[Q] Cleaning the trackpad? - myTouch 4G General

My trackpad is getting less responsive to clicks. Any suggestions on cleaning it or making it more responsive? I've seen tips for the power button, but not for the trackpad.

darjama said:
My trackpad is getting less responsive to clicks. Any suggestions on cleaning it or making it more responsive? I've seen tips for the power button, but not for the trackpad.
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Are you running an aosp rom? Trackpad doesn't work great at all on aosp.
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Phateless said:
Are you running an aosp rom? Trackpad doesn't work great at all on aosp.
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No, I'm back to CM7. I tried out different ICS roms the past few months, but never found one that was reliable enough for me. Plus it's hard to give up the 720p video when you've got young kids.

Cm is aosp based...I had a period where mine was less responsive and sticking down, think I got some sand in it from the beach, just kept using it though...it seems to work fine now, though the button is recessed lower than my wifes...and am using a sense based rom

darjama said:
No, I'm back to CM7. I tried out different ICS roms the past few months, but never found one that was reliable enough for me. Plus it's hard to give up the 720p video when you've got young kids.
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Aosp means pure Android, not sense or anything.
Cm7 is aosp.
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oops, I read aosp as aokp, my bad.
But it seems like a physical problem more than a software one. If I press down hard it registers the click, but I'm worried I'll wear out the mechanism.

darjama said:
oops, I read aosp as aokp, my bad.
But it seems like a physical problem more than a software one. If I press down hard it registers the click, but I'm worried I'll wear out the mechanism.
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make a nandroid backup, restore to stock, warranty replacement, root again, restore your backup, and go on your merry way.
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Cyanogen Mod for MT4GS

Okay so just out of curiosity does anybody know if they have mentioned putting this on here?
no, but we all are fingercrossing
I saw this thread and a started smiling.....then it quickly changed.
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ONLY if they can keep the camera software 100% intact.
I don't think it can be done. It relies too much on Sense3 frameworks.
Aeikozz said:
Okay so just out of curiosity does anybody know if they have mentioned putting this on here?
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You should really put this "[Q]" before the thread before you posted this you will have have so many unhappy people.
neanderthal0 said:
I saw this thread and a started smiling.....then it quickly changed.
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I know me tooo!
raduque said:
ONLY if they can keep the camera software 100% intact.
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You mean ***FOR YOU***. I personally couldn't care less about the HTC camera code.
I don't think it can be done. It relies too much on Sense3 frameworks.
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You mean the camera? Again, that's just what YOU want, not what everybody else wants.
dhkr234 said:
You mean ***FOR YOU***. I personally couldn't care less about the HTC camera code.
You mean the camera? Again, that's just what YOU want, not what everybody else wants.
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and along the same token, your lack of concern for preserving the awesomeness of the camera is your opinion and, I imagine, not one that is held widely by the MT4GS userbase.
one of the selling points of this phone is the camera... and that goes out the window with the AOSP camera app. before this phone, I wouldn't have cared either, but since it has such a capable setup out of the box for being a point and shoot replacement, it seems like a waste to toss that just to get an AOSP rom.
Before jumping to conclusions about the built in Camera software versus the third party camera apps available on the market, we should test them out first.
I'm absolutely certain that there will be apps out there in the future that will be able to control the entire camera in this phone. The only question is when. That being said I only care in so far as being able to turn the flash on and off. I'm usually taking pictures in default settings though I might turn the flash off.
The Sense 3.0 camera app is the same as the one we have on the MT4GS, and as long as we run a version of Sense 3.0 we shouldn't have any problems. AOSP would be nice, but I'd like to have the nice camera functionality, and honestly I loved Virtuous Fusion ROM running Sense 3.0, I can't imagine how fast it would be on this device!
Yeah, the camera is something that I really want working on a custom rom. coming from the cliq though, everything seems fast stock on this phone.
I can't wait for Cyanogenmod on this phone. It really opened up my 3G slide with all kinds of cool stuff. When 3G slides were bearly getting official 2.2 Froyo from HTC, I had gingerbread for a while. I can imagine this bad boy running 3.1 or even the 4.0 that's supposed to be out soon!
Loved CM on my 3G slide, but I *personally* would not want to part with the functionality of the camera. Now if workarounds are discovered than that is a different story.
This phone is so much better out of the box than the 3G slide was though.
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other roms?
While we wait for cyanogen, are there other ROMs that work on the slide4g that people can recommend? The tmobile crap I can't uninstall is really getting on my nerves
I've been using Undeadk9's Doubleshot v0.5 with no problems so far. It's deMyTouched so it seems to fit what you're looking for.
giangdude said:
I've been using Undeadk9's Doubleshot v0.5 with no problems so far. It's deMyTouched so it seems to fit what you're looking for.
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Cool, I've not heard of it, I'll check it out!
Any word on getting official clockwork recovery? I am leary of the other ones....
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Wondering if anyone is working on this at all? Very little word and I'm starting to get a bit sad. Getting awfully tired of HTC Sense.
Zencyde said:
Wondering if anyone is working on this at all? Very little word and I'm starting to get a bit sad. Getting awfully tired of HTC Sense.
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[ROM][09/16/2011]Senseless_v2.1.2 Tweaked, Modded, Debloated, AOSP Pieces, ONLY 180MB
Just because something isn't CM7 doesn't mean it isn't a good ROM. People need to pay respect to those developing ROMs other than CM7 and MIUI as well, if it weren't for them we would still be on the stock rom with S-ON. Give this ROM a shot, I've been running it for a while and it is much better than the shipped rom and has full camera functionality.
The reason we don't have cm7 support is because there is no source code yet. You stuck with sense until then. Complain to HTC not within xda.
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Undeadk9 said:
The reason we don't have cm7 support is because there is no source code yet. You stuck with sense until then. Complain to HTC not within xda.
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Wasn't complaining. Was just asking if any work was done. I found this article through a Google search and then did some forum searching after posting. Sad that the source for the kernel has to be released first. But if that ROM is more AOSP and has full camera functionality, it might be worth rooting my phone over.

