last week and now the screen turned white. I cant see anything. I did a hard reset several times but still nothing happened. Does my BA need an LCD replacement? OR maybe I could work it out by opening the device and check for the loose parts inside?
if your screen isnt cracked and the screen is white, but the back light is on, my guess is that the screen is ok, you might need to do a full hard reset and try and boot it a few more times, see if you can get the device into bootloader mode.
if your on WM5.0 try and get the the bootloader and format and clean the hive and stuff. wipe it totally clean, then see if taht works. if not, then screen might be shagged. :shock:
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HI All, have an intersting problem, was surfing the net via wireless when the unit locked up. Soft reset and now all I get is a white screen. The unit seems to hard reset with the startup sound that the unit makes when you first start it up out of the box, but the screen stays white.
Any Ideas? :roll:
mmm.... Hard Reset :twisted:
HI Xeon,
tried that and still comes up with white screen, but does all the correct things re sounds but all you can see is a totally white screen.
You could try leaving it with the battery removed overnight but it sounds like a hardware problem to me, could be the lcd has died or the connection has come adrift for some reason.
I suggest u Upgrade or reinstall the ROM , maybe something happened to one of the files that should not be modified , anyway , u won't lose anything , u already Hard.Rstd .........
i had the same problem before..i did an upgrade that fixed it. but still have a backup even if its a white screen..after i upgraded i had another problem with the Storage Folder missing..and the list goes on..dont wory you'll know what i mean when you get it..
It happened to me the second day I got my O2 XDA IIs. Hard reset didn't seem to do anything... The unit didn't response to a soft reset either... It was just frozen... I removed the battery, boxed it up and was ready to return it. The next day, just before I was about to drop it off, I was curious and did a reset and everything went back to normal... It never happen to me again... Don't know what happened :?
I have the same problem...
The phone shows white screen white it can recieve & make calls, activesync can recognize it.. But the screen still white !!
Any other suggestions for helping solve this problem..
Is this means that the LCD is dead ?? or the problem in its connectors or it's a software prob. ???
just get a mda3 with a problem
sometimes when i switching the phone on (power button) the backlight is working but the screen remains black so i can't se anything. the phone is working, i can browse the folders, i hear all the sounds but the screen remains black! after a while hes working again.
does anybody had the same problem? and how can i solve the problem?((((
have u tried a hard reset? ive never had this problem so i dont know, tho i guess if u sync with pc and save all all your wanted files and do a hard reset, it may sort it.
i've already tried hard reset, rom updating etc...
the problem is still there...((
i've switch "turn off the phone after 3 minutes" off, maybe it would help...
because problem was appearing most of the time if device was lying for 10-20 minutes without working...
update: nope, it's still black(
Think you have a bad device. A problem that is know is that the backlight will turn itself of (but you can still see the screen). This is some times the case with mine and I have the 1.40 rom, however I have had this problem with other roms so it must be some software that I use.
i'm also thinking so...
now i noticed that if you turn the device on and get a black screen, if you wait a minute he will switch the screen on. but why?
I have a Siemens SX66 which has worked great since I got it when it came out. Recently I cracked the screen so I replaced it with a new lcd including touch screen. The screen is a geniune HTC Sony screen. After putting it together again the software was reset. It asks to touch the screen to begin. Then, it goes straight to "align screen" and asks to tap the target at each location as it moves around to align the screen.
It seems to be stuck there because I have had it cycle through the same spots (original and 4 corner spots) over and over at least 20 times without going to the today screen yet.
I tried reflashing the software and after a successful flash it still does the same thing.
Can someone tell me what to do to make this thing work again?
Same thing here :0
Did you two guys solve your problems?
I have the same problem, I am still trying to fix it. I suspect from the backup battery, since before I hard reset my SX66 all programs lost their configuration when I turn off and on again my SX66, and when I tried to realign the screen the align cycle repeated forever. Then I tried hard resetting, reflashing to various OS's and I can not pass the initial calibration screen.
Please keep me posted if someone have found the way to solve it.
Thanks !
during a rom upgrade some time back, my screen started to fade, at first very very dark etc, the just black.
I could not connect diamond to pc (never even came up as a usb device) it was dead!!
The phone was hard spl'd and had been through 20 or so roms without issues...
I have managed to re hard spl it,, put radio back to 25, and put an old simple duty rom...
it now active syncs, receives calls, etc
but screen is black????
any clues besides ebay??
Does the screen turn on at all when you Hard SLPed it?
