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[Q] Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 + Stylus issues

Hi all.
I've reading and researching about using Tab 2 and a stylus, in every page or blog I found ppl keep saying "Install Touchscreen Tune". Unfortunatelly, touchscreen tune is not compatible with Tab 2 version.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem? Some console code, some parameter to change, anything?
I would really appreciate if you can help me finding a solution...
Thanks in advance,
Herman

Not sure what could be done. I had one and disliked it. Bought a $30 decent model too (and returned it) Even with the touch sensitivity on 10 it sucked.

scottx . said:
Not sure what could be done. I had one and disliked it. Bought a $30 decent model too (and returned it) Even with the touch sensitivity on 10 it sucked.
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I bought a Samsung Conductive Stylus but it's the same... I hope Touchscreen Tune developers hear us xD

SYNAPTICS S7301 driver?
incanus76 said:
I bought a Samsung Conductive Stylus but it's the same... I hope Touchscreen Tune developers hear us xD
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i heard from vitalyj, the guy behind touchscreen tune, that samsung used the SYNAPTICS S7301 chip (which is incompatible with his app as of now) for the tab 2. The guys from cyanogen mod project wrote a driver for the chip at least for a s2 fork or something, i saw the code on github but i do not have enough posts here to post the direct link unfortunately
Its CyanogenMod / android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412 project, "synaptics: Add S7301 touchscreen driver " commit.
Could this help for a development of a similar app for the tab 2? Could one compile the kernel and post the console commands for the settings or is it too hard to do fast or a t all?
PS: Hello XDAforums!

Increasing the sensitivity won;t improve the resolution of the touch screen. If you are thinking you will get results like the Samsung note with S-pen, think again. These screens are made to work with fingers.

DigitalMD said:
Increasing the sensitivity won;t improve the resolution of the touch screen. If you are thinking you will get results like the Samsung note with S-pen, think again. These screens are made to work with fingers.
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yes but being able to set the dead movement delay to zero would be nice...

Kargoroth said:
yes but being able to set the dead movement delay to zero would be nice...
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+1 Just setting min-movement from 10-20px to 0px or so, would help a lot. Now I'm just unable to "draw" small things because it requires a "big" movement to start painting. Of course, not that I bought the Tab 2 instead of the Note 10.1 to draw... but sometimes I'd like more precision.
Tried all apps, but it's the same. I hope someone gets around it. The Synaptics driver post looks promising maybe.

I have a tab2 and the best thing I have found is to use a fine point stylus. I then just use the erase to clean up. Unfortunately these tablets just aren't going to give a fine detail sketch. I have seen my friend knock out some good drawings by zooming in then out and erasing to clean up, l've had no luck.

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Kargoroth said:
i heard from vitalyj, the guy behind touchscreen tune, that samsung used the SYNAPTICS S7301 chip (which is incompatible with his app as of now) for the tab 2. The guys from cyanogen mod project wrote a driver for the chip at least for a s2 fork or something, i saw the code on github but i do not have enough posts here to post the direct link unfortunately
Its CyanogenMod / android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412 project, "synaptics: Add S7301 touchscreen driver " commit.
Could this help for a development of a similar app for the tab 2? Could one compile the kernel and post the console commands for the settings or is it too hard to do fast or a t all?
PS: Hello XDAforums!
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I have been going through the comments and giving "Helpful"ratings to compatibility requests on the Touchscreen App in Google Play, to hopefully bring Tab 2 development to the foreground. From what you mentioned above, it might be awhile before we see any solid development.

Omariot said:
I have been going through the comments and giving "Helpful"ratings to compatibility requests on the Touchscreen App in Google Play, to hopefully bring Tab 2 development to the foreground. From what you mentioned above, it might be awhile before we see any solid development.
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Any news on this?
I have his email address so can shoot him a message if someone can link me the right files.

I'm using the same cheapo stylus with my tab 2 7.0 that I bought for my S3. It works wonderfully on my S3 but horribly with the Tab 2. I can't Swype at all, it keeps losing contact. I need a solution. I have to press really hard with the stylus to select as well. I am honestly thinking of returning it.
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TadeoNYC said:
I'm using the same cheapo stylus with my tab 2 7.0 that I bought for my S3. It works wonderfully on my S3 but horribly with the Tab 2. I can't Swype at all, it keeps losing contact. I need a solution. I have to press really hard with the stylus to select as well. I am honestly thinking of returning it.
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Still paying attention on this issue.
Waiting for solution.

incanus76 said:
Hi all.
I've reading and researching about using Tab 2 and a stylus, in every page or blog I found ppl keep saying "Install Touchscreen Tune". Unfortunatelly, touchscreen tune is not compatible with Tab 2 version.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem? Some console code, some parameter to change, anything?
I would really appreciate if you can help me finding a solution...
Thanks in advance,
Herman
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guys u can make ur own stylus am using it now its great check this video
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=opm0B1jd19A&desktop_uri=/watch?v=opm0B1jd19A
press thanks if helped

antonio1475 said:
+1 Just setting min-movement from 10-20px to 0px or so, would help a lot. Now I'm just unable to "draw" small things because it requires a "big" movement to start painting. Of course, not that I bought the Tab 2 instead of the Note 10.1 to draw... but sometimes I'd like more precision.
Tried all apps, but it's the same. I hope someone gets around it. The Synaptics driver post looks promising maybe.
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Great observation-- it's my problem EXACTLY.
Kargoroth said:
yes but being able to set the dead movement delay to zero would be nice...
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Well said, also true.
I believe that if the above two parameters could be tweaked it would solve 99% of the touchscreen sensitivity issues with the 2nd generation G-Tabs, and would probably allow use of a stylus with good performance, instead of dismal performance.

GUTTED
This is just ridiculous! It's bad enough that you can't adjust the screen sensitivity but I just can't believe there some sort of hack to make stylus use acceptable!
Up to now I have been really happy with my Tab 2 but its inability to be used with a stylus has just destroyed the main reason I got it - for annotating PDFs with drawings & handwriting.
Extremely disappointed, I still can't believe it! Such a basic feature!

No-one has any thoughts?

I'm going to sell me Tab 2 and get something else. What do you recommend?

S-tablet use our note as little wacom bamboo wireless :)

The app is : S-tablet, It's still in development, but already looking sharp,
Basically it let use our beloved galaxy note as a companion wireless wacom digitizer under Windows,or in plain lenguage:greeaaaat wireless tablet-mouse for our pc I'm using it with my penabled
Stylus and works pretty similar to my wacom, there are things missing like middle or right mouse button setup and sometimes lags a little, but overall great app!

I long for this app
sorry my bad english

Where can we find that app?

mundano said:
Where can we find that app?
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It's in the Google play market look for s-tablet
Also have a look here:
Stablet.co. kr

looking good, but on my laptop when I connect my mouse go to right botton corner and not moving. it like stuck, I can just click nothing else. whats the problem?

scorpio1991 said:
looking good, but on my laptop when I connect my mouse go to right botton corner and not moving. it like stuck, I can just click nothing else. whats the problem?
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Try re-installing it? Mine worked like a charm here!

Great little app!
Works well on my laptop and PC in several programs. Tried Photoshop, Paint.net, and even AutoCad...
Some fine tuning still needed (both me and the app.), but I suggest you try this, even if only for fun...
Thanks to OP.

haronte said:
Try re-installing it? Mine worked like a charm here!
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ok, I will try to reinstall it on Note

Mouse Jumps to Screen Corners, unusable for me, i have been waiting for a app like this for a very long time, someone please share a Fix
Windows 8, LSC ROM

I have the same problem, cursor is always al the corner and i can't move it using spen. i'm using Windows 8 but i'm not sure if that's the problem, i reinstalled both programs with no changes...

Same here rom xxlsc kernel phılZ 3.75
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Working great with me, win7 and lsa... havent tried it on painting programs yet like photoshop or anything but the stock windows paint, horrible.
Apart from that it needs time to get used to this thing especially using it as a cursor is a bit of problematic when doing a double click
There are 2 types of expression docks i found in the internet from same developer as well, the differences is the touch feature, using your finger to move the cursor around. The other one didnt have the feature
Here is the md5 for the pc program that has finger touch feature. Compare with the zip, not exe. I believe the one from stablet.co.kr is the latest one and the other is from tweeter
3b6c5453dda980927aa17b1653c38bfc
Try using this program on win7, win8 might be the one giving the problems of unusable stablet apps
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Asylum rom & windows 8 doesnt work. Just goes to bottom right corner.
Looks like fun though...

jogai said:
Asylum rom & windows 8 doesnt work. Just goes to bottom right corner.
Looks like fun though...
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It does, try using it on windows 7 pc, i dint have windows 8 pc so cant try
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I read some posts from all you guys using windows 8, so I formatted an old(ish) laptop and installed win 8 on it. There does seem to be a problem, but I think this may be related to graphics, and not win 8 itself.
I will prepare a PC to run win 8 with NVidia graphics and latest drivers etc this weekend, and post anything I find on sunday 30th.
Hope this helps....

