Good day everyone. It's about midnight here in Germany and I hope some of you can help me. The problem is I wanted to replace the display from my girlfriend's mi mix 3. After I spend about 150€ for the display and glue (which kinda sucks, need to buy another one) and getting a used broken screen replacement. I'm trying about a month to replace it. Finally I got all my parts but I turned of the DC dimming in settings an the display turned black. Twrp and co is working but as soon as the system starts the screen is getting black and I can't switch DC dimming on again. But even better, the flex cable from the LCD broke and I can't find a replacement part for it !!! I'm so frustrated. I hope some of you guys could help me with the DC dimming problem and maybe a seller for the cable :/.
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Hello,
I had told my problem in this thread but got no response so had to create a new thread to see if someone helps.
My problem ( I mean my fuze's ) is :
Firstly my fuze was having few scratches and the digitizer was broken lil in the edge/corner so I thought to replace its digitizer.
Brought new digitizer ( 2 months back ), disassembled the device and while removing the flex cable, broked its buttons strip ( volume and ptt button ) and while removing/separating lcd from digitizer, I destroyed both!
So next I brought new lcd and flex cable. Stupid seller sent touch pro flex cable instead of fuze. Had it return it and the fuze flex cable is on way now.
In the meanwhile, I tried to install new lcd+digitizer and damaged flex cable but I'm getting only backlight and no display/image. Sometimes I get thin RGB/rainbow vertical lines and once or twice I got the display/image too. As the adhesive conductive tapes/fabric/stickers got weaker I brought new copper conductive tape ( Like this ) and sticked them but still I'm not getting display/image and only backlight.
I'm very fedup and stressed about this although spent 100$ and Due to this, I able to cook roms and I'm out of xda dev since 2 - 3 months :'(
If someone could help, you will be greatly appreciated. Please please help!
I don't have money to buy new device either and have no mobile phones to play with since from fuze is dead.
Thanks a lot in advance....
Best Regards
I replaced the lcd in my phone and had the same problem. I later discovered that I didn't have the ribbon connector in all the way. I hope this helps.
you need a working flex cable...the same thing happened with but on a nokia n95...the blacklight was comin but no display changing the flex helped
Cingularman said:
I replaced the lcd in my phone and had the same problem. I later discovered that I didn't have the ribbon connector in all the way. I hope this helps.
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I'm not a mobile tech.., could you please let me know what/which is a ribbon connector?
Thanks for the help though.
djteotancolis said:
you need a working flex cable...the same thing happened with but on a nokia n95...the blacklight was comin but no display changing the flex helped
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But had it working once and twice. However, I will get new flex cable in few days.
BTW; I had also tried the new touch pro flex cable and had same issue.
Thanks for the help though.
Best Regards
CRACING said:
I'm getting only backlight and no display/image
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Hi
I had the same problem last night (wasted 3 hours). Just replaced my LCD as well, broke digitizer was a problem. Anyway, after taking a phone a part 3 time figure out what the problem was.. The two ribbon cables have to touch (mostly likely a ground).. The LCD one and log flex one.. I will try to find you a picture..
Now I have a different problem, can't align the screen properly. The right side on screen is way off.. What a mess..
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sadik007 said:
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I had the same problem last night (wasted 3 hours). Just replaced my LCD as well, broke digitizer was a problem. Anyway, after taking a phone a part 3 time figure out what the problem was.. The two ribbon cables have to touch (mostly likely a ground).. The LCD one and log flex one.. I will try to find you a picture..
Now I have a different problem, can't align the screen properly. The right side on screen is way off.. What a mess..
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sadik007 said:
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I tried everything but didn't got it working. Though I have doubt on original flex cable that I broken while removing.
I have trouble with getting new flex cable on ebay. First the seller sent wrong flex cable ( TP's which it doesn't fit for fuze ), 2nd time the flex cable lost in shipment and 3rd the seller didn't had stock to resend so refunded.
Now I have brought the flex cable from different seller and its about 14 days and not yet received.
When I tried touch pro flex cable I didn't get the display but only backlight but once or twice I saw the display so I think it was something wrong in my connect. However I didn't had much time to test the device using touch pro flex cable because I had to return it!
