I have a weird problem with my Wildfire's screen after I did an OTA upgrade to Froyo.
First, the top of the screen stopped working. The taskbar wouldn't work and I the top wasn't responding. All of a sudden, after approximately a month or so, it started working again.
It worked fine for a few weeks and then the right side of the screen has a problem. All of a sudden it started automatically hitting the spot on the screen where the letter "P" would appear on the keyboard. When I was trying to type out a message, the letter "P" would get hit on its own over and over again. When the keyboard was not open, it would still happen.
I felt it might be a virus, so I did a hard reset. This still didn't stop. So I switched off my phone and kept it in a desk for 48 hours. When I switched it on again, this problem stopped, but the right side of my phone was not responsive (approximately 4 milimeters of it).
I can see that this is clearly not a hardware problem and has something to do with the firmware/OS. I'm not too sure what to do. I've tried flashing new ROMs on to my phone, but it remains the same way.
Incidently, when I tried flashing "TheNextSense" ROM on to my phone, the phone started hitting the portion of the screen where the "P" key would appear. When I switched back to CM7, it stopped, but the right side was unresponsive.
Is this something to do with the memory? Or is this a known issue with upgrades/certain ROMs?
Any help will be appreciated. This is driving me crazy
why do you think its not a harware problem ?
for me it sounds like it is one. (temperature or short circuit problem)
IANAHRM (I Am Not An HTC Repair Man) but I think the touch screen connector has just slightly worn loose, perhaps due to temperatures. It sits on the right side of the main board (left side of the phone itself). I know the Wildfire can survive quite a motion shock so that shouldn't be it (I hope).
Nandroid backup and restore jobs heat up my phone quite a bit, did this occur on your device as well while you were installing roms? That might explain the change in behaviour.
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IANAHRM (I Am Not An HTC Repair Man) but I think the touch screen connector has just slightly worn loose, perhaps due to temperatures. It sits on the right side of the main board (left side of the phone itself). I know the Wildfire can survive quite a motion shock so that shouldn't be it (I hope).
Nandroid backup and restore jobs heat up my phone quite a bit, did this occur on your device as well while you were installing roms? That might explain the change in behaviour.
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Nope. It's never heated up till now. This happened all of a sudden, and it gets worse with upgrades. It's like, for some reason, the phone isn't able to function properly with any ROM other than the stock ROM. I'm going to try to put back eclair on it today and see whether it works. Will keep you posted.
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why do you think its not a harware problem ?
for me it sounds like it is one. (temperature or short circuit problem)
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Because it doesn't always occur. It kind of gets fixed on its own after a few days. It's like my phone has a ghost in it
I put back the stock Froyo ROM and now the problem is 50% better - much of the portion of the screen that was dead earlier is now responding. But the rest still isn't. Any ideas? :-(
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Hello,
I've had my hd2 for about 6 months now and about a month ago it started randomly crashing. I'd have to take the battery out and reset, but when i'd start about 1 out of ever 4 times it would show the inital launch screen, but the numbers in the bottom left would never come. So i'd have to remove the battery again and reboot.
Then it started happening more frequently. Random restarts, crashes, and the phone didnt like to boot at all most of the time.
Last night, it gets really bad and i am able to get into the phone once. After that it freezes always when you initially power on, you see the boot splash, but no numbers in the bottom left, no moving forward.
AND NOW when i power on, the screen stays black, and it just vibrates and will not stop at all unless i remove battery. In fact, as soon as i pop the battery in, it starts doing this.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Try doing a HARD RESET.
If that does not help it means you have a damaged HD2 motherboard, try contacting T-Mobile or HTC for a replacement.
I'm 100% sure it is a heat problem. I do have the same problem. With my HD2 disassembled I checked that "freezing" the motherboard make my phone boot without a problem... and it worked properly as long as it stayed cool.
I'm trying to replace the motherboard by myself as I do not live within the USA...
Hope it helps.
