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Reoccurring Dead Spots on Screen?

Hello community of XDA, I was hoping you could help me with an issue I'm experiencing with my HTC One S. Sometimes when I unlock the phone to respond to a text message or do anything really (it's just most noticeable on the keyboard) there will be a dead spot on the screen. The pixels work but none of my touches register. The spots where this happens are not always the same but the same spots will pop back up from time to time. An example of what happens is I unlock the phone, pull up the keyboard, and try to type out a message but some of the keys won't respond to a touch or will just register the key next to it. The odd thing about this is, I'll relock the phone, unlock it again, and that dead spot will be fully functional again. It's never the same spot twice and I know it's not the keyboard because this occurs if I am on the home screen trying to swipe pages or scrolling through the browser. I have not attempted fully wiping and restoring the device because I do not have a sufficient internet connection to re-setup (if you will) all my settings, and I do not want to use Titanium Backup or another backup app because the problem may be something hidden in all those files. Has this happened to anyone else/does anyone know what I can do to solve my problem? Feedback and help is greatly appreciated because the warranty was void after the phone had been unlocked through HTCDev.com. I am currently running xkonni's latest CM9 build (from the 31st if I remember correctly). Thank you very much I appreciate it.

mdskrzypczyk said:
Hello community of XDA, I was hoping you could help me with an issue I'm experiencing with my HTC One S. Sometimes when I unlock the phone to respond to a text message or do anything really (it's just most noticeable on the keyboard) there will be a dead spot on the screen. The pixels work but none of my touches register. The spots where this happens are not always the same but the same spots will pop back up from time to time. An example of what happens is I unlock the phone, pull up the keyboard, and try to type out a message but some of the keys won't respond to a touch or will just register the key next to it. The odd thing about this is, I'll relock the phone, unlock it again, and that dead spot will be fully functional again. It's never the same spot twice and I know it's not the keyboard because this occurs if I am on the home screen trying to swipe pages or scrolling through the browser. I have not attempted fully wiping and restoring the device because I do not have a sufficient internet connection to re-setup (if you will) all my settings, and I do not want to use Titanium Backup or another backup app because the problem may be something hidden in all those files. Has this happened to anyone else/does anyone know what I can do to solve my problem? Feedback and help is greatly appreciated because the warranty was void after the phone had been unlocked through HTCDev.com. I am currently running xkonni's latest CM9 build (from the 31st if I remember correctly). Thank you very much I appreciate it.
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I have never heard of something like this happening, seems like youve got a unique problem my good friend
The best thing to do would be to restore to your stock RUU and relock the bootloader and send it back to HTC. Many peope report that they have relocked their bootloader and HTC has still replaced or repaired their phone
Now I understand your hesitation doing this, so in my opinion the only other thing you could do is a stock wipe. Unfortunately i cant help you with your internet speed, but really its all you can do. The easiest way to get completely back to stock is to follow this guide:
http://www.htconeforum.com/forum/htc-one-s-hacks/389-how-unbrick-restore-your-htc-one-s-back-100-stock-relocked.html
If you have already tried flashing new roms and the issue persists, then it is most defiantly a problem that only HTC can fix, sorry to say
happy troubleshooting!
:EDIT:
I FORGOT SOMETHING
The easiest way to find out if this is in your system or your apps is to do a factory reset
Go into recovery, make a backup, wipe DATA and CACHE and reboot. Your phone should be stock cm9 now, check if the issue exists
If it doesnt, its your apps
If it does, you still need to try flashing a new rom or going back to stock with the RUU

Go Keyboard

Hello there,
I have recently installed Go Keyboard version 1.7.0 and i have suddenly noticed that the arrow keys on software keyboard pad don't work.
Does anybody else have the same problem with Go keyboard arrow keys?
Does anybody know anything on this matter?
Any help would be very much appreciated since i am in frustration:crying: after that problem,
Thank you in advance,

dinothenino said:
Hello there,
I have recently installed Go Keyboard version 1.7.0 and i have suddenly noticed that the arrow keys on software keyboard pad don't work.
Does anybody else have the same problem with Go keyboard arrow keys?
Does anybody know anything on this matter?
Any help would be very much appreciated since i am in frustration:crying: after that problem,
Thank you in advance,
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Did you install GO Keyboard Pad Plugin?

