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So I recently was on stock 4.4.2. Sometimes my screen would freeze, lines would go across the screen vertically & horizontally but I could still see some of the screen I was on. I would simply Hold Pwr VolUp VolDown and reboot and screen proceeded to work. Then i decided to goto Android L. I already had the 4.4.4 firmware but updated to the 5.0 firmware. I then installed the liquid smooth rom. This kept happening and eventually got scared and went back to the backup I had made of stock rom. Then I went to CM12. I liked it alot almost no bugs. But this kept happening. I later began to experience something different. Only vertical lines. Each time they are different. I once waited for it to boot and messed with the volume rockers and heard it go down and then vibrate. So im guessing system still works. I dont know where to go from here. Heres a pic of what Im getting when I try to startup.
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Sometimes it is a bit of blue on the side. I know my screen isnt fully dead because sometimes when it starts to decrease in brightness after I booted I touch it and brightness goes back up for a little. Also when I turn it off its black and when I turn it on its the vertical lines. They arent the same each time and sometimes when I boot they become just 4 or 5 fat vertical bars. I am S-off & rooted. I have ADB and fastboot but I never had plugged it into my computer on this rom so i never had time to allow it, but I did turn on usb debugging. I once made it to hbot, the top was a white color and I hit power, then VolDown three or two times and power again and it looked like it rebooted. I bought it from Amazon and their customer support is great. Anyway to get a new one without them knowing I messed with it? Did installing the custom rom trip anything? Last time I was in hboot it was Official and Unlocked. I didnt but it unlocked, it happened when I used firewater. Also if I smash my screen and sent it to HTC(Ive had it for only like ~40 days)would they go digging and find I had a custom rom and flip out on me? All help is appreciated. Also as stated above I believe I never tripped the tampered flag and do have a working nandroid backup. Thanks for your help

Just booted it again it was the lines again but it was red then went to black borders and some distinct purple lines

That happened to me on my LG G2 but thank god it was under warranty. My replacement was the M8 I'm using now and I haven't a problem yet..fingers crossed.
What happened with my G2 is it started to get really warm then the screen went bright bright white. Rebooted and I had permanent white vertical lines on my screen. After a couple days the few white lines became my whole screen.
I was also running a custom ROM when this happened so I'm not sure if it was something in the ROM that got it going or if it was the device itself. But our phones are different makers and brands with different ROMs.
Mine never recovered so thank god for the warranty. Wish you luck

tobesedated said:
That happened to me on my LG G2 but thank god it was under warranty. My replacement was the M8 I'm using now and I haven't a problem yet..fingers crossed.
What happened with my G2 is it started to get really warm then the screen went bright bright white. Rebooted and I had permanent white vertical lines on my screen. After a couple days the few white lines became my whole screen.
I was also running a custom ROM when this happened so I'm not sure if it was something in the ROM that got it going or if it was the device itself. But our phones are different makers and brands with different ROMs.
Mine never recovered so thank god for the warranty. Wish you luck
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Yea I called amazon yesterday at 10pm and im getting my replacement tomorrow.

vladniko said:
Yea I called amazon yesterday at 10pm and im getting my replacement tomorrow.
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That's good to hear

tobesedated said:
That's good to hear
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its rooted and soff do think amazon will care? i didnt trip the tampered flag

vladniko said:
its rooted and soff do think amazon will care? i didnt trip the tampered flag
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Honestly I doubt it. If the screen is shot there's really no way for them to even see it unless they want to be bothered to hook it up to adb. I had to take mine back in person to BestBuy...unlocked and everything...they saw the screen, tried a couple reboots and a battery pull (like I didn't lol), then checked for water and external damages but there were none so now I own an M8

Stuck in recovery/volume down stuck

So I dropped my phone in water a few days ago. After leaving it in rice overnight, nothing seemed wrong except for the fact that my volume down button didn't work half the time, and sometimes it would go off by itself (I would be browsing on my phone and suddenly the volume would go all the way down by itself, as if someone was holding the volume down button). The problem disappeared soon, so I forgot about it. But today, when I tried to change my volume, it wouldn't work at all, so I decided to restart the phone to see if that would fix it. Bad idea, because now no matter what, the phone always boots to recovery. It seems like my phone is registering that the volume button is always being held down, so every time I boot it up, it goes to recovery. Is there any way to bypass this? I can still press down on the button like I normally would be to, so it's not physically stuck.

