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Please comment. Do you have this issue? Help troubleshooting.

Ok we all know that this phone is far from perfect and when we got the first MT off of Craigslist in kinda rough shape I assumed previous abuse to be the cause of the issue. However after bugging VM for a week we got a new replacment. The issue was instantly there on the brand new phone.
Let's see if I explain. Our phone has no back cover and I'm thinking there lies the problem but want people to test the theroy. Problem presents itself when taking pictures no matter camera setting. You are able to get several snaps in a row at times only two. Then when it happens, right as the shutter closes it reboots. I'm talking instantly at the MOTO splash. Then the reboot takes 6-7 minutes at the boot animation if you let it start back up by itself. If at the reboot I pull battery and replace/reboot the device it will boot fast like normal 1-2 mins. The phone seems to have electrical contact points that would be in contact with the back cover (ground). However searching and searching on Google and I find many camera issues present, but not a single reference to this. That's why I'm curious if people can please remove your back covers and snap some pics at random and see if anyone can repeat the problem. If its the back cover being missing that's causing it I will just get a new one and be done chasing logcats and digging trying to fix it. I have never had a back cover but with lack of documentation of others with this problem I'm leaning to that being the problem.
So please pop the cover off and snap some pics give it a chance it happens sometimes on the 1st pic or the tenth. It's random so give it a minute.
I wanna get it fixed cause its the wifes phone. She's a photo taking crazy lady who get quite mad about needing to reboot between snapshots.
Thanks for anyone's input in advance.
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Is your phone rooted ? & on a custom rom ? My phone runs CM7 as does my wife's Triumph & she is a photo crazy lady too, she's never complained to me about this issue. Our phones are on Whyzor's 2012-1-26 build as all seems well, but i'll snap off some photo's to be sure & will post the results.

My theory is that's its cause I bought the phone used minus the back cover and upon removing the case to see the back of the phone I see connections that look like they would connect if the cover where there.
I used to think it was something with the one phone so we wiggled our way around with VM and got them to finally send a brand new replacement with no back of course. Your supposed to keep the old one. I never had it. So since the new phone had the same "camera shutter causes reboot" and i can't find another case from any other corner of the net. And I looked. I really looked. I am only left with the absence of the back cover. So I want to see if camera usage with the battery cover of will cause the issue on other MT devices.
The problem happened on miui cm7 and stock. The new phones fresh out of the box but I rooted it by symlinking the sudo files to su and now I don't even need superuser I just have root plain and simple. So its not software as far as I can tell. I'm lost if someone can't repeat the issue with there battery cover off.
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I added a picture. Does anyone maybe smarter know what the little metal connections on the back here are. Seems there are five of them. Three along the left side two on the right
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Well I have taken like 20 pics just now with the back off and no reboots. Some people have claimed that it's grounding and their touchscreen doesn't work properly with it off. I can take off my cover and use everything on the phone properly so I don't know if its actually grounding or not... I'm gonna be taking my phone apart in the next few days so I can look more into it then.

I'm just at a loss then it makes no sense to have two phones one old rooted rom flashed device and a new stock rooted device and have the same issue that I can't find anyone that has mentioned it. I looked at over 250+ forum posts on probaly 6 sites and can't find a single similar instance I can get a logcat for the reboots on both devices here in a few and see if someone can spot the problem in the logs. Gimme a few hours I'm away from a pc. But I gotta send the phone back within 12 days I'm determined to figure it out. Any advice where to begin looking?
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It sounds like you may have just gotten 2 phones that have some sort of grounding issues. I mean there's no way to know for sure, but it could be possible that you got 2 phones that have issues. Another thing is you might be able to ask VM if they can send you a battery cover and see if that actually fixes the problem.

