[Q] Bricked or display dead? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all,
My rooted Galaxy S4 GT-i9505's display stopped working. It just so happened when I took my phone out of my pocket. The last app I remembered using was Whatsapp and I did not mess with any settings before that.
Powering on and off this phone feels normal with vibrations but there is no display and the Samsung boot animation does not show. Calling to this phone works, with vibrations. Touch does not seem to be working as I tried to unlock the phone using pattern lock and there is no feedback. I am also able to detect the phone in my laptop but unable to access files as I am unable to unlock it.
I tried booting into Recovery/Download mode but it does not show anything. I have also pulled out the battery numerous times but the display still doesn't work.

Very looks like time to repair that phone, there are many phones likes that with board problem, just make sure LCD is not cracked, the bring it to local repair center do replace one component on the PBA.

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Touch Response Problem

I have a Sprint Touch [Vogue]. It has served me very well up until recently.
One day, I was using my phone normally when the battery died. No big deal right?
Well, I charge my phone and reboot it. For some reason, Windows is EXTREMELY slow and unresponsive. I figure that something vital had been corrupted by the battery's death, and that it was nothing that a hard reset couldn't fix.
I performed a hard reset.
I let the utilities for the first boot run to customize the phone. Everything seemed pretty much normal. I configured my settings, re-added my contacts, etc. Then I turned the screen off [with the power button].
I turn it back on later to do something. I touch the screen. It immediately and accurately detects the touch's location, but it continues detecting a touch. For 20-30 seconds, after the input has stopped.
It was strange, so I soft reset the device. It booted, with the same problem. So I performed another hard reset. I did some configuration [the response acting normal at this point], and then turned the screen off. Turning it back on brought the same problem back.
This problem still exists on my phone, even after numerous hard resets and even ROM flashes.
A better description of the problem: When the device is first turned back on [meaning brought out of standby], its touch response is messed up. It will immediately and accurately detect any touch input, but it will continue to detect the input for up to 30 seconds AFTER it has been released, as if you were holding it the whole time.
WHY is this???? My phone is almost unusable because of this!!!! I can still place/ receive calls, using the navigation buttons and the red and green buttons. But the touch response is screwed!
Can someone please shed some light on this problem I'm having?
Phone specs: Windows Mobile 6.1, HTC / Sprint customized. Minimal third party software is currently installed.
[I've already determined that third party software is not the problem, because i haven't installed any!]
Possible solution
Hi,
today I experienced something similar to your description - no touch response when I tried to pickup a call. The strange thing is that last night everything was working and no settings were modified nor programs were added/removed. The screen suddenly 'died'. At the moment I am using it through a program MyMobiler which brings the mobile display to the PC and I can use the mouse to control the phone (it is like VNC for the phone screen, the phone is connected with ActiveSync).
This is temporary solution untill I finish my backups of files, programs, settings. I didnot performed hard reset yet, hope this will solve my problem
In the following link there is a 'magical' solution - to remove the screen protector:
http://www.htcwiki.com/thread/1112981/LCD+or+Touch+screen+not+working
P.S. I had removed the screen protector and voilá - the screen is now touch responsive. The root cause of the problem obviously is the dust between the screen and the protector which results in constant screen pressing - and as a result no accepting my finger presses.
I hope this will work for you and others with similar problem.
I had a similar experience with an old Vogue.....In my case, there was no battery death precursor, but it just started acting up. Not too long thereafter, I noticed the screen/digitizer was forming what looked like an air bubble between the digitizer and the LCD on one place of the screen. The screen was becoming defective. I eventually had to buy another Vogue from a friend who didn't have a clue of the 6900's potential, and didn't want his anymore, so I got it cheap.
Sounds like your screen/digitizer may be on it's last leg.

[Q] Screen broken beyond repair..? :(

Hello! Today suddenly the screen on my HTC Legend stopped working. More exactly it went black, with just a few pixels in different colors and some random striped... I've tried to remove the battery, plug it into my computer, remove the memory card, remove the sim-card etc.etc. nothing seems to bring it back to life... when i press the power button i can sense the phone vibrating and responding to touches on the screen. Seems the phone itself is working fine and that the screen is just broken in some way. Could it be possible that this has something to do with that the phone is rooted and flashed with different ROMs like thousands of times?
I'm considering returning it to the store, since I still have one year warranty left but I'm afraid I won't get a new one if they discover it is rooted
Anyone who's got any good ideas what to do to make the screen work again? Is it possible to factory reset it from the computer?
If you have s-off its easy peasy, otherwise you could downgrade using the goldcard method.In my experience HTC still repair even if it is rooted as they dotn really check, just plug it into there computers then reflash

