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Plug HDMI cable in - screen goes black & phone freezes. Why? A known issue?

Is this a defect? Do I need to return the phone? I'm working with all the latest OTA updates.
I've tried to force 720p and 480p through settings, and tried auto-detect.
If I have it on the gallery app in a slideshow and plug it in, I see the "HDMI" label in the status bar before it goes black.
Strange thing is that the buttons still light up and go off with the HDMI cable plugged in if I hit the power button. But I can't use the power button to turn it back off. I have to do a battery pull.
PITA! HDMI was one of the reasons I bought this dang phone?
Can anyone out there think of any reason why this might be happening?
Thanks for any help.

You're not the only one. My cable is collecting dust somewhere for the past month. Maybe cyan will fix it? This is my first htc and I'm starting to think I shouldn't hold my breath for the company to fix it. As time progresses, I'm liking this phone less. I don't know if all htc phones are like this that it seems like it was rushed to market too soon without fixing the glaring bugs with it.
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I share some of your sentiment, but not all of it. I still love this phone. But HDMI was one of their big, giant marketing points that got me to buy it. A phone with an HDMI out! That's crazy! Also, when I think of what I can do with it it's pretty cool.
But for it not to work at all? Not one bit? That is just crazy.
My theory is that they didn't realize what kind of copyright hell they were unleashing upon themselves when they put it on there, and so they intentionally broke it. If they ever release some kind of source code maybe one of these chefs can make it work.

Can you try another cable that is known to work? I've been messing around the HDMI output the past week since I got my cable (Molex #687860003, from eBay), and I think the implementation is pretty fault-tolerant. I've been plugging and un-plugging it repeatedly and never had a lockup, with and without the Gallery/Video application active. Blu-Ray rips at 1280x720p look and sound amazing for such a small device. There was some discussion on another forum about a bad run of Amzer cables (that caused lockups), so maybe it's worth borrowing someone else's cable and giving it another go before turning in the phone for replacement. Good luck.

I use it everyday without a problem (Youtube).

rasterX said:
Can you try another cable that is known to work? I've been messing around the HDMI output the past week since I got my cable (Molex #687860003, from eBay), and I think the implementation is pretty fault-tolerant. I've been plugging and un-plugging it repeatedly and never had a lockup, with and without the Gallery/Video application active. Blu-Ray rips at 1280x720p look and sound amazing for such a small device. There was some discussion on another forum about a bad run of Amzer cables (that caused lockups), so maybe it's worth borrowing someone else's cable and giving it another go before turning in the phone for replacement. Good luck.
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Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I don't have another accessible. But you are correct in that I should try it with another cable (and probably on another TV as well).
I went ahead and bought this one. It looks legit, plus it's long. I'll test it again when it arrives. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...40086&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_3062wt_1137

ive been using mine since day one without a problem. i bought the phone and cable from sprint on launch day.

The problem is with the old fps fix kernels. now they support hdmi out too. htc has the most lazy ass devs ever if they capped the fps cuz of hdmi... lmao

gmelchert said:
The problem is with the old fps fix kernels. now they support hdmi out too. htc has the most lazy ass devs ever if they capped the fps cuz of hdmi... lmao
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Wait! Come back!
By "old" fps fix, which do you mean? I'm using the netarchy-toastmod 3.7.2.a kernel, which supposedly had hdmi fixed. (I'm going to update to the latest now, I hadn't noticed there was another.)
Should I be using a different kernel?

Use version c.
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Ok Mr Momoman. I will try when I get home.

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By "old" fps fix, which do you mean? I'm using the netarchy-toastmod 3.7.2.a kernel, which supposedly had hdmi fixed. (I'm going to update to the latest now, I hadn't noticed there was another.)
Should I be using a different kernel?
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thats odd... It worked fine on the 3.7.2b that i was using... hmm yeah try the upgrade

Yeah the release notes say that HDMI is working on all 2.7.x releases. Who knows. I'll try at home and report.

