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my ARTE110 wont turn on

hi guys, not been on for a long time as i moved onto a newer phone, but ive recently lost the new phone and decided to route out my old MDA compactIII (ARTE110), i charged it for a few hours while i went out and when i came back i tried to turn it on but it wouldnt, i remember dropping the phone down a set of stairs before i upgraded, but it worked fine after the fall.
is there anything i should be looking for inside the phone thats prone to simple nocks and bangs or would it be best to try and buy another one as i really miss using this phone.
if its a simple dont bother ill be on the look out for a HTC kesier

anybody???

Hard to say, isn't it?
Did it still work when you got your new phone?
How long ago was that?
What does it do and what does it not do?
Does it show the charging LED?
Yellow on charging, green when fully charged.
For all we know right now your battery or even your charger might be dead.
I take it you don't see anything on the screen, but that doesn't necessary mean it doesn't switch on, for instance: are there any sounds?
What happens when you click on the screen, does it give you any sound-feedback? Did you turn sound-feedback on (so many months or so ago)?
In short: give us as many details as you can!

[Q] [HELP] touch panel keeps dieing!!! (orange juice damage)

Hey everyone,
I had a bit of a spill with some orange juice the other day right onto my phone.
I pulled it apart straight away and left it overnight to dry out and recover.
When i put it together in the morning it turned on fine and was working fine. I was running it as a wifi hotspot, and running some app updates and it started running like crap. really slow and unresponsive, then the touchscreen stopped working so i pulled the battery and tried to turn it back on.
It then started to not boot. It would show the splash screen and that is all. occasionally it would boot up (after a lot of waiting/pulling battery/trying again) but the touch wouldn't work and it would say it was nearly out of battery (pic of battery with cross through it)
When i boot into HBOOT (vol- and power) it shows TOUCH PANEL-fail which is obviously not good.
After a lot of stuffing around i decided to get a new touch panel... so i did.
It arrived today and i installed it no problems then the phone started just fine. I set up all my stuff again (google accounts, apps ect. cause as part of my fiddling i had wiped the phone) and it was working like a charm. no problems at all, untill i was on a phone call, about 5 minutes in it just went blank.
I pulled the battery and tried to start again and had the same problem as with the orig touch screen!!!
Again in HBOOT, and again have TOUCH PANEL-fail... WTF?!?!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
BACKGROUND info:
HTC Desire 8183 - telstra branded
stock telstra 2.1 rom
never rooted.
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-5.11.05.14

Needs to go for repair. Seems like the motherboard.
Sent from CM7

Well i pulled the sucker apart again, and just scratched around some terminals and whatnot and gave it a good blow out, stuck it back together and it worked again.
Got the missus to play angry birds on it on the way home and it died just at home (like 30 mins of angry birds)... then about 3 hours later i gave it another go... and now it is working again!
If it stops again i think i'll pull it apart and clean all the terminals and boards a little more, cause it seemed to really help.

Buggared,,,,,
Liquid on a mainborad, rarely seems to be fixed by "drying and etching".
Save your time and aggrevation... new phone.
OJ.... should have counteracted with baking soda... But you could dip it in this solution...... Then dry in a bowl full of rice....
Seriously, get a new phone. Or, you could have hornets and bees congregating around it in the future...

i am tempted by the idea of a new phone... but i think i would want to wait for the SE arc... problem is i need a 850/2100 version for the network i'm on.

Yeah, I know... Had a guy the other day, same situation. Saltwater from a wave.
OJ being a citric acid, and saltwater, being corrosive...
Do the math.
Hate to say it, but you'd been better off with milk...
A lot of phones are on discount nowdays, like the Desire... EDIT; Quad band, covers all the networks.

yeah i know... sadly Milk doesn't work as well with Vodka as Orange Juice does

At least you have humor....
You did a grand job of attempting to revive the life.
I can only suggest an alcohol bath... And not the drinkable kind.
And a good drying in "rice" for a couple days.
Please, no comments about the rice.

Well its still working, so happy days for now.

Still going strong now... maybe i have lucked out and fixed it?

you need repair

salahfathi said:
you need repair
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Well apparently i dont... it is still working.

Anyone else saved by the "Detached Pen" alert?

I saw a post where someone called the missing pen alert a gimmick. Well the "gimmick" saved me a problem tonight. I was leaving the Vet's office with my dog pulling on the leash and dropped the phone. Thank goodness no damage, I just popped the battery cover back on and all appeared good. I was out the door when I got a beep-beep. Looked at the phone and got the Detached Pen message. I went back in and found the pen under a pet supply display 5 feet from where I dropped the phone. The thing is; It was late, I had a busy evening planned and was rushing to get places with no time to play with the phone. I would not have used the pen again until tomorrow at the earliest. Assuming it hadn't been swept up by the cleaning crew by then I doubt I would have thought to look at the Vet's office anyway. The gimmick saved me the replacement cost plus loss of use. This is my first Samsung and I'm impressed with how well thought out the device is. Good by HTC, I enjoyed our time together but I have found a new and better love.

