Are you one of the many people who is having problems with your touchscreen on the iPhone? Hack you hacked your iPhone, unlocked your iPhone, or a non AT&T customer? Now that Apple’s warranty requires you to have an AT&T phone number to get your iPhone replaced or repaired, how do you fix your touchscreen problem?
There are a few options for you at the moment. You can purchase replacement parts, virginize your iPhone and try to return it, or modify your phone even more to try and fix the problem.If you are experiencing a touchscreen issue you can edit the sensitivity of your touch screen to make your iPhone more responsive. You simply need to replace your general.plist file with a modified version found here:
UPDATED:
Modified General.plist and Touch.plist,
updated for FW3.0, tested and working on 2G iPhone.
http://www.zshare.net/download/61836600ca79e240/
http://www.zshare.net/download/618365907ed6a23c/
Placed under:
/var/stash/Applications/Preferences.app/
You will need to overwrite your general.plist located in Applications/preferences.app
The default sensitivity on the iPhone’s touchscreen is 3.5. You have the option to set it from 0-16, where 0 is the most sensitive. Recently I have had a few issues with my touchscreen and applied this modification and everything is working 10x better.
This hack may work for the majority of iPhone users, but there may be a few that will need to replace their LCD completely.
You add the code below to the General.plist:
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSLinkCell</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Touch</string>
</dict>
Yost edited the General.plist file, for people who have a dead strip on the top of the screen, so that the touch option is now on the bottom right under “reset” under pref>general>touch.
(take out the “.” in the link in “rapid”)
heres the link to download it if you have a upper dead strip:
http://ra.pidshare.com/files/7620461…ral.plist.html
1.0.2 firmware General.plist for low dead strip:
http://ra.pidshare.com/files/6058341…ral.plist.html
1.1.1 firmware General.plist for low dead strip:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Can you possibly give step-by-step directions?
i am confused but i need this done to my iphone.
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
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.
article 160 works
i just did it, and everything result ok.
i set the touchscreen on 0.5 and its working just fine!!!
thanks
See article 494.
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.
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?
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.
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!!!!!!
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
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.
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.
I tried the hair dryer to no avail. LeeH, any tips? Video?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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/â€
– 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.
Hello ffmusicdj.
How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock? Regards Louis Carter
Hello ffmusicdj.
How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock touchscreen? Regards Louis Carter
Hello ffmusicdj.
How are we supposed to run cydia if we cant unlock touchscreen?
Regards Louis Carter
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.
Still no solution for the problem with having to press a little above everything after “fixing” the screen?
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.
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
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)
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.
Try reading through this blog. Post #272 did the trick for me, you lazy person.
Yay i got it. but whats the best 0 or 16? 🙂
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
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?
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.
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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!!!!!
I i have a first gen 2.2.1 and dont know how to instal to fix the problem can you help?
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..
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.
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…
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