Pen taps registering as double clicks

Anonymous
2016-08-03T21:34:38+00:00

I installed a pending driver update on my SP4 yesterday and the anniversary update today. Now tapping with the pen registers as a double-click about 10% of the time, which makes pen input pretty much useless. The usual calibration options and settings in Settings, Control Panel and the Surface app didn't have any effect on this. I tried manually installing the latest SP4 drivers (8/3) but that didn't change anything, either.

This is also noticeable when drawing a continuous line. The The pen is suddenly detected as not pressed, and immediately again as pressed.

Surface | Surface Pro | Display and screen

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Anonymous
2017-06-11T15:59:16+00:00

Hey everyone,

I was like everybody, ever since I got my Surface Pro 4 my pen always randomly double-click while I tried to use touch keyboard.

So after I tried to search through all the forums and reddit. I stumbled into this site:

http://www.lovemysurface.net/remap-the-surface-pen-button/

Basically it lets you re-calibrate your pen.

-Simply type "calibrate" into your search bar and choose "calibrate the screen for pen or touch input".

-Choose "Setup" to first reset your pen by clicking the screen when prompt one time, then press enter after that to return.

-Choose "Calibrate" and then "Pen input".

-Use the pen to tap on the cross-hair point at the corner of your screen (It's kinda hard to find, but just follow the line and you'll see them eventually.

-After you are done, choose "Save"

This basically solve the problem for me, so I hope this help the others who are looking for a solution as well :)

Pruk

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-04-05T06:54:26+00:00

    Yea, as described earlier, replacing the battery, pen or Surface didn't help.

    The double-click-pen-issues only started after the firmware update that came with the anniversary update. They also updated the touch firmware with that one. When I got my replacement Surface last year, it still had the old firmware and no pen-issues. Only after updating did it occur again.

    Maybe we will see a new touch firmware with the creators update, but since Microsoft hasn't even acknowledged this issue I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-04T20:04:39+00:00

    I've had my Surface Pro4 for about 1 year and only recently started to have a problem with my Surface Pen, which was sometimes registering a single tap as a double tap.  A few weeks later then pen stopped working entirely, the tiny LED wouldn't turn on too.  I checked the pen battery and it was marginally low.  I've replaced the Surface Pen battery and I haven't experienced an erroneous double tap yet.  Given how other people have described their own pen problems, my solution wouldn't seem to be the solution for everyone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-04T17:44:16+00:00

    Exacly, i'm not using Kaspersky neather...it's just weird that with the touch input everything is perfect, but as soon as you type with the pen, is impossible to write, must be an issue related to the driver it self, because the screen it self works just fine when typing with the fingers!

    To be continued i guess...

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-04-04T16:45:43+00:00

    Try deactivate Karspersky Internet Security

    we are not using that product - issue happens with an out of the box config - nothing installed, just what is included from the factory - all indications are that this is a hardware / firmware issue

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