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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mi7chy:
True. This issue is more pronounced if it's not plugged into the charger, rested on a non-conductive non-grounded surface and you're not touching it with the other hand. Hope the OP would reflect this in the first post. Easy way to replicate is to unplug it from charger, rest it on a mouse pad, turn on 'Show touches' in developer options, run Google Maps and with two fingers on one hand keep rotating clockwise and counter-clockwise slowly where the X access crosses. On affected units you'll see eratic input where the show touches appear where you're not touching to no input.

What I'd like to know is:

- If OTA corrects this since it'll affect my decision to return it within return period or wait for the carrier, Verizon, to slowly release fix.

- If any Made in Korea units are unaffected so I can exchange my affected Made in China unit.

- If the wireless charging backplate makes a difference since this is the first Samsung phone that I know of where the backplate doesn't have connection points to the system board which might make a difference from my basic understanding of how capacitive displays work.

Btw, I reported to Samsung live support but they were useless claiming that no one has reported it but yet they won't issue a case ID and have Samsung engineering track and follow up.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RiffyDivine:
Does it take awhile to find? I got a 900T last night from tmobile, the date on the box was 10/4 for when it was made. I have had about 7 fingers on it at once going all over the screen and it only cut out when a finger went off the phone. I only messed around doing this for a minute or so.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
The OP might be a whole lot more cooperative if you didn't accuse him of voodoo magic.

So far we had reports with multitouch problems from all over the world, apart from Africa, most of Asia and South-America. The ones mentioning their unit in this topic (less than half of them did) all had an N9005, that's why I asked for N900 with the multitouch problem to respond here in the opening post.

From all people who tried (including me) it appears to be very hard to get stuff like this through to Samsung locally, let alone Samsung Korea HQ. If the N900 doesn't have this issue and no mention of it is made to them from the N9005's far abroad we might never get it fixed.

If you cannot reproduce it with the N900 model after watching the videos and a fair attempt at reproducing the defect I would leave the matter and move on. Those people on the brink of buying a Note 3 or able to return their unit and get their money back are the ones with a (possibly tough) descision, if they think it will not or cannot be fixed by Samsung. Having voided my warranty by rooting early on I am positive for at least a partial fix, as was done for the Nexus 7. With a little luck (and a big blunder by Samsung's software department) this can be eradicated comfortably (fixed completely) in software.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Action B:
The phone is still totally worth it I've only noticed the flaw during minecraft and it's only minimally bothersome. Awesome phone.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dachness:
I have a Made in Korea N900A(AT&T) that is affected. I plan to exchange it out as my ear speaker makes some distracting noise while on the phone.

I mentioned this in an earlier post my AT&T N900A has this problem and it can occur rather quickly in less than 15 seconds of trying with 2 fingers. I place my phone on a table in the portrait position then place two fingers vertically and individually move them left and right. When they are on the same vertical axis one or two of the fingers disappear. On some occasions a third touch will be detected.

I tested my wife's AT&T Note 2 and I could not replicate these problems.

I will post any update on my replacement phone when I get it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I tried this and noticed it would cry a bit with more than 5 fingers. I could register up to 10 but it works flawless with 4 and the problems shows with 5+.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
I'm sorry, I must have missed the fact that you talked about the N900. I will still keep it mentioned in the opening post since so very few did.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeCry:
I'm from Luxembourg, Europe.

My N9505 shows the same bad behaviour. I went to a technician of my provider/vendor and demonstrated the problem.

Very astonished, he then took his own N9005 to check .... and it did have the same bug :)

He told me he would try to get info from his own Samsung contacts, mainly to get fixed if this is a software- (might be corrected via software update), or a hardware-bug (e.g.bad production batch).

If this is a hardware-bug, and it will be known to more an more people, they'll be facing hard times because of warranty laws here :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
GREAT !!! Now we got someone on the inside... :good: (maybe we should start a BOUNTY topic to keep him motivated... :laugh:)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inolvidable:
I tried today again and I was able to reproduce the problem. So I am affected too. Sorry about the confusion
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshafranko:
I picked up my n3 yesterday at tmo and tested it on the counter with multi touch test and tester...it was fine with four fingers and once I introduced the fifth finger it got wonky. We tried another phone and it did it with 3 fingers. So I took the first one as I really don't play any games and I don't think I'll ever use 5 fingers at once. I'm still not happy with the bug tho. Hope it's a software issue.

