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S21 Locked Phone with partially unresponsive touch screen

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Zimmer1
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Galaxy S21

Hello! I have an s21 that was pretty damaged with an expanding battery. Got a new phone, but I had a lot of stuff on this one that isn't backed up so I got the battery replaced just to have it working again.

However now the right ~25% of the screen is unresponsive to touch even though it displays, and my phone is not asking me to use a thumbprint to login, just a pattern which I cant complete. I wanted to see if I could at least get it to at least let my login, but attempting to attach a monitor via hdmi/usbc leaves me with 'to use usb devices, unlock phone'

Is there anyway I would allow me to input the pattern via some other input method? Thanks in advance

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meself
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Galaxy S21
I would run the diagnostic test for the touch screen response sometimes a soft reset works I did a factory reset on mine sometime ago to fix it
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