Help, Droid gone nuts!

[MarkO]

Applied a new rom last week (BB 0.5). Worked fine for about a week, then starting yesterday it's been going completely nuts. As if a ghost is tapping the screen. It's nearly impossible to use.

I've done a bunch of battery pulls, but nothing. Cleaned the screen, still nothing. I'm wondering if it's the rom, or maybe hardware related in the form of a defective touch sensor or something. Any help appreciated.

 

[Tallica]

Is it all the time or just when you have it plugged in.

 

[mwhartman]

If you have a backup restore it and see if that resolves the issue. If so, it is the rom. If not, then start considering the hardware.

 

[MarkO]

I do have backups, but I've never gone back to applying one. I'm going to try a Nandroid restore back to an earlier version (earlier 2.2 from July) and post.

 

[mwhartman]

Restoring a backup from July may take you back to 2.1. Do you remember what rom and version that was backed up?

 

[MarkO]

FRF84BV04.zip

 

[MarkO]

Well restoring back to FRF84BV04.zip did not help. Still acting crazy. Like as if it's receiving false data from the touch screen. Randomly panning back/forth up/down, opening applications, etc...

 

[cereal killer]

I would go for a more recent/different backup for the simple fact you wont have to deal with being constantly prompted to update your device.

I think that bugless build was plaqued with the constant reminder to update. I may be wrong though.

Sent from my Droid

 

[cereal killer]

Mark are you on the charger when this occurs? Or does it exhibit this behavior while off the charger as well?

Sent from my Droid

 

[MarkO]

charger has no effect. It's nuts both on and off the charger.

 

[mwhartman]

I may be off base but in view of the things that you've tried it seems that the issue is hardware.

 

[MarkO]

I'm thinking it's hardware related too.

Anyone know how long the warrantee is good for?

 

[mwhartman]

I'm thinking 90 days but not sure. Call VZW customer service they can tell you. I prefer to work with the CS folks instead of the store because they seem more helpful and sensitive to customer needs.

Mike

 

[MarkO]

According to VW it's still under warrantee.

OK, anyone know how I go about getting a stock rom?

 

[janson745]

I had the exact same thing happen yesterday for about a half hour. Off the charger. And I am running plain stock 2.2 on my D1. I did a battery pull and it seemed to help, but I also put my phone down for about 45 mins after pulling...

I hope it is not a recurring deal...