Milestone 2 keyboard double-pressing - fix!

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Has anyone encountered problems with the hardware keyboard on their Milestone 2 randomly entering two characters on a single stroke?

It happens at least once on nearly every sentence with mine, totally at random. I'm reasonably sure I don't suffer from any type of palsy. It's driving me batty.

UPDATE: stargo saves the day here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...5&postcount=44

stargo's Milestone2 Debounce:

Release version

Updated version
"If anyone with non-working keys or still bouncing keys feels adventurous, I've now additionally enabled the hardware-debouncing feature of the OMAP processor on the input-pins of the keyboard matrix."

Originally Posted by aithnea

Has anyone encountered problems with the hardware keyboard on their Milestone 2 randomly entering two characters on a single stroke?

It happens at least once on nearly every sentence with mine, totally at random. I'm reasonably sure I don't suffer from any type of palsy. It's driving me batty.

Im quite sure the keys might need servicing. Its a problem that plagues many qwerty phones. I experienced it on my xperia x1 after 1.5 years of usage. Touch-wood no issues on my MS2 thus far.


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I had this problem, after the Argen2Stone it dissapear

Sorry about my very poor English

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I'm not sure what to think about the keyboard issue. On my xperia x1 the problem was obviously hardware wise but is it software wise on the Milestone 2?
Might be since I start every google search on my phone with a double letter while not having such problems in a started text...it seems like some sort of software lag causes this problem...

Can you guys confirm? What do you think?

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I do recognize this issue. I think it's a software issue, because sometimes a letter is repeated about 4 or 5 times, while I truly pressed the button once.
Other times I don't have any issues at all. But then again, I didn't hear or read anything about it, so I'll see. I'm not going to send it back to a repair center because I know how that works out.

i would dare say its nt some kind of software issue or bug. and its quite impossible for it to be a lag on a phone with a 1GHz chip and 512MB RAM. besides, i haven't really heard anybody else have the issue as you do.

i genuinely do believe its nothing more than a faulty button/buttons. i know the X1 suffered from this. so did the HTC Touch Pro, and the Touch Pro 2. it wont hurt anyway to take it back to the dealer/factory to have it checked up. you are entitled to a warranty and have every right to claim for it.

I can't believe nobody @ Motorola noticed that bug. In the first year of studying we learned how to debounce buttons.

Originally Posted by RDUKE7777777

I can't believe nobody @ Motorola noticed that bug. In the first year of studying we learned how to debounce buttons.

kindly explain what 'debouncing buttons' means please?

also i hardly doubt its a bug. i think its a problem with the keyboard itself, as is the problem with many phones with a physical QWERTY

Ok, I'll try to explain. Imagine a button with a long distance from "not pressed" to "pressed", like an old Keyboard for example.

Now imagine pressing a button in slow motion. If the metal connectors of the button and the one below the button slowly approach each other, there are moments when the connectors almost "meet" and current flows. One nanosecond later the current isn't there anymore and another nanosecond later its there again. This process continues until youve fully pressed the button down.

But you don't want the letter do appear twice or more! So you've got to make sure that only one letter appears by telling the device, to only print 1 letter in the time, a normal user needs to press a key fully down.


LoL, i hope you can understand what I meant, I can't explain it that good in english

I understood your explanation, thank-you. I'm still going with soft-ware issues, though.

I encounter this problem every single time I type in the first letter of the first word in the google search. This can't be an accident.

Quote: and its quite impossible for it to be a lag on a phone with a 1GHz chip and 512MB RAM

Well, it is possible that a program (in my case the native internet explorer) lags. Also little lags in other programs may occur, when the load something for a millisecond. It may as well be both, hardware and software...