hi wonder if someone can help.
We have a wizard and two days ago the touch screen stopped working.
If i leave the phone for a 10 or 20 minutes the tough screen works for a couple of minites then it stops again. It will highlight your last selection for example it you tap ok it will highlight it but not action the comand.
is it time to call it a day with this or do you have any ideas how to fix.
I have the same problem,
does your select button (or enter on the keypad) do the action of a tap and hold (right click/ menu) while the device is exerting these symptoms.
Have you tried hard reset?
I may have stumbled on a fix, and without ripping your precious device apart.
Take an electronic device case opener(a blue tool with a blade thin plastic edge) and runn it along the edges of your screen under the lip to remove rouge particles. It helped my align the screen and work the device.
If someone can confirm this that would be great!
fingers crossed but that seems to have fixed it
will try a few days and let you know
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How could that happen to me?
Two days ago there was a heavy rain shower and I left my beloved wizard in the outside pocket of my laptop case. I didn't realized that the rain was so heavy that the wizard got wet :evil: When I took it out of the pocket the keyboard and the speaker were really wet. So I took out the battery, let it dry for some time and the good news is that it is starting up and running perfectly at first sight.
But now comes the strange & sad part
The conn manager key (key 5), the left softkey and the internet key (upper right key) are showing REALLY strange behavior. When I press them eighter the right softkey menu opens up (contacts, mail context menu, ect.) or it jumps to voice dial (normally key 4). That happens with all the three keys!
I thought it might be some dirt left by the water inside the wizard, so I opend it for cleaning (did that before, so I know what I was doing ), but everything looks all right and no sign of a water "damage". I noticed another strange thing during the tests: When I press one of the three keys the keyboard lights are turned on :?: That's not normal, or?! They aren't lighting up when pressing for example the camera key.
Really strange, does anyone has a good idea what might have gone wrong? Or does one of our experts has a tip how to fix it or what might be the cause?
Any help would be fine, because I would like to try to avoid to buy a Hermes for some more time :?
Thanks in advance,
Jago
P.S.: I just found out that the keyboard left and right softkey aren't working the way they should eighter. But all other keys seem to work like they should...
Re: Strange key behavior after kind of water "damage&qu
Jago said:
How could that happen to me?
Two days ago there was a heavy rain shower and I left my beloved wizard in the outside pocket of my laptop case. I didn't realized that the rain was so heavy that the wizard got wet :evil: When I took it out of the pocket the keyboard and the speaker were really wet. So I took out the battery, let it dry for some time and the good news is that it is starting up and running perfectly at first sight.
But now comes the strange & sad part
The conn manager key (key 5), the left softkey and the internet key (upper right key) are showing REALLY strange behavior. When I press them eighter the right softkey menu opens up (contacts, mail context menu, ect.) or it jumps to voice dial (normally key 4). That happens with all the three keys!
I thought it might be some dirt left by the water inside the wizard, so I opend it for cleaning (did that before, so I know what I was doing ), but everything looks all right and no sign of a water "damage". I noticed another strange thing during the tests: When I press one of the three keys the keyboard lights are turned on :?: That's not normal, or?! They aren't lighting up when pressing for example the camera key.
Really strange, does anyone has a good idea what might have gone wrong? Or does one of our experts has a tip how to fix it or what might be the cause?
Any help would be fine, because I would like to try to avoid to buy a Hermes for some more time :?
Thanks in advance,
Jago
P.S.: I just found out that the keyboard left and right softkey aren't working the way they should eighter. But all other keys seem to work like they should...
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it's probably because the water shorted out those keys. I've spilled water on my PC's keyboard before and all the keys got garbled. Y's because O's and T's became S's. It seems to me like the same sort of thing.
You will need to let it completely dry out. I'm not sure if you problem will slowly go away or not if you keep using it, but the surefire way to fix a wet wizard is to let it sit someplace warm with the battery out for 3 weeks.....
Hi all,
Like many people's, my Hermes (T-Mobile Vario II) suffers from screen misalignment issue, and needs re-aligning almost daily. I've done all the mods but to no avail. It is out of warranty so I can't send it back.
Recently, when I try to align the screen (by pressing Confirm button + Message button, or by going to Settings > System > Screen), it just hangs in the "Align Screen" screen - it does not respond when I tap on the target cross.
Only a soft reset can take me out of the screen.
I am using Schap's January 2008 version.
Any idea why please?
But screen now is misaligned really badly and I can't re-align it...
Thanks.
EDIT:
But it doesn't happen every time. Very occasionally it would work...
wywywywy said:
Hi all,
Like many people's, my Hermes (T-Mobile Vario II) suffers from screen misalignment issue, and needs re-aligning almost daily. I've done all the mods but to no avail. It is out of warranty so I can't send it back.
Recently, when I try to align the screen (by pressing Confirm button + Message button, or by going to Settings > System > Screen), it just hangs in the "Align Screen" screen - it does not respond when I tap on the target cross.
Only a soft reset can take me out of the screen.
I am using Schap's January 2008 version.
Any idea why please?
But screen now is misaligned really badly and I can't re-align it...
Thanks.
EDIT:
But it doesn't happen every time. Very occasionally it would work...
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Answer is easy... Schaps roms have "Ftouchflo" installed. It is nearly sure it is activated on your phone. In this case, the alignment utility is NOT usable. And the pda can stay with a non reactive touch screen till next reset.
Desactivate touchflo by using the touchflo configuration tool followed by a soft reset. So you will be able to use screen alignment.
Just tried and yes! Thats it!