Same exact problem here, although it happens less often for me. How do we keep the motherboard "cool" so it won't happen? or is this a sign of motherboard going bad soon and it'll be replaced sooner or later??
I think it is a sign of a dying phone... or at least a dying motherboard.
Maybe (just a theory) these are signs of a "cold joint" similar to what happens to the Xbox 360... and the way to fix it is to "reflow" the motherboard... but we need a more technical point of view on this one...
Thanks for the replies. I have tried the hard reset, but it just vibrates with the screen off still, no success in any attempts to do anything. I guess i will have to contact htc since i did not purchase the phone from tmobile.
I did notice before this happened that the phone was getting hot after even a few minutes of use. So i have to assume it is a damaged motherboard or whatever it is inside of my precious hd2 that makes it bring me joy.
Now i am joyless and sad.
Back to the old 2g iphone
*cries*
Im having the same problem too,its not even 3 months yet since i got my phone.can i still have tmo replace my phone?istill need to flash it back to the original shipped ROM.right now ive been flashing it with diff custom roms and still having the reboot issue.
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This started yesterday out of the blue.
When i press the power button to wake up the phone, It wakes to a black screen. The Home,back, menu and search icon light up. I can even slide to unlock. It all works but the screen remands black. Now if i press the power button on/off a few times everything works and the screen will awake.
Once the screen is woke everything runs fines. The only other problem i ever had was the launcher force closing.
Running "Vision_Gingerbread_S_TMOUS_2.13.531.8"
I reflash the rom when this problem first started. I really need to fix this. IDK if it is software or hardware. Has anyone had this problem before? I wasnt planing on buying another phone till income tax time which is about 7-8months from now.
also tried adjusting the brightness, and disabling the animations.
I had the same problem on Vision roms. Now I'm on CM stable, and get it once in a blue moon.
Yea i flashed that rom along with some others. I am thinking its hardware problem.
I took the phone apart and the ribbon cable that runs from the phone to the screen casing has a little dot on it( a rip in the insulation). Im guessing something in my pocketed one day kinda cut into it or just wear and tear.
Im going to try to find that cable and replace it and see if it fixes my problem.
For now i just put a little tape on it to stop the hole from getting bigger. and shorting out with the metal casing.
Anyone know where to start looking for this cable
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I found screens and keyboard stuff but havent found this cable yet
your black screen problem is a known issue for your phonehaving trouble catching up (speed wise) and it does that until you turn the screen on and off again. I suggest upping your minimum clock speed to something like 475mhz. apart from that if you're using something like Virtuous 2.0, then the OC daemon will eliminate that issue. I haven't seen the issue on my phone for the past few months after i switched to using the OC daemon provided by rmk and the virtuous team.
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your black screen problem is a known issue for your phonehaving trouble catching up (speed wise) and it does that until you turn the screen on and off again. I suggest upping your minimum clock speed to something like 475mhz. apart from that if you're using something like Virtuous 2.0, then the OC daemon will eliminate that issue. I haven't seen the issue on my phone for the past few months after i switched to using the OC daemon provided by rmk and the virtuous team.
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That doesnt explaine y it just started doimg this tho. I unhooked the ribbon and plugwd it back. Also havnet openwd the the phone since and all has been good. So I bwlieve its just hardware. Maybe the cable came lose.
unless you screwed something up hardware wise, it is the minimum speed trying to catch up with the turn on and failing.
I had this problem before and switching to the OC daemon solved it. It's a known fact.
those ribbons usually come with the screen, so search ebay for the screen component, you'll have better luck there.
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unless you screwed something up hardware wise, it is the minimum speed trying to catch up with the turn on and failing.
I had this problem before and switching to the OC daemon solved it. It's a known fact.
those ribbons usually come with the screen, so search ebay for the screen component, you'll have better luck there.
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Son and wife have knocked it off the desk I put it. Fallen about 2ft onto the carpet. So im welling to bet the cable was just lose. Will give it a week and ser if the problem comes back. Thanx for the help.
