I found no better spot for this thread, so it's here. Move it if you must, mods.

So, I have a not-so-slight issue with my iphone 4. I understand it's at a point that replacing anything major is probably going to be more costly and annoying than to just buy a new phone, however if I can avoid it I will.
Not sure how it happened but essentially it sustained some fair damage a while back from being dropped and it's been fine up until today when I went to a service, turned my phone off, turned it back on a few hours later and it's totally impossible to do anything. Pressing on the screen with any amount of force gives me weird lights, totally unusable except for the home button. My thought is either it's the screen, which can easily be replaced, or the exposed calibrator (neither of which make the most sense) and I have no idea what else it could be.
My question boils down to is it going to be something that anyone would be able to fix or is there a major internal issue that makes it pretty much junked?

Ok, so your phone turns on but the touch screen no longer works as weird colours start appearing when pressure is asserted.

i'll explain this extremely simply as I presume you're not a phone expert.....

you're f*cked.

Regards
Camies

(Jokes aside, you've damaged parts of the phone that'll be cheaper to replace than to repair)

i dont know about phone companies where you are. but where i am most companies will give you a new phone anywhere from free-100$. all you need to to is sign a two year contract which 99% of people do.your phone is almost 5 years old its time to treat yourself to a new one.most of the time it does cost more to repair the phone than it does to upgrade. im sure you can still use your phone through the computer using an apple program( i use samsung kies for my s3).if your worred about losing stuff can back it up that way

i'm in canada on Koodo, doesn't have a contract with this company. Ended up replacing it anyways, need it for work.

Ya it sounded like you fried your digitizer = bye bye phone

Where do you live? Companies in the US don't do this anymore. Not if you want a recent smartphone.