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[Q] Help! Sony xperia TX updated, and now blank screen.

Hi all,
I recently bought my TX overseas, and updated to 3.197. It was fine for the first few days, until today, I turned on my phone, it came up with a blank screen.
All the functions seems to be working fine, even the touch screen, except that the screen itself is blank. I don't know what is wrong with it. I live in New Zealand, and I bought the phone in Taiwan a few weeks ago, and they don't sell TX or T in NZ, and I don't have a way to repair unless I go to somewhere that sells TX, or fly to Taiwan and get it fixed. :crying:
I called Sony in Taiwan, and did everything they suggested me to do, including repairing through PCcompanion, resetting, waiting for a few hours then turning it on again and the screen is still blank. Is there anyone that knows a way to fix this or have experienced similar problem?
I really want to be able to use my phone again. Any help would be truly appreciated!

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Tacoru said:
Hi all,
I recently bought my TX overseas, and updated to 3.197. It was fine for the first few days, until today, I turned on my phone, it came up with a blank screen.
All the functions seems to be working fine, even the touch screen, except that the screen itself is blank. I don't know what is wrong with it. I live in New Zealand, and I bought the phone in Taiwan a few weeks ago, and they don't sell TX or T in NZ, and I don't have a way to repair unless I go to somewhere that sells TX, or fly to Taiwan and get it fixed. :crying:
I called Sony in Taiwan, and did everything they suggested me to do, including repairing through PCcompanion, resetting, waiting for a few hours then turning it on again and the screen is still blank. Is there anyone that knows a way to fix this or have experienced similar problem?
I really want to be able to use my phone again. Any help would be truly appreciated!
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I thought My phone died a week after I updated via Sony companion. Just needed to turn it off an on. Hold Power and Volume up until it reboots. If you have done this already I can't say I have much hope for it and return to base.
Have you not insured the phone?
In the UK you are asking for trouble if you don't insure your phone.
Sounds like you will need to pay for a recommended repair centre to fix it. Sony should be able to give you a list of contacts near you if you have to send your handset abroard then it's what you have to do.

****!! don't scared me I just bought tx today.

Tacoru said:
Hi all,
I recently bought my TX overseas, and updated to 3.197. It was fine for the first few days, until today, I turned on my phone, it came up with a blank screen.
All the functions seems to be working fine, even the touch screen, except that the screen itself is blank. I don't know what is wrong with it. I live in New Zealand, and I bought the phone in Taiwan a few weeks ago, and they don't sell TX or T in NZ, and I don't have a way to repair unless I go to somewhere that sells TX, or fly to Taiwan and get it fixed. :crying:
I called Sony in Taiwan, and did everything they suggested me to do, including repairing through PCcompanion, resetting, waiting for a few hours then turning it on again and the screen is still blank. Is there anyone that knows a way to fix this or have experienced similar problem?
I really want to be able to use my phone again. Any help would be truly appreciated!
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Did you try any of the following?
1) Install a stock .FTF using Flashtool, preferably the 7.0.A.1.307 firmware that came with the phone.
2) Downloading the Sony Ericcson Update Service program and using that to force an update to .3.197?

I am having exactly the same issue today. The phone is working but not the screen. The backlight, touch panel are all functional except the lcd panel. Could this be caused by the cable connector?
By the way, I don't think it has anything to do with firmware upgrade. Mine has been running the latest firmware for weeks until today.
Update: I opened the phone and checked all cable connectors and they are all firmly connected...Maybe the screen is busted... OP, were you using the oem battery?
Update 2: atteched some teardown pictures of xperia tx.

[Q] [HELP]Ghost Touchscreen Presses, Constant!

