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Screen problem or graphics card? Broken Kaiser?

About 10 mins ago I was in the middle of typing out a text message then the screen went like this:
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It's very white, but you can make out some text and icons, the touch screen still works.
I'm using the original O2 ROM on my O2 XDA Stellar, and have never flashed the ROM or HardSPL (Yet!).
i tried booting into the bootloader but the screen is still like that, so I presume this is not a software issue.
Any suggestions before I call O2 for a replacement?
EDIT: I must point out that the screen is still at it's proper brightness, it is just mostly white! Kind of inverted infact.

Hi,
I've the same problem!!!!!!

frasbomb said:
Hi,
I've the same problem!!!!!!
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No way! What device is yours, the Stellar?
Just tried a hard reset with no joy.
About to call O2. Have you done anything bout it yet?

My device is an Italian HTC TyTN II.
I also tried with an Hard Reset, but nothing.......
I sent it to service center.......

Well I've called up O2, who were very good. Because I have had the phone for less than 28 days, they are sending me out a brand new one immediately, and I just swap the broken one with the new one at the door when it arrives!

Same thing exactly happened to me tonight. I guess it's a hardware problem. I'll be calling AT&T tomorrow.

Well I've received my replacement fine. O2 sent it straight out, next day delivery, swapped it at the door.
One interesting thing I have discovered is that the keyboard and external side keys are much better than in my old one. I had initially complained about them,the keyboard was not very responsive, some keys hardly clicked and it was hard to tell if you had actually pressed them sometimes. The new one is almost perfect!

same here humm this is gonna suck now.. anyone know how to return att phone with out an account

Well, my phone started doing that same thing last night.
I bought my Tilt about six months ago and it has been the greatest phone I've ever had.
Last night after touching the Contacts icon at the bottom right corner of the screen the whole screen turned very white just like the photos posted on the first post of this thread. I can still read the text, but the screen is too bright even though it is set to the lower brightness level. If I increase the brightness it gets almost unreadable.
I slided out and tilted the front and it came back to normal. It hapenned again and I did some very small hits with the tip of my finger and it came back to normal. It happened like 5 more times and got fixed back with some small hits with the fingers. However, after the sixth time it has not come back to normal.
It seems to me like some bad or broken contact, specially because it seems to happen when I touch the bottom right corner. I don't think reloading any software will fix this.
Whatever the problem is I will have to solve it myself since I bought this phone over Ebay and mailed down to me to Costa Rica.
I'm planning on opening the front and examining the display today in the afternoon. If anyone has some tips to share with me on this particular problem or on how to open the thing I will really appreciate them.

I did open my Tilt today as well as another good working one from a friend of mine.
The display from the working Tilt works just fine in my phone while my display does the same too bright behaviour.
Looks like a defective display to me. I already ordered a replacement.

solis_andres said:
I did open my Tilt today as well as another good working one from a friend of mine.
The display from the working Tilt works just fine in my phone while my display does the same too bright behaviour.
Looks like a defective display to me. I already ordered a replacement.
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Hey there, how did it work out with the new display ? You already received it and installed? Is it gone now?
May i ask where you ordered the screen?
Thanks

Damn the same problem over here!
I use my Kaiser a lot and i can't without him...

similar problem
there is a solution?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911163#post55969133

Stuck

Hello people,
I have a serious issue with my Wizard. After a lot of searching, trying things, etc, i still can't get it fixed I'm ready to give up because it's driving me nuts :/ So anyway, i bought replaced my dead battery a while ago. My Wizard was rebooting constantly and was more or less useless, and after trying a lot of things i concluded it was the battery's fault, so i replaced it.
After that i flashed to a TNT Professional ROM, and all was good. Or at least, that's what i thought. My reception was almost completely gone, i had no reception for most of the time and the times i had reception it was almost nothing. So i flashed back to the 2.19 radio, wich should be stable and one of the best. This didn't changed an awfull lot
But the worst part, my Wizard continued being unstable, even with my new battery. But this time my Wizard doesn't reboot, it crashes to a white screen. The white screen doesn't appear at once, the screen kinda fades to white, line by line. Weird stuff. So i decided to flash another rom, the WizFlo one (with Manilla).
This rom proved to be even more unstable, and still had the white screen problem.
I've had just about enough of my Wizard right now and i want to flash back to the original (T-Mobile WM5) Rom, to see if that solves the stability issue or not. The problem is, ever since i have the WizFlo rom, i can't flash anything. Not in XP, not in Vista, not in normal mode, not in bootloader mode. I can use Active Sync/Mobile Device Center, the Wizard will connect but won't sync data. And it won't flash ROM's, since i get the "PDA doesn't respond" or a "isn't connected" error :S My PDA does give some error, but the text balloon doesn't display correctly so i can't read it :S (yes, there is a WizFlo fix for this, but that doesn't even install..)
So now i'm stuck with a non-working ROM without the option to flash another rom. Can anyone help?

