Have a Vario II with WM6 installed, works great but the screen alignment keeps changing all the time. need constantly go to Settings - System - Screen to align it again. What could cause this? The screen is kept clean with no scratches etc...
Digitiser could be going, You may need to replace lcd. If I was you I'd download "Remote Screen Alignment" and install to pc to keep your alignment settings on your pc. It won't fix the alignment problems but if your touchscreen does go and you try to hard reset or install new rom you'll be able to use the Hermes as you can restore the alignment settings from the pc. It'll keep you up and running until you get a replacement lcd(worst case scenario, Its better to have it with the alignment settings then to have to find someone with the same phone to retrieve the settings from).
Cheers...
you mean its soon time to retire my old Vario... II. too bad my laptop hard drive crashed a while ago and im only running linux ubuntu now... wont be able to connect Vario to it!
any other way to do it... please?
i dont want to loose this phone, or upgrade it as have a great deal wit t-mobile still...
thanks
check forum, you may be able to connect to linux. Not sure if Remote screen alignment will work though.
On Aussie ebay, a replacement LCD cost $70Aud including postage. I'd still look at that and see if you think its worthwhile fixing. You could also try to buy a "broken" Hermes off ebay, I've bought 2 (about $120Aud each) and so far there was nothing wrong with either. Ended up cannobilizing my old Jasjam.
Just a thought....
Cheers....
software test screen align
hi, all, i don't know if this thread is correct to insert my request.. but i try.. in this video http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=qPadyM66fDs the user open a software for test screen align.. anyone know what software is it?
thanks in advance
sorry for my english but i am italian...
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Anyways I've got the Wizard and for what ever reason screen alignment has been off so i try calibrating and a no go, the center of the screen seems dead as it doesn't respond and I tried a hard reset. Now it's stuck on the Alignment screen and i cant use the phone.
Two questions, a) is there a way to flash it back to the regular Windows Mobile 5 so i can send it to HTC or Cingular who ever takes care of repair so they don't go wtf! You have a modded rom! even though the rom isn't the problem.
b) is there a way to atleast skip the alignment so i can use the phone?
Try http://www.htcamerica.net/support/8125/software-downloads.html -- should be the shipped ROM.
Thanks, Cingulars sending me a new phone. Is there a way to call cingular or go somewhere to get my text messages that are still on the network? I have a few new ones from after the point where i reset my phone so they're still on the network. I dont have another cell phone to use so that's not an option.
Or how about somehow avoiding the touch screen alignment?
Hello All
Help please! I start to use this gadget week ago. And I is not so easy. I though, that if this gadget has name "touch", I will be able to operate it with using my finger. But I have to use my NAIL for it. I have used all tools (setting of register, additional programms and etc) for setting my device, but it was unsuccessful
If you have any secret tool, share with me!
Thanks in advance.
Rsmile said:
Hello All
Help please! I start to use this gadget week ago. And I is not so easy. I though, that if this gadget has name "touch", I will be able to operate it with using my finger. But I have to use my NAIL for it. I have used all tools (setting of register, additional programms and etc) for setting my device, but it was unsuccessful
If you have any secret tool, share with me!
Thanks in advance.
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Your device should be working allright right out of the box. Should not have that much difficulty - however, check out this link for information on touch sensitivity
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Touch_Sensitivity
If this does not work, then perhaps you have a crappy screen protector on - take it off and see how it works without it.
You have been playing with the registry you say. Have you been doing this before or after experiencing the problems. You might have messed things up unknowingly. A hard reset should reset things back to factory default settings - perhaps this would fix your problem aslo.
If that does not work - you might want to consider taking it back to the vendor for a warranty repair or replacement as it could be a faulty digitizer.
Good luck, hope this helps
EDIT: If you don't have warranty and you believe it may be a faulty digitizer see here for instructions on how to dissasemble your Elf to replace digitizer yourself - It may not be this but it is difficult to know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407323
I am assuming you have not flashed a new ROM to your device because otherwise you should have said so. If you did by chance and not mention it, it could be a problem with the ROM and you might want to consider flashing to a different custom ROM. If it is Stock ROM still and none of the above helped- than ignore this as flashing to a new ROM will not likely solve the problem as I suspect it is a faulty digitizer.
i have a mda vario 2 ( hermes) i've been installed a rom called hermes_wwe_3.62 Malina2d now phone boots up fine but the touch screen dose not work at all ! can anyone help ? .
To get pass the alignment screen i had to create a file on storage card " welcome.not" and that got me pass alignment screen.
now i am a newbie so please all the help would be appreciated i did have a look for file called touch.dll to replace it but could find one. ( as i read somewhere that might be the problem.
my ipl -1.04 & spl-2.10.01ipro
i really don't know what to do i have tried to re flash the rom no luck there.
all the hardware buttons work fine.
Not sure about that one. Why not post the question in the thread from where you got the rom? That name doesn't ring a bell.
