Hi
I'm a long time note line user and am thinking of getting a used note 10.1 2014. I'm concerned about the black screen issue I've read on Amazon reviews. I checked out a review unit a local t-mobile and it had the same problem. Is this really that common? Is there a way to safely get a used one? Thanks for the help.
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@swid441 Black screen issue? You backlight bleeding?
Not back light bleeding. It's the issue where screen goes and stays completely black. Tablets is on and capacitive buttons work but no display- all black.
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I've had that happen to me after I dropped mine once...with 2 cases on. Anyway, to fix it, I just open up the back and reconnected the screen, very easy to do, I think it jarred the tiny connection. The tablet is so awesome otherwise and it might never happen if I hadn't dropped it
Edit: I popped the back cover off, unhooked the LCD ribbon cable and plugged it back in. Put the cover back on and tried to power on. Nothing happened. Not even the soft keys lit up. Plugged the power cable in and tablet came on like it never had an issue. Glad I found this thread before I spent $150 on the LCD and digitizer.
What did you use to open up your Note? I rebooted my note the other day and the screen was black. The buttons light up but the screen is off. I want t to try and reconnect the cable before I but a new lcd and digitizer.
Did you open it from the front or the back and what did you use?
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If its still showing black screen, keep reconecting, smoothing the cable oit and pressing the un sleep key to see if the screen is on. The cable is so sensitive it takes me about 6 tries to get it perfect. I use whatever I have around to open it, like my thin nail file, very carefully, around the silver edges from the front. I remember I saw a youtube video of this somewhere. Good luck
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I have read a few posts about the white screen issue and some seem to pertain to my problem and others don't. My screen is white 100% of the time from power on to power off. So I can't seen anything when it first boots or comes out of standby mode or any thing else. The only way that I can get the screen to be anything but white, is to hold it in my left hand with the keyboard slider bottom left corner of the phone pushed up against the base of my thumb muscle and my other fingers pushing on the bottom right corner or the phone on the screen slider. Sometimes if I hit it in the bottom right corner then squeeze it I can get it to work without tiring myself out from squeezing after 1 minute.
Seems to be a pressure and angle thing i think. The phone has been dropped on more than one occasion. Ten tops. Sometimes when I squeeze it i get lines from left to right, then fade to white.
If I put the phone on 65-90 degree angle from my eyes I can see a little black mark at the top of the screen under the C of HTC. That is what had me thinking that it was a cracked LCD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Phone is still under warranty, but would rather not be without it for the 6 -8 weeks I was told it would take, only to find out it was a cracked lcd and they won't fix it.
I believe you have to open it. Try to connect every single connection again.
I Had This
I had this problem when i dropped my Vario 2 the screen cracked and was all white, when i went on ebay and bought a new screen I took the vario 2 apart and replaced the screen BUT the ribon connector that plugs into the board was not quite in so when i re-assembled it i just got power and white screen.
There are a couple of little lugs on the ribon cable and i though that once they were butted up to the connector on the board that it was in properly. BUT the lugs actually needed to be pushed that little bit further and slide under part of the connector. BANG it worked fine.
bmaffin13 said:
I have read a few posts about the white screen issue and some seem to pertain to my problem and others don't. My screen is white 100% of the time from power on to power off. So I can't seen anything when it first boots or comes out of standby mode or any thing else. The only way that I can get the screen to be anything but white, is to hold it in my left hand with the keyboard slider bottom left corner of the phone pushed up against the base of my thumb muscle and my other fingers pushing on the bottom right corner or the phone on the screen slider. Sometimes if I hit it in the bottom right corner then squeeze it I can get it to work without tiring myself out from squeezing after 1 minute.
Seems to be a pressure and angle thing i think. The phone has been dropped on more than one occasion. Ten tops. Sometimes when I squeeze it i get lines from left to right, then fade to white.
If I put the phone on 65-90 degree angle from my eyes I can see a little black mark at the top of the screen under the C of HTC. That is what had me thinking that it was a cracked LCD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Phone is still under warranty, but would rather not be without it for the 6 -8 weeks I was told it would take, only to find out it was a cracked lcd and they won't fix it.
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Either send back and keep warranty or try the several solutions posted. I myself am pretty sure I found the correct solution and I posted it in the appropriate thread.
Thanks guys, I think I'm going to try my luck with sending it in. Will probably add a link to the main whitesrceen thread so hopefully I get no hassles. Will post back When I get it back.
I had a similar problem and voided my warranty because I don't have a spare device... anyway, here is where I found my solution.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321163
Good Luck... My phone is still working fine....
I just replaced the screen on my T-Mobile Wing.......but after turning on the phone the screen wont turn on...i thought maybe i didnt plug it in right so i did it about 3 times and no luck....I just put my old screen back on and it works fine...could it be defective? or something i gotta do to the new screen before plugging it in?
OK so I got it to work.......but the screen has a slight yellow tint to it.....is that how its supposed to look? (I got the screen from ebay)
My buds Droid 2 back light doesn't work anymore as well as the touch screen digitizer. Is the back light in the LCD itself or is that a seperate part? I told him I would fix it and I need to know what to order.
I'm having a similar issue, My wife got the phone wet, so we dried it out. That part went well....
Well she got a new phone, and I put the Droid 2 in a draw, and recently found it again, deciding to look it over, I charged it up, turn it on.
Here is what problems it has, No Backlight on the LCD display, No LED Nofication lights, No keyboard lights, No Digitizer touch.
The phone boots and works, sounds work, OS is intact and under a flashlight I can see the screen.
my question is does the ribbon cable control all of these? or are the seperate problems?
Had to buy a screen replacement for my Nexus 4.
After the replacement i can see one distinct vertical line to the left. It's purple on white background.
I can also see it in recovery mode, but when i take a screenshot it doesn't show on the picture.
Is this a malfunction of the new screen, or did i mess anything up?
The screen i ordered missed the frame so i had to buy a front frame seperately and glue the screen to this.
I used this guide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe1I0MlpLI
everything went well, except one thing; when i connected the flex cable to the frame (check @ 23:19) i removed the little blue transparent plastic sticker, i thought it was a protective sticker cause my screen was new.. (the guide also said i had to remove a sticker if it was new)
but i found out right after it was actually supposed to be there.. i sticked it back on, though i didnt take care to align it 100%,.
This was the only thing i did sloppy..
could this cause the vertical line? think i'm going to open it up again and try set it straight if the line annoys me too much, but does anyone know what the purpose of this little blue sticker is? it looks like plastic so i thought it weird that this should lie between a cable and the frame?
anyone know?
Not sure about the blue sticker but it's either a defective screen, or more likely a badly seated flex cable.
I haven't had to change a screen since my old Nokia n95. That had something similar. Though mine was a line of purple and the backlight would only come on if I squeezed the phone.
Taking the screen back off, removing and reseating the ribbon cable fixed this issue.
I'd say it's likely to be the cable because the colours are sent as rgb values.
In your case if your only getting red and blue to x row on the screen then that will appear as purple.
I'd be less likely to think that it's a screen problem because either the whole row would be black, or there would be specific pixels that would be missing an rgb and not the entire row
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my note 3 screen has went out the keys and everything all works i can her it ring and notfications i just can see anything at all
ive tried unplugging the ribbon and the 2 min power drain thing lol .. i really need help
I have this happen to me daily lately, usually for me my phone reboots and screen is back up, but I'm worried it won't come back one of these days unfortunately. My bottom keys light up too, but screen just goes black. Occasionally my screen comes back on its own but usually needs a reboot
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