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The warranty for my HD is gone and I would probably need to change the touch screen digitizer myself, found these on ebay for ~60€, but does anyone know how to change them? Again, any help would be appreciated!
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HTC Touch HD, it has been a wonderful phone until now. I have encountered a wierd problem with the touchscreen.
First the touchscreen stopped working completely, after awhile it suddenly started working, at first it recognized some bits and pieces but now it recognizes every touch as normal, except..
It is very inaccurate and the "sum of inaccurity" seems to change depending on where I push the screen, the screen alignment option in settings does not fix this.
I recorded two videos to show this problem better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1vjiHr2QU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TynTTFIQJv8
Any help would be appreciated on how to fix this!
looks broken id return under warrenty did it get any knocks / drops? do you have insurance?~
spzero said:
looks broken id return under warrenty did it get any knocks / drops? do you have insurance?~
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I have handled it with great care so no big knocks or drops. Ill contact the store about the warranty. Just wondered if theres a way how to simply fix this.
Just noticed, the screen works normally sometimes for one touch, then it goes back to the inaccurate **** :/
Im now guessing that some cable could be loose or something like that?
Have u tried recalibrating the screen? I can't remember exactly where I found it, but its in programs or settings somewhere.
Viba said:
...the screen alignment option in settings does not fix this...
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Yes I have..
Anyway I RMA'd it now. Hope I get a new one
I can tell you from previous experience, HTC does NOT warranty touch screens. You mentioned "a store", so I hope they help you, because HTC will not. >sigh<
Seems a little unfair if they don't seeing as the HD is purely touch screen!
SomethingWicked said:
I can tell you from previous experience, HTC does NOT warranty touch screens. You mentioned "a store", so I hope they help you, because HTC will not. >sigh<
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Hmmh, well the store probably sends it to some service center here in Finland that fixes HTC phones.
Indeed sounds very stupid if the warranty doesnt cover the touchscreen.
Perhaps my HD suffered from something else than a broken touchscreen, eg. mainboard or a chip that controls the touch screen. Who knows I'm just hoping it "passes" the warranty :|
Well... Had Hard-SPL on my touch hd and duttys 1.7 rom, so the warranty is gone
Didn't know they were so picky about it, they said it would cost 605€ to repair the screen. So now I should probably start looking for a screen digitizer on ebay and some help on how to change it... Already downloaded the service manual, but there was nothing on how to change the digitizer, could anyone here show me some light to this? Thanks.
I have dismantle my HD to see if there's any way to change only the screen (it's broken)
There's no way, as far as I saw. You have to replace LCD, tourch screen and screen. It's one piece and there's no way easy way to open it without break it.
You can find all of them for about 200E.
drabisan said:
I have dismantle my HD to see if there's any way to change only the screen (it's broken)
There's no way, as far as I saw. You have to replace LCD, tourch screen and screen. It's one piece and there's no way easy way to open it without break it.
You can find all of them for about 200E.
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So there's no way I could replace only this?
http://global.ebay.com/Original_Digitizer_Touch_Screen_For_HTC_Touch_HD/310124432320/item
Another sad story // hopefully with a good ending
I kinda have the same problem as Viba and others. Sorry for the looong post. But decided to describe in more details my experience up to now, and hope you can help as well.
All of a sudden, I started having problems with the touch screen of the Touch HD. I started noticing that whenever I touched the Touchflo buttons, the phone vibrated. Soon I came to realize the if I touched in some spot, the phone recognized that I was touching lower, to the point that it could not recognize touches in the taskbar, for instance.
The united has 2 or 3 months max. It had some falls before and I do not really know who (or which one) was the culprit.
Tried this as fix: re-alignment, hardresets, Official ROM upgrade. Then I started reading and understanding that the problem was probably the digitizer ("nice to meet you").
I live in Brazil and the Touch HD is not expected be released here any time soon. So the few HTC service centers do not know how to fix it and do not have parts for it. And also, I bought mine from an auction site by some user who bought it abroad, with no warranty whatsoever. I am left alone in this.
I was very frustrated and eager to get my device running again. So I started looking for a new digitizer and also the tools to open my phone. The digitizer (just the digitizer, not the LCD screen) I ordered from an ebay shop in Hong Kong on Monday and is expected to still arrive sometime in this century (IF Brazilian port authorities do not mess up). The tools arrived yesterday.
I downloaded the service manual and said to myself, let's see if the digitizer problem is maybe due to a loose flat cable. Got to work and carefully disassembled the device as per the service manual. (I have to say that, although I try to be carefull, I always scratch, bend or mess something up when I do jobs like these. So I was afraid of cracking some plastic or worse and actually did some.)
