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Vibrant Touchscreen Unresponsive

The touchscreen on my Samsung Vibrant stopped working this morning..It worked fine last night and this morning nothing..Tried a factory reset through Odin and still unresponsive..
Can anyone help me?

If you've reflashed and it didn't fix the problem, and nothing damaged the phone over night, then its probably more than a simple loose connection issue.
May have to get a warranty replacement.
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Nothing damaged the phone..I was rooted with the stock Rom running OneClickLagFix from the market..
This morning the touchscreen stoppen working, was able to reflash back to stock using Odin..And touchscreen still not working..
Tmobile is sending me a new one, but would sure like to fix it before than as I hate using the loaner phones they have.

You sure nothing happened to the phone? That seems very strange. Are you using a screen protector? Download any weird apps? Kinda scary that the screen would just fail. You didn't do much to the phone as fast as mods go while some people do crazy stuff.
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Is th phone plugged in? The screen gets very iffy while plugged in.

Weird. My screen was not accepting touch input about 10 minutes ago. However, a reset fixed mine.

I'm sure nothing crazy happened to the phone, It's only 3 days old..I had to have my other one replaced under warranty and I just got this on Thursday night.

things like that happens, looks like you need a replacemet.
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Was it really necessary to repost this?
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my haptic menu button stopped working. i got a replacement on the way....i aint trippin because this vibrant cant OC because it will freeze..hopefully the new one wont be like this so i can enjoy having root again

I'm having touch problems too. It takes me multiple tries to unlock the phone. I thought it was just the cooler weather.

vinnydakid said:
Is th phone plugged in? The screen gets very iffy while plugged in.
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I had this issue with after market chargers. Was yours having problems with it as well?
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boimarc89 said:
my haptic menu button stopped working. i got a replacement on the way....i aint trippin because this vibrant cant OC because it will freeze..hopefully the new one wont be like this so i can enjoy having root again
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Ever thought perhaps that had something to do with the issue (i.e. trying to OC it messed the phone up and eventually the digitizer failed)?
Only asking because some people think "oh it froze, but it booted back up fine. All is well."
It's like being surprised you have Lung Cancer because you quit smoking last year, but smoked for 30 years before quitting...
Also, using some after-market car chargers can kill you touchscreen. I've had that happen before.

Blown Speaker / Crackling Noises

Coincidences? Switching from a Beta Froyo DI18 to DK28 all of a sudden my speaker is making a crackling sound. It sounds like it is blown, or the connection is bad. I am guessing it is just a coincidences that it happened at the same time I did the update, since I am not seeing other post with the same issue. It is weird because I was not playing music, using the speaker phone or anything else through the speaker at all yesterday.
Hopefully I can take it to a Sprint Store and they can swap the speaker out. I really don't want a new phone as this one has ghost armor and it is on perfectly!
CrozB

I too have upgraded and started having speaker problems. Mine now sounds exactly as you have described it. The speaker was never great before when compared to other headsets but now it is really bad. So, did the speaker just happen to break at the same time that I changed firmware or did DK28 do something to it?

CrozB said:
Coincidences? Switching from a Beta Froyo DI18 to DK28 all of a sudden my speaker is making a crackling sound. It sounds like it is blown, or the connection is bad. I am guessing it is just a coincidences that it happened at the same time I did the update, since I am not seeing other post with the same issue. It is weird because I was not playing music, using the speaker phone or anything else through the speaker at all yesterday.
Hopefully I can take it to a Sprint Store and they can swap the speaker out. I really don't want a new phone as this one has ghost armor and it is on perfectly!
CrozB
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I'm with ya! It seems that it might be software related to DK28? I notice when listening to music and some multi tasking maybe taxes the processor a bit and then I get the crackling....
Hmmmmm

I have to say
On 2.1, my speaker was great.
Now on 2.2, it siyndd like rice crispies.
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I had the same issue, and my speaker shut down completely. Took it into best buy since I had the service plan, and when I got it back, they said they had only "changed settings", but it's working again...
Also, I unrooted back to stock before giving the phone over to best buy, but it still wasn't working until I got it back from geek squad.
Downside; now my keyboard doesn't light up, and doesn't interact with orientation, but allows input via typing.
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No static or crackly problem with Eclair or when I flashed to DK28. Did you try a factory reset after flashing to DK28? It cleared up a few odd problems I encountered. YMMV

I'm on DK28 and loving my speakers. Runs as should.

