BlueAngel Touch Broken - Need to Recover Data - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

Okay - so due to a series of unfortunate events I've cracked the touchscreen glass on my BlueAngel and now it doesn't touch.
I have looked into replacing it, but there's a stubborn motherboard screw which looks like it needs milling out so I'll probably just get a new one and sell mine on.
However, my backups aren't too old but seeing as it still powers up and the screen is fine I'd like to get the data off. Unfortunately, I think the screen thinks it's always being pressed - either way, it's not responding and the unit is locked.
Any ideas how i can unlock it and remotely use it with my PC?

heyz!
have you thought of something like SOTI pocket controller ?
you gain control of your pda with mouse and keyboard on your computer.. but don't know if it will be possible to install this software without the touchscreen
good luck mate

Just tried it but sadly you need the scren to finish the install as you guessed.

Try mymobiler.com
Free software, automatically connects, and installs SW on mobile, when ActiveSync is synced.

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sgh i780 screen can't align pls help

i make hard reset to my fhone,then i can't align my screen,i align my screen many times.nothing happen.
i have the same problem
so,what hapen to you fhone now? my fhone still under waranty,and i send to fmg service centre and they said maybe touch panel problem,did you fix you fhone ready?
Screen Align problem
Me too having the same problem after hard reset
I think its a problem with the latest wm6.1 roms.
Align must be a bit "off" to work...although I havent found a pattern yet...
Download PHM RegEdit, install and create/modify this registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\TOUCH]
"CalibrationData"="501,489 781,231 778,770 232,759 232,225"
These should work quite OK
sent back samsung is touch panel hardware problem so change a new touch panel... Thanks, it can not go in to windows at all so cant edit registry
garytanyh said:
sent back samsung is touch panel hardware problem so change a new touch panel... Thanks, it can not go in to windows at all so cant edit registry
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I could have cooked a version that applies the necessary calibration data via provxml.. but alas it's too late now
FAIROS_IPS said:
i make hard reset to my fhone,then i can't align my screen,i align my screen many times.nothing happen.
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Yo! Got the same problem. Solution was 5 secs away: create empty file WELCOME.NOT on your PC. Then connect to ActiveSync, go to Tools -> Explore Pocket PC and copy that file to the root of a memory card and to the root of your system. Reboot. Yo-ho-ho!
its nothing happend to me au22ru.. anyone can help plz....
Thousand Thanks, I can skip this part and back to normal.
au22ru said:
Yo! Got the same problem. Solution was 5 secs away: create empty file WELCOME.NOT on your PC. Then connect to ActiveSync, go to Tools -> Explore Pocket PC and copy that file to the root of a memory card and to the root of your system. Reboot. Yo-ho-ho!
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Thousand Thanks, I can skip this part and back to normal.
keep stic on points shown like addsign. not by hands
You guys walking around one main problem.
Touchsreen of your phone appears to be broken, when allign test is not passed its becames by fault of touchscreen. Doesnt matter what firmware do you use. Its just warrancy repair, if you have it. Mostly is replacing of touchscreen.
Donst listen to advises to pass this test is hardware fault.
Cheerz
hi, "welcome.not" worked for my samsung sgh-i780 very good.
I could start my phone without any alignment, but i'm sure, that in near future i will need to change touch screen.
BR
szysiek83
au22ru said:
Yo! Got the same problem. Solution was 5 secs away: create empty file WELCOME.NOT on your PC. Then connect to ActiveSync, go to Tools -> Explore Pocket PC and copy that file to the root of a memory card and to the root of your system. Reboot. Yo-ho-ho!
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Thanks for this tip. Now I can use my phone till the touchscreen is replaced/repaired.
Yeap "welcome.not" worked for me. i connect the device with windows device center since i am using windows 7 . then i naviagte to the root folder of the phone and put a blank welcome.not file and reboot it starts with out asking the align screen and now my phone is working fine. no need of the touch since i have a full qwerty key and a senser mouse. thank you so much.
No way, it must work. It shouln't have 2 extensions 4 example : welcome.not.txt or similar. It should be just WELCOME.NOT.
@au22ru
It's not necessary to copying to root AND root of sd, it could be one root, but i preffer to have this file on sd, because after flash root of internal memory is deleted.
@yonylove
check the attachment. Unzip and copy to your sd.
heineken78 said:
You guys walking around one main problem.
Touchsreen of your phone appears to be broken, when allign test is not passed its becames by fault of touchscreen. Doesnt matter what firmware do you use. Its just warrancy repair, if you have it. Mostly is replacing of touchscreen.
Donst listen to advises to pass this test is hardware fault.
Cheerz
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hi heineken,
This thread started 2 years ago, but is still relevant for people like me..
My i780 also have TS problem.. at first, it started small only. Align Screen takes about 5x before it aligns, works for awhile, then misalign again. Then I Align again, maybe takes 10x now, work for a while, then not work again. I even re-Flashed ROM.
Now, I try to align it I must have tried tapping crosshairs 100x already, wont get aligned. And I cant quit the Alignment screen so I take out the battery to power off then on again.
From what I understand,
#1.. TS is now broken, Hardware (Screen) problem? no other fix, as you say above?
#2.. This "Welcome.not" solution at first gave me hope.. I thought there is simple fix, until I understand it now.. I think now if I REFLASH Rom, the phone will first ask you to Align Screen and since i cant, Ill be stuck there forever, right? Even if I take out the battery?
Therefore as long as my TS is broken, I SHOULD NOT REFLASH or I will be stuck? Am I right? And if I do get stuck then the solution is "Welcome.Not". (At least there's a way out) Did I get it?
I can still use mouse and keyboard, but Im not happy because I have lots of apps that use TS. Like GPS software when Im driving, as well as many games. It even makes swiping or reading sms hard with defective TS.
Fortinately, I think I may have a solution for me.
I still have that old bricked i780 (dead) somewhere. I bought a replacement and this one Im using now has the defective TS. (Maybe because I buy it 2nd hand.. although it was working fine the first few months)
QUESTION: Can I take the dead i780 to a celphone technician and ask him to replace the TS panel on my current one? That should work, yes? Problem is many celphone technicians are not familiar with the i780 model, but they work with a lot of Touchscreen phones. This should be easy for them to do and it should work, yes? (unless it is a chip issue or something more technical)
The reason Im asking for advice is I want to be careful now who I allow to open up my phone and mess with it. I suspect the last time maybe my 1st phone could still be revived properly but I showed it to many technicians maybe along the way someone permanently killed it.
Thanks for any advice!

