{"id":5801,"date":"2018-06-03T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:47:04","slug":"does-an-update-bricks-the-surface-pro-3-touchscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/06\/03\/does-an-update-bricks-the-surface-pro-3-touchscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Does an update bricks the Surface Pro 3 Touchscreen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180729113450\/https:\/\/v47.imgup.net\/Surface218b.jpg\" width=\"71\" align=\"left\" height=\"52\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/brickt-update-den-surface-pro-3-touchscreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]I just ask this as a question here: Do you have issues with your after a (firmware-) update of Surface Pro 3, in such a way that the touchscreen doesn't work anymore?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/f47f134651f64073b0d92ae2f776317b\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">I came across a comment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drwindows.de\/news\/surface-3-erhaelt-firmware-update-gegen-spectre-v2-und-neuen-grafiktreiber#scVBConnectorComments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (German) on the subject. A user asks: '[Is there a firmware update]? for the Surface Pro 3, by any chance, to get my touch screen working again?' And after asking for details, this user gave the following answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; according to my IT department at work there seem to be several users on the net with the problem. Heise.de has probably also published a news about it. I feel pretty screwed that a device that is almost 3 1\/2 years old is probably rendered unusable by a forced update and I am forced to buy a new device. If the hardware has a defect, it is something else but a defect due to a firmware update is already bitter, especially with an in-house premium product&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That made me curious and I was searching the internet for further details. Since the release of the device, there have been users who reported a failed touch screen (no hardware damage). A German forum post can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/de-de\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfupdate\/surface-pro-3-stift-touchscreen-reagiert-nicht-auf\/6245cfe2-69ec-4b2d-9c36-acbe00705ad5?auth=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and an English-language MS Answers post can be <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfupdate\/surface-pro-3-touch-screen-driver-problem\/d0643617-3a5c-4c1d-b05f-22513a3e5d45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found here<\/a>. A user describes the problem there:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Few weeks back i got some update for windows touch control firmware.it was failed to install in my surface pro 3 and i got lot of problem afterwards. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>first touch screen stopped responding i observed 1 bubble on my screen where my pointer hangs there.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>have followed steps https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surfacerecoveryimage after wards i got rebooting problem. it hangs on surface logo.  <\/p>\n<p>i have done all the 10 solutions given in MS surface web page.but still i have problem with my surface pro 3. finally i went for fresh windows installation now surface boot problem solved but still&nbsp; i have touch screen problem. in device manage if i disable my touch screen driver (HID-compliant touch screen)&nbsp; it works fine. if i enable it 2 bubbles coming on top side of the screen. Also note that i have yellow triangle warning in device manager for Surface Pro Touch Controller Firmware. Also windows start up little bit slow.  <\/p>\n<p>For your reference am attaching the photo of my surface pro 3 issues..  <\/p>\n<p>Sad to hear no authorised repair centre available in India. have to go for paid replacement as advised by surface customer support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He has received an update and since that day there are problems with the touch screen. Resetting to factory settings did not help. Microsoft has published an article with problem solutions <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4023476\/surface-surface-touchscreen-problems-with-touch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, but it probably doesn't help. Anyone else with a Surface Pro 3 affected by this problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]I just ask this as a question here: Do you have issues with your after a (firmware-) update of Surface Pro 3, in such a way that the touchscreen doesn't work anymore?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,26,22],"tags":[68,47,114,195],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-ios","category-update","tag-firmware","tag-issue","tag-surface-pro-3","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}