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On most laptops the touch pad is turned off while tying. This is great for fat finger people like me who constantly hit the touch pad while typing and end up all over the page. Would love to see this option added.
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There's a button on the top row of the dock to disable the touchpad. Just push it before you start typing.
You're touching the touchpad when you type due to improper posture. The proper posture is to elevate your palm to the same level as the rest of your hand, this gives you the fastest response and decreases ergonomic issues (it gets more tiring but you'll get used to it)
And also, my hp doesn't turn off the trackpad while typing. Just fyi =P
Yeah, supposed to elevate your palm. ^^^
i've never ever seen a laptop that automatically shut off the trackpad when typing.
but yeah, just press the button. it takes a second.
Speaking as a piano player, I see bad posture all the time with both musical and electronic keyboards. The thing that ticks me off sometimes is that these people blame the hardware instead of their bad posture. It's like holding a phone upside down and then complain that the phone was built upside down so they couldn't hear what the other person was saying. Ridiculous.
9646gt said:
On most laptops the touch pad is turned off while tying.
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really?......all three laptops I've had never turned off the touchpad while typing..
magicpork said:
really?......all three laptops I've had never turned off the touchpad while typing..
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Same here. I opted to adjust the sensitivity so the cursors wouldn't jump around as much.
Pretty sure it is an option to turn it off in windows since vista and Apple laptops also do it.
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9646gt said:
Pretty sure it is an option to turn it off in windows since vista and Apple laptops also do it.
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Its also a option here. Press the touch pad button (right above the number 3) and it wont respond
Wow... I'm seriously all for the support and discussions within forums to help others with their problems, but seriously? Before you suggest what a company should or shouldn't do, maybe you should read the manual for all the features.
Turning off the mousepad IS an option on the keyboard.
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byhoung said:
Wow... I'm seriously all for the support and discussions within forums to help others with their problems, but seriously? Before you suggest what a company should or shouldn't do, maybe you should read the manual for all the features.
Turning off the mousepad IS an option on the keyboard.
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I think the op was referring to auto turning on/off when typing - well, that's how I read the subject line of their post.
I agree it should be automatically done, there wouldn't be a need to have an on/off button if it is done automatically. not everyone has perfect typing posture and some people have fatter palms than others!!
I'm pretty sure that this is option in mac and windows synaptic drivers ('palm detect' option or something... This is even achievable within linux if you mess about with xorg.conf files, do a google...
byhoung said:
Wow... I'm seriously all for the support and discussions within forums to help others with their problems, but seriously? Before you suggest what a company should or shouldn't do, maybe you should read the manual for all the features.
Turning off the mousepad IS an option on the keyboard.
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op means auto-off for the trackpad while typing...read twice please
Notebooks don't tend to turn the trackpad off. Rather, they build the ability to differentiate between palm touches and intentional touches into their trackpad software. That's what I'd love to see Asus do, because as much as I try to maintain good posture, I've run into this problem quite a bit on my Transformer.
I'm guessing that'll be resolved in a future update...
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husker91 said:
And also, my hp doesn't turn off the trackpad while typing. Just fyi =P
Yeah, supposed to elevate your palm. ^^^
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I don't think my ASUS RoG does either. Would really make playing WoW much harder.
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really?......all three laptops I've had never turned off the touchpad while typing..
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That's because some touchpad drivers have an OPTION which you have to turn on where it will disable touchpad when typing or when a mouse is plugged in. Not one laptop that I know of would do this automatically.
Secondly, I really thing your're being picky beyond reason. I mean the Android keyboard already has every possible shortcut on it. All you have to do is hit the mousepad key and it's done!
Regards
The OP is referring to "Palm Rejection" which is a feature that the touchpad / touchscreen firmware has to support. For Synaptics, they call it SmartSense.
PR Blurb http://www.synaptics.com/about/press/press-releases/synaptics-demonstrates-clickpad%E2%84%A2-and-gesture-innovations-computex
"Accidental Contact Mitigation" - gotta love it!