Took it to the Sprint store and after replacing my speaker it is fine. Sprint said nothing about the leaked Froyo or custom rom on the phone.
On a side note, they also replaced my screen. I have no idea why they did that as the speaker is clearly not connected to the screen. I am really pissed about it too because I lost my ghost armor off the top half of my phone and had to pay Best Buy another $25.00 to have a new kit reapplied.
Oh well at least my speaker is working again.
CrozB
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I had the same problem with mine. They ended up replacing the phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9656954

since the epic's come out we've had about 5 people come in w/blown speakers. depending on the store you go and the level of experience the tech working on your phone has will determine if they just replace the whole phone or speaker, but repair centers should have speakers in stock to replace if their doin their job right.

Happened to me also. I got a whole new phone as well.
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Camera stopped working

Howdy, I have come for help.
My wifes phone (I'm not allowed to touch lol) was running CM7.1 with its stock kernel. For months just fine.
A week ago the camera stopped working. No new apps. nothing touched at all.
Any app that runs the camera goes to a blank screen.
Yesterday I flashed tommy tomatoes classic 6 (awesome rom) with its rom.
new rom new kernel, still no camera.
Phone has not ben dropped or abused.
Any ideas?
Or is it time for me to give her my evo so I can get a new phone lol.
Thanks.
Ps
yes I wipe and wipe and wipe everything before I flash anything.
I even wiped her sd card.
Amon Ra
pps
both front and back camera and video does not work, just a blank screen.
home button is the only way back out.

Flash a stock rom with the stock kernel. If that doesnt work, it's likely a hardware failure with the camera itself.

Hate to say it but before I rooted and started messing with roms, my camera seemed like it always had problems
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Update:
Took the phone apart.
The back camera was not seated properly.
Strange, phone had not been dropped or opened up before.
Its two years old and worked fine until now.
pressed it back in place and works fine now.
The front camera works now too.
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Just got the same problem with my camera -blank screen...I nandroid back to decks EVO, then mikG and still have same problem...
I'm going to try opening up and set if I gave the same problem..
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I have never looked inside my EVO but I have the same problem white screen when I try to use the camera. Is making sure its seated something a novice can check with little electronics experiance. This phone that is having the problem is a refurbished phone that I had to beg sprint for and just recieved last week the usb port went bad in the last one. I don't want to have to go thru begging sprint for another if I don't have to.
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anyone could do this,
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-HTC-Evo-4G-Rear-Inner-Frame/3062/1
once you follow those steps,
the camera is one square piece and has a square frame around it.
pull the frame up and off then you can pull the camera out.
just remember how it sits, It will make a difference.
I would just press it down and make sure its in and flat, don't fingerprint the lens
If you pull it out and forget how it goes in..... on the bottom of the camera are the contacts, one side has fewer.
the fewer side goes away from the volume buttons.
and you can get a new camera from places like this http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Sprint-HTC-Evo-4G-Back-Camera-p/htc736690.htm or
http://www.durapowerglobal.com/HTC-Evo-4G-Rear-Camera_p_1360.html
I have never purchased from them. or try ebay or amazon.

It looks like it could be scary but as long as I don't touch anything but the camera that allready is not working what could go wrong. I might give it a shot this weekend have to give radioshack a call and see if they have that screwdriver I need thank you for the very good directions.
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I have a leatherman wave. I used the tiny flat screwdriver to open mine.
A glasses screwdriver might work too.
screws are not very tight.
And a guitar pick to wedge the back apart.
Just be careful around the power button and volume buttons. They will fall out.
I placed my phone face down on a folded wash cloth. To protect the screen.
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Phil71185 said:
It looks like it could be scary but as long as I don't touch anything but the camera that allready is not working what could go wrong. I might give it a shot this weekend have to give radioshack a call and see if they have that screwdriver I need thank you for the very good directions.
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Your welcome, glad I could help someone.
The scary part is prying the back off.
It snaps together tight.
What ever you wedge between the halves, pry upwards. As if your taking the lid of a paint can.
Don't twist like a screw.
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Phone dropped in water, Amazingly still works. THANKS HTC!!!!