Pop the back off of it and check the volume down tab to see if its physically stuck or not. The moisture may have caused some corrosion buildup in the tiny aluminum piece that gives it the spring back when released. If its stuck you can try and play with it to see if it'll come loose or try replacing the ribbon cable all together.
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18th.abn said:
Pop the back off of it and check the volume down tab to see if its physically stuck or not. The moisture may have caused some corrosion buildup in the tiny aluminum piece that gives it the spring back when released. If its stuck you can try and play with it to see if it'll come loose or try replacing the ribbon cable all together.
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Did you get yourself some Bacon? Haven't seen you since my early Evita days.
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Yep, frying bacon good to see a familiar face. I've been on nexus 5/6 forever and steered away from HTC/Samsung. The oneplus is hot tho, Google is going to need a miracle device to get me back! Asus has me sold tho, I'm 4sure grabbing one of their new zenphones to tear into and explore!!

18th.abn said:
Yep, frying bacon good to see a familiar face. I've been on nexus 5/6 forever and steered away from HTC/Samsung. The oneplus is hot tho, Google is going to need a miracle device to get me back! Asus has me sold tho, I'm 4sure grabbing one of their new zenphones to tear into and explore!!
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Yeah I love this phone, it's a real beast. You doing any dev work here?
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18th.abn said:
Pop the back off of it and check the volume down tab to see if its physically stuck or not. The moisture may have caused some corrosion buildup in the tiny aluminum piece that gives it the spring back when released. If its stuck you can try and play with it to see if it'll come loose or try replacing the ribbon cable all together.
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Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I've opened the back (which was painstakingly hard), and the button seems to be fine. It seems like there's no difference between that one and the other buttons - it still springs back up when pushed. What do you mean by replacing the ribbon cable? Any other ideas?

timmaaa said:
Yeah I love this phone, it's a real beast. You doing any dev work here?
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No, I come here and mostly just read thru the forums. My schedule isn't as nice as it used to be so I don't get to play much anymore. I'm looking forward to the zenphone tho because I'm thinking the x64 Intel processors will re-light some new excitement for me.
prolarbears said:
Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I've opened the back (which was painstakingly hard), and the button seems to be fine. It seems like there's no difference between that one and the other buttons - it still springs back up when pushed. What do you mean by replacing the ribbon cable? Any other ideas?
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I would probably remove the motherboard and sister board and give them a close look over for some sign of damage or corrosion and maybe use a q-tip with rubbing alcohol to wipe over any I find. Just don't get it on any around the base of the chipset. I think the ribbon cable is soldered to the board if I remember correctly so replacement would be difficult. If its not, replace it.

[Q] Nexus 5 Randomly Exploded

My Nexus 5 had been acting completely normally, I've had it for a bit over a year without any issues. One second I was messaging a friend, then I put it to sleep, a few minutes later I picked it up and the screen had completely freaked out.
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It is almost entirely unresponsive. I've tried turning it off and then back on, but it just reboots to this screen. Sometimes I can get it to go to the unlock screen, but it isn't responsive when I'm there, and eventually that screen just fades away into a blank gray (with this multicolored bar at the top remaining). Occasionally it will say "Optimizing apps", but then nothing happens after that.
Has anyone seen anything like this, know what caused it, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As of now I've taken out the sim card, and am going to wait until it runs out of battery to see if I can recharge it and reboot normally.

I'm a tad confused, in the picture I see one busted ass n5 lol but you say it boots up? When did you take that picture? It looks like the screen is done in.
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Ben Jake Griffiths said:
My Nexus 5 had been acting completely normally, I've had it for a bit over a year without any issues. One second I was messaging a friend, then I put it to sleep, a few minutes later I picked it up and the screen had completely freaked out.
It is almost entirely unresponsive. I've tried turning it off and then back on, but it just reboots to this screen. Sometimes I can get it to go to the unlock screen, but it isn't responsive when I'm there, and eventually that screen just fades away into a blank gray (with this multicolored bar at the top remaining). Occasionally it will say "Optimizing apps", but then nothing happens after that.
Has anyone seen anything like this, know what caused it, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As of now I've taken out the sim card, and am going to wait until it runs out of battery to see if I can recharge it and reboot normally.
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Custom recovery? Boot loader locked?
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I would assume the screen is tossed.. I had mine dropped and has 1cm of hairline cracked... Since then the screen went nuts sometimes perfectly ok and sometimes it acting crazy..

