hi, i've got an xperia x1 and when i boot i only get a black screen, i'm not sure but i think touch isn't working. volume works because i can hear the sound. plz help me fix this!!! i've got no phone now
plz pm me
kakker-kakkerlak said:
hi, i've got an xperia x1 and when i boot i only get a black screen, i'm not sure but i think touch isn't working. volume works because i can hear the sound. plz help me fix this!!! i've got no phone now
plz pm me
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So you think that the phone is working, just that the screen isn't? Maybe the ribbon between the two halves of the phone, is loose? Do any buttons on the top half work e.g. Call, End Call, Up, Down, Left or Right?
Sounds like you got a flex ribbon issue. My phone first started acting strange as it went black when in landscape mode and then eventually the screen went black altogether. Volume worked and everything but the screen was messed. I had it happen to me twice in 15 months, with the first time happening when I still had warranty on my phone. I sent it off to SE to get it fixed and it took them over 5 weeks to get my phone back to me. If you phone is still in warranty you might want to send it them to get it fixed. If not, SE can fix your phone for a fee. Not sure what the price is though because they told me that they couldn't attempt to fix it because I told them my phone had water damage marks on it. If you are brave and bold, you could open it up yourself and try to fix it. I ordered a flex ribbon from Cnn.cn and am awaiting delivery. You can find instructions on how to disassemble your X1 via this forum or search it on youtube. There is also another thread around the forum that has a flex ribbon fix and the author's guide to having his flex ribbon last longer. I'm at this stage now, I have my X1 disassembled and awaiting the ribbon and a new housing to replace my old cracked one. If you do want to attempt to open it up, you'll need a torx t6 screwdriver and a small flathead (the screws on the X1 are phillips but my experience is that it strips it more than unscrew it).
Good Luck and hope this helps.
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Sounds like you got a flex ribbon issue. My phone first started acting strange as it went black when in landscape mode and then eventually the screen went black altogether. Volume worked and everything but the screen was messed. I had it happen to me twice in 15 months, with the first time happening when I still had warranty on my phone. I sent it off to SE to get it fixed and it took them over 5 weeks to get my phone back to me. If you phone is still in warranty you might want to send it them to get it fixed. If not, SE can fix your phone for a fee. Not sure what the price is though because they told me that they couldn't attempt to fix it because I told them my phone had water damage marks on it. If you are brave and bold, you could open it up yourself and try to fix it. I ordered a flex ribbon from Cnn.cn and am awaiting delivery. You can find instructions on how to disassemble your X1 via this forum or search it on youtube. There is also another thread around the forum that has a flex ribbon fix and the author's guide to having his flex ribbon last longer. I'm at this stage now, I have my X1 disassembled and awaiting the ribbon and a new housing to replace my old cracked one. If you do want to attempt to open it up, you'll need a torx t6 screwdriver and a small flathead (the screws on the X1 are phillips but my experience is that it strips it more than unscrew it).
Good Luck and hope this helps.
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thx for helping me, but the buttons on te front still work and i've got a black screen from booting up, when i slide nothing happens because the screen was already black. so is this still a ribbon problem?? or should i just hard reset and see what happens.
thx everyone
Definitely Flex ribbon issue. I replaced mine and it worked for a bit and now it's gone and done the same thing again. Black screen at start up just like you, sounds and buttons working and everything. I went ahead and replaced the newer flex ribbon with my older one (trying to see if taping up the ribbon would fix the issue) and it worked...until I slid up the keyboard and it went black again. So from my conclusion, yes it's a flex ribbon issue. Thinking about giving up on the X1 altogether now.
Hi, i think i have problem with my screen, it's not work anymore, so I decided to reflash device with official Rom. But it didn't work.
Moreover before windows system start for the first time ir requires to tap on screen to boot. So now I cannot use my TytnII at all.
Is it any options to boot it without tapping on screen?
Or just to flash with other ROM, but HARdspl is not installed so a bit afraid to brick my phone. please help
hurdleman said:
Hi, i think i have problem with my screen, it's not work anymore, so I decided to reflash device with official Rom. But it didn't work.
Moreover before windows system start for the first time ir requires to tap on screen to boot. So now I cannot use my TytnII at all.
Is it any options to boot it without tapping on screen?
Or just to flash with other ROM, but HARdspl is not installed so a bit afraid to brick my phone. please help
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install hardspl (same procedure as flashing) and then install rom of your choise if it dosn't work have you done any of the following
dropped it in water
gone in the washing machine
etc.... stuff like that
why don't you get a new digitizer??? it's $10 for kaiser?? i've been changing them like underwear...every half a year.
what is it, what's asking you to click on screen? if it's just a welcome screen, put welcome.not file in root.
papo said:
why don't you get a new digitizer??? it's $10 for kaiser?? i've been changing them like underwear...every half a year.
what is it, what's asking you to click on screen? if it's just a welcome screen, put welcome.not file in root.
