Iphone 2g - bottom part of screen is not responding

[Crystal-RX]

Hello. I am newbie here. I have a 2g 4gig iphone with v.2.0.2 software on it. When I turn the phone on, the bottom part appear to tell me to slide for emergency call. i tried to do it but it not respond. However, when I hit the powern button, the upper part asks me to slide to turn off the phone which I did and it did response to my command.

So, does anyone of you know what happen to this phone? is there a fix for it?

Thank you!

 

[dissdnt]

Weird. Honestly you should take it to the Apple store. If they can recreate the issue they'll replace the phone for you for free.

Work it!

 

[Crystal-RX]

The problem is that I do not have an account with AT&T. This phone is a hand me down from a friend of mine. I did search the web and there were so many people having similar problem but no solution. I was hoping that someone from this forum has a solution to fix it.

 

[petermcphee]

My friend had a 2g hand-me-down iPhone that had the same problem. He took it to the Apple store and they replaced it. This was about 6 months ago, and I believe the phone was more than 1 year old.

 

[Crystal-RX]

Really? even if you don't have AT&T account and the phone's seen like to beat up. They will replace it for free.

 

[Dmac77]

Really? even if you don't have AT&T account and the phone's seen like to beat up. They will replace it for free.

Not if it's beat up. That's just bad business.

Don

 

[Eso]

The problem is that I do not have an account with AT&T. This phone is a hand me down from a friend of mine. I did search the web and there were so many people having similar problem but no solution. I was hoping that someone from this forum has a solution to fix it.

Mine had this same problem after I dropped it about 1 foot onto the floor (it was in an unbuttoned shirt pocket and slipped out when I knelt to pick something up, d'oh). I took it into the Apple store, and the tech spent about 45 mintues doing diagnostic stuff - restarting, restoring to factory settings, before replacing it outright. I am convinced it is a physical problem.

Of course, you say you don't have AT&T, so the phone is unlocked? I'm pretty sure that voids your warranty, so the Genius may not do a damn thing. Oh yeah, and if it is has been more than a year since it was first purchased the warranty has expired anyways.

Good luck, but I think you'll be shopping ebay in the near future.