Since day one, I've had touchscreen issues. When the charger is plugged in, the keyboard is unusable. One touch triggers keys all over the place faster than I could ever touch the screen. Unplugging the charger fixes that issue.
After a while, phantom presses start happening. If an app supports multitouch zoom, it becomes impossible to scroll instead of zooming. Keeping the screen clean seems to delay the problem from happening. If the problem presents, just cleaning the screen won't help. I have to turn the display off and back on for any effect. I've heard putting on a screen protector helps with this issue, but I haven't had a chance get one. If the screen protector just masks the issue, that doesn't seem like a good fix.
Should I try to get a replacement Nook Color now that doesn't have these issues or should I wait until the last month of my warranty to see if I can get more developed hardware? There doesn't seem to be a consensus if these issues are hardware or software.
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Since day one, I've had touchscreen issues. When the charger is plugged in, the keyboard is unusable. One touch triggers keys all over the place faster than I could ever touch the screen. Unplugging the charger fixes that issue.
After a while, phantom presses start happening. If an app supports multitouch zoom, it becomes impossible to scroll instead of zooming. Keeping the screen clean seems to delay the problem from happening. If the problem presents, just cleaning the screen won't help. I have to turn the display off and back on for any effect. I've heard putting on a screen protector helps with this issue, but I haven't had a chance get one. If the screen protector just masks the issue, that doesn't seem like a good fix.
Should I try to get a replacement Nook Color now that doesn't have these issues or should I wait until the last month of my warranty to see if I can get more developed hardware? There doesn't seem to be a consensus if these issues are hardware or software.
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That must be frustrating. Mine does not behave this way at all (though I've only had it for 4 days). If you bought it in the store, I'd exchange it. If you bought it via the BN ebay store, I'd try the screen protector first as I hear it's quite an ordeal returning it via ebay.
This us a very common issue. It has something to do with sensitivity of the screen increasing greatly when the unitbis charging or the screen brightness is way up. I just chage mine at night and don't worry about it.
I was having a lot of problems with phantom touches -- I even replaced my 2nd NC just to get another one that had the same issue. I ended up putting on a B&N anti-glare screen protector and haven't witnessed any phantom touches since then.
Edit: I actually meant to post this in the other phantom touches thread. ;/
Happens a lot to me even while unplugged. Known issue. Until I pick up a B&N screen protector I find locking the device and a quick wiping of the screen with a microfiber or any soft cloth (my shirt works in a pinch) removes moisture and oil build-up that is causing the uber-sensitive digitizer to register phantom touches.
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well when im only using touch keyboard the corners and edges dont work
P,L Backspace, Go, The whole bottom, A, i
Its a common problem. I had the same. Unfortunately your touch screen is dying. Replace.
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Welcome to the club, apparently some people fixed it by warming their phone, putting it in rice, or replacing their digitizer.
i have another kind of problem: sometimes the screen begins it's own life, like somebody quickly touching it (solves with on/off button).
And sometimes i touch it in some point, but it thinks, that i touch it in another.
Disappointing, but not annoying.
well it seems to be working fine now
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i have another kind of problem: sometimes the screen begins it's own life, like somebody quickly touching it (solves with on/off button).
And sometimes i touch it in some point, but it thinks, that i touch it in another.
Disappointing, but not annoying.
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happens to me EVERY week
0667 said:
i have another kind of problem: sometimes the screen begins it's own life, like somebody quickly touching it (solves with on/off button).
And sometimes i touch it in some point, but it thinks, that i touch it in another.
Disappointing, but not annoying.
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Got the exact same problem, send it for repair. Apparently they found corrosion in my internals, though I really have no idea how liquid got in there. There is no spillage or any sort happen to my phone.
Oh well that means goodbye to my Milestone and back to stone age for awhile.
I had this same problem a week ago, and it happened all day long. It happened that my screen was wet (don't ask me how, I don't know), and now it's working just fine
Well if your touchscreen are not responding well to your touch, or if you feel that a ghost has been playing around on it (eg. "like somebody quickly touching it"), then it's a symptom that the touchscreen is faulty and it's time to replace the digitizer or buy a new phone
I faced the same problem sometime. In this case, reboot the phone may fix this problem.
If it doesn't work, I think you have to replace the touch screen.
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I faced the same problem sometime. In this case, reboot the phone may fix this problem.
If it doesn't work, I think you have to replace the touch screen.
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Had one issue like this in 3 months, 1/5th from the top of the screen wouldn't respond anymore, no matter the program. The issue went away after rebooting the phone.
I am facing the ghost touch problem or the right side is not working at all. First time, it started on it's own but last night, while it was connected to the PC the nightmare began. I don't know what the heck should I do, because I don't have money to spend on new digitizer. Last time the problem was solved by letting the phone in a dry place (it wasn't dropped in water or so). I hope this time will work too... BTW, pressing the on/off button seems to fix the issues for ~3-4 seconds. Anyway, Moto sucks .