I've never even seen the battery covers are they conductive? Plastic or metal at those points? Never had the pleasure of actually having one. I'll post some logcats to pastebin. I'm gonna reflash both phones to factory settings and unroot. Revert to stock recovery, and off fresh boots do the exact same steps to cause a reboot while I got a logcat running. Hopefully the same errors are noticable on both devices and can find a point to start at.
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mikedavis120 said:
I've never even seen the battery covers are they conductive? Plastic or metal at those points? Never had the pleasure of actually having one. I'll post some logcats to pastebin. I'm gonna reflash both phones to factory settings and unroot. Revert to stock recovery, and off fresh boots do the exact same steps to cause a reboot while I got a logcat running. Hopefully the same errors are noticable on both devices and can find a point to start at.
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Well yes the back actually does have metal contacts at those points. I don't know if they are actually used for grounding. Another possibility is its used for RF shielding, but that shouldn't effect things like the camera. Yea see what the logcats find.
Edit: I've attached an image of what the battery cover looks like.

Well I'm on my way to go sit down flash to stock and run some logcats so i can see if anything pops up. I'll try to make a video to so you can see what its doing for yourself. I'll record it and upload it to YouTube and link it here.
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Well I'm on my way to go sit down flash to stock and run some logcats so i can see if anything pops up. I'll try to make a video to so you can see what its doing for yourself. I'll record it and upload it to YouTube and link it here.
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Ok. I have to go to work soon though so I might not be able to take a look for a few hours.

well i've snaped off 5 to 7 photo's in a row & can't seem to find this issue that you speak of ?

I'm still heading to the house to try to duplicate it with a logcat running. Will post back soon.
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Nope...
I haven't ever had this problem. I took the back off, tried it, put the TPU case back on without the cover, no problems. I do have a problem with the camera when I try to use another app to take pictures (e.g. Evernote, Facebook). The camera tries to focus, it freezes for about 15 seconds then FC's

Phone power downs randomly, then...

So i've recently come back again with an issue i had before with my S2 where i had an issue of it randomly shutting off then vibrate. Back then i just restock to ATT and made sure the power button wasn't stuck. It wasn't happening for a while until just yesterday. [ I did go back to Jellybean after the problem stopped happening as well]
Now currently i've restock back to ATT 2.3 /
So now im almost positive it isn't my battery because once that problem started happening [still stocked] again. Also it would randomly shut off when im and listening to music with headphones and emit a high freq. pitch and the LED camera was flashing when it vibrated as well. Its also very hard to get it back to recovery/download mode but i can and also just starting it up again with the power button and i have to also take out the battery as well .
So so far i've gone back ATT with Odin, and was wondering if someone could help me.

You restored to stock 2.3? Gingerbread? I've only experienced this when uninstalling apps on jellybean, particularly apps with root access. Will do a hot boot. Likely because the system is not mounting or unmounting properly during process. I assume. Never once have I experienced this on any ICS Rom. Try Sky ICS or Embryo 5.x.x Rom. They're both pretty stable.
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aliysared said:
So i've recently come back again with an issue i had before with my S2 where i had an issue of it randomly shutting off then vibrate. Back then i just restock to ATT and made sure the power button wasn't stuck. It wasn't happening for a while until just yesterday. [ I did go back to Jellybean after the problem stopped happening as well]
Now currently i've restock back to ATT 2.3 /
So now im almost positive it isn't my battery because once that problem started happening [still stocked] again. Also it would randomly shut off when im and listening to music with headphones and emit a high freq. pitch and the LED camera was flashing when it vibrated as well. Its also very hard to get it back to recovery/download mode but i can and also just starting it up again with the power button and i have to also take out the battery as well .
So so far i've gone back ATT with Odin, and was wondering if someone could help me.
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Can you get me a copy of the info tag under the battery please? There was a series (which I had 3 of) that had the same hardware issue that you are experiencing. I'm not near my SR of the series, but will look when I get home and post. It is however an issue that AT&T and Samsung are aware of. AT&T gave me a GS III due to the issue.

