[Q] Unresponsive Touchscreen

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Hello,

I'm new to xda-developers forums. My X10 mini pro is only 2 weeks old but I got this random problem that pops up from time to time. The touchscreen is not working. I can't unlock the phone when I took the phone out of my pocket, I can't enter the unlock pattern. Then it registers a wrong pattern. for example, the pattern to unlock my phone is:

12*
*3*
**4

sometimes it just registers

12*
***
***

or

12*
*3*
***

or nothing at all and it ends up that I'm being asked with the security question. It gets frustrating.

There's also this one time when I have an incoming call and when I took the phone out of my pocket I can't slide the phone to receive the call. I ended up having a missed call (good thing it's not an important call).

Any ideas on this problem guys? Have any of you experienced the same problem before? Are there any good practice/app to improve the x10 mini pro's capacitive touchsreen? The problems occurs usually when the phone is fresh from my pocket or I am out in the bright sunlight if that helps. I really need it to be much more reliable.

P.S.

Can't wait for the 2.1 update... Hopefully it supports 2.2 and other future versions too. I don't know why the music player has no repeat. And the camera haz no zoom. And there's something funny about the dialer but I just can't pinpoint what. (any idea if x10 family can support gingerbread?)

No one bothered replying??
Well, that sux.

Anyways, for an update, I've rooted my phone, overclocked a bit, managed memory,... so far so good. I think having the the phone in your pocket, butt-dialing overloads the touchscreen with a lot of input (even if it's locked, but lighting up) that's why it becomes unresponsive.

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Hope devs crack the bootloader soon, the news from SE regarding the update is devastating.

Same problem here. I've had the phone for 48 hours and almost everytime I unlock the phone the touchscreen becomes unresponsive.

Any solution? Should I return it to retailer?

it looks like the CPU/Memory was on power saving (low performance), until you turn it on.
Can you wait before you enter the unlock code a few seconds(5~10 seconds) to know if the problem is solved?

Originally Posted by knd

it looks like the CPU/Memory was on power saving (low performance), until you turn it on.
Can you wait before you enter the unlock code a few seconds(5~10 seconds) to know if the problem is solved?

doesn't work, once the screen is lock the only solution is to remove the battery.

Is your phone rooted? Since I rooted my phone, played with setcpu and autokiller, touchscreen performance increased a lot. My guess is that it has something to do with memory management. While android claims that it has hardcore memory management, you still need to kill apps once in a while.

Right now, whenever my touchscreen becomes unresponsive, I press the power button (to turn off the screen, not shut down the phone) and press it again (so the screen will light up). It becomes responsive again. Works everytime without fail. I hope this helps solving your problem.