hey all.
3GS 16gb black about 2 weeks old.. working perfectly since new until tonight. went to footy training, came back and the screen suddenly doesn't respond to touch very well. took about 10 minutes to unlock it as i couldn't put in my passcode.. turning it off for 10 minutes (incase it was hot) didn't work either..
Finally got it unlocked and it was going haywire.. tried to write sms and it was acting as if i was mashing all the screen at once (it very quickly wrote about 10 lines of garbage).

I have plugged it into itunes and restored fresh, and its still doing it!
anyone had the same??


i take it my screen is a dud, and will need replacing - however my colleague today tried to get a 3GS through optus who said they have no stock for another month (!!!) and in a month i go to new york for 3 weeks..

i guess posting here won't help much.. but it's just venting... so angry right now!

thanks! good idea i didn't realise i could call apple, thought it would have to go back through optus! i'll call tomorrow - thanks mate

Not sure if you've got your phone sorted yet or not. My 3G had a camera issue a couple of months back (any photo's appeared pink and green) so I took it straight to the Apple store in Sydney city, and they replaced it within about 10 minutes. (It was still under warranty)

Anyway, I gave my 3G to my gf, and got the new 3GS for myself. I'm loving it for the most part. However for the past week or so, the screen seems to be playing up. Any applications on the right hand side cannot be launched - if you try to launch them, then the active desktop slides to the previous one. You can rearrange the apps to your hearts content, but whatever is on the right hand edge can't be launched. It's also getting progressively worse.

So I'll see how it goes taking this in to the Apple store. Could be interesting.

Talk to Apple - they have a service where they will send you a new phone and you send the old one back when you get the new one - eg an exchange program