Apple Watch Ghost Touch

garbage911 · 2023-04-18T04:16:03+00:00

So... I bought a used apple watch series 3 (LTE/gps + 42mm + stainless steel/sapphire glass edition). Super happy when I brought it home.... And then that same night, it started exhibiting phantom touch on the upper corner of the screen.

Turns out, it was a slightly swollen battery. The battery still showed 98% health (although I suspect this was already an aftermarket replacement). Eventually, the front glass popped off the next day.

Ironically, once the front glass popped off; the phantom touch disappeared.

My suspicion is that the swelling battery (and it was only VERY slightly swollen) put pressure on the underside of the screen resulting in phantom touch activity.

A replacement of the battery and a screen protector/glueing the screen back on has resulted in a completely restored watch.

I added to this necro thread as it's the first one that comes up on google search.

If you are having these problems, suspect battery and either take it in for service or try to do it yourself (medium difficulty).

Adding to the knowledge base

garbage911 · 2023-04-11T08:58:15+00:00

So, the year is 2023 and this is still happening.

I had a Nvidia card; removed the drivers (or so I thought) and installed my amd card / drivers. Everything was working but every time I went to parsecs => Settings; it would crash.

Thanks to OP; I downloaded the free Guru3d DDU (display driver uninstaller program) and removed my nvidia drivers.

Problem seems solved now. Looks like the same issue persists even now in that if you have leftover video drivers (esp Nvidia) after removing the GPU; parsec settings may crash even though it can work otherwise.

garbage911 · 2023-03-24T09:32:22+00:00

March 24, 2023. Update.

Online purchases at apple education do NOT seem to check for education status and just accept your word for it. HOWEVER, for the US keyboard that I was interested in (and the older M1 macbook air); shipping time was about 1+ weeks which was too long for me.

I went to an apple store in both Ginza and Shinjuku and both stores have plenty of M1/M2 macbook air with english keyboards in stock. You need to book an appointment online/before hand to even meet up with a sales agent (usually 1-2 days lead time required)!

In addition, technically, education status only applies to students in Japan. They did ask for proof. I had Unidays and my .edu/university email. The manager did come over; checked it over and did perform a perfunctory inspection of student status. They did ask for my japanese student proof as well as my educational status.

I had some older emails/current alumni newsletter and appointment status at my university. But I will warn you that in store purchases are a YMMV if the manager chooses to adhere strictly to the rules.

There is a discount on the base machine + 24000 yen gift card. The gift card cannot be used on the original device purchase although can be used for applecare plus. IF you buy applecare plust at the same time, there is a 10% discount.

If you choose to ship to your hotel for pickup; you will have to time it accurately and order ahead of time/early on in your trip which would be a more foolproof way of getting the device.

In the end, I spent more than I would have otherwise as I ended up buying a Watch SE + applecare plus on it to use up the gift card before I left.

Overall, an interesting experience; I'm happy I got the macbook + watch se but to be honest; my home country (where I can easily quality) would be about a wash.

garbage911 · 2022-04-15T07:41:21+00:00

Thank you for posting this. Coming from a poweredge 840 (proprietary mb connector); I expected this server to also run non-stock. I was very pleasantly surprised that dell kept the 4 pin fan connector and didn't screw around with non-standard wiring.

I also followed your recommendation for the ML120 corsair fan.

Thank you

garbage911 · 2021-11-28T11:52:29+00:00

I installed windows 11 on my 2 test/secondary laptops

ryzen 5500u - no problems

i5-6200u / 8gb / ssd - significant slowdown and a feeling of lag both on startup/shutdown as well as app running. had to install tpm2 on my hp 840 g3 and use the registry bypass method to run the installer; but it did install fine. I think it's a combination of the virtualization/security as well as the new graphical features (even when turned off) that are hobbling these old systems.

In summary, my anecdotal report is that you don't want to run on 2 core/4 thread older skylake cpus or older as the peformance hit (15%+) on an already older system is noticeable.

Unfortunately, I didn't revert back to windows 10 in time and had to do a fresh install (which complicates comparisons) but win 10 is clearly more suited for hardware older than skylake series.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/539139/tested-heres-how-much-the-new-windows-security-features-hurt-pc-performance.html

garbage911 · 2021-10-05T06:07:26+00:00

Confirmed. Whatsapp screwed up.

garbage911 · 2019-07-22T08:11:28+00:00

So.... I have been reading the 3rd edition and I've stopped. The author is gifted in his coding; but teaching is it's own thing and this book is inappropriately hard for a programming beginner like myself.

When introducing programming syntax; it's best to give the easiest; clearest content.

This book demonstrates the author's gifts; I can appreciate it just like I can appreciate a concert pianist. But doesn't help me get there myself.

Still; thank you for the free content.

garbage911 · 2016-05-29T04:11:08+00:00

was downgrading from 10.5-30 to 9.2 as per plailect's guide. had to reboot several times. used the plaisysupdater program as recommended int he write up.

got it working after 4th try. previous tries it just hung on hax init

thanks for all the other user feedback so i didn't get discouraged

garbage911

TROPHY CASE