I have the FP5 for a few weeks now, and I’m struggling with some issues. I was hoping some of you would help me fix them before I send it back.
I find the touchscreen to be generally oversensitive, to the point where I struggle to type without making a typo every word (something that never happened to me with my previous smartphones). I also have ghost inputs for 5-10 seconds every day or so, most often on youtube. Generally it’s solved by pressing the power button, but once or twice it continued for a while. At 3 occasions it was the opposite, the touchscreen was unresponsive until I hit the phone with my hand. I suspect a connection problem with the screen but not sure how to fix it.
I wonder if its similar to isses I’ve complained before, where specifically when I plug my phone in to charge, the touchscreen occasionally stops sensing my finger while I scroll or drag. And in rare cases, when typing on the keyboard, pressing letters on the edges of the screen gets doesnt get recognised.
These sound worse than they actually are, but it is definietly noticable.
I did also notice the ghost touches in youtube. Where the player controls show up mid video, even though I never touched the screen. But I kinda wanna blame youtube for it, because its wildly rare and inconsistent.
What I’d recommend is you keep the phone’s screen dry. The fairphone seems to not be able to reject ghost touches, when there are droplets of water on the screen. So using it in the rain isnt the nicest thing.
Until someone more expert can chime in on this, you could try taking off your screen, and put it right back. Maybe it is just a loose connector somewhere.
I used to have glitches with the touch screen while charging my FP2. I fixed it by replacing my damaged usb cable. My guess is maybe there was some charge or static leaking (never felt anything though).