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Something wrong with phone screen

Liutauriux
By Liutauriux
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So I have a 5.5 yrs old Poco F1 (old xiaomi phone), and recently it has started acting up. Sometimes the screen becomes unresponsive for 10–20 seconds, or it starts doing a bunch of taps and drags, mostly at the top of the screen and all over. Locking and unlocking the screen always fixes this problem instantly (at least for a bit). I have been running Lineage OS on the phone for about a year and have never had similar problems, and I can't think of anything that could've caused this. The screen isn't cracked, phone isn't bent, no visible damage. Can someone help me get a diagnosis here?

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my guesses are something went wrong with the screen internal and causes the phone to detect presses on the place it shouldn't be. if you can maybe tried reset the phone and see if it fixed if not then maybe try replacing the display. where im from usually the store would be ok with you asking them to change test different display to see if it worked or not and only pay if you get the display replaced.

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Sounds like moisture in the display.  Take the device outside into full firect sunlight with no clouds.  Let the sun bake the screen for at least an hour, and check for humidity on condensation on the display.

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