Hello,
So maybe you already laughed a little bit by reading the title of the thread.
I had a foam party yesterday and I was stupid enough to have my oneplus one in my pocket. After about 15 minutes I finally realized that it would be a good idea to put my phone away. When I came back home in the night everything was fine but when I woke up today the touchscreen wasn't responding (only physical buttons worked). So I tried to hard reboot the phone and then everything was working again.
But after some minutes of use, I noticed that a part of the screen was reacting strangely. I went in the setting to activate the "cursor route" and I saw that there is kind of a band in the middle of the screen (about 1 cm) where the tactile is not working.
I removed the back cover and noticed that is was a little bit wet inside .. so I put my phone into some rice.
I tried to see how the screen is responding in my recovery (twrp) and the problem is also there, so I'm pretty sure it's an hardware problem.
Do you have any tips or things I can try to do ? I just want to avoid the Oneplus RMA because I don't want to be without phone for 2 months ..
Thanks in advance !
PS : I'm running CM 11S (latest OTA) and I'm rooted.
Stop using the device at all, you're potentially doing more damage every time you use it while it's wet/damp. Leave it in rice for three days without touching it. After three days is up take it out and inspect the touchscreen again.
okey, so I leave it off in the rice. 3 days without phone will be hard
If I have to replace the tactile screen (without LCD), do you know if I have to use thermal tools ?
pocj30 said:
Hello,
So maybe you already laughed a little bit by reading the title of the thread.
I had a foam party yesterday and I was stupid enough to have my oneplus one in my pocket. After about 15 minutes I finally realized that it would be a good idea to put my phone away. When I came back home in the night everything was fine but when I woke up today the touchscreen wasn't responding (only physical buttons worked). So I tried to hard reboot the phone and then everything was working again.
But after some minutes of use, I noticed that a part of the screen was reacting strangely. I went in the setting to activate the "cursor route" and I saw that there is kind of a band in the middle of the screen (about 1 cm) where the tactile is not working.
I removed the back cover and noticed that is was a little bit wet inside .. so I put my phone into some rice.
I tried to see how the screen is responding in my recovery (twrp) and the problem is also there, so I'm pretty sure it's an hardware problem.
Do you have any tips or things I can try to do ? I just want to avoid the Oneplus RMA because I don't want to be without phone for 2 months ..
Thanks in advance !
PS : I'm running CM 11S (latest OTA) and I'm rooted.
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Lol, so it's a hardware problem that you soaked your phone ? Sounds more like a user problem.... Good luck trying to pass that on a RMA...Well good luck with trying to get a RMA period... lol
pocj30 said:
okey, so I leave it off in the rice. 3 days without phone will be hard
If I have to replace the tactile screen (without LCD), do you know if I have to use thermal tools ?
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It'll be much longer without your phone if you don't though. And what @Cholerabob is right, what you've done to your phone isn't covered by warranty, warranty doesn't include damage caused by the owner.
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Cholerabob said:
Lol, so it's a hardware problem that you soaked your phone ? Sounds more like a user problem.... Good luck trying to pass that on a RMA...Well good luck with trying to get a RMA period... lol
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If you read my post better, you will understand that I said I don't want to pass it on RMA. Of course I know that I will have to pay about 150e because it's my responsibility and it's not covered by any warranty. That's why I want to change the component myself.
And yes, it's an hardware problem because of a user mistake.
Try to make constructive answers next time at least.
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Hello everyone,
Today i installed my parrot bluetooth carkit. And after i connected a couple of times my phone became unstable.
So unstable that i'm not able to tap the screen.....
I don't know what happened due that i have hard resetted the phone a couple of times and even switched from m-rom to energyrom 3.0 with the same results.
Only one thing that was strange is that the touch pro start up screen with the red characters in the right bottom.
That after i flashed m-rom to energy rom that the touch pro characters in the middle were still different like the way that are made in m-rom. With the addition : powered by m-rom
So this means that the phone doesnt format his core
Help please give me any advice.
UPDATE:When backlight is dimmed, it will be bright if i touch it once. Afterwards it will maintain the same.
