I have bought an Android-compatible pen tab (XP-Pen Deco Mini7) (7 x 4) for my Samsung A7 Lite (8.37 x 4.91). And the weird thing about all such pen tabs is that they only support vertical orientation. If you try to put the system horizontally, a horizontal line becomes vertical and vice versa; and if I rotate, the pen tab as well the working area gets reduced to a small size. My best guess is that the pen tab maps 7 x 4 to the 8 x 4 of the system display, so when I rotate the system, it tries to map 7 x 4 to the new 4 x 8 of the system and hence is only able to use 4 x 4 of the display. I am using the pen tab for note-taking and PDF editing and figure that an 8-inch width will be good for reading. My current solution to this issue is to rotate the PDF, keep the system in portrait mode, and rotate the pen tablet and device. It would be a LOT better if I could simply rotate only the app and NOT the system. Established apps like Rotation | Orientation Manager by Pranav Pandey rotate the whole SYSTEM. Do you have any suggestions? tl;dr, I want this:

- OS: Android 11 with root access - Tablet: One by Wacom Small CTL-471 ## The Issue ## I'd like to use my Wacom tablet on my Android device. Connected tablet using OTG cable is detected, but it suffers from invalid mapping resulting in heavily squished elipses when circle is drawn on the tablet. In landscape mode, the tablet input does not cover the full screen area, resulting only in half of the screen being able to be controlled What I would like to achieve ---------------------------- - remap the tablet input so it is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees when the device is in portrait mode and optionally - rotate in other directions in landscape mode aka. 90°/180° - define tablet min/max X and Y to limit the useable tablet area and match the proportions of the display - circle on the tablet = true circle on the device What I tried ------------ I created Wacom_Bamboo_One_S_Pen.idc file in /system/usr/idc/ with following configuration touch.deviceType = pointer touch.orientationAware = 1​ The configuration file is detected when using dumpsys input | grep -i wacom​ 13: Wacom Bamboo One S Pen ConfigurationFile: /system/usr/idc/Wacom_Bamboo_One_S_Pen.idc Device 13: Wacom Bamboo One S Pen and it does work, as the result when using dumpsys input, the OrientationAware is now true Parameters: ... OrientationAware: true Now the mapping in landscape mode is better, but still invalid Now I tried to modify xScale yScale and output.x output.y with samples found online to check if anything changes, like this touch.deviceType = pointer touch.orientationAware = 1​ output.x = (raw.x - raw.x.min) * (output.width / raw.width) or even using a simple float output.x = 1.0 Even though the config file is detected in dumpsys input | grep -i wacom​ it seems to now be ignored as the values are back to default when checking dumpsys input so, OrientationAware: false even though the config file says it to be true. What am I doing wrong - is it wrong syntax? My knowledge on this topic is very limited, and I've tried to check official documentation , but still without result, so I'm asking for help. Update ------ Examining other files found on the web resulted in confirmation that it is the wrong syntax. I tried this instead: touch.touchPosition.xymix = 1.0 touch.touchPosition.yxmix = 1.0 It seems like xymix and yxmix would allow to flip the input, but dumpsys input reports that these values are still 0.0. OrientationAware stays true with these values, indicating acceptable syntax.

A little background on me: I'm a professional cartoonist and have been working digital for about 20 years. I've had numerous Wacom devices & currently enjoy a Cintiq 21UX (older model). I also have the ASUS EP121 Slate. I think I understand Wacoms pretty well and generally don't panic about computer stuff. The Samsung Note 10.1 S Pen is using Wacom's *penabled* tech. Same kind of hardware in the ASUS EP 121. With every Wacom device I've used to date, either Mac or Windows, there is a control panel dialogue box that allows you to tweak the pressure settings of the pen so that the artist/user has the best control for them. The S Pen does not have this and I want it! :) I have called Wacom. They said they provided the hardware but do not provide support for it. I called Samsung who said it was an Android operating system issue. Before I begin another round of waiting on hold hoping for Android support I thought I'd try here. Any assistance or at least firm Android tech suppport numbers I could call would be much appreciated. I realize the Note 10.1 is brand new tech and a proper driver solution may be a few updates away but I am willing to be a squeaky wheel and/or early adopter to help this happen :)

