Unresponsive touchscreen?

[hiredgun]

Hey gang, back in August I bought a Chinese S5 clone called Kingelon G9000 i9600 S5 Android Smart Phone (5.2'' FHD Screen MTK6592 Octa Core 2GB RAM 16GB ROM Dual Camera 13MP) that up till now hasn't given my any problems at all. However, the last few weeks the touch screen has stared to give me a lot of problems. Principally when I try and trace the unlock pattern the phone just doesn't respond at all. It varies from a low of two tries to up to twenty or more. The screen is just "dead" as it were, I trace and it doesn't react at all to my finger! It's really starting to get annoying because it's starting to cause me to miss calls and all because I simply can't unlock the screen when I need to. It's not always, but getting is certainly happening enough to be a real problem now for sure. I did a factory reset but that didn't help, and tried to use a pin instead of a pattern to see if tapping would help instead of swyping, but the screen still stayed unresponsive. Once I unlock the phone the screen works perfectly normal the whole time I am using it. It's only when I turn the screen off and then back on does it get unresponsive. I've tried with NO security pattern at all and it still stays unresponsive when the screen is turned off and then back on. In theory it has a year guarantee, but I'm not thrilled about trying to send it back to China to have it repaired. Any help would really be appreciated as it is really starting to become a problem with missing calls.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Do you have any local repair shops? Even for computers? They might be able to help you out.

 

[hiredgun]

Do you have any local repair shops? Even for computers? They might be able to help you out.

Got a ton of them and that would certainly be an option before sending it back to China, but I'd like to give it "the good old college try" before just taking it in and having it fixed!!

 

[Golfdriver97]

Has it always been this way? It may be an error in the software, too.

From an AOSP M8.

 

[hiredgun]

Has it always been this way? It may be an error in the software, too.

From an AOSP M8.

Worked fine for four months, just started doing this the last few weeks. I thought it could be software too, but who wants to take a chance rooting one of these Chinese clones??????

 

[Golfdriver97]

Worked fine for four months, just started doing this the last few weeks. I thought it could be software too, but who wants to take a chance rooting one of these Chinese clones??????

Good point, but also, finding stock ROMs can be a pain too. Have you tried a reset?

 

[hiredgun]

Tried on factory reset and the phone didn't get any better at all. Just got up and turned it on before work and it is working fine at the moment. It normally takes a while for it to start acting up. Maybe it's a app that I have installed that causes it to run laggy and that could be causing the screen to get stuck????