Hey, so i replaced my screen the other day and it worked fine until today when it suddenly started turning white. When i turn the screen on my it looks completely fine, after about 5 seconds a white shadow starts to appear in the background and slowly starts to make certain parts of my screen white. I opened the phone again and looked at all the cables to see if something was loose, but did not see anything wrong. Do any of you know what could be wrong?
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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 Nexus has a display problem and i'm trying to troubleshoot what the issue is and I'm wondering if anyone could help as it's not obvious where the issue lies.
What happened is I was using it as normal this morning and then the screen started flickering to different sizes/colours until it finally just went off. It was almost like it is trying to find the correct refresh rate and the colours appeared polarised at one point. After holding power down to reset it, the google logo appeared and then the spinning dots. Once the boot was complete the android logo appeared and then as soon as the main screen was displayed the display cuts off with a white pixelated mist and shuts off. The phone is still running as if I connect via HDMI I can see everything as normal however the phone responds extremely slowly. I can get into recovery however the screen quickly does some strange things, it flips like a mirror and cuts 1/3 of the screen off.
I'm not sure if this is a LCD problem as its a replacement from ebay that I've been using for a few weeks now. I would suspect that before anything else however it's odd the pre boot logos display fine. I've checked and cleaned all connections however it's still doing it. I'm running stock 5.1.1 rooted.
Hi all, I've got a weird problem. The last 3 days my screen has been acting strange. Phone is working without problems when suddenly the hardware buttons won't respond any more. After a few seconds the screen goes black and stays black. Buttons are still lit, but don't respond. But the strangest part is that the drawer stays visible and can also be used normally. I mean, I can draw the notification area down and let it fill the complete screen. So the screen itself doesn't appear to be broken.
Also, when putting the phone to sleep and awaking it again, I can see the normal screen a brief moment, maybe half a second before it goes black again. Restarting the phone is the only thing that will help...
I've cleared Dalvik/cache hoping it would make a difference, but it did not. Hope someone has got a clue?
I've uploaded 2 screen shots to show what I mean.
I'm rooted on OxygenOs 1.0.3/Android 5.0.2.
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
Screen appears to have died.
First it started with a vertical line of wrong colour pixels, it was this way for a few months. Then half the screen went white and later that day the screen died.
It flickers white and pink for a split second in the top right corner when you wake it, but then goes off. Otherwise the phone works as screenshots and apps respond, and responds to touch.
Don't suppose anyone knows any dirty tricks for fixing it that don't require taking it apart? Like heating it or something?