Touch screen goes crazy after heating up - Asus Transformer TF700

I've had this tablet for 3 weeks and I've been lurking here smugly thinking I had a good working tablet. I installed psx4droid and started playing Final Fantasy vii. It works great for about 10 minutes, then the touch screen starts randomly clicking (tapping/swiping) itself with no input from me. I originally wrote this off as bugs in the emulator and/or rom, but it continues after I close the app, reboot, cold boot, even factory reset (all without giving the tablet a chance to cool down). Once the tablet cools off, it seems to work normally and most games work just fine again, but after re-installing psx4droid and trying again, it started all over again.
It randomly turned on Show Touches (I didn't even know this feature existed), but it allowed me to see what was going on. You can see it in this video: (sorry about the crappy quality)
http://youtu.be/BPlh3hH4EDE
The white dots are the Show Touches marks and you can see that it's as if I have several fingers on the touch screen at once even when I'm not touching it at all.
I'm assuming this is a hardware issue and I'm getting ready to RMA to Newegg, but I thought I'd post here to see if there's a possibility that is is just an issue with this emulator/rom combination overheating the device. If it's something that will just continue to happen on a new device, it doesn't make sense to return it. However, it seems that after a factory reset, it shouldn't have still been happening. Have any of you seen or heard of anything like this?

lol, yeah I figured this was not something known. Back it goes. I hope the next one is a better unit.

esoxx said:
lol, yeah I figured this was not something known. Back it goes. I hope the next one is a better unit.
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I have also seen this but I haven't related it to heating up. I did a cold reboot and that seemed to end it at least for now. This "phantom touch" issue became a permanent "feature" on my old Palm Pre phone.
Dave

i had this problem on my first infinity. it was a VERY COOL thing to watch with all the debug mode switches turned on - like a damn video game!
it wasn't about "warming up though" for me - it was about having a barely indetectable screen crack - in my case, apparently, the glass under the top touch glass (if that's how it works).
no problems like that at all with my replacement unit - knock-wood.
doody.

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i had this problem on my first infinity. it was a VERY COOL thing to watch with all the debug mode switches turned on - like a damn video game!
it wasn't about "warming up though" for me - it was about having a barely indetectable screen crack - in my case, apparently, the glass under the top touch glass (if that's how it works).
no problems like that at all with my replacement unit - knock-wood.
doody.
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That's good to hear. Crossing my fingers that my replacement unit is good.

toch screen problems.... me too !!! this was happening to me with wind-up knight game..... I love the game ! -- got so bad had to do a factory reset -- since then, hardly at all, and when it does, I close the game and restart.....but fingers crossed it is not happening all that often now.

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G1 dev phone screen does not respond amost 70% of time

i purchased g1 from ebay, right from day1 the screen does not respond properly in fact most of the times. i need to reset soft one to at least g1 working. i upgraded to jesusfrake adp1.1 but issue is same. looks like a s/w bug or problem as if it were a h/w problem it would not have worked at all. if iam lucky it works like a charm but stops responding once i get some sms/email alert or install any app from market. can someone help here!!
Have you already tried reflashing the firmware? If not, do that. Otherwise, why don't you contact the person you bought the phone from. It sounds like it may be a hardware problem which might be why that person was selling it.
i did flash everything from bootloader to firmware to rooting. but problem remains same...it works for 5 minutes and again screen stops responding but trackball is active....right now iam on latest JF formware..
is anyone facing a simillar problem??? any work arounds....
Sometimes my home screen goes completely blank on me and seems nonresponsive for about 30 seconds. Can be pretty annoying. It seems to happen when I'm switching from an app to the home screen.
Contact HTC directly and ask for an exchange or something. All G1's have been out for less than a year and so they should be covered by warranty.
I put a new screen protector on my G1. I noticed that it had a bad reaction with the touch and I took it off. After I took it off, my touch screen got much worse. It was very jumpy and unuseable. There was a practically invisible film on the screen (couldn't even really feel it. I took a little bit of soap on a lint free cloth and wiped the screen down and let it sit for just a minute (to soak any residue) and wiped away. My screen worked perfect after that.
I was ready to call in for a replacement.
could it be a bug as if it were a hardware problem it would prevent touch screen responding at all!!!
i downgraded to rc 30 and rooted the phone, now its working like a charm!! strange though.......

