I just removed the digitizer to clean the dust under the screen. I removed the old adhesive and applied the new one. Now my phone won't boot. I checked, I haven't damaged any flex cables. When I press the power button, the phone vibrates but the screen stays black.
When I connect the charger orange LED comes on and then goes away. The phone seems to be going into reboot as I hear it vibrating.
I did put the sim card backward but I have removed it and reinstalled. Could that cause a short on the main board?
Is there a recovery USB mode or anything I can try.
ok, this is a bad screen. I had swaped the main board on my wifes euro sensation and it worked.
Be extremely careful when you remove digitizer. It is easy to break the screen...
Ok so my friend jumped in the pool with his s3 while on vacation.. lol Anyway like every other person on the planet tried to keep the phone on or turn it on before drying it out. Said he herd some sizzling light came on once and nothing. I took the entire phone apart cleaned up the logic board well with 99% alcohol and I can get the phone to fire up now but it hangs on the Galaxy S III screen. I did notice the computer installed drivers for it when it was plugged in.
Any ideas?
I tried holding the power up volume and home button at the same time It Just seems to reboot and do the same thing get a little flash of green in the top left corner something about a reset or something.
I tried holding the volume down and power button to connect it to odin but it does not connect and I do not get this yellow trangle I read about it just seems to boot into the same thing again.
Hi Everyone,
I'm have a problem with my One XL. It's an Australian Telstra item. I got soaked in the rain and the phone got wet. I put it in rice for a few days to soak up the moisture, then charged it up. After this the screen backlight would intermittently fail, and i noticed if I squeezed the LHS of the phone it would sometimes make the screen go on or off. The problem got worse over the space of about an hour and eventually the screen would not come on. I opened up the case, and noticed there was a split in the ribbon cable that is part of the screen at the point that it is folded over 90deg (I'm not sure why this was never a problem before the phone got wet?)
So I stupidly got straight stuck into taking it apart to replace the screen before backing up all my stuff. I ordered a new screen of ebay and replaced the old one. Now I am having the following behaviour:
1-Press and hold power button - Phone vibrates once, then does nothing. Screen doesn't come on.
2-Plug into PC - LED flashes red for a while then goes solid red. Screen doesn't come on. Nothing pops up in "My computer"
3-Press and hold (~10sec) power after 2 - Red light goes off. Phone vibrates once every ~30 seconds. Screen doesn't come on.
4-Press and hold power after 3 - Home/Back/Apps LEDs flash 20 times, no other change.
I also tried a number of combos of power + vol -/+ with no success.
Also, I was being lazy and doing this without putting the case back on, and my power button has fallen apart. It looks like that ribbon cable is only ~$5 on ebay, so no big deal, but means I cant really do anymore troubleshooting at the moment.
So I guess the big question is, can the phone still be salvaged? I'm thinking maybe it's stuck in a boot loop with the screen also not working?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris
The first question I have would be did you make sure you got the right screen? There are three different types of screens that came on this phone and you need to make sure you match it correctly. You can identify the type of screen by the colour of the flex cable attached.
Secondly, you should never use the power + volume up button combination, I'm not sure where you saw that information but it puts the phone into Qualcomm download mode which you definitely don't want. The only button combination that should ever be used is power + volume down.
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Hi Timmaaa,
Both screens had the same orange/brown flex cables. I did read that there were different screens, but had thought there were only two and that the other had a green flex, so I definitely didn't get that one. Are the other 2 colours close?
I'm not sure where I read the power + volume up thing as I have read a heap of different threads. What would the expected behaviour be if I had put it into that mode?
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Chris
The three different screens have very different colour coding on the flex cable, so matching should be a piece of cake, which I believe you've done correctly. Putting the phone into Qualcomm download mode is kinda like a bricked state, if you're getting the red charging led and the cap button lights flashing I think you're ok.
Another thing to note is that you usually need to sync your new screen when you install it. From memory I believe you need to power the phone on, remove the old screen while the phone is on, and install the new screen while the phone is on. If you didn't follow this process that might be why your display isn't working. Other than that your phone might have just suffered some fatal hardware damage due to the liquid ingress, which isn't going to be fixable.
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Thanks again Timmaaa,
I had a closer look at my old screen and it does have the small green section on the flex cable which I didn't notice the first time around. Bugger.
So i disassembled it again and swapped back to the old screen. The display still doesn't turn on, but the phone itself now stays on and the computer recognises it! I'm transferring all my photos across to my computer now, then I'll try to sync it properly and see if that helps.
Cheers,
Chris
Ok so I swapped the screens back and forth with the power on, and now it's working! Thanks Timmaaa, I would never have guessed I needed to have the phone turned on in order to swap parts, seems pretty weird. Now just got to get a new power button.
Cheers,
Chris
Awesome. Glad to be able to help.
