Hi Guys,
First post so go easy. Lurked the boards for a while now but only just registered. Hoping some one can help me out a little here, as I'm at my witts end now.
So I bought my xoom (MZ604..?) back in february second hand for £125 posted, it's a the 10.1" version and it's running android ICS. I bought it as i love my Samsung galaxy tab 7 but i think it lacks the screen size and the xoom seemed like a great price for a larger equivalent. I used it pretty much every day and it was awesome, never had any problems with it until...
My son decided to kick it off my lap onto the granite fireplace. The screen instantly went black and just didn't do anything. I could see a faint bbacklight on inside so I assumed it was the LCD panel that was broke, i could still here notifications and if i swiped in the right place i could also hear the tablet unlocking so the digitizer was ok too. I bought a water damaged xoom off ebay and harvested the screen to try and replace it and that wen ok, except i still had the same problem so I assumed that screen was broken too, oh well spares and repairs doesn't always work out lol...
So I bought a brand new LCD panel and fitted that yesterday, and it STILL won't work. However, the issue i now have is it won't turn on at all. I've taken it apart and put it back together multiple times to make sure it's all gone back in the right place etc. It's also charging ok, i put it on the dock and the light goes white, and then green after a while.
I'm at a loss here, as the new screen and xoom cost me nearly £100 so it's not really worth me paying any more as it's begining to seem like an endless pit of money.
TLDR:
Bought xoom
Son dropped xoom
Screen went black but tablet still worked
Bought 3nd hand xoom and swapped lcds
No joy with that
Bought brand new screen
charges but won't turn on now
Hoping someone on here can help me, i really don't want to throw it away as it's a fantastic device, but at the same time i can't keep plowing money into it if it won't work.
Thanks guys,
Uv.
Related
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.
I haven't posted in a while but am rather frustrated with the quality control on the 10.1's I've encountered.
The first one I bought the screen was totally glitched out. Couldn't even initiate the start up screen.
I returned the lemon and got second one about 2 and a half months ago. It's been perfect....until tonight. I have never really used the S PEN until as of late but it's fantastic so I've obviously been using it more and more. I've noticed a 1 inch bar deadspot while using the S PEN. Place your Note landscape and it's about 3 inches from the left side and this 1 inch bar goes from the top of the screen to the bottom (when in Landscape). Over that region I described, the S PEN WILL NOT work. It works fine as a touch screen, just not with the S PEN. I've rebooted, turned it on and off, tried it on different applications, even took the case off in case the magnetized case was causing it, etc. I'm running a rooted stock 4.1.2 JB rom.
Luckily I purchased it from Costco and my 90 days is up the 2nd week of May.
This thing is definitely going back soon, but, how can I justify buying another one when I've gotten two defective ones??
I'm not sure what else is out there on the Android tablet front, but I think I'll be in the market soon.
Could just be a bad batch the store got. If there was a problem with their shipment then thats just bad luck for the consumer, besides, everyone knows that third times the charm....:laugh:
And it really is worth trying again for, no other android tablet has the spen which is a really good little thing to have....
It's not inside a case containing magnets is it? Some of these can interfere with the digitiser
Beacause you are using it while charging.
Sent from my GT-N8010 using xda app-developers app
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
Hope this is the right place for this conversation... sorry if its not
I have 3 tablets on the go here, my 6 year old had a RCA RCT6773W22 , he broke it, many times, i got into fixing the glass screens, lcd screens, battery swap out with a samsung phone battery b.c the battery was fried, and i was worried about the little soft battery blowing up as ive heard so much about it. BTW the samsung phone battery is awesome in there. lol
He killed the lcd on it again, wanted a tablet so bad he didnt want to wait a month for a new one from china, and we decided he could have an entire set of swap out items if he got another one. so he bought himself another one with his money, he broke that glass the same week. This time he got the RCA RCT6272W23 glass screen on these are weak. the old RCT6773w22 literally takes an beating and doesnt break easily.
So when he broke this new one, i took the mother board, and lcd out and put it into the old RCA because it still has a new glass/digitizer. Awesome it works great, and he has the old heavy duty screen that can take a beating
so heres my issue, i was given a proscan plt7044k - useless without the google store to my family
so i thought id be smart and put the mother board from the old old RCA into the proscan, because we had no digitizer or lcd for it. The parts all lined up hole for hole, screw for screw, i had nothing to lose, im learning. lol
I swapped in the RCA mother board thats it. the rest is Proscan. So i get it all wired up together, and fire it up. The screen resolution is to big for the tablet....i can only see roughly 1/3 of the full screen, and have to rotate it around to see certain areas....
