I have been given a captivate from a friend who said he dropped it in the toilet, it turned off when he grabbed it.
He said he stuck it in a bowl of rice over night after removing the battery.
First thing i did was wipe it, odin came back a full success no errors.
When i boot it i see the at&t thing & the little 3g fly by, but the screen is all cloudy. Once its booted up i see the screen locked deal and i can swipe it to unlock and and even change the pages. After a few seconds i will notice the screen starting to fade to black, all this time still being cloudy. If i manually turn the screen off with the power button for a couple minutes, i am able to turn it back on and see the cloudy screen again.
My questions are these.
Seems to me the LCD is messed up, Can i just replace the LCD?
How do i know if anything else is damaged?
Ive read about the battery indicators, both of which are still white.
ive already taken it apart , "comfortable when its a free phone", and notice a slight burn mark from a resistor on the LCD to the metal shielding that it is pressed up against.
Any ideas would be helpful.
SRobby said:
I have been given a captivate from a friend who said he dropped it in the toilet, it turned off when he grabbed it.
He said he stuck it in a bowl of rice over night after removing the battery.
First thing i did was wipe it, odin came back a full success no errors.
When i boot it i see the at&t thing & the little 3g fly by, but the screen is all cloudy. Once its booted up i see the screen locked deal and i can swipe it to unlock and and even change the pages. After a few seconds i will notice the screen starting to fade to black, all this time still being cloudy. If i manually turn the screen off with the power button for a couple minutes, i am able to turn it back on and see the cloudy screen again.
My questions are these.
Seems to me the LCD is messed up, Can i just replace the LCD?
How do i know if anything else is damaged?
Ive read about the battery indicators, both of which are still white.
ive already taken it apart , "comfortable when its a free phone", and notice a slight burn mark from a resistor on the LCD to the metal shielding that it is pressed up against.
Any ideas would be helpful.
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To test whether all the sensors, vibration, touch screen, LED colors, magnetic sensors works properly, install and use SGS Tools..
There are lot of tests and testing modes available there.. hope this helps
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well I turned my phone on the other day after letting it sit for a week, and its bassically all white screen but still has a little bit of the blue range, and the letters and icons and such looks like a screen thats out of tune.
when I go to boot loader for the red ble green white, its completely white except where it shows in blue/purple the boot loader information.
anyone know if I can fix this or do I need a new screen?
I also took the thing completely apart thinking it was a bad connection but nothing helped when I put it back together, also have tried another os to the same avail
nobody has ever had a screen problem?
Man, is that sig pic safe for work?
You might need to reseat the lcd screen cable/ribbon.
Well I took the phone completely apart but did not wipe all the contacts like a doe doe, look like the ribbon cable has some scratches on it but doesn't look like anything is contacting metal so I tried to mend it with electrical tape and I still have the problem, looks like next I'll take it apart again and use some alcohol on it.
and yes its safe for work haha most places block it off
i read somewhere here on xda that if the screen's colors are out of whack, it is recommended to REMOVE the battery and let the device sit for a few hours/days.
then put the battery back in and see if that fixes things up...
thanks guys I'll try the second advice tonight I've just left the battery in and havent taken it out for more than an hour so far.
Hi,
I have noticed a few threads about the trackball light being stuck but couldn't see one about the notification light. It comes on green from the moment the power button is pushed and stays like that whether booting normally or in recovery. I have tried a full wipe and reflash but nothing seems to work. Just noticed it yesterday, the phone did get a bit wet in the rain and so this could very well be a hardware problem. Any suggestions on things tp try? The phone is not wet now and wasn't severly rained on but have noticed the battery moisture detector change colour. I have tried a different battery with no luck of sorting the stuck green light.
Hope someone can offer a solution!
Thanks
Anyone anything?
I am also suffering from the same issue.
did anyone get this fixed?
already ordered a phone dismantliing kit from dealextreme... will try to peek inside and see if I can get it solved fro within..
I'm having the same issue.
It did stop for a couple of weeks after (I think) I was button mashing on a dead battery. The problem returned however.
cd993 said:
Hi,
I have noticed a few threads about the trackball light being stuck but couldn't see one about the notification light. It comes on green from the moment the power button is pushed and stays like that whether booting normally or in recovery. I have tried a full wipe and reflash but nothing seems to work. Just noticed it yesterday, the phone did get a bit wet in the rain and so this could very well be a hardware problem. Any suggestions on things tp try? The phone is not wet now and wasn't severly rained on but have noticed the battery moisture detector change colour. I have tried a different battery with no luck of sorting the stuck green light.
Hope someone can offer a solution!
Thanks
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If the moisture indicator changed colors, it got VERY wet from the rain. It's a pain in the rear to make these change colors without direct contact to moisture. Something you can try tho, and this will take a couple days...