[Poll] Do you have problem with your touchscreen?

I just got the 32G version transformer. There is a very annoying problem with the touch screen: sometimes it is not registering my touch at all, sometimes it seems that you have to push hard.
I am not sure if this is the touch screen problem or the system is busy with something else?
Anybody else having the problem? Any ideas to solve it?
The firmware is the latest version.
I too have noticed this issue from time to time. Not sure what it is though.
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The touchscreen does seem a bit insensitive on my 16GB TF. Not necessarily unusable, but sometimes I have to touch a button a couple times to get it to respond. Most often the menu button that appears in the top right corner of some apps.
I am pretty sure this is a software related problem. Sometimes, the touch screen feels quite responsive.
What is the official way to report problems to ASUS?
cooldragon777 said:
I am pretty sure this is a software related problem. Sometimes, the touch screen feels quite responsive.
What is the official way to report problems to ASUS?
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Indeed. The touch digitizer and even it's driver works flawlessly - start Fruit Ninja HD and you can enjoy most responsive multi-fingers (4 or maybe more) touch ever.
But everything except games is considerably less responsive to touch.
The touchscreen on mine just completely died. Completely not responsive. I wish I could blame it on a faulty app or something simple but I put it to sleep and when I woke it 20 minutes later, I can't do anything with it. It responds to all the physical buttons just fine and the screen rotates and everything but it just doesn't respond to any touch.
mrgilmorean said:
The touchscreen on mine just completely died. Completely not responsive. I wish I could blame it on a faulty app or something simple but I put it to sleep and when I woke it 20 minutes later, I can't do anything with it. It responds to all the physical buttons just fine and the screen rotates and everything but it just doesn't respond to any touch.
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Did you try cold reboot? I experienced same issue one time.
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Indeed. The touch digitizer and even it's driver works flawlessly - start Fruit Ninja HD and you can enjoy most responsive multi-fingers (4 or maybe more) touch ever.
But everything except games is considerably less responsive to touch.
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I just installed Fruit Ninja HD. Although I am a newbie in cutting fruits, I am pretty sure the touch screen just doesn't register sometimes, even in Fruit Ninja.
My firmware build number is: HRI66.US_epad-8.2.3.9-20110423
Coming from Xoom, although the TF's IPS is much better than Xoom, but the touch experience of the TF is much much worse.
Sometimes you have to press hard and longer to register, I am wondering if there is a way to change the touch screen's sensitivity?
Whatever reason it is, it should be very easy for ASUS to reproduce the problem and fix it!
Try the app Multitouch Test in the market. It seems to be a lot more sensitive than some of the other apps are (or even the OS) regarding touch sensitivity. (Or at least it seems to be)
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.greenrobot.multitouchtest&feature=search_result
dustindw said:
Try the app Multitouch Test in the market. It seems to be a lot more sensitive than some of the other apps are (or even the OS) regarding touch sensitivity. (Or at least it seems to be)
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.greenrobot.multitouchtest&feature=search_result
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Thanks. Downloaded and tried.
When it's normal, it can track 10-finger touch easily. However, the main problem seems to be the response time for repetitive touches. The system seems to be not able to keep up with normal typing speed touches. It will register several touches, then non-responsive for a while. If you wait a while, like several seconds, it will respond again.
Is there a good APP to check CPU settings and utilization ratio?
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Did you try cold reboot? I experienced same issue one time.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App
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What do you mean by cold reboot? I have reset it a few times by holding down the power button.
Interestingly, this thing is mentioned in Engadget UK's review (http://hartantolestari.info/search/asus-eee-pad-transformer-screen-is-not-working)