Favorite HOX features.

This is a thread to list some cool things you like about the phone. Maybe point out a few things that other people didn't know yet.
For me I would have to say that the keyboard is awesome. Also the fact that it already has a printer option built in. Voice recognition on this phone is awesome. And of course face recognition is great too.
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I've been a Swype user since the Nexus One, but I have to say that the Trace feature on the HTC keyboard is impressive. It's noticeably quicker to render words after swyping/tracing. Only downside I've noticed is you can't place the cursor on previous words and choose alternate suggestions. Unless I'm missing an option for this.
Ha. And I though it was an improved swype this whole time
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Interesting comment about the keyboard. I'll be receiving my HOX today but most reviews say the HTC keyboard is ****. Seeing the entire row of arrows on the bottom leads me to agree (but then again, I haven't used it yet). How does it compare to the stock ICS keyboard? I don't like Swype so I'm sure I won't ever use that feature.
tae_254 said:
...And of course face recognition is great too.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
mesko402 said:
About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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Well that sucks ass. And I tested with everyone in my house and it only worked for me..
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My favorite feature is definitely the screen! I can't keep my eyes off of it. I do not like the HTC Sense keyboard and for those of you that also do not like it you can go to the Play Store and download the stock ICS keyboard and it works great on the One X. It is much more similar to the iPhone keyboard that I am used to and is spaced further apart than stock sense keyboard. Also, you get more screen room for viewing while texting or writing messages if you use the stock ICS keyboard.
mesko402 said:
About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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It works for pictures of you as well... It can't distinguish depth.
Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
cmjkxa said:
Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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Haven't heard about this I think It will be great
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-before-it-grants-access-to-the-phone_id28559
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I rather enjoy the was the app drawer is done on this phone. Now that said this is both my first HTC and my first ICS phone, so this may be nothing special
Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
ricktat said:
Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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That's not really a new feature. I've had that on every HTC phone i've used. Windows mobile, windows phone.
ricktat said:
The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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I personally hate this feature. A dedicated button? I liked long press home. Now I don't have a quick way to search plus I haven't found a way to assign a long press action to any of them.
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Once we have root it should be long press home button for recent apps, multitask button as menu button, and long press multitask for search. I miss voice search lol it was easier on an inspire
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The battery life left it alone overnight, awesome, especially vs atrix and LG nitro hd.
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The headphone out sound quality. It's clean and detailed. Does anyone know what DAC the LTE version has in it?
ricktat said:
The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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From what I can tell, by swiping the recent application does not close the application. I have opened several apps and then hit the home button then the recent applications button and swiped them... then opened up the apps again and they are right back where I left them. I think it only deletes the recent app bookmark and not closes the app itself.