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aliysared said:
Sure:
Model: sgh-i727
fcc id: a3LSGHi727
Rated 3.7 1500ma
IMEI:
S/N : R2CBA64411R
SKU: 65319
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Well that looks like it was from a different batch. Same factory but different batch. Most likely you have the same hardware issue I had. My recommendation is to contact AT&T via PHONE, not the international line. You don't want warranty dept. Tell them that you are on a Sky Rocket, and that this is your "x" one that was under warranty, and that all "x" of them have failed under the same known hardware issue. The options you will have are either get a replacement, file under any extended warranty you purchased, OR you can tell them that it is unacceptable, and you would like a different device. They cannot offer you a note, note 2 or any of the iphones. I opted for the S III, and have been happy ever since.

Just so you know it is not the best idea to post you're IMEI publicly.

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Just so you know it is not the best idea to post you're IMEI publicly.
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man now i cant even remove it from the other users qoute, but i think i found out it is the powerbutton because when i eventual am able to boot up my phone, if i press the powerbutton to wake up it , it then a few seconds later will shut down randomly and start vibrating with either the flash or no flash at all [camera LED] also it seems like my phone was wet and the power button is not stuck because i opened up the entire phone and its still clickable with no problems.

aliysared said:
man now i cant even remove it from the other users qoute, but i think i found out it is the powerbutton because when i eventual am able to boot up my phone, if i press the powerbutton to wake up it , it then a few seconds later will shut down randomly and start vibrating with either the flash or no flash at all [camera LED] also it seems like my phone was wet and the power button is not stuck because i opened up the entire phone and its still clickable with no problems.
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Done did, well get a dental pick (not a tooth pick) and gently clean around the edges of the power button. When you do get it powered back up, make a backup to your sd card, JUST IN CASE you need to send it back to sammy.

I dunno if I'm having something similar happen. My phone was working completely normally (CM 10). Working this AM ok, I pull up an email, and then it shuts off, tries rebooting, the Samsung logo comes up, I get a brief flash on the screen (sometimes just a single line that varies in position on the screen) and then it keeps vibrating. Never had this happen before....and of course it happens as I am at the airport without my laptop to try and put it into download mode...I can't even get it into recovery. Ugh!
Any thoughts?

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I dunno if I'm having something similar happen. My phone was working completely normally (CM 10). Working this AM ok, I pull up an email, and then it shuts off, tries rebooting, the Samsung logo comes up, I get a brief flash on the screen (sometimes just a single line that varies in position on the screen) and then it keeps vibrating. Never had this happen before....and of course it happens as I am at the airport without my laptop to try and put it into download mode...I can't even get it into recovery. Ugh!
Any thoughts?
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sticky power button, 1stop sticky has a few links for that problem

Or take the phone apart and clean it. Its not hard like 6 00 screws and a box cutter then its really easy to clean.
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Thx. I did take it apart. Luckily I had a micro screwdriver for glasses with me, since I am out of town. Took the board off, blew into it, pressed the button a bunch, etc. Seems to be working now.
Sounds like this is not an uncommon problem though. Makes me wonder about the quality of the parts... This phone is just over a year old, and has always had a case on it (though I do keep it in a pocket so there could be some lint working its way in).
I am a novice at taking this phone apart, and I managed to do it with the following:
An old laminated Blockbuster video card
A hotel door key
A glasses flathead screwdriver.
So if you are nervous about taking it apart, don't worry... It's not hard.
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Black screen on a rooted phone. question

I have been running MOAR rom for a few days. this morning i tried to open it and the screen was black. it is working underneith it . i can answer phonecalls, i started s-voice with 2 taps on the home button and it fired up. the only thing is the screen is black.
I talked to verizon and they are sending me a replacement. my question is do i have to odin it back to stock to return it? any input would be great. also how would i get into odin mode? what is the easiest way from the command prompt?
this sucks

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I just had the same thing happen overnight. The power comes on and the screen is responsive to touch, it's just completely blank. I can't figure out how to get download mode to start so I can run Odin back to stick.

