I had some ugly but purely cosmetic damage/scratches to the frame and screen on my Pixel 3 XL (fell about 8 inches out of my pocket on to my driveway while I was crouched, working under my truck) and I decided to get uBreakiFix (they are the official repair centers for Google and they use OEM parts and official Google repair manuals) to replace it for $400 because I was tired of looking at it and I'll be using it for at least another year and a half.
Anyhow, they ordered the parts last week and did the work today and everything seemed fine, the phone looked brand new but a few hours later I noticed while I was typing a text that when I was trying to type "an" my screen was registering a swipe between my two thumbs as I typed, causing my keyboard to type a bunch of letters and this kept happening until I stopped typing for a second and then it was fine. I just thought it was bug and restarted the phone, but now I notice it's doing frequently and randomly and not only when I'm typing. I download an app to test the touch screen and it seems totally fine but if I sit and tap two points on the screen one after the other over and over, randomly it will register as a swipes in between each other, repeatedly until I stop for a couple of seconds and then if I start again it will be fine. Sometimes this happens after two seconds of tapping, sometimes it takes several minutes.
I booted into safe mode and it still happened so I'm guessing it's the new display, but it just seems weird because it's completely random and the screen works totally fine otherwise (it registers all of my single touches and actual swipes just fine). I even thought maybe there was some sort of residue/coating on the screen from factory and gave it a clean with some 99% isopropyl alcohol but that didn't do anything.
Anyone experience anything similar before?
Similiar issue happened on a different phone and it was after screen replacement. Sometimes it was registering normally but then it was acting weird. Normally only when charging this might happen(Power signal quality and ESD) but normally not.
Try using a screen test app, show it to the shop for proof and request for replacement.
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The touchscreen just stopped working on my Tilt 2 today (stock ROM), for no reason. The phone wasn't dropped or mishandled and I hadn't added any software or changed anything in the last few weeks. When I picked it up, it was on the WinMo Start screen and I couldn't press any icons on the screen. I soft reset it using the stylus and the reset button, but the same thing happened. I did a hard reset as well, but the screen wouldn't respond.
Does anyone have any ideas? Hardware failure? AT&T is sending me a warranty replacement so I'm stuck using an old unlocked RAZR for a few days. It's pretty disappointing that such an expensive phone would just stop working.
Same thing has happened to me. It has been happening a few times lately and a reboot fixes it.
Now it seems it is permananent. I'm going to try to flash a new ROM and see if it's software related.
I had a similar problem.. although the touchscreen wasn't unresponsive, it just responded/registered touches in the wrong places!!
Sometimes after about 3-4 hours (from a reboot) it starts working normally, other times now. Tried hard reset but that didn't improve anything.
There's a slight possibility I used it in the rain a couple of times too much, so possible water damage?
The moisture detector has gone pink on the phone (a small sticker on the inside that turns from white to pink whenever detects moisure, which HTC use to refuse warranty replacements from what I've read) but that was probably pink from a long time ago anyway.
Hi guys. I know many of you have had touchscreen problems and whatnot, i searched but it seems like this one is a bit different from usual. Yesterday the phone was totally fine; i woke up this morning and it had a lot of touchscreen problems: at first it registered touches without me doing anything, but after a couple of reboots it was just unresponsive. After another reboot and some messagging, the problem reduced to a strip on the screen simply not working. The strip is located exactly where the first notification on the status bar is (like when you receive a message and you click on that notification). I have the trueancestor stats bar buttons, so that zone is a tad more down than usual. Anyway, all I did yesterday was a quick game. I think it may be the flex cable not working because of the sliding, but it happened all of a sudden, not gradually. I must say that some weeks ago I had the same "registers touches by itself" issue when typing, but a simple reboot was enough. I tried doing factory reset, but nothing so far. Also I can't use pc companion to flash everything stock back (I unlocked bootloader months ago, even though I relocked it; I dunno if it's locked or not right now), and I can't seem to find a working flashtool download link -_-. I don't think that would help much, it probably is a hardware problem, but who knows. I'm on true ancestor 1.6 LE, stock kernel.
Any help would be great, as I fear the phone will get refused in assistance because of bootloader unlocking.
Did your phone had contact with water? When my screen had contact with water it registered touches randomly.
it didn't. it has a screen protector anyway; but that's not the problem for sure. it doesn't register randomly, simply a strip doesn't work now...
Hardware problem. Could be flex cable or digitizer.
