touchscreens come in verious flavours
the ones our pda have with the coating
wacomm active digitizers which only respond to the pen mostly used on tablet pc's in the high price range
hp have a sensor detect system for their kitcten pc which also seem to work fine and support multitouch like iphone
read about a new tech where the screen itself is a sort of webcam so it can detect touch's and respond to them in kind
said the screen itself could even be used as a scanner
wonder what tech will show it's face in the htc phones to come ...
p.s. wacomm is good for drawing fake rembrandts but poor if you like to click by using headbuts
I don't have the link for it, but I saw this clip on another PPC forum where describing a "two sided" touch screen.
Basically the idea is this: when you use your fingers on a touchscreen you obscure part of the data. So they use a camera on the back of the device plus movement recognition software to see where your fingers are (if you were holding your PPC like a game controller with only thumbs in front of it) and project a shadow of your fingers on the screen.
As if the screen was "see-through".
I tricked my friend into thinking that the mousepad on my laptop was also a scale. Would be pretty cool if the screen on a ppc could weigh small measurements. That way I'd never get chinced again when picking up herb
Hello,
Topic may be a bit miselading - it's not abut the holder itself, looks fine and works well. It's about the software that freaks me out.
WM forces me to use the NaviPanel, which is quite okay, as long as you use your HD2 as a phone. Well, if I wanted just a phone, I would not buy a WM device, would I...
Of course, I have a choice: I can tell WM not to launch NaviPanel when in the holder, but then:
- home button does not work (it doesn't work anyway, whether NP is launched or not)
- home screen is not rotated, but other screens are - it doesn't matter whether you're holding the phone in portrait or landscape, they just are rotated. So, If you keep it in portrait on home screen, and a call comes in, it's rotated to landscape, so you have to tilt either your head or the holder. If you somehow manage to get back to home screen (remember, home button doesn't work), you have to rotate the holder again.
- While rotating, but not only, a clipboard menu pops up (copy, select all etc.) even on home screen and messes up the display, you have to tap to get rid of it.
- When a rotated landscape 'make a call' screen appears, you cannot go into contacts. You just cant. You have to get it out of the cradle so that a normal screen appears.
And so on and so forth... I'm using a stock 1.66 ROM. I will try it with some cooked ROMs, but that's just wrong.
My advice, if you're not after the looks, buy yourself a good ole passive or active brodit holder - it simply works and does not mess with the WM.
Please, can you post photos of the kit?
This is NOT a problem with the OS, rather how HTC have programmed the Navipanel software and their Sense home screen. Default WM can perform all the functions you mentioned, blame HTC for putting eye candy before functionality.
A little disappointed with the Navipanel myself. I was expecting to see nice driver friendly buttons to use simple things like the music player. Instead I have several buttons to turn on the sat nav and one to use the phone.
Only had a quick play with it so I maybe missing something, but hopefully HTC will update it or or some talented chappie or chapess here will work there magic.
I recently purchased a Vogue off of ebay and tried out the SD Card version of Android running Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2. I wanted to do this before installing to NAND to try it out. After trying it out for a bit I noticed that the touchscreen is not that sensitive.
For example, if I try to swipe with my finger from left to right to get to the second home screen it requires me to swipe from the very edge of the device (if I don't do a swipe across the whole screen it doesn't work well) and push down hard (as compared to another newer device like the iPod Touch). Tapping the screen works fine. Other things I noticed about the screen is it isn't easy to view it at an angle and pressing down with my finger sometimes changes the color of the area immediately around the finger.
My question is whether the device is faulty (in which case I will try to return it to the seller) or is that just the nature of this older touch screen. Or maybe it has to do with the fact that it is installed to SD so it is slower to respond?
no there is nothing wrong with your phone.. the vogue uses a resistive touch screen witch requires a little more pressure than say the itouch or any new touch screen device... they have a capacitive touch screen witch uses electric currents i think.. i prefer a capacitive. but try the screen calibration app and press lightly that might fix your problem
and you shouldn't press very hard they could really mess up your screen
Try using your fingernail instead of pressing harder.
