Hello everyone, I bought a replica screen from an online seller who doesn't want to refund me.
I found a thread in this web site that said some replicas only worked with 4.2.2, so I downgraded from 5.1 to 4.2.2 and touchscreen works, but I don't want to be stuck with this version, some of the apps I use doesn't work with this version, is there any way to make the touchscreen controller work with at least 4.4.4?
I read a thread from iFixit called "Touchscreen not working after display change"and the user projectgus says something about CyanogenMod fixing the issue for a while or that's what I understood.
Is there anything else I can try?. any advice?
I have never heard this about touches only working on 4.2.2. I have heard about nexus phones with damaged Emmc chips that will boot loop on any rom above 4.2.2.
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I have never heard this about touches only working on 4.2.2. I have heard about nexus phones with damaged Emmc chips that will boot loop on any rom above 4.2.2.
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Me neither that's why I bought the screen, it was cheaper than other sellers but not for much, after recieving the screen I replaced it right away and it was not working(I had 5.1), contacted the seller and asked to solve the issue, either send me another screen(which would have been the same replica screen) or refund me, but didn't respond and now his account is closed and the website it's not going to pay for it, so I was stuck with it, found out about this solution and flashed my nexus to 4.2.2. and worked but some of the apps I use need at least 4.4.4.
I will have to save up for a oem screen replacement, I live in a small town and no ones replaces digitizer... so buying an oem digitizer it's not an option...
Oem screens are expensive. I replaced a few broken screens using pre-assembled lcd/frame/glass units from aliexpress and have not had any problems installing custom or stock Roms.
If the phone only works on 4.2.2, it's possible the Emmc chip is damaged.
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Hi folks
My Touch HD digitiser has gone faulty and its only 6 months old
or at least thats what i thought because the screen was not responding to touch. i am a electronic technical person so not totally naive.
I was using the wonderful NRG roms with no problems whatsoever.
I tried to replace the stock rom and spl before sending it back to HTC, but i had no way of checking it throughly because i could not get it past the calibrate screen.
Htc now want £159.00 to replace the motherboard, and they state the reason as the unit having foreign firmware installed which damaged the motheboard.
now the Htc touch HD was working perfectly apart from the fact that the screen would not respond to touch. and i admit it would run a little warm at times but nothing excessive. It has nerver been dropped. does anyone think that a complete motherboard would need to be replaced because of "foreign firmware"?
Is Htc trying to rip off their customers?
clearly the xda developers are just enhancing an already great product with their releases of wonderful firmware
this is clearly a hardware fault and not software.
please wade in with your opinions
hi, I totally agree with your statement, but if you restored the stock boot loader and then the stock rom you could say that you tried to do and hard reset of the device and because the screen didn't work you were unable of calibrating it. I think they can't prove that you used a different rom.
hope you solve soon.
greets,
Nicola
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Hi folks
My Touch HD digitiser has gone faulty and its only 6 months old
or at least thats what i thought because the screen was not responding to touch. i am a electronic technical person so not totally naive.
I was using the wonderful NRG roms with no problems whatsoever.
I tried to replace the stock rom and spl before sending it back to HTC, but i had no way of checking it throughly because i could not get it past the calibrate screen.
Htc now want £159.00 to replace the motherboard, and they state the reason as the unit having foreign firmware installed which damaged the motheboard.
now the Htc touch HD was working perfectly apart from the fact that the screen would not respond to touch. and i admit it would run a little warm at times but nothing excessive. It has nerver been dropped. does anyone think that a complete motherboard would need to be replaced because of "foreign firmware"?
Is Htc trying to rip off their customers?
clearly the xda developers are just enhancing an already great product with their releases of wonderful firmware
this is clearly a hardware fault and not software.
please wade in with your opinions
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Unfortunately HTC can legally stand by their clauses with foreign software on device as having a cooked rom on device voids warranty. I know you tried to restore back stock, but you couldn't tell and if appears they have still found your NRG rom on device.
However they are hiprocrites as this does not affect the motherboard and they are just lOoking for any excuse to void warranty which unfortunately you provided.
I believe others have been in your shoes before and posted similar threads. Try searching for these and see if they can shed any light.
but how can they get away with that?
If you buy a computer (which is what the Touch HD effectivly is), then you are entitled to use any operating system you whsh. wether it be Linux, Windows or Apple MAC. and if you develope a hardware fault then this cannot invalidate your warranty???
I dont get it? also how can they say it needs a new motherboard when it is clearly the digitser which has gone wrong?
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but how can they get away with that?
If you buy a computer (which is what the Touch HD effectivly is), then you are entitled to use any operating system you whsh. wether it be Linux, Windows or Apple MAC. and if you develope a hardware fault then this cannot invalidate your warranty???
I dont get it? also how can they say it needs a new motherboard when it is clearly the digitser which has gone wrong?
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I believe someone else asked this same question in another thread, though which one I have no idea. They asked similar question about how does HTC get away with this and I believe (if my memory bank is working) they wrote a letter to them and where able to still get it under warranty (don't hold me to this though) as they argued a new rom wouldn't affect digitizer. Possibly worth having a search for if you can find it.
