So my phone screen will no longer display anything. No boot screen, no nothing. The software is running back there just fine, but I can't see it. Could this be a software problem (display driver got corrupted or something)? If so, would someone be willing to tell me the best way to reset? Is it more likely hardware failure since I see nothing during the boot?
My set-up is as follows:
Recovery: CWM v14.4.6
ROM: EMBRYO 6.10
Rooted, debugging on, titanium backup installed
Any help would be much appreciated.
I think I may have found my answer. The screen has been working intermittently today and sometimes appears tinted red, green or blue. Looks like it's time for a new piece of hardware :-/
For anyone else having a similar issue: screen stops working completely, works intermittently, displays with red, green or blue tint, or displays an inverted screen, my problem seems to be a loose connection with a simple fix.
I followed these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540425 through prying off the back shroud (the one held on by 7 screws). I believe the screen connector is the one on the left in the picture, just below the power button (visible in the picture between steps 4 and 5). I disconnected this (gently pry up), blew off the contacts to try to remove any dust and pressed it back on. I then put a small rectangle of masking tape in the corresponding location on the plastic shroud (mine already had a rectangle of black tape in this position) in hopes that this would help keep the connector securely pressed against its mate on the board. Finally, I snapped and screwed it all back, and so far so good.
My guess is that this problem/fix probably applies to more than the galaxy s II skyrocket - possibly it will be useful to someone someday...or maybe not.
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Hi guys
I have this strange behavior going on in my Sentation.
Out of nowhere my phone started to have strange screen behavior... Didn't light up after pressing the power button (had to phone my self in order to get screen on).
The next thing was that suddenly the screen goes to maximum brightness or goes to minimum without any explanation (tried both auto brightness or manual).
After that I noticed that the screen went off when I was using it but when I pressed the left side of it it lighted up and off again... making me think of some kind of bad contact underneath. As I already had changed a broken touch screen for t3 times, and let the phone fall for several times I thought it had to do with some plug out of line...
I disassembled the phone completely and mounted up back again. The thing is that the phone started to freeze every 5 minutes (screen on but completely freezed. I have to pul out battery). Sometimes it freezes even in the recovery menu. I've tried several rom's with full wipe and not installing anything and its all the same.
Some times I still not that the screen goes off during the freeze but when I touch the left side it goes on again, but that doesn't change the freezed state even that I let down the phone for several minutes.
I disassemble the phone again, tried different back cover and different battery (one stock and other extra strength) I tried also all the suggestion related to the small pin in the back not connecting well with the back cover (adding an aluminium foil, pulling the pin out, etc..)
Nothing seams to resolve anything so I have clearly an hardware problem... but I don't know what to replace or where to look the damage!!!
Can anybody help me please?!
Update
I have an update on my problem:
I noticed that when I leave the phone on top of some kind of metal part and don't touch it it works all day without any problem but, as soon as I start to touch the phone, it freezes within minutes!
Could it be some kind of static electrical problem? How to resolve it?
I would apreciate any help
Thanks
My friend smashed the screen on his nexus 5 and gave it to some shady repair shop. They replaced his screen (with a white one, on a black phone btw, now it has a white dot on top) and he paid a lot of money for it, but now his display won't work, so he gave it to me to fix, as I have some experience with fixing phones and he has no money left. The repair shop refused to take it back and he doesn't want to start a legal battle. As far as I've tested, the phone shows three behaviours. The first is that the phone boots normally, but without displaying anything. I can still hear it getting notifications and can connect it to a computer, it's just not displaying anything. The second behaviour is identical to the first, except instead of a black screen the phone shows colorful static which seems to correspond to screen-on time (when I lock the phone it goes black and vice versa). The third behaviour, which is the weirdest, is that the display works, but everything displayed is glitching. The google logo maybe has the top 20% moved down a bit, the boot animation may be choppy or distorted, the recovery menu may be divided into blocks which are moved around a bit. In this 'mode', I have never gotten it past the boot animation. The reason I wrote 'may' is because it's different every time, but eventually it always just goes black and stops responding until i disconnect and reconnect the battery.
I opened the phone and fiddled with the connectors a bit and found out that pressing the usb board connector to the mainboard seems to cause the phone to switch between these behaviours. I took a small piece of paper, folded it over a few times and put it on top of the connector and then screwed the cover back on to hold the connector firmly in place. That seemed to put the phone into constant behaviour 3 (graphical glitching).
What could be the problem? I know that the static indicates that the usb board or more probably its connector is faulty, but I'm more concerned about the glitching. It seems to me that the graphical processor is malfunctioning, but I have very little knowledge about graphical processing and displaying so I really don't know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: the phone just did something weird, when I turned it on it displayed static, but then it started drawing the boot animation slowly from top to bottom. And then proceeded with behaviour 3 as usual, the animation ran at about 3fps and just went blank after 10s.
Okay, I have located the exact location of the fault, the USB board ribbon cable that goes over the battery was bent at a sharp angle and then apparently straightened again. If I press it in that point, the screen switches between static and nothing. I have not been able to recreate the glitching since I cleaned all the parts of the phone with isopropyl alcohol. Still, I'm interested in an explanation to avoid further problems with glitching
now it's behaving even more strangely. When I turn it on, it slowly fades from grey to bright white screen and then goes black and starts blinking a red light. What does this mean? Please help
anyone?