Today there were two moments it began to work again, but a few minutes after each one the problem came back. Sigh...
Mine does that when the screen is moist or my hands are too oily. Are you sure you're working in a dry environment?
mhh... exactly that? I dunno, my hands are dry and i think the screen is too; it has a quite thick screen protector (the skinomi one), so even if it got moist that shouldn't be a problem, right? I'm now living in a different town and that may have changed something, but the problem didn't show up until now, and it was sudden.
Also, I noticed that using gamekeyboard on a certain profile I had buttons placed on the strip, and pressing hardware keys mapped to those buttons actually works. This restricts the problem just to the actual finger-touch-detecting mechanism. Does anyone know anything about this?
Edit: lol I heated the phone up a bit with a hair dryer. It works now. I hope it will last and I'll not have to do this again over and over
So, initially I began having problems with "ghost touching", then, portions of my screen became unresponsive to touch in addition to the "ghost touching". I did the line drawing test multiple times. At times, it showed a dead space to the right (vertically only, horizontal was ok), other times, it was working fine. I was so focused on checking the right side of the screen, I didn't check the bottom. When I did, it showed an unresponsive area at the bottom as well. Almost as if the screen was off kilter. I did a factory reset through the normal phone menu and from TWRP and the ghost touching has seemed to resolve itself, however, the unresponsive screen is getting worse. Now a full 1/3 of the screen on the right is intermittently unresponsive.
I am hoping there is something I can flash on this phone that might assist the digitizer if it is software related. If not, could it be that the cable is not grounded properly or has possibly become partly unplugged? I know what a pain this phone is to take apart because I had to take my first M8 apart when I accidentally gave it a ride home in a cup of tea. (really tired after working one night, forgot the cup was in the cup holder). Turns out they really don't like that. My current M8 I bought from a private seller, so I have no warranty, no insurance and extremely limited funds at the moment for handling this problem. I've had this replacement phone for several months, so I know the phone wasn't defective when I got it.
I am rooted, running stock ROM, stock kernel and TWRP Recovery v2.7.0.2
Thank you in advance for any help.
My Asus Zenforne 2 suddenly started behaving unexpectedly.
Even if the screen is locked and closed, phone automatically tries to open but as it is locked, it will show wrong password.
But its keep on trying to open the screen, its like a continuous screen touch happens every time.
After I open using my password, it is accessing the phone automatically like opening application what ever is present and keep on doing something.
So basically phone behaves as some one keeps on clicking the phone continuously.
I thought it might be happening only during charging, but it proved me wrong.
I did restart many times, after every restart for few minutes, it works fine but after sometime, the same story.
I did clear the cache partition, but still same issue.
I did factory reset, it took around 3 hours.
Post that it is working as expected. Dont know what was the issue exactly. I had many apps installed.
But again after few minutes, the same issue appeared. System keeps on clicking randomly throughout the screen.
I am not able to do anything.
i have the same problem to...the screen die...change the screen all will work fine again
mine warranty passed...have to paid hopes yours is still under warranty
bishnuprasad14 said:
My Asus Zenforne 2 suddenly started behaving unexpectedly.
Even if the screen is locked and closed, phone automatically tries to open but as it is locked, it will show wrong password.
But its keep on trying to open the screen, its like a continuous screen touch happens every time.
After I open using my password, it is accessing the phone automatically like opening application what ever is present and keep on doing something.
So basically phone behaves as some one keeps on clicking the phone continuously.
I thought it might be happening only during charging, but it proved me wrong.
I did restart many times, after every restart for few minutes, it works fine but after sometime, the same story.
I did clear the cache partition, but still same issue.
I did factory reset, it took around 3 hours.
Post that it is working as expected. Dont know what was the issue exactly. I had many apps installed.
But again after few minutes, the same issue appeared. System keeps on clicking randomly throughout the screen.
I am not able to do anything.
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Your problem appears consistent with "Ghost touch". It is a well known problem for zenfone 2. You can search about that with the keyword Ghost touch in here or in the google and read about it if you want.
If your phone is under warranty, contact the service center and schedule for the repair. They usually change the digitizer.
If your phone is out of warranty, you can order the digitizer for around US$ 30-50 and change it yourself. There are a couple of instructional video on youtube showing how to replace the digitizer for asus zenfone 2.
Thank you sway8966.
