Database Info

My PDA screan has lost some sensitivity. Everything else is working order...

So I have a pda (xda) Orbit 2, it’s from O2. While I was at Glastonbury 08 towards the end of the festival I found that I couldn't unlock the phone. I.e. you would press unlock (bottom left button) and then confirm that you want to unlock the phone. This is the standard way to unlock the phone normally. So the problem then was that it had the unlock at the bottom at the left but you can't click on it :s. Ok it was the last day so I just thought it'll work by the time I get home just leave it turned off. Got home charged it worked perfectly.
Now I’ve that problem once since then. Fixed the problem the same way. Plugged it into the mains bobs your uncle it fixed it.
This time its different I have tried everything. Soft reset, taking about the battery, charged it fully and let the battery die out complete. Nothing will get rid of this problem I just can't unlock my phone. I can still receive calls but can't read text's emails. Very frustrating. If people haven't got clues its off to 02 flash the phone loose everything then tell me they have no idea what is wrong with it. Hell I can flash the phone myself O another key factor is i know the screen still has sensitivity becuase when i touch the screen a similar screen to that of the unlock screen comes up, only without the unlock button.
Anyway any thoughts anybody?

ok Chang phones touch screen
ok i think your phones touch screen is gone plese chang the touch screen

lol, easily said. That would be a rather large pain i have to say cheers for the reply though
Incase i didn't make it clear everything on the screen is fine. I thought maybe i had aligned my screen some how just very very badly.

bro,
bro, we r here to give solutions not pain or fellings
Thanks
[email protected] Rules

of which i fully appreciate. But changing an entire screen is a pain which ever way you look at it.

no not changing the entire screen
bro you need to chang the only touch panel not the screen, screen and touch panel r the diffrent T.P is mounted on screen and you can chang it withc good hardware guy.
Thanks
[email protected] Rules

well lets hope the warranty cover's this. Either wise my silly insurance will have to

Align screen, endless loop

Hi all,
Yesterday evening the screen on my TP was misaligned all of a sudden. This has happened before, I don't know why but I know how to fix it or so I thought.
Open the start menu and find the screen alignment tool in the system settings did the trick until now.
I can align the screen all I want but it just keeps asking me to align. I've tried soft reset, hard reset, leaving the battery out for a night and aligning over 50 times but it keeps me in the alignment screen.
What happened? The screen obviously functions as it detects the taps.
Patrick
BTW. I run RomeOS 1.40.1 (Dutch) en flashed the stock rom to test if that fixes the issue but that has the same problem.

Align screen loops again when you don't tap properly on the cross. Obviously you're taping properly but maybe the screen could not percieve it properly. Did you ever drop your baby?
Regards,
Carty..

Carty said:
Align screen loops again when you don't tap properly on the cross. Obviously you're taping properly but maybe the screen could not percieve it properly. Did you ever drop your baby?
Regards,
Carty..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Uhm, I never dropped any of my babies but my TP has dropped once or twice but that is weeks ago and the fall wasn't that great, the hit wasn't that hard and it functioned normal after the drop which was in the grass btw.

I'm sorry to hear your troubling situation. I had a similar situation happen once with my hermes, turns out that the outer rim of the housing was coming in contact with the screen and registering as a contact. I was in the endless alignment until I opened up my phone and closed it again. I had other reasons to open like the speaker cable had also came disconnected. Try running something thin and lint free around the edges of where the housing and screen meet. If that doesnt work I would just return it while its still under warranty.

LCD Screen Defect or Software/Driver Problem?

Hey guys,
I am going crazy here, searching forums did not help me at all.
The lower section of the screen keeps flicking, and not always, what do i mean by flicking, its like the screen at the lower section keeps doing like a strange low refresh rate, and has an old imprint of some old menus. Happens especially when there is the color of gray.
Made a screenshot of the phone, no problems, there, so its not a software rendering problem, might be a drivers problem though, or a defec tin the screen itself.
Frequency is high but not always, and am unable to determine when does that happen exactly. going crazy here, is this a defect? or all touch pro's have this?
Exact explanation summary:
1CM from the bottom of the LCD sometimes flickers as if that 1CM is having an extremely low refresh rate. Mostly happens when there is light gray, but not necessarily, and a soft reset for the phone does not remove it. It happens on random!

Hey,
Yeah it happens to me too! You don't need to do a soft reset, it actually fades away if you watch it closely! I don't know what it is either, and yes it is random as you have stated! I initially thought it was an application I installed as it only started happening after that, so I did a full hard reset and its still happening! Not sure what or how, but hoping next firmware version stops it!
Cheers,
mpls-te

As it happens, that's exactly why I've logged on here today! Any ideas whta the cause might be?

