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T-Mobile SDA White Screen of Death Revisited

Sorry to start up a SAD SDA topic but it has to be done...
I thought I'd be smart and pick up a broken screen "tornado" SDA from Ebay like some of us have already done. Got it, hooked up to usb cables and my activesync 4.5 picked it right up, allowing me to explore the file system and even browse some naughty pics (oops) that the previous owners had left on there. Ok, seemed to work, could make a phone call with my sim card etc...even without being able to see past the cracked LCD screen.
Next step was to buy a replacement screen, for which I am sure you all have seen the "2125 screen" that is the exact model as a Tmobile LCD. I replaced this and prayed for the best.
The best didn't happen. I got a nasty all white screen and got upset....then recheced the ribbon cable connections and they were appropriately installed.
Same thing over and over. WTF?
I have SOTI pocket controller professional. For those who don't know what this is, it allows remote viewing of the little screen on your PPC phone or Smartphone on your Desktop or Laptop computer's monitor.
It is great for the purpose of checking functionality of a "broken LCD" phone. Everything worked fine on the virtual screen! I even UNLOCKED and SUPER CIDed the darn thing and have reflashed original OS from TMO just to be sure.
WHY ON GOD's green earth can I not get a working display on this thing UNLESS of course, I got ripped off by the ebay vendor. (who never sent me a replacement envelope as promised to swap out and send this one back)
Just venting but seriously, DOES anyone have a solution.
It is not a dead phone, bricked, wrong operating system, or any of the other posited theories here. The screen is just inexplicably white and properly connected. HELP.
Thanks.
I am an MDA owner and just dabble in this SDA thing.
I would love this nice little phone to work..if not, I have a brand new housing, a possibly working screeen (with another phone) and lots of parts for someone..hint hint.

gfourner_austintxmda said:
Sorry to start up a SAD SDA topic but it has to be done...
I thought I'd be smart and pick up a broken screen "tornado" SDA from Ebay like some of us have already done. Got it, hooked up to usb cables and my activesync 4.5 picked it right up, allowing me to explore the file system and even browse some naughty pics (oops) that the previous owners had left on there. Ok, seemed to work, could make a phone call with my sim card etc...even without being able to see past the cracked LCD screen.
Next step was to buy a replacement screen, for which I am sure you all have seen the "2125 screen" that is the exact model as a Tmobile LCD. I replaced this and prayed for the best.
The best didn't happen. I got a nasty all white screen and got upset....then recheced the ribbon cable connections and they were appropriately installed.
Same thing over and over. WTF?
I have SOTI pocket controller professional. For those who don't know what this is, it allows remote viewing of the little screen on your PPC phone or Smartphone on your Desktop or Laptop computer's monitor.
It is great for the purpose of checking functionality of a "broken LCD" phone. Everything worked fine on the virtual screen! I even UNLOCKED and SUPER CIDed the darn thing and have reflashed original OS from TMO just to be sure.
WHY ON GOD's green earth can I not get a working display on this thing UNLESS of course, I got ripped off by the ebay vendor. (who never sent me a replacement envelope as promised to swap out and send this one back)
Just venting but seriously, DOES anyone have a solution.
It is not a dead phone, bricked, wrong operating system, or any of the other posited theories here. The screen is just inexplicably white and properly connected. HELP.
Thanks.
I am an MDA owner and just dabble in this SDA thing.
I would love this nice little phone to work..if not, I have a brand new housing, a possibly working screeen (with another phone) and lots of parts for someone..hint hint.
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Hey mate, don't loose your faith!!! Redo the connection. The same thing happend to me, and I swore I had pluged that flat connector correctly into the socket and I didn't. Wiggle it, you can't enter it straight in, it has to slide in on an angle. Look at the one you removed. Look at the mark left by the "YELLOW TAPE" that holds the ribbon inside the slot. It will tell you how far in it has to go. Also, there are 2 other contacts that have to be in the propper position. One makes contact between the back plate of the LCD and a mesh looking spot where it sits. It has to sit in place so you have the "ground" on the LCD. If you need, I can put apart my phone and take a close picture and post it for you so you can see what Im talking about. But I'm pretty sure that your problem is just the ribbon not being in all the way. There are 2 sets of connections inside the socket. If the ribbon isn't all the way in, only the 1rst set will make contact, LCD will light up, but, no image. Good Luck and I do hope its as I say. Please let me know here or on PM if you need some pictures.