I observed few things
1. When the phone is in charging and little bit heated up, this happens very frequently.
2. After long usage, when the phone is warming up, this issue happens.
3. Sometimes, even it is there lying on the desk, still happens. Wiping up the screen cleanly helps sometimes.
4. Most of the times, the clicks or touches happening on one single row.
5. When the phone is locked as pattern, all the clicks happens on the first row of the pattern lock only.
So not able to conclude, what is the issue exactly. Whether it is screen problem, or due to heating up or due to insulation issue.
I have read multiple posts in many platforms but not able to conclude the root cause of the issue.
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i have the same problem to...the screen die...change the screen all will work fine again
mine warranty passed...have to paid hopes yours is still under warranty
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My warranty also expired just a month back.
So no idea, how much it will cost and whether it is worth spending the money or go for a new device.
bishnuprasad14 said:
My warranty also expired just a month back.
So no idea, how much it will cost and whether it is worth spending the money or go for a new device.
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It cost around $40 in indonesia, maybe u should consider to change the screen.
Oh yeah, dont take ur phone to asus service center when ur guarantee is alrd expired, it will cost around $120 to replace the screen :crying:
I also had this issue, but it was due to a cheap glass protector I had got from Aliexpress. I suspected it could be that, since the issue appeared just the day after I put the protector on my phone, about one week ago. This morning it suddenly began happening again and it stopped just after removing the glass protector, and it hasn't happened again yet, so I guess I was right. If any of you also used a cheap protector, that could be the source of the problem. I have now ordered a Nilkin protector, which is supposed to be of superior quality (and is indeed way more expensive) and hope I can use it without any ghost touches.
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I also had this issue, but it was due to a cheap glass protector I had got from Aliexpress. I suspected it could be that, since the issue appeared just the day after I put the protector on my phone, about one week ago. This morning it suddenly began happening again and it stopped just after removing the glass protector, and it hasn't happened again yet, so I guess I was right. If any of you also used a cheap protector, that could be the source of the problem. I have now ordered a Nilkin protector, which is supposed to be of superior quality (and is indeed way more expensive) and hope I can use it without any ghost touches.
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I had exactly the same problem yesterday but the "ghost touch" problem had happened 3 days after I've put the protector. So I've removed it and the phone works fine again. It was this glass protector : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B01GTE6TUA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 so avoid it
Recently I returned my Razer because the vibration in my phone sounded horrible. Over two weeks later I got a replacement phone back and the vibration ended up sounding even worse than the first so I just assumed they're all this crappy. Then one day later after setting up my second Razer phone this happened.
The screen went black and clicking the power would vibrate but the screen wouldn't come on until eventually, it appeared as you can see in my screenshots. I managed to factory reset it and even after it still appears cut in half until finally, I was able to power it off again and restart, which after it seemed fine for a bit before the entire scenario replayed itself. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
Obviously abnormal behavior. I'd try another rma
Can confirm that mine does a similar thing. Every now and again left half of the screen would freeze. It happens for a few seconds and comes back normally. I saw it first about a week ago, but thought it had to do with a specific app. Since then I had it happening in other apps and home screen.
Can't say I've seen this, and that's from 3 phones. Have yet to update to the new firmware yet though.
I have seen that with some company's laptops before and generally its had to be put down as Dead on Arrival as usually caused by some physical damage to the screen. With phones I cant say I have ever seen it happen on a small screen but certainly get it sent back as from 10 years in repairs I wouldn't see a software fix for that type of screen issue.
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Mine went from having left side glitch occasionally to the who screen turning back every now an then. Left side is mostly frozen. On the bright side, I found that if you apply some light pressure to the middle of the bottom grill you can get the screen back pretty reliably. Judging by disassembly video it is where screen cable is bent to go under screen assembly, so it is probably result of some stress/tearing of that cable. Would explain partial malfunction as opposed to complete failure, but I can obviously be wrong.
Also, RMA was granted without a problem after we tried a factory reset with the tech.
RMA would be the best bet. I am surprised by the defective stories popping up, but at the same time I don't think I've even counted 100 people that have had a defect requiring an rma. And we know they sold at least 1,337 of the phones, so that's still a decent failure rate.. Though I think they need to revisit it and get that number lower.
yeah without question send it back to the store as dead on arrival or rma the phone - sooner its sent back the better with laptop screens doing this 9/10 times was the screen was broke and mainly a loose cable or dropped by the user. 1st 30 days or so the retailers and laptop manufacture could replace them but the longer it took to report it the more inclined to treat it as damage and not cover it under warranty.
