Sorry for the capslock, but I really want my OP5 back, i miss the screen, the battery life, which would be even better now because i have a brand new one in it, and it still is nothing more than a paperweight.
I have an OG Pixel XL thats snappy enough after a custom kernel, but the battery life is absolute sh*t, and it has half the RAM.
I didnt see anything damaged, i checked every port, connector, and junction with an endoscope out of sheer curiousity.
This all started about 4 months ago, driving home, and i was at a red light, got a text, started to respond, and it just quit.
I tried everything, new firmware, new OS entirely, aforementioned I replaced the screen & battery.
I've just recently gotten around to replacing the screen, and i was so hopeful and excited, I've never cried over a smartphone but after you slave over one for almost 3 1/2 hours, you become attached to it.
Well, I did.
Either way, I love this phone, and i'm praying there's someone who would look down on me in pity with my half-the-time-not-lasting-a-night-while-not-even-DOING-ANYTHING-Pixel XL-self
lss: i have a mint condition paperweight, please God send someone to help me.
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Hi all, its been a long time since Ive posted, but I recently killed my almost 3 yr old TyTN by leaving it in my pocket while sand blasting, Ive since replaced it with a TyTN II, but was hoping maybe I could refurb it, and give it to a family member.
Initially about 6 months ago it got a light blue tint, after I tossed it onto the floor irritated from a lagging pocket IE, but when the sand got to it, it was gritty sliding it open the first time to clean it, and even after cleaning, a few days later the screen started randomly turning white, and then finally stayed that way.
Im unsure if its the ribbon cable or what, it looks pretty good still, and Ive taken the phone apart and tried to get it to work with just a board, cable, and screen, but no luck. When I plug the phone in to a pc, AS still comes up, and it would even white screen while I was talking on it, and still worked, so I think the main board is still ok.
I was just curious of anyone happened to have an old bricked unit laying around, or a bulk of parts for a decent price, it looks like buying the parts individually would cost more than just a new refurb.
The phone has actually been a pretty rugged, took lots of abuse over the yrs, and kept ticking.
Thanks,
Dru
Edit: Hopefully I havent stuck this in the wrong spot, I just noticed the marketplace section. Its been a long week, move it if need be.
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hi.i sent you private message.i have a bricked hermes.
Hey Peeps, ok so today i bought a Google Nexus 7 (thinking good make tablet and all that), it was 2nd hand, and i see great development for it, unlike the Lenovo one i have.
Now it was 2nd hand, and immaculate, boxed, bought from CEX UK, Tablet comes with 2 year warranty so i have peace of mind, it wouldnt power up in shop, dude said it had been sat in the display for a few weeks left on and battery was dead but its fine, so, im home, to my dismay, Plugged charger in, and nothing, no beeps, no battery indicator or lights, nothing, tried a different charger, same thing, tried usb, no difference, so i tested all the chargers on my phone, theyre fine, so i googled and found so many random silly posts about press this button for 10 secs, do this etc etc, im sure youve all read them before, but i know this can happen to any android tablet, so im still confident of a fix, but ive tried em all, pulling the battery etc and still, nothing.
Now i know the tablet works because the store test all equipment they purchase before accepting the item, so its clear the battery has been left to drain away, and im reading on here that this can be a real pain with the Nexus.
Im stuck, can anyone give me any advice please, ive finally bought a tablet that has good XDA support and Development, i really dont want to take it back and have to swap for a different one.
Any help appreciated, must be a simple fix for this.
First of all, hello to all Note 4 owners and my deepest sympathies to those affected by this "bug" (whatever it actually is).
I got used Note 4 in March 2016. It was trade in for my Sony Xperia and guy told me he had it for around a year. I liked this nice device. It had great display and served me very well. Excellent, even better term.
It was until December 2016 when dreaded bug appeared, and I knew nothing about it at the time. You already know it - lags, restarts, freezes, unable to turn on, going to download mode, harder and harder to start up...
