Evil White Screen?? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

Has anyone had their phone randomly go to a solid white screen and wont shut off unless you pull the battery? This happened to me yesterday and caused my phone to over heat FAST. My phone im shocked didnt start melting with how hot it got.

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Anybody else had this?

Pushed the power button this morning and no response, thought the battery had run right down, so plugged it in and it booted to the dell screen then froze, removed battery and replaced it, booted no problems at all, still 60% battery left
Once, I think it's because the device has flexed or got jolted at some point and the backplate contacts have come apart briefly. The only way to get it to switch on was to remove the battery and refit it.
I've had this too, but not after a jolt or flex - noticed it after waking up on a morning - Streak had been on bedside table with good charge.
I've had this maybe twice since having the device.
edit to add:
The only difference is my device did not freeze on boot.
yep - every time i power it down and leave it for a bit, it will only fire up again if I take the back off, pop the battery out and put it back in.
The LEDs come on, but it goes no further unless I do the above. Annoying but I can live with it for now (not sure what the wear and tear issues could be over the life of the device tho?)
did it on 1.6, still does it on O2 2.1
That's what's i was thinking, that stupid backplate! it may have moved 1mm and caused error
I posted a comment once about supergluing the fu%$er, might try myself.
Yep, sadly had the same problem. The worse thing is it did this the first time I turned it on. Done the same thing again this morning after simply switching it off.
Hopefully it won't be annoying or we will learn how to avoid it - backplate seems to cause the problem but I didn't even drop it or mishandle it in anyway - just merely switched it off and on again...
If the backplate is the problem, I can see it becoming a real issue, mine is definitely a looser fit than it was a month ago.
This just happened to me this morning. I went to bed around 2am with 90% charge and woke up 8am off on totally drained. The phone was lying on the carpeted floor with no movement. Powered back up and on with icons all messed up.
had this couple of times day, not the first by a long shot. its the back plate for sure. it flexes just a tiny bit and thats enough to make it shut down. pretty shoddy design
I really don't see how it could be the cover. Second day in a row I went from full charge to dead when I woke. It was on the floor the whole time and never touched. Then I charged it and the screen would not respond. So I hit power and then it would not come on again until I pulled the battery. Now, I'm just going to try powering down every night. If it's dead I just leave it at home for the day.....such a waste.

HTC HD2 Is not turning on, only turns on sometimes whats wrong? need help extremely!

Ok i got an extremely bad problem
i brought a hd2 from ebay with a fault, which was the person said he dropped the phone and the screen cracked then he replaced it with new screen and digitizer, but he said after he did that the phone only starts up sometimes, anyway i won the bid and when i recieved it i put the charger in and it turned on by itself and was stuck ar htc screen i took the charger out and the phone went off, so i put the charger back in again and it didnt turn on this time, tookout battery and did reset and hard reset and still nothing? the phone doesnt have hardspl.
so i opened the phone up and look to see if anything was lose which it wasnt and i also manged to damage the volume flex cable and the bottom buttons flex!
so i left my phone overnight and in the morning i put the battery in and put it on charge and A RED LED LIGHT CAME ON!!!! which means it was charging so i thought if i press the reset button it come on, so i pressed the soft reset and nothing came on and the red light dissapeared and it doesnt come back again?
Can anybody help me whats wrong?
Since the previous owner has dropped the phone, anything could have went wrong.
First, check the battery pins on your phone, and make sure they are straight (not bent, not eve a little)
Hi I tryed that but it still don't work, also to follow up I put my htc in fridge for 5 mins and put in usb and orange light comes on so I left it for couple of hours and after it finished charging it virbrates and screen comes on but it just stays black so I took out battery and it didn't startup, so battery is fully charged and I. Put phone back in fridge and put usb back in and orange light came on again, so this time I pull out usb cable and the light is still on??? And I pull out battery and it goes off I don't know what's wrong???? Its driving me nuts!!!
Edit - ignore what I wrote above, okay I left phone in fridge and I put battery in and then I put in usb and orange led light comes on then the phone vibrates and the htc logo screen comes up but it is frozen there and I can't reset because I have no buttons because I broke the flex ribbon. I pull out battery and it turns off and it doesn't come back on so I put usb in and then battery and nothing but I can feel a tiny bit of vibration but not as strong as before. Its soo wierd the phone only powers when I leave it in fridge.
really need a solution fast
Please guys I really need a solution, don't leave me hanging. I was going to buy a new motherboard but I don't know whether its worth it because I font want to waste money.
I can't answer your question. But I know for fact that if the hd2 overheats monsterously the processor melts off it's spot or something and the phone starts to reboot at 25-30 Celsius degrees and that could explain cooling it down lets it boot. My suggestion is to sell the phone on Ebay as SLIGHTLY damaged Hahahah!
infact thats what i done i put it on ebay if anyone wants it let me, mint condition except boot failure I don't think it the processor because I can connect to usb and it comes as qualcomm data
The phone tries to turn on because I see the vibration motor turn once but nothing else happens?
facepalm.
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Was there any need of facepalm makes you look like a retard. Don't do it please