I have tried several roms and tried to restore my SPL aswell, without any results till now.
I'm getting desperate now. Due that i stays in the screen of ALLIGNMENT, so i'm really not able to start up anything from now.
Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.
I have a OIL spot in the screen when i keep it in bright light.
This could be occured when the phone was inside my bag during my beach visit.....
I guess the phone turned liquid by the sun....
Does somebody ever experienced the same issue?
fone_fanatic said:
Have you dropped your device recently?
Try flashing a stock/shipped rom and hard-reset when after flashing the rom when you get to the "Tap here to set up your device" screen.
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I have a oil spot, and the raster of the phone with little dots in visible in the ligt.
I have made a repair order at HTC.
Which didn't satisfy me at all!
They told me that it is not covered by warranty. I was shocked, this will cost me around 70 euro to fix, and my shop warranty is still valid. So i called the shop to explain this.
And they said if this is not caused by a user, we will change the phone, but first we what to have a diagnose from HTC.
So i decided to let HTC pick up my phone . They will have a repair time of 5 up till 10 days.
That's fair, but i'm not really happy with this situation. Because i think that the screen is the most harmful component. And this means that if this part fails that my phone becomes obsolete.
I will post my conclusion after i got my phone repaired.
I will return to the STOCK spl and the original rom just for warranty purposes.
dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?
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dont tell them that you spilt anything on it or dropped it. Although they will be able to tell if there is water damage to the device you might get lucky and they won't notice.
Now is the oil spot from leaving it in the sun or suntan lotion getting in the device?
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Nope nothing happened at all.
Thats the strange thing about this situation.
I was in the shadow of the sun and the bags were only filled with clothes. So it didn't drop or something else.
I was able to use my phone during the day.... and was getting more unresponsive during the time that went by.
So i will not accept any blame of myself, due that i have a warranty of 1 year from the factory which will not cover your display :S
But also have the store warranty... So i told the store that i will return the phone if there are any costs.
The store told me that they will wait on the diagnose of HTC which i have sent it to myself to reduce the time.
If the diagnose tells that it's not my fault, then i can return my phone probably.... He couldn't promise it due that i want to see the diagnose first.
So I will wait on HTC's conclusion.... And i'm afraid that they will try to blame me for it....
They better not I will be a pain in there arses
Hello, I have exactly the same problem. After flashing from energyrom 3.0 to Aurora, a few hours later, i couldn't get my phone out of lock. (slide a button to the right or left on your touchscreen)
I tried a soft reset, but the phone started up with the same locked screen. So, i tried a hard reset. From that moment on i got stuck at "align screen". I ve flashed several times with several ROM's but nothing. (by the way, whatever rom i install, the first screen always says: Energyrom by NTGZ28)
I used the trick to paste welcome.not on the micro card, to bypass the align screen. That works, but the touch screen doesn't work. I 've removed the protection of the screen, but that doesn't make a difference either. My device didn't fall, came into contact with water or anything that could harm the thing. Oh, when the backlight is dimmed, the screen reacts to tapping it. Please help me out ??
resolt the issue. Because of a lot scraches (spelled ok?), i removed the protective screen. When i put the new screen on, everything worked !
hivesnl said:
I have a OIL spot
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i had does as well and then touch screen stopped working..
had to replace digitizer, unfortunately had to replace LCD screen and digitizer at the end (was not able to separate digitizer from LCD)
Last night I was going to bed and tried to set up an alarm for the morning after. I then noticed that my PDA doesn't respond to touches. Everything else works just fine. There are some ripples on the screen and they can be noticed if you view it at a low angle. Here's how it looks:
As a new user I'm not allowed to post a link so here is the image address-> img694.imageshack.us/i/csc0717.jpg
The devise hasn't been abuse in any way. It hasn't been exposed to high nor too low temperatures(outside yesterday evening was around -2 ~ -3 degrees Celsius). Although I think that the short call I made(less than 10 seconds) couldn't have been enough to let the cold damage it. After and before that it has been in my trousers pocket.
