[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AngelDeath:
Okay I decided to chime in on this, I too am an IT guy, I didnt go to school for it and am self taught, but after reading two pages, I just had to partly laugh, and partly think about this, so here is what I have to say, and if you dont agree with my opinion thats fine, just like a$$holes, everyone has one (Not intended to insult anyone, just humor):

First, USB current is far less then AC current as stated USB ports on a computer normally put out 500mA hence why it takes nearly x2 as long to charge a phone through a computer opposed to using an AC outlet, and if you add more then two or 3 USB's and using a computers power one device shuts down due to lack of power, doesnt matter if your battery is completely dead or not, the voltage is regulated by the computer Not the usb cord nor the phone, so a warping battery is clearly a battery being either defective, cheap, or losing its ability to maintain a charge and overloading the Li-Ion battery, which also causes the over-heating of the battery. Example: Car battery with a dead cell takes longer to charge since there is X amount of cells dead, and 3 or more cells are dead it doesnt hold a charge.

As for the "idea" that Android is the cause of the Touchscreen dying, the likely hood of this is slim to none. the OS isnt the cause of the problem, unless someone forgets to install the drivers to a rom that controls the digitizier (Raising Hand, did it once when cooking my own rom in windows 6.5). Short of that, the Roms arent causing the premature death of the TS. Heat WILL cause the digitizier to malfunction, yes, that is true, all PCB boards have what they call "tracer wire" and all have a limit at to how much it can withstand of power surges and heat. If enough of the tracer wire is burned up, it will in essence make the touchscreen malfunction, and eventually stop working. At what level that is I cant tell you. Every component has a threshold level, similar to a hard drive, if you ever looked at a hard drive through a diagnostic screen, there are limits that it must be maintained between, outside of that limit results is failure or malfunction.

This is what most if at all is causing this, To the person that said that Android is over stressing the TS is part right, but part wrong. The Answer is WE as the user are over stressing the phones, the less buttons means more useage of the screen, which then degrades the screens ability to be reactive or to function correctly. Think of it like this: every electronic device and I mean every electronic device has "Mean Hours", once those hours are met, it doesnt mean your phone is done, it means at anytime after those mean hours the device can start acting erratically, now as a note most manufacturers lean toward the conservative side when it comes to the mean hours, and if your going to ask what they are for a digitizier, then ask HTC.

As for the person who said that Magldr after it was flashed on the phone make the phone wonky (Sorry thats really funny), I cant say that is anywhere true, could it? Possibily, but I would have to lean toward hardware revisions of the phone more so then the flashing of the rom causing this.

A few people have mentioned MDJ's roms, and having similar issues, do remember that when overclocking you are risking the possibility of hardware failure, not in the sense of the TS dying from overclocking, that would occur to the cpu not the TS, but as most know just like a computer if you push it too far hardware will start to malfunction or downright stop responding, files get corrupted, and overheat (There's that word again).

Remember just cause you cant "feel" the heat when holding the phone doesnt mean that the temp isnt rising. Someone said about low quality hardware "weak" slipping out of the warehouse, that contributes to the problem and is correct it will shorten the life of the phone or the hardware we are talking about the TS. Quality control isnt done on all the TS's only 1 or 2 of that "batch" are done if they pass the "batch" passes.

For HTC to acknowledge there is a problem with the digitizier and replaces them, is a clear sign this is far more then android OS or wm7 OS.

Lastly cause I know no one in their normal mind will read all this, 2 things: 1) I also believe the revisions to the phone does make a difference and there are revisions, I would be curious as to the people here how many of the phones that failed were made before June of 2010? Apparently there seems to be in my belief a revision made after this date. Cause anyone with a phone after June 2010 which tries to unlock it has a harder time then ones that have phones before june 2010, so I would be curious about that. And 2) Do take into consideration 90% of us flash phones either weekly or monthly, or maybe more trying out different roms, dont you think the turning off and on, rebooting, and the wear and tear contributes to any of this? There are mny people here that once they like a rom stick with it, then there are those that have to flash every other day or try every rom or attempt to put as much into the phone as possibly, screw something up and then re-flash again. Someone said they got a phone and after a month it died, question was it re-furbished or not? If it was new what was the quality control like for you phone? Doubt anyone would know.

On a closing note, as some posts have suggested its happening with non-android roms as well, so the question is who really is causing the damage to the TS, the OS or US? Isnt that why Rom Dev's state they are not responsible for damage to your phones? For this reason exactly, its called a witch hunt. I own 2 HD2's, one before june 2010 and one after June 2010. The one after June 2010 I have been using android since Dec by SDCard and then have switched to Nand and have no issues, I already switched the HD2 that was made before June 2010 to nand for testing purposes. And have no issues at all at the moment.

*Disclaimer* I have no degrees, nor have I gone to school for any of what I have said, I dont claim to solve all or any of your problems, you are reading at your own risk, and forming your own evaluations.