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hehehe funny expression 'changing them like [email protected]
what do you only change your underwear 2 a year
hehe, i live in Lithuania, so price with shipping will be around 25$. I think this isn't very cheap. Finally got screen working, but after 30min of using again no respond to tapping, then again working fine, and after that again no. it's annoying. I think it's problem with digitizer? I haven't it dropped to water, it almost brand new
hurdleman said:
hehe, i live in Lithuania, so price with shipping will be around 25$. I think this isn't very cheap. Finally got screen working, but after 30min of using again no respond to tapping, then again working fine, and after that again no. it's annoying. I think it's problem with digitizer? I haven't it dropped to water, it almost brand new
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thats good you got it working
hope the problem doesn't happen again
if we assume the problem is harware, it would most likely by at one of two spots.
place, where the ribbon cable is soldered to lcd
or place where two piecies of digitiizer are connnected to each other.
might help if you check on the ribbon and glue a plastic tape all around the edge of digitizer, making it press little bit more on it
well, if that's hw probllem. but first you shoud try different rom. you can reflash without digitizer working. and check for pocket controller or similar if you want you can control pda from pc with it. there are two free and Pocket contr is trial.
if you just want to bypass the "tap here to use your device" message on the first boot up, search for "welcome.not".
create a blank file named "welcome.not" and place it in the root of your sd card and then power on the device for first boot up.
make sure it is a blank file. make sure it is named EXACTLY "welcome.not". if you are doing this with your windows pc, make sure you have turned off "hide file extensions of known file types". otherwise, the file might actually be named "welcome.not.txt" but might show as "welcome.not" on your pc.
search about it for more information.
hi, have tried differnt rom, but problem still persist. screen is not working, but sometimes it starts working very well. but most of the time it not respond. when backlight goes out and touch screen it starts to light but can't touch any options on. So what can be the problem, only digitezer or whole screen?
it was more probable it would be hw. but we need to eliminate all possibilities and reflash was easiest.
Still there is more things which could be the problem.
And there is no way to tell for sure what is it.
Did you say the pda is new? or digitizer?
And then you said when backlight goes off, digitizer will stop working, but still reacting on touch (to light the backlight) Is this right?
When will it stop / start working? Does it change if you press on body - case?
Does it change if you slide keyboard out or in?
There would be a short test each time pda/screen is powered, if digitizer fails in this test, it would be ignored till next test pass. Could this be your case?
digitizer could be broken on corner, or has bad contact inside
- You can test it, if you'll solder test wires on it and measure resistance, which should be around 500 ohms without touch and going down on each touch, can't go higher! test for both H & V
but the same reaction could be if ribbon cable connecting two parts of kaiser is broken (or connector on mobo side)
but if it's new it shouldn't.
and at last there could be problem on mobo. inside the controller chip or on it's connection, soldering. But not very probable.
It definitely looks like bad connection somewhere. You need to find out where, so you'll not buy digitizer if it's good or ribbon cable.
Put plastic tape around digitizer inside, as I wrote before, inspect ribbon cable and digitizer and it's connections. Try to locate event when it goes wrong.
If you'll not open it and check on these things, then maybe get a new part which will show bad, then I don't see how more we could help you.
You can use it without touch screen somehow or get a new phone.
Digitizer is US$8 with shipping to Lithuania. That's really cheap, even for us from central european countries.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HTC-P4450-Ka...m&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item5192adf317#shId
and ribbon cable have fair price too,
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Flex-Cable-R...ewItem&pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3cadad06a3
papo very informative
All i want to add is that it's easier to replace the whole screen with a digitizer already on as the digitizer is very hard to remove since glued to the glass more than likely will get wrecked and not able to replace new, whereas full kit wont cost a lot more and will be less stress just 4 screws on the back plate of Tilt "where sim door is".
Well, it is not new, i've bought it from one girl, but it's like brand new, no scratching at all, very good condition.
also, yesterday i checked all the connection inside it, but the problem persisted.
I think I have understood what kind off problem it is...when remove sim card it stars to work perfectly. When insert sim, it work some time very well. Then again screen start not to respond, any ideas?
hurdleman said:
Well, it is not new, i've bought it from one girl, but it's like brand new, no scratching at all, very good condition.
also, yesterday i checked all the connection inside it, but the problem persisted.
I think I have understood what kind off problem it is...when remove sim card it stars to work perfectly. When insert sim, it work some time very well. Then again screen start not to respond, any ideas?
