Hello guys, Long time lurker first time poster, I dropped my tablet last night and now it will not do anything, and i mean anything, no lights just a little vibration when I hold the power button for about 15 seconds. do you guys thing the MOBO is dead or just the screen and digitizer? I'm afraid the worst has happened and it is completely dead but i would like to get a few opinions first.
Thanks a lot guys, also I might have had one too many drinks before posting this so please excuse any nonsense, I've proofread this thing about 10 times so hopefully all is good.
It could be your connector for the screen came loose. If you have a HDMI cable, use it to hook it up to your tv, see if you can get anything to show.
baseballfanz said:
It could be your connector for the screen came loose. If you have a HDMI cable, use it to hook it up to your tv, see if you can get anything to show.
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Thanks but I tried checking the connector to the mobo and its a no go, I don't have an HDMI cable so i cant try that. when i hook it up to the pc it shows up as NVIDIA storage... something i forgot. it doesnt show as a tablet and even asus sync doesnt recognize it. do you think its dead for sure?
also my drunk self doesnt know what hes talking about as the drop happened last week i just got around to messing with it last night.
Thanks for the help.
Maybe your volume up button is stuck so posing power on poor it in APX mode?
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Maybe your volume up button is stuck so posing power on poor it in APX mode?
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Ok I just checked and disassembled as much as i could and nothing....i really hope its not completely dead but if it is its no big deal, i already have a nexus 7 so i might just buy a refurb 10" asus and use this one for spare parts.
Thanks a lot for your help btw
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What a week, Ok new to this forum loving the site.. I got a htc fuze but things got heated with my girl and the she crack the screen... NP!!!! i got the replacement coming, and i begain taking it apart and when taking off the mini usb/flex-ribbon cable it rip ... this seems to be the main power for the phone. Part no.50h10078 do anyone have or know of a diamond/fuze part site i can order this power board from?
Its located in the base of the phone and the flex/ribbon cable runs under the battery to the connect to the top of the phone threw th back
thank you in advance
@lphar56
Same here, but I still can charge the battery (not fully ripped off). Lost vibration and USB-connectivity. It sucks big time.
Found any solution to this?
gbb4uss said:
Same here, but I still can charge the battery (not fully ripped off). Lost vibration and USB-connectivity. It sucks big time.
Found any solution to this?
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try asking here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=585196
To start off I have had my B50 TF for about 4 months now and I have liked it and it does everything I need it to do.. I am now at college and it does a great job as a note taking and entertainment device.
How ever I was never 100% happy with mine as I has 2 dead pixels from the start, some minor light bleed and a few specs of dust under the screen.. I also have a keyboard that has the serious battery drain issue.. However I was so happy about having it that I didnt want to RMA the TF or the dock and have to wait until others came into stock..
Now for the sad story.. about 2 weeks ago I came into my girl friends dorm room and she had a sad puppy type of face on and she was almost in tears.. I finally got out of her that she accidently caught my charging cable hooked up to my TF and Dock and it fell about 2 feet onto a metal lamp and put a few decient sized scratches on the back of the TF.. I told her its fine and It booted up and worked fine so I was not worried about it at all.. and it work perfect after that for about a week.. Then I turned it on about a week later and the screen started flickering with blue lines all over and then I kinda shook it around a little and pressed the on/off button a few times and it was fine.. then today (about a week after the weird screen flicker) I walk into my Anthropology class and grab the TF and dock and I try and turn it on and it wont turn on.. Which is weird because I always plug it in on my night stand every night.. I just assumed my Asus charger got unplugged and after class plugged just the TF in for 8 hours.. Then I pull it off the charger for Comp Sci class and It wont turn on then either.. I will hold the power button down for 15 sec and then let go and all I hear is a little "click" that is the sound of it trying to turn on.. No screen animations, no black light, no sounds other then the click
I am devastated as I have entire class notes on there and also that was my everyday computer that I dumped allot of hard earned cash into. And when I told my girl that it wasnt turning on she felt so bad and was on the brink of a major emotional breakdown.. Its not the end of the world for me, but damn I am going to be devastated if $400 just went down the drain..
Anyone have any words of advice or any last efforts I could try? I guess if all else fails, I will be waiting for the TF2 to come out and hopefully it will still work with my dock..
Thanks everyone,
Nick
EDIT: I have HDMI out and have torn the TF apart and cant seam to track down the connection to the Screen form the board to make sure it is not a loose connection.. I am hoping something came loose and the screen is not FUBAR.. I dont thing the screen is dead though.. It was fine for 2 weeks after the drop, i would have thought that it would have been dead right away if the screen was dead..
