I swear I tried Google search on this, but to no avail.
I finally talked The Wife into letting me root her phone, all seemed to go well. However, when I rebooted, it started having 2 different alternating touchscreen issues:
1. No response at all
2. Mirrored right to left, including capacitive buttons. Search is home, home is search, presses on left register on right of screen.
Any ideas?
Sounds like a rom issue, have you tried different roms to see if it changes?
-Nipqer
That's what's interesting, I never flashed a ROM. After rooting it, and rebooting, I was about to flash CM7, but the touch screen was dead, so I pulled the battery and let it sit a minute, and when it came back on, touch was mirrored. Rebooted again, touch was dead again.
I'll try flashing cm7 tonight.
Thanks. Looks like flashing cm7 fixed the issue. I had midnight paranoia after rooting an HTC phone for the first time. Samsung phones are so much easier to root. :beer:
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Hi folks, I've lurked here for quite a while and gotten some invaluable info; so first off thanks for all of the contributions from the gurus here!
Now, I have a pretty strange issue that I haven't been able to find an answer on anywhere. I'm hoping that someone can help me sort this.
The background story:
My wife has a MyTouch 3G Slide that I bought for her back in July. Last week she managed to drop it in some water. It DID NOT get fully submerged since the water was very shallow. However, it did get a slight amount of intrusion. She pulled the battery in a relatively quick amount of time and we let it sit in a bowl of rice to dry out for a couple days.
The current deal:
When I felt the phone was sufficiently dried after a few days, I fired it up. It took a very long time to get out of the MyTouch splash screen and loaded noticeably slower than normal. Once in, the phone functioned perfectly normal. Absolutely no issues at all with any functionality once you get past the security pattern.
However, whenever you put the phone to sleep, it does some funky stuff. The screen goes black for a second and then comes back on, ready for you to swipe down and then enter the security pattern again. Then it will go black again. Then it comes back on. It just continues to do this, never stopping. Sometimes it will go to the security pattern screen too.
So I figured this may have been some hardware issue since it was acting like someone was just repeatedly pressing the power button. First I wanted to try a simple reboot though. Upon rebooting, the phone would not get past the splash screen. It just froze there.
I pulled the phone apart to see if maybe there was some corrosion on the PCB from the water intrusion. Everything looked fine, but while I was in I did a little wipe-down with some alcohol, then I put it back together. After multiple attempts, I was able to get it to boot again. But the boot process was still VERY slow. Occasionally, it would boot into safe mode as well. But when it booted normally, everything would always function great once logged into the phone. This convinced me that it wasn't a hardware problem since the phone would not cut into sleep mode or anything when logged in. It worked perfectly fine. So I figured that maybe there was some sort of corruption that occurred in the software.
So I tried a hard reset. Didn't fix it.
Then I figured that maybe I needed to do a reflash. So I rooted the phone since the water plunge voided the warranty anyways. Once rooted, I flashed TeamFenix 1.7.1 successfully.
But the phone still only fully boots intermittently, and the boot process is still slow. It also has the same problem in sleep mode which is killing the battery fast since the screen is pretty much constantly on. But once in, the flashed ROM works perfectly just like the stock ROM.
Video of the condition:
Since I'm new, I'm not allowed to put any links in my post. But if you type in the string below after the YouTube url, you'll see a quick video I posted of the condition.
watch?v=dX55URtaRHo
So it seems that there is some crazy issue only upon bootup and when the phone is put to sleep. Can anything be done to fix this? Is there a way to locate and fix corrupted software? Any and all help is appreciated!
Sorry for the self bump. Any devs out there have any suggestions? I gotta get this thing sorted.
If its happening on both stock and teamfenix, I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue. Flashing a rom completely replaces the software, so it doesn't sound like its that.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
It actually seems like a problem in the power button. Did you check the contacts for the power button? Repeatedly pressing the power button will first lock it initially and dim the screen. Press again, then it gives you the chance to unlock. Press again and it goes back to sleep. Wash rinse repeat...
Yes, I understand. But if it were an issue with the power button, when you logged into the phone, it would randomly put itself to sleep. It doesn't do that, it functions perfectly normal with no errors whatsoever when you are logged into the phone. This problem is only exhibited in sleep mode which would rule out a hardware issue with the power button.
Hi eveyone,
I have a HTC desire, originally bought unbranded and unlocked. About two months ago I rooted with unrevoked (after downgrading the HBOOT as I had installed the OTA vanilla Froyo). I have been running OpenDesire and was until recently using v.4.0.34.
Everything has been working fine until yesterday, when it was in my pocket and I got caught in a rainstorm. It got damp, but not super-wet, and was still working fine at the time. Inside the back case and under the battery was dry. Several hours later I updated to 4.0.36. Immediately after update, it was fine and acting normally. In the morning when I woke up and ever since then, the phone has not been vibrating at all. I first noticed it in Swiftkey entering text and thought it must be a setting, but it doesn't vibrate on texts, phonecalls, turning on, turning into vibrate mode, anything.
I thought I might as well reflash from scratch in case something had gone wrong with 4.0.36 so I went to do a wipe, reflash the radio and the rom, and see if this fixed it.
At this point I got back to ClockworkMod recovery and couldn't use the trackpad. It doesn't scroll, it doesn't press, nothing. It also doesn't do anything when booted. Every other bit of my phone works perfectly - charger, headphones, touchscreen, volume and power buttons, the lot.
I am *assuming* these problems are related to the damp rather than anything software-related, but other than the update to 4.0.36 I haven't done anything different or installed any new software. I would also be surprised if it was due to the water, cos it really wasn't that damp.
