How to redefine the area of an Android phone's touch screen?
December 15, 2019 5:29 PM Subscribe
Whenever you touch the top inch of this Android phone, the navigation panel slides down, making it impossible to choose any options on the screen that are near the top. How do I make it so that you have to swipe from off the screen to on the screen?
This is one of my housekeeper's phones at a property I'm staying at. I'm trying to set up things like Whatsapp and whatnot but every app has checkmark approvals and such that are impossible to check because the notification panel comes down when you try to choose something in the upper left or right corner. Want to choose a hamburger or other settings option? Forget it -- doesn't work. I have already set the phone back to factory defaults. Didn't help. Thanks.
This is one of my housekeeper's phones at a property I'm staying at. I'm trying to set up things like Whatsapp and whatnot but every app has checkmark approvals and such that are impossible to check because the notification panel comes down when you try to choose something in the upper left or right corner. Want to choose a hamburger or other settings option? Forget it -- doesn't work. I have already set the phone back to factory defaults. Didn't help. Thanks.
If it's a physical problem with the touchscreen, then maybe you can work around it by turning on the auto-rotate screen setting, then rotating the phone by 180 degrees.
posted by Umami Dearest at 11:27 PM on December 15, 2019
posted by Umami Dearest at 11:27 PM on December 15, 2019
If recalibrating the touchscreen doesn't work, and you're sure you're not fat-fingering the notification bar (maybe try with a capacitive stylus?), it sounds like you might have a phone with a defective touch sensor.
posted by Aleyn at 6:12 PM on December 16, 2019
posted by Aleyn at 6:12 PM on December 16, 2019
It sounds like Umami Dearest's approach should do the job, but if none of the suggestions here work then there are some other options that may or may not help depending on your phone model and version of Android:
- see if your phone can run in one-handed mode, either through a built-in accessibility setting or via a third-party app
- use your phone's voice control accessibility options to select and 'tap' without touch
- if your phone supports USB OTG, you could get a USB plug adaptor and plug in a mouse or trackpad
- if your phone supports split-screen apps, then you could send a random app to the top half of the screen and the app you need to interact with to the bottom
- there are apps that apparently mirror the phone's display on your computer and let you interact with it that way (I haven't tried any so no personal recommendations)
Hope something works!
posted by trig at 2:22 AM on December 17, 2019
- see if your phone can run in one-handed mode, either through a built-in accessibility setting or via a third-party app
- use your phone's voice control accessibility options to select and 'tap' without touch
- if your phone supports USB OTG, you could get a USB plug adaptor and plug in a mouse or trackpad
- if your phone supports split-screen apps, then you could send a random app to the top half of the screen and the app you need to interact with to the bottom
- there are apps that apparently mirror the phone's display on your computer and let you interact with it that way (I haven't tried any so no personal recommendations)
Hope something works!
posted by trig at 2:22 AM on December 17, 2019
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posted by at at 11:26 PM on December 15, 2019