I think I've decided to try to exchange my s7 edge due to the wiggly home button. It's hard to register on the sides and the left side has enough play that it looks like I can see a ribbon cable. Verizon has a 14 day return/exchange right? Do you think it'll be a problem? I need to see if they'll let me run AIDA64 so I can figure out the camera sensor as well as run some screen tests. Hate doing this.
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Hi all,
Looks like my Sprint Vogue is flaking out on me. The touchscreen is suddenly and without warning not working at all. Everything else works (all other buttons, activesync, all functions). I'd like to do a hard reset before giving up on it, but I'd really like to sync my contacts/messages/photos/etc before doing that. So here's the problem- I use Dashwire to sync, and I'm unable to hit the "SYNC NOW" button!
Any ideas on how to switch to and activate the bottom left and bottom right menu buttons without being able to touch them? For example, the Inbox and Menu buttons on the Mail app screen, or Album/Slideshow on the Photos and Videos screen? If I can get to those I'll be able to activate the sync. Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Bogus
There is a application called "MyMobiler" which allows you to control your phone over ip/usb/bluetooth. If i remember correctly launching the installer on your pc while your phone is connected to activesynch will install it without having to press anything.
Awesome, thank you. That did exactly what I needed it to!
Once it finishes sync'ing I'll give the reset a shot and see if the screen is really borked or not.
No problem glad i could help. If the touchscreen refuses to work you might wanna try replacing it. The part is called a digitzer and they go for 15-20 dollars online. I bought one and it wasn't difficult at all to replace.
Yeah, that's the plan. Hard reset didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that part is busted. Between this site and PPCG I found the guide for taking apart the phone, so it's looking like I'll be doing some minor surgery in a few days.
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Yeah, that's the plan. Hard reset didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that part is busted. Between this site and PPCG I found the guide for taking apart the phone, so it's looking like I'll be doing some minor surgery in a few days.
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How would the touch screen instantly not work?
maybe someone let it fall and put it back to normal like nothing happened
and i know what u mean.I dont wanna give up my vogue. EVER,
but im 15...by the time im 30, i wont remember what vogue is.LOL.
Actually, it seems to have developed a very small air bubble in the very upper left corner. I'm pretty sure that's causing the digitizer to think there's constant pressure in that area, evidenced by the "Start" menu occasionally activating when I turn on the phone. I ordered a new digitizer anyway- the set of torx screwdrivers I'd need to open the case cost the same as a new digitizer and the screwdriver I need. I don't really understand how the air bubble formed (or even what it is contained in), but one way or another I'll resolve the problem next week.
And I just turned 26- I'm sure by the time I'm 30 I'll be sporting a Touch Pro 4 running Windows Mobile 8.5
Well, the digitizer and tools came much faster than I'd anticipated (I won the auction on eBay on Friday, paid same day, and got it in the mail today, shipped from CA to NY!). So I dove right in. It was a straightforward affair- remove the four torx screws from the back under the cover, remove the speaker, pry open the front from the mainboard, disconnect the keypad circuit board from the mainboard and the digitizer from the keypad board, push out the old digitizer, swap in the new one and hook it all back up.
Not for the faint of heart to be sure, but for someone who likes to tinker it was a lot of fun. Took maybe 15 minutes because prying the case from the mainboard was difficult. More accurately, the top plastic case is extremely thin and fragile- if you do this you'll almost definitely crack it in at least one place. If not, you'll crack it pushing the digitizer out from behind. But I'm not that worried about cosmetics, I got my Vogue second-hand off-contract, refurbished, so it wasn't exactly mint to begin with.
On the plus side, the repair worked like a charm! I tested every touch feature I could think of and as many areas of the screen as I could, it actually seemed to respond better than when I initially got the phone. The odd part is I could still see the air bubble in the old screen, and couldn't flatten it out even by squeezing on both sides of it. I wish I knew how it formed so I could prevent it from happening again, but I'll just have to be careful.
So to anyone considering this project:
If you're worried about damaging the casing and have insurance or a warranty or something like that, take it to the phone company to get it repaired.
