iPhone Touchscreen Fix: Increase Sensitivity

1 Alexey // Nov 21, 2007 at 11:50 am

Great summary.
I had the same problem and increasing sensitivity solved it.

Regards,
Alex

2 Dave // Nov 26, 2007 at 3:11 pm

I’m skeptical. The screenshot above looks like a fake, and I don’t see any sign of this setting in the plist. Which element is it? I’d rather edit it myself than replace the plist and overwrite every general setting.

3 Limited Edition iPhone // Nov 26, 2007 at 3:21 pm

I can confirm that this worked on 1.02 firmware. I have not tested it on 1.1.1 or 1.1.2. Download the file and compare it to your original plist. I cant remember off hand what changed.

4 Limited Edition iPhone // Nov 26, 2007 at 3:53 pm

i have updated the post with what you add to the general.plist

5 iPhone Newbie // Dec 6, 2007 at 11:43 pm

the General.plist file mentioned above is a binary file on 1.1.1. What do you add extra key and values pair to the plist? It’s not ASCII file.

6 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 7, 2007 at 8:41 am

you need to convert your file with: http://140.124.181.188/~khchung/cgi-bin/plutil.cgi

7 Frankie // Dec 8, 2007 at 2:45 am

can you send general.plist modified for 1.1.2?

8 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 8, 2007 at 11:47 am

just add the above code to your own or edit it with mobile finder and mobile text edit

9 ritzmo // Dec 8, 2007 at 3:47 pm

lower half of my screen is dead so no chance to access settings. Any chance to get a plist with sensitivity preset to 0?

10 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 10, 2007 at 10:00 am

what firmware version do you have?

11 ritzmo // Dec 10, 2007 at 1:47 pm

still on 1.02

12 yost // Dec 16, 2007 at 8:22 pm

Thanks for the credit to the modified version.
Hope it helps everyone more with the upper dead strips, I know how frustrating it can be.

13 tayds // Dec 16, 2007 at 8:44 pm

THATS MY NIGGA YOST KEEP IT UP BRAH

In other words, good read.

14 XymonSez // Dec 17, 2007 at 5:24 am

Can somebody post link where to download modified General.plist other than rapidshare? I think our internet is proxied and we can not download free from rapidshare. Thanks.

15 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 18, 2007 at 10:12 am

which one do you need? and where do you want me to link it?

16 XymonSez // Dec 18, 2007 at 10:21 am

I have 1.1.1 firmware and I have about 1cm dead strip about 1cm from the bottom of the screen. I can not use the rows that includes “zxcvbnm” keys on keyboard. Can you share the modified general.plist on other file server other than rapidshare (like http://www.box.net)?

17 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 18, 2007 at 2:51 pm

http://www.box.net/shared/fvoi268osm

18 James C0lvin // Dec 19, 2007 at 12:01 am

It worked because I can use the *,0,# on my keypad when dialing phone numbers. But I still have problems with typing in safari. When I tilt my phone horizontally, I can’t use the Z or D buttons. Can you help me out? I’m running 1.1.1.

19 XymonSez // Dec 19, 2007 at 3:22 am

This is Great! I just saved $200 for what a local repair shop charges to replace the touch screen. I can now use all the letters on the keyboard and use the “call” button on the Phone. Many thanks to “Limited Edition iPhone”!!!

20 Marco Sanchez // Dec 19, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Having almost the same problem as Ritzmo, I can get into settings but can’t touch General…
any ideas on what I can do?
or any way to get a plist that’s preset to 0?

21 Marco Sanchez // Dec 19, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Having almost the same problem as Ritzmo, I can get into settings but can’t touch General…
any ideas on what I can do?
or any way to get a plist that’s preset to 0?

Version 1.0.2

22 joseph // Dec 20, 2007 at 1:57 pm

is there a way to go even more than 0.00? like a negative number? -3???

i noticed as the number gets lower, i get more of the screen back…

23 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 20, 2007 at 4:19 pm

i do not think so, but you could always try

24 Dave // Dec 21, 2007 at 8:00 pm

Nicely done, I stand corrected! I modified my plist manually as suggested and this works as advertised. Very cool indeed.

25 Moe // Dec 23, 2007 at 9:48 am

Is there a solution for 1.1.2 ?

26 Limited Edition iPhone // Dec 24, 2007 at 8:39 am

try the manual method for 1.1.2

27 hermann // Dec 28, 2007 at 3:05 am

Hi everyone first thanks for your job here.
I have a probleme I have the top screen dead, I succeed to modify the general.plis and I can access the touch settings, but to modify the sensibility we need to access the top of the screen, wich is impossible because it’included in the in sensitive area. So is there a way to put the touch setting bar, in the bottom of the page ???

28 hermann // Dec 28, 2007 at 3:09 am

For people who can’t access to the settings menu because of the dead area, you can modify the order of icons on the springboard by modifying the DisplayOrder.plist, then you will be able to chose where to place the icon on the screen.

29 jaume // Jan 3, 2008 at 7:47 am

Hi all,

Happy 2008! I’m having the same problems as hermann. I have a probleme I have the top screen dead, I succeed to modify the general.plis and I can access the touch settings, but to modify the sensibility we need to access the top of the screen, wich is impossible because it’included in the in sensitive area. So is there a way to put the touch setting bar, in the bottom of the page ???

Please, can anybody help? Thanks!

30 jaume // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:19 am

Hi,

I just found a way. You just have to edit the touch.plist and add some empty cells on the top of the file so the silde bar gets positioned a bit lower where you can acces it.
it still didn’t fix the touch screen issue for me, but was able to acces the control.

Thanks!

31 Tbolt // Jan 5, 2008 at 10:22 am

Hello,
I have the same issue as jaume.
The upper part of my touchscreen is not working anymore.
How do you edit touch.plist file.I was able to edit the general.plist file but not th etouch file. It’s is not like xml format but in hex..??..
Jaume,how did you do? can you send it to me?

Best regards

32 jaume // Jan 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Hey Tbolt,

I just extracted the touch.plist form the iphone using ibrickr or ssh and used the conversion tool at:
http://140.124.181.188/~khchung/cgi-bin/plutil.cgi
once converted to ascii you can add childs in the xml so that the original controls appear a bit lower and you can access them form the part of the touchscreen that’s working.

In my case it didn’t help and i guess i’ll have to send my virginized iphone back to apple somehow. Please tell me if it works with yours!

Thanks,

Jaume

33 eddyyyyy // Jan 11, 2008 at 7:46 am

hi, my iphone also encounter same problem. at the line of clock, calc, notes, settings, itunes, installer, and iworld is not responsive. other than that, it still working fine.

I’ve accidentally replaced the 1.1.1 general.plist into my 1.1.2 general.plist by using iphonebrowser.

the result is when i slide to 16, the touch is really less-sensitivity, but when i slide to 0, it makes no differents. Those lines mentioned still not responsive to touch.

Any solution?

34 Francisco // Jan 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Thank you. I just got the problem today where bar space, . and some other very lower part of the screen didnt work and changing the sensitivity worked for me. My iPhone is out of Warranty as I did the hardware unlock.

35 Mitch // Jan 15, 2008 at 1:46 pm

I used it and it does make a difference.
I could not touch the bottom row of icons.
Now I can press iPod, Safari, etc, but it does not go down to the exact bottom of the screen.
I still have problems when there are smaller buttons to press, like on the keyboard.

36 Charly // Jan 16, 2008 at 8:23 pm

hi guys i have the same problem with the dead strip, but mine is on the lower part i cant use the call button nor the zxcvbnm buttons, im reading this but i still dont understand what to do, can anyone please guide me step by step to fix this problem i would really aprecciate the help, thanx a lot

37 sarah // Jan 17, 2008 at 10:04 am

where do i find the general.plist on my phones files?

38 Roberto // Jan 21, 2008 at 5:36 am

My problem it’s serious. I can’t slide to unlock because I lost the 50% of the bottom part. It means I can’t hack to let it connect to the network and install the new general.plist. Any suggesiton?!?

39 Tbolt // Jan 22, 2008 at 7:38 am

Thank you Jaume for your answer.

For those who search for a general and touch.plist file, you can google these names and you will find them.
But unfortunately it won’t help in many cases.
I had to virginze my iphone and send it back to the us. My friend will try this week to get it replaced or repaired… I still cross my fingers…

Touch screen issues are hardware and to fix it you need to replace the whole TS control and hardware which is not cheap…

good luck

40 nishchay5 // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:54 am

Hey could anyone help me,
how to do all this stuff…

I mean, how could I get the software for replacing that general file….

I m using Windows

41 Tbolt // Jan 26, 2008 at 1:40 pm

hello,
I useiBrickr v0.91.
You should findit easily on the web.
It’s free, no installneeded, just run it.
You will have a file access to you iphone….

42 charliedjr // Jan 27, 2008 at 11:06 am

hello,
inherited an iphone with this exact problem, however, it has 1.1.3, and i am only using it a an ipod at the moment, cannot use the last row of icons with the clock,calc,etc. won’t use it as a phone until this is fixed, do i have to jailbreak phone in order to try this .plist fix?

43 Limited Edition iPhone // Jan 27, 2008 at 3:11 pm

yes you need to jailbreak to access files.

44 charliedjr // Jan 27, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Thanks for the quick response. There appears to be many hacks for jailbreaking iphones, which is the best or the safest ( if there is a safe way)? I suppose i should roll back my itunes and iphone to 1.1.2?
Thanks.

45 DAvie // Jan 29, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Can’t download the file for lower dead strip 1.1.1.
Removed the “.” but it says file not found. Anywhere else I could find this file??

Thanks!

46 James // Jan 31, 2008 at 12:22 am

Is there any way the sensitivity can be increased without having to access the settings? As in a direct modification through USB. I ask this because i had this on my iPhone and it helped greatly but now i have restored my phone to 1.1.1 and cant access the bottom strip of the screen to get onto jailbreakme.com, and i cant access the settings because the phone isnt activated.

47 Charly // Feb 2, 2008 at 10:35 am

Guys Im dying here, i cant call, i cant text, please somebody guide me step by step on how to fix this thing i have a lower dead strip, im begging ya please im desperate. how do I acces the general plist files?????

48 Noham // Feb 2, 2008 at 3:51 pm

My phones touch screen lower part died after a minor drop to the floor. Does anyone know where to get spare parts and how to change the touch item?
The touchscreen seems to have problems also without dropping the phone, several ppls report sudden malfunctions. Thanks for your HELP.

49 praveen // Feb 3, 2008 at 5:17 am

guys, i have got 1.0.2 iphone with upper half of touch screen dead. i used ibrikr 0.91 to extract touch.plst file and added few extra cells in the software and increased the sensitivity to 16. now i could use contacts and call a no . but 1 2 3 in my key pad are not working. can any body suggest how to mod the key pad and bring the numbers down to sensitive area as to make a call. also suggest how to modify the files as to bring the application buttons to the lower half of screen which is responsive?

50 praveen // Feb 3, 2008 at 12:14 pm

any body suggest software modification as to bring all the controls to lower half of touchscreen

51 Begemoter // Feb 3, 2008 at 5:21 pm

hat is really can change sensitivity, and depends of position number it change row to which I can not access, usually it is where is “0″ or “call” on keyboard. But I can’n do working both of them.

1-1-1

Some one have any instruction how this feature can be used? for what down there two switches? Need I restart iPhone after changing value of sensitivity? Any idea?

52 Matt // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:44 pm

This worked so good for me from 1.0.2 to 1.1.2, but I just updated to 1.1.3 (jailbroken and unlocked of course). The touch fix stayed for the most part, but it definitely isn’t as responsive as it was. The touch option is no longer available. I tried to look at the general.plist and alter it for 1.1.3 myself, but I’m not good enough. Anyone out there making a 1.1.3 compatible doc?

53 Cenner // Feb 7, 2008 at 2:15 pm

I also want to try upgrading to 1.1.3, but won’t try it until I know I can fix the Touch Sensitivity. Please help. =)

54 Begemoter // Feb 7, 2008 at 6:24 pm

look post above! if you improved sensitivity on 1.0.2 or 1.1.1 and your iPhone is OK now Do not do it

55 Cenner // Feb 8, 2008 at 2:32 pm

YESSSSSS! got it working with 1.1.3! woohoo! =)

56 alec // Feb 14, 2008 at 5:58 pm

how did you fix it in 1.1.3?

57 andehlu // Feb 18, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Yeah how did you get this working in 1.1.3? I added the lines to the plist and APD’d it over to my phone, did a hard reboot and nothing, the sensitivity slider is still at the top and I the whole strip still is not working….

If anyone gets this working it would be lovely to know how.

58 carl // Feb 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm

hi, the half bottom of my iphone is completley dead. my version is 1.1.3.my opinion is that i should downgraded it to 1.1.2 and try the p.list thing u guys are talking about it would help if you could send me the full step by step on how u can add this option on the iphone. Please its really important for me to know how to do this or else i’ll have to buy a new screen which costs 250$.So if you could provide me this information please send it to my email at kormal_655@hotmail.com thank you for all your efforts. hope to hear from you soon as it will save me 250$.

59 coderecycle // Feb 20, 2008 at 9:50 am

How do i connect to the iphone to change the general file?

60 jerry // Feb 20, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Hi, the lower portion (dock button area) is dead. I edited general.plist with ifuntastic and the touch option is there but it makes no difference. perhaps i shouldn’t have dropped it!

61 Gaijin-Phone // Feb 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm

My issue is a vertical non-responsive strip on the left of my screen. This means, after installing the general.phlist and getting into the “touch” setting, I cannot slide the bar below “3.0″. That’s where my non-responsive area begins.

How can I modify this setting off-line?

62 Charly // Feb 20, 2008 at 3:24 pm

This phone is killing me!!! first I had a dead strip on the lower half of the phone, but I could still kinda use it, now the whole lower part died, and I cant even type my password, also I use windows! please somebody help me out. my msn is carlitros_30@hotmail.com

63 Miharbi // Feb 21, 2008 at 2:10 am

My 1.1.1 got the sensitivity bug. I got really crazy and worried over it all day. I found this site but had no clue on how to use file. So I virginized and restored the phone. No change. Next I upgraded to 1.1.2. No change. So I dl’d WinSCP, installed BSD subsystems and OpenSSH on the iphone and got connect to the iphone. I replaced the general.plist with the 1.0.2 plist, and it goddamn works. Yay.

64 TJH // Feb 24, 2008 at 8:25 am

I got exact the same problem as Gaijin-Phone meaning I can’t use the “Touch Settings” slider which means I can’t modify the senivity – is there a .plist I could change the settings below 3 manually?

65 andehlu // Mar 2, 2008 at 7:20 am

For the upper dead stip: i swapped the plist on 1.1.3 with the 1.1.1 version and it worked it put the touch setting under the reset it general settings. However the problem is that i still cant turn the sensitivity setting to 0 as it is still in the dead strip… dang.

66 Ruizlo // Mar 8, 2008 at 9:44 am

Hi, I need help. My iphone has a bottom dead strip. I add the general.plst bur I can acces to General , beacuse it not comes up enough so that i could press it with the part of the screen that does work. How I can move it? Please someone let me know

67 Tspiv // Mar 8, 2008 at 12:12 pm

I have firmware 1.1.2 and the bottom strip isnt working.. is there anyway i can increase the sensitivity?

68 Tspiv // Mar 8, 2008 at 12:12 pm

I have firmware 1.1.2 for t mobile and the bottom strip isnt working.. is there anyway i can increase the sensitivity?

69 Tspiv // Mar 9, 2008 at 12:55 pm

could someone please help i really dont want to have to buy the replacement screen because i dont have the money i have firmware 1.1.2 and my phone is unlocked but i have no idea what the code is or how i would go about putting it in..

70 Tspiv // Mar 9, 2008 at 12:56 pm

could someone please help i really dont want to have to buy the replacement screen because i dont have the money i have no idea what the code is or how i would go about putting it in..

71 Tspiv // Mar 9, 2008 at 12:58 pm

could someone please help i really dont want to have to buy the replacement screen i have no idea what the code is or how i would go about putting it in..

72 Begemoter // Mar 9, 2008 at 3:11 pm

I have upgrade frpm 1-1-1 nj 1-1-4, the problem is permanent, of cource I can slightly change sencetivity but I cannot turn back to work my iPhone. Whenit happened there were two died strips, line with “7″ in the begining and “*” is well, I tryed to move sencetivity level step by step from left to right, and find two position, one was abled “7″’s row and second sometimes ables “*”. But both together was not abled.

If you have just one dead row, this can improve situation, that all in my opinion.

73 iPhone - Page 6 - ExiledGamers // Mar 16, 2008 at 8:29 am

[...] its an unlocked one etc.. but you could virginise it and send it back if you wish. Also try here iPhone Touchscreen Fix: Increase Sensitivity might help but i think the replacement screen is the way to go. __________________ Criticalmass [...]

74 Dennis // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Hi, I have Firmware version 1.1.4

And this whole bottom strip is dead.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7867/iphonev111springboardpasq9.jpg

Anyway is there a way to fix this?

And is it possible for me to downgrade to 1.1.1 and just use the general.plist option?

75 Joaquin // Mar 28, 2008 at 11:10 pm

Hi,

I have 1.1.4 as well, and the lower part just died .. i cant unlock the screen or anything. i am not too sure on how to do the general.plist thing, can anyone tell me? and also i think i need to downgrade to 1.1.1?

76 Avengio // Apr 1, 2008 at 11:30 pm

I just edited the general.plist file on my 1.1.4 phone. I had a dead stripe on the left side of my phone. About less than 1cm. It now responds better. The only key that does not work is the ‘w’ on the keyboard. Thanks a bunch for the help on this.

77 Wenger // Apr 2, 2008 at 11:25 am

I dont know if mine is a different case, but i DROPPED my iphone and the lower half stopped working. does that mean it cant be repiard and the appel center cant replace it ?

78 cheetah // Apr 2, 2008 at 11:26 am

Avengio Can you please expalin in step by step that how did u manage to do it on 1.1.4
hanks in advance.

79 Avengio // Apr 2, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Cheetah – Your phone must have the BSD subsystem installed and openSSH. Do this through Installer. SSH into your phone or use a SFTP. Your username will be root and the password is alpine. Once in find the General.plist file in the location specified above and open it with a text editor like notepad or bbedit. Do NOT use Word. Paste in:

cell
PSLinkCell
label
Touch

In the same location as the other nodes. Power down phone, reboot and navigate to Settings>General>Touch

You will see the above picture preference screen.

Hope that helps.

Incidentally for those having troubles accessing the bottom half of the screen and not being able to unlock the phone you may have some luck editing the touch.plist file in the same location as the General.plist file. Just look for 3.5 and change it to 0.

80 Avengio // Apr 2, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Crap. The above post stripped out the xml snippet. Please use the one in the article above. Sorry.

81 Hrvoje // Apr 5, 2008 at 12:27 pm

It seems to work, but it jumped to 16 and now it is horrible. Is there any way to mannually change this setting with ssh and vi editor or etc? Or at least to reset to 3,5 again, so I can give it another try to zero?

82 cheetah // Apr 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Is there any program like iFuntastic(mac) for windows from which i can install SSH on my iphone…i can not access settings/installer to get ssh on my iphone as that area is in my dead spot zone :S

83 Zibri // Apr 5, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Or you can use this ziphone 3.0 plugin.
Save this file in the same ziphone directory (on windows) or in the
mac application resources directory (which should be /Applications/ZiphoneOSX.app/Contents/Resources/
)

Here is the plugin.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105185077/Blucher.zip

84 kennydoesit // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:16 pm

No one ever bothered to mention that the ASCII files, after being edited, have to be converted back to .plist (1.1.1+).

What do we use to convert back to the original files for the iPhone to recognize?

85 siliconeagle // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:22 pm

I tried thiis fix and with the 1.1.4 firmware and my iphone just constanlyly reboots – has anyone had the same issue?

86 kennydoesit // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:24 pm

In Touch.plist, I was able to take the value down to -15.0 (it takes real numbers) and now I have control over the lower keys.

I dont know how long it’ll last, so I’m prepping up the $200 to have a techpro do the digitizer/screen thing.

I love my iPhone.

87 siliconeagle // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:25 pm

I tried thiis fix and with the 1.1.4 firmware and my iphone just constanly reboots – has anyone had the same issue?

88 cheetah // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:33 pm

kennydoesit …How did you reload the plist to iphone? as when i amend it ..its an ASCII file.. and i think my iphone does not read ASCII files… as u mentioned in ur last post… you have to convert them back to plist/binary files…. how did you do that…can u explain..thanks..

fahhadjavaid@hotmail.com

89 cody01414 // Apr 9, 2008 at 10:03 am

Hi i just recentley purchased an iphone and im in love with it, i have version 1.1.4 installed and just unlocked it using ziphone 2.5 the only thign is there is a dead spot on my screen ..on my home screen the itunes,ziphone icon and the installer dont work, awell when i go into phone the #,*, nor zero will work so i tried downloading the other general list but my computer says windows cannot find a program to open and it asks me to browse for a program …can anyone help me and explain it in the easiest way possible , step by step my email is lambolover700@hotmail.com

thanx

90 mike // Apr 12, 2008 at 1:11 am

kennydoesit CAN you please post your .plist file it will help a lot of people with the same problem.
thanks.

91 Joe // Apr 12, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Wow! This works GREAT on my 1.1.4 firmware!!! I was about to use my warranty and get a replacement. I had a dead strip at the bottom of the screen that wouldn’t allow me to use the full keyboard or SMS, etc. I simply SSH’s into the preferences.app directory on the iPhone and copied the general.plist file to my desktop. Since I’m on a PC, I had to run an XML convert on the plist file which found a website that does the conversion, otherwise text editors will just show garbage text. From there I opened the new converted plist file in wordpad. I added the text you posted into the plist file and resaved it. I then copied the file back to the original location on the iPhone overwriting the old general.plist file. No need to do any kind of xml conversion again. I then was able to access the touch sensitivy screen under > settings > general > touch. I set it all the way to zero and I now have full use of my phone back! I do have to press a little harder down towards the bottom of the screen though. Hey, but at least it works!

92 Joe // Apr 12, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Oh one more thing … isn’t it possible to add this functionality of accessing the touch menu as a source in installer.app? It’s a simple thing that seems like someone could make a tweak for and it sure would be helpful to a LOT of people.

93 andehlu // Apr 13, 2008 at 4:51 am

An installer is a great idea. Does no one have this problem with a TOP dead strip? I can get the Touch slider to appear in my settings but the actual slider itself IS IN MY DEAD STRIP ARGH! Is there anyway to control the sensitivity value itself thru the plist?

94 Avengio // Apr 13, 2008 at 10:13 am

@andehlu – you could ssh into the phone and edit the touch.plist file. It is in the same directory as the General.plist. Good luck! Hope that helps.

95 andehlu // Apr 13, 2008 at 10:45 am

@avengio – thanks I couldnt get the default to zero in the Touch.plist BUT what I did do is add a bunch test sliders on top and bottom of the slider that controls the sensitivity. This allowed me to vertically scroll the slider out of my dead strip. I set it to zero and BUMMER. It still doesnt work. I think I have a real screen issue. Oh well Ill live with it until the new phone comes out (hopefully) soon. Thanks for your help.

96 kennydoesit // Apr 15, 2008 at 2:32 pm

I still have dead spots on my screen. I use WinSCP to transfer files to and from the phone.

I’m also using a 3rd party dialer (to pull up my contacts and to add new numbers).

Anyone know where the settings for the subMenus (favorites, Recents, Contacts, etc) might be?

I still can’t get those to respond to touch.

97 David // Apr 22, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Hey can someone post their modified general.plist file for firmware 1.1.4? My touchscreen is having same problems

98 Janimal // Apr 23, 2008 at 9:49 am

Hi,

I have a problem also. My lower half of touch screen is not working and i can’t reach General from settings. What can i do? I can go to iphone via ssh. Can i change the order of applications in settings, so that genral could be a bit higher in the screen…. PLEASE HELP i dont want to use my NOKIA!!!!!!

99 Mike // Apr 23, 2008 at 7:39 pm

here is the 1.1.4 modified file the touch sensor can go up to -15 instead of zero.

its working great thanks guy for the info you are providing here.

those 2 files needed to make the sentivity option appear and the second is to let us go under zero.

mine is working A+ with -15 but i have to touch above the letter.

but its working.

give it a try and let me know.
here are the links.
http://www.mediafire.com/?funnc1xrcvm

touch.plist link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qhdaly3hgyf

100 kucza // Apr 25, 2008 at 6:39 am

Hi!

Here are the modified files for 1.1.4!

Just upload them to your phone!

http://rapidshare.com/files/110285879/General.plist.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/110286136/Touch.plist.html

The touch.plist is modified so the sensitity slider is located in the middle of the screen. hopefully acessible for most people… I have added test areas both at top and buttom screen…

Good luck!

101 Janimal // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Ok I’ve done it. I cant reach general in settings area, so I cant try to change touch senstivity. If wallpaper and general could switch places i could reach general. before that it inpossible. Or should i try to change the source of touch.plist from 3.5 to 0?

102 Janimal // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:54 pm

For clearance i downloaded those files and uploaded to phone via ssh but the situation is the same as mentioned above

103 Costas // Apr 25, 2008 at 7:32 pm

Hi, i have 1.1.4 firmware and the upper dead strip prob,i have the 2 modified files but i can’t upload them because i had used Ziphone to unlock and iBricks doesn’t works ,it needs (ziphone ibrickr fix) to be downloaded and i can’t add Sources. I can’t neither use the sshkit(with WinSCP)because you must power off during the procedure. . What can i do?

