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Random Black Screen

Recently my S710 developed an annoying habit of having its screen randomly go black. It's not that the screen actually goes off, since there is still a back light and you can still see very faint image of what should be on screen if you look at it from a certain angle, but not enough for it to be useable.
It started happening after I flashed my rom to Gonzo's Mona Lisa, but I think that's more coincidence than anything else, since it happens with all the ROMs I've tried.
It's not a constant thing, either. It doesn't happen when I do anything in particular. I have noticed, weirdly, that when it does happen while I'm trying to write a text message, turning on caps makes the screen visible. As soon as I press anything else, it goes blank again. I usually just have to wait for it to return by itself. This is, as you can imagine, pretty annoying when you're trying to write messages.
I hate to think this, but reckon it's a hardware problem? I am really loathe to send it in for repair, I'm sure it will cost a fortune.

Hi i got the same trouble,
it became too anoying to use the phone
but the only solution is to bring it back to repair center because they have to change the mainboard and then you get an new IMEI number too.
hope you still have a warranty of the cellphone on it because it's almost the price of the phone if you wanna to be fixed the problem.
LiquidAx

Have you installed Mesh?
I have noticed that this only happens when the Mesh client is running.

networkguy said:
Have you installed Mesh?
I have noticed that this only happens when the Mesh client is running.
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No dont know even "Mesh" so i m sure it was because the hardware, so decided after 2 month of having the problem to bring it back to the store and there they send it to a repair services after 4 weeks i got it back with a new front cover and new lcd module but the problem was still there and i had to wait another 4 weeks to get it back from the repair service and then like i said in my first post i got a new mainboard with a fresh new IMEI Now i m back with a new phone but i waited 8 weeks
so i dont think it's because a software . Because i tested 2 month before sending it to fix the problem (with warranty )
LiquidAx

Hm, How long is warranty? A year? In that case, I do have a warranty. Sounds like this is gonna be a rollercoaster ride, especially considering how reluctant people in my country are to do anything without trying to make it seem like it was your fault.

If you want to take advantage of the warranty, you will have to flash back the original ROM of course.

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If you want to take advantage of the warranty, you will have to flash back the original ROM of course.
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Yes you have to restaure the original flash, and the warranty is 2 year because mine it had 1 year and 3 month old when i to it to the repair service
for the problem they can not fix it in another way i m sure of that so i guess it's not your fault at all or you have to ask a new one
hope you will go ASAP to the repair service
LiquidAx

Oh, I have flashed back to an original HTC rom just out of curiousity that it might fix it . Thanks, I'm sure I'm on a pretty big mission here.

Captivate with soft button issues.

Hey guys I'm posting today because I have a little problem or a huge problem I should say at this point. Anyways, I've owned a Captivate since they first came out a couple months ago. I've never had any problems with mine up until about 2 or 3 months ago when the phone started doing something weird. The bottom row of soft buttons on the phone will press themselves. Now only the back button and home button press themselves. The problem started out around the time I flashed Serendipity for the first time (not blaming the rom) I noticed the buttons would press themselves randomly at times and it started out slow, maybe once or twice a day and it didn't really annoy me. Flash forward to today and my phone is practically unusable because of this problem. Any time I wake the device from sleep the home and back buttons will rapidly press themselves over and over and over until I furiously tap either button to get the buttons to stop pressing themselves.
The problem will restart itself about 30 seconds after stopping it and It never stops. I've tried numerous re-flashes with no avail. At first I thought the problem was caused by a bad flash on my part because the problem started after I had just flashed a new rom. But I've known for a while now that wasn't the case. I've never dropped this phone or submerged it in water. This problem just popped up out of the blue one day and never went away.
Do I have a defective phone?
Thanks for the help.

Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.

how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.

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Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.
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I'll try the rice thing, can't believe I've never thought of that. I've never dropped water on the phone but it has been in the bathroom with me when I've taken showers or what not. Thanks for the idea.
TRusselo said:
how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.
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My GPS does indeed suck, It takes about 5-10 minutes to get a lock on anything sitting outside. My phones still under warranty until this November so I think if I don't solve the problem soon I'll just get a new one.
Does ATT upgrade the phone to a newer version if you replace it with the warranty? I might hold out until ATT releases the Cappy 4g or whatever they're going to call it.

WTF is wrong with this phone?