[Solved] Weird Lines During Boot Up

I recently noticed something weird on my Galaxy S. I should point out I am running Darky's Rom (9.5).
Everytime I start (or restart) the phone some weird lines come up for a second or so on the top of the screen while the Galaxy S logo is displayed. I have uploaded a quick video to youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGbpU6s_38)
I have since reflashed the phone and the lines still persist.
This problem occured after my phone randomly crashed and I had to perform a factory wipe.
Other than the lines during start up, I have had no issues since they came up 2 days ago. No further crashes, the lines don't display anywhere else, nothing.
My question:
Should I be worried and could this possibly be a hardware fault? I am sure its not the screen as the lines only pop up quickly during boot up. I fear if it could be cpu, graphics or ram related.
Any opinion or advice welcome!
Is anyone else experiencing this or has experienced it?

I have the same problem with darkys rom 9.5 :S
I dont think it is bad for your phone...
I have this almost a month and no other problems at all
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this issue is kernel related, and i bet almost everyone with a custom ROM would of experienced it.
as mentioned above, it is no problem, it wont cause damage. its just one of them annoying niggles what make you think ' **** my phone.... its dying' but its not.
when a newer update for the kernel comes out the issue will most likely go away.

Thanks for the replies! Eases my fears. I guess I just got a fright because it happened (or at least I only noticed it) after the phone randomly crashed

you just assumed that was the culprit.
mine happened 3 weeks after flashing a ROM i just assumed thats what caused it because that was the last thing i did.
turned out to be nothing and now i can sleep again

it is a little 'glitch' with some kernels. don't worry, doesn't harm the phone
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god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/

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god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/
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I have installed the new kernel and it worked
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capacitive home button self activates

I've recently bought a used Nexus S i9020. I noticed that very rarely and randomly, the the capacitive home button light goes off on its own and in fact it is activated as if pressed by hand. I did a little research and found that capacitive buttons (search, back, home) activating on their own is a common problem with Nexus S. On google forums a Google employee even said this was a known software issue and will be fixed in an OTA soon. This post was from almost 1 year ago and we are already on 4.0.3 ICS so I thought I should post again and ask if anyone had the same experience and anyone could find a fix. Any help much appreciated.

I had the search button problem and I fixed it by flashing latest radio for my i9020a. You could try flashing another radio for your device.

Oogway13 said:
I had the search button problem and I fixed it by flashing latest radio for my i9020a. You could try flashing another radio for your device.
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can I keep the automatic OTAs coming while flashing another radio, or will it break them? sorry I am unsure about this. The reason I bought a nexus is to have the OTAs.

You won't have any problems with OTAs since this only modifies the radio baseband. You will still run on stock (but to flash new radio you do have to root and install CWM).

And you won't have any problems with ota's since Google is very slow zing
Jk
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Anyone know where I can find information on best radios?
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Oogway13 said:
I had the search button problem and I fixed it by flashing latest radio for my i9020a. You could try flashing another radio for your device.
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I will have to check this out. I thought the buttons needed to be replaced.

donnieace said:
I will have to check this out. I thought the buttons needed to be replaced.
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What's the latest radio? Kf1 (new version)?
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Imppy said:
What's the latest radio? Kf1 (new version)?
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That is the radio I have on my I9020T and I'm having this problem. Will see if KB3 works (Have had better reception with KB3 but decided to go back to stock GB and so it was switched to KF1).

So I updated to 4.0.4 to see if this problem still occurred( I manually installed when I saw it on xda). Everything seemed fine until this morning when I plugged into the headphone jack. I had enough of this problem and decided to open my phone.
When I arrived home, I pulled out the replacement part that I ordered from eBay, and went to work. Everything seems to work really smooth. The new headphone jack is function as normal.
I just felt like I should share a potential solution to this annoying problem.
I'll later update the status of my new capacitive buttons, along with the headphone jack.
And yes, I was a bit nervous when doing this. I accidentally broke the small power button off while handling the board. It stuck back together by itself and works just fine. This will need a better fix. The thought of soldering comes to mind. But that's another job for later.
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donnieace said:
So I updated to 4.0.4 to see if this problem still occurred( I manually installed when I saw it on xda). Everything seemed fine until this morning when I plugged into the headphone jack. I had enough of this problem and decided to open my phone.
When I arrived home, I pulled out the replacement part that I ordered from eBay, and went to work. Everything seems to work really smooth. The new headphone jack is function as normal.
I just felt like I should share a potential solution to this annoying problem.
I'll later update the status of my new capacitive buttons, along with the headphone jack.
And yes, I was a bit nervous when doing this. I accidentally broke the small power button off while handling the board. It stuck back together by itself and works just fine. This will need a better fix. The thought of soldering comes to mind. But that's another job for later.
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hey donnieace, any updates? How's that new headphone jack working for you?
I noticed that when I unplug my headphones while the screen is on the home button acts like it has been pressed/held down. As a result the recent apps are displayed. The only way to fix this is to turn the screen off then on again. I was wondering if swapping out the headphone jack fixed this because I might give this a try.