HTC Vogue wont charge(orange blinking light) and wont stay on

Hi, im new here and im not sure if this is the right place to put this. Im having issues with the HTC vogue on verizon. This phone is from many years ago and i found it laying around in my house. The problem is that when the phone completely dies, it is a challenge to get it on and stay on. So I plug it in to charge and then i turn it on and it will randomly shut off, sometimes before i type my code and if im lucky i go to the battery menu quickly and leave it there and it will charge till the light turns green.
HERES THE BIG PROBLEM I recently put myn's warm donut android on my micro sd card and i got it all working but i drained my battery using it and i kept restarting my phone cause it got a bit slow, and then i shut it down (ive restarted android a few times already) to boot windows mobile and my phone wouldnt turn on. So i plug it into my outlet and i get a solid red light for a minute, then it changes to a flashing orange/amber. If i turn it on it will boot up and ask for my code and as im typing it it shuts off. Afterwards the orange/amber light comes back. I tried hard resetting it and soft and nothing works. Please help me ( its my only phone i have. Could it be the battery also? The battery will spin a little bit if i try to, so it seems that the battery is not so good. The battery water damage sticker is all solid red. Im thinking of ordering a new battery, do you think it will work? Thanks in advance everyone!
EDIT: It stopped charging and im still with the same problem :/ I BEG OF YOU, PLEASEE HELP ME!

[Q] Red light after screen replacement

Hi Guys,
Read a lot of posts about the red light of death but not had any joy as yet.
So screen cracked, I got a replacement and changed it, got the flashing red light and after quite a few hours of changing that would randomly stop the phone started up fine and I got everything working. Phone was still on about 75% change after some usage so that night I left it connected to wall charger and when I woke up in the morning it had the solid red light of death. I have since opened it up and disconnected batt for a few seconds and connected it back up without the screws (some posts suggested it was too tight with the screws?) and still nothing, only other thing I can think is the back cover has a slight gap on the top left hand corner. I know it is supposed to be flush but I didnt think such a small gap would cause red light of death?
I'm not sure if it is bad battery (did take a very long time to charge when I did get it up and running after screen replacement) or if it is back cover. Any suggestions on how to diagnose the problem?
Cheers
Seenan

S7 Edge screen issues - HELP ME!

Hey Guys,
My release edition S7 Edge started acting up last Sunday. As I was using the phone, it noticed the display to have strange, colored barcodes appearing as smudges on the screen. Pink/purple seems to be the dominant color type and they are most severe when texts are displayed on screen. The phone seems to get hot quicker than normal, and gets hotter than normal when under toll. The screen usually DOES NOT TURN ON AT ALL when the phone is warm/hot. Everything about the phone still works, all functions work.
It has been a few days since I encountered this issue and it has not subsided. What I did noticed is that if the phone was hot and the screen does not turn on, I could cool down the phone externally via air conditioning vents and it would turn back on when its cool enough. The barcode artifacts are also less prevalent, to non-existent when the phone is cold to touch.
I initially thought this to be an display panel issue that needs replacing. Out of warranty repairs is going to be about CAD $340. With the cooling down work around, I am hoping it may be a less expensive to fix issue.
What do you guys think? Help me out!
TL;DR. Phone started having pink and purple barcodes all of a sudden. Works perfectly with the barcode. Display wont turn on when warm/hot. Everything is back to normal if the phone is cool/cold to touch, until it starts warming up due to usage.

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