Touch Screen Reliability

[b1llygo4t]

@ God Ginrai

the board that has the tact switches to power on and open the disc tray snaps into the front plate. then a set of wires that are soldered into the power board plug into the mother board. its not something that can be fixed just by snapping the front plate back on, you would need to tear the system down enough to plug the wires back in.

nice assumption though

@ fischju2000

agreed

@ thread

to bad, id like to know a bit how they hold up. the n64 stick was the worst ever, it just disintegrated because it was all plastic innards. can the nubs be pressed as a button?

another thing i noticed, the baxy buttons are weird, i hope i can swap em around and reassign their names in the system. i know on most controllers the buttons will only fit in their corresponding holes unless you start shaving of plastic, but then they dont fit right.

 

[Vlynndar]

can the nubs be pressed as a button?

another thing i noticed, the baxy buttons are weird, i hope i can swap em around and reassign their names in the system.

I have nothing to back it up, but my understanding is that the nubs can't click.
And that as the buttons are all separate, you could switch them around. One of the photos on the dev blog showed that.

 

[Mloren]

Wow did this thread spiral off topic.

So to clarify what I meant when i said my DS touchscreen no longer works... it still works its just off.
Basically when you touch it with the stylus it's significantly off to make some games unplayable.
I cant fix this with the calibration thing, when i try, it just keeps asking me to touch the corner points over and over and over and after like 50 times I give up.

To those saying they cant find any other proof of this, here's what a 10 second search turned up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmL-B7p_oPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zce3IEmcDkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1thEp_x2Fs

this guy even shows how to fix it, I'm just not willing to pull my DS apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ROHjA1nMw

Now I'd also like to point out that this thread wasn't meant to be about how reliable the DS's touch screen was, it was supposed to be about the Pandora but seems to have gotten more than a little sidetracked

 

[WizardStan]

Now I'd also like to point out that this thread wasn't meant to be about how reliable the DS's touch screen was, it was supposed to be about the Pandora but seems to have gotten more than a little sidetracked

The problem is that you tried to ask about the touch screen reliability by comparing it to the DS's, but mathematically you're looking at an estimated less than 1% failure rate. Yes, you may be seeing a lot of complaints, but there were a lot consoles sold. A less than 1% failure rate is bloody amazing! Expecting 0% failure is foolish.
So when you say "is it as bad as the DS screen?" (or whatever it is you actually said back on page one) it doesn't make any sense because, even though you've had problems and there are a lot of people that have had problems, it isn't really such a big problem, you see? It's a strange comparison, hence everyone going off topic.

 

[Mloren]

to be honest it wasn't meant to be a comparison, i was more just giving an example.
my question was really: "Has anyone stress tested the touchscreen?"

 

[ashdjones]

The bottom right of my touchscreen has screwed up too. I have a launch DS Lite and I've never jabbed it hard at all.

 

[GizmoTheGreen]

weve got 2 launch ds lites in our home, as well as two phats.

I have never had any tocuhscreen issues, or seen any in real life :/