Screen Issues - Epic 4G General

every now and then, my screen seems to not be responsive to my touch. ill tap on an icon or widget to open it repeatedly with no action to take place. its like im 'not' touching my screen. it gets real annoying when it happens on the lock screen and i cant even access my phone for some moments till my epic decides to detect my touch. another issue ive been having with my phone is when i tap my screen, the orientation or something seems off. if i tap on something at the top of my screen it'll click something on the bottom or vise versa. these screen issues seem to be the major probs im having with my phone. ive tried to search all over the net to see if others users have this prob to see if its an issue with the phone in general or just something with mine. i havent found anything on this issue that im having. if you also experience problems like i have please let me know and/or if there is a fix or something i can do to remedy the problem.
*my screen issues are not all the time. its all random. /// other than that i LOVE my new phone and couldnt be more than happier to finally get rid of my iPhone after 2.5 years.

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hd2 keeps freezing!

hello all
Firstly, not a hd2 hater, quite the opposite in fact. I love the beast.
However, I'm having a bit of a problem with it.....
Whenever I leave it in my pocket or overnight for a while, and go to unlock it,
It gets stuck on the unlock screen for like 30 secs!
Something similar also happens sometimes when I'm using the phone, e.g. to play a game or read something with MS reader, it will slow everything down to the point that my game is crawling or it takes like 10 odd seconds to change my ebook's page, and this will last for 30s-1min.
I'm running the 1.61 ROM and other than that don't really have any problems!
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? anyone found a workaround?
Would appreciate any help!
anyone else had this problem?
Phone won't unlock
I have a similar problem My HD2 unlock slider won't slide far enough left or right to unlock. The slider stays stuck in a position 90% of the way across. I can slide it to the other side by the same amount, but the phone won't unlock. the only way i can get it to work is to hit the end/power button (the only button which works), and then take the battery out.
Does anybody have any thoughts? I'm about to do a hard reset, but would prefer not to.
Phone won't unlock
I have a similar problem. My HD2 unlock slider won't slide far enough left or right to unlock. The slider stays stuck in a position 90% of the way across. I can slide it to the other side by the same amount, but the phone won't unlock. the only way i can get it to work is to hit the end/power button (the only button which works), and then take the battery out.
Does anybody have any thoughts? I'm about to do a hard reset, but would prefer not to.
Search for the thread "HD2 Died - or did it" to help solve your issues.
WB
hd2 keeps freezing..
Im having the same problem that when my phone is in sleep mode overnight, when i wake up i cant slide it all the way over it takes about 30 secs before it starts working...did you ever find a soulution?
may be u should try
settings/menu/all settings/today/items/today logout to 12hrs
hope this helps
czar.nik said:
hello all
Firstly, not a hd2 hater, quite the opposite in fact. I love the beast.
However, I'm having a bit of a problem with it.....
Whenever I leave it in my pocket or overnight for a while, and go to unlock it,
It gets stuck on the unlock screen for like 30 secs!
Something similar also happens sometimes when I'm using the phone, e.g. to play a game or read something with MS reader, it will slow everything down to the point that my game is crawling or it takes like 10 odd seconds to change my ebook's page, and this will last for 30s-1min.
I'm running the 1.61 ROM and other than that don't really have any problems!
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? anyone found a workaround?
Would appreciate any help!
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try flashing a custom rom. see my sig for all you need to know about custom roms.
Hmm, mine did the same thing yesterday after using SportyPal on a 4hr MTB ride. It performed great while out and about, but when I got home the unlock screen had frozen. I tried different things to get it going but ended up doing a reboot. Thankfully SportyPal retained my ride data and everything was cool. But I guess there are deeper issues causing more people to experience this?
In any event get rid of the lockscreen. it causes significant lockups and lags on the HD2. Take a look here and read the comments for an additional reg value: http://windowsmobile.mobilitydigest.com/disable-lockscreen-hd2-stops-freezing-its-magic/
mine freezes for no reason at times it wont get pass the first plash screen. i tried flashing just about every rom i can get my hands on and nothing works. i tried flashing android and my phone started getting really warm

[TEST] touch screen/calibration issues... may have figured some things out?

