In one of the builds for Honeycomb from blue, he mentioned that he increased the screen sensitivity. Is there a way to increase it further? I bought a stylus and its pretty crappy on the nook using sketchbook express, but its great on my iphone using the same app. I'm sure the screen isn't as great as the iphone but wonder if there was a software way to improve it.
Thanks.
Not sure exactly how to manipulate it in the kernel, but according to this page you can recalibrate the unit while face down to make the screen super-sensitive.
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Not that I am really disappointed with the Kaiser, but I have been wondering as of late if the Crusie might be a better fit for me. All things considered, internally the two are pretty similar with the only additional feature of the Crusie being FM radio, which I would probably use.
Externally, the Cruise goes SANS keyboard in favor of the touch screen. In keeping with the touch screen design, it has far fewer buttons over all and has a slight size advantage.
So looking at it, the package is pretty attractive, seems less prone to mechanical wear and tear and I find myself wondering if I could do without the slide out keyboard. I am pretty good with the block recognizer, and in cases where I might use a keyboard, some of the adaptations of the iPhone soft keyboard seem like they would be a decent alternative for my relatively light keyboard use.
Getting down to it though, I am a bit concerned I would be disappointed with the touch screen, and if the touch screen does not work well, I would definitely rather have the keyboard.
So my question is if anyone has some hard facts on the differences between the screen technologies. does it work like the iPhone where it responds only to touch, not to inadvertant tabs while in you pocket or in the case?
Can anyone can provide a "hands on" comparison between using the touch features on the Kasier, vs using the touch features on the Cruise. Or given that the Cruise is pertty new, is the Elf screen technology exactly the same such that trying one out would give me a good indication of how the Cruise would work?
hi all,
i am planning to buy a new htc model and i am thinking about getting either a td2, hd or pro. currently in our country we only have hd and pro, td2 will be available in 2 weeks time. wgich do you think should i get and why?
By the way, do all of them have haptic feedback? it was never mentioned in any site i checked.
Thanks everyone!
Cheers!
You could think of it in this way:
They are all the same with the following differences:
1-Diamond2 is the smallest & cheapest.
2-HD is similar to Diamond2 but bigger in size, bigger screen (in dimensions) & more expensive.
3-Touch Pro2 has slideout keyboard and screen is middle sized between the other two. it is also most expensive.
If you meant Touch Pro1, then it has the smallest screen of all three, but it does have a keyboard.
So based on your prefrences, you can only decide.
im planning to buy a new htc device this coming weekend, does the hd have the same rom with the td2? because i saw in some reviews that the td2 has more tabs and new touchflo. is the back housing of the td2 gets scratched easily? is the hd upgradeablo to 6.5? sorry for the questions.
thanks all!
Hey man, I don't own any of these devices, but I am planning on buying a td2.
Heres my comparison :
TD2 has better video recording,slightly nicer pictures than the hd but a smaller screen but improved tf3d(respond better), TD2 will also get a official 6.5 wm upgrade when it's out. Also has landscape qwerty keyboard now.
Too bad it has a extusb port for headphones, you have cheap converters though
HD has a big ass screen, but lower video recording resolution, is more of a pda than a phone. However, won't get a official 6.5 wm upgrade, but roms give you that, it runs on the hd. Also a 3.5mm headphone jack, very nice feature. However, feels really big, you can see this as a pro or con.
Tpro2 has a real keyboard, but a 3.2 mp camera(both hd and td2 have a 5mp camera), don't know if it gets a official wm 6.5 upgrade, this phone is too expensive in my opinion. Pretty much same features as td2.
It depends on what you are looking for, if you are looking for a phone like htc phone with better ability to make pictures and video and a slightly more polished software, go with the td2.
If you like watching videos and like a big ass screen, go with the touch hd.
If you want the same features as the td2, with a real keyboard but a worse camera, go with the tpro2.
Moneywise, I would say TD2 if you want the best deal.
Overall, in my opinion, I would say get the Touch Diamond 2 or the Touch HD.
Hope it helps
thanks zerosilver
my maincincern about the td2 is its back cover which scratches easily. does it have a haptic feedback? i heard hd has it.
orouborus said:
thanks zerosilver
my maincincern about the td2 is its back cover which scratches easily. does it have a haptic feedback? i heard hd has it.
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TD2 has haptic feedback and its screen is as sensitive as an Iphone's. Except that it can also sense fingernails, while the Iphone can't.
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TD2 has haptic feedback and its screen is as sensitive as an Iphone's. Except that it can also sense fingernails, while the Iphone can't.
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what about the back cover, does it get scratched easily? so td2 is better than hd?
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TD2 has haptic feedback and its screen is as sensitive as an Iphone's. Except that it can also sense fingernails, while the Iphone can't.
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WRONG. Haptic feedback does not mean it's a capactive touchscreen (aka iPhone's thermal touchscreen). It's not also, that's the difference between windows mobile phones (most of them anyways) and the iPhone. iPhone has thermal (capactive) touchscreen and htc uses a pressure touchscreen which goes by pressure points.
Just to be pedantic, capacitive is not thermal. It use the fact that your fingers can conduct electricity, so touching the screen change the static charge of the screen locally. Nothing to do with temperature, deal cold fingers would work as well as warm ones ;-)
But because it is based on conduction, capacitive screen are intrinsically more sensitive than resistive ones (based on pressure). The slightest touch is enough to change the static charges, in fact it already change slightly even before the finger touch the screen. On the other hand, there are no stylus that work for capacitive screen, at least for now (except fat conductive ones, but they do not allow drawing anymore than your fingers).
