my home key just stopped working out of the blue any reasons why??? no water damage none like that please help
k so now i notice that the send key dosent work either
If its still in warranty, the phone should be sent back to your carrier so that it can be swapped out. There really isn't anything anyone can do for a hardware issue like this. If you bought the phone second hand (ebay etc) and you are feeling adventurous, you can search for directions on disassembling the G1. I wouldn't recommend this unless you knew what you were doing, or are comfortable with the likelihood that it won't work and you'll need a new one anyways.
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i just bought this phone less than a month ago, its an AT&T 8525 and out of no where one night it just started typing multiple buttons for no reason while trying to text with the keyboard.
I have tried reflashing a few different roms and am now back to the AT&T version of WM6 and im still having the same problem, i havent dropped the phone or anything so someone please help.. its ony on specific letters such as..
when pressing L or P it always types LP.
when pressing T or U it always types TU.
when pressing G or J it always types GJ.
when pressing V or N it always types VN.
its ONLY those letters and only types those combinations its like the signals in the phone are getting mixed up on those letters or something and i have no idea why it started or how to fix it, ive tried installing the 8525 keyboard fix and it does nothing.
PLEASE HELP!
If its under warranty take it back otherwise you can try to open and fix but that will void the warranty.
Heres the guide to disassemble - http://michael-channon.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1
Make sure you have a size 6 torque ey, a flat blade(small) and a phillips head(small). Fairly easy and unless you are REALLY heavy handed you can't do to much damage. Your Hermes is fairly resilient.
Cheers....
hmm okay now if i disassemble it then how do i know what to do to fix it??
At the site I gave you, look for mikes guide on keyboard problems... It tells you how to check certain things if you have problems. If that doesn't fix, I'd buy a broken hermes on ebay or something and use the parts... Oh, thats right, I did...
Cheers...
I havent dropped my wing or anything but the "W" and "S" keys on the qwerty keyboard have been losing their sensitivity for the past few weeks. I have to press REALLY hard to get them to work
Anyone know if this would be fixed by replacing the keys or might this be something deeper? I'm toying with the idea of taking it apart - I'm not a stranger to taking apart some of my other phones - but the wing is way more complicated than anything I've done before....
TIA
See if you still have waranty before you take your herald apart.
If so...take it back to the store you've bought it from cause once you've taken apart your device all waranty is lost.
If not...i have see several how-to's to disassemble your herald with good pictures. Try google because i cant't find the exact location where i saw them, perhaps howards forum? Spare parts a sold all over internet or try to buy a broken version for someone over here...might even be cheaper.
Jaidnoire said:
I havent dropped my wing or anything but the "W" and "S" keys on the qwerty keyboard have been losing their sensitivity for the past few weeks. I have to press REALLY hard to get them to work
Anyone know if this would be fixed by replacing the keys or might this be something deeper? I'm toying with the idea of taking it apart - I'm not a stranger to taking apart some of my other phones - but the wing is way more complicated than anything I've done before....
TIA
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i had the same problem, before i broke my 1st wing, after about 5 months into having the phone the "S" button started losing its sensitivty and only worked when i to pressed it down really hard and even sometime it still wouldnt work, now that i had a new wing for a while the same thing is happening again with the "S" button but this time about 8 months into having the phone, i dont know why its doing that but its real annoying when i am textin something
Well Im really upset... It takes me almost a month to get a replacement LCD screen for my Wing and I am proud to say i took it apart and put it make together making sure all is right.. (ribbons..screws..yellow tape...) and guess what it powers on, reads the sim, get a signal, phone works..BUT NO KEYBOARD.
Actually The only letter that do work are the e,f,h,n,o and if i hit the caps lock i get them to go caps but i get no indicator light to turn on. Same thing for the ALT indicator light. What in the world could have gone wrong? i was so careful taking it apart and putting it together for this to happen? I even did a hard reset thinking this might solve my problems? nothing its all the same.
any ideas?
you probably messed up a ribbon or something, its pretty easy to do it. I've heard stories of people messing up their keyboards when they replace the screens, so it's not really a common issue.
If you're still under warranty, slap on the original rom, un-hardspl, and call tmobile and tell them it just stopped working.
if not under warranty, do the same thing, and then raise plenty of hell when they tell you that your warranty is over (hint- ask for their supervisor)
Im going to try to take it apart again. maybe i missed something on the rebuild. it sad to think that after i was so carefull i screwed up the ribbon cable. if that fail ill try tmobile..