Sent from my SM-N900T using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathBlimp:
My note 3 has this problem when you get around 4 or more fingers in the screen. the more fingers the more obvious the problem becomes. I took the phone back to tmobile and had the employee there check out the problem. They played with the app and agreed with me that it would be a problem but 'technically' the phone is still useable so they won't let me return the phone without paying restocking ($50). But they did exchange my phone for another one for no extra cost. The problem is this phone still has that problem and it's the only other note 3 they have. The employees there believe that this is how the phone is, the tech support did not offer any other solution.

I am wondering if anyone was able to use the warranty to return the phone. Right now I'm just going to go ahead and use the phone and live with this weird problem. I still really like the phone.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
It now seems that the 2014 Note 10.1 also has a multitouch issue. This one looks to be clearly a software issue:

Multitouch problems on the Note 10.1 ?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venumx:
I have this issue, although very rare, with two fingers -- it is quite noticeable with 3+ touches. I contacted T-mobile to inform them about the issue, they looked it up on "Google" and saw that lots of people had the issue on the Note 3. The tech that i talked to made a new post in their internal forums about the issues -- we will see how that pans out.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeorgEveS:
My note has the issue with 3 or more fingers. Im not intending to use it with more than 2 fingers. But what if the screen deteriorates after some time - will I then have issues with two fingers?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightDivision:
I also have this problem when using 4 fingers or more. And it's seems that when I want to make a screenshot by swiping your side of your hand from left to right or the other way around, most of the time it will fail. On the other note 3 this problem does not exist. And screenshot are also no problem in this way.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N9005 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Action B:
I found it works better if I only swipe the top half of the screen left to right.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightDivision:
Oh Nice.. I have tried it out, and it really seems to work better on the top half of the screen. Great. Thanks:)

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N9005 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilico:
This happens to me even with when I'm using only 1 finger...

When I was scrolling on APPs that you can zoom by pinching in/out, the page will sometimes zoom by itself.

It like something was touching the screen for less than 1 sec.

The zooming really irritates me.

Is there really nothing I can do?

Sorry for my English.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
I would return my phone in your situation. Well, first make sure the issue is repeatable under different circumstances (after reboot of phone, in different app, etc.).
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilico:
This happens with all "zoom-able" APPs.

This issue happens intermittently.

I brought it to Samsung service centre 2 times but they said they could not diagnosed any problem.

When I was there the first time, they told me they will not repair phone with intermittent problems.

In the end, they took the phone after I told them my phone restarted with no reason.

But they cant find any problem after they diagnosed.

So they just restored my phone and updated to the latest version.

The second time was same with the first time.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
Sorry to hear. See if you can make it a repeatable issue, that way they have to deal with it. Also make sure you built a history (=keep proof of your dealings with the service center). Try to find out if there is something you did right before the issue returned. Maybe you can force it to appear somehow. The 2014 Note 10.1 tablet has serious multitouch issues right after holding (part of) your hand on the screen for several seconds (see clip: here), the Nexus 7 afaik had no issues when attached to a charger but did when running on battery. Find some way to get more (or less) issues to get to the bottom of this.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilico:
Noted.

I will try out the things u mentioned.

Thanks:D
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
Please let us know if you discover the cause. ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4i4okotka:
no "tracking problem" on nordic Note 3

Just make the test with both "Multitouch Test" and "Multitouch Tester" and its seem that on my device the described (de)effect is absent. The tracking system, used by both apps, was stable for up to 7 points/fingers. Adding 8th tracker caused some minor glitches in other trackers but only during movements. Without moving my fingers I was able to get up to 10 trackers.

Thank you all for contributing to this forum. I'm currently happy with mine Note 3, but reading those threads with problems on XDA-dev keeps me aware of any malfunction that may occur on my phone.

IMHO this "tracking problem" is not a hardware one but software. Hope that next updates of the firmware will fix it. It a shame that Samsung allowed a high-end device like Note 3 to have even small bugs. After all we all put our money for something, that should work perfectly out-of-the-box.

I use stock nordic firmware, still not rooted, updated to the latest MJ2 version (today is 23/10/2013) and Nova launcher.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
In your case it might be a "tracking problem", but many here can reproduce errors with only 2 or 3 fingers on the screen in situations that can easily cause problems in everyday usage of the Note 3.

I hope we hear (or see) something from Samsung soon.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Patreot:
On my N900 on the Exynos is a similar situation. And it is as if swype finger and spen. Do not even know what to do, whether to go to pass back the phone, or wait until the firmware fix just not one I have a problem.

Sory for my very bad English.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pilico:
I just formatted my phone and use it without downloading a single APP.(To ensure it's not caused by third party APP)

But the problem still persist.

It just happened intermittently when I was scrolling in stock browser.