How it happened is what amazes me most. I have 2 batteries, both original. I exchange them sometimes when I am on longer time without charger. This night (before it all happened) I let phone charge down to 0% because it showed false % in battery bar. It would die at 15% and not charge over 92% for example. This was factory battery and not my spare one I got later. I found out battery % is reset each time I let it charge down all the way, then after it shuts down I charge it up and it fixes the percentage bar temporarily. Anyway, as I was saying, that night (day before I experienced the bug) I wasn't in a good mood and phone died on me sometimes in the early night. I was annoyed and I started up the phone, it got to homescreen then shut off because it was empty. I did it again. This time it got to boot animation. Again. Again. How foolish of me. I did it until phone couldn't be turned on at all. Then I set it up to charge and left it overnight. Tomorrow I took it and left to work. It was peak 100%.
Around 10AM I got some messages on facebook messenger, and I wanted to check them out and reply, I took a break from working. In middle of my typing, phone simply froze. Froze, it wouldn't react to physical buttons, virtual keyboard, nothing. Screen was on non stop with frozen facebook messenger, virtual keyboard on screen and my unfinished message.
I took out battery and turned it back on. Phone was never the same since then... First "light" freezes and after second or two it "let's go" and all messages I typed appear instantly in messenger. Sometimes I press power button to wake device it wouldn't right away. It was getting harder and harder... after investigation I learned about this production "flaw" from samsung, I've read many pages about this error, many of those here on XDA (by the way community here is wonderful)...
I bought another device because Note was getting in state of unusable. I left it alone on table and it stand there for some time.
I couldn't give up it's wonderful screen, power, pretty TouchWiz... and after I've read a lot about this, I decided to buy new motherboard. I got one from ebay in late August and it arrived sometimes in middle September. 60 US dollars. I asked seller will all functions work, is IMEI blacklisted, is WI FI working, does it has good memory chip (which is culprit for bug it seems) and seller kept saying to me everything works, is tested one by one before shipping, and he said "it must work, 1 year warranty!" I smiled a bit, it's how he said it.
I ordered also some tools for disassembling phone as I wanted to do it myself. Very cheap, 7$ and there is everything there, really nice kit. It got to me before motherboard. Then it arrived. Same night I wanted to do it, I couldn't wait to use my note again. I missed it.
One friend at work which owns mobile store and repair, told me to wait until tomorrow, he will do it for cheap but I was not patient enough. I thought I can do it. After couple of youtube videos I started it... Bottom line is I didn't heat up the device to loosen the glue and I ended up breaking the screen... And couldn't attach screen to motherboard, because Samsung made it hard without removing the screen too. I went to my friend and he scolded me for not waiting few hours and eventually found me used screen for 75$ more... They are 150$ around but he took it from some friend of his own to help me because he felt sorry and he got that friend's phone, got out the screen and transplanted it to my motherboard and casing over for free. I have working Note again...
Now, I don't know what to do with it? Do I sell it? Use it? I felt free to attach some screenshots from it, to add up to collective knowledge of XDA (it was my intention with this story in the first place). Who knows... maybe some info from here might help someone, sometimes.
Phone info showed my phone (motherboard) is made in 01.2016. Brickbug check app can't identify the memory chip (shows production date as 11/1999 which is not possible for note 4). It is fast now, one screenshot proves it. Friend said he stress tested the board (whatever it means) and it seems fine. All functions work, I tested everything too. Board color looks different - shade of green is different. KNOX warranty void status 0x0.
What is opinion of fellow XDA's about this? Do I use this thing, sell it... it cost me more than it's worth, and selling it will be just extracting mere costs I invested. But I like the device... I feel like just going through with it, whatever happens this time... maybe my pain with emmc fail is over.
