I've got the VS995 with alpha rom and so far it's working great but I've noticed particularly today the screen is very jittery. What I mean by this is that when I'm typing by tapping (swiftkey) the keyboard, it registers too many letters or when I'm using the swiping method it breaks up the single swipe into mulitple words even though I've not lifted my finger. There is also a problem when I'm scrolling up and down my app drawer it will jump into an app I've not tapped on. All this has become worse since earlier today when I disabled all the verizon apps.
Is there any way I can change the sensitivity of the touch screen to limit these false touches.
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i've searched for ways to open up other rotation angles as well as autorotation for any and all apps under the sun. most people suggest bsbtweaks and it really does do the job, but only rotates to the allowed 270degrees angle (thats -90degrees). effectively, it just adds the window class to the list of window classes that the built in HTC g-sensor mechanism will give respect to.
so i looked some more and found "changescreen" to fit the bill. after setting up exceptions, it works quite well to allow all other applications (except for the exceptions which include sense) to rotate to 90degrees, 180degrees (this looks way cool some times!), and the usual 270degrees.
HOWEVER, the point of this new thread is to discuss something that seems to be quite an attractive option if it can be made to work 100%. i've noticed that the onscreen landscape keyboard is MUCH more usable in the 90degrees rotation. this is because those damned cursor keys take up 0.5 inch of space that is balanced out by the hardware keys on the other side, thus placing the rest of the keyboard SQUARELY in the middle of your thumbs! contrast this with the experience on the default 270degrees rotation where the cursor keys and hardware keys end up on the same side, forcing the user to stretch out the right hand thumb to reach the middle of the keyboard.
the amazing thing is that keyboard really works 99% properly in the 90degrees orientation. the 1% catch? the little preview squares that appear while tapping a key seem to be using a buggy rotation matrix when the screen is in this angle! effectively, this makes the preview squares upside down and on the wrong side of the center line of the keyboard!
so for me, TWO things would make life much sweeter on the HD2:
1. keyboard preview squares should appear right side up and on the correct area near the tapped key in 90degree rotation.
2. i would also like to DISABLE the 270degree rotation altogether and force the HTC g-sensor mechanism to think that the 90degree rotation is DEFAULT. i know i can achieve this partially using "changescreen" but sense will still rotate ONLY in the 270degree direction in the album and music tab. with this tweak, one can rely on the built in mechanism and also be able to enjoy the keyboard in the more comfortable 90degree rotation.
any 1337 h4x0r222 with some 1337 suggestions/tweaks?
some updates...
first, there is another anomaly i didn't notice before pertaining to the thumb friendly scroller that pops up when touching a scroll bar. this popup scroller is also being drawn upside down and on the wrong side of the screen in 90degree rotation.
other updates include:
1. tried toggling HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\LandscapeMode from 0 to 4, followed by soft reset, no joy!
2. tried toggling HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\LandscapeFixed from 1 to 0, followed by soft reset...the right handed and left handed options in Screen under Settings->System become available but the g-sensor autorotate doesn't seem to respect the choice set here, so no joy!
I only tried to use this feature on my S5 a couple times, but my wife would like to use this feature on her new N4. I find that starting the One-handed operation function on both the S5 and N4 using the touchscreen gesture described in the enabling setting screen rarely works. It takes a bunch of swipes before the reduced One-handed screen appears.Very annoying and defeats the purpose of the feature as you actually have to try to enable it using two hands. I didn't even try to master using this feature given that it's so hard to get it started. I thought it was an issue with my S5, but after trying it on the N4... I had the same results. Is there a shortcut to enable this feature other than that the swiping gesture? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Im sure you dont swipe correctly, for me it work all the time, just swipe your finger from screen edge to the middle then back to the screen edge with a horizontal way! Its not a V-like swipe, its like a hohorizontal "I" swipe just try it until you get it working!
Good luck!
midi_1996 said:
Im sure you dont swipe correctly, for me it work all the time, just swipe your finger from screen edge to the middle then back to the screen edge with a horizontal way! Its not a V-like swipe, its like a hohorizontal "I" swipe just try it until you get it working!
Good luck!
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Yes, I'm swiping correctly, but it's not very reliable it works only 1 out of 6 or 7 times. I have a wallpaper with a straight line down the middle and I swipe over that straight line to the middle of the screen from the edge of the screen and back. Of course in a horizontal I. It would be nice if this feature had a toggle in the top bar pull down to turn it on/off. I'm hoping a Xposed Module developer notices this deficiency and comes up with a module with shortcut solution.
You have to start at edge of screen then finish at edge of screen, which can be a problem if you have a case. Doesn't hurt to actually go past the center either.
I can do it pretty consistently, and the times I fail I know it's because I hit the rim on the case and didn't swipe all the way to edge.
Hi anyone else experiencing a bug where it takes like 5/6 trys to slide the lockscreen up. Its like im not sliding up enough but im going off the top of the screen i have to flick like 20 times sometimes.
