Hi guys,
Wondering if you can help re the following problem.
By accident, I managed to tear the power button strip on my phone (i.e. not the silver button, but the part that must be depressed). The phone is elsewise in perfect working condition.
I need to turn this particular phone on, as there is some important information on it that I need to access.
Any ideas how I can turn it on, or access the data therein?
Would appreciate any help - thanks in advance
Terry
The power button just completes an electrical circuit. That's all any power button on anything does.
Stuck in that black tape that's covering the button that you ripped are 2 tiny little wires. If you can connect those two wires even for a half a second, the circuit will be completed and the phone will power on.
I had to do the same thing on my MyTouch4G because I made the same mistake. It is not easy to do this. I had to use a VERY sharp knife (I used a surgical scalpel) to slice the surface off the black tape to expose the wires. Then I shorted them with a small peice of metal. It took about an hour to get it right.
Alternatively, if this critical information that you need is saved on the SD card....pull it out and use a card reader to view it on your computer.
Not sure if this will work for you but there is a app called tap tap app that allows you to turn On the phone without using the power button. I believe you can find it on the play store. It's supposed to be a button saver application
I've never tired it personally but I believe it's created to not use buttons to power on phone. I've came across it in the play store. Don't know much more about it but it might be worth checking out if you can get your phone powered on. Hope this helps. Best wishes and good luck.
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Some roms also support turning on the phone by pressing a volume button.
ridder215215 said:
Some roms also support turning on the phone by pressing a volume button.
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That turns the screen on, not the phone and turning the screen on won't work when the phone is not powered on
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lawtel23 said:
Hi guys,
Wondering if you can help re the following problem.
By accident, I managed to tear the power button strip on my phone (i.e. not the silver button, but the part that must be depressed). The phone is elsewise in perfect working condition.
I need to turn this particular phone on, as there is some important information on it that I need to access.
Any ideas how I can turn it on, or access the data therein?
Would appreciate any help - thanks in advance
Terry
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Hi.
Sorry for my pure english and late answer.
May be it will be usefull for someone.
I got the same problem with power button.
After searching for solution on google I have not found anything helpful.
So I got multimeter and started to check all open contacts near the button.
And the solution is:
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To turn on the phone you need:
The contact (1) connect by piece of wire to some "ground" on the board (for example I connected it to camera holder, that signed on picture as (2) ) and hold it connected for some time, then the phone must to turn on...
This is my first post.
If you have any questions for this operation, I'll try to answer.
Sidden said:
Hi.
Sorry for my pure english and late answer.
May be it will be usefull for someone.
I got the same problem with power button.
After searching for solution on google I have not found anything helpful.
So I got multimeter and started to check all open contacts near the button.
And the solution is:
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To turn on the phone you need:
The contact (1) connect by piece of wire to some "ground" on the board (for example I connected it to camera holder, that signed on picture as (2) ) and hold it connected for some time, then the phone must to turn on...
This is my first post.
If you have any questions for this operation, I'll try to answer.
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I know I know Necromancy is a forbidden art form but right now you know how happy I am I just had to delve into it.
This is the best solution I have ever seen and thank-you so much for your time in figuring out how to do this, you have no idea how I felt when I felt that little buzz on my phone when I did this wire trick, I literally jumped a little with excitement, then the second time I did it I jumped with excitement more.
The thing I did though was there was a little rectangle in the plastic casing above where the dot is, I cut from one corner to the other side of a piece of plastic that was holding down the power button and from the other corner straight down, if that makes sense good, if not I have attached a picture, it is not very clear sorry but it is the best I can do because I have no camera other then my phone at the moment.
The red is where I was going to cut, the blue was a necessary cut because that small bit was to weak to stay on there and not get bent off by accident, this gives clear access to the small point to do this work around. Now if I need to revive my phone because of a dead battery or if anything happened to it I have a way to do it I have a wire in the back of the phone with the battery so I can just remove the back and use the wire. Also I installed sweep2wake, a necessary evil IMO.
P.S. I am going to leave this thread alone after this, I am just trying to get a solution more visible instead of making another thread just stating what this one has said, totally a huge thanks for Sidden, I was going to be stuck with a small samsung brick phone that only did SMS and took calls, you have made my day that much greater kind sir
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Hello all, your forum is very useful and full of dedicated people.