My screen is showing the static that is symbolic of a broken flex cable, so naturally after a quick google i realised thatd be the part to buy.
I bought it and its been fitted and the phone is still not working. It shows colourful static still.
Whats unique about my problem that i havent been able to find elsewhere is that
a) if i bang the phone on the back the screen will flicker to the boot up (swirly pattern thing) and freeze and after a couple of bangs i can eventually get it to stick on a working screen, hence why i think this is a hardware issue.
b) not sure if this is a coincidence or not but when the phone was opened up and the back was off, pressing on the front facing camera and around that area appeared to help sometimes, could simply be coincidental though.
thanks
So my T-Mobile Galaxy Note Edge (SM-N915T) running rooted Android 5.1.1 just encountered the infamous green screen seen. The first time, the green screen disappeared after entering sleep mode and waking up, then about 5 minutes later, the green screen stayed, even after a full reboot (even the Samsung bootup animation, download mode, and TWRP were tinted, so I think we can rule out software issue). The phone was still navigable and usable, just with a serious heavy green tint, curiously, the phone would change between the heavy green tint and a grey tint, and the tint would stay on the upper 30% of the phone and turn grey as it entered sleep mode, almost as if the phone was trying to correct the display or something was barely making contact inside the phone.
Then the green tint got more intense, I could make out the basic background, the fingerprint scanner let me past the lockscreen, and the S-Pen sounds would still play when the S-Pen was removed, inserted, and when the screen was touched. Additionally, my PC does not pick up the Note Edge, yes I have the Windows drivers installed, USB debugging enabled, and MTP + ADB enabled via the secret menu in the dialer. Also OTG is down, my mouse and keyboard are receiving power, but no longer recognized.
Now, after another reboot, the phone is stuck in a bootloop, with the Samsung and T-Mobile sounds playing over and over again, there is a green tint when the Samsung logo should be playing, but a dark screen (as in, AMOLED off) when the T-Mobile animation should be playing.
The phone can't even properly boot into download or recovery mode anymore.
The phone wasn't exposed to heat or pressure, it was just charging off an ASUS power brick and a LG microUSB cable (and was relatively cool, not hot).
The phone was bought second hand, KNOX is tripped, and well past the warranty period.
So my questions for everyone here:
-Any idea what the problem is? GPU failure? Bad solder? Short circuit? Screen failure?
-Any hope? I heard someone else was able to get rid of the green screen after freezing the phone, but at the same time, I don't want to risk condensation inside the phone if I don't have to, and if it was melted solder from some sort of charging issue, heating the phone would probably be a better solution.
While I do have backup phones and and a backup of all my files in case something like this happened, I'm going to miss the curved edge and the S-Pen, and I don't want to take the phone to a 3rd party repair shop, considering you can buy an used functional Note Edge for less than the price of a replacement display, besides, the new Note 7 looks nice.
Anything that hasn't been mentioned above would be helpful... Thanks
UPDATE:
Now the screen doesn't turn on anymore, it flashes green when turned on, but remains dead. The T-Mobile sound still plays, and the motor rumbles for a second, but the fingerprint scanner and S-Pen rumbles and sounds are no longer responsive notification light pulses between white and blue.
Attempting to boot into download or recovery mode yields 2 seconds of green screen, then the T-Mobile boot up sound.
UPDATE 2:
Phone boots properly now judging by the fingerprint scanner responding and S-Pen sound, touch screen also seems to be functional based on S-pen cancel sound, but screen is now completely black, is it safe to assume a screen failure/damage?
Hey,
I was replacing my screen, when I went to test it instead of the google logo I got a fully green screen, the phone booted, but continued to be green. The always on display looks exactly as it should. Once it was fully on, I managed to put my pin in blind and the phone all works fine (it seems), and some black gets through, I assume the screen turns off those pixels which is why maybe that shows up correctly(ish).
The interesting thing is, I did at one point have to working fully, full colour, this was between reconnecting the ribbon cable and restarting, but I pressed the power button to sleep it and then hit it again and if I remember correctly was green again. So that made me think "poor connection" of come kind. What's even more strange is that when it is green and I press the power button to sleep and wake, the screen appears at least to display the full colours at the end and begging of their animations respectively. Maybe its not full colour, but at least it's more visible.
The final thing is when I go into the bootloader, sometimes it's full colour, and others it's got the solid green effect where black isn't displayed. What's odd is, even when the bootloader is showing correctly as soon as start is click it goes to a full green screen again and we don't see the logo at all. Also I managed to get into safe mode and it made no difference. It's just odd that it seems to decide to green, rather than due to any cable tussle
Basically has to a cable issue, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it, and advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated. Like if the screen arrived faulty, if the connector is damaged in the phone so it can't be used, and the motherboard would need replacing.
Thanks,
Dillon
In recovery mode, there's full colour as well, I factory reset the phone, but it made no impact. However entering into recovery mode did flash the google logo and some of the screen whit, and the same thing happened on reboot from recovery mode.
It seems so odd to have these kind of consistent moments of colour and not colour if it's the ribbon
I should have also mentioned, that the clamp is broken, could that be the issue, does the connection need to be screwed in?
Also Here are some images of both the phones connection and the screens
I'd say jb weld your broken clamp before buying parts. Could be as simple as that it's not a tight enough connection