Hi, my Desire has been extremely unlucky
It started suddenly with some mad behaviour of the volume keys and after a while it stared hanging at bootscreen.
Sent it to repair under warranty and after a month i got it back, they told me it couldn't be repaired under warranty because of some liquid infiltration. It was declared impossible to repair, even at my cost.
I was sure it didn't fall into water, so i opened it and actually found out that a small drop of water must have entered near the optical trackpad. Shame on HTC for not putting some plastic protection there. Really a bad design! A couple of pins of the very small connector looked oxidized. I found out that that faulty connection gives some weird behaviour, including impossiblity to detect the sdcard. After a good cleaning of the connector it started working ok, it's been working perfectly for over a month.
Unfortunately 2 days ago i dropped the phone and since then I can't access my sdcard anymore. I dismantled the phone again and tried about everything but i couldnt get it work. I'm not sure the problem is still related to the trackpad connector, as everything else works just fine, but as a last resort before reselling it for spare parts, i've been trying to find a replacement for the trackpad but i found nothing.
Anybody aware of any means to get a replacement? Any suggestion would be welcome.
I've been after one for ages after dropping my phone in my drink. I cleaned it up and it worked for ages then died and can't fix it again. Had mad volume behaviour while it was damaged.
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Well had my desire in my saddle bag on by bike on Thurs and it rained pretty hard. Though it would be reasonable well protected in there but when I finished and went to end the track I had been recording it started miss behaving with differrnt screens flashing on and off.
So clearly some water has got in there...but hardly much and now all the bottom keys have stopped working making the phone impossible to use.
So I guess I send back to HTC for repair, I guess there going to know its water ingress related so no warrantly cover. Any ideas at all on repair costs and turn arround time on repair?
btw tried a full factory reset but no joy.
Cheers,
Mark.
About 10 days (UK).
Cheers...anyone got any ideas on charge rates? The screen and everything touch is fine...its just all the hard keys (including vol) but not power.
It hardly got that wet...It wasnt like I dropped it in a bucket of water. Bit annoyed how susceptible it was to a few drops.
I can only presume all those keys are linked in someway to a something that has failed.
Hello guys,
Around a week back, my MT3G slide touch screen got unresponsive for a while. I rebooted around 2-3 times and thankfully the touchscreen worked fine.
Now, I am getting this unresponsive touchscreen more often and I have to pull out the battery from the phone and turn it on again. The last time this happened I had to do this about 8-10 times before the touchscreen would respond. I have no problems with my keypad, 4 buttons or the trackpad, just the touchscreen
I also did a factory reset and erased all the data that I had on my phone and SD card.
EDIT : I just figured that the touchscreen sometimes starts working if you slide out the keypad. But once the keypad is slid back in, it's back to being unresponsive.
My phone is out of warranty so I can not get a replacement I think.
Does anyone know what could be the problem for such frequent touchscreen unresponsive behavior. After a couple of reboots, everything returns to normal.
Any ideas ? I would appreciate any help..
Thanks a lot...
you got a broken ribbon
Hi there,
Do you mean the slide rail flex cable or the digitizes flex cable ?
Thanks
flex ribbon cable
I would say it's the flex ribbon cable which connects the motherboard piece to the screen and home button piece. I've purchased several "broken" my touch 3g slides from ebay that had either the screen shift problem when the keyboard was slid out or screen that was unresponsive/wouldn't come on. Both problems were fixed by purchasing an inexpensive flex ribbon cable like item 170747702766 on ebay. I watched a video and followed along on youtube /watch?v=-jgFHuVWlig (stop at 7:27 and reverse the process). However, my most used mt3gs is now starting to have the screen shift problem again and needs a new cable... it didn't last as long as I had hoped.
Did you try any custom roms?. reflashing/updating the device?
I guess it must be some driver issue!..
i have the same problem.
Could you fix it?
Seems to be a common issue. I've described the process of replacing the flex ribbon cable here - it's not a rocket science. Or just bring the phone to a serviceman who will do the same (if you lucky enough he could even have a spare cable, but I'd advice you to have your own bought from ebay to be sure).
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Saem persun said:
Seems to be a common issue. I've described the process of replacing the flex ribbon cable here - it's not a rocket science. Or just bring the phone to a serviceman who will do the same (if you lucky enough he could even have a spare cable, but I'd advice you to have your own bought from ebay to be sure).
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Thank you for the information but another questiion that I do have is where would one get a serviceman that would repair or help repair a phone, usually the technicians are attached to the different cellular carriers and if one dosen't have a contract with them they are not likely to help repair your phone even if it is for a fee. Do you know any serviceman?
Many, many thanks in advance if anyone responds to this. I was hoping that I could get some quick insight into the following:
I came home fairly inebriated after a party on Friday night and somehow left my phone in a sizable puddle of water on the counter all night. In the morning, I realized what a schmuck I am and took out the SIM & battery and kept the phone in a bag of rice for a couple days.
Now, everything works completely fine except for the UP volume rocker and the Power/Wake button. The former barely responds to anything, even hard pressure, and the Power button sporadically doesn't respond. As well, at first there was a problem charging the phone and getting my computer to acknowledge it when connected but that problem hasn't manifested itself today as of yet.
