For a while my screen wouldnt update in landscape unless I tilted it a few times. Yesterday it finally stopped all together. No matter what its white screen.
I know its working because the software all works, just can't see anything. It was very easy to open up and when I saw the cable it was rubbed really far thru.
The replacement part is 30-90$ and can probably be prevented by putting a peice of tape where the metal rubs on the cable.
So to anyone that still needs their phone to work, you might wanna inspect it. I'm on at&t which means changing phones will force me into a 30$ plan on an already overly expensive plan. No choice but to fix the cable
Let me begin by saying that I am an a** for being so careless with my phone(as you will know when you read the rest of this post).
Okay, so two days ago I spilled yoghurt(yeah!) into the USB port of my phone and I didn't take it very seriously and just used a needle to clean it a little. After this my phone worked fine, no problems whatsoever..it was charging fine and running fine.
Today I wanted to connect my phone to my computer, but when I did so, my Windows said that it didn't recognize the device and its probably malfunctioning and I should replace it(probably what I'll have to do now ).
I connected it in every port in my computer, used my dad's blackberry connector, factory reset, even tried eViL's Sense ROM(I had it in my SD card, so tried it).
Even after all the above the computer didn't recognize my phone, although it did charge when connected!
Okay so I thought I should try cleaning the port better, so I took some Isopropyl Alcohol(Second Biggest Mistake) and used a ear bud to clean the port. I connected again and no change, so I decided I'll try later and left my phone in the port.
When I came back 20 minutes later the alcohol had made its way under the right bottom part of the screen and the touch response was messed up. The trackball was constantly glowing red, I fixed the trackball by simply using trackball alert to test a few different colors.
Now I realized I had messed up with the alcohol and I needed to clean the screen somehow(BIGGEST MISTAKE).
I used a hairdryer to blow into the USB port, it dried up some of the alcohol but the screen looked pixelated and the touch response was still screwed.
So then I popped out the screw driver set and started tearing the nexus one down..and from here it was all downhill. I managed to get all the way to the screen, use a lint free cloth to clean the screen and put it all back but all this was of no use. My phone doesn't turn on anymore, all I get is a small vibration on pressing the power button. I connected it to the wall charger and I got the charging LED light and backlight in the touch sensitive button area(great!). I plugged it out and in again and poof the charging LED vanished, no more backlight, no nothing.
What I have tried:
Remove battery and insert
Press volume+up+power > I got a long vibration once with backlight working but never again after that
Let the phone lie for an hour
For those who are lazy to read the whole thread, here is the synopsis:
1) Yoghurt in USB port, left 2 days.
2) No USB mounting, USB charging working.(Tried wiping, reset and different ROM).
3)Cleaned with Isopropyl Alcohol, still no USB > led to distorted screen and touch sensitivity.
4) Used hairdryer, slight effect on alcohol.
5) Persistent Red Trackball light, no effect on restart.
6) Tore down the phone, used lint free cloth to clean the alcohol.
7) Phone doesn't start, only vibrates on pressing power.
8) At first attempt, the backlight for the touch sensitive buttons worked and so did the charging LED, didn't show the light after uplugging.
Now I am lost on what I should do, the phone never had warranty as I am from India and I bought it online. Any suggestions/ideas on what the problem might be?
EDIT:
Just found out that my phone is actually working, but the display isn't. My mom just called me on that number and I somehow managed to pick the phone up and talk with her..any ideas people?
I would have called BS on this story until you used the phrase "my mom".
Anyways, I can't stand people who destroy their phone and then think they should warranty it. Warranties don't work that way. It's dishonest to try and use it for your own mistakes. Your yogurt spill, attempt at cleaning, and disassembling, led to your phone being broken. Purchase a new one and don't do the same thing.
You probably either damaged the screen, damaged the ribbon cable that goes to the screen, or simply didnt connect it right. id take it apart, wiggle around all the connections and clean around them with very diluted alcohol, and wait for it to dry for at least a couple of hours. clean around the port too. Im not sure whats going on with the charge indicator led, or where the connection comes from. Hopefully the phones ability to charge isnt broken, and you left something not connected. Try cleaning and connecting things again, but lettings things dry for a long time first.
peliROJO said:
I would have called BS on this story until you used the phrase "my mom".
Anyways, I can't stand people who destroy their phone and then think they should warranty it. Warranties don't work that way. It's dishonest to try and use it for your own mistakes. Your yogurt spill, attempt at cleaning, and disassembling, led to your phone being broken. Purchase a new one and don't do the same thing.
