I have asked this question over on Archosfans.com too but have not received an answer. I have an archos 101 and use an apple keyboard. Ever since 2.2 the directional keys are not working right. If I push down it goes right and if I push up it goes left. And the right and left keys are also backwards. I am just trying to figure out if this is everyone elses experience.
Now the silly part is that if I turn the screen to vertical then it is right. I am trying to figure out if reinstalling the aos will help resolve this issue.
Is this unique?
this happens on my 70 with my bluetooth keyboard
even under 2.1, the direction keys were off. they seemed to be oriented then to the archos name. When tablet was horizontal, regular it worked, when it was upside down (better viewing angle for some things) they were backward. maybe the switch is set based on vertical now.
I have noticed that some web pages work better in portrait, too. My gmail through web wont scroll in landscape, fine in portrait. Cool that google docs works in browser, though.
use a mifi !
675 Trip said:
even under 2.1, the direction keys were off. they seemed to be oriented then to the archos name.
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I didnt have any issues on 2.1at all.
Upgraded to CM11, but had this on 10.2 as well. Back and home buttons are rendered inoperable depending on how NT is positioned (rotated). Really annoying and I know they aren't shorted because BACK works in one position but not the other, same issue with HOME. Anyone know of a fix?
Anybody?
you're talking about the onscreen buttons in android, right? i've never had any issues
that happen to me
I had that same problem when I change the dpi from 160 to 265 and that when it happen to me. It took me a day or two before I realized what causes It but when I change the dpi back to 160 my buttons started to work just as they did before.I hope this helps you with your fix.good luck
Well I don't know if it's your case, but this happened to me as well, and I found that I had dead zones in touchscreen exactly where on screen home and back buttons are, the only way I could use home and back buttons again was rotating the screen to upside down portrait (I could not pull down controls menu in this position since that part of screen was dead) or in landscape.
How I found out: download this app. from Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rn.yamtt, turn your tablet to landscape so on screen buttons will change positions. Open the app. and select paint tester and move your finger on the part of the screen where the on screen buttons wasn't working in portrait mode.
If you have dead zones like me, the app. won't paint the area where you are moving your finger because the touchscreen is dead in that area.
Also, my nook developed another problem after this, it won't charge, and when I plug the power cord, tablet crashes and reboots and stay in a bootloop unless I remove the cable. I'm 100% sure the cable and charger are ok, my nook suddenly started to show a lot of problems, I'll miss my nook =/
so what did you do to fix it?
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Well I don't know if it's your case, but this happened to me as well, and I found that I had dead zones in touchscreen exactly where on screen home and back buttons are, the only way I could use home and back buttons again was rotating the screen to upside down portrait (I could not pull down controls menu in this position since that part of screen was dead) or in landscape.
How I found out: download this app. from Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rn.yamtt, turn your tablet to landscape so on screen buttons will change positions. Open the app. and select paint tester and move your finger on the part of the screen where the on screen buttons wasn't working in portrait mode.
If you have dead zones like me, the app. won't paint the area where you are moving your finger because the touchscreen is dead in that area.
Also, my nook developed another problem after this, it won't charge, and when I plug the power cord, tablet crashes and reboots and stay in a bootloop unless I remove the cable. I'm 100% sure the cable and charger are ok, my nook suddenly started to show a lot of problems, I'll miss my nook =/
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so what did you do to fix it?
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Nothing since this has no fixes, part of the touchscreen is simply dead, unless a miracle happens, I even tried to restore stock nook rom, opened my tablet to check if there is a loose cable or something.
Is this happened to you in the same day you opened this thread? If your answer is yes, this sounds funny, because it's exactly the day when this small part on left bottom of the touchscreen died in my nook.
Also, somewhat my tablet started to charge again, but very slow, like USB charging, but I'm happy my nook returned to life.
No this happened many weeks before the thread. All of a sudden both home and back touches no longer worked in portrait position, but DO work in Landscape. Annoying.
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Nothing since this has no fixes, part of the touchscreen is simply dead, unless a miracle happens, I even tried to restore stock nook rom, opened my tablet to check if there is a loose cable or something.
Is this happened to you in the same day you opened this thread? If your answer is yes, this sounds funny, because it's exactly the day when this small part on left bottom of the touchscreen died in my nook.
Also, somewhat my tablet started to charge again, but very slow, like USB charging, but I'm happy my nook returned to life.
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No this happened many weeks before the thread. All of a sudden both home and back touches no longer worked in portrait position, but DO work in Landscape. Annoying.
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Did you made the check I mentioned before? Does the back and home buttons works if put your tablet in upside down position so portrait mode will move soft buttons to the top edge?
Yes - all three DO work when I flip it upside down in portrait. Is this my workaround?
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Did you made the check I mentioned before? Does the back and home buttons works if put your tablet in upside down position so portrait mode will move soft buttons to the top edge?
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Yes - all three DO work when I flip it upside down in portrait. Is this my workaround?
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Unfortunately, you have the same problem as me - dead zone in touchscreen. Flip the tablet upside down in portrait or use in landscape are the only workaround afaik. I thought in moving the on screen buttons more to the right in a zone where the touchscreen is working, but I didn't find a way to do this, I managed to move them a little bit by adding more buttons in the bar in system settings, but the back button would still stay in the dead zone, them I switched home and back buttons positions (so home stays in the dead zone) since you can still use the tablet N button to use home function.
Recently I bought Samsung HomeSync (a TV media player) with Android 4.2.2 on board, it does not have a screen or touchpad, and I connected an Apple magic trackpad to it via bluetooth. Everything seems to work (clicking, tapping, multi-touch etc) except one annoying thing: the pointer on the screen is not at the same position as the actual touching point. When I tap on the trackpad, a circle appeared on the screen at a different position than the pointer, the shift between these two points is always the same. Unfortunately, I did not find anything in the settings to correct this mismatch, maybe it can be adjusted in the config files? The device is rooted.
So I play a lot of PUBGM. For anyone who's not familiar with the game, you can switch weapons by tapping one of the two weapons from the bottom central part of the screen, in landscape mode.
While playing my first game today, I noticed that I can't switch weapons for some reason, no matter how many times I tap it. I even noticed my keyboard going haywire in landscape mode around the exact same position of the weapon switcher in PUBGM.
So I downloaded an app named Touchscreen Test which shows whether the screen is working properly or not with the help of White and Green dots (Green being good, white being bad).
This was the result: https://i.imgur.com/8Uqn2lp.png
I don't know whether what or how this happened, as my phone was working absolutely perfectly yesterday.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Hi all, I have had a problem for years, so I thought I would finally share my shame and seek help. With every Android keyboard I have tried, if my thumb touches the strip between the bottom of the keyboard and the edge of the screen, it kicks me out of the keyboard. Not a problem except that it happens to me all the time.
Why on earth would people not make the keyboard extend all the way to the bottom of the screen? Not like that space has any use.
Anyway, does anyone know of a keyboard that does not have that strip or an application that could turn off the touch sensitivity of that are? If I could permanently turn off touch sensitivity to the bottom 1 or 2 mm of my screen that would be great. I never need it there.
I know that the logical answer would be to learn to type on my phone, but I am 54, and, to paraphrase Barbie, Android is hard.
Thanks.