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touch screen not working in center

hey guys, i have a big problem. the center of my MDA's screen will not work. I noticed this while playing warfare incorporated.... I have re-flashed it and it goes to the align screen step and obviously i cant get past this point.........
Any ideas, im sure its hardware but what would make just the center die?
i was just thinking of selling my phone (work provides free crackberry) and this happens.... anyone want an MDA with a (partially) bad touchscreen?
please let me know any ideas you may have.
Thanks guys

Try this...
slide the stylus all around the edges of the screen. I dunno why, but that usually works.

It kinda sounds like your touch screen is going bad. It can be replaced, and there nt to expensive. Try ebay!

Hi Tsumi,
I am also having this issue with a UK XDA Mini S that is about 13 months old.
If I go into 'Notes' and draw Horizontal straight lines across the screen they are straight at the top and bottom but curve around the middle of the screen, very annoying. Brilliant phone apart from that.

no go
i tried the "around the screen" thing and that didnt work.... i think i may just have to sell it. I dont want to replace the screen b/c thats just more money spent on a phone im going to sell..... I hate to do it, I love this phone, it has saved me from boredom soooo many times.... (sniff) ill miss it.

Its like 14 bucks for a new digitizer. I am sure that it will be more than a 14 buck difference in sale price if you fixed it.

Rest2137 said:
Its like 14 bucks for a new digitizer. I am sure that it will be more than a 14 buck difference in sale price if you fixed it.
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I am sure but i just dont want to dive into this phone... if i break something else...... im more screwed....

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send the info i will paypal you did not read assuming you have proof of life meaning light

aboutthemind said:
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send the info i will paypal you did not read assuming you have proof of life meaning light
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??? does this mean your are are interested and want to see a pic of the alignment screen??? if so, not a problem!

your word is good enough
But im slammed so why diont you use my email
as discussed just disclose everything and tell me what im getting thank you
box books?
wires
cool thanks got to go

wing for sale**cheap

kinda sick of my wing and its kinda beat up i mean nothing wrong with it except for lots of scratches on the case and stuff :-/
screens perfect and phone works fine
willing to let it go for $150
i think thats real cheap maybe someone needs a extra wing to mess around with or w.e :-/
just let me know
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email me
alex

donate it to the "chefs" for testing roms and cooking for the community....
just kidding..
fortuni said:
kinda sick of my wing and its kinda beat up i mean nothing wrong with it except for lots of scratches on the case and stuff :-/
screens perfect and phone works fine
willing to let it go for $150
i think thats real cheap maybe someone needs a extra wing to mess around with or w.e :-/
just let me know
[email protected]
email me
alex
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can you post a couple of pictures of how scratched up it is? I may be interested in it.

obviously i have ADD lol
as you can see from the pics >.<
but other than cosmetically the phone is fine

fortuni said:
obviously i have ADD lol
as you can see from the pics >.<
but other than cosmetically the phone is fine
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That is pretty dinged up. One can always buy a housing though. But the ones I have seen are pretty expensive.
Maybe somebody could get this and a housing and make a How To change housing?

yea she aint pretty but im thinking someone who needs a back up phone for testing roms and such

Wow, I thought mine was in bad shape when someone said "I didn't know those came in black..." "They don't. It's frying grease that's soaked in."

hahaha. I thought I was bad with my phone. I got pissed because I got a little scratch on the screen!
If someone does have info on changing the housing, I might be interested in picking it up. I was gonna buy it to give to my dad so he'd get off his stupid Palm Treo 680 ... but if its all banged up, I would just have to keep it to experiment with then.

Well I'm a cook at one of my jobs and I'd rather keep my wing in my pocket than in my coat or car where it could get nabbed. I guess it's the lesser of the two evils. My screen is flawless though, thank you jerito... I mean screen protectors!

simplicity05 said:
Well I'm a cook at one of my jobs and I'd rather keep my wing in my pocket than in my coat or car where it could get nabbed. I guess it's the lesser of the two evils. My screen is flawless though, thank you jerito... I mean screen protectors!
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I bought some screen protectors, but I hate them. It just doesnt look or feel right to me. I only have a small scratch on the screen too and that was because my brother threw his keys on it when it was laying in my car. I almost killed him
David-
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Original-OE...yZ108649QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
You may be able to contact this seller to see if he has any instructions.

$150 for that? I'll give you $40.
Amazon was selling them new with contract for $50 - and you can pick up a tilt for only $400...

thank you vr24 for contributing to this thread with your amazing comment
-- no blaming--- edit by papamopps

Man it look like you been chewing on that phone... Either that or trying to skin concrete with it.

yeah, its pretty beat up.

