Custom ROMS causing keyboard issues?

[draconas]

I had the old Dream 0.5 ROM when it first came out (Nov 08?) until about 3 weeks ago (beginning of March) when my keyboard started having the same unresponsive/locking issues where I would type and the backlight would turn off while typing and nothing on the screen. I thought I just needed to reflash, so I went through a lot of the popular custom ROMs on here and ended up with Juggalo, same problem. I flashed back to Sprint stock, same problem except the built in SMS app appeared to crash half the time when I tried to type with the keyboard - though it seemed to get a clue when I pressed hard on the space-bar.

So I relocked, headed to the store, they recreated the same problem with it and got me a new one out of the box (I have the full insurance coverage and they forgot to put in the order for a day). I flashed to Juggalo and all seems fine now. I forgot how smooth typing was and didn't realize I was putting up with the performance issues for so long.