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Broken screen

OK, heres the deal..
Yesterday I managed to crack the bottom-left corner of my BA screen (damn medkit shifted onto it in my car glovebox ).
As i was checking to see how much of the screen was still responsive (seemed OK, still usable, only the 'New' button and the bottom item of the menu didnt work) the battery died (as in completely, hard reset died)..
So i plug in the power, and start the familiar initial setup. I get to the callibrate screen screen and am unable to continue..
So my question is: Is there any way to bypass the calibrate screen section of the initial setup? Im pretty sure enough of the screen still works for the device to function, if only i could get past this damned calibration screen..
Clearly i cannot bypass it completely, as the screen does need to be calibrated - but is there any way I can recover my BA?
Cheers All

Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=1910
or this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6855
Also, if you can still see the image it means that only the digitizer (touch sensitive part) is broken, and not the screen so it shouldn't cost to much to replace.
And remember - search is your friend! :wink:

This might be a bit toooo late, but just in case some one is stuck with a broken screen as dabs and I were.
I received a k-jam (lucky me, it was for free) with a broken touch screen, it was left uncharged for a long time so after charging it, it entered the unwelcomed welcome mode (you know, align, copy, time zone ...) and there were no way of passing this part of initialization.
I had to do some search over the net, and I found a good article here ((Can I use a PDA that has a broken touch screen)) http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?m=200510 which advised the use of "RemoteCalibration.exe" directly from the pc. This killed the welcome.exe program and I managed to re-use the K-jam again. The only draw back about this way is that I will have to connect the K-jam to a pc every time I hard reset, I hope there is a way to do the same action via mini sd cards.
After that, I installed fakecursor (but I'm looking for a better sw to emulate the touch screen function as this one cancels most hardware buttons on the devise) but at the moment, I'm using all the k-jam's functions.
Hope this would be of help to some one out there

landscape mode often shut down and auto flip

hello to everyone,
i would like to expose the problem that afflict my htc touch pro aka raphael, often when i have to write and i switch on the built-in keyboard the procedure seems to go correctly, the landscape flip, the keyboard lits and everything gonna fine until while digiting few digits the keyboards unlit, the screen flips in normal mode and never return to landscape, but the keyboard after few instants returns lit.
i know that probably, not surely, it's a hardware fault, like a fake contact, but opening the phone, the fast contact seems to be in good state, i placed a tap of insulation scotch to make sure that the connector, on the sliding moment doesn't go out from the socket on the board; the conductive mylar seems all connected on the whole surfaces and now i'm breaking my head and that effect annoy me too much and i'm near to practicin' the throwning phone sports...
maybe someone of you had thesame or a similar problem and solved it?
i precise that the phone is a de-brandized one, there is no more warranty cause i bought it by 2nd hand and the problem wasn't present 1 month ago..
any suggestion?

Raphael typing issues(keyboard button problems), volume down button stuck

Problems that I cannot find on google. Not sure if it's due to wear & tear. Not sure what's the problem, suddenly having this problem all the time. This phone's slightly less than 1.5 years. Anyone got the same issues? What's caused this? Using it for a year with no problems, problems only arose these 3 months!
Mods installed:
Raphael Keyboard Controller GSM/CDMA v1.4 (mapped quite a few keys to apps)
DredSensor (use it only when i activate manila. Now i dont use manila so it's disabled)
mobileSRC Gscroll (disabled. of no use to me)
1.
Volume down key got stuck, the clicking mechanism is spoilt, but pressing it down very hard & sometimes volume down works. But this is very problematic as i have to press volume up & see the volume control on the screen before i can lower the volume.
2.
Keyboard keys giving problems. (wiring problems? or the button problems?)
Caps lock: double presses although i press it once
Space: Does not space although i press it. works 50% of the time is very frustrating to type!
Backspace: Same as Space
FN: Same as Space but only 20% of the time
Right direction key: Same problem as space!

Help?
Anyone has this issue??

Help
Uninstalled Gscroll & keyboard config. Soft resetted. I only noticed the phone speed increase slightly as the keyboard config takes up a lot of cpu power, and about 10MB of RAM. The keys still are giving me the same problems.

Still facing this issue. Anyone could help?

I have similar issues. Double space-ing, "b" "v" "ctrl" gets doubled or not pressed at all. I thought soft reset would help, but since you already did that, I guess it's
wonderous said:
Not sure if it's due to wear & tear.
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this.
What I am wondering about is whether to try waranty repair.

I have gone through two fuzes with keyboard issues. As long as water tab is fine warranty should work fine for it. My carrier and maybe HTC seem to be in complete control of determining if it is the physical damage (your fault) and null and voiding the warranty.
Anyway your issue would sound hardware related to me. In which case you can try warranty, insurance, or repair. Repair is not as simple as replacing just the keyboard, I believe you need the whole case. Unless I a mistaken that was roughly $140 USD when I tried to find one for myself.