Thanks a lot matey!
You are welcome
Perhaps this should have it's own thread but it is very similar.
My tytn (WM6) has suddenly developed a strange problem. When I go to align the screen, the crosses appear as normal and when I point to them, it appears to be working. Except... After pointing to the last cross, the whole thing starts again, and this happens continuously!
This started when I applied a screen protector and tried to align the screen through it. It was working fine before then. I have taken the screen protector off again, but there is no change.
As I've spent the whole day installing cab files and getting it as I like it, syncing etc. too, I really don't want to have to hard reset it again.
Any other ideas?
That usually means more than 1 point is touching the screen.
That's what I thought but I've cleaned the screen and done the business card trick all round the edges. I can't see where it could be touching...
Any other ideas or suggestions that may help?
I couldn't find a touchflo "disable" button anywhere on my Hermes, but I did go into "Remove Programs" and uninstalled the HTC Cube application, then did a stylus soft reset, then aligned the screen with no problem.
Hi,
I'm having trouble with my dual lately.
Seems like my screen alignment has gone crazy, i cant tap the start bar anymore, it thinks im tapping richt beneath it, also when i press anywhere in the right side of the screen, i always tap on the lower right softkey, even when pressing on the 'x' button (this is not on the left side, tough). Only when i hold my finger down for about 5 secs, the touchscreen finally notices and then the alignment is a bit more normal (cube opens because of shifting the pressurezone) but still it is off.
It's kinda weird but it acts like the touchscreen is a 'startbar' smaller than the actual screen, since the alignment in the bottom is ok, but at the top it isn't.
I tried re-aligning about 20 times, but it only helped me for a few taps, and i dont want to align it anytime i have to tap on start or x ;( (i also tried hard-resetting)
Anyone know a solution??
I dont really wanna miss my dual for 2 weeks sending it for repair
Thanks in advance!
had a similar issue with mine before. had no choice but to have it sent in as it was a hardware issue with mine.
Hello, I have had this TYTN I for a long time without any major problems. It was originally with WM5 but then I upgraded to WM6. Lately I had a strange problem whereby the front buttons stop responding intermittently.
The below mentioned buttons stop working:
1. The Internet Explorer button.(Above on the right)
2. The Message button.(Above on the left)
3. The Call buttons. (The call picking and disconnecting button, below left and right) And the 4 keys along it.
During this time I have to resort to the pointer or the side wheel to use the phone, which is very frustrating.
If I press the reset button at the bottom, the keys work again for a few times, then stop to respond again.
I have tried to flash again with both WM5 and WM6 but did not help. I have opened the phone and reseated all connectors but did not help either. Do you think I should try replacing the ribbon cable?
I have searched the forum and found several threads with the same problem, but never a solution.
Your help is much appreciated. Thanks.
I have been struggling the last few months with the same exact problem. Sometimes the buttons work other times they don't, and in the last couple of weeks the frequency of button failure has increased (every couple of minutes).
I found a few users yesterday over on the HTC forum who were having the same problem and 1 user who actually reported a fix that worked for him.
Go to Start/Settings/System/Key Lock and select "Do Not Lock Buttons". Exit Key Lock and soft reset your device. You may know return to the Key Lock options and re-select your choice (I used "Lock all buttons except Power button").
Worked for the HTC user and is working for me as I have had no button failure now in the last 24-hours with repeated use of the device.
I hope this works for you because if you are like me I getting very close to trashing the unit.
Hi,
the problem could be the Xilinx chip (a BGA chip) on the pcb underneath the buttons.
As the buttons are pressed the board is flexed and some of the solder pads under the xilinx chip must have become detached from the xilinx chip itself.
I had the white screen problem. An while i got the white screen the front buttons where not working too.
In the whte screen threat i found that it could be the Xilinx chip, and figured out when pressing on this chip the white screen was gone and the buttons where working.
So i resoldered (refloated) the chip with a heatgun and some liquid flux last Sunday and since then i had no problems anymore.
I would suggest disassembling the phone down to the pcb and try starting it on with the ribboncables connected while keep some pressure on the Xilinx chip. And then trying the buttons if they work.
See
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2382665&postcount=134
in
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321163&page=14
Greets
jtf
I have the same problem with the same phone. The instructions above for "key lock" didn't fix it for me. I was assuming that it was hardware; but I just tried installing the Android port for this phone and under Android the buttons work fine.
I know that Android has some good stuff going for it, but I don't think it's awesome enough to circumvent a bad circuit... How exactly do these buttons work? Is there a process that should be running to handle them? Any other pointers?
Since two days I have strange behavior of my Blackstone touchscreen.
Just after start (or reboot) it works correctly but after few minutes when I hit for example start button it actually point about 1,5cm upper. So all touches has offset and hits not in the correct place like this:
Hit spot
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Touched place
If I mange to go setup->screen->Align screen it's fine for a while and again after few minutes it's happen again.
ROM is Energy.BLACKSTONE.23149.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.Dec.01
Do anyone have the same issue?
It's more software or hardware problem?
At least yours still works... I also got problems with touch offset and decided to change the digitizer... but broke the lcd screen during the operation...
My device was acting just like yours: after screen alignment it worked for couple minutes then just went crazy... unfortunately, it's a hardware problem (problems between the first and the 2nd layer of the digitizer).
To align the screen more convenient just do this at any moment (with the phone switched on):
Press VOL UP and VOL DOWN simultaneously and while keeping them pressed, lightly touch the screen. This will surprisingly initiate the screen alignment procedure.
Hard reset?