Droid keyboard membrane coming off

[sniffs]

I just noticed that the membrane covering my keys is starting to come up and when I type, the sticky-ness under the membrane is causing a sticking sound..SUUPER ANNOYING.

I refuse to get it warranty exchanged because of this because I have the raised keyboard.. UGH..what to do what to do.

[MrSmith317]

You have a raised keyboard on a droid?? How did you manage that? My KB is flat as I though all droid's were.

[citi]

Do you think that the "raised keyboard" is the reason your membrane is coming off? Seems like what you consider a positive, is actually a defect.

[mscalero]

Can you post a pic of that raised keyboard?

[BerkleyJ]

Newer Droids have a slightly raised keyboard. Comparison pictures can be found on this website in a thread titled "Flat/Raised keyboard (pics)", but I am unable to link to it due to the post count limitation.. If your still unsure whether your's has a rasied or flat keyboard you can look under you battery. There should be a build date on the phone. if it's 43/2009 or earlier it is most likely a flat keyboard and if it is 44/2009 or newer it is probably a raised keyboard.

As for the original poster. I would find it highly unlikely that you'd recieve a replacement phone with a build date older than 44/2009 in which they changed to the raised keyboard. I don't think you have anything to worry about when receiving a replacement.

[MrM]

I have the raised keyboard as well, and the right half of my keyboard has the same issue as you are describing. It actually just started making the sound last week. I have friends with a flat keyboard who do not have this issue. Pretty annoying...

Originally Posted by mscalero

Can you post a pic of that raised keyboard?

I took it from my MacBook, so it's backwards. But you get the idea.

[NCREDIBLE GARY]

Wow, your keyboard looks better than the flat keyboard on everybody Droid.

[popsc.comp]

Originally Posted by MrM

I have the raised keyboard as well, and the right half of my keyboard has the same issue as you are describing. It actually just started making the sound last week. I have friends with a flat keyboard who do not have this issue. Pretty annoying...

Did you get it that way from extended use? Mine is slowly starting to bulge around the keys, but nowhere near that, and I figured mine started doing that because I used the keyboard so much

[WarER4X]

My build lot is 48/09, I think (not looking right now). I could always feel the slightly raised buttons. I almost can't tell to look at them except when I notice an almost imperceptible curve shape between keys. I've always been pretty happy with the hardware keyboard, especially after it got a bit broken in and softer with use, and couldn't really figure out what all the complaints were about. Maybe the flat/raised difference is why.

I think if my keys were any flatter, I wouldn't like the keyboard very much and probably wouldn't be able to use it because of my fat, stubby fingers. As it stands, though, I can type with it pretty well without looking right at it, except to find special characters. I like the soft keyboards, too (both portrait and landscape) and I often use them for short stints of typing, but if I plan to write something longer, I always go with the physical keyboard. It is a tad slower for me than the software keyboards, but I don't make nearly as many mistakes and I have the D-pad ready for me to correct mistakes that I find.

-SR-

[sniffs]

Originally Posted by MrSmith317

You have a raised keyboard on a droid?? How did you manage that? My KB is flat as I though all droid's were.

The original, very first batch of Droid's sent out had raised bubbled keys. I would imagine that this problem happened and Motorola flatened the keys..