I received one of the first Google Nexus 10 tablets this week and have set it up and upgraded to Android 4.2. With both Android 4.1 and 4.2, the touch screen seems to ignore a lot of touches, especially when inside Google Chrome. One can be stabbing the screen repeatedly with a finger and the screen will actually go to “idle dim”. It is tough to follow links when on a standard Web page. The device seems to respond better to light touches, but is annoying finicky. I had a similar issue with the first generation Amazon Kindle Fire.
Anyone else have usability issues with the Nexus 10? I wonder if my hardware could be defective. I haven’t heard of unresponsive touch screens being due to a subtle hardware defect.
[Separately, the high-res screen is just beautiful (2560×1600 pixels, same as my 30″ desktop LCD; the iPad 3 and iPad 4 are 2048×1536 pixels). Text looks sharper, clearer, and more print-like than on an iPad 3. But due to the touch screen issue, I greatly prefer the iPad, Nexus 7, or almost any mobile phone. Imagine using a desktop computer with a mouse button that worked approximately 40 percent of the time and the rest of the time did nothing (with a random chance of success on every click).]
This is probably a hardware defect. Some Nexus 7 devices have the same issue (I do know it because I’am unlucky owner of such a device).
The Nexus 7 has a “Multitouch Axis Crossing” bug that seemingly has to do with the device being grounded or not. I noticed it in a few games in unusual circumstances but doesn’t bother me much on a day to day basis.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35937
Does it only happen in chrome? it might be a software problem, I’m having some problems with android 4.2 on my phone also…. does the same thing happen on your nexus 7 with 4.2?
Johnathan: I haven’t played around enough on the Nexus 7 to know. I am thinking that it might be software. The three dedicated Android buttons (e.g., the back button) work perfectly and reliably. It is once one is inside an app that things go awry. I don’t think that there is any special hardware for the dedicated buttons compared to the rest of the screen, is there?
philg: Hardware wise, the buttons are just like the rest of the screen.. Hopefully a software update will find you swiftly!
I have the same problem with mine and the battery takes forever to charge and it randomly powers off. I will most likely swap the device for a new one.