After a little accident involving a pitcher of soda I had to tear apart my phone to wipe it clean. Of course it was hard reset when i tried to boot it again (after a couple of hours) and I had to restore via Sprite Backup.
Problem: When I tap Add Ring Tone, Backlight, Bluetooth Setting, Button Lock, Device Information, Microphone AGC, Permanent Save and Power, they all take me to Backlight.. Why and how can it be solved? (without Hard reset and reinstall).
Problems after drowning the top 4cm in soda;
The screen is very bright and pale regarding colors. Also flickers a lot, but sometimes it works just like before.
The LED is constantly glowing in blue at about 50% of the power it flashed before. Actually that's quite nice The green flashing is still there, but looks strange when the blue is glowing.
The glass covering the camera has moist on the inside, making the already worthless camera even more worthless..
The insurance company will give me a new one
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aright previously my LCD screen was cracked well i got the replacement LCD screen and it works fine. BUT my problem now is that its just displaying a white screen. Nothing else. I take off the battery put it back on turn the phone on and i get a white screen no letters no nothing.
Does this mean my phone is a brick?
i still get response when i hold down the comm button it vibrates. The volume slider responds with the volume going up and down. and when i try to hard reset via holding the comm button,voicebutton,camera button and hitting the soft reset button it responds to it and resets the phone apparantly.
So i know for a fact the actual phone works..but its not displaying anything but a white screen...is there anything else i can do ?
If you have replaced the screen yourself, it may be worth trying to re-fit it again. Make sure the connectors are in pefectly, and make sure there is no dirt on them. If the pda still responds to button presses, it's fine, it's only the srcreen that's damaged/non-functional...
To see if this is the case, try tapping on the very to left of the screen, and see if you get the start menu pop. If you don't it's prolly the connector not plugged in properly, if you do, then the connector may be damaged...
ok im trying now..but how could it be the screen if the screen is giving me a perfectly white screen and its been tested to be working correctly?
sweeet i reconnected everything and it worked thanks for the recommendation dood much appreciated
sojiroxiii said:
sweeet i reconnected everything and it worked thanks for the recommendation dood much appreciated
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Nice to see that my reccomendation worked for you. I've never replaced a colour LCD screen before, but some of the B&W ones i've replaced have had similar faults. It's the same with old cartridge games if you think about it, you used to have to blow on them ocasionally...
Modern technology may be perfect in every respect, but the manufacturing methods arn't.
Hello,
after installing some applications my display resolution is somehow damaged.
The whole screen is flickering and everything is more bright than before.
The screen looks strange as every horizontal line of the display is followed by a thin dark line, so that the whole screen is in stripes.
Furthermore the icons and text seems to be slightly bigger.
In the settings the info claims to have 800x480 and 65k colors.
All applications still work fine, but look strange with the stripes and the flickering.
What worries me most is that even after hard reset the damaged screen resolution is kept.
I hope someone has a solution.
pt
Interlacing
That's strange, it sounds like interlacing. When you say you did a hard reset do you mean a proper hard reset, as in, turn off, two silver soft keys and reset button under battery cover, reinstalls the OS?
If you did that and it isnt fixed then it looks like you have a hardware problem. It sounds like a sync issue because it's giving the effects of interlacing (i don't think the screen is interlaced, it shouldn't be, but it's possible).
In that case, you need a new phone.
documented hard-reset
Hi alias_neo,
the reset I did was with the silver buttons and the power button.
It then asked me if i really wanted to continue and had to press the R-key.
It then took a few minutes until the phone was up again and it was a fresh install.
If some software was able to change the display to interlaced, there must be a way to reverse it again.
Regards,
pt
Solved
The way the damage came the same way it went away again.
Suddenly the interlaced dislpay stopped
my htc hermes (herm100) does the occasional white screen here and there, but i dropped it (like a foot away from the floor) and it almost always white screens, the phone will come on, the ATT logo (like the bios thing) will load up and everything, but as soon as its about to play the 3g animation, the screen fades to white, but everything works, the 3g sound plays, the screen responds to touch, etc. the screen also displays perfectly when i start to do a hard reset, the screen comes up to press r and all that, then space to boot, then the screen goes white again. i've taken the phone apart, checked everything out, made sure the ribbon cables and such were set properly, everything. If this helps, my camera had stopped working the night before...when i would click the camera button or started it from programs, it would say somethin along the lines of "the camera could not be started. initialization of camera failed" and i was actually gunna be asking about that right now til it uber white screened. Any help is appreciated.
White screen
Hi i'm also having the same problem with my hermes 300, Dropped off the back of the bed onto skirting board, about 1 1/2 feet. Started to white screen soon after this. Like you say when you format it the screen is fine until it gets past the first boot screen then slowly fades to white. Have heard stories about the ribbon cable to the navigation on the front. any help apreciated
Update: Took Hermes apart nad reseated the d-pad ribbon, everything seems ok. Thanks to Mike channon for the Disassembly manuals. Hope this helps other people.
Hi guys I could really use your help.
