I've searched all over God's green earth and haven't found one answer
This issue is driving me crazy. I sometimes find that my Dinc likes to move the cursor when I'm typing a message and/or jump around from screen to screen all on its own. What's really interesting is that it's always moving to the left - either in a message or from screen to screen.
Logic says there's either some dirt on the optical trackball, or I've got a more serious issue on my hands. I've cleaned the trackball numerous times, but still no luck.
I have been flashing a number of ROMs lately (still searching for the right one). Is it possible that something got screwed up? I've even gone as far as going back to s-On and flashing a stock 2.2 ROM. Still no luck.
This leads me to believe it's probably a hardware problem. Whatever it is, it's the most annoying thing I've ever experienced!! Please HELP!!!!
in my experience...clean the screen. Mine did it a few times jumping between screens and acting possessed.
Cleaned the screen with a cloth and got the oil off, alls good
Yes cleaning the screen will help but in my experience clean the optical sensor really well. I've had stuff on my optical sensor which caused ever phone to jump around when the light hits the sensor.
Sent from my Incredible using tapatalk.
I've cleaned the screen (and the trackball) so well, you can eat off of it! LOL Trust me, it's not that. I'm down to my wits end. I think I might unroot, unrevoke and go back to stock so I can bring it back to Verizon for a new phone.
Thoughts?
[UPDATE]Oh well... Unrevoked, unrooted and went back to stock 2.2 and it's still happening!! Ughhh.... This is going back to Verizon today. If anyone has any other ideas before 5:00 pm EST, then please let me know. Thx!
There's something wrong with your optical sensor. Exchange it with Verizon. Make sure you let them know that you've tried cleaning and factory reset, otherwise they'll make you do that first.
I had the same thing with my first Incredible. Did the above song and dance with VZW, got a new phone, no problems since.
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After the sprint service reset my phone and killed my calender, I got an automated message asking if my problem was resolved. Well then I pulled over and brang up the dialing pad on the screen and started trying to press the numbers but as with 90% of the time they do not work. I started licking my fingers and pressing on the display and started *****ing and my 17 year old daughter asks my what I am doing , she than says why don't you calibrate my display. That would be great if there was one! She has. An lg touch and hers has one but mine don't she asks? Now I need to know how to make mine work before I poke my finger through the screen. I can't even hang up the phone 50% of the time. Is there a secret way to use this touch screen or do I just have to use the right finger and licking my fingers to make it work just ain't right.
Capacitive touch screens, do not need to be calibrated, unlike their cheaper cousins, and if you are having accuracy issues you need to either Odin the phone or bring it to Sprint and let them do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
Licking your fingers?!? That's totally unnecessary good sir/ma'am. Capacitive screens work by picking up the electrical charge that we have in our bodies. So when we touch the screen, that charge is sent to the display, the sensor and cpu do their thing and figure out where the screen was pressed. That's why you can't use the screen with gloves on (like winter gloves). Anyway, it just sounds like the phone is acting wacky.
Have you just tried rebooting to see if that fixed it? Or turning the screen on and off a few times? My phone acts weird on the lock screen sometimes and just turning off the screen fixes it.
There are a few threads here that address accelerometer problems but if the screen is just not picking up your touch, you may want to take it to Sprint.
that would be sir and it is just one of many problems my phone has. I reset it ,sprint reset it, I am crossing my fingers I got a dud . I was suckered onto the shorter waiting list and had the phone since launch day and in the beginning it was told to me by radio shack that android 2.2 was shortly comming and was going to fix all these problems I am having. I love the phone when it is working correctly but now I am just tired of the issues and promisses not being fullfilled. I read the article in the posting and it explaines different kinds of capacitive tec, gut wich one does the epic have. my wifes epic is so sensitive that it senses 1/4 inch away at times. mine is a luck of the draw and her phone is not mine so I dont use hers enough to see if its really better. I *****ed to sprint enough ,and it took this long, that they are sending me a new one. I doubt they are sending me a new one and expect they are sending me a refurbished one to test. I want to make sure its not something like my fingers not having enough energy to sense or cosmic rays are making my page back button go wacky by itself at random when texting or browsing.
