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Nookie Froyo Users!!! Touch Screen corners.

It seems that corner touch screen sensitivity issues are prevalent among all nook color users. What I'm wondering is, does nookie Froyo have this issue as well?

Yes, or at least for me.

No difference on nookie froyo for me either. I'm pretty sure its a hardware defect and not a software one.

I'm on a rooted stock, but my edge sensitivity issues went away when I loaded one of the overclock kernels. I don't know how the two could be linked, but it is the only explanation I have for the difference. I'm not sure if that's been explored on Nookie, but I thought I would share since that would point to a software issue rather than hardware.

isolated_epidemic said:
I'm pretty sure its a hardware defect and not a software one.
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That I'm not so sure of. Using "Touch Test" I see all touches, but they seem to get shifted slightly when I press near the edges. Maybe this could get solved in the driver (maybe with some help of calibration tool). I hope to have time to play with this sometime soon.

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No difference on nookie froyo for me either. I'm pretty sure its a hardware defect and not a software one.
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How can you be so sure?
If i use google market, sometimes the search button is hard to press,
but using appbrain market it works 100% of the time without problems.

No its not H/W I think, run some tests and corners work fine.
Its certainly something else, I also have better response after loading OC.

I've seen the same thing (I would bet every nook owner has.) The Market Search especially takes *%)(!%&! forever to get to work for me.
I've seen the same behaviour as well, some apps the corners take 18,013,108 tries to get to work, other apps I'm all "Whoa, first try and it worked?!".
I put the 950 OC on my autonoot but then I started playing with Froyo on a C10 SD card (very quick) so I don't know if the OC's actually helped with the corners or not. And of course this is the one day I leave it at home since I got it.

Ultimoose said:
I've seen the same thing (I would bet every nook owner has.) The Market Search especially takes *%)(!%&! forever to get to work for me.
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Use Menu>Search instead of trying to touch the top magnifying glass.

Happens to me with Froyo. I seriously doubt its hardware related. Seemed to work fine on the stock B&N.

It is common for digitizers to be less accurate along the edges but the Nook Color seems worse than normal. I've noticed the problem regardless of kernel or rom used.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the LCD Density. All buttons/elements are a lot easier to press when I switched to 240-250. It does look ugly though, it'd be a lot prettier when we get a custom rom running.

Sigvard is right. Fixed for me by chaging my LCD Density. I set it to 200, which is a little too large for me, so I may lower it. But since doing that I have had no problems at all.
Guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889951&highlight=LCD+Density

Ha! I have the exact problem even with stock rom. I though it was the problem of the particular corner of the unit I got! It is much easier to press the button in landscape view.

I dont believe its the screen. Download AppBrain and tap the search button. it works 100% of the time

It is the screen. Use a drawing program and notice how it is easy to draw a straight line in the middle and not as easy on the sides and corners. Note, you need to drag your finger slowly or else you will see more interpolation.
Raising the LCD density just hides the problem by making the hit zone bigger. Fortunately, I can live with the it.

Broken spen?

Hi,
I've started to notice that my spen doesn't seem to be working anymore. I never want first day that it is very difficult to use the pen for taking notes, drawing, etc. Wasn't dropped or anything like that, it just seems to of degraded over time.
I've tried it on stock market rom and cm9 and having the same problem. When I checked the pen on stock rom, by showing pen location on screen, it shows it (both when touching and above the screen), so it is being sensed.
Finger touch works fine so I think the digitizer works well. I also have a screen protector on, but I've tried taking it off and having the same issue.
Does anyone have the same problem?
Also, is there a way of increasing the sensitivity to the pen to see if that improves the problem.
Cheers,
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

I guess it must be due to minir wear-n-tear . You may try to OPEN and RESET at respective parts of your SPen.
I had posted a thread titled "Anatomy of SPen" on this forum, which might help you understand how to open and reset it.

S7 Edge Keyboard Cover

Anyone have experience with this? Does it fit well? How feel to push the buttons?

check out youtube videos for the s6 edge + keyboard cover. I'm sure it is similar in build, if not better.