A lack of responsiveness is also evident throughout the Android UI. Aside from a delay in activating the function you’ve selected, there are also troubling instances where input isn’t registered at all. That leaves the user with no less than three potential scenarios when she doesn’t see an immediate response — she could be looking at lag, an unregistered tap because of software, or an unregistered tap because the physical input was too light. Such uncertainty doesn’t build a great user experience and the Transformer, unfortunately, doesn’t offer a great user experience. Much of that is, regrettably, down to Honeycomb itself. It’s not a finished product yet. It’s actually a fair distance away from a finished product. Some apps are done to absolute perfection while a lot of the “glue” bits, the stuff that goes between the apps and basically makes up the OS, is either confused, not responsive enough, or broken in some other way. Let’s take these things in turn, starting with the good parts.
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I would reccomend against pressing hard. That is a good way to damage the lcd panel and the digitizer hardware. Capacitive screens dont register pressure just electircal conductivity from skin touching the screen. I would say any lag you are seeing is most likely software based as others have said.
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Hmm, I have tried rebooting the device many, many times and still no change. I wiped user data hoping it would help (nope). I just don't understand why the touchscreen would stop being responsive to any input. It wasn't jostled around or treated badly in any way. I just had it in my backpack, which I was carrying by hand and the Transformer was in a padded compartment.
Overall, I am rather disappointed and disillusioned with Asus. The Transformer's terrific when it works but I've had to deal with the deep sleep issue at least once a day and then to have the touchscreen go dead entirely is terrible. The first I can see being a software issue that can be fixed but the second is probably shoddy hardware.
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What do you mean by cold reboot? I have reset it a few times by holding down the power button.
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Cold reboot is holding power button until TF shuts down, ignoring shutdown dialog.
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cooldragon777 said:
Interestingly, this thing is mentioned in Engadget UK's review (http://hartantolestari.info/search/asus-eee-pad-transformer-screen-is-not-working)
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almost seems as if they didnt test the xoom. it feels faster than the tf bc its screen is more responsive.
i wonder if the screen could be calibrated manually with the config.ini lie the nook color.
Here is some update: after the TF slept for a night, I pushed the power button. The touch screen is just not responding at all on the lock screen. I let alone the TF for half an hour or so, pushed the power button again, now the touch screen worked fine. Unlocked and into the home screen, no problem with touch for about 30 seconds, then it becomes intermittent again.
I will call ASUS support tomorrow. Hopefully there will be some firmware update very soon to address this, otherwise, I will have to return it.
The weird thing is that if this is a software/firmware issue, lots of people should have reported it.
OK, I have created a case at vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx
Looking at some Youtube clips reviewing TF, their touch screen seems to be fine. So this might be a bad unit. I will return it next week (bought from local Fry's) and hopefully they have replacement units!
I have created a vote regarding the TF's touch experience.
cooldragon777 said:
OK, I have created a case at vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx
Looking at some Youtube clips reviewing TF, their touch screen seems to be fine. So this might be a bad unit. I will return it next week (bought from local Fry's) and hopefully they have replacement units!
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Good luck! I got mine from Amazon and they are completely out of stock. The only option is to get a refund since they don't have an expected in-stock date so the CSR can't put a replacement order in for me. Every online retailer I've looked at is also OOS. Hopefully more come in soon.
I also spoke to Asus and they are willing to repair mine but not to give me a loaner or just outright replace it. That is really too bad. I was hoping they would be more like HTC, which has great customer service in my experience and gives out replacements at the drop of a hat. If the Flyer wasn't such a POS, they would have had my business.

