Touch Screen Registering Phantom Touches

Exactly what the ghost presses will do varies from device to device but it seems to be more common in some devices than others.

Touch screen registering phantom touches. I had to stop using it for my work aas it was too frustrating to try to do anything with the screen constantly doing phantom touches. Device manager reports that the touch screen is working properly. After about 5 minutes with the screen on it will not accept anymore touch input. Samsung galaxy tab 4 7 0.

There isn t any screen damage and i ve always had it in a case. It often gets touch input by itself at the left side of the screen. Windows update will update the hardware drivers. Several touches register per second.

Second get a thin blade and lightly run it around the screen where the touch meets the plastic metal casing. Identifies the screen touch as aninput option. Ghost touch or touch glitches are the terms used when your screen responds to presses that you re not actually making or when there s a section of your phone screen that s completely unresponsive to your touch. In the device manager right click on the hid compliant touchscreen and select properties.

Your surface 3 device intermittently experiences phantom ghost touch input on the left side of the screen. There are occasions where it totally spazzes out and i can t do anything on my screen until i lock it and unlock it. This input may disrupt running applications or interfere with your ability to use the device. Yesterday afternoon 12 8 18 it started randomly clicking around the top portion of the screen.

To achieve good touch calibration make sure that the surface pro 4 or surface book device meets the following conditions before you run the touch calibration tool. When rotating the device so that the windows button is at the top the points registering the phantom touches remain at the same physical points on the device so they are then at the top of the display. If it is a driver update that causes the ghost touch screen or touch screen not working you should try to roll back to the default. Recently i found that my surface randomly registers touch input by itself phantom touches.

The device may experience only a few random touches on the left side of the screen and then function correctly for some time. Third if you can get to calibrate the screen do so. Here are all related issues that i found. Fluorescent lighting or other bright lighting is not pointed directly at the device screen.

This is the thrid problem with this computer i had to rpeplace a chip for internet access the keyboeard does not register all of the letters i tyoe and now this. Sometimes it does it and other times it doesn t.