Sent from my European Vogue using XDA App
Get multitouch visualizer from play store. the touchscreen is poor, especially with multitouch (only seems to support 2 touch points, the 2nd finger often is not detected, or causes the first to no longer be detected.) The caapacative buttons are hard to press sometimes, or do not respond. very annoying.
Enable the show touches option in the settings of the developer options, it works much better.
m03sizlak said:
Get multitouch visualizer from play store. the touchscreen is poor, especially with multitouch (only seems to support 2 touch points, the 2nd finger often is not detected, or causes the first to no longer be detected.) The caapacative buttons are hard to press sometimes, or do not respond. very annoying.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Probably need to disable the HTC Gesture option in Settings->Display. After that it'll recognize 10 touch points.
What's HTC gesture?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Element515 said:
What's HTC gesture?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Its for the media link HD. 3 swipes up and it sends the phones screen to the media link HD.
ste1164 said:
Its for the media link HD. 3 swipes up and it sends the phones screen to the media link HD.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just tried it with the HTC gestures turned off, multitouch visualizer 2 recognized 10 touches.
Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
m03sizlak said:
Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
are you using the official screen protector from htc?
m03sizlak said:
Indeed, turning HTC gestures off gives more touch points, but I still have the problem of the capacitative buttons not being as sensitive as the rest of the screen. They FREQUENTLY do not seem to register touches. Very annoying.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This seems to work for some people:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231832
It should bring up the sensitivity for both the touchscreen and the capacitive keys which are, I presume, less sensitive than the touchscreen itself by design.
I'm not using any screen protector.
I tried the sense keyboard calibration and it had no effect.
The problem seems to be related to how FIRMLY I press the buttons. A light touch often does not register, but a firm touch always does. Never had this problem on my Evo 3D or Evo OG.
so this problem with capacitive home/back buttons is REALLY pissing me off.
went to sprint store, asked to see their display unit, told them the problem i had. guy said "I NOTICED THAT TOO". used their demo unit, EXACT same problem. Talked to some people on IRC who also noticed it.
*really* hope its software-fixable because I love the phone otherwise
I've used adb shell # getevents to see that FREQUENTLY tehre is just no event generated when pressing the home and back buttons. It *is* a hardware problem. I've never been so annoyed, displeased, or disappoined with a phone. I'll be returning it. Even tho the model I saw in the store had the exact same problem. If my next one has same problem I'll give the ol F**K YOU to HTC and not look back.
Also, havent found a way to get software keys on it...which MAY be an acceptable alternative to broken hardware buttons
I had noticed the same problem with a demo unit in one store and so went to check it out in another store where it was fine. I assumed it was specific to the first demo unit. I hope I get a decent phone.
Is anyone experiencing touches being registered slightly off from where you are actually touching the screen? I enabled show touches in dev options, just to make sure, and saw that touches were being registered just slightly lower than where the tip of my fingers were touching.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
There is definitely something going on here with the capacitative buttons, as we all see.
However I'm going to give HTC a few weeks and see if they sort it out. Once enough complaints roll in they've got to do something right?
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/04/...-issues-with-capacitive-hardware-buttons.html
Hey All,
I had a look at game triggers for games like COD or PubG today but it seems that camera module prevents most of them to stay still while playing. Since we have a second screen with touch capability, I was wondering if it is possible to develop an android app to receive touch and gestures from rear display while game booster is open. These inputs would then be used to map touches on front screen. If you hold phone horizontally, one finger stays on rear screen.
Example gestures would be, swipe left, swipe right, and touch or double touch. This would really compensate having a big camera module.
Considering limited options on rear screen is this realistic? What are your thoughts?
Thanks.
I don't think it will work very well
You may eventually be able to remap it to do something but I doubt it would play very well in games since it was never designed with that in mind
You would probably be safer selling it and buying a dedicated gaming phone with extra triggers etc
Their was a guy on YouTube,that figured out a way to use the secondary screen to play game. It's in Spanish if that helps?