[Q] TF101 Screen won't turn on

Hi everyone, this is my first post here. Thanks in advance for any help that you folks can provide.
I've had the TF101 for about six months now, and it's been fine. I was using it yesterday on the train and all was good, but when I got home and took it out of my bag it didn't seem to start up. I thought it might have been a battery issue, so I let it charge overnight. Tried starting it up this morning and I got the same results. So I started looking in to other issues.
The tablet is definitely starting, adb will recognize it in its list of devices, and if I plug it in to my tv or desktop monitor w/ HDMI, I can see and interact w/ the Transformer UI (of course this is kind of painful since I have to do some guessing about where to put my fingers).
I had rooted it using rebound821's scripts and directions here, so tried an unroot to see if that was the problem. I ended up with the same results.
Does anyone here have any insights as to what the problem may be? I'm hoping to avoid sending it back to ASUS, so I'm fine w/ opening it up to look for loose cables.
So I thought that brightness might be the problem. Maybe it was set to 0 and I just wasn't seeing anything on my screen. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case.
I tried setting brightness at the path below to to 0, 50, 100.
/sys/devices/platform/pwm-backlight/backlight/pwm-backlight/brightness
Still no luck.
Has anyone encountered anything remotely similar to this (even if similar is just a dead screen)?
There have been others with dead screens reporting what you are, at least I have read a few reports, I think they just had to get them RMA'd, I don't recall anyone 'fixing' a dead screen, especially if you still have adb and touch working then the screen itself and backlight seem to have broken completely- some have reported the backlight dying and thinking the screen was broken, but it was just the backlight (I guess in bright light they could see pixels working, but couldn't make out what was on the screen without the backlight). I still think they had to get it repaired either by Asus or by someone who was capable of doing internal repairs with replacement parts..sorry for your luck
Looks like I'll have to send it back. I took it into the brightest light I could find and couldn't see anything at all. Guess it's the screen and maybe the backlight too. I'm pretty disappointed this happened, the only thing I can think of is that the bag I had it in was hanging from the chair in front of me on the train and it was swaying a little, and that shouldn't be enough to dislodge a connection. Either that or just some freak hardware failure. Still, I guess it's not that common of an occurrence. Thanks for the reply, I'll slink off and try to get in touch w/ Asus now.
I have experience same
My TF101 broke in the same way, screen blank. Conected to tv I`ve got image digital touch work. I shut down my TF101 normaly and screen never go back to live again. Tablet was in a protective bag (when I trave by car), just no reason for not working ( no problem at screen, previously, screen perfect - no dead pixels)
Did you guys get this resolved? I had the EXACT same thing happen yesterday. Was working just fine. Put it in its sleeve, into a protective case, into a briefcase, got home and dead.
HDMI works. I tried to call Asus but they say i'm out of warranty.
Thanks in advance.
Must be something wrong with the connections that it decays over time. I've had mine since October last year and its been fine except for today when I brought it home it wouldn't work.
I was able to fix it though. I held it vertically with the bottom edge down and tapped it firmly on my desk a couple of times. The screen came back on. There is a strong possibility that this will happen again and my tap fix won't work, but it's working at the moment
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Must be something wrong with the connections that it decays over time. I've had mine since October last year and its been fine except for today when I brought it home it wouldn't work.
I was able to fix it though. I held it vertically with the bottom edge down and tapped it firmly on my desk a couple of times. The screen came back on. There is a strong possibility that this will happen again and my tap fix won't work, but it's working at the moment
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I had exactly the same problem discussed in this thread. I was also able to bring the screen of my TF101G to life by tapping it firmly on my desk with the bottom edge. It works for now. But it is certainly disconcerting to know that some connection in this rather expensive gadget are loose and all this can happen again. I guess I will not carry my transformer around any more - just leave it at home...
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My TF101 broke in the same way, screen blank. Conected to tv I`ve got image digital touch work. I shut down my TF101 normaly and screen never go back to live again. Tablet was in a protective bag (when I trave by car), just no reason for not working ( no problem at screen, previously, screen perfect - no dead pixels)
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Same problem here had my unlocked bootloader tf101 for awhile now, one of the first ones out... had a great life gave it to my girl when i got the transformer prime and the screen just went out yesterday, still goes in apx mode and still recognized by computer, screen just straight up died, think it's too late for a manufacture warranty, maybe ill look but think it's gonna be no dice... sucks obviously something in the design to make this happen to so many of them...
My TF101 appears to have a dead screen. I am rooted and running Revolver Custom Rom. When connected to my pc, I am able to recognize my device. My screen will not turn on so I cannot use recovery to go back to stock. I am set up to use ADB, however, I am not very knowledgable with ADB. I am convinced I have a bad screen and I am still under warranty. Is there a way to return the TF101 back to stock using ADB? If anyone can point me in the right direction, I can probably figure it out. Otherwise, I may just try and replace my screen and see how that works out. Thanks for the help.