This is what I'm playing with my device since 4+ months. Mostly waiting waiting waiting......
Thanks...
Best Regards
I can see that ribbon hold contact.
obaz said:
I can see that ribbon hold contact.
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The ribbon aka conductive tape/sticker I have is no longer usable. Its adhesive gum is too weak and no longer sticks. I have searched lot to find such conductive tape/sticker and found copper conductive tape/sticker. Using it now.
@sadik007 and all
I got the flex cable today and after testing, I' getting same problem. No display but only backlight. I see some minor rainbow lines which haven't saw before but as said, I checked the grounding and everything seems correct.
Fed up of this and desired to sell it as parts or repairable...
Best Regards
Finally my fuze is back alive.
Got Correct Flex cable and new LCD. Now its working perfectly.
However, a minor problem if anyone can help.
The brightness setting of LCD in settings -> System -> Power -> Backlight seems to work only till 40% and then after it doesn't increase the brightness of the lcd.
In auto mode, its same. I think the brightness is working only upto 40% and then it doesn't increase.
Cannot understand whats but I guess its because the seller gave me diamond lcd instead of touch pro/fuze. As I can see, diamond lcd doesn't have variable resistor and my friend say its a brightness setting.
But the hardware setting should be atleast full and we could decrease through software.
Can body help me how to solve this problem? I guess its not possible.
P.s the brightness from 0% to 40% is not bad to use but may have trouble in sunlight.
Thanks a lot for all your helps...
Best Regards
p.s My problem is something like this but the backlight is working fine.
Edit;
I don't think my FUZE stops giving troubles. New problem started since last night and today.
As the backlight was lil dim on sun light, I went to try Lumos app. Didn't saw any difference, just sucked at 40%
Today when I booted my fuze morning, it started to do some malfunction in LED lights ( LCD backlight and front penal keypad backlight light ). Backlight of keypad is no longer working when pressed its button but buttons work fine. And also if I slide out the hw keyboard, the home button backlight turns ON. and also the d pad circular light and back button backlight.
Cannot under stand what the hell is going on. If I get any SMS or EMail, d pad circular light rounds fine but if I connect USB to charge, d pad circular light doesn't work.
I removed the Lumos app, softrebooted, hardrebooted, and reflashed but still same problem.
Any idea?
I guess I'm stupid or the device is fooling me.
Thanks again...
Best Regards
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I don't think my FUZE stops giving troubles. New problem started since last night and today.
As the backlight was lil dim on sun light, I went to try Lumos app. Didn't saw any difference, just sucked at 40%
Today when I booted my fuze morning, it started to do some malfunction in LED lights ( LCD backlight and front penal keypad backlight light ). Backlight of keypad is no longer working when pressed its button but buttons work fine. And also if I slide out the hw keyboard, the home button backlight turns ON. and also the d pad circular light and back button backlight.
Cannot under stand what the hell is going on. If I get any SMS or EMail, d pad circular light rounds fine but if I connect USB to charge, d pad circular light doesn't work.
I removed the Lumos app, softrebooted, hardrebooted, and reflashed but still same problem.
Any idea?
I guess I'm stupid or the device is fooling me.
Thanks again...
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Same problem.
Backlight setting changes only 1-4 interval and does not brighten 5 and more.
I had heard that problem one sells his tp which's lcd replaced.
Options:
1) while replacing, flex can be damaged. I do change screens for 6 years and hard to beleive it.
2) keypad membrance can be damaged while replacemnt of lcd. More harder than option 1.
3) eBay sellers sells fake lcd screen.
I handle over 5 diamond and tp screen far away and still keep some cracked ones. They all different from each other. Somehow there must be different versions of these lcd's.
By the way I also tried a diaond lcd and it gives same error.
first 4 step is ok but no more 5 to 10 steps working.
Problem was solved:
HTC P3700 LCD and P4600-T7272-touch Pro LCD screens are different.
here is the differences illustrated on photos:
@sokomind
nice find. Yeah I do see the changes from touch pro lcd and diamond lcd. touch pro lcd has 10 led levels and diamond has only 5.