Hey guys.. So I've had my inspire for about 2 or 3 months now, and this thing is driving me apeshhh. Here is why...
For a few weeks now, the phone would randomly restart in the middle of doing something, always random. Sometimes while writing a msg in the stock facebook app. Sometimes when browsing market, sometimes when browsing using the web browser. Today I wanted to download Astro to see if the music I put on the phone went to external or internal SD. As soon as the download finished, the phone restarted. After it booted back up I looked through apps, and it never installed. I went back to market and searched it, pulled it up, and it shows installing.... let it sit for 5 minutes... nothing. Restarted, same thing. Pulled the battery... same thing... I can't cancel it, or try again. It will now no longer install anything else.
I figured maybe it needs to download something that it just doesn't have the network speed to use, and trying turning on wifi. IT WONT EVEN TURN ON. Under the settings menu to turn it on, it says error. When i tap on it, the error msg just goes off then comes back right away.
Anybody else experience this? I really wish SOMEBODY would come out with a decent f**king phone on the AT&T network.... I guess I can now add HTC to the list of people that can't build a decent phone. Just below Samsung... (What a POS line of phones they have released).
Anyway, phone is stock, not rooted, nothing turned off, completely stock.
How does the warrenty work now? I bought the phone outright, cash, $500... for this....
Thanks for any help.

Could be your phone mate. I've had this phone maybe about three months and haven't experienced those issues. Just might be a lemon you have. Where did you purchase the phone?
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I bought the phone at an authorized AT&T retailer store. The kind you find in common shopping strips.

Try to see if they will give you a replacement
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GTIVRon said:
Hey guys.. So I've had my inspire for about 2 or 3 months now, and this thing is driving me apeshhh. Here is why...
For a few weeks now, the phone would randomly restart in the middle of doing something, always random. Sometimes while writing a msg in the stock facebook app. Sometimes when browsing market, sometimes when browsing using the web browser. Today I wanted to download Astro to see if the music I put on the phone went to external or internal SD. As soon as the download finished, the phone restarted. After it booted back up I looked through apps, and it never installed. I went back to market and searched it, pulled it up, and it shows installing.... let it sit for 5 minutes... nothing. Restarted, same thing. Pulled the battery... same thing... I can't cancel it, or try again. It will now no longer install anything else.
I figured maybe it needs to download something that it just doesn't have the network speed to use, and trying turning on wifi. IT WONT EVEN TURN ON. Under the settings menu to turn it on, it says error. When i tap on it, the error msg just goes off then comes back right away.
Anybody else experience this? I really wish SOMEBODY would come out with a decent f**king phone on the AT&T network.... I guess I can now add HTC to the list of people that can't build a decent phone. Just below Samsung... (What a POS line of phones they have released).
Anyway, phone is stock, not rooted, nothing turned off, completely stock.
How does the warrenty work now? I bought the phone outright, cash, $500... for this....
Thanks for any help.
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Back up your stuff and factory reset. If that doesn't work then either Root it and try a different ROM or get a replacement phone.

You might want to look at the thread in here about random shutdowns. It looks like the batteries on these phones can be the culprit. My phone randomly shutdown, sometimes restarted. I thought it was a ROM I had loaded at first. The problem got progressively worse no matter what ROM I used. It would do it maybe once a day & then within less than 3 weeks I have to keep it plugged in all the time. It happened when I opened a power-intensive app like navigation or a game. The battery is covered under warranty.

This issue seems to be rather uncommon, but it does exist.
Nothing compared to what Captivate owners went through.
Lemons do happen, but as suggested, I'd try another battery first. If that doesn't solve the problem, there shouldn't be any issue with getting a warranty replacement.
And that warranty replacement will, with near certainty, be a good one. Again, unlike the Captivate.

I've had mine for about 3 months with none of these issues. HTC phones for me have been great. Even their customer service and support if their products. And I have had Samsung,motorolla, and LG none at the same level of build quality. If you continue having problems get in touch with the HTC support they will help if not let u know if you can get a replacement.
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I am a former captivate owner. That phone was so bad that it destroyed it's own internal memory. Every app continously force close, every process, upon startup one day. Restored a backup, got nothing, reflashed, got nothing, mounted it and formated it then ran a memory checking utility on my computer with it, and it showed like 46% of the sectors being bad, after then 2nd test somewhere in the high 50s. I promtly punched in the screen and folded the phone in half, and tore it into 2 pieces... So i think that may be why I'm relatively patient with this phone.. (that was also my 3rd captivate replacement). (Debating using a picture of the phone as-is in a DIY to fixing captivates and post it in that forum... get all your frustration out and buy a new phone.. ha ha.)
I will call HTC and see talk to a rep, maybe they know more about the problem and will be able to determine whether the phone or the battery is at fault.
Also, factory reset did not fix the wifi problem. Instead of immediately going back to error under it's status, and spent about 10 seconds trying to connect, then came up with error. This leads me to believe it's hardware related.
I will most likely push for a replacement phone then. I do have a concern with that though... My phone has never gotten wet, and only has a small indication of falling out of my pocket while sitting in a stadium chair (maybe a 12 inch drop onto concrete). Will this void my warrenty? The scar left behind is hardly noticeable, but if they looked for it, it will be seen. Another thing is, when I pull my battery cover off, there are 2 screws along the side, one is covered by a sticker that reads VOID, black sticker with white text. Is that some kind of indicator of water damage? I'm more familiar with white stickers turning red or pink from water damage... and as said, this phones never been wet.
Thanks again for the help.