My backlight died on Tuesday. Similar situation of working in the morning, headed into work with it in my bag, no brutal knocks or anything but one jolt just must of finished it off after a year and 2 weeks abuse (yes 2 weeks out of warrenty).
Going to attempt to take it apart this afternoon and play with the ribbon cable as reseating it has solved quite a few peoples problems.
Woo! It worked! Very happy chappy.
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Same thing happened too me, first time i sent it to service, but last time i opened it myself and pushed the connector for the screen thightly in place.. worked nicely
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Screen goes derp
I don't know if I have the same problem or not.
Backstory: I own a Transformer TF101 that I got for my birthday from my girlfriend. It was meant for travel and bs'ing around at home. Took it into work and quickly realized that I could use this for work. That went over so well that the rest of the office became intrigued. Once these came on sale on groupon, the office manager went all in on 10. These are all refurbished transformers with docks.
They have all been handed out and I now have a transformer for home and work. Kind of nice...but I do a lot of site observation so using my personal transformer was a risk that I had to take all on my own (survived a 5' fall off of a parapet wall already).
The problem: From the first 5 minutes that I had the thing, the transformer screen went blank. I opened up google play to download a few apps that I could use for work. Scrolling down I saw some choppyness which I considered the processor/memory having issues loading everything on the screen. Before I knew it - boom blank screen. Rebooted and the loading screen stays on for 2 seconds before the screen goes blank. I can tell it's working because it plays a sound at start up. I can also tell the screen is lit up (it's like it's showing a grey screen because it can't show true black colors). If I hit the power button again it goes completely black. I hit the power button again and the screen flashes to the lock screen and immediately goes blank again. I could do this over and over and over again.
Anybody having the same problem? It's refurbished....I'm guessing apparently I got the dud.
I ran into pretty much the same problem. One morning, the tablet screen would just not turn on. Sometimes, it came on and immediately shutdown, but it is still on the "On" mode. Hit the power button again will bring it to the off mode. Toggle it one more time, sometimes, will turn on the screen a off again. I was able to get it back to work with a factory restore. However, it has the following problems.
1) As soon as I adjust the brightness, the screen will go off again. And there is nothing I can do to bring it back except another factory restore.
2) The screen will flicker (and sometimes produces some clicking sound) when charging with the screen on.
Looks like my TF101 is having same issue, screen gone off suddenly (hdmi shows up in TV fine)...I am going give a try on reseating the cable hoping it resolves the issue.
leonpr, is there some tips/things I have to make sure before attempting this. I found a guide here and another youtube video on this issue as a reference...
Thanks..
Screen won't turn on unless factory reset "fix"
My girlfriend has an ASUS TF101. If the brightness goes up to 60%, the screen is blanked (no backlight either) and the only way to get it to turn back on again is to hard reset. This coincidentally happened at the same time as an update from ASUS. After lots of Googling it does not appear to be related. I was hoping it was and installed several custom ROMS which all experienced the same issue.
As a temporary work around, until I get the guts & the money to be able to replace her tablet if I break it, I found and installed AutomateIt. I set a trigger so that when the screen is turned off, the brightness is set to 50%.
Why trigger when the screen is off instead of when the screen hits above 59%? If you have this same problem, hold the brightness and go all the way until the screen blanks and then still holding your finger on the screen, move it all the way to the left and you will notice that the screen did not come back on. Press the power button once to turn it off and then again to turn it on and you will see the screen at the lowest brightness setting.
So, with the trigger in place, if you accidentally (or one of your rotten kids intentionally:angel raises the brightness above the threshold, simply press the power once to turn off the screen and then press it again to turn the screen on.
Just a note, I ended up installing AutomateIt Pro, Available for $1.60 from the Play Market. The free version works fine, but my girlfriend has been struggling with this issue for a couple of months and after so many hard resets, the little app is more than worth the money.
Have you tried Power + Volume Down for 15 seconds, and then leaving it alone for one minute? It will cold boot. Try that and it may work. Just saying; Hope it will help
Sorry for the necro-bump but here's the actual solution.
Problem: The video cable inside the Transformer comes loose and just needs to be pushed back in.
I can't post a link since I don't have 10 posts yet so just search youtube for the following key words:
blank or no display issue on the asus transformer - fix
The user who posted the video is DoCWaSaBe
Tokyudo said:
Sorry for the necro-bump but here's the actual solution.
Problem: The video cable inside the Transformer comes loose and just needs to be pushed back in.
I can't post a link since I don't have 10 posts yet so just search youtube for the following key words:
blank or no display issue on the asus transformer - fix
The user who posted the video is DoCWaSaBe
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Just fixed my blank display problem on a TF101 which is well out of warranty. Here is the link. I found the connector loose after dropping my TF101.
Thanks!
Fix lasted for a few days, now backlight dead, tried all cables again. No joy . I hate intermittent faults so ordered a Samsung Galaxy TabPRO 10.1.

