Tip: How to make your Touch Pro/Fuze D-pad work a lot better
Many HTC Touch Pro users have complained about the HTC Touch Pro D-pad. Up and down works fine, but left, and especially right works pretty poorly, with accidental activation of the surrounding keys very common.
Fortunately it seems there is a better way after all. The fortuitous destruction of a HTC Touch Pro has given us an inside look at the D-pad, and one sharp xda-developer named Vexingv suggested that instead of trying to press the rim of the D-pad, it may be better to actually press between the Back and End Call, or Home and Call button.
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Amazingly it works much better, as can be seen in the video below. It very soon becomes second nature, and you will very soon wonder what the problem was after all.
Let us know in the comment section if it works for you too.
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This is the thread over at XDA, where I came about to this finding:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2917186&postcount=18
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The same tip applies to the Diamond too! Thanks for this!
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So simple, yet so helpful. Thanks!
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@Vexingv: Added your link.
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Awesome, i really had this troubling me, now i can be assured that i was pressing in the wrong place
Thanx
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Yeah, works much better on my Diamond! Woohoo!
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What you’re not mentioning is the further from the circle you press the closer to other buttons you get. Now you clicking the home and end and send buttons more accidentally. It’s just a bad dpad design ALL AROUND. I really hate it.
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@Juice. I agree that this is a design that was too smart by half for its own good, but as indicated by the picture, there is a sweet spot where it works well and even perfectly.
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Just to say, even if they are not quite visible, there are some arrows on the d-pad, just click on them…. not on the circle.
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I’m thinking about sticking a rubber o-ring around it or placing 4 little rubber nubs where you should press…
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The same thought, though not as extreme, has occurred to. Maybe some small adhesive paper dots would be best.
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[...] Post over at wmpoweruser.com states… Many HTC Touch Pro users have complained about the HTC Touch Pro D-pad. Up and down works [...]
awsome, htc fuze working like it should, gracias amigos
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