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I saw a post where someone called the missing pen alert a gimmick. Well the "gimmick" saved me a problem tonight. I was leaving the Vet's office with my dog pulling on the leash and dropped the phone. Thank goodness no damage, I just popped the battery cover back on and all appeared good. I was out the door when I got a beep-beep. Looked at the phone and got the Detached Pen message. I went back in and found the pen under a pet supply display 5 feet from where I dropped the phone. The thing is; It was late, I had a busy evening planned and was rushing to get places with no time to play with the phone. I would not have used the pen again until tomorrow at the earliest. Assuming it hadn't been swept up by the cleaning crew by then I doubt I would have thought to look at the Vet's office anyway. The gimmick saved me the replacement cost plus loss of use. This is my first Samsung and I'm impressed with how well thought out the device is. Good by HTC, I enjoyed our time together but I have found a new and better love.
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Glad it saved you! It does work but it is just not as "techy" as it could be... It saved you this time but might not rely on it in the future as it is hit and miss for a lot of people, but I have left my stylus on my couch and it's went off a few times on me... Saved me from walking a longer distance! LOL

yeah ignore all those fools who call this a gimmick. how is this a gimmick

For some reason this feature doesn't work for me. I can take out the pen and walk around without it and it never alerts me.

erootaku123 said:
For some reason this feature doesn't work for me. I can take out the pen and walk around without it and it never alerts me.
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Myself neither. Ensured it's enabled in the settings menu then tested by walking down the hall of my building and back with it in my office.

It was not working for me but after reading some other posts on the forum. .. It was said you need to not only ensure the feature for the alert is on. .. but the screen needs to be sleeping as well. .. tried it just now and it works fine for me ...I tried it earlier with the screen not sleeping and no alert. ..so confirmed the screen needs to be in stand by mode and not on.
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that was the key! Thankyou

clearNET said:
It was not working for me but after reading some other posts on the forum. .. It was said you need to not only ensure the feature for the alert is on. .. but the screen needs to be sleeping as well. .. tried it just now and it works fine for me ...I tried it earlier with the screen not sleeping and no alert. ..so confirmed the screen needs to be in stand by mode and not on.
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I guess thats because you can already see in the notification bar the "S-Pen detached" notification when the screen is on.
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I also thought it was a gimmick. I left my S pen on my table and walked around the room steadily holding my phone waiting for an alert. Nothing. Then I read in a thread here that holding the phone steady in your hand testing the feature doesn't really work. Holding the phone steady doesn't simulate "walking movement" it is as if your are sitting there with your phone in hand with your pen resting on your desk. The phone needs to jostle a little (my words) to activate the alert. I tested with a little "jostling" and it worked just fine.

Why I love my GS III

I went on a road trip this weekend to visit family. It was a nightmare. All my personal trials behind, when I finally arrived well behind schedule, I reached for my phone as I got out of the car and noticed it was sitting in a cup half full of melted slushy, and based on when my Sync said it disconnected from bluetooth, had probably been sitting there for at least two hours (I was more worried about driving in the mountains with a fussy baby than why my phone's bluetooth shut off, so I didn't give it a second thought). It refused to power on so I put it in some rice overnight. The next morning it still wouldn't turn on. I plugged it in and tried again and still nothing, but after a few minutes I got a consistent blinking red light. I didn't think there was much hope, and I didn't have any way to look up information as I was basically in the middle of nowhere.
When I finally got home, I took it apart and was impressed by how easy it was compared to my last several phones. My GSIII was in mint condition before this incident, so I hadn't needed to disassemble it yet, but I was surprised that there was no need to pry open taps with a credit card or anything silly like that. Everything was sticky, but I cleaned it with lots of isopropanol and made sure all of the circuitry above the screen was nice and shiny. I put it all back together and to my amazement it booted right up! It wouldn't charge because the battery overheated but I applied a little thermal paste to where the processor sits (there is a pad that looks like thermal paste there that was a bit tattered) and now I've been running Pandora for an hour and my battery temp is sitting between 19 and 25 C. I'm sure there are lingering issues, but I am so satisfied and so happy that the phone was this resilient. I'm posting this to share my joy but also to give hope to anyone else that might come under similar circumstances. The phone is apparently very well built and a little cleaning can go a long way.