OK, good to see that others have this, so am not alone here, experts here, any ideas? other touch pro users, can you please leave your statements?
I hope its a driver issue.
But from what i noticed, its like, the screen is OFF, as in blank and no back light, but somehow, the application working on the screen before you turned off the device is somehow printing something on the LCD, something that we don't see, and when we actually start the phone and its back light, that OFF LINE imprint pops on screen. Something like that.
Its completely illogical, but dunno, can't find any sense here and am going crazy

Same thing happened to me and a few others as well.
See my thread here.
What rom is everyone using?

I've noticed a similar issue with mine, except rather than something software it seems like it's the backlight for the bottom 1cm of the screen flickering slightly. I don't see any weird pixels or inappropriate screen information, just a dimming/high speed flickering of the backlight in that same regionas yours. It comes and goes. Sometimes weeks without it, then maybe 3 times in a day for a minute or two at a time. Everything else works fine and whatever screen I go to displays fine.
I'm assuming it's a hardware problem with the LED(s) that light up the bottom portion of the screen, and I'm going to use it as an excuse to get a warranty replacement somewhere near the end of the warranty when the phone's getting a little old and worn.

maxh said:
I've noticed a similar issue with mine, except rather than something software it seems like it's the backlight for the bottom 1cm of the screen flickering slightly. I don't see any weird pixels or inappropriate screen information, just a dimming/high speed flickering of the backlight in that same regionas yours. It comes and goes. Sometimes weeks without it, then maybe 3 times in a day for a minute or two at a time. Everything else works fine and whatever screen I go to displays fine.
I'm assuming it's a hardware problem with the LED(s) that light up the bottom portion of the screen, and I'm going to use it as an excuse to get a warranty replacement somewhere near the end of the warranty when the phone's getting a little old and worn.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lool, evil, lets just hope that this problem DOES occur when you go to their shop for your replacement
Good idea though, might do the same thing except that i have to travel abroad to where i got the phone from to actually get the warranty working. Don't forget to re-enable stock SPL and stock ROM

It happens frequently enough I'll be able to get it on video just in case they need proof, but typically they just exchange by mail.

I just posted in another thread about this issue. I have run into the same thing a few times. The bottom portion of the screen flickers, and when i do things that have a dark gray or black screen I can see a ghost image of the left and right soft keys from my TFL3D home screen. It seems to be most noticeable when the screen brightness is set to max. To get it to go away I usually do a few soft resets, and then, if needed, i will turn off the phone and take the battery out for a while. I have never tried waiting it out to see if it will just go away on its own.

proj3ktpat said:
I just posted in another thread about this issue. I have run into the same thing a few times. The bottom portion of the screen flickers, and when i do things that have a dark gray or black screen I can see a ghost image of the left and right soft keys from my TFL3D home screen. It seems to be most noticeable when the screen brightness is set to max. To get it to go away I usually do a few soft resets, and then, if needed, i will turn off the phone and take the battery out for a while. I have never tried waiting it out to see if it will just go away on its own.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I see that everyone posting in this thread,that has their signature filled in, is using the Energy ROM. I find that very interesting.

i am having the same problems, sometimes touchflo3d will flicker at the bottom, near the edges. I also get text that can be read through other screens. Like on pocketshield i can see the left and right softkey words still at the bottom. its so odd !
P.S im on energyrom

I'm on NATF v2.2, not an energy rom. But then again, mine looks more like a hardware issue, as I've never seen any ghost images of text or softkeys, just flickering.

can somebody post screens?
maybe the same problem here...
hardreset, other roms > problem still there:-(

Same problem here and I am using stock rom!

here are 3 screens of my xda diamond pro, using latest official o2 rom and newest romeOS eng
hope you can see this prob?! same like yours?

climber1872000 said:
I see that everyone posting in this thread,that has their signature filled in, is using the Energy ROM. I find that very interesting.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, i doubt EnergyROM has anything to do with that problem, since my Stock ROMz had same problem, never got fixed with any updates HTC used to release. MAYBE some Cooked ROMs out there have this solved, if any, please let us know And my problem is nothing close to screenshots above :S

mj084 said:
here are 3 screens of my xda diamond pro, using latest official o2 rom and newest romeOS eng
...
hope you can see this prob?! same like yours?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Dude, those photos are awful, after seeing them am happy with my phone flickering, its nothing close to this.
You see, in your photos, all three of em, you some kind of shadow effect, where text of a button for example has that same text beneath it 3x6mm, that is not my case at all.
My case is as follows, IF i am on the home screen for example all looks ok, except that the bottom 1CM of the screen is flickering. If i go to another window, either a total black one or any other screen, i would still see a ghost of the old home screen, for example, and only at the bottom 1CM.
Will post photos once i get my cam back. Cheers

similar issue
my issue is kinda similar, instead of getting the bottom 1cm or so discoloration or stuck pixels, I get streaks of red or blue on my screen. I have had this happen on each version of NATF I have tried, but don't remember it happening on the stock version (which I am tempted to try again to see if that's the issue).
Could this be a driver issue?