Hi Johrizz----
Well tell me...
Does your wizard is fine... working but!!!!!!!!! Suddendly!!!!! the screen begins to dissappear line by line and becomes white.... then stucks there and it needs to soft reset!!!??????
Well you hava battery issue your battery is bad!!! dont works!!!! turn on your device fine.... unplug your battery suddendly you see that the screen is getting the same but shutdown of course... so maybe the "new" battery shows full charge but nop! isn truth your batt is lying!!!! hahaha
I felt Like Dr. House
Try to use your old battery full it! at 100% then downgrade to the original then upgrade again to Wizflo if you want... everything with the batt at 100% dont do the upgrade process with your new batt anymore you will gonna brick your phone...
try to find a new one or try your new batt with other wizard maybe witha a friend's wizard. if your friend's wizard starts to ****ed up is your batt if is not... see it at your back case again... i have one with the same problem and when I saw that is not the prob i saw that my batt dont assets very well in mobo and scratch a little the terminals on batt and on the device diassemble it and i see the pins on the device werea little pushed more than normal... and buy a new back case these two things help me a lot without buy a new Battery cell.

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I'm not quite sure i understand your English, but i don't think it's the battery. I mean, i just got a brand new one from the store :S Oh and flashing worked perfectly with the new battery, the "PDA not responding" thing is only since the WizFlo ROM. (But the crashes were even before that)

However....
Do something... if works or dont... try another thing...
Dont come and reject all!!!! Dr. Chase!
hahah I like Dr. house

Oh, really? You're not helping

Amazing!!!!
You are saying im not helping you!!!!????
You are like my mom men!!!!!
So... maybe somebody answers your interesant problem...
See you soon men
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Right, now i really don't understand what you're saying...

First of all,always flash with a fully charged battery,check if the battery is fully charged.
Secondly,Flash on a WinXP machine,its highly recommended,Vista still has problems.Activesync is not required for flashing.So either disable it and delete the partnership with the phone and delete the profile.Diable Anti Virus/Firewall before flashing and try to close as many programs/applications running in the background through Task Manager.Don't use pc for any other purpose like Microsoft office or surfing the net during flashing.
Connection errors are mainly due to weak or dead battery,so confirm you have a good and fully charge battery,your new bought battery cud also be faulty,either recharge your old battery and check it out or borrow/bye a new battery of renowed brand.
Whitening of screen cud be due to many reasons,like weak battery,Flex cable underneath the screen may be faulty or detached or Digitizer of the screen going weak.

Sarcasm....
Hahahaha I have read your green (blue?) square at your signy...
I dont Understand... your not helping me Zabardast!!!
OMG!!!
Sorry Zabardast I need vacations....

Bon Voyage Budy!

Problems with USB/Screen - Help!

On Tuesday I managed to drop my Kaiser in some water. As quick as I could I fished it out, removed the battery etc and put out to dry.
When it finally got to start again I noticed there was no USB - I tried re-flashing using the SD Card which eventually seemed to work, however I still have no USB. The phone charges fine via the usb connector but there's something up with the data lines - No PCs see anything connected to it and even the bootloader just shows serial - no USB.
This wasn't too bad as I can synchronise with my PC via Bluetooth which works fine, as does WiFi, GPS and normal phon operation.
Everything seemed ok until yesterday when the touch screen stopped responding. The phone itself works fine but I can only interact with the hard keys/keyboard.
Anyone have any ideas apart from just see if it magically starts working again? I'm not sure if the flash could be an issue as I had problems trying to flash - kept on getting failures flashing from the SD Card. I'm currently on 3.56, radio 1.65.28.25, rom of 3.57.502.2 (21159 WM6.5)
It would be nice to have the USB but that's not as important as the touchscreen. I'm learning to get by without either...
Help!!! I have tried searching but not come up with anything that works

Dude you dropped your phone in water, it's going to break.