104 Mike // Apr 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Costas: you can use winscp google it and use it
login to your iphone as login: root
pass: alpine.

105 David // Apr 26, 2008 at 4:31 am

Thanks for the file guys, how do I go to -15? It seems to go only to 0.0

106 Costas // Apr 26, 2008 at 9:25 am

Mike: i have try it but i can’t select the wifi network from my iphone because is under the dead strip,so i can’t connect it….any other solution to transfer the files..?

107 Costas // Apr 26, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Happy Easter!! everyone.. i think i have made it with a mac and megaphone but i still don’t know where to copy the 2 files ..There is -DCIM -Downloads etc…the only .plist file i see is Servises.plist but no General.plist is there to be replaced..??

108 kucza // Apr 27, 2008 at 11:35 am

Your phone has to be jailbroken! Then copy the 2 files to “Applications -> Prefrences” folder…

Dont think it goes to -15.. But you can try.. Edit the touch.plist with Wordpad… Its at the top…

109 Charles // Apr 28, 2008 at 10:16 pm

just installed ziphone 3.0, need to fix deadspot around lower spot on the screen, how do i ssh into phone and install above fixes in iphone, sorry guys, just a newbie.
Thanks.

110 kennydoesit // Apr 30, 2008 at 3:24 am

Scroll back through the replies above. There is a wealth of info up there.

111 kash // May 6, 2008 at 12:31 am

I need to know how i i am gonna put files in iphone cause i edit plist put how i gonna install in iphone i have 1.1.4 ver please help me kinda new

112 Afonso // May 6, 2008 at 1:20 pm

I’m trying to change my general.plisf file but I can’t convert it from xml.. Any recommended software? I’m using winscp to read the files.
Thank u!

113 Afonso // May 6, 2008 at 3:05 pm

I was able to transfer the general.plist file and the touch.plist file, but still not working… I’ll keep on pimp my iphone! Good luck for everyone.

114 kash // May 6, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Afonso

How did ya manage transfer files into ipod cause i can’t transfar which program i should use cause i can’t use wincsp cause i don’t know how to use can you give me step by setp how to transfar files cause i allready mode Plist

thanks in advance

115 Afonso // May 7, 2008 at 5:56 am

Kash,
I used winscp ( can download it searching google)to switch general.plist file and touch.plist. don´t know other way… try to consult other foruns. Good luck!

116 Roberto // May 14, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Guys, finally I found how to modify the value of the Touch: /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

The value to put is “SBFingerProjection”.

You can add the following section using something such iBrickr:

SBFingerProjection
-10

Hope this helps.

117 Chris // May 18, 2008 at 11:30 am

The bottom touch strip of my phone will not work
I am able to use the unlock slider and get to General but i can’t click on touch!
When I try to, it just selects key board.
Any Advice?

118 Editing touch "sensivity" via SSH? - ModMyiFone.com | iPhone forums, iPhone hacks, iPhone unlock // May 19, 2008 at 9:13 am

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119 cahluma // May 21, 2008 at 6:11 am

Ok, friends … The “General.plist” file, really works but doesn’t solves the problem totally !! I mean, probably is needed something, that may offer more sensivity like” n

120 bebe // May 22, 2008 at 6:01 pm

hey i downgraded to 1.0.2 especyaly for this dead strip but i don’t know hot to put it on the iphone i run on windows. please help me.

121 alvy // May 25, 2008 at 6:34 pm

need some backup im on 1.1.4 and used kuczas link above for the general.plist and touch.plist and it worked perfect but i need the scroll in the settings>general>touch to go bellow “0″ does anybody have a link?

122 bebe // May 26, 2008 at 2:30 am

hey alvy how did you manage to upload the general.plist and touch.plist to your iphone? please help me I’m desperate

123 Manuel Peñaloza // Jun 1, 2008 at 1:21 am

Hi, Recently i got the problem with my iPhone, Death Strip in two areas of the screen.

Well, i download the file from Kucza, does files work great but if i move to 15 my screen work better than o

Does anybody know something?

Best Regards

And Thank you to everyone!

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125 Jay // Jun 7, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Seems like every time I install fring, the next day something flaky happens to the touch screen. Everything was mint, installed fring, 2 days later started to act up, hardware reset and re-jailbroken, all is fine. Reinstall fring… same thing again even unremoved. Then all fixed with a restore. Ver 1.14 Ziphone 3.x area affected “send” in SMS area across the screen

126 Rivers85 // Jun 10, 2008 at 7:01 am

Can anyone help my top and bottom touch strip are dead. I have 1.1.4 firmware my phone worked fine after it fell from very low altitude but then it froze and went dead again since I can’t use neither the top or bottom touch strip how to i increase the sensitivity

Sorry im a newbie could anyone please help to explain to me what to do step by step im really lost. And now I only have a really expensive clock

email: mjr4real@gmail.com

127 Oscar // Jun 10, 2008 at 10:29 am

Hi!

I have a friend who has a dead bottom strip, I helped him to change the sensitivity and the big buttons in the dock are responding well. The trouble is that when we enter in some app like iPod, the buttons for Songs, Podcasts, etc… are smaller and the sensitivity hack does not work here, i think that buttons are out of range there.

So I was thinking about some way to make that buttons bigger, I wonder if there is any XML file that we can change in order to make it taller and be reached touching the strip abobe who is alive or has increased it sensitivity.

I’ll work on it to provide a hack… but any help is welcome.

128 Manuel Peñaloza // Jun 10, 2008 at 11:03 am

I try all this hacks but same problem… i think in a screen replacement…. ughhhh

180 usd pffffff or another iphone? the problem is that in Apple don´t sell any more of this, and the new 3G will be more difficult to obtain, only with a contract ant an activated in a store (Apple or ATT)

129 Oscar // Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18 am

Yes, there is some places on the Web that will sell to you a replacement screen with a video and all to make the repair. It’s an option to make your iphone like new… and now that the 3G iPhone will appear on stores, the prices of this first generation iPhone parts must drop, maybe we can repair it. Or get a 3G iPhone instead for almos the same price.

Do not worry for the 3G iPhone, Zibri and others are already working on it… and I think that if all the peple collaborate, we will be able to unlock it and find a way to hack it very soon.

Going back to the dead strip problem (I would like to say… a challenge) I think it is very possible to make the buttons bigger with some software hack. I’ll have the SDK already and I’ll try to do a sample app with bigger bottom buttons.

130 Fernando // Jun 16, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Hope this helps many of you having the same problem:

I’ve had my iphone for about 8 months now. It’s unlocked, jailbroken and updated to firmware 1.1.4. I used Ziphone 3.0 for Windows to unlock and activate it. I few weeks ago I had the touch screen issue, It was getting hard to slide the unlock bar at the startup screen, but it would work sometimes after shutting down and turning it on again. Then yesterday the whole screen stopped working, it would not respond to any touch at all!

I was sure it was a hardware problem and I would have to throw my iphone away – since i’m not in US and the warranty is void due to the unlock.

But I read this post, and using IPHONE PC SUITE on Windows (great app!), i could backup my files such as contacts, memos and so on, edit the touch.plist file and changed the “3.5″ vallue to “-10″ . Voilá, after reebotting the phone the screen became operable again. Hope it will last for a while now.
I haven’t tried any other vallue, but -10 is working fine.

By the way, I did not have to add the Touch Sensivity option on Settings, since I would never be able to reach it as my screen was fully inoperable. So, editing the TOUCH.PLIST and changing the “3.5″ vallue does it!

I Believe it’s the easiest way to do it MANUALLY if you don’t have any response from the touch screen at all!

Hope it helped.

131 Mancunia // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Can anyone talk me through how to get the amended touch.plist onto my iphone?

132 Mancunia // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm

By the way, I’m using Mac OSX Tiger, don’t know if thats relevant or not?!

133 Anoir // Jun 19, 2008 at 5:15 pm

hi everybody
i have the same problem… top of the screen dont respond anymore…. i read all of this page, but not even one has explain the exact details….. we need someone to put the all steps by steps of how to change those files .plist on iphone, knowing that we cant install open ssh and bsd subsystem because of the install butom is on the top of screen ….. thank you so much for your help …

134 Rivers85 // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Hi everybody

@Fernando I would like to know if you know of other type of app beside iphone pc suite because i have a mac. And if you do could you please explain step by step how to use sorry im a newbie.

Thanks everyone for your help
email:mjr4real@gmail.com

135 Art007 // Jun 20, 2008 at 8:48 am

Can someone send me a working general.plist file for ver. 1.1.4? I tried all links in this forum, copied files using WinSCP and I can’t see my “general” options in the menu anymore. I click on “General” tab in settings and I’m getting blank window on my IPhone.
I meantime, I accidentally deleted original general.plist file. I need a working one to restore it.
Has anyone experienced general option loss after file replacement. What am I doing wrong?
Thx in advance.

136 brian // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:19 am

guys, i have the same problem, I NEED A STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS of how to do it because i am running 1.1.4 and the UPPER strip is DEAD. I tried to download ifuntastic/generalplist/ ibrick etc. but i have no idea how to upload the touch sensitivity because it just shows up in notepad, :S:S i dont know what to do with the codes, please post up STEP BY STEP instructions here or email me and I will be very greatful. I am a Canadian user and have contacted apple but they do not want to do a hardware exhange because i am a canadian citizen.. I need HELPP ,. PLEASE !! :D

137 Fernando // Jun 20, 2008 at 12:54 pm

River85,

I know there are a bunch of other apps available for either mac an pc. The only one I’ve ever tried was the IPHONE PC SUITE for windows. And I can tell it’s awesome, it gives you full control of the phone, incluinding editting .plist files on notepad. It converts automatically and then you just upload to the phone.

If your phone was unlocked using Ziphone 3.0, as was mine, the access is straight using PC SUITE, really easy.

138 brian // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:11 pm

.. i just downloaded iphone PC suite and it doesnt work, can anyone please post step by step instructions of how to do this .. i am lost and confused.. how do you change the notepad script to actually modify the iphone.. i will paypal 20$ to the person that sends me correct instructions lol… and if it works.. pplease help

139 jannethe // Jun 22, 2008 at 5:27 pm

hello, need some help, I have dead the upper part from my I phone, I actualize my I phone , thinking maybe this help now , the installer icon is gone with all the applications I had downloaded, does not reconize also my sim card..what can I do, I can not get in anything becouse I can not write…, I don’t undertstaing very well..where I get from this general.plist files I found them in internet but now what I suposse to do…getting crazy in here!!! please show me as I’m a small baby.

140 gadiwhat // Jun 23, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Alright i am pretty nub to this kind of stuff but I was able to get this on my iphone and unluckily mine is a hardware problem :[.

I am runnin on 1.0.2firmware.

What you guys need to do is download that IphonePCsuite.

This is how it worked for me.

Download the 1.0.2. general.plist file and save it somewhere on your desktop it does not really matter, as long as you can find it when you want it.

Through iphonepcsuite, you will want to go to

FILES through the interface

APPLICATIONS

PREFERENCES.app

GENERAL.PLIST [when you get to this one, right click, and press UPLOAD.

Now browse for the file we were talking about earlier that you have download [general.plist modified version].

VIOLA!! after you uploaded it you will good to go. Also i figured out you can edit the Touch.plist by downloading it to your computer and set the 3.5 [sensitivity] to -10. Do the exact same thing we did earlier except save a version of the modified touch.plist to your computer and upload the same we did awhile ago to touch.plist.

Instead of being able to adjust the sensitivity from 0-16 [or whatever the hell it is] you will now be able to adjust from -10 to i believe 16.

VIOLA!!! how you like me now!? any questions feel free to email the nub.

141 Nick // Jun 23, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Hi guys,
I encountered the other problem. I did everything described above,i have touch function but the problem still exists. I’ve got a lit crack on the right top corner,and the whole right part is malfnctioning,after changing sensitivity the problem still the same what shall i do?

142 gadiwhat // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:53 pm

I guess your S.O.L. my friend. As am I.

143 Oscar // Jun 24, 2008 at 9:07 am

I’m wondering…

What have Apple done to address this kind of issues?

Does anybody know if those are solved in the iPhone 3G next to come out on July 11th?

Because if the thing is cheaper…imagine if they lower the quality?

I’m kinda stubborn so I guess I’ll get one anyway je je je… but I was just wondering about it.

144 Alan Vazquez // Jun 24, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Oscar: Alright man, here’s the deal, the iPhone 3G really isn’t cheaper. It is actually more expensive than the current model. It is just at a subsidized price. Meaning that you will get a $20 increase in your monthly bills. No the quality won’t likely be lower. (Their reputation can’t afford it) No, Apple hasn’t made any adjustments in any of the firmwares. Don’t count on it.

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147 Spyder // Jun 29, 2008 at 4:51 am

Hi all i can not find file wich manage dead strip on the top of the screen, so that the touch option is now on the bottom right under . Please can somebody help me Thax

148 kallo // Jun 29, 2008 at 9:10 am

Guys,i cant use click on any buttom button !! so i cant add sources cause i cant type (. the dot) so i cant use the iphone pc suite, and i cant connect to any wi-fi connection because i cant click on join !! so what can i do !! Please help me !!!!

149 kallo // Jun 29, 2008 at 9:36 am

Just a correction .. i cant use the iphone pc suite coz i cant add the source i.unlock , i cant type the dot .. please help me !!!

150 jason // Jun 30, 2008 at 4:08 am

I have a problem with my iphone 7,8,9 and practically the centre portion screen , can anyone help ?

151 tre // Jun 30, 2008 at 10:18 pm

That worked for everything
UNTIL
agile messenger cme out
and bang!! can pull up the keyboard

152 :| // Jul 2, 2008 at 8:34 am

For anyone having this problem, download these two files, modify touch.plist to a minimum value of -20 and save. Then SSH into your phone after installer BSD subsystem and Open SSH using username:root and password:alpine. Replace the two original files with the downloaded ones . Go to Settings, General, Touch and move the slider until you can click the bottom of the screen. I had to move it to -14 to be able to touch the spacebar.

Good Luck

153 :| // Jul 2, 2008 at 8:35 am

For anyone having this problem, download these two files, modify touch.plist to a minimum value of -20 and save. Then SSH into your phone after installer BSD subsystem and Open SSH using username:root and password:alpine. Replace the two original files with the downloaded ones . Go to Settings, General, Touch and move the slider until you can click the bottom of the screen. I had to move it to -14 to be able to touch the spacebar.

Good Luck

http://rapidshare.com/files/110285879/General.plist.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/110286136/Touch.plist.html

154 steve // Jul 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm

I copied the two files but no Touch option in the menu. Did I do anything wrong. I use Winscp to copy the two files but nothing happen.

155 tre // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Post #153
DUDE !! LIFESAVER
I got keyboard in all apps now
its a little off on the screen
IE i have to tap slightly above
but dammit
I’LL TAKE IT

156 jason // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:14 pm

i can’t get to the touch application , can anyone help ?

157 Paul // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:53 pm

can someone post a touch.plist for 1.1.1 that has been modified already to zero or moved down for a touch screen that is dead at the top. Thank you

158 Oscar // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:54 pm

POST #153!

You are the Hero of the day man (or girl)!

I was able to restore my friend’s iPhone functionality of the bottom strip, now he got space bar, ipod button, etc…

And just in matter of minutes we got used to the new finger projection (means that you mus click a little upper that before).

You rock man!

And just for reporting my findings… I was able to do an iPhone App that was not using that strip, but since mobilePhone, mobileMediaPlayer and all of that things are a little black box, i was not able to replicate them. And of course the original Apps do not have the source code.

So this solution of post #153 seems to be “the thing”. Congrats!

159 Paul // Jul 2, 2008 at 11:09 pm

update: got my touch sensitivity set to -20 and still have strip that isnt working. Will going any lower solve this or do I just need to deal with it til 3g comes out?

160 :| // Jul 2, 2008 at 11:18 pm

I have decided to make a complete guide for this because I know how frustrating and disheartening having a broken touchscreen is, especially if you’re not in a position to return or exchange it (like me).

Download the following files:

http://rapidshare.com/files/110285879/General.plist.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/110286136/Touch.plist.html

Open the Touch.plist file with TextEdit or some other text editing software; Notepad will probably work.

Find where it says:

min
0.0

Replace the “0.0″ with “-20.0″ without the quotations. Save the file.

If you have just restored your iPhone, make sure it’s jailbroken and the Installer program is available on the home screen. Enable Wifi and connect to your wireless internet. I had to disable my router’s password temporarily because I had no access to the “Join” button. Open Installer and if, like me, you can’t press the little buttons along the bottom, click any of the featured apps on the front page. Once it opens the next screen, click on the top-most left hand button to go back to the main packages screen.
Now, go to the “System” category and select and install “BSD Subsystem”. After the installation, from the same category, install “Open SSH”. Once complete, exit Installer and go back into your wifi settings page where your networks are listed. Click on the little blue arrow to the right of your connected network and note the IP address (ex. 102.168.1.104). It is essential that after this point, the iPhone does not go to sleep, because once it wakes, its IP address may be different than before.

This part requires an FTP transfer program capable of connecting to an SSH enabled server for file transfer. I know for a fact that Cyberduck on Mac OSX does this and for free, but on Windows I’m not sure. I will give directions for Cyberduck:

Once in the program, select “Open connection” from the bar at the top. Change “Protocol” to “SFTP” (SSH File Transfer Protocol). Then type in the IP address of the phone you noted earlier, and use username: root and password: alpine. It will take a little while to connect at first, and it may even fail the first time. Try again and it should work. It will give a message about some keys, but in all cases always “allow”.
You will now be presented with a file structure. We need to move up to the main root of the phone’s filesystem. In the drop-down box just above the file structure it should say something like “/var/…” Click this drop-down menu and select “/”. This is the root of the phone’s file structure. You will be presented with a new list of folders. Find “preferences.app” and expand this folder. Now, drag each of the files you downloaded into the program onto “preferences.app”. For each files you should get a file transfer dialog, and a notice that you will be replacing the old file with your downloaded one. Accept this at all times.

Now. Close the FTP program. Go back to your iPhone. Go to Settings -> General -> Touch (New menu item). You should be presented with a screen that allows you to move a slider to increase the sensitivity. The smaller the number, the more sensitive.

I think the spacebar may the lowest object on screen that is absolutely necessary to have access to, so adjust the slider and check it in the SMS section until you can comfortably press the spacebar. I had to go down to around -14. This means that now I have to press slightly above the buttons at all time on the screen, but it is easy to get used to.

I hope this helped everyone, I know that now I have a relatively perfect iPhone that is 100% useable, and that’s all I care about.

Cheers

161 Anoir // Jul 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm

thank u mr X (160) for your great explanation…..
everything is clear but the problem here is the top of the screen does not work, means that till now i cant find how to install bsd subsystem and open SSH…… pls help….
Thank you so much for your help

162 Stev // Jul 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Thanks for the in depth directions! My phone works again

163 Brian // Jul 3, 2008 at 7:41 pm

your suggestions are very helpful.. but is there anywhere to access the WIFI if the top of your screen doesnt work ?? even when i try to move around the applications to get installer to the b ottom it doesnt work.. any way i can do it via the computer or some 3rd party program.. thanks

164 anoir // Jul 3, 2008 at 8:14 pm

for mr Brian i think that you should just open safari, and then it will ask you to connect automatically…….. but your problem is like mine… even if you are on installer , you cant install any application because install buttom is on the top …..
so we need to find a way to install open ssh and bsd subsystem from safari. because to install anything from computer we need open ssh….
hope we will be helped..

165 jason // Jul 3, 2008 at 8:56 pm

hi there , I doesn’t seem able to save the Touch.plist file using my PC suite , any advise on how can I solve it ?

166 :| // Jul 3, 2008 at 10:06 pm

I’m really sorry guys, but I had the bottom touchscreen problem so that is what the directions are for. I know that with iLiberty+ (unlocking and jailbreaking app for windows and mac) you can install both BSD and SSH except that with BSD also comes the Cydia installer. It’s no big deal to have Cydia there, and you may want some applications from it as well as from the regular installer. Try that and report back.

167 Brian // Jul 4, 2008 at 10:05 am

im soo close!! i unlocked the phone and installer appeared on the bottom, connected to the internet, went to system- but bsd install is in the top part of the screen that i cant touch!!! :@ someone please help, any way to move it or access it through a computer?please let me know thanks

168 :| // Jul 4, 2008 at 10:52 am

^^ I just posted an alternative, Brian.

169 Brian // Jul 4, 2008 at 11:23 am

another step of progress made, loaded up BSD and SSH with iliberty+ but i can not get it to connect with cyber duck, i try my ip address and router and it says that there is an error:S how do we go about solving this… i am grateful for the answer .. thank you for your response in advance

170 :| // Jul 4, 2008 at 11:27 am

Are you following the instructions in my long post? Select SFTP instead of FTP and username root and password alpine?

171 Brian // Jul 4, 2008 at 11:39 am

another step of progress made, loaded up BSD and SSH with iliberty+ but i can not get it to connect with cyber duck, i try my ip address and router and it says that there is an error.. i also put in my routers ip address but still not working… how do you make it connect?… i am grateful for the answer .. thank you for your response in advance

172 ervis // Jul 4, 2008 at 12:07 pm

i make avery step you explaned, but in the General menu is not showing any Touch menu ??? Why???

173 Jan V // Jul 5, 2008 at 1:46 am

Hi Guys.

I used the guide in #160 with success, although I used .plist fil e for upper dead strip.

It didn’t solve my problem – I dropped it from a table, so it must be a mechanical error.

Now my problem is, that I managed to get the slider to -20.0. That means that your finger has to be slightly over the point you wanna touch.
That point is now in the dead area of my screen! It must be possible to add an extra touch bar above the slider to in/decrease sensivity.

How do I do that? thanks alot in advance!

174 Jan V // Jul 5, 2008 at 1:51 am

Hi again.

Suddenly I could se what to do.

just cc’ed an extra

cell
PSSliderCell

and then I got an ekstra line, now I’m back to normal – though it didn’t fix my upper dead strip..

175 Marc T. // Jul 6, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Woke up this morning, and lo, the the lower dead strip problem reared its frightening head. After much reading through of this thread, my problem is (sort of) solved. The dead strip still is there – these solutions won’t get rid of it. These are all workarounds so that you can still use your iPhone. Your only real solution for a good-as-new iPhone is to repair the screen or get a replacement unit. That being said, if you’re in my boat (a fellow unlocker who doesn’t use AT&T in the states), and don’t want to shell out more than $200 for repairs, then this solution is more than passable.

As my phone was jailbroken, and I have the 1.14 firmware, I used WinSCP and put the two files found in post #99 onto my iPhone. (for info on WinSCP, you could Google it. I found out all about it in ipodtouchfans.com) By the way, these files, general.plist and touch.plist, go into Applications/Preferences. The directory, though not the default, is not too hard to find once you’re in WinSCP.

I ended up editing the touch.plist a bit more by setting the min to -30.0. (It’s easy to edit the files in WinSCP – just right-click the file you want to edit, and EDIT is one of the choices.) This setting is the only way that I could reach the lowest row on the virtual keyboard in Mail (need to hit the spacebar occasionally, you know). So, this means that I must tap a bit higher than the letters when typing, etc. I’ll deal with it, since the alternative is plunking down $200!

Many thanks to all of the great posters on this site who helped with this aggravating problem!!!

176 vicky // Jul 8, 2008 at 9:55 am

i tried the touch plist edit of -30 and all and all type of variables like -3.5 and all that but even then the bar even on edition always rest on o.o as the last limit how should i handle the same ????

any sugestions and that options of show touchy and the test area are of what and what are the four sliders in the touch settings for… ????

177 Chefino // Jul 11, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Guys, I do NOT know HOW to THANK YOU!!!!
Have been using my N6300 for two week (aargh!! where’s my iPhone!!)

Now this sensitivity fix FIXED my completely dead part of the touchscreen. It isn’t as smooth as a brand new one, but I can write and use the whole screen at last!! Thanks again!!!!!

178 Ricardo // Jul 13, 2008 at 10:04 am

I was able to upload the files using Iphone PC Suite, but I can´t get to the settings page to decrease sensitivity value. The bottom half of the screen isn´t working so I cant get to settings.

Any way to decrease the actual value of it trough the computer?

179 BloodLust // Jul 14, 2008 at 10:42 pm

wahoo thanks to all of you that hooked this up… i couldnt send txts forever coz the send button was a dead spot but i upped the touch to around 10 and now itll press! thanks a ton guys!

180 vicky // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Please let me know should i decrease the sliders or increse the same.

181 Chefino // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:48 pm

vicky: what do you mean? For a more sensitive display you need to increase the sensitivity. I had to put 6.5 to be able to use the zxcvbnm part of the screen when writing sms or notes.

182 vicky // Jul 16, 2008 at 4:09 am

but fellas here are saying to bring the slider below zer .ie, the more the negative value more the sensitivity inversly proportional but my slider eeks out at zero for all values..