There's cracks in your screen, might as well replace the lcd & digitalizer

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There's cracks in your screen, might as well replace the lcd & digitalizer
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Good eye didn't notice looking at image on phone. On my PC u can see LCD is cracked hense the color bleed
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@Ben Jake Griffiths

Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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beaups said:
Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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Same

so, here's a quick rundown.
have had mine since nov '13.
always in great condition.
not a scratch.
then, out of nowhere (2 weeks ago) after trying to turn the screen back on from standby...nothing.
it automagically rebooted.
oooooook.
no biggie.
after reboot all was well.
for an hour.
then, turned right off in the middle of whatever i was doing.
just...poof. black screen.
wouldn't reboot.
plugged it in over night.
turned on the next day perfectly fine.
after a few minutes...blank screen.
HOWEVER, the led would throb.
then, at some point, the phone rang.
i could answer it with my headphones.
deactivated the phone from my account.
charged it over night.
vol+power and all manner of combos.
the one consistent thing that always happened was that my phone vibrated, followed by a similar colored pixelation as seen above.
sometimes just a line, other times the entire screen.
didn't take much to realise it was the panel combo.
outside of warranty.
so, sent it to lg. they agreed...panel issue. loose connection or bad connection, i'm assuming.
currently being repaired.
being shipped back by the end of this coming week, i hope.
* since my hunch was that it was just a panel issue...i was going to drop it off at one of many "the device shop" repair places (and, their ilk) where i live. however, after walking into a few of them...it's obvious that 90% of their business comes from iphones. they, barely knew what panel replacement they were looking for. they said they had one a few times only to have it turn out to be a nex 4, or some other panel, each time. they just seemed...well, let's just say i'm positive they can repair an iphone panel. anything more than that...i'd rather give it to my 12 yo cousin. same result. felt better sending it to LG.

And you posted that here?? Why
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beaups said:
Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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Flashing green/yellow when "charging" but not charging

Story time first, then the question.
Okay so I have a tablet I got replaced by the recall, and I'm going to say it - I'm not gentle with my devices. That's why I made sure to have a case on it at all times. The other day I was trying to pick up my tablet in the dark because I had put it on the floor for a second to get it out of the way to turn off the light to go to bed. I found the cable it was plugged into and slowly started picking it up by the cable. I know, I know, but it worked, almost. About three inches off the ground it came unplugged and dropped, then fell flat on the display side. When I tried to turn on the screen to use it (I'd done that before so I didn't think it would be a big deal. Besides, this is a tough little tablet - my brother left his on top of a car and drove off and when he got it back there was a little cosmetic damage and not even a cracked screen, even though it hit on the corner) the backlight came on, but nothing came on the display. So then I took it to a local repair place to get an evaluation done. The display cable had come unplugged, nothing more. Just needed to get plugged back in. For $30. HA! I took to the internet to find a teardown I could use to fix it myself and save the money. But the video I found didn't have any words, spoken or otherwise, so I ended up just having removed the battery and mobo and putting everything back in. Well, it worked. The display came back on and I had my tablet back. But the warning that my card wasn't in came up and when I figured it out, it turns out when I had lifted the mobo, the card slid out a little and when I put it back it snapped the card, so now I need a new one. But now once I put it back together there's a new problem. When I plug it in to charge, the led flashes green and yellow, but it doesn't actually charge. I guess I somehow knocked loose another cable or something while I was in there.
Okay now for the question.
Does anyone know of a diagram of the connections or a teardown that labels things I could use to more confidently get this tablet working again? I think I mainly just need to know where the charging circuit connections are. I'm pretty sure of which one I need to plug in correctly to make it work but I'm a little gunshy this time and would rather know for sure. The battery is down to 11% and it's off right now, but I use this thing too much to do without a tablet for long.

