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Help The Cursed Screen

Just from experience with Sammy's it's often best to factory reset and take the darn thing back to (or as close to as possible) out-of-the-box stock before rooting or rom'ing. They just seem to play nicer with mods that way.
 
You said earlier that you flashed the latest firmware through Odin. Was the firmware you downloaded specific to T-Mobile? If you flashed a version for a different US carrier like AT&T or the international version it might work. Here's the problem (and the risk). Samsung loves to create many different versions of the same model for the carriers only varying by small differences, but might render features of your phone inoperable, or worse. Also by not having the official T-Mobile rom, you will stop getting updates, so every time there was a security patch released you'd possibly have to flash the entire updated rom again. If they release on a monthly basis it could get to be a real pain to reset your phone every month.
 
You said earlier that you flashed the latest firmware through Odin. Was the firmware you downloaded specific to T-Mobile? If you flashed a version for a different US carrier like AT&T or the international version it might work. Here's the problem (and the risk). Samsung loves to create many different versions of the same model for the carriers only varying by small differences, but might render features of your phone inoperable, or worse. Also by not having the official T-Mobile rom, you will stop getting updates, so every time there was a security patch released you'd possibly have to flash the entire updated rom again. If they release on a monthly basis it could get to be a real pain to reset your phone every month.

Now that you mention it, I was sure that when I downloaded the firmware it was supposed to be the international version, but in the end T-Mobile native applications were still implemented in my OS.

Should I re-do everything and making sure the flash ROM is free of any carrier's print on it?

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Also, sorry everyone for now apparently necroposting this, but I was too upset to even think about this whole situation that I didn't even come back here to update you guys or answer. My apologies.

I have been trying to hang on and wait for a newer T-Mobile update and see if something changed, but it didn't seem to work at all. Yesterday, a new update came out.

I made sure to download it, wipe cache partition, re-download the touch screen updates from the *#2663# panel but the situation is still the same.

I even tried clearing cache and data of the TouchWiz system applications, but I was unsuccessfully unable to fix any issue at all.

The situation remains the same:
The left side of my screen, the one close to the very border, is kinda bugged/messy. When it comes to drag stuff in it or tap stuff/keys, it's as if it had problems to perceive the touch. It often skips that part, like slipping quickly from one side of another. The problem momentarily fixes when every god damn time (like 6-7 times a day) I just go to the keypad panel and every time re-download the updates for the touch screen. But after a very short while, the problem still remains the same.

I can't understand what's wrong, I should probably give up to the idea that it's more of an hardware issue at this point..
 
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