183 Niall // Jul 16, 2008 at 1:36 pm

bottom row of my 1.1.4 keypad stopped working but the area was fine in all other apps like ipod, camera etc so figured it was a software issue. Downloaded the files that Mike in post #99 uploaded and my iphone is perfect now.PHEW!!!, bought it in USA and using it in Ireland no way to return or have it repaired. Thanks everyone for all the help

184 Leinonen // Jul 18, 2008 at 8:56 am

Yeah the guide was good, but how the hell do I know what’s the IP of my iphone, when the top of my screen isn’t reacting. I can’t check it in the wifi connections page because the part of the screen is dead..

185 chef // Jul 18, 2008 at 9:50 am

Leinonen: You can check the IP on your wifi router probably. I have an Apple Airport base station and when I fire up the managin application, I can see that in smth. like “Wireless clients” (don’t have it with me now).

The other way would be to know the IP range of your WiFi network and do an nmap scan for all living hosts on your network, e.g. “nmap 192.168.0.0/24″.

That should show you all the active IP addresses on your wifi network.

186 prashant chainani // Jul 18, 2008 at 2:53 pm

:/,
thankyou so much for the detail guide to fixing the dead strip area. I followed whatever u said to the ‘T’ and thanks to U, i know have my iPhone working like usual and plus i am breathing much easier cause i have an unlocked,jailbroken phone in India!!
Been suffering clueless on how to fix this problem and along came a spider(U)..
Thankyou so much Dude..U absolutely rock!!
Cheers .
Good luck
&
God Bless U..

187 Fejao // Jul 19, 2008 at 9:30 am

my iphone has shown the same problem with the screen that was completly dead. I followed the procedure of editing the touch.plist and it worked for a while. But then the screen went dead again. Then i tried to punch the iphone and discovered that if you press a little hard the top-left part just above the screen with your thumb, on the black stripe just above the screen, by the “vibration” button, the screen will work immediately! It’snworth the try.

188 ahoff48 // Jul 19, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Can someone explain step by step how to even get into the settings. I have an out of warranty first gen iphone with dead strip near top. Thanks.

189 Brian // Jul 19, 2008 at 1:40 pm

i pushed on the top left corner.. still doesnt work.. my buddy had the same problem, took his phoen, smashed it into a brick wall, cracked the screen and now it works perfect… this is my last resort lol.. i am not responsible for anyone breaking their iphones due to this method

190 kennydoesit // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:46 am

Sad enough to say, these phones have hardware problems with the touchscreens and the only real rememdy is having the digitizer and screen (combo) replaced for about $200 (atleast not Yen). There are some copanies on the web that with recieve your phone (via mail) and repair it for you.

I love my phone and I think it’s worth it. Altering touch.plist is only a temporary fix for iphones with minimal hardware (sensitivity) damage.

I think sweat (from talking on the phone) and other moisture damages the screens.

Anyone looking to alter the files on the phone should read this thread from the beginning.

191 adi // Jul 20, 2008 at 9:23 am

same issue,upper half of the screen not working..cant ssh as wifi is not enabled.Plz help

192 cleazenby // Jul 20, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Anyone know how to use this fix with 2.0 firmware?

193 Chefino // Jul 20, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Yes, once the pwnage 2.0 tool has come out, I’d like to upgrade my firmware, but will probably not do so until I am sure I can use this sensitivity “hack” on that firmware. Please report anybody who’s successful on that.

Thanks

194 Leinonen // Jul 21, 2008 at 3:25 am

I got ifuntastic to put the new files onto my iphone but..

How do I move the files to preferences.app on ifuntastic? For some reason I can’t open the preferences.app in the data transfer part of ifuntastic? If I try to drop them on the preferences.app icon, they’ll just end up in the applications folder.. I suck at doing shit I shouldn’t have to do

I also tried putting the files in iphone/private/var/mobile/library/preferences no help.

Damn I’m disappointed with the phone, it’s moisture that is causing this. I was on a photography job when heavy rainfall hit the spot and I had my iphone in my camera bag, after that the top of the screen hasn’t worked.

195 Leinonen // Jul 21, 2008 at 3:43 am

Damn, finally got it. I had to make the preferences.app folder a favorite and directly go there through bookmarks. Maybe I’m just doing it the hard way.

And I got the slider there, tried bunch of adjustments and the piece of motherloving crap works! I got the touch functionality back, but I’ll have to try what’s the best value to work with. Now I’m having to press too much off the buttons. Thanks to everyone anyway!

196 Martijn // Jul 21, 2008 at 5:37 am

Ok, trying with my 1st Gen iPhone, running 2.0. I prepared a custom firmware with OpenSSH already built-in and activated. I even tried to modify the General.plist and Touch.plist while PwnTool is building the IPSW so it comes already modified when you flash the firmware.

It works. BUT: everytime I touch the screen, I see the spinning disk and the phone goes back to locked-mode. Hence: unusable.

197 chefino // Jul 21, 2008 at 6:02 am

Martijn: Thanks for the update, won’t spend my 4 hours trying to do that now Anyway, anybody who happens to do some more progress on the 2.0 firmware and this sensitivity fix, please post. Thanks.

198 Martijn // Jul 21, 2008 at 6:19 am

Yes! It’s working! I modified both files with Xcode’s property editor (and saved it as Apple Binary files, NOT XML files) and I’m happilly typing on my iPhone 1G with 2.0! Here’s a link with the modified files:
http://rapidshare.de/files/40045605/Archive.zip.html
I also modified the General-Simulation.plist, not sure it that was needed though.

199 Mickee // Jul 21, 2008 at 7:38 am

Works fine for me. 2.0, shh installed, edited the general.plist!!!

200 Remko // Jul 21, 2008 at 8:45 am

It crashes my phone 2 doing this with a 2.0 firmware. I’m getting the same problems like Martijns after changing the values in the General>Touch panel. I hope somebody can figure out a fix.

201 chefino // Jul 21, 2008 at 9:05 am

Mickee: do you mean that when you DONT replace the general.plist but EDIT it instead (by adding the few XML lines info it), it actually works as supposed? Can anybody else confirm this please?

Thanks.

202 percolated // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:07 am

great! thanks for this pseudo-fix. At least my phone is usable now!

-bottom row and mid-upper zone dead screen.

-1.1.4

-unlocked, jailbreak and activated with ziphone (installs SSH and BSD itself also).

-Get iphone and computer on same network and jot down TCP/IP addresses.

-Used Cyberduck (freeware for mac) and installed files suggested in post#153.

-Restarted iphone

-Through Settings=>General=>Touch adjusted ’sensitivity’ slider to -16

Fixed!
thanks heaps for this guys, phone was bricked until this solution

203 percolated // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:09 am

great! thanks for this pseudo-fix. At least my phone is usable now!

-bottom row and mid-upper zone dead screen.

-1.1.4

-unlocked, jailbreak and activated with ziphone (installs SSH and BSD itself also).

-Get iphone and computer on same network and jot down TCP/IP addresses.

-Used Cyberduck (freeware for mac) and installed files suggested in post#153, after editing 3.5 value to -20 using OnmiOutliner for mac.

-Restarted iphone

-Through Settings=>General=>Touch adjusted ’sensitivity’ slider to -16

Fixed!
thanks heaps for this guys, phone was bricked until this solution

204 Remko // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:55 am

Got it! Just restored back to the 2.0 firmware and applied the changes to the general.plist and touch.plist. As long as you don’t turn on “Show Touch” the fix also works for firmware 2.0.

205 estonian // Jul 21, 2008 at 5:32 pm

I second to Remko – the touch settings will work on 2.0 as long as you don’t turn the “show touch” slider on (in which case the springboard restarts with every touch).
You don’t need to restore in order to fix the restarting springboard as the “show touch” setting (like the touch sensitivity) can be modified in /var/private/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist (set ShowTouchPoints YES->NO).

206 estonian // Jul 21, 2008 at 5:34 pm

I second Remko – the touch settings will work on 2.0 as long as you don’t turn the “show touch” slider on (in which case the springboard restarts with every touch).
You don’t need to restore in order to fix the restarting springboard as the “show touch” setting (like the touch sensitivity) can be modified in /var/private/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist (set ShowTouchPoints YES->NO).

207 Move icons using .plist files in 2.0? - iPhone Forums at ModMyiFone.com - iPhone | iPod Touch, news, apps, themes. // Jul 24, 2008 at 4:08 am

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208 Brian // Jul 24, 2008 at 10:25 pm

how do u get iphone and computer on the same netw ork… i am trying to run cyberduck but it keeps failing.. any tips?

209 Brian // Jul 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

how do u get iphone and computer on the same netw ork… i am trying to run cyberduck but it keeps failing.. any tips on doing the smpt file transfer?

210 chefino // Jul 25, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Simple. You have to have a wifi router (or maybe create an ad-hoc network on your mac). Then connect the iPhone to this network. Once it’s there, you look up its IP address (in the wifi- advanced settings page) and connect to this IP from cyberduck.

Before connecting make sure you actually see the iphone, by typing “ping ip.add.re.ss”in the Terminal.app, where IP address is the actual address of the iPhone (eg. 192.168.0.20).

211 Leo // Jul 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Can someone explain to me how you get the slider down to a negative value like -16 or something? my touch slider doesn’t go any lower than a 0.0 value.

212 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 2:20 am

i dropped my iphone and now the lower two rows of the touch screen is not responding..now i cannot answer or make calls..and i cannot unlock it once the phone is locked ..can somebody tell me what i should be doing..

213 Chefino // Jul 27, 2008 at 2:26 am

Joseph: Yes, start reading these comments from the very beginning. The solution is there.

214 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:01 am

i am having windows as my OS and my firmware is 1.1.3 can u plz tell me the steps..

215 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:05 am

i understood that i need iphone pc suite whihc version should i download and can anyone tell me where i can get the general.plist file for 1.1.3 firmware version and steps of how to do it…

216 Chefino // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:08 am

Use the general.plist 1.1.1, which is linked in the article itself. Do some reading man..

217 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:25 am

Chefino:-hi,i am using windows and when i tried downloading IPhone PC Suite,i am not able to install it…can u please help me…i read most of wat is written..but i’m not understanding some things

218 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:28 am

can i get u yahoo or gtalk id..maybe u can help me out step by step..plz…

219 Chefino // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:36 am

I don’t use windows, but you should connect to a wifi network (both your windows pc and your iphone) and then use WinSCP (free software) to make an SCP connection to the iPhone and copy the file there. I am currently leaving my flat, so I cannot be more of an assist.

220 joseph // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:43 am

i dont have wifi at my home only normal cable internet…can u tell me anyother software whihc will help me…

221 Chefino // Jul 27, 2008 at 4:33 am

The only way I can think of is building your own custom IPSW file with the pwnage tool and then restore directly to iTunes. You would have to modify the image and upload the general.plist and touch.plist files into the image, then compile it. But I think that this would be a lot harder to accomplish, so you better lend a wifi router from somebody and do it the easier way, as I wrote before.

222 charly // Jul 27, 2008 at 4:42 pm

my Iphone is not working any more, because the touch screen doesn’t work. the only part that doesn’t work is where it say, slice to unlook, i haven’t droop it yet, actually is almost new,but it doesn’t work. what can i do to fix it with uot spending money, thanks

223 chefino // Jul 28, 2008 at 1:36 am

Charly: if it’s new, then you should apply your warranty, Apple has to replace it without charging you anything.

224 roberto // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:42 am

yo tengo la 1.1.4 y tengo la parte inferior de la pantalla q no funciona. soy de españa y lo compre en nueva york. ¿con la garantia me lo arreglaran alli en nueva york? gracias

225 chefino // Jul 29, 2008 at 6:04 am

Si, creo que lo tienes que arreglaral en Nueva York. Pero lo puedes consultar en Apple en España, no se si has pagado por Applecare.

Perdona me mi castellano, se me olvido todo

226 kant // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 am

i have an idea….cos my bottom part dosen’t work around 1cm
and i have already try #160 it works but the touch screen is offset downward … can i adjust the screen size and move the button out of the area ?
thx

227 charly // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:09 pm

chefino: thanks for the advise, the only problem , is that iam living at Mexico now, i cant go back to ny. do u have any other idea?? appreciate.

228 charly // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:37 pm

kant, how u do that.. i font understand u very well. u think i can do it by mi self?

229 chefino // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:53 am

Charly: find out in a local Apple Store if they can help you, or just call them and ask (there in Mexico). Other than that, you can ship the iPhone via mail to the U.S. and have them fix it and send it back (also first check with them, if it’s possible). The display can be replaced also in a shop where they can fix iPhones, but that is rather expensice (I think a new display is aroun $200).

230 kuldeep // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:11 am

please help me i upgraded and pwnd my iphone with now version 2.0 but unfortunately the screen is stuck at edit home screen message and i cannot proceed ahead as the dismiss button lies in the dead area of screen , any ideas how to remove that message otherwise. please help thanks in advance, my phone is out of warranty now.

231 James // Aug 3, 2008 at 3:55 am

please help guys! I moved the touch slidder all the way to the right on the 16 value this fixed some issues but created new ones, like erratic behavior when i click some home screen icons etc. how do I reset it, i can no longer control the sliders

232 Joshua // Aug 4, 2008 at 12:40 am

Can Anyone PLease Tell Me How To Fix My Iphone With A upper Dead Strip

233 BuzzbyJool // Aug 5, 2008 at 2:21 am

Hi,
can someone upload a custom firmware with everything we need ?
that could be the most easierer way.

thanks

234 RAUL // Aug 6, 2008 at 11:01 am

I just WinPwned my phone with the lower dead strip and i loaded the plist files with the iphone PC suite. my problem is that the “edit home screen” dialog can not be dismissed. Is there any file i can edit to disable this?? or is there a way i can set the touch settings value with out having to use the slider? Thanks

235 dangdang // Aug 8, 2008 at 1:13 am

Hello everyone,
I have an older version of iPhone, (not the 3G), : ) !!! firmware is 1.1.4.

Yesterday (7th Agutst) moring I was using netService application to disable edge service and then suddenly the iphone was locked and the slider couldn’t be slided to unlock .
It doesn’t turn off with the power button, the only thing I was able to do was to press the power and HOME button simultaneously. However, it doesn’t help me much because it brings me back to the same place where I can’t “slide to unlock”.

Anyone can help me? thanks in advance!!!

236 synf // Aug 8, 2008 at 3:45 pm

RAUL!!! I had this same problem to get rid of the message follow this guys instructions

http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43402

237 dangdang // Aug 9, 2008 at 2:48 am

Hello synf,
It still can’t work, the value of the key “SBDidShowReorderText” is already “true”. Thank you anyway!!

238 Chukde // Aug 12, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Solution solved the problem..
Here are quick steps to solve it
1. download OpenSSH from installer on iphone.
2. download WinSCP on PC.
3. Make Sure both iphone and laptop or computer are on same wireless network
4. Run WinSCP on PC and Enter the Hostname as ipaddress from iphone(Settings>Wireless>details of the network) username:root password: alpine and then hit login
5 Google new general.plist file and replace it with the file in Applications> preferences folder
6. Goto settings>Touch and make the sensitivity to Zero and boom problem solved…

239 B r i a n // Aug 12, 2008 at 11:27 pm

how do you get them on the same network?
they are both connected through my router and have the same ip address ?? still not working –> HELLLPPP plz

240 Chukde // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:05 am

I tried solution on Unlocked 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 versions. Just follow the steps they have been explained really easy way. Dont think this is too hard. Just follow them it will work:

1) download WinSCP on your PC (google it) and run the application

2) download new general.plist file (google it) on laptop

3) download OpenSSH on your iphone (it will not show on iphone but its there so dont worry)

4) connect the laptop and iphone through the same wireless network.
5) write the ipaddress of the iphone from(Settings>Wifi>network details to which you are connected to shows you the ipaddress)

6) Goto laptop on WinSCP type the ipaddress of the iphone in host name field and username: root and password: alpine and then hit Login.

7) it will open like an explorer view of your iphone files on laptop then click on root on the left side. then Click Applications> preferences> replace the general.plist file with the one you downloaded. you have Done the major part.

Now unplug iphone click Settings> General>Touch and reduce the senstivity to 0. 0 gives you the highest touch sensitivity.

9) Now be happy it works….
If you have questions reply to me with your email address i will reply back

241 B r i a n // Aug 14, 2008 at 10:46 am

my problem is is that i can not get the iphone and computer to sync to the same wireless network… i can not go to wifi–> to check the ip address so instead i went to safari typed into google “my ip” and it found it.. verified on the computer but still did not connect…. please help me i want my iphone working email me if you can solve the problem or post here — brian_lif@hotmail.com… thnx in advance

242 kuldeep // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:43 am

brian,
put the phone in standby mode call from another phone
accept the call and press home button go to settings and look for your wifi settings and then disconnect the call

243 Tom // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Hi, I installed the touch fix above and it helped a little bit but later on things got worse and worse, phone crashing, speaker coming on when making call and the touch screen while better was still annoying. I figured out eventually that it was something to do with the earphone socket and cleaned it out with a needle- finding all kinds of bits of fluff and lint had gathered- phone now working perfectly so maybe that will work for some of you too- no idea why but it did.

244 dorian // Aug 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm

is this only for jailbroken iphones? What about a regular iphone with 2.0.1?

245 Brian Egan // Aug 18, 2008 at 1:55 am

A guide for 2.0.1 (windows apps used as I am too poor to own macs, also the bottom was burned out not the top — can’t help you there)

Credits:
Thank you very much to the authors for this blog post!

Poster #160… definitely helped!

Also thank you to Martijn, his rockin files work for iPhone version 2.0.1 (at the time of this writing, 18 Aug 2008)

Files Needed:
Martijn’s 2.0-2.0.1 General.plist and Touch.plist (what a badass)
http://rapidshare.de/files/40045605/Archive.zip.html

Putty:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

WinSCP:
http://winscp.net/eng/download.php#download2

Here’s what I did:

1. Install the newest version of the iPhone software (on windows with winpwn, not sure how to to it on a mac). The file I downloaded was: iPhone1,1_2.0.1_5B108_Restore.ipsw. If you need a guide, I used this one: http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Unlock-Your-iPhone-for-Any-SIM–Country-6248709

2. Once that’s done, open Cydia > Featured Packages > OpenSSH > Install (previous guides mentioned something about BSD, I didn’t have to do any of that).

3. Go to settings > general > network > wifi > blue arrow next to the conected network. Write down the IP.

4. Go to putty. Enter in the IP as the host name and hit “open.” The process will take a minute to generate the keys. It’s all good. When it’s done it’ll ask you to accept the keys, do so, then enter in the user: “root” and the password: “alpine” (without the quotes).

5. Do a passwd root and change the password to something personal so you will not get pwned.

6. Open winSCP

7. Enter the IP into the Hostname field, enter in the user name and your new password, hit connect.

8. Browse to the “/” directory, then to the “Applications” directory then “Preferences.app”

9. Back up your gneeral.plist and general-simulator.plist files.

10. Copy Martijn’s files into the directory.

11. Go to Settings > General > Touch

12. Adjust the settings to your liking.

It’s not a 100% perfect solution, but it works, and works on the newest software as far as I can tell. Thanks for all the work guys, this revived a “dead” iPhone!

246 Brian Egan // Aug 18, 2008 at 2:47 am

2.0.1 Touch Settings

After tweaking with it a bit I’ve found that the “-15″ works beautifully if you have an iPhone with a screen problem on the bottom. This allows you to tap the top border of each button and hit everything consistently. Hope this has helped!

247 Martijn // Aug 18, 2008 at 6:48 am

Back from the holidays… Remko: great tip about turning off ‘Show Touch’, thanx!

Another tip: when you prepare your cursom image with Pwntool, there’s a moment where it asks you to insert the users’ password. Wait and browse to your /Volumes folder where you will find a temp structure of the firmware’s ramdisk.

I copied the modified General.plist and Touch.plist in the Applications/Preferences.app folder and THEN confirmed the password and voilà: a pre-modified custom firmware!

You won’t need WiFi, WinSCP, ecc then: it all works just at once!

I can upload this this firmware if needed.

248 Martijn // Aug 18, 2008 at 7:25 am

Well, I just went ahead and uploaded the modified firmware anyway

What did I do with this firmware:
- set root partition to 1024GB
- enabled baseband update (if needed)
- enabled bootneuter unlock
- auto-install of OpenSSH and OpenSSL
- auto-install of Cydia and Installer
- auto-install of modified General.plist and Touch.plist
- set touch sensitivity to -15
- disabled ‘Show Touch’ in Touch.plist
- modified boot and restore icon in colored Apple logo (so you know my firmware has been installed)
Just download the .ipsw.zip (and rename to .ipsw), restore with iTunes and you’re done.

No need to SSH into your iPhone after firmware restoration, just confirm touch sensitivity.

Just to be safe:
MD5 (iPhone1,1_2.0.1_5B108_Custom_Restore_SSH_Touch_New.ipsw.zip) = 6c40f3073260565792fbfaa2989bb04b

Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/40264762/iPhone1_1_2.0.1_5B108_Custom_Restore_SSH_Touch_New.ipsw.zip.html

Let me know how you got on!

249 paulv // Aug 18, 2008 at 8:14 am

Dang… Estonian/Remko/Martijn… I should have read further down the thread…! I switched on ’show touch’ … and now I get the spinning disk.
1) I did a restore…and its still there
2) I’m on a PC and using WinSCP I can edit the files posted in #160 simply by right clicking and editing them, but I can’t do that with the file /var/private/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist (It looks like a binary or executable file, not text)

Can you post a copy of that file for me? (Obviously I’m on a 1G phone with 2.0 firmware)

If not, can someone (anyone!) explain how I would edit one of those files

250 Martijn // Aug 18, 2008 at 8:22 am

paulv: I’ve uploaded my modified Touch.plist for you. Place this one in /Applications/Preferences.app/
Since ‘Show Touch’ is a system wide setting, no need to modify the /var/private/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist file. My Touch.plist has Show Touch disabled and uses a -15 touch sensitivity.

http://rapidshare.de/files/40265171/Touch.plist.zip.html

251 Dorian // Aug 18, 2008 at 9:25 am

“is this only for jailbroken iphones? What about a regular iphone with 2.0.1?”

Thanks for the help, but I’m on a mac. I might be able to do this via Parallels. I’ll see if I can do it.

Again, thank you very much for the assistance.

I am just very frustrated by all the bugs on Apple’s hardware/software.

252 paulv // Aug 18, 2008 at 10:36 am

martijn… thanks (dank je wel?) I’ll try it tonight…

253 Dorian // Aug 18, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Martijn,

The files decompressed with DMG files in it, but iTuens won’t recognize any of them.

Is this for a Mac or PC? I’m on a Mac.

Thanks,

Dorian

254 Dorian // Aug 18, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Just updated to 2.0.2

I doubt it will do anything, but what the hell.

Thanks,

Dorian

255 Dorian // Aug 18, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Just updated to 2.0.2

Same bull.

Thanks,

Dorian

256 Martijn // Aug 19, 2008 at 1:02 am

Dorian: do not unzip / unpack the downloaded .zip file: just remove the .zip and thus rename to .ipsw.

257 Dorian // Aug 19, 2008 at 9:25 am

It’s doing it automatically. I can’t stop it from doing it. I can try downloading it from a PC, but my Mac is auto unzipping….

258 Dorian // Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 am

I just zipped it and will see if that works.

Thanks again.

Dorian

259 Martijn // Aug 19, 2008 at 9:30 am

In Safari, under preferences, remove the flag before “Open safe files after downloading”. Or use Firefox.

260 Dorian // Aug 19, 2008 at 11:38 am

I get the following error when attempting to restore using the image.

“The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1).

Will that image work on both Mac and PC?

261 David // Aug 19, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Does the iphone need to be unlocked to do this or can it be done w/o it?

262 paulv // Aug 19, 2008 at 11:39 pm

(Martijn: thanks for posting your files but…)

Tonight I went to the Apple Store here in San Diego. The ‘Genius Bar’ folks seemed to know about the problem and offered to exchange the phone (even though I told them it was out of warranty) and I didn’t even need to really ask.

don’t go in with a hacked phone (restore it first).
FYI: it was the Fashion Valley Mall Apple Store and the ‘genius’ was ‘Nechole’. The whole experience was really good.

Thanks for the forum and hacks.

263 iPhone, el tiempo y los viajes | K-Government // Aug 21, 2008 at 5:07 am

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264 jaylu18 // Aug 22, 2008 at 6:58 pm

hey i would like to know if any of these files will work with the whole touchscreen not being responsive. thanks

265 Dorian // Aug 22, 2008 at 11:35 pm

Went to the Apple store and was not able to get a new phone because the freaking “Genius” tested the phone with a otoscope and said that it tested pink! He said that if it was only the screen the issue, that he would have exchanged it no problem.

Well the phone did not go under water,which it shouldn’t mater since a good amount of phones are said to have gone under water and after 72, where working again. So Apple is using the pink test to get out of all warranties, wether water actually does damage or not.

As mentioned by someone on this post, this sensor is apparently sensible to even low levels of humidity. This is probably what happened to my phone, but I bet that other people, might have cancelled their warranties, even extended warranties, by simply inserting a wet headphone jack. This could happen if you are by a pool and your headphones come in contact with water before you plug them in. A single drop of water would turn the white filament, pink, canceling all warranties. Way to go Apple!

I wonder what would happen if one used bleach on it, perhaps it turns back to white and then one can go back to Apple.

I’ll fix my phone and then sell it. I don’t think it’s worth this level of aggravation. I’m sure the new phones coming out will do the freaking job.