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Well if your touchscreen are not responding well to your touch, or if you feel that a ghost has been playing around on it (eg. "like somebody quickly touching it"), then it's a symptom that the touchscreen is faulty and it's time to replace the digitizer or buy a new phone
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Are you sure this isn't the flex cable problem?
If it is the flex cable problem, where can be found to buy and replace? Because I am sure that is less expensive than replacing the whole digitizer.
I had the same problem, but it's more than a month that I recharge battery with a Samsung wall charger (700mAh power), it completely desappear.
One week ago I charged the battery with the USB cable and the problem reappear, desappearing only after a reboot.
It's NOT a flex problem for sure, our phone is very susceptible of current variations when charging. If the problem still remains after unplug and reboot, I suggest to try with another battery.
Ok folks, I registered here because I felt this forum was the best place to get help. Here is my problem. I use a Nook Color 1.1 running the latest autonooter, and I've started having major touchscreen problems. What happens is this: The screen has started registering touches when I am nowhere near the screen, and when I do touch the screen, it only sometimes registers at the right location. This has made it impossible to use at all, and I'd like to know if there's any way of fixing it without having to do anything on the Nook Color. Thanks for your input,
TechPlease
Reboot? Wipe the screen? Reimage?
Sounds like damage to me.
TechPlease said:
Ok folks, I registered here because I felt this forum was the best place to get help. Here is my problem. I use a Nook Color 1.1 running the latest autonooter, and I've started having major touchscreen problems. What happens is this: The screen has started registering touches when I am nowhere near the screen, and when I do touch the screen, it only sometimes registers at the right location. This has made it impossible to use at all, and I'd like to know if there's any way of fixing it without having to do anything on the Nook Color. Thanks for your input,
TechPlease
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Clean the screen thoroughly then reboot. Does this fix the issue, even if only temporarily? If so, buy a matte screen protector. The NC screen has a tacky coating that seems to collect oil/moisture more than other screens I've used.
If that doesn't work, download a screen calibration app. There's one floating around the forums.
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Ok folks, I registered here because I felt this forum was the best place to get help. Here is my problem. I use a Nook Color 1.1 running the latest autonooter, and I've started having major touchscreen problems. What happens is this: The screen has started registering touches when I am nowhere near the screen, and when I do touch the screen, it only sometimes registers at the right location. This has made it impossible to use at all, and I'd like to know if there's any way of fixing it without having to do anything on the Nook Color. Thanks for your input,
TechPlease
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I had the exact same experience when I first tried to install CM7 to run from an SD card. I couldn't sign in to my Google account because just hovering my finger over a key produced a string of letters on the screen (ie: yyyyyyyyyyy)
It was really freaky. I had to sneak up on a key and jab it real fast so that it would type only one letter.
I also had a problem with key registration. I would go to type an "r" and a "t" would be typed. So I had to touch the key at the extreme left edge (or sometimes on an an adjacent key!) to get the letter I wanted to show up.
Fortunately, after I got CM7 up an running properly, the screen problem went away. BTW, I do use a anti-glare screen protector, which, I think, lessens the screen sensitivity a little.
If I were you, I would try restoring my Nook back to stock, and see if the screen is still too sensitive. If it is, it's time for a new Nook. If it's not, try rooting again.
Good Luck.
Try Nook Screen Recalibration on the market. I had the same problem (pressing Q gave me W). It certainly improves it.
use a screen protector or put a thin plastic sheet on your screen and then recalibrate it.
using the method given here.
http://nookdevs.com/Recalibrate_the_NookColor_touch_screen
If you are using a screen protector u can keep using it, however i removed mine after a week or two and didn't really get any weird touches what so ever after that (earlier my touchscreen was unusable).
Thanks for all your suggestions
Thanks for all your suggestions. I think it got worse after I used a recalibration app from the marketplace. For those suggesting I try an app, I can't get the NC to settle down enough to let me tap on things. Yes, I do use a screen protector, so that's not an issue. I will try recalibrating from my computer, and if that doesn't work, is there a good tutorial on how to put it back to stock, and is there a way to re-stockp) it so that if I DO need a new one, I can just return mine? Mine is (if I hadn't rooted it) still under warranty.
TechPlease
Seems like it's fixed.
I think I got it fixed. It calmed down enough for me to run the Nook Screen Calibration app from the Android Marketplace again, and that seems to have cleared the problem up. Mods, please (if you can) mark as SOLVED.
If I connect my nook color to AC adapter, touchscreen will response randomly , so I unplugged usb cable and touchscreen works again
Ok, so I broke the screen on my Nexus One. These things happens. I ordered a replacement screen, and thanks to numerous online guides, I (thought I had) replaced the screen.