How bout I recycle that thing for you for free? How many times did it go through the wood chipper?

Just outta curiosity...
Are you at least offering up a 1GB MicroSD card with the Wing?

yea theres a 1gb microSD included

bumpskies?

duprade said:
hahaha. I thought I was bad with my phone. I got pissed because I got a little scratch on the screen!
If someone does have info on changing the housing, I might be interested in picking it up. I was gonna buy it to give to my dad so he'd get off his stupid Palm Treo 680 ... but if its all banged up, I would just have to keep it to experiment with then.
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chang the housing is very easy, torks t6 and a very small Phillips and an ipod pry tool but you can always get a nice cover from ebay gray silver black
just goolge herald service manual the one i used was from mick cannon download service manuals

N1 digitizer replacement

So I bought a digitizer replacement kit on ebay for my N1. (I dropped it and my screen shattered.) I saw the iFixit teardown on the N1 and figured it'd be easy enough to do myself. The kit comes with tools to open it, but no adhesive to mount the new digitizer.(like the iPhone kits)
Basically I was just wondering what I should use to stick the new digitizer back in. Any advice from someone who's already done it would be great too.
Edit: Got the digitizer installed fine, phone booted, I giggled like a schoolgirl aaaand.. Couldn't unlock my phone. It wont respond to touch. Took it apart again to make sure it was connected properly... So now my only assumption is the digitizer I bought was defective.

Any help would be appreciated..

try asking the ebay seller

Thanks, I'll try that. Any other ideas?

maybe ask an electronics repair shop near you
RellikZephyr

Well I got it installed but it wont respond to touch.. Defective part?

I guess you've made sure it's plugged in right? Would definitely double check that
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TFJ4 said:
I guess you've made sure it's plugged in right? Would definitely double check that
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Yep I did. I contacted the seller on eBay and waiting for a reply. Unless you guys can think of something else I did wrong in the installation I'm sticking with it being defective.

have other people replaced the digitizer successfully on the N1? or perhaps it is some software difference that the new digitizer needs to be "read" by the software, but the OS is looking for the "old" digitizer still...i'm talking out my arse BTW..

RogerPodacter said:
have other people replaced the digitizer successfully on the N1? or perhaps it is some software difference that the new digitizer needs to be "read" by the software, but the OS is looking for the "old" digitizer still...i'm talking out my arse BTW..
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I've seen a few people posting here saying they've done it, and I know one guy took pictures of the process. I understand what you're saying and it sounds logical enough, but I can't imagine the parts would be any different to cause that sort of problem.. Assuming the part I bought is legit.
Either way the seller should let me return it if the second one they ship out doesn't work.

i replaced my screen and digitizer yesterday using ebay tutorials i found. pm me and ill share but i bet you used the same ones. its a very delicate process. sometimes you have to be tough with it but at the same time not break the little guy. the only problem i could think of would be your connection. the only thing i fudged on minr was not cleaning the lcd before placing it back in. now i have two large fingerprints in my top right under my screen when i dim it.

disdain735 said:
So I bought a digitizer replacement kit on ebay for my N1. (I dropped it and my screen shattered.) I saw the iFixit teardown on the N1 and figured it'd be easy enough to do myself. The kit comes with tools to open it, but no adhesive to mount the new digitizer.(like the iPhone kits)
Basically I was just wondering what I should use to stick the new digitizer back in. Any advice from someone who's already done it would be great too.
Edit: Got the digitizer installed fine, phone booted, I giggled like a schoolgirl aaaand.. Couldn't unlock my phone. It wont respond to touch. Took it apart again to make sure it was connected properly... So now my only assumption is the digitizer I bought was defective.
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I cast... THREAD NECROMANCY!!!
I believe I have the correct adhesive (3M double-sided sticky tape of some small sort), but I'm wondering if anyone has a better idea on how to get the old sticky gunk off of the LCD aside from using rubbing alcohol? Thoughts? Kthxbai.
EDIT: Also, did you ever get your phone working again?

I effed up, learn from my mistake...