buhohitr said:
Did you install GO Keyboard Pad Plugin?
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yes i did install the Pad plugin and i also noticed that this problem occurs specifically when i use the web browser, any web browser.
Although i can move with the cursors on the http://www.web address bar when i go to the google web page and i enter a phrase for search
but i want to go left to change one word by using the pad arrows i suddenly see that they don't work. What's weird is that on every other app everything works fine, for example the asus note application evrything works like a charm. Well i don't have a clue what's going on.

SOLVED
I haven't found a solution to what caused this problem but after restoring to Stock root and then installing the Go keyboard app,
out of the blue the problem solved, although i had the same settings and the pad plugin as before.
Anyway if someone else is having or encounters the same problem as i did, follow these steps.
Restore to stock root (In fact go to the Factory default as the tablet came from the start, no other apps installed except the ones that came along with the tablet) and then install Go keyboard and all the other programs that you used to have before.

dinothenino said:
I haven't found a solution to what caused this problem but after restoring to Stock root and then installing the Go keyboard app,
out of the blue the problem solved, although i had the same settings and the pad plugin as before.
Anyway if someone else is having or encounters the same problem as i did, follow these steps.
Restore to stock root (In fact go to the Factory default as the tablet came from the start, no other apps installed except the ones that came along with the tablet) and then install Go keyboard and all the other programs that you used to have before.
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1. You didn't mention that you were on a custom ROM in your opening post. Several custom ROMs suffer from this problem, so it is in all probability not GO's fault.
2. It might be useful to know on which custom ROM you were, just in case it wasn't one of the ROMs we already knew had problems.

I'M also have a probably, the up and down arrows work but the left and right do not.
I'm on the:
Hellfire jelly cm 10.1 4.2.2/1.3 kindle fire ROM

[Q] Probs since jellybean update

1) my library and browser stops working after a few minutes.
2) keyboard types double and tripple letters
3) lost the ability to coldd boot (get to screen but can't move off first option)
Any suggestions out there?

DreamingWillow said:
1) my library and browser stops working after a few minutes.
2) keyboard types double and tripple letters
3) lost the ability to coldd boot (get to screen but can't move off first option)
Any suggestions out there?
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Download the full version from Asus site, factory reset your device and re flash the full version. Make sure you do a full backup of your download apps. If you have root, it will be wiped.

I ended up taking it back to Best Buy and exchanging it for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1....the difference between the two is Night and Day! No problems at all with the Samsung. I'm now happy. Prefer spending $500 on something that works out of the box...rather than something I have to take hours and hours to mess with to get it to work right.

You returned a TF700 at BB and got a Galaxy? Had you returned a Prime to get the 700 you had?
I'm sooo done with Asus and I'm wondering if after having returned A Prime for an Infinity if BB would do it again so I could get someting that works.

Defective?Gnote acting weird, auto doing things then hangs up.Help!

Its been my second month with my gnote pro 12.2 and im starting to have problems. First there will be some random press on my screen, ramdom apps will just pop up even tho im not touching its icon. Letter "N" on screen keyboard sometimes doesn't work, when im typing very fast it'll skip the letter "N". When im sliding it side to side it'll bring up the whole slide page even tho im just using one finger. The slide effect won't go through, i have to slide the whole page from left to right or vice versa. The worst thing that i experience is its like its acting that something is tapping on the screen very fast you will see the icon up and down really fast and you really cant do anything to stop it but to wait until it hangs up. cant shut it down, back and task button doesn't work. Home button works but can't shut it down, itll just reboot it self.. It's driving me nuts coz basically i left my laptop at home so i have to work from my note and right now im working on a site.
My device is on full stock, i haven't done any tweaks on it. And im using the wifi version SM-P900. I recorded a video of my gnote pro 12.2 using my g3 and pardon me for the quality since i have to convert it coz the file is so huge. It is a long boring 8 mins video showing my device is acting weird.
TURN OFF THE VOLUME (i can't find android video converter that removes the sound).
0:44 - you can see that it change the highlited email even tho im not pressing anything.
1:02 - its brings up the whole page screen. Im just using 1 finger to slide.
1:20 - menu button doesnt work. It hangs a bit and pops up a balloon.
1:35 - this is where it started doing crazy stuff.
http://youtu.be/7S83-sHYd-c