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markanthonypr said:
Hey mate, don't loose your faith!!! Redo the connection. The same thing happend to me, and I swore I had pluged that flat connector correctly into the socket and I didn't. Wiggle it, you can't enter it straight in, it has to slide in on an angle. Look at the one you removed. Look at the mark left by the "YELLOW TAPE" that holds the ribbon inside the slot. It will tell you how far in it has to go. Also, there are 2 other contacts that have to be in the propper position. One makes contact between the back plate of the LCD and a mesh looking spot where it sits. It has to sit in place so you have the "ground" on the LCD. If you need, I can put apart my phone and take a close picture and post it for you so you can see what Im talking about. But I'm pretty sure that your problem is just the ribbon not being in all the way. There are 2 sets of connections inside the socket. If the ribbon isn't all the way in, only the 1rst set will make contact, LCD will light up, but, no image. Good Luck and I do hope its as I say. Please let me know here or on PM if you need some pictures.
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Thank you for this insightful and confident reply!
I am certain that it will be quite useful to a Tornado user with this problem in general. The screen I got must be defective (too late to return) because this advice above should be the perfect solution.
Didn't work for me though but It is very nice for someone to put the effort into posting in such a manner.
Kudos to a valuable member of our community!
I might fool around and pick up another used T-mobile SDA and pray that I can get one working properly. If this screen works on that one, I guess I bought an ebay dud (masked by the broken screen).
Yes, this phone is getting dated but I really wanted to experiment with new ROMS and push it as far as it could go.
G

gfourner_austintxmda said:
Thank you for this insightful and confident reply!
I am certain that it will be quite useful to a Tornado user with this problem in general. The screen I got must be defective (too late to return) because this advice above should be the perfect solution.
Didn't work for me though but It is very nice for someone to put the effort into posting in such a manner.
Kudos to a valuable member of our community!
I might fool around and pick up another used T-mobile SDA and pray that I can get one working properly. If this screen works on that one, I guess I bought an ebay dud (masked by the broken screen).
Yes, this phone is getting dated but I really wanted to experiment with new ROMS and push it as far as it could go.
G
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Sad to hear it didn't work for you mate. Well if you get another one, you got that one for parts Gotta be optimistic!! lol

Nexus One dead = spare parts

Hi guys.
Well, i break my n1 while trying to clean the display, following a unmount video found on youtube.
Well, it's not totally break, but i cut a little the flat cable that let work the touchscreen and i break the flat cable that connect the volume regulation button.
So...i have original spare parts to give, if someone need, like display, chassis, battery...and other things.
Display and phone glass is in perfect condition.
No scratch, no dead pixel ( is it correct for amoled display? ) and even zagg shield on the phone is still there ( not on screen, just on the body of the phone ).
I can send high quality pics, if somone of you need particular view of it.
Pics:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/826/pb080003.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8581/pb080004.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2720/pb080007.jpg
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/7407/pb080009.jpg
I dunno but maybe for 130 euro i can give you all the phone with box also.
I'm writing from italy.
Regards.

Hey, do you mind sending me those pics. [email protected]
Thank you.

thomanp said:
Hey, do you mind sending me those pics. [email protected]
Thank you.
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okay
just tell me what part of the phone you want to see in particular
mm or maybe i'll post some pics on imageshak.
maybe it's better.
give me some minutes.

ok i added some pics that i took right now.
maybe someone can find useful my dead phone for replace some components.
it's dead by touch screen and audio.
touch screen cause i cutted the flat cable.
all other parts of the phone are working perfectly.
regards

So the LCD/OLED screen is fine? I'm interested in that as my one bled to death

teihoata said:
So the LCD/OLED screen is fine? I'm interested in that as my one bled to death
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yes.
absolutely perfect.
maybe i can remount the n1 and turn it on and took a pic to let you see that it is perfect.
as you want.