266 Alexander Bottema // Aug 25, 2008 at 2:31 am

I just want to add that “the dead stripe” problem occurred to me a couple of days ago. Half a centimeter of the lower part of the screen stopped responding, so I couldn’t click on the “Delete” and “Move” button when reading email (I use version 2.0.1). Also, I noticed that the keyboard was difficult to use as well (when pressing space bar, etc.) I first enabled the “Touch” option by changing my General.plist to set the slider at 0.0 and it made the phone work better. Space bar and other keys were responding more promptly, but still I couldn’t delete email (the delete button is really in the dead area). Then I changed Touch.plist and changed the min-value to -16 and put the slider on -6.7 (or something similar) and now the phone works great! Thanks for all your help!

267 jrmccurleyaz // Aug 26, 2008 at 1:40 am

can someone please help me with this?? i have no idea how to do any of this stuff but i DO have the “dead stripe” and it is dead center affecting all numbers and top row of letters, but other icons work…im not understanding what to do and could def use a walkthrough, thanks to anyone who can help, jrmccurleyaz@yahoo.com is my email if thats easier to contact me. thanks again

268 steved // Aug 28, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Most folks who talk about their dead strip problems say that it does not happen on all screens ( i.e. for me the first screen works fine but other screens the first row is dead), so doesn’t that point to a software issue? thoughts?

269 Dorian Mattar // Aug 28, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Doesn’t mater if it’s hardware/software, the fact is that it’s happening, and Apple along with all these cell phone manufacturers are getting away with it and getting out of warranties by using the pink/red color excuse.

They can build watches for $20 that can go 30 meters underwater and have calculators, address books, etc, and they can’t make these phones water splash resistant?

Bull.

We should sue them all!

270 steved // Aug 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm

help – where do you put the general and touch plist on the iphone? I am on a pc ( winxp), can’t use any tools where I need to know my IP address ( a dead strip area problem). So I have the plist files, and was going to use ibrickr or iphone browser to upload the files but I can not figuire out where ( what folder) to put them. I have a 1st gen iphone with 2.02 jailborken installed (winpwn). This page says overwrite them in Applications/preferences.app but I think this is a mac area that I do not see/have on a pc or when I view my iphone internal folders using the tools I mentioned.

thanks, steve

271 N-Aparicio // Aug 31, 2008 at 12:26 am

Steved,
DO NOT overwrite them, I recommend you to change the name of the original files and then upload the new ones. This way you have a back up of both original files in case something goes wrong. I suggest you to use TELNET and FTP from a terminal (I recommend you to look for the putty.exe terminal). Before you go to Applications/Preferences.app, first go to the root file. Later look for path I just mentioned. I hope this helps.

272 N-Aparicio // Aug 31, 2008 at 12:43 am

Folks,
my brother’s iPhone had the same issue, the bottom strip didn’t work with the keyboard with the space bar, numbers, etc. So I said my brother that I would fix it for him (kindda in return that he fixed my mattel football game when I was a kid, like 20 years ago .

First of all, let me tell you that all the answers are here on this post (through the 271 previous comments), only that answers are not together in just 1 comment. I spent 10 hours straight (yes, you read right) reading ALL comments reading-testing-rebooting-deleting and again reading. I’ll try to set everything that worked for me in a DETAILED way. I split the process in three steps. First read what the step is about before go on with the step, maybe you don’t even need to do that step.

Before we start, just one comment. Unfortunately the process I’m detailing here is just for MAC users… I don’t even have a clue for how to do it on windows. You require also to have wifi, I don’t know how to do this with anything else.

Also, all the files that I’m including here are from some other users as I mention calling the post from where I took them. So, my only one credit here is to write down what worked for me.

Step 1:
This step is to install the 2.0.1 firmware AND the Cydia software on your iPhone. IF you already have the 2.0.1 firmware and the cydia, just go to cydia, search for the open NTPD and install it as well as the OpenSSH.

If you do not have the mentioned firmware and the cydia, just follow the procedure contained in the following link. The process is in spanish, but the pics are very clear, just follow them or get a good dictionary : ) just start where it says Paso 1 (step 1)… or you can get any other tutorial in english to get the 2.0.1 firmware and the Cydia

http://macuserboricua.com/2008/08/20/tutorial-jailbreak-y-unlock-tu-iphone-2g-ipod-touch-firmware-202/

When you get both, go to the Cydia in your iphone and install openNTPD as well as the OpenSSH. The first one is like the operating system and the second one is what will allow your MAC to get into your phone.

Step 2:
This step is to replace 2 files from you iphone, so as you can increase the sensitivity on your screen

Look for your iphone ip address. On your iphone go to settings/General/Network/Wi-Fi on the network that you are connected there is a blue small button on the right, click on it and read the IP address.

On your mac open a terminal and type ssh root@your ip address

if the terminal asks you yes/no, say yes. When it requests the password, is “alpine” (without quotations)

You are now inside the iphone!!. Type “cd /”. (without quotations)

now type to “cd Applications/Preferences.app”. (without quotations and with caps as they are written here)

Here you will rename the files General.plist and Touch.plist in case something goes wrong, you have a back up for the original files.

type “mv General.plist General_backup.plist”. (without quotations). It should return to the terminal

type “mv Touch.plist Touch_backup.plist”. (without quotations). It should return to the terminal.

Download the files posted on 198 comment:

http://rapidshare.de/files/40045605/Archive.zip.html
You have now 3 files. Delete the General-Simulator.plist and the Touch.plist, just keep the General.plist.

Download another file which is posted also on comment 250:
http://rapidshare.de/files/40265171/Touch.plist.zip.html
get the file you just downloaded (Touch.plist) on the same folder than General.plist

now open a new terminal without closing the first one.

Type sftp root@your ip address

same password alpine

type cd/

now transfer the two files you downloaded into your MAC to the iphone, transfer them on the same folder where you modified the other two previously, on Applications/Preferences.app/

Here is how you will do it:
on the sftp terminal you just opened, type (between “put” and the “General.plist” you need to write the path where the two downloaded files are on your MAC, don’t copy-paste into the terminal what I wrote below, you have to modify the path first) :

put /Users/mymacname/Desktop/hacked_files/General.plist /private/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/

it should take less than a second to transfer the file. If it says 100% complete. then you are ok. If it says that can’t find the file, check your path.

Now transfer the other file the same way, correcting the path first. Type:

put /Users/mymacname/Desktop/hacked_files/Touch.plist /private/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/

Now turn off and on your iphone. On your iphone go to settings/General/Touch (which you just created). The default setting was before 3.5, when you go here it will say -15. First set it in 0 and test how tour screen works, if it’s not enough, now try -1… and so on. Don’t leave it on -15 on the first trial, try little by little which one works for you… mine worked on -1.2. WARNING: there is a switch that says “Show Touch”, don’t even touch it!!. The Touch.plist file that you uploaded should have this switch fixed, but you better stay away from it or the iphone may start rebooting all the time.

Step 3:
(do this only if your terminal won’t let you connect again to your iphone on step 2 with SSH after you installed the 2.0.1 firmware, the Cydia and later the openNTPD/OpenSSH, if you already completed step 2, then you don’t need this)

Basically, if you had previously got into your iphone with SSH, the info linked to your iphone’s ip gets stored into your MAC. When you install a new firmware to you iphone, the ip address stays the same, but all its info liked to it will change, then when you try to connect to your iphone via SSH, the info won’t match and it won’t let you connect for security purposes. What you need to do is to delete all the previous info.

Terminal would say that can’t connect for a security issue with the known_hosts, the message will give you the number of the host that does not match with the known_hosts folder. Type this on the terminal, replace the “n” with the value gave it by the warning message, do not leave the quotations:

vi +”n” ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Then, it should take you straight to the iphone’s ip address and all it’s info realted to the ip address. Once there, hit dd and the info will be deleted. Now hit ZZ (yes in caps) to save and close the connection to the known_hosts folder.

Now you will be able to connect to your iphone with SSH. Go to Step 2.
___________________

Now, I hope it works for you as it worked for me. Please let us know

273 steved // Aug 31, 2008 at 1:38 pm

thanks N-Aparicio

while I have putty and the other tools, because my dead strip is at the top ( first two rows), I am unable to access the iphone’s IP address, because I can not click on the settings/wi-fi area which would show my the ip info for putty.

this is why I was trying to use a non ftp approach like using ibrickr or iphone browser (although both are old and non stable with the new 2+ versions) but both of them while showing my internal iphone folder sdo not seem to have the general.plist anywhere or an Applications/Preferences.app folder.

Any alternatives for getting the ip address are apprecaited (I am at home so it is going through my cable wireless router, does that mean it is an obvious ip address that I can get in a different way?).

274 N-Aparicio // Aug 31, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Well, in an internet browser you can type http://home/ to connect to your router, there you can see the details from your iphone.

The other option is, on putty type vi + ~/.ssh/known_hosts
…it should show you all the IP addresses that your PC has ever connected thru FTP or TELNET. I hope it helps

275 PaulG // Sep 1, 2008 at 4:21 pm

steved,

the touch plist goes in private/var/stash/applications/preferences.app folder.

Anybody gonna create a touch plist with a minus greater than martins -15 cos that did not work for me : (

ta

276 steved // Sep 1, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Thanks,
I was able to use ibrickr on a pc to see, backup and update ( -15 touch.plist from this site and others) the files in private/var/stach/applications/preferences.app ( thanks PaulG & N-Aparicio)

alas – no change: -15 shows up in the settings but my upper strip still not responsive ( irony that I can’t even change the sensitivity since it is in that dead strip).

I then tried another approach which is to change the sensitivity in touch.plist to something else and used an online tool to convert it from binary to xml (and switch to -3) but when I updated that ( now in ascii format) the iphone just kept rebooting and acting funny. Reading other forums of similar experiences, I would suggest: DO NOT assume you can upload ascii plist files even though a number of sites say you can. I am on the look out for something that converts back to the binary mode on the pc. Although with -15 not working, it my be time to give up – I probably have a really dead one ( and I’m in Canada).

277 «Jase» // Sep 2, 2008 at 7:46 pm

Yeah i got firmware 2.0 now how in the hell do u do this to a 2.0 and can u make it alot easier?

278 steved // Sep 5, 2008 at 10:40 am

end of my story:

1st gen iphone with upper dead strip: spent over 40 hours ( once till 5am) reading endless forums and playing with all software updates/ techniques to fix ( including all methods here) , nothing worked as far as the dead strip was concerned. broke down and just sold it for $200 to an iphone repair store ( they would have fixed the screen/digitizer for $250 but enough is enough – since apple has made it an illegal phone). sad that apple knowingly sells almost 1/2 million 1st gen iphones to non att customers , then when their new phone and biz relationships comes out they treat us all like criminals hacking on sub par hardware they sold us. while I think the browsing and video watching experience was great – it is backed by a company who does not treat their customers well. worse than what MS or ATT does IMHO. I bought a real iphone from a real apple store in the states and because I took it to another country and during the course of my time with it they made an exclusive new deal with my provided to sell 3Gs, I become a criminal and they wash their hands of a defective product because they can redfine me as a criminal who owns it. Again they made billions selling 1/2 million phones this way – that they would like those folks to simply just by a new 3G one for a new 3 year contract at outrageous prices ( in canada) to not become a criminal again. I wonder what they will do to the 3G customers in a year. there’s a good world for you corporations (who seems so hip) able to make citizens ( yes I am a us citizen) criminals if they do not upgrade and buy more of the products on longer and longer contracts. beware.
it’s now a cheap 6 yr old nokia in my pocket and a wait for google-android for me.

279 Dorian Mattar // Sep 5, 2008 at 3:56 pm

There is definitely a very DARK side to APPLE.

I remember the issues with the hinges on their laptops, INSANE!

Now the same with the 1st Gen iPhone.

They won’t take responsibility for anything until they loose in a court battle.

Very DARK indeed.

280 Martijn // Sep 5, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Stop complaining so much! I paid € 650 for a HTC P3600 (Trinity) phone and after one month the black paint came off.

This is Apple first phone, they sold millions of it and SOME of them have got problems. Mine does too, sure, but I still love and it’s the best phone I’ve had (untill now).

Grow up.

281 Dorian Mattar // Sep 6, 2008 at 12:17 am

Can’t help but complain. After paying so much for it, and have it malfunction for no reason…

Also, this water problem is unacceptable. As I said before, if they can build watches for $30, that have calculators, phone books, calendars, etc. etc. and are water proof to 30 feet, why can’t they make this freaking phones simply water splash resistant??

They are simply using this water as an excuse to elude their warranties.

Not acceptable.

282 Martijn // Sep 6, 2008 at 3:02 am

Understandable but please do that on one of those many ‘my-$500-iPhone-is-broken-and-now-what’ sites. Let’s concentrate on THIS site how to repair the touch sensitivity and be able to enjoy the iPhone again.

Still using mine with the aforementioned 2.0.1 patched-firmware (see post 241).

283 Carl // Sep 7, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Martijn:

I’ve tryed your .ipsw file and it didnt work, and im not really technical enough to try the whole part with going in to the files.

I have an upper dead stripe, where the youtube, stocks, maps, weather, 4, 5 and 6 is, so i can’t acces the wifi either, beacuse there is no repsonse in the screen;

So im all out of hope, and i’ve looked up the price to get the screen exchanged here in sweden and its around $300(:|)

Is there anyone who have an answer on my problem ( Hence, i cant connect to an wifi)

Please send me an Email to Carljorning@hotmail.com

Regards Carl

284 CharlesG // Sep 10, 2008 at 11:09 am

I am using 2.0.2. My case is different. My screen works fine except in some applications like sms, cydia, installer…etc have tried replacing the general.plist and touch.plist files with ibrickr but i cant see the touch setting from general. Any solution.

285 Fabs // Sep 12, 2008 at 1:37 am

N-Aparicio, outstanding instructions!!! my iPhone reboot automatically by itself. At first I thought the TOUCH or GENERAL.plist got corrupted but I find that only a clean install of the iPhone Custom_Restore.ipsw will fix it temporarily. Any ideas what could I be doing wrong?

286 ComPlexity // Sep 14, 2008 at 11:18 am

Is there a fix for firmware 2.1?

287 kidpixo // Sep 14, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Thanks to #160!
I have : iPhone EDGE, native 1.1.2 bl 3.9.
After few months the low screens strip was unusable (space bar and a lot of buottons).

Fw updated to 2.1 today whit last pwnage tool, but the dead strip is still there.

I used the Thouch.plist and General.plist in #160, setting value to -10 and it works perfectly!

Thanks again!

288 N-Aparicio // Sep 17, 2008 at 9:24 pm

Fabs, I’m sorry it took me so long to reply your request, but I was out of the country with no internet available. Mine did the same rebooting stuff when I move the switch on the TOUCH setting added. The only thing that worked for me was to re-install one more time the 2.0.1 firmware, replace the general.plist and touch.plist as descrived and I haven’t touched the switch since then : )
try that and let me know if it works. I hope it does

289 Tim // Sep 20, 2008 at 9:32 pm

Thanks guys!!!!!!

I had my iphone tripping cause I took it with me to the hot tub room, and I had a lockcode on it and my 1-2-3 numbers wouldnt work, so I played around with it, pressed number “3″ on the screen like 50 times, sometimes hard and it worked, I unlocked it, replaced General.plist via iBricker and it works fine now. I got 1.0.2 thanks again!!!

290 Fabs // Sep 21, 2008 at 9:14 am

N-Aparicio, thanx for the reply. Here is what I did. I REVERGINIZE the phone to it’s original state and took it back to the Apple store. Somehow they replaced it! “We have seen many of these ‘dead strip’ cases” they said. Now, I currently debating whether or not unlocking my “refurb” 2G with the same instruction that you put together, which I think you did a GREAT job, or follow the DEV. TEAM Pwnage instructions at http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36686 for the 2.1 firmware. Any suggestions?

291 Iaf113 // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:00 am

I tried downloading the files recommended here, and replacing the preferences.plist file in Applications, but there is no change in Settings, anywhere…. How to I get this sensitivity changer to show up on my phone??? THANK YOU

292 Fabs // Sep 22, 2008 at 10:14 am

Iaf113, assuming that you replaced the files correctly, go to Settings > General – in there you should see the Touch settings. Select it, and the screen should look exactly as the screenshot above. Now, you can set the desired sensitivity. I would strongly recommend you follow N-Aparicio’s instructions on post 272! They worked for me!!

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294 viethoc // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:08 pm

N-Aparicio and others:
Thank you for your instructions.
Tonight, after many upgrades then downgrades then upgrades again using a guide on modmyiphone.com site, I finally completed transferred two files general.plist and touch.plist.

For unknown reasons, I couldn’t edit files from #272. But I used the link from #99 and was able to edit them with Windows Notepad. I moved around the Test Area and Touch Settings sections because my upper part did not work. I can duplicate few additional Test Areas by a cut and paste way.

I also found out that by setting from the min (ex: -15) to the maximum (ex: 16) the touching area will move from the top of the “circle” to the bottom of the “circle”. In my case, it actually works by setting around 7.1 (that’s right a positive setting instead of a negative setting).
I couldn’t move files using ibrickr but have a better luck with winscp.
My iphone is a 2G with 1.1.4 firmware after I had some problems with 2.0 firmware. It’s working now but not 100% perfect.

295 N-Aparicio // Sep 23, 2008 at 11:38 pm

Fabs,
I checked the link you included and I got to say that the instruction on the macuserboricua site I suggested is more detailed… BUT it’s on spanish. On the other hand, I barely remember that there were a rewiew about the 2.0.2 on the Cydia that if I remember well they said not to install it, since the 2.0.1 firmware works better. I search that for you and I’ll get back on that tomorrow

296 N-Aparicio // Sep 25, 2008 at 3:03 am

Fabs,
I tried to install the 2.1 firmware but I got an error while trying to upload the bootloaders. Then I tried the 2.0.1 but now I get an 1600 error and I can’t upload the 2.0.1 firmware. I already tried many things. I’ll try some others tomorrow… in the mean time, I recommend you the 2.0.1 firmware. If you were able to upload any of the firmwares, please let me know either here or at volaste@gmail.com

Thanks

297 Fabs // Sep 26, 2008 at 7:24 pm

N-Aparicio –
Despite the immense amount of blogs I’ve read since I followed you instructions on how to update to 2.0.1 it seems that is done basically the same way with one exception: no need to put your iPhone in DFU Mode, just upload a new custom ipsw with the latest Pwnage Tool (2.1). Now, some say to downgrade first, other say to restore the iPhone with 2.1. It seems to me that despite the easy Pwnage instructions that we are accustomed to follow, something goes wrong along the way. To conclude, I assume that the Dev team is going to come out with a revision of the Pwnage 2.1 that will fix these common errors. I will keep on research and see if I can come out with a simple way of doing it – therefore the above should be used as reference purpose only until further notice.

298 chris // Sep 30, 2008 at 12:58 am

i found this web page on Apples web site we can all get new iphones even with out warannty check out this link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1827?viewlocale=en_US
read what is says at the end of the page.

299 Tim // Sep 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm

I dropped my 1st gen. iphone at about 4 ft, and it caused my dial key #4,5,6 dead but the icons on the home screen at the same spot with #4,5,6 still working though. Anyways after several attempt to follow some of the instructions from some of the posters, I managed to fix the problems by using the winscp and the 2 files (touch and general) from post#160. Like someone above, I have to set my touch setting at +7 in order to get the key#4,5,6 t and the icons on the home screen to work because at some setting level caused some of the spot dead.

Currently my iphone is using the firmware 1.1.4 and I want to update it to 2.1 by using the quickpwn 2.1 and my question is: is my touch setting is still going to be there after the update? Thanks everyone for the helps.

300 Alan Vazquez // Sep 30, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Tim: no man. when you update or restore things like that are reset. After you jailbreak 2.1, SSH back in and mosdify the new touch sensitivity plist.

301 Limited Edition iPhone // Sep 30, 2008 at 5:44 pm

upgrade to 2.1 and most likely the settings will be lost, but you can jailbreak 2.1 and put them back.

302 thanx // Oct 2, 2008 at 7:22 am

What to do if my firmware is 2.1?

303 thanx // Oct 2, 2008 at 12:22 pm

thank you ! you saved my iphone

304 ldANIEL // Oct 2, 2008 at 3:44 pm

How can I do… if I have firmware 1.1.4

305 Andres // Oct 3, 2008 at 2:34 am

Thanx, what did you do, I have 2.1 as well. Is there .plist for this firmware.

306 Gursharan // Oct 3, 2008 at 5:47 am

I have same problem with my iphone 1.0.2 the lower part of phone has stopped working.I replaced the mentioned file n reduced the sentivity to 0.0 but still my lower keys are not working….what is the solution brother?

307 kyote317 // Oct 3, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Had the lower dead strip problem….bought it off ebay in that condition. Took it to the Apple Store. and they exchanged it at no cost!! Awesoem!!

308 N-Aparicio // Oct 5, 2008 at 1:39 am

Andres: yes, there is a Touch.plist and General.Plist on the 2.1 version. Those files are on the same path I mentioned on post 272.

309 N-Aparicio // Oct 5, 2008 at 1:56 am

Fabs:
I spent more than a week trying to fix an error I got while trying to update the iphone to 2.1 firmware.

What I did WRONG: I had itunes 7.7.1.11 and I updated to itunes 8.0 when I used the pwnage tool I used with itunes 7.7.1.11 and firmware 2.0.1 I couldn’t, itunes 8.0 didn’t allow me to use the custom restore file. I downgraded to itunes 7.7.1.11 and my nightmare begun. Whenevr I connected the iphone, I got the error “itunes was unable to load dataclass information from sync services. reconnect or try again later”. When I tried to upload the custom restore file, I got the error 1600 on itunes. Well, I must have checked a hundred web sites, all of them with non sense solutions but no one of them worked actually (they were non sense, but I tried them all).

This is how I FIX IT:
-upgrade itunes to 8.0 or 8.01
-Download the 2.1 firmware
-Download the bootloadres 39 and 46.
-download pwnage tool for 2.1 firmware. Open the .dmg file, but DON’T open the tool. Drag the icon to the Applications folder, once it’s there, now double click the icon.
-Last step before starting the process to unlock the iphone: go to itunes and restore the iphone with the official 2.1 firmware file from itunes. Then unlock the iphone with the pwnage tool.

For a more detailed procedure, please follow the instructions included on this site. Make sure to follow ALL the steps.

http://lifeofatechnophile.blogspot.com/

310 lurkspur // Oct 5, 2008 at 9:38 pm

Guys, can any kind souls please upload post#272’s Touch.plist and General.plist files on mediafire? Thanks in advance!

311 Vivek // Oct 6, 2008 at 12:11 am

I’m having 2G, running 2.1 version..
The lower portion of the screen seems to be dead…
I cannot press CALL, + and X buttons on the dialer screen.
Any solution for that?

312 Fabs // Oct 6, 2008 at 12:39 am

N-Aparicio

I updated to iTunes 8.1.
Downloaded & restored with firmware 2.1 from Itunes.
Now I have a working iPhone 2.1!!!!
That is all It takes.

Now this is only HALF of the BOOTIE! Cydia and Installer are missing since the 2.1 firmware did a clean install.

NOTE: For those of you reading this post be aware that I did this updated from an already pwn 2.0.1 iPhone. Apparently Apple lost interest in re-locking or worse – BRICKING iPhones therefore a simple update with iTunes 8.1 from a previously pwned iPhone – does the trick! If you need more control over your iPhone then I suggest you follow N-Aparicio’s post 309 – “This is how I FIX IT” and you should be fine.

313 Fabs // Oct 6, 2008 at 12:49 am

Dead strip:

For those of you with dead strip, see post 298. Apple is replacing iPhones with dead strips!!! Just make sure you put your iPhone to it’s original state including the ATT sim and take it to the Apple store. Your iPhone at this point should ONLY be able to make 911 calls. This is important as the associate will ask you “what’s wrong with your phone?” Then you “slide to unlock” and point out that you cannot use the bottom part of the phone to make a call. Also, you tell him/her that you did the RESTORE thinking that it was going to fix the problem but apparently it did not work. Then, by magic – 15 minutes later you’ll have a refurb iPhone. Mine got exchanged after the warranty ran out. Please, let me know if this worked for you as it did for me

314 Leo // Oct 6, 2008 at 6:28 am

Hey I put that general.plist onto my iPhone and put the touch setting to 0 (most sensitive). Then I restarted my iPhone… the slider to a while to slide… the touching worked for a few seconds, then it froze for a few seconds and went to the default lock-screen and says that some error happened and the iPhone goes to Safe-Mode and it still doesn’t work. I tried switching the general.plist back to the old one (which I backed-up) and it does not change anything. HELP PLEASE!

315 Andres // Oct 6, 2008 at 10:51 am

Changing the general.plist and touch.plist did not make changes to my Iphone. I guess my problem is a bit different cause actually the screen is working BUT – I can answer the calls and start using the phone only by following the procedure – if I receive a call, I mute it and then press home button, after some seconds the screen switches off and after pressing home button again, I can “slide to unlock” and answer the call. Very often I have to call back cause the caller loses patience of waiting.
The screen is not totally dead the first time after longer pause, cause when starting ipod by double-clicking home button, I can push “play” but not from the location it is on the screen, but on top of “fwd”, and it starts working.
Long story – hopefully mostly understandable, solution for this? Thanks in advance

316 Tim // Oct 6, 2008 at 1:08 pm

to: Fabs

will it work even if I have t-mobile?