So my phone was fine about 2 hours ago, then I took a call an hour ago and since the call ended my touchscreen has been going crazy. It's rapidly clicking the top and the side of the screen. I now have a completely new lockscreen with new widgets and a brand new layout with tons of app shortcuts haha. It even managed to change things I didn't know how to change!
My phone is completely unusable. The clicks happen so fast that if I do manage to unlock it, every app I own starts opening.
Anyhow, I looked around and all I found was a grounding related screen issue on other phones like the nexus4 and lg g2. Since the XZ is sealed thats not really an easy test!
Can I get some suggestions?
Tried so far:
Cleaned screen
Power Cycle
Factory reset
Flashed stock FTF
I'm assuming my next step would be to try replacing parts, but I have no clue which parts I'm looking at. I have a c6602 model XZ
Worst part, I have a phone interview first thing in the morning and this is my only phone
TL;DR
Screen spamming pressing @ top center and mid left, factory reset had no effect.
PS: Phone is not mistreated and hasn't been dropped.

next step is to flash a tft file,if that didnt work i guess your screen is screwed,btw my friend has a x2 and its kinda a problem with that phone

demon2112 said:
next step is to flash a tft file,if that didnt work i guess your screen is screwed,btw my friend has a x2 and its kinda a problem with that phone
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I reflashed the rom via sony's updater. It's still broken. I couldn't get adb connections to work because they required verifying the connection. I'm assuming the sony tools ignore this step.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Xperia-L...HGU8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416822526&sr=8-1
I think this is the piece to replace, can anyone confirm?
edit:
looked at the replacement process, looks like a full lcd+digitizer is a better idea as the screen is gonna break if I separate them. always something. anyone know a good quality replacement?
touchscreen no longer responds at all, spamming touches have stopped.

z3c dead screen... help!

hello all,
two days ago i flashed the norwegian lollipop ftf to my US unbranded z3c. it was working amazingly, my 4g and wi-fi problems seemed fixed. it was the happiest i've been with my z3c since i got it in november. However, i was using my phone as normal and i saw the screen flicker in a strange way then it went black! i can hear all of my notifications going off but nothing from the screen. I repaired via PC companion and nothing. I have a protection plan so i have a new z3c on the way. So here's my question, during this day i only did two things out of the ordinary to my phone:
1) i installed 5.0.2 ftf ( which i highly doubt caused this, but still scared to flash the norwegian again... should i be scared?)
2) and this is really stupid so please dont be too mean to me.... my phone got really hot after the update so i put it in cold water to cool it down. the phone worked for about an hour after that then the screen went.
does anyone have any advice to possibly save my phone and not have to use the protection plan yet?
im scared to flash ftf again because im not sure what caused this
thank you !

Probably water damage. Turn phone off, open flaps, put in sealed bag of dry rice for three days. Don't mean to be a scaremonger, but unfortunately sounds like the damage may be done already.

How to tell if my phone is being tapped/hacked?

Hi,
First of all, I am sorry if this is a long post; I just want to tell everything that has happened for clarity.
A month back, my phone (Xperia Z1) fell on the bathroom floor and the screen got badly damaged. I took it to the Sony authorized service center and they told me that since my warranty period is over, I should pay for the replacements. Since the authentic parts were not cheap, I took it to another place in the city where they do cheap electronic repairs with second quality hardware. Sure enough, one guy told me that he can fix the phone and i have to change the display and touch. And he quoted me a price which was a third of what the Sony guys said. I asked him to do it. He asked me to come and collect the phone later on the day, but since I am very paranoid about all the security issues (all kinds of shady things happen in this place), I told him I'll just stay there till he's done. After he installed the parts, He turned the screen on and it said, "android is loading.." with the android logo. Like when we update or install ROMs. I wasn't sure why a system update or anything software related was needed to change the display. I asked him this and he told me that since this was a phone with non removable battery, when we remove and put it back, this will happen. I was actually thinking that he might be putting some cheap board from some other used phone and will finally give me a formatted phone saying he coudnt retrieve the data. I was paranoid for some time but when he switched it on, all my data were there. All well and good.
Last week, unfortunately, i dropped my phone again and the back glass panel cracked. This time i thought I'll order the part online and assemble it myself. So, i started watching YouTube videos on how to dissassemble and reassemble Xperia Z1. And then I noticed, in all the videos, they removed all the parts and put it back together, and when they started the phone, Sony logo appeared. Normal Loading screen. No "Android is Loading" part. This is when i started getting paranoid. Did he install some spyware on my phone? Is there any way to find out? I coudn't find anything suspicious in the installed or system apps list. My bootloader is not still locked. If it indeed is being tracked, Is there any way to remove it? I've done factory reset a couple times after that, that doesn't fix it, does it? Should i do a clean firmware reinstall. Please Guide me. Could he be tracing my phone for a month? I have had a lot of personal stuff on my phone and i would not like those to be compromised. Or, am i being too paranoid and it does actually happen when you change hardware?
Please please help..Sorry for the long post.. Hope you understand