I am sorry if my question is redundant, I know there has been threads about this topic already (like here) but I can't get the things described to work for me so my last resort is to start a thread of my own. Plus I think it might help others trying to get their M600/Prophet back on tracks.
Here is what happened with mine : an flash went wrong (error on the computer, stuck at 80% for a long long time (i mean long, not the usual few minutes we all know of)). So I had to unplug the whole thing and reset it. It went into the bootloader (3 colors screen) ok after the reset with USB written in the bottom left corner when plugged in. But (for no real l reason) I tried to reforce it in bootloader mode with Camera + Reset and from this point on, it never booted again, never reacted to any manpipulation (Power + Reset, Power long, Camera + Reset), it doesnt even has the LED on when the wall charger is plugged in.
I searched the forum and found links like the one reported earlier in this post or this one here
So I tried those but can't get it to work cus I don't really think i understand what to do :
Here is what i did :
I plugged the cut wall charger that now looks like this :
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now when it's said to connect the charger direcly to the pins are we talking about those pins ? and if yes, which one are the 1 and 5 ? the red ones or the green ones ? I know the white wire (+) has to go on the 1st pin but I dont know which one is the 1st.
plus, do i have to connect the wires to those pins while the battery is also plugged in or when the battery is out ? Or even with another charger plugged in?
Once the manipulation is done, do I put the batter back in and it should start ok directly in bootloader mode ? Or do i need to plug it back into the wall so that it does.
Anyways, as you can see that shorting manipulation is really unclear to me and I did not manage to make it work.
If anyone could shed some light on this one, that would really help me out and I am sure it would help others as well.
Thx in advance for your answers.
bump up.
Any ideas on how to do the charger trick ?
thx in advance
Sos Prophet Does Not Respond
wokmichel said:
bump up.
Any ideas on how to do the charger trick ?
thx in advance
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Hey Bro ,
I think I am also stuck up with a same problem..
My prophet does not respond at all...
have installed it to wall charger but no help...
Have u figured out which is the 1st and the PIN to use this trick...
from top is the 1st or bottom is the 1st.
Pls help!!!
wokmichel said:
bump up.
Any ideas on how to do the charger trick ?
thx in advance
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Did any one figured out which is the PIN No1 starting from TOP or Starting from BOTTOM...
My prophet is dead ??.
Does not respond to the wall charger nor any LED only thing happen is the phone gets heated on Charging(as usual as it did earlier)
It all of a sudden went blank. sincce yesterday.just showed the GREEN LED the POWER button dint responded..
I reset the NEO and now its not showing any thing
PLS HELP
you want put in 5V via Batterie Connector for 3,7V?
:->
SOS
crest_delta said:
Did any one figured out which is the PIN No1 starting from TOP or Starting from BOTTOM...
My prophet is dead ??.
Does not respond to the wall charger nor any LED only thing happen is the phone gets heated on Charging(as usual as it did earlier)
It all of a sudden went blank. sincce yesterday.just showed the GREEN LED the POWER button dint responded..
I reset the NEO and now its not showing any thing
PLS HELP
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GUYS PLS HELP THIS IS REALLY URGENT!!
I want the NEO BACK TO LIFE
Hi frndz since long i was facing the issue where fone wld take auto screenshots when press the home button as if smthng was messing up with power button. We all know from fact that this issue is bothering many for details look here. After lot of trying i made a fix for it. Carefully follow step by step.
What do u need..
1. A good focused light source.
2. A normal injection.
3. Thin screwdriver.
4. Super glue.
STEPS
1. Go to recovery and in advance tab do a key test with cover observe if u have double code 116 if yes release the back cover and do again if it still has double 116 array then u have power button problem (send to service center), if like mine your double tapping stops then follow the steps ahead. The problem now is coz of weak silver button leaf spring.
2.Carefully open the cover and examine the points 1 & 2 in the pic below
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3. Fill the injection jst a little bit with super glue and carefully paste it on the following points only make sure you do not spill it jst a little feather touch on edges
of point 1 & 2...look below.
4. After u have applied the glue keep the button pressed from inside to outside with help of screwdriver gently pressing the black contact point a little above
point 1 & 2.