Lol, if cosmic rays are bombarding your phone, we all have a lot more to worry about than the responsiveness of your phone! Sounds like you may have just gotten a bad phone. I would be pissed if Sprint tried to give me a refurb phone. There's a command somewhere in the scripting history on the phone that will tell you whether the phone is refurb. I don't know how to do that. I bet someone on this site does though. I guess the bottom line though is that the phone just needs to work.
And to your wife's phone, yes, the phone can be extremely sensitive. Sometimes, I swear that I didn't touch the screen but the screen registers a touch just because my finger was really close to the screen.
Finally, you may want to flash your phone. If you are not comfortable using ODIN or adb, get Sprint to do it. And not just a factory reset through the settings menu. I mean resetting the phone through recovery or download mode. Good luck.
Hi all
I have a serious problem with my Defy and I'm hoping that someone will know how to fix it, although I think the answer will probably be "replace the screen" or "it's dead".
Basically, only small part at the top of the screen is working propperly. This area, a strip of about 1cm at the top, shows everything as it should. The rest starts black and then a load of mainly white vertical bars slowly fade in down the screen. These change when the screen does, but with a delay.
The touch screen still works fine, and ocasionally the bottom part of the screen will correct itself, but only for a few seconds.
I'm really hoping there's a simple fix to this. Please help me...
Is it drop or water causing this wierd symptom??
It is a must to replace the display if it drop or water damaged.
But if it happen after flashing then it most probably caused by rom issue.
I haven't dropped it/got it wet. The only thing I have done recently is upgrade to the latest MIUI last week, which incidentally was causing battery draining issues, so I was planning to revert to my nandroid.
The problem is, I can't even do that easily as I cannot see the recovery screen. Anyone know how to get round this?
OK, quick update
I have managed to restore my nandroid through a bit of memory and guesswork (remembering where things were in recovery). Initially the screen was the same, but after half an hour it has come back. I hope this means it works, but I haven't moved the phone since, so I am not 100% certain. I'm looking into the possibility of getting an Atrix now, as I have seen them for sub-£200 on eBay and I have wanted one since they came out. Hopefully the Defy will work, and I can sell it and put the moneys towards an Atrix.
Don't know if anyone else is experiencing this with their Play but as of a week or two ago the backlight started acting strange. The backlight will randomly stay off when I push the power button with the slider gamepad closed. Only way to make it come on is to pop out the slider. It seems to be random, and if I push on the slider edge slightly with my thumb with the slider closed the backlight randomly flickers, ranging from slight to severe.
The display is still working despite the backlight issues, I can open apps, and use the phone normally but the backlight flickers on and off. Makes it especially hard to use the phone in the dark.
Phone has never been dropped once.
I've replicated this problem with a variety of roms, both custom and stock. It's definitely not app related or even custom kernel related. It happens on a fresh wipe with stock rom with stock kernel. It happens on CM7 with custom kernel.
I'm curious if anybody else is experiencing this. It would tell me if it's just an isolated incident or if others are having this problem.
Sounds like a faulty connection to the backlight to me.
I had the same problem 2 days ago. Then I couldn't get my phone screen on at all!
I sent my phone back to Sony, even thought I bought it second hand. Phoned them up and talked to them. They asked what time of year I bought it so I said around August and then they gave me the address to send it to. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens next.
If your going to send your phone to Sony for repair then make sure you put the fresh firmware back on and un-root your phone as that breaks the warranty (unless they don't know about it)
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Sounds like a faulty ribbon cable to me. (cable that connects the screen to the rest of the phone)
You wouldn't need to drop it for that to go bad, It could just be a case of opening and closing the gamepad or lot.
Yeah good thoughts, most likely the ribbon. That really sucks because I've only had the phone for 7 months, and I've taken excellent care of it. Sounds like a major design oversight.
Mine is probably near complete failure at this point. It's taking a lot more effort to keep the screen on now. Fearing soon it won't work at all.
