My TouchPad Today: Ambient Light Sensor - The Final Solution

In the end, it has taken a combination of four things to get the ambient light sensor on my HP TouchPad working correctly again...

• Punching a hole in the CE Compass leather case I'm using, near an embedded magnet that covers the sensor.
• Improvising and installing two rubber "bumpers" to lift the leather ridge/flap of the case that covers the sensor.
• Punching a hole in the Acase View anti-glare screen protector I'm using on the TP.  The protector came from the factory with cutouts for the camera and Home button, but does not have one for the light sensor.
• Learning and remembering to keep my right hand away from the area near the sensor.  The cutouts of the CE Compass leather case (for the camera and the Home button) orient the TP so that the On/Off button, Volume button and ambient light sensor are at the bottom right when used in the landscape mode... Exactly where I naturally want to place my right hand when using the TP.
  

All of this efforts brings to mind Click & Clack's motto... "The stingy man pays the most".

But, hey, I got a few blog posts out of it.  That ain't a bad thing, is it?



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My TouchPad Today: Acase Anti-Glare Screen Protectors (Video Mini-Review)

Received my Acase anti-glare screen protectors from Amazon a couple of days ago and have installed one on my HP TouchPad.

Mini-Review...

Video version on YouTube.

• Quality: Good. Reminds me of a combination of some anti-glare protectors I used on my Treo 700w and the Verizon protectors I used on my Pre+.
• Cost: $14.95 (3-pack), plus shipping.
• Ease of Installation: Moderate. A rookie at installing screen protectors might get a tad frustrated.
• Installation Tip: Do not install by aligning the protector to the screen by the cutout for the Home button. Instead, try to align it by the cutout for the camera... Better results, less effort.
• Overall Impression: Does a decent job of softening/diffusing glare and reflection from the TP screen. Softens screen image a bit, understandably, but totally acceptable. Left some bubbles, but they should work themselves out in a short period of time.