Hi I just wanted to share my super awesome story here with everybody in the xda community. It's pretty crazy!
Recently I was up in the mountains of Utah ice fishing on a lake. I had my HTC Droid Incredible in my shirt pocket listening to some music. I got a bite on my fishing pole so I bent over to grab my pole (I guess I had forgotten to button up my shirt pocket, OOPS!) and plop there goes my phone into the water. I reached my arm down in the hole as fast as I could to grab it but no luck. At that point I thought, well there goes my $200 dollar phone I loved! I had accepted the fact that it was probably gone forever.
So while I was stewing there facing the fact that I had to buy a new phone, a great idea flashed through my mind. One of the guys I went fishing with happened to bring an underwater camera. I sat and thought, well the least we could do is drop it down and see if we could hook onto the phone somehow and get it back on the surface and at least salvage my SD card that was inserted in it.
We continued with dropping the camera down the hole and quickly located the phone, it was lying face down on the bottom of the lake. So we thought, heck lets throw a big hook on the end of the pole try our luck. After a few minutes of playing with the pole a little bit we managed to find our hook on the screen and placed it close to the phone. At this time we were noticing a lot of fish circling around where the phone was (I guess fish like HTC's too!). So for the next hour-and-a-half we continuously tried to hook onto the phone with no luck, although we did manage to catch two fish in the process. We finally caught a break, somehow we managed to hook on to the edge of the screen between the plastic and the glass and flipped the phone over face up, this got us excited and gave us whim of hope that maybe we would be able to retreive the phone. We continues trying for another fifteen minutes when voila, we hooked onto the phone again and this time for good because we pulled it up a little bit and could see it hovering above the lake floor.
We began to reel it up very slowly as to make sure that it didn't fall off the hook and be back at square one. We got the phone up to the surface of the water and I grabbed it as fast as I could. When I grabbed it I realized we had caught it in a place that almost seems impossible. We managed to hook it in the headphone jack and were able to reel it up all the way! The tiny 3.5mm headphone jack! When I grabbed the phone it was vibrating and had been doing so for the near two hours it spent on the bottom of the lake. I took the battery out as fast as I could and put it away.
At this point I was amazed at the fact that I even got the phone back.
So when I got back home, I sprayed out the phone with compressed air and then continued to take it apart all the way down to the mainboard and the lcd screen. I then sprayed it with air once again and proceeded to put all the pieces of the phone into a bag of uncooked rice.
24 hours later I took the phone out of the bag, and knew this was the moment of truth! I put the phone back together and popped the battery in. I pressed the power button and I kid you not the phone booted up and worked! I was truly amazed! The phone still continues to work to this day which Is almost a month later.
I think this speaks for how well HTC makes their phones and how rock solid they are, I know if I had the choice I would definitely buy one again. I thought everybody would appreciate this so I posted the story just for fun.

Best wet phone story ever... ice fishing... bottom of the lake... snagged it in the heaphone jack... all while catching fish.
Somebody beat that!

It was pretty awesome! I thought it'd be a good story to share.
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That's crazy that it still works. I would have gave up fishing for it about 5 minutes after I started.
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Epic story. Hardware wise, these things are indestructible.

I agree. It's built from stone.
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Yep I love this phone, I've been so reluctant to upgrade because of how durable it is and with all the mods and customizations that are available on it, it's just awesome.
great story

^^+1
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Thats a great story and even though i have a rezound now ... i will never forget how incredible that phone was.

How do you like the rezound compared to the incredible? I was looking at one as a possibility for upgrade, that or the gnex.
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I actually washed my HTC Droid Eris and continued to use it and eventually gave it to a friend who is still using it!
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That's amazing. HTC's are built so well, would have never expected my phone to still work after what it went through!
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Speakers cracking

I've had my nexus for about a month now.
The speakers were fine until today, the just started a cracking sound on certain sounds.
It's really annoying and it only happens when the volume is higher then 50%.
With headphones the sound is just normal.
Is there something I can do about it? I'm not really a fan of sending my nexus back to Asus.

I had my left speaker crackling from day one. I opened the back cover and took off the net that covered the speaker. That solved my problem. You may also try that.
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Took the backcover of and discovered it was my right speaker, removing the net had no effect.
Are the speakers sold apart? And are they hard to replace?

