Hello there!
I use a SE Xperia X8 with the Synaptics touchpad.
I found out that the only way to have a TRUE dual touch screen is this: [Module] | X8 only | AX8MT v005 | Dual touch for Cypress touchpad. (Thank you AnDyX for your great work on Cypress chipset and doixanh for your X8Gesture for Synaptics Chip)
Although this only has effect if the phone is equiped with the cypress chip
So I came with the idea of replacing the Synaptics Chipset with Cypress which is the one that suports dual touch.
My question is: Is that possible? I mean are there any other hardware parts that were made to work only with Synaptics?
And if this is possible, then is it something I can do it my own, or sould I visit a service center or something like that?
P.S.: In the same thread ([Module] | X8 only | AX8MT v005 | Dual touch for Cypress touchpad) it is said that: "The CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 (two-finger support) and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11 (four-finger support) device families are both available today from Cypress. Qualified customers can contact Cypress for more information and to obtain samples.". So, are they both compatible with our X8? (I of course mean if Cypress chipsets are at all compatible with Synaptic-chiped-phones)
You probably could replace it but you would have to take apart lots of parts and search a few marketplaces for the chip ect
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Im not shure,but i think ive read somewhere that if you replace the digitizers(that is possible) you have to edit something in the software.no one never tried it tho..
xperiauser132 said:
Im not shure,but i think ive read somewhere that if you replace the digitizers(that is possible) you have to edit something in the software.no one never tried it tho..
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Ok, so if I somehow find a way to buy a Cypress Digitizer is it possible to replace it myself? I mean is it easy, or I will probably damage my phone?
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Ok, so if I somehow find a way to buy a Cypress Digitizer is it possible to replace it myself? I mean is it easy, or I will probably damage my phone?
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Hi maxnaxos and welcome to our community . It is really easy to replace the screen on your own even a kid can , the only difficulty is to find a digitizer that has cypress chip on it but you can recognize it from the code that it is written on the chip that has on it.Cypress chips starts with CY###### and continues with numbers.Use ebay and contact the sellers and i think you will find the one that you looking for.
Take this guide : x8 dissasemble guide it will help you to open and put the parts again to your phone , for any questions i am open to pm's.
*The only tools that you need is a t4 screwdriver with star end , a mini philips screwdriver with positive end and a removing plastic tool usually these come in one packet so you dont have to worry..
I never took apart my x8,but i did all the other phones,a nintendo,psp,that like ****s...generally you will need really small screw drivers.like cross screw driver,flat screw driver etc..
And what's de price?
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And what's de price?
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Probably a bit. The digitizer costs a bit. If it goes wrong then what happens
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It doesn't worth it,better buy a new phone......
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dotsen9 said:
It doesn't worth it,better buy a new phone......
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Youre always so negative. Let him do what he want. I think this could be a nice story if he do it.
It can easily be done, a user already changed his digitizer, check the acessories forum for a thread called "looking for cypress digitizer" or sth..
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)i know,but don't know,if you give more than 15$ it doesn't worth it.
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dotsen9 said:
)i know,but don't know,if you give more than 15$ it doesn't worth it.
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If the price is only 15$, then it certainly worths it! We may need another 10-12$ for shipping and with less than 30$ we have real dual touch. Why should we buy a new phone that may costs more than 500$?
I think that tomorrow I will try to find someone in eBay that offers Cypress screens.
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Hi,
i want to buy a new X8. ATM i just have a K800i
I looked around here and saw, that there is a Problem with the MultiTouch Support.
My Question:
Is it the only way to test with a sample Programm, if it has a Cypress Digitalizer?
If yes:
Is there any Shop, which are selling X8 with Cypress Digitalizers?
All I can say is baaaaaaad choice. Get a Samsung or something. The X8 is pretty old. No updates from SE anymore. You're going to get bored pretty soon.
Can u suggest me then a Samsung? Max 150€
Go to your country's carriers websites. Prices aren't the same everywhere.
The Galaxy Y is exactly 150 € here in Greece.
I searched and found the Samsung Galaxy Y for 229 is the cheapes at the Samsung Website.
The Xperia X8 is for 117€
What? Are you kidding me
Here in Greece everything is overpriced and the Galaxy Y is only 150!!!
Then it is in Germany even worser
Just looked into Amazon: Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 - 116,49
So: Never buy from the official store
But it doesn't look better then from the X8.