I think I might have found the solution,
The thread mentioned quite a number of people who's keyboard/keys stopped working after they dropped their raphael
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=62876&highlight=keyboard+replacement
Seems like there some wires lying underneath the keyboard (one of them under the center of the keyboard (g, h, v, b keys). Pressing down hard on these keys might press the wire back to it's intact position. I tried that & now my space bar works fine, although the other keys remain problematic..
Let me see if opening up and reconnecting the wire properly would solve this problems..
We should avoid dropping this phone as much as possible, i dont think HTC put much effort into their drop tests, this phone is way too heavy to survive drops Imo

HTC TP2 touchscreen capability is gone

I have a huge situation with my Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 phone. A couple of weeks ago I found out I accidentally slept on top on my phone after waking up. I go to use my phone, but to find out the touch screen doesn't work, but it displays everything fine. At close inspection on the screen, I discovered a black dot. I guess that is where the pressure point was at. It looks like a pool of water. It grew to about two inch in length over the weeks. I can't do anything, but call and receive phone calls. I cant text people because I need to press send with my finger or stylus. Its like this for many applications. I need to press the bottom buttons on the screen to things. There are no keyboard shortcuts for these buttons. Is there a work around anybody know of?

KevRox415 said:
I have a huge situation with my Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 phone. A couple of weeks ago I found out I accidentally slept on top on my phone after waking up. I go to use my phone, but to find out the touch screen doesn't work, but it displays everything fine. At close inspection on the screen, I discovered a black dot. I guess that is where the pressure point was at. It looks like a pool of water. It grew to about two inch in length over the weeks. I can't do anything, but call and receive phone calls. I cant text people because I need to press send with my finger or stylus. Its like this for many applications. I need to press the bottom buttons on the screen to things. There are no keyboard shortcuts for these buttons. Is there a work around anybody know of?
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You may be able to use a program to assign soft key functions to hardware functions (HButton for example), but your screen is busted. You could try to get it repaired (maybe buy a new digitizer from eBay and do it yourself if you know how to do it).
Good luck.

I believe the issue is what is called newton rings, which was a big problem with the TD2's. Here is a link to a thread that should explain it.
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612301

KevRox415 said:
I have a huge situation with my Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 phone. A couple of weeks ago I found out I accidentally slept on top on my phone after waking up. I go to use my phone, but to find out the touch screen doesn't work, but it displays everything fine. At close inspection on the screen, I discovered a black dot. I guess that is where the pressure point was at. It looks like a pool of water. It grew to about two inch in length over the weeks. I can't do anything, but call and receive phone calls. I cant text people because I need to press send with my finger or stylus. Its like this for many applications. I need to press the bottom buttons on the screen to things. There are no keyboard shortcuts for these buttons. Is there a work around anybody know of?
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SAME EXACT THING JUST HAPPENED TO ME, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Screen and reset help

Trying to get my sons unit to work, first thing was the screen was unresponsive, I read to try a factory reset, seeing as the touch would work, I tried the volume/power button. After many attempts I finally got that to work.
navigated around with the volume button and selected reset. Now I am stick in the select Language which I can do but cannot continue as the next button is unresponsive.
I am think of trying to get a new screen etc .. would it just be the glass or both screen and glass . (if someone could clarify which and what to order)
sorry if I am totally stupid android etc is new... been a windows man for many years

Open it up and see if any cables have come loose, they are renowned for pulling out the display cable if they are dropped, possible it could affect touch too
The display cable is wrapped around the battery, which shifts when dropped, and pulls the cable out

sounds like a good idea, as I got him to own up to having dropped it and the back un snapped. will check that out tomorrow. thanks

I found one flat cable with the lock clip up, tried again got a lot of the touch working, just the bottom 3 back-home etc that will not respond. wonder if I have missed something like another cable or something.

I'd hazard a guess that it would be that one cable, maybe not fully making contact with the port it was pulled out of, I'd try fiddling with it more, see if it changes the places touch isn't working
Also check that the cable isn't damaged, they are pretty thin, possible it has ripped inside the shielding
Sounds like you're on the right track though
Check that it is not just those three navigation buttons not working, such as the whole bottom 1cm of the screen - rotate the screen, see if the touch points are dead in the same places
And I'm not 100% about this, but check if the screen end of that cable is removable too

thanks my friend, yea I rotated the screen several times and those three will not work. I did have a funny effect before I did another reset. I would try and press the reset in settings and the wi-fi settings would open. lolol after playing around I finally got it to work. I will keep fiddling.
2nd eldest daughter handed me her ipod with a lovely pattern of cracked glass.. so ipod added to my list.

Oh the joys of kids and expensive tech!
If the buttons won't work in any orientation, it sounds more like a ROM issue for that problem, if it was touch, the same part of the screen wouldn't work in any orientation, meaning the navigation buttons should work in either portrait or landscape, whichever is the opposite of the non working orientation
Good luck