I will try to call Samsung service centre tml.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slelieveld:
Sometimes it's even so bad that even the login screen doesn't correctly response to single touch! Only way to overcome and to be able to get in the phone is by moving 2 fingers over the screen for a few times before the note 3 is responding back to 1 finger... BAD
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morriton:
AT&T 900a here. I'm having this issue but to such an extreme that it often thinks that I'm touching it when I'm not. Then when I try to use it it will not respond because it sees my touch as a 2nd input. Either placing 3 or more contacts on it or locking and unlocking will correct it, but for a completely random amount of time. Took me a few resets and deleting everything on the phone before I found this thread. Sounds like I'm on the extreme end of it so I'll probably get mine replaced. Hope that the next one is as good as all of yours are bad.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morriton:
Exactly the same problem here.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morriton:
Just as an update...

I was planning on taking my N3 in for a replacement tomorrow, so in prep for that I went ahead and did a factory reset. for the 30 minutes up to hitting the button it was doing this to me perpetually, maybe a minute between the multitouch bugging out and making me use lock/unlock or multiple fingers to correct it. Immediately after the reset I installed only a multitouch testing app and kindle, and have not been able to get it to bug out on me yet. I CAN get the multitouch fail to happen in the testing app with 4 or more fingers, rarely with 3, but none of the crazyness I had before. I'm not going to take it in for a return just yet at this point, I'm going to start slowly putting the stuff back on it that I use and seeing if anything in particular causes the issues to occur again more pronounced.

This is screaming software at me, it just doesn't feel like a hardware issue. I am a metrologist for the USAF and a large part of my job is troubleshooting and repairing test and diagnostic equipment. This feels like a driver or interface firmware issue more than a physical issue with the sensors or screen.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ettepetje:
Morriton, the "extreme" version you reported earlier has only been mentioned very recently - and by a few. There very well could be something else at work in those circumstances. It is good to hear you solved that part, and I am interested to know what went wrong there.

Can you monitor a bit the coming week to see if you can repeat the 2 or 3 finger version also? I have been able to repeat all versions mentioned (and shown) in the opening post. At certain moments I found it was a lot harder to repeat the 2 or 3 finger version, so I am wondering if you're now at that same level. It is still unknown what causes these differences, as they very well might explain why some report only mild multitouch issues while others see them clearly.

Obviously a lot can be improved by Samsung in software regarding these issues, I myself am still uncertain if anything more serious (a hardware defect) is also present. I see a lot of similarities with the new Nexus 7, which I also recently bought and which even with the latest software shows these issues to some extend. From what I read the Nexus did/does have a hardware problem. Time will tell. Hopefully Samsung by now is aware of the problem so that we might see a driver update soon.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chadworth66:
Charger fixes issue

Create the problem with one hand. Once any problem occurs plug in you usb cord slightly and it instantly fixes it.

With charger in significantly reduced problems, without being plugged in issues happen with 3 or more touches parallel/ perpendicular.

Same problem I've found on at&t S3, verizon S4, random friend's tmobile lg. all 4.0+.

P.S. Usb cord doesn't even have to be plugged into outlet...so weird.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slelieveld:
I noticed that my thicker finger (thumb) sometimes is interpreted as 2 fingers. Then after that nothing works anymore. Can't select or slide. Only way to overcome that is to "really use 2 fingers" to zoom. After that single finger touch works again...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mi7chy:
Anyone tried the wireless charging back cover to see if it alleviates this issue? Back covers usually have contacts to connect to the system board except for the Note 3's stock back cover. Hoping it'll alter the electrical/capacitive properties in a positive way and restore normal order.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bchehab:
Increase touch sensitivity

Hi Guys,

I went through many applications testing my screen and they all showed the glitches.

But when I checked "increase touch sensitivity" in settings. the problem disappeared.

Regards
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonDzibudon:
Only two fingers are supported

Hi everyone,

I have spoken with Samsung support, as I also have this problem. They have told me that it is not designed to be used with more than two fingers, although the display itself might support more than two.

Greetings and have a nice weekend
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxxell:
Very strange reply, since I had the chance to test a S4 and a "old" Galaxy Note and neither were affected by this issue. Not even with 4 fingers.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtl999:
I tested my Telus Galaxy Note 3 (sm-900w8) and it only glitches out if my fingers rub together. So I guess it's fine?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slelieveld:
It helps for sure. The frequency of happening is far more low. But it still happens too much. And when it does it's harder than before without increased sensitivity.

---------- Post added at 06:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:54 AM ----------

Sorry bad reply in wrong forum!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sshafranko:
Wow $700 for a phone I cant play the same game I play on my Droid Charge? Way to go samsung!