Ok, so over the course of time I have owned my phone I think I may have found one of the reasons for the phone to go out of calibration in terms of touch accuracy but I just want to make sure its not just my phone doing it.
What I have noticed is that if I hold my phone at an awkward angle for a few minutes (typically 5ish minutes) the calibration will go out of whack. This notoriously happens when I have my phone in navigation mode and just laying on my lap (landscape mode). Today I was driving and I got a text mid way to where I was going so I picked the phone up to hit the talk-to-text button (which is really nice for texting while driving by the way) and it was out of calibration, could not hit the button to save my life. Similar has happened when I held the phone at an awkward angle while watching a movie laying in bed. So I would like to see if anyone gets similar results holding the phone at an awkward angle for a few minutes, I would say give it 5-10 minutes for an accurate result. Try doing things like holding it literally upside down while its in landscape mode and then switching it back to portrait and type on the small keyboard again. I would go into a program of some sort that you can test touching all areas of the screen with.
Now, it seems like before the OTA update, I would have to reset the phone and sometimes that wouldnt work still. However now (and I have tested multiple times with consistent results) that if you lock the phone and then unlock it, the calibration seems to be adjusted again.
Let me know your results.
**For the record, I have had a very positive experience with this phone since I purchased it but I have been able to replicate the "touch screen issue" many a times and would just like to get to the bottom of the issue if all else to just avoid it or tell others how to avoid it happening to them because it is quite annoying.
it sounds like a software hiccup i would hope it would be getting patched sometime..... but as of now i dont know of anyone that's got a fix for it. i have the problem from time to time but i just lock and unlock and its fine, kind of annoying but not something that makes me want to throw it out the window or anything.
Judging from the behavior, I'll place my bets on it being a software issue rather than hardware. There seems to be some hiccups between the accelerometer and the screen getting confused about angles/tilting.
didnt happen to me before upgrade. Its happened a couple of times since.
My phone had been on charge and I had changed to setting to disable it from sleeping while on charge. I had turned the screen off but it must have woke up I went to use it and couldnt hit any keys.
I thought it may be something to do with it being awake for a long time - but it could be coincidence.
I can confirm that putting the phone to sleep and waking it fixes the problem
I have the same issue. No problem before OTA and described problem after that. Grrr.
Mmm, I experienced the problem both before and after the OTA, so I dunno.
Good to know that you can just sleep the phone and then wake it back up to fix the issue now. You used to have to reboot.
I have not had the issue at all since removing live wallpapers. Maybe just a coincidence.
Do people using custom ROMS have these issues?
Ok, so there are similar results out there then and sounds like 100% confirmed just locking and relocking recalibrates the phone back into proper order, no more full reboot is needed.
For the record, I am not using a live wall paper, I have not rooted or installed any themes or anything so my phone is all stock besides the OTA update. Also, as someone else stated that you used to have to restart your phone before the update and I experienced the same thing but again now I only have to lock and unlock the phone for it to recalibrate.
Grainysand you and I seem to have had similar "issues" if you even want to call them that with before and after the OTA and I share your view that there is an issue between the accelerometer and the software recognition.
It's definitely the accelerometer. For the record, I've never had to either reboot or relock/unlock the screen to fix this. I hold the phone upright and it corrects itself, though sometimes it recurs.
I've noticed this a few times after the ota, but just turned it off/on to fix.
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I've noticed this a few times after the ota, but just turned it off/on to fix.
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Same here. Usually when in landscape mode and the device is tipped at a 45 degree angle. I've also seen the N1 (when using the browser in landscape) scroll the page back and forth very quickly (about 1/4"). When this happen the device seems to get 'stuck' in landscape mode even when I flip it back to portrait.
After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.
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After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.
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now that I think about it, I must say that most of the time I see this happening it has been on the charger... will test later though, i doubt this would effect the issue
I think it has something to do with live wallpapers, the ones that receive input touch to react in some way or another. Its a software issue.
You could put it to sleep and on wake up its ok.
Or you could touch the buttons slightly to the right.
htcmagic said:
I think it has something to do with live wallpapers, the ones that receive input touch to react in some way or another. Its a software issue.
You could put it to sleep and on wake up its ok.
Or you could touch the buttons slightly to the right.
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no its not the live wall papers... I have tested both with and without live wall papers and I can produce identical results as far as loss of calibration
Not sure if its the same problem but when playing games sometimes, the isnput locks up sometimes when in landscape mode. However rotating the phone between landscape & portrait mode seems to fix the problem, might help for this too.
Huey85 said:
After the ERE27 update, I've only really noticed the issue when I've plugged in the charger.
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same here.

