Urgent help needed - General Questions and Answers

i have a cingular 8525 yesterday it fell down from my hand a bit badly.
it completely lost its display. the screen got white although it is still responding to my touch.
the phone is working but without any display.
could anyone tell me what exactly happened to it and how can i fix it.
very much appreciated.
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probably knocked the screen connectors loose? without looking at it its hard to say. Download my mobiler on your pc and connect your phone to see what your ppc is doing and backup anything you need too, then get it repaired.

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I purchased a Tornado a little while ago and didn't vet it properly first. It was descibed as having a cracked screen which was actually a cracked LCD. I have replaced but I get only a white screen on boot. The unit works fine other than this as I can connect via BT and USB. I have been able to verify that the file system is fine. I am assuming water damage and am going to try the DISTILLED WATER / COOK solution, but before I do...
Now, being aware of my status here, I can only make an offer to anyone with expertise on this. If anyone thinks this a problem they can resolve I am either happy to sell them the phone, take their advise and split the profit when I resell it or send it for paid repair.
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Thanks for taking a peek at this thread.
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A white screen normally means the ribbon cable to the lcd is not inserted properly, make sure the white lines on the cable and the main board are lined up. I've had the same problem.
have had the same problem with htc tytn, p4350.
after reboot its okey again

Is my Qtek 9100 DEAD?!?!?!

M8s, can any1 help me?!?!?! While i am doing something on my phone, on display shows some strange lines, and display start to become white... It sometimes gone crazy with this, and sometimes, it works ok!!! I have WM5... anyone know what could be a problem...? And how to fix it?
Thx in advice!
dont worry ur phone is not dead maybe the wires that connects the lcd with the motherboard are not so good
So, what you think what i can do...? It usually gone wild while i am doing something big... For example: deletting big amounts of files in same time... I am not touching it while it deleting them and lines again apears... And phone is relatively new... 3 months old!
i've the same problem. i asked a lot of questions about this problem in other forums but no one helped me. Because they didn't know anything.
i changed a lot of WM6 roms but the problem is still going on. i opened my wizard and i connect the parts in my hand. It worked and the scrren didn't freeze. Then i put the parts in the case, the freezing came back. i remove the main part in the case and connect it outside the case, it didn't freeze. So i think the problem is in the wire thet connects the lcd to motherboard. I think i'm gonna change my lcd.
If anyone knows something or "Orbiter87" if you find a solution for this problem, please write here. Thanks...
(sorry about my english, it's not good enough)
Hey guys,
Your problems have nothing to do with ROMs, these sound like hardware issues with the wizard itself. Orbiter, if your wiz is less than 3 months, I'd hound the warranty. If you don't have warranty, you may have to do some home repair. I'd love to help you, but can't...I'd probably throw out my wiz before I attempt to do anything with its hardware.
And one more thing... When i am playing some games or turn on some programs, it works normal... So i think that it is something with ROM!
it's nothing about ROM
i have the same problem on my 9100 try to move the display a litle bit when the stripes appear
i said the problem was in the lcd wire but now i don't think.because i opened the case and took the mothermoard out of the case i turned it on. it work and touched-pressed everywhere on the board, lcd wire but it didn't freeze. Again i put motherboard in to the case, it' freezing started. i think i'm gonna buy a new one and throw away this one. otherwise i'm gonna be crazy...
had the same problem a long time ago.
in my case it was the batterytodayplugin/program called "batti" in combination with overclocking.
so what programs are installed on your wizard
steph
I erased lots of stuff! Now i have only:
Anton Tomov Pocket Mechanic
Loving Wife Unlock Ext Rom Wizard
C. Ghisler & Co. Total Commander
The screen going white usually happens when the Flexi Strip connecting the Lcd to the motherboard is either not properly fitted or is damaged,white screen is very rarely the fault of the LCD.If the wizard is in warrenty then send it back otherwise if you are willing to do it yourself then download the k-jam service manual and give it a go.
I think you mean "the wire that comes from lcd to the motherboard" as flexi strip. If so, i did a lot of thing with that wire but it didn't change. Like i said, when i took off the motherboard from the case, i pressed every point on the board but it didn't go to the white. But when i put it into the case and press or do something to the board it goes white. There is a problem with case but how can the case do something to the lcd' image...
(While doing this things, the wizard was open)

Att Fuze black screen need help please! Not a bad flash issue.