[Q] Should I use stock when I take this for repair?

For a few months my phone has had a problem where the screen will take control of itself or become unresponsive, it's not the phone being slow, because hardware keys respond perfectly. Scrubbing the screen with a Lysol wipe helps sometimes, but I'd rather just have the problem taken care of (it seems like it's caused by fingerprints on the screen, which isn't a problem on any of my friends' SKs and initially wasn't on mine either).
Anyway, when I take my SK to T-Mo, should I flash a ROM that at least looks stock for warranty purposes or will they not care?
If I do need to go to stock, how would I go about doing that? As far as I remember, I've never taken a backup in recovery and never ODIN'ed (stupid, I know), so I've no idea what to do. I can flash ROMs perfectly fine, but going back to stock is a mind-boggler for me (disabling Voodoo, etc).
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Mine always does this.
1. The optical trackpad detects the sunlight, strong indoor lights, etc, as movement and causes spurious scrolling.
2. Water on the screen or a finger just outside the boarder of the screen causes the touchscreen to get confused and either not respond or move on its own.
3. The touchscreen driver is prone to crashing. About half the times I want to answer a call or something, I need to toggle the screen off and on with the power button before it'll work.
None of this is because the hardware has broken. 1 is due to a bad design, 2 is inherent to touchscreens of this type, and 3 is just bad programming.
Ha! I have to do #3 all the time. Glad to know it's not just me. Ridiculous.
Also FYI, #1 never happens to me. I see people here curse that damn sensor all the time, but I have never had mine move randomly in sunlight, and it generally works pretty well for me as arrow-keys.
I also do #3 all the time, and have had problems with the optical trackpad in the past (I've since disabled it).
What the problem appeared to be was that my fingers are oily or something, explaining why wiping the screen excessively was useful. I passed on taking it to the T-Mobile store and instead ordered screen protectors from Amazon. No problems since I applied one.
Has anyone else encountered this, or is this a unique problem? I got through nearly a year without having this problem, so maybe something went wonky in the screen. Anyway, problem fixed
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I also do #3 all the time, and have had problems with the optical trackpad in the past (I've since disabled it).
What the problem appeared to be was that my fingers are oily or something, explaining why wiping the screen excessively was useful. I passed on taking it to the T-Mobile store and instead ordered screen protectors from Amazon. No problems since I applied one.
Has anyone else encountered this, or is this a unique problem? I got through nearly a year without having this problem, so maybe something went wonky in the screen. Anyway, problem fixed
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Happens all the time to my sidekick. Screen protectors did work tho
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Touch screen problem