Problems installing software

Hi all, I got my touch pro 2 through Orange a while back and I have this frustration which is really ticking me off. The touch screen stopped working!
It looked like it had a fine film of transparent oil which surrounded a fine grid pattern which you could see if you held your phone against the light at an obscure angle. Nothing is more infuriating than trying to back up your phone, or import emails onto the computer before sending it away for repair, to find that the back up software that comes recommended can't be installed because... wait... you guessed it.... you need the soddin touch screen to install the bloody thing.
My question to you guys is this, has anyone found a way to use the keyboard as an alternative to 'ok', 'cancel', 'install' and other important functions?
It has already been away for repair becuase of this 'recognised' issue, and now it's gone again. I'm getting fed up with HTC stuff going faulty on me, and i've had a lot of their products, however nice the phone is.
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance...
insomnai

:( So Today I Woke Up To A...

Dead Touchscreen, i said to myself its not a big deal i can live without it until i take it to tmobile to get fix. Five Min later got a text and i can't even click send to reply to the text now i honestly need the touchscreen... any alternative way to hit send?
dont just view it reply to it please...
Hello,
maybe this has a simple solution:
I had a dead touchscreen some days ago, even a reset didn't help. Then I removed the screen protector foil (Martin Fields) and everything was fine. Somehow the screen protector continuously triggered the touchscreen at one point so no other input was possible.
If you use a screen protector, try to remove it. Or try a hardreset.
If all else fails, you'll have to send your device in for fixing it. Until then, maybe you can get along with a software called MyMobiler. It lets you use the Phone right from your Computer via ActiveSync. So you should be able to send a message but I dont know if you get it installed without the use of touchscreen.
Dennis
Dennis78 said:
Hello,
maybe this has a simple solution:
I had a dead touchscreen some days ago, even a reset didn't help. Then I removed the screen protector foil (Martin Fields) and everything was fine. Somehow the screen protector continuously triggered the touchscreen at one point so no other input was possible.
If you use a screen protector, try to remove it. Or try a hardreset.
If all else fails, you'll have to send your device in for fixing it. Until then, maybe you can get along with a software called MyMobiler. It lets you use the Phone right from your Computer via ActiveSync. So you should be able to send a message but I dont know if you get it installed without the use of touchscreen.
Dennis
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i know a program called Dashwire that works the same way but threw your Internet browser, and i think ur right about the screen part, at one point my screen kinda flex in when touch , now it sit flat.
Edit: There are ways to remap the keys http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=91134&highlight=remap+hardware+keys
That tip about removing the screen protector was spot on.
My TP2 is working again, I was worried for a couple of days
Thanks!

