Question - Touches sometimes don't register immediately after going to home scre...

Does this happen for anyone else? On my S22, not all of the time but sometimes, when I leave an app, go to recents, go home, etc, a tap sometimes won't register immediately, or maybe for .5 to 1 second. I have show taps enabled and I can see the taps happening, so the phone and touch screen are both aware of the tap, but they still don't do anything for a bit.

I think it's an issue related to One UI Home (Launcher) and its animations. They should definitely improve it and squash those annoying bugs.

markitosd said:

I think it's an issue related to One UI Home (Launcher) and its animations. They should definitely improve it and squash those annoying bugs.

Diaable all animations. Not needed.
There should be no delay. A second is an eternity. Is it running warm or hot when near idle?
Try clearing the system cache.
Try in safe mode. You may have a buggy 3rd party app.

Did you do any major firmware upgrades without a factory reset afterwards? If so... get reloading.
Do not use SmartSwitch.

blackhawk said:

Diaable all animations. Not needed.
There should be no delay. A second is an eternity. Is it running warm or hot when near idle?
Try clearing the system cache.
Try in safe mode. You may have a buggy 3rd party app.

Did you do any major firmware upgrades without a factory reset afterwards? If so... get reloading.
Do not use SmartSwitch.

For me, it's been this way since I got the phone, the animations definitely seem to cause most of the issues after turning them off, but some of my taps still dont register. It's significantly more rare with animations turned off but it's still there. Unless it's just normal for some taps not to register every now and then, but I never had this issue on my galaxy s9.

While typing in another app (chrome), I just tried going to my home screen and tapping a different app immediately, it didn't register it on the first try. I don't double tap so I'm not sure how long it takes to stop. It's rare but certainly still there.

I'm curious if anyone else here tries, even with animations off, if they would experience the same issue occasionally (I had my keyboard up and I was typing). While in one app, type or do something for a bit, and then hit home, and tried tapping another app immediately. For context, I am tapping it RIGHT as the screen switches to home. I know I'm not tapping it too fast or anything because my taps register more often than not doing the same thing.

Trying in safe mode is difficult as it seems the issue doesn't present itself immediately, even in normal mode, after a fresh boot. I also tried safe mode with my internet enabled and didn't experience the issue, but I'm still not experiencing it (in normal mode) right now at all. It's important to mention that I've experienced certain hiccups like this since I first got the phone, before I installed any third party apps. Most of the bloatware apps I have uninstalled. The only thing I can think of, that was available then and still available now, are apps like google drive, samsung notes, etc.

Lalam24 said:

For me, it's been this way since I got the phone, the animations definitely seem to cause most of the issues after turning them off, but some of my taps still dont register. It's significantly more rare with animations turned off but it's still there. Unless it's just normal for some taps not to register every now and then, but I never had this issue on my galaxy s9.

Try increasing touch sensitivity.
In accessibility try this:

blackhawk said:

Try increasing touch sensitivity.
In accessibility try this:
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Show taps is enabled so I can see the screen acknowledges all my touches, it just doesn't do stuff otherwise sometimes.

Lalam24 said:

Show taps is enabled so I can see the screen acknowledges all my touches, it just doesn't do stuff otherwise sometimes.

Something running in the background.
Do a factory reset maybe to rule out user data corruption or malware.
Possibly corrupted firmware or mobo failure.

What are the power settings in Device Care?
Disable global power management.
Try this:

blackhawk said:

Something running in the background.
Do a factory reset maybe to rule out user data corruption or malware.
Possibly corrupted firmware or mobo failure.

What are the power settings in Device Care?
Disable global power management.
Try this:
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I have everything off other than auto disable apps, it's instead listed as automatically put apps to sleep, is that the same thing?

I'd rather not factory reset, but I don't think it's malware if I got this phone factory fresh and it had the issues then too.

Considering it seems to get worse the longer the phone is on, I suppose a mother board issue would make sense. At least it hasn't progressively gotten worse altogether since I got the phone a year ago.

Lalam24 said:

I have everything off other than auto disable apps, it's instead listed as automatically put apps to sleep, is that the same thing?

That's not global power management. I leave it off though.

Lalam24 said:

I'd rather not factory reset, but I don't think it's malware if I got this phone factory fresh and it had the issues then too.

If you never did a reset unless you can find the root cause now is the time. If you did any major firmware upgrades without a factory reset, do it now.
Don't use SmartSwitch.

Lalam24 said:

Considering it seems to get worse the longer the phone is on, I suppose a mother board issue would make sense. At least it hasn't progressively gotten worse altogether since I got the phone a year ago.

Hard to say. Reflash the stock firmware before you make that call. The factory reset would clear the user data partition of anything that got corrupted so start with that.

It may have suffered a SEU, these are rare but do happen. One single bit gets flipped. The higher the altitude, the higher the likelihood. On one Apollo mission they registered 160 or so SEU's. That's one reason they had triple redundantly for the computer. The space shuttle's was quad redundant.

blackhawk said:

That's not global power management. I leave it off though.

If you never did a reset unless you can find the root cause now is the time. If you did any major firmware upgrades without a factory reset, do it now.
Don't use SmartSwitch.

Hard to say. Reflash the stock firmware before you make that call. The factory reset would clear the user data partition of anything that got corrupted so start with that.

It may have suffered a SEU, these are rare but do happen. One single bit gets flipped. The higher the altitude, the higher the likelihood. On one Apollo mission they registered 160 or so SEU's. That's one reason they had triple redundantly for the computer. The space shuttle's was quad redundant.

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For me, the trouble shooting ends at having to do a factory reset. I suppose I would rather live with it than doing a factory reset, rather. I appreciate all of your help though, thanks dude.

If it were an SEU wouldn't it only occur once? Or are you saying it could've flipped a bit that causes consistent issues?

Lalam24 said:

If it were an SEU wouldn't it only occur once? Or are you saying it could've flipped a bit that causes consistent issues?

If it happened in the firmware it would stayed flipped until you reflashed. Permanently altering the value unless reflashed.
If that's what happened it be next to impossible to find... so you just factory reset or reflash if needed to rule that out.
Maybe it got a bad flash to begin with that wasn't detected.

As a rule I leave the firmware alone and don't even update it if it's running well. When it's not running well you might need to address it though.

blackhawk said:

If it happened in the firmware it would stayed flipped until you reflashed. Permanently altering the value unless reflashed.
If that's what happened it be next to impossible to find... so you just factory reset or reflash if needed to rule that out.
Maybe it got a bad flash to begin with that wasn't detected.

As a rule I leave the firmware alone and don't even update it if it's running well. When it's not running well you might need to address it though.

Ohh okay. Thanks again for all of your help dude!