Sent from my SM-N900T
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Action B:
Clearly Samsung has not seen the videos showing errors with two fingers only.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf.hmami:
Issues on my Galaxy Note 3 SM-900

HI everyone,

I am facing same problems with the touch screen of my galaxy note 3, Exynos version from Morocco.

The problem i have that the touch screen doesnt allow me using one finger touch to constrol it, but instead it recognizes the stylus,

To reactivate it i should touch it with four fingers or more, or i lock/unlock the device.

I hope that samsung can bring an update to resolve this soon because this note 3 is just an amaaaaaaaazing device.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jh787:
N9005 note 3. All working fine with constant 10 finger multi touch.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slelieveld:
Lucky you. Try few days and you will see it causes issues sometimes
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jh787:
Few days non stop!

I think I will have problems before the phone does :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
​

Nexus1 is a customized ROM for Primo N1 with Jelly Bean 4.1.2.

Base ROM is walton v2 firmware. It includes lots of additional features which you will not find in stock roms.

Features:

Rooted

Deodexed

Init.d scripts support

Zipaligned to optimize Ram usage at every boot

Advanced power menu

Overall Better Performance and Battery Life

Build.prop tweaks

Faster SDCARD Read/Write Speed

Nexus style UI

Disable empty SIM slot notification

Circle battery MOD

Hide adb notification

Blue network bar for both SIM

Redesign notification layout

Disable overscroll bounce effect

Android 4.3 font, sound

Google keyboard with Swype

Unlocked all options on Developers settings

Fixed GPS

Third-party camera dirk issue (Fixed by Walton)

1080p video recording (By Walton)

Removed all useless apps

Some new cool apps

File Explorer

Movie Studio

TuneIn Radio

My Drives

LoaderDroid (Download Manager)

Google Keep

Google Play Music

Google Gesture Search

Chrome (Default browser)

MXPlayer

FlashLight

Calander Widget

Apex Launcher

Screenshots:

Installation Procedure:

Boot into TWRP or CWM Recovery

Wipe > Cache

Wipe > Dalvik Cache

Wipe > Android Secure

Reboot Recovery

Wipe > Data

Reboot Recovery

Now install the Nexus1 ROM.

Nexus1 v1.0

Done! Enjoy :)

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
Nexus1[4.2.1] v2.0 beta1

Nexus1[4.2.1] v2.0 beta1:

What works:

Both SIM (3G on SIM1)

USB Tethering

All sensors

Sound

Camera [Both] [1mp]

What doesn't works:

Wifi, Bluetooth

MIC

Camera Autofocus

etc .....

Installation Procedure:

Boot into TWRP or CWM Recovery

Wipe > Cache

Wipe > Dalvik Cache

Wipe > Android Secure

Reboot Recovery

Wipe > Data

Reboot Recovery

Now install the Nexus1[4.2.1] ROM.

Nexus1[4.2.1] v2.0 beta1

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
Reserved 2.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Equama:
AWESOME!!!!!!!

though i am not using N1 but i must say its a great rom.thanks a lot for your hard work.keep it up. :highfive:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nani666:
Nice one....flashed this ROM today....nice and smooth
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nani666:
Any hope for 4.2 ROM for these devices...?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
Work in progress ...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nani666:
Anytime I restart my device it seems all the notification sounds I set as default for different apps seem to change... I have to keep changing them every time I restart my device.... That's the only issue I have on this ROM.... Am I the only one with this issue ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
Are you using any MOD? I have tested your scenario but didn't find.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nani666:
Please can Walton Primo N1 or the Gionee Gpad G2 accommodate a 64GB micro SD card without crashing...? Has anyone tried this ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] abhilaab:
please upload any new rom primo n1 rom android jelly bean 4.2.1 :(

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] pulak861:
great work bro... have you tried porting the dsi xda kitchen on primo n 1???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailchris80:
we, me and my friends, thank you for the good work, your time and sacrifice. i`m glad that you managed with the 4.2.1 version. waiting for a fully operational version. got our thanks and greetings from Romania.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jahideu:
Camera

Partially camera fix. New download link updated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] abhilaab:
thanks to you so much good job hitting thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nani666:
Nice work...still waiting for WiFi and Bluetooth fixes....thanks for the good work :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dimqs153:
FIrst...Nice rom..

One question...im using v1 and default partition..now im going to use 2.7gb mod, should i flash ur patch or should i reinstall rom?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailchris80:
Any chance in finishing the 4.2.1 rom for walton n1?