[Q] [REQUEST] Remap www./.com key

So, this may just be me, but i would like the www/com key to do actually that. Insert either www or com. is there any way i can do that?
jmcoffey said:
So, this may just be me, but i would like the www/com key to do actually that. Insert either www or com. is there any way i can do that?
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Mine does this, why doesn't yours? What rom are you running?
yellowjacket1981 said:
Mine does this, why doesn't yours? What rom are you running?
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He is most likely on an ICS build which does not have that function. It opens the browser, I tried today to change the function in ICS Sense but the only change I made was to make it TAB rather than browser. But there are many threads around here to explain this, maybe one could go at it with a text editor to achieve what they want?
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There's a patch coming out in the next CM9 Rom with WWW/.COM working.
AgentCherryColla said:
There's a patch coming out in the next CM9 Rom with WWW/.COM working.
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Wish I knew what functions they changed the keys to but TAB suites me better because I don't use the www/com function at all
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yellowjacket1981 said:
Mine does this, why doesn't yours? What rom are you running?
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Haha. Probably should have put that. I'm running the latest version of CM9.
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I second the request in this thread, only less bitterly.
I became a little hooked on that function I guess! I'd also love to turn the slide out keyboard's back key to a keypress delete or something and a long press back so I don't lose XDA posts once in a while!
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[Q] Jelly Bean ROM's for Inspire 4G/Desire

After giving it some time for Jelly Bean to hit developers, I've seen 2 versions of Jelly Bean that work on the Inspire, both of which are variants of JellyTime. There is a CM10 version out there, but the Inspire/Desire is not on their supported list and after installing it I can't get it to boot past the splash screen.
Has anyone seen any other JB ROM's out there? I've seen Randomblame's and Synergy's and I must say both are noticeably faster, faster internet, faster APP install, and improved efficiency overall.
Please post all questions in the Q & A section. Thanks!
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Those are the two. Since nothing official will be hitting any similar devices it probably won't be a big collection of roms like gb and ics. I bet someday we will see a port of a jelly/sense combo but it will probably be missing stuff so it is actually usable. Our devices are becoming dated compared to jelly bean devices. It's like running windows 7 on an old Athlon. I know I am looking forward to upgrading. My inspire has been a great device, but most of the really great devs have upgraded and moved on, and I can't wait til I can do the same. I've only got 11 more months lol. Keylime(or whatever the k version will be called) will probably be out by then.
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efrant said:
Please post all questions in the Q & A section. Thanks!
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My apologies, thanks for moving it. I am new to this.
I've been using randomBlame's jelly bean nightlies for some time now. It is nearly perfect but the one major flaw made me revert back to ice cold sandwich: the screen blacks out when the first sound is initiated after sleep. It's actually a problem with cm10 and it interferes with calls. When that is fixed it will be my new os.
JellyTime
I just flash this rom (below) yesterday night and i must say thsi is the best one I've flashed in awhile.
its fast its good on battery life and the design is Crack lol. only problem i have is the camera function
dont like that i have to snap a shot just to calibrate it. and the Apollo music app, installing a different theme it doesnt seem to work.
other than that the dialer works, wifi is excellent and the battery life is sweet....check it out​
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778202&page=811​
The Remedy said:
I just flash this rom (below) yesterday night and i must say thsi is the best one I've flashed in awhile.
its fast its good on battery life and the design is Crack lol. only problem i have is the camera function
dont like that i have to snap a shot just to calibrate it. and the Apollo music app, installing a different theme it doesnt seem to work.
other than that the dialer works, wifi is excellent and the battery life is sweet....check it out​
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778202&page=811​
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A workaround for camera focus is to hold button and then slide finger off it sideways. It will focus without taking a picture. Works for me.
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Gizmoe said:
A workaround for camera focus is to hold button and then slide finger off it sideways. It will focus without taking a picture. Works for me.
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When I launch the camera application the picture is upside down until I snap a shot. Then it returns to normal operation. :cyclops:
uss..p8triot said:
When I launch the camera application the picture is upside down until I snap a shot. Then it returns to normal operation. :cyclops:
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He is working on a fix for that now.
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Gizmoe said:
He is working on a fix for that now.
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Thank you :good:
I'm currently using JellyTime R13 and I haven't run on any issues. Great battery life, very fast and the camera bug stated earlier in this post is fixed. Only thing not working is the headset controls, but for me that's not a big deal. I use it as my daily driver. I haven't used the other one but I think it should be very similar to JellyTime since both are unofficial CM Nightlies.
Still has backlight issues I think. Biggest deal killer for me is not supporting all wifi channels...
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Addicted to hardkeys/S2W