Go back to stock using Wug's toolkit. My sound was broken and not playing, I thought it was a hardware problem but I flashed back to stock. I did that and It worked. It wouldn't hurt to try it. Make sure you backup your apps using "My Backup" or "Titanium backup (root)"

Wiisper said:
Took the backcover of and discovered it was my right speaker, removing the net had no effect.
Are the speakers sold apart? And are they hard to replace?
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They are ridiculously easy to replace. There's an ifixit guide. Haven't seen anyone selling any though.
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Wiisper said:
Took the backcover of and discovered it was my right speaker, removing the net had no effect.
Are the speakers sold apart? And are they hard to replace?
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I had the same problem and researched it. I even unrooted and went back to stock thinking it may have been a software problem. But to no avail. It turns out to have been a blown speaker. I couldn't locate a replacement for it. Luckily I purchased it a Staples and was able to exchange it.

Wiisper said:
Took the backcover of and discovered it was my right speaker, removing the net had no effect.
Are the speakers sold apart? And are they hard to replace?
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Same here right speaker. I figured out that mine has a tendency to "pop" out or something and if I just push it back in I hear a click and no more crackling.
I finally worked out a solution using tape under the mesh to keep the speaker from popping out like this again and no more crackling so far.
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Ryan35310 said:
Go back to stock using Wug's toolkit. My sound was broken and not playing, I thought it was a hardware problem but I flashed back to stock. I did that and It worked. It wouldn't hurt to try it. Make sure you backup your apps using "My Backup" or "Titanium backup (root)"
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My nexus is still 100% stock, I didn't even root it.

Metallice said:
Same here right speaker. I figured out that mine has a tendency to "pop" out or something and if I just push it back in I hear a click and no more crackling.
I finally worked out a solution using tape under the mesh to keep the speaker from popping out like this again and no more crackling so far.
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Tried that, no effect.
I guess the only thing I can do is to sent it back to Asus.
Very poor, cause it has a perfect screen without any flaws.

I used the use the app – Volume+ which kicked out awful crackle/hiss.
Deleted now, no problem.
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My Nexus was crackling and the headphone volume was really low and distant while running AOKP on it. Back to stock now and unrooted and sound is great.
Maybe a problem with the binaries? I'm gonna reroot tonight and do some testing with sound.

lennonfan said:
I used the use the app – Volume+ which kicked out awful crackle/hiss.
Deleted now, no problem.
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volume+ is known that it don't works on jellybean anymore...here what the dev sad in volume+'s market page
---->PLEASE DON'T RATE BADLY BECAUSE OF JELLY BEAN INCOMPATIBILITY! THIS IS GOOGLE'S DOING, NOT MINE, I'M TRYING MY BEST TO GET IT WORKING BUT HAVE HAD NO LUCK SO FAR. PLEASE TRY AND BE A BIT MORE PATIENT.<-------

Wiisper said:
Tried that, no effect.
I guess the only thing I can do is to sent it back to Asus.
Very poor, cause it has a perfect screen without any flaws.
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Well if it really is perfect otherwise it might be worth it to just tape something over the broken speaker to muffle it or disconnect that speaker it until someone starts selling the speaker assembly.
Temporarily having mono sound won't be the worst thing in the world. Do you really need stereo audio? Especially when the two speakers are right next to each other on the same side lol?
That's personally what I would do in your shoes. Someone will eventually start selling N7 parts on ebay or wherever. Heh I may have to if my speaker blows out again and I can't just "pop" it back in like last time.
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Metallice said:
Well if it really is perfect otherwise it might be worth it to just tape something over the broken speaker to muffle it or disconnect that speaker it until someone starts selling the speaker assembly.
Temporarily having mono sound won't be the worst thing in the world. Do you really need stereo audio? Especially when the two speakers are right next to each other on the same side lol?
That's personally what I would do in your shoes. Someone will eventually start selling N7 parts on ebay or wherever. Heh I may have to if my speaker blows out again and I can't just "pop" it back in like last time.
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I can wait it out, but I can also sent it back tot Asus while it's still under warrenty.
Sending my nexus back looks like a safer choice.
Thanks for all the info!

Metallice said:
They are ridiculously easy to replace. There's an ifixit guide. Haven't seen anyone selling any though.
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my speakers blew out the other day. not sure if its one or both but its unbearable to listen to. i saw the guide on ifixit. seemed easy enough so next i did a quick search and found a place they sell them. its called powerbookmedic they go outta stock real quick when they get them in so sign up for there auto email restock notification thing and as soon as they send u a email run to a comp with ur debit card. i got mine coming in a day. i plan on putting these new ones in and then getting some external speakers to use just to save from having to do this again.