sleep and waking it fixes the problem

I have the same issue. No problem before OTA and described problem after that. Grrr.

Mmm, I experienced the problem both before and after the OTA, so I dunno.

Good to know that you can just sleep the phone and then wake it back up to fix the issue now. You used to have to reboot.
I have not had the issue at all since removing live wallpapers. Maybe just a coincidence.
Do people using custom ROMS have these issues?

Ok, so there are similar results out there then and sounds like 100% confirmed just locking and relocking recalibrates the phone back into proper order, no more full reboot is needed.
For the record, I am not using a live wall paper, I have not rooted or installed any themes or anything so my phone is all stock besides the OTA update. Also, as someone else stated that you used to have to restart your phone before the update and I experienced the same thing but again now I only have to lock and unlock the phone for it to recalibrate.
Grainysand you and I seem to have had similar "issues" if you even want to call them that with before and after the OTA and I share your view that there is an issue between the accelerometer and the software recognition.

It's definitely the accelerometer. For the record, I've never had to either reboot or relock/unlock the screen to fix this. I hold the phone upright and it corrects itself, though sometimes it recurs.

I've noticed this a few times after the ota, but just turned it off/on to fix.

galaxys said:
I've noticed this a few times after the ota, but just turned it off/on to fix.
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Same here. Usually when in landscape mode and the device is tipped at a 45 degree angle. I've also seen the N1 (when using the browser in landscape) scroll the page back and forth very quickly (about 1/4"). When this happen the device seems to get 'stuck' in landscape mode even when I flip it back to portrait.

After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.

Huey85 said:
After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.
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now that I think about it, I must say that most of the time I see this happening it has been on the charger... will test later though, i doubt this would effect the issue

I think it has something to do with live wallpapers, the ones that receive input touch to react in some way or another. Its a software issue.
You could put it to sleep and on wake up its ok.
Or you could touch the buttons slightly to the right.

htcmagic said:
I think it has something to do with live wallpapers, the ones that receive input touch to react in some way or another. Its a software issue.
You could put it to sleep and on wake up its ok.
Or you could touch the buttons slightly to the right.
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no its not the live wall papers... I have tested both with and without live wall papers and I can produce identical results as far as loss of calibration

Not sure if its the same problem but when playing games sometimes, the isnput locks up sometimes when in landscape mode. However rotating the phone between landscape & portrait mode seems to fix the problem, might help for this too.

Huey85 said:
After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.
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same here.

[Q] Droid X Screen Problem - Hardware or Software?

The phone has been working very well, no problems of any kind. It is rooted and I'm using Go Launcher along with Widget Locker for the lock screen.
I just updated the Widget launcher application and everything was working just fine.
However, the last time I woke the phone, the display was bonkers. The lower 1/3 of the screen was grey, over writing the icons for the functions located there on the home screen. When I scroll through the home screens, the lower 1/3 continues to be greyed out. However on close inspection, the underlying icons can bee seen and are activated with a touch as normal.
The overwriting seems to be somewhat of a repeat of the top 1/3 of the screen. With the moto lock screen there is a digital clock displayed in the upper part of the screen and that is showing up in the lower third also.
This greying out is more like a Ghosting effect. The screen also has a general background flicker in the upper section that is not greyed out or ghosted over. I did nothing like dropping the phone or dunking it. This does have what I would somewhat characterize as connection issue. BWDIK.
Does anyone have any idea as to what could have caused this to pop up as a problem? The new version of Widget Locker seemed to be doing just fine and I had configured it to take more icons in the ICS default theme. Everything was going great until it suddenly was not.
Suggestions or accounts of similar problems would be appreciated. I sure hope there is a cure. The phone has been great and darned capable. I'd hate to have to change it out.

Reboot your phone.
If that doesnt work, make a backup in Clockwork and wipe data.
If that doesn't work, it's hardware related.
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Thanks for the help.
Could you be a little more specific as to how to make the backup and then restore?
I've restarted the phone several times. That won't clear it up.

Download droid2bootsrtap>install>flash recovery>reboot recovery
Scroll to backup/restore (use vol keys select w/ camera key)
Select backup, let it do it's thing
Select wipe data
Reboot

Thanks for the additional help.
That did not seem to get the job done for me. I still have the problem with the top third of the screen being displayed again as an overwrite of the bottom third.
One odd thing did occur while I was working on this. I had the phone connected to the charger. It was in "sleep" mode with a dark screen. I picked up the phone, pushed the wake up button top. and at the same time I disconnected from the charger. When the screen first displayed it was displaying correctly and clearly with no overwrite. I don't believe I have a failed display in the sense of dead sections or pixels. It seems that there is some cross connection in how it is being addressed so that the upper one third is being written twice, one of those being an overwrite of the lower one third. The icons that should be showing in the lower third dispaly are visible through the "fog" created by the overwrite.
I have contacted the local smartphone Mr. Fixit and ordered the new screen. The problem may be deeper than that though. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I like the way the phone operates and am getting to understand it after about a year of working with it. It is rooted with the handy WiFi tether operating, along with a few simple customizations. It would be great to get it sorted out as I don't want to go the upgrade route at this time.