Kasya said:
Anyone have experience with this? Does it fit well? How feel to push the buttons?
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Personally, no, I think they're hideous and make the phone look like it's from 2003. But to each his own...I'm sure if you like physical keyboards then you'll like it.

jtw_111 said:
Personally, no, I think they're hideous and make the phone look like it's from 2003. But to each his own...I'm sure if you like physical keyboards then you'll like it.
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I loved my SE P800, P900 and P990. So the design is one of my favorite...secondly I like physical keyboards.
I hope I will receive the cover on the next week.

hi, is there a support forum for this accesory?I bought this case only to realise that chinese language keyboard is not supported =/ just wonder when they plan to support if any?

I've had it on my edge for a few days and I like it. Had a discount code and a gift card so figured why not. Takes some getting used to but i can type pretty fast on it and autocorrect helps. I don't like that you have to press the alt button for a period but the dollar sign has its own key. The case itself isn't very protective and my spigen style ring doesn't stick to the back of it. Overall I like typing on it better than the actual software keyboard.

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I've had it on my edge for a few days and I like it. Had a discount code and a gift card so figured why not. Takes some getting used to but i can type pretty fast on it and autocorrect helps. I don't like that you have to press the alt button for a period but the dollar sign has its own key. The case itself isn't very protective and my spigen style ring doesn't stick to the back of it. Overall I like typing on it better than the actual software keyboard.
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Did you have to do anything special to make it work? Mine does nothing.
Is stocker launcher required to be running? (mine is, still doesn't work)
Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk

Nope just put on the back of the case and the keyboard. What type of screen protector are you using?

just bought this keyboard cover for my s7 edge as well, but i cant get the physical keyboard to work, the screen is not resizing when the keyboard is snaped on

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I have the case and Im going to get rid of it lol. It just doesnt feel right while typing on it and if you have any theme set up on your phone it will default back o the stock theme that came with the phone as well as set our keyboard back to the samsung stock one. The slim case without the keyboard does feel awesome though since its extremely minimal.

Could you provide some photos about that?I want to search one for my device.

NickinVA said:
Did you have to do anything special to make it work? Mine does nothing.
Is stocker launcher required to be running? (mine is, still doesn't work)
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I had same issue, didn't seem to work when I installed the cover but restarting phone with cover on fixed this issue. No additional software required.

Does anyone have any issue with the space bar on their keyboard case? It doesn't seem to register my space bar presses pretty frequently and is slowly driving me insane... Other keys are fine though, only the space bar has issues!
P/S I sent back mine to samsung once and they gave me a new set but when i went home to test the same issue remained

I have the asian version of S7 edge (SM-G9350) the key mappings are all just wrong. So disappointed. what a waste of money.

For those who are looking for S7 Edge keyboard photo, I attached the comparison with Priv.
Hope this helps.
Ps: Keyboard on priv is much more comfortable. on s7e its very hard one
http://imgur.com/a/WwBxv

has anyone seen this keyboard cover in silver color?
silver exists for the s6 edge but I can not find it for the s7 edge

leeelvin said:
I had same issue, didn't seem to work when I installed the cover but restarting phone with cover on fixed this issue. No additional software required.
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It did pop up a message saying "samsung accessory update" when I first connected it, and downloaded some micro-update to get it to work.
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Xephyr3 said:
Does anyone have any issue with the space bar on their keyboard case? It doesn't seem to register my space bar presses pretty frequently and is slowly driving me insane... Other keys are fine though, only the space bar has issues!
P/S I sent back mine to samsung once and they gave me a new set but when i went home to test the same issue remained
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Make sure you don't have any screen-protectors stuck to your phone before attaching the keyboard.
I had a stick-on double-side screen protector glued to my phone and after I attached the keyboard cover, keys worked erratically or not very well. It turned out that the extra thickness from the sticker (fractions of a millimeter, really) made the case not snap-on perfectly. As soon as I unglued its back, everything started working much better. I still have the front piece protecting the screen glued on (it doesn't interfere with the keyboard).

