[NTLK] Newton touchscreen not responding

[Simone Picchioni]

I already tried to tap in almost any point of the touchscreen to see if
position reported is wrong.
No response at all. :\



2015-01-04 18:34 GMT+01:00 Frank Gruendel <newtontalk at pda-soft.de>:

> > I'll try to put a little quantity of "silver conductive
> > compound" on touchscreen cable tracks...it should fix it.
>
> Let's try to approach this problem a tad more engineer-like. For a start,
> we
> should try to figure out if the touchscreen does not work at all, or if it
> does work, but senses the wrong position. For this you could try tapping in
> a 2-3 millimeter grid covering the whole screen during the alignment
> routine
> and watching the "X". You might want to cut a stencil using scaled paper so
> you won't miss any position and make things faster. This will mean several
> hundred taps, but if a tap anywhere on the screen does in fact hightlight
> the "X", we are sure that your touchscreen is toast because the recognized
> position is way off.
>
> Frank
>
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