[Q] Photon and BUTTON_UP actions

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As discussed in the following link,

http://community.developer.motorola....ents/td-p/8038 ,

there is an issue with some moto phones and the Photon is affected. If you hold down a button, for example, like the talk button in Tikl, a BUTTON_UP event will be generated after 20 or so seconds.

As mentioned in the above link, this is Motorola's attempt at preventing false touches and they say that for now, they are not addressing it. This can obviously be bad for users of Tikl as well as some games.

I mention this for two reasons. First, I would have liked to know this before buying and others may as well. Though some may disagree, I find this to be huge. It isn't enough to return the otherwise amazing phone. But had I known beforehand, I may have thought about it more.

Second, I am wondering if it is possible for any of the devs to address this? Or would this be a part of the software that only Motorola can address?

Thank you for any input on this.

Any information on this? Certainly I would think the inability to use apps that require long touches might generate some interest?

Well perhaps this bug is really just a feature of In-Pocket Protection. I wonder if this happens with In-Pocket Protection disabled. I keep it disabled because I use a holster and haven't noticed any problems. When I saw that post on the Motorola forums I assumed that person had In-Pocket Protection enabled and didn't realize it can be disabled in the settings menu. I didn't say anything because I don't know what the hell Tikl is and didn't want to impart false wisdom on the lad.

If I hold the volume up button when on home screen the ringer volume appears and doesn't disappear until I release. After holding it for 40 seconds I choose to release which is acknowledged by an audible tone. In other words I fail to see a problem.

First of all, to explain, Tikl Touch to Talk is a walkie talkie like program. The buttons I refer to are on screen buttons. One example is the talk button that appears onscreen while in Tikl. If you press it and start talking as you are supposed to, after about 20 seconds, the phone's software will send a button up event telling the program that you stopped touching the button on the screen and thus release the microphone. The same will likely happen in android games that use on screen game pads or anything program that has on screen buttons where you sometimes need to hold them down for more than 20 seconds.

So in pocket detection does not seeem to fix it. I wonder if some kernel tweak can be done?

Ahh so now I understand exactly what you are talking about. What I don't understand is why it happens to me in 12-13 seconds. I've to press and hold my finger on the soft keys of multiple apps and sure enough in every application that I've tried, it automatically has the Button_Up event in 12 seconds or so.

Why is mine faster than others? Why is it even happening at all? I'm running the leaked MR-3 build. What about you?

Yeah. That's more or less the case for me too. Motorola in that thread claims 20 seconds but that's often not the case. I hope this can be addressed by some of the devs. I wonder if this has been tackled with the other Droid series phones since I think they suffer from this "feature" as well.

Originally Posted by enigmatl

Yeah. That's more or less the case for me too. Motorola in that thread claims 20 seconds but that's often not the case. I hope this can be addressed by some of the devs. I wonder if this has been tackled with the other Droid series phones since I think they suffer from this "feature" as well.

+1

It's quite annoying when using Heytell

Yeah. Heytell is another one of those apps where this problem shows up. It's a shame since this is not a fault with the hardware but rather a conscious decision made by Motorola in their programming. I see where they're going with wanting to protect against false touches but they really should let us turn it off even if it's on a per program basis. How on earth this isn't a bigger issue than it is is beyond me.