Ghost in my Machine

[asp1981]

Greetings,

Today my Incredible started swiping to the left without my touching the screen. It also seems to register "ghost" presses in other menus as well. Has anyone encountered this? Thank you for your help!

 

[rugbyua9]

Greetings,

Today my Incredible started swiping to the left without my touching the screen. It also seems to register "ghost" presses in other menus as well. Has anyone encountered this? Thank you for your help!

Problem with the trackpad. My Incredible I bought at release had that problem. I sent it back and got it swapped with another one. No problems here after I got rid of that one.

 

[bigdds]

just move the track ball around for a second and it will stop

 

[crump13]

Greetings,

Today my Incredible started swiping to the left without my touching the screen. It also seems to register "ghost" presses in other menus as well. Has anyone encountered this? Thank you for your help!

Mine did that a while back and all I had to do was clean the optical track button and it fixed it. I must have had something on my finger when I touched it (I was eating fries so it was probably grease) caused it to continue moving the screen to the right.

 

[rugbyua9]

Mine did that a while back and all I had to do was clean the optical track button and it fixed it. I must have had something on my finger when I touched it (I was eating fries so it was probably grease) caused it to continue moving the screen to the right.

I don't know. I cleaned mine everytime and the problem would just come back. It happened everyday for about 3 weeks until I couldnt take it anymore. Since i've received my replacement Incredible there has been no problem like that. Could be coincidence, but going from that exact problem everyday (multiple times a day) to it not even happening once on my new phone doesn't seem like a coincidence. Though it could have been my individual phone, who knows. Just my experience.

 

[coronaboy10]

Mine did that too yesterday for about 30 min. I cleared my text messages and it hasnt done it since. Whats strange is I only had texts from one person and only about 10-15. I was under the impression there had to be a huge amount residing in there for that to happen. I didnt have very many I assume that's either not the case or my issue was something else. It hasnt happened since I did that yet...

 

[asp1981]

Exorcism

Thanks everyone, especially BigDDS. I simply stimulated the track ball a little and voila, it has not come back.

 

[fillossofer]

I also had that problem a few days ago and played with the track pad a little and it hasn't come back since. FWIW, alcohol swabs make a great cleaner for the track pad.

 

[Qazme]

Mine did that a while back and all I had to do was clean the optical track button and it fixed it. I must have had something on my finger when I touched it (I was eating fries so it was probably grease) caused it to continue moving the screen to the right.

Exactly what I did. Mine freaked out on occasion when I first got it. Now when I clean the screen I clean the trackball (optical joystick) too and haven't had the issue since.

 

[Hardcase]

My Droid 2 has the same issues. It goes wacky with the machine auto selecting items. It moves around the unlock screen, selects programs at random, starts typing with the onscreen keyboard, even deletes emails. It appears to be random ghost selections. It lasted for about an hour or so today. Right now, the ghost seems to be in hiding and all is back to normal.