Normally yes, you should do this. Are you both sure it's not just the rom itself? I know AOSP roms are having some instability issues related to the Linux 3.4 kernel. Does your display turn on after a reboot or removing the battery several times? It's highly unusual this exact same thing issue would happen to two people unless it was a kernel glitch or too much undervolting.
(From a powered off state) Download mode: power button, home and volume down. Idk if you weren't sure how to boot into download mode or if it's just not working.
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Running MROM build:20130423.
I get nothing on the screen at all. I pulled the battery (couldn't see where to touch the screen for shutdown to work), and I've tried both ways so far. I tried just powering it on again, and it seems to power up just fine .. with nothing visible. It vibrates when I tap the screen, the leds are on, etc. Just a completely black screen.
I tried to get into Download mode as well. Pulled the battery (BTW, the battery had a full overnight charge. When the phone is plugged in, the LED is green) and did the Vol-down, Home, Power combo; but I can never see anything on the screen to know when the triangle appears. I've tried guessing several times by pressing the Vol-up button at various intervals after doing the download mode start combo. It vibrates to tell me the power has started, but nothing visual at all.
Still absolutely nothing on the display.
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So the real question is, if I'm reading the OP correctly, is how do we get the phone back to stock without any sort of visual assistance on the phone itself?
kidhudi, correct me if you are looking for something different. If so, I'll start my own thread.

How long are you holding that button combo for download mode? Also, try holding home and volume down then pressing the power button. And what about booting into recovery? Any luck there?
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OK . the screen started working , kinda. the whole right side is solid purple. i was able to boot into odin mode and odined back to stock.
rebooted and the screen is still jacked up but at least it is readable. my replacement will be here monday.
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How long are you holding that button combo for download mode? Also, try holding home and volume down then pressing the power button. And what about booting into recovery? Any luck there?
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I've tried holding down the key combo for just a second or two (before the initial power-up buzz), just after the initial power-up buzz, and several seconds after the initial power buzz, even to the point of it buzzing a second time. I've tried it a bunch of different ways. No luck. It still feels like it's powering on, I just can't see anything.
I've also tried to get into recovery several times, still with no display.
I've got a feeling I'm screwed. If that's the case, what's the likelihood of still being able to do a warranty replacement? Will VZW techs be able to get in and see that I've customized the phone (unlocked bootloader, custom ROM, etc.)?

dude volume down power and home.. after press volume up then you should be in odin mode

kidhudi said:
OK . the screen started working , kinda. the whole right side is solid purple. i was able to boot into odin mode and odined back to stock.
rebooted and the screen is still jacked up but at least it is readable. my replacement will be here monday.
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Great news! I hope to get to that point soon.
Is the rest of your screen looking really grainy? Mine did that last night before I let it just sit overnight. The graininess was to the point where I could barely make out a few things on the screen, but nothing else.
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dude volume down power and home.. after press volume up then you should be in odin mode
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Yeah, I've done that hundreds of times with other phones (Yes, I'm a flashoholic), and a bunch of times with the GS3. I'll try it again and see if it shows up in Odin on my PC. I still can't see anything on the phone, regardless of what mode I try to boot to.

tsgeek said:
I've tried holding down the key combo for just a second or two (before the initial power-up buzz), just after the initial power-up buzz, and several seconds after the initial power buzz, even to the point of it buzzing a second time. I've tried it a bunch of different ways. No luck. It still feels like it's powering on, I just can't see anything.
I've also tried to get into recovery several times, still with no display.
I've got a feeling I'm screwed. If that's the case, what's the likelihood of still being able to do a warranty replacement? Will VZW techs be able to get in and see that I've customized the phone (unlocked bootloader, custom ROM, etc.)?
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Hold it for about twenty to thirty seconds. It's finicky and sometimes even takes a few attempts. You very well might be screwed, like I said something like this ordinarily shouldn't happen on the same rom unless it was user caused with voltages. Has anyone else mentioned similar issues on that rom thread?
If Verizon could recover it, sure it's always possible especially since we aren't exactly sure what happened in the first place. Personally, I'm of the mindset that Verizon thinks something is up with returned devices having the same issues lol Will they care? I doubt it.
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yes what you see is what i see. the whole bottom right is still BLACK.. the right is purple. and the rest is a purple haze. i just kept pulling the battery and restarting.. also i pulled the battery for like an hour to let things that hold voltage simmer down. good luck bro we are all with you.

Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!

tsgeek said:
Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!
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Wow. That's absolutely sucks. Maybe you can sell your GSIII for parts and buy a used GS4 in two months?
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Wow. That's absolutely sucks. Maybe you can sell your GSIII for parts and buy a used GS4 in two months?
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Thanks. That's my thought. Of course, I'd have the buy the GS4 retail, since I don't want to lose my unlimited data.
I may just find a replacement on eBay. Maybe a Rezound? Can't spend too much.

tsgeek said:
Thanks. That's my thought. Of course, I'd have the buy the GS4 retail, since I don't want to lose my unlimited data.
I may just find a replacement on eBay. Maybe a Rezound? Can't spend too much.
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Should be a good replacement, either that or see how low the RAZR M or GNex are running for.
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tsgeek said:
Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!
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sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.

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sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.
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The "best" they could do for me was $419 for a refurb. No thanks.
Thanks for the moral support guys!

kidhudi said:
sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.
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edit I would try it on both of yalls phones.
It might not work but I would tighten all the screws under the back cover just to see if there is a loose contact or ground. It doesn't cost and only takes a few as seconds.
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bbolton_98 said:
edit I would try it on both of yalls phones.
It might not work but I would tighten all the screws under the back cover just to see if there is a loose contact or ground. It doesn't cost and only takes a few as seconds.
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Thanks for the tip. didn't help though still in the same boat. It probably is a loose connection internally. the screen get worse the longer it has the battery in it.
PS.. i should know this but if I odin back to stock do i still have to worry about the trip (flash) counter?

Same Problem
Last night the screen stopped coming on but all of the lights still work. Does anyone have an idea of how to unroot the phone without the screen coming on? (I have tried putting it in Odin mode)

[Q] Nexus 5 Randomly Exploded

My Nexus 5 had been acting completely normally, I've had it for a bit over a year without any issues. One second I was messaging a friend, then I put it to sleep, a few minutes later I picked it up and the screen had completely freaked out.
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It is almost entirely unresponsive. I've tried turning it off and then back on, but it just reboots to this screen. Sometimes I can get it to go to the unlock screen, but it isn't responsive when I'm there, and eventually that screen just fades away into a blank gray (with this multicolored bar at the top remaining). Occasionally it will say "Optimizing apps", but then nothing happens after that.
Has anyone seen anything like this, know what caused it, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As of now I've taken out the sim card, and am going to wait until it runs out of battery to see if I can recharge it and reboot normally.

I'm a tad confused, in the picture I see one busted ass n5 lol but you say it boots up? When did you take that picture? It looks like the screen is done in.
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Ben Jake Griffiths said:
My Nexus 5 had been acting completely normally, I've had it for a bit over a year without any issues. One second I was messaging a friend, then I put it to sleep, a few minutes later I picked it up and the screen had completely freaked out.
It is almost entirely unresponsive. I've tried turning it off and then back on, but it just reboots to this screen. Sometimes I can get it to go to the unlock screen, but it isn't responsive when I'm there, and eventually that screen just fades away into a blank gray (with this multicolored bar at the top remaining). Occasionally it will say "Optimizing apps", but then nothing happens after that.
Has anyone seen anything like this, know what caused it, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
As of now I've taken out the sim card, and am going to wait until it runs out of battery to see if I can recharge it and reboot normally.
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Custom recovery? Boot loader locked?
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I would assume the screen is tossed.. I had mine dropped and has 1cm of hairline cracked... Since then the screen went nuts sometimes perfectly ok and sometimes it acting crazy..

