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Root Improve Touchscreen?
- Thread starter fusionice
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- motorola triumph
imabitfighty
Well-Known Member
its a capacitive touchscreen. its sensing points are fixed.
there is a CHANCE that the screen was manufactured badly at the factory and doesnt sense correctly but thats slim.
besides that, i dont think you can calibrate a capacitive touch screen. thats only for the resistive screens.
how bad is it? do you notice it more on the keyboard than any other app?
I thought the touchscreen on my triumph was bad until i realized it was sensing the side edge of my thumbs and not the tip where I thought my finger was pressing, had to change my typing style and everything was fixed. before, it seemed like i was hitting the letter next to the letter i wanted. very annoying
dsmryder
Android Expert
To expand on what imabitfighty said, I recommend an app called phone tester. It allows you to see why the phone sees in the touch seem part. That way you can tell if you are touching the parts it thinks you're touching.
dsmryder
Android Expert
When you check out the phone tester app you will see that our phone has a poor ablity to seperate the two touch registers. That might be your problem.
CornfedChris
Well-Known Member
Try some of the aftermarket keyboards in the market.
My favorite one is the Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard. It helped me with mis-types and also help me spell correctly haha.
OverByter
Resident Slide Rule Guru
Yeah the phone only has 2 point multi touch and the drivers glitch horrendously when the points intersect. For all this phones faults most are not hardware related but some severely crappy software and drivers. That's why other versions with basically the same hardware has a much better user experience. Besides being poorly written it's difficult to improve because alot of it looks like it was kludged together by someone who was jumping back and forth with a textbook.
chucksaysblah
Android Enthusiast
just use the ice cream sandwich keyboard from the play store it solved all of my typing problems on the miui ROM!
dsmryder
Android Expert
Well, I'm just starting in the programming world, but I remember Whyzor rewriting the touch screen driver and he said the convergeance is a hardware issue. I can't refute that myself. I just know it's posible. And yeah, our phone seems to have been put together by interns.
i can honestly say that i hate the default keyboard, on any ROM. They always use the default android one and it sucks, however i can understand why they do. i have tried probably, 10-15. Since i found touchpal i have not found one better, paid or not. yes, i still kept looking.
If you are working on the kernel, try the drivers in my Sharp Ver8 kernel, it's on my github. It still only registers 2 points but I can put two fingers as close together as possible and get no convergence issues testing with phone tester or multitouch tester.