White boxes across screen affecting touch sensitivity

My iPhone 5 unfortunately has been diagnosed with an internal hardware issue that causes a horizontal pattern of white boxes to be displayed across my screen. The touch sensiviity is also affected where the white boxes are displayed, so I am unable to select text, or turn certain things On and Off within my settings if the button is located on the white boxes. My problem is location services was turned off before this problem began, and now because of the touch screen problem I am unable to turn it back on since the button is displayed where the white boxes are. Is there ANY other way to enable location services without going through settings on the phone, or restoring the phone and setting it up as new. Any help would be appreciated.

Replacing it would be ideal, and an obvious solution to solving my problem here. Unfortunately I'm poor, and I can't afford to buy a new phone seing as my apple warranty has expired...which is why I am here looking for a roundabout way to keep my phone somewhat functional until I can buy a replacement or upgrade it. You're right in that there is no way (that we know of) to turn on location services without selecting it on the screen within the settings. You're wrong in that there is no way to get around the problem, because I just did. Using the zoom funtion I was able to change the placement of the button slightly, which allowed me to turn location services back on. This works for any button I was previously unable to get to within all settings or apps. Thanks for your response though.

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