Just like rwgast wrote in the Hardware thread on Building ARM PC from old qualcom boards:
Sometimes good ideas come from bad situations.
I had a PMID701i which came to a crashing demise recently.
Dropped onto a ceramic tile floor, the touchscreen cracked a hundred ways from Sunday and is
now totally unresponsive. So I've got a project-tab now.
The PMID701i supports usb hosting, and I've got a usb2go key that I made so I can plug mouse/keyboard into it.
If I could get some kind of decent screen replacement I could have a nice little experiment box to toy with.
Looking for your stories of success / failure...
Is it worth it to try and replace the lcd screen? Any hints on where I can get such a replacement part?
Did anyone have good luck hooking up a tab (of any kind) to another display?
What about hooking the board into another type of display, like an lcd screen or something?
I was out to the local compu-franchises today and they just don't sell/replace tab screens at all.
If anybody knows some good hardware/parts websites, I'd appreciate a note or reply.
btw, I know it's a cheap tab that's why I got one. It's good for learning with. Now I'm waiting for a Tegra4 device.
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I recently lost my stylus, at a park I think. I put the pen in my pocket instead of putting it back in my phone. That was a dumb mistake
Does anyone have a suggestion on where to buy a replacement stylus from?
Seems the price can range from 5 for $8($1.60 per Stylus) to 3 for $20($6.70 per Stylus). Is there any advantage to buying the more expensive ones or are the cheap ones just as good?
I couldn't find a thread that addressed this issue, if I missed it a re-direct would be appreciated
I've bought my replacements for my tilt at eforcity
http://www.eforcity.com/metal-stylu...-ii-chtc4550st02.html?int=efsechtxtrigos-item
they do a lot of business on ebay and carry a whole range of other stuff too. They also give you a $5 coupon for your next purchase for giving a review on reseller ratings
but there are many other sellers out there, i've seen no difference in the quality of the stylus, though I did have problems with a Nintendo DS stylus I bought from a Chinese vendor once. but then again 90% of this kind of stuff comes from china.
I am also in need of a replacement stylus, i lost my original one, the replacement i purchased seems to have a rougher tip than the original, i'm afraid it will scratch the screen.
I've seen them before in a Best Buy store, look around the phone accessories, or, if all else fails, ask someone.
Thanks for the replies.
I ordered some off ebay. 3 for $7. Seem decent enough. Weight a little more than the originals, which I think is a good thing.
All I have to do is hope the pens don't explode now
Looks Like a Good Buy, the only thing you might have to worry about is 1) the ink leaks out into the phone( i don't think the kaiser battery would generate enough heat), 2) losing the cap for the pen since it is the snap of type, can remember where i got mine from , it actually screws off first time i ever tried to use the pen side(lol). just mentioned eforcity since i bought all my cases and stuff from them, guess i didn't buy my stylus from them since they have the same type with the snap off. they sell some strange stuff at notebook.egde, i might pick up the 15 pc screwdriver set for 4.99, gotta replace the buttons on my tilt.
Me too. lost 2 stylus and now after using new finger friendly ROM since few months I dont feel need of stylus.
Unlosable stylus
Instead of getting a "stick" stylus, why not get a object that acts like a stylus? sounds like a funny riddle, but when you own one, the stick styluses do seem funny.
look at the link provided
http://triforce.se/
Have a look on marketplace
some users are selling parts
zyphuris55 said:
Instead of getting a "stick" stylus, why not get a object that acts like a stylus? sounds like a funny riddle, but when you own one, the stick styluses do seem funny.
look at the link provided
http://triforce.se/
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Cool, thanks for the link!
Hi All
My wife's recently got a Hero but she's found a problem with her long nails making typing difficult (capacitive screens don't work with fingernails!)
I've bought a couple of different types of iPhone stylus' but, though they do work, you have to really press quite [scarily] hard to make them register.
Can anyone recommend a stylus that works smoothly and without too much pressure?
Thanks!
The Pogo ones seem to be the most common iPhone ones, have you tried one of them?
Not yet - will seek one out. Thanks!
Did a quick search on Ebay - Item number: 390096569342 free postage too
Anybody have any joy resolving this?
Not yet. I was going to try a Pogo stylus but then found a review that suggests that it may be no different than the other stylus' I've bought. I can actually believe this because I've now managed to test the stylus' I've bought on an actual iPhone and they work far, far better than on the Hero
...not sure where to go from here.
It seems that HTC has lodged a stylus patent specifically for capacitive screens
http://htcpedia.com/news/htc-patents-stylus-for-capacitive-touch-screene.html
Thanks for the update. there has to be a lo-tech fix for this though. I'm going to have a think & a Google search & I'll let you know what I turn up
I found this but I'm not sure I like the idea of metal on glass
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/06/diy_iphone_stylus.html
Update: Metal actually works on the screen!
Update: got this now http://www.flickr.com/photos/antisynoptique/3225070344/in/photostream/ my mind is thinking hard. JTHM what do the ends of your stylus' look like?
There's no helping some people.
Have you tried this?
+1 lol
topjolly
You'll be sorry when I make my own lo-tech stylus! I'll show you.
I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!
Sorry,
Sometimes I get a bit carried away, I just think that there is a better way & telling my better half to trim her nails (although it is a good idea) wont really fly
I always wait till my Japanese friends did something wrong and then ask them for Yubitsume. Works like a real finger
i was going to post a picture of a chopped off finger to be a smartass so i did a google image search...
now im mentally scarred for life :/
The best stylus I have ever used is the papermate flexgrip elite M. They come in different colors and double as a pen which is what they really are. I recommend highly. I change color with the outfit I'm wearing. I'm in IT Networking so I always keep one in my shirt pocket. My job gives them out. Once you start using them you wont be able to go back to a regular stylus. I can't. You want to see it with the cap on the pen side, not the clip side. I use the small stylus side.
