I need some help getting some things off my old phone that has a screen that doesn't work. I was on vacation not too long ago and my Moto Z Force bit the dust, just wouldn't turn on anymore. I knew I needed a new phone and was having problems with it, most notably the battery. All my stuff was on there, including my boarding passes to get home, so I stopped by a Verizon in Hawaii and bought the most expensive souvenir I'll ever buy on vacation. All was well and good until recently, when I forgot about getting things I need off the phone, both things for my business and personal stuff.
Long story short, I tried to replace the battery myself and totally ****ed up the screen in the process. The battery works and the phone now turns on, I can occasionally hear it start up and feel it vibrate if I keep playing with things. But the screen is a complete loss, mostly due to my lack of patience and insistence on using too much force. The ribbon is actually intact, but the screen itself is not. I didn't have debugging on because an app I use requires it to be off, but my computer does recognize the phone and charges it. I'm open to buying a new screen if need be, but I'd like to make sure it would work before I spend the money. Occasionally the phone will keep vibrating every few seconds, but that seems to have gone away now. The screen will also show random white or green lines if the phone is on and you bend it or twist it a certain way.
How can I get things off of it without the screen?
If this is in the wrong section, I apologize.
You could use the Moto snap Projector and a mouse...
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Lets say I am sick and tired of my 8525 turning off on it's on randomly during the day and I have loaded 10 different roms all the way back to the stock one, I have ran it with NO aftermarket programs, I have replaced the battery, and I have added support to the sim card to make sure it isn't losing contact and still the phone turns off randomly on it's on.
Sometimes I have noticed that it will turn itself off if I slide the keyboard out (maybe 3 times out of 100 turn offs), but 97% of the time it will do it on it's on sitting on the desk untouched.
If I was going to take my phone apart, is there any ideas or general consensus to what parts might be causing the phone to turn itself off? Should I get a new sim card maybe?
Really sick and tired of my buddy with an Iphone throwing this bug in my face telling me what crap HTC is as well as missing calls.
If the phone is turning all the way off, over and over, then send it in for a replacement. If you mean the screen is just turing off after a certain amount of time, you can adjust that under: "Settings->System (tab)->Power->Advanced->then uncheck Turn off device if not used for x minutes. See if that helps, or maybe its just ur phone and you need a replacement. I sent mine in to ATT and got one back after my screen stopped turning on"white screen of death", heh. So it could just be a hardware issue that you cannot really solve urself...
The phone is turning all the way off on it's on. I have to boot it back up like I had just installed a battery or something.
I am out of warranty and do not want to pay for a refurbished phone since this is my third phone from them during the warranty already (and this ones been the best till now). I would rather someone tell me the board/part and I take it apart and fix it myself. I have the tools, the instruction manual in PDF someone posted a while back, a website with almost every internal part for sale, and experience taking small devices apart (ipods and such) and replacing items, I just want to know if anyone knew of which part could most likely be the part causing something like this before I start replacing things blindly. I plan to go ahead and take it apart and check ribbon cables since I want to replace the whole housing anyway.
Unfortunately, my D900 has the same problem with yours, it turned off when i just sending messages or just touching the screen, and my replacement battery is already on the flight, when i get it, i will test it again. Hopeful, i can get a sweat result~~
Mine doesn't seem to do it when it is in use. I have had to get in the habbit of looking at the LED on the phone to make sure it is still turned on. Gets real annoying trying to say the Iphone isn't all that people think, but then have this little problem and the fact I am on my third HTC product in the year time frame. But the others died within 30 days, this one has lasted 10 months thats why I want to keep it.
Well I think I figured it out. I took it apart and it looks like the black box that has the battery connectors to it and is soldered to the main board has broken loose. I am trying to fix it, but does anyone know how much the main board is if I need to replace it?
My friend asked me to take a look at her phone for her and its got me stumped. Basically it was in her purse, it dropped off the car seat onto the floor of the car, and that was it. When she took it out of her purse to check for messages she turned it on, all she got was a jagged line across the screen. She did a soft reset, and that was the end of it. Now it won't turn on. The only sign that it once had life is the glorious red light that goes solid when its plugged in. Sometimes it stays solid, other times it goes off after a few seconds or minutes.
I've tried that battery in my phone, and my battery in her phone and mine still works and hers still doesn't.