317 Fabs // Oct 6, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Tim:
Yes, that is what I currently have.

318 kyote317 // Oct 8, 2008 at 6:21 am

What Fabs said in #313… see the link in 298.
and what I did in #307. Do exactly as he said. Restore to original and take it in to an Apple store and show them whats wrong. They replaced mine with no questions asked. The paperwork even came back with the guys name on it who I bought it off of Ebay. They didnt even blink an eye. Although one word of caution. They will only replace it IF you are an AT&T customer and it has the SIM card in it. There was a woman next to me who brought her husbands iPhone in with a problem, but they wouldn’t do anything with it because there was no SIM card installed. So that would be the only downside to the exchange. But if you are already an AT&T customer it will work for you.

319 Oscar // Oct 8, 2008 at 11:03 am

Hello!

I found that when you have an iPhone with the dead lower row and iTunes saves your settings, it also saves the mods done in the touch.plist and the general.plist.

So when I upgraded that iPhone from 1.2 to 2.1 with the last Pwnage Tool on a Mac, it already had the touch sensitivity setting on place… It is a good way to update your iPhone with mods… because they does not disappear.

1- Backup with iTunes (on Sync)
2- Upgrade with iTunes to new SW version from Apple.
3- Use the latest Pwnage Tool to make a customized update file to jailbreak and/or unlock.
4- Connect to iTunes to recover all your things and hacked touch settings.

320 steveblue // Oct 8, 2008 at 1:57 pm

The “return it clean to apple’ for a refurbished model is a great plan except if you are 1 of the 1/2 million folks who apple sold a 1st gen iphone to, for use outside of the att or the states.

321 Ed de Guzman // Oct 10, 2008 at 10:50 am

I got one with dead strip at the bottom from 1.1.1. now upgraded to 2.1 via Pawnage. Still the dead bottom strip is there.

It seems like Apple is playing deaf and blind on this worldwide iPhone problem and no intention of solving it.

Thanks to Limited Edition Iphone for starting this very informative thread and the others who unselfishly shared their time, effort, talent to help people they did not even know.

How widespread is this problem, really?

I am from the Philippines, btw.

322 Ed de Guzman // Oct 10, 2008 at 11:03 am

I hope that Zibri and the others can work a work-around on this like including the edited general.plist and touch.plist automatically installing in iPhones with dead strips.

Though can’t make Ziphone 3.0 to work on my iPhone.

323 lurkspur // Oct 10, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Zibri and Ziphone? Dont make me laugh.

324 Ed de Guzman // Oct 11, 2008 at 8:48 am

Can’t get my iPhone quickpwned to v2.1 to resolve my bottom dead strip after copying the general.plist and touch.plist to var/preferences/.

I used iPhone Browser and it works great like Windows Explorer. Better than WinSCP.

What did I miss? I can’t get the slider to come .

Thank you.

325 Ed de Guzman // Oct 11, 2008 at 6:27 pm

WOW! At last, i was able to bring back to life the bottom dead strip of my iPhone 2.1.

I used iPhone Browser, went to applications/preferences, renamed General.plist and Touch.plist, just in case, and pasted the two files (from Mike, #99: Thanks a bunch, man!).

My setting at -10 worked, but have to touch a bit higher to the left for the touch to be effective.

I tweaked the General.plist by transferring the

cell
PSLinkCell
label
Touch

below ‘About’ to make it appear higher and not below the non-responding screen.

You need to play around the slider setting to find the one where you can activate all the buttons on the bottom part of the screen.

Now, I do not have an expensive paperweight anymore!!!

Thank you, Mr, LEi and all the rest here! You are all great!

326 Map // Oct 16, 2008 at 4:25 am

Tried it out on my iphone 2g. It does work, but you have to touch the keys higher than normal. Decided to sent it back and have it repaired by Apple since it is still under warranty.
Eventhough, hanks a bunch you all!

327 Aleksandar // Oct 16, 2008 at 11:35 am

Hi my problem is same as yours i have dead stripe on 4,5,6 row…But the interesting thing is that when i’m putting my iPhone in out of box condition everything works well….So please help me i allready read all the posts but i can’t figure out is anybody having a same problem as me….THX in ADVANCE……P.S. Is there any chance that somebody can put all this touch preference on some of the repo’s on Cydia or Installer so we can just install it and the touch sens option will show in settings???

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330 Flounder // Oct 26, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Awesome! I was able to get my old iPhone working again! I jailbroke it using QuickPwn 2.1, but was unable to get wireless working since I could not click on the “Join” button in the wireless settings. I was able to use iBirckr to upload the General.plist and modified Touch.plist. from post #160. After I played around with the Touch settings under Settings/General/Touch, I was able to get the bottom strip working again. Thanks!

331 John Iasonos // Nov 1, 2008 at 11:29 am

Also the same problem here, bottom of iphone doesnt work, cant call, cant send msg, cant enter safari and ipod. Can anyone pls explain to me how i will add those files you are saying(http://ra.pidshare.com/files/6510671…ral.plist.html), thnks

332 John Iasonos // Nov 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Ok downloaded winSCP, and i try to connect it with my iphone, my version is 1.1.4 and it doesnt connect,what can i do??

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334 krockarooni // Nov 4, 2008 at 3:40 pm

i have no idea how to modify plist for the iphone, is there a website that can more clearly run down how to edit the plist? i know it says “You will need to overwrite your general.plist located in Applications/preferences.app” however i do not have a preferences.app in my applications, and the only preference forlder in my mac does not have a general.plist in it! Please help me by posting any information or website that can further explain how to get this fix working on my iphone!

335 JJ102 // Nov 6, 2008 at 4:17 am

HEy, i read through all the answers and am still stuck, i have both general and touch on my iphone only problem is i cannot access them, wifi is not a possibility and i can not get to the touch menu through settings on my iphone.. please email me if you have a fix a 50$ paypal reward will be given to the first to solve my problem successfully!

336 Daniel // Nov 9, 2008 at 8:40 pm

Hi,
I would consider my self a “noob”. So I am not sure really how to do the instructions outlined above but what happened is my iphone dropped and now the top half of the screen does not work. Someone above uploaded a a custom ipsw but the problem was that the sensitivity was set to -15 and i need -20.. it would be great if someone could make a custom ipsw with the following settings:
- set root partition to 1024GB
- enabled baseband update (if needed)
- enabled bootneuter unlock
- auto-install of OpenSSH and OpenSSL
- auto-install of Cydia and Installer
- auto-install of modified General.plist and Touch.plist
- set touch sensitivity to -20
- disabled ‘Show Touch’ in Touch.plist
- modified boot and restore icon in colored Apple logo (so you know my firmware has been installed).

Thanks to martijn for that ipsw but i just need this little tweak for the top half of my screen to work.

Thanks to anybody for there help and hopefully someone can post the rapidshare link with the ipsw very soon!!!!

337 Hybrid // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Can someone please write a simple tutorial on how to accomplish installing this on a 2G phone , with the bottom dock being the dead strip, using windows?

338 darrell // Nov 16, 2008 at 8:03 pm

i need help with my iphone the bottom half of my screen wont work is there anyway i can fix it?

please help me i love my phone

339 :| // Nov 16, 2008 at 11:40 pm

Can someone let me know if my instructions below as posted in #160 still work on iPhone 2.2? I have since sold my dead strip phone, but would like to know for future reference.

Thanks,

PS. This were instructions for bottom dead strip.
PPS. If anyone needs more help with this, I can offer some help at random times on MSN Messenger at audiophile_8 [at] hotmail [dot] com (replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .)

Download the following files:

http://rapidshare.com/files/110285879/General.plist.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/110286136/Touch.plist.html

Open the Touch.plist file with TextEdit or some other text editing software; Notepad will probably work.

Find where it says:

min
0.0

Replace the “0.0″ with “-20.0″ without the quotations. Save the file.

If you have just restored your iPhone, make sure it’s jailbroken and the Installer program is available on the home screen. Enable Wifi and connect to your wireless internet. I had to disable my router’s password temporarily because I had no access to the “Join” button. Open Installer and if, like me, you can’t press the little buttons along the bottom, click any of the featured apps on the front page. Once it opens the next screen, click on the top-most left hand button to go back to the main packages screen.
Now, go to the “System” category and select and install “BSD Subsystem”. After the installation, from the same category, install “Open SSH”. Once complete, exit Installer and go back into your wifi settings page where your networks are listed. Click on the little blue arrow to the right of your connected network and note the IP address (ex. 102.168.1.104). It is essential that after this point, the iPhone does not go to sleep, because once it wakes, its IP address may be different than before.

This part requires an FTP transfer program capable of connecting to an SSH enabled server for file transfer. I know for a fact that Cyberduck on Mac OSX does this and for free, but on Windows I’m not sure. I will give directions for Cyberduck:

Once in the program, select “Open connection” from the bar at the top. Change “Protocol” to “SFTP” (SSH File Transfer Protocol). Then type in the IP address of the phone you noted earlier, and use username: root and password: alpine. It will take a little while to connect at first, and it may even fail the first time. Try again and it should work. It will give a message about some keys, but in all cases always “allow”.
You will now be presented with a file structure. We need to move up to the main root of the phone’s filesystem. In the drop-down box just above the file structure it should say something like “/var/…” Click this drop-down menu and select “/”. This is the root of the phone’s file structure. You will be presented with a new list of folders. Find “preferences.app” and expand this folder. Now, drag each of the files you downloaded into the program onto “preferences.app”. For each files you should get a file transfer dialog, and a notice that you will be replacing the old file with your downloaded one. Accept this at all times.

Now. Close the FTP program. Go back to your iPhone. Go to Settings -> General -> Touch (New menu item). You should be presented with a screen that allows you to move a slider to increase the sensitivity. The smaller the number, the more sensitive.

I think the spacebar may the lowest object on screen that is absolutely necessary to have access to, so adjust the slider and check it in the SMS section until you can comfortably press the spacebar. I had to go down to around -14. This means that now I have to press slightly above the buttons at all time on the screen, but it is easy to get used to.

340 :| // Nov 17, 2008 at 8:39 am

Of course, I meant iPhone 2.1 =)

341 :| // Nov 17, 2008 at 8:48 am

Disregard my previous post.

My original question was if my instructions in #160 are still valid.

Thanks

342 Kidpix // Nov 17, 2008 at 8:50 am

Hi,
I subscribed this article followup to see for interestings news, because it heled me so much.

After several months I received only news about people too lazy to read and always asking someone else to help…

So, Kudos to the real contributors and shame on too lazy people.

PS : I know this comment should be classified as spam as well, but I need to express myself!

343 janethe // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:27 am

I have some other problem, my screen just go off and it takes several minutes even ours just to come back….while it I can’t use the phone maybe if I have earphones I can answer calls but that’s all….what can I do..?

344 Janneteh // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:32 am

sorry in the last post I mean …HOURS..
THANKS

345 Amarinder Sandhu // Nov 17, 2008 at 6:31 pm

anybody know the location of general.plist and touch.plist in firmware 2.1??
I am using iBricks and it has helped me before I upgraded. Now the Applications/preferences.app is not available. The application folder is not accessible?
Have these files been moved someplace else?

346 lurkspur // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:55 pm

its under /var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/

347 fernando // Nov 18, 2008 at 4:17 am

so i was able to get the two files on to my iphone. restarted it and was anxious to see my iphone come back to life.. however the damn dead strip still didn’t get fixed!.. is there any other solution for this issue?

348 HenBeck // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:28 am

Hey folks,
first thanx to all the contributers on this page you did a damned good job..
Maybe u can solve my problem, I am on a lower dead strip, restored phone with “martijns” .ipsw (see post 248) and it worked ( while booting I can see the coloured apple logo) but then it shows me unlock button for pin or home screen edit button and i can’t unlock or discard cause its in the unresponding part of the touchpad…

is there a chance to transfer the unlock button to top or rotate the display ?!!

Thanks in advance

HenBeck

349 wannaberelax // Nov 18, 2008 at 10:48 am

Hi Guys,

First, thanks for all your posts. I read lots of solutions presented here and i think that they can be helpful in my case.

I dropped my 1G 2.1 Firmeware Iphone on the floor and its touch screen stop working…i just can’t “slide to unlock” the home screen when my iphone starts!

Now i want to apply one of the solutions presented here but i can’t activate WIFI on my iphone coz its touch screen is completly IRresponsive!!!!!

Maybe i’m missing an episode of this conversation but i can’t figure out how to activate WIFI and get my IPHONE ip adress since all the surface of its screen is disabled!!!

Please help me.

350 fooby // Nov 20, 2008 at 12:02 am

I have successfully used QuickPwn on my 2.1 1st gen iPhone (with the dead bottom-half screen). I’ve been able to replace the General.plist file. However, before I can access the General/Touch config, the “Waiting for activation” screen pops up. Of course, I cannot tap the dismiss button, because my screen hasn’t yet had sensitivity altered.

What do I need to do to “activate” my phone? Thanks.

351 orange // Nov 22, 2008 at 9:42 am

Do you think apple will take back my phone? I bought my phone on ebay and it came with the old owner’s deactivated att sim card inside. If i restore it and put the old sim card in there, will they take it or will they try to see if it’s a sim card with a current paying account?

Also, I tried to find the general.plist in my phone to replace it but I cannot find it (thus im thinking about going the apple route). I have a 1st generation phone with v2.1. After connecting my mac and the phone to the same wifi network I accessed my phone and was not able to expand preferences.app in order to find the general.plist file. what do i do?

352 the_musketeer // Nov 22, 2008 at 9:58 am

HI Orange

I had a similar problem. I dont think Apple will take your iphone back. If you use WinSCP with openSSH to connect to your Iphone through a PC you will find the Genaral.plist in the applications folder. I think in the 2.1 firmware they have put it as a shortcut in that folder. Therefore whin I tried it with iBrkr I was not successful but with WinSCP it worked like a charm

Hope that helps u

353 ComPlexity // Nov 22, 2008 at 8:30 pm

How do I increase the sensitivity if I am on FW 2.2?

354 ComPlexity // Nov 22, 2008 at 8:31 pm

how do i fix the sensitivity if i am on fw 2.2 (iphone 2g)?

355 whatcha // Nov 23, 2008 at 3:25 pm

would it be possible for someone to put the fix into an application or repository or whatever that people can just easily download from cydia? please oh please? that would be so wonderful.

356 [Help!!] Returning iPhone w/ Dead Strip // Nov 25, 2008 at 7:42 pm

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357 JOe // Nov 28, 2008 at 11:33 am

I am trying to use this fix unfortunately I already tried to restore my phone which did not work and now I can not install Open SSH since the t op 1/3rd of my screen is unresponsive and I cant click the install button any ideas on how I can get SSH on the phone without being able to click that button?

358 needhelp // Nov 28, 2008 at 3:07 pm

I have a problem using the number keypad too. but I’m using 2.2 firmware and I’m not AT & T user.

Can Somebody help me???????????????

359 lurkspur // Nov 28, 2008 at 10:24 pm

Guys who are having problem with accessing OpenSSH, due to the touchscreen, try using iFuntastic (mac) or iPhonebrowser (win).

360 Jean // Dec 1, 2008 at 12:25 am

: |
you have been very helpful to me!
i thought i will lose my mind if i wont fix my iphone.
it is somehow fixed
but there is still a dead spot
i guess no software fix can do it
anyway, thanks a lot!!!

361 Hybridx24 // Dec 2, 2008 at 7:13 pm

—-EPIC NEWS—-

I just returned my OUT OF WARRANTY iPhone 2G, 8GB iPhone in for a refurbished one… for free!!!

NOTE: Written a bit out of order; read the whole thing before starting.

I’m sick of people saying shit wthout explaining, so here’s how :

1. I bought a SIM Card at my nearest AT&T store.

2. Put it in my iPhone, and got a “network timed out” error when I selected an iPhone contract and went to the last step and pressed “Submit”.

Note: Some people say you have to fail the credit check or something by entering a fake SSN (social security number). Mine just didn’t work, and brought me to a screen with 3 options.

3. Press the option saying something about “pre-paid”. Go through the process and you should have a pre-paid phone number for your iPhone.

4. You now have an iPhone with a valid AT&T number, which means it is eligible for replacement (even if you are out of warranty, and you have a dead strip).

5. MAKE A RESERVATION at your local apple store (Via: http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/).

6. Go to the apple store and tell them your problem (dead strip).

MAKE SURE YOUR iPhone is Virginized (not unlocked or jailbroken).

And like someone said earlier: In 15 minutes, you’ll have a refurbished iPhone. The guy I talked to just asked a few questions, and he asked if I tried restoring the phone, I said yes.

Enjoy, and hope this helped.

362 larry // Dec 2, 2008 at 8:32 pm

idk my friend took my i phone to help me updateit and now it will only let me dile emergensy calls whats up with that will anyone help me ???

363 Andy // Dec 3, 2008 at 6:09 am

i have a unlocked&jailbroken iphone v 2.2 how do i get the touch sensitivity settings on my version 2.2 iphone please reply
thanks

364 EV // Dec 3, 2008 at 9:20 am

Okay great!!! I just spent the day trying to fix this issue. iPhone 2.5G running on v2.1 firmware purchased Sep ‘07 decided to have a strip (horizontal) of the touchscreen give up the ghost in the touch department.

Because my phone wasn’t jailbroken I had to go through the hassle of restoring to 2.1 then the whole jailbreaking process so I could upload general and touch plist files through iphone browser software.

With sensitivity set to approx -1.0 I am able to use the top row of my keyboard that was completely missing in touch before. However when draggin icons on the springboard there is still a ‘deadzone’ where the icons can’t be dragged above or below – still I’m not complaining – I can text again!

Just restoring my old setting in iTunes now. Hopefully it goes well. It pays to backup as often as you can.

365 Hybridx24 // Dec 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Guys, read post #360!!!!! The touchscreen problem will only get worse… return it while you can!!!! for FREE!!!

366 fernando // Dec 7, 2008 at 10:01 pm

hi , i have a 3g 16gb and i unlockit by quicknupd but my lcd half of it doesn work any ideas thaks, never broke or damage

367 fotrino // Dec 11, 2008 at 9:32 am

my iphone got only worst. now im in europe and they dont wanna change it. will have to wait to go to the US to get it changed.
now half of the screen doesnt work. so i cant even take calls.
it sucks!
and apple europe also!

368 Yuka // Dec 18, 2008 at 12:44 am

Hello,
The problem with my iphone is that the only area in my iphone that doesnt work is the Spacebar. its really wierd because in the display the buttons like phone,safari,mail etc. works.
PLEASE i need help! I really want to start using the spacebarr!

369 dereck // Dec 21, 2008 at 8:08 am

hi, i was wondering how do i replace the general.plist?

370 luiz // Dec 21, 2008 at 9:30 am

Finally a solution!!!!
Post 154!!! you saved my day, my phone, everything!!!!

thanks to the community for making everyhting so easy (and free)!!!!

371 tgreamvofiensity // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:41 am

i changed my general plist file to reset the touch sensitivity because of a lower dead strip but it didnt work for all menus is there anyother way or do i have to take it in and is it ture that you must have an AT&T account or them to service your phone?

372 k // Dec 28, 2008 at 10:07 am

hi im just wondering can this work on version 2.2

373 markor // Dec 29, 2008 at 3:46 am

works on 2.2 IPHONE 2G, I used the files from post #160 everything works, touch menu does show in pref, general. I have 4sliders only one with number from -20 to 16, which does affect the touch sens. but it did not solve my problem. funny as once I adjust the sliders to higher value the nonetouch area moves down or up on the screen, this helped me to adjust the nonetouch area to place where it hurts less, aprox 1cm above the middle line, so I can use all buttons in dial, but cannot start the stopwatch.. anybody with better solution please???

374 Ed // Dec 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm

I am having a similar problem. My iphone central touchscreen area has stopped responding… Unfortunately the tips given above don’t seem to work. I can control both upper and lower sliders but validating the first splash screen informing that icons can be moved about is impossible. I have tried using ibrickr to get into the iphone to modify the plist files. THis was successfully acheived to my knowledge but unsuccessful in effect. nothing seems to have changed. Any tips guys/girls—??? Many thanks…

Ed

375 markor // Dec 30, 2008 at 3:48 pm

RE: Ed – did you get new touch preferences? how did you jailbreak? pwnage?

376 Ed // Dec 31, 2008 at 3:31 am

Hello Markor,

Thanks for answering… Yes indeed I jailbroke with winpwn. This is my second iphone and I consider myself an experienced iphone user with hacks n all but this one has got me stumped… The fact that I cannot get rid of the splash screen is particularly annoying. I therefore can’t go onto new touch preferences… Any tips? Thanks, Ed

377 markor // Dec 31, 2008 at 5:05 am

ED: do you have a screen protector? remove it, can You ssh to your phone? can You instal those general and touch plist files to the phone? I will se what changed in my touch prefs plist, maybe if you can add that line, otherwise reinstal the firmware and jailbreak again or try ziphone.

378 Ed // Dec 31, 2008 at 8:24 am

Thanks again Markor. I cannot ssh into the iphone because I cannot activate wifi because of the splash screen that I can’t get off the screen upon booting. The iphone is jailbroken and desimlocked through winpn. So this touch.plist thing worked for you??? I would love to have detailed description of exactly how you did it and maybe even your exact lines you added. I have only one solution to get into the iphone and that’s through ibrickr.

379 Ed // Dec 31, 2008 at 8:27 am

Oh and no screen protector by the way…

380 markor // Dec 31, 2008 at 8:52 am

Ed. i did exactly what is in post 160, through ibrickr you can get to the file system or not? also PWNG lets You adjust any file you want and have it installed directly to your iphone during reinstal. but i dont know how, google it. only tip is for location of the plist files on iphone:
private\var\stash\applications.leMLHQ_preferences.app

I can also email you all the files, original and updates.

381 Ed // Dec 31, 2008 at 9:20 am

Markor, could you upload the files that worked for you? ehazlewood@atgmail.com leave out the “at”

Many thanks

382 markor // Jan 1, 2009 at 6:23 am

go to http://www.uschovna.cz
on the top of the screen choose english and pickup the package: Uschovna495cb4621f07384
enjoy

383 frustrated // Jan 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Hello all!
Happy New Year! I have an iPhone 2 using 2.2.
The upper touch zone is dead. The phone is jailbroken and unlocked using QuickPwn. But I can’t access WIFI to upload or edit General.plist or Touchstrip.plist.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
I am not a technical genius like most of you.

Thanks in advance.

384 markor // Jan 2, 2009 at 3:01 pm

go to preferences general network wifi. There you can activate wifi and start the ssh

385 persistent // Jan 3, 2009 at 2:44 am

have a 1st gen iphone, the screen is completely out, it had out of date firmware and so could not connect to itunes or use pwnage. I manually full system shutdown, then got the yellow yield symbol. I was then able to connect to itunes, restored.., updated firmware.., used pwnage and it is now jailbroken,…..
here is where i got lost…. I then used diskaid and connected to the iphone to put both the general.plist and the touch.plist under the applications/preferences.app
i then rebooted the iphone and nothing….. I feel like I’m an inch away form getting this thing working.
Please help…. Thanks ahead of time.

386 Ed // Jan 3, 2009 at 8:29 am

Thanks Markor. I was away for the holidays… Saw you sent the link. Will try out soon and let you know.

Ed

387 Ed // Jan 3, 2009 at 11:29 am

Hello Markor and others… Unfortunately your .plist files didn’t work for me… Here is a video file of my current problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdarUn-iqfk

Anyone can offer any help?

388 markor // Jan 3, 2009 at 11:32 am

to persistent: I will check for You where is the value switch in the plist file and reply later

389 markor // Jan 3, 2009 at 1:40 pm

get this file at http://www.uschovna.cz
change to english in upper right corner and pickup package: Uschovna495fbdaf4de8090

remove the: “_by_markor” from filename and put to Your private/var/stash/applications.leMLHQ/preferences.app

this will put the touch slider to the middle of the screen

to: Persistent – there is no value which changed in touch.plist, so the touch sensitivity is happening somewhere else and this is just the gate to it

390 markor // Jan 3, 2009 at 3:57 pm

surprise: I found post, where it says that this line is to save the prefered touch sens:

cell
PSSliderCell
default
8.0
defaults
com.apple.springboard
key
SBFingerProjection
max
16
min
-20.0
showValue
1

on the fifth line it says 8.0 which I added in my edit of touch.plist, so It could work for those with lost touch. let me know
also I noticed that higher value makes the touch go off the real touched place of your finger.

but where does this affect the touch sensor???

391 persistent // Jan 3, 2009 at 6:17 pm

this is what I edited the touch.plist to say…

cell
PSSliderCell
default
8.0
defaults
com.apple.springboard
key
SBFingerProjection
max
16
min
-20.0
showValue
1

I then did a reboot and nothing,
Also I am running fw 2.2

and is there anything specific I should change on the General.plist?

any ideas? Thanks

392 markor // Jan 4, 2009 at 6:57 am

I cannot read my original general.plist only the hacked one, where there is the touch option enabled.
BUT I found SUPREME PREFERENCES app in cydia which has touch settings under general, install this one and You should be able to get to touch settings. You can add any app to firmware through pwnage.
Another but is that the touch.plist file in SUPREME PREFERENCES moves the value slider to top of the screen, so I had to change it back to mine: touch_by_markor.plist

You dont have to reboot to apply changes to any menu, just leave the screen, make your changes in winscp, save and go to screen you changed. it will be the new one you just saved

393 Jaime // Jan 5, 2009 at 8:18 am

Hello markor could you post that touch.plist somewhere like rapidshare so everyone can get it please.
Thanks

394 Jaime // Jan 5, 2009 at 8:25 am

OHhh and the General.plist too for the slider in the middle, all the previous ones don’t seem to work on firmware 2.2

395 persistent // Jan 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm

I ended up using this article that states apple is replacing iPhones even if they are OUT OF WARRANTY ! http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1827?viewlocale=en_US
got a new replacement phone and walked away.
re-pwned and I was back in business.