I can not fix my problem with my Motorola Milestone 2.
1) When I turn on the phone, the keyboard stays dark and front touch keys too. To turn on the keyboard and front touch keys I need to press power button once and after MM2 goes dark press it again to whake up my MM2, after this keyboard turns on. The keyboard and the touch keys are dark when some one tryes to call me, the phone is ringign but keyboard and front keys are dark
2) sometimes I can not answer the call, I can see the caller ID and everything but touchscreen doesn't respond.
I've tryied wipe ( wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache) and re-flashing with the same stock UK rom ( with RSDLite).
So can enyone please help me.... ?
kabusza said:
Hi guys I could really use your help.
I can not fix my problem with my Motorola Milestone 2.
1) When I turn on the phone, the keyboard stays dark and front touch keys too. To turn on the keyboard and front touch keys I need to press power button once and after MM2 goes dark press it again to whake up my MM2, after this keyboard turns on. The keyboard and the touch keys are dark when some one tryes to call me, the phone is ringign but keyboard and front keys are dark
2) sometimes I can not answer the call, I can see the caller ID and everything but touchscreen doesn't respond.
I've tryied wipe ( wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache) and re-flashing with the same stock UK rom ( with RSDLite).
So can enyone please help me.... ?
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what do u mean by front keys? as in the 4 soft keys?
i had the same problem with my phone (very dim notification LED and soft key lights). i sent it back for the manufacturers warranty, and apparently there's a part on the motherboard thats faulty. if you send yours back for a warranty claim you could get the problem fixed.
Yes I ment front softkeys. At the moment I have NO idea what to do with it.
I have/had the same problems as you do. I didn't find a solution for the keyboard and softkeys backlight problems, but I don't find them so annoying. I think it's just a little tweak and it'll be solved. About the non-responsive touchscreen while answering calls, I realized that it was my fault: I always put my MM2 on my pockets with the screen turned to my legs, as an old habit, since I've owned a lot of Nokias and their screens weren't that strong, and being a mechanical engineer I've always had sharp things on my pockets (screwdrivers, screws, washrings, you name it). What happens is that the screen is SO sensitive that it can sense the skin of your leg, and when it gets a imediate response when receiving a call, it would "crash" while it was still ringing. I could see who was calling, I was able to silence the ringtone through hardkeys, but the touchscreen was basically dead during the call. The solution that I found was to turn the screen side to outside, and I never had this problem again. It's a peopleware problem =P
Hope that helps you.
AragornPE said:
I have/had the same problems as you do. I didn't find a solution for the keyboard and softkeys backlight problems, but I don't find them so annoying. I think it's just a little tweak and it'll be solved. About the non-responsive touchscreen while answering calls, I realized that it was my fault: I always put my MM2 on my pockets with the screen turned to my legs, as an old habit, since I've owned a lot of Nokias and their screens weren't that strong, and being a mechanical engineer I've always had sharp things on my pockets (screwdrivers, screws, washrings, you name it). What happens is that the screen is SO sensitive that it can sense the skin of your leg, and when it gets a imediate response when receiving a call, it would "crash" while it was still ringing. I could see who was calling, I was able to silence the ringtone through hardkeys, but the touchscreen was basically dead during the call. The solution that I found was to turn the screen side to outside, and I never had this problem again. It's a peopleware problem =P
Hope that helps you.
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If you attach a rubber square to the back of your pocket (between pocket and leg skin) you may be able to solve this problem
BTW, gorilla glass is very strong against scratches, but it breaks easily. I'll keep my screen turned to my leg.
I have read several threads, both here and on other support website on the Transformer's display randomly having a tendency to fail (in some cases anyway).
Often this is through no fault of the user with lots of users being affected who's Transformers aren't rooted and have suffered no damage.
I found all these forums because one day my Transformer did this. I used it that morning and then locked it for the day with wifi on walking around my college, meaning it was likely to be on wifi all day but I wasn't using it.
When I got home I pressed the lock button and the backlight came on but nothing else? This confused me so I pressed lock again, backlight switched off, press lock again, backlight came back on but still nothing actually on the display, just a black lit up display. Hmm this is definitely weird. Held down lock button until the screen had gone blank. Pressed lock and it made that mechanical click like usual and the speakers flickered like usual. The backlight had came on but no display still.
It seems that the power to display is still connected but a ribbon cable that provides the input comes loose somewhere. After rebooting several times with no luck I got bored and started shaking it around a bit. Not violently or hitting it, more waving it around like a crazy person.
Suddenly it made a clicking noise and I saw it had restarted. Now there were loads of blue lines across my screen. The blue lines remained until what seemed like the duration of the time it took to boot. Then it went blank again. I shook it around some more and when I was ready to give up I pressed the lock button and it lit up, my background and all. Touch input is working and everything appears to be working.
I thought I would just write this in case someone is experiencing this issue and rather than sending it back (or if you have rooted so have no warranty) you might with any luck be able to fix it just by having a little dance with it!
Good Luck.