Are you one of the many people who is having problems with your touchscreen on the iPhone? Hack you hacked your iPhone, unlocked your iPhone, or a non AT&T customer? Now that Apple’s warranty requires you to have an AT&T phone number to get your iPhone replaced or repaired, how do you fix your touchscreen problem?
There are a few options for you at the moment. You can purchase replacement parts, virginize your iPhone and try to return it, or modify your phone even more to try and fix the problem.If you are experiencing a touchscreen issue you can edit the sensitivity of your touch screen to make your iPhone more responsive. You simply need to replace your general.plist file with a modified version found here:
UPDATED:
Modified General.plist and Touch.plist,
updated for FW3.0, tested and working on 2G iPhone.
http://www.zshare.net/download/61836600ca79e240/
http://www.zshare.net/download/618365907ed6a23c/
Placed under:
/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/
You will need to overwrite your general.plist located in Applications/preferences.app
The default sensitivity on the iPhone’s touchscreen is 3.5. You have the option to set it from 0-16, where 0 is the most sensitive. Recently I have had a few issues with my touchscreen and applied this modification and everything is working 10x better.
This hack may work for the majority of iPhone users, but there may be a few that will need to replace their LCD completely.
You add the code below to the General.plist:
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSLinkCell</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Touch</string>
</dict>
Yost edited the General.plist file, for people who have a dead strip on the top of the screen, so that the touch option is now on the bottom right under “reset” under pref>general>touch.
(take out the “.” in the link in “rapid”)
heres the link to download it if you have a upper dead strip:
http://ra.pidshare.com/files/7620461…ral.plist.html
1.0.2 firmware General.plist for low dead strip:
http://ra.pidshare.com/files/6058341…ral.plist.html
1.1.1 firmware General.plist for low dead strip:
thanks for leaving your comments for my iphone 2g touch screen problem,but the exact problem is i am unable to go to the menu itself as my iphone i am unable to swipe the touch screen open,so how can i increase the sensivity without entering the iphone ?
Yes if you simply follow some tutorials on youtube on “control your iphone or ipod using your computer you can do that
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bro i have small problem about my touchscreen too…dont know whether its defective or insensitive. it’s something like this:
1) when typing an sms, on a vertical display, the L letter seems to be unresponsive(this is at the bottom right of screen).
2) Ironically, when i’m typing with another keyboard layout( let’s say typing a password for wi-fi) but still in vertical display, this time the P letter is unresponsive(this is at the middle right of the screen).
i would really like to know if this is a hardware defect or probably caused from jailbreaking or unlocking the phone.
I had a software problem on my 2G as soon as I upgraded the firmware it was fixed.
what firmware did you upgrade to
this is the logicboard,,,,sorry….dead end.
does the plist for 3.0 work on 3.1?
can this work on 3.1.2?
im not understanding how do you overright general.plist
Randy, Just use iPhone Browser (google it) to copy the 2 plist files into the appropriate directory (on jailbroken iPhones only obviously) it will overwrite the original general.plist automatically
Hi,
I downloaded everything and it looks easy. The only thing is that when I try to open the files I downloaded from the link above, it ask for “which program do you want to use to open this file” and I have no idead which program to use. Can you please help?
Many thanks
Help Me,Pleaseee …………How can i fix Bottom half of iphone touch screen does not work?
I cant download link if i have a upper dead strip
.Can You post your link again?
i think this is the great solution,but i have one minor problem
I have the dead strip on the top of my screen and i cannot scroll the sensitivity level up,
like on the picture on the top of this article
is there a solution for that
hello all. I have a dead strip problem as well. Unfortunately I’m unable to bring it to apple for a swap. I’m out of warranty any way, but the region that has the dead strip is where you have to slide to unlock. Will replacing the entire screen help? Thats something I can do, but will it actually solve the issue? Is there anything that can be done outside of taking it to apple, especially with the dead strip on the unlock bar, stuck after the restore part?please help and thank you all in advanced. Don’t wanna just lose out on all the money I’ve spent. Please help!!!