So, if your 2 year old is like mine, he's quite efficient at shattering your phone's screen. SO, I went online and found a replacement screen and set sbout installing it myself. I make no claim at any sort of electrical know-how... Damn it Jim, I'm a med student not an electrician. But I do enjoy my gadgets. Anyway, I went online and found some you-tube videos and successfully changed out the screen! Woo-Hoo! I used a hybrid of the two videos as one of them seemed a little too, much but it had a good rebuild sequence.
The first video has a good description of how to remove the screen (I didn't use the hair dryier and it worked just fine), and the second shows how to put it back. The second video should also be good to show how to replace other thinsg (camera, etc.).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTPf8QyAVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKhdz_Xa-Co
I hope this helps people out there make their own replacements a success!
May I ask how much did it cost you and how long did it took? Did you have to buy any special tools?
It required a small electronics set of screw drivers (phillips) and it came with a plastic pry tool that I used for everytyhing except taking the screws out. It also comes with a tiny star drive screwdriver that I held onto but didn't use. I purchased it onlie from someone that I thought was based in Cali, but it turns out that he's in China. So it took 2 to 3 weeks to get it to me. I paid 115 for it, but if this happens again (dear lord please no) I'll pay a little more for someone that I know is in the states. There's a discussion in the accessories forum that lists some sites that have replacement screens.
This past weekend I had to go through horrifying experience having to deal my nexus 7's screen cracking. Long story short, my girlfriend, younger brother and I were hanging out in my room, I had left my nexus 7 on the left side of my bed and got up to get something in my room, mean while, my obvious younger brother decided it would be a good idea to sit exactly where I had left my nexus 7...if only he had stayed in the chair that was in my room. Well, my nexus 7 happened to be facing front side up and when he sat on my beautiful tablet, the screen cracked... the 50 dollars Gumdrop Drop Tech Series Case I had invested in proved to be no match to his rear end.
I sat there quite silent for a couple minutes, no words to say, it was just as time itself had paused to morn for my loss. Well anyhow, I ordered a brand spanking new 32GB nexus 7 last night and I'm expecting it to arrive tomorrow . I was fiddling around with my nexus 7 and I managed to enable "show touches" in the developer options by attaching a mouse to my device. I noticed that top left corner of the screen gave touch feed back.
My question is why the small portion of the touch screen responds to touch when the majority of the screen doesn't, this anomaly (from reading various forum posts, the nexus 7 screen isn't suppose to respond to touch once the screen is cracked) leaves me pondering if there was something I could do to make the other portion of the screen to work. I was originally looking into screen replacement options, but from what I read and saw first hand, it's better to buy a whole new unit (like I had mentioned I had done in the earlier text) than to purchase a brand new digitizer. The other option would be to find a bricked nexus 7 on the internet and salvage the screen, and trying to find a low priced bricked nexus 7 on the internet is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
Now, I'm a college student (majoring in Computer Networking System Administrations ) and blew 3/4 of my savings for a new unit (I'm poor!). If there is no financially feasible method for replacing the screen enabling being able sell the device for higher price, how much do you folks think I could sell it for? Keep in mind, my cracked nexus 7 is 16GB model and is unlocked (rooted) and is in pretty the good shape despite the cracked screen, the actual display has not been damaged, it's just touch digitizer that is not working properly.
Thanks for reading my lengthy post/ramble
So I take it your brother who broke it won't be compensating you for breaking your tablet? I would be pissed, he should at least pay for some of the cost of the replacement.
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So I take it your brother who broke it won't be compensating you for breaking your tablet? I would be pissed, he should at least pay for some of the cost of the replacement.
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Well he's actually going compensate me with 50 bucks so that's nice.
Hi, I have exactly the same problem and had the same idea. If i can calibrate the digitizer to exactly 50% of the original dimensions I could use the working area of the screen to operate the device. Did you find a way to do this?
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Well he's actually going compensate me with 50 bucks so that's nice.
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no offence intended but anyone who breaks my tablet, family or not would be compensating me 100% plus a srry beer thrown in.
So long story short, my friend dropped my phone and cracked the screen and made it so that it won't respond to touch inputs. I have been controlling it with adb and MyMobiler for a couple days now. Thankfully he is paying for a new one since Google won't accept it since it's screen was cracked, and if I send it off to LG....
In a day or two, I'll have two Nexus 4's. Just wondering what I can do with the broken one. Any projects or DIY you guys might have in mind.
Buy a slim port and use a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard and turn it into the ultimate mini PC. A bit like the rk3066 devices.
Install fedora too...
Or sell the board for good money... Etc etc
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hmmmm how about if you buy an hdmi adapter and connect it to your tv. then you place there your movies and stuff and it works like a video station for tv
or you can simply try to sell it cheap on ebay or something like that and give the money to your friend so that he spends less
if your friend is paying for a new one , i guess he should take the cracked one. (maybe try and fix it then resell).
If you're keeping the new one too then fix it through LG and sell it
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Or..Sell it to your brother
Alright, Ill probably fix it myself, looks easy enough. (Would have given it to him to fix but he's not so great technology) And then either give it to my friend or give him the money. Though I do want to make sure before I order the parts, can there be anything else that would cause the phone not to respond to touch after the glass is shattered. All I could think of was the digitizer being messed up. Most of the cracking was done on the lower half, specifically lower left. Im sure its not going to help much, but I put up the pic so you guys can get an idea of how much was cracked.