Now, I guess that some other parts of the phone might have become damaged, but I doubt it. The phone seems to work. The touch buttons light up. The unlock gesture gives a slight vibrate. So does the volume rocker when I (seems to) reach the top/bottom of the scale.
But the screen itself doesn't show any response. No backlight (should I be able to see that). Nothing. What could I possibly be missing, I've gone over everything three times, but can't see nothing wrong. I've checked all the connectors everywhere. Somehow I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious....
Are you sure you bought an amoled screen replacement and not the slcd screen? That would cause such an issue.
Or maybe he needs an SLCD screen and not amoled..
I was going to ask if your wifi and bluetooth still work but i suppose you cant really test that yet...
I replaced my digitizer last week and now the phone works fine apart from the Wifi, Bluetooth and the charging pins for the dock at the bottom. LAME!
Maybe two Months ago I replace the full Housing on my phone is no easy task but not too difficult either. Check if you didn't ripped any of the flex cables and if the cables are connected properly. I have a long history of replacing housings and my best advice is to do again make sure you have time.
Exactly the same issue. Did you find a solutions?
I too had a broken screen. So, I ordered one from ebay and replaced it.
Now, it screen does not turn on though the icons at the bottom of screen switch-on.
I can here the sound when volume rocker is pressed.
Also, I believe that the touch is also working as I can hear the unlock sound when I swipe my finger across the screen.
Did you find a solution to the problem? Did I make some mistake or the screen is faulty?
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Ok, so I broke the screen on my Nexus One. These things happens. I ordered a replacement screen, and thanks to numerous online guides, I (thought I had) replaced the screen.
Now, I guess that some other parts of the phone might have become damaged, but I doubt it. The phone seems to work. The touch buttons light up. The unlock gesture gives a slight vibrate. So does the volume rocker when I (seems to) reach the top/bottom of the scale.
But the screen itself doesn't show any response. No backlight (should I be able to see that). Nothing. What could I possibly be missing, I've gone over everything three times, but can't see nothing wrong. I've checked all the connectors everywhere. Somehow I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious....
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Just months after the Nexus One was released, Google announced that the AMOLED Company "Brightstar" fell short of displays and was unable to produce more displays for HTC, so they decided to move to Sony to make the displays, To determine whether a phone has the AMOLED or SLCD display, The internal sticker on the back side of the screen assembly can be examined; part number 60H00443-03P indicates SLCD and part number 60H00287-00P indicates AMOLED, and as i mentioned, the AMOLED screens are gone so finding a replacement for that model would be merely impossible. I was looking around and thought that i may of found a fix to this, see, the HBOOTs on the devices are both the same except the top code of the screen that determines the screen type, if you were to flash the SLCD HBOOT, you might be able to retrieve a working screen, well its probably worth the gamble anyway since you probably are not going to find a replacement in a while.
EDIT: And after moments of posting, i found a AMOLED screen seller that will ship to Europe! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LCD-Scree...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item4d06825672
Dude, I dropped my n1 and shattered the screen almost 2 years ago. Bought a replacement screen and tried to replace out on my own. Needless to say, it didn't go so well, my n1 was is a paperweight. Good luck man! I miss my working n1...
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Hi,
I have recently bought my tablet, in last two days my tablets acts a bit crazy, sometimes I touch a point but another point reactions
for example when i`m typing and press a word it types another word or opens notifications or even gets out of application.
How can I solve my problem?
thanks
Touch does occasionally seem to be off a bit for me as well. I keep wondering if the problem is my tempered glass screen protector and me being used to a device that has an extremely sensitive touch screen.
This can sometimes happen when using the tablet while plugged into the charger. Especially if not using the factory provided USB charging cable.
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Touch does occasionally seem to be off a bit for me as well. I keep wondering if the problem is my tempered glass screen protector and me being used to a device that has an extremely sensitive touch screen.
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After removing the screen protector my inaccuracy issue went away. So my issue was probably different than the original poster...
lexridge said:
This can sometimes happen when using the tablet while plugged into the charger. Especially if not using the factory provided USB charging cable.
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it seems that it is relevant with electricity since this problem happens only when I hold it in my hand
I only got this phone couple of days back and I am having a strange problem.
After installing a screen guard, touch stops working when phone is lying on flat surface. Once I lift the phone, touch starts working again. This happens regardless of the phone is plugged or not in a power socket.
Removing screen guard resolves this issue. However, I installed three different screen guards of glass, plastic and rubber types and with each type touch stops working on a flat surface.
I also did a factory reset but it didn't help. I tried with case on and off but the problem still persists.
At this point I am clueless how to resolve this issue as the phone doesn't seem to be defective as touch works flawlessly without a screen guard.
