Does the Fairphone 5 have "Accidental touch avoidance" on the edges? If yes, can it be disabled?

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Hi,

It has only been a couple of weeks of using my Fairphone 5 and I noticed something when I flashed Ubuntu Touch. It seems like I can’t do a quick swipe or flick from the edges. From what I observed, for the swipe gesture to be detected, it has to be either long enough or done slowly. This is not the case on my Fairphone 4. I can easily do a quick flick on either left or right edge. This is very useful in Ubuntu Touch since those edges are used for navigating the system.

I didn’t notice this when it was still in Android but I guess it’s because I don’t really use it the same way as Ubuntu Touch. Can anyone try on Android with the back gesture?

BTW, I have an Fxtec Pro-1 X with curved edges and it has a similar issue. Someone suggests flashing a custom display firmware but didn’t try yet because I’m afraid to :sweat_smile: but I wonder if the Fairphone 5 have the same thing.

I wanted to show it in a video but videos are not allowed here.

I uploaded an unlisted Youtube video to show what I meant

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FP5 on stock FPOS, but using 3rd “Fluid Navigation Gesture” with split edge to multiple zones and swiping work normal on my upper/midle/lower zones, also on most bottom edge part i have set activating of (excelent :wink: Quick Cursor and on most top part keep stock “show/drag side menu” for apps support it (ex. NextCloud or Obsidian)

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I linked a video to show how the quick flick is done. Did you try that?
Although, I’m not sure if Android would even detect a swipe that short

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That gesture seems identical to the default android swipe from the edge to go back gesture.
And yeah, it can be kinda fussy sometimes. Though, I only noticed that on an app by app case.
Sadly I don’t have more to add. It should work as the video shows it. Worst case, not first try. But it should let you spam swipe.

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Yeah it is similar. It can be a quick flick in Ubuntu Touch though which is what I mostly do to quickly switch between apps. In my observation, it needs to be slowly done or swipe further than a quick flick I usually do. It’s just a bummer to me and hoping there’s a way to remove it. Makes me hate slimmer bezels more :smile: Even the slimmer bottom bezel compared to the FP4 strains my thumb more for reaching it :sweat_smile: