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G1 dev phone screen does not respond amost 70% of time

i purchased g1 from ebay, right from day1 the screen does not respond properly in fact most of the times. i need to reset soft one to at least g1 working. i upgraded to jesusfrake adp1.1 but issue is same. looks like a s/w bug or problem as if it were a h/w problem it would not have worked at all. if iam lucky it works like a charm but stops responding once i get some sms/email alert or install any app from market. can someone help here!!

Have you already tried reflashing the firmware? If not, do that. Otherwise, why don't you contact the person you bought the phone from. It sounds like it may be a hardware problem which might be why that person was selling it.

i did flash everything from bootloader to firmware to rooting. but problem remains same...it works for 5 minutes and again screen stops responding but trackball is active....right now iam on latest JF formware..

is anyone facing a simillar problem??? any work arounds....

Sometimes my home screen goes completely blank on me and seems nonresponsive for about 30 seconds. Can be pretty annoying. It seems to happen when I'm switching from an app to the home screen.

Contact HTC directly and ask for an exchange or something. All G1's have been out for less than a year and so they should be covered by warranty.

I put a new screen protector on my G1. I noticed that it had a bad reaction with the touch and I took it off. After I took it off, my touch screen got much worse. It was very jumpy and unuseable. There was a practically invisible film on the screen (couldn't even really feel it. I took a little bit of soap on a lint free cloth and wiped the screen down and let it sit for just a minute (to soak any residue) and wiped away. My screen worked perfect after that.
I was ready to call in for a replacement.

could it be a bug as if it were a hardware problem it would prevent touch screen responding at all!!!

i downgraded to rc 30 and rooted the phone, now its working like a charm!! strange though.......

Did my touchscreen die?

Hello everyone,
Today i installed my parrot bluetooth carkit. And after i connected a couple of times my phone became unstable.
So unstable that i'm not able to tap the screen.....
I don't know what happened due that i have hard resetted the phone a couple of times and even switched from m-rom to energyrom 3.0 with the same results.
Only one thing that was strange is that the touch pro start up screen with the red characters in the right bottom.
That after i flashed m-rom to energy rom that the touch pro characters in the middle were still different like the way that are made in m-rom. With the addition : powered by m-rom
So this means that the phone doesnt format his core
Help please give me any advice.
UPDATE:When backlight is dimmed, it will be bright if i touch it once. Afterwards it will maintain the same.
I have tried several roms and tried to restore my SPL aswell, without any results till now.
I'm getting desperate now. Due that i stays in the screen of ALLIGNMENT, so i'm really not able to start up anything from now.

Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.

I have a OIL spot in the screen when i keep it in bright light.
This could be occured when the phone was inside my bag during my beach visit.....
I guess the phone turned liquid by the sun....
Does somebody ever experienced the same issue?

fone_fanatic said:
Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.
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I have a oil spot, and the raster of the phone with little dots in visible in the ligt.
I have made a repair order at HTC.
Which didn't satisfy me at all!
They told me that it is not covered by warranty. I was shocked, this will cost me around 70 euro to fix, and my shop warranty is still valid. So i called the shop to explain this.
And they said if this is not caused by a user, we will change the phone, but first we what to have a diagnose from HTC.
So i decided to let HTC pick up my phone . They will have a repair time of 5 up till 10 days.
That's fair, but i'm not really happy with this situation. Because i think that the screen is the most harmful component. And this means that if this part fails that my phone becomes obsolete.
I will post my conclusion after i got my phone repaired.
I will return to the STOCK spl and the original rom just for warranty purposes.

dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?

fone_fanatic said:
dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?
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Nope nothing happened at all.
Thats the strange thing about this situation.
I was in the shadow of the sun and the bags were only filled with clothes. So it didn't drop or something else.
I was able to use my phone during the day.... and was getting more unresponsive during the time that went by.
So i will not accept any blame of myself, due that i have a warranty of 1 year from the factory which will not cover your display :S
But also have the store warranty... So i told the store that i will return the phone if there are any costs.
The store told me that they will wait on the diagnose of HTC which i have sent it to myself to reduce the time.
If the diagnose tells that it's not my fault, then i can return my phone probably.... He couldn't promise it due that i want to see the diagnose first.
So I will wait on HTC's conclusion.... And i'm afraid that they will try to blame me for it....
They better not I will be a pain in there arses

Hello, I have exactly the same problem. After flashing from energyrom 3.0 to Aurora, a few hours later, i couldn't get my phone out of lock. (slide a button to the right or left on your touchscreen)
I tried a soft reset, but the phone started up with the same locked screen. So, i tried a hard reset. From that moment on i got stuck at "align screen". I ve flashed several times with several ROM's but nothing. (by the way, whatever rom i install, the first screen always says: Energyrom by NTGZ28)
I used the trick to paste welcome.not on the micro card, to bypass the align screen. That works, but the touch screen doesn't work. I 've removed the protection of the screen, but that doesn't make a difference either. My device didn't fall, came into contact with water or anything that could harm the thing. Oh, when the backlight is dimmed, the screen reacts to tapping it. Please help me out ??
resolt the issue. Because of a lot scraches (spelled ok?), i removed the protective screen. When i put the new screen on, everything worked !

hivesnl said:
I have a OIL spot
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i had does as well and then touch screen stopped working..
had to replace digitizer, unfortunately had to replace LCD screen and digitizer at the end (was not able to separate digitizer from LCD)

[Q] Touch Screen sensitivity issues??

My phone freaked out today and the right side of the screen is non-responsive. It played havoc with the lock screen and once I got in, it was opening apps and switching from one thing to another as if someone was touching the right side of the screen. I was running the SteelEpicBlue V4 ROM, so I had to reflash back to Cincy Bell ROM before taking it to the store.
For those with the Otterbox, has anyone experienced touch screen sensitivity issues? I took the screen protector portion of the Otterbox off to see if that was an issue, but it didn't fix anything.
I have the insurance, so I hope the replacement XT720 doesn't have the same issues.

banshee56 said:
My phone freaked out today and the right side of the screen is non-responsive. It played havoc with the lock screen and once I got in, it was opening apps and switching from one thing to another as if someone was touching the right side of the screen. I was running the SteelEpicBlue V4 ROM, so I had to reflash back to Cincy Bell ROM before taking it to the store.
For those with the Otterbox, has anyone experienced touch screen sensitivity issues? I took the screen protector portion of the Otterbox off to see if that was an issue, but it didn't fix anything.
I have the insurance, so I hope the replacement XT720 doesn't have the same issues.
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I assume the problem persisted after flashing back to the stock ROM? To me it sounds like a hardware issue. I think you'll be fine with the replacement.

The phone wasn't acting like it was experiencing random screen touches, but the keyboard still wouldn't recognize touches to the "p" or the "b" keys (in portrait mode, anyway).

I know this is bringing up an old thread, but relative to the problem stated above, I got a replacement XT720 several months ago, yet the replacement is now doing the same thing. Using the stock keyboard, I cannot use the p/0 key and expect it to freak out like before in the next few weeks. No one else has seen this issue?

[Q] Screen Problem

Hello,
i have a problem with my Desire S. The bottom part of the screen is not responding properly. It shapes a rectangular shape 1cm height -let's say in paint- just above the -menu, phone, widget- buttons. I can't select the last contacts and i am lucky if i can press the c,v,b,n,m buttons on the keyboard. I took it for repair, they changed my screen and motherboard but the problem still persists. Any ideas?
Thanks

Stock rom? Custom rom? Factory reset?

stock rom. i took for repair and they changed the motherboard and the screen and had the problem again. it was on factory settings when i got it back. i don't believe the technicians switched on the phone to checked if it was fixed after they installed the new screen and motherboard:s

Any screen protector you're using?

Sounds like a problem with the digitizer... screen protectors usually do not cause problems like these...
My money would be on a hardware bug (digitizer)

Ghost input and screen moving on its own

Has anyone else seen this. The task switcher comes up by itself. When I am in a browser, it will scroll by itself. the desktop switches between screen..
Thoughts?
Thanks

Does this happen anytime? I've never had this, make sure your screen is clean xD Otherwise you could try the touchscreen booster app, it may fix it (calibrates screen)

Yeah tried that, but still have the issue on occasion

My bezzel was on too tight and it was causing the screen to warp and cause false inputs so you might want to check that

Hi,
I have the same issue.
My screen is moving and it lauches some applications/pushing some virtual buttons by itself.
Do you have any solution ?
Thank you in advance
Best regards
Xavier

xavier.misseri said:
Hi,
I have the same issue.
My screen is moving and it lauches some applications/pushing some virtual buttons by itself.
Do you have any solution ?
Thank you in advance
Best regards
Xavier
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Have you tried a reboot? This same problem happens to me if water gets on the screen, so as suggested give the screen a good wipe.

I have tried reboot, Cold reboot (I don't know what it is but I have tried...) and Hard reboot (wipe everything and I did not install/configure anything).
I cleaned the screen (5 minutes ago).
Nothing of these solved the problem... :-(
The screen moves... shifting from a desktop to another... launching apps... :-(
What is disapointing is that, sometime, the screen is good and stable for a long time (30 minutes) and begins to move without any interaction.
I think I will ask if someone has been murdered in my appartment

xavier.misseri said:
I have tried reboot, Cold reboot (I don't know what it is but I have tried...) and Hard reboot (wipe everything and I did not install/configure anything).
I cleaned the screen (5 minutes ago).
Nothing of these solved the problem... :-(
The screen moves... shifting from a desktop to another... launching apps... :-(
What is disapointing is that, sometime, the screen is good and stable for a long time (30 minutes) and begins to move without any interaction.
I think I will ask if someone has been murdered in my appartment
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Have you cleaned the bezel too? Otherwise it may look like a hardware issue maybe with loose cables or the digitiser is just broken.
Sorry if I couldn't help.

What is the Bezel ?

xavier.misseri said:
What is the Bezel ?
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The metal strip round the outside of the screen

The black space that surrounds the the screen.

OK, I did not wipe both black surrounding and metal cover.
I do it ASAP and tell you in an hour if this is ok.
Thank you very much both of you
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Unfortunately... no change..... :-(
I egin to believe the screen is too sensitive to electromagnetique perturbance....

I downloaded a soft (touchscreen tuner) showing where the pression is done on the screen.
Where the ghost uses the tablet, the pressure is done on a horizontal line, a little bit above the bar.

I had the me problem.
I managed to get rid of the ghost inputs by flashing another rom(i had installed arhd and then moved to liquid smooth), since my tranny is running liquid smooth i havnt had any ghost input ;D

Thank you all,
I changed the rom of the tablet. The ghost was also there... but perhaps less...
I contacted and he gave me a soft to re-calibrate the touch screen:
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/download/TouchRecalibrate.apk
At the end the ghost seems to have disapeared... but I am not sure what was the solution... the rom ? the soft ? or a high elecytromagnec perturbance in my home.....
Thank you all.

Just in case it's necessary, make sure you don't have something that can conduct near the screen. This includes dirty water or sweat. :/ I'm a sweaty guy so sometimes it messes with the screen when my finger tips are sweaty.

Hi,
I tried to clean the tablet and put it on my bed.
I watched it during less than 2 mn, without approaching less than 1 meter, and it began to move alone...
So I don't think I am the source of the ghost...

is there any real fix for this problem?
as anyone completely got rid of the problem?

samsung gslaxy note 2 i317m ghost input and screen moves voluntarily
I also have this problem with them screen moving at will. This is my second galaxy note 2. If anyone can tell me what a possible fix could be I would appreciate it. I have tried many roms along with dong a fresh installation using ODIN.

torontoyes said:
I also have this problem with them screen moving at will. This is my second galaxy note 2. If anyone can tell me what a possible fix could be I would appreciate it. I have tried many roms along with dong a fresh installation using ODIN.
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Might want to try the Note 2 forum. Not many (if any) going to see this in this forum.