Hi All
I have a water damaged LG V20. Impact of water damage is that the screen backlight does not work. Originally the main screen backlight was u/s but enough light came from the other screen to make out what was on the screen. Now this has failed as well.
The phone itself seems to work OK as the PC recognises it when the USB cable is plugged in and the phone is still making its normal noises when things happen - I just cant see the screen!
So I'd quite like to be able to mirror the screen on my PC but I have no idea how to do that when I cant actually see anything on the V20 screen to set up an app in the V20. So is there
- a product that can be driver totally from the PC end?
- a way to make the screen contents visible however dimly
Or some other solution?
One reason for wanting to do this is the default USB connection is 'charging' and I need to be able to set it to File Transfer so I can get some files off the device. Ding this without being able to see anything on the screen is beyond me!
Slimport HDMI adapter through USB-C
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So this was my first breakdown of a phone...my brother gave me an HD2 with a non-responsive digitizer, everything else seemed to work just fine.
I disassembled it, accidently tearing the flex cable after it gets thin and goes to the volume buttons. Anyway...I replaced the digitizer...thinking I could just modify the volume via software controls, and stupid me had previously set the hd2 to boot into magicdlr always when the phone turned on. So when I turned on the phone I couldn't do anything because it would boot into magicdlr and I had no volume buttons to scroll up and down, and the option selected was boot into windows which was not on the phone (only cm7 was at this time).
Anyway...after getting a replacement flex cable, and reassembling everything, I couldn't get the lcd to work. Backlight would light up, but no picture, no sound, just a vibrate and the backlight turning on. I tore it down, triple checked all the connections, and still the same thing
So I tried a seperate lcd assembly, tripled checked all connections, and still same issue as the above paragraph, backlight but nothing else when I try to power on. I also retried the old flex cable (the one without the volume connector) and that didn't make a difference either.
My only guess is that I messed up the lcd connector on the mainboard, even though it doesn't look visibly damaged in anyway. Does anybody have any other ideas/suggestions?? I would love to get this up and running as its been my first smartphone project...I've done lots of works on desktops and laptops but never smartphones.
gdawson6 said:
My only guess is that I messed up the lcd connector on the mainboard, even though it doesn't look visibly damaged in anyway.
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This is my suspicion too!Even not visible at first sight, try again with a magnifier!
Good luck!
My Atrix's screen randomly stopped displaying anything. You can see that the backlight turns on and off but nothing ever displays. The screen isn't physically damaged and the touch sensor is also functioning just fine. If I plug it into my Lapdock - I can use the phone with no issues, I'll just never get any sort of display on the cellphone's screen (Outputs to Lapdock's screen just fine).
Any ideas or suggestions?
are you able to adjust screen settings when you're on lapdock? (and does this change anything?)
It does sound a hardware issue with your screen... maybe others on here can offer more help
Just tried playing around with the settings - no luck
Do you think maybe the display cable somehow disconnected? I'm not sure how the Atrix is designed but I think you'd normally have a separate cable for backlight, touch, and display. Maybe I'll try disassembling it and report back.
Background:
So my wifes screen on her Samsung Note 3 is completely smashed, and I believe the digitizer is too as the screen does not respond either. the phone turns on as the buttons has lights and I also get a heptic feedback when I hold down the power button on the phone to turn it on.
I need the the photos, photos were not backed up, not on the SD, and USB Debuggin I believe was off. I tried to connect the phone to 3 different PCs and with different cables, but the pcs do not allow me to see the phones camera folder.
replacing the screen would cost more than the phone cost, and the phone is anyway only being used as a second phone so don't want to shed out that much money.
QUESTION:
I have another Samsung Note 3, so my question was, can I take the screen and digitizer from that one and put it on the broken one and then get the photos and then swap the screen and digitizer back?
Also at work we have a Cellebrite device, but when I tried to extract all the data out of the phone with that, the device asked me to press on "allow this computer" on the phone, but as the screen is broken I can't do this :/
I would really appreciate if anyone can shed some light! thanks guys
mus7ii said:
Background:
So my wifes screen on her Samsung Note 3 is completely smashed, and I believe the digitizer is too as the screen does not respond either. the phone turns on as the buttons has lights and I also get a heptic feedback when I hold down the power button on the phone to turn it on.
I need the the photos, photos were not backed up, not on the SD, and USB Debuggin I believe was off. I tried to connect the phone to 3 different PCs and with different cables, but the pcs do not allow me to see the phones camera folder.
replacing the screen would cost more than the phone cost, and the phone is anyway only being used as a second phone so don't want to shed out that much money.
QUESTION:
I have another Samsung Note 3, so my question was, can I take the screen and digitizer from that one and put it on the broken one and then get the photos and then swap the screen and digitizer back?
Also at work we have a Cellebrite device, but when I tried to extract all the data out of the phone with that, the device asked me to press on "allow this computer" on the phone, but as the screen is broken I can't do this :/
I would really appreciate if anyone can shed some light! thanks guys
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Yes I believe it is possible to do such a thing as long as you are prepared to spend enough time on this. Look on YouTube and ifixit and the internet for screen replacement videos and guides and instead of replacing with new screen use the guide to put that other good note 3 screen on your broken one, then use the same guide again to disassemble it and then do as you please by either leaving the broken screen phone or putting the broken screen back into the phone. So yes it is possible but be careful and look at guides carefully.
mus7ii said:
Background:
So my wifes screen on her Samsung Note 3 is completely smashed, and I believe the digitizer is too as the screen does not respond either. the phone turns on as the buttons has lights and I also get a heptic feedback when I hold down the power button on the phone to turn it on.
There is an app to control you phone from pc. Never tried though
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
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Hello everyone,
I have a LG G2 with a broken LCD and digitizer. I can't see a thing. However, I have a mouse and an OTG cable that allows me to still control the phone (I had been doing this when just the glass digitizer screen was cracked but then the LCD went out too). The phone is still functional, since I can still receive/answer phone calls and text via MightyText, so I wanted to know if I could somehow just cast what is displayed on the phone to my computer. I don't think USB debugging is on either. If I could turn on usb debugging, instead, then I would just use some of the other methods I have seen on the web to show the phone screen on my computer.
Thanks in advanced for your help guys!
so I dropped my s6e+ twice in two days... both on the road...
Because of these stupid new trousers I bought and their stupid pockets....
First time smashed the back (lucky)
The second time fell flat on its face and cracked the screen (edge panels) and now the screen just blinks all different colours.
The phone still works e.g I can hear notifications and I can unlock the fingerprint sensor.
I'm trying to get sidesync working as it effectively mirrors your devices screen and even allows you to make calls etc which would be great.
I have previously set this up and have it installed on my pc and s6e+ but it doesn't seem to be connecting. I have also researched installing airdroid (remotely via play store) then trying to launch it wirelessly with adb (as my usb port is also broken) but it doesn't seem to be an option without the USB.
Anyone have any ideas?