now it wont even complete the process of recognizing the middle of my finger. Afraid I may have a lemon.
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Touch ID not reading edge of finger
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now my phone can't seem to do anything right. Any chance they hold back stock for replacements???????
Absolutely. Though the availability of those replacements would likely depend on your model- the supply of gold replacements will likely be just as constrained as the gold retail models. But it's worth a try, because a working Touch ID sensor is pretty key to the whole 5S experience.
Stupid in a hurry me didn't realize it was supposed to be the same finger. I deleted Finger print 1 and created a new one including the sides.
I think this is the key thing.
I didn't look at the tutorial but I'm sure they don't mean to rotate your finger 90 degrees ... probably 45 degrees at best.
When setting up the reader you're prompted to place your finger on the sensor multiple times. That just tells me it's looking to account for variation of finger placement. When it reads your second finger press it's going to try to meld the data with previous scans to get a larger picture of the fingerprint.
I cold see where too much rotation may cause problems if the image data doesn't have some region that matches with earlier data.
I was having the same problem as the OP. Basically, I think it stems from the fact that depending on how I am holding my phone at unlock, different parts of my thumb are hitting the sensor. What I did was create separate fingerprint entries using the same thumb, but at the various angles and positions of my thumb when holding it the 2 or 3 different ways I hold it.
So my entries look like:
Right Thumb 1
Right Thumb 2
Right Thumb 3
Right Pointer
Left Thumb
The hardest one to get to scan was the top part of my thumb (this happens if I'm already holding my phone for awhile). I basically just let it sit on the sensor during the reading process until it gave me the vibration feedback. Sometimes it took up to 10-15 seconds. If I didn't get the feedback within 30 seconds I would lift and try again.
This has definitely helped as I haven't had a misread since I did this. And you can actually test it by going into the fingerprint part of the settings and trying it, the different names that you made will light up when you put your thumb on the sensor, and the various Right Thumb 1,2,3 lights up depending on the angle of my thumb. Basically assigning 3 different prints to your most common unlocking finger so that it's essentially guaranteed to get a good reading no matter what.
So my entries look like:
Right Thumb 1
Right Thumb 2
Right Thumb 3
Right Pointer
Left Thumb
The hardest one to get to scan was the top part of my thumb (this happens if I'm already holding my phone for awhile). I basically just let it sit on the sensor during the reading process until it gave me the vibration feedback. Sometimes it took up to 10-15 seconds. If I didn't get the feedback within 30 seconds I would lift and try again.
This has definitely helped as I haven't had a misread since I did this. And you can actually test it by going into the fingerprint part of the settings and trying it, the different names that you made will light up when you put your thumb on the sensor, and the various Right Thumb 1,2,3 lights up depending on the angle of my thumb. Basically assigning 3 different prints to your most common unlocking finger so that it's essentially guaranteed to get a good reading no matter what.
This is what I ended up doing too.
I plan on going to the apple store in the next day or two and test the display.
Funny this keeps getting quoted although Steve Jobs never said that.
