A small part of my screen does not work. The part above the menu button. It has been this way for a while and the phone is usable. I can't type w,e,s,z and the comma in portrait mode. I thought the digitizer was damaged but last night everything started working and did so for quite some time until I charged my phone. After that it has been the same. Anyone ever have this problem before and could someone suggest a solution?
PS: The pds partition fix did not work.
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What caused this? Did you recalibrate the screen with aroma installer?
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darkhokage said:
A small part of my screen does not work. The part above the menu button. It has been this way for a while and the phone is usable. I can't type w,e,s,z and the comma in portrait mode. I thought the digitizer was damaged but last night everything started working and did so for quite some time until I charged my phone. After that it has been the same. Anyone ever have this problem before and could someone suggest a solution?
PS: The pds partition fix did not work.
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There are random reports of Jokersax's CM9 causing issues, and my phone is currently out on warranty repair with the same issue (dead area in digitizer). I have also heard that Motorola used crappy digitizers in the Atrix, and for this reason rolled the Atrix 2 to market quickly. All of these theories are unsubstantiated.
I tried the PDS fix (after backing up my PDS partition), a Google Play screen fix solution, flashing different ROMs on a fully wiped phone, SBF'ing to stock, and another calibration solution I found on XDA, but none worked. At that point it was back to Motorola with the phone. Hoping for a 2 week TAT. Good luck.
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What caused this? Did you recalibrate the screen with aroma installer?
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I don't know. This happened a few months after I bought the phone. Since I am in Pakistan, the phone came without the international warranty and repairs are not that easy. Up until a day ago, when everything started working, I thought that the digitizer was broken but now I have started to think differently.
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tobnddl said:
There are random reports of Jokersax's CM9 causing issues, and my phone is currently out on warranty repair with the same issue (dead area in digitizer). I have also heard that Motorola used crappy digitizers in the Atrix, and for this reason rolled the Atrix 2 to market quickly. All of these theories are unsubstantiated.
I tried the PDS fix (after backing up my PDS partition), a Google Play screen fix solution, flashing different ROMs on a fully wiped phone, SBF'ing to stock, and another calibration solution I found on XDA, but none worked. At that point it was back to Motorola with the phone. Hoping for a 2 week TAT. Good luck.
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I guess I will just have to live with it. The incident where everything started to work still gives me hope though. I will keep on trying and let you guys know if I make progress.
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I had the same exact issue. If you still have warranty, send it in. This is a well documented problem.
If you have unlocked the bootloader, just flash the proper sbf back to stock.
That's what I did, and they sent me a brand new phone.
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Hi, has anyone experienced the screen going nuts?
From time to time this happens. There seems to be an empty spot where it doesnt detect any input. For example, if I'm swyping a word, the line just breaks and I end up with gibberish.
My capacitive back button doesn't seem to work as well. I have to sort of hold it before it registers any input.
The problem started only after i flashed the latest version of CM7.
The problem is not a permanent one cause it comes and goes. This makes using the phone a pain in the ass sometimes.
Has anyone experienced this? Is there a way for me to fix it?
I've reflashed the ROM countless times to no avail.
Please help.
Which version of CM7 are you using?
Did you format system partition before installing?
I'm running on CM7 V7.0.3. I've flashed the previous 2 versions and it was the same. And all those times I formatted everything before i flashed the new rom.
Do you think it's the rom or it's a hardware problem? The digitizer going bad perhaps? I haven't dropped the phone before and the problem is intermittent. but it's such a pain.
can anyone help me out?
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I'm running on CM7 V7.0.3. I've flashed the previous 2 versions and it was the same. And all those times I formatted everything before i flashed the new rom.
Do you think it's the rom or it's a hardware problem? The digitizer going bad perhaps? I haven't dropped the phone before and the problem is intermittent. but it's such a pain.
can anyone help me out?
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Same thing happened to me. Took my phone to an AT&T store and they replaced it since I was still in my 1 year warranty. It was the digitizer doing out in my case. Happened after I tried cm7 too. Even unrooting didnt fix.
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Occasionally I would lose touch screen input on my phone when flashing etc however that was back in June/July time.
The only fix I could find at the time was to SBF back to 1.8.3.
Last night playing with the new CM9 ROM it happened again, my fault, responsibility and nothing to do with the ROM.
Now I have 6 months of backed up ROM's and PDS's and nothing is working for me. Tried Fruitcakes and no go. Fresh install, no go, PDS's restored for like for like ROM's and no change.
Anybody got any ideas before I start SBF'ing ?
Sbf'ed 2.3.4 Pudding and stock 1.8.3 and so far no joy.
Will keep playing. Convinced there is not a hardware issue but have an Atrix with a dead motherboard that I keep looking at and wondering about.
is it possible that's a PDS related issue? I saw people reflashing PDS to fix that.
Tried 5 different PDS's and no joy.
SBF'ing hasn't worked so far. Been playing with this on and off all day and about done.
Will have a think and return tomorrow. I have 2 batteries that need charging.
i have a real pds fix.img pm me and ill send ya the instructions and the file
and if it doesnt work then its deffinetly hardware related worth a shot cause my backed uo pds img did
not work when my pds borked but this pdsfix.img did
I have tried the Google pdsfix no good here neither.
Defo hardware
I fixed mine for time being just knowing where on the phone issue is
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As said have an Atrix with a fried motherboard.
Took the motherboard from the one that lost touch and swapped it with the one that was fried and all good.
Odd thing is that the phone had been working well for 6 months without an issue not of my making through messing around with ROM's etc.
Thanks for the offers of help, appreciated.
I've experienced a problem with my Atrix actually quite randomly one day. While on jokersax's CM9 KANG ROM my touchscreen and capacitative buttons became unresponsive at a seemingly random time.