Hi all,
I am at my wits end on this problem if anyone can offer any adivice it would be greatly appreciated. So let me give a recap of what has occured thus far. The water damage tag for some reason turn pink thus i am unable to get warranty exchange. I am pretty certain that the phone has never been expose to any water of anything of that sort, but i do live in houston, tx so might be humidity or what not that cause the tag to turn. Anyways.
1. This all started after i flashed RRE 5.2 RC3. Initially after a successful flash everything seem normal and fine. Then next morning i woke up to a frozen screen with many verticial lines running up and down the screen was almost unreadable. Initially i thought it was a bad flash or just random lock up. I did a hard reset and tried to enter the bootloader. Black screen, it does seem like the backlight is coming up but nothing on the screen. I can hear the phone power on and boot successfully into windows. Activesync connects i can browse the contents of the phone.
2. After flashing to stock att rom and stock htc roms same symptoms. So at this point i am thinking crap bad LCD screen. so I ordered both the digitizer and lcd screen for good measure. I replaced them hoping that a bad LCD was all. replaced both screens and i powered on the phone. same problem. black screen. The phone still powers on and boots into windows. Activesync still connects and i cna still reflash the phone.
3. I work extensively and do both desktop pc and notebook repair. I am not new to dealing with small electronic repairs. but at this juncture i am unable to identify the cause of hte malfunction. i am hoping maybe some of the gurus here might be able to shine some light on the subject.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I would have followed the same approach; your description makes it sound like it might be some kind of backlighting issue at first read. I'm inclined to think it might be a cold connection (bad connector) on the main board.
Silly question, what happens if you power up the phone with the keyboard exposed?
*EDIT* Not sure if you have been here yet: http://www.mikechannon.net/
Cheers,
i just tried to power up the phone with keyboard exposed. Powers up the same as with the keyboard hidden. Still boots up fine but black screen. I already have the service manuel dowloaded. i have checked around with several repair places both local and on the web. Seems like no one has any parts for the att fuze/touch pro gsm except for the lcd and digitizer and a speaker.
its quite possible that it is a main board but as the same time it might be something as simple as a ribbon cable. i have contacted htc about doing a possible repair and they want wayyyy too much for just a main board repair almost $400 USD.
Anyone have a bricked/ non working touch pro they would like to sell ? =P
fkoong said:
its quite possible that it is a main board but as the same time it might be something as simple as a ribbon cable.
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Could be a bad ribbon cable ... and firmly pressing around the front/back of the unit shows no change?
pressing the phone front and back show no changes to display. in a very dark room I can see that there is light emitting from the display but its just the screen is not displaying anything visable. this occured both before and after i changed out the screens. I'll do another visual inspection of all the boards to see if there is any bad resistors burnt out circuits etc.. but i didn't notice anything mentionable during my first 2 inspections. Maybe 3rd time is the charm.
Thanks for all the feedback thus far Hilaireg it is quite appreciated. All this venting has at least made me feel 1000% better than after i replaced my lcd and still same problem at least i don't feel like a complete idiot!
Sorry I couldn't be of much help ... you've done all the steps a seasoned hardware person would do.
Do post back to let other folks know if you get it back up and running.
Cheers,
you have a pm fkoong.
I have possibly the same problem. Phone got wet, dried it out for 2 days (in a container of rice). Phone worked but had "water marks" on screen that disappeared after two days and everything was fine for about 2 weeks. Then one day (happened to be humid misting rain eve in Charleston) the screen is blank (hint of backlight only). A soft reset and it seems OK for about 1hr, then blank again. The hard resest screen displayed OK (readbale text etc), but didnt work. But as I write this, I retry to document it results correctly and the NATF ROM is reloading and the screen works! We will see how long!!
Well.. not that long, the end of the ROM load and it went blank again, seems like a video driver problem. The Press VoluP to boot does show some red artifact.
Trying hard reset again (No SIM no uSD)
The NATF v4.4 loads and gives me the Tap screen, Align Screen, stylus, loads customization, opera, tf3d, then loads a bunch of files under ...... and then the screen goes blank again, seem like what happened last time, so Ill try loading a fresh ROM copy... later

Did my touchscreen die?