Okay, this may be dumb but I am wondering if I am the only one thinking about this. Currently, I am rocking the latest ICS version of venom and beast mode kernel. At first I though sleep to wake was really cool. Recently, however, I have come to depend on it. It is so awesome to be able to wake my phone from the front (like an iDevice) and now I even am starting to hate that I can't sleep my iPad from the front the way I can with my HOX.
Typically I just enjoy my phone and at the same time look forward to future hardware improvements. Sadly, however, it looks like HTC and others are going with on screen keys in increasing numbers. Its sad to think that my next upgrade may result in a loss of functionality (and maybe even less usable screen real-estate.)
Am I the only one?
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i agree, i'm really liking s2w and on-screen keys are NOT cool.
You are definitely not the only one. I completely depend on s2w. I used a JB sense ROM the other day and I don't know how many times I tried to use s2w. Went back to JellyBam and Rohans kernel with a quickness. And yes, on screen keys would suck. Never used one like that but I feel like I'd hate it.
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I've got s2w on my n4
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bongostl said:
I've got s2w on my n4
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.paranoid.touchcontrol
Thanks for enlightening me! I still prefer the screen of my HOX to my buddy's N4 but it's nice to know that s2w is possible!
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I felt the same way about screen real estate, but I realized its a matter of perspective. Look at your phone. Look at the hardware keys. Now imagine your screen extending to where they are. Your screen is bigger. Now imagine that when you need them, those buttons can pop up, and when you don't need them they can go away.
Its a glass half empty or glass half full issue. My buddy says "depends on whether you are drinking or filling the glass" I say true. You need to ask yourself if you want the overall phone to be bigger or not because that's really the only thing that is changing. A 3.7" screen with hw buttons could be 4" without. Or conversely a 4" screen would end up 3.7" if you put those buttons under it and kept the phone the same size overall.
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Opposite for me, the only thing I liked about my gnex was the on screen keys and being able to remap them to what I want and change their color etc.
Especially with PA newer feature where they have per app color.
I'd look forward to a HTC device with on screen keys.
Slithered from my HTC One X+
The lack of s2w is one of the reasons I haven't moved up to JB yet.
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The lack of s2w is one of the reasons I haven't moved up to JB yet.
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I was bummed on that at first, but I gave it a few days and now I'm just used to the power button. But I have the otterbox commuter, which makes the power button way way easier to press.
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