5. Leave it for 5 min and till it dries completely (depends on glue).
6. Bingo i fixed mine with this now no stupid double press or screenshots all i did is increase the leaf power.
7.Hit thnx if i helped .
Go to recovery...
Please, can you explain me, how to "Go to rcovery".
Thank you.
KiterCuda said:
Please, can you explain me, how to "Go to rcovery".
Thank you.
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take out the battery.. and then prees and hold down vol (down) and power button for 5 sec... u'll b in recovery
The problem had become ridiculous for me (three to four presses required to turn off my screen), so I gave this a shot last night. Now more than 90% of presses are accurate (i.e. result in a single press/actuation).
Thanks for the write up.
What kind of glue did you use?
You wrote "normal inFection" instead of "normal inJection" in the OP, which kinda confused me
You could also put some super glue onto a toothpick, and then just touch the spots on the cover with it
Thanks for the help!
zmfl said:
You wrote "normal inFection" instead of "normal inJection" in the OP, which kinda confused me
You could also put some super glue onto a toothpick, and then just touch the spots on the cover with it
Thanks for the help!
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damm sorry mate.....
FayezZ said:
The problem had become ridiculous for me (three to four presses required to turn off my screen), so I gave this a shot last night. Now more than 90% of presses are accurate (i.e. result in a single press/actuation).
Thanks for the write up.
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try putting alittle more it will get sorted
ArcticWolf91 said:
What kind of glue did you use?
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Instant Krazy Glue (green tube).
zmfl said:
You could also put some super glue onto a toothpick, and then just touch the spots on the cover with it
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I was too lazy to be super precise about it. I just used the tube of super glue that I already had and applied the glue directly to the two spots indicated, applied pressure to the button from the inside out, and then let it dry (10 minutes).
lalitsehgal21 said:
try putting alittle more it will get sorted
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Seems to be much better now. I've only experienced 1 or 2 problems since applying the fix. I may touch it up if the problem starts to come back.
Aha, I tried this today, and totally screwed up. I may have applied to much glue, or accidentally got glue in the wrong areas. My power button got glued stuck, and I had to work an hour to break the glue and try to loosen up how stiff the button was (Wouldn't spring anymore). Even now, the button is significantly more sunken into the housing of the phone, and has less spring or feel of a click. On the bright side, there's no more double press issues! Don't try this if you don't really know what you're doing... I certainly learned the hard way. Hopefully getting the housing replaced for free by HTC.
Amartier said:
Aha, I tried this today, and totally screwed up. I may have applied to much glue, or accidentally got glue in the wrong areas. My power button got glued stuck
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And that's why I suggested the toothpick
Glad you got it working again...
cant get the solution to work
I have a problem trying to get this soultion to work. I can't even get into recovery mode because my phone turns on almost instantly after putting the battery i like its getting the power on button press even before i put the cover on. After moving a little more quickly i finally got the cover on and go into recovery mode but the phone keeps thinking I'm pressing the power button so im not able to move around in the recovery menu. Any suggestions?
rajr89 said:
I have a problem trying to get this soultion to work. I can't even get into recovery mode because my phone turns on almost instantly after putting the battery i like its getting the power on button press even before i put the cover on. After moving a little more quickly i finally got the cover on and go into recovery mode but the phone keeps thinking I'm pressing the power button so im not able to move around in the recovery menu. Any suggestions?
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The button keeps getting pressed even with the cover off? That would suggest that the button is broken. Or you have something stuck in there...
as the title says my 9003 started rebooting for no reason and no while i have it plugged in on the charger it shows a blacklight every couple of seconds... while it was operational i was on the tweaks menu and pressed something about a autoboot fix and a kernel scheduler... that's why it crashed... i'm on stock xxkpu and although it somehow goes into download mode it doesn't go to recovery menu... in download mode my pc doesn't recognize it so i can format it... any help would be appreciated... thank you in advance
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as the title says my 9003 started rebooting for no reason and no while i have it plugged in on the charger it shows a blacklight every couple of seconds... while it was operational i was on the tweaks menu and pressed something about a autoboot fix and a kernel scheduler... that's why it crashed... i'm on stock xxkpu and although it somehow goes into download mode it doesn't go to recovery menu... in download mode my pc doesn't recognize it so i can format it... any help would be appreciated... thank you in advance
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plz help me i think i have bricked my phone...
