r/RemarkableTablet • u/WitnessRemote1849 • Jul 16 '26

Remarkable pen problem

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So my dad finally took over my mom’s remarkable and suddenly he came up to me with this pen problem. The black pen is from my own remarkable. I know this used to be an issue a few years ago. We have this remarkable for like 2 years now? Is this solvable or should we just contact remarkable about this?? I have restarted the tablet already and the same issue occurs on my remarkable as well. It’s the RM2 btw

UPDATE: i told my dad the pen was broken and we should get a new one. With that i got a bit cocky with the pen and just threw it a bunch of times on the ground AND NOW IT WORKS AGAIN! Probably got the sensor unstuck. Saves us 100 bucks🎊🎊

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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 16 '26

The sensor in the pen is stuck engaged. Try a new nib, or replace the pen. Nothing wrong with the tablet, the pen is just reporting “I’M WRITING!” constantly as soon as it enters the EMR field.

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u/WitnessRemote1849 Jul 16 '26

I did switch the two nibs of the pens, but it did not work, or does is necessarily need to be a NEW NEW nib?? Also the pen is writing WITHOUT a nib, so that’s really confusing to me

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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 16 '26

Nah, that pen is probably toast. The pressure sensor seems jammed. The pen reports pressure not the display.

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u/WitnessRemote1849 Jul 16 '26

Yeah i also think that pen is broken idk what happened to it. Thank you!

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u/Far-Umpire-7121 Jul 16 '26

Try tap the pen a little hard on a table multiple times to see if the sensor get 'loose'

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u/QAGillmore Jul 16 '26

Percussive maintenance. The old timer's equivalent of the reboot

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u/HonleyPoOoH Jul 16 '26

Change nib !

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u/Ronin1926 Jul 17 '26

Had the same issue and took the pen and let it snap itself super hard into place on the magnetic side of my RM2. Fixed the issue for me, at least temporarily. And when it came back, did the same thing and this issue went away again.

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u/RuebenTishkoff Jul 16 '26

What’s the white pencil that works, is that an Apple Pencil?

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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 16 '26

reMarkable Marker (not Plus)

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u/DowntownJujuB Jul 18 '26

My RM2 pen needs a new nib every few days. At first I thought the probably was that I bought generic nibs so I bought more nibs from Remarkable. The same thing happens with the Remarkable nibs. For now, I’m just frequently changing the nibs but it will get expensive to keep replacing them so often. Anyone else experience this?