Any help would be appreciated. I am *this* close to stripping it down and taking it to bits to clean all the contacts of any deposits or anything, but just in case that's a bit OTT, I thought I'd ask you guys on here, because, well, you know everything
Cheers,
Dan
I have this on very rare occasions. Softly hitting the phone on the back helps. If you unsure what I mean. Just drop the phone on your bed once and it'll fix. (Atleast for me it does then)
Please help!
I have not heard of this one. I have been following the tutorial on showthread.php?t=765496 along with the video and I made it up to installing 2.1 (the blue asterisk) The phone booted, made all the sounds etc, but the screen was completely blank, as in off. I shrugged and after a few minutes i found that it was operational (unlock, volume keys worked etc.) So i pulled the battery and turned it on again.
This time it worked, and ran fine, but it wouldn't connect to the computer. Hmmm I thought and restarted it again. This time the screen never turned on. I've tried it several times and still nothing.
Any ideas? It is not set up to enable USB mode so I cant do any control prompts.
This is really weird
Thanks!
Looks like it has come back to life! I don't know what happened. half a million battery pulls, a reinstall of the PC36IMG file - blind i might add! - and another half a million restarts it looks like I am back int the game.
And its dead again...
OK
That was a very weird experience. Looks like everything is completed now.
I feel bad no one has been able to help you through your troubles.
This is very bizzare, and by the way you describe it, sounds like this is a hardware defect.
If it happens again, IMO I would take it back to sprint but hopefully it continues to work and this annomoly never happens again.
So about a week ago or so I began, out of the blue, to have power button issues. The power button would turn my incredible on when it was off. It would wake it when it was asleep/screen off. After that it became hit and miss. When the screen was on it was highly unresponsive. Sometimes it took several presses to get it to turn off, sometimes I couldn't turn it off at all. Sometimes a tap would bring up the shut-down menu as if I had long-held it. Long holding it usually didn't work either. A few times I had to do a battery pull just to shut it off. I eventually downloaded quickboot and a screen lock widget just to get that functionality back. The last thing I remember downloading before this started happening was 'reddit is fun'. I uninstalled that after the problems, but to no avail.
Now lets go over what I was set up with. I have an amoled unit. I was at the time using CM7 Final and whatever kernel was included with it. Although I have used it a lot in the past, I didn't have setCPU installed or running this time. The only root-required thing I can remember running was autostarts. No changes were made to autostarts in the weeks leading up to the problem. I have used many roms; Frankenrom, Virtuous, Ruby, ShadowRom, IncDoes AOSP, The New Guy, Warm 2.2, Redemptive, SkyRaider, Evervolv, and several of the CM Nightlies. While using Redemptive my radio completely quit working across the board. Returning it to stock and then re-rooting fixed it. As far as I can remember I had only used SkyRaider, Evervolv, and the CM Nightlies up until I was using CM7 Final.
So after the problem started happening I decided easiest thing to do would be to try and flash a nightly over it. Tried that, didn't work. That was kind of a long shot, and I decided I might need a full wipe. Did the full wipe and installed the latest nightly. The problem persisted. I think I flashed the latest SkyRaider then, still had the problem. This was starting to seem kind of serious so I did another complete return to stock. I booted into the stock rom and used it for a bit, maybe a few hours, it seemed to work. Since things seemed back to normal I flashed the latest CM Nightly again. Seemed to work for a minute, then it was back to the same old problem.
Now around this point I, for reasons I can't remember, remove my 16 GB SD card and put the stock 2 GB one back in. I have SkyRaider on that and I flash it, it works perfectly. In fact it continues to work for a day or two. All this time my old 16 GB is sitting out on my desk. I eventually decide to clean it up, deleting a bunch of stuff I didn't need on there, and throwing it back in. After putting the 16 back in the problems creep back in. Here and there, then only working half of the time, then barely working at all.
About this time I come up with the idea that maybe something on the SD card, or the card itself, is causing this problem. Seems like a long shot, but I can't think of any other reason that would fit. I do not install apps to my SD card.
So I pull the SD card out. I was at work and I didn't have my old 2GB, so I just left the slot empty. It seemed to still be messed up, but over the course of the next hour or so it began to work correctly again.
Now I'm at home and I have deleted everything from my 16GB, and reformatted it completely. I'm about to flip it back in and see how things go.
The strange thing about this whole situation was that the problem didn't seem to just start and stop. It was as if it phased in and phased out over time, but always being caused by certain things. It seems organic if you know what I mean by that.
Feel free to tell me this is a really ridiculous idea. I think it might be. Is there something critical to the android system that could possibly be stored on the SD card?
Maybe its a hardware problem that's being affected by the weather in your area, because you can run android fine without an SD card. You would be surprised how the humidity affects electronics. This is just a crazy thought to a crazy problem lol
Wow, finally there is someone else out there with this problem.
Mine didnt have this problem till i flashed MIUI latest rom....but even after somehow making it into the recovery mode...i was able to restore my previous cm7 build...
BUT....the problem persists....
So I think I am going to pull out the 8gb sd card my friend gave me from his EVO 4g.
It annoying because sometimes i cant get into even hboot with power + volume down.
I know the volume buttons work because i can change volume on phone.
I can still see the power button still being pressed down, its not stuck or anything...it works 50/50
Can you give an update OP, please?
I also have an AMOLED Incredible..and dont want/can afford another phone...
have any of you opened up your phone to see if the button was still soldered to the board?
- i did and it is, same issue.
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