try doing hard reset. If you cant go to recovery mode, open your cover, between the camera and speaker there is tiny hole. Use pointed object to push this while doing download mode combo. You probably need an assistance of a brother or sister lol. Then in recovery mode, Try if your pc can detect your phone again. Then try flashing stock firmware.
that's what i'm trying to do... and something to know there is no button there... that's where the plastic was poured through tiny holes in the mold cavity that made the chassis... if you don't believe me there is another one right beneath the battery...
nickargas said:
that's what i'm trying to do... and something to know there is no button there... that's where the plastic was poured through tiny holes in the mold cavity that made the chassis... if you don't believe me there is another one right beneath the battery...
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Lol, are you sure you have the standard international version of i9003?
There would be a small pin hole sort of thing between the camera and the speaker after opening the back flap.
You need to goto the download mode by using a pin. Press the pub hole with a sharp object(not too sharp). Then press the volume down key, then home button. Holding these all, then press the power key for about 4 seconds. You'd see the Samsung boot animation. At this point leave the power key, keep holding other buttons until you see the download mode.
Then connect to a PC to see if it's connected in com port
Press thanks if helped
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it's ok if you don't believe me bro... my screen is shatered and i will make a tutorial these days on how to replace it and i will show you there's not a button there... trust me i've opened my samsung a couple of times in order to clean it...
iAmBalvinder said:
Lol, are you sure you have the standard international version of i9003?
There would be a small pin hole sort of thing between the camera and the speaker after opening the back flap.
You need to goto the download mode by using a pin. Press the pub hole with a sharp object(not too sharp). Then press the volume down key, then home button. Holding these all, then press the power key for about 4 seconds. You'd see the Samsung boot animation. At this point leave the power key, keep holding other buttons until you see the download mode.
Then connect to a PC to see if it's connected in com port
Press thanks if helped
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nickargas said:
it's ok if you don't believe me bro... my screen is shatered and i will make a tutorial these days on how to replace it and i will show you there's not a button there... trust me i've opened my samsung a couple of times in order to clean it...
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Dude as u said no button near camera and speaker.. But there is a button near the Sim card slot, just above the battery.. Try to get into recover using that button..
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I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?
Try leaving it charging for 6+ hours. Make sure it's plugged in all the way on both ends of the usb cable.
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I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?
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can you enter recovery or download mode?.. if not then you should be worried.......
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mtcstle said:
I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?
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Call them. Very easy to reach by phone.
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Call them. Very easy to reach by phone.
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Does anyone know a phone number? That's one thing that's not on the website.
To answer the previous question, no it won't boot into download or Recovery.
I'll try the six hour charge, but I'm not hopeful.
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mtcstle said:
Does anyone know a phone number? That's one thing that's not on the website.
To answer the previous question, no it won't boot into download or Recovery.
I'll try the six hour charge, but I'm not hopeful.
Stay tuned for more on ...
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I found 1-800-SAMSUNG somewhere. It's seven digits I thought so, what the heck. Well a very nice woman talked me through all the trouble shooting steps I'd already tried. But, then she gave me an RMA and emailed me a shipping label. So far so good then. More to follow.
Before you write it off as dead, may I make a suggestion. Keep a finger on the touch screen while pessing the power button. This solution works for me when I've experienced the "sleep of death" after upgrading my GN 8013 to JB. Holding down the power button on mine didn't do anything. I found the solution I mentioned when I began googling in a panic. After removing one offending app, this awful sleep mode that resembles a dead device hasn't occurred again. Maybe you have an app that's triggered this. Good luck.
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Before you write it off as dead, may I make a suggestion. Keep a finger on the touch screen while pessing the power button. This solution works for me when I've experienced the "sleep of death" after upgrading my GN 8013 to JB. Holding down the power button on mine didn't do anything. I found the solution I mentioned when I began googling in a panic. After removing one offending app, this awful sleep mode that resembles a dead device hasn't occurred again. Maybe you have an app that's triggered this. Good luck.
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What was the offending app?