At&t is usually good about replacing defective phones and will be faster than dealing with htc. You obviously have experience with at&t warranty having owned a captivate.

GTIVRon said:
I am a former captivate owner. That phone was so bad that it destroyed it's own internal memory. Every app continously force close, every process, upon startup one day. Restored a backup, got nothing, reflashed, got nothing, mounted it and formated it then ran a memory checking utility on my computer with it, and it showed like 46% of the sectors being bad, after then 2nd test somewhere in the high 50s. I promtly punched in the screen and folded the phone in half, and tore it into 2 pieces... So i think that may be why I'm relatively patient with this phone.. (that was also my 3rd captivate replacement). (Debating using a picture of the phone as-is in a DIY to fixing captivates and post it in that forum... get all your frustration out and buy a new phone.. ha ha.)
I will call HTC and see talk to a rep, maybe they know more about the problem and will be able to determine whether the phone or the battery is at fault.
Also, factory reset did not fix the wifi problem. Instead of immediately going back to error under it's status, and spent about 10 seconds trying to connect, then came up with error. This leads me to believe it's hardware related.
I will most likely push for a replacement phone then. I do have a concern with that though... My phone has never gotten wet, and only has a small indication of falling out of my pocket while sitting in a stadium chair (maybe a 12 inch drop onto concrete). Will this void my warrenty? The scar left behind is hardly noticeable, but if they looked for it, it will be seen. Another thing is, when I pull my battery cover off, there are 2 screws along the side, one is covered by a sticker that reads VOID, black sticker with white text. Is that some kind of indicator of water damage? I'm more familiar with white stickers turning red or pink from water damage... and as said, this phones never been wet.
Thanks again for the help.
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Those stickers are intact right? As long as their intact and not "punched in," which would indicate a screwdriver has penetrated in order to get the phone open, you should be good, as far as that's concerned.

Uhh well bad luck for you... I dont think this is a common problem...
Im guessing the iphone is on top of your list xD
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A700 Touch Stops Responding

So, I just got my A700-32GB and it started out great but for some reason it started not responding to any touch after a few minutes. If I hit the power button to let it sleep and hit it again to power it up, it responds again for about a minute and then stops again. I did a factory reset and it works but after about 5 mins of use it does it again. Anyone else run into that prob? Well, needless to say, Acer wants me to send it in so I will be back to my A500 for a week...That sucks, but I'd rather have a working unit. I didn't have any problem with my A500, hope I didn't get a lemon.

They fixed it...So they say.
So, I sent the device back and monitored the status on the support site. Took 2 days to get there. 1 day later the status changed to resolved. I was supposed to get a follow up email with a tracking number but no dice. I looked it up and it listed resolved but no tracking number so I called. The guy was a tool from an India call center. He was hard to understand and it seemed like he didn't understand what I was asking. I got the tracking number after asking about 5 times. Then I asked if they found what was the matter with it. His response was, "It was a problem with the digitizer so they reset the software." So I asked if it a hardware problem and he said, "No" I asked to clarify if it was a problem with the digitizer hardware and or the OS and he said, "no, we reset the software." So, I hope I get back a working device that isn't going to crap out. It is scheduled to get here on Monday.
Wish me luck. I'll post my findings... Things were SOLID with the A500, I hope they didn't just screw this product up. I like my A500
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So, I just got my A700-32GB and it started out great but for some reason it started not responding to any touch after a few minutes. If I hit the power button to let it sleep and hit it again to power it up, it responds again for about a minute and then stops again. I did a factory reset and it works but after about 5 mins of use it does it again. Anyone else run into that prob? Well, needless to say, Acer wants me to send it in so I will be back to my A500 for a week...That sucks, but I'd rather have a working unit. I didn't have any problem with my A500, hope I didn't get a lemon.
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Got an update for you all. So, I got the device back and the " Diagnosis/Repair" said that they reseated the digitizer cable and it fixed the problem. Well, it didn't!. It worked for about 5 mins and after that it started crapping out again. I called them and REAMED them a new one and they had to discuss it with a supervisor and they escalated me to the next level. Which means, my call got transfered from India to Texas.
After about 30 mins of walking the technician through my frustation, he sent me another Fedex Ground label (7days) and told me that he would ship it back Express (2 Days) after they repair it.
The "Diagnosis/Repair" this time says "Replaced mainboard and LCD module. All systems tested good." So, I turn it on and it is asking me if I want to updated the device. I canceled it for now to test it out and it seems to work fine.
So, does anyone think it might be the update that caused the issue? Should I try running the update? Anyone hear about the update causing a system hang?