I've tried to wipe dalvik cache, reflash the ROM, wipe to factory settings and then reflash the ROM, even tried the PDS partition fix but nothing has worked.
I don't know what to do now... can anybody help from here? Thank you so much!
After trying all that I would start wondering about the hardware not the software
Hit thanks if this was helpful
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Same problem here
giants3b said:
I've experienced a problem with my Atrix actually quite randomly one day. While on jokersax's CM9 KANG ROM my touchscreen and capacitative buttons became unresponsive at a seemingly random time.
I've tried to wipe dalvik cache, reflash the ROM, wipe to factory settings and then reflash the ROM, even tried the PDS partition fix but nothing has worked.
I don't know what to do now... can anybody help from here? Thank you so much!
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Hi, you just described my exact problem. I'm using GingerMod 2.3.6 # 9 but I can't remember if I had this problem with the French ROM, that was my first Custom firmware. The only way to make it back to normal in my case was pulling out the battery and, recently I discovered that "adb reboot" worked too, so, if I'm not near a PC I need to pull the battery...
I'm afraid it's a HW problem, since my warranty was voided almost a week after I got the phone. Hopefully someone could post something that can help us.
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Hi, you just described my exact problem. I'm using GingerMod 2.3.6 # 9 but I can't remember if I had this problem with the French ROM, that was my first Custom firmware. The only way to make it back to normal in my case was pulling out the battery and, recently I discovered that "adb reboot" worked too, so, if I'm not near a PC I need to pull the battery...
I'm afraid it's a HW problem, since my warranty was voided almost a week after I got the phone. Hopefully someone could post something that can help us.
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I had this same problem and eventually my screen wouldn't work no matter what. I tried all the same things you guys did to no avail. I just flashed a stock fruitcake [couldn't find original recovery] and sent it in to Moto. They just got it a couple of days ago and I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Hopefully they look past my software modifications and realize that it's obviously a hardware issue.
When I was on miui rom a few months back, this problem was very small and almost never happened.
Back to cm7 nightlies and it happens all the time.
Just happened. Lol
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Same problem..
Flashed Turl's CM9, experienced a crash and 30% of the screen has become unresponsive since... It sucks and I need proof of purchase in order to send it in.. Too bad I bought it second hand.. Motorola... never again.
Me too. I've been blessed by unresponsive capacitive buttons. I was looking on how to edit an ICS Rom to include on screen buttons, but I just settled on downloading Button Savior to save time.
Is it possible that there is a bad connection inside the phone that I could fix by myself?
If someone knows how to make a ROM I would love if there were an on screen keyboard ROM (fingers crossed!!!).
F word... same problem for me.. i dont think it is hw because i just got my phone back from motorola for a dead touch zone repair. it never became unresponsive until i put cm9 on it... WE NEED A FIX!!!! i cannot use my phone at all. pds fix didnt work for me either
So i already made a thread earlier that no one really responded too did some more digging myself and still can't seem to fix my touch screen. I keep getting phantom pointer around the top of the screen, here a link of it happening (sorry couldn't find a screen recorder app for tegra 2 phones) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UqWdrex2nMw
At this point i've already flashed several roms, did a nandriod restore of my phone when it was rooted on the stock 2.3.4, already applied the pds parition fix, and the univerisal raindrop fix. Now, is there some other fix for something like this, or can we just conclude that the hardware has malfunctioned.
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So i already made a thread earlier that no one really responded too did some more digging myself and still can't seem to fix my touch screen. I keep getting phantom pointer around the top of the screen, here a link of it happening (sorry couldn't find a screen recorder app for tegra 2 phones) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UqWdrex2nMw
At this point i've already flashed several roms, did a nandriod restore of my phone when it was rooted on the stock 2.3.4, already applied the pds parition fix, and the univerisal raindrop fix. Now, is there some other fix for something like this, or can we just conclude that the hardware has malfunctioned.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22977668#post22977668
It helps bit it doesn't fix it
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Bump if someone could confirm a replaced digitizer will fix this that would be great
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Having same issue, no luck.
Hello, people of xda-dev.
I just recently encountered a frustrating problem. One third of my touch screen is unresponsive. It just randomly happened over night.
I unlocked it and rooted it a little while ago (for the android battery app and such).
I tried the second method on this thread with no success : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131649
I also tried restoring to factory state a couple of times and erased the cache.
I am running Android version 2.2.2
If you need more information, ask away!
Thank you.
If you search there is lots of threads about this issue. Only way replace digitizer
Its a common Atrix problem
I had this problem for about 6months now
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So it wouldn't be something like, I don't know, a partition messing up or something? (since I unlocked it)
Thank you for your reply.
PhoenixFFX said:
So it wouldn't be something like, I don't know, a partition messing up or something? (since I unlocked it)
Thank you for your reply.
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nope sorry m8
Aww.. well thanks!
So I need to buy a new digitizer and replace it?
Does it mean the new one will probably fail after a couple of months too?
Wow.. I removed the battery (again) and opened it again.
Same vertical dead line, but this time it's about half smaller, and a little shifted to the right :l (I'm testing it with Touch Test)
Do you really think it's hardware related?
If you still have warranty coverage, flash sbf to unlocked stock. Send it in. They will send you a brand new phone.
At least that is my experience with two separate atrix units.
PhoenixFFX said:
Wow.. I removed the battery (again) and opened it again.
Same vertical dead line, but this time it's about half smaller, and a little shifted to the right :l (I'm testing it with Touch Test)
Do you really think it's hardware related?
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I know its that area that needs looking at. I had the issue. Used some tape near top of phone battery area. And everything worked again. Did a couple of battery pulls due to deving and now its lost again. Now it wont work again
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