Try this screen test with your EVO and report back

[firefli]

Originally Posted by Mbai2

Could be a grounding issue but there's nothing conductive on the outside of the phone other than the screen as far as I know. If it was a ground reference issue, how would touching a non-conductive surface with your other hand solve the problem?

Also, it seems like some phones definitely have a problem and others don't. To those that that have the problem, can you check what hardware version your phones are? Mine is version 0003 without a problem. My Google I/O Evo was version 0002. Maybe there was a bug in the earlier version after all.

Mine has the problem and the Hardware version is 0002, but I don't understand what My Google I/O is.

[Mbai2]

Originally Posted by firefli

Mine has the problem and the Hardware version is 0002, but I don't understand what My Google I/O is.

Google I/O just means it was one of the phones handed out at the Google conference 2 weeks prior to launch date.

It looks like the only people having the problem so far have version 0002. Not all version 0002 have the problem but those that have the problem are all 0002. We'll need a larger sample size to make it certain though.

[firefli]

Originally Posted by Mbai2

Google I/O just means it was one of the phones handed out at the Google conference 2 weeks prior to launch date.

It looks like the only people having the problem so far have version 0002. Not all version 0002 have the problem but those that have the problem are all 0002. We'll need a larger sample size to make it certain though.

I didn't get my phone from the Google conference. I got mine from Radio Shack. I notice that if I use my other and under the phone it may not work until I start to touch a larger surface area. When I took the battery cover off, the smallest touch anywhere seemed to make it work properly. Also, the problem for me is only at the top of the screen near the curtain.

[Cicatrize]

It has to be inconsistency of how you guys are dragging it or something.

Try instead to just tap the notification bar repeatedly and see if it responds by flashing the date in the top left corner. If it's doing that, there's no issue.

[teddat]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It has to be inconsistency of how you guys are dragging it or something.

Try instead to just tap the notification bar repeatedly and see if it responds by flashing the date in the top left corner. If it's doing that, there's no issue.

done that. it doesnt come up. if it does, it has to register the drag as a continuous line. this is the case when we run the multitouch vis test or magic marker app. as you use those apps to simulate any line drawn, its sporatic and is a dotted line at best.

again for the naysayers. pressure, big finger, little finger, wet, dry, doesn't matter. i'm pretty certain its a floating ground issue.

hard for us to explain to those that have a perfectly working device. obviously it works otherwise you wouldn't be scratching your heads at our description. someone please video record this.

[firefli]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

It has to be inconsistency of how you guys are dragging it or something.

Try instead to just tap the notification bar repeatedly and see if it responds by flashing the date in the top left corner. If it's doing that, there's no issue.

I've read a lot of comments like yours suggesting user error, but If you saw the video in the first post you'd see what we're talking about. There is no doubt a problem with the EVO's in the video and some of Our's in this forum. Slow, fast, touch and hold, nothing works until you touch it with both hands. Plain and simple. I don't want to sound harsh or pointed, but the directions to verify this are simply to put the EVO on a non conductive surface, touch it at the top to roll down the curtain with just one finger. There should be nothing touching except the surface it is resting on and your one finger. If yours works, great. Obviously for some of us it doesn't. It would be intersting to know what batch these phones are from, but regardless the inconsistency is not our fingers but the EVO. There was even a post by someone who compared to EVO's side by side and one worked and one didn't.

[rjmjr69]

No issue here tested on both my evos. And even did a hard reset on one and recalibrate the other still cant get it to not select this phone is dead on in that department in my opinion. Maybe a fluke try a hard reset after backing all your stuff up

[cornelious2]

we know capacitive screens use electronic interference to register a press, my guess is when we set the phone down on a soft surface its acting like an insulator making the field over the screen stronger and when you touch the phone anywhere it grounds the field allowing the finger to again fully interrupt the field.

[firefli]

P

Originally Posted by cornelious2

we know capacitive screens use electronic interference to register a press, my guess is when we set the phone down on a soft surface its acting like an insulator making the field over the screen stronger and when you touch the phone anywhere it grounds the field allowing the finger to again fully interrupt the field.

not work.

I put mine on my wood desk and it would

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

No issue here tested on both my evos. And even did a hard reset on one and recalibrate the other still cant get it to not select this phone is dead on in that department in my opinion. Maybe a fluke try a hard reset after backing all your stuff up

What do you use to back yours up?

[cornelious2]

Originally Posted by firefli

P not work.

I was outlining the problem (I have the issue on my I/O phone rev 002) not a solution.