cipmd said:
Got an update for you all. So, I got the device back and the " Diagnosis/Repair" said that they reseated the digitizer cable and it fixed the problem. Well, it didn't!. It worked for about 5 mins and after that it started crapping out again. I called them and REAMED them a new one and they had to discuss it with a supervisor and they escalated me to the next level. Which means, my call got transfered from India to Texas.
After about 30 mins of walking the technician through my frustation, he sent me another Fedex Ground label (7days) and told me that he would ship it back Express (2 Days) after they repair it.
The "Diagnosis/Repair" this time says "Replaced mainboard and LCD module. All systems tested good." So, I turn it on and it is asking me if I want to updated the device. I canceled it for now to test it out and it seems to work fine.
So, does anyone think it might be the update that caused the issue? Should I try running the update? Anyone hear about the update causing a system hang?
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Holy cr*p, why doesn't Acer just send you a new device? It's a lot faster, easier, customer-friendly and probably much cheaper.
The update is probably JB, which changes (fixes) the touch response. But since Acer replaced the whole motherboard and LCD (why not the friggin' touchscreen itself?), it should be nothing to worry about updating. Some people (US peeps mainly) are having trouble with the update yeah, but it should go well and if it doesn't, the tablet will (or should ) revert to the state before updating.
Good luck.

cipmd said:
Got an update for you all. So, I got the device back and the " Diagnosis/Repair" said that they reseated the digitizer cable and it fixed the problem. Well, it didn't!. It worked for about 5 mins and after that it started crapping out again. I called them and REAMED them a new one and they had to discuss it with a supervisor and they escalated me to the next level. Which means, my call got transfered from India to Texas.
After about 30 mins of walking the technician through my frustation, he sent me another Fedex Ground label (7days) and told me that he would ship it back Express (2 Days) after they repair it.
The "Diagnosis/Repair" this time says "Replaced mainboard and LCD module. All systems tested good." So, I turn it on and it is asking me if I want to updated the device. I canceled it for now to test it out and it seems to work fine.
So, does anyone think it might be the update that caused the issue? Should I try running the update? Anyone hear about the update causing a system hang?
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Well Mate, I have a 701. Long story, but it's my second 701. First was bricked due to a faulty CWM recovery.
As with all reported issues with ICS (initial build) touch screen will "lag" at certain times. Not totally unresponsive, but required 2 or 3 times selecting an icon for example. This I saw myself on occasion. So you were not seeing things
With the JB update, it seems these issues have mostly been fixed. I was prompted as soon as I started (my second tab), but waited till I filled out the Wizard. And checked to make sure things were normal. Then I did the update to JB.
Also know this, some icons in apps, require you to touch the point, in a slightly "offcenter manner". Like the refresh button on the Acer weather widget. Not sure if this is a widget/app programming error in the widget itself, or is caused by the 70x digitizer. Doesn't do it with all apps though.
Go for the update.
MD

[Q] Nexus 5 issues

Hello everyone!
So I bought the Nexus 5 about 2 months ago and it occasionally would hang and I would need to force reboot it. I found out Slimkat was very stable and fast so I flashed that almost immediately. I had absolutely no problems until after the 4.4.3 update, which quite literally, a few days after, my phone emitted an odd noise (almost like the N64/NES freeze noise) and shut off. It would refuse to reboot. I contacted my carrier and they told me it'd be 150 to replace it. I decided to try and fix it.
I used a toolkit to put everything stock on the phone.
Now, I'm running 4.4.2 OTA. I'm still having frequent crashes with the same noise. After a crash it takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes for the phone to actually boot.
It essentially boots, shows the Google screen and freezes there or just completely goes black.
Or, it goes into the bootanimation and freezes or goes black.
I finally got a logcat though and have two separate lists. The errors and the whole logcat.
Error log: http://pastebin.com/ZTwJXntG
Full logcat: http://pastebin.com/2DNy99b2
If anyone could provide insight and possibly a way to fix this, it would be very appreciated. I don't have 150 dollars to fix this right now lol

Why would it cost $150 to replace it? It should be covered under warranty with Google/LG, not your carrier.

Pirateghost said:
Why would it cost $150 to replace it? It should be covered under warranty with Google/LG, not your carrier.
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I bought it from my carrier and have insurance. I work in an industrial setting and my screen cracked, so they require it to go through the insurance which has a 150$ deductible. I doubt my warranty will cover a hardware/software fault with a cracked screen.

No one has any idea?

your logs dont tell me much, its just a plain logcat. what would be helpful for me is a last_kmsg. you would grab one of these AFTER it shutdown by itself or reboots. at least it would show why exactly it shut down or rebooted.