Hey,
1st of all: great work!
2nd: i have a jailbroken 2G with firmware 3.1.2.. did everything as told, but i dont have the “Touch” button in my preferences…
am i doing somethin wrong does this “hack” not work for 3.1.2?
thx 4 help
I was thinking about this. Could we perhaps one one jailbroken phone that works set the settings that we wanted then save as a backup. Then transfer the backup to other people. When they enable the settings they restore from that backup which saves all settings (hopefully including the touch settings) therefore enabling them to at least slide to unlock. Otherwise guys just use veency.
please do so! Veency doesnt work if u arent connected to wifi. how am i supposed to connect to wifi if i cant even unlock the phone..
@Luke this does work for 3.1.2 I just did it on iphone 2G. You must be doing something wrong.
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Josh // Oct 28, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Yes if you simply follow some tutorials on youtube on “control your iphone or ipod using your computer you can do that
”
U need wifi to do that right.. If u can not even “slide to unlock” how are u supposed to connect to a wifi connection… Is there no way to just put in a file and change it automatically?
I have an iphone 2g with 3.1.2, with a low dead strip. It just kicks in the floor and broken. But with this patch, I’ve working it AGAIN. Not like from factory. But working. Thank you very much, and sorry for my english.
I have an iphone 2g with 3.1.2, with a low dead strip. It just kicks in the floor and broken. But with this patch, I’ve working it AGAIN. Not like from factory. But working. Thank you very much, and sorry for my english. I have made the patch with iphonebrowser.
I have been at it for hours. I cannot get this to work. Dunno why. I used Blackra1n to jb running 3.1.2 on an original iphone. everything is running beautifully except my lower strip does not respond well. More often than not none at all. I have tried CyberDuck, Classic FTP, and FireFTP. (I have a MB running snow leopard) Only CyberDuck even connects. For the life of me however the file is being downloaded onto my Mac I cannot get it to transfer to the iPhone. I am getting desperate. The dumb thing does work as I can unlock it after I work at it for a bit. The slide works but not taps. I think if I could adjust it all would be well.
It worked!!!!!!
I used blackra1n to jail break installed rock from blackra1n. Installed iphone explorer on my PC and replaced the plst file form the download above.
Thanks so much!!
Joe
I have a 3g running 3.1.2. My screen is hpyer-sensitive and unresponsive depending on how it feels at the time. Sometimes I cannot slide to answer. sometimes I cannot type one letter without it typing 6 other characters all around the one I typed. I particularly have problems with the top and bottom of my screen. I had the LCD replaced…same issue. I restored the settings to default 3.1.2 and there didnt seem to be an issue. Once using blackra1n to JB and ultrasn0w to unlock the problem came back. any ideas? Thanks.
my lower part of the screen is dead (about ½”).
I can’t get SSH to work because I can’t navigate around Cydia (only the “cydia”, not “Sections”, “Changes” etc…)
Any good ideas
I know a solution!
If you have a iPhone 2g and you can’t slide to unlock..
Jailbreak your iphone with firmware 3.0 or higher
then you have to crash your iphone multiple times.
you have to hold Home and on/off button then your iphone restarts, than you do it again when you see the apple logo and again (3 times) than you start your iphone and you are in Crash mode. then you have to touch the lock button above (right from career) than you get a popup
We apologize for the inconvenience, but springboard has just crashed…. than you touch HELP button en you go to safari, then you are in springboard!
I have the same problem, I can’t get SSH to work on my 2G iPhone, since I can’t install afc2, since I can’t navigate in Cydia.
I tryed maX’s solution, but I can’t get it to load into crash mode.
I used blackra1n. Is there any other way to get into the iPhone, to load the file?
I followed the download instructions as they were laid out. When I went back into settings>general it was empty (not a single application). Does anyone have any ideas about what went wrong and how I can fix the problem and get the Touch Option. Your help would be greatly appreciated.