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Secondly, I really thing your're being picky beyond reason. I mean the Android keyboard already has every possible shortcut on it. All you have to do is hit the mousepad key and it's done!
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Which would likely get very annoying having to do it every time you stop typing and need to use the trackpad.
I honestly have had better luck anyway leaving it off. I use the keyboard for typing and my finger for navigating. It works great and i haven't used the trackpad in days.
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I honestly have had better luck anyway leaving it off. I use the keyboard for typing and my finger for navigating. It works great and i haven't used the trackpad in days.
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And sometimes you get wierd looks from people as they watch you poke your netbook, always entertaining.
swyped from my CM7 Supersonic
Hey xda followers!
I have a hardware problem with my Transformer since the beginning and was too lazy to change it by a new one...
My problem is that I use my device with no problem but sometimes I am loosing touch inputs...
If I let the Transformer go into sleep mode alone and unlock it, I have to force lock and unlock again to have good touch responses back...
Then I can have a good session of 30 minutes of use without any problem and then, randomly, touch input precision is lowering, until I can't use it anymore and I must lock and unlock rapidly again...
Very annoying problem for sure...
But today I decided to search through google, forums, xda, to have a beginning of solution to my problem.
And I found THE Touchscreen Booster application.
It's an application that was made for Viewsonic G tablet at the origin. The famous Bumblebee discovered it at first so thanks to him for that. And the thread talking about that is from gojimi. He modified the application to be more easily usable. So thanks to him too!
Being an android application and having titanium backuped all my applications, I thought: why not trying!
So I installed it and launched it... AND... TADAAA! Just incredible. It worked, no problem at all, no force close, no freeze, nothing.
AND: touchscreen inputs are incredibly smoother, sensitivity has been greatly improved, response time between writing letters is better, multi touch is improved... It's just paradise. I don't know if you tried Ipad but the result is that type of sensitivity...
This application can be used by all types of roms and for people who have problems with touchscreen sensitivity or just want a bigger one
Please leave here your feedback, positive or negative, and remember, do it at your own risks, I am not responsible of the potential problems after applying this application.
It worked for me, my Transformer had never been so smooth, so why not yours!
Maybe you will have to launch the application some times, when you feel that sensitivity was better before, or after boot... But you can put the application on your desktop and touch the button FixMe!
Share, enjoy, and say thanks
Original thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934500
Seems to have worked for me....the keyboard doesn't seem that much more responsive though...the screen transitions are alot more smooth.
Thanks for this find!!!!
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Happens to mine sometimes, I just turn the screen off with the power button, and then back on and its fine again
Thanks for the apk though I`ll try it out
Wow, nice. My touchscreen was a little slow and not very sensitive to touch input. running the app has helped quite bit.
Omg this is perfect.
Can you link the original thread.
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i am curious if this will have an effect on any of those handwriting apps we know and love.
Do you need to root to use this?
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i am curious if this will have an effect on any of those handwriting apps we know and love.
Do you need to root to use this?
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This probably edits something in build.prop and other system files, so yes. I'll confirm this once I try it.
EDIT: Doesn't require root. I feel no difference though...
SwiftLegend said:
This probably edits something in build.prop and other system files, so yes. I'll confirm this once I try it.
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Well, when you launch it, there is no SuperUser action popup to allow the application so I am not sure that you need to have root access...
And, yes, it has an effect on every touch app (try writing a message before and after applying the apk or try playing angry birds, there is a big difference)
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SO i gave this a shot and some aspects do seem smoother to me. None of the handwriting apps i tested were any diff as before the test.
I already had what i felt is a smooth responsive touch screen, but was curious to see if it was going to get any better.
QUESTION: when you run the app it says after hitting the calibration button "Follow the directions exactly"
I hit the button and it says calibrating screen dont touch, but no other directions.
