There are plenty of weird iPhone behaviours documented on the web, but I'm having one that I've only read about once before, and that was in a very old posting about a 1st Gen iPhone.
Suddenly, and inexplicably, my screen seems to have recalibrated itself, so that you have to press the keys in a slightly different place from before. One minute it was as I had bought it, the next minute I am having to press just above the keys to type. There had been no operating system or software changes in between. It's an effective shift of roughly 3 millimetres, so whereas before I could hit the middle of the keys (which actually meant my finger was making contact at the bottom) and see where I was typing, I now have to hit at the very top of the key or just above so that my finger pad makes contact with the very middle and thus the entire key is obliterated as I hit it and I am constantly hitting the wrong keys, such as return when I want backspace or shift when I want A. It is extremely annoying and has greatly reduced my typing speed. And yes, it occurs in landscape or portrait keyboards, so it's probably not caused by the phone being bumped or dropped.
It's been like this for a week, and I have tried every software related solution I can think of. It doesn't seem to be to do with Winterboard or anything to do with any Jailbreaking app at all. I've uninstalled every manner of keyboard related thing and rebooted numerous times to no avail. I haven't unjaillbroken the phone and taken it back to scratch yet, but it looks like I might have to, though I'd rather wait till a 2.x release of the operating system.
You'd think it was possible to recalibrate the screen but Apple, in their infinite wisdom, seem to think the screen doesn't need calibration. Capacitive touchscreens don't need calibration, they tell me. Nonsense, of course they do, if only to address the fact that users have different typing styles and hit keys in different ways. Even if problems like mine didn't exist, it would simply be respectful to users to give them the ability to calibrate the screen, but Apple is not big on respecting users in that sort of way, just in assuming they know what's best for users.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or better yet, solved it?
Suddenly, and inexplicably, my screen seems to have recalibrated itself, so that you have to press the keys in a slightly different place from before. One minute it was as I had bought it, the next minute I am having to press just above the keys to type. There had been no operating system or software changes in between. It's an effective shift of roughly 3 millimetres, so whereas before I could hit the middle of the keys (which actually meant my finger was making contact at the bottom) and see where I was typing, I now have to hit at the very top of the key or just above so that my finger pad makes contact with the very middle and thus the entire key is obliterated as I hit it and I am constantly hitting the wrong keys, such as return when I want backspace or shift when I want A. It is extremely annoying and has greatly reduced my typing speed. And yes, it occurs in landscape or portrait keyboards, so it's probably not caused by the phone being bumped or dropped.
It's been like this for a week, and I have tried every software related solution I can think of. It doesn't seem to be to do with Winterboard or anything to do with any Jailbreaking app at all. I've uninstalled every manner of keyboard related thing and rebooted numerous times to no avail. I haven't unjaillbroken the phone and taken it back to scratch yet, but it looks like I might have to, though I'd rather wait till a 2.x release of the operating system.
You'd think it was possible to recalibrate the screen but Apple, in their infinite wisdom, seem to think the screen doesn't need calibration. Capacitive touchscreens don't need calibration, they tell me. Nonsense, of course they do, if only to address the fact that users have different typing styles and hit keys in different ways. Even if problems like mine didn't exist, it would simply be respectful to users to give them the ability to calibrate the screen, but Apple is not big on respecting users in that sort of way, just in assuming they know what's best for users.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or better yet, solved it?
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