SmartPixel Feature breaks Interaction with certain controls

susch19 commented 1 day ago

Issue type

User interface

Device

alioth

crDroid version

crDroid 11

Exact version / Build date

crDroidAndroid-15.0-20241116-alioth-v11.0

Bug description

Enabling the smart pixels features will prevent certain controls from reacting on touch input. They still work when using phsyical keyboard and navigating via arrows and enter. Like enabling usb debugging, security settings and banking apps.

Steps to reproduce

Enable Smart Pixels in CR Droid Settings
Restart Phone (Important, otherwise this bug will occur after some yet unknown time)
Try to interact with "security controls", they will not react on touch, but will work with physical keyboard
Disable Smart Pixels
Everything works fine again

Relevant log (logcat/build log)

None

Screenshots or videos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/65d84e10-e884-43d3-b4ac-09fe7e03a1f2

Solution

No response

Additional context

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raystef66 commented 1 day ago

Confirmed as mentioned on XDA Not synced yet on todays sources so someone else should confirm if still persists on 21.11 source. Confirmed on LMI as well.

gwolf2u commented 1 day ago

Smart pixels has a note that states this

susch19 commented 1 day ago

Oh that is poorly translated, in german it says Dies kann dazu führen, dass der Touchscreen teilweise schlecht auf Berührungen reagiert, which would translate into Note that in some cases it can result in worsen the touchscreen responsiveness. So it works, but not as good. The correct german translation should be: Dies kann dazu führen, dass bestimmte Elemente mit dem Touchscreen nicht reagieren. which in contrast means, that it doesn't work for some areas at all, which is written in english.

But maybe this warning should be more pronounced, as this actually breaks specific apps completely.

The only thing is, why does it not happen directly after starting smart pixels, but only after reboot?

raystef66 commented 1 day ago

Sure but the issue here is that I can use my phone fully when smart pixels is ON before that reboot. After a reboot it got stuck. What difference would a reboot make here?

raystef66 commented 1 day ago

@susch19 Translations can be found here : https://crowdin.com/project/crdroid-translation/de

susch19 commented 1 day ago

@susch19 Translations can be found here : https://crowdin.com/project/crdroid-translation/de

Thanks, I'll provide a suggestion for a change, so that the german translation matches the intent of the english one.

Another thing is, with android 13 (EvoX in this case), i didn't have this behavior, so upgrading from A13 to A15 had this issue pop up. That's why I thought the upgrade process was the issue, since sometimes features are enabled which you don't remember, since you have them enabled for such a long time already.

So maybe I'm biased in this case, but such a small note for a big usage impact seems to be not enough. I would rather display a dialog with the warning (Like usb debugging does). And (I don't know if this is possible), after upgrading the os versions, show a warning, that this feature is enabled and may break things or disable it during the flash process.

susch19 commented 1 day ago

Okay, so this is an actual non issue? Even though it only happens after restart? That is somewhat disappointing, but okay, let's update the german translation and hope that no one else has these issues and spends days finding out why it's not working after upgrading

gwolf2u commented 1 day ago

smart pixels is not on by default on clean install

raystef66 commented 1 day ago

Regarding if it was ON or OFF, why would a reboot change behaviour of the smart pixel feature which was initally working fine?

susch19 commented 1 day ago

Of course it is not, but not all do a clean install (Even though it is recommended, but if alot of users say, dirty flash worked without problem which is good, most likely more users will do it). And let's imagine someone enables it after clean install. Reboots the phone 7 days later and suddenly things stopped working. Will those users actually think about smart pixels note in this case?

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