Am i missing something here or is that the extent of the directions...
All in all not sure if it is just a placebo or if it is actually smoother. I suppose others with really bad touch response may see an effect.
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QUESTION: when you run the app it says after hitting the calibration button "Follow the directions exactly"
I hit the button and it says calibrating screen dont touch, but no other directions.
Am i missing something here or is that the extent of the directions.......
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same question for me...
tonyz3 said:
SO i gave this a shot and some aspects do seem smoother to me. None of the handwriting apps i tested were any diff as before the test.
I already had what i felt is a smooth responsive touch screen, but was curious to see if it was going to get any better.
QUESTION: when you run the app it says after hitting the calibration button "Follow the directions exactly"
I hit the button and it says calibrating screen dont touch, but no other directions.
Am i missing something here or is that the extent of the directions...
All in all not sure if it is just a placebo or if it is actually smoother. I suppose others with really bad touch response may see an effect.
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No, it really is not a placebo, believe me. It was even more noticeable in my case (read my first post about my hardware problem) but even when my device was ok, it wasn't so smooth as it is right now.
For the instructions, you don't miss anything.
The important thing is "DO NOT TOUCH SCREEN WHEN CALIBRATING" because it could screw up the calibration, and if you do the opposite, the result would be that you wouldn't be able to use the device anymore, because not being able to relaunch calibration (if you have the dock, no problem at all )
That's all
flolep said:
Hey xda followers!
I have a hardware problem with my Transformer since the beginning and was too lazy to change it by a new one...
My problem is that I use my device with no problem but sometimes I am loosing touch inputs...
If I let the Transformer go into sleep mode alone and unlock it, I have to force lock and unlock again to have good touch responses back...
Then I can have a good session of 30 minutes of use without any problem and then, randomly, touch input precision is lowering, until I can't use it anymore and I must lock and unlock rapidly again...
Very annoying problem for sure...
But today I decided to search through google, forums, xda, to have a beginning of solution to my problem.
And I found THE Touchscreen Booster application.
It's an application that was made for Viewsonic G tablet at the origin. The famous Bumblebee discovered it at first so thanks to him for that. And the thread talking about that is from gojimi. He modified the application to be more easily usable. So thanks to him too!
Being an android application and having titanium backuped all my applications, I thought: why not trying!
So I installed it and launched it... AND... TADAAA! Just incredible. It worked, no problem at all, no force close, no freeze, nothing.
AND: touchscreen inputs are incredibly smoother, sensitivity has been greatly improved, response time between writing letters is better, multi touch is improved... It's just paradise. I don't know if you tried Ipad but the result is that type of sensitivity...
This application can be used by all types of roms and for people who have problems with touchscreen sensitivity or just want a bigger one
Please leave here your feedback, positive or negative, and remember, do it at your own risks, I am not responsible of the potential problems after applying this application.
It worked for me, my Transformer had never been so smooth, so why not yours!
Maybe you will have to launch the application some times, when you feel that sensitivity was better before, or after boot... But you can put the application on your desktop and touch the button FixMe!
Share, enjoy, and say thanks
Original thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934500
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So, to people who tried this application, what is your appreciation now after one week of use?
Anyone for some feedback for who has used it for about a week now?
With my TF I have a "dead" / "very unresponsive" line (about 5 mm wide) under the camera over the length of the screen.
This is very annoying when opening the market (difficult to select the search field) or when trying to tap the taskbar when the TF is rotated 180 degrees.
Sometimes it works normally, so I do not know if it is the ROM / Kernel or just unresponsive hardware.
Could this solve it?
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So, to people who tried this application, what is your appreciation now after one week of use?
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Best thing that happened to my tf
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I am going to see if this really does anything good to mine...Thanks
I beleive that my TF101 on Prime 1.9 and Clemsyn-Blade Elite 18a kernel OC'd at 1.344 Ghz is pretty smooth, already. I will try adding this and report back with my observations.