The lcd cord might be loose in there. Open it up and tighten it.
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The lcd cord might be loose in there. Open it up and tighten it.
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I was thinking it was the screen ribbon cable but when there is no HDMI out either I was starting to think other wise..
Edit: Thank you for the Edit.. It just was not funny at the time..
Wow, feeling possessive there aren't we.
No hdmi out. That's a problem. I'm still convinced something is loose in there. You got nothing to lose. Open it up and try to tighten things up.
It would have been maybe a little funny if she was not in tears when she found out she broke my tablet with a ton of my school stuff on it and my most used piece of technology..
I will try and open it up eventually.. I am at school so I dont have any of my Tech tools.. I am going to have to either buy some or wait a few weeks till I go home..
Edit: My Computer will recognize it when I plug the TF In and unplug it.. Just I cant do anything with it.. I just hear the Windows sounds..
I am with goodintentions, a connector has come loose somewhere.
Update.. I have HDMI out and I opened up my TF and I couldnt find anything leading to the screen that was loose, but I didnt really know my way around that well.. Anyways, HDMI out works, but no screen still..
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Update.. I have HDMI out and I opened up my TF and I couldnt find anything leading to the screen that was loose, but I didnt really know my way around that well.. Anyways, HDMI out works, but no screen still..
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Haha, keep trying. Try not to damage it too much while playing with the insides. LOL
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Haha, keep trying. Try not to damage it too much while playing with the insides. LOL
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I have HDMI out.. the Digitizer works fine and I can connect it to the dock and the touchpad works as it should and everything else works find and seams fine.. I just cant find the connection to the Screen to see if its the connection of if I broke the screen.. I am going to the tear down thread to ask for help..
I just hard bricked my second GS3. I bricked the first one a couple of months ago (the day I got it) when used a cheap OTG cable to attach a flash drive to the phone. The phone just shut down. No charge light ever, no response to usb, just nothing.
When I got my second phone, I took a deep breath and tried the OTG cable again and it worked fine. I thought I just got a bad phone.
But today, on a whim, I wanted to see if my phone would run an external USB cd drive. BAM, the phone shuts down and is hard bricked again!!
So, I guess this is a cautionary tale, as well a plea to the community for any recommendations. Someone had a similar problem months ago, but I didn't see a resolution. I will probably end up sending it for JTAG repair, but I don't know if it will do any good since this wasn't caused by borking a ROM install. Anybody have any experience with this?
One thing is for sure. That OTG cable is going in the trash.
I have never heard of this. Very interesting. Sorry to hear this for you. I have been using my cable for awhile now and only ever had one problem with it. I was viewing pictures and looked away from the phone for a few moments. Phone went into sleep mode like normal. Dull screen then screen off. Prob was it wouldnt wake up. Nothin i did woke it up so i had to do a battery pull. Phone was fine after that and havent had the problem since. Gonna keep fingers crossed after reading the OP.
Set from my Verizon Stock Rooted (Modded) Galaxy S3 using xda-developers app
Yeah, it is a real pain. I found some other people who had the same issue.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32816-sgs-3-and-otg-usb-adapter-might-equal-brick/
I just can't imagine what must be happening. I wish one of those uber-smart hackers who were working on the bootloader unlock would see this and give me some idea if it is even fixable. It is almost like it blew a fuse.
Anyway, I have an email out to mobiletechvideos to see if they think it can be jtag-ed. I have a feeling that a $2 cable is going to end up costing me $600.
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I made and tried a usb jig, just for kicks. No luck. Still waiting to see if mobiletechvideos gets back to me.
Another quick follow-up... I got a response from mobiletechvideos.
Unfortunately that has been damaging many people’s phones. It damages the PMIC and the device is not repairable by any of our services or any other shop that I know of.
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If you are too lazy to google PMIC, it is the power management chip. Sounds like there is a problem with the cable where the power is being directed somewhere it shouldn't be.
This weekend, I will carefully cut open the cable and see if I can see the problem.
Bort76 said:
This weekend, I will carefully cut open the cable and see if I can see the problem.
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Don't like resurrecting threads, but was curious for an update. This just happened to my Verizon GS3 as well. Completely unresponsive. I'm still under warranty so am about to go to the store to have it sent back, but came across this thread while trying to hunt down solutions.
Fwiw, it was with this cable: www()amazon()com/gp/product/B00932N46S/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
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Yesterday i woke up to find my tablet unresponsive. Tried force-restarting it, but it never answered. "It's probably the battery, " I told myself, as I plugged it in to the wall and went to sleep.