# The Background I want to annotate PDFs on my tablet, which I tried several apps for. All of them had the same problem: my fingers are too big to write smallish characters on the screen. Telling this to a friend, she gave me a pen of hers (so unfortunately I don't know the brand), it is an active one (needs to be switched on) and works well when drawing longer lines. However, the problem with drawing small letters or digits remained, they mostly wouldn't show up, or only some of the strokes. To debug this, I installed an app called "mobile screen and display tools" which can detect display touches and displays a crosshair where it detects a touch. This revealed some very annoying behaviour: - Touching the screen with the pen, then moving the pen in a small circle (5 pixels?) around the original touch point will *not* update the touch position. - Touching the screen, moving the pen by a cm or two, then doing the same circular motion *will* update the touch position. So it seems to me that the display is perfectly able to detect single pixel movements, but it decides to ignore them directly after a touch. It won't ignore them after a decisive pen move. Which explains the problem I had with drawing smallish letters/digits: larger strokes will be recognized - small ones won't. I *assume* this is a "usability feature" on android so people using their finger (inadvertantly wiggling the finger a bit) won't trigger a "move" when they want to trigger a "touch". This happens on a new BlackView Tab 10 Pro tablet (Android 11), an older Lenovo Yoga Yt-X703L tablet (Android 7.1.1) and a Huawei P20 phone with EMUI 12, so it doesn't seem to be related to the hardware, vendor, or android version. # The question Is there a way to tell android devices "I'm using a pen; if I move it after touching the display, even by just one pixel, treat that as a move and not as an accidential finger wriggle"?

I am amazed that one can create a DIY stylus pen for Android phones and tablets using the sponge as shown in this video . Is it true or it is simply just a fake video?

I would like to use my Samsung Note; taking advantage of its digitizer; as a input device of the desktop pc. I suppose the question/answer can also apply to other brands and the touch screen. Is it possible? is there any driver/app necessary? is it not possible due any Android OS restriction?

I take hand written notes on my Samsung Tablet S3, as well as my Samsung Note 8 phone, using the S Pen. Both are on Android 9. Palm rejection and other accidental touches are mostly rejected, but not perfectly. I would like to have a way to turn off the capacitive touch screen (that registers finger touches) but leave the S Pen detection on. In this state, the tablet or phone would respond to the S Pen only, and ignore all other screen touches. I know there are apps that can perform this feature, but they mostly come with unacceptably broad permissions, including full access to the network, reading contents on the device, etc. This seems like something that should be built into the OS, but I have not found it. I should add that I own a paid version of Tasker, but am not very good at programming it, in case someone has a good solution for Tasker. Any advice or hacks?

Actually I wanted to write some notes on my 'Android' tablet **Name: Lenovo Yoga Smart Tab** **Model: Lenovo YT-X705X** **Model no. - ZA540019IN** **Android version: 10** But I found that whenever I rest my palm in the screen, the screen becomes unresponsive. So, I did some touch testing and found that the screen isn't registering any touch when I keep the palm rested on the screen. So basically, when I keep the palm very lightly on the screen, it detects as one giant touch point, but if I keep the palm just like I keep on paper, then the entire screen becomes non-functional. Please tell me a solution. Is there some option in setting that is turned on or is it not possible to fix this?

My HP Active Pen worked for two months with my new HP Pavilion x360. They are sold together. Then it stopped. I changed batteries and it worked again, for a day or two. Then it stopped. Changed batteries again, but it would not work. Put it aside a few days, now it works again. I am wondering if placing it on the end table by the couch with my cell phone, my cell phone QI charger, or possible drips from drinking glasses could have short-circuited it. Also, there is a lot of static in the house this year, Every time I pet the cat, he backs up from the static. Could that interfere with how the pen works? This pen does not use bluetooth, only a single AAAA battery. Can anyone explain this to me?

I recently bought the Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite Tablet (Android). It has an S Pen included which works great and I get palm rejection with the in built Samsung app and also in Squid. But when I use other popular apps such as Adobe pdf viewer, or zoom or Evernote the palm rejection does not seem to work. Any idea if there's a fix for this? Further more, the S Pen does not need to be charged (unlike say the Apple pencil); just curious how the active palm rejection etc. works if the pen is indeed passive and not active?

No idea if this is the right place to post this, since I don't know if the problem is my OS (android 6.0), stylus (Xiron active capacitive), software, or screen. My stylus makes very jerky/wavy lines, especially when slow and diagonal. However, it works ok with the *passive* capacitive end of it or best just my finger. The only app that seems to smooth this is Bamboo Paper. But, I need to annotate PDFs, which bamboo cannot open. Do i have a faulty pen? Is there better software that I could use? Pics below of finger vs stylus in bamboo and adobe reader.

I am planning to start sketching on my Android Device - Nokia 6.1 Plus - using Apps like AutoDesk SketchBook, Bamboo Paper or Adobe Sketch. For that I am thinking of buying a stylus - [Noris Digital](https://www.staedtler.com/dk/en/discover/noris-digital/#) . Noris Digital only works if the touchscreen has electromagnetic resonance (EMR) digitizer. I am unable to find out if my mobile device has that feature. Any idea how do I find that out. If my phone does not support that then can I use Wacom's [Bamboo Tip](https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/stylus/bamboo-tip) , again the issue is finding if its supported or not. Moreover this does not have pressure levels. How do I know which pressure level and palm rejecting stylus will work for my phone.

One of the things I assumed the Android OS could do was let me use a stylus and just record notes in my own handwriting (without handwriting recognition). The goal being that I could remove the need for a notepad and mechanical pencil on my desk. I found that the Samsung Galaxy Tab sells a cheap stylus that does exactly what I need, but I need to know what app is out there (even if I have to pay for it) that lets me store long notes in my own handwriting. Have you heard of any?

Is the software for the Galaxy Note keyboard (and its possibly its other unique features) available for other Android devices? I am willing to pay and I also have a rooted phone, if that helps me get these features. Specifically, as shown in this video , at about 22 seconds in, there is an option to write with a stylus which gets automatically recognised as words, etc.

I am using a Adonit Jot Pro stylus for sketching and hand writing notes. On my Nexus 5X and even more so on my iPad Air (2013 or 2014), the responsiveness to the stylus is acceptable and/or great. On my Android tablet (Project Tango Yellowstone dev kit, specs below) the lag is so significant that when trying to sign my name at normal speed in cursive, the last few characters look like a low amplitude sine wave. It's as if the stylus contact gets so far ahead that whatever interpolation code used to draw is sampling at a very low rate or the contact gets so far to the right of the current 'drawing position' that it just flattens out the letters. Comparing the Nexus 5X with the tablet via Google Keep hand written notes, the phone is much more responsive. On the iPad Air, the responsiveness is excellent. So what determines this latency and is there a way to address it? Specs Screen: 7.02" 1920x1200 HD IPS (323 dpi) Processor: NVIDIA Tegra K1 with 192 CUDA cores Mem: 4 GB RAM Storage: 128 GB

I've been using my tablet/phone for sketching with my finger for a long time. Over the last year or so, I've been trying to find a fine-tipped stylus to make drawing easier, as fingers are unwieldy and imprecise. I've purchased a few but none of them work with my Nexus 7, SGS2, LG G2, iPad, iPhone, etc. The styluses with the fat, rounded, mesh-like pencil eraser sized tips work, but they have the same problem as my finger: they are too fat to see exactly where the tip is touching the screen. Many styluses come with both ends, and I am left using the fat end every time. I've searched up and down for a reason but I've not been able to find any sort of explanation really at all. Can someone break down why the fat, pinky-like stylus tips work but the skinny, pen-like tips don't on (what appears to be) most touchscreens? Am I simply out of luck, or is there a screen/stylus combination that will work for me?

I've bought a Nexus 9 as a gift for my daughter for Xmas. After reading that Android M added native support for Bluetooth styli, I'm looking to purchase one as an additional gift. I'm looking for a stylus that is highly accurate and supports varying levels of pressure and palm rejection, like the Wacom Bamboo Fineline 2 or Intuous 2. Those products only list Apple device compatibility, though. I realise that apps need to be updated to accommodate the new APIs in Android, but can I pair either of these with the Nexus 9 in the meantime?

Is there any way to use a stylus with an Android device like Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo or HCL Me U1 Tablets?

I have some crazy ideas about some stuff lately but to make it tangible I need a bit more information over the capacitive touch screens. Is there a way to create an object that can be sensed by a capacitive touch screen without the touch of the human skin? I mean, imagine a tiny piece of something that you can just lay on the screen and the screen thinks is a finger or a stylus. I've heard about the stylus that can be sensed, but I think that the skin has to be touching it in order to work.. is it true? Can I maybe create something out of ordinary house stuff that can do this, without the need of the skin to touch it? Ahh, and by the way, it need to be capacitive because multi-touch is needed. Thank you all and best regards!

I am considering acquiring a tablet or phablet with integrated stylus. One of the first things I expect to do with is flashing the latest vanilla Android release. That done, is the stylus expected to work properly? Can I then install alternative note taking programmes (e.g. [Quill](https://code.google.com/p/android-quill/)) ? Or is the stylus functionality fully dependent on vendor software?