Auto brightness on the camera of your phone made it hard to tell since the rest of the scene was too dark so answer these few questions: Do you have a case on it? Does that case turn on/off the screen when opened? If you do have a case have you tried reproducing the results with the tablet removed from it?
Sent from my SM-P900 using Tapatalk

Seems like it was protesting to having todisplay the image of the Apple building...
In all seriousness though, could you turn on 'Show Touches' under Developers options? (Tap build number 7 times under About Device if you can't find Dev options.) It may have phantom touches.
And try the above suggested solution of detaching the case if you're using one.

muzzy996 said:
Auto brightness on the camera of your phone made it hard to tell since the rest of the scene was too dark so answer these few questions: Do you have a case on it? Does that case turn on/off the screen when opened? If you do have a case have you tried reproducing the results with the tablet removed from it?
Sent from my SM-P900 using Tapatalk
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Thank you very much for the respo se. No i don't have the case for my note im using slid on pouch for 12" notebook to keep it safe i stead. I never accide taly drop it either. Im also having random error message like "can't arrange alphabetically" sometimes "internal server error". I also got very few apps installed si ce im usi g this device as my laptop, i needed every storage space of this device, what im using most is hancom apps and autocad also chrome, default email apps a d sometimes skype.
Im not gonna edit this message so you can actually see how letter "n" misses.
Im using the default screen keyboard of the device. Tho the problem is not present if im using bluetooth keyboard. Im planni g to do a factory reset but the problem is i can't do that till i got home.
I just hope that this is more on software issue than hardware issue. Also, it happen often but randomly so i can't figure out what apps causing it.

ShadowLea said:
Seems like it was protesting to having todisplay the image of the Apple building...
In all seriousness though, could you turn on 'Show Touches' under Developers options? (Tap b uild number 7 times under About Device if you can't find Dev options.) It may have phantom touches.
And try the above suggested solution of detaching the case if you're using one.
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Yup, sure ill turn it on and observe, thanks for the idea.

That rules out the case issue. These tablets are sensitive to magnetic fields and will act up in the presence of magnets, that's why i mentioned it earlier. I was careful in how I asked because some will be in denial about whether or not their case has any magnets hidden within the case.
If your tablet is indeed showing phantom touches the next logical step would be to factory reset and observe the tablet for a while afterwards. You'd have to reinstall all of your software though so make sure to back up all of your files first. If you do go this route I'd suggest refraining from logging into your google account when you set up the device from a reset OR if you do log in, don't opt into auto backup/restore of the device. This will keep the device from installing previously purchased software making it easier to monitor it BONE STOCK to rule out the chance of your issues being software related. If you can do this and the tablet has issues bone stock then it could be a hardware issue with the digitizer . .

muzzy996 said:
That rules out the case issue. These tablets are sensitive to magnetic fields and will act up in the presence of magnets, that's why i mentioned it earlier. I was careful in how I asked because some will be in denial about whether or not their case has any magnets hidden within the case.
If your tablet is indeed showing phantom touches the next logical step would be to factory reset and observe the tablet for a while afterwards. You'd have to reinstall all of your software though so make sure to back up all of your files first. If you do go this route I'd suggest refraining from logging into your google account when you set up the device from a reset OR if you do log in, don't opt into auto backup/restore of the device. This will keep the device from installing previously purchased software making it easier to monitor it BONE STOCK to rule out the chance of your issues being software related. If you can do this and the tablet has issues bone stock then it could be a hardware issue with the digitizer . .
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The only problem right now is i can't do that till next week. Or ill start to upload my files with dropbox and ill just borrow a laptop. My main suspect actually is google chrome, this month i think i receive 4 updates with chrome and since then i started having this issues. I really hope that this is just software issue, sammy cust service here in ph is absolutely ridiculous.
Thank you for giving me ideas

