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Increase touch screen sensitivity, only tested on LiquidE 1.100.05 based roms


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Liquid's touch screen sensitivity is to low to me, even set to high.

After the phone was rooted, I did a `find /sys | grep sensitivity` and found something.

Here we go:

#!/system/bin/sh

sensitivity=25

noise=25

echo "set sensitivity to $sensitivity"

echo $sensitivity > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/sensitivity

echo "set noise to $noise"

echo $noise > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/noise

echo "done"
Default value of sensitivity and noise are 75, I set both to 25 to fit my need. Haven't find out how to apply this after phone boots, so I made a script to do it manually using Gscript Lite. Note I only tested it on LiquidE 1.100.05 rom, and root is needed. This only affects touch screen, but not the 4 buttons bellow(keypad). Keypad's sensitivity can be set from Settings -> Sound & display -> Keypad sensitivity. Set it to high works pretty good for me. You can download sensitivity.zip, unpack to get sensitivity.sh, put it to /sdcard/gscript/, and add it to Gscript Lite. Update: Thanks to malez for pointing out how to keep it permanent under LCR ROM:
adb shell ins_run sensitive.sh "(sleep 90;echo 25 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/sensitivity;echo 25 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/noise) &"

Update2:

Now I set values to 20/50, feel these're better. Change the values according to your need, use a unix compatible editor(notepad++, gvim, etc) to edit the file.

Update3:

Root is NOT needed at all. If the phone is not rooted, uncheck the 'su' checkbox in Gscript Lite. Thanks to Azzay for the feedback.

old sensitivity.txtnew sensitivity.zip

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Guest natostanco

with this script capacitive stylus works! but not for the 4 buttons :rolleyes:

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Guest azuwis
Seems nice, did you noticed a big difference ?

Thanks for the tip anyway, will try it tonight :rolleyes:

Yes, huge difference. My Liquid is a black one, screen is covered by screen protector from official Acer(Does this make sensitivity low?).

When touch panel sensitivity was set to high(default value 75), I have to press the screen to make it move. Now I only slightly touch it, and it responds to me quickly.

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Guest natostanco

yep now can scroll with fingernail too, without this script was necessary the fingertip instead :rolleyes:

btw sensitivy for the 4 buttons is still the same as before, at least it seems to me :D

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Guest ondris

Wow it's amazing! Very nice man!

THank you.

And I also notices thar for the 4 buttons the sensivity it's the same, but this doesn't matter :rolleyes:

Do you think we can even change the values to lower ones?

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Guest azuwis
yep now can scroll with fingernail too, without this script was necessary the fingertip instead :rolleyes:

btw sensitivy for the 4 buttons is still the same as before, at least it seems to me :D

Forget to mention the 4 buttons, post was updated.

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Guest azuwis
Wow it's amazing! Very nice man!

THank you.

And I also notices thar for the 4 buttons the sensivity it's the same, but this doesn't matter :rolleyes:

Do you think we can even change the values to lower ones?

I tried 10, but it made touch screen unusable. You can try 20 or 15, and see if it works for you.

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Guest ondris
I tried 10, but it made touch screen unusable. You can try 20 or 15, and see if it works for you.

Ok thanks for the feedback

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Guest chingy1788

I'm still a novice at linux, and the inner workings of android/linux

but I looked into this dir

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq

would changing any of those values do anything?

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Guest ktplus
I'm still a novice at linux, and the inner workings of android/linux

but I looked into this dir

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq

would changing any of those values do anything?

a good good try

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Guest jayziac

Does this affect battery in anyway? I'm no expert in capacitive touchscreens, but I wonder if increasing sensitivity increases the sensor polling rate or the voltage it applies to measure touches?

I noticed more sensitivity when I replaced the screen cover that came with my liquid with a cheap one bought on ebay that seemed thinner. I'm mostly using low sensitivity now, high would probably be enough for me. But it's nice to know I can go even higher if need to.

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Guest barmyman

wooow!!! works really great!!! Thanks!!!

btw,maybe you are able to enable normal multitouch like on Milestone?

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Guest malez

Thank you for this tips.

If you want to keep it permanent under LCR :

adb shell ins_run sensitive.sh 'echo 25 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/sensitivity ; echo 25 > /sys/devices/platform/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-005c/noise'

adb reboot

If you want to change value, use exactly the same commandline using different values.

If you want to disable it :

adb shell rm_run sensitive.sh

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Guest malez
Sorry ,what I mean is if you know the method to do the same for stock rom ^^

I have developped ins_run for lcr. It can't be done on stock. But LCR 1.6 is faster than stock, and much more. .. do a nandroid backup, try LCR 1.6. If it does not satisfy you (sure it will), restore your backup

On stock your only solution is to run a gscript manually after each start.

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