Have you tried reSBFing? I had a similar problem, except the lower 3/4 of screen went black. Got an insurance replacement, but when i was wiping my old phone, i SBFd, and the screen worked again. Granted, i still had to send the phone in, so no idea how long it would've lasted.
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Nothing to do with SBF'ing. The phone is rooted, and it worked the first time, several months prior to the problem.
I finally got the screen replaced and that part is working well. Nice and bright with no ghosting of another section. However, I now have developed a problem with the dialer turning off the screen when the call starts dialing. No capability of using number pad or even hitting the End Call button. Returns to the default lockscreen when call ends from a disconnect on the other end. still a great mystery.

Question: how's your camera working?
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[Fixed] Brand new SGS5 Panorama Camera Mode frozen solid?

I bought my SGS5 yesterday. I've been playing with it since then and today I went to use the Panorama mode. To my surprise it's just frozen.
For example. When I go to use the mode. The camera instantly freezes exactly where it was before I swapped modes. The auto-focus seems to still work and I can press around on the screen, but the screen doesn't actually show what I am looking at. It's hard to explain. It's like basically, if I had just taken a picture of something, and then I was looking at it in the gallery. Except the focus reticle is still visible. Pressing the capture button does nothing. Moving the phone does nothing. Swapping back into ANY mode whatsoever, immediately gets the camera working again and the screen instantly updates to show me what I am looking at. Panorama mode is the ONLY mode that doesn't work on my phone.
Has anyone else experienced this at all? I googled around and couldn't find anything at all about this happening on the SGS5. I really hope I don't have some sort of botched phone/sensor or something...
EDIT: Okay I rebooted a few times, and the issue still persisted however after killing some apps, it works.
It seems that the Panoram mode just requires a really large amount of RAM. The camera.apk's RAM usage jumps dramatically when you select the mode. If you're out of RAM then it won't work.
I'll leave this thread here as a placeholder in case anyone else has issues in the future.

[Q] Functionality problems after NK1 update

Hi. I foolishly updated to NK1 a month or so ago assuming there was a root. Since the update, I've been having some really annoying basic functionality problems with my Note 3 (outside of it feeling sluggish overall). I've gotten around keyboard freezes, input lag and general f-ups in the Messenger app by switching to Textra. The now nonexistent haptic feedback was "fixed" by increasing the vibration length for each key on the keyboard. For some apps, I've sideloaded an old version to get them to behave like they did before the update. However, there are a few other issues that I'm hoping someone may have some ideas how to fix.
1) YouTube will constantly error out when trying to load a video and my subscriptions list. The white circle will just spin and spin until it finally gives me a "video cannot load" error. If a video won't load, it won't load no matter how many times I click on it to refresh it. I'll have to either close the app and reopen it, or for the really difficult times, restart my phone. Also, if I shrink the app rather than close it when I'm done, no videos will play when I reopen the app unless I close it or restart my phone.
2) The stock camera clears its settings whenever it feels like it. Auto flash, face detection and image stabilization will randomly turn from "on" and "auto" to "off."
3) All of the web browsers (Opera, Chrome, default browser) and Google Maps just randomly hang for about 2 minutes as they try to load data from Wi-Fi and 4G signals. It's similar to what happens with YouTube but they eventually fix themselves after these long hiccups.
4) Often when the backlight turns off before the phone is going to sleep and I touch the screen to keep it awake, the backlight gets stuck in its turned off state, making it hard to see the screen. The only way to get around this is to put the phone to sleep and then wake it up. It does this at least a few times a day.
5) Pulling down the notification bar will sometimes randomly cause my phone screen to start flashing between the notification bar and the lock screen. I have to do a hard reset when this happens.
Thanks in advance for the help! I'm sorry this post is so long. I hate this update and am seriously considering going to HTC.

Have you tried a factory reset?

I have not. I was trying to avoid that if possible and use a last resort.

macschwag14 said:
I have not. I was trying to avoid that if possible and use a last resort.
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It's probably your best option. But first try clearing data in the offending apps. Or making sure the apps are updated, or even unibnstalling and reinstalling the apps.

Pop-up view buttons hidden in Dark Mode for Discord, Maps, and others

I have a Galaxy S10 Plus, about a year old, unrooted, fully updated, and settings have been reset. This is my attempt to reach out for this issue before resorting to a factory reset that may or may not resolve it.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1nvkXKkVjUjqgro47 is a screenshot of the issue. This is with Dark Mode turned on. Some apps will not turn Dark and display the buttons properly, but they used to. It's been a couple months, and I don't remember any specific change.
I have:
Reinstalled affected apps where I could, some system apps are affected.
Changed Darkmode off and on.
Forced Darkmode.
Reset All Settings.
Nothing's changed the behavior. Has anyone seen something like this, have any idea how to resolve it? I'm prepared to do a full factory reset, but I'd prefer not to go through that hassle if there's an alternative.
Edit: The buttons display normally in Light Mode.

Ha-ha, fun isn't it?
Same thing on some of my apps.
A small price to pay for the darkness... this site got it right though