Hey
I'm having some problems with my iPhone 3GS in the last few days, where the touchscreen often just stops reacting. The usual pattern is that I can unlock and type in my code, then thereafter, all I get is under about a dozen movements (taps, swipes, whatever) until it sort of freezes up and does nothing. Any idea what's going on?
At the same time there are three other curious things I've noticed going on, no idea if they're relevant but I thought I'd mention just in case:
1) touchscreen related: with the phone open, I suddenly see one of the on-sreen 'buttons' (for example the bookmarks icon in Safari) light up, exactly the way it does when you've just tapped it, except I haven't! It just does that on its own, and is followed by the appropriate action (eg opening the bookmarks/history pane).
2) on two occasions (that I know of) the phone showed a No Service notice when it should definitely have coverage (because it normally does in those places). The first time it took an entire restart to get it going, the second time it shook itself out of it in a few minutes without any interference.
3) several days ago, before I started noticing the touchscreen responsiveness issues, my iPhone froze up completely, open on one app (can't recall which unfortunately). It would react to nothing, not the home button or even attempts to turn it off, until it somehow un-froze when I got a call - at first I could not pick up because it wasn't reacting at all, but once the call dropped it seems to have shaken something loose and it un-froze.
I don't know much about the iPhone's innards, so I don't know if any of these phenomena relate to each other. Any help is welcome at this point, as the iPhone has grown into a sort of spare brain
thanks in advance
I'm having some problems with my iPhone 3GS in the last few days, where the touchscreen often just stops reacting. The usual pattern is that I can unlock and type in my code, then thereafter, all I get is under about a dozen movements (taps, swipes, whatever) until it sort of freezes up and does nothing. Any idea what's going on?
At the same time there are three other curious things I've noticed going on, no idea if they're relevant but I thought I'd mention just in case:
1) touchscreen related: with the phone open, I suddenly see one of the on-sreen 'buttons' (for example the bookmarks icon in Safari) light up, exactly the way it does when you've just tapped it, except I haven't! It just does that on its own, and is followed by the appropriate action (eg opening the bookmarks/history pane).
2) on two occasions (that I know of) the phone showed a No Service notice when it should definitely have coverage (because it normally does in those places). The first time it took an entire restart to get it going, the second time it shook itself out of it in a few minutes without any interference.
3) several days ago, before I started noticing the touchscreen responsiveness issues, my iPhone froze up completely, open on one app (can't recall which unfortunately). It would react to nothing, not the home button or even attempts to turn it off, until it somehow un-froze when I got a call - at first I could not pick up because it wasn't reacting at all, but once the call dropped it seems to have shaken something loose and it un-froze.
I don't know much about the iPhone's innards, so I don't know if any of these phenomena relate to each other. Any help is welcome at this point, as the iPhone has grown into a sort of spare brain
thanks in advance