phone going crazy, can anyone help?

[mojo_droid]

Ok, so my phone started going crazy yesterday. It doesn't respond to my touch most the time and it opens and presses things on its own. it pulls down the status bar and goes to screen previews for the home screens. In order to get it to respond to me again I usually need to turn the screen off and then when I turn it back on I can get a couple presses in before it starts doing that again. if I am in a list it will continually scroll up and down, usually at a fast rate. It didn't get to that instantly, my phone was acting up all day yesterday and got progressively worse. I tried wiping data/cache, but that didnt seem to work. I tried changing kernals from slayher 1.1ghz to 800mhz and that didnt help.

can anyone help me fix this?

[tp76]

Have you been using the OEM charger because I had the same experience using an EVO charger and it stopped when I went back to OEM

[mojo_droid]

Have you been using the OEM charger because I had the same experience using an EVO charger and it stopped when I went back to OEM

Im using the charger that came with my phone, except for the car charger, which is made by a different company. but I seem to be getting the same results regardless which charger I used or even when I am not charging the phone

[tp76]

Did you do anything new yesterday, like flash a new ROM or kernel or have you had your set-up for awhile and it just started doing this out of the blue ?

[mojo_droid]

Did you do anything new yesterday, like flash a new ROM or kernel or have you had your set-up for awhile and it just started doing this out of the blue ?

Ive been using cm6.1 rc3 since it was released. I switched to chevys kernal 3 days ago, but went back to a slayher later that day because it didnt seem to work with CM as well. but besides that nothing has changed except for installing app updates from the market

[tp76]

So you went back to Slahyer's kernel and everything was smooth for two days and all of a sudden this -

That is odd and I don't really see a Market update having this kind of effect on a device - out of curiosity, what apps have you updated in the past few days ?

[mojo_droid]

So you went back to Slahyer's kernel and everything was smooth for two days and all of a sudden this -

That is odd and I don't really see a Market update having this kind of effect on a device - out of curiosity, what apps have you updated in the past few days ?

lol, I dont remember and I am not sure if i updated these before or after I tried the new kernal, but the ones i do remember recently updating are rom manager, audio manager, tv show favs, desktop visualization, and some others.

if for some reason something happened when i tried out the new kernal, would there be anything i can do to fix it? even though a problem didn't show up for a couple days it would be something to try. although, I did changed kernals to an 800mhz one after it started doing that and it didnt help as well as a data/cache wipe.

[tp76]

If you haven't done any extensive theming in your ROM and have already wiped Data/Cache you might consider reflashing the ROM - probably not the answer anyone wants to hear but this issue is unusual just out of nowhere

[mojo_droid]

If you haven't done any extensive theming in your ROM and have already wiped Data/Cache you might consider reflashing the ROM - probably not the answer anyone wants to hear but this issue is unusual just out of nowhere

i guess ill try reflashing again and if that doesnt work go back to unrooted stock to see if that fixes anything. I wont be able to try this for another 9 hours or so (just got to work ). thanks for your help though

anyone know a better solution before I try this again?

[Se7enLC]

Ok, so my phone started going crazy yesterday. It doesn't respond to my touch most the time and it opens and presses things on its own. it pulls down the status bar and goes to screen previews for the home screens. In order to get it to respond to me again I usually need to turn the screen off and then when I turn it back on I can get a couple presses in before it starts doing that again. if I am in a list it will continually scroll up and down, usually at a fast rate. It didn't get to that instantly, my phone was acting up all day yesterday and got progressively worse. I tried wiping data/cache, but that didnt seem to work. I tried changing kernals from slayher 1.1ghz to 800mhz and that didnt help.

can anyone help me fix this?

Does it do any of that when it is not plugged in? It's annoying, but if you use a cable or charger that is not the one motorola supplied, you get that "wonky touchscreen" effect. Search for phrases like "my phone is haunted", "I think I have a virus", or "my phone keeps texting my boss" to see other people with a similar issue.