I got from eBay a cheap replacement screen (about USD 80). After installing it the resolution was very, VERY low. I went into display settings, and changed it, but this bricked the phone. It boots, but after the splash comes no picture. Only sounds and vibrations, so THE REST OF THE PHONE WORKS. I'm not able to boot it even in recovery/download mode with picture. Splash is the only visible pic.
I didn't find a way to reset the phone via Odin without flashing (can't flash At&T).
I cant flash it via Samsung Smart switch, because it asks me to activate USB transfer. Can't.
Any suggestions for resetting it, or lowering the resolution?
If the phone actually works but it's just the display causing it to not display anything, then maybe you can buy an adapter to HDMI and connect an external display to the phone. That way you might get an output.
same issue
any luck with the solution?
experiencing the same issue...
Nope. I wasn't able to play HDMI video without usb settings from the phone
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I turned on my phone earlier to notice that the screen was suddenly completely white at full brightness whenever it was on, still touch responsive as I can hear it. This is happening immediately upon boot, not even showing the Samsung nor AT&T logos, so I believe it is a hardware issue. Has anyone else had this happen? If so, is there a solution short of getting a replacement? Maybe tearing it down and reseating the connector or something? I don't know, just a bit upset and rambling, sorry
Tore it down and undid and reseated every ribbon cable I saw, didn't help. Ordered a replacement should get it in a few days, might sell the old one for parts to recuperate some of the costs or maybe pick up one of the media docks that does TV out and USB host as well as charging, see if I can convert it to a set top box, assuming the dock will work without any setup on the phone itself
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.
Hi everybody, I need all of your brains, because my brain stuck at this point.
Yesterday I got a phone (Samsung Galaxy A3 or model SM-A310F) from my neighbor with an damaged display. He told me the phone fell into water, but run after drying normal (I saw a video, isn't the phone water proof?) but then it fell to the ground and since the phone doesn't recognize any touch. I checked it and told him that I need to take a look inside because the glas is in a perfect state, I could see anything on it but, as I said, no functional touch. Hard-Keys are working fine.
The first thing what I does, was to restart the phone with "Vol- and Power". I thought the phone were now bricked, because the boot-up seems to be endless. After I let the phone work for approximately 5-10 minutes, the Samsung logo comes up and Android was there but again, with no touch.
So, as I said, I opened the phone, took a look inside and was very confused, because two wires were broken and some electrical parts near the display plug and the plug itself had a white covering, I think from the water damage before. Anyway, the phone is running but after I opened it, the screen got black and never come back. I cleaned up the parts and the plug and tried again, now when I press home or power, the screen is flickering on the left for a short time and is then black again.
At this point I said him that the phone is broken, because it is not clearly if the screen is broken and/or the mainboard, too (because of the white covering).
My neighbor asked me to recover the files and the contacts. I told him it is hard, but not impossible. My plan was to install a recovery, boot into and to adb pull all the files to my computer.
But: USB Debugging is DISABLED and the oem lock is on, too, so I failed trying to install twrp with odin. I just get a fail.
New for me: you can control your phone with your computer mouse and keyboard, so I thought, I can just accept the MTP request and simply drag and drop the files... but nope, the request just pops up, when I connect the phone to the computer. So I can't use my keyboard AND the connection to my pc...
Adb doesn't recognize the phone, because of the disabled usb debug (and even if I can figure it, I need to accept the debug dialog while connecting).
So, this is your part, anybody, any Idea to install something or just to recover the files?
My ideas:
Mirroring APK (to mirror the screen to my PC, explored that with MyPhoneExplorer)
Custom Recovery for stock recovery flashing (flashable zip)
Downgrading (but will definitly stuck in a bootloop, because I can't delete the data)
...
What do you suggest?
Buying a new screen isn't an option. I don't know anybody who can "borrow" me his screen.
I'm really a android geek, not someone as you are, but more than "normal users", so if it difficult, it is not a problem.
I also accept some tips with the screen part. I attached the picture, which I tooked for him. There you can see the white covering AFTER cleaning (it is almost there at some spots... I don't want to break more).
Thank you alot!
Kisses from germany =)
Sorry! I posted it in the wrong sub =( Can anyone please move it?
Ah I would like to update this thread:
I bought a new display, had some problems anyway but now I got a new phone =)
Hello,
My friend gave me a phone, to recover photos from it. It has broken screen and I can see only 3/4 of the screen, but the problem is, that it has ghost touches, so I can't even unlock it. The phone has locked bootloader, disabled USB debugging and no root. I can only disassembly it. My idea was to connect monitor or TV through hdmi adapter and disable touch screen from phone, but I don't have the adapter. Do you have any ideas to recover photos from it?
Hi! My phone fell off recently and the screen suddenly turned black with some dead pixels coming when tapping the unlock button or the fingerprint. So the phone is working but alas the screen is not functional. I´m going to send it over to google since I have warranty over it, but I´d like to know if there´s any way to backup any files I can from it (pictures mostly, audio, video...) before I mail it off and lose it forever.
When I plug the phone to the PC with USB cable I get the usb sound and the phone seems to charge, but I cannot select USB data transfer mode. Any idea of how could I take my files? Thank you all!
Bump, Same Problem here.
Without being able to manipulate Android system via the touchscreen, the answer is unfortunately no.
That being said, since it's a Pixel, your photos should be backed up to your Google Photos account.
If you have adb already enabled on your device these might help.
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