Multiple problems with the cover
Here's a list of problems the cover is causing that I've found so far:
1. The always-on display doesn't work when the keyboard is attached. Meaning you can't see the clock when the phone is in sleep mode.
2. If you start with the keyboard attached, then press the power button to put the phone to sleep mode, you'll see no always-on display. If you then detach the keyboard, the always-on display will show up, but it won't update! Meaning you'll see the same time displayed for hours afterwards (until you press the power button). Can be VERY confusing if you don't realize it.
3. When in Termux with the keyboard attached, you can see in htop that the 2 com.sec.android.inputmethod processes take about 95% and 30% of a CPU core. Also /system/bin/surfaceflinger is taking about 20%. As soon as you detach the keyboard, CPU usage goes down to reasonable near-zero levels. You can feel the phone getting a little warmer than usual, too.
4. The on-screen overlay behind the keyboard (one that receives keystrokes from it) is white! Why would they waste battery for displaying bright white which can't be seen? AMOLED is supposed to take less power when black so it's quite obvious it should be black. Displaying labels for buttons is pretty meaningless behind a hardware keyboard anyway. The bright white also casts a glow onto the rest of the screen which can be seen at night.
5. There's apparently no way to replace the stock hardware-keyboard app. It would be nice if its sources were available somewhere so you could remap / hack the buttons a bit. The euro key is pretty useless and it would serve way better as ctrl or tab, for instance. Personally I'd have it switch modes so that you could use WSAD for arrows and other letters for the rest of the important missing keys.
6. The split-screen view just doesn't work (in Marshmallow), it tells you you need to detach the keyboard first.
If not for these issues, my keyboard would probably stay attached most of the time. Because of those issues, I have to keep flipping it on and off.
Overall the keyboard's hardware is pretty nice, it feels smooth but provides the much-needed tactile feedback quite well. The fact you don't need to charge anything is awesome. The downsides are lack of backlight and the need to take up your screen space (unlike the better keyboard that the Captivate Glide had (I'll miss you, Cappy... maybe some day someone will port the latest Android to you...)).

Don't know why you don't look at a Blackberry if you're still super convinced you need a physical keyboard.
I've always found the ones you can add to your phone are clunky and not worth your time.

Jxck said:
Don't know why you don't look at a Blackberry if you're still super convinced you need a physical keyboard.
I've always found the ones you can add to your phone are clunky and not worth your time.
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Because the Priv can't be rooted and you can't install any other ROM on it. Also, it's full of bloatware that you completely deactivate.
I had a Priv for almost a year, now I'm gonna sell it. I love sliding keyboards, but the whole device is just too big, too unergonomic (all those edges, it's really uncomfortable to make a phone call). Even the keyboard didn't fully convince me, I had way better keyboards in previous (Android and Windows Mobile) smartphones.
So after a brief period of using the S6 with they official keyboard cover, today I got an S7 edge and the keyboard cover. The keys are a bit bigger than with the S6 keyboard, its surface feels a bit better too.
But now that I've installed Lineage on it (one of the main reasons to get the S7 were custom ROMs), the system doesn't detect the keyboard by itself.
So I need to find the drivers for it to install them manually on Lineage...

Spen problems

Anyone else experiencing spen glitchy behavior? Example I'll be hovering the pen over the screen and it'll scroll or select things without me touching the screen and sometimes it won't register the spen touching the screen when I actually try to scroll, or I'll use the square app at work and when my clients need to sign the screen it'll register the pen before even touching the screen. I really like the spen feature but at this point it's too unreliable to even use, is this normal behavior? My wife's note 8 exhibits the same behavior. Tmo note 8 and we both factory restored before setting up and did clean install no transfer data crap.

do you have a screen protector ?

No not me works great and I use my Spen everyday.

L1N3B3CK said:
do you have a screen protector ?
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No I do not, my finger touches are fine, it's only when I use the spen does it act glitchy, do you think it's defective?

No issues with mine on Verizon, with a screen protector.