Hi, can you send me the power button circuit? mine has stop function for long time. I'm living in Vietnam and there's no HTC warranty here. So will you please help me?
Sorry for my bad English.
[email protected]
Thank you.

bingoz said:
Hi, can you send me the power button circuit? mine has stop function for long time. I'm living in Vietnam and there's no HTC warranty here. So will you please help me?
Sorry for my bad English.
[email protected]
Thank you.
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Hi.
Well if you can send me an 'how to' for disassembly that part i'll do.
I'm not familiar with internal component of this phone.
Anyway, i'd like to send the entire phone first at all, so the final user will unmount the part that need.
It will be more easy for me.
Or else, just wait that i'll give other 'simple' part of the phone ( display, battery, chassis ) to people that need and after i'll can send easily the remaining part to you.
i can build a queue of the people here that need parts with priority to who will take all the phone.
This is the actual queue:
1- teihoata: display
2- bingoz : power button circuit

How much for the whole set? Does it still have the accessories from the box?
100 Euro?
Im from the Philippines
send me a PM with your price along with shipping

for me it's ok.
i have the full box with everything.
shipping cost amount at 63 euro.ì, with assurance option included ( 5,68 euro ).
you can check also by yourself at this website ( postal service ):
http://www.poste.it/online/paccocelerein/application/privati/index.html
so the total it's 163 euro.
i think it's the cheapest way.
regards

How about the battery cover? My lens on the back battery cover is cracked and I need to get it replaced.
It would be much appreicated!

panimat said:
How about the battery cover? My lens on the back battery cover is cracked and I need to get it replaced.
It would be much appreicated!
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well, i dunno. anyway tomorrow a guy here will bring the entire phone.
i prefer to sell everything if it's possible.
if tomorrow i will not complete the transaction, i will start to give the spare parts to you all asked already, and we will set a price toghether.
ok?
thanks to everyone.

I'm interested in the battery/chassis if you end up parting out.

I want the aluminum frame ((the lighter gray portion)) if you part it out.

my apologize, but as i wrote before, i prefer to sell it all, i mean entire phone not some parts at time.
i sell it already some days ago.
thanks to everyone anyway.

[Q] Touchscreen oddly failing

I have an atrix 2 and its touchscreen is failing in just one small part of it.. when I try to write in portrait mode and I touch the letter "P" it usually marks the letter "O" instead same goes with the letter "Ñ" and "L".. looks like that small part of the screen is failing. When I put the phone in landscape mode it gets real dificult to slide down the top menu (the one that says 4g, battery and signal level, the time and where notifications from other apps appear).
I've read that it may be a damaged digitalizer but I would like to run out of options before trying to to buy a new one because I dont live in the US and it would be way too expensive to get a new one and ship it to my country.. (I'm from Venezuela and shipping from other countries is really expensive, not to mention you can only spend 400$ a year which I've already spent)
I'm running supercharged V7 which I decided to install a couple days ago because of the problem I just mentioned.
I was running the 2nd ics leak before that and I had no problems for about 2months... Everything was good but one day this error showed up.
I don't want to take my phone to those guys who repair phones because I know they don't know anything about this phone which is very rare in my country.
Any help or advice regarding my problem will be greatly appreciated

had the exact same problem and got it fixed, along with another guy.
ill paste the message i sent him :
Yes i bought the touch+bezel set. Was a 10 minute operation no glue needed, i would advise against going with other (digitizer only) methods, a re-glue is never as good as the factory glue.
you will need one like this

[Q] Cracked screen - options?

