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merenkov Author

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iPad behaving erratically: "ghost touching"

My 3G iPad is about a month old. When in Safari, the device will suddenly scroll around a website as if I were touching the screen (I'm not), and then will randomly open up a page as if a hyperlink had been touched. It's also done this inside of a couple of apps. I re-boot the device, the problem goes away, but then returns a day or two later. I went almost 4 weeks without a single problem, and now this stealth issue has appeared. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Posted on Jun 8, 2010 9:08 AM

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merenkov Author

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Posted on Jul 17, 2010 2:17 PM

I'm the original poster on this thread. I ended up taking my iPad back to the Apple Store. They ran some diagnostics, and found that my RAM was almost maxed out, which didn't really make sense. It indicated a faulty processor, so they gave me a new iPad. I took it home, synched, and it only took about 45 minutes to synch 30 gigs of data. My original iPad took about 5 hours to synch for the first time. Clearly there was a problem with the processor in the first one, but I didn't realize it at first, as it took several weeks before it started exhibiting the erratic screen behavior. Hope this helps anyone else who might experience this down the line.

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Apr 12, 2016 1:11 PM in response to Jaime Teran

Thanks Jaime, its help me!

Sep 24, 2016 1:56 PM in response to merenkov

I had an ongoing issue with my iPad, tried reset numerous times

Oct 26, 2016 11:28 AM in response to merenkov

i have the same problem with my ipad i need apple to stop this

Dec 17, 2016 5:48 PM in response to DarkDwarf

Yes, you were right! Your idea fixed my iPad! Thanks so much!

Apr 3, 2017 10:51 PM in response to FK5243

TThis works so please do try if you have ghost screen

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iPad behaving erratically: "ghost touching"