Hi guys,
i'm having an issue with my HTC u11, basically when i'm using the phone randomly the swipe down screen (when you swipe the screen down from top to bottom to get the notifications) comes down.
For example if while i am writing a message then drop down screen will come down when i'm typing, i then have to swipe up and continue and again.
it happens more or less all the time and is quite annoying.
any ideas?
its okay, issue resolved. NOVA Setting had gesture switched on. Swipe down for notification menu, this was the issue. lol
PLease close the thread.
Thanks
killa_byte said:
its okay, issue resolved. NOVA Setting had gesture switched on. Swipe down for notification menu, this was the issue. lol
PLease close the thread.
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Well i had the same issue. Was driving me mad! Thanks for the info.
I don't use nova and I have been experiencing this same problem so now what?
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Yeah i though the Nova setting had solved it but it seems to be back again for me, although not as frequent.
I also experience the keyboard collapsing randomly too. Anyone get that?
Hi guys, thought nova got rid bit guess not. I still get the issue. Would this be a software issue or do I have a fault with my hardware?
Any tests I can do?
I reported my issues to HTC and they replied with the following :
To test the function of the touch screen please follow the below steps
1- Dial *#*#3424#*#* > the press accept.
2- From the options, mark Line drawing test > then press run.
3- Then start drawing on the screen to check if there are parts that do not respond
The screen does not have any dead or unresponsive spots tho and the test passes without any issues.
Does anyone experience the keyboard collapses also?
I might do a full reset soon to see if that helps any. If not i will be getting back in touch with HTC.
Did all this as well, and all the tests that I've ran pass just fine. I've also done a hard reset and it didn't make any difference. I do notice that after a soft reset that it takes a while for it to happen again. It's annoying as hell so I will be monitoring this thread. Whatever you find out from htc please update this thread so we can figure out what the hell is going on.
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I also done the test and it was a pass.
I'm certain it's something to do with the software of htc. The UI has to have something wrong with it. Mind you it hasn't done it to me today yet and I'm nearly at the end of the day.
Has everyone got a case? Can't be case interference?
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I also done the test and it was a pass.
I'm certain it's something to do with the software of htc. The UI has to have something wrong with it. Mind you it hasn't done it to me today yet and I'm nearly at the end of the day.
Has everyone got a case? Can't be case interference?
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I turned off edge sense, I removed my screen protector and removed the case. It still does it when it's ready.
themuffinman said:
I turned off edge sense, I removed my screen protector and removed the case. It still does it when it's ready.
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Exactly same issue here. Very very annoying. As a HTC fanboy I'm quite dissapointed. Phone less than 2 months old. I actually spoke to HTC today, they said they would have to book it in for a repair... Takes up-to 10 business days... I said this is not acceptable! Waiting for a email back.
I have emailed HTC back advising them that others are reporting the issue so unlikely that it's a single handset issue.
Awaiting their reply. No doubt it will be along the same lines that @dobknobby got and have to go through the 10 day repair process.
Will update when I get a reply.
I have had the same problem, and I have done the a lot of the same steps;
I tried several different screen protectors, thinking that was causing the issue. I have had no screen protector on for the last week, and yep it still happens.
Shut off edge sense, still happened.
Tested the touch screen, and everything passed.
Last night I noticed that it seemed to be related to the pressure I was putting on the screen, if I pressed down harder on the screen and slide my finger left or right or up the notification bar would come down. Did some more testing and for awhile I was able to reproduce it about 50% of the time. I rebooted the phone into safe mode (hold power button down and then press and hold the power off option for about 5 seconds it will ask if you want to reboot into safe mode). In Safe mode I could not reproduce it, Safe mode disables ALL third party apps.
WARNING: when I rebooted my phone to go back to "normal" all of my widgets and groupings were not on the screens, had to re add them.
After doing all this testing last night, I have not seen the notification come down, but like someone said it seems to get worse the longer the phone is running before reboot.