[Q] Verizon G2 buggy touch screen?

Is anyone else having issues with the touch screen triggering at different places when touched, or randomly knocking off the phone when you're not even touching the phone? I turned off my knockon feature, but I would see my notification bar be highlighted without me touching it. Just wondering if i'm the only one with this problem.
No issues at all.
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I just picked mine up yesterday and have not had any problems with it.
I've had since launch and For the first time today I had a glitch. Touched a link in the browser and it clicked a link 3 links down. Clicked back button and it went back.tried to click the link again and it clicked several links down. I exited the browser and restarted.Clicked the link and it worked perfectly. The only time I've had an (issue?) At all.the phone is practically perfect in every way to me. My favorites smart phone and I've been phone jumping since the HTC touch Windows mobile
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I have had issues when typing, some times the letter is entered in like 3 tines. I have also had some other very strange issues but I still love this phone!
Sent from my VS980 4G
dru06 said:
I have had issues when typing, some times the letter is entered in like 3 tines. I have also had some other very strange issues but I still love this phone!
Sent from my VS980 4G
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this glitch is kinda what happened with mine, and i confirmed what it was doing
in swiftkey, you know how tehre's the option to change the long press delay? well i was holding down that little bar to drag it down, and i noticed while holding it inplace, the numbers were going crazy..it was going up/donw/up/down incredibly fast, instead of just staying stationary..i was like, wtf? so i went to dev options, turned on show touch points and the trace so i could see the axis, and i noticed it was freaking out. holding my finger in place, it was as if it was moving around like crazy.
so i did a factory reset and flashed the clean verizon rom scott posted, and it hasn't done it since. no idea wtf was going on. i realized it was messing up bc my typing became really bad, and it would enter things i didn't type.
Touch Screen has a mind of its own - bad digitizer??
I woke up today to find my screen on, showing the lock screen which I found odd. Now most of the time the screen has a mind of its own where basically its like an invisible finger is randomly touching the screen at a frantic place. This opens up apps, moves icons around, calls people if the phone app manages to get opened, etc. After struggling to override the "invisible finger" I've done a reboot from the power menu, powered off from the power menu and left it off for 10 minutes before turning off and held down the power and volume down button to reboot. None of these methods fixed the problem0
Please note I did accept the Verizon update but was good on it for a day prior to this issue. I have installed minimal 3rd party apps and can't attribute the problem to starting right after installing something. I do use the Ghost 100 wireless charger but have been using this from day 1 without issues so I don't think that'a problem either. The Verizon store sold me this charger and although its not listed as being compatible on Verizon's website I have a feeling that's cause the phone is so new. The charger is WPC certified. Being that this problem is intermittent (happens way more often than not) I think it may be a software issue and I'm about to do a hard factory reset. If that doesn't work then I'm convinced its a hardware issue and probably a bad digitizer. I've been very gentle with the phone - haven't dropped it, no moisture or water exposure, not rooted, etc. I'll report back if the factory reset works. Anyone else having the same or a similar issue?
Super buggy lockscreen!!!
prophecy408 said:
Is anyone else having issues with the touch screen triggering at different places when touched, or randomly knocking off the phone when you're not even touching the phone? I turned off my knockon feature, but I would see my notification bar be highlighted without me touching it. Just wondering if i'm the only one with this problem.
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You're not alone! My G2 has been driving me crazy the last couple of days when trying to use the lockscreen. It'll spaz out and either skip a connection of display a whole different pattern than I drew. It will also shut off the screen and reset the "wrong password" counter. I love this phone but this is super aggravating!
Hard reset didn't help at all. I went to a Verizon store and they exchanged for a new one and determined I had a hardware failure.

Erratic Screen and Reboots

Hey guys.
My mom uses a Nexus 7 as her tablet, and is having trouble with the screen randomly detecting touches that aren't there. After messing with it, I've noticed it's about an inch from the bezel on the right side of the screen, and touches there randomly whenever you try to touch somewhere on the screen. It's most annoying becuase when she tries to browse her apps, it just keeps hitting email over and over again.
A temporary fix is to simply turn the screen off and on. It comes back at random intervals though. I've gone 30 seconds without it happening, and I've gone days without it happening.
I've done plenty of google searches and never found a solution, just a bunch of threads with replies of "I have the same problem." Even just knowing if it's hardware or software would help me out. She's thinking about getting an iPad (I'm trying to discourage that option. My iOS experience was never that great) If it's hardware, I'll suggest other tablets. If it's software, I'll try to fix it.
Also, she updated whenever an update released. I thought that if it was a software/firmware issue, I could load a custom ROM on it and fix it. so Iloaded the latest CyanogenMod onto it. Still does it,though not as often, and now it closes windows randomly.

