[Asus Transformer TF700] Hydranix:
So a bought my tablet, without the dock. Being a modder/hacker/tweaker, I knew I had to root and learn the flash process specific to my device ASAP.

Horrified to find that I would lose my warranty, and that I would be on my own from that moment when I would have unlocked it an beyond.

So I hesitated... For a week... and unlocked, rooted, and flashed a couple ROMs. All is well.

Fast forward 4 months...

I started getting issues with the touch screen on my device. I was heartbroken. I knew that nobody would fix it, despite it being a hardware defect of some kind.

The issue I was having was the "Ghost Touches" which would swipe up and down rapidly and randomly on the left half of the screen.

It would happen seemingly at random, and progressively became so bad that I couldn't use my TF700 any longer.

Shelving it for a few weeks, I finally became inspired and motivated to try to fix it myself, or at least discover wtf was wrong with it.

I found that pressing on the bottom of the tablet (the sections that surround the screen itself) would actually make the problem go away, but also make half of my screen unresponsive until I screen locked/unlocked it.

That made me feel that it was software related seeing that a simple lock/unlock via the top left button would make it stop for a few seconds, but this wasn't the case despite this glaring fact.

So I knew I had to open it, and I had no resources, couldn't find any videos, no information on opening this thing was available, at least at the time.

The steps I took were:

1) Turning off the device of course.

2) Flipped it over and with a flashlight looked down into the two slots for mounting it on the dock.

2a) I peeled away the squishy stickery thingy from each slot.

2b) There are little circles, one in each, that using something sturdy, you must slide to the tablet's left. (I used a nail...)

3) Using some kind of plastic yet sturdy wedge, you must unsnap all of the clasps under the screen to free it.

3a) I used a guitar pick, starting from one of the slots on the bottom, I ran the pick around the edges of the screen after carefully forcing it between the aluminium case and the glass.

3b) With somewhat violent prying motions I was able to free all of the snaps. (You need not unsnap the top side, only the bottom, left, and right sides. If I recall correctly)

4) There's 2 ribbons, they're sneaky, one is copper colored, the other is white. The white one is the scary one.

I turned on my tablet at this point, everything worked fine, I was VERY thankful at that point.

Now I looked around on the inside of the device and noticed that the point where the copper ribbon meets the digitizer/lcd screen was dented a bit, and when I ran my finger across it, the phantom touch problem went absolutely crazy. Bingo.

I found the pressing the ribbon flat against the screen, and firmly holding it in place fixed the problem.

So with a piece of tape I found next to me, I carefully rolled the tape over the dented area of the ribbon, and firmly secured the ribbon to the back of the screen preventing it from moving at all.

Upon reassembling my device, all has worked well, though when I shake the tablet, or press on certain points (takes a fair bit of pressure, nothing you'd ever do intentionally) the "Ghost Touch" comes back, but is easily remedied by a quick lock/unlock. This happens only once or twice a week at best, and I use this tablet HEAVILY.

Sorry for the messy post, and the lack of pictures, I didn't take any, and am not doing this again until I have to.

I really hope anyone who read this can gain from it.

Regards,

~HNx