It also did the blank screen doing boot up and recovery which has to be hardware since the os hasnt booted yet.
sure. good luck with it then.
I think the minimum clock speed is a good theory. I have mine on 245MHz, will make it higher and see if it helps. Now that I think about it I started having the problem since rooting and playing with SetCPU.
Yep, having it higher there is an increase in how long it takes for the screen to turn on after pressing the button (Yes, I do see in milliseconds ) Now i'm on 768 min and 1516 max.
I had a trackpad wake to black screen on CM 7.1RC1. Upgraded to the latest nightly and it's fine
Well so far problem seems to be gone since I took the phone apart. I didnt change any settimgs or anything.
My HD2 appears to have some big time screen problems, so i wonder if anyone has any sugestions.
Background
It never really lived in a case and the inevitable drops happened. That ended in about November when one drop too many caused the screen to crack. I replaced the digitiser and lcd screen which got it all working again happily, though beecause of the amount of fiddly stuff involved the chassis never truly fit perfectly, the screen protruded ever so slightly above the edge of the case, etc.
Fast forward to last weekend when for no apparent reason (i hadnt dropped it or anything) it started to behave erratically, not registering screen taps and then suddenly doing many things at one, making it almost impossible to send text messages and use effectively. My thought was that maybe it was losing calibration so tried aligning the screen but nothing would really happen.
Furhtermore it seemed like the bottom section of the screen had almost no responsiveness at all.
I therefore thought it might have something to do with the connections inside the machine, so i decided to take it all apart and check all the connections were sturdy. Thats when the real problems started because when i put it back together and turned it on, i had a horrible display that makes it next to useless.
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I actually just fired it up to check that it was sill the case and it seems slightly worse than this picture!
So the questions. Firstly, does anyone know what might be the problem here. Is it likely to be the connection between the processor and the lcd, or soemthing more of a problem? How easy is it likely to be to sort it? A case of a completely new screen needed? Or is it likely to be something fairly simple? And would those problems with teh LCD screen be a similar cause of the calibration problems (i thought the digitiser might not be working properly, hence the original decision to take it to pieces!)
Hope someone can help. Happily my upgrade was due last friday, buit it would be nice to have a working phone for spare use etc.
Steve
It seems to me a bad LCD(100%) and probably a bad touchscreen!
As i suspected. Has anyone else with a replacement digitiser/lcd had any similar problems?
Greetings dear people of this forum!
Few days ago my phone's display started behaving in a very weird way (could be a minor drop down).
When I press the power button to draw the pattern, the whole screen is full of disturbed horizontal lines (pic_1).
If I apply some pressure on the screen's bottom right corner (pic_1 - red dot) it gets back to normal and doesn't even flickering at all (pic_2).
Howerver as soon as the display goes off because of the turn off time, too close to the face when making a call or just switch it off with the power botton, the problem reaccures.
I am very sure it is hardware related, because on the screenshots there is nothing like that and it is persist in the boot sequence. In my opinion this is some kind of faulty connection, I have already take the phone apart to catch any loose connector, but nothing changed after that.
I feel like I have to buy a new screen, but I hope I can repair it somehow, because it can works very well after my acupuncture therapy.
I have bought the phone second-hand, and I know there was a screen replacement, so its not the original one.
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Do you guys have any suggestion?
Thank You in advance!
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Greetings dear people of this forum!
Few days ago my phone's display started behaving in a very weird way (could be a minor drop down).
When I press the power button to draw the pattern, the whole screen is full of disturbed horizontal lines (pic_1).
If I apply some pressure on the screen's bottom right corner (pic_1 - red dot) it gets back to normal and doesn't even flickering at all (pic_2).
Howerver as soon as the display goes off because of the turn off time, too close to the face when making a call or just switch it off with the power botton, the problem reaccures.
I am very sure it is hardware related, because on the screenshots there is nothing like that and it is persist in the boot sequence. In my opinion this is some kind of faulty connection, I have already take the phone apart to catch any loose connector, but nothing changed after that.