If not try flashing the stock shipped rom, or the at&t stripped to see if the issue goes away. If it does go away, then don't use that rom.
cant really remember where i got the rom from as i the phone is my little sisters. do you have a link for the rom you suggested
My sig has the stripped rom, and the shipped at&t roms. You can also find some programs and my roms there too.
And to be safe make sure that hardspl is installed.
If that doesn't fix it, there might be a hardware issue.
cheers for your help. i am going to download one of your roms and pray that might resolve the issue . what the latest hardspl ? i thought 2.10 was the latest ? how do i tell what is the on i have installed on the phone ? Hardspl and spl are they the same thing ?
If you flash one of mine, flash the at&t rom first, that will straighten out any issues with the memory.
if you have 2.10olipro, your all set! spl (or hardspl) is the bootloader.
no luck still having issue with the touch screen wont wont work.
the touch screen used to work fine before. all this it just became very laggy so i decided to upgrade the rom , i went to thru a few roms.
any other idea ?
i must say i do love your rom everything is set out all nice and neatly shame the touch isn't working.
Thanks for the compliment on the rom!
Sounds like it has some kind of hardware issue. If your inclined to take it apart carefully (I haven't taken mine apart yet), you might be able to check all of the connections, and for dirt or anything that might be the issue.
I believe there are disassemble instructions on the wiki.
Maybe someone with more experience in taking the phone apart can chime in.
touchscreen issue
i m having the stupid touchscreen issue i have tried everything ( including disassembly and removing gasket but it still does not calibrate
starting to hate that phone
Sounds like Digitizer could be dead.... Need to replace the LCD and Digitizer if thats the case.
The trouble with this is there are a few different things that could be causing this and just replacing the LCD might not fix it.
Sounds like it could be though. If you are having trouble, DON'T do a hard reset until you have installed an app called "remote screen alignment", freeware off the net. It copies the alignment info to the PC so you can do a quick alignment using the PC instead of the buggered screen. Otherwise you'll be going in circles for ever without being able to get into the today screen.
Cheers...
actually i have hard reset the device
the trick is to put a file called welcome.not on memory card to skip first time alignment
i'll change screen and see if it fixes itself later
i ll use the phone as it is till then
new lcd
i changed the lcd it worked flawlessly for 3 weeks then bang! the bottom half of the lcd stop to work
i think that the ribbon on the lcd got damaged when i installed it on the hermes the fact that it needs to be turned 360 degrees during assembly cause the problem any thoughts from you guys????
Hi everyone,
Since yesterday my touch hd stopped working! It seems like the touchschreen is not working anymore. Only the power en volume buttons are working.
Because of this I tried to do a hard reset which resulted in the same problem. Now I'm stucked on the align screen. If I press really really hard I can align 3 corners of the 4 on the screen, so I can't get further to the next step.
Im currently in a hot hot Australia which might be the reason for all this. If you have a good look at the screen while turning it horizontally, you can see that one part has weird colours/reflection.
So what do you think? Can I buy a new screen and solve the problem or is there more going on?
Can I have warranty? The device is not having the stock rom on it. Can I maybe control the device and install the stock rom on it using a program on a pc or so?
Aaaaaaany help would be so appreciated! Im using the device as tomtom GPS as well, which I really need to travel to Melbourne next week. So I kinda need your help/advise cause I'm a bit in a hurry....
Thank you very much anyways!
Pauwel
Hi
Do a search on "newton rings" which I believe is the weird color / reflection problem.
As an aside when I knew I was getting a replacement I saw a post that suggested putting the phone in freezer for 10 minutes or so !
I did then wrapped it in tissue to absorb the condensation and it worked !!
r
Andrew
Plenty of threads on Newton rings if you search the General Forum like this one.
If its not Newton ring I you want to get past alignment, one method is to skip or bypass the alignment process altogether. Some Chefs do this already, namely Dutty, to among other things speed up the set up process.
How to do it: there are a couple of ways you can find in the forum, however, one way is to create a blank text file called, welcome.not, instead of welcome.not.txt, and place it in the root of your storage card. Next, flash a new rom or hard reset and you're done. It's up to you whether you leave your SD in during flash. I do not. If you do not, after the rom flash, stick your SD in and hard reset. If all goes to plan, the "welcome" phase will be bypassed, any you will not be prompted to align the screen or set the date, location, time etc. If for some reason it does not, go into the root of your SD and manually with your stylus or via activesync on your desktop create a new blank file in there and name it welcome.not. That actually worked for me. If it works then leave it in the root of your SD and it will allow the bypass with each new flash or hard reset.
The screen coordinates should load automatically after the bypass. If for any reason you need them, here are the Blackstone alignment coordinates from HKLM/Hardware/Devicemap/Touch/ Calibrationdata:
511,542 183,881 183,198 834,197 883,880.