So resistive screen still have an advantage: you can get very precise drawing using sharp objects with pinpoint contacts (stylus, fingernails,...)
BTW, TD2 has much better finger detection than my older PDA....but on the other hand, handwriting recognition and drawing does not work as well: it is accurate in term of positioning, very accurate, but it is slow: drawing a line or curve on the screen work, but the curve appear with a very noticeable lag behind the stylus. That makes handrawing or handwriting possible but slow (I have to slow down my hand to get good results).
Anyone noticed that?
My friends said my NC is not as smooth as his iPad about the touch feeling. My current screen protector is a very normal one, even without a brand. Not sure whether it make the difference.
I find some of the screen protectors have a rubbery feel. The Invisible Shield that I had on my phone was horrible. Felt very sticky. The B&N anti-glare protector is much harder & as a result much smoother to slide around on. Point is, even the expensive protectors may not be appropriate for touchscreens.
Cheers,
kev
anyone running NC naked without screen protector?
Even without a screen protector i found the screen responsiveness to be below the ipad, and the ipad has vastly superior multi-touch.
nowhere near as good as the iPad and nowhere near as expensive. You get what you pay for usually; that said, you get a LOT with the nook.
I thought the OP was talking about the slickness of the screen surface, not the touchscreen responsiveness. I didn't know that the NC touchscreen sucked?!?! Is there hope that firmware can improve it, or is it hardware related.
Oh, can someone detail what the iPad touchscreen does better? Just curious.
Cheers,
kev
Wife has an iPad so I've actually played around with one. Yes the iPad's touch screen is a lot more responsive but as mentioned above it's a lot more expensive. iPad is a high end tablet, NC isn't.
Recalibrate your NC's screen. It improved mine. There a thread about doing it here on XDA.
I bought the NC because I felt the iPad wasn't worth it's asking price. Since rooting I haven't been disappointed.
I think the touch screen of iphone and ipad is much better NC, I am not sure whether it is a hardware problem or the android problem.
With several generations of iphones and lots of play time with the ipad i can say that the ipad screen is a bit more responsive as a whole. In normal operation ( surfing reading or etc) it is fairly comparable (providing you're oced or stay on top of you're open applications.) I think the question comes down to value. Is screen response worth double to triple the price? Not for me.
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My friends said my NC is not as smooth as his iPad about the touch feeling. My current screen protector is a very normal one, even without a brand. Not sure whether it make the difference.
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My wife has the ipad. Her screen is without a doubt smoother then mine.
I still prefer my android tablet over her ios though
-mark
Ps - no screen protector on my nook. She's got the invisiblesheild on her ipad.
I like how nearly every single post in here includes a reason to justify the (less)responsiveness of the NC to the iPad.
I took nc is becourse size for comfortable. a lot of 7 inch screen is still 800x600
nc is not light though
I'd first like to give everyone a big hello as I am normally a wall flower in this sense. I wanted to discuss the whole evolution in the mobile and PC world, specifically using the nexus 7 as an example. For instance I tend to find the new PC keyboard much easier to use, and the predictive text with auto correct seems to actually help than hinder. I am excited to try the new swype like keyboard in 4.2 but I'm hoping it soon takes on the keyboard in keymonk. I have noticed that things seem to be running much smoother in 4.1.2, namely screen transitions. In my experience the slides used to have a slight jitter, yet now they are back to their flawless motion. I am a not urked that we don't have a micro expansion or a rear facing camera as both features were put in the galaxy tab 2 7inch. I have experienced one drop already, it fell screen down completely naked and only suffered a small scrape to the bezel of the device. Lastly I'd like to see some more nexus friendly peripherals, like a manufactured attachment for surface charging or cases with built in storage and batteries. Sure you'd face the ever ugly sacrifice size for capacity and performance..but what can you do. I was a bit upset when only patrons who purchased the 16 got upgrade offers, and I'm hoping that by the end of the year maybe if the device goes through enough revisions I can claim my warranty and maybe get a newer model. Oh and one final note is a fine point stylus! I would love a stylus like the note, it seems so much more accurate compared to the rubber tips. Maybe bluetooth enabled so it can use angle sensors, or provide map able keys. Or maybe a nifty half case keyboard like the I pad and windows 8 tablets have. So in turn I want to hear what others think on that level. Maybe we can get some solid ideas in one place for the higher ups to see.
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Note 5 touchscreen sensitivity using 2 hands
Hey,
Is anyone experiencing this issue. I am coming from a S3 where it fit perfectly in both hands in landscape mode. The note 5 is thin and big and doesnt fit as nice. It kinda is a pain to hold and the edges are so thin they kinda hurt. I am sure a case will help this and plan on getting one very soon. The issue though seems to be too much sensitivity along the edges. I have read alot where there was not enough sensitivity in the s6 and edge variants and they even added in settings -> display -> increase touchscreen sensitivity. I dont see this option but why not include this to decrease or increase depending on the user's needs. Seems simple enough. I think this is locked into the settings and not configurable. If the fingers only slightly overhang it causes any touchscreen interactions in the middle to be slow or not work at all. I have little fingers so I am surprised big fingered people arent freaking out or maybe they will as the note 5 is sold more, i know its still a brand new phone and not alot of feedback yet. Anyways thought I would get the ball rolling on this. Any have any suggestions for fixing the issue and not giving me a work around (like hold it better etc..)
Thanks
YEs, I'm suffering from the same issue here. It means that (with fingers overhanging at the edge of the screen) you can get the impression the touchscreen isn't very sensitive.