Whenever i hold the click, eg press the spen on the pad, i always get a click lock. What i mean is, whenever i tried to paint over an area and hold the soen on the surface for about 10 seconds and longer, the system registers that i still holding the spen on the surface even though i lifted the spen.
Anyone encountered this problem?
P.s
Solved it by disabling the clicklock feature in mouse setting, funny it didnt work when i used the mouse but working when i used this stablet
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This is FREAKING awesome! Thank you very much!

a lot of people get right bottome corner problem :/ maybe it ROM problem, or kernel :/

scorpio1991 said:
a lot of people get right bottome corner problem :/ maybe it ROM problem, or kernel :/
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Most likely an Windows 8 Issue, gotta wait for the Developer to do something about it, Tried my Laptop with Win 7 and it works flawlessly.

Just tried it on my Win8, run S-tablet as Admin. Wow, nice!
I didnt install the dotNetFx4 that came with the package, already enabled on my Win8.
-Ultimate5.1 LSC

[Q] Disable touch input for pen use?

I need a way to disable touch input and only allow pen input. The problem with S-Note is that even if you disable touch input for drawing, you can still manipulate zoom in and zoom out. I need a way to turn this off because my palm is activating this while I'm writing on the tablet.
Is there any way to do this? Thank you.

You're not the only one having this problems, and unfortunately there's no solution. Well, you could always remember to have your pen close to the screen since it's when you lift it while your palm is still resting on the screen the problem accrue. But today, the only solution as far as I know is to get LectureNotes and use that instead.
I have stared a thread in the apps section here about the new crappy version of SNote, that have a lot of bugs and problems. Hopefully we'll find a solution soon, until then please tell samsung about your problem and hopefully they'll understand that this really is a problem and fix it.
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I use a fingerless glove when sketching. That way my hand does not touch the screen but I still can use my fingers to pinch and zoom. Plus the glove also slides on the screen better than you palm.
Layerpaint has a setting which disables single touch(from your hand) and will only recognize a dual touch for moving and pinching and zooming. The only disadvantage is that you then have to select tools and settings with the stylus instead of your finger.

Just about had it with S-Note's palm detection fails.
Are there any apps that will disable the capacitive touch screen on command?

Sv: [Q] Disable touch input for pen use?
klau1 said:
Just about had it with S-Note's palm detection fails.
Are there any apps that will disable the capacitive touch screen on command?
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LectureNotes <3 When set right, I've not had any problems ever getting the pen and two finger pan/zoom to work just like it should.
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Axel_ said:
LectureNotes <3 When set right, I've not had any problems ever getting the pen and two finger pan/zoom to work just like it should.
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agreed, lecture notes really does the trick!
Verstuurd van mijn GT-N8010 met Tapatalk

This seems to be something that changed since the jellybean update for the galaxy note 10.1. I have the n8010 and had no issues with s note when i bought it. When my hand touched, it locked out zoom and pan, and I has no issues writing. Since the jellybean update, it doesnt work right at all. My hand touching the screen always causes a pan or zoom. I know s note was definitely updated because pdf imports suddenly work, and a few other features changed. If I had the option to downgrade to the version this n8010 shipped with, that would be ideal at this point. I hope Samsung realises they removed a useful feature and adds it back soon!

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stefhelm said:
This seems to be something that changed since the jellybean update for the galaxy note 10.1. I have the n8010 and had no issues with s note when i bought it. When my hand touched, it locked out zoom and pan, and I has no issues writing. Since the jellybean update, it doesnt work right at all. My hand touching the screen always causes a pan or zoom. I know s note was definitely updated because pdf imports suddenly work, and a few other features changed. If I had the option to downgrade to the version this n8010 shipped with, that would be ideal at this point. I hope Samsung realises they removed a useful feature and adds it back soon!
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Correct! Since the upgrade SNote just doesn't work at all, which many with you have pointed out before. And beside the zoom and pan problem, I'm not really a fan of the new action bar in the top of the page that doesn't have any "hide" option. For me, the shape recognition tool doesn't work at all either as I've shown in a thread here in the apps section.
No, everything worked better with the previous version as far as I can tell. However, those lucky few who already have the 4.1.2 update doesn't seem to have these kind of problems at all so maybe there will come a better version of SNote with the next upgrade. But unfortunately, not many have the 4.1.2 so it might just be a case of them doesn't using the SNote application very much and therefore haven't gotten the problems yet.
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Well I hope the Samsung folks are paying attention, because the s note feature is really why my office selected the Note 10.1 in the first place. We have purchased several! Still a great tablet, but this is an annoying flaw.