Part No :
Diamond LCD with 5 LED brightness levels : 60H00130-00M
Touch Pro LCD with 10 LED brightness levels : 60H00129-00M
29 is what we need for Touch Pro but in ebay sellers don't know the difference of these lcds. They ship what ever stock they have. I had requested to send Touch Pro LCD and also said the part no but they sent the diamond LCD.
Damaged 3 times in shipping and when I got the working one, it was diamond lcd.
Anyways, now I'm using the device has a 3g data card and 3g router. Working g8.
Thanks...
Best Regards
I still have the problem as #"10 cracing.
I got a diamond lcd and then ordered a touch pro lcd.
Yes TP LCD is brighter but it is still working 4/10 on brightness. And then I see that my flex cable has lost one of the way. I try to fix it but it still give me 4/10. I do not know if it fixs a new flex. I do not want to spend $20 more.
Have you spare TP flex not fuze?
Hey,
I accidently dropped my phone in water a couple of days ago. The backlight doesnt work. Under a really bright light i can see the lock screen and it still functions. Is it possible to replace just the backlight? or what should i do? I dont believe this would be covered from motorola and I live in canada got the phone shipped from the states.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
James
I'm guessing you might need a new screen/display. Perhaps do a search and find a repair place you can ship it and get an estimate? I know HTC offers such repairs dirctly (ship the phone, they call you with an estimate). I'd bet Moto does as well if you're not comfortable with 3rd party repair.
aznproto said:
Hey,
I accidently dropped my phone in water a couple of days ago. The backlight doesnt work. Under a really bright light i can see the lock screen and it still functions. Is it possible to replace just the backlight? or what should i do? I dont believe this would be covered from motorola and I live in canada got the phone shipped from the states.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
James
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I have the same problem right now except mine was not dropped in water. In a bright light I can see the lockscreen and also could see the emergency dialer tonight but the keyboard was not reacting on certain buttons either. One screen said to unlock enter your gmail account info,I tried to enter my name and the period symbol(.) was not working for me. I'm thinking maybe the LCD screen needs replaced or the ribbon cable,IDK. Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Edit: Essentially I finally got logged into the phone and the keys were working fine,the screen was still dim so I turned the brightness all the way up and turned off automatic backlight. I replaced the LCD screen and digitizer and now the phone is not starting for me. I'm about to replace the Flex Ribbon Cable inside the phone and see if this corrects the problem. Right now i cant get the phone to start up so I'm thinking the ribbon cable is disconnected somewhere because it hooks to the motherboard and the LCD or the motherboard is fried. IDK,I'll let everybody know what happens with this project.
lcd not working
PS3AndroidHacker said:
I have the same problem right now except mine was not dropped in water. In a bright light I can see the lockscreen and also could see the emergency dialer tonight but the keyboard was not reacting on certain buttons either. One screen said to unlock enter your gmail account info,I tried to enter my name and the period symbol(.) was not working for me. I'm thinking maybe the LCD screen needs replaced or the ribbon cable,IDK. Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Edit: Essentially I finally got logged into the phone and the keys were working fine,the screen was still dim so I turned the brightness all the way up and turned off automatic backlight. I replaced the LCD screen and digitizer and now the phone is not starting for me. I'm about to replace the Flex Ribbon Cable inside the phone and see if this corrects the problem. Right now i cant get the phone to start up so I'm thinking the ribbon cable is disconnected somewhere because it hooks to the motherboard and the LCD or the motherboard is fried. IDK,I'll let everybody know what happens with this project.
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What happen to letting everyone know? Were you ever able to get it going? Was it the flex cable? How did you get the LCD working.