For anyone else, the $15 bucks for the screen and three tools is a lot cheaper than buying a new phone. Plus you get the geek cred for repairing your own phone.
Has anyone else had this trouble? I am on my 4th Vogue (Sprint) and each one has had the digitizer go bad along the right-hand scroll bar. I have had this latest replacement for less than 6 months. I have used screen protectors all but this last time (wondered if they might be the problem -- apparently not). I keep the phone in my pocket typically, but I can't imagine I am subjecting these phones to extreme conditions or use!
Just curious if anyone else has had similar trouble...
I'm on Vogue #5(soon to be #6), never had the digitizer go bad on any(lot's of cracked housings and sticky buttons). Maybe you need to make the screen more sensitive and press lighter on the scrollbar or upgrade roms to one with flick scrolling.
I'm on my 2nd Vogue, and a friend of mine is on his 3rd. All from digitizers. Luckily they extend the warranty every time you get it replaced.
Mine work just fine. If the screen goes bad on the same section all the time, it could be that you are pressing too hard to scroll. As someone else suggested, you may want to reduce the screen pressure threshold. Also, not keeping it in your pocket will save it from unnecessary damage. You can get a case for the Vogue for like 5 buck in Big Lots or even a Dollar Store may carry some. Good luck!
I seem to be experiencing a weird problem with my brand no S5... Im wondering is anyone else has had the same thing happen.
When Im holding the phone in the landscape position I rest my index finger across the top of the phone and thumb at the bottom with webbing of my hand touching the right side (in this position the right side is where the charging port is). I attached an image of what I'm talking about. It seems that if I hold it this way long enough (maybe 2-3 minutes) to warm up the metal trim that surrounds the phone that simply touching the metal is activating the Recent Key. You can see this in the video below.
I'm sure the case (that should be arriving today) would prevent this from happening, but if no one else is having this issue then maybe its a defective one and I should get the AT&T store to replace it now before its too late.
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There you go.
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Thanks! Maybe I'll hit my 10 posts in this thread
Possible multitouch error, N3 had some errors with multitouch/phantom etc, I'd suggest maybe a swap out if you can
Wow....I have the kinda the same thing happening. My phantom presses happen right next to where your thumb and index finger are at in the picture. I've removed the case, reset the phone and I still occasionally get it. About 4 days without the case and I still get it if it gets too hot.
What a story!!
I bought a galaxy note 4 right on launch day first thing in the morning. Ive had just about every phone but have been waiting for a while now to get my hands on the new note 4.
I ended up buying the phone at the St . Bruno shopping center in Quebec, Canada and once i singed all the papers for my contract and got home, I finally open the box and took the phone out of the box. I loved it, it did everything one would expect from the highest end phone on the market.
A week later however, I started noticing that my buttons, especially my home button were slightly loose and my phone was also developing a weird oil spot under the home button.
So I went back to videotron but this time at St. Catherine street corporate branch store and the manager there obviously didnt know much about phones because he looked at it and proceeded with putting windex on a paper towel and wiping my screen with it and than told me that theres nothing wrong with it.
After frustratingly explaining everything to him, he told me that if the phone makes calls and works, than these issues arent covered for any kind of exchange as its not affecting the functionality of the phone. My logic tell me however that if one buy's a ferrari and realizes that the paint is f-up, wouldn't the dealership do something about it??? Anyways, without any luck I eventually left disappointed.
The following week After exhaustive attempt to solve the matter with Videotron to no avail, I found out that there was a store here in montreal called Service Absolute which is a samsung repair center that I could bring my phone to. I called them first to not waist more of my time and was than informed that yes they could help me but that it could take nearly a month before they would have any parts for this phone.
So after patiently waiting, I finally got a call back from them and droped off my phone the following day. I only had to wait two days before i got my phone back and thought that the turn around time was great! Only after few minutes of playing with it however, I noticed that the phone's new screen which now didn't have the oil spot was actually lifting from the housing about 1mm at the top of the phone and that the buttons were all still loose.