Shuthefrontdoor said:
Anyone else experiencing spen glitchy behavior? Example I'll be hovering the pen over the screen and it'll scroll or select things without me touching the screen and sometimes it won't register the spen touching the screen when I actually try to scroll, or I'll use the square app at work and when my clients need to sign the screen it'll register the pen before even touching the screen. I really like the spen feature but at this point it's too unreliable to even use, is this normal behavior? My wife's note 8 exhibits the same behavior. Tmo note 8 and we both factory restored before setting up and did clean install no transfer data crap.
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Are you using a case with a magnetic kick stand?
My guess is yes.. can't use that with the Note's digitizer as the S-pen tech is magnetic based
If this is not the case (pun intended) then you probably have a faulty S-pen or Digitizer

L1N3B3CK said:
do you have a screen protector ?
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ingenious247 said:
Are you using a case with a magnetic kick stand?
My guess is yes.. can't use that with the Note's digitizer as the S-pen tech is magnetic based
If this is not the case (pun intended) then you probably have a faulty S-pen or Digitizer
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No just a regular super slim case, it's so annyoing as it only exhibits the problem sometimes not always , I guess I'll have to take it back

You're not using a magnetic car mount either, right?
Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

L1N3B3CK said:
do you have a screen protector ?
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ingenious247 said:
Are you using a case with a magnetic kick stand?
My guess is yes.. can't use that with the Note's digitizer as the S-pen tech is magnetic based
If this is not the case (pun intended) then you probably have a faulty S-pen or Digitizer
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ingenious247 said:
You're not using a magnetic car mount either, right?
Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
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I do in the car but I noticed this issue immediately after first spen use and I didn't have a magnetic car mount yet, so I don't think they are related and I don't use the spen when I'm in the car

Some of the Same
I also absolutely love the S Pen and I've had the note line for years. This time around with the Note 8 I'm experiencing a weird glitch that's happening with Google products ie Google Chrome Google app Google Maps. Especially when I use the Google app to read different articles. When I open the articles it will literally freeze and not recognize any touch. However if I open that article with my finger and scrolled just a little bit with my finger then I don't suffer the same problem but if I initiate scrolling with the S Pen it freezes every time. This is really frustrating to the point where I have to force close the app to get it to respond at all.... Google and Samsung please figure this out!!!! It really is maddening!!!

At least Spen works with no issue on my phone. I use it pretty often for making notes and also I found it faster and convenient to write in chat messages..

Try changing the nib. I had similar problems which seem to have gone after a nib change, maybe coincidental.

No problem on mine at all. See if you can borrow spen from somebody and test with different pen maybe? Also I would reset the phone and test again, before sending it back.

I exchanged the phone and so far it's been good, fingers crossed

Are you maybe triggering some of the events and tools that the S-pen does without touching the screen? One place this first "caught" me off guard was reading email. When you hover just of the screen it gives you choices and can do actions. There are also scroll choices in Chrome that fire up by hovering.
Just to make sure, I suggest watching
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If it isn't behaving like in the video and you know you aren't triggering hover events, then I would definitely get it replaced.

I can't understand why third party case makers continue making cases with magnets in them for our Note series. It usually causes issues with the S-Pen. Like, a foldable stand can just be designed to "click" in place when not in use. You don't need a magnet for that. And for the wallet type cases they can just use velcro or something to clip it back into place without a magnet.

Any update? I also sent my phone in for repair of a similar issue and when I got it back, it seems like nothing was fixed. Samsung wrote that they "replaced cosmetic" whatever that means?

I had a similar issue with my note 7, as the recall started and I refused to surrender my note7, claiming warranty was not an option, I bought a spen, and, that solved it, to this day works fine, in this case with a note 8, you must go and claim warranty or, try with some one else's spen to sort the problem out

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately in my case it seems like the s pen is not the issue. I've gone into a Best Buy and used their pen and I still encounter the same issue :/

DrIzzLe85 said:
I also absolutely love the S Pen and I've had the note line for years. This time around with the Note 8 I'm experiencing a weird glitch that's happening with Google products ie Google Chrome Google app Google Maps. Especially when I use the Google app to read different articles. When I open the articles it will literally freeze and not recognize any touch. However if I open that article with my finger and scrolled just a little bit with my finger then I don't suffer the same problem but if I initiate scrolling with the S Pen it freezes every time. This is really frustrating to the point where I have to force close the app to get it to respond at all.... Google and Samsung please figure this out!!!! It really is maddening!!!
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I had the same problem when searching with Google and the result was shown in Chrome. Using the SPen and the site hang. Using my finger no problem. I then changed from Samsung Internet Browser to Chrome as default browser. The problem was gone.

