[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] abufrejoval:
Got a 6GB-RAM/64GB-flash rose X820 sent from China 6 months ago. Been very happy with it until some weeks ago.

Ghost touches did very occasionally happen several months ago, after the device had been running for weeks without rebooting.

Since I update my ROMs rather regularly, that didn't really happen all that often, thought it was some kind of software glitch.

Now things have deteriorated to the point where the phone becomes unusable: After a reboot, things work for a minute or so, and then it goes crazy, reacting to phantom button presses. Since my default home button double tap actions is "previous app" and the default menu button action is "app chooser" you can imagine what's going on on the screen: Can't watch without getting dizzy.

After a while the phone will settle down with the buttons dead: They won't react or light up on touch, just light with screen or hardware button action.

Happens with all kinds of ROMs btw., the latest Chinese stock ROMs, Mokee Marshmallow and the various Nougat ROMs I tried over the last weeks.

By now I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue with my phone, especially since I have only ever encountered one other mention of "ghost touch" in the forum.

It may be a sad case of failing hardware, "a bad soldering point" sort of thing, pretty much impossible to fix with reasonable effort for a phone at this price.

But I know Android natively supports using on-screen software buttons and I've even had ROMs which allowed you to choose between the hardware buttons and on-screen software buttons: Yet somehow, in the current crop of Nougats I haven't really come across this option any more.

So I have two questions:

1. Do others experience similar issues with failing soft buttons? How prevalent is the issue?

2. Does anyone know if one of the CM derivatives like Remix/Mokee etc. Nougats enable foregoing the soft buttons for on-screen ones?

(3.) Would a kind developer put the option back into his ROM or tell me where to find it, so I can put it there myself?

Clearly I prefer using the "hardware" buttons, but even more clearly I prefer using (typically auto-hideable) on-screen buttons to ditching the phone, which is otherwise still going very strong and much faster than its Samsung Note 3 predecessor, which I have to fall back on until the ghost touch madness is resolved via "soft-button amputation".

BTW: I noticed that my Max was rather more bendable than I would have believed a "solid metal case" phone to be (always had plastic Samsungs before and was very happy with their practical advantages of swappable batteries, light weight and drop resilience).

It typically got to the point where it wouldn't lie flat on its face, but toggle on two corners. I would then very carefully bend it back until would rest flat again.

Can't say I saw any direct relationship between the bends and the ghost touches, during "ghost attacks" careful bending either way also doesn't change the occurrence or rapidity of the ghost touches, either.

I am also using a hardenned glass cover on the screen, which is ever so slightly lifting in one corner and could have tiny specks of dust enter between the cover screen and the original front. Since I don't have an equivalent quality replacement and Le Max doesn't have the best quality screen glass, I'm hesitating to remove it, just to see if it makes a difference for the soft buttons: I'd find it hard to believe it could make a real difference, but I wouldn't mind to be corrected if wrong.