[Q] A500 Lag During Charging

Hello all, I have 1 issue with my A500. Only during charger plug in, my tab become super lag. This problem started when I doing overclock using flexreaper extreme.
Tried to flash new kernel from eztery, upgrade bootloader to v8, and flash lightspeed ics rom. None of these works as I still have this problem. Even on recovery screen, my tab is not responsive when charger plugged in.
I don't know what caused this. Is anyone having the same problem? Please help.

im on the same but no probs while charging, maybe titanium backup,. nandroid and wipe all and re-install flexreaper

actually i've tried that already. Real format and wipe all and flash different rom and kernel. Strangely it just heppen while charging. Do you think this is hardware problem?

kazai said:
actually i've tried that already. Real format and wipe all and flash different rom and kernel. Strangely it just heppen while charging. Do you think this is hardware problem?
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i think it must be as ive never read anything about this anywhere before did it do this when you was stock?

I never have this when on stock. Even after on flexreaper for few months also no problem. This only happen after upgrade to flexreaper extreme with OC. Weird.

have you clocked it back to 1ghz? might help you out? im not really sure dud srry

Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...

bouncer665 said:
Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...
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def take it back and get a replacement that's a hardware flaw another member posted about that then eventually his tab died and wouldnt charge up, if i was you matey i would take it back asap to show them the whining sound so they cannot say you did something to break it, plus you'll have that noted down incase they dont do anything and it then does break.

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Does your tablet have a loud screen whine while it charges? Mine has been doing that for sometime now...
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Mine have no sound while charging. It charge the battery as usual. Only the tab become less responsive and typing using on-screen keyboard is a headache.
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have you clocked it back to 1ghz? might help you out? im not really sure dud srry
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Tried that already, still have problem. I can minimize the problem by increasing the minimum frequency to 600+MHz.

The whine could also be capacitors (if any) on the logic board that are about to burst or something. Or something is overloaded and getting stressed out.

I don't believe its lag. The switching power supply causes some touch screens (such as mine) to become less sensitive requiring much harder finger presses
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blackthund3r said:
I don't believe its lag. The switching power supply causes some touch screens (such as mine) to become less sensitive requiring much harder finger presses
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Bingo. You are right. I just realize that. It is actually less sensitive. Do you have any idea how to solve it?

kazai said:
Hello all, I have 1 issue with my A500. Only during charger plug in, my tab become super lag. This problem started when I doing overclock using flexreaper extreme.
Tried to flash new kernel from eztery, upgrade bootloader to v8, and flash lightspeed ics rom. None of these works as I still have this problem. Even on recovery screen, my tab is not responsive when charger plugged in.
I don't know what caused this. Is anyone having the same problem? Please help.
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If it worked on other versions, just flash back to what worked before or back to ota for real proof. You said it worked till you changed software, so change back and prove it's not hardware.

kazai said:
Bingo. You are right. I just realize that. It is actually less sensitive. Do you have any idea how to solve it?
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I found some weird results by making a circuit. Try touching the tab with one finger and a laptop track pad with another. There's a tingle. I think it's a design defect internally - perhaps the screen assembly is touching something it shouldn't be. So in terms of a solution, I don't believe there is one, unless there's a way to earth the screen?
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I have once dissemble the back cover. I'm not sure whether this is where the problem started. But I don't have this problem initially. Something is wrong with my device, just don't know where's the problem come from. I might touch something causing short circuit or something.
Tried flashing the stock ROM and still no luck. I don't think its a software issue.