Multitouch with +5 fingers

****UPDATE: *****
This is what happens https://imgflip.com/gif/1xvxm0
What can be the cause of this? Does this happen to any of you as well? Should i open the casing and see if there is anything touching the metal casing that should not ?
****EO UPDATE ****
I have been testing with both
Settings -> Developer Options - > Show Pointers (and looking at the top left that says x/x points)
or
Using a multitouch test app like so https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.the511plus.MultiTouchTester
The latter is nice because it has big handlers and you can clearly see the point/touch flickering like loosing and creating point (hence creating a new point ID)
From what i can say in Marshmallow it worked way better, on the last 2 Nougat updates i saw that at the 7th point it started to do the flickering and with this one it starts at the 5th point.
With 3 fingers screenshot disabled (and all the gestures for that matter) as i know it would create a conflict.
Just tested in a Motorola with Marshmallow and it created the 10 points flawlessly.
I wonder if any of you noticed the same or is something off with my touchscreen?
Might it be a Nougat thing ?
Any known solutions?
I searched around and nothing Nougat related seem to pop up
Just tested with both OP2 and a Moto G5 and they both work great, actually it even worked great on my Samsung Galaxy i9000
I have noticed that for the last 2 updates or so multitouch capability has been decreasing.

When are you ever going to use ten fingers to multitask? If it wasn't for the screenshot gesture, we wouldn't even be using three.

JarJarWinks said:
When are you ever going to use ten fingers to multitask? If it wasn't for the screenshot gesture, we wouldn't even be using three.
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That is irrelevant for what i am trying to figure out, what i want to know is if it is a HW problem by default or just my HW is faulty or even if it is a Nougat problem.
It works flawlessly on other less capable phones

Either software or hardware fault I would say. I just tried it out without any flickering with 10 fingers on my 3t running latest unofficial LineageOS 15/Oreo ROM.

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Either software or hardware fault I would say. I just tried it out without any flickering with 10 fingers on my 3t running latest unofficial LineageOS 15/Oreo ROM.
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Thank you, from what i get so far is a Nougat thing, all the users that have Oreo seems to work fine

Conductive electricity ?
Ok some pretty strange updates...
I accidentally tested it on a metal table and it worked perfectly, which lead me to think that it might be due to conductive energy or something.
So i tried the test on a wooden table and it does flicker and loose touches, so i pressed with a finger on a metal part of the OP3T casing and the points are registered properly.
I had made a video so people don't think i am crazy here is the result https://imgflip.com/gif/1xvxm0 at this point i can say that is directly related.
What can be the cause of this? Does this happen to any of you as well? Should i open the casing and see if there is anything touching the metal casing that should not ?

anyone ?

This is a non issue honestly. If it doesn't change how your phone functions in day to day practical use, you probably shouldn't bother with something like that. The touch display functionally is fantastic especially the screen colors and with the recently fixed touch latency it does happen to be one of the best screens on the market despite its lower resolution. Factually you won't use more than a three touch input so. IMHO

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This is a non issue honestly. If it doesn't change how your phone functions in day to day practical use, you probably shouldn't bother with something like that. The touch display functionally is fantastic especially the screen colors and with the recently fixed touch latency it does happen to be one of the best screens on the market despite its lower resolution. Factually you won't use more than a three touch input so. IMHO
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It is definitely a problem did you watched the video ? because it seems like a real hard problem to me, use cases for you might be different from others. My old samsung galaxy i9000 as well as my OP2 did not had that problem

It may be a problem for one and may not be a problem in another's eyes.
To address your issue, have you tried switching ROM's? I don't think it could be a Nougat problem, but you might as well try Oreo or even MM.
This may sound funny, but have you tried with another person's fingers?

thes3usa said:
It may be a problem for one and may not be a problem in another's eyes.
To address your issue, have you tried switching ROM's? I don't think it could be a Nougat problem, but you might as well try Oreo or even MM.
This may sound funny, but have you tried with another person's fingers?
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I had the feeling that it might be from the updates (still using official OP updates) but right now i think it might be hardware. Yes i tried with other fingers, thinking about opening the phone to see if there is something touching the metal case inside.