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Htc now want £159.00 to replace the motherboard, and they state the reason as the unit having foreign firmware installed which damaged the motheboard.
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That Sucks.
A friend of mine had a similar problem,
He had a broken microphone,
and HTC sent a similar letter =>
You'll probably find that the digitizer is on the motherboard. Looking at it, it doesn't look like it can be separate. (Where would it fit?)
It does run a bit hot sometimes and heat is bad as you would know.
I have just read the warranty information and it states that the warranty is limited to the hardware as originally supplied,and makes no mention of any software or operating system. and by the very nature of the product it was made for installing third party software, operting system of choice ect.
in fact it reads " this limited warranty applies only to the hardware components of the product as originally supplied and does not apply to any software or other equipment".
I will persue this and post the outcome
Unfortunately "Software" and "Firmware" are two separate things. While you can install any operating system on your computer, that software isn't a part of the hardware.
In the case of smart phones (windows mobile phones), the operating system is Firmware, and not software. The difference here is that the Firmware is PART of the hardware. Similarly the bios rom on your computer is part of the motherboard hardware. To clarify, software is interpreted and run by hardware. On the other hand, firmware operates the hardware which is why changing to an unapproved firmware also means altering the hardware.
Unfortunately they have this clause in the warranty because you CAN destroy your hardware with a malicious rom, just like you can fry your harddrive, cpu and stuff with a malicious rom on your computer bios. You can have umpteen viruses or malicious 3rd party apps on your device and nothing it does can harm the hardware because it doesn't actually change how the hardware itself works. Firmware is different in that it changes internally how a piece of hardware works and in doing so, can damage it.
I do agree though, that in this case they're looking to void the warranty, but the truth is that the money they loose on one device under warranty must be covered by the profits made by 20+ other sold units (remember, revenue can just go towards warranties).
Hey man, you play the game, sometimes you lose. I took my phone apart, fallowed the factory service manual to the letter but I knew there was a good chance they would notice the missing "void" stickers and I had to pay for the repair ( for the problem that was there before I took it apart). I took it apart and that voids the warranty, so is life...
Hi everybody!
I have had an i9505 for a couple weeks in june before returning it because the screen was terrible (there were faint colored lines when displaying plain grey). One month after the order, the store handed me a different model because their provider was out of stock : an i9515.
The seller assured me that it was the same with kitkat preinstalled. Judgeing from the characteristics printed on the box it looks so, but I noted a couple differences :
- Antutu detects it as a Galaxy Note 3 LTE-A
- the front cam looks different
- there was a sticker on it saying it was europe only
- it appears to heat a lot less than the i9505 i had.
Here are all the things i could tell about it. I would like to know if there are more differences, and if it's a better or worse speced model than the i9505. Also, can I pick ROMs and Kernels made for the i9505 for my i9515?
Thanks a lot in advance!!
A simple google search shows that the i9515 is a "value" edition, so probably its a cheaper variant. If i were you, i would go back to the seller and get back a i9505 or demand a refund.
Good luck.
I just got a gt-i9515 as well.
From what I read on other italian forums it appers to be just the same as 9505, but with KitKat 4.4.2 already installed.
Just found another thread here on XDA... probably there are some small differences as well,
and seems digitizer is not working correctly with touch recovery and CM11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2767371
alter1000 said:
Just found another thread here on XDA... probably there are some small differences as well,
and seems digitizer is not working correctly with touch recovery and CM11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2767371
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awww if I get all this well, My phone is the exact same as a 9505, but the touchscreen is different in a way that makes 9505 ROMs not work on my phone?
yep, lol
A little background:
I have a 2012 Nexus 7 that I gave to my 6 yr old after I got the Nexus 10 - he's taken pretty good care of it, but recently the screen came up cracked. I went ahead and ordered a replacement screen in addition to a new battery and USB/audio port. (Since I was going to have it apart, might as well replace all the stuff in one go, right?)
Fast forward.
Device back together and boots fine, however the screen will not respond to touch input. I didn't think he needed a rooted device and it was interfering with getting OS upgrades, so I went ahead and restored it to stock a while back, however this has caused me to be unable to access his data which I plan on moving over to my Nexus 10 after I get my new Nexus 9. (he'll get the 10)
To the point:
Does anyone know of any particular reason why the screen won't respond? I read something about a driver incompatibility with Lollipop, but really unsure how to proceed without losing everything. Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to sell or re-purpose the 7, but right now it's essentially a brick.
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A little background:
I have a 2012 Nexus 7 that I gave to my 6 yr old after I got the Nexus 10 - he's taken pretty good care of it, but recently the screen came up cracked. I went ahead and ordered a replacement screen in addition to a new battery and USB/audio port. (Since I was going to have it apart, might as well replace all the stuff in one go, right?)
Fast forward.