Hello guys,
Has anyone ever needed a screen for their i727? A friend of mine managed to drop my phone on a step, facing down.
So at first you could only see a little of the top part of the screen ( with the lower half non functional) and afterwards it went all black, you can't see anything on it anymore. Volume rocker and on/off buttons work.
Do you know what would be the best option for me to get a screen/display from, given I am from Europe/Romania? Samsung here said that they don't fix something not intended for our market ( lol )...
So, would ebay be a good option? Are they original ? [le:] --- hurr durr .-- I'm a new user so I can't post links to ebay... I found 2 sellers (for white version) [/le]
Also, could it be more than just the screen ? My laptop sees it (but obviously can't select the memory card). what else could be affected?
Thanks a lot and if anybody has any other sites ( I chose ebay because they ship here).
aristik

It's the screen. Youtube, search for "i727 disassembly" or "i727 screen replacement", look at it, if you feel confident enough - buy one on eBay and do the replacement.

Jack_R1 said:
It's the screen. Youtube, search for "i727 disassembly" or "i727 screen replacement", look at it, if you feel confident enough - buy one on eBay and do the replacement.
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I agree completely, my friend replaced his screen this way. However, if you are not comfortable doing it, you might just want to buy a new one. The phone is cheap now that the S3 and S4 are out.
Also depending on how bad the drop was there could be lots of things wrong/damaged with your phone.

Blorkin said:
I agree completely, my friend replaced his screen this way. However, if you are not comfortable doing it, you might just want to buy a new one. The phone is cheap now that the S3 and S4 are out.
Also depending on how bad the drop was there could be lots of things wrong/damaged with your phone.
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thank you for your replies. I just dropped it off at a guy who has a service shop (well sort of) and he will take a look and see if anything else is wrong with it.. The phone is indeed cheap, this being one of the reasons I bought this model ( and also the 4 touch sensitive buttons at the bottom - not fancying the new trend of the galaxy family).
The thing was that I was trying to find something that was indeed OEM branded. I was afraid and still am to get something that will brake shortly after replacement. Even so, the display is 70% of the price of the phone lol..drat!
Anyway thanks for the replies...I was really enjoying the upgrade from my old infuse ..while it lasted.. :crying:
Cheers

Yeah, it is an expensive part but if you take the phone apart, you'll notice it makes up about half the phone.
Sent from my SGH-I727

Im so sad...

Hello forum,
as im new here i want to say a big thank you right now..
Well i own a smartphone (UMI MAX).. a moth ago i destroyed my screen.. I decided to buy a replacement (the original one) from the gearbest eshop..
Although i placed the replacement correctly (as i see) the phone boots up the touch screen works but instead of a colourfull lcd i can only see a black one.. no totally off but black light.. Nothing more than black lighting.. I can see the difference between off and on but nothing more.. Sounds etc working 100% just lcd.. Can anyone offer me a solution please?? I have to ask for a new replacement?? or its something else.. I also tried a hard reset with flashh tool but nothing.. :crying::crying::crying:

kiriakos9102000 said:
Hello forum,
as im new here i want to say a big thank you right now..
Well i own a smartphone (UMI MAX).. a moth ago i destroyed my screen.. I decided to buy a replacement (the original one) from the gearbest eshop..
Although i placed the replacement correctly (as i see) the phone boots up the touch screen works but instead of a colourfull lcd i can only see a black one.. no totally off but black light.. Nothing more than black lighting.. I can see the difference between off and on but nothing more.. Sounds etc working 100% just lcd.. Can anyone offer me a solution please?? I have to ask for a new replacement?? or its something else.. I also tried a hard reset with flashh tool but nothing.. :crying::crying::crying:
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Hello & welcome to xda-assist,
to my point of view you already answered the question yourself, if there's any doubt you did that replacement right and it isn't working like it should you likely made a mistake, only recommendation is to triple check the procedure you did by comparison to a replacement /tear down video and find the error, also check if you really bought the right hardware...
Following link shows some tutorials & stuff, time to solve some riddle, I'd guess..
http://bfy.tw/AAj2

Nothing till now
Dear friend, thank you for your fast response,
i contact them and i sent them a video and they answered this:
Thank you very much for ordering our product and for kindly bringing the issue to our attention.
For this problem we have confirmed with product department,the screen is not welded and needs to be reworked.
So what i have to do? i told them that i re-asseble the phone many times.. what means that the screen is not welded??
Thank you one more time my friend!!