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Hoping I can find some help. This is starting to drive my crazy. I bought a replacement digitizer for my Nintendo switch and cannot seem to get one working. Every one I try recognizes touch inputs on the border of the screen but nothing in the middle. At first I thought it was just a bad part, but I have now tried three from amazon and one from iFixit. In order to narrow down the problem, every time I try a defective digitizer I also plug in my old one and test it as well. The old one has no problems other than a large scratch and sometimes reports ghost taps, other than that it will recognize touches on all parts of the screen. I’ve tried this several times now with four different digitizers. Please help! I’m going crazy UPDATE 8/17/20 So it doesn’t really seem like we’ve found a working combination yet, I made a google spreadsheet so we can keep track of what has been tried and what works. Feel free to add your own attempts/info so we can track down what works! Link below: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1… UPDATE 9/24/20 Thanks to @metrons for finding a solution (works for non-patched switches). According to CTCaer on github (writer of Hekate), there are four versions of the switch digitizer. These are not cross compatible unless you re-calibrate your touchscreen using third-party software (e.g. Hekate). If you have an older non-patched switch, load Hekate and try the touchscreen calibration under “tools”. Make sure to use the latest version of Hekate, as only the newer ones have joy-con support allowing you to navigate to the calibration utility without touch. If the calibration fails, it most likely means you have a loose connection or the digitizer is trashed; try unplugging and reinserting the ribbon cable (worked for me). I’m still hoping we can find a way to match digitizers for those with patched switches! Thanks for your help everyone!
Hello! I had the same problem that you are facing. My touchscreen was failing exactly on the same spots. I replaced the digitizer and the problem persists. After weeks of research I found a thread on the gbatemp forum that a person was having problems with the touch and he decided to recalibrate the touch through a custom bootloader (Hekate). In the tools tab in the lower right corner there is a tool to calibrate the touchscreen. I clicked on it and magically after the process my touch is 100% functional. Unfortunately, this fix is only for consoles that have access to the custom Hekate bootloader (which on newer consoles are blocked by nintendo). I hope this information helps people who are facing this problem.
It’s actually probably not a problem with the digitizer. It’s likely with the game slot. For some reason (I haven’t figure it out yet) when you install a new digitizer sometimes you have to put a new game slot in as well. Be careful here too though as I’ve seen a lot of bad game slots straight from the seller. Good luck
F…ing awsome. I had sx os , and changed 3 digitizers all with the same problem. Finnaly found out how to boot hekate, ran that calibrator, and it works. Thanks for this.
So some repair-service already tried to replace the digitizer on my Switch but didn’t do such a good job. When booting up, the Switch was having the ghost touch issue all over the screen, and you couldn’t push a single button (or touch anything). So I tried cleaning the dust between the digitizer and the LCD. Since that didn’t work out, and the switch was patched, I thought I’d try my luck with a new digitizer from China. And oh and behold it worked! So if anyone still has trouble finding a working digitizer for patched switches, I suggest checking out the Excel-spreadsheet again, I added it in there. Maybe it’ll work out for you too.
Kind of disappointed that the possibility of this issue is not mentioned by ifixit on the store page for the digitizer. Not sure if fusee-gelee is patched or not but the Switch in question is a 2020 model and definitely is not running firmware 4.1.0.