Maybe some other members reading this, can screenshot their brickbug check app statuses? Those which have "healthy" devices and those having emmc issues too? Maybe we can build database of good chips, and which devices may be "safe"... I will sure add my results here in attachments.
I wish everyone owning this good little device much luck and as less problems as possible...
PS Mods can move thread to some other one regarding this issue but I'd like it stays thread of it's own... but I will conform to decision of Mod team. This is wonderful and helping site, thanks goes to owners which built it and mod team keeping the order, as well as userbase for contributing to collective knowledge and "hacking" the android and devices in a good way.
StreetKing
Two and a half years and still no issues. I'll gladly contribute to your database since I seem to have one of the "good" chips.
Had a bootloop today on my phone lgg6 Australian version. It was charging and over heated then would go to the LG logo and keep rebooting then it went to a yellowish screen with a whole heap of code about the battery. I pulled the phone appart to see if I could find anything wrong. And to my astonishment the heatsink paste was dried up and powdered. Cleaned it up replaced the thermal paste put it back together and works great. Also noticed doesn't get as got especially when charging. Hopefully this doesn't happen to anyone else. I noticed also in the last two weeks it's been sluggish and dozer a few times also rebooted once.
Any proof?Any pictures/videos about that?I just can't believe in this-
"heatsink paste was dried up and powdered,Cleaned it up replaced the thermal paste put it back together and works great".Looks like a bull**** for me,honestly.
Um your a moron why would I say it do ****
This is what happened
Then it bootlooped. Seriously I was trying to be helpful. Some people.
I'm not saying you're a troll,i just wanted to see a proof of that,ok?And that means i am a moron?
We'll learn to try not to be insulting.
And I didn't get any pictures of the heat sink paste but it was a pink powdery substance that wiped off when I touched it. Haven't had a good run with phones lately my Nexus 6p bootlooped and can't be repaired and now my lgg6 did and could be which I thought was pretty awesome. Considering the last LG phone I owned was a lgg2 which was pretty easy to work on also. I won't be buying another Huawei phone ever again that's for sure. I have owned every Nexus since the first one and they have all been great for what they are. I wouldn't mind buying a LG v30 as I didn't realise I couldn't unlock the bootloader when I bought this.
Hi
Just to say that same issue just happened couple of minutes ago... I didn't know G6 could run this bootloop problem. I had this issue with my old G4, now the G6...
I think I'll say ciao to LG even if I really like their product!
The phone is almost a year old now. Have you ever heard of a bootloop case? I'm pretty sure if there were problems like G3/G4 had, we'd knew already. Fortunately, the g6 is a sturdy device, both software and hardware, and it takes a lot of heavy usage every day. Not to mention flashing and testing custom roms almost daily,
This happened to my phone out of the blue last night. Kept on alternating between black screen and the lg logo. Did the reset, power button and volume down but that just gave me the same yellow screen. Charged in I could get the looping, unplugged with would just go black then back to yellow if I tried to reset or selected reboot. Then it just went dead despite having approx 50% battery. Unfortunately I bought it from eglobal about 10 months ago so I'm not holding out much hope for a successful warranty claim.
Thanks for the info above, there seems to be very little about this issue out there so at least I hae something to try.
I have the dreaded S7 that only has the Eng boot image to root it. G930p. I change the wallpaper put it on the charger because the battery was quite low, and came back a few minutes later to a black screen or a completely off screen, but all on-screen touchdowns work, touches work because I can open the lock screen with swiping, and on-screen buttons work because I can turn it off. Also all the LED lights work. Yet I still can't see anything on the screen and I've tried touching all over to see if the brightness may have been turned all the way down. I have read online that when the battery gets too low the screen dims to a certain level until the battery dies or the phone is plugged in. In some cases at the battery is too low the phone fails to wake up when it's plugged in and the screen goes out. Now here's the problem I can't figure out when the phone is in download mode therefore after flashing firmware I can't go through the proper steps of factory resetting the device because I can't see the screen. Now there may be a couple of reasons why this happened one being having used in Xposed module to remove some status bar icons. Now I didn't have issues with the same exact phone on Android 7 with the Xposed module blocking status bar icons so I use the same module for this device which is now on Oreo. However I am used to seeing the screen stay on and a warning pop-up saying the system user interface has crashed and usually that warning presents itself over and over until the status bar icon is replaced. Now I did have to go about a different way of doing this on Oreo. Since turning off data doesn't actually make the data indicator disappear I turned on airplane mode to get rid of it and then made the airplane mode icon disappear because that Xposed module will not make the data icon disappear. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get this device back I just want someone to tell me the screen is not dead and it's still able to be brought back that would make me happier at this moment.
