Unlock Screen Not Responding

[MustangChris04]

Hello,

All of a sudden my screen stopped responding to touch input on the home screen where you have to slide to unlock.

If I hold the power button the phone options (silent mode, airplane, and power off) buttons work, but I cannot physically slide to unlock the phone.

I need to get into the phone to backup some information, is there a way to bypass the unlock screen? the keyboard works and so does the screen, but for some reason I can't hit the slider at the bottom of the screen to unlock or mute the phone.

Thanks for the help!

 

[skunkpbguy]

do you have the car mount or the dock? that always pulls my phone out of lock..

 

[MustangChris04]

do you have the car mount or the dock? that always pulls my phone out of lock..

great idea it worked! I just used the side of my maybook pro where the charging cable goes in, to unlock it since the charger is magnetic.

I downloaded a program and the whole section of the screen where you slide to unlock is broken

 

[skunkpbguy]

what did you add to your Droid that did this?

 

[MustangChris04]

I downloaded a program to test the screen to see what part was broken.

I don't think a program caused this to break because I haven't installed anything new in a few weeks.