is there an app for adjusting swipe and touch sensitivity

riwiseuse · Apr 26, 2015

i think this would be somewhat like tuning the voice recognition for ones own pattern of speech but of course would go to their specific hands and muscle movements.

I find my samsung S5 hopelessly overinterprets touches as swipes, esp. in the horizontal direction. 99 times out of 100 i want my phone to interpret my touching the screen as a touch not a swipe but it's sensitivity seems to run in the opposite direction. this drives me crazy and i can't believe it isn't something i can address in the android settings. but i find no setting that allows me to drive it. and when i search for apps, all i seem to find is explanation of how to implement this kind of sensitivity if i were designing my own app.

maybe i'm using the wrong keywords and/or i am one of the few who has this problem so there is no such app, but i tend to doubt that, so i'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Fox Mulder · Apr 26, 2015

I can't say I've had that problem with my S5.
There is a high-sensitivity mode in the settings, make sure you don't have this enabled. It's only supposed to be used in the winter when you're wearing gloves.
Other than that I don't think there are any apps that can adjust it.

riwiseuse · Apr 26, 2015

Fox Mulder said:
There is a high-sensitivity mode in the settings, make sure you don't have this enabled.

thanks for recommendation. i did find that setting. it is under display. it was not turned on. i need the reverse of that setting. although it is a little hard to say. maybe i should turn it on just to see how the phone works. in some ways i think my problem is that my fingers are too big or at least the way i use them and that i can't hit the screen keeping them precisely still. so maybe that is more like gloved operation.

under the standard setting, lots of times the phone will not even interpret a touch as a touch. i don't know if my finger is too hard of a press or big or its ambiguous. i have hated touch screens from the first. give me a keyboard and a mouse substitute of some sort and i would be far happier. but since in any full featured phone i'm going to be stuck with touch screen i have to keep hoping that someone in the app world will try to make the screen touch sensitivity more customizable.

i do find arduous explanations for software developers about how to set parameters for interpreting a touch or gesture in terms of how many pixels are contacted. of course i'm trying to intercept this at the operating system level. for instance half the time go to launch an app the phone scrolls to side instead and i end up in some my magazine app that i wish were stricken from my phone. i never asked for it but i was blessed with it and then it likes to interpret whatever touch of the home screen i make to be requesting it.

Mr. Lucky · Apr 27, 2015

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=redpi.apps.touchscreencalibration
I'm not sure if the adjustments you make will survive a reboot without root though (usually not). No harm in trying and seeing though.

electricpete · Apr 28, 2015

It is a perfectly legitimate question. I hope you'll forgive me exploring a tangent which may be way off-base.

I can't help but notice that the vast majority of long-time smartphone users have no problem whatsoever with touchscreen on a modern smartphone (excluding cheapo devices). But yet I'm trying to teach my mother (85 years old) and it just won't work for her. Often her tap is unsuccessful because she hits the wrong place or she holds it too long. Her funny (yet obviously wrong) reaction is to push that imaginary button on the screen really hard and long to try to force it to work (I guess that's the way we used to get mechanical buttons to work if we thought they were stuck). Sometimes I'm afraid she's going to break the screen! I have to continually steer her toward the proper technique which is a light well-placed tap. It may be a completely different situation for you, but...

I wanted to suggest that IF you're a new user maybe you seek out a fellow smartphone user that can watch your technique and give you advice. Alternatively if you have really big fingers then maybe a stylus would help.

Again I could be way off base (maybe you just need to find a way to adjust your settings like you asked) so you have my apologies in advance if I'm way out in left field.

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