If the phone is COMPLETELY dry, proceed... Otherwise, put the phone inside a bowl of rice for 2 days...Make sure to remove the battery, sim, memory card, and have the screen slider open during this process. If you can get a hold of silica, this works better.
**Put the phone in blue light mode. (Hold trackball down and power on.) Leave the phone like this for a few hours... Once this is done, DO NOT reboot the phone. Pull the battery. Reinsert the battery and boot into recovery. The light should now be off.
This tricks the phone into thinking it's at the factory, being repaired... Nothing actually happens, because you don't have a Diagnostic SD card.. This worked for me. May be a fluke, but still worth a shot.
So my Screen broke and I bought a new one so I could replace it, the touch screen/digitizer didn't break though... at first the colors just started washing and fading untill the screen ended up completely dark, I could still use the touch screen and feel when I would unlock it, after a day the phone would not give me any feed back by vibrating or turning the orange light while charging, so I dismantled it using some tips from these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhj8Xs9vAyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRXSMQ-GJY&feature=related
After I put everything back together the phone is giving me feedback again and I can notice its charging because of the orange light, but the screen won't turn on. Does any one know if I might need to do something on the software side? like needing to re install anything? or do you think I just got a bad screen?
Update: I just took it apart again and reconnected the ribbons, its back together and the screen still won't turn on.
You have the AMOLED screen and not the LCD?
Did you compare the #'s on the old and new to see you got the right part?
Cables are the same, they look the same, part # and stickers are different...
What are the part numbers on your new and old screen? I just went through the same thing, but I'm fairly sure I got the wrong screen replacement. Will have to look more into it later tonight.
My screen wont turn on at all. I was so excited to get my N1 back in action as well.
Here's what is going on...
My Galaxy S I9000 (Bell Canada) was water damaged, after being dried for many days it turned on, but the battery almost immediately drained. I left the phone and forgot about it. Bought a new cheap phone without a SIM.
More recently I got a new battery for it and it turned on and was working great, staying charged and everything. When I went to the service provider to get a new SIM for it, we powered down the phone, pulled the battery and SIM card and put the new SIM in followed by the battery. Afterwards the phone would not power on, but the two face buttons on either side of the 'Home' button lit up and would react to touch. I tried removing the battery and SIM a few times and would get the same result.
After bringing my phone home and leaving it with the battery out for a few days, I thought I would try it again. It powered up again as if nothing was wrong. To test it again, I pulled the battery and SIM, replaced them, and my black screen/won't turn on problem returned.
Every so often it will power on and be useable. It is recognized by Kies, I've flashed it to firmware 2.3.4.
I'm looking for any helpful suggestions for what might solve my problem. I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem and short of isolating the part of the phone that is faulty and replacing it, the phone is toast.
Thanks for your time, and I apologize for the length of my post.
My friend has dropped the SGS into a pool before. Problem was fix after buying a new battery.
Either: Damaged screen + Contact. Or the reaction with water and the battery. hydrogen gas prevents screen from connecting to main-board.
It still turns on occasionally, and when it powers up, it's as if nothing is wrong. Screen works, displays everything fine, colour is crisp, screen reacts to touch. The big problem is it won't turn on all the time. Would what you said still explain this?
tacotbone said:
It still turns on occasionally, and when it powers up, it's as if nothing is wrong. Screen works, displays everything fine, colour is crisp, screen reacts to touch. The big problem is it won't turn on all the time. Would what you said still explain this?
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The only thing I know (assuming the screen or motherboard is 100% functioning) is hydrogen gas being present. You might know TV remote with old battery casually respond to presses. After cleaning contacts it should work again.
I disassembled the phone and cleaned all the contacts on the main board with rubbing alcohol, I did not do anything to the screen though. Should I try taking it apart again and breaking it down further? (ie. separate the screen?)
tacotbone said:
I disassembled the phone and cleaned all the contacts on the main board with rubbing alcohol, I did not do anything to the screen though. Should I try taking it apart again and breaking it down further? (ie. separate the screen?)
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No, I am starting to think it's a hardware fault if that didn't work
Just picked up a second hand S4 Active. At times, the screen gets jumpy. It looks as though you are trying to swipe between screens. Also, it will at times go unresponsive. Touching the power button to turn the screen off, then turning it back on with power or home, fixes it.
I am going to take it apart to see if there are any signs of corrosion, and make sure the LCD connector is tight. I really don't think it has water damage, because the stickers are white. I suppose they could have been replaced.
I saw some youtube things that said a swelled battery could be the culprit, but the battery is not swelled at all.
Any ideas on this? It's a flicker - it jumps around. Turning the screen off and on fixes it, so I'm not really sure what the deal is.
Thanks much.
Should have added - it's on stock 4.4.2, if that matters.