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mm, I know some pretty good spells, but you need a magic wand to make them work. If you don't have any you need to:
tape the screen as I wrote before (half millimeter tape),
if no help, hardwire analog multimeter on digitizer and test it properly (while pda off and open) as I wrote before
tape bended paper across connector on mobo.
OR just get a new digitizer straight away. it's $8 and pretty good chance that it's the issue. it's maybe 50% chance but what I mean is:
You have $200 phone (now on market) let's assign it 200 points
It's working on 20% with digitizer broken, now you have 40 points
digitizer 8 points to add. With 50% chance to fix = 16 points to add
result: by adding 16 points you gain 160 (200 - 40) that's 10x gain = good risk
WTF with my screen? post photos. on the first my screen, on the second lcd screens which are beiing sold on ebay.
I decided to buy new digitizer, but when looked at my screen, it realized have completely different layout where digitizer is connecting to screen. Am i right? Is the digitizers which are sold on ebay will suit my screen?
that's fine. they all work. They are not oem but works well. Maybe not so scratch resistive.
You may get the digitizer solo, but they will not include a special double side tape which goes around and is holding it together. You can make that tape, but it's pain as stylez said. A lot of cleaning the used old one, then cutting small strips of ds-tape. and you need to put a paper or something in between two layers of tape as you need a little space in between. And then soldering that ribbon. Better just get whole assembly.
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I see you tried that tape, before you buy it, try the last thing. The place where digitizer is soldered to lcd modul.
On that piece you sent photo of, you need to open back cover.
check the picture:
1. peel off antistatic tape from connector, from up -> down
2. take cover off
3. there will be attachment of digitizer behind the cover, like on your second picture.
Check for good connection
AND
check if soldered pins could not be touching the back cover you took off
( i had this problem once)
put electric tape accross it a give it a try - that will isolate it from back cover & make a little pressure if bad connection
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So...I took apart my Nexus One to clean the dust from under the screen. I've done this before, but it back together and it worked. But this time, after putting it back together it wont power on. I sometimes get a vibrate after pressing the power button. One question though. This time I noticed that one end of the coax cable on the left of the phone is broken and there is no plug on it. Would this be the problem? I don't think it should though since I'm guessing it connects the GPS antenna to the rest, and I dont use GPS on my phone. Any help would be good.
EDIT: I think I didnt connect the LCD good enough.
The co ax cable must be connected to the logic board. If it won't click in connect it then secure in place with a small piece of tape.
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The co ax cable must be connected to the logic board. If it won't click in connect it then secure in place with a small piece of tape.
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As I said, the top plug of the coax has been ripped off.
Do you know if that's the problem?
Again, when I push the button it vibrates like it usually does on boot, but doesn't show anything on screen.
I pulled out the board again, trying to find the problem.
EDIT!!!! I just noticed on the LCD ribbon cable there are a few bent pins. I think that will be my problem. I'll get it back together in like 15 minutes and report back.
EDIT 2!!!! So yea...two of the pins came off, and are way to small to find. Guess I need to order a new LCD.
Crap, new LCDs are $60+
I've got a replacement screen that my friend had in his house. Mine was broken (both the display and the digitizer, the latter was acting very weird). I did the replacement myself, and when I was finally done, I noticed something. The Touch Screen wasn't working (I could see the image but no input was recognized). I tried opening it and checking every single cable to see if there was anything wrong, but there was nothing looking broken or out of place. When I was going to test it, I noticed another very weird thing. It actually works if I keep the back of the phone off (not the back interchangable cover, I mean the back of the phone that is screwed in place). The problem is that this phone has a very annoying design that makes it so the Wi-Fi, Speakers, Camera and some other stuff don't function well with the back plate off, speacially the Wi-Fi.
I trully have no idea what is happening or what is causing the problem with the touch screen, and have no idea why the back plate makes the screen act funny. Can someone please help me figure this out?
Perhaps something in the digitizer's flex cable is shorting with the back panel. Try putting a layer of electrical tape between the flex cable and the back panel.
Hi guys, while changing the battery of the phone last week, the part you see in the picture was broken. unfortunately the power key is not working. I need to find the part on the motherboard that I circle. Where can I get it? I have to search for this piece.
Bad luck.
Even if you can find that small connector, changing it is going to be very hard. If only you had broken the cable instead - they are usually available as spares, and easier to replace.
I suggest that you look for another broken Nexus, and swap the motherboards.
Looking closely at your picture, it seems that only the plastic guide at the bottom is missing, while the connector itself is intact. Though the picture isn't really sharp enough to tell for sure.
But if that is the case, you should be able to find a way to attach the cable anyway. Align it carefully to the upper guide. And tape it if it seems loose.