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[Q] Samsung Fascinate Screen Problem.

I'm having a problem where every other day I go to unlock my phone and the screen flashes white quickly and immediately shuts off. It does the same when I take the battery back out and put it back in. If I push on the sides and the housing a bit and that usually fixes it till the next time. If I put the cover back on soon after its episode it does it again. I think there might be a short or something in the screen. Has anyone experienced this or know what it is? : /

I had that problem on a phone I had a couple years ago. It wasn't a fascinate but I bought a replacement screen off Ebay and it fixed it.

samt3 said:
I had that problem on a phone I had a couple years ago. It wasn't a fascinate but I bought a replacement screen off Ebay and it fixed it.
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I'm going to take it apart and try to see what could be wrong, I looked up some videos and it appears that it has prongs that touch kinda like how the batteries on phones work. I think it might be one of those aren't touching.

Whogivsachit said:
I'm going to take it apart and try to see what could be wrong, I looked up some videos and it appears that it has prongs that touch kinda like how the batteries on phones work. I think it might be one of those aren't touching.
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did it get wet or dropped hard right before it started happening? That's about the only way I'dsee the prong getting damaged.

No that's the thing. I've treated it very well. It is 3 years old. Seems fine today at least : p
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touch screen unresponsive in heat

Hi -
About 2 months ago I dropped my nexus 5 and cracked the screen. I ordered a new screen+digitize+ frame combo on ebay, which shipped from China, and replaced the broken screen. It works fine and I am proud of myself. However, I have now noticed that the screen is entirely non-responsive outside on a 90-degree day. I don't recall the phone having this problem before. When I come back into air conditioning, it starts working again in a matter of minutes, almost immediately. Is this the fault of the replacement part, something I did wrong in repair, or some kind of calibration issue? I sure could use some help. Thanks
(Nexus 5, 32 Gb, stock, rooted, KK 4.4.4.)
- John

Digitizer Working Intermittently

So about a week ago, a vertical strip of my digitizer stopped working, right through the "n" and "j" buttons on the keyboard. I looked into getting it replaced and was quoted around $150, which seems a bit steep for a phone I only plan on keeping until the N5 (2015) drops in a couple of months. Cut to this weekend and once or twice that portion of the digitizer started working again, but only for a few minutes at a time. So it looks like it may not be a hard failure. Has anyone else experienced this and found a way to fix it? Could it just be a loose connector?

For anyone that stumbles on this later, I took the phone apart and found that the ribbon cable for the screen/digitizer was torn. Ordered a new screen/digitizer assembly, swapped all the components over and got the phone up and running again. Took a bit to get the back pressed in right to make wireless charging work, but other than that it was a breeze.
And it's amazing what it feels like to go from an OG EVO 4G running 2.2 to a N5 on the M Preview. Talk about night and day.

technical issues

I broke my phone into pieces a few months back, took a pretty back fall from the fourth floor window. I love this beast and took it upon myself to recover it. So I bought a new screen and frame. It looked like new. When I tried to power it on, nothing happened. I suspected the battery, which had already shown some signs of dying prior, and attributed it to months without charge. I ordered a new one, that came today...
Still no power. However something happens , like with the old one: sometimes the flashlight comes on when I tried to charge it. I can feel the heat in the motherboard.
What can I do???? ? Is it time to give up on my OPO?

Moto G5. An input line of keys are not selectable on the phone. All other keys work.

Hi
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.