iPad behaving erratically: "ghost touching"

I have looked at this thread many times over the last several months because of similar problems with my iPad 2. I had the digitizer/screen replaced last year and about 4 months later I started getting the twitchy, ghost touching so badly that I haven't been able to use my iPad at all. Earlier this week I tried to use it for music and at some point it started trying to FaceTime anyone in my contact list. I consulted a few friends that work on apple products and they all thought it was the digitizer (screen) and either the cable was bad or loose or the entire thing needed to be replaced. I found someone that would do it for about $100 and figured it was better than having a non functioning iPad laying around. I did a factory reset/data erase last night and turned it off becasue I was planning on taking it in to be fixed this morning. I randomly picked it up last night and turned it on...just in case the reset worked...and IT DID. I slowly added just a few apps that I really need, my music, and contacts and that is all. So far, I have had NO PROBLEMS. I have reset it at least a dozen times since this started and always had problems but this time I started using it with the "new iPad" settings and not the "restore from backup" settings and immediately it was fine. Previously, I couldn't hardly get past the lock screen without the twitching, program opening starting up and so far it has been powered on and working for 18 hours without a single twitch. Could it have been a bad app? RAM issues? I don't know, but I would try this before spending any money or opening your iPad first. Just wanted to chime in with my experience.

I have had the same issue but I have managed to track the root cause down to a couple of issue.

After having 4 replacements from Apple we discovered that the iPad power supply was faulty and overvolting the ipad which skrewed the touchscreen completely.

Secondly, I have discovered that my BT Infinity broadband router seems to be so powerful that when placed in the same room will start giving phantom touching on my iPad. Turning off the wireless router stops the issue immediately.

I have had my iPad since Day 1 and it has been fine in the same environment so,

some level of Firmware / IOS change has meant the iPad is more suceptable to wireless interference and secondly faulty iPad power supplies will wreck your iPad.

I had this problem for several months and was ready to give up when a colleague suggest that I remove it from the case I had it in. That worked. No further problems. I had been using the Apple black tight-fitting case sold for the first generation IPad.

My iPad was doing the same thing - typing random letters, opening random apps, etc. Mostly it would type the same characters (CCCC;;;;;X:CCC:;;;CS). I did a restart, reboot, and even restore to factory settings. None of that worked.

I have a hard plastic case with a rubber covering. I took off the rubber covering only (leaving the hard plastic part on) to look at it and it acted fine. Then, I put the rubber covering back on and it acted weird again. Now I just have the hard plastic covering on.

So, my theory is that it has something to do with the case. Maybe it is pressing hard against the typing part of the screen, or rubbing against the screen somehow? Whatever it is, it worked.

I have a V3 with AT&T 3G. The screen was replaced locally and I recently noticed that the glass is not completely secured...I need to have new adhesive applied. I stared having the same erratic behavior issue yesterday. I immediately assumed that the issue was related to my screen...maybe some moisture got in from the bad seal or something.

Here is where it gets strange. We have a second iPad. This is a V2 with Wifi only, perfect condition. I was using my V2 for a few minutes and set it on top of my V3 on a nearby table. Two minutes later the V2 starts going nuts with the exact same issue. After a reboot the V2 was recovered. My V3 is intermittent. I found if I ground out the case and power it off for a few minutes it becomes usable for 1-2 hours.

My house has high static electricity on cold days. I wonder if the issue isn't related to static buildup or electrical interference. How could this go from one iPad to another? I might make a video of this but I'm afraid of messing up my second iPad. I read on another post that someone turned off their wireless router and the issue went away. I did disable Bluetooth, cellular, and wireless adapters with no improvement. My V3 has worked flawlessly from release day. As an IT guy I can’t buy into it being a hardware issue…that’s just what they say when they don’t know how to fix the real problem.

hello,

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⚠ TRY TO REPLACE IPAD POWER SUPPLY AND CABLE FIRST ⚠

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Let me tell you my story: the ghost typing started to happen suddenly after 8 months of daily use. So I decided to have the iPad replaced and therefore I restored the iPad to the original state and uploaded new iOS (6.1.2) to it. Everything started to work normally - no ghost typing would occur. Happy again, I started to restore iPad from iCloud and because the process takes some time, I plugged iPad in the charger so it wouldn't ran out of power. BOOOM - ghost typing was back and worse than ever! Unplugged it - the problem was gone. So I replaced the power supply with another one and the host typing is fixed.

For me, I took my iPad 2 in on Wednesday last week after I started experiencing these exact same issues. I spoke to a service technician who resorted to doing a hard reset on my iPad as I could not duplicate the symptoms at the Apple Store. I was quite agitated that nothing was happening to prove the issue. I went home after having the hard reset performed and I restored my device with a backup done just before going into the store. It came back even worse. I then made another appointment Thursday, and i used my phone to record footage of its occurrences in case if it wouldn't do it again - which it didn't. the technician watched the videos and i then had my iPad 2 replaced with a brand new one. The problem (knock on wood) has not returned since I received the new one.

My issue now is my iPhone 4 is acting up!!! Doing the exact same things as my iPad was doing! It started last night, I erased all data on my device and performed a hard reset. I then backed up from an older back up thinking it would help and it worked all night and today until about 2 hours ago. It is now acting up AGAIN!!! Have any of you updated your iOS to 6.1.2? I'm starting to wonder if that is the issue now? Then again, this problem seems to have occurred for years. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated!

This problem began for me several years ago on a first generation IPad which I am still using. Over several months the sitaution worsened. I tried everthing. Finally my company's IT consultant suggested that I remove it from the tight Apple case that it was in. Amazingly that worked and I have had no serious problems since. I now keep it in a very loose fitting case. I am using it now. The problem, if there is a single problem, surely must have something to do with the touchscreen itself. One woukd think that Apple could figure it out.

For me the problem started a year ago. Even though Apple told me that it is a known issue they refused to replace my iPad 2 because one of the aluminium edges had a dent from a former fall (that happened months before without causing any problems). My questions about a causal connection remained unanswered.

After overcoming my anger about their replacement policy I discovered that disabling multitouch gestures could fix the problem for me (I am not sure if that worked immediately). Weeks later I even reenabled gesture support and everything was fine again.

UNTILL TODAY... it just started again! (Thank you Apple for your support...) 😐