touchscreen goes apeshiat

[AnneDroid]

Thanks for the guidance gang, but this puppy is borked. I'm going to take it back to the VZW store for a new one. I did a factory reset and while I was trying to activate it, the dialpad started entering numbers randomly. I ended up re-setting my roaming before I could get it activated. Then later when I tried to use the calculator, it would pop in extra digits and refuse to let me press clear. It still tries to install widgets unasked, etc. Methinks this is a hardware problem.

Killick
:reddroid:

Methinks it's haunted. :shocked: Time for a replacement from the way it sounds... Let us know what happens and good luck!

 

[killick]

This droid has been cherished and coddled like a holy relic. It has never been damp or wet and I have never dropped it. I can't get to the vzw store until Thursday but I hope they'll correct the situation right away.

Killick

 

[killick]

apeshiat droid replaced

Hi guys. I got a break in my calendar and the fine folks at the VZW store replaced my droid. Happy!

Thanks for the advice. You guys are great.

killick

 

[CJ WaZzy]

Same problem

I have a phone that just started doing the same thing yesterday, bought mid-December. It now spontaneously stopped entering random screen input and now the left 1/3 of the screen won't work. Has anyone figured out why it does this? Is it still too late to take back to Verizon?

 

[killick]

I don't know why this happened to me or you. I don't know what the warranty is but the droid is useless if you can't depend on it working. I would take it back for repair or replacement asap. Good luck, CJ WaZzy.

 

[dwagner88]

Mine is doing this too. I have done the factory reset several times. I can trace the start of the problem back to when the phone got some drops of water on the screen while it was raining a few months ago. Since then it has gotten worse, and now the phone is barely usable. I'm going to VZW in the morning to swap it out after I get it unrooted.

 

[ABRoark]

Sold to you as new from Verizon? Or something like craigslist or eBay?