Can anyone tell me what could have done this?
P.S. Digitizer - my mistake
Can't tell you what is the problem with your device but if it's digitizer you can get a cheap one here http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.32150
it's just you have to wait a few weeks for it to come (at least I had to with some other things I bought on DX)
and I didn't buy this digitiser so I can't tell you more about it.
Hi!
have you put the screen protector on it anytime recently? If so, remove it and try again. I had this also once - bought and screen protector from the local HTC dealer, put it on (done it always so it wasn't the first time) and after a while I had the same problem as you. I did everyhting, hard resets, put a new ROM on..nothing. I also noticed the "oily spots" so I was frustrated. Finally I removed the protector and all of the sudden everything worked again.
I then bought a new protector and put it on very gently, I almost didn't push the portector on the screen and it works again. Still don't know if it was just a bad protector or what ws wrong. Try it..much simpler and easier than to go for a new digitizer.
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The last time I've put a new one was November and to be honest I didn't expect it to last this long... after all a six-pack cost about $4
Can't try it now though cause the device is still in warranty and I returned in the shop for repair. I'm going to phone the guys there and inform them and I hope it works, cause they said that the problem is from the OS and reinstalling it will fix the problem. Don't think that it'll help but after giving it to them it's their problem to fix it I just want it working and if possible - faster
P.S. Did your digitizer stopped working at all or you'd have to push really hard to respond?
I have the same problem, I heated the screen with a air blower and the screen started responding. I don t think it is a permanent repair but at least it saves the day. This is my first day of repair so I don't know how long it will last.
End of april I tried extreme heat and cold on the screen and all of a sudden it started responding again. I still have that oily look on the lcd but it is working properly for almost 2 months now. (Just a quick update) (In the meantime I ordered spare LCD to replace it next time it stops responding)
Hi all,
First post into this forum so be gentle
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S (i9000)
About two months ago I did drop it in a bath (parties eh?) and dried it out for a couple of days in rice, which seemed to have recovered it - bottom buttons did flicker for a bit before I did this (i know, i know, i shouldn't have even switched it on!) Problems seem to have been solved, drying it out seemed to have worked perfectly!
Few weeks ago I got it flashed manually by Samsung Service Centre from Android 2.1 to Froyo 2.2,
However, for about a week now I've been having issues with the same buttons on the bottom of the phone (touch sensitive Back button and Options button) but no problems with the Home button. Odd thing is it isn't persistent, every so often they will work - about 20% of the time - sometimes after hitting the lock button and unlocking the phone.
So.... the ultimate question is, do you think this is a software problem or hardware problem? (Froyo or water damage?!)
I havent done a factory reset just yet, need to spend some time to back stuff up - first thing to try?
Any suggestions would be great, or if you have experienced any similar problems.
Thanks!
Most certainly looks like the water did some damage, but maybe you could try formatting and hard reset but i dont think Froyo has this issue
Ok an update on this, restored the phone back to factory settings. Still having the same issues with the buttons, however they work after a few locks and unlocks of the phone, last about 15-20 presses within the same screen but can go if I switch application.
I'm suspecting there may still be some dampness in the phone so I'm going to try the rice method again and ordered some mini screwdrivers to have a look inside and see what the issue could be.
I just find this odd the problem has only occured within the last week, unless the phone has been exposed to more water (rain) without me noticing.
Do Samsung Galaxy Ss have a water damage indicator?
booya-al said:
Ok an update on this, restored the phone back to factory settings. Still having the same issues with the buttons, however they work after a few locks and unlocks of the phone, last about 15-20 presses within the same screen but can go if I switch application.
I'm suspecting there may still be some dampness in the phone so I'm going to try the rice method again and ordered some mini screwdrivers to have a look inside and see what the issue could be.
I just find this odd the problem has only occured within the last week, unless the phone has been exposed to more water (rain) without me noticing.
Do Samsung Galaxy Ss have a water damage indicator?