Only it is better in terms of ClockSpeed and maybe RAM.
That's a big deal and it also runs on official Gingerbread.
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It has no gpu.
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amnher said:
It has no gpu.
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The SE or the Samsung?
Ich1994 said:
The SE or the Samsung?
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Samsung but the chapest one
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dsaklein said:
Samsung but the chapest one
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Ok..
So back to my first Question please
I looked around here and saw, that there is a Problem with the MultiTouch Support.
My Question:
Is it the only way to test with a sample Programm, if it has a Cypress Digitalizer?
If yes:
Is there any Shop, which are selling X8 with Cypress Digitalizers?
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Its not a problem just x8 doesnot support multitouch by its hardware but all custom roms have multitouch built in, so its not real multitoch but it work very well....
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You can test it by x8toolbox of puppet....i think that you can order via ebay cypress and replace it by yourself its like 10min of your time
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Its not a problem just x8 doesnot support multitouch by its hardware but all custom roms have multitouch built in, so its not real multitoch but it work very well....
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What about Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570? It has slightly more RAM and ROM than X8 but only the display is not as nice as X8
w8 body required.must be new.must be from india
Want white X8 body
I want X8 white body..must be from India. White is cool...black feels like a mistake now..
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w8 body required.must be new.must be from india
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Body means back cover??
good idea where i can find it
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Body means back cover??
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Yup.. i also need one for W8 any, excluding red.. W8/X8 cover can be interchanged they r the same right?
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Yes w8 / x8 are same.. their panels can be interchanged.. there is no doubt about it..
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So where it can be purchased??
Any idea about online stores??
Officially corp via W8
sony showroom people will take order and will get it for us but it cost more than 2000 inr,so i decided not to buy and i searched in internet for hours but no online store selling it
Ever heard of ebay?
Ebay
I'v bought the full housing and replacement touchscreen to "refurbish" my x8 on ebay, you can have worldwide free shipping of almost all sellers.
So my digitizer is damaged and I need a new one. The ones available here are most probably cheap chinese ones with no model number written on, so I can't identify if it is Cypress or Synaptics without running the Emulator thing. So my question is, are the chinese ones Cypress or Synaptics, and if it is Synaptics by any chance, do I get dual touch with the latest ICS roms? I can't get one from Ebay so that's out of question ._.
Any help is appreciated.
Yeah, fake.
search in general section , u wiil found
You have been a member for one whole year and you still don't know if Synaptics has dual touch?
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You have been a member for one whole year and you still don't know if Synaptics has dual touch?
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Exactly, thats what i thought before
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Chris95X8 said:
You have been a member for one whole year and you still don't know if Synaptics has dual touch?
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Never cared actually. All I visited this site for is the latest roms.
Hi, I dropped my cell and now it has its screen broken... the touch screen and LCD are fine, only the frontal glass is broken.....
Does anyone know how to replace it? I've already googled it but I can't find any tutorial
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Hi, I dropped my cell and now it has its screen broken... the touch screen and LCD are fine, only the frontal glass is broken.....
Does anyone know how to replace it? I've already googled it but I can't find any tutorial
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Go to service centre.
Samsung Galaxy S Advance
Rom : Jelly Bean 4.1.2 I9070XXLQ4
Kernel: CoCore E-4.2-TWRP
I already did it, but they want to replace the glass and the lcd screen, which is almost the same price of a new phone
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I already did it, but they want to replace the glass and the lcd screen, which is almost the same price of a new phone
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You cant split the touch panel from the lcd :/
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How much are they charging?
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You cant split the touch panel from the lcd :/
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I think he's talking about the protective gorilla glass(there is a layer without doubt) he says lcd and touch are fine..
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How much are they charging?
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I'm brazilian and they are charging R$ 540,00, more less U$ 270,00....
Im pretty sure the "glass" you're talking about is a unit with the lcd.... you cant change it separately. And yes, it's by far the most expensive part on a phone nowadays.
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I think he's talking about the protective gorilla glass(there is a layer without doubt) he says lcd and touch are fine..