SpEaKeRb0xXx said:
The only problem right now is i can't do that till next week. Or ill start to upload my files with dropbox and ill just borrow a laptop. My main suspect actually is google chrome, this month i think i receive 4 updates with chrome and since then i started having this issues. I really hope that this is just software issue, sammy cust service here in ph is absolutely ridiculous.
Thank you for giving me ideas
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If you suspect it's chrome, go to settings > application manager > all > chrome > erase data and cache, and then uninstall or disable it. (depending on the available options).
As for the keyboard, can you give swiftkey a try, see if that has the same issues?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2

ShadowLea said:
If you suspect it's chrome, go to settings > application manager > all > chrome > erase data and cache, and then uninstall or disable it. (depending on the available options).
As for the keyboard, can you give swiftkey a try, see if that has the same issues?
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk 2
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Yes i think that's the culprit. Im in the middle of backing up my files now coz i decided to go for a factory reset. Ill observe how my device will behave on full stock without users apps installed.
As for the keyboard, yes ill install swiftkey.. somehow it makes me ask myself, why the hell am i still using the default keyboard?
Anyway, thank you for all the inputs, ill give it all a shot.

After going back on full stock, no apps being installed, and testing for 2 days, sad to say but the problem still exist. Il give it another try and will flash stock rom, this will be my last resort and if things still not fixed, maybe its time for this beast to have its repair and vacation.

How can I stop my Note Pro (SM-P900) from freezing and random rebooting?

I purchased a refurbished (wifi only) model. The problem occurred from day .
The system will freeze after about 5 minutes and sometimes simply reboots, even when it's not being used.
I have done a factory reset and booted to safe mode but problem persists.
I think it is a hardware issue, but what should I look for or tell a repair tech?

I have the exact same problem. Anyone have any further information?
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Same problem here. Would be nice to get a solution.

Daevionne said:
Same problem here. Would be nice to get a solution.
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Read the threat " Flickering Screen" but only a last few pages as previous pages have no helpful information with many guessing solutions.

@Beut, could you please give a link to the thread "Flickering Screen"?
In various other threads people are refered to that thread, but neither by googling nor by searching the forum I could find it.
Thanks in advance!
Brompf

Brompf said:
@Beut, could you please give a link to the thread "Flickering Screen"?
In various other threads people are refered to that thread, but neither by googling nor by searching the forum I could find it.
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You should start from here, other pages just have some guessing solutions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63133996&postcount=131

jmvallee said:
I purchased a refurbished (wifi only) model. The problem occurred from day .
The system will freeze after about 5 minutes and sometimes simply reboots, even when it's not being used.
I have done a factory reset and booted to safe mode but problem persists.
I think it is a hardware issue, but what should I look for or tell a repair tech?
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Boy, this thread got sidetracked quickly. Mostly because you asked a REALLY IMPORTANT question. Once it got sidetracked, no one came back to address your original concern.
So here is what I know.
1. If your system becomes unresponsive - meaning any icon you tap on nothing happens, even when pressing the big button in the bottom center - tap the power button. It shuts the sceen off. Then hit the oval button, unlock the screen. It should work.
2. The random reboots probably means something has been changed or knox has been tripped. Possibly the device may have been rooted/unrooted once. It probably is a google thing. I personally HATE google+. Try to clear the davlik cache. It is located in /data/dalvik-cache - in the root area, if using Total Commander. You have to have root. Delete everything in this directory then do an immediate restart. On restart, android will rebuild each caching file for each current app, it may take a minute or two, but there will be a progress message all along.
Try those things

Do any of you guys have the Verizon or the SIM card LTE version?
If that is a YES, believe that I can help you.
(Regarding OP's WiFi model, I think that one needs to be replaced or returned)
Go here for the solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...how-to-fix-constant-crashing-verizon-t3367716