I recently dropped my phone and the screen and digitizer broke.
However after getting it replaced, it seems that I am unable to long hold/press my screen.
The screen stops registering a touch after 2-3 seconds and that gets really annoying as I am unable to do some actions, especially playing games and using the backspace key properly.
Some other problems are -
Some touches/taps aren't registered
The lockscreen doesn't register initial touches sometimes, I have to lock and unlock the screen again to fix this.
Is there anything I can do? I'm mostly annoyed about being unable to long press my screen for so long.
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I got nexus s (i9020T) recently and found the touch screen unresponsive sometimes. I've already tried several launchers(adw, lancherpro, go launcher ex), and it seems not launcher's problem. I've also tried to flash different ROMs, including CM-7rc2 and stock 2.3.3, and the problem remains.
Later I tried to bind Multi-touch Visualizer 2 to long pressing home button, and found the when screen is unresponsive, it can still detect press near edges very well, but not the center. While I press at the edge and drap across the center, it keeps tracking my finger correctly. In addition, Locking and unlocking the screen can solve the problem temporally.
I'm confused by the strange behavior, anyone experienced similar issue?
more info from test,
I connect my phone with adb, and tried to "cat /dev/input/event0"
The behavior confirms what I see in Multitouch Visualizor 2: the when the center of screen is unresponsive, nothing can be read from the device node.
I read the mxt224 touch screen controller doc, and it seems the chip features self-calibration, and thus I believe the "lock & unlock" will trigger the chip to tune it self in some way. I don't know kernel very well, so I cannot find the source code Any help please?
FYI. we are not alone.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13853
I got this problem too whenever my phone is in my pocket facing inward.
I have tried to open the calculator to see which part of the screen having problem. Mine is usually the "8" and "5" location unresponsive if my phone stayed in my pocket facing inwards for a certain period of time.
The problem will goes off after couple of mins when i can feel that the phone is cooler than my body temp.
I knew this happens to the Dell Streak as well.
I've got Xperia J with CM 10, release FXP217, kernel version 3.0.8. Everything seems all right and the phone works as it should (except of the known issues and bugs). But I noticed that nobody mentioned, that their touch freezes or anything.
The main issue and reason for asking this question - sometimes my screen, or rather touch, freezes and there's nothing I can do with it. It doesn't react to any movement, but the phone itself remains functional and does everything normally, so it doesn't remain active or anything, just doesn't react to any touch at all. I have to press power button a lot before it starts reacting again. I usually press the power button and move my finger across the screen for as long as it doesn't lock itself or unfreeze.
At other occasions it does something a bit different - the touch gets a bit dull and unresponsive in general, but after some using it, it goes back to normal. When using the Pointer location overlay i noticed, that while I move my finger across the screen, the trail stops for a half a second or so and continues. It's like the touch periodically gets "disabled" or something. But when I press HARD and move my finger a bit slower than regularly it mostly is good and after some time - it gets back to normal.
One day it may occur twice or maybe even not at all, sometimes it happens a lot, like even 4-7 times; at rare occasions, this problem reoccures in small periods of time (like when I use the touch screen a lot).
Is there anything known about this issue? Is there a fix for that?
The main issue I'm having is, on occasion, the touch screen seems to behave erratically, registering input even when I am not touching the screen. I can't seem to figure out how to reproduce it reliably, but it seems to happen at least once every day. The phone seems to think something is touching parts of the screen, as it launches apps, types garbage on the keyboard, bounces the lock screen up and down, etc, all without me even touching the device. And of course, when I do touch the device, it either doesn't register, or 'fights' with the ghost input, and basically doesn't do what I want.
Try changing your touch sensitivity from High to Normal. Find under Settings - touch - Touch sensitivity.
This worked for me Mine was very sensitive too when I first bought it but after messing around with it for a couple of days and changing the setting from High to Normal and back again it's been fine ever since, Crazy!
I've got an intermittent problem - sometimes when I wake the phone up, the touch screen doesn't work. It happens when I wake it up with the power button, when someone calls, or when an alarm wakes up the screen. That means when the problem happens, I can't answer the call, or turn off the alarm (sometimes locking the screen and waking it up immediately works).
It doesn't seem to be affected by whether or not the phone is or has been charging, whether it's been in my pocket or the temperature of the device. I've not been able to discern a pattern at all. Once the phone is unlocked and the touchscreen is working though, it works perfectly. The problem never returns while I'm using it, only if I lock it, and only sometimes.
If I leave the screen on while touch is unresponsive, I can tell when it is responsive to touch again by a line that quickly flashes along the top edge of the screen. At that point, the screen operates entirely normally.
In what may be a related item, when I'm on a call, sometimes the proximity sensor doesn't work properly and the screen turns back on and starts working. I get off the call and find my phone in a different app.
Does the Nexus 5 use the proximity sensor while the screen is off as a way to weed out unintended touches while the phone is in a pocket?
I'm going to try and store it face up over the next couple of weeks and see if the problem continues, but I was hoping that someone might have some insight.
About the phone:
I cracked the screen over the summer and had it replaced, but I didn't have any issues with it at all until I installed Lollipop. 5.0.1 hasn't made a difference
So I recently dropped my phone (with a case) and a rock may have hit the screen directly. There is only a tiny, minor scratch on the top of the screen but the internal touch sensor on the bottom half seems to be messed up. Certain places of the screen will identify touches randomly to other places on the screen causing random swipes and taps when typing. I probably wouldn't be able to type this post on my phone without it tapping out of the keyboard or exiting chrome completely. I could barely swipe through developer tools without it randomly tapping the enable toggle countless times.
Now I know I probably can't fix this cause its a hardware issue but is there any way to make my experience any better for me until I can finally get an upgrade?
RIP, looks like it was just the crappy block I was using to charge the phone