I think saltwater damaged my pixel. It endlessly boots, showing the Google logo on white screen then "turns off" and boots it again. One time, randomly, somehow it made it to the lock screen and did show my custom wallpaper, but seemingly nothing was responsive - swiping, buttons, fingerprint.
Anything I might be able to try or diagnose to possibly save the phone? Anyway I could at least recover the photos (not everything had finished backing up).
This is probably hardware damage. Maybe insurance will cover it, maybe not due to water. Everyone knows Bout the indicator for water damage. But, factory reset in recovery mode is worth a try. If you can even get that much functionality. Or better, if the bootloader was unlocked or that be attained. Try to flash a stock factory image.
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I don't know if this has been asked about, sorry if it has, couldn't find it via searching.
Randomly while using the Fuze, and sometimes not for weeks at a time, my screen will fade to black. It won't shut off, the image will just fade to solid black, but the screen itself will remain on. Sometimes if I remove the battery and turn the phone on over and over again, the picture will return. The screen always turns on as you can see the backlight, but there is no image. Is this a hardware or software problem? Is this likely something covered under the AT&T warranty? or would I need to file an insurance claim and pay the 120$ish deductible?
I have tried hard/soft resetting, trying to enter bootloader, etc. and I can't get an image. I'm assuming this is a hard ware or graphics driver issue (if software).... does anyone have any info on this at all or a link/search string they might recommend? Thank you in advance.
I know no one has replied to this thread in a while and don't know if you still need help but try turning your screen off....where the phone is on but the screen is black and the back light is off (I know the screen is black but you should be able to see if the back light is on or not. Now try, not too hard though, to squeeze the phone screen and pad a bit. This works on my phone...sometimes. Then hit the power button to turn the screen back on and see if you can see your menu. I think the Fuze has a short...maybe from keeping it in your pocket or someplace where it is compressed. Hope that helps.
Hardware fault - send it back for repair!
In bootloader only the bootloader is running - so no software to cause a problem ∴ must be hardware.
I thought I had a bricked infuse...but after unnecessarily removing the screen/components from the plastic casing and reassembling it, I tried recovering it again. I was FINALLY able to get it into download mode and then heimdal one click it back to stock. Everything went smoothly, but now when it "turns on" (I'm guessing), only the touch buttons at the bottom light up and respond to touch. The screen is absolutely black, except for the random FLASH that lasts a quarter of a second whenever I pull the battery and try rebooting it.
Has anyone ever had this problem before? I'm at a point where when it's on,( or at least I think it's on?), the touch buttons will light up and seem to respond to my touch (dim when touched). No vibrations of any sort though.
Please help
PS: If it is of any use..I used CM9 before all of this happened and I initially attempted to wipe it back to stock multiple times in the past, each time resulting in a frozen ODIN wipe. When I disconnected the phone during the process of wiping it, it no longer turned on or responded to charging the battery (I now have an external battery charger).
Also..when it is connected to my windows laptop, I get an error saying the USB device is malfunctioning.
At the very least it sounds like your internal drive is messed up. Try using the back to stock again - you could even try Odin again. However the problem could be more severe than that. You may want to make sure you reconnected all the components properly. One slightly loose connection can cause problems like you're having. I'm thinking that you might have a loose screen connector.
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but after unnecessarily removing the screen/components from the plastic casing and reassembling it
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Also.may have something to do with that...not saying it is but that's a possibility, if you were to.rough with something or gave off a static discharge (computer motherboards are extremely sensitive to static...I'd assume mobile motherboards are too...)
Anyways try running Odin/heimdall again...
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I'm having the same problem
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I thought I had a bricked infuse...but after unnecessarily removing the screen/components from the plastic casing and reassembling it, I tried recovering it again. I was FINALLY able to get it into download mode and then heimdal one click it back to stock. Everything went smoothly, but now when it "turns on" (I'm guessing), only the touch buttons at the bottom light up and respond to touch. The screen is absolutely black, except for the random FLASH that lasts a quarter of a second whenever I pull the battery and try rebooting it.
Has anyone ever had this problem before? I'm at a point where when it's on,( or at least I think it's on?), the touch buttons will light up and seem to respond to my touch (dim when touched). No vibrations of any sort though.
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My Infuse is doing the same thing, black screen, but touch buttons on. Every once in a while the lock screen pops up and you can get into the phone, but then it goes black again. My phone is not rooted and we haven't done anything except install some programs, but nothing recently. It only happens intermittently, so I think this may be a hardware related problem, but it would be great if anyone has any other ideas on the cause or a fix. Otherwise I suppose we'll have to see about having it repaired or get a new phone.