[Q] S5 screen problem

Hi i have problem with my s5 display, it starts going crazy like scrolling up constantly, when i use it and then switch the power button to shut thr display the phone does not power back up unless i remove battery, otherwise the two button lights only show.
Prior to this problem, it started when my mic at the bottom stopped working, and then the pinnacle point was when i unrooted my s5 and rebooted, immediately the colors turned to different tints of colours.
The next day it started going all fuzzy and scrolling up.
Took it to samsung but waa refused as i found out about the knox counter lol
I have my usb port dock part which im ready to replace on my mainboard. But what ia causing the funny display ? I can barely use my phone, the digitizer seems fine aa at times it works for like 5mins.
What ive tried:
Factory reset
Reroot
Phoenix rom
I have a video to show you guys.
youtu.be/nYgBp2VAfFo
Video is private
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Dead Lumia 520, screen is damaged, help needed.

I have obtained a water damaged Lumia 520. I opened it up and dried it while also clearing any oxidation from the various contact points. The phone displayed the bolt+gear icon on screen but the screen kept flashing and fading. I figured the phone needed the firmware to be reflashed so I downloaded the software recovery tool and it detected the phone and flashed the firmware without error. Then the phone actually worked albeit with a black screen, I could hear the little noises and stuff so it was working under the black screen. I figured that maybe the screen could be salvaged by cleaning the contacts and letting it dry up completely, but after I put the phone together it wouldn't work anymore at all, it basically turns on for a few seconds and turns itself off. The software recovery finds it and I can reflash the firmware but it still doesn't work. I tried checking all the internal connectors but now there doesn't seem to be any way to make it work even with the dead screen.
Is there something I need to touch on screen to make it work? I never had a Windows Phone so I don't really know and I can't see the screen. And do you geniuses know what might be wrong with it and how can I tell if it's just the LCD that has been killed by the water or if the motherboad might be FUBAR as well? What could be causing it to turn off after a few seconds? The battery is definitely not dead as I left it to charge for a long time.
Actually I just managed to "fix" it. The screen comes on after I cleaned the contacts and messed with it a bit, it just looks really bad and it's full of line but I can see what's on screen and use the phone. My issue now is that the bolt+gear icon appears at every reboot and doesn't go away. The only way I have to boot the phone normally is to hold camera and volume down after I reboot it. What does this mean? Other than that the phone seems to be working perfectly once it actually boots.
I just managed to bring it back to life completely. Screen contacts were water damaged but I managed to get them working again and now the screen is perfect. It kept getting stuck on the bolt+gear icon after every reboot because the volume+ button was stuck but I managed to unstuck it and now the phone is perfect. So yeah if you have a flashing screen after water damage check the contacts, if your phone doesn't boot and keeps getting stuck on that icon try to unstuck the volume+ button.

V20 Black Screen

Woke up this morning and started using my phone, noticed that the screen became unresponsive for a few seconds at a time and then I saw some gray horizontal lines.
Did a battery pull and restarted the phone, however, the screen is completely black and I can still hear the boot sound.
It requires a pin to start completely and I can feel the vibration when I touch the location of the back button (the only navigation key available on the pin screen).
Since this started happening I have tried restarting several times and I have seen the "LG splash screen" once, it freezes, the boot sound plays and the screen goes black once again.
The phone is unrooted and has never been modified any at all. It is the US996 variant.
Has anyone ever faced this issue? Could it be the display itself and maybe a replacement LCD will fix the issuse?
UPDATE
Got past the pin screen and think the phone has fully booted, fingerprint scanner works, I can touch the navigation keys and get feedback and I am still getting notifications.
However, the main screen is still blank and the second screen shows the time surrounded by static surrounded. I have attached a photo.
Sounds like a hardware issue.
mausam233 said:
Got past the pin screen and think the phone has fully booted, fingerprint scanner works, I can touch the navigation keys and get feedback and I am still getting notifications.
However, the main screen is still blank and the second screen shows the time surrounded by static surrounded. I have attached a photo.
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Hi Have you fixed the issue?
Hi
it looks like a corrupt bootloader,
Was it rooted? try to press with the phone off volume + and plug in the usb to enter in download mode, if you enter download mode go back to factory
gilbertlucas46 said:
Hi Have you fixed the issue?
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Had to send it in to LG to have it repaired
Oddly enough once it was returned the problem reoccured a few weeks later after using an aukey quick charge3.0 charger that I had. Which was when it happened the first time but I didn't make the connection until the second time around
I got rid of the phone though
No more LGs for me, I haven't had much luck with them
Throw that charger seems like or the cable or the charger itself gone bad ,one charger killed 2 of my phones not diferent brands

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