Its easy to imagine at this point how infuriated i was with all the time spent dealing with a phone that should of been right in the first place.. All the waiting, calling and runaround I got only to get a phone that was now even worst!! I could actually see inside my phone and behind the screen. Dust was starting to get inside the phone and under the camera lens and so on and I was really starting to freak out and was completly desperate to fix this issue asap to prevent things from getting worse and worse.
So I decided at this pont to take matters in my own hands and use my old trusty screwdriver to take this thing apart and get
To the bottom of the loose buttons and screen seperation.. I know! Scray [email protected]$ but it had to be done because at this point I needed a working phone for work and nobody seemed to help me. So after watching a few youtube videos, I unscrewed the screws at the back and gently seperated the phone from the metal frame with my fingers.
The whole assembly came out of the metal frame the same komd of way the old HTC phones used to. After doing so, the first thing i found out was that if your going scatch your phones metal frame which makes up most of the phone outer surfice, it's no big deal as it can be swapped out for around 40 to 50 bucks.
Next I noticed that all the buttons (volume and power) aren't adheared to the frame but only clipped in with a few pins stratigically placed. So its normal that they have play and wiggle. They're not gonna break and we're likely engineered to be this way. The wiggling is not really important as it won't affect anything on the phone's motherboard.
The next thing I noticed was that the glue between the inner midframe (the part that holds the motherboard to the screen assembly) also wasn't glued properly and was able to gently seperate it from the lcd/digitizer assembly without a heat gun or anything.. after doing so, the home button fell out and was simply dangling from its flex cable. It wasn't actually glued in place or held in with clips or anything. It's only connected to a flex cable on the left side of the button but thats it. I was easily able to pull it out and inspect it. It was built to be completely free floating between the midframe and the screen.
Which means that again, no need to worry about anything breaking as the home button is not a solidified part to start with and only in place where it is because of the space tolerence engeneered in the screen's home button whole. So it being slightly loose is normal and something that will eventually happen to all note 4's sooner or later. The slight looseness actually makes sense to me as any dust material that will get in between the home button wont get stuck as as much as if the space toleren was less. In my opinion, I thik that iPhones have less issues like this as the home button is part of the screen assembly and is also round.
In the end, I wasn't able to adhear the screen back in place as I didnt have double sided tape but manages to send it back to samsung and get it serviced again. I clearly asked them to fix it properly this time and it looks like they finally did and glued it back properly now.
This was a crazy experience and all I can tell you is that I definatly got an up close look of this phone and decided to keep it afterall as it's still better than a refurbished one and also because it's super easy to repair if anything ever broke on it.
Anyways i know this is a long post but I thought I'd share my experience with everyone and put some of your worries to rest.
Cheers!
So I got my Note 3 from eBay a few weeks back, and I noticed that the power button was sunk in a little, doesn't click, and needed to be pressed harder than it should be to make it work. I watched a YouTube video that showed how to replace the (outer) button, so I had a look. Turns out that I think someone had already opened up the phone before, as the gold disc part that you see in the video at 2 mins (https://youtu.be/h5s0JX8zrYM?t=2m) was missing, and all that was where the gold disc should be was a small silver disc (which I imagine lived under the bigger disc). Long story short, putting it all back together didn't make any difference... I've been able to use small pieces of folded aluminium foil to replace the missing disc, and depending on how thick the piece is I can make the button super sensitive, mostly resulting in it sometimes triggering by itself, or just stick a thinner bit in and it's back to how it was.
So a simple power button replacement will not fix the issue. Any thoughts on how I could fix that part where the gold disc should be? Cost?
I know I can live without the power button, and that the phone can be turned on without the power button using a trick with the battery, and I can use a program icon to lock the screen, but I would like a fully functioning phone! I'm reluctant to sell this one for "spares and repairs" (as it's working perfectly apart from this), but I may do if I can't get a better fix on it, as I want this handset to last me until Note 6 or even 7 (It's no longer under warranty).
Okay, the answer to my question is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trXlSVER2JA
Costs about £5 for the flex. Looks easyish enough to replace, and probably easier than looking for a new handset for a good price.
Anyone tried to replace this before?