Hey, i hzve an s7 edge myself i spent the extrra doe and got the one with dual sims and 128gb motherboard as well. It's been my bae ever since. its been tied to me everywhere i go. 3 or four jobs the lake, hiking, skiing, the shower while it was all original She's fell out of my pocket into the toilet while i was bent over cleaning. Don't get me started how many times ive dumped it out of my lap getting out of the car or bed. what im getting at is im not the type of guy to buy a lambo and leave it at home while i take everybodies pink slips with the camero. I bought the one i wanted and i use the **** out of it because i love it. Ill try to shorten this up a bit here. I had my girlfriend cussing me like a moron when i bricked it 10 minutes in to its 1st full charge. But I straightened it out that morning and then i took the plastic off and slapped it in an $80 case because i used to own a umi super and the screen on that thing would break if you laid you hand on it too hard while you were driving and since this phone cost like $400 more i was bound and determined to not break it like the umi. (That phone puts anything ive ever play edwith to shame when it comes to performance but still to this day theres not one case that covers the screen that fits that phone).With the curved screen and that price tag There was no other way to go at the time i know where to get a case to get the job done for much less now but ...Any ways what i first started having problems with was battery life turned charging port problems. Basically kept a clean rom and fresh apps to for the longest time just to keep the damn thing on for a couple of hours at work when. It never lasted more that 4 hours even when it was brand new but if i kept the screen off i could just make it through rush and still have some sort of music or movie the whole time. Eventually it ended up strapped to a power bank because maybe its just me but 3 or 4 hours isnt **** for a phone battery . i mean who buys a mini tv that only plays the shows you like and its backwards compatible all psxsegatendo 1 and 2 games and turns the screen off. battery life to me is how long it will last on high full blast and a little flash light just in case. every thing I read about this thing raved about its all day 2 with the screen off battery life. Talk about everyone being liars my umi had a little bit bigger battery by the specs but it would last like 4 days if it was half dead and i realized i was gonna be in the woods for a while. what i'm getting at is eventually no matter if i kept my storage and apps clean or not the it was gonna be dead real quick if i didnt have it plugged in. No problem i just settled into carring my phone around on a power bank the size of a brick. Talk about rocking it old school. I might as well have been walking around the appartments with the house phone and the dock. Around here if you get your phone fixed you do it yourself or you can just plan on them breaking the damn thing or bugging it or losing it out of spite and after i did the screen on my umi a couple of times i was not looking forward to doing my edges. I wasnt sure it was in my skill set. I'll have you know when my charging cables started going bad so often that i was staked out trying just daring a ***** to get close to my phone you know drawing down on servers at waffle house because i would go take a piss and somebody broke the wire i just bought at the store across the street oh hell no. Somebody was gonna die either some random waitresses or that f**king wire knome that gets me every time slip up and zone out or it was gonna be my phone. so researched a little bit and made a few calls and ihad a tuperware container with $600 worth of screws and stickers. I say it again i have you know when i finally had to replace the battery my phone was in mint condition there wasnt a scratch on it. Except the little bit of paint around the inside of the charge port. And i try not to drop my phone and i put it down if i need to use both hands but it was mint condition after it came back from hell the second or third time before. Turns out when i changed the battery i was back to getting a reasonable 4 hours of screen on time but it didn't take long for me to realize it wasnt a tweeked out waho and it wasnt knomes and it wasnt my power bank ****ting out on the quickcharge port ... I just needed a new charge port.heres where we come back around to your question. I bought one and while i was waiting on it it dawned on me that all i really did was pop the back off i might wanna see how hard it was gonna be to change the charge port. So