I feel like I have to buy a new screen, but I hope I can repair it somehow, because it can works very well after my acupuncture therapy.
I have bought the phone second-hand, and I know there was a screen replacement, so its not the original one.
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Do you guys have any suggestion?
Thank You in advance!
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Could also be any gaps or something that can cause the lines(display gets pressure from wrong installation).
2 options basically. Loose connector or faulty LCD.
I don't think it's software related.
If you can give it back, then you should. If not, then you can either try to fix it by yourself by replacing the LCD assembly (with the touch digitiser).
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2 options basically. Loose connector or faulty LCD.
I don't think it's software related.
If you can give it back, then you should. If not, then you can either try to fix it by yourself by replacing the LCD assembly (with the touch digitiser).
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Yes, You were right, as I thought too. The reason behind the problem was the LCD.
I have replaced it and now it works like a charm.
Thanks the response!
I just got my poco m3 from Aliexpress and noticed that frequently the touch fail on the sides of the screen. Like when I hit the back arrow on the top left or the "?123" button in the gboard. It feels laggy and if i'm typping fast then hit the ?123 button usually dont recognize the touch and I have to hit 2 or 3 times. Can it be the glass film that's reducing the touchscreen sensibility ? I'm afraid of remove it and have to return the phone later without the glass.
Might be faulty or just lagging. The first few version of the rom was super slow
Mine doesn't have this problem, and I am using a glass screen protector.
Edit: I am using Google Zhuyin Input, I just tried to type really fast in it, and pressed "?123" after typing fast, it only went to the numpad when I pressed it the second time, so I think this should be normal. But the back arrow on the top left corner always works on my phone, I tested this with Google Play.
I noticed that when i'm typing with the phone on horizontal this doesn't happen, its weird. I think some parts of the screen are not working well. I'm gonna have to return the phone.
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I noticed that when i'm typing with the phone on horizontal this doesn't happen, its weird. I think some parts of the screen are not working well. I'm gonna have to return the phone.
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are you from brazil?
i have the same issue on the sides of screen looks like the touch seems low on sensitivity
the left side of the touchscreen cannot be touched. And I think it is not a software issue
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Guys, I think this has to do with a setting "Prevent accidental touch on the edges" or similar i saw earlier but now I can not find it anymore in the Settings app
My POCO M3 also has this issue, and I notice there are two area (red box in picture below) exist this problem.
If you press "q", "a", then press "?123" in fast speed, the "?123" button will not respond.
If you press "p", "l", then press "↲" in fast speed, the "↲" button will not respond either.
hi, i am also having this issue and was wondering if this is any software issue or hardware issue.
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are you from brazil?
i have the same issue on the sides of screen looks like the touch seems low on sensitivity
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Yes, I am.
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hi, i am also having this issue and was wondering if this is any software issue or hardware issue.
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Apparently its a common hardware issue in the screen. If I type with the phone in horizontal the issue doesn't occurs. I just got used to it, didn't want to replace the phone cus it takes a long time to the phone to get at China and return to me cus the post service in my contry is horrible.
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Yes, I am.
Apparently its a common hardware issue in the screen. If I type with the phone in horizontal the issue doesn't occurs. I just got used to it, didn't want to replace the phone cus it takes a long time to the phone to get at China and return to me cus the post service in my contry is horrible.
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yes, i think this is a common problem among not poco but whole xiaomi devices as per this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/haf1f9
It's interesting that so few people report about this issue. I gave the phone to my gf and she didn't realize any problems, although the phone had shown the same issue.
Either most people simply don't recognize it as a problem, think they are hitting the wrong button, or the problem is a rare issue on certain phones.
I took a video showing the issue on my Poco M3. I have contacted the support and send them the video, too, but only got the standard reply (update software, use safe mode, blahblah).
Any update can solve this problem? Please brother tell me. i am also suffering this problem
I also have the same problem, unfortunately I broke the screen so the service center will probably reject my case