I bought one of these cheapo Chinese sticks a year ago and connected it to my TV and was kind of fascinated by the opportunities this presented. One day I decided to check out what the different keys would accomplish and when I hit F5 (I think it was, long time ago now) the screen went black. I tried all kinds of connections to get it back.
Does anyone know how I messed up? And is there any possibility to unmess it?
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I'm thinking it's a ribbon cable between the two halves of the phone that is causing this. I have flashed multiple different ROMs and restored backups from before this happened, all with full wipes in between. When i slide the keyboard open, the screen seems to lose power. It won't come back on until i shut the phone and press the power button once to turn off the capacitive buttons, and once more to turn it back on.
This has been happening to me for a couple months now and I would like to know what it is also! Now I just stick with swype because it's a B**** trying to get the screen back if I open the keyboard on haha.
Yeah mine wasn't like that when i posted, i could turn it back on with 2 presses. Now, however, it can take upwards of a few minutes for me to get the screen to turn on. I went to Sprint and they ordered me a replacement free of charge, but it's not gonna be here til Monday. I hate on screen keyboards that's why I have a shift!
I have had all kinds of screen short problems all cause by the shield and holster combo once I removed that my screen quit shorting out, there were time I would literally flick to screen so hard I would hurt my finger to get it to come back on so i took the case off thinking the phone was trashed and like a week later it was 100% fine and has been for 3 months
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I had the SAME thing happen with my old one. Although sprint wouldn't give me a free one because my screen was busted from a drop also at the time (which i thought that was what caused the screen problem)
Seems that this is a common problem, case or no case. I've never had a case of any kind on mine.
HTCotta said:
Seems that this is a common problem, case or no case. I've never had a case of any kind on mine.
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Edit: Disregard lol
Anyway I always use a case (otterbox if i can)
I'm just now having the same problem. Never had a case and never have had to replace my phone so its still the original. Maybe its a defect with the phones that had came out cause i know on my HTC touch pro 2 there was a defect on the screens for people that bought the phone when it first came out. I don't wanna replace mine now cause i don't wanna deal with batch files lol so i'm learning to use the onscreen keyboard
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I'm just now having the same problem. Never had a case and never have had to replace my phone so its still the original. Maybe its a defect with the phones that had came out cause i know on my HTC touch pro 2 there was a defect on the screens for people that bought the phone when it first came out. I don't wanna replace mine now cause i don't wanna deal with batch files lol so i'm learning to use the onscreen keyboard
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Then don't use the batch files. Do it with adb
Its honestly not hard at all to use adb and do it. I downgraded and rooted and everything in a movie theatre using only my phone in about 20 minutes.
YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
I'm just now having the same problem. Never had a case and never have had to replace my phone so its still the original. Maybe its a defect with the phones that had came out cause i know on my HTC touch pro 2 there was a defect on the screens for people that bought the phone when it first came out. I don't wanna replace mine now cause i don't wanna deal with batch files lol so i'm learning to use the onscreen keyboard
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Saw this issue a few times, on several Touch Pro 2's. Although I've never had the issue, I've seen what was the cause most of the time. It was usually the flex cable connecting the keyboard.
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Wow, I will have to be careful to make sure I never have this problem with my phone, which I bought in February.
As for what notsointeresting was saying about adb, I rooted my phone for the first time today (being the 8th of November), and it was easy. It did take some time to do, but overall, it was really easy.
So a long while ago (specifically mid-August last year), I fell asleep on the couch. My shiny Samsung Focus which I had purchased in March was sitting on the floor. In the middle of the night, my Macbook fell off of my lap and onto, coincidentally, my Windows Phone.
Long story short, I'm still wanting to fix the cracked screen, I just don't have the time or money to get it done. Prior to the holiday season, the phone was able to power on, along with the capacitive buttons being able to light up and give a haptic response.
Now, the phone won't even boot up when connected via USB. I've tried several batteries and it still doesn't work.
It should also be noted that I removed the MicroSD card that I had in the phone before it went kaputz, although I did the standard hard reset and it seemed to still function for a little while.
Anyone know the possible problem here? I don't want to pay for a screen replacement only to find out that the phone still doesn't work.
First this should be in the Q&A section....
Now your phone... A new screen costs $100-$130, a used decent condition focus on eBay or the XDA marketplace can be had for about $120-150.
This was moved to Q&A. Thanks!
Alright so I know that there has been some discussion on this POS model of a phone, but I would love to know before I get the digitizer replaced, if it's a bug or something else.
I guess it started about 8-10 months ago, my brother bought the phone from Mobilicity here in Canada and he let his friend borrow the phone for a call. She dropped it on the cement and the glass cracked. The LCD itself is functioning, but when I got it I had to wipe the device through the recovery menu using Power-X then ALT-L. Anywho every month or so since I got it a few months back for free and long story short it's been glitching out constantly.