about the time the package came i finally found a video with somebody that actually doing a good step by step tutorial on changing the charge port. Then needless to say i see why i couldnt find video where somebody only changed the charge port. The only way to do it with out doing super micro soldering is to replace the screen because you have to actually dismantle the screen to get the capacitive buttons out. This is because the are actually on a pcb with the homebutton and then wrapped around the frame then the screen is glued down. the only people i saw get the screen loose from tje glass and frame from whatr i could tell where just lucky and happened to have the camera going when they rolled the dice and either tried to hit that 3 degree sweet spot inbetween burning the leds and the glue not melting.. Or they didnt give a **** about this $600 burner phone because they have a whole room full of them for parts in their daddys dust free glass lab that has has every niche piece of tech for doing the job minus the actual machine at samsung. Oh and dont forget the fat mexican kid that stole a bottle of the adhesive remover made for it god knows who he knows that works there but i have to put him in there even though he didnt risk anything because the internet won't tell you what adhesive they use so good luck figuring it out i tried like 15 different chemicals and hes not gonna tell you either and he made sure to put it in a different bottle so you cant tell from the video. you might keep on being positive and think well i saw new screen s for like 30 dollars 10 if its used but let me tell you they used to be 50 with everything you need to do it fairly easily . Those $10 $15 are at leaste 30 now and they dont come already fastened to a frame and most dont even have the glass that goes over it. All this is assuming that you still have a mint condition untouched screen thats still ok. If you actually need the screen its no skin of your back now that i told you what you are getting into most straightend you out so theres not much trial and error where you spent 50 80 on parts you cant use before you just go ahead and breakdown and buy the whole thing even though the pieces are less than half cost because most people dont have the equipment and know how to properly use them and get the job done right. Now once you sit with this price tag for a while and decide if you guys can get along with each other after that much money comes up missing. It's a piece of cake to change basically the hardest thing is getting some of the cables to actually snap back onto the different pieces. the rest might take you 30 minutes or an hour but its really kindercarden low level difficulty you just have to have a blow drier or hopefully a heat gun. so here it is the original samsung screen is the only one, out of the 4 screens that i got my hands on, that the touch digitizer or whatever still works after the screen is out. The rest must have had the electronics tied together because they would work with just crack but if the screen goes out all the way none of the screens i had were resposive to touch. so try and get that thing re flashed to stock and see if that helps. i doubt it but ive seen it before . Now its been a year since i bought a screen so they may have doubled by now but last time i bought one I got one of what is understood to be one of the better ones actually put together in a factory with the gold foil caps where the different screws go and it wasnt pulled off a parts phone. and the cheapest if could find was $100 and tax and shipping it WAS like 120 american keep in mind 2 or 3 months before that i bought the same thing for $50 to the door frame and all. if i had to do it again i would definatley buy a used original if i could find one with no burn marks. There were hot boys in china selling the **** out of some screens off phones they stole and parted out like a chop shop would do a car. but i couldnt see past the used part the first time i replaced my screen especially since if every thing was as it should be in the world i wouldnt be taking a perfect screen and throwing it in the trash because nobody at any of these 20 something electronic repair places in my town has the nuts to take a soldering gun to my phone an replaceing the port its self. Oh and one more thing dollar for dollar they wanted exactly the same amount of money at the shop to replace the screen if you don't think you can do it they said 120 for an s7 edge. but the piece of mind was well worth doing it yourself once you get into it and see how easily it can be done.
Sincerely Walter,