mind is even worse than all you guys, the touch screnn dose not response, and i have the energy rom on it, before it goes wrong. it just suddenly dose not response, than i send it to HTC, they ask for 425.00 for fix.... I will just send this to Asia and get some one to fix it.
But I hope before i send it out, some one can help me here.... anyway can fix it easy!!!!

Hi all, i have the same problem, here's another topic about it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447891&page=2

HTC TOUCH P3452 Touch screen not working

Hi guys,
I have HTC Touch GSM P3452, its touch screen not working for a last one week.I had did soft reset and Hard reset but no use.
I had read the Alignment problem fix thread but i can edit the registry in my phone using mobile registry editor(write access denied message, i had got).
how to make my touch screen work.Help me out soon...

negaboys said:
Hi guys,
I have HTC Touch GSM P3452, its touch screen not working for a last one week.I had did soft reset and Hard reset but no use.
I had read the Alignment problem fix thread but i can edit the registry in my phone using mobile registry editor(write access denied message, i had got).
how to make my touch screen work.Help me out soon...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If it is defect, you can replace your touchscreen for low costs. I paid 20 euro's for my new touchscreen. You also need an T6 torx to open your mobile.

negaboys said:
Hi guys,
I have HTC Touch GSM P3452, its touch screen not working for a last one week.I had did soft reset and Hard reset but no use.
I had read the Alignment problem fix thread but i can edit the registry in my phone using mobile registry editor(write access denied message, i had got).
how to make my touch screen work.Help me out soon...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get a new digitizer on eBay, fairly cheap and easy to replace. Can get one to match your housing color. Less than 20 Euro for sure.

thanks for reply back soon..
there is no way to recover my touch screen??

any technical way to recover my touch screen, techies help me out...

I don't seem how you could 'repair' it. I think it is broken or not. Or the connecter is not in the right position. If so you must open up your mobile either way. I think it's best to just replace the touchscreen it also removes the scratches if you have those. And it's very cheap.

thanks cywood.. its not broken, just it stops working..

negaboys , the same thing just happened to me too. I run the tweaking applications here - doing the HD Tweak and Kaz TD2 instructions only. Then rebooted my AT&T Tilt. After the Titl started, the touch screen no longer worked. And when I went into the utilities to undo the changes I had made, but the applications require a touch for you to use them.
I am really stuck.

digitizer
i thinks it is less effort and much easier to replace the touch screen. its called digitizer. if u r in india ull get it for rs300/-. changing it is extremely easy, just google and search for videos on htc screen replacement. it took me just 45 minutes to open my htc and change the screen.

jagooch said:
negaboys , the same thing just happened to me too. I run the tweaking applications here - doing the HD Tweak and Kaz TD2 instructions only. Then rebooted my AT&T Tilt. After the Titl started, the touch screen no longer worked. And when I went into the utilities to undo the changes I had made, but the applications require a touch for you to use them.
I am really stuck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
in your case, it will probably be fixed with a hard-reset.

jagooch said:
negaboys , the same thing just happened to me too. I run the tweaking applications here - doing the HD Tweak and Kaz TD2 instructions only. Then rebooted my AT&T Tilt. After the Titl started, the touch screen no longer worked. And when I went into the utilities to undo the changes I had made, but the applications require a touch for you to use them.
I am really stuck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
use mymobiler using that u can control ur mobile thru ur computer google for it

praveen_y76 said:
i thinks it is less effort and much easier to replace the touch screen. its called digitizer. if u r in india ull get it for rs300/-. changing it is extremely easy, just google and search for videos on htc screen replacement. it took me just 45 minutes to open my htc and change the screen.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Praveen,
from where u got the digitizer...? was it original?
mine also stopped working two days back. I am in chennai and just heard that HTC has opened a new service centre here so maybe i can try out my luck there.

