I recently purchased some housing and screens for 3 Tilts I am planning on putting up on ebay. The phone with the problem was my original tilt that was sent back for a warranty repair but in transit the carrier ran it over with a truck or something. It came back with tire marks on the package. Needless to say this caused some trouble with the ATT warranty people. After it sat in my garage for a year I pulled it out.
Every thing seems to work now except for the touch on the screen. I know it is not the screen itself ( I installed it in another phone and it works). I have hard reset flashed and taken it apart various times. Nothing.
The new symptom is that i found out if I push really hard on the buttons on the front of the phone I can get the touch function to work for a second or two.
I want to know what part should I be buying. Do I need to buy the whole ribbon connector that twists itself from the front of the phone to the back or am I missing something else all together.
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I was running acrossed the street and my phone flew out of my pocket and hit the curb. The back came off and so did the battery. Aside from the scuffs on the body of the phone everything seemed fine when I put it back together. Well everything except for the down button on the directional pad which doesn't work anymore. I doubt it's still under warranty since I dropped it, is there anything I can do to get my phone fixed?
get a new phone? or u can get replacement parts and have it repaired
Well that depends if the d-pad is broken or if its connector is just loose. If you are up for it then check out the dismantling guides and Service Manual
http://michael-channon.spaces.live....smantling+%2f+Disassembling+Guides+HTC%2fETEN
Mike
Thanks for the link, I'll probably give that a shot first to rule out anything simple like a loose connector.
Here's my story:
I recently bought this phone for only $125 - not bad deal if you ask me. I knew from the beginning that the screen was a little mess up, even the guy I bought it from knew that. You would need a flash light in order to see what was on the screen. From any other point of view, it's just totally dark/black. So the guy was gracious enough to include a new lcd screen which he ordered to replace the old one. So I decided to undertake the task of putting it in myself. Once that was all said and done, I powered the tilt up and it was doing the exact same thing before I put the new lcd screen in, which was not lighting up the screen and it was still very dark to see anything.
With a flashlight, you can see that it's still working and the touchscreen works fine too. I think another person posted a thread with the same problem, but no one really replied back to him. Has anyone come across this problem before? Some have said that it's the flex cable that connects to the front d-pad and lcd screen itself is the cause for the back light issue. Any suggestions out there?
If I were you I'd try to figure out the pinouts for the LCD panel. Try to see if the Kaiser is outputting the necessary voltage for the backlight. Also try the opposite and apply voltage to the LCD to test the backlight.
Unless it is 2 back LCDs, I'm assuming there is a fault somewhere internal and not turning on the backlight.
I've never taken my tilt apart, but this is where I would start.
I wouldn't know where to begin to troubleshoot a device like this. Lol! It's fairly easy to take apart - there's actually a video on youtube that takes you step-by-step. I guess this isn't as common as some problems are, but I don't want to spend money having someone else fix something that could be so minute. And prices for some of the replacement parts are almost as expensive as what I bought the phone for.
When I took my tilt apart, physically, everything looked good from what my eyes can see. A little cleaning here and there, nothing major. The guy who had it before me flashed the rom to try and make it look like it had touchflo on it so I reflashed it back to the original rom software (or at least, whatever was on the HTC website). I tried doing hard resets, soft resets, rom flashing and everything, still no luck.
I broke my digitizer a couple months back on a carnival ride and hand to replace it. It was a pain in the ass picking off bits of broken glass off the LCD. Anyway it worked great but it got broke again! Don't know how. Huge spider cracks in the middle. We'll for some reason the phone has locked the hardware keys, and key board and requires a swipe of the stylus to unlock the phone. I'm running a TPC Elite rom not sure which version. I can not answer any phone calls or anything the phone is basicly a brick to me. I leave On a ski in 3 days and I need to have a phone for obvious safety reasons. No time to get a new digitizer off ebay. This same thing happened before when it broke the first time and I some how fixed it by resetting it.
Can any one help me?
You should be able to perform a hard reset of the ROM (see the how to sticky for how to do this) which would get you back in.
Sounds like you need to keep your phone in an impact-proof box XD
I have Alex's Rom on my htc. It fell off my hand and broke the lcd, tried to replace it myself could not so took it to the local shop in Houston. They charged me $100 and replaced it with a new one. It was working fine for 2wks then i started having touch screen sometimes works sometimes does not issue. Could not even do ALIGN. The shop said that the screen and the flex card is fine but motherboard is messed up since he replaced it with his new one and it works.
I have already spent money on it and wondering is there any way to fix the touch screen without replacing motherboard. After he put it back I do not have any touch screen capability at all. He said he cannot do anything about it.
Need your suggestions what would you do with the device since without touchscreen it is very hard even to make a phone call with Alex's Rom since i cannot press any keys when the contact shows on the screen?
There is no way I would have spent $100 on this old phone. Get a new phone .
Yeap, too much money. With that you can get a cheap old and good kaiser in ebay if lucky.
So basically I've had my Droid 1 since March of 2010, I LOVE my phone. Today I was out in the sun, and it just started freaking out, I put it on a table from my cool pocket for literally 4 minutes. Now two things are happening:
the soft key search button has stopped working(keyboard one still works), and the place where the back button is on my soft keyboard is borked.
Is there anything I can try/do to possibly attempt to fix the problem? I've never run into an issue like this before. :/
okay... so I gave it to my brother to look at and suddenly it's working again...
Is there anything that could cause this?
We don't really know what causes the touchscreen issue but we suspect that the moisture is the main problem. Also, a defective or improper charging or a bad flex cable can lead to something like that. I am facing exactly the same problem (paradoxally, after flashing a new ROM - coincidence maybe) but here it didn't dissappear. I will replace the digitizer. I think it's the only way to get rid of it. If it shows up again, I'm sorry!
When do you plan to change out your digitizer? If anything I'd love to see your results before I go for it.
Oh the joys of being a broke college student.
The same problem happened to my D1!! If it re-occurs then it means that your digitizer has broken. The only solution is to replace it or buy a new phone (If you do a search on "Droid" and "digitizer" you will find many people who have had this same problem)
I researched repair stores and finally settled on a place called Mission Repair in KS (missionrepair.com). Sent my precious Droid to them on a Tuesday and got it back as good as new on Friday for a cost (including Fedex) of around $90 - certainly a lot cheaper than a new phone.
Has been working fine again since.
I heard it is a common issue on the phone, you can use an application like multitouch visualizer (on the market) to check the functional parts of the screen.
The problem I have is with the keyboard, I was using the right key to pass the pages on kindle for android and now I have to press it harder, it also happened with one of the space buttons, thanks god those are 3...
Ends up I'm not entirely retarded, and got the extended warranty for 1.99 extra month. I traded it in, but the replacement has same issues. Might be time to upgrade my phone...
Try replacing Flex cable instead of digitizer.
If it's not damaged.. hold off on the digitalizer and cable replacement.. grab ya some descant packets (do not eat bags that come with new items that can't stand any moisture) ziplock it up with them.. with battery out of it.. leave it over night.. bam..
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Oh.. and the OG doesn't like sweaty pockets or extreme humidity.. it's definitely your problem if not damaged.. bet you're in the south..
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