396 markor // Jan 6, 2009 at 9:27 am

http://rapidshare.com/files/180397828/Touch_by_markor.plist.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/180397829/General_by_markor.plist.html

remove “_by_markor” and follow post 160
my files are almost the same only that the default value is 8 and slider is in the middle of your iphone.

397 Jaime // Jan 6, 2009 at 11:30 am

thank you!! worked great

398 markor // Jan 6, 2009 at 11:48 am

Jaime – did you get better sensitivity? or the sensitivity is off the point you touch. please try in drawing program and post the pic if you can draw all over the screen. I cant

see here
http://rapidshare.com/files/180440923/iPhone_deadstrip.jpg.html

399 Jaime // Jan 6, 2009 at 6:39 pm

Hey markor, no the water damage caused is basically to much. Need to repair it completely to be able to use the bottom half (can only use the top half).
I’m going to buy a new phone, but at least it helps for the time being.
Thanks again for all your help.
Waited for Macworld to see if the new “iphone nano” showed up but no luck.

400 markor // Jan 6, 2009 at 6:49 pm

iphone nano is hoax, maybe next year. so far they sell so much iphones so to bother with iphonano is a waist. i might like to have your broken phone, put it on ebay.

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402 Seanathan // Jan 12, 2009 at 1:51 am

Hey Markor thanks for the files! Unfortunately I cannot download them because I guess rapidshare only allows a max of 10 downloads per page. Any way you could email or upload them again?

403 markor // Jan 12, 2009 at 3:53 am

http://rapidshare.com/files/182369665/Touch_by_markor.plist.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/182369755/General_by_markor.plist.html

delete: _by_markor

404 Seanathan // Jan 13, 2009 at 3:33 am

Thank you VERY much Markor! Now time to see if it works to fix my friggin dead zone. lol

405 Javier // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:19 am

Hi Markor! Your files seems to be so succesful!! I cannot download them because the rapidshare limit again. I woul be very grateful if you could email or upload them again.
Thanks form Spain!

406 Javier // Jan 18, 2009 at 7:22 am

Hi Markor! Your files seems to be so succesful!! I cannot download them because the rapidshare limit again. I woul be very grateful if you could email or upload them again.
Thanks from Spain!

407 markor // Jan 19, 2009 at 10:38 am

hello belowed iphoners, here are the files:

http://www.4shared.com/file/81441798/28933439/Touch_by_markor.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/81441800/fcd6407f/General_by_markor.html

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409 Javier // Jan 19, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Great! Thanks!

410 Talha // Jan 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm

perfect solution #153.

I was able to restore my friend’s iPhone functionality of the bottom strip, now he got space bar, ipod button, etc…

And just in matter of minutes we got used to the new finger projection (means that you mus click a little upper that before).

You rock man!

And just for reporting my findings… I used ibrickr 8 on vista to upload the files and just restart, change the touch setting to just -0.2 and its works. thanks a lot

So this solution of post #153 seems to be “the thing”. Congrats!

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412 NEED SOME HELP // Jan 26, 2009 at 11:41 am

ok ive been reading these posting and i cant seem to get my iphone to open up. I have a iphone 2g running 2.2 and jailbroken. now my touch screen is completely unresponsive.its is stuck in the slide to unlock screen. what program do i use to access the system files in my iphone thru usb connection.i can not acces wifi on iphone .I am running vista on my laptop. please help i hate looking at my iphone and its not working. thanks in advance

413 Javier // Jan 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm

you can use iPhone Tunnel Suite 2.7 to access thru usb port

414 NEED SOME HELP // Jan 26, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Javier do know were i can download iphone tunnel suite. i have downloaded the 2.7 beta and i receive and error message the program is unresponsive. also i got the slider to move and some of the apps in the home screen worked but the touch screen is reponding very slow very very slow

415 Javier // Jan 26, 2009 at 1:57 pm

Sorry, I am not sure if it works under Vista. I had the same problem with my iphone, and use iphone tunnel suite (with XP) to access system files and replace touch and general.plist. and increase sensitivity. But I am not an expert and can’t help you with Vista….

416 NEED SOME HELP // Jan 26, 2009 at 2:07 pm

I just tried to install it in my other laptop that has xp and i receive the same error message???
do you have a link maybe i am downloading a bad file thanks

417 Javier // Jan 26, 2009 at 2:15 pm

On XP, .net frameworks have to be installed. And SSH activated on the iphone.
Link to download:
http://www.makkiaweb.net/itunnel/data/its-setup27.zip
Good luck!

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423 Lastrowhehelp // Jan 30, 2009 at 7:53 pm

Hi…..my iphone stop working on the very last row but “ONLY” when I have to type number”?123 – spacebar or the JOIN bar for connecting to wirless connections, everything else works fine on the last row….just trying to connect to wireless

424 Lastrowhehelp // Jan 30, 2009 at 8:32 pm

IT WORKED!!!!

425 slidernotworking // Feb 1, 2009 at 11:36 am

Hello guys…I have an iphone that it is not letting me use the slider at the bottom to get in…..I do have iphonebrowser…what to I need to change to try to get the slider to work?Thanks

426 ImbaaaN00b // Feb 1, 2009 at 11:57 am

right, i got the two files edited it as i wanted it, i managed to get through my phone using winSCP, but i cant figure out were the files must go. if anyone could be kind enough to place the directory for me.

btw i don’t know if the directory has changed, but right now i am using 2.2.1 FW.

thnx in advance

427 grecomafioso // Feb 1, 2009 at 4:43 pm

thank u very much,it works!!
i can’t select phone,mail,safari and ipod yesterday,and after reading your post here and playing with the settings of touch.plist i had figure it out!my best settings are -20.0 but still i cant select the space bar or change to nummerious keyboard…and after someone calls u and hangs up,you cant select the keyboard to continue making calls…i had make a hard-reset but its nit solving the problem…its a good option for someone who dont have the money to change the display of the iphone but you must change it if you want to have your iphone like in the beginning….

sorry for my bad english…

428 Lee // Feb 4, 2009 at 8:51 am

please help… the top half of my touch screen not working….could some one give me a step by step explanantion of how to do this…how do i get the gplist into my phone? my setting button is in the dead area…… helllllp!!!!!

429 Louis // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Hi all!
Now ive been reading this tread and many others , so im pretty much into to this iphone dead strip problem. Ive been trying to fix my bottom dead strip problem , and ive done almost every thing i can. Last thing i tried was arcive.zip for 2.0.1 but still not working. Anybody got a solution? Thanks!

430 talha // Feb 4, 2009 at 3:46 pm

read 387 and use 404 files. to transfer files in iphone use ibrickr 9. it wil solve your prb. its solved mine with 2.2 version of iphone 2g

431 itsme // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:44 pm

Here is my story: I had refurb 2G model. I never activated it for AT&T and unlocked it to use with Tmobile. After few months of use had issue with bottom two rows. Tried everything from this link but was able make only one stripe working. Bottom stripe was not working no matter what you do. Finally I gave up and was not using phone for last 2-3 months. Yesterday while reading FAQ on apple site found page where it says, if your iphone has touch screen problem, take it to apple store and they will repair/replace phone even it is out of warranty. I restored phone to factory settings and took printout of web page and showed it to apple service engineer. Phone was out of warranty from last 5-6 months. Initially they were not ready to replace as phone was never activated. But as soon as I showed printout from apple, they replaced my phone with new one. So do not waste your time trying to make it work go to apple store and get it replaced.

432 VPTUNING // Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm

has anyone done this using VISTA. I have a 2G iphone with 2.2 and it is hacked. now my screen has completly stopped working SO I CANT SSH.can any one share a link for a usb program that will connect my iphone to my comp and work with vista if not vista what about xp

433 MC/DC // Feb 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm

spent hours on reading this thread and anything else i could find on the web. i also read, that there are (or were) some other guys not being able to turn on wifi with the upper half of the screen
dead. please someone with a solution????
thx in advance!!

434 Filippo // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:18 am

Hy Guys, i have a first gen iphone with 2.2 firmware on.

Yesterday while i was still on 2.1, for no reason, the bottom strip is not sensitive to touch anymore.
Means that i cant use :phone, mail, safari, ipod.

I was in panic, i tryed to upgrade to 2.2, i did it.

I jailbreak it, i did it.

But the problem presist!

I tryed to connect my iphone to my PC through ibrickr but i can’t access to applications in order to change the plist.

Also, on cydia i wanted to install Supreme Settings, but i can’t because i can selecet anything that is on the bottom line!
At this point i dont no what to do anymore.
Also, is there a general.plist for firmware 2.2?
HELP, S.O.S

435 Filippo // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:19 am

hey there i have a first gen iphone with 2.2 firmware on.

Yesterday while i was still on 2.1, for no reason, the bottom strip is not sensitive to touch anymore.
Means that i cant use :phone, mail, safari, ipod.

I was in panic, i tryed to upgrade to 2.2, i did it.

I jailbreak it, i did it.

But the problem presist!

I tryed to connect my iphone to my PC through ibrickr but i can’t access to applications in order to change the plist.

Also, on cydia i wanted to install Supreme Settings, but i can’t because i can selecet anything that is on the bottom line!
At this point i dont no what to do anymore.
Also, is there a general.plist for firmware 2.2?
HELP, S.O.S

436 Filippo // Feb 9, 2009 at 11:22 am

Hi People i have a first gen iphone with 2.2 firmware on.

Yesterday while i was still on 2.1, for no reason, the bottom strip is not sensitive to touch anymore.
Means that i cant use :phone, mail, safari, ipod.

I was in panic, i tryed to upgrade to 2.2, i did it.

I jailbreak it, i did it.

But the problem presist!

I tryed to connect my iphone to my PC through ibrickr but i can’t access to applications in order to change the plist.

Also, on cydia i wanted to install Supreme Settings, but i can’t because i can selecet anything that is on the bottom line!
At this point i dont no what to do anymore.
Also, is there a general.plist for firmware 2.2?
HELP, S.O.S

437 vinodh // Feb 9, 2009 at 2:12 pm

Hi, Its me…
Can you provide the link which says apple store will replace an out-of warranty iphone having dead strips?

Thanks.
itsme // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:44 pm

438 Denzil Ferreira // Feb 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm

For those that have 2.2.1 and need the General.plist ready:

http://members.netmadeira.com/dstf/General.plist.zip

Easy instructions:
- Update your firmware to 2.2.1
- Use QuickPwn to unlock, jailbreak
- Run Cydia, install OpenSSH
- Disable the autolock feature from iPhone
- Activate WiFi connection and note iPhone IP
- Open Filezilla (FTP client on your computer) and make a new connection as SFTP, put the iPhone IP and use “root” as username and “alpine” as password.
- Change the path to “/Applications/Preferences.app/”
- Drag & Drop the General.plist (you need to extract the zip) to that folder, replacing the one that’s there.
- Reboot iPhone and then on Settings>General you will see a new item – Touch
- Decrease the value to 0 (most sensitive)
- Enjoy your screen again

439 Filippo // Feb 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm

I did it, but it does not work!
I must to replace te f.. LCD

440 ahmad // Feb 12, 2009 at 9:32 pm

hey “itsme” i was wondering if you could paste the link for the article that says apple have to replace your iphone. Im kind of new to this stuff and the instructions arnt very clear on how to install the sensitivity hack….whats general.plist? could someone please give more clear instructions

441 vinodh // Feb 13, 2009 at 9:27 am

Folks, Great news! I just got my iPhone replaced by Apple though it was almost 2 years old and out of warranty. Got a brand new one (I hope)
Just take it to the store and they should help you out.

442 cokeunut00 // Feb 14, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Hi denzil could you please give more detailed instructions on how to use filezilla. ive followed all the instructions and have 2.2.1
What host and port do i use?
where do i enter my IP
thanks

443 Beth // Feb 16, 2009 at 12:57 am

vinodh,

How did you get apple store to replace your iphone. Mine has a dead strip on top and I brought it to apple and they said it out of warranty. I will have to buy a new one Did you get show them the link where it said Apple will replace iphone with dead strip. Please send me link if so.

Thank you in Advance!!!

444 ethanpn2003 // Feb 17, 2009 at 12:15 pm

hi everyone
my iphone is 1st G 8GIG, every thing works on the touch screen except for the spot where the letter B and N are not working. I tried the touch plist to 0 but it seems not help
Does anyone know how to relocate the keyboard to upper location so i can use the full keyboard. thanks in advance for any help or reply

445 boanil // Feb 17, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Hi Beth,

I guess vinod and blog 428 are mentioning about http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1827. I hope thi will be useful. I have to try it myself.

446 Dimitris Nikolaidis // Feb 18, 2009 at 2:53 pm

does not look ok

from
“0.0″
To
“-20.0″
And replace after

“”
“cell”
” PSLinkCell”
“label”
“Touch”
” “

447 dimitris nikolaidis // Feb 18, 2009 at 3:01 pm

does not look ok

from
0 . 0
To
- 20.0
And replace after

”
“cell ”
” PSL inkCell”
“lab el”
” Touch”
” “

448 C. Dublin // Feb 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm

The top half of my touchscreen does not respond at all will this work??

449 C. Dublin // Feb 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm

The top half of my touchscreen does not respond at all will this work and i have the 2.2.1 software will this work??

450 beth // Feb 20, 2009 at 2:45 am

Thank you so much for your responses, boanil! I will give it another try at the Apple store. Wish me LUCK ;P

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452 itsme // Feb 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

That’s right. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1827 is the link and that should do a trick.

453 LeeH // Feb 22, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Hey, The problem with the touch screen is not software related. I have researched this problem and come up with a fool proof 5 min permanent fix for a completely unresponsive screen, This works because I have tested it on numerous iphones. The adhesive over time looses some of its pliability and unable to unload so to speak from compression, The adhesive is also a medium for transfering heat. So after much testing I found that if you heat the outer screen to 160*F for about 1 min and then gently work the screen using your thumbs starting at the middle and working to the edges. Apply firm pressure and slide your thumbs to the edges while watching the color of the LCD. When you get to the point where the LCD shows some distortion while applying pressure(light greyish look) around the edges then you are close to being done with the repair. No need to alter sensitivity. I have done this on the 2G only but it has worked 100% as a long term fix for several iphones.

454 Amrit // Feb 23, 2009 at 9:09 am

Leeh, what did you heat it with?

455 LeeH // Feb 23, 2009 at 10:05 am

Amrit, I used the heat gun from a hot air rework station but a hair dryer or craft type heat gun will work. Just don’t get the screen too hot or you can crack it, I refrained from posting this info until I was able to reproduce the results on numerous phones. This is the only place I have posted this info.

456 Filippo // Feb 23, 2009 at 10:14 am

Hi, i have the same problem on an iphone 2g.

BOTTOM LINE DOES NOT RESPONDE TO THE TOUCH.

ARE YOU SURE THAT HEATING THE DISPLAY WILL FIX THIS PROBLEM?

FOR HOW LONG SHOULD I HEAT IT?

457 Alex // Feb 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

So I have a 2 G iphone – It has a dead strip down the center of the screen… it started as a thin line (not being able to hit send for texts) and then spread downwards so that now I cant access the middle shelf of applications or dial 7 8 or 9 … and its still going. Running firmware 2.1…
its jailbroken and I have a whole bunch of stuff on it that I dont want to lose…aka(dont want to upgrade to 2.2 because i tried once and it didnt work)

1. Which plist files should I use and where can I get them.

2. Which install method should I read?…

(i downloaded the files from thread 404..can I use these?)

458 LeeH // Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 am

Filippo, Yes heat it directly on the glass screen until its hot to the touch but not to the point that it will burn you. It’s not so much about how hot you get the outer screen but more about heating the adhesive that bonds the digitizer to the glass screeen so maintaing an even heat long enough to allow you to rebond the 2 pieces with firm pressure.
Yes this does work.

459 Filippo // Feb 23, 2009 at 10:57 am

Okay, so heat for a minute globally and then apply pressure everywere?

460 LeeH // Feb 23, 2009 at 11:35 am

Alex, First thing download all of these:
1.iPhoneBrowser 1.81
2.plist Editor for windows
3. general.plist
4.touch.plist

Using the editor modify touch.plist, Here you can change where your slider is located and the default sensitivity level.
Open iPhoneBrowser and follow the string from root: application/preferences where you will add the touch.plist and replace the general-simulator.plist with the downloaded general.plist

do this at your own risk.

Or you can try heating the screen like I suggested for a unresponsive touch screen.

461 LeeH // Feb 23, 2009 at 11:45 am

Filippo, Yes you are correct except when applying pressure to the screen do it from the middle and work out towards the edges all the way around the screen. As you go ou will see a dull grey line forming near the outer most edges of the screen from pressure being applied to the digitizer and LCD work on this dull grey area until you can make the line appear all the way around the screen by applying pressure in those areas. I will try to make a video and post up for everyone but I am currently layed up in bed recovering from knee surgery.
Also make sure the phone is turned off, I seemed to have forgotten to mention that i earlier posts.

462 Filippo // Feb 23, 2009 at 11:51 am

Alex, i did the thing of the General Plist and it does not work for me. At all.

I’ll go wild with my girlfriend hairdryer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to melt that f.. display down!

ahhahaah
See you guys thanks

463 Alex // Feb 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Lee,
thanks a lot…. I did what u said but couldnt figure out exactly how to modify the plist properly…
so i ended up moving the slider down but i think i changed the functionality of it…it started messing with my touch screen all over the place… it actually started allowing me to access middle parts of the screen that were previously dead by hitting right above where the icons are… but then the bottom stopped working so i replaced it back to the original(thank god I saved the original files…)

can you tell me exactly what to do to move the slider to the top of the screen or bottom?…
thanks very much,
alex

464 Scott // Feb 23, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Lee H. The heating method sounds great, Lee if you put up a video please let me know.

465 LeeH // Feb 23, 2009 at 5:56 pm

Alex, It’s a good idea to back up all files prior to making changes. If you will go to the information just above the first post on this page you will find altered .plist files that are modded to change the position of the slide bar from top/center or bottom, It’s easier that way. To change the default go to the spot in the files where you see:
cell
PSSliderCell
default
3.5
defaults
com.apple.springboard</string

3.5 is the default setting and can be tweaked to as low as the min set in the file which in this case is 0.

466 filippo // Feb 23, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Alex, i dont know what the problem is but your method did not work with my phone.
I mean, still bottom line not responding.
I can slide the bar to open but only because it’s still sensitive on the top of the bar.
I dont know what to do, i was thinking is it possible to rotate the entire operative sistem, icons etc.. upsidedown?
so i can still “use the phone”?

467 PauloRG // Feb 23, 2009 at 6:53 pm

LeeH, I tried the method you posted, heating one…
But din´t work for me…

I´ll be looking for the video,

Thanks!

468 Alex // Feb 24, 2009 at 12:38 am

awww yeahhhhh

so i ended up just getting the “Supreme Preferences” app off of Cydia…

By turning up the sensitivity I was able to regress some of the touch screen death!…

It originally started off as just a line down the center of the screen (not being able to hit send on texts.)
It then spread so that I couldnt dial 789 or access the middle row of apps…or the top row of the keyboard… While I still cant get the apps open or dial 789, I am able to use the top row of the keyboard…so at least i can type txts in normal layout and then switch to landscape to hit send…

I would experiment further…but after going to 14 on a scale of 0-16, the touch got whacky in the upper portions of the screen…i managed to turn it back down…im now at 11.. but i dont want to test my luck…

I’ll deal…hopefully my phone will last until I get back to the states in May…

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470 Filippo // Feb 24, 2009 at 10:21 am

Guys, changing the General.plist and heating the display didn’t work for me.
Other then changing display any suggestions?

471 Scott // Feb 24, 2009 at 11:47 am

I am new to Iphones when you guys talk about Plist and all that I have no clue. Is there a good place to learn how to go about doing the steps for dummies?

472 ALI // Feb 24, 2009 at 3:56 pm

hi there…I am having problem with the lower strip where the phone, mail, safari and ipod icons are situated….they just dont respond to any touch….since the iphone is jailbroken to 2.0.2 firmware + i dont live in STATES so no chance of getting a new phone from an apple outlet.
I was going through the posts and found out about general. plist and touch. plist i followed the instructions and did exactly the way u ppl mentioned. I was successful in replacing the general.plist but in settings > GENERAL > an addtional feature was established called TOUCH.
I then shifted it to ‘0′ for sensivity level but then when i rebooted my iphone it just started respringing on every touch…CAN ANYONE PLZ HELP ME WITH THIS SINCE ITS BEEN 48 hours im working almost non stop on this…
THANKS

473 LeeH // Feb 25, 2009 at 10:28 am

PauloRG,
I have tried it a few more times and have concluded that the heat fix only works on phones with a completely dead or half dead display. It does nothing for the phones that have random dead spots on the digitizer, What needs to be done with the phones that have a dead row is the general plist and touch plist but there again that fix causes calibration issues with the icons which I have yet to find a cure for. If anyone knows where the factory calibration file is we could possibly compile a fix that wont compromise finger placement on the screen.

474 Johan // Feb 25, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Leeh: Is there any method to calibrate the screen having replaced the plist file and having the problem when you have to press the display a little bit higher than you should?

475 LeeH // Feb 25, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Johan, That is something I am trying to work on. With any touch screen there is a utility software that is used to calibrate the screen with, Finding and tweaking it are the challenge. The touch.plist is just changing the scale of the touch area, The locations of the icons in the operating system need to also change to fit the larger and much coarser touch screen field.

476 Enry // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:36 pm

hallo all,
i have the sampe problem descibe…
iphone 2 G firmware 2.2.1 already unblocked
I try to replace the file touch.plist and General.plist
but not working…HELP please..!!!!

ps sorry for my bad english

CIAO from Italy

477 ALI // Feb 26, 2009 at 6:21 am

I shifted it to ‘0′ for sensivity level but then when i rebooted my iphone it just started respringing on every touch…CAN ANYONE PLZ HELP ME WITH THIS SINCE ITS BEEN 4 days im working almost non stop on this…
THANKS….DO REPLY GUYS

478 Paulorg // Feb 28, 2009 at 4:57 am

LeeH,
My touch screen is completely dead, but the heat method din´t work for me…

I´ll still wait for the video….

Thanks!

479 james // Feb 28, 2009 at 9:00 am

When i touch text message my iphon I K N M is doesn’t function.So please help me.
I have done all restore but still not functioning.

480 alex // Feb 28, 2009 at 10:35 am

James,
So it seems that the top middle portion of your screen isnt working…
you need to use a program to load cydia or an equivalent onto your phone… I used quickpwn but theres plenty of other programs…
This will jailbreak your phone and load cydia onto it.
Once you have cydia you need to download the program openSSH onto your phone… it doesnt appear as an application..but allows your computer to connect to your iphone.
After you have openSSH, you can download WinSCP if you have a pc…I used FUGU because I have a mac… youll have to use a wireless connection to connect your computer to mac… using usually the user name as root and pass as alpine.
Once connected you access the preferences folder within your iphone. You then should make copies of the files “general.plist and touch.plist” and move them to your desktop, or just rename them within your iphone… then drag the general.plist and touch.plist files that you can find on this page.

This will add the option of “touch” to your general settings on your iphone. When you access this menu, there will be a bar that allows you to increase your sensitivity… go slowly and see if your touch gets better… dont increase it too fast or it may mess up your touch in other areas of the screen…if this occurs you have to replace these plist’s with your backups…

good luck…
expect to spend even more time than you already have!…

alex

481 james // Mar 1, 2009 at 9:41 am

Dear ALex,
Where can i download touch.plist?

482 James // Mar 1, 2009 at 10:05 am

Dear Alex,

I have follow your instruction,But it won’t work for me.Still have any idea?I have done to replaced general.plist and touch.plist.

483 Filippo // Mar 1, 2009 at 11:02 am

“dear Alex”..

None of your suggestions work, so my “dear” guys..
If your touch screen is not working, do not spend time like a geek trying to fix the phone like i did.
Because it wont work, not heating… no “touch bullshi..” sensitivity…
Some iphones are just defected.
So spend your time with girls or having fun!
And if your iphone does not respond… smile and get the f…away!
Good bless you!

484 Filippo // Mar 1, 2009 at 11:20 am

Jame, FOR GOD SAKE stop writing “DEAR Alex”…

I did the same thing you an other 1000 people…
Forget about it.
YOUR PHONE WONT WORK!
Now relax and enjoy your sunday!

Wake up dude!

Come one!!!

485 alex // Mar 1, 2009 at 1:51 pm

hey,
i originally used the links from post 338…
they didnt work as well as when I installed supreme preferences from cydia…which automatically adds the touch menu..and has a slider to increase ur sensitivity by moving from zero up to a value that works…
I just figured it might not work on your phone because the slider it creates is in the top portion of the screen…
what doesnt work when you replace your plist files?…does the touch menu even come up?…

filippo…quit being a miserable hater… this doesnt work for everybody… so instead of making multiple posts of why other people should stop wasting their time and “get with girls”… unsubscribe urself from the email notification and go do that yourself….

