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Drawing straight lines/inaccurate touch screen.

Has anybody figured out a way to draw straight lines on their galaxy tab easily?
I understand inaccurate touch screens are quite common on android, especially compared to apple products.
If a fix was possible, I guess it would have to be embedded in firmware or the os. Any thoughts?
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Get a stylus and a ruler? I sure can't draw a straight line on my ipad with my fingers
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Maybe I should try it ;-)
All the lines I draw in drawing programs on my tab come out sort of wobbly. I tried using a demo ipad 2 earlier and the results were much more pleasing.
I suspect some smoothing could be applied to make the whole situation much more sane without losing any significant information.
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This is what I'm getting using autodesk sketchbook
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swyped from a galaxy far far away

I've got Sketch Book too. Seems to be the only real choice on Android.
The problem I have is with trying to draw a line slowly and even more so diagonally, which as I wrote before, I don't see on the ipad.
The smoother lines were drawn more quickly.

You can try touch screen booster sgs, play with that and see if it helps, I think the problem is it may be to sensitive
swyped from a galaxy far far away

Thanks for the tip. I google for quite a while touch screen settings but nother turned up of use.

I can confirm this.
And personally I dont think there is a fix.
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No dice Runs but doesn't make any difference.

Well remember the tab has a higher dpi than the ipad, I think its hard because your finger isn't going perfectly straight, see if a stylus would help and if it does you know its your finger
swyped from a galaxy far far away

Tried a stylus before and out was even worse.
I'm using overcome, I'll check with altbridge if it honors ts.conf and see off the tunables there help.
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How to find the culprit?

I have froze all the recently installed apps and I still get a "notification" for an "improved market" how can I find out which app is causing this crap? Here's a pic
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Can you get a clearer pic
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Install Air Push Detector. That should help you identify it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en

I don't know why It does that. I've found if you save the picture you can see it clearly.
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Melladon said:
I don't know why It does that. I've found if you save the picture you can see it clearly.
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What, my screenshot? I can see it full size and very clear.

cixelsyddyslexic said:
Install Air Push Detector. That should help you identify it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
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Thanks, I downloaded it and the other one he recommends. I get this ad a few times a day so I should be able to pinpoint the app by tonight or in the morning.

If you have a music download app that is the culprit
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The app was Retro TD, both airpush and addons detector found it

BlackHoleSlam said:
If you have a music download app that is the culprit
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The only music apps I use are rhapsody (for a year and a half) and Google music (since I got a beta invite months back) , and neither have given me any trouble. The rhapsody app is actually much better than their PC client.

Weird
I can see screenshots fine on the desktop, but when i use the xda app on my phone, they're always blurry, who knows. Sorry to derail.

Melladon said:
I can see screenshots fine on the desktop, but when i use the xda app on my phone, they're always blurry, who knows. Sorry to derail.
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No problem, the issue was resolved anyway. I don't know why that is, but I have the same problem viewing pics that were posted using the app when I'm browsing on my PC, phone, or tablet. BTW, I used photobucket to post that pic.

Calender app

Weird issue. I have always used the stock Google calendar app, on my nexus 10, my old GS4, even my GS-II. The stock Google app on the One, however, won't display the text of my events, just a color bar. On my other devices, it displays the text, even on phones. I've resorted to Business Calendar as a workaround, but does anyone know the Google calendar app behaves this way on the One?
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Hurricane Andrew said:
Weird issue. I have always used the stock Google calendar app, on my nexus 10, my old GS4, even my GS-II. The stock Google app on the One, however, won't display the text of my events, just a color bar. On my other devices, it displays the text, even on phones. I've resorted to Business Calendar as a workaround, but does anyone know the Google calendar app behaves this way on the One?
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Could this be related to your theme? Try changing your theme and checking again

jameslfc5 said:
Could this be related to your theme? Try changing your theme and checking again
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Tried a couple themes, and that doesn't seem to change anything. Not a huge deal, but just thought it was odd and was curious if anyone else noticed this behavior.

Hurricane Andrew said:
Tried a couple themes, and that doesn't seem to change anything. Not a huge deal, but just thought it was odd and was curious if anyone else noticed this behavior.
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I've personally been using today calendar and it's pretty cool because you can change the action bar behavior so that it changes the colour of the status bar
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Chrome bug...I think

Something I have noticed today-when I load a page in chrome on my nexus 6, along the right edge there are images that are almost like a mirror image to whatever is on the screen-but it's not clickable or scrollable... Its really weird-has anyone seen this? Just look to the right-where the scroll bar is...you will see it
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Pecata said:
Something I have noticed today-when I load a page in chrome on my nexus 6, along the right edge there are images that are almost like a mirror image to whatever is on the screen-but it's not clickable or scrollable... Its really weird-has anyone seen this? Just look to the right-where the scroll bar is...you will see itView attachment 3512493
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exact same thing happens with me, i dont know if this is caused by the google updated chrome,
but i thought it was because of my Glass Screen Protector... i have the exact same issue and it can get annoying :/
i am on Chroma's Final LP based Rom , also wish to know what is causing this.

Strange...I am stock, rooted...I just hid the navigation bar and I am using LMT. Checked my wife's nexus 4-also running the latest chrome version-nothing-she doesn't have this issue.
Anyone else noticing this? Any idea what causes it and how to get rid of it?

I have tested Firefox and I can report that there the issue is not present. It is a chrome bug then...I am not sure what exactly causes it
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Same thing happening to me too.. Check Opera browser and it doesn't happen there... So far its only chrome.
Also I have the same thing happening at the bottom of the screen too.
It's very obvious on the attached screenshot.

Yep i checked as well, on Youtube App it doesnt appear and tried Mozilla doesnt happen either.
it only happens on my favourite browser which i only use and that is Chrome >A> i hope they fix it soon.

I have submitted feedback to Google through chrome-hopefully they read them...
I don't remember having this issue on Lollipop...tried Chrome beta-still had the same issue...

I can confirm that with the Chrome Beta 47 the issue is now fixed-no more mirror images...give it a try

whew, glad to learn of a fix - the additional lines can be kinda distracting!

Images in text messages ?

Not sure , never had this issue before. I receive some kind of low quality images with some of my text messages. Can anyone advice what it is please and how to turn off? Thanks.
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In the Messaging app, SETTINGS>MORE SETTINGS>SHOW WEB PREVIEWS
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Rydah805 said:
In the Messaging app, SETTINGS>MORE SETTINGS>SHOW WEB PREVIEWS
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Thanks you.
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I actually like that feature & leave mine on. It comes in pretty handy sometimes.

shouren04 said:
I actually like that feature & leave mine on. It comes in pretty handy sometimes.
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How so? Just asking as maybe I'm not understanding it's functionality properly.
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Limeybastard said:
How so? Just asking as maybe I'm not understanding it's functionality properly.
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It basically shows a preview of any internet url, not sure about webpages that don't have photos. The preview kind of sucks as it's limited but somewhat gives you an idea. That way you don't have to click on the url to figure out what it is if it's not familar to you.
One example, one of my lil brothers used to send me youtube links that were gorey, etc. He knows I don't like viewing them. Now he can't trick me anymore.
Or if you happen to receive spam texts or texts from parties unknown you can get an idea of what the link is instead of having to visit a url that might be harmful. I don't know, I've never received spam texts or from people I don't know but just a thought.
I can see how it can be annoying to some but at least we have the option & can turn it off as desired. To add, the stock Gallery has a new feature I've never seen before (maybe the S8 had it, I don't know). If you take a screenshot of a website it'll include the url so you can visit tge page again in the future. I have it turned on but have not tried it yet.