negaboys said:
i recovered my touch screen..
i have wrote here http://www.negablog.co.cc about how i recovered my touch screen without replacing digitizer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
could you please give the exact link where you have mentioned about it?
Thanks

crapula512 said:
in your case, it will probably be fixed with a hard-reset.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The hard reset fixed my problem. I also had corrupt files on my microSD card, so I formatted it as well.
Its amazing how many problems that look like hardware issues are actually software/file system issues.
For those who jumped right to "replace the screen" as a solution, I believe you need to rethink your troubleshooting strategy, as you'll convince people to spend time and money performing a fix action that doesn't work.

mohitsapru said:
use mymobiler using that u can control ur mobile thru ur computer google for it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is a great program! I've heard of it before, but never thought I would need it. It looks useful for getting screen shots from your mobile device as well.
Thanks!

repeated screen alignment problm
hi guys,
a month back my elfin screen stopped responding,after searching threads,i foundout that the digitizer was dead so i replaced it .touch response came back,but now every few mins i have to align the screen to have proper response.i m using onyx6.5 /mikys/ahen roms of latest build.and lower part of screen was not responding for touch some times,so to align screen was not possible as start button was in lower part in newer builds,so im starting roms of older builds in them start button is at top,where i came somehow reach screen alignment page.i m not able to find what is wrong wth my device??whether the digitizer was not working properly???
is there anyone who faced similar problm??any one there to help me out????

cant able to bypass alignment screen?
go here http://www.negablog.co.cc i had wrote about how to bypass the screen alignment screen,

change a new screen

Solution
Okay, I've just had this problem with an HTC Touch, and I think this works with any HTC that has a "digitizer" rather than an all-in-one touchscreen (I think newer phones have digitisers).
I'm not sure if this will always work, but I've just done it - sometimes the inactive touch screen is "broken" because the layers are stuck together (so the phone can't tell where the touch is, hence unresponsive). With mine, I looked at the screen side on and could see a kind of "oily" patch in the light.
The solution is to get masking/gaffa tape - the very sticky brown one. Stick it down on the screen/digitizer and then keep pulling it off - this pulls the layers from each other. I kept repeating this lots before it worked - and in the end I pulled the top layer completely off (I think you should pull from the top of the phone, as the layers need to be attached at the bottom of the screen/digitizer). Once it pulled away, I gently lay it back down (after panicking!!) and hey presto it started working again.
Good luck!

Touch Screen Stops Responding - All Else Works

Anyone else who owns a Touch Cruise have their touch screen just stop functioning altogether? I came back to use my phone which was just sitting in the car and the touch screen no longer works...Obviously this did not happen due to being dropped, though it was a little warm nothing unusual by any standard.
All the hardware keys work, everything else...just the touch screen is dead. Has anyone else had this happen and if so were there any steps to reviving the screen or was replacing it an option, if so what did you do?

Free Man said:
Anyone else who owns a Touch Cruise have their touch screen just stop functioning altogether? I came back to use my phone which was just sitting in the car and the touch screen no longer works...Obviously this did not happen due to being dropped, though it was a little warm nothing unusual by any standard.
All the hardware keys work, everything else...just the touch screen is dead. Has anyone else had this happen and if so were there any steps to reviving the screen or was replacing it an option, if so what did you do?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had this problem with mine, it was just to send it to their lovely repair center through the dealership since I still got my Warranty, they exchanged the front panel, witch senses the touching. Depending on where in the world you live you should be able to by a separate one, or get it repaired by them. I hope it solves for you...

Thanks, I am well out of the 1 year warrant and in the US, which is not even where this phone was originally warranted so there is no chance of that.
I believe the cost of repair outside of warranty, and the time it would take that I would be out of my phone would not be worth it. I am hoping that I could purchase a replacement screen and repair it myself...Anyone have any direction here to do so?

Let me clarify something in regards to the malfunction. The screen itself is still visible and I can see everything as I would normally on a fully functioning lcd screen...The screen simply does not respond to any touch!

Touch Screen stop
hi i install the wwe-hero-3g and it stop it say"Tap the screento setup the windows" my phone is a at&t 8525 so what can i do.

i have the exact same problem. makes the phone useless

Hi try getting into the screen set up, ie where you tap the screen on first boot. You can use the program "mymobiler" to operate the screen through the computer.
Hope this helps!!

Same ****..
Have the same silly situation. Can´t even install the above program as it is impossible to respond "yes" to question about installing.
Have just ordered a replacement digitizer from this source:
http://www.chinaontrade.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=htc+digitizer&categories_id=
Don´t know if I will be able to fix it and I have also ordered a new Iphone as
I´m getting tired of all the problems with my loved Touch Cruise.