I’m at med school outside the country… 2000 miles away from my girlfriend… and the apple store… so to me..it was worth taking the time to figure out how to get this to work so that I could continue using my iphone…after all i did spend a decent amount of time figuring out how to hack the phone to get 500$ worth of medical school software onto it…

ps. I just got back from the beach drinkin beers so dont you worry about me…herb.

486 Filippo // Mar 2, 2009 at 9:08 am

“Dear Alex”…

First of all, you have no right to call me Miserable, so whatch your “typing”.

Second, YOUR “Tips” does not work, for real, i mean it.

So stop being like the “father”… and giving suggestions about how to repair your iphone with my uneard and cool tips…
The only wise thing to do for someone who has problem, is to REVIRGINIZE YOUR IPHONE!
And bring it to the apple store and hope they can help.

You assumed that your “repared” a “lot” of IPHONES… This is bullsh..

Regarding my suggestions of spendid time with girls, thats something real, you may want to consider it to..
This wont be a back and forth beet. me and you..
Bu certanly i wont let you tell me to “leave” this forum…

I’ll leave it when ever i think is the time to.

Cheers

487 Filippo 2 // Mar 2, 2009 at 9:10 am

“Dear Alex”…

First of all, you have no right to call me Miserable, so whatch your “typing”.

Second, YOUR “Tips” does not work, for real, i mean it.

So stop being like the “father”… and giving suggestions about how to repair your iphone with my uneard and cool tips…
The only wise thing to do for someone who has problem, is to REVIRGINIZE YOUR IPHONE!
And bring it to the apple store and hope they can help.

You assumed that your “repared” a “lot” of IPHONES… This is bullsh..

Regarding my suggestions of spendid time with girls, thats something real, you may want to consider it to..
This wont be a back and forth beet. me and you..
Bu certanly i wont let you tell me to “leave” this forum…

I’ll leave it when ever i think is the time to.

Cheers

488 alex // Mar 2, 2009 at 10:42 am

lol… dude…
let me just say i never claimed to “repair” any phones…
in fact I was a complete newb to the whole SSH process…
I just needed to fix my screen and cant bring my phone to a store because I’m out of the country..and am unwilling to revirginize my phone…

Thanks to constructive comments from other people on the forum I was able to fix my phone well enough.

As for this forum..I’ve already benefited from it… and dont want to deal with people who are looking to get a rise out of other people…

in case that got by you… thats you buddy…because apparently you dont have time to trouble shoot your iphone annnnd interact with women … but magically you do find time and reason to still be on a forum called “increase sensitivity…” …

so im done here… apparently you need this forum much more than I…
douchhhee

489 Filippo 3 // Mar 2, 2009 at 10:50 am

Alex,

If i’m here it’s because i like to get back to you while i’m working, it’s so fun
I can guarantee you “touchscreen sensitivity” not the reason i’m here now.. i happened to see it

Btw you are soo cool man

ahhahaha

Now douchhhee me a favor, f.. o..

Cheers

490 Indian Archer. // Mar 3, 2009 at 12:59 am

I have a 2.0.2 iphone cracked and bought in US. Currently in India. Unable to exchange
Was stuck with the “dead strip” Problem for about 1 year. Phone was only partially usable.

Read Article 245 here by Brian Egan.

Downloaded the archive files from
http://rapidshare.de/files/40045605/Archive.zip.html

Extracted them.

Downloaded open ssh bundle on to the iphone and installed it.

Connected to iphone from laptop password for root is alpine.

cd /

cd applications/preferences.app/

backup general.plist, general-simulator.plist and Touch.plist files. (renamed them)

Copied the new files from the arhive file into the directory.

copy general.plist
copy general-simulator.plist
copy touch.plist

Changed the permission of the newly copied files from rw-r–r— to rw-rw-r–

Rebooted the phone.
Changed the sensitivity on Settings/General/Touch to (-3.7)

and whao…

The dead paper weight (partially working iphone) springs back to life… and a new iphone is born!!

I haven’t touched another button Show Touch in Settings/General/Touch.. some users have mentioned that
fiddling with it will cause your phone to reboot every second.. other users pls post your experiences.

491 Louis // Mar 3, 2009 at 8:01 am

Hey friends Please check bbb.org and fill a complaint , i did.

Louis Carter

492 Ali // Mar 3, 2009 at 8:03 am

Dear Indian Archer,

Can u plz brief me a little about the whole process which you have mentioned above step by step. I would really appreciate your efforts

Kind regards

Ali

493 Busted Iphone // Mar 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm

I can’t even unlock my phone. I can’t get the slider all the way over. Is there another way to unlock it? Is there anyway to adjust the sensitivity through the USB port?

494 Scott // Mar 4, 2009 at 3:42 pm

You should be able to Jailbreak and unlock with this site.
http://www.winpwn.com/index.php/Main_Page
Then if you want to try to increase your sensitivity I found the easiest way was through a program called Iphonepcsuite, do a search for this program, then you will need to do a bit of reading from other people from this forum and learn how to change the appropriate settings. It is a bit tough at first, but it can be done. Hope for the best but it might not work for all.

495 Busted Iphone // Mar 5, 2009 at 10:49 am

Got into my iphone by changing over to tap to unlock. Change the sensitivity but didn’t help. I thought lower is better but once I got below about -5, more of my screen became dead. 6.8 seems best for me.

496 I-user // Mar 5, 2009 at 2:36 pm

All very nice and maybe doable.
I have a dead lower strip
2.2.1 2g 8GB model
tried all of the above

Problem is: SLIDE TO UNLCOK lol
…in the dead part
So no setting sensitivity
tried post 160
Chinese soft won´t work, stops and gives chinese menu wit tickbox, can´t tick it
Anybody have solved this yet?
Cheers

497 Indian Archer // Mar 7, 2009 at 3:41 am

I had 2.0.2 firmware. i tried different fixes. for the dead strip problem.. none of them worked properly.

Finally… i upgrated my firmware to 2.2.1

This for now was for me the easiest method.

Get the General.plist file from here.

http://members.netmadeira.com/dstf/General.plist.zip

Easy instructions:
- Update your firmware to 2.2.1
- Use QuickPwn to unlock, jailbreak
- Run Cydia, install OpenSSH
- Disable the autolock feature from iPhone
- Used iPhone Tunnel Suite 2.7 to connect to the phone from the windows desktop.
- use “root” as username and “alpine” as password to login to iphone from desktop
- Change the path to “/Applications/Preferences.app/”
- Drag & Drop the General.plist (you need to extract the zip) to that folder, replacing the one that’s there.
- Reboot iPhone and then on Settings>General you will see a new item – Touch
- Decrease the value to 0 (most sensitive)
- Enjoy your screen again

A similar post can be found on this list earlier.

498 james // Mar 9, 2009 at 5:07 am

like most other people i have a non responsive lower half of the screen.The phone has no cracks or visible damage. i have a jailbroken phone to firmware 2.21 .Ihave compleated all the steps when using tunnel suit 2.7 my problem comes when restarting the phone. Because i restored the phone with the custom ispw im getting the iphone start up where it tells you you can move icons bla bla bla .This is my problem because i have to click on continue which is at the bottom of the screen. How do i adjust the sensitivity without doing it in the iphone.

499 Scott // Mar 9, 2009 at 6:10 am

James, what I did was after jailbreaking it, in Itunes where it give you the option to restore the Iphone to a previous state or a new state I put previous and it took that continue button away. The next problem is the settings button was too low for me so I used Iphonepcsuite to get into my general.plist witch took a bit of reading of other peoples info on here to learn where and what it is.
I hope this helps.

500 Christopher // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:18 am

Hey, i have recently had this problem with my iphone also! the lower strip of my phone is dead. i have managed to allow myself to get into the settings but i cannot click on general in order to change the touch sensitivity! could anyone help me with this?

501 Christopher // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:23 am

jus for extra information i am on firmware 2.2.1 and jailbroken and can put files onto my iphone, i jus cannot access the general settings to change the touch

502 James // Mar 10, 2009 at 5:29 am

Nice one scott i restored to a restore and now i can get in my phone. Using tunnel 2.7 i have sucessfully added the touch application and now as you said the button in application is at the bottom of the screen. What do i have to type in in the gemeral play list on a 2.21 to move the location touch application to the top of preferences………….hang on arnt there any more aps i can add to applications which will line up behind it to enable me to scrool the screen to acces it………….sorry just think typing out loud there. Any one really like to know how to change the code of the generalplaylist to move the position of the touch application so i can access it

503 James // Mar 10, 2009 at 6:09 am

Christopher im at the same point im just waiting for some one to tell us how to change the global setting so that we can set it to -14 from editing the generalplaylist from the edditing programe once weve done that we should be able to access the programe to make further adjustments

504 James // Mar 10, 2009 at 6:11 am

Christopher im at the same point im just waiting for some one to tell us how to change the global setting so that we can set it to -14 from editing the generalplaylist once weve done that we should be able to access the programe to make further adjustments

505 James // Mar 10, 2009 at 6:30 am

christopher ive figered out how to move the position of the touch app no time to create a up load heres all the code from the general play list i have moved it

cell
PSLinkCell
label
Touch
this is the code you will see just cut and paist it to a diffrent position remember in between each programme there seems to be

at the start of the code and after im in the slider prog now but it aint working jet but im close any help from anyone else out there

506 James // Mar 11, 2009 at 3:54 am

Ive got it working now buti still cant reach the bottom four icons even on -30 i need to move phone mail safari etc any help…..Also please note people this is not a sensitivity fix
if 3.6 is point 0 and 16 is abouth a -30setting would be about 15mm below where you press.For people with say 10mm-15mm of your screen not working you will be able to access the full function i guess from my exp.For people with half the screen not working you wont get access to your whole screen.I even tryed a -60 setting .what we need is a voltage setting like a cpu over clock i be happy with shorter bat life

507 IPHONESTRIP // Mar 11, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Well I have a Bottom Dead Strip and the strip happens to be where my UNLOCK SLIDE is at so i cant even unlock my phone to try any of these solutions! Can any one help me with this problem? Thanks in advance for any solutions you may have for this problem.

508 Help // Mar 12, 2009 at 12:35 am

I also need help. The bottom half of my screen is unresponsive. The weird thing is i can slide to unlock but after that it doesn’t register the touch.

509 James // Mar 12, 2009 at 3:20 am

reply to 504 ok iphone strip you will have to put your phone chip in another phone and remove the unlock code then you can start straight into the desktop. Please dont update the firmware because the first time the phone starts you have to click dismiss on the box telling you how to move icons on the desktop.post 505 you will be able to get full control of your screen if you read and follow all the posts correctly i think a -15 setting will let you get to all the other icons on your screen.Remember that you will have to place your finger abouth the icon you are trying to press.I mysealf am gouing to buy the lcd plus digitizer combined for 89 pound as this page has enabled me to get into my phone i cant get the lower four icons so in cydia installer the phone safari etc all the important functions are at the botttom. But i must say before i could only acces the upper 3 rows so i managed to access the forth row considering that this part of the digitizer dont recieve any signals this was a job well done.

510 Frank // Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 am

Can you possibly give step-by-step directions?
i am confused but i need this done to my iphone.

511 Ray // Mar 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Hey, i was wondering if anyone could explain to me how to my iphone. as of now, i am having issues with calling and texting. the call button, erase button, and add contacts button do not function when i am trying to make a call and when sending a text message i cannot type letters which fall on the “zxcvbnm” line of the QWERTY keyboard. please please please help me… if you can

512 Elendil // Mar 16, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Hello guys, I been reading all your post up an down, trying to find a solution on how to fix the dead strip on my iphone, I´m from the ones that has a top dead strip, exactly on the 2nd row of the main menu, that´s not actually a big problem, but the main issue is that I can´t dial any number, since part of the screen issue is on 4, 5 and 6, I´ve tried many general plist and touch settings, can´t seem to find the one that works… I´ve tried the heat thing and same problem. What I´m looking for right now is a way to have a small keypad for the dialer, you know a very basic one, where I can use the bottom part of my screen or a no so big dialpad or a way to move the menus up or down and prevent them from coming back where they were, so in that way I can move them and “lock them” in part of the screen where I can touch. I can live with the 2nd row of the menu out, but I must have a way to make calls!, please guys let me know if you have any ideas or where do I need to look, thank you and looking forward for your answer.

513 paul // Mar 16, 2009 at 10:11 pm

article 160 works

i just did it, and everything result ok.

i set the touchscreen on 0.5 and its working just fine!!!
thanks

514 Indian Archer // Mar 17, 2009 at 12:19 am

See article 494.

515 datgirl // Mar 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Just would like to thank post#360. I was able to exchange my first generation OUT OF WARRANTY Iphone at the Apple Store. The bottom screen of my iphone keyboard was not responding to touch, made a reservation at the genius bar & exchange my phone. Thanks a lot to this forum.

516 ffpaccagnella@aol.com // Mar 19, 2009 at 8:07 am

Tried what to do on #160 it does not work, i would likt to go at the apple store and get it changed but i dont know if theyll do it for me!
I’m on a t-mobile contract and unlocked iphone

What am i suppose to do?

Any suggestions?

517 AngryPuppy // Mar 20, 2009 at 7:59 am

To all who can’t perform all the steps because your iphone is dead on that strip, install VNC. Then you can use your Windows/Mac machine to control your iphone and do everything that way.

518 Filippo // Mar 20, 2009 at 10:55 am

GUYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
I went to tha apple store and they gave me a brand new one!
I was 3 months out of warranty!
I it was jailbroken, no At&t contract!
Just restore before you show it!
Don’t waste time with bullsh.. touch plist etc..
Just go to the apple store!
AWESOME!!!!!!

519 jjc // Mar 21, 2009 at 7:24 pm

i have a problem with my i phone 2G screen the third and the forth row of the menu are not working! but the first, second and fifth row are all working fine! can u please help me solve this problem? because i am really annoyed

520 SillyIphone // Mar 22, 2009 at 11:11 pm

The .plist stuff hasn’t worked for me. Has anyone other than that one poster gotten the hair dryer method to work. The whole bottom half of my iphone is dead.

521 Terje // Mar 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Hi guys..
Could someone please email upload the touch.plist again. There seems to be problems with all the current links (number of limited downloads reached).

Or even better email the file to me on michelsenterje at gmail.com.

Terrific blog by the way Well done to all.

522 SillyIphone // Mar 24, 2009 at 12:49 pm

I tried the hair dryer to no avail. LeeH, any tips? Video?

523 LeeH // Mar 24, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Well I wasn’t using a hair dryer, I was using a craft type heat gun capable of 700*F. I have been able to fix several this way but I have had 2 recently that did not respond to the heat and as time goes by my 4gb iPhone is starting to act up again. I guess the only real way to permanently fix them is either replace the digitizer or replace the phone.

524 SillyIphone // Mar 24, 2009 at 10:05 pm

I’m curious what technique you use. Are you just going straight out with your thumbs from the center are are you making circles or ? A video would be great.

525 Filippo // Mar 25, 2009 at 8:05 am

Guys,

Please, listen to me, in 1 week they gave 2 brand new iphone!
Don’t waste time to “repair it by your self”, it’s not worth!

They gave me a brand new “refurbished” one!

The accelerometer did not work, so i brought ist back and they gave me another one!

It was easy, and i was 3 months out of warranty !

So, why not going to an apple store and make this happen?

If you can’t go, just go online and search for the repair kit, you send it to them and they will sent it back repaired or new!

Before you go, just restore the iphone to factory settings, if they ask, what happend say that you had to restore etc..

They wont check anithing, they only as you for a number ( in my case t-mobile) to contact you…
that’s it..

So don’t waste time, just bring your as… to an Apple store

526 kanay // Mar 29, 2009 at 6:19 am

hi i have iphone 2g 2.2 and want the touch facility when you go to settings general.how do i do that please help

527 steveblue // Mar 29, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Filippo – many of us can not go to the apple store due to apple abandoning us.

That this they sold 300,000 first gen iphones to non att customers fully knowing like me they will be used in other countries (boy did those extra 300,000 apple store iphone purchases look good on there bottom line) . Soon as apple made deals in these other countries’ service providers with 3g iphone we were abandoned as rouge and jailbroken (forget the legal apple receipt in my hand). nice ehhh. That is why we have to resort to these sites – because Apple has become more evil that MS. yes we can try and find a US friend with an old att contract to walk into an apple store for us but come-on.

528 Filippo // Mar 29, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Steve,

I’ve never had a contract with AT&T.
They replaced my iphone with a new one with out even checking my id or looking at the phone.
(in fact the phone was locked after the restore).

So, just go, even if you bought your iphone non in USA, just go there, by serial number they’ll give you a new one.

Cheers

529 ffmusicdj // Apr 7, 2009 at 11:07 am

THIS IS THE WAY TO GO

I had first gen Iphone
This for now was for me the easiest method.

Get the General.plist file from here.

http://members.netmadeira.com/dstf/General.plist.zip

Easy instructions:
- Update your firmware to 2.2.1
- Use QuickPwn to unlock, jailbreak (here is a youtube video on how to … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeERHnvHTyY everything you need is in that youtube video including the links to where to download everything, if you dont have the first gen iphone, I would recommend you find your iphone model and firmware 2.2.1 on yourtube, there is bound to be someone going step by step on how to jailbreak and provide links.)

(this is a little extra if you can’t unlock… Skip the next three steps if you can unlock just fine)
~ Run Cydia, browse to find Open SSH
~ install OpenSSH
~ Disable the autolock feature from iPhone

- Download iPhone Tunnel Suite 2.7
- Connect your phone the windows desktop.
- “alpine” is password to login to iphone from desktop
- Browse to the path “/Applications/Preferences.app/”
- Find & Make a copy of the General.plst, just in case…
- Drag & Drop the download General.plist (from the zip) to that folder, replacing the one that’s there.
- Reboot iPhone and then on Settings>General you will see a new item – Touch
- Decrease the value to 0 (most sensitive)
- Enjoy your screen again

fyi don’t increase the value … you will want to punch yourself if you do and it will make it VERY hard to press buttons.

530 Louis // Apr 7, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Hello ffmusicdj.

How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock? Regards Louis Carter

531 Louis // Apr 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Hello ffmusicdj.

How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock touchscreen? Regards Louis Carter

532 Louis // Apr 7, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Hello ffmusicdj.
How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock touchscreen?

Regards Louis Carter

533 ffmusicdj // Apr 7, 2009 at 2:34 pm

I believe you will have an opportunity to browse through apps when you first start your phone, so thats what you need to do. Restart your Iphone. when the icons show up, This is all you, I mean, you have to make sure the phone never gets locked, turn off auto luck from the settings is what I would do first actually… after you got that taken care of, run Cydia, browse to find Open SSH, install OpenSSH and disable the autolock feature from iPhone.

534 Johan // Apr 7, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Still no solution for the problem with having to press a little above everything after “fixing” the screen?

535 ffmusicdj // Apr 7, 2009 at 11:01 pm

I am having that problem but just slightly, and at least it works and I don’t have to dash out and pay $200 for a new phone … I’m not fond of hacking my phone, but I know Apple won’t support me anyways and so I’m on my own.

536 Chris // Apr 9, 2009 at 2:00 am

Please help me I don’t know what to do. So I edited the general.plist file and added that thing to it. Then I saved it so it says “enter password which is alpine then it goes back to the edit thing.
Did it save? then I looked on my iphone and the general area is blank? I don’t know what to do. Please help Email Right Away thanks

537 Chris // Apr 9, 2009 at 2:07 am

By the way can me having the 2.2 do anything with it? and if so can you send me something to put instead and fix it?
I don’t know if you got my email but here it is (mcr101794@hotmail.com)

538 MJ // Apr 9, 2009 at 11:22 pm

hi i realllly need help with this, i have 2g iphone the lower part is not working , how u do it please i really need help.

539 Carragold // Apr 10, 2009 at 5:34 am

Try reading through this blog. Post #272 did the trick for me, you lazy person.

540 Chris // Apr 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Yay i got it. but whats the best 0 or 16?

541 John // Apr 10, 2009 at 10:47 pm

I get the touch in the general but the Touch won’t move only stay at 3.5.
Is there any way I can do the wrong thing?

By the way how to Disable the autolock feature from iPhone?

Originally, I used firmware 2.2.1 for my iphone 3g but I used the 3g 2.0.2 in iphone tunnel suite, and replace the general.plist with the zip file that ffmusicdj told to do.

Please Give me any suggestion, is there anyway I can just set it by editing the general.plist in text edit?

Thank you

542 John // Apr 11, 2009 at 12:32 am

No Luck, try to convert the binary touch.plist to XML touch.plist and change to the 0.
but still no result.

and the touch still shows 3.5.

Is there any way to change it directly?
I downloaded 2 version of the touch.plist.
all of them showed different appearance but still same at level 3.5 .

This is so confusing.

Wasting 5 hours to work with this stupid iphone.
the digitizer work fine in another iphone.

So this is not the digitizer problem.

Chipset problem?

543 NewIphone // Apr 11, 2009 at 1:17 am

I tried all these fixes to no avail. So as others have done. I took my iphone to the geniusbar. The guy didn’t even ask me anything. When the swipe to unlock didn’t work, he just looked at the back and said it was no longer under warranty but Apple has extended the warranty due to multi touch issues on iphones. He asked if it would OK for him to swap it out for a replacement. I said sure. I was in and out in about 5 minutes. The awesome part was that my vibrate switch was also broken and my battery would only last for a couple of hours on standby. So if you are in or coming to any of the 51 states, just take it to an Apple store instead of trying to do any of these workarounds.

544 iPhone Upper touchscreen stuk - 9lives // Apr 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm

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545 willy // Apr 20, 2009 at 2:08 am

On my iphone 2.2.1 is now working by overwriting the general.plist and set the touch value to ZERO. Thank you very much!!!!!

546 Danny // Apr 23, 2009 at 9:29 pm

I i have a first gen 2.2.1 and dont know how to instal to fix the problem can you help?

547 Monty // Apr 25, 2009 at 5:58 pm

i have a iphone 2g 8GB jailbreaked with 2.2.the problem with my phone is that the right corner of my phone is not working. i mean i cant use the keys ‘P and backspace while messaging, and cant use the list of the music songs, cant use the contacts search with letter fuction on the right.’ I also tried using touch application. but it doesnt goes below ZERO value. initially it was at 3.5. it came to ZERO. but its not going below zero. everything else is working properly. i dun have any issues wid my upper strip or lower strip. i would request every1 to please help me out of this problem.. it wld be very greatful.. please..

548 JohnnyPlayboy9 // Apr 30, 2009 at 9:29 pm

first off…thanks to all who have helped with this issue,I myself have a first gen 8gig with dead spots towards the bottom front that was effecting texting photos dialing out and my keyboard funtions were dead from z thur m and also my backspace by doing these steps and using the touch feature,I have regained my touch screen by adjusting my sensitivity to 6.5 to regain my touch screen functions,thank you all so very much for this blog…..
best wishes to all.

549 Prakash // May 1, 2009 at 6:42 am

I am having 2G with 2.2.1 f/w and recently my upper touch screen second line is unresponsive… I’ve try to use Supreme prefrence to change touch sensitivity but as slider located into upper part I wont able to change same… my current value is 3.5…. Pls suggest how to resolve… I am stuck…

550 Mohammed // May 4, 2009 at 12:36 am

i have a problem with my 3g iphone, it is running in the safe mode and i can not exit it, i have tried different ways such as uninstalling applications rebooting the device but i am stuck with it, please any suggestion for this problem

551 Tina // May 5, 2009 at 11:16 am

Thank you for post #272. I followed the instructions and now my iphone is working perfectly. Thank you again!!!!

552 alex // May 7, 2009 at 3:39 pm

my upper part of my touchscreen isn´t working anmore.

could someone edit the general.plist and upload it to me?

553 Prakash Chauhan // May 9, 2009 at 4:42 am

Hi Alex, use veency software and try to do the setting using supreme preference… I’ve tried but not succeed : ( can you please try and confirm whether you got bingo ……..

chauhanpn@yahoo.com

554 Prakash Chauhan // May 9, 2009 at 5:59 am

Hi Tina,

How much setting you’ve put in touch….

Is your upper strip is not working???

555 coldbrew // May 11, 2009 at 8:29 am

So, this post, starting with the OP is quite an abomination. Lots of hard work went into it, but in the end, nobody has really explained anything except what has worked for them (and they don’t know why or aren’t telling).

That’s not to say I don’t appreciate the effort, and I have benefited from some info here. I have read most of these 500+ comments (thanks for the update OP! ).

Anyway, in the hope of saving some folks some time, here is what I’ve found useful:

Most helpful tutorial posts:
post#160
post#272
post#393
files: from post#404 work with iPhoneOS v2.2 (not sure about 2.2.1)

A physical approach to “fixing” an insensitive screen is detailed in post#450 (by LeeH, who has other posts you should read with more info)

Post#526 is also helpful.

All in all, it would be great if someone would show what each alteration is actually doing (the “why”), so people can understand wtf is going on.

556 Prakash Chauhan // May 12, 2009 at 6:57 am

Hi COLDBREW,

You are absolutely correct, that within blog no success method shown yet, and really thanks for the summarization all the peaces, but post # files downlinks are incorrect…

Well my upper screen have dead strip and wont able to use it… I’ve tried to change touch sensitivity via supreme preference by using veency (as touch slider is into upper part in supreme preference and my upper screen not working) but not get succeed yet… I’ve changed setting from 0 to 16 various mode but no success….

