[Q] Dead zone at the bottom of the touchscreen.

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My U8800 has a small dead zone across the bottom of the touchscreen.
I can see the stuff there, no problem. But an area about 32 pixels high (about 3mm) at the bottom of the screen doesn't respond to touch. This makes apps with a bottom toolbar a pain to use (such as Opera, various games, even most launchers...), as I have to touch the very top of the buttons to activate them.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to fix it? Some parameters in a config file I've not yet seen that I can just tweak or something? I imagine it's just a fault with my device, but it can't hurt to ask...

Update - it responds to tracking (I can drag/scroll/move into, the area) just not tapping.

Originally Posted by crispybbq

My U8800 has a small dead zone across the bottom of the touchscreen.
I can see the stuff there, no problem. But an area about 32 pixels high (about 3mm) at the bottom of the screen doesn't respond to touch. This makes apps with a bottom toolbar a pain to use (such as Opera, various games, even most launchers...), as I have to touch the very top of the buttons to activate them.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to fix it? Some parameters in a config file I've not yet seen that I can just tweak or something? I imagine it's just a fault with my device, but it can't hurt to ask...

Update - it responds to tracking (I can drag/scroll/move into, the area) just not tapping.

Same problem I think it's just the old atmel touchscreen so I'm gona take mine back tomorrow and hopefully the warehouse have new stock that have the synaptics touch screen installed even though I bought mine on boxing day can u download elixir 2 from the market go to information scroll down to input devices the more information then hit the arrow twice and tell me if yours say atmel-rmi-touchscreen or if it has synaptics instead please reply asap

if you are on stock rom -> warranty
but if you have custom rom, try reflashing.. i have some problems sometimes with cm7, but just flashing same rom again usually helps, and if didn't, MIUI never lets me down ^^. and if it still doesn't work, flash stock rom and... warranty

Originally Posted by brdnacer

if you are on stock rom -> warranty
but if you have custom rom, try reflashing.. i have some problems sometimes with cm7, but just flashing same rom again usually helps, and if didn't, MIUI never lets me down ^^. and if it still doesn't work, flash stock rom and... warranty

Lol yea I'm gona go with the warranty coz I'm already on latest miui but I just wanted to find out if it was a problem with synaptics aswell or it was just atmel

Ah, yes. Mine's an Atmel. While the 'dead' zone is only a couple of millimetres, it can be an inconvenience... I might consider returning mine to the Warehouse too.. Warranty permitting, of course.

Haha yea gona be hoping I get a synaptics

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I have the same problem with my screen, a stroke of 4-5mm on the right of the screen doesn't respond. I have a synaptics screen and I'm going to send it back next week.

It could be hardware problems or not ? i have this problem and i'm finding the replacement, but seems it's hard to find a touchscreen with the frame in Vietnam

Originally Posted by hung.ngomanh

It could be hardware problems or not ? i have this problem and i'm finding the replacement, but seems it's hard to find a touchscreen with the frame in Vietnam

Order it from china

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