[Q] Touch Screen Problem

Recently I began to notice a problem with my phone. Whenever I have the keyboard slid out the touch screen is almost non-responsive. So over the past few days I've tried observing what the exact problem is and I think it could be the cable/ribbon that connects the touch screen to the keyboard. I'll have to tilt the screen back and forth before it will actually recognize me touching it. And I've noticed when I rub that ribbon it seems to work. There's also a crease in the ribbon where it folds on it when you close it. I believe this is the problem but I'm not sure and I want any advice/tips I can get. If it is the cable can you order a new one and replace it yourself?
Thanks in advance
Any ideas anyone? I cant get it to half work so I can text and stuff but I have to press it hard and it still wont work at times so something somewhere or another is wrong.
Tripp-phpBB said:
Any ideas anyone? I cant get it to half work so I can text and stuff but I have to press it hard and it still wont work at times so something somewhere or another is wrong.
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Flash the stock ROM and SPL, and do a warranty exchange. This isn't a device you want to open up unless you really know what you're doing and are certain of the issue. If you really want to give it a go, then just buy a non-functioning unit from eBay to use for parts. They can normally be had for less than $40.
Wow, I cant believe that I finally found someone with the same problem as I have.
At first I thought that it was a software issue and I reloaded the software on my device.
The screen responds to presses with the keyboard in, but extended it doesnt respond and only the external keyboard works.
So to type a nice long sms I would have to start it on my display, flick out the keyboard to carry on and then flick it back in before I could press send or anything.
How frustrating.
But I did a test now and flicking the keyboard out and then slowly slowly pushing it back in I can get to a stage where both the external keyboard and screen responds at the same time again.
Definitely a ribbon problem or something.
Only had this phone for a few months now and if it already doing this then I am not feeling too obtimistic about its future.
Well, time to take it in for a warranty repair. I wonder how much greaf I am in for now.
Time to pull out my awesome trusty Artemis out the cuboard.
Tripp-phpBB said:
If it is the cable can you order a new one and replace it yourself?
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I had a friend that had this problem with his TP2 which I've successfully repaired. First thing if you want to do it yourself, go to youtube and look for the Rhodium disassembly video (this will help you a lot). It is not difficult to change any parts in the phone provided that you proceed with caution and take the necessary precautions.
If you are afraid or have never opened up a phone to fix parts, then I would suggest to send it to HTC - this would be devastating if you managed to break up the motherboard by mistake or any other parts in the process of fixing the flex cable.
Tripp --
Did you ever find resolution to your problem? Recently my phone started having the same problem, which I originally thought was related to messing up the calibration file when I put loaded xdandroid GBX0A.
However, it sounds like my problem is pretty similar to yours -- touchscreen works fine when the keyboard is closed, but when it is open it only registers on the bottom of the screen -- which is actually useful in some sense because I can still hit the soft keys in the messaging app and such, but not so useful if you want to scroll using the touch screen. If I play around with the z-hinge a bit, sometimes it starts working -- which sounds like the same thing that you described.
Sorry, I just seen your post but I never fixed mine as I went ahead and bought another phone (Evo) but I did research the problem quite extensively and the problem I believe lies in the ribbon that connects the two halves of the phone. If I remember correctly the motherboard is in the side with the keyboard and that's why when it's slide out, the touch screen won't respond correctly. You can find the part online and replace it yourself. I've taken mine apart and it's not that hard but as said, you need the right tools and to be very careful.
Hi guys
I have tried all the above
Last resort is i got sprite backyup to work
BUT HOW THE HELL DO YOU HIT "NEXT" OR "OK" FROM THE KEYBOARD AS SCREEN DOESNT WORK????

Data backup - phone on, screen broken, touch not working

Hello,
As you probably already read in the title I have a problem. Yesterday my loving MI6 fell on a stone and the screen broke. Fortunately the phone is still on.
The Screen will go on but I can only see pink lines and no image. Touch is not working. The fingerprint sensor seems to work randomly (I get a vibrate feedback) but I guess because of the cracks it doesn’t recognize my fingerprint.
My biggest concern now is to get the data of my phone. Of course, just connecting it to a computer doesn’t work because I would have to unlock the phone and set it to data transfer. Right now the computer recognizes the phone but the drive doesn’t show anything.
I thought about booting into TWRP and connecting it to the computer but TWRP also requires an unlock which I cannot try because of the broken touch.
Any ideas how I can get my data back?
Are there any adb commands that I can use?
I am on LOS15 (TWRP installed).
Thank you for your help!
Update:
Just wanted to let anyone know who get stuck with the same problem. I couldn’t get the data from the phone. I tried several things with data rescue tools and remote control tools for android but nothing worked.
So in the end I bought a new LCD screen on eBay and replaced it. Phone works great again and eventually I was able to access all my data.

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