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I think its on the back when you remove the back plate, there is a white sticker
Hello guys,**
Well few days ago I accidentally dropped my Nexus 5 in a glass of water for just 1 sec. So I immediately switched it off and wait a bit to let dry then restarted it, and all seemed to work fine. But just some days later and up to now the phone boots up all fine as usual to the lock screen, and from there I can pull down the notification bar (and navigate through it, activate/deactivate wifi, etc..) but when I unlock it to get to the home screen it becomes all back and nothing appears on the screen even though the phone is still on.*
It's really confusing and weird. When I call the phone it rings (so no signal or sound problem) but I can't still access the screen to take the call as it's all back and unresponsive.
Following some suggestions I disassembled the phone and cleaned it dry but same results again! So now I think the problem is somehow related to the motherboard, coz as you might notice on some of the pictures attached, it seems that some plastic parts have melt down to cover other smaller parts. Anyway guys,*I'm just wondering if some of you guys had experienced something like that and if you were luckier*to find a solution or any directives that could help. Or you even think that's a motherboard problem like, do you know any ways to fix that o buy a new one somewhere??
PLEASE!!
Sorry apparently, I can't publish links until I get like 10 posts or plus..
But anyway guys, I'd really appreciate your help.
Why did you power it on and short circuit it on purpose for??
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Maybe it's a coincidence that you dropped it in water and this happened a few days later. Once in a blue moon mine does something similar to this (although not usually as start up only after lots of use), but I think it's related to an app or xposed. I only notice it after installing a bunch of crap again. Maybe try a factory reset (do it though the computer) just to see if it is somehow not hardware related? That's what I would try first.
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Wait... Are you seriously posting from 2 different accounts??
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First, simply try to factory reset or flash a new rom. There is not enough evidence to be sure it's a hardware problem, it could just as well be a coincidence that it started happening just now.
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Wait... Are you seriously posting from 2 different accounts??
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First, simply try to factory reset or flash a new rom. There is not enough evidence to be sure it's a hardware problem, it could just as well be a coincidence that it started happening just now.
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No, I just like to help
Help Op solve the problem please
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As you can see in thread, phone just dead. Dunno what happened. I bought it an year ago. I've tried to connect it to computer and it was visible as QHSUSB bulk but now i can't see it there. It doesn't react for turning on. I can't get into download mode, recovery mode. Very long time ago i flashed Android MM from xda and it was working good. It had ~50% of battery when died. I've tried to put off battery and then connect to pc but still nothing happen. It has broken screen (was working good) but i've done it in September 2016 so. I can connect it to Linux but i think it won't help too. Any fixes? I think they won't take It at warranty because of screen. Phone looks like dead for ages :<. @edit IT'S NOT DEAD! I've disconnected something from battery this longer one and when i click power i can hear "something" in the phone. And it gets heater so looks like processor is working. But it's still not visible in the device manager.
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i know emmc pinouts.
While I was using the phone, with battery at 66%, the exact same thing happened to mine. I'm sick of it. Time for a new phone.
(Had the rooted V15c image on it, no broken screen, only the camera issue - should someone care)
Same problem here, what is happening . My phone was approximately 80-90% and it suddenly turned off and I can't turn it on ..
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The same just happened to mine. It was fully charged and I was using it and then the screen went black. There are no lights when I plug it in, no vibration after pressing and holding the power button. Nothing
I've connected it to my pc and a driver installed, I think the same one as a post above (QHSUSB) but still the phone doesn't respond in any way.
It's the European H955 on official MM 6.0.1 no root or mods and is out of the one year warranty yet was in excellent condition. Does this mean the phone is for scrap and nothing can be done?
Hi, I found a solution to repair the phone in this state. I start by telling you a story, a long time ago I had an HP laptop. video card was detachment from motherboard, and to a stick again we used a method called reflowing. I thought that the phone has the same problem, however we have nothing to lose so I opened the phone I took out the motherboard and started to warm up each chip using a hot air blower. I mounted the phone back and now works like new. I apologize for my bad English I am from Romania.
