Touch screen not responding?

Just happened to me yesterday. I couldn't enter a text field in G-Mail. I had to shut down and restart.

Dan

Same problem. I've got my new ipod touch since 9 october and when I was searching on safari or browsing webs, suddenly touch buttons not responding, only works the menu button. I need to "block" the touch and then start again but in minutes the problem persists. I only have uploaded to my touch some purchased songs and I don't know what to do. Maybe a Technical Service? Near my officce in Barcelona there's an apple S.A.T.

I don't know really what week is my ipod. I think this mistakes Apple will loose millions of customers.

DESI

I have a week 36 IPT, 16 gig, and also have the problem with the touch screen not responding much of the time. I did update the software, but no change in this problem. The slide to unlock always works. The problem is with the volume bar, the location bar (for videos and for volume), and also when I go into videos, I have to touch the video I want to see quite a few times until the "click" actually registers.

Perhaps this is a software issue that hasn't been fixed yet. I hope this does get fixed soon, because it is quite annoying.

my ipod touch has been frozen since y'day afternoon! ive reset it and restored it too many times and i still can never get it to unlock..i'm taking it back to currys tomorrow..am just fed up with it 😟

thats horrible that so many of you spent hundreds of dollars on these things and they dont even work properly...i would be livid....glad mine works fine...

It may be a hardware problem. I 've already requested a replacement. A lot of iphones also have this problem after two months use.

Same problem, bought it 2 days ago, it seems like the second to last row is the most unresponsive. Sometimes when i click the second to last row, the last row is selected. This creates a problem when selecting my last artist (poor zz top) and also when using the keyboard

i've finally arranged to see a apple genius tomorrow morning in sheffield (: i'm hoping i get a new replacement tomorrow..am not liking my ipod shuffle, which i bought two days ago as back up in case my future touch messes up!

i think i know what is wrong with the week 38 ipods... i got one about a week ago and i noticed the screen became unresponsive to touches at randome times, it seemed ok when i turned it on after a break but then after a while of use, it became unresponsive. I think it is due to the processor over heating. my hand is placed around the back of the ipod when i use it and it can become quite warm. along with the heat it already generates, it seems that this is causing the problem. i left it to cool for a while and then it worked fine again... its definatly a defect of the week 38 ipods and i hope apple reads this because this forum prooves that this problem is definatly a major issue and many apple fans are very concerned. so FIX IT SOON!!!

The apple does not read this forums, but you can leave your feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html as for mine, I have not encountered this problem. and I do have a week 39, but returning it and getting a 16 GB. and Hoping that it will be a week 40 +

Hello people,

New to the forum but not to Ipod so go easy on me. I have had the problem too with the touch scree being unresponsive however after 30 mins of playing with my Ipod Touch over lunch I have found a pattern.... well at least on my device.
If I have tunes playing then open the browser I have real problem scrolling around pages and the keyboard is very poor ! But if I reset and just fire up the browser everything work as it sould. The more I tried running music and using the touch screen at the same time the worse it got, even more so when switching back and forth between the landscape and portrait modes.
This would lead me to think this may be a fixable problem, I stress may as i'm not making any fact based claims here. ;o)
Give it a try and let me know....

yay..i got my new ipod touch today thanks to apple! went to the store in sheffield and he checked it and then gave me a new one which is a week 37 one but it works absolutely fine 🙂

I have this problem, too. New unit, fresh out of the box. Sometimes it just stops responding to touches. No particular pattern I can detect - just random. Sometimes it recovers after a few 10s of seconds, but mostly only a sleep/wake cycle will get it going again. The alpha keyboard also seems quite inaccurate, as if the touches are going to the wrong place.

Bought it while passing through Hong Kong, but have now moved on, so no chance to return it to the store. Guess I gotta call Apple and hope they will find a way to get it replaced while I'm on the road. Presumably a h/w problem since it's not happening to all units.

is it week 38

How do I know?