Replaced the flex ribbon cable and it still didnt help anything. Guess its just the phone. I trashed the phone a while ago anyways and am currently running a rooted Droid 4
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Hi, I have a droid 2 global, it belongs to my friend. She dropped it and this screwed up her touch functions. The screen was turning on but she was not able to get any feedback when she touched anything on the screen. I told her i'd try and fix it for her, first thing i did was ordered a new digitizer thinking this was the problem, unfortunately it was not. Even with the new digitizer i couldnt slide to unlock or feel any haptic feedback. I reopened the phone and looked for another possibility to the problem, i found a little tear in the flex cable connected to the digitizer, lcd and keyboard, somehow in the process of removing everything i think i may have ripped it. I ordered a new one of those, put it all back to together and this time the screen didnt turn on, however when i touched, it responded by vibrating. So that solved the previous problem. But now i have a new problem, the screen just stays pitch black. I was reading around and some forums said i may have short circuited the lcd through ESD. so i ordered another lcd, i put a new one in thinking this would fix everything, but still the screen stays black. Im resending the lcd back and gonna get a replacement, hopefully the one i got was just faulty. Does anyone know if it could be something else thats causing the black screen?
Hi there, i'm French and i bought a motorola photon Q on January 2015. Today, the phone goes into the screen blacklight issue...i ask your help because i don't know what i have to do...a priori it's a well known issue on photon but i didn't success to find a solution...
The phone's screen is black but the phone is in fonction, i can take pictures or receive SMS...just the screen doesn't display anything... i tried to maintain power+vol down buttons but when i reboot i don't have the motorola logo, as instead the screen display a cloud of dots white, black, red during few seconds and turn on black screen again...i can't have the motorola red logo, i don't know what to do...if i have to replace the LCD or not ? re install a ROM by PC or not...the phone is out of order ? that's the flex cable issue ? i don't want to buy a flex cable or a LCD if the problem doesn't come from that...i'm block and i hope you can help me...
Thanks in advance
Did you lose LCD or backlight? I don't know if only backlight could be broken.
If your LCD is completely black and nothing at all, I suspect your flex cable is gone, which is a fairly common problem of this device.
btw, Did you buy a new one? it mostly takes +2 years before you see any problem there, though.
Thanks for the answer,
i lost the LCD, it's completely black...nothing...
i unmounted the phone, check for the plug and i noted that the flex black cable is damaged, the surface becoming bright grey with friction of the keyboard open/close mouvements... Maybe a short-circuit have also damaged the LCD...i'm wondering... i don't know what i have to order... simply the flex cable ? or flex cable + LCD ? i don't want to buy some pieces if they are useless or the phone still goes out of order with...
I used to use all the time, it's my computer, my phone, my organizer... it's maybe the reason that the phone went out of order quickly.
Where can i buy this flex cable for reasonable price in Europe ? with sending and custom fees that cost more than 50€, it's very expensive for an eleven mounths cable lifetime :/
I have to remind you that replacing a flex cable is not easy, unless you are comfortable at these things.
Why don't you get a decent used one from ebay or something? replacing the mainboard will be a lot easier than taking your screen apart.
palmwangja said:
I have to remind you that replacing a flex cable is not easy, unless you are comfortable at these things.
Why don't you get a decent used one from ebay or something? replacing the mainboard will be a lot easier than taking your screen apart.
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I think i can, i've already repaired hundred times my old droid 2...
i can't buy an other cause it's too expensive...this one already cost me a kidney with sending and custom fees... furthermore in Europe nobody sell this phone... i must replace the flex cable, it's less expansive :s and even like that i think it's too expensive...50€ for a cable it's a power abuse...
Do you know a website that sell spare pieces in Europe ? maybe it will be less expensive to buy it directly here
thanks a lot
Hello Everyone
I am having a Mi pad 1st generation 16gb version , which i bought way back in 2015 via flipkart. But for the last one and a half year the device has been laying idle in my table because of a display problem. The display is having a black shadow/line all through it. This problem started to creep two years back, at first it was not permanent (used to come and sometimes seem alright, turns to be normal) but later on it turned out to be worse.
**There has been no water damage
**have fell down few times without a case and tempered glass but was working perfectly alright even after that.
Went to a local repair shop, but they told to replace the whole display module with a new one.
Contacted mi service in my area to check, but they no idea of this product.
Did hard reset multiple times but nothing changed
Is this a problem which can be fixed without a lcd swap , like a fixing loose lcd ribbon connection .
Or should i need to go for an lcd change ?
** tried posting image urls ,but unable to do so because I am a new member and this is my first post.
Thanks & Regards