Hi Folks,
Sad news, I dropped my Play the other day and cracked the glass cover on the screen. but still the touch screen works fine. So I decided to buy glass replacement on Amazon and fix it myself. After juggling with the new screen whole night, only more problems occurred.
First is that the new screen won't boot into Android. The phone starts up and displays fine but it stayed at "Sony Ericsson" screen for a long long time without moving onto "Android" screen. I thought it was because Verizon, as a control freak, has a hardware lock on the glass (the glass does have electrical connection to the mb.) So when I swapped back the old screen, the phone worked fine.
So the first problem is that OEM glass don't seem to work on Verizon phone. Is that possible? or is there a way to bypass that?
Then the big issue occurred after trying put the new screen on for the second time. It displays only white noise like screen and seemed to stay that way.
Now I am like OMFG. The whole phone just died on me. Does anyone know what caused this messed up screen? what is the best way to fix it?
Thanks a million!
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Ok so i walked into my desk at work last week and cracked the LCD - i had already puchased a new digitiser as my screen was getting pretty scratched up so i figured i'd simply buy a new LCD and take the phone and new parts round the corner to my local phone shop who were happy to replace my screen and return the next day.. great.
Fast foward and now i have a BIG problem. The new LCD doesnt seem to work once the phone has booted. SO, when you turn the phone on you get the usual windows boot screen with the rom info in red in the bottom corner (im using Monx's latese 6.5 rom). After that though it all goes Pete Tong, when then alignment wizard starts the screen goes nuts, flickering like an old TV and not displaying a steady image. The guys at the store say the phone is damaged from the knock to the screen however before I did a hard reset and removed my sim and SD card the parts of the LCD that were still able to display the today screen etc were showing everything correctly and flicker free and even allowed me full touch control with the stylus.
I basically need some advice from people who know a thing or two about replacing Touch Pro screens. Despite what the shop guys say i suspect that my screen is not compaitble with my Touch Pro which is originally a UK Vodafone but i now live in Canada and got the new LCD from the States. The person who sold me the LCD said it was compatible with all Touch Pros & Diamonds, but then he would say that wouldnt he!
My options are either buy another LCD and hope that does the trick or bite the bullet and get a new crappy canadian contract and a new handset. please help me ive tried the search and cant find anything that helps me and im desperate for a solution!
Cheers
Its a LCD issue what you got, my guess is that the person at the store either gave you a faulty one or its a duplicate lcd,also cleaning the LCD connector with alcohol would be a good idea.Its very rare that in the Diamond/Touch Pro category the connector to get damaged.
Hello all.
Any help would be appreciated
I've had my nexus for a while and ended up cracking the glass on the screen.
While the digitizer was still working, i planned on fixing it whenever I had the chance to.
As few weeks later, I took a nice chunck out of the screen (Which still left the half of the screen working)
I knew a complete screen replacement would cost around ~$120 at the time I bought one.
My mentality is that buying a complete screen w/ frame of ebay would be cheaper then sending it back to Google and/or LG.
Which I should've done.
But anyways, my arrogance drove me to buy this.
Delivery was swift, and suddenly got to work as soon as I came home.
Disassembled my nexus (Surprisingly easy) and attach my new screen.
When I powered up my phone, i was greeted with this .
This kind of upset me, but the fact that everything was working compared to how the screen was previously blinded me from troubleshooting the issue.
What got me, if you zoom into the top right of the screen, is there is an natural curve/crack inside the lcd which leads me to believe that my new screen wasn't 100% working.
This bar was constantly there. Not of the most annoyance, but still was there.
Fast forward a few days, then all hell breaks loose. Previously with my old screen, I had red bars/line run vertically on the screen, almost blinding the actual content.
Then this started happening with the new one. At this point, the coincidence led me to believe that the circuitry in the on-board was damaged as well.. OR the new screen has the same exact issue. Which i believed to be less likely.
I closely inspected my on-board through-out my phone, and noticed no damage. (At least at visible level)
As days went on, the effect got worse. Whenever I'd lock my phone, and turn it back on, the streaks were gone.
Then slowly faded back after a few seconds of having the lcd on.
I've already spent $110 on a new screen, which didn't end up working.
I've probably voided my warranty by having done it myself (Regret it completely)
Ebay seller requires returns to be shipped back in the state it was, which im sure i've thrown out the box that contained some stickers etc. that were initially on the new screen.
What should I do? My phone contract is up in two months. Should I get another nexus 5 with the 6 being already out?
Should I send this to LG/Google ? (i bought it through the play store)
Should I give up on this 90% functional phone?
Should I send back the dysfunctional screen? (But it also could be the on-board causing issues)
Im a Canadian user on Fido.
Thank you for your time
So I woke up today and my 4 day old Xperia Z3 was perfect. Then after being at work for two hours I checked my phone and there was a tiny single crack across the bottom right corner. I have never dropped the phone or anything so I have no idea how it could crack. Then I also noticed that the bottom half of the touch screen was completely unresponsive. And it still it. I cant pull up any of the apps on the bottom of my screen. Anyone know why this is happening?! One tiny crack shouldn't cause this! What can I do?
Looks like your device was bumped and broken even without notice, I'm afraid you'll have to replace a new touchscreen. Here are the DIY tutorial guide and part for your reference:
Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=levTY6Ixxl8
Replacement: http://www.etradesupply.com/sony-xperia-z3-digitizer-touch-screen.html
BTW, this is a sub-forum about Z3+, not Z3.
Hello. My screen cracked last week so i decided to buy new digitizer with frame and replace it on my own. I bought it for 35$. Replacmet went smoth, but screen didnt seem to work. Phone is booting and its loading android, I'm able to spot it couse there is a sound when I press volume up or down or try to make screenshot, but all those sound are delayed about 2s. Screen just display only one color at the time, its changing for another one for every ~10s. I was wondering if I bought crappy screen or i messed up something with wires?
Does the old screen display an image? If it does , reinstall the old screen to see if the images are properly displayed. If they are properly displayed, looks like the replacement screen is not good.
Sadly, old screen doesnt work. I was excepting that new screen may be the case, but i'm worried about lag after adjusting a volume. It may may be coused by screen?
Sounds to me like you have received a defective screen. Contact the seller to get a replacement.
I had a repair shop try to fix my broken glass and they managed to screen up the whole display. According to them the glass and screen are integrated and they tried a second screen in case their first was just defective and it didn't work. Ultimately they blamed something like the PMCI port/card???
Anyway, they replaced the phone with a new one. The old one still works as my smart watch is still paired to it and I get alerts etc from it. So internally it seems all good, but the screen itself is just toast. So I have what seems to be a good phone but with no display.
What cool things can I do with it?
Is there a way to "hack" into it without the screen? In other words side-load something using only the physical buttons? For example boot into recovery mode and then click down 3 times and then... yaddie yadda.
I'm just trying to figure out if this thing is totally a lost cause or if I can still use it for something.
P.S. if it's a lost cause, how does one destroy old phones that can't be hard reset in order to recycle it? It has a sealed battery so drilling it or smashing it like old phones isn't really an option anymore.