I was going to do a hard reset, today but that sounds like that may not help.
Not sure if this is software, but with the testing I did last night it seem to work fine in safe mode. However I have wondered if it is something with the screen, like is flexing enough for the sensors at the top to react to the pressure/flex.
Well keep testing and report back.
I'm also having some issues with the touch screen, but it mainly happens with the keyboard. I like to swipe to type, but lately I've noticed that it gets really jumpy, causing thing errors.
At first i thought it was touchpal so i installed Gboard. Problem still occurs.
I also removed my screen protector and tried did the touchscreen test.
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I ran the line drawing test a bunch of times and yes, i now do see that mine fails to draw a continuous line on occasion. It only happens in the keyboard (squeezable?) area though.
I'm worried now that edge sense is damaging the touchscreen.
OK, i have ordered HTC u11 this morning from amazon, but i guess i will cancel my order. Had many problems with htc phones in the past. Saw many reviews and thought that this one is perfect with no flaws... Ahh..... Already ordered some accessories for my new device... It's really a shame to read this kind of threads. Hope you guys will find a solution and hope that this won't be a hardware issue.
djbutter said:
I'm also having some issues with the touch screen, but it mainly happens with the keyboard. I like to swipe to type, but lately I've noticed that it gets really jumpy, causing thing errors.
At first i thought it was touchpal so i installed Gboard. Problem still occurs.
I also removed my screen protector and tried did the touchscreen test.
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I ran the line drawing test a bunch of times and yes, i now do see that mine fails to draw a continuous line on occasion. It only happens in the keyboard (squeezable?) area though.
I'm worried now that edge sense is damaging the touchscreen.
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Does your keyboard collapse when you are typing? That happens with me. Really frustrating when you are typing quite fast then the keyboard just disappears. Then you end up tapping a link or something that was behind the keyboard. You then need to go back to the page you were on and start typing all over again.
Are you running app killers? Stop boost+ auto. Apps updating from gplay can cause you to be kicked out of the keyboard, it can also pause/stop YouTube vids.
The edge sense system is 2 sensors stuck to the inside of the edge of the device, along the aluminium strips, they shouldn't interfere with the screen at any time.
Sweaty hands and greasy screen can cause the screen to misread your touches and gestures.
Running low on internal memory (sdcard) can cause all sorts of issues. Make sure you ALWAYS have a couple of Gb free.
Try to replicate the problem in test mode.
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shivadow said:
Are you running app killers? Stop boost+ auto. Apps updating from gplay can cause you to be kicked out of the keyboard, it can also pause/stop YouTube vids.
The edge sense system is 2 sensors stuck to the inside of the edge of the device, along the aluminium strips, they shouldn't interfere with the screen at any time.
Sweaty hands and greasy screen can cause the screen to misread your touches and gestures.
Running low on internal memory (sdcard) can cause all sorts of issues. Make sure you ALWAYS have a couple of Gb free.
Try to replicate the problem in test mode.
Beamed in by telepathy
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Personally I made sure to address all your points when trying to figure out what is going on. So none of this applies to me.
scotia_rfc said:
Does your keyboard collapse when you are typing? That happens with me. Really frustrating when you are typing quite fast then the keyboard just disappears. Then you end up tapping a link or something that was behind the keyboard. You then need to go back to the page you were on and start typing all over again.
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It doesn't collapse for me, but i do occasionally have the notification shade pulled down.
dobknobby said:
Exactly same issue here. Very very annoying. As a HTC fanboy I'm quite dissapointed. Phone less than 2 months old. I actually spoke to HTC today, they said they would have to book it in for a repair... Takes up-to 10 business days... I said this is not acceptable! Waiting for a email back.
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Same here, only I was told 7 to 15 business days. Offered to give c card to have a replacement shipped, but that is no longer an option with HTC.
So when I washed my M9, I was without a device for 2 days, but now that their phone is crap, it's going to be 3-4 weeks.
Unhappy....

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