What rom did you flash ? That looks like an AT$T rom with and AT&T Spl, but I see you are on Orange. And where did you come up with WM 6.5 in all this. Please tell us what rom and where did you get it, did you or do have Hard Spl on your phone and if your phone is stock or cooked ?

But...
I would understand it not working at all, but the way that everything seemed to work apart from the usb connection seems weird to me, but then I am not an electronics/hardware engineer, just a software engineer! I've seen elsewhere on the site that a screen that wasn't responding to touch seemed to sort itself days later so there's still hope....
OK... additional information if it helps... the phone itself is a Vodafone v1615 (Kaiser) which I've used since I've got it with an Orange 3G SIM (kindly provided by work). The phone had Hard-SPL 3.56, radio 1.65.28.25 as recommended for Anryl's 61129 WM 6.5 Rom. Everything worked fine before the water incident - I've been (ROM) flashing since I got the phone been through iterations of Dutty's ROMs, HyperDragon's to this one.

Like Chumley said, " you dropped it in water " so at this point, do a hard reset , keep your fingers crossed and que sera, sera.

oh lets go for a swim..
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I just started another thread and then saw this one...
So I accident dropped my Touch into some water the other day.... Everything works except the screen... It works in somespots it seems but others Not.
Anything I can do to fix it or is it pooched for good. I guess it sounds like just try a hard reset and pray for the best.

Screen fixed!
Just to give an update, after a few days of learning how to use all the applications without a touch screen (for the times I really needed to, I used MyMobiler), yesterday a guy at work said that he had seen a suggestion to put the phone in a bag of rice! Thinking I had nothing to lose, last night (over a week since the kaiser got submerged) I put the phone in a sealed bag of rice for a couple of hours.
After flashing a couple of ROMs, I reset without the storage card in and clicked on the screen to calibrate the screen - and it worked!! I had put a blank file called welcome.not in the root of the storage card which normally bypassed the calibration - a very useful tip if you don't have a touch screen.
So now, I have a kaiser with a functioning touchscreen after being totally submerged in water a week back. The only issue I seem to still have is that I can't connect to a pc using the usb cable, although I can charge using it. HardSPL doesn't show USB when invoked The other thing is that sometimes the storage card isn't recognised, although it usually is when the kaiser is plugged into the usb to charge or a usb converter in connected. Slightly wierd that one.

Broken USB & bootloader broken, where to go next?

I just got back from holiday, and whilst on holiday i was using the ear phones & music player on the phone. I made the mistake of sitting down, catching the ear phones plug & bending it whilst it was plugged in. This has damaged the USB port. It still charges, but the ear phone/connectivity pins have been broken within the phone.
Too make matters worse, i reset the phone soon after (soft reset) only to be greeted with the screen below. I have tried a hard reset, loading the bootloader (camera, power & reset buttons) and every other combination of buttons iv found on the internet. So far nothing has helped/changed it. The screen doesnt rotate with the keyboard, and the off button doesnt work. (turns phone on, but not off).
I am tempted to send the phone off to HTC, as it is under warrenty but i dont know whether the fact it has a custom ROM on will effect it at all. iv had minor problems with the screen i would ask them to look at aswel.
Would a broken USB be fixable under warrenty? Then would a custom ROM (even if it doesnt boot) cause a fuss? Then finally, is there anyway to flash a new ROM to the phone without using the USB card?
many thanks guys, any advice is appreciated
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iv read up on flashing a new rom via my sd card, but i am really struggling to find a the .nbh file (which i then rename). I dont spose anyone can link me to a standard .nbh file could they? Hopefully this will enable me to get it next to standard prior to sending it off to HTC.
thanks guys

if its an .exe rom update, use winrar to extract it and there you'll find the .nbh
I had the same problem, broken usb on at&t tilt, flashed a shipped rom and got a new device via a warranty exchange. I couldn't get the SPL back to original but the guys at the device support center didn't notice.