Indeed Nougat seems to require a slightly different swipe-up-to-unlock action than Marshmallow. If you're going off the top of your screen, though, you are doing it wrong. You're not catching Pokémon, just slowly swipe up about an inch, that should already trigger the unlock. Do a practice run, see how slow and short you can do it, you'll be surprised.
I also have this problem since the update to Nougat, sometimes the screen will unlock with a short swipe and others you have to go the full length of the screen!
I have taken the screen lock off for now as i am fed up with swiping 5+ times to unlock the phone
If you disable swipe to shrink screen in moto actions then it works fine.
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Yeah it works fine with swipe to shrink disabled now thanks
Shame that the swipe to shrink is causing the problem.
I can confirm the issue, and for the moment, also the solution! Thanks guys
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Had same problem but this didn't fix it for me. Ended up disabling/enabling Moto app. Noticed System UI tuner had disappeared so re-enabled that also. So far so good...
This is an old thread, but my findings may be relevant. A short time ago, I also started to have problems with all sort of swiping, on the home screen, but also when swiping away notifications or within apps. (Ironic, since I initially discarded those problems in the first answer here. Mea culpa.)
Eventually, I found the reason for it. I used a small app, "Media Volume Only", which hooked into the special "read phone status" permissions (in this case to monitor and modify volume keys behaviour). I assume in the process of monitoring gestures/keys it interferes with swiping actions. After disallowing, disabling and deinstalling this app, my swiping actions are as responsive as they should be.
So if you still have problems with swiping, it may well worth looking into these apps that carry that special permission.
Disaable all smart lock option.
Mainly on body detection option.
Thanks....
Its working 100%
martinisok said:
If you disable swipe to shrink screen in moto actions then it works fine.
Sent from my XT1039 using Tapatalk
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You nailed it! Not only does their "Swipe to shrink screen" feature work TERRIBLY, as if that wasn't poor enough execution, it works terribly at the expense of making the swipe to unlock so completely frustratingly UNRELIABLE.
These folks need to take a leaf out of Huawei's book and make the swipe to shrink, work by swiping horizontally across the navigation bar ... (Huawei, incidentally, are FAR from perfect and need to fix their TERRIBLY laggy, sluggish phones) - you can SEE why people side with iPhone, can't ya!
cs5210 said:
Disaable all smart lock option.
Mainly on body detection option.
Thanks....
Its working 100%
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On body detection is the reason in my case.
Problem solved now
Problem with "overly sensitive" touch screen; registers fingers just by hovering it
I changed to Lineage OS 14.1-20170412 yesterday, after having had an about 1-year old Cyanogenmod stable on it.
Now I got a smaller issue with it; I'm pretty sure it didn't do that right away after installation.
It started to register my fingers when they are already hovering above the screen, like 2-3cm away from it. It feels like a proximity sensor, just all over the screen, not turning off the screen when you get close but creating graphical hover effects:
When I'm in the Android settings for example, the settings category rows get a gray back color.
In Chrome, links get underlined when hovering them from far away.
The quick panel creates white bubbles around the tiles.
While this isn't causing any misbehavior (I can't actually press anything of those things by moving my finger up to 3cm towards the screen, and then moving it away immediately), it's visually annoying.
I did not do anything special since it started to happen, and already checked on the following:
- Glove mode is not turned on.
- There's no other "Accessibility" stuff turned on.
- When showing tabs in the developer options, it does not register it as taps, and does not start drawing a line when hovering the finger around on the screen.
Is there any way to "recalibrate" the "sensitivity" or turn this thing off it's a feature and not a bug?
Check Settings > Air view. I'm not sure about custom ROMs but on my stock ROM this is what causes the links in Chrome to get underlined when hovering.
I indeed found something in Settings which i must've accidentally enabled: Language & Input > Touchscreen Hovering (under Mouse/trackpad). When it's on, you get the effects I noticed, so i turned it off.
Before I completely re-flashed my phone:
Swype was basically unusable with my finger at times
Much better results with a pen
It seemed some apps handled my finger and pen better than others
Sometimes the contact would literally jump around as I swyped
Even holding down the delete key would cause some jumping around
The voice typing would only type out in GERMAN even though I am reciting in English
Limited test with native Google keyboard but even that the lines were not smooth when swyping
Both would be tough at times even when just typing letter by letter without swyping
After flash:
Much better than before but there are definitely still some remnants of this bug
Just like before, I am hoping it is not the screen because this anomaly does not affect any other app usage, like games, drawing, etc... ONLY typing text
At least the voice typing is now working properly in English
I'm inclined to say this happens the worst on Facebook and at times on the native text app on Google
Anyone have this problem before, any solutions?
Sometimes this is actually just as bad as before when using my finger... but it still does some weird actions when I use the pen. (At least the voice typing now types in English.)
Could this be a sign of damage to the screen? Any steps I can try to clear this up? FYI I am not even using any screen protector right now.