There's cracks in your screen, might as well replace the lcd & digitalizer

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There's cracks in your screen, might as well replace the lcd & digitalizer
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Good eye didn't notice looking at image on phone. On my PC u can see LCD is cracked hense the color bleed
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@Ben Jake Griffiths

Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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beaups said:
Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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Same

so, here's a quick rundown.
have had mine since nov '13.
always in great condition.
not a scratch.
then, out of nowhere (2 weeks ago) after trying to turn the screen back on from standby...nothing.
it automagically rebooted.
oooooook.
no biggie.
after reboot all was well.
for an hour.
then, turned right off in the middle of whatever i was doing.
just...poof. black screen.
wouldn't reboot.
plugged it in over night.
turned on the next day perfectly fine.
after a few minutes...blank screen.
HOWEVER, the led would throb.
then, at some point, the phone rang.
i could answer it with my headphones.
deactivated the phone from my account.
charged it over night.
vol+power and all manner of combos.
the one consistent thing that always happened was that my phone vibrated, followed by a similar colored pixelation as seen above.
sometimes just a line, other times the entire screen.
didn't take much to realise it was the panel combo.
outside of warranty.
so, sent it to lg. they agreed...panel issue. loose connection or bad connection, i'm assuming.
currently being repaired.
being shipped back by the end of this coming week, i hope.
* since my hunch was that it was just a panel issue...i was going to drop it off at one of many "the device shop" repair places (and, their ilk) where i live. however, after walking into a few of them...it's obvious that 90% of their business comes from iphones. they, barely knew what panel replacement they were looking for. they said they had one a few times only to have it turn out to be a nex 4, or some other panel, each time. they just seemed...well, let's just say i'm positive they can repair an iphone panel. anything more than that...i'd rather give it to my 12 yo cousin. same result. felt better sending it to LG.

And you posted that here?? Why
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beaups said:
Was all excited to see an explosion and all we have here is a typical broken lg display. Lame.
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my words

My phone is haunted?

Hello all, I want to apologize ahead of time for the long post.
I recently lurked some threads to get my Honor 8 (L04 version) rooted. After 2 days of stress, near bricks and some tears I finally got set up,unlocked bootloader TWRP, Magisk root etc.
Now, I don't think this is related to that process but I happened to get a text message and when I turned on my screen, the lockscreen was "glitched" my wallpaper was the default one and half the screen was black like a dialog box should be there, kind of where the unlock pin numbers would take up space, except solid black. Then I picked up my phone and it worked fine.
Here is the thing, I have NFC off (by choice not because it broke during unlocking) but my phone was resting on top of a spare phone I use for music only when I go to the gym/running. The other phone is a BLU NEO X MINI. After some trial and error I think I know what is going on but not sure why.
If my phone is pressed up against that BLU phone and I shift it around my Honor 8 wakes up to the lockscreen. Sometimes my normal lockscreen sometimes the weird one that is glitched out. It doesn't do it if the phones are facing each other though screen to screen. I then tried with a very old EVO 3D I had and it doesnt do it either, and with an iPhone 4 and 5, also didn't cause it.
I 'm fairly certain the BLU does not have NFC but something is definitely weird. Any info would help.

myphoneishaunted said:
Hello all, I want to apologize ahead of time for the long post.
I recently lurked some threads to get my Honor 8 (L04 version) rooted. After 2 days of stress, near bricks and some tears I finally got set up,unlocked bootloader TWRP, Magisk root etc.
Now, I don't think this is related to that process but I happened to get a text message and when I turned on my screen, the lockscreen was "glitched" my wallpaper was the default one and half the screen was black like a dialog box should be there, kind of where the unlock pin numbers would take up space, except solid black. Then I picked up my phone and it worked fine.
Here is the thing, I have NFC off (by choice not because it broke during unlocking) but my phone was resting on top of a spare phone I use for music only when I go to the gym/running. The other phone is a BLU NEO X MINI. After some trial and error I think I know what is going on but not sure why.
If my phone is pressed up against that BLU phone and I shift it around my Honor 8 wakes up to the lockscreen. Sometimes my normal lockscreen sometimes the weird one that is glitched out. It doesn't do it if the phones are facing each other though screen to screen. I then tried with a very old EVO 3D I had and it doesnt do it either, and with an iPhone 4 and 5, also didn't cause it.
I 'm fairly certain the BLU does not have NFC but something is definitely weird. Any info would help.
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If u have the time I'll recommend u to wipe ur phone and restore to stock for maybe a day before rooting again. The last time I tried rooting even my phone acted up, worse than urs in fact, I lost NFC and the firmware was corrupt so I didn't have WiFi working and I didn't have a keyboard.....
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Better to rollback once or reset once.