NO, no lights on Unit anywhere
Not even below on the Phone or Home buttons etc, the unit has 0 lighting power at all times (after hard reset, after hard spl etc) , but it active syncs etc. and makes sounds??
Is it software or hardware? Strange thing is this happened after a rome upgrade, which makes me think software, but I have upgraded, re hard spl-d numerous times to know affect.
So if hardware, I can see new sreens on ebay for 20GBP delivered, and I was thinking of ordering them if they are not too hard to install?
Any input appreciated
it appears after a rom flash, now the screen seems to be actually light in black for awhile, so slowly patient is being revived but I still do not know how to get it back...
UPDATE: Screen came back but on low power (ie no backlight) and it is now stuck installing opera??: bug Microp Mismatch during installation. We are slowly getting there
ok - if it's software, the best way is mtty - as far as i can tell, it'll make sure everything is wiped out...
but from the sound of it... u said it went down while upgrading - so i might not be the software, coz while upgrading (%ages shown) software is being "written" - but it's not really "active"...
but worth a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290
good luck
Updates: Lights on Bottom coming on
I am having a difficult time getting MTTY to work, but the device white lights on the lower end of the screen turn on now. (when I seem to reset the device etc)
I can update the rom to other roms without problems, is there a reason to use mtty to update or should I just order a new screen?
UPDATE: Energy Rom works! but screen is very dim, no brightness, and I get this infamous Microp error???
looks i'm still screwed this is a hardware error...screen went black again...
So I've had my Tab 3 for a little over 6 months now and have had no issues what-so-ever 'til now. My problem is with the screen just suddenly becoming unresponsive after locking it after use. I swiped my finger across the screen to unlock and got right back into my tablet like normal, but then once I tried to do open up applications from the Home Screen nothing happened. I tabbed lightly and swiped repeatedly trying to get a response.... nothing.
My screen LCD screen is flawless and is original, it has never been tampered with. There are no cracks or scratches or anything it just suddenly stopped working. So I figure it's a software issue, no big deal, right? Wrong. I did a soft reset by holding down the power button, it reboots and comes back to the home screen. Nothing. I figured wth I have nothing important on here, let me do a hard reset. Boot into recovery mode wipe the cache and tablet performing a hard reset. Tablet then reboots to the default setup screen to choose language. Nothing. I can't choose anything. I don't know what's wrong. Lastly, the battery was semi-low around 20% or so before this all happened. So I let it fully charge again hoping that'd help, but nothing. I'm at a loss of what to do next.
NOTE: This is all original and is stock everything. I've never modded this tablet or rooted it. I don't understand how the digitizer would just give out for no reason, it hasn't been dropped or anything.
Any other troubleshooting I can do? I've thought about installing the USB drivers and putting it into download mode to flash a custom rom or even the original to see if it'll work, but I don't want to do that unless necessary. If it is the digitizer are these hard to replace and costly?
Ta-ky said:
So I've had my Tab 3 for a little over 6 months now and have had no issues what-so-ever 'til now. My problem is with the screen just suddenly becoming unresponsive after locking it after use. I swiped my finger across the screen to unlock and got right back into my tablet like normal, but then once I tried to do open up applications from the Home Screen nothing happened. I tabbed lightly and swiped repeatedly trying to get a response.... nothing.
My screen LCD screen is flawless and is original, it has never been tampered with. There are no cracks or scratches or anything it just suddenly stopped working. So I figure it's a software issue, no big deal, right? Wrong. I did a soft reset by holding down the power button, it reboots and comes back to the home screen. Nothing. I figured wth I have nothing important on here, let me do a hard reset. Boot into recovery mode wipe the cache and tablet performing a hard reset. Tablet then reboots to the default setup screen to choose language. Nothing. I can't choose anything. I don't know what's wrong. Lastly, the battery was semi-low around 20% or so before this all happened. So I let it fully charge again hoping that'd help, but nothing. I'm at a loss of what to do next.
NOTE: This is all original and is stock everything. I've never modded this tablet or rooted it. I don't understand how the digitizer would just give out for no reason, it hasn't been dropped or anything.
Any other troubleshooting I can do? I've thought about installing the USB drivers and putting it into download mode to flash a custom rom or even the original to see if it'll work, but I don't want to do that unless necessary. If it is the digitizer are these hard to replace and costly?
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well replace a screen digitizer require a basic set of skills on mobile repairing. However I found this on ebay (US) http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...en.TRS1&_nkw=T217S+screen&ghostText=&_sacat=0
but you can try to flash into latest firmware by samsung and try again