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Hi, I found a solution to repair the phone in this state. I start by telling you a story, a long time ago I had an HP laptop. video card was detachment from motherboard, and to a stick again we used a method called reflowing. I thought that the phone has the same problem, however we have nothing to lose so I opened the phone I took out the motherboard and started to warm up each chip using a hot air blower. I mounted the phone back and now works like new. I apologize for my bad English I am from Romania.
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Any one tried this method and succeeded may please inform on this forum
My phone crashed, would reload to lock screen then restart and finally would not start at all. Before this the rear camera stopped working.
I had reset, flashed a new Rom and replaced the Camera which didn't solve the issue.
After the phone died I tried reflowing though I had no heat gun so I just used the oven. 200c for 7 minutes after disassembly.
That was about 8 hours ago and I am typing on my phone.the Camera is also working.
I will post if it stops again. I did it as the phone was dead and I had nothing to lose.
I have the same problem, and I am interested in getting a heat gun for this purpose. What specific parts of the phone did you reflow/heat? (in terms of the chips, or the entire board.)
Thanks in advance.
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I have the same problem, and I am interested in getting a heat gun for this purpose. What specific parts of the phone did you reflow/heat? (in terms of the chips, or the entire board.)
Thanks in advance.
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I did not heat the whole motherboard, just the chips under the shields.
Oven Phone Fix?
clb2c4e said:
My phone crashed, would reload to lock screen then restart and finally would not start at all. Before this the rear camera stopped working.
I had reset, flashed a new Rom and replaced the Camera which didn't solve the issue.
After the phone died I tried reflowing though I had no heat gun so I just used the oven. 200c for 7 minutes after disassembly.
That was about 8 hours ago and I am typing on my phone.the Camera is also working.
I will post if it stops again. I did it as the phone was dead and I had nothing to lose.
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What part of the phone did you reheat exactly? The whole phone? or did you take all the plastic out?
This part here: http://m.ebay.com/itm/OEM-AT-amp-T-LG-G-FLEX-2-H950-REPLACEMENT-32GB-LOGIC-BOARD-MOTHERBOARD-ORIGINAL-/141923410166
Also be sure to take off the rubber part on the back. The purpose is to remelt the solder.l, so only board and nothing else.
To disassemble there are some videos on YouTube. Remove your sim card before taking off the backing
Remember this is a last resort, you could end up with a completely dead chip.
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This part here: *link*
Also be sure to take off the rubber part on the back. The purpose is to remelt the solder.l, so only board and nothing else.
To disassemble there are some videos on YouTube. Remove your sim card before taking off the backing
Remember this is a last resort, you could end up with a completely dead chip.
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Thanks for the information. Is there a specific way you have to remove the shields, or do I use a soldering iron to get it off? (And if so, does it do any good to solder them back on?)
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This part here: http://m.ebay.com/itm/OEM-AT-amp-T-LG-G-FLEX-2-H950-REPLACEMENT-32GB-LOGIC-BOARD-MOTHERBOARD-ORIGINAL-/141923410166
Also be sure to take off the rubber part on the back. The purpose is to remelt the solder.l, so only board and nothing else.
To disassemble there are some videos on YouTube. Remove your sim card before taking off the backing
Remember this is a last resort, you could end up with a completely dead chip.
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Did it 395 degrees Fahrenheit (201.66 Celsius) for 7 minutes, I preheated the oven. The camera and everything now works fine.
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Thanks for the information. Is there a specific way you have to remove the shields, or do I use a soldering iron to get it off? (And if so, does it do any good to solder them back on?)
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You shouldn't have to use a soldering iron to take anything off. At least not as far as I am aware of.
I should note that as of this morning my phone when blank and will no longer turn on. I will try reflowing at a higher temperature as some solder may need a higher heat but I am not optimistic that this is a permanent fix.
Hey everyone !
First try to connect it in emergency mode to the computer in order to flash with LG UP. If you cannot boot into emergency mode but the device appers on your computer ( and PC is unable to connext into GF2) maybe you could burn your motherboard.
I burn one 7 months ago with my device resting on my pocket so its a common problem for this device (as official support told me so its full covered by guarantee )
Hope you can solve soon !!!