Is there any way i can fix this, and get it to function right? or is this a case of a compatibility issue.... like maybe aspect ratio output vs screen capability?
not at dire straights here, just thought id get the second 'wow mom youre awesome' for fixing this tablet too...lol
thanks in advance for the input....
leahb1989 said:
Hope this is the right place for this conversation... sorry if its not
I have 3 tablets on the go here, my 6 year old had a RCA RCT6773W22 , he broke it, many times, i got into fixing the glass screens, lcd screens, battery swap out with a samsung phone battery b.c the battery was fried, and i was worried about the little soft battery blowing up as ive heard so much about it. BTW the samsung phone battery is awesome in there. lol
He killed the lcd on it again, wanted a tablet so bad he didnt want to wait a month for a new one from china, and we decided he could have an entire set of swap out items if he got another one. so he bought himself another one with his money, he broke that glass the same week. This time he got the RCA RCT6272W23 glass screen on these are weak. the old RCT6773w22 literally takes an beating and doesnt break easily.
So when he broke this new one, i took the mother board, and lcd out and put it into the old RCA because it still has a new glass/digitizer. Awesome it works great, and he has the old heavy duty screen that can take a beating
so heres my issue, i was given a proscan plt7044k - useless without the google store to my family
so i thought id be smart and put the mother board from the old old RCA into the proscan, because we had no digitizer or lcd for it. The parts all lined up hole for hole, screw for screw, i had nothing to lose, im learning. lol
I swapped in the RCA mother board thats it. the rest is Proscan. So i get it all wired up together, and fire it up. The screen resolution is to big for the tablet....i can only see roughly 1/3 of the full screen, and have to rotate it around to see certain areas....
Is there any way i can fix this, and get it to function right? or is this a case of a compatibility issue.... like maybe aspect ratio output vs screen capability?
not at dire straights here, just thought id get the second 'wow mom youre awesome' for fixing this tablet too...lol
thanks in advance for the input....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Sorry, but unfortunately this is not a right place to chat, i could only point you onto a right section of the forum, so i would suggest you to write it this again in the general forum:
Good luck!
Hey guys,
i'm posting this because I am going crazy about this and maybe you can help me figure it out (maybe it is something so dumb that I didn't think of it lol)
Well, here's the story:
Back in 2014, i used to have a Galaxy S (yeah, the first one of the S series, and yeah, it was already old when I had it in 2014). Pretty damn slow phone. Anyway, long story short, one day I went for a walk with it in my pocket, accidentally pulled my earphone's cord, the phone got out and went straight into the asphalt. This was the result:
https://imgur.com/90GNp2i (exhibit A)
Only the glass cracked, the LCD (is that an LCD screen? lol) wasn't affected. I always used a plastic screen cover that I believe helped keeping the glass around. Damage was pretty good but I didn't get too sad about it because a few weeks later I would be getting myself a Note 3. When that happened, the broken Galaxy S was laid to rest inside its box at the bottom of my wardrobe.
Fast forward to September 2017, when i sold the Note 3 to buy my current smartphone and had to use an old smartphone until the new one arrived. Grabbed the old Galaxy S and great!, working slow and heavy like a charm.
Kept using it for the next few days, until at some point whein messing around at the old phone's stored pictures I found exhibit A (that I had sent back in 2014 to my friends to show the damage) and I remembered what did the cracked screen look like. What the ****.
https://imgur.com/e7T0yMn (exhibit B)
Exhibit B is the picture I took with a friend's phone at the exact moment I realized that the screen was less broken (?) than before. Here are a few considerations about that:
1. The phone didn't leave its box, the box didn't leave the wardrobe. Nobody repaired the screen, and that can be told because of the two major crack points found in both pictures (first one in the bottom right corner of the phone, which may be a bit harder to see in the first picture, but it's there; and the one right above the center of the screen that can be better seen in exhibits C and D below)
2. The glass REALLY broke. It wasn't only the plastic screen protector, which btw I never replaced nor removed, it's still there holding the cracks (?) together.
3. There is no genius joke like "the second picture was taken before the first one and actually it was all a prank". No, the first pic is really from 2014 and the second is really from 2017. You can tell that by:
- looking at the Whatsapp design that really changed over the years; and
- well, believing me, because i really have no other pictures of it broken. hehe
These last two pictures I took tonight when I got crazy about that again (after the first euphoria about it last year, the phone went back into the wardrobe) and decided to post it here for you guys to tell me that the solution is really dumb and laugh at me.
https://imgur.com/vBH97Ar - exhibit C with white background
https://imgur.com/eWq7LXY - exhibit D with black background
So, XDA - wft has happened here? Is "screen semi-gluing itself back" an existing technology? Did the glass pieces only rearranged back to their normal place and the cracks are still there, but less visible? Did the plastic screen cover help? Should I look for more important things to worry about?
Thank you.
tl,dr - smartphone screen broke, found it less broken three years later.