Up to where the service manual show, it went incredibly very well. But that's the problem. The service manual guides you to disassemble the unit up to the point where you are with the bezel, LCD and digitizer in one piece.
But hey! I saw zillions of internet shops selling the bezel (actually, the hole housing, but with no LCD), the digitizer or other parts separately! What is going on?
So I started trying to unmount the bezel, LCD and digitizer. Tried several things. It got really late. I was impactient. So I tried splitting the digitizer from the LCD, by inserting a hard plastic aluminium tip between the digitizer and the housing. A very thin plastic kind of tape came out (at lest part of it). So I tried doing it more. No success. And then I put a very thin screwdriver between then (just enough to get an ulgy bent it the plastic housing).
When I had played enough with that puzzle, I gave up and began mounting everything back. The good part is that I was able to get everything back and the phone is working. Well, except for the digitizer.
First thing I did was to kidnap the wife's Nokia E71 I bought her last month and she is not using yet (she couldn't learn to use yet; well, she hasn't even tried it), because I have to have mobile access to my emails.
And I really started now to consider other alternatives. Will some user like me EVER be able to change just the digitizer? Is it even possible? If it is, I would like to give it at least another shot.
But I am also afraid that it could be another part which is in failure. I just don't want to spend more $$$$ in this. It would be better to buy another phone (and maybe not a complete touchscreen - gosh, I miss my Tytn II). I so regret being a gadget freak and not waiting a release in my country.
Shoud I send my phone abroad for a service center repair? My sister lives in Dubai and she may be able to help.
Should I give up my unit and seel the used parts in ebay?
Hope to hear your suggestions. Thanks anyway.
Viba said:
Well... Had Hard-SPL on my touch hd and duttys 1.7 rom, so the warranty is gone
Didn't know they were so picky about it, they said it would cost 605€ to repair the screen. So now I should probably start looking for a screen digitizer on ebay and some help on how to change it... Already downloaded the service manual, but there was nothing on how to change the digitizer, could anyone here show me some light to this? Thanks.
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before doing this what about removing hspl and reflashing back a stock rom
change shop and you might, and i say MIGHT, be lucky
much better than screwing up the machine
Rafael K said:
I kinda have the same problem as Viba and others. Sorry for the looong post. But decided to describe in more details my experience up to now, and hope you can help as well...
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Nice to know I'm not alone with this problem
Sucks that the digitizer couldn't be removed separately, would help alot if someone knew how to do this, if even possible..
crashDebug said:
before doing this what about removing hspl and reflashing back a stock rom
change shop and you might, and i say MIGHT, be lucky
much better than screwing up the machine
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I have already tried with 3 custom roms and 2 original SPL:s with two original roms.
The Finnish law allows me to get my HD replaced if I could prove that the custom rom didn't brake the digitizer. Already sent some emails to the local repairstation for HTC phones here in Finland, lets see...
I run a repair center (US). I have not gotten curious enough to take mine apart, but if someone has a dead one to experiment with, PM me.
Broken digitizer glass
I have the same problem with the digitizer glass being broken. I have had the back off the phone and stripped it back as far as I dare, but the service manual just doesn't tell you how to replace the digitizer and glass only. Checked out youtube where there are many videos with instructions on how to replace the screens and digitizers on lots of different phones as well as the iphone, just nothing on the Blackstone yet.
Any one else found a solution or decent instructions?
Today I disassembled my HD too, found a loose screen wire but nothing else. Even when I attached it properly the screen didn't work.
Has anyone found out how to change the digitizer?
some info
Hello,
I am also have HTC Touch HD, and I am also thinking about replacement of touch screen and housing because of scratches. Here instruction in Russian
http://www.pdacenter.ru/razborka/htc-touch-hd/
step 24 is not shown on the picture, but there is mentioned that in order to replace screen you should push it forward from back side of the screen; also mentioned that screen is fixed with double sided tape (probably it is fixed to the touch screen)
Also, did you try to use any polish to remove minor scratches on the touch screen? HTC Touch HS has resistive screen and probably may be polished (in contrast to capacitive touch screen that has some coating).
All the best
Also, about this problem see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3911326
You guys should be smarter! If you want to warranty exchange it, flash the normal SPL again and flash a stock rom!
hi
i have HTC HD2 and its new device , i set down on the device then i notice a black point comes on the device screen , when i visit the HTC Delare , he told me that i have to change the screen ,
but the device is working 100% and no any damage ,
what can you advice me,
attached the picture of my HTC
dude im no expert but it happened to me once on my nokia and was told an LCD screen (liquid crystal display) may have a very fine crack in it and a bit of liquid may have come out...the only way to find out is when you press that black spot on the screen does it have a rainbow effect?
make sure not to make it worse by pressing it. must be lcd which is damaged from pressure.