thank you for the reply mate, was just what i needed!
Unfortunatly it didnt work, and even having put the file on my SDcard and resetting the phone it still boots to the tri colour screen. Got my hopes up, as the phone did load the file and run through it...only for me to reset it and it go back to the tri colour screen.
Will the HTC device centre likely accept it all the same?
cheers guys

Tried it again, this time resetting it, loading up from the SDcard then taking the card out before resetting. Now im getting:
'' Upgrade ROM code error Please try again ''
RUUNBH has also appeared in the top right hand corner, with the same tri coloured screen.
As this is not covered by warrenty (spoke to HTC today) im a bit worried about what i can do. Does anyone have any ideas i could try?
thanks

[Q] Sudden Color Banding... can't fix it...

hi! I have my Captivate for amost a year, no problems at all...
Last week, I was in Android 4.0 ... then moved to Dark Knight v4 Rom... with Semaphore kernel... and used it allright.
Yesterday, from nowhere, I noticed color banding on the screen... It seems as if the Screen now works in 16Bits or something like that.
It's not my phone, but it's the same problem:
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I made a CMW Backup before flashing Dark Knight v4 ..and restore again .. no changes.
I used ONE CLICK odin, flashed back to 2.1 ... the same problem persists!!
Now I used MASTER CLEAR ODIN, and 2.3.5 Stock... and the same problem persists!! I see color banding everywhere... in the CWM Screen included. I don't even know if it's a Hardware or SW issue.
A month ago, I had to replace the screen , I broke it. I bough it and replaced it myself. But still, wrked like a charm for weeks... ZEOR issues .. may it be related?
Please I need sell it in a few months and I need to get rid off it...
I cant find a clear fix for this.
Thanks you
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ALSO.. When I was in Dark Knight 4 for a week withut problemas, something weird (besides this color problem) happened:
The language form myphone changed to SPALISH (I speak spanish.. but I allways have it set to english)
AND... I could not install anything... in the Playstore, when ended downloading and going to install.. the phone rebooted itself
This happened with local stored (sdcard) APS.

does it only happen with the camera? or whole system? or just animations?

Whole system.. mn... static images too... i noticed the icons are washed up too... The kernel animation has this problem too.. even the colors from CWM

Now I noticed something... when I turn the device on, appears the AT&T screen, that's fine, then JUST AFTER the AT&T logo, appears "Semaphore Kernel" .. and it looks FINE!.. then the screen tunrs off for a fraction of a second, and comes back, with the same Logo, but this time with the problem... so it seems SW issue.. is there any wat to wipe even the Screen driver?..
I restored to Dark Knight v4... and tried with Glitch kernel (didn't boot xD.. ) but I saw the same in the bootscreen.. it seems that something that is loaded DOURING the Kernel Screen is the issue...
I changed everyhing, yesterday I even wiped ALL the phone and restored it to 2.1 stock... and the same problem persisted...

Could you have gotten a bad screen? Since it persists through various custom ROMs and even at stock, I'm leaning towards bad hardware.
When my phone reboots from an error, I often get the same washed out animations until it finishes booting. Then everything is good again.

Red_81 said:
Could you have gotten a bad screen? Since it persists through various custom ROMs and even at stock, I'm leaning towards bad hardware.
When my phone reboots from an error, I often get the same washed out animations until it finishes booting. Then everything is good again.
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I thought this too... but then i realized something I wrote in my last post " when I turn the device on, appears the AT&T screen, that's fine, then JUST AFTER the AT&T logo, appears "Semaphore Kernel" .. and it looks FINE!.. then the screen tunrs off for a fraction of a second, and comes back, with the same Logo, but this time with the problem... so it seems SW issue.. is there any wat to wipe even the Screen driver?.." .. It's like it seems Ok, till loads the screen driver maybe? dunno