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So, yesterday I was riding back on my bike from college back home when all of a sudden it started raining quite heavily. My phone was working fine. It got drenched in the rain in my pocket since I absolutely could not make a stop as I was on a main highway. I came home and found that the phone wasn't responding to the power button but the led was flashing so I presumed it's working. I tried pressing and holding the power button for reboot but it did not work. I then kept the phone in a rice bowl (Yes, I panicked and didn't know what to do). After 2 hours, the phone was completely dead and there was no LED flashing. I read about what can be done so I tried these things in the order typed:
1. Opened the back, unscrewed the panel, removed the power connector and plugged it back. It did not work. Some people have had success using this method so I gave it a go.
2. Kept the phone to dry off in room temperature under a ceiling fan for the night.
3. Read up on un-bricking a hard bricked phone and tried to follow this guide. My phone would simply not get recognized to even install the Qualcomm drivers when connected to my desktop.
4. Tried it on another laptop and it still would not get recognized after pressing and holding the power and volume + button.
I am all out of ideas as to what can be done to save the phone. I have insurance against the phone but I want to save precious data in the phone.
Any Ideas?
sgrsikdar said:
So, yesterday I was riding back on my bike from college back home when all of a sudden it started raining quite heavily. My phone was working fine. It got drenched in the rain in my pocket since I absolutely could not make a stop as I was on a main highway. I came home and found that the phone wasn't responding to the power button but the led was flashing so I presumed it's working. I tried pressing and holding the power button for reboot but it did not work. I then kept the phone in a rice bowl (Yes, I panicked and didn't know what to do). After 2 hours, the phone was completely dead and there was no LED flashing. I read about what can be done so I tried these things in the order typed:
1. Opened the back, unscrewed the panel, removed the power connector and plugged it back. It did not work. Some people have had success using this method so I gave it a go.
2. Kept the phone to dry off in room temperature under a ceiling fan for the night.
3. Read up on un-bricking a hard bricked phone and tried to follow this guide. My phone would simply not get recognized to even install the Qualcomm drivers when connected to my desktop.
4. Tried it on another laptop and it still would not get recognized after pressing and holding the power and volume + button.
I am all out of ideas as to what can be done to save the phone. I have insurance against the phone but I want to save precious data in the phone.
Any Ideas?
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On an old phone I had. The thing slipped out of my hand as I was taking a photo at a river. The phone bounced of a rock the rear cover fell off, the battery fell out and the whole lot went under water.
I picked all the pieces up and did my best to shake the phone dry and reassembled the phone. No surprise at all the phone did not work but I was desperate because I wanted tunes for the drive home.
I then resigned my self to a longer term strategy and put my simcard in an old dumb phone I had (I still need a phone) then I placed the saturated phone on top of one of hard disc drive's in my desktop PC for 3 days (my computer never sleeps nice and warm but not to hot) then I reassembled the phone and everything worked fine. In fact the phone is still going today.
Be patent and make sure you have the phone completely dry.
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On an old phone I had. The thing slipped out of my hand as I was taking a photo at a river. The phone bounced of a rock the rear cover fell off, the battery fell out and the whole lot went under water.
I picked all the pieces up and did my best to shake the phone dry and reassembled the phone. No surprise at all the phone did not work but I was desperate because I wanted tunes for the drive home.
I then resigned my self to a longer term strategy and put my simcard in an old dumb phone I had (I still need a phone) then I placed the saturated phone on top of one of hard disc drive's in my desktop PC for 3 days (my computer never sleeps nice and warm but not to hot) then I reassembled the phone and everything worked fine. In fact the phone is still going today.
Be patent and make sure you have the phone completely dry.
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Oh wow, that's nice of the phone to work again Yes, I have left the phone off to dry by itself and will see if it works in the near future! Or I have to anyway wait till my Insurance company gives me a new phone!
Yesterday my power button had some issues, my Nexus 5 was a brick unless plugged in with power, in which the Google screen will go on and off (basically boot looping). I decided to open the back of my phone to take a look at the power button, and got my Nexus 5 working again. HOWEVER when I closed it I forgot about the black cover that covers the motherboard and started trying to put in the screws in, (which was very hard). While fumbling to put the screws in, I realized that I forgot to put the cover on and had to unscrew my phone. But it was too late, I think I may have caused a electrostatic discharge on my motherboard or perhaps my battery due to the electrostatic being discharged from the screw. Though I'm not sure which one is fried, but I know one of them is. So how do you tell if which is fried?
and yes I it was very stupid of me...
currently my phone is bricked, nothing happens if I hold my power button, holding volume + power, hold it for x seconds, tried all that.
though when I plug my phone into my computer, and hold both power and volume button, it becomes connected w/ my computer and I could see it as a device connected to my computer, but then disconnects after a few seconds.