I was using a june version of PA, today I notice the tablet turned off by himself, when I try to boot it is stuck on the boot animation of the rom, I try wipe cache/dalvik, then it remains stuck on starting apps animation, then I try factory reset, and flash again, still nothing. After flashed stock rom with easyflasher, it is still stuck on boot animation (the one with asus inspiring etc...). I have to say touch was not working on twrp, and I don't know why, could it be some sensor/memory problem?
Flashing twrp after stock still no touch response, plus it takes like 2 minutes just to show the screen from where I press - volume button to go to recovery which is not normal
My guess is your screen digitizer is not working. It may be preventing ROMs from booting for some reason, but I have not heard of that causing this issue.
Ok, this might sound a little crazy, I washed the tablet under water thoroughly, then I put it to dry under direct sun on diagonal position, now it is working again, I might have deteriorated the battery tough
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Ok, this might sound a little crazy, I washed the tablet under water thoroughly, then I put it to dry under direct sun on diagonal position, now it is working again, I might have deteriorated the battery tough
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That's an... unconventional approach
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I've been experiecing an issue like no other I can find online and I'd love to hear some opinions.
So, originally the problem was the phone's screen was going black straight after the Google logo, I had a hunch that it was a fault with just the screen as it was pretty badly smashed and seemed the phone was running in the background and you could get the backlight to come on. Then all of a sudden it would stop doing it and then start again intermittently.
I flashed to 6.0 to see if might be some random ROM error, but still exact same problems. Screen came back and then went again. So I grabbed a new screen and swapped out the part. Now at least I don't have a smashed screen and faulty digitizer.
Now the problem appears to be slightly worse. The phone gets to the Google logo again now but now it completely shuts down after it, but it still gets to fastboot! (Is fastboot stored on another chip than FW? If so that worries me.)
Any suggestions on getting some more info by troubleshooting would be golden. I've got some basic to intermediate experience with phone repairs, computing and electronics etc. so no need to simplify explanations too much.
Thanks in advance!
Have you tried re-flashing a stock ROM and then performing a factory wipe?
Hi, I'm new to the forum and to mobile operating system troubleshooting in general. I'm hoping to gain some insight into an issue I'm having.
I broke the screen on my mi mix 3 and after waiting for 2 months it finally arrived from Shenzhen. Yesterday I disassembled the phone, connected the new screen, turned it on, and it just went into a bootloop. I've never changed any part of the operating system on the phone before so I just assumed something was making a poor connection. I unplugged all the leads and plugged them back in again, checked that everything was firmly in place, and ended with the same result.
Fastboot will run sometimes for 10+ minutes and then the phone will just shut off, normal booting it will switch from "Mi" to "MIX" and the animation at the bottom of the screen will freeze after a couple clicks and it will loop back to restarting (but twice it has just ended with an all white screen). Rebooting from Mi Recovery mode results in the same.
From what I've seen I'll just need to follow this and flash the phone : https ://c.mi .com/thread-2504118-1-1.html?t=1590725045909
But my question, is there any possible way to try to fix this issue without loosing all my data and without using a back door method that may just brick the phone?
Thanks for any help, btw I still have the back glass off (I've tried with the fingerprint scanner plugged in, nothing) just in case it could somehow be a hardware issue.
So I've given up on trying to save my data, I don't really care much about that to be honest. I just really like this phone and would like to use it. I tried to flash the phone using Miui's official instructions but I can't unlock the bootloader because I can't download the app Miui's flash tool is requiring me to download on the phone to authorize it.
I guess I'll keep looking for a work around.
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So I've given up on trying to save my data, I don't really care much about that to be honest. I just really like this phone and would like to use it. I tried to flash the phone using Miui's official instructions but I can't unlock the bootloader because I can't download the app Miui's flash tool is requiring me to download on the phone to authorize it.
I guess I'll keep looking for a work around.
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I changed my display too and it's bootlooping. Did you solve this problem?
I changed my Display too...everything worked fine when I tested it. I unplugged it again to clean the phone and to bring on the glue..when I had the Screen on I restarted and had a black screen...so tried to remove the screen which then just broke...so I ordered a new one and a new display flex cable - I didn't glue the screen yet because I either experience black screens when the screen gets pushed against the backplate or the phone ends in a bootloop -> for the bootloop thingy I just waited for about 10 minutes and then it started normally so there must be something with replacement screens...I don't know whats going on -.-
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Has anyone managed to get this fixed?
The screen works initially but after a while it goes blank, reboot I get the Mix logo not mix 5G. The replacement is a LCD.
Looks like it is stuck in bootloop as inserting sim does phone does not ring when I call it nor front face camera clunk when I slide it