Same here!
With glass screen protector I have this issue... Can't really use it while device lying on a table.
Hi... Same here also... I thought the screen problem but not even lying on the table but when in charging lying on the table also can't touch... And sometimes it's stuck when to touch... My nokia 6 i think also like that... Maybe the screen curve is??
I have screen protector bought from Taobao, no such problem on my Nokia 8, TA-1004.
The screen protector is not glass type, but looks like plastic type.
Another strange observation: If I plug headphone jack when the phone is lying on flat surface, touch starts working again.
I suspect this entire thing has to do with metal/glass body of the phone and static electricity generated or magnetic field around touch panel.
I don't have much knowledge on this type of scientific stuff so I am not sure what the problem is.
It's the cheap glass protector and its glue that is messing up the touch screen.
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It's the cheap glass protector and its glue that is messing up the touch screen.
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I thought so. But what about headphone jack fixing touch issues with screen protector on?
Also, I have used similar quality screen guards on Moto and Huawei phones at my home and they don't have this issue.
Nitg16 said:
I thought so. But what about headphone jack fixing touch issues with screen protector on?
Also, I have used similar quality screen guards on Moto and Huawei phones at my home and they don't have this issue.
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Are you connecting it to headphones or speakers?
Maybe the capacitive buttons doesn't like the glue and messes up everything? You could try enabling these in the Developer Options: Show taps & Pointer location. Let me know what is happening
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Are you connecting it to headphones or speakers?
Maybe the capacitive buttons doesn't like the glue and messes up everything? You could try enabling these in the Developer Options: Show taps & Pointer location. Let me know what is happening
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Headphones.
Enabled taps and pointer location. When phone is not touching a flat surface everything works fine. A curve is drawn on screen showing various gestures and a circle is drawn to show taps.
When lying on flat surface, if I use any touch gestures (e.g. scrolling) curve is drawn once in 5-6 attempts. Same with taps, circles appear only once in a while.
It is all very erratic. When I repeatedely try to tap anything, I receive ghost touces at a different part of screen.
Just noticed that I don't need headphone jack to fix touch. Blocking 3.5 mm port with one finger also works. This is truly getting weird.
Have you shown it to the Service Centre? Do they have any theories?
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No, since the phone works perfectly without screen guard, I think service center guys will simply tell me to use it without a screen guard.
But I will indeed show them this problem after few days, though I am not sure they will understand or will be helpful in this regard.
I think I am reaching somewhere. The antenna reception at the top might be messing with touch.
What I have observed that touching the top of the phone or keeping any object or my hand one inch away from top of the phone fixes touch issues.
If I remove the object or move it farther than one inch, touch becomes messy again.
If I put little pressure on bottom chin of the phone, the top of the phone raises a bit so that the top antenna is not close to flat surface any more. This also fixes touch issues. Lowering top part of the phone brings back touch issues.
Anyone else with this issue can test this?
This video exactly describes my issue:
I found that many phones had these issues in past including oneplus, lg, sony and galaxy phones. Everywhere it was mentioned that it is a grounding issue which is unfortunately a hardware detect.
My phone is fortunately within replacement window. So I will contact the seller and request for a replacement.
I was thinking about the grounding, but when you mentioned you used headphones i thought it couldn't be the case.
Keep us updated if you get it replaced.
Just received the replacement. Same problem on the new one
I don't know what to do now. No other phones in my family have this problem and that includes $200 budget devices. This is flagship and much more costly.
I will just summarize different cases in which the touch issues on a flat surface gets fixed on my device:
- Inserting headphone jack (with screen gaurd applied on display).
- Inserting charging cable (with screen guard applied on display).
- Touching any part of the phone with finger including blocking the headphone jack (with screen guard applied).
- Removing the screen guard.
I am tired of this sh*t. I have tried all things possible to fix it. I have also wasted money on 6 different screen guards to fix this issue.
Some guys on galaxy s8 forums mentioned that modern curved phones uses a touchscreen placement mechanism different than traditional smartphones (they were also having the same problem).
There were two possible solutions mentioned:
Find a screen guard that has glue all over, not just around the edges or at dots. Which means that screen guard should stick to the screen 100% flat without any gap, air or bubbles.
Second solution was to use a flip cover to protect the screen and no screen guard.
I will go with second solution and buy a flip cover. I simply have no energy left to hunt for screen guards that work properly on Nokia 8. Not to say that you will never know if it works or not unless you purchase it and stick on your phone.
Hi, I'm writing from Italy and I've the same problem, exactly the same problem, solvable with the same solutions you have proposed: remove the protective film (a glass screen guard in my case).
I'm noticing that the touch screen works perfectly with the protective film only if the phone is connected via USB cable to the battery charger or to the pc.