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[Q] Problem(s) with Nexus 4. Very frustrated

Hello everyone,
I am an owner of an LG Nexus 4 for a few months now.
The device worked well for the first few months, than one day I dropped it and the screen shattered
The touch sensors stopped working, although the LCD display didn't,
So I had the screen replaced and everything went back to normal.
Then, after the 4.3 update I think, I started having problems with the mobile connections, it died all of a sudden and didn't came back, and the device went off, and when I turned it back on, the battery indicator showed a lower percentage than before, than the device went off again.
Mostly, after the first shutdown the device wouldnt come back unless i charged it.
I also had the battery changed because it turnes out it got inflated (turnes out that happens), and it didn't help either.
I thought the 4.4 update will help, but it didn't.
What could the problem be? Is it hardware or software?
As the title says, I'm very frustrated. It could be from the hit he got when the glass broke, some interior parts could have got hurt,
Or from when the battery inflated.
or that I just got a crappy device in the first place, who knows.
Thank you and sorry for the long post.
Yours,
Yarin.

broken screen maybe?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/asc56xny7owecx3/IMAG1416.jpg?dl=
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iahgmi6t1au6zy0/IMAG1414.jpg?dl=0
So that's my one x right now, about a year or so ago the screen did this intermittantly and so I bought a new one and it worked consistantly for 2 months then it did this for good. Is it truly just another bad screen or is this another hardware issue?

Just to clarify, when I said I bought a new one I meant I bought a new screen and digitizer together. Last night I took it apart again and unplugged all the connections just to check it out, didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Plugged it all back together (the cover is still off you may notice that in the pics) but no luck. It's odd that this problem has happened twice with different screens, but it seems like a faulty screen to me....

screen distorted colors then touch not responding

Hi,
First of all, i bought my Nexus 5 when it just came out so i'm out of warranty now
anyway earlier that year my phone slipped, the screen was good when i picked it up with no cracks.. but i found that colors were distorted with vertical lines all over the screen and it doesn't respond in some parts of it to touch functions. I was told by a friend that it might be a problem related to screen and digitizer and i had to replace it and that's what i'd done i purchased " LCD Digitizer Touch Screen Assembly Black for Google Nexus 5 " from amazon and got it done. it then worked just fine like before but only for 2 weeks and then while i was charging it using my OEM charger when i plugged it off i saw the same lines with the colors distortion but this time touch function wasn't affected so i kept using my mobile phone that day until i had to charge it again later that day this time i just another charger cause i thought it might be something related to the nexus charger. I used a Moto G 2nd gen's charger. once i plugged it in my mobile touch function corrupted and now it doesn't respond to anything just like the first time i replaced the screen. have you dealt with this problem before. i'm just desperate and pessimistic is my mobile dead and i'd better put my money on the new release of Nexus upcoming this month rather than trying to fix it ?

Repairing the Nexus 5 TWICE!

Hello,
a few months ago I ordered a Nexus 5. It came and worked well for 2 weeks then the screen started to randomly become unresponsive. Later on it completely stopped working and white lines were showing in the bottom and top of the screen. One day I disassembled it and removed the flex cable for first time, when I put it back the lines became bigger. I did it again and the whole screen went off, but the phone was on.
I ordered new screen, replaced it - it didn't work. It vibrated and made sounds, the phone was on, but the screen was just off (not black). I then thought it may be the USB board (little yellow one). I ordered new one, replaced it and, unfortunately, it didn't work again.
I now have a Nexus 5 with a new screen, new USB board, but completely off display. I have to mention that meanwhile changing the display I tried all possible fixes from cleaning the contacts with a cloth to cleaning them with alcohol. I know that I have tried pretty much everything, but I was still wondering if you guys can suggest something?
I must also say that from my observation the Nexus 5 has very bad build quality. My opinion doesn't change anything, but I just want to say it as a warning to someone thinking about buying this phone. The LG G2 for example has a lot better build quality.
Any help will be appreciated. I don't know what to do with this phone. Should I just sell it for parts?
Thanks.

Was the phone new or used when you received it?
If it was used, it could have been dropped by previous owner. It's also possible that the previous owner had swapped parts with another phone. Maybe the screen on the phone isn't an oem lg screen.

audit13 said:
Was the phone new or used when you received it?
If it was used, it could have been dropped by previous owner. It's also possible that the previous owner had swapped parts with another phone. Maybe the screen on the phone isn't an oem lg screen.
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It was "refurbished", by Chinese people. When disassembling I noticed that the condition was awful. Part were missing like the NFC chip and the metal shield over the CPU and RAM was completely gone. I expected it, but the phone was working at the begging. I replaced the screen as I already stated.
What could be broken?

I have worked on new nexus 5 phones and find the quality to be good. I don't think a poorly refurbished nexus 5 is any indication of a new phone's build quality.

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.