I've called Samsung about this and escaladed the issue. But like with any company they're more likely to do something about it if many complain.

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has anyone tried, GMD SPen Control, root?
If it works it will disable finger touch all the time ill surely pay 6 bucks

inof8or said:
has anyone tried, GMD SPen Control, root?
If it works it will disable finger touch all the time ill surely pay 6 bucks
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It does, and are the solution they refer to in the thread "I wish SNote got locked zoom" (or something). That feature alone is enough to root the tablet, it's too bad that the guaranties gets invalid when doing so..
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I can confirm that gmd spen root works great for me you can disable touch input by an spen gesture you create it and revert back at any time .
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I know this is kind of OT but, is there any easy way of rooting this device without loosing all your guaranties/automatic updates and without too much risk of bricking it? Are there any other disadvantages of rooting?
Thanks in advance!
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If you want to keep the stock rom u need to root with cf-autoroot and have the root access now if you want a custom recovery (to install zip files-do nandroid backup or install a custom rom)your binary will count each time u reboot to recovery but don't afraid always u can revert back to stock and have your warranty back
When you root you will lose ota (over-the-air) updates but you can update with kies or mobile odin pro
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gdm spen
GDM S-pen root fixed my issue, the only disadvantage being that there is no way to make "no-touch" persistent between locking the phone and reactivating it. Which is more of a benefit then a con for those looking just to draw w/out troubles.
In my case were the touch screen is completely fubar it would help though, I'll see if I can contact the dev maybe it would be easy to add a persistent no touch option tucked away in the settings

On top of the palm reject screen resize fail with s-note, is anyone having trouble with the bottom of their forearm unintentionally opening the bottom menu when resting their palm on the screen ? It seems like I have trouble with at least one but sometimes both of those issues on a daily basis. Seriously considering rooting this bad boy.

attempt
Contacted samsung about the s note's disable touch function does not work at all. They forwarded my request to the engineering team or the app developer and this issue will be resolved. Representative used a note 10.1 while on the phone with me and we came to an agreement that the zoom function shouldn't be happening at all.

I use GMD gesture for Spen and I'm very happy of it...just give it a try!

For those reading this in 2016 and onwards.. Works amazing on my note 12. 2 pro and note 4.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660457

[Q] question about galaxy GT-5282

I have a new galaxy gt-5282, and there is a feature I want to remove. Whenever I dial a nr., an icon of the normal shape of a lock is shown, and I have to tap it twice so I can talk. Nothing in the call settings is mentioned about this. How can I remove this lock ? like a normal S2,S3 or S4 ?
H hope this is the right place for this thread.

mseif said:
I have a new galaxy gt-5282, and there is a feature I want to remove. Whenever I dial a nr., an icon of the normal shape of a lock is shown, and I have to tap it twice so I can talk. Nothing in the call settings is mentioned about this. How can I remove this lock ? like a normal S2,S3 or S4 ?
H hope this is the right place for this thread.
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Can you show me a screenshot of it?

Sami Kabir said:
Can you show me a screenshot of it?
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Thank you Sami, here it is >

mseif said:
Thank you Sami, here it is >
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I think its because your phone doesn't have a proximity sensor, maybe that's why Samsung added this feature.. because my old Samsung Corby had a similar (but far less annoying) feature like this...
So I don't think Samsung made an "Off" switch for this.. and the only way to remove it might be via framework or SystemUI editing.. look for a custom ROM for your phone with this feature disabled... and I'm sorry for not being able to provide you with the correct solution mate

Sami Kabir said:
I think its because your phone doesn't have a proximity sensor, maybe that's why Samsung added this feature.. because my old Samsung Corby had a similar (but far less annoying) feature like this...
So I don't think Samsung made an "Off" switch for this.. and the only way to remove it might be via framework or SystemUI editing.. look for a custom ROM for your phone with this feature disabled... and I'm sorry for not being able to provide you with the correct solution mate
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Thank you Sami for your efforts. My original phone is S4, I just bought the GT-5282 yesterday, as it has 2 sim cards and I need that in my traveling. I opened it just today.
I have also 4.1.2 on this small phone, but you may be right, I do not see any thing beside the loud speaker at all, so it does not have a proximity sensor, but I do not see how this lock will help in such a case.
Custom ROM may be the solution, but I could not find here, or on Android forums anything about this GT-5282, they are not mentioning it at all.