Ghost touch issue

It seems my phone has a problem of ghost touch. The status bar slides down automatically and randomly. I turned on developer mode to see what happened, it seems, some coordinates near (320, 0) are clicked very often with no reason at all. It annoys me a lot since it interrupts my normal operation. Did someone has the same problem? And how do you solve it? Thanks
I had the same issue. top right of my screen would think it was being touch when it wasnt.
Yes, my wife's ph-1 has this issue. the ghost touches liked a bunch of Instagram posts, it was hilarious seeing my wife's reaction to this, and then she had to go back and unlike a bunch of crap posts.
But this is an issue and very serious one. I believe this could be also causing battery drain if it interacts with OS and causes deep sleep not to kick in when it should. If the issue happens again I will be contacting support to get this BS sorted out.
I have this issue on the oreo beta although it will keep touching the same spot continuously for about a minute or so and if it happens while the phones locked i cant do anything till it stops luckily its been happening less and less often
I had this happen on one phone but not the others, worse when the phone got hot
i think it's the screen, if you look closely, its not flat. Mine is kinda wavey at the edges, like there's a little too much adhesive, and i think that waviness gets worse when the phone gets hot, and causes the phantom touch
glasscitysd said:
I have this issue on the oreo beta although it will keep touching the same spot continuously for about a minute or so and if it happens while the phones locked i cant do anything till it stops luckily its been happening less and less often
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It was gone for 3 days and now the problem is back today. I tried to restart in safe mode and problem is still there so it is a system issue, not caused by third party app.
Same issue here. No rhyme or reason I can see as to why
Mine was happening on my old PH-1 without the earpiece screen, but i got the new version i got has no issue.
This issue is very annoying I'm thinking of returning the device to Sprint and getting another but since it happens so random I wouldn't even be able to show them the issue. Thought it was an issue with the oreo beta but after going back to stock I still have the issue starting to regret buying this phone
I've never experienced this issue on mine
Bump. Been happening to me on Oreo beta. About once or twice a day it happens. I just lock and unlock the phone and it stops. It's weird. I think it has something to do with the screen sensitivity. It's more prone to happening when the device screen is all smudgy or if I just washed my hands.
I have the same issue too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHtJLQEU7o
Me too
Same issue here as well. I did the touch sensitivity trick as well and still getting it. Hope its a software issue and not a hardware one.
I haven't encountered ghost touch but encountered slow responding touch issue. Sometimes the touchscreen will respond to my command slower like 3-4 secs after i touch the screen. Every time this issue appears, a restart of my phone will clear it. Very likely software issue. I'm still on nougat, hopefully they fix it on Oreo before it goes out of beta.
My first PH-1 would become touch unresponsive for 30+ seconds all the time (it was fully updated at the time). It seemed to happen more frequently when I was typing on the stock keyboard. I eventually returned it and bought another several weeks later. I've had no issues with the new one-quite happy with it. I'm running the Beta2 update and enjoying it.
boidsonly said:
My first PH-1 would become touch unresponsive for 30+ seconds all the time (it was fully updated at the time). It seemed to happen more frequently when I was typing on the stock keyboard. I eventually returned it and bought another several weeks later. I've had no issues with the new one-quite happy with it. I'm running the Beta2 update and enjoying it.
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That's good to know. Mine also happened when using the keyboard occasionally as well. I have a replacement set coming as my original set's packaging did not come with the pull tab on the box and there was a fingerprint smudge at the back of the phone when i took the phone out of the box the first time. I presumed mine was a used/returned set, not new as what i had ordered. Hope the new set fixes the issue.
My phone has the same issue whenever I'm charging it and using it at the same time it's registering multiple touches when I'm using just one finger on the screen, it mostly happen when I'm doing a long press action. In developers option I have show taps enable so I'm able to see all ghost touches.
I fixed my ghost touch issue with a simple hard reset.
It will come back sadly

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