Screen not working and shaking - - at times

[hazelgreen]

For two days my X has been acting crazy. If I try to swipe screens, it will just shake back and forth. Most times the screen won't even respond. Or if it does, it chooses a completely different icon or letter than I was pressing. I had to continually pull the battery which helped for maybe 5 minutes, then it would go back to shaking and/or not responding. The physical buttons on the bottom work though.I ended up doing a factory reset, which has helped a little bit - - I turn it off via the top botton and then turn right back on and the screen works again.

Is this a hardware issue? Could it be the battery? Since the factory reset, it has also drained the battery like crazy. It was charged overnight to 100 percent and by the time I got to work at 8:30 it was 30 percent, and then it was dead by lunchtime. It's never drained that fast. Thought about getting a BH5X battery from amazon, but I'm curious to see if others have had this issue, and if it's fixable.

 

[Doit2it]

Are you running a market launcher or the stock blur launcher? Might try another launcher to see if it's a software issue. ADW / Go / Launcher Pro
If it's not software, it sounds like a digitizer issue. Replace the phone or replace the digitizer are the only options for that.

It's probably not the battery. Many people have been having shorter battery life. The BH5X is almost 2 years old. That's nearing End of Life for almost any rechargeable battery. Mine has gone from about 20 hours a day to about 14, and I'm a light user. If you are keeping the DX for a while, I would definitely replace the battery. Be sure to buy a Motorla battery and not an aftermarket clone. I have 2 of those and while they both work in the phone, one won't charge in the phone and neither report their status to the phone (I have a big X in the battery icon when used).

If you are rooted with CWM, you can reset the battery stats to see if that helps.