I ordered three parts to try and fix it myself - a volume flex ribbon replacement, power flex ribbon replacement, and a dock connector charging port. I wanted to ask if the more knowledgeable people around here think it's a terrible idea for someone like me, with no experience in mobile phone repair, to try my hand at this. I've been a techie my whole life and have always enjoyed taking equipment apart and putting it back together, but this is my first foray into phones.
Lastly, the other option is to take it to a shop here in Vancouver and shell out between $100-130 for these repairs (the parts of which came to a total of $9 after shipping). If anyone has any shop recommendations, that would be welcome as well.
Any thoughts?
hi, have searched and searched on the forum but no real answer to my problem.
i dropped my htc one x and the glass cracked, so i sent it away to a supposed reputable firm (i didnt realise htc repaired phones aswell otherwise i would have sent it there)
anyway the lcd display and brightness worked perfectly, the company have replaced the screen and now the backlight no longer works and flickers when touched or cpu is being used.
they have said it is the display IC, and coil etc,
they say that this was caused by the phone being dropped, and not by them and they have charged me (they take payment before sending phone back), they initially took the phone back, and 3 weeks later they have decided to wash there hands of it, have put the phone back together shodily tell me i have to put up with the phone as it is, and refuse me a refund.
they acknowledge that the ic was fine before they took it apart, but blame it on the nature of the phone design as to why it now doesn't work.
i would post link to another forum explainingg the possible issue (has no explanation of cause though) and pics of the phone has been returned to me, but i can't because im a noob
Basicly the question is,
Who is at fault?
And how could the ic get shorted out,
The backlight flickering is likely to be poor installation of the new screen.
Again this is an old example I'm referring to here. I used to replace the screens on the Nokia n95 quite regularly.
You get the screen assembly and the ribbon cable which attached to the motherboard.
If the ribbon cable was not seated 100% perfectly I would get the exact same symptoms you are describing.
No backlight. Pressing down on the screen would either get it to flicker or come on for a while.
It shows a poor connection. I took the screen back out and repositioned the cable back in. Reassembled and then it was fine after
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sx_turbo said:
Basicly the question is,
Who is at fault?
And how could the ic get shorted out,
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Hi mate did you managed to get this sorted I am having the exact trouble same issue with a company call Elite Phones and Computers.
They are saying that the IC shorted out and the only repair would have to be a replacement board.
sx_turbo said:
hi, have searched and searched on the forum but no real answer to my problem.
i dropped my htc one x and the glass cracked, so i sent it away to a supposed reputable firm (i didnt realise htc repaired phones aswell otherwise i would have sent it there)
anyway the lcd display and brightness worked perfectly, the company have replaced the screen and now the backlight no longer works and flickers when touched or cpu is being used.
they have said it is the display IC, and coil etc,
they say that this was caused by the phone being dropped, and not by them and they have charged me (they take payment before sending phone back), they initially took the phone back, and 3 weeks later they have decided to wash there hands of it, have put the phone back together shodily tell me i have to put up with the phone as it is, and refuse me a refund.
they acknowledge that the ic was fine before they took it apart, but blame it on the nature of the phone design as to why it now doesn't work.
i would post link to another forum explainingg the possible issue (has no explanation of cause though) and pics of the phone has been returned to me, but i can't because im a noob
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had the same ..from now ill always send it to htc if something is broken again it costs the same i found out
Upon power up flashes green then blue, no LG logo or anything else. If i plug USB connection to the PC the PC recognizes the phone any suggestions? By the way this happened after the phone was dropped, no visible signs of the screen being cracked.
Try holding power button for like 30 seconds. Or pull battery
Was this ever resolved? My friends phone did the exact same thing the other night, you can still feel it vibrate across the unlock pads and it makes noise and everything when receiving texts, can even answer calls if you know exactly where to push accept call.
It's the strangest thing.
Looks like a broken mainboard from the drop. Or perhaps cracked screen near the connection to the mainboard.
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VeeDaub said:
Was this ever resolved? My friends phone did the exact same thing the other night, you can still feel it vibrate across the unlock pads and it makes noise and everything when receiving texts, can even answer calls if you know exactly where to push accept call.
It's the strangest thing.
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Replaced the bazel/Screen/LCD, still same issue.
As I said: broken mainboard....
Same friend I was talking about earlier, exact same issue, he had his old phone he was using and just recently we found the issue, it had mild water damage from snow getting in his pocket right around the display connector inside, so we cleaned it up with alcohol, made some colors at the bottom but then would go black again, we took the logic board out, reflowed it in stages on each side so everything was good, tried it again, exactly half the screen (right side) worked perfect, so finally, brought it in, they said the display was faulty and replaced the phone under warranty.
So, conclusion, we didn't touch the display, Bell said the display was broken and just replaced his phone.
We only touched the logicboard and we got it half working, if we knew a better method of reflowing a mobile logic board (chips on both sides so you can't reflow the same way as laptop motherboard) so it was a lot harder but we probably could have fixed it if we kept at it and knew more about what size of the logic board needed the reflow the most
We used a bunch of clay if anyone is wondering, worked it in out hands till it was very plyable, make a pile slightly bigger then logic board, push board flat I to clay so it holds the underside chips pressed and in place, reflow top, repeat once cooled, it got half the screen working from a phone that had physical water damage and corrosion on the display connector so, this will probably work for you.