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Are you sure this device has gorilla glass? Btw it's just a single piece, I recommend you to buy a bricked i9070 and replace the motherboard from your device to the bricked device, (easiest than replacing lcd), or you can replace the lcd (maybe from i9070P too) it's the cheapest solution for you
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Are you sure this device has gorilla glass? Btw it's just a single piece, I recommend you to buy a bricked i9070 and replace the motherboard from your device to the bricked device, (easiest than replacing lcd), or you can replace the lcd (maybe from i9070P too) it's the cheapest solution for you
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I am sure.. Gorilla glass behaves different.. It's kind of bouncy when you tap with your fingernails or use a pen.. Same feedback from s2 and ace.. I think it's possible to replace only the protective glass
.. Unless the lcd and protective glass are fused (like in s2)
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I am sure.. Gorilla glass behaves different.. It's kind of bouncy when you tap with your fingernails or use a pen.. Same feedback from s2 and ace.. I think it's possible to replace only the protective glass
.. Unless the lcd and protective glass are fused (like in s2)
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Im pretty sure that mine does not have GG. But im from Brasil and sammy always downgrade phones to us. I hate that btw.
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lucasleal said:
Im pretty sure that mine does not have GG. But im from Brasil and sammy always downgrade phones to us. I hate that btw.
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Yes, I heard about that our brazilian SII don't have Gorilla Glass, btw I'm sure that GSA doesn't have it too. I'll keep my phone until it get unusable or maybe I'll give it to my mother and buy another one!
After watching some videos on youtube, and find this front glass replacement at ebay Screen replacement... I would like to know if I could do the same thing to replace my GSA's front glass?!
first of all, it seems that's much more difficult to replace broken glass on such a device than just replace a lcd in a simple phone like nokia e51 or anything like that. according to some guy in another forum, at home you'd never be able to replace glass only in a device like galaxy s/s2 or s3 - it's told to be some kind of gel between the glass and the digitizer that you'll never be able to put it back together to make it look and work like brand new - even on successful tearing apart the old parts and putting them together to work, you'd still have some odd dull sound of empty space when tapping the screen IF YOU SUCCEED, but I repeat it's not obvious - guess why s or s2 with broken glass are so cheap? yeah, got it - it's really not easy to do it by yourselves.
btw. don't spread rumours about the brazilian i9070 to be deprived of gorilla glass - i9070 doesn't have gg, nowhere in the world. samsung sites were displaying this information some time ago but they seem to remove it - they no longer boast of gg in i9070
I had an LG Optimus 2X P990 with GG, and I replaced the glass by myself that time. It was was pretty easy.
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Have anyone managed to replace only front glass on i9070?
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Have anyone managed to replace only front glass on i9070?
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It's not possible, glass and screen are merged together
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it's possible, i did it.
15$ instead of 150$
Closed Force said:
it's possible, i did it.
15$ instead of 150$
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That's badass
Closed Force said:
it's possible, i did it.
15$ instead of 150$
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LOL, what have you done with it? How it get that broken?
Hello,
I broke my xperia sp digitizer and I could find several replacement parts on ebay, although no disassebly guide seem to be available.
Has any of you ever replaced it successfully?
I wonder how to separate the screen from the actual digitizer.
Many thanks
Think the digitizer come as unit already stuck together
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Think the digitizer come as unit already stuck together
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you mean the digitizer and it plastic, or the digitizer and the screen.
Are the digitizer and the screen separated?
I mean screen and digitizer come stuck together you can't separate.
I know with nexus7 it is this way, and from what I searched on Google you can't get them as separates units.
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zolaisugly said:
I mean screen and digitizer come stuck together you can't separate.
I know with nexus7 it is this way, and from what I searched on Google you can't get them as separates units.
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that means that the digitizers on ebay are not good, since they should be a unique unit (digitizer+screen)?
for example item: 271210909026
on ebay
I couldn't find the whole screen+digitizer
Looks like I have learnt something new...sorry I have given you wrong info.
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You can separate them easily.
dausama said:
Hello,
I broke my xperia sp digitizer and I could find several replacement parts on ebay, although no disassebly guide seem to be available.
Has any of you ever replaced it successfully?
I wonder how to separate the screen from the actual digitizer.
Many thanks
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You can separate the screen from the digitizer(touch glass). They are not combined together.
If your SP digitizer broken, you can choose to replace the the touch glass or the touch glass with front housing. You don't need to replace a new screen.
For mostly phones, the screen and digitizer are glued together. But Xperia SP is different.
So what " zolaisugly" said is wrong.
Here is a guide: http://youtu.be/CVannSZ-Pck
It's not in English but it's clear enough
Warning: you can take everything out of the phone with ease but if you want to get to the screen you need to unscrew the small pentalobe screws on the side bezel of the phone
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