Awesome! Glad it survived.
Unfortunately, I have high expectations for my GS3. I beat the hell out of my Epic and it kept on going. I am planning to be nicer to my GS3, but honestly, it's probably like a new year's resolution....

Dead screen out of box

Just got my Note 10.1 2014 and was so excited to play with it and guess what? The screen is dead. I can hear it boot up and everything even the capacitive menu and back buttons make their annoying "water drop" noises and light up. Anyone know something I can do about this? I've already ordered a replacement from Amazon but would like to try and fix it meanwhile (I put 1 day shipping for a reason...). I'm really impressed with Samsung's quality control. Tinted screens, loose speaker grills, unresponsive tablets, and now one that has a screen that doesn't even work out of the box. Thanks Samsung!

notebooko said:
Just got my Note 10.1 2014 and was so excited to play with it and guess what? The screen is dead. I can hear it boot up and everything even the capacitive menu and back buttons make their annoying "water drop" noises and light up. Anyone know something I can do about this? I've already ordered a replacement from Amazon but would like to try and fix it meanwhile (I put 1 day shipping for a reason...). I'm really impressed with Samsung's quality control. Tinted screens, loose speaker grills, unresponsive tablets, and now one that has a screen that doesn't even work out of the box. Thanks Samsung!
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This happened to me last night. My screen did eventually work, and it might've been related to it being charged. I still sent mine back to Amazon today, however.
You may want to read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551881
When I did my RMA last night they only would do a refund since the 32 GB Black model was out of stock at Amazon, so I'm carefully reconsidering what tablet I want now... ugh.

locovaca said:
This happened to me last night. My screen did eventually work, and it might've been related to it being charged. I still sent mine back to Amazon today, however.
You may want to read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551881
When I did my RMA last night they only would do a refund since the 32 GB Black model was out of stock at Amazon, so I'm carefully reconsidering what tablet I want now... ugh.
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Thanks for the link. I don't know if I want to open up the back cover and risk breaking anything as of now because I only got it like an hour ago, but I'm going to try charging it fully to see if it works later. That really sucks that they don't have it in stock anymore and Samsung should really be getting a lot of **** for this. Nobody wants to spend 500-600 dollars on a tablet and have it not work after a week let alone the first hour. I have been thinking about the iPad Air, but I like the S-Pen so much I don't know what to do. Sigh, first world problems. :crying:

notebooko said:
Thanks for the link. I don't know if I want to open up the back cover and risk breaking anything as of now because I only got it like an hour ago, but I'm going to try charging it fully to see if it works later. That really sucks that they don't have it in stock anymore and Samsung should really be getting a lot of **** for this. Nobody wants to spend 500-600 dollars on a tablet and have it not work after a week let alone the first hour. I have been thinking about the iPad Air, but I like the S-Pen so much I don't know what to do. Sigh, first world problems. :crying:
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Well, the wonderful thing (sarcasm) is that it was back in-stock this morning, but my RMA was already set up for a return and I was sending a case back too. I could probably tell Amazon to switch it back but at this point I'd rather just see this through and figure out where to go from there.
In my case I didn't remove the back. What I did initially was just plug it into the charger. At first it didn't even turn on then, but after a little bit the backlight did turn on in charging mode. Then it would work on the initial boot but not come on after it first turned off, and then after a while that ended and it just worked normally. FWIW, my battery was at 0 or 1% when I got it and around 15% when it started working completely correct, so it possibly is related to the charge level.

locovaca said:
Well, the wonderful thing (sarcasm) is that it was back in-stock this morning, but my RMA was already set up for a return and I was sending a case back too. I could probably tell Amazon to switch it back but at this point I'd rather just see this through and figure out where to go from there.
In my case I didn't remove the back. What I did initially was just plug it into the charger. At first it didn't even turn on then, but after a little bit the backlight did turn on in charging mode. Then it would work on the initial boot but not come on after it first turned off, and then after a while that ended and it just worked normally. FWIW, my battery was at 0 or 1% when I got it and around 15% when it started working completely correct, so it possibly is related to the charge level.
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Charged it to 100% and didn't work. Oh well, my replacement will be here tomorrow. I'm pretty sure they forgot to connect the display connector or something. I can take screenshots and look at the screenshots through my computer with the tablet connected and even navigate through the menus and things. Don't know how quality control missed the tablet that didn't even have a connected display. Thanks for the help and good luck on deciding on a new tablet.

Mine arrived on Tuesday with a dead screen as well. And I had ordered mine from Samsung. Horrible customer service BTW.
Sent from a galaxy far, far away!