Had that problem and you need a new ditigiter. Only problem is you will most likely break the screen replacing the ditigizer. So, the only fix is a new LCD screen and digitizer. You can get them from ebay. I did it and it was pretty easy, just take your time and get the videos and manuals people have posted on here. Good luck.
Hello i decide to post here because i dont know right now do is a ROM related problem or no and on the same time here will see it more peoples and hope someon to know what is this.
Yesterday something strange heppand with my Blackstone, without to do anything i just decide to see the time and when i turn on the device was totaly Freeze not reacting on any touch, im using the ROM from my signature from Mounth without any problem. So i was thinking that maybe its from the ROM what i did is Soft Reset few times But this does not help.. the device fully load But the screen is not responsive also the hardware buttons do not vibrate?!!? when i press them they do not react ot anything.
After i saw that the SR not helping i do a Hard Reset and when the device whole load the ROM and preparing for 1st time use i was not able to Calibrate the screen.. the strange thing is that the display react on touch because when im taping in the corners the crozz move and when i do all the steps just start from the begining all the time and i cannot pass this step.
After i saw that this do not help me alot i decide to Flash so i put Manualy the device in Bootloader mode and via PC methoud i flash a Brand new ROM, when the ROM fully load and im going again to the Align Screen i have again the same problem the procedure start over and over and i cannot do anything.
1st i was thinking that something heppand with my Display but i didn`t do anything with the device i mean drop it or damage it somehow.. this heppand like the device is at the table at home and few minutes Befor i speak on that Phone. On the same time Im sure the display react on touch even wrong... because when im pressing the X on the calibration screen is move and befor to do Hard Reset when i was with the ROM from my signature.. and restart few times.. when the phone Load a POP UP of notification appear and the strange things was that i was able to scroll it up and down with fingers so for this reason i was thinking is a Problem ROM and need to HR or FLasdh diferent ROM. The notification Pop Up that appear when you click the Taskbar somewhere you know that you cannot slide it because its static.. so how this heppand i dont know.
PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA what i need to do let me know this heppand for 1st time and i never hear for soooo weird Blackstone.
THank you in advance
P.S Today im 22 November im going to Repair Service here because my device still have One Mounth Warranty left so maybe im lucky or no will see that leter.. i post this because to let you know that its not necassery to drop or damage your device the Display (Digitizer) to Stop working.. in my sutuation the device was static on the table i never drop it and use it 20 minutes befor the display to die i make a call so im using this device from 23 Mounths and i think that just the Display Die itself.. and to be more corect the display still work and show everything but the digitizer DIE so have that on mind
I do now Task29 and re flash again the same problem its like the display reacting on touch but not corect... i think its something serious and i will need new Digitazer or Display or Both?!
Also Reverting Back to stock SPL and ROM do not help..
I think im for Repair Service
Thank you
tsalta said:
I do now Task29 and re flash again the same problem its like the display reacting on touch but not correct... i think its something serious and i will need new Digitizer or Display or Both?!
Also Reverting Back to stock SPL and ROM do not help..
I think im for Repair Service
Thank you
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i still don't understand how the f*** does this fin into ROM development
but anyway it also happened to me,first the digitizer went a bit crazy,then it went completely crazy and than i replaced it with a new one
i did it by myself...it can easily be done if you have any hand skills and can hold a screwdriver
but be really careful with placing the new digitizer over the screen because any irregularity may cause dust to later get in between the two
digitizer is less than 20usd i believe...
lcd+digitizer are 60+ if i remember correctly
if you decide yourself for lcd+digitizer first check if those are already sealed to each other,because if not,you will have the same situation as if you ordered the digitizer only...but with 40+ usd wasted in vain
also be extra extra extra careful while removing old digitizer from the lcd
cheers
If you are stack in the align screen, try first to create a summy file named "welcome.not" and put it in the root of your storage card. This will allow you to go through ROM setup without align. Then check to see if the screen is responding and if not then you most probably need to do what farukb said above.
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If you are stack in the align screen, try first to create a summy file named "welcome.not" and put it in the root of your storage card. This will allow you to go through ROM setup without align.
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In my case, the SD card was corrupted and in the next 3-4 days the touch screen is not responding either... I should note that in my case, I followed the advice by Stathis and created a "welcome.not" dummy file in the root of the phone's memory, so it skipped the screen alignment procedure. Unfortunately the screen is responding so I will have to take it to the service center in order to have it checked, in case it is still under warranty (I have bought it 2nd hand).
Otherwise, I will have to order a new screen and try to install it myself. Wish me luck!
Same here, i have some kind of smudge, like oil spill, on the screen. i thought of buying just the digitizer but as i disassembled it, found the digitizer and the display are a set, so don't bother buying just one of the parts.
@tsalta - since you're from BG, check this http://gsm-world.biz/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2630
I successfully repair digitizer on my blackstone! It is hard work but its wotrh it.
Now I have to repair some more HDs. But its strange that all of a sudden all of the HDs I know broke dow in a period of one month... mine broke down at the end of october.