I'm experiencing the same thing. Were you able to resolve the issue by re-seating any of the cabling, or doing a hard reset? I don't have warranty on it so I may just have to replace the cabling if my futile attempts of fixing what I have now finally sinks in.
Still not working
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I took it apart one more time and with a magnifying glass reseated the ribbon. Looking at the ribbon closely there is nothing wrong with it. I looked everything over. still no keyboard. i hate giving up but at this point i have nothing i can do over to get this to work..
Ill probably sell it for parts now.
I have a problem with my keyboard I have an azerty keyboard but now I use an english rom (and the phisical keyboard is on qwerty). How Can I remove my azerty keyboard to my pda ?
Thx..
you can always use the herald service manual to disassemble the device, remove the keyboard, and replace it with one salvaged from a broken herald or something, but you run the risk of running into the problem detailed here.
What you can also do is use Duprade's keyboard fix and create a custom patch for yourself and just learn to use Azerty. This is alot easier than the above process.
yea, pretty much what the title says..
my "." "a" "space" keys require a really hard press for it to register, it still clicks like normal but wont register unless i give it about 3times the pressure
I want to fix this myself, as I dont have warranty and the phone is in pristine condition other than this issue
I want to know what exactly I should replace
on ebay , I found these 2 parts... which one would I need?
http://cgi.ebay.com/V618-Keyboard-K...wItemQQptZPDA_Accessories?hash=item439b4d2054
OR
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Keyboard-Ke...wItemQQptZPDA_Accessories?hash=item4a9c4f10c9
or if its something else that can be fixed or replaced easily.
thanks guys.
id replace both just so you completely rule out both parts from not working.. and you'll save on shipping too...
Greets all,
I know probably this is the wrong section but I thought I would get a quicker response to my dilema. I was testing out my rom on my Test HD2 phone (I have two of them) and this one has the infamous end key issue, and tested my patience, so I read that if you use a very small flathead screw driver and push a certain place, you can get it to unstick, being that I tried all my methods that usually worked, I decide to try, well, the screwdriver slipped under the button part between the end key and the back key and screwed up my screen where I have all funny colors all over. So I was wondering if any could tell me if this is a LCD problem or a digitizer problem. There is no running liquid on the screen. The screenshot below is exactly what my screen looks like, and I want to buy the replacement, but I dont want to buy the wrong part and waste money, so can someone please let me know what it is that I have to replace? Thanks!
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Greets all,
I know probably this is the wrong section but I thought I would get a quicker response to my dilema. I was testing out my rom on my Test HD2 phone (I have two of them) and this one has the infamous end key issue, and tested my patience, so I read that if you use a very small flathead screw driver and push a certain place, you can get it to unstick, being that I tried all my methods that usually worked, I decide to try, well, the screwdriver slipped under the button part between the end key and the back key and screwed up my screen where I have all funny colors all over. So I was wondering if any could tell me if this is a LCD problem or a digitizer problem. There is no running liquid on the screen. The screenshot below is exactly what my screen looks like, and I want to buy the replacement, but I dont want to buy the wrong part and waste money, so can someone please let me know what it is that I have to replace? Thanks!
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Its definetly an LCD issue, anyways not a major issue, as long as you can dismantle the phone and clear up the area btw the LCD and Keypad, i guess it should be back to normal
When you say Clear up the area, mind clarifying what that means? I can dismantle the phone, at this point it would probably be cheaper then sending for repair especially that its most likely out of warranty anyway.
I'm pretty much under the impression I am going to need to buy a lcd/digitizer combo to fix this. Unless I dont have to, cause like I said there is no bleeding and the phone works fine (minus the touchscreen issue caused by the end key) I can navigate thru the phone using droid explorers Screencast.
well what i intened to say was that there could be particles of dust or debris that is causing the LCD ribbon to come out a little, Coz i had a similar issue with "Dead touchscreen workin hard press end key " , later when i dismantled the phone and put it back again my screen looked exactly like yours, all i had to do was open it again and fix the LCD flex to the Main board properly thats all.
on a side note:
Well the touchscreen issue eventualy died all together, and i now have a replaced LCD from HTC and the screen is dull