There's a few threads on here where others have reported this exact thing happening to them. Some of them fixed it by applying suction to the screen, whilst it simply disappeared for some others.
Do a thorough search - it's on here somewhere.
so what can i do?
what can i do ? should i buy a new LCD? and from where can i bought it?
Hani55 said:
what can i do ? should i buy a new LCD? and from where can i bought it?
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Did the information you gained from searching not help then? I was sure it would as the previous threads discussing this exact issue seemed very helpful and most people ended with the problem resolved.
not yet help
i didnt find the right answer ,
please do help me brothers
thanks
Hani55 said:
hi
i have HTC HD2 and its new device , i set down on the device then i notice a black point comes on the device screen , when i visit the HTC Delare , he told me that i have to change the screen ,
but the device is working 100% and no any damage ,
what can you advice me,
attached the picture of my HTC
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take it back to where you bought it and get a replacement..
Hani55 said:
i didnt find the right answer ,
please do help me brothers
thanks
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Try harder...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5445875
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=617386
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5435632
took me 2 mins to grab those links..
My phone lost the sensitivity whole the screen is reacting as a single unit. Please help me. I have removed the battery for whole night and reinserted in the morning it worked for 5 minutes and then its again failed. Cannot align screen the courser moved to the five locations and again the align screen will come again
sounds like your digitizer has died or is damaged.
did you recently maybe accidently put lots of pressure onto the screen?
does the screen look all oily?
I have LCD problems (((
Hi all........
help me plz...
center of my screen seems like oily.......
and there is too much problems with my screen now.
some times it doesn't work and sometimes it's clicking 3-5 cm behind my touch!!!
I can't calibrate the screen! It will try again after finishing 5 steps.
I removed the battery, I tried to remove the oil by my fingers by massaging the screen!!! but nothing happened!!!!!
I hate this HTC phone, I had a nokia 7710 before and I can go to bathroom and take a fool steam shower without any problem!
I didn't do anything strange to this phone, and it's less that 1 year I'm using this new phone!
help me
shayan, I provide a thread showing all the instructions Missed by the HTC Service manual to replace a Blackstone LCD+Touchscreen.
it is here
Hope you find it helpful.
screen damaged completely
i have reached htc service centre and there they said that screen has damaged and it has to be replaced. There is no oily look at the center of the screen and i havenot used more pressure on it. I think pressure sensor under the screen has gone. Thanks for replying
No problem!
If its within warranty, then yes, get HTC to service it for you, if its out of warranty, you can choose to get whoever you want to service it for you, you can even DIY the repair (if you have the confidence)
Its out of waranty
qwertylesh said:
No problem!
If its within warranty, then yes, get HTC to service it for you, if its out of warranty, you can choose to get whoever you want to service it for you, you can even DIY the repair (if you have the confidence)
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Its dificult to get hd screen from open market in India. So i decided to get it from service centre. I want to sell it and have a diamond-2. Are you thinking daimond2 is better than hd
thanks for replying and your thread for repairing screen is excellent.
I think the HTC Desire or the HTC Touch HD2 are better then the Touch HD, I haven't heard of a Diamond2 yet.
The desire just launched in my country, its beautiful, extremely fast and pretty, but if you go with it, you're stuck with Android OS, so the main consideration is weather you'll use GPS software on your mobile, if not, then the Desire is a very good choice, if so then you'll need to have it on a data plan to utilize google maps as a gps.
thank you for your kind words nagasai
Htc diamond2 is nothing but topaz
qwertylesh said:
I think the HTC Desire or the HTC Touch HD2 are better then the Touch HD, I haven't heard of a Diamond2 yet.
The desire just launched in my country, its beautiful, extremely fast and pretty, but if you go with it, you're stuck with Android OS, so the main consideration is weather you'll use GPS software on your mobile, if not, then the Desire is a very good choice, if so then you'll need to have it on a data plan to utilize google maps as a gps.
thank you for your kind words nagasai
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I am a medico studying in India. There are lots of medical software for windows mobile as android is a new os it has less. So i have to be with the windows mobile. Htc desire is a very good mobile but it is with android and hd2 is very big and its difficult to carry it in my jeans pocket. SO i think htc topaz i.e., diamond2 is a better choice
Tweak to improve screen sensitivity
Tweak your registry settings to improve screen sensitivity. Because most of the custome roms are with low sensitiviry to improve it follow this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=343506&page=2
Yeah, I tweak mine too, I use HD Tweaks, it has options for making the sensitivity good.
Hi all !