I understand that its probably a brick but are there any last ditch efforts I can try to either verify its toast, or that it still might be salvageable?
Thanks
It may be that something just got knocked loose when the phone dropped.
Check out this thread here - I have read several threads where different members were complaining of similar sounding problem -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=476152
This seemed to work for many people - Keep in mind this thread is for ELf and I am unfamiliar with the insides of the Vogue - however if you open it up and try something similar it might just work. Good luck.
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Hey thanks for the idea. I just tried that putting a piece of plastic behind each of the metal guards and it doesn't appear that it did anything. It certainly makes sense for that to be the problem, but...no dice.
will it hook up to active sync?
Nope. The ONLY sign that was designed to ever work is the solid red light that comes on when its plugged in.
Mods, sorry if I should've posted this in another sub-forum. Just getting to this quickly as I've gotta head out, but would like to know/get any advice on what to do.
My T-Mo G2 just stopped displaying data on the screen one day, but the backlight still worked. It wasn't dropped at the time it stopped working (it was dropped previously, but was inside an Otterbox Commuter case at the time... thought that may not be saying much). At the time this happened, I was working outdoors, had the phone in my pocket, and was sweating while doing somewhat heavy lifting. When I attempted to use my phone, I noticed that only the backlight would turn on when I powered it on.
I could still answer calls by using the touchscreen slide-to-answer thing (purely by memory), so I know that component works. Sliding the keyboard open did nothing.
I disassembled the phone to check for any components that could've gotten twisted, burned out etc..., but this didn't appear to be the case. Any ideas?
I've attached a video on what happens when I power on my device. Any advice would help. Replacing the LCD seems to be the cheapest fix, but I don't want to buy one and realise it could be something else. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvDRnVq6vB8
As of yesterday I get no display on my screen. This happened after I dropped my phone - it caught on my headphone cable and didn't actually hit the floor but it must have still received a pretty hard jerk.
I can confirm that the phone is 100% fully functional in all other respects - other than the screen. If I plug it into my lapdock, I get a proper display on the lapdock and everything works perfectly.
The screen is also "on" as the backlight is on but there's just nothing displaying on the screen. The screen (or body for that matter) is also not cracked anywhere nor is there water damage on the phone. The touch also works just fine as I found out when it woke me up in the morning and I spent a good 15 minutes poking and prodding random parts of the screen to disable the alarm.
Anyways, I've already acquired an LG Nitro HD which is an okay phone but its not an Atrix. I really love my Atrix and even buying a new Atrix just wouldn't be the same.
Any suggestions/ideas on possible fixes? I'm up for opening the phone or purchasing parts - I even have the right sized screw drivers. I just don't want to open it up with no plan or idea of what I should be tampering with or replacing.
Hello.
Firstly I would like to say that I am well aware, that there have been threads regarding this problem, however, none of them were of any help. Did not help on solving the problem or even determining the cause. So here is the deal.
My nexus 4 is nearly 2 years old. It has had some tumbles, one of them was in January and caused my screen to crack. The touchscreen was unresponsive, but picture was showing just fine. I figured that I would change the screen and digitizer all together. And that is what I did, and it worked beautifully. I was quite happy to have my phone back, and it was working like this for nearly four weeks now with NO problems, what so ever. This evening has been a bit different. My touchscreen has been going crazy. Sometimes it recognizes the touch, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it registers the touch in a different area and the phone just goes to **** all together. The phone hasn't suffered any damage lately, no falls or anything. As You can see in the screenshots, the screen appears to have a dead zone, right in the middle. Also, the phone lags quite badly, when the touches go crazy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I would really like to avoid spending any more money (that i do not have) on spare parts, if the phone is unusable anyway. Some of the things I tried, that were suggested as possible solutions :
Factory Reset (both from booted phone and recovery mode) And the touch problems got even worse after that.
Clearing the cache (recovery mode as well)
Opening up the phone and checking the connections (which seem to be fine, since)
Hopefully You guys can help me find a solution, that wouldn't require me any more spare parts, cause getting stuff from ebay is not easy in my country. And I cannot even dream about a new phone, firstly cause I do not have any money, secondly - I love my nexus4, I am very used to it. It'd be a shame to let my friend gather dust on a shelf.
EDIT - At some point, the dead zone was non existent, as You can see in one of the screenshots I uploaded. The phone was opened up at the time, the dead zone was gone, but it was back after some lag.