Device back together and boots fine, however the screen will not respond to touch input. I didn't think he needed a rooted device and it was interfering with getting OS upgrades, so I went ahead and restored it to stock a while back, however this has caused me to be unable to access his data which I plan on moving over to my Nexus 10 after I get my new Nexus 9. (he'll get the 10)
To the point:
Does anyone know of any particular reason why the screen won't respond? I read something about a driver incompatibility with Lollipop, but really unsure how to proceed without losing everything. Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to sell or re-purpose the 7, but right now it's essentially a brick.
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Was the screen touching at all after being replaced? You may have purchased a defective replacement. It does happen, I know, as this is my line of work. Make sure all of the cables are properly seated as well. Did you purchase this from a reputable seller? Perhaps they will work with you on an exchange.
Got it from Amazon. May look into a replacement, but I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with the Lollipop software issue before taking it all apart again....
Hey guys, I haven't been on XDA for years but I'm really in the need of some help... I wounder if you guys have some solutions!
I used to have a Sony SP, the thing broke and I decided to look for a replacement. Buying a new phone wasn't in my budget so I went and looked for a Samsung S4 that had a broken screen, bought the replacement OLED (I think it's an oled display), and took it to a technician to repair it. It was a good buy but little did I know that fixing the hardware on the device will disable my ability to update it! I've wanted to stay stock and not flashing any ROMs on it because I just want a phone that works. I don't want the hassle of having to worry about the latest firmware, and flashing new kernels, I just want a laid back experience. My phone was already rooted when I got it, in fact I had the SuperSU app already installed (which I thought was pretty weird but I didn't think much of it), everything else is stock. Is there any options so that I can update my device that don't require any flashing on my PC?
I have another phone with the same issue, my mothers Samsung S3. Full story, I live in Venezuela and smartphones here are extremely expensive, so obviously if something happens to them you much rather repair it then buying a new one because it's unthinkable to afford one, besides a Samsung S3 is still a good device. So one day the phones screen starts fading black, and it stops accepting touch input, we had to replace the digitizer (Touch Screen), and it functioned like normal! Problem is we needed to restore the device because it was getting a bit bogged down, low and behold, same issue as my Samsung S4. Now I can live without having my firmware updates, but I'd really like to at least help my mom get hers sorted out!
I want to thank everyone who took the time to read this, and that can help me fix my devices!
The reason you can't update your S4 is because you're rooted.
As for the S3, maybe there aren't any updates available.
Samsung stopped updating the S4 like two years ago at Android 5.0 and I don't think the S3 ever got Lollipop.
I'm also pretty sure that replacing a screen won't magically prevent your phone from receiving updates; The restore may have caused that.
I don't know if I am just suffering from correlation is not causation but I feel like the memory usage of the Pie rom was what just caused my phone to boot loop and then green screen. I just decided to use a Pie rom last week and despite seeing information in the threads saying there were issues with memory usage and other stuff I thought I would dive in. I loved the rom, it was working perfectly for 2 days and I enjoyed it. Then all of a sudden it just started having wifi disconnect issues, crackling speakers and finally one time when I was changing the volume on the phone it just BAM... restarted and got stuck at the google screen. I wasn't able to get back into recovery so I tried reflashing that using the BLOD method. That worked long enough to get a stock rom on the phone. I thought maybe I could just use my device like that but now it started going into a green screen and it wouldn't even power up. It did lead me to find information about getting my phone replaced. I think thats the only positive to come out of this for me. Obviously YMMV and flash at your own risk... but in 10 years of flashing I have never had an experience like this. Even with WM devices. I have kept an eye on both the Pie threads in Android Development and I see similar comments to my experience... I just suggest caution to people like me... who might only know what you are doing based on guides.
TLDR - I tried both the pie roms that were available. I decided on the PixelPie Rom. My phone started bootlooping withing 2 days. I think its the maxed memory usage.
Update: I just got an email that LG has fixed the board and they are mailing my phone back. I was afraid they were going to turn me down for one reason or another. I should get the phone in 2 days. I did personally speak with an LG rep over the phone about it since they were mailing me the same phone back. She said she would not be able to opt for me to receive a new phone because that is always based off the determination of the person repairing the phone. She said that if I ever have any more issues with the phone it will be covered by warranty since I am in the system. I would just have to mail the phone in and go through the same annoyance.
LG was nice enough to fix my phone... They also repaired the cracked screen free of charge. I am happy... I am sticking with stock. lol
As I know, there's a way to incrase your RAM sending motherboard to China (or just buying new from Ali) to install up to 4Gb. Can't precisely tell the prise, but something around $100. In some cases that can be a nice way to give your phone the second life.
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As I know, there's a way to incrase your RAM sending motherboard to China (or just buying new from Ali) to install up to 4Gb. Can't precisely tell the prise, but something around $100. In some cases that can be a nice way to give your phone the second life.
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Yeah, I paid around $100 for mine like a half year ago. Works very smoothly with Pie.
My phone started having more issues after the warranty time started running out. The screen isn't working right, the phone is freezing up all the time, its also giving me memory errors. luckily this happened within the 90 days of extended warranty they gave me. Will they ever just completely replace my phone? sigh... heh