mseif said:
Thank you Sami for your efforts. My original phone is S4, I just bought the GT-5282 yesterday, as it has 2 sim cards and I need that in my traveling. I opened it just today.
I have also 4.1.2 on this small phone, but you may be right, I do not see any thing beside the loud speaker at all, so it does not have a proximity sensor, but I do not see how this lock will help in such a case.
Custom ROM may be the solution, but I could not find here, or on Android forums anything about this GT-5282, they are not mentioning it at all.
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Yeah, this is the problem with many mid-range or low-range phones.. There aren't many people who use this phone.. and most of them are probably average users and not Android geeks or developers...
Anyways, Proximity sensors are important for a smartphone or any touch-screen phone.. Its important because it detects how close the screen of the phone is to your body. This allows the phone to sense when you have brought the phone up to your ear. At that point, the display turns off in order to save battery. It also stops detecting "touches" to avoid unwanted input, until you take the phone away from your ear... Nowadays most phones have it and since this phone doesn't maybe that's why Samsung added that feature instead..
And yeah, you don't have to type "thank you" to thank me.. just clicking on that "thanks" button is enough

Galaxy S7 Touchscreen Problem

Galaxy S7 screen not responding to touch sometimes. The bottom portion of the display is affected. I tried 6 different S7 and all of them have the same problem, test yours like this and tap gently not hard, when you press hard you press 3mm on the screen and that is a lot ! The problem is worse when the phone is cold (20C) This is annoying because the place where its not working is the same place where the space bar is and the "." Does anyone else have that exact problem? Here is a video of the problem : https://youtu.be/OW_FQBMcuOE
IMPORTANT !
Install Phone INFO app (green adroid logo) see when the phone is manufactured, mine is 2016.02.18 ! maybe the first batch of the production have that problem! We might be on something here!!!

There are two threads already open with this situation.
I have this problem at the same location you demonstrate. The right side has this problem too. From bottom right to the top 1 cm and 2 or 3 cm up you are going to reproduce the same thing.
I get used to it but it is very annoying. Never liked Samsung because of this things. They use low quality material all around. I will never trust them.
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goTouch said:
There are two threads already open with this situation.
I have this problem at the same location you demonstrate. The right side has this problem too. From bottom right to the top 1 cm and 2 or 3 cm up you are going to reproduce the same thing.
I get used to it but it is very annoying. Never liked Samsung because of this things. They use low quality material all around. I will never trust them.
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I cant seem to find the other threads will you be nice enough to paste a link. btw should i ask for a replacement ? or all of them are like this because ive tested 10 phones by now but all 930X showroom phones and all are the same...i dont have much days left for my replacement deal so i dont know what to do, everything else is perfect only the front camera i feel like its not focusing good enough compared to the s6..

brane871 said:
I cant seem to find the other threads will you be nice enough to paste a link. btw should i ask for a replacement ? or all of them are like this because ive tested 10 phones by now but all 930X showroom phones and all are the same...i dont have much days left for my replacement deal so i dont know what to do, everything else is perfect only the front camera i feel like its not focusing good enough compared to the s6..
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Found one, some post an answer recently:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3343175
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IMPORTANT !
Install Phone INFO app (green adroid logo) see when the phone is manufactured, mine is 2016.02.18 ! maybe the first batch of the production have that problem! We might be on something here!!!

brane871 said:
IMPORTANT !
Install Phone INFO app (green adroid logo) see when the phone is manufactured, mine is 2016.02.18 ! maybe the first batch of the production have that problem! We might be on something here!!!
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Mine was manufactured 2016.03.04 (yyyy.mm.dd)
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Mine was 2016/04/08
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go to samsung store

Just received H9 update and the release notes did not mention anything about LCD, touch screen or anything related to it.
But since the update, I've been trying to reproduce the problem trying to find the blind spots and for my surprise I did not find anything. The touchscreen is perfect and I can feel it is more sensitive.
Before the update I could reproduce the problem very easy! Now it is perfect.
The update here in my region (Brazil - ZTO) was about 170MB. Samsung Cloud was introduced.

Wow, mine was manufactured 2 weeks ago (2016.08.16) and I've owned it since about the 24th too, so it was 8 days old when I received it