That's weird, try a factory reset

ayush rao said:
If u have the time I'll recommend u to wipe ur phone and restore to stock for maybe a day before rooting again. The last time I tried rooting even my phone acted up, worse than urs in fact, I lost NFC and the firmware was corrupt so I didn't have WiFi working and I didn't have a keyboard.....
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venugopalu007 said:
Better to rollback once or reset once.
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PalakMi said:
That's weird, try a factory reset
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Thank you for the replies. I believe I know what is causing it after some trial and error. I grabbed some rfid/nfc capable cards to see if it would trigger it and it didn't. So I started wondering what might cause it, I turned off the BLU phone completely then pressed it against my Honor 8 while it was on, and it locked the screen. I then wondered what if it was a magnetic thing, and googled for some answers and found another thread here about the smart cover causing an issue, that actually had a picture of what my screen looks like.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/honor-smart-cover-issue-t3615604
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So at this point I believe it was the magnetic sensor for a smart cover on the Honor 8 just happens to be triggered by the BLU phone specifically, maybe the BLU has a magnet at the very front of the phone since even turning it back to back doesn't trigger it. Maybe others can try to experiment and reproduce the same result. For now I am just going to avoid magnets!

better to aviod bro , good job to find the solution yourself

myphoneishaunted said:
Thank you for the replies. I believe I know what is causing it after some trial and error. I grabbed some rfid/nfc capable cards to see if it would trigger it and it didn't. So I started wondering what might cause it, I turned off the BLU phone completely then pressed it against my Honor 8 while it was on, and it locked the screen. I then wondered what if it was a magnetic thing, and googled for some answers and found another thread here about the smart cover causing an issue, that actually had a picture of what my screen looks like.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/honor-smart-cover-issue-t3615604
So at this point I believe it was the magnetic sensor for a smart cover on the Honor 8 just happens to be triggered by the BLU phone specifically, maybe the BLU has a magnet at the very front of the phone since even turning it back to back doesn't trigger it. Maybe others can try to experiment and reproduce the same result. For now I am just going to avoid magnets!
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Yea it has happened to me before as well I recollect. It was in my Mom's bag and when I took it out the screen was the same but it fixed itself after turning off the screen once.
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Well, that explains it all

(screenshot smart cover stuck fix k(nightmode')
https://pasteboard.co/GFc4tD3.jpg
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Hi,
here my*"FIFTH HONOR 8" (see screen)
I had a problem with a bug overnight when the phone was sleeping, lol gotta wonder...
The morning it was locked on mode "smart cover" overnight (maybe humidity... like I give a F) never activated anything from smart assistance... thanks anyways.
As in the screenshot I...* did try a DIY fix late in the night %) (I mean that last fix after a week of softer tryout) . too bad having no warranty...
https://pasteboard.co/GFc4tD3.jpg
(Joke fix)
BTW pics taken with my 6th honorf
On another note you could try a factory reset via SD card or computer adb .. I couldn't personally. Computer smasher and "proprietary open source" didn't save the day but who care I can always repair my screen with fake yellow tint glass.
And another one .. screen surviving later on :
https://pasteboard.co/GFcKiIo.jpg (edit: just realized, the stuck smart cover is gone!!!)