First of all, STOP DROPPING YOUR GOD DAMN PHONE!
Second, you won't see anything when they install spyware or malware, that's the beauty of it, and yes, you are being paranoid.
Third, not that it's necessary, flash it with flashtool, make a backup of data (Images and Videos) to someplace ( Cloud, preferably) and then download the latest FTF and flash it, make sure to wipe data and every other partition (boo).
Fourth, stop watching too many "hacking" movies.

Z1 and Z1 Compact cracked screens and issues

Hy, there ! My Z1 Compact had the screen a little bit curved on the outside, meaning that when I pushed against the middle of the screen , the screen went back into the right position.
The phone was bought online from UK before Sony launched it in Romania. So, no guarantee. The screen cracked at some point. I have image, I have touch below the crack, but above the crack no touch.
1 - Why did the screen curve outside ? Is it the battery ( got bigger because of the heating up while using GPS , playing or charging ) ? Or is it common that the screen detach itself ?
2 - Is it worth to replace the screen ? All the shops told me there aren`t any original screens, only OEMs. Some say the image is the same, others say it is not. But what`s more upsetting is that some say that these new OEM screens crack very easy, even when they`re in the pockets or in your hand, or crack at first drop. Is there anyone here who replaced the screen ? What should I do ? What to expect from these OEM screens ? Is there anything else I should be aware about ?
3 - I cannot unlock the phone because the starting character of the password unlocking screen is above the crack . What can I do to recover the data from it ? SMS, Contacts , pictures..
4 - Should I replace the original battery with a new OEM one or these are worse that a 2 year old original battery ?
Thank you in advance !
PS : the only problems I had with Z1 C were :
a - If I was in a call and somebody else callled me, if I ended the 1st call to engage in the 2nd call, the other person could never hear me, that resulting in dropping the call and calling again. The same problem I had with my Z1 also.
b - ocassionally restarts, but those I ve see an ALL my android phones
c - when talking in speaker mode, you cannot hear well and the other person could not hear at all , most of the times.
d - the max volume of the music was kinda 1/2 compared to samsung phones. It s not the speakers that upset me, but the low volume when connecting the phone to sound system, for example.
e - it got very very hot when using GPS - and the battery drained in 3 hours tops of continuous use of GPS and internet mobile.
My Z1 is another story. I bought it for my former job, because my employer could not afford to buy me a phone. It was SH, from a shop, originally sold by Vodafone Germany. It had some issues and the bloatware from vodafone was annoying, so I decided to take back to the shop ( i had 3 months guarantee ) to resoft the phone. After a week I got the phone back with the original software. But the phone started working worse and worse, because of The Intermittent Touch Screen Issue - that I find out about only after I got very mad 2 nights ago and smashed the phone to the floor. The screen is now in a million pieces. I am very sorry now, my both phones are unusable and I don`t know what to do and if it`s worth to repair them. Can this The Intermittent Touch Screen Issue be fixed ? I mean the phone wrote iself or deleted everything I was writing or I could not press some letters on the keyboard or one letter remained pressed for eternity ... everytime I had to press power button of and on again until the phone started working properly again. That`s why I got so mad ... Has anyone experienced these problems with their Sony ? Is there any solution ?
Sorry for the long text, but I really need some good advice now.
Thank you for your patience and possible advice !