Well, I'll be getting my $100 replacement tomorrow.
I'm usually very handy with electronics, I used to take my Blackberry's apart all the time and blow the dust out.
So I read up on disassembling the EVO and thought "this is gonna be a piece of cake". Well every set of instructions I found said it was SOO easy to take it apart, what they didn't say was they were assuming you have a replacement screen ready to go and that trying to remove the screen from the bezel separated the touch input from the backside of the glass.
Maybe I did it wrong but I broke my precious and almost cried.. a little.
I no longer have any touch input on the bottom half of the screen including the 4 buttons at the bottom. And you can see from the front how it looks like a clear sticker has been pulled apart from the glass. The LCD is fine, just totally jacked up the touch input.
So the purpose of this thread is to warn anyone else who may consider disassembling their EVO to read more than I did.
It may actually be very easy to get the thing apart, getting it back together is another story

Ouch man that sucks
From the fade

Condolences for the dear departed one. A point well taken, thanks!
Although I've "played" with dismantling many electronics during my days, this is one I would not take on. I even opted for the additional cost with BestBuy for their low price replacement for our 2 Evo's.

hmmm........

Aww man so sorry for you lost. That's great you've put up this post as I was just thinking about replacing my evo casing from all the cosmetic damage I've put on it while dropping. Thanks to you my friend this make my decision much easier.

I was going to do the same thing for the same purpose. Thanks for the heads up.
Sent From My HTC Evo 4G Using Tapa Talk Pro!

Part the EVO out so that she may live on in someone else's phone.
BTW that quote is hilarious. I think I remember seeing that around somewhere.

lmao....smh

Couldn't you have just bought a screen on ebay for cheaper?
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Reminds me when I took apart my g1 to change the housing, it was a mess of circuit boards, wires and ribbons.

Can anyone else share their similar experiences? I have a large amount of dust in the upper left in my week old evo, and would would like to clean it out.
Sent from my EVO

Hmmm. you can buy the touch screen for like $50-$60 on ebay unless you are talking about a different part.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-HTC-EVO-4G-TOUCH-SCREEN-LENS-DIGITIZER-REPLACEMENT-/130419345987?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item1e5d994a43

malibu_23 said:
lmao....smh
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..what does "smh" mean?
tinybfk said:
Couldn't you have just bought a screen on ebay for cheaper?
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dwertz said:
Hmmm. you can buy the touch screen for like $50-$60 on ebay unless you are talking about a different part.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-HTC-EVO-4G-TOUCH-SCREEN-LENS-DIGITIZER-REPLACEMENT-/130419345987?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item1e5d994a43
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Damn, I didn't even think of looking. Actually my girl called Sprint and ordered the replacement the next morning without telling me.
It arrived this morning, its a refurb. The bezel is cracked and there's a bright spot on the screen. I called asurion right away, they shipped another already. Im keeping my fingers crossed that the next is in better condition.
Thanks for the link though!

if that was me a piece of me would have died

nebenezer said:
..what does "smh" mean?
Thanks for the link though!
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http://www.internetslang.com/default.asp?s=smh

phatmanxxl said:
http://www.internetslang.com/default.asp?s=smh
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lol.. yeah I've done quite a lot of that lately..
thanks for the link

nebenezer said:
lol.. yeah I've done quite a lot of that lately..
thanks for the link
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No problem, MTFBWY

That sucks alot!!!

I did the same thing, wish I'd have read this post first! I had the dust in the upper left of my screen. I have taken this phone apart before, but not removed the glass. In attempting to remove the glass I messed up the upper right corner of the touch screen (just a small area but still sucks!) and now the tint of some colors is messed up. Also rashed up the plastic on the edges some. Oh and I did get the glass off just enough to spread the friggin dust all around haha. Oh well it's livable until June when I can get a full upgrade (hopefully the EVO 3D!). Let my post here serve as a SECOND warning for those who want to attempt to remove the dust themselves. The glass is glued down and you pretty much have to destroy the phone to remove it. Don't try it!!

dwertz said:
Hmmm. you can buy the touch screen for like $50-$60 on ebay unless you are talking about a different part.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-HTC-EVO-4G-TOUCH-SCREEN-LENS-DIGITIZER-REPLACEMENT-/130419345987?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item1e5d994a43
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I ordered this same part and a new housing because I cracked my digitizer earlier this week. Thanks for the post, OP, because I plan on taking mine apart this weekend to replace it. Wish me luck! lol

replace lcd/digitizer

My screen is cracked to all hell. Is there a youtube video showing a strip down of the epic? Is there a guide on how to replace it? I have the lcd and ditizer,so I'm all set except for the actual replacement. LOL
Tia

would you mind sharing the source for the screen/digitizer for those that haven't broken their screens yet ?
Just curious.
I do not know how to tear it down yet though.
Thanks for sharing.