I got similar problem, my 3 year old son dropped his tablet couple of times accidentaly and suddenly we could not charge it anymore (orange/green flashing). I have a replacement battery prepared for my pyro tablet (his tablet is the replacement), so I decided to replace the battery. Once I opened the tablet (you can use this guide https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nvidia+Shield+Tablet+Battery+Replacement/50117) I found the green wire for the battery PCB detached from the main board . I soldered it and that's it, now it works again!
Now, I found that the new tablet is different that the one showed on ifixit, do you guys know what is that circuit installed on the tablet back cover?
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White horizontal lines across the screen?

Hello,
Lately I've been noticing that after some usage my phone starts showing white horizontal lines across the screen. This happens when I touch the screen a lot in a short period of time. So for example when I swipe across the screen as fast as I can for a good 30 seconds. The picture shown doesn't really represent how well you can see it with the naked eye. It's much more noticeable in real life.
What could cause this issue? And is it a software issue or could this lead to a permanent hardware issue that needs to be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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damanrico said:
Hello,
Lately I've been noticing that after some usage my phone starts showing white horizontal lines across the screen. This happens when I touch the screen a lot in a short period of time. So for example when I swipe across the screen as fast as I can for a good 30 seconds. The picture shown doesn't really represent how well you can see it with the naked eye. It's much more noticeable in real life.
What could cause this issue? And is it a software issue or could this lead to a permanent hardware issue that needs to be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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I suffer from the same flaw (and many others). It's more noticeable with some colors and also against darker backgrounds. Unfortunately it's a hardware problem that needs to be replaced. I guess that glass is not enough separated from the screen itself.

damanrico said:
Hello,
Lately I've been noticing that after some usage my phone starts showing white horizontal lines across the screen. This happens when I touch the screen a lot in a short period of time. So for example when I swipe across the screen as fast as I can for a good 30 seconds. The picture shown doesn't really represent how well you can see it with the naked eye. It's much more noticeable in real life.
What could cause this issue? And is it a software issue or could this lead to a permanent hardware issue that needs to be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
Unfortunately i have been having the same issue with my phone lately. Can i know what did you do about it?
Thanks in advance

Tarun.krthkr said:
Hi,
Unfortunately i have been having the same issue with my phone lately. Can i know what did you do about it?
Thanks in advance
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Nothing. It seems to be a hardware issue.
I'm now trying to send my phone back for warranty, but it seems like there's a shortage of new screens at the repair centre in The Netherlands.

I have had same problem but right now I cannot see these lines. They dissapeared, for now.
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Same problem here, sometimes i can see horizontal lines on darker colors. After a lock/unlock the lines are gone.

Anybody figured out for sure what causes this or had contact with HTC repair center and got a replacement or an answer as to what's going on ?

mine has the same problem after 4 months of use - will probably call the support
did you get yours fixed?

same problem here but doesnt bother me , strange to see

here is a pic of mine - today after 4 months of use it started appearing!

Hi, I have the same issue, three days after bought the smartphone. It shows this lines 8 times for two weeks ...
Anybody sent it to support warranty?

Same issue here, just started a couple weeks ago and hasn't gone away, even after a factory reset (to get that out of the way for when I take it in to my Sprint store.) Guess I'll see what Sprint says on Tuesday °¬°

Its a weird one. I got mine a couple days ago. I saw this for a couple mins when i first played with it. Bur havent seen it aftee using for hours since. Not sure if it is completely hardware. Weird how it can come and go

O just started getting this along with my ghost touch issues. This phone is a pos. My bootloader is unlocked as well. Anyone know HTC warranty coverage after that?

when i clean my phone with a microfiber cloth and i turn on the screen, i see the lines sometimes! maybe some pressure on some site and thats because the lines appears?

It seems to be a software issue.
The lines appear sometimes without any touching of the LCD and they also go away without any touching or pressure on the LCD ( thus we can conclude that it's not the digitizer ).

I dont think so, my wife has the same phone and hers phone doesnt make it.

Mine does it too!
I made a post about it weeks ago because I had the same issue and was actually in here looking for it.
If I turn the phone upside down and wipe the whole phone I have white lines across my display.

Seems like my educated guess on it being a software issue ( bug ) and not a hardware issue ( bad application/mount of the digitizer ) was right.
Can't get these horizontal lines to appear again no matter what I do since the Oreo update on my u11.

Hi mates,
After my device have received the last update (Android Oreo 8.0) this problem disappeared. The same was happening with you?