This morning I tried booting it up again. It doesn't respond, doesn't beep, doesn't ilumminate and doesn't answer. It is not the battery, because I have it plugged to the original adapter, and the orange light is turned on. It is not the screen, because the tablet vibrates when booting, and not even the BIOS splash appears. At this point I came to conclusion that there is something very wrong with the hardware itself.
I don't like that it died peacefully in it sleep. The exterior is inmmaculate, I have cleaned it constantly, treated it well, and never dropped it to the ground. I cared for it beyond what it's laggy NAND deserved. For me it was like the stereotyped three-legged dog: crippled but loyal to the end.
Now I believe that cheap NAND ASUS soldered into it finally gave up. Or probably it just looked at me with envy, being constantly tempted by that Nexus 9 I see constantly on the internet, and it's weak NAND couldn't handle the betrayal.
So, is there any way to diagnose if my tablet finally wen to the big server farm in the sky? Is there any way to know what's wrong? Does anyone know what to do with the keyboard and cables other than trashing them? At the very least I want to know for certain if it is dead, so I can arrange a proper burial for it, with military honors and 21 canon shots... or more likely just dumping it into the recycling bin.
PS: If it's dead I believe I will replace it with a Nexus 9, but I am waiting for AnandTech's review. Is it the correct choice or does anyone know a better 10" tablet?
Did you try booting to the bootloader? Hold Power and Volume Down at the same time.
Try the reset pin hole (just above HDMI port) with and without Volume Down.
Good luck and do me a favor: Could you take a video of the burial and post it on YouTube? Would love to see that 21 gun salute LMAO
berndblb said:
Did you try booting to the bootloader? Hold Power and Volume Down at the same time.
Try the reset pin hole (just above HDMI port) with and without Volume Down.
Good luck and do me a favor: Could you take a video of the burial and post it on YouTube? Would love to see that 21 gun salute LMAO
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It didn't work. While plugged in I pressed the V- and Power buttons, and later the Reset and Power Buttons, and later all three at the same time. Neither worked. Nothing on the screen, No vibration, nothing. Yet the orange power LED shines when plugged in, don't know if it is a good or bad thing.
I guess that a few days of perspective really allowed me to sink the death of my tab.
But my snark came from the fact that I really took good care of my tablet. It is still in pristine, yet it still died. So frustrating.
Hey everyone,
Making a post here in case someone has any idea wtf I can do with this.
My girlfriend's Galaxy S7 randomly seems to have bricked itself. She pulled it out of her pocket and the screen was black. Thinking it was crashed she tried power+vol down, but this did not work.
There's no activity at all from the phone - no haptic feedback, no LEDs at all. I tried connecting it to my laptop to see if it would come up there and nothing at all.
Things I've tried:
Vol down+power button
Connecting it to a laptop
Leaving it on the charger for a while
Trying to get it into recovery/download mode
I can't really think of anything else to try. Does anyone happen to have any ideas before we look at taking it to the repair shop?
Thanks so much!
SirCanealot said:
Hey everyone,
Making a post here in case someone has any idea wtf I can do with this.
My girlfriend's Galaxy S7 randomly seems to have bricked itself. She pulled it out of her pocket and the screen was black. Thinking it was crashed she tried power+vol down, but this did not work.
There's no activity at all from the phone - no haptic feedback, no LEDs at all. I tried connecting it to my laptop to see if it would come up there and nothing at all.
Things I've tried:
Vol down+power button
Connecting it to a laptop
Leaving it on the charger for a while
Trying to get it into recovery/download mode
I can't really think of anything else to try. Does anyone happen to have any ideas before we look at taking it to the repair shop?
Thanks so much!
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Umm....I'd suggest your girlfriend stop telling lies, it's clearly been dropped in water. Everything you've described is consistent with water damage.
Wooow, no need to call my girlfriend a liar. Troll much? :/
She'll be buying a new phone herself and has no reason to lie. The phone also died in front of me and we're together most of the time, so thanks for being so helpful.
I actually think this may be down to the battery replacement we got done a couple of months ago now I think about it, so thanks for jumping to conclusions.
SirCanealot said:
Wooow, no need to call my girlfriend a liar. Troll much? :/
She'll be buying a new phone herself and has no reason to lie. The phone also died in front of me and we're together most of the time, so thanks for being so helpful.
I actually think this may be down to the battery replacement we got done a couple of months ago now I think about it, so thanks for jumping to conclusions.
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Your welcome.