In hopes that this might help someone else down the line, I was able to fix my problem. Yesterday the screen pretty much quit and I had no choice but to try and solve it myself or buy a new phone.
Using this disassembly video as a visual aid I carefully pulled my phone apart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3n5ZfkqhzE
You'll need a torx T5 tool to pull out all the screws but they are cheap.
Underneath the phone and jammed into the screen ribbon was a rather thick hair just hanging out. Somehow it buried itself in there. I removed it, unplugged and replugged the screen ribbon and cleaned the dusty inside with a q-tip and reassembled it all together.
It works fine now, so hopefully this helps someone else avoid having to pony up for a new phone. For those under warranty probably best to send back but for those like me with no warranty it's worth the shot.
Hi all,
Since yesterday, I've noticed that my Desire won't always turn on the screen when I push the power button if the phone is locked. The hardware keyboard lights do turn on (depending on light levels of course) but the screen stays black.
It does turn on now and again, but I haven't found a clear pattern yet.
Also, the screen works normally when I pull the battery and start the phone again.
It might be worthwhile to know, last friday my sdcard died on me, so I bought a new one (Sandisk 8GB class 4). Also, last saturday evening I managed to destroy the AMOLED screen, and yesterday I put in a new one. I did not encounter the problem before my screen broke.
Obviously, I have googled the problem, mainly getting hits for androidforums.com. Possible solutions there were: SD-card is borked; try reformatting, a contact is loose in your phone; try opening up your phone and reconnecting everything, and that the proximity sensor might be blocked.
Did all three of those things, made sure that the two holes in front of the sensor were clear of dust etc., but no improvement.
Basically, it's really annoying, and if someone has any input, I'd appreciate it a lot!
Forgot to mention, the rom I'm using at the moment is MIUI-Au v2.4.3, was running Sandvold's ICS Beta 0.6.0 yesterday, had the same issue.
Thanks in advance,
plinders
Have the same issue with Sandvold's ICS ROM 0.6 and lower.
When i pull the battery off it's all ok.
Just confirming that the proximity sensor is working properly, I made a call today and the screen turned off as I was holding it to my ear. After I finished the call, the screen stayed off.
I'm going to reinstall the RUU (Starting at the Froyo RUU and installing GingerBread afterwards, to make sure any trace of rooting has been removed just in case), to see if there's any improvement.
I've also read that the problem might be caused by a condensator which has been knocked loose (could well be an option in my case), but I wouldn't have any idea where that condensator would be located.
Thoughts?
Okay, reflashing the RUUs didn't improve it.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do now? I'm not going to buy a new phone, my budget doesn't reach that far and I only have my Desire for half a year.
So, I located the cap mentioned at http://androidforums.com/desire-sup...screen-but-phone-still-hardware-software.html but that was still fully intact. I did notice that, for my feeling, the digitizer board was a little too close to the caps of the screen. So I reseated the board, put the phone back together and.....
It worked!
Hey guys, I've got a pesky issue hopefully someone can shed some light on this. A couple weeks ago I noticed the screen on my GS3 (Running Wicked X 8.0) started to flicker little black horizontal lines across the screen. Sometimes you can barely see it other times (especially when the brightness is up all the way) its ridiculously bad. It does it worse in some apps more than others. Like right now i have the brightness at 100% on chrome and its hardly noticeable. But if I go to Facebook its BAD. Once the screen loads all the stuff it goes away somewhat. I had ordered a new OEM front screen and digitizer replacement before this so I wasn't to worried. Figured it was my screens last hoorah before going out. After swapping out screens I powered on my phone and its still doing it. I put my girlfriends sisters motherboard into my old screen and it wasn't doing it. Put it in my new one and still not doing it. I've tried factory resetting it. Turning off HW Overlay anything and everything I've seen I've tried. Even when playing games it doesn't do it. Its very very faint. Idk what the deal is. Please someone help me out. Greatly appreciate it.
Normally I would say ODIN back to Stock. Then see if the issue persists. But in this case since you have already opened the device it may not help as much to troubleshot the device. Still I would ODIN back to Stock to see if it helps.