kazai said:
I have once dissemble the back cover. I'm not sure whether this is where the problem started. But I don't have this problem initially. Something is wrong with my device, just don't know where's the problem come from. I might touch something causing short circuit or something.
Tried flashing the stock ROM and still no luck. I don't think its a software issue.
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My tablet hasn't been opened and it still has this problem but not always. It hasn't done it recently.
I'm sure it's not a software thing but for the record I'm on Thor's ROM
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Today I noticed something. I do have this problem when charging at my office. Looks like this issue only happen at certain wall plug. It happen at my house but not my office. Could be something with grounding.
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kazai said:
Today I noticed something. I do have this problem when charging at my office. Looks like this issue only happen at certain wall plug. It happen at my house but not my office. Could be something with grounding.
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Perhaps it is to do with the consistency of the power supply. My house is pretty old so I suppose there would be more voltage variation. When I get home I'll try and find a spare surge protector and see if it stops the issues. The actual existence of the issues is pretty sporadical though. There is no clear answer to this.
I do think you're onto something though

Screen going out?

Turned it on this morning and this is what the screen looks like now. I assume my screen is going out. Would I be correct? I tried turning the unit off then back on but it didn't fix anything.
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Apparently the screen shot doesn't show what I see so here's a picture from my phone.
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This is certainly hardware related. It could be damaged or not properly connected LCD ribbon cable.

Before I start thinking about hardware issues, I would start looking at software issues.
I base this on the screenshot issue to begin with.
Quite honestly, I would wipe and format that puppy. Then flash a somewhat stock rom.
Hell, I would wipe and format several times,
Also, some info on what rom you have now would be helpful. Bootloader version would be nice.
Looks like you run an aftermarket launcher,,
MD

I was thinking of trying a reset. Guess I'll try that first.
Also, I'm running non-rooted with stock launcher.
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Moscow Desire said:
Before I start thinking about hardware issues, I would start looking at software issues.
I base this on the screenshot issue to begin with.
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There is a slight possibility that this could be a software issue, but the screenshot seems to be ok, so at least screenshot app is getting correct data.
@guitarman584 how the screen looks when you boot up the tab? Does the Acer logo in bootloader looks ok or is it mixed up together?

It does the same thing on the Acer and Android boot up screens.

Then there's no way it's a software issue. You can try opening it and checking if the LCD cable is properly connected to the motherboard but can void your warranty. You can also damage it more if you're not skilled enough.
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Well this sucks. The warranty ended on 7/12/12. The timing couldn't be worse. Guess it won't hurt anything to open it up and check the connections.

Some user just posted a link to a500 teardown in the other thread.
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/...16&tag=thumbnail-view-selector;get-photo-roto
Hope this helps.

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Well this sucks. The warranty ended on 7/12/12. The timing couldn't be worse. Guess it won't hurt anything to open it up and check the connections.
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If you paid with plastic you should look and see if the card has a warranty bonus. I am having crazy issues with 3d, so it was a drag when I checked my warranty @ Acer. Then I remembered that the card I used added an extra year. So thankfully, while I haven't sent it back yet, I know I have plenty of time to goof with it.

I've never heard of that. I used my ATM card, not a credit card so it doesn't seem like I would have it on a normal checking account card.

I just noticed something that doesn't make sense. When I press and hold the bookmarks widget as shown in the 2nd post, the issue goes away until I let go. I did a hardware and software reset but this didn't help. Also when I go to slide to another screen, the issue goes away. I'll try and get video of it so you can see exactly what it does.

Here's the video of what I was talking about yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVIMbYFRis

I just noticed that while on the lock screen, everything is fine. It's only when viewing any of the 5 screens that the issue shows itself.
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You made the video private. It cannot be played.

Weird, must have been a default setting. Try it again. This time it is unlisted but should work since the link was shared.
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Well they finally accepted to take it in for repair under warranty, even though I told them the date I purchased it and it was passed 1 year. I hope I get it back soon. It sucks being without it.