I got it from an interstate wireless on 7 mile for like 60$ lol
Anyone?

igotsthemagicinme said:
I got it from an interstate wireless on 7 mile for like 60$ lol
Anyone?
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You sure you got the right screen? Epic uses SAMOLED, not LCD... also, the digitizer and the LEDs are part of the same construct (one of the reasons it's "super"), so you'd effectively be really just changing the display with integrated digitizer. The glass itself is glued to the plastic case. You'd need to find a way to pull it up, from what I can tell. (I have not ever taken one apart, but it is almost certain that it is a glued screen, which explains why some people are having peeling issues (my Evo had this.))

There is not much for the Epic but some info for the original Galaxy S
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745262
Dissemble of Galaxy S:
http://www.careace.net/2010/06/09/disassembly-of-the-samsung-galaxy-s/
and there are some tear-down pics of the Epic
Thats prob all info there is :/

APOLAUF said:
You sure you got the right screen? Epic uses SAMOLED, not LCD... also, the digitizer and the LEDs are part of the same construct (one of the reasons it's "super"), so you'd effectively be really just changing the display with integrated digitizer. The glass itself is glued to the plastic case. You'd need to find a way to pull it up, from what I can tell. (I have not ever taken one apart, but it is almost certain that it is a glued screen, which explains why some people are having peeling issues (my Evo had this.))
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yea i was just saying "lcd" i got the right one i know
taking a look at the links below

ok well by the looks of it, its pretty much the same thing. i talked to a tech at a repair center, and he said he MIGHT be able to do it. if not, i think i probably have about 70% chance of getting it right. the video showed a break down right down to the digitizer, and it looks almost EXACTLY like that i have, so in theory, i should just have to go as far as gettting the back off, and putting the back BACK on the NEW digitizer/amoleisupmyassed, right?
also, just for clarification, i know i have the right one bcuz i can see the button whole thingies and its the same as what the epic has (menu, home, back, search)
thanks for the useful links& help guys

Ahh sprint hooked me up put the screen on for me...mmm...such a beautiful display...

igotsthemagicinme said:
Ahh sprint hooked me up put the screen on for me...mmm...such a beautiful display...
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Did they charge anything?

lehaman310 said:
Did they charge anything?
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Nooooope

Any update on manuals/instructions for this? My own is out of warranty and not even running on Sprint.

Chabsin said:
Any update on manuals/instructions for this? My own is out of warranty and not even running on Sprint.
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How is it out of warranty when it hasn't even been out for a year? or did you mod it or something?

igotsthemagicinme said:
Ahh sprint hooked me up put the screen on for me...mmm...such a beautiful display...
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just curious...so sprint installed the screen you purchased or they installed one of their own? I had to do this on an htc phone a while back and it was much easier than I imagined.
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I purchased a bad esn phone off ebay. I run it on a different network. You think a Sprint store would do something for me?!

Demianwulf said:
I had to do this on an htc phone a while back and it was much easier than I imagined.
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I've watched a video for another galaxy phone ... the reason I'm nervous about this one is because on the Epic the screen is on a separate part of the assembly because of the keyboard.
Also: The video shows how to take it apart .. but not how to put it together again. Do I need to glue it together again? What type of glue?

Chabsin said:
I've watched a video for another galaxy phone ... the reason I'm nervous about this one is because on the Epic the screen is on a separate part of the assembly because of the keyboard.
Also: The video shows how to take it apart .. but not how to put it together again. Do I need to glue it together again? What type of glue?
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If your seriously considering using glue...crazy glue is the way to go >.> (pun intended)
I still don't understand, why are you out of warranty? samsung offers a 1 year warranty...

does one not have to deal with sprint?
Does changing the software so that it runs on a different network not void the warranty?
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Chabsin said:
does one not have to deal with sprint?
Does changing the software so that it runs on a different network not void the warranty?
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No even though Sprint has it in their system as marked "bad esn" samsung will not have to do with this. Although I don't think Samsungs warranty covers accidents, such as dropping your phone and cracking the screen.
Hope you get it figured out!
Sincerely,
D3luSi0n4L

Chabsin said:
does one not have to deal with sprint?
Does changing the software so that it runs on a different network not void the warranty?
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Well Samsung has their own warranty thing...but I would confirm by contacting Samsung..don't tell them you swapped networks or anything of course..otherwise I don't think they would bother to check...
You can always flash it back too..unless phone doesnt work completely?

I got the whole screen + keyboard for under $60 on ebay. It turned out to be as simple as unscrewing and unsnapping the cover, disconnecting three connectors, removing the electronics and putting them in to the new frame. If I'd have to do it again it wouldn't take more than 15 minutes.
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