Hello everyone,
Today i installed my parrot bluetooth carkit. And after i connected a couple of times my phone became unstable.
So unstable that i'm not able to tap the screen.....
I don't know what happened due that i have hard resetted the phone a couple of times and even switched from m-rom to energyrom 3.0 with the same results.
Only one thing that was strange is that the touch pro start up screen with the red characters in the right bottom.
That after i flashed m-rom to energy rom that the touch pro characters in the middle were still different like the way that are made in m-rom. With the addition : powered by m-rom
So this means that the phone doesnt format his core
Help please give me any advice.
UPDATE:When backlight is dimmed, it will be bright if i touch it once. Afterwards it will maintain the same.
I have tried several roms and tried to restore my SPL aswell, without any results till now.
I'm getting desperate now. Due that i stays in the screen of ALLIGNMENT, so i'm really not able to start up anything from now.
Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.
I have a OIL spot in the screen when i keep it in bright light.
This could be occured when the phone was inside my bag during my beach visit.....
I guess the phone turned liquid by the sun....
Does somebody ever experienced the same issue?
fone_fanatic said:
Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.
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I have a oil spot, and the raster of the phone with little dots in visible in the ligt.
I have made a repair order at HTC.
Which didn't satisfy me at all!
They told me that it is not covered by warranty. I was shocked, this will cost me around 70 euro to fix, and my shop warranty is still valid. So i called the shop to explain this.
And they said if this is not caused by a user, we will change the phone, but first we what to have a diagnose from HTC.
So i decided to let HTC pick up my phone . They will have a repair time of 5 up till 10 days.
That's fair, but i'm not really happy with this situation. Because i think that the screen is the most harmful component. And this means that if this part fails that my phone becomes obsolete.
I will post my conclusion after i got my phone repaired.
I will return to the STOCK spl and the original rom just for warranty purposes.
dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?
fone_fanatic said:
dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?
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Nope nothing happened at all.
Thats the strange thing about this situation.
I was in the shadow of the sun and the bags were only filled with clothes. So it didn't drop or something else.
I was able to use my phone during the day.... and was getting more unresponsive during the time that went by.
So i will not accept any blame of myself, due that i have a warranty of 1 year from the factory which will not cover your display :S
But also have the store warranty... So i told the store that i will return the phone if there are any costs.
The store told me that they will wait on the diagnose of HTC which i have sent it to myself to reduce the time.
If the diagnose tells that it's not my fault, then i can return my phone probably.... He couldn't promise it due that i want to see the diagnose first.
So I will wait on HTC's conclusion.... And i'm afraid that they will try to blame me for it....
They better not I will be a pain in there arses
Hello, I have exactly the same problem. After flashing from energyrom 3.0 to Aurora, a few hours later, i couldn't get my phone out of lock. (slide a button to the right or left on your touchscreen)
I tried a soft reset, but the phone started up with the same locked screen. So, i tried a hard reset. From that moment on i got stuck at "align screen". I ve flashed several times with several ROM's but nothing. (by the way, whatever rom i install, the first screen always says: Energyrom by NTGZ28)
I used the trick to paste welcome.not on the micro card, to bypass the align screen. That works, but the touch screen doesn't work. I 've removed the protection of the screen, but that doesn't make a difference either. My device didn't fall, came into contact with water or anything that could harm the thing. Oh, when the backlight is dimmed, the screen reacts to tapping it. Please help me out ??
resolt the issue. Because of a lot scraches (spelled ok?), i removed the protective screen. When i put the new screen on, everything worked !
hivesnl said:
I have a OIL spot
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i had does as well and then touch screen stopped working..
had to replace digitizer, unfortunately had to replace LCD screen and digitizer at the end (was not able to separate digitizer from LCD)

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?
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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.

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