screen not working properly on my tablet I have a brand new 10.1 inch tablet, made in china. The screen doesn't respond to touch as much as it should, a few other little things and I can't work out some of the onscreen operating icon/button things. The resellers suggested I start with Android Central Forums, as this is the only Android devise they sell so they don't know the answers. I joined up with A.C.Forums, but can't work out how to post. Help and/or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks
There's an easy way to check if the tablet has a faulty touchscreen. Go into Google Play and install a painting app. There are many free painting apps to choose from: just pick a simple one. Run the app and try to paint the whole screen. If the painting doesn't follow your finger, or any parts of the screen can't be painted, you can see the screen is faulty, and you should return it to the seller for a refund or exchange. Faulty touchscreens are quite common on cheap Chinese imports because they use cheaper components and don't test them thoroughly.

The other possibility is that, being a cheap tablet, it has an old-fashioned resistive touchscreen instead of a proper capacitive one. You can tell by using a pointy plastic stylus (such as the handle end of a toothbrush, or the non-writing end of a ballpoint pen) to click on something on the screen. If that works, it's a resistive screen, not a capacitive one.

You'll find any swipe gestures a lot harder to perform on a resistive screen, and multi-touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom are not possible at all. You'll find a resistive touchscreen is a lot more responsive to being pressed with your fingernail instead of the flat 'pad' of your finger.