Well I had my HD2 for about a year and a half. All was well till a few weeks ago when the screen stopped responding after when I held down the power button to make the power down menu pop up in Android. Of course I worked around this and used a shutdown app. So all was again well till today when the screen stopped working completely on wakeup. I couldnt even unlock the screen. Finally after dozens and dozens of wakeups I finally got the screen working again now fearful of touching the physical buttons on the bottom of the screen. From reading it seems like the digitizer is at fault for this and I need to replace it.
So I am wondering what would be more practical, just getting a digitizer or just the whole screen assembly to avoid the problems of regluing the screen to the digitizer? I'm fairly technically versed and I do have a heat gun and tools for this operation but I really do not want to bump into a problem of either getting air bubbles or dust under the glass.
Has anyone ever replaced just the digitizer? If so is it hard to remove and replace and simply not worth the potential saving in money?
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Hi there,
So a few months ago I was just turning on bluetooth on my Wing when all of a sudden the touchscreen stopped working. I thought it was frozen at first but I realized that my buttons were responsive but my taps on the screen weren't
Eventually I ordered a replacement LCD with digitizer. Unforutunately I put it all back together and the screen is still unresponsive. Is there anyway that it could be the fault of a bad cooked rom?
I've tried numerous hard resets. The LCDs are also not exactly cheap at $50 a pop so I dunno if I lucked out on getting a defective one.
-Ken
My advice is to contact HTC
For the past few weeks the touchscreen on my HD2 has been sporadically going haywire. It almost always occured after a hardware button was pressed or if the phone was put into standby. The touchscreen would stop registering any presses as if the digitizer had gone belly up. To get it to start working again, You either had to restart the phone or spend a few moments fiddling with the hardware buttons and tapping the screen.
A few hours ago I took the phone apart to see if I could discover the problem and now it does not work at all.
I have noticed that ever since this problem started sometimes the LCD would not display the correct colors. Almost as if it had Yellow and Blue but no Red. Oddly flexing the phone immediately fixed this problem.
What do you guys think the chances are that it is just the LCD/digitizer that is shot? I would like some reassurance before spending $100 on this part.
FireDemonSiC said:
For the past few weeks the touchscreen on my HD2 has been sporadically going haywire. It almost always occured after a hardware button was pressed or if the phone was put into standby. The touchscreen would stop registering any presses as if the digitizer had gone belly up. To get it to start working again, You either had to restart the phone or spend a few moments fiddling with the hardware buttons and tapping the screen.
A few hours ago I took the phone apart to see if I could discover the problem and now it does not work at all.
I have noticed that ever since this problem started sometimes the LCD would not display the correct colors. Almost as if it had Yellow and Blue but no Red. Oddly flexing the phone immediately fixed this problem.
What do you guys think the chances are that it is just the LCD/digitizer that is shot? I would like some reassurance before spending $100 on this part.
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Sounds like it to me... had this happen to my G1 last year
I have my Android HD2 and I've been using it for over a year now and use it only on android. Yes i understand how to flash roms and it does have clockwork installed. I used the Cyanogen 7 latest rom and flashed it to that only about a month ago and I thought it was doing fine until like a few days ago i tried touching the screen and it did not work? Most of the time the screen is not responsive in the unlock screen but there are times when it will work. Heres the thing, this only occurs when i use the harware buttons along the bottom then the touch screen fails to work on the next multiple attempts but maybe 10 minutes later it will work. Once the phone is unlocked from the touch screen it has no problems. Only when the screen goes off again does it have a problem. I have tried clearing cache/data, flashing various other roms, flashing multiple kernels, even formatting the sd card and starting from scratch. But no luck. Problem continues to reoccur. Can anyone help at all?
It's a problem with the digitizer, i just had to replace my digitizer, power button is right on top of the digitizer ribbon and messes up the ribbon after some time. you have to replace the digitizer, and there's a very good video on youtube about how to do it.
I paid 36.99 w/ free shipping for a digitizer on ebay.
Do you have sweaty palms? or sweaty hair when calling?..
sometimes, when your LCD absorbs you sweat, it temporarily make your digitizer unresponsive, just let it dry and it will be fine again.
but if not, then a digitizer fault.
I'm sorry to tell you from your description.. you too have been victimized by this common problem. I had 2 hd2s that this happened to. It is definitely hardware. I now start to use an app called button savior and only use that end key rarely. You have to replace your digitizer. There is a big thread about this somewhere here.
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Hi,
HISTORY:
I've had my defy screen shattered a while back and sent it to Motorola for repair (they did a terrible job at that). Ever since I got it back I can see small dust particles accumulating inside the screen. Gradually after a couple of months the top right corner became non-responsive and I left it that way for another 4 months until now!
As the warranty period was over, I thought of trying to clean the dust and see if that works. Unfortunately the connector on the touchscreen(digitizer) broke off and it stopped the touch completely.
My Question:
Is it possible that I had damaged something else(can something else be damaged?) that caused the touchscreen to cease functioning? :crying:
I can change the digitizer after buying it from ebay. But I would hate to waste any more money if this doesn't solve the issue. How likely is it that the touch functionality will be restored if I change the digitizer?
LCD is working fine, and I can use the volume rocker and power button perfectly.
P.S. please don't flame me for asking already answered question, I've been through a lot of threads before opening this one.
Hi all
I face of with a litle problem I have from some days a area of screean without touch haw can i repear this is this soft isue. I was traing few roms with the same result
florek235 said:
Hi all
I face of with a litle problem I have from some days a area of screean without touch haw can i repear this is this soft isue. I was traing few roms with the same result
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Next time I recommend you use the search function... This has been discussed several times.
But yeah, you are not alone... This is a common problem or defect on the LG G2 (all variants). A few days ago I got the same problem where just a part of the top of the screen does not respond to touch.
As far as I could tell, the only solution is to replace the whole screen assembly or just the touch screen, but the replacing just the touch screen requires so much delicate and specialized work since the screen and the touchscreen are glued together so I recommend investing on a new screen-touchscreen replacement that will set you back about $80 USD but easier to replace by yourself.
I've been trying to figure what could have caused this on my G2 since I've never dropped it, but there are two possible scenarios for me:
1. A few days ago I was on a call on a very VERY hot and humid day, I was sweating like a pig and when I was on the phone, I noticed the receiver stopped working due to sweat coming into the speaker. I was stupid enough to blow into it trying to clear it, of course it didn't work but once it dried, the speaker worked again.
2. On a few occasions, I have forgotten to remove my phone from by back or front pocket when climbing into my car. I could imagine the phone would flex just a tiny bit and figure that might not be good, even though it was really not that much pressure nor time.
Those are the only two possible scenarios in my case. Other than that I don't see how it could have failed.
Cheers!
Rayanmx