SOrry if I have opened a new thread , I have red that this is a common problem anyway basically my touchscreen isn't working welll anymore, sometimes it works sometimes not. I think that the touchscreen connectors on the motherboard got too hot during android usage and the melted. My hd2 is out of warranty and got repared it cost me a lot, is there anyway to open it and restore the connection ?!? I know that there is a tutorial video to disassemble the entire phone !
Also I have noted that if I make some pressure on the physical key the touch cames back working
Android is not the cause... But I suggest you have someone with good knowledge in repairing touch screen phone.
HTC HD2 Miui 1.7.8
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kompheak said:
Android is not the cause... But I suggest you have someone with good knowledge in repairing touch screen phone.
HTC HD2 Miui 1.7.8
[email protected]
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yeah I suppose that the cause is too much hot on the bottom of the phone..
what is this e-mail for ?!?
Ignore the email... It's a signature thing I set up... I need to remove it
HTC HD2 Miui 1.7.8
[email protected]
well I have contacted the HTC UK assistence ( I got my phone on ebay ..) and they said the phone is still on warranty. ANyway they said me that if the found that the failure is caused by me they will ask me to pay etc, do you think that this failure could be considered user damage ?!?
light_n_roses said:
well I have contacted the HTC UK assistence ( I got my phone on ebay ..) and they said the phone is still on warranty. ANyway they said me that if the found that the failure is caused by me they will ask me to pay etc, do you think that this failure could be considered user damage ?!?
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look at the back 2 water indicators, are they white?
Does the phone have dents or look like it's been dropped?
no there aren't any dent either the phone hasn't been into waters, actually I have seen just one white circle sticker under the batter cover and yes it's white..
My concern was about the digitizer because I have pressed preatty hard this morning in order to have touch work ( if I press on the physical key the tocuh start working again...) abyway I have done it just 2 times so I shouldn't have broken it...
Hello, I have a Motorola Defy, that I dropped a few times, so the LCD screen got damaged with blue dots on it, I made a mistake and thought that the problem was on the touch Screen, so I purchased a replacement, installed but, it was damaged, the touch did not respond correctly, I wasn't able to type correctly among other problems.
I got a refund, then ordered a LCD screen replacement, now that I have it here, I install it, and it's broken:crying: I know, bad luck and being a rookie while trying to fix my phone, ok, I put back my old (damaged) LCD screen to use it in the meantime, and the old touch screen, but now, the old touch screen that was supposed to being working fine, it doesn't, it has the same problem as the touch screen that I bought.
Question is: the problem with the touch screen, could be related to the damaged LCD screen? or the motherboard of the phone is damaged? the phone works great, the apps, the games, everything but the touch screen and the LCD screen, but, as I said, I went back to the default touch screen after using the damaged one that I received, and it works worse I don't know what's wrong, please help me out, sorry for the long post
Please post questions in the Q&A section. Moved there.
Put it in the freezer for 1-2 hours
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ppero196 said:
Put it in the freezer for 1-2 hours
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Is this true?
true. fix some minor dead pixel if you put in freezer for one day. but your case... im dont hope much.
Try changing LCD + Capacitive Digitizer. (after trying the freezer trick ofcourse)
Well i will tell my story, which is related to your's as well,
i had a phone with resistive touch screen and it got screwed up, that is it does not respond correctly. So, i took it to the service center and they replaced the digitizer (touch screen) saying that previous one is broken. But, luckily the new one didn't responded to any touches they make.So, they replaced it again with the old one quoting that "your phone can't be repaired". So, i took it home with me.
Later i thought to calibrate the screen but the old one is not responding any more, no matter where i press
Later i calibrate it with the help of a software for windows mobile with the help of a PC. It took me to the calibration screen, from where i calibrated it, and voila, it worked... as good as a new one :victory:
long story short,
i think when you disconnected your digitizer, phones default values/drivers got messed up and are unable to find the new or the old digitizer you connect. I suggest you to go to the service center as these screens can not be calibrated.
Is there NO WAY at all to recalibrate the screen from the phone itself? or using an application? the delicalibration might be the problem....I'd like to fix it myself :/ thanks for the tip, never heard about it before!!
saman0suke1 said:
Is there NO WAY at all to recalibrate the screen from the phone itself? or using an application? the delicalibration might be the problem....I'd like to fix it myself :/ thanks for the tip, never heard about it before!!
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Did you change the LCD and the Digitizer (both of em) again ?
dark_prince said:
Did you change the LCD and the Digitizer (both of em) again ?
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I replaced my original digitizer screen for the one I ordered it, it gave me problems, so I went back to the original one, which was working fine, and now it's not fully responding, that's why I'm assuming is something calibration related, thanks!
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