Strange vertical lines - unresponsive phone

Hello! I have an iPhone 4s, and recently a friend dropped it and smashed the screen. I got it repaired, and then I noticed what looked like a broken pixel at the bottom of the screen. After noticing this, my phone has randomly gone black, unresponsive for x amount of time, and then it will flash up with a white screen with strange lines which disappear over an hour or two, leaving me unable to use my phone. It happened again, but I was left with coloured lines such as green and blue vertically on my phone screen. I sent my phone to be repaired by the previous person and they are unable to find anything wrong - what could it be? Many thanks in advance

That you dropped it and you had a 3rd party fix your screen, who probably messed it up even more. Or your phone was damage internally.

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