Can you help…. or suggest…

557 Chris // May 12, 2009 at 6:20 pm

one line on the top of my screen isnt working how do you fix that?

558 Prakash Chauhan // May 12, 2009 at 10:24 pm

Hi Chris, I am having similar problem what you’ve stat… read all my comments in this blog for the efforts I’ve put to resolve the dead strip problem… I’ve not get success yet !!!

Still crossing the finger and hoping for d best !!!

559 Angie // May 17, 2009 at 11:01 pm

Can someone reupload or post the files from Post number 404..there no longer available through those links

560 Prakash Chauhan // May 17, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Hi, Angie

which kind of prob you are facing with ur iPhone ?:??

561 Angie // May 17, 2009 at 11:43 pm

I have an iphone 2g 2.2.1 ….bottom of the screen doesnt work…cant use the space bar..numbers…only when in landscape does it work…Ive researched this forum and others and have tried many different replacements for the general.plist and even tried to add a touch.plist so far none are working. or even bringing up a touch sense bar in settings…

562 Prakash Chauhan // May 18, 2009 at 6:54 am

Mine is upper part not working and I am also waiting for resolution …

563 alcuemar // May 20, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Anybody has solved the problem with plist files?

Links from doesnt work, Can anyone send us new links?

Those links are not working.
http://www.4shared.com/file/81441798/28933439/Touch_by_markor.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/81441800/fcd6407f/General_by_markor.html

564 Prakash Chauhan // May 21, 2009 at 12:31 am

Hi Alcumar,

I’ve uploaded files into my mobile but its not wrking…

Well if u want to try it use below link :

http://rapidshare.com/files/235475216/Touch_Plist.zip

let me know whether it works for u….

565 alcuemar // May 21, 2009 at 9:37 am

Thanks Prakash Chauhan for files.

I have just tested and the touch continue wihout work. My fault is low dead strip and I have tested at least 3 o 4 different files.

Today I have tested the heat methode from post#450 by LeeH, and I have tested 4 times with a hug heat gun and doesn’t work too.

Any other idea about how to solve the low dead strip problem?

My iphone is 2G and I am not sure if it is profitable to change the LCD. It is really expensive.

Any new idea or suggestion will be really appreciated.

566 Angie // May 21, 2009 at 1:43 pm

There is something wrong with some of those files in the zipped folder you posted…the touch.plist and the general.plist are empty…they have a few text in them but its not like its suppose to be…

567 Prakash Chauhan // May 21, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Hi Alcuemar,I dont think so there will be any alternate method to resolve this prob… I am also suffering since long and tried many files for my upper layer dead strip.. well i cant live without iPhone and as screen replacement is so expensive I am waiting for the new iPhone release to buy…
Here i dont know how ppl had solved d problem by using this files… in some post they have mentioned this is working but dont know how…

Angie… files are working for other guys.. pls download one more time… I have again downloaded and updated into iPhone… its working normally… let me know still u r facing any challenges….

568 alcuemar // May 22, 2009 at 1:23 am

Anyone with Iphone repaired can send us the files used?

Thank in advance.

569 Angie // May 22, 2009 at 2:42 am

This is whats in the touch.plist file and is similar to whats in general.plist

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thats inaccurate compared to the original files..the touch file doesnt even have were you can edit sensitivity…..losing hope lol

570 LeeH // May 22, 2009 at 3:34 am

Angie, You need a .Plist editor to view and edit the files correctly. If you want I can edit and email you the new touch plist at whatever setting you want, Just let me know how you want it and an email addy. Also please don’t get your hopes up because all this does is expand the current working sensor area over the non working section so the screen is not anywhere close to being in sync with the icons. There is a way to recal the sensor area but I can’t find the system files responsible for the default screen calibration, It is going to be in a BIOS for you PC people or an Open Firmware for us Mac users type of program but to this point I have almost 3 months playing with it off and on and still no luck.

Lee

571 Angie // May 22, 2009 at 4:02 am

Thanks Lee, I thought it was ok to edit them in notepad..I know in other plist files I could open them in notepad and change the sensitivity from 0 to negative 15 or such…but I could be so wrong..also Im using Iphonebrowser to change replace the files…

I use a PC..have an Iphone 2g 2.2.1

my email is: yungabeats@gmail.com

Thanks again

572 alcuemar // May 22, 2009 at 4:04 am

Hello LeeH,

I was yesterday trying to heat the LCD to fix It but doesn’t work. Its a pity.

Your idea was very good, and thought he was a good solution to fix It.

The heat gun has turn on the fire system of the office. It was funny, I had the detector close to me.

Leeh, Any last idea to fix the low dead strip of my iphone 2G?

Did you post any video link for the heat system?

573 LeeH // May 22, 2009 at 5:10 am

alcuemar, LOL
I like the post on the fire system going off.
I have still been playing with the heating method, It worked great on the first few but then I had several it didn’t work on. When I set up to film it is when I started having the issues with it not working but I was able to fix one by heating it and using packing tape to lift the screen. I heated the screen until it was hot to the touch and then layed a piece of tape the full width and length of the screen and continually peeled the tape off and reapplied then started over until it had cooled off. The touch screen consists of a heat sensitive chemical that is monitored via electrical feedback to the logic board, I am still convinced the chemical used in the screen is compressed enough that voids form and cause areas to become unresponsive. There are numerous touch screens that use this tech and the fix is to reheat and allow the shielding to expand enough that the chemical is let to become uniform again.

574 alcuemar // May 22, 2009 at 9:56 am

I’m really tired with this subject.

I’m thinking in to buy a new LCD+digitizer and to change the wroken one.

It is expensive and very difficult to replace, but i will take this task like a hobby.

Anyone one know a cheaper seller of iphone 2G LCD+digitilizer?

575 Chris // May 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Okay is there a general.plist file that I can add to my iphone 2g that goes past o sensitivity like -5 or -10 to make it even more sensitive or no?
Someone contact me if they have a file like this and it works because i have a tiny dead strip on my iphone I can only not play some apps :/ so it sucks but thank you if you can figure this out.
Btw I need to know how to add it too. thanks-

576 Jake // May 23, 2009 at 7:22 pm

I have an Iphone 2G First Generation 8GB Jailbroken and Unlocked 2.2.1 Firmware.
Bought it used from Craigslist with no box, documentation, or accessories.

After dropping the phone in the rain on the wet concrete (no water damage indication) I had an unresponsive upper stripe and a small dent near the silencing switch.

Followed the Increased Sensitivity Fix with general.plist suggestions: Worked, but did not exactly return my Iphone back to normal

Followed the Setting up an Appointment with an Apple Genius suggestions: Received a New Refurbished Iphone (New Outer Shell) – Better condition than what I previously had.

577 Ashley // May 25, 2009 at 7:24 pm

i have an iphone 2g running 2.2.1 it is unlocked and jailbroken. i am trying to add the general.plist but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything, do i have to get a earlier version then 2.2.1 for this to work? because nothing appears. i was in another forum and this guy was talking about how he did it running 2.2.1. but it wasnt descriptive enough. where do i put general.plist i have been using cyberduck to ssh and in my preferences i just added it and it did nothing. i need help please i bought this phone from someone not knowing anything was wrong with it but i am hoping that this will help.

578 hui // May 26, 2009 at 12:44 am

How can i do this on a windows platform?
i have a dead 1st row and my warranty has expired.
Can someone advise pls?

thanks

579 mudi // May 26, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Well, I have tried some, my thing is in negative 20, and now second row wokrs, guess what. Third dont. And If I click the numbers presses the number below that, like it needs calibrate.

PLEASE, new links and instructions

580 sadiphoner // May 28, 2009 at 10:48 am

How am i supposed to slide the sensitivty bar when my top part of the iphone doesnt respond?

581 Allan // May 29, 2009 at 3:40 pm

I have the lower dead strip on my G2 v2.2.1. with jail break.
I would like to change the general.plist file, but
I can´t find a applications-folder in the root of my phone. I use iBrickr 0.91 to browse the folders in my phone.
Can anybody help me ?

582 Allan // May 29, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Hello everybody
I finally fixed my lower dead stribe-problem.
I used Iphone tunnel suite 2.7 to browse the iphone without wifi. It seems to me that the “aplications” in the root is not a folder, but a shortcut to another path where the generalplist could be found.
I could not activate this shortcut with iBrickr, but with IP tunnel suite 2.7 it was possible.
After replacing the general plist and restarting the phone i could adjust the sensitivity, and now the phone is OK!!

583 Prakash Chauhan // May 31, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Hi Allan,

What level of sensitivity u’ve configured on your iPhone….

I believe this dead strip problem is hardware problem and it cant be resolved…. let me know if you’ve got ur iphone working normally….

584 Jimmie // Jun 1, 2009 at 6:33 am

Hello i just got my handas on a iphone 2g 8GB
and it have a problem whit the screan the lower part dosent want to work on the tutch my eng sux so i honer if maby som one can help me if i dont get it fixt i will ned to sel it agen i rly want one =/ send me a email at made_in_sweden_@hotmail.com

585 guideandseek // Jun 1, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Jake–that’s terrific. Did you virginize or restore your iphone to factory settings?

586 Shaun // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:51 pm

I got the dead strip and I went to the Apple Store in CA near me and the genius bar guy said my iPhone was out of warranty and that I was to pay $200 for a new replacement 2G. I don’t know how all these other people just walk in and get it replaced with no questions asked. Luck?

Thankfully I used the Touch method to adjust the sensitivity so for now I’m safe but I’d still like to know how I got screwed by Apple haha

587 Prakash Chauhan // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Hey Shaun,

Did u fix the problem of dead strip??? if yes which value you;ve set for sensitivity !!!

588 Michael // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Hi everybody!
I have modified the sensitivity of my iPhone (2g) with the slider of Supreme Preferences.
The basic iPhone applications (like sms, safari, ipod) work great. I have some problems with some 3rd part applications (the ones from appstore or cydia).
Is the sensitivity “global” for all the applications or the 3d part application developer can overwrite it?

589 eric // Jun 4, 2009 at 2:50 pm

I replaced the digitizer/screen on my 2g phone as the lower strip was dead.
The phone worked well for about a month then the same problem resurfaced, which would suggest to me that maybe there a more serious problem some where in the depths of the rotten apple’s hardware!

590 guideandseek // Jun 4, 2009 at 6:45 pm

I tried the take it to the Apple Store and they said for $199 they’ll give me a refurbished out of warranty replacement.

I would try following some of the suggestions above if 1. I knew how to get into my phone without being able to slide the slider on the bottom to do any of the adjustments. Do I understand that it’s possible to control my iphone from the computer even if I can’t slide to open? Please help me!! I kind of get a kick out of problem solving these tech things but I have no idea what to do and what a lot of the words and terms being thrown about refer to. Help!

591 goyalvimal // Jun 13, 2009 at 3:52 am

ffmusicdj @526 : I found this comment very useful, had a problem of low dead strip, was able to fix it through the suggested method. Thanks.

592 Touch Screen Fix? - Hackint0sh // Jun 17, 2009 at 10:41 pm

[...] on bottom touch pad. Ever since 2.0, I have been able to apply the following patches to fix it: iPhone Touchscreen Fix: Increase Sensitivity Is there any possibility I will be able to reupload these patches once 3.0 is jailbroken? I [...]

593 javier // Jun 18, 2009 at 5:42 am

Hi: i have an iphone 2g running 2.2.1 it is unlocked and jailbroken. The problem is that the bottom of my iPhone touchscreen doesn’t work and i can’t select numbers, space or done on my keyboard. I’ve tried replacing General.plist as Allan explain in 578, but it doesn’t resolve my problem. Would be sufficient for me if I could change the location of the upper status bar (battery status, time and operator), moving it from the top of the screen to the bottom. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.

594 Prakash Chauhan // Jun 18, 2009 at 6:45 am

Hi javier, I believe it wont be possible… to move dead strip… or else it will resolve problem on full screen…

595 Jay // Jun 19, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Anyone tried this fix on a iPhone (1st gen) running the 3.0 firmware? I am scared seeing as I have it working now.

596 8GB // Jun 19, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Really… you have it working Jay? How… send me your file.

597 J-Slaw // Jun 19, 2009 at 4:22 pm

I just got this problem…dead bottom strip. Upgraded to 3.0, tried most solutions, and I’m wondering if dicking around with the plist actually does anything before I try it.

598 8GB // Jun 19, 2009 at 5:12 pm

if anything … let me know J-Slaw.

599 toyshy // Jun 19, 2009 at 7:04 pm

2G iphone updated, confirmed that both the modified general.plist and touch plist files works on fw3.0.

google for diskaid, to port the two files over.

p.s. latest version of diskaid is no longer free, trial for only 14 days.

600 Jay // Jun 19, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Coolness, so I had everything set up on fw 2.1.x somthing… anyway created a backup with Itunes…
Then I updated to a “custom” ipsw. 3.0 but dead strip at bottom.
Then restored the 2.1 backup. It retained all my touch settings after the restore!!!!
Read up, this a great wealth of info everyone has put together here. PC – iphonebrowser is how I did it.

601 8GB // Jun 20, 2009 at 5:57 am

sweet… so it will work and the screen sensitive will work on now? How you do it?

602 Rob // Jun 21, 2009 at 3:04 am

There’s a software on CYDIA called ’supreme preferences’. This includes the sensitivity bar, so you don’t need to start messing around with SSH

It requires Winterboard, so install both and your sorted

603 Indigo // Jun 21, 2009 at 11:26 am

Hi, First of all – THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS POST!! I wasted 2 days trying to solve this stupid issue (on 2.2.1).
now i would like to upgrade to 3.0.
Will the changes on General.plist will do the trick on 3.0 as well? does ’supreme preferences’ works on 3.0?

604 Rob // Jun 21, 2009 at 11:33 am

I didn’t bother with General.plist, I just installed both Winterboard and Supreme Preferences from Cydia. I then went onto Settings and then found Sensitivity in that menu and changed it to 0 which fixed the issue

605 3.0 // Jun 21, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Any way to make this work on 3.0?

606 Rob // Jun 22, 2009 at 2:17 am

Install ‘Winterboard’ and then ‘Supreme Preferences’ from Cydia

607 Neil // Jun 22, 2009 at 3:47 am

Hi Guys,

I took the links above for the 1.1.4 general and touch files and installed them both via winscp.

This brings up the touch option in your settings. I tried various combinations but it seems like 3.5 is the best setting. This has allowed me to use all buttons perfectly and the only slight change is that you need to push down harder on the space bar to get a space.

That aside its perfect but who knows how long it will last???

608 Colleen // Jun 22, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Can someone tell me how to install? It may be in the post but the post has 602 replies.

I have the 8GB iphone. It has never been hacked or anything. The bottom row is not working and AT&T won’t replace.

At this point I have nothing to lose, can someone tell or direct me to a step by step on how to get in and replace the files that are suggested?

609 guideandseek // Jun 22, 2009 at 1:24 pm

will someone PLEASE help me figure out how to get into my iphone if the bottom slider is not responsive? is there a patch or download or something that allows me to work on it from my mac? Please–I’m very ignorant about these things and would so much appreciate a step by step walk through. thanks

610 Colleen // Jun 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm

same as above except I don’t have a MAC. I would be forever grateful as I do miss my iphone

611 Indigo // Jun 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Hi, just installed 3.0 with Winterboard and Supreme Preferences, the problem is that i cannot choose screen sensitivity lower than 0 (zero).
On 2.2.1 I had it working good on value -3.5
any clue?

612 Indigo // Jun 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm

ok, I the Touch section to the General.plist, removed the Supreme Preferences and i can see the Touch property under “General”.

613 circ // Jun 22, 2009 at 10:05 pm

anyone fix this on a 3.0 firmware system yet? I can’t seem to locate the settings/files in this version so I think it’s all been changed…

614 Kat // Jun 23, 2009 at 4:06 am

I have a jailbroken and unlocked 2G iPhone. I used to have that dead bottom keyboard problem where you can’t press numbers, space and return. Well guess what… 3.0 update fixed it! I’m sooo happy.

I jailbroke and unlocked using redsn0w. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

615 javier // Jun 23, 2009 at 6:06 am

To Indigo: What means “ok, I the Touch section to the General.plist”? You have removed the Supreme Preferences completely and then modify the General.plist? Or you have modified Touch.plist? Before or after remove the Supreme Preferences? Thanks

616 Jonny // Jun 23, 2009 at 12:49 pm

OMG!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

YOU JUST SAVED ME $200

my ZXCVBM buttons wern’t working.

Thank you so much!

617 Chris // Jun 23, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Hey I’m still not updated to 3.0?
anyone know if i update it, can i jailbreak it again somehow?
my iphones jailbroken and im with tmobile so i need it that way.
also its a iphone 2g.

618 Prakash Chauhan // Jun 23, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Anybody having upper strip problem??? on dial pad mine 4,5 & 6 are not working and on touch screen my second icon row not working…

619 Jake // Jun 24, 2009 at 12:29 pm

Hey guys, what do you do if your slider bar isn’t functioning? Is there any way to bypass the slider bar screen to get into the apps? It’s the entire bottom 1/3 of my iphone that is dead. I upgraded to 3.0 and jailbroke with Redsn0w. The only problem is I can’t get into my phone to change the touch screen sensitivity. Any tips or tricks to get by it would be very helpful. Thanks again for all the info posted.

620 Chris // Jun 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm

I need help right away my iphones stuck on a screenthat says connect to itunes idk what to do?
Ive tried restoring it again but says I need another actaul at&tsim? and im with tmobile so idk.
Thanks

621 LeeH // Jun 24, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Heres a tut I did for someone using the Touch.plist method.
Here is the best way to do it, Go download QuickPwn and iPhoneBrowser.
A. Jailbreak your iPhone using QuickPwn.
B. Connect your iPhone to your PC and open iPhoneBrowser.
C. Navigate from root — applications — preferences.app and find general.plist.
D. Delete general.plist and replace it with the one you downloaded.
E. Now drag and drop Touch.plist anywhere in the window.
F. On your iPhone go to settings — general and you will see the slider at the top of the screen.
G. Adjust a little at a time until you can access the lower icons without causing major issues with the upper rows.
The fix isn’t really a fix but more of a band-aid so expect some issues with finger placement on the screen.

622 Jake // Jun 24, 2009 at 4:51 pm

Hey Chris, updating to 3.0, you can still jailbreak your phone. Just use redsnow. Also, I still can’t access my settings due to the inability to use the lower half of my screen, which includes my slider bar. Anybody have a fix, or a pre loaded touch setting to the general.plist that would automatically make the sensitivity the highest it can go. Any help would be greatly appreciated guys. Thanks again.

623 Limited Edition iPhone // Jun 25, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Hey guys please email me if you have a working solution for 3.0 and I will post it on the site for everyone.

624 Machoglia // Jun 26, 2009 at 1:30 pm

I used iphonebrowser to install the files without ever touching my iphone!!! I use 2.2.1 it runs smooth

Any luck with 3.0??

625 SteveMcQ68 // Jun 27, 2009 at 5:17 pm

I loaded 3.0 on my 2G phone…used redsnOw to unlock it…downloaded iphonebrowser and also the 1.1.1 Firmware General.plist…I replaced the 3.0 file with the 1.1.1 file and it worked fine.

626 Colleen // Jun 29, 2009 at 12:30 pm

For those that are still having problems. This may or may not help. I was actually able to get my phone replaced.

I took it into an Apple store near work, they restored it (I had already done that) said I would have to pay the $199 to get a replacement. I told them this was a common problem which they disagreed with.

Not at all happy I tried all the above posts to get the sensativity back, it worked some but not enough. So I restored the phone once more made an appointment with the Genius Bar at the Apple near my home.

My warranty was out as of June 2008. I crossed my fingers and went to my appointment. (I did have a copy of the article on apple.com saying to bring you phone in even if it was out of warranty).

The guy said he had to check my serial number. There was a batch of certain serial numbers that fall under the “must be replaced” issue and mine happen to be one of them. So I walked out with a replacement iphone (the original) on June 27, 2009.

627 Kat // Jun 29, 2009 at 11:41 pm

@Colleen

Could you please link the article on apple.com? Thank you!

628 Tamer Elnady // Jun 30, 2009 at 2:24 am

same problem, i have a 2g iphone and i did the upgrade to the 3.0 i dont know if i can SSH my 3.0 OS, to do the general.plist thing, somthing i want to know do i just have to change the file by delete the old one, and someone here used the 1.1.1 f.w. too with the 3.0 OS, what i can do now im waiting, i switched off my mobile yesrterday after i did a restore ill but nothing happened, ill wait for 2 days and try i saw the in the youtube,

629 Colleen // Jun 30, 2009 at 4:41 am

@Kat

Here you go!

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1827?viewlocale=en_US

My paper from apple that they gave me when they gave me the new phone says

Proposed Resolution: CS Code matrix calls for repair coverage.

Just in case that helps anyone.

630 toyshy // Jun 30, 2009 at 6:11 am

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/

631 Niall M // Jun 30, 2009 at 5:25 pm

I had a problem with the lower strip, only on safari and sms which I previously fixed on 1.1.4, but after upgraing to 3 the problem returned, tried the touch settings with Supreme Preferences but didnt work so I turned it off and used the new files from Toyshy in previous post and its working again. thanks a lot for posting the new files.

632 Kat // Jun 30, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Update:
I just got back from the Apple store and they are replacing my iPhone (original) with a new one. Yay!

Everyone you need to try and go to the Apple store to get your 2G replaced. Have them check the serial number and see if it falls under the ‘must be replaced’ category. I think they’re getting rid of 2Gs and replacing everyone’s broken phone.

@Colleen

Thank you so much for sharing your story! Really appreciate it.

633 toyshy // Jun 30, 2009 at 10:57 pm

You are most welcome, Niall M.

A little note to the 2G iPhone users, the old modified plist files will still fix the touchscreen issue, but you will lose some of the new toggles found on 3.0

The updated files should work on 3G iPhone too, but I am pretty sure there are some toggles found on 3G iPhone’s general.plist, that isnt on the 2G iPhone. It would be great if someone using a 3G iPhone, shares their modified plist files here as well.

Godspeed.

634 Tamer El Nady // Jul 1, 2009 at 12:35 am

Thank you Toyshy i will try the new files, but what you mean by “you will lose some of the new toggles found on 3.0″ what will stop,and is that mean when ill go to the next os 3.1 i will back to the dead strip again? or even when i restore once again?
i will open my iphone tonight after closing it for 48 hours if it didnt work i will try your files, but still want to know if i can SSH my 3.0 i did it in the 1.1.4 before is it the same? can you guys post a link for SSH the 3.0 in 2g iphone
good luck for all ppl in here

635 toyshy // Jul 1, 2009 at 1:06 am

I meant the old general.plist files (those modified from pre-3.0 firmwares) doesnt have some of the new settings toggle switches found on 3.0. E.g. Home, Restrictions, etc.

The updated general.plist, which I modified from the default 3.0 general.plist, basically added a ‘Touch’ toggle switch on the very top and leaving the rest of the toggle switches untouched.

There is no reason why the updated plist files wont work on 3.1. But I am not sure if there will be any new toggle switches on 3.1’s general.plist. If there are, will update accordingly then.

Some might have problem accessing OpenSSH in the first place, due to the touchscreen issues. Hence, I suggested using Diskaid instead.
http://www.digidna.net/diskaid

Godspeed.

636 Tamer El Nady // Jul 1, 2009 at 7:52 am

Thankyou again ill try the link now but there is somthing my upper half dont work and you said in the verey top!!

637 Ivan // Jul 1, 2009 at 8:08 am

hi there can some one tell me why when i change the sensitivity setting my phone goes in to an endless reboot loop and how can i fix it , or do i have to restore the phone , but how can i get the touch menu with out my phone crashing like this is there any fix to this thanks

638 Tamer El Nady // Jul 1, 2009 at 9:17 am

its not that easy i ont know where to set the sensitvity

639 Limited Edition iPhone // Jul 1, 2009 at 10:41 am

Comment from toyshy that got deleted:
Tamer El Nady, I updated the modified plist files for dead upper strip. Hope they work for you!

General.plist
http://www.zshare.net/download/620926908b2b46a2/

Touch.plist
http://www.zshare.net/download/6209277633a45735/

Ivan, what firmware are you on? And how did you changed your touchscreen sensitivity? Via Supreme Preferences?

640 Tamer El Nady // Jul 1, 2009 at 11:20 am

ok i got touch in my list and i can change and i just feel change in the touch sens. i dont know how to ajust it i did 10, 16, and -3, -10 still nothing !!! i did reboot 10000 times
show touch bottn is ON and test all off and dwon
toyshy u r great but the trick didnt work ((((

641 toyshy // Jul 1, 2009 at 11:55 am

Tamer El Nady, mine was set at -22, before my lower dead strip starts working again.

And there is no need to reboot phone for the adjustment to take effect.

642 Indigo // Jul 2, 2009 at 12:51 pm

To Javier: As far as i remember i removed the supreme preferences and added the section of the touch to the General.plist (copied it from the 2.2.1 Genral.plist posted on this site), the Touch.plist was already exist (probably from the supreme preferences installation), anyway I just installed Errica Utils and converted the Touch.plist to XML using ‘plutil’ changes the 0.0 value to -10.0 and convereted back to binary, reboot and walla.
hope that helps.

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