Ive just bought a used Nexus 7 2012 to use as an e-reader, but Ive struck a problem. The screen seems to be oversensitive. Just holding the tablet by the bezel in certain places activates apps on the screen, or when I use as an e-reader turns the page when I dont want it to.. Its rooted, running stock 4.4.4. and otherwise works fine. There is a creaking noise from the case under the area of the bezel where the touch on the bezel activates things. Any suggestions?
Nobody with any ideas?
Solution
I've found the solution. I removed the back of the nexus 7 to look at the screws holding the screen on the device and there were two missing under the area where it creked. I've swapped over a screw from the other side of the screen and problem gone! As the device was a used one when I bought it I'm surmising that it has a had an smarter screen replacement at some stage and the screws were lost.
I hope this might help someone else who encounters a similar problem.
I would like to replace the missing screws but they are different from any I can find in old phones....where would I get the right screws?
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A few months ago the screen on my SPV M600 took a knock which cracked it pretty badly, to the point it couldn't be used. I've rebuilt two other HTC phones in the past so felt fairly happy buying and fitting a replacement screen myself, along with the fact Orange wanted well over £100 for repairing it!
I dismantled the phone back to the screen to find it had a gold LCD cable and bought a new one on eBay.
I've now tried fitting the screen which works perfectly when the phone is still appart, but when I put the casing back together the screen goes blank. The exact point it happens is when I'm clipping the side of the phone with the volume control into place. The screen gets very bright as if the backlight is either getting too much power from somewhere or the backlight setting isn't taking effect. If I set the backlight to minimum it's most noticable as it goes from dull to full brightness when I apply pressure between the screen and board on that side of the phone.
I've tried sliding a piece of card between the screen and board to see if there was something touching that shouldn't be, but it doesn't seem to make much difference.
If anyone could offer me any advice on how to solve this I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
I think I've solved it, I hadn't put a layer of the copper from the back of the old LCD onto the new one. It seems to be working fine now.
Really need help here,
My hermes suddenly decided that visuals are no longer needed.
That means the screens stays off all the time (yes even in bootloader mode).
It works, receive calls and flashes roms but in no situation can I see anything on the screen (pitch black screen).
I've got no warranty so I took it apart and checked each cable and connector - no issues were seen. I tried changing SPL-s, RUU, Roms all worked but left my tytn with that black screen.
Did anyone see this happen or has any advice?
This sucks big time :-(
No one? Oh man, I guess it's dead then :-(
Last bump before giving up and throwing it away - please?
send it to me if your gonna throw it away : - 0
I've given up on mine as well. It has white screen though. Where do I dump this thing?
If it is out of warrenty, I would take it apart as is sounds like the hardware, check the connections to the LCD. Does the backlight still work, or if you put it in strong sunlight, can you see the LCD working?
My Hermes had a white screen also. I found that if I squeeze the bottom right hand corner whilst resetting it would sometimes work. It seems there is a chip on the switch board that needs the right ammount of pressure on it. I think it was a design flaw as the herm200 and 300 are different. If applying pressure works and you are confident enough take the hermes apart and put a couple of small pieces of plastic or paper between the front buttons and the small square chip on the switch board. This worked for me.
The service guide is available if you google. Let me know if you need more info.
As for the black screen that sounds more serious sorry not seen that one.
what are you guys willing to sell your pdas for? Mine fell in a puddle and i need one for parts. The white screen might be fixable the first couple of times but then it dies off for good, the black screen i've never heard of.
So if you want to sell for a reasonably cheap price let me know, i can buy a new keypad online for $50. So around there would be nice!
i.a.wright said:
My Hermes had a white screen also. I found that if I squeeze the bottom right hand corner whilst resetting it would sometimes work. It seems there is a chip on the switch board that needs the right ammount of pressure on it. I think it was a design flaw as the herm200 and 300 are different. If applying pressure works and you are confident enough take the hermes apart and put a couple of small pieces of plastic or paper between the front buttons and the small square chip on the switch board. This worked for me.
The service guide is available if you google. Let me know if you need more info.
As for the black screen that sounds more serious sorry not seen that one.
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I just tested this on mine and actually got some results.
mines the opposite though, it will NOT work with any pressure. I left all the screws loose for that board under the buttons, and left the LCD assemble screws out on that end and it works, But if I press the keys it whites out again and won't come back until I repeat the dis-assemble/re-assemble
I had a similar problem but this was after someone dropped mine on the floor. The screen would just be white screen, while everything worked. If I pressed the bottom right of the phone it would sometimes come on and stay on for a little while but would eventually always go to white screen.
I did manage to use the phone but had use a program called Net Control which allowed me to control the phone over WIFI with the phone screen shown on the PC. Got the phone replaced in the end by the people who dropped it.
i got the flex cable and my phone still has the white screen problem....wtf///
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me. My touch screen broke today and I received a text message and have 3 numbers which I need which were not synced before the damage which I now cannot get access too. The phone boots fine but the only buttons that work are the volume, power and reset.
This phone cannot be sent back to the manufacturer as the break was entirely my own fault.
When you plug the phone into any computer it defaults to the "disk drive" option so can only access sd card data.
I hope there is some way I can get the important data off it?
Thanks!
Fixed for long enough anyway!
I assume that no one has any idea about this one. I have managed a quick fix and I hope it can help others.
Essentially my screen looked like it had a REALLY small amount of liquid between the top peice of plastic (the bit that you actually touch) and what I would assume is the digitizer. After a few days the whole screen looked a little shiny and the touch screen and soft keys did not work.
The way i fixed this was to get a thin pen knife and slide it around the edge of the screen, between the two pieces of plastic along one side of the screen.
After this the screen worked again just as it did before.
I suspect that there was already a small hole/gap allowing condensation to build up between the screen and the digitizer.
I hope this helps someone.
Got my Nexus 7 a few weeks ago...
Here's my problems:
Rear casing creeks on the right hand side of the device (where the buttons are) but only slightly,
Lower half of the touch screen stops responding sometimes,
After exiting a game or app it takes me to the far left home screen instead of the middle one,
It has stopped rotating for some reason (probably an easy fix),
Sometimes there is the odd screen glitch, like flashing of lines across the screen for a split second,
And there is some white noise when headphones are plugged in. And i would have expected slightly better audio clarity, but its fine.
Other than that its great! The novelty of a tablet hasn't worn off yet
My tablet is running the stock JB and is not modified in anyway.
Maybe somebody could help me with some of these problems?
Thanks
To be quite honest mate, I would send it back with that many faults!
I've only got a bit of screen flicker and I'm still temped to send mine back.
Back to what you asked, you could take the back off and tighten a few of the screws up inside. (Theres a thread on here about it). But for the other ones, I don't think there are any quick fixes.
Glad your still enjoying it, personally I still can't put mine down after a month
Still having them problems, but they aren't that bad. Still using my Nexus 7 all the time.
If I open the device, won't that void the warranty?
Thanks
So I recently repaired the screen on my Nexus 4 and noticed that when I put a little bit of force towards the middle of the screen, pressure marks would appear (picture attached). The screen works fine other this this small issue.
Not sure why this is happening I cannot find a similar case anywhere and I'm stumped.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks!
Screen I bought: http://www.fixez.com/lg-nexus-4-e960-lcd-touch-screen-digitizer-with-frame