It works CD thanks
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definitly improved responsivness and accuracy.
Battery drain
Has anybody noticed any battery drain ??
Or any bugs ?
Btw. Will this also work on an archos 101 ?
TheTransformer said:
Has anybody noticed any battery drain ??
Or any bugs ?
Btw. Will this also work on an archos 101 ?
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After several weeks of use, I didn't see any battery drain more than when not using it...
Archos 101, well, it worked on Viewsonic G tablet and Transformer, maybe Archos 101, but I don't have it so I can't test...
Why not testing it if you have it and report here, and if it works, in archos 101 forum too?
I have been using Screenshot by Kastor Soft for a while now. However, it doesn't seem to work on my new Mini. When it takes a picture, the picture is blank. :crying:
Can anyone recommend a screen shot app that is known to work with the new Motorola's?
Volume down and power dont work for you??
faded03cobra said:
Volume down and power dont work for you??
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Wow, it does. Never knew about that. Thanks. :highfive:
I guess I usually fall asleep before reaching page 74 in the manual.
Last night I noticed my power button sometimes would not lock my screen on my phone. Even when it would, it would lock and quickly bring the screen back on. Even sometimes occasionally I would press the button once quickly and the power off/reboot menu would appear. This morning I found a tab for my quick settings panel that puts the phone into sleep and have been using it all day. This has been a real pita. Now my phone as I am using it randomly sleeps and then brings up the power menu. Is there any way to replace the power button? I found barely anything on YouTube on this and and not sure if it is an easy or hard fix. For now, is there an app that I can disable my power button so my phone does not make me rage?
-Thanks
shewantsmyduck said:
Last night I noticed my power button sometimes would not lock my screen on my phone. Even when it would, it would lock and quickly bring the screen back on. Even sometimes occasionally I would press the button once quickly and the power off/reboot menu would appear. This morning I found a tab for my quick settings panel that puts the phone into sleep and have been using it all day. This has been a real pita. Now my phone as I am using it randomly sleeps and then brings up the power menu. Is there any way to replace the power button? I found barely anything on YouTube on this and and not sure if it is an easy or hard fix. For now, is there an app that I can disable my power button so my phone does not make me rage?
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You can buy a power button, but replacing it ...you need skill and tool (not recommend for an average user). Try to bang the button on a hard plastic surface like washer/dryer surface. A number of people reported success with this method.(this is real, not a joke),
buhohitr said:
You can buy a power button, but replacing it ...you need skill and tool (not recommend for an average user). Try to bang the button on a hard plastic surface like washer/dryer surface. A number of people reported success with this method.(this is real, not a joke),
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Hmm.. I tried your method to fix it and it seems to have done nothing :/ thanks for the idea though. Also, do you know if any cellular companies would fix this part? I am rooted running the latest CM 11 nightlie and would like to not have to factory restore.
shewantsmyduck said:
Hmm.. I tried your method to fix it and it seems to have done nothing :/ thanks for the idea though. Also, do you know if any cellular companies would fix this part? I am rooted running the latest CM 11 nightlie and would like to not have to factory restore.
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There are many (google for locations near you), try this one http://www.cellphonerepairspecialists.com/samsung-repair-s/1833.htm you can get a free estimate on the website.
buhohitr said:
There are many (google for locations near you), try this one http://www.cellphonerepairspecialists.com/samsung-repair-s/1833.htm you can get a free estimate on the website.
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On the website you linked the repair cost is $150. I am not looking to spend near that. And the closest repair store near me is a little under an hour and a half away :/ Also, do you know of any apps to disable my power button?
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On the website you linked the repair cost is $150. I am not looking to spend near that. And the closest repair store near me is a little under an hour and a half away :/ Also, do you know of any apps to disable my power button?
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What rom version are you running?
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What rom version are you running?