If all else fails, try the old fashioned way
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It was Sipdroid. (Knock on wood) deleting it has stopped my note from going into the sleep of death. Fortunately, the voip app csipsimple is very stable on JB 4.1.2 and has no audio or registreation issues so I've still got voip on my note.
I've had a Galaxy Note 10 Lite for some time now and it started displaying this behaviour where the screen stops working after some time of the phone being on.
There's no apparent connection to how hot the phone is.
I've also re-sat all the straps and cables and cleaned them with isopropyl alcohol.
Sometimes during use, I'll see some quick greenish/purple-ish glitches on the screen. But, apart from that, it'll look amazing the whole time.
Also, sometimes, as I use it, the screen will freeze during whatever is happening on the screen and the image will refresh if I press it down on the 2/4 area from the top down.
Then, if I leave the phone for a few minutes with the screen either on or off, I could come back to it being unresponsive. At first, I thought it was turning off. But if I press the screenshot buttons, it'll vibrate and save the screenshot that I'll be able to see after I soft reset the phone back to life (it'll reboot by itself from time to time, though).
The time it takes for it to "die" varies from seconds to minutes to hours. But it's become unreliable and had to buy a new phone.
I thought about replacing the screen, but it costs as much as a new phone here in Brazil.
What I'm thinking is maybe there's some cable or something I could access on the screen to inhibit this behaviour.
Can anyone help me out with insights?
Cheers,
Uriel
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Try in safe mode.
Clear system cache.
Try a hard reboot.
Any uncased drops or water exposure?
Just tried safe mode and the screen started all messed up, with elements that should be organised scattered all over it.
Now... I'm soft rebooting it and it goes straight to a dark screen after showing the Samsung logo.
I was going to try clearing the cache next, but now I need to get access back to the system.
I've done a hard reboot to no avail.
It was exposed to water years ago, which resulted on a screen issue that was fixed by Samsung by replacing it.
Ok. I got safe mode successfully activated now. I'll give it time but I don't feel too optimistic about it.
urieljabes said:
Just tried safe mode and the screen started all messed up, with elements that should be organised scattered all over it.
Now... I'm soft rebooting it and it goes straight to a dark screen after showing the Samsung logo.
I was going to try clearing the cache next, but now I need to get access back to the system.
I've done a hard reboot to no avail.
It was exposed to water years ago, which resulted on a screen issue that was fixed by Samsung by replacing it.
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May have water damaged ribbon cable contacts, or water damage on the mobo is now showing up; corrosion never sleeps. Maybe another display failure. Maybe a loose cable; carefully inspect all display cables on both ends and their sockets. A failed ribbon cable.
Finally a corrupted rom or user data partition.
These phones are relatively inexpensive now, even new ones can still be had. The N10+ be an upgrade if you like it. If repair doesn't work you have other options.
The newer Samsung's suck. This generation of Notes was the zenith for Samsung and the Note... in my opinion. I have two N10+'s and they run like bats out of hell. Solid, well built, work horses that just keep running. This one in my hand has over 8k hours on it, looks, feels and runs like it's new with one battery replacement. Zero display flaws, current load is over 2 yo, still fast and stable with minimal maintenance. That's what these phones are capable of.
urieljabes said:
Ok. I got safe mode successfully activated now. I'll give it time but I don't feel too optimistic about it.
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Never know, could be a 3rd party app.
So, this happened. And it rebooted right after I stopped recording.
Yeah looks like the display but you won't know what it is without opening it up.
Don't think a factory reset or reflash will help... I could be wrong.
blackhawk said:
Yeah looks like the display but you won't know what it is without opening it up.
Don't think a factory reset or reflash will help... I could be wrong.
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Yep. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue.
I don't know how to get access to the other end of the ribbons that go into the screen, though. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers!
urieljabes said:
Yep. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue.
I don't know how to get access to the other end of the ribbons that go into the screen, though. I'll see what I can do.
Cheers!
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Watch some tear down vids. Have the right tools and take your time. With used ones going for a couple hundred that's another option.
I'm surprised how well my N10+ has held up, it's always cased. Water exposure is a killer. Even if it's IP68 rated, keep it away from water, especially salt water.
I hope is the backlight issue on the logic board