Now finally the screen barely works and until I got the "smart" idea to recover it again thinking it would fix but the screen only reads the bottom right side and nothing else. Oh and I'm stuck on that stupid Touch Android to Begin screen. So I'm pretty much SOL'd. Basically my question is this; is it the digitizer, corrupted FW, the phone is just shot or all of the above?
If it's repairable could someone please tell me how to enable usb debugging without the touchscreen or in the very least bypass this Android screen with the keyboard, PC or both? I used Droid Explorer a couple days ago to even control the screen with ScreenCast?
I know of ADB, Input Events, and stuff like that but I really can't figure out what to do. I thought about Clockwork but because the phone has a locked bootloader, I wasn't sure I could even install. Hell I even consider using my other phone to do a NANDROID backup but even that won't work.
So in short what the hell do I do?
Hello,
I have searched the threads but cannot find a situation similar to mine so am posting, but apologise in advance if this has been solved before. It's a bit of a long story. About a year ago I was foolish enough to have stood on my TF300T, cracking the screen. The tablet was still working, but it would not register touch. I put it to one side and left the battery to drain. For various reasons I have just got around to replacing the screen.
I found a screen and digitiser of the correct version for my UK TF300T (version G01) and I'd thought the replacement went without any problems, although I was slightly unsure of one digitiser connection. On pressing the power button (I had pre-charged the battery) the screen came to life just as I'd left it as if coming out of sleep rather than being off for a year. It was short lived though and soon the tablet went to black and would not turn on. I thought maybe it was the digitiser connection so went back in to re-fit it. It was only then that I noticed the power switch on the logic board itself under the plastic shell. I hadn't switched it to off before (duh) so did so then, refitted the digitiser cable much more securely,switched the power back on and tried to boot, but nothing happened at all, apart from the power LED flashing orange. After some experimenting (trying to charge the tablet again etc) I found I could only boot by charging the dock and plugging the tab in the dock, but the tablet would only get as far the ASUS screen (not the 3D one, just the flat lettering), with the 'device is unlocked' message in the top left corner and stops there. I can turn it off, but can't boot into recovery at all. And that's where I am now.
Things I have tried - a different logic board from a TF300T's scrounged from eBay which also had a cracked screen (this, weirdly, seemed to have the same problem as mine), swapping various parts out from some other TF300T's (without logic boards) from eBay and contacting the device through Sandix's ADB GUI (after downloading and extracting the SDK), which registered no device.
My best guess at what's happened is that the battery on the tab itself is totally gone (as are the three other batteries I have accumulated) after a last valiant effort and either that going or me messing with the on off switch has some how corrupted the boot process. Is that possible? What do people think? I could buy a brand new logic board, but the only ones I seem to be able to find have some different brand chips on them and appear to be different versions - versions probably not compatible with my digitiser. :S
I am quite a novice here (and maybe poking around the inside of my tab wasn't a great idea, but then neither is wearing boots in the house) so any help would be greatly appreciated! Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give a detailed report. Let me know if you have any questions. Although unlocked, it is running the stock ROM.
I would make sure drivers are reinstalled properly, by removing the drivers, reboot the computer, reinstall the drivers and then reboot again.
See if that works.
I had something similar happen on a different tablet. That was one from Box.co.uk, but after trying to get it fixed under warranty (and missing the end date by 1 day), I opened it myself. When the charger was plugged in, it showed the charging LED, but it didn't actually charge it.
I don't suppose you've checked the terminals for the battery to the mainboard? On this other tablet, one had broken off. I re-soldered it on, charged it fully and it worked fine.
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My son recently gave me his old Moto G5 phone. The phones charging board was broken and the screen was very badly cracked all over (it had a screen protector) and was generally not in the best of condition.
My son had bought a replacement screen several months ago, but had not got around to trying it. The battery was also totally flat.
So he gave me the phone and I installed a new charging board and the new screen and charged the battery.
Unfortunately an area of the new screen does not respond to key input . This area is a line of keys towards the bottom of the screen (not the bottom though).
My son says that he had not noticed any such problem when he last used it (he kept using it until the battery went flat; he then purchased a new phone).
I've tried doing a factory reset. I've removed and re-connected the display cable onto the main board and these have not fixed the problem .
I am not sure what to try next :crying::crying:. I could purchase yet another screen in case this new screen has a fault (probably unlikely?).
Presumably it could be the main board (digitizer?)...How can I find that out?
Maybe I have done something wrong on the install, but seems odd that the rest of the screen (as far as I can tell) works ok. What might I have done to have caused this problem?
Has anybody got any useful tips as to what I could try. Seems a waist of a good phone, not to try and repair it.
Thanks for reading this.