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CyanogenMod version 11-20140122-NIGHTLY-d2vzw
shewantsmyduck said:
CyanogenMod version 11-20140122-NIGHTLY-d2vzw
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Try this see if it works for you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
No, it says device not supported. The key number tracker thing however is recording my power button press with me not pressing it.
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shewantsmyduck said:
No, it says device not supported. The key number tracker thing however is recording my power button press with me not pressing it.
Sorry I downloaded the wrong one. I changed the button and now it does not turn off the screen, however occasionally the power menu still randomly appears :/
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Try this see if it works for you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
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Try this see if it works for you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
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And can you find a video with the process involved to replace it? I do have some experience working with the circuits of cell phones, I cannot find a video to even see the steps though :/
shewantsmyduck said:
And can you find a video with the process involved to replace it? I do have some experience working with the circuits of cell phones, I cannot find a video to even see the steps though :/
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Not in English but you just need to see the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfG9vrVJkY
To buy power button:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/galaxy-s3-power-button
If you know how to solder you can do it.
buhohitr said:
Not in English but you just need to see the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfG9vrVJkY
To buy power button:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/galaxy-s3-power-button
If you know how to solder you can do it.
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That does not seem like very much fun. Haha but I believe my phone is still under warranty (maybe?) So would you know how to unroot and install a stock clean rom with a home button that does not work? :/
shewantsmyduck said:
That does not seem like very much fun. Haha but I believe my phone is still under warranty (maybe?) So would you know how to unroot and install a stock clean rom with a home button that does not work? :/
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I have to test it out first, but I think I can disable the power button, however, it's only a work around, you need to replace the button for a permanent solution. If under warranty, it's the best way to go.
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I have to test it out first, but I think I can disable the power button, however, it's only a work around, you need to replace the button for a permanent solution. If under warranty, it's the best way to go.
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Yeah, I'm thinking of doing the warranty but with a broken power button I'm not sure of how this will work :/
shewantsmyduck said:
Yeah, I'm thinking of doing the warranty but with a broken power button I'm not sure of how this will work :/
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I don't understand, even with a broken power button they should still replace your device!
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I don't understand, even with a broken power button they should still replace your device!
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I bought my phone from a Best Buy Mobile store and have the warranty from them that covers all damages. Will they still fix it if I am rooted?
Just unroot it only take a second to do so
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Just unroot it only take a second to do so
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That is the problem, I cannot unroot without a power button.
Why not, just open the supersu app and pick uninstall from one of the option.
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When I Press up or down on the volume rocker the volume jumps about 25% in either direction. It's 4 presses from one end of the volume to the other.
My son's s8+ doesn't do this. His moves in the typical small steps.
Anyone else have this?
I hope it's a setting or software. Not looking forward to doing an exchange.
Note we both have US Tmobile s8+. Mine is Silver, his is black. Neither has the update installed.
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I have the same problem. I don't remember touching any settings to make it do that.
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I have the same problem. I don't remember touching any settings to make it do that.
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I messed around with a bunch of settings and tried an app that's supposed to set volume steps. No e if it helped but after doing all that I rebooted and it went away. Previous reboots had not fixed it. I wish I knew which thing It Was that helped.
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When I Press up or down on the volume rocker the volume jumps about 25% in either direction. It's 4 presses from one end of the volume to the other.
My son's s8+ doesn't do this. His moves in the typical small steps.
Anyone else have this?
I hope it's a setting or software. Not looking forward to doing an exchange.
Note we both have US Tmobile s8+. Mine is Silver, his is black. Neither has the update installed.
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Same big steps here....mine is black.
Arrgggh
Same problem. All of the sudden big jumps with up or down press of hardware toggle
Binarybum said:
Same problem. All of the sudden big jumps with up or down press of hardware toggle
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You enabled something in accessibility settings thats screwing up the volume steps. Usually it's one of the Bixby removal apps but mine was a password vault. You may need to reboot after you figure what to turn off in accessibility settings.