Yes im comparing a phone screen to a laptop and normally a loose or damaged cable would show signs of this, Could be temperature related as well.
It was pretty much dead on arrival it's just annoying to have to go through another RMA and the whole 2-3 weeks before getting another replacement.
Also whoever mentioned squeezing the bottom speaker is correct that temporarily fixes the issue.
My Razer phone screen has failed
I've owned the Razer phone for less than two months. Yesterday, I went to wake the screen from sleep (press power button). The phone displayed random black and white bars pulsing across the entire screen. I was unable to interact with the phone while it was in this state. I restarted the phone by holding the power button and volume up at the same time. The phone restarted but the screen remained black ; the screen did not light up at all. The phone was in fact powered on and eventually the android "tic...tic...tic" sound played during device boot, when awaiting user input (android tic sounds played while awaiting password input during startup). While the speakers worked the the power led located in the bezel still lit, the screen remained OFF/dark. While continuing to hold the phone and move it around the screen finally lit. The left side of the screen appears "stuck" (does not refresh). Whatever was displayed on the screen when this condition occurs remains frozen on the left side of the phone. It's a perfect 50/50 split. In other words, the left 50% of the screen (portrait orientation) has a complete image "stuck" on the screen from whatever was displayed when the screen last froze (eventually it releases and then immediately freezes again). The frozen left side of the screen eventually updates as you continue to interact with the phone (this is NOT anything like burn-in). It's lit nice and bright but the left side of the screen appears to freeze and will not refresh while you interact with the device. The right side of the screen continues to update normally. I was able to capture a screenshot (power button + volume down) and confirmed the image captured does NOT reflect the display issue. This appears to be a hardware failure. Other Razer phone owners are reporting it and a video has been posted to YT demonstrating the "Razer phone screen problem?". Razer has offered an RMA however they DON'T afford advance RMA (you must ship your device to them, they receive it, then eventually ship a replacement). That's unacceptable for a $700 phone that took over a week to arrive because they shipped it from HK and got stuck in customs. Buyers beware, I would avoid this phone for now until the cause of this issue is identified OR Razer strengthens their replacement processes..
update/more info: I was able to complete a factory reset and the issue persists.
also, as another user stated above, pressing lightly and applying pressure around the edges or to the screen does appear to cause the screen to light back up again when it's dark (in other words the screen goes to black and will not wake. then when you apply some light pressure around the device it reliably lights the screen again; until the next failure which is moments later)
Hi my razer did up date swiched off and has never come back on dont even show charging has eny one els had this
I've got my Razer phone on the 20th of December 2017. Used it a couple of months before noticing the entire top part of the screen having dead zone. Rendering my phone to be unable to tap on anything on the dead zone. I've proceeded to exchange emails with Razer and got it RMA-ed on the 20th of March 2018. To my surprise. My 2nd set is experiencing the same exact issue right now in less than a month of using it. Are there anyone else out there experiencing this issue?
Got my razer phone on the 20th December, last month while using Google maps the left side froze for a bit, fixed it at the time with a reboot, didn't do it again till last week and now does it all the time. I'm waiting for an RMA guy from razer to email me back, and I've put a post on Reddit under the /r/razerphone sub to keep everyone interested how my RMA process is going to go. How long does it take to get your fixed/replacement phone back to you? If I dropped the phone and broke the screen, my insurance company would replace it and get it back to me within 5 days for £25 fee. I bet razer are gonna take weeks.... ?
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since i got the phone at the start the screen was flashing black then an hour later phone was all gucci,now if i press the side of the speaker like a small bit harder the whole screen goes black untill i manage to restart the phone, now at all i dunno whats happening nothing happens all i does it vibrates when i try to unlock the phone theres no sound anymore when the phone gets unlocked so im guessing i cant restart it anymore cause it dosent unlock :/
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ok thanks , i should refund it or no because i need to factory reset it but i cant see anything cause the screen is black .
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I've got my Razer phone on the 20th of December 2017. Used it a couple of months before noticing the entire top part of the screen having dead zone. Rendering my phone to be unable to tap on anything on the dead zone. I've proceeded to exchange emails with Razer and got it RMA-ed on the 20th of March 2018. To my surprise. My 2nd set is experiencing the same exact issue right now in less than a month of using it. Are there anyone else out there experiencing this issue?
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Bought Razer in March. And now have same problem !