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If the screen is popping up, that condition might be trigerred by a swollen battery.

My iPhone 5 also did that, after a while, it worsened so much that the screen colors became affected. I took it to an apple store, paid the fee and had them replace the battery.

IMHO a swollen battery is a huge risk, and apple should have replaced my phone without charge.

Anyways, be careful and if the battery is swollen, it's time for yet another battery change :)

My first battery was definitely swollen, and this may be why the screen doesn't snap back into place.

>I replace my iPhone battery with a cheap one off eBay

A great way to increase the odds of an explosion near your face or office desk!

I don't understand. Why did you pay $800 for an iPhone 5?

Maybe the poster is talking about total sunk cost of phone and all of the batteries

That's what a 64GB iPhone 5 cost at the time.