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I never said I was going to warranty it did I? I wanted to get the fact that I did not have a warranty out so I don't get people telling me that I shouldn't have torn my phone down and instead send it to warranty. How was I supposed to know that the alcohol would make its way under the screen? I specifically used Isopropyl Alcohol because it evaporates fast and it meant for cleaning.
I don't need any bashing from anyone who cant stand what I did, I only wanted suggestions on how I would go about fixing the phone if at all possible.
@di2356
I suppose thats the only option I have left, and I guess you missed the edited part of my post.
The phone is actually working now, I am getting phone calls and my notification LED light is also blinking. Only the screen is pitch dark, and as far as I know it doesn't respond to touch. The LED charging light is also working, its only the effing screen
Okay, just tried completely tearing the phone down and cleaning all the contacts. No use, the phone still starts up but is completely blank..maybe the alcohol damaged the AMOLED screen in someway?
I am going to try and contact HTC and see how much repairing this will cost..its probably going to cost me 1/3rd the phones price for everything including the shipping
you said your screen started looking pixelated when you used the hairdryer on it.
that was probably a big mistake and possibly broke your amoled screen.
in any event you really did a lot of things wrong there. it was probably salvageable after the yogurt incident.
for future phones this is what you want to do first thing when any liquid gets on any electronic device. take the battery out right away. if its water or mostly water based liquid then stick it in a bag of rice or other desiccant that will draw the moisture out of it for at least a few days if not a week depending on how wet it got.
for something like yogert in the USB port i would have pulled the battery and cleaned it out of the port with paper towls and toothpicks or similar non conductive material as there can be a residual charge in the device right after the battery is removed or let it sit batteryless for 20 min to make sure all charges have left capacitors and then go at it with something metal carefully.
rubbing alcohol would have been ok to use but only in just enough amounts to get the job done, you obviously did not realize how much you had put in there if it got deeper into the phone before evaporating.
in any event get a new phone and let it be an expensive lesson learned on what not to do
The camera on my s5 active broke. I bought a replacement on eBay and watched several YouTube videos on how to replace. Unfortunately while removing the screen and sliding a guitar pick underneath the LCD I cut through a small part of the ribbon cable. The video said to start at the top of the phone which I think is a mistake. Anyway, I'm not going to bother replacing the screen as it's not cost effective and I already bought a Nexus 6p to replace it. But I would like to get some things off the phone that I had. Obviously my Google data was backed up just fine but I'd like to get some non Google filess from the phone.
The phone still works and turns on but the display is black. Is there a way I can plug the phone in to a computer and see what's on the screen of my phone. Maybe mirror what is supposed to be on the screen onto the computer?
If it is just files you had saved, you should be able to get them just through file explorer if your phone isn't on the lock screen. If you have a phone repair place nearby, it might be worth asking if repairing the cable is an option. Worst they'll say is no.
it took me 2 years to finally break this phone... i dropped it on asphalt, bricks, slate, concrete, wood, and metal, and it turned out to be the cheap tile flooring in the back of the dunkin donuts i work at that destroyed it. the digitizer will not power on and it does not appear to take input from half the screen. im using an iphone 4 (not a 4s) for the time being and that's just fine but what i need is the stuff off of the oneplus. the device is definitely functional behind the digitizer, im not sure if it's worth repairing it or waiting for the 6t or something but i just need to remove the remaining data from the phone so i can put it away and stop thinking about how stupid it is that i dropped it. any ideas?
If it's only the digitizer, get a USB-C male to USB-A Female adapter and plug in a mouse and keyboard. That way you can transfer the data wirelessly to a network location.
or use a USB-hub and plug in a large USB flash drive next to the mouse and keyboard.
that does make sense, though will it work for the power on password? also how would the screen be viewed?
Hi!
My Fairphone 4 sadly took a bath in a lake a few months back.
After drying it up power button still vibrates when turning it on/off but screen is dead.
I got it hooked up to a PC monitor using a usb-c cable and was able to login by entering pin using the PC keyboard attached to the monitor. After happily taking backups of pics of my kid that I thought were lost forever I thought to myself:
"Great! I'll just need to replace the display!"
Ordered a new display and replaced it (Kinda surprised by how easy it was). Pretty sure I was able to snap the cable in place correctly. However, display still won't turn on after replacement! (Tried twice)
Dear experts, am I screwed?
Or is there anything else I might try?