[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gr8twhite:
Well, it seems a sincere thank you is in order to sfhub.

I was given a nexus 7 2013 16 gb WiFi from my sister. She won it in a free contest of some sort. She's got a new ipad so it came my way. I've had it about 2 weeks now.

Nice slick looking little thing. Great screen, live wallpaper is neat. Lots of free apps in the Google store.

Did I mention the tablet was free?

:cowboy:

So I fired it up and it seemed to work fine.

So I got online and read the reviews:

Greasy screen?

Check.

Weird button placement?

Check.

Meh, it all seemed like pretty harmless points by the reviewers and overall impressions were positive.

Those little niggles didn't really bug me anyways. It was free so I can put up with less than perfection. They're also cheap to buy from what I understand, there has to be some compromises somewhere.

Then I gradually noticed the occasional dropped touch, weird zoom in and out with touch scrolling a web page and occasional skips on touch and drag. Meh, free. Can't really complain if it's not perfect. Right?

Then, it started bugging me as the touchscreen seemed to gradually get worse. More missed touches, more missed keyboard hits, double letters started showing up on keyboard hits.

Still: free. Hard to complain when it's free.

But then I downloaded angry birds and suddenly it was intolerable. Those little buggers were flicking all over the place, dropping egg bombs and blowing up everywhere when I tried to aim them. Missed touches on the drag was the culprit.

I started Googling and the hits started piling up: touchscreen problems. Everyone. Everywhere. To varying degrees of severity. Turns out mine was pretty minor compared to most but still a major dissatisfier.

I downloaded a draw program and tried what I'd seen on a page where the gent had drawn a wavy line from one end of the screen to the other. Sure enough, one whole line area was skipped.

Then, I read about the holding it during use was better than on the bed or table. Sure enough, almost no issues when I held it, crazy as a blind beggar if it was not in my hands or not plugged in to the charger.

I'm screwed. My wife just laughed at me while she seamlessly cruised through her iPad. I started thinking it was going to live out the rest of it's life in the bottom of a nightstand drawer until it went off for recycling....

Then I ran across this forum and this post.

Rooted my device from the stickies. Not a big deal, I had to jailbreak my iphone 4S also to make it useful for me so altering devices isn't that scary for me.

Then loaded up TS-10.

Nirvana!

It's all gone, the touchscreen works a treat. No skips, no missed touches and those bloody birds do just what I tell them too.

I've read that the touchscreen is a hardware issue on the Nexus 7 2013. Not sure I buy that one anymore since a simple program change has made such a difference.

Now, to be honest I've only been using it a couple hours with the new TS software. But I can't even to seem to make it skip. Time will tell if it's permanently fixed I guess.

But still, thanks to sfhub. You've made the nexus 7 2013 what it should have been out of the box.

And it was free just like the tablet was!

Awesome!

:good:

Maybe Google/Asus should get in touch with you before the next update is released and grease your palm with a little cash for services.....