My G2 screen flickers and change colors. It started happen a couple of days after i got caught in the rain. I took the motherboard out and put in in some rubbing alcohol to help get the any water out. it help alittle. But, there are veritical lines going all over the screen. I also replaced the flex cable. Is there anything i can do to the screen, to get it showing correctly? or should i just by a new lcd? I dont want to buy a new one and the problem continues with that one too. Also, when ever it get close to moisture, the screen get kind blurry and distorted too.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated it.
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Hi All,
I have a Tilt 2 and today I notice that I have a black stain on back of my screen. I first thought it was due to humidity since I am in mexico right now on vacation. But after playing around I figure out that looks like a burn pixels and also my touch screen fuctionality is not working any more. its like its froozen. I have tried to reset but its not helping.
I am thinking maybe this has happen due to some pressure on the phone during the flight i am not really sure. Do you think the LCD is bad? do I need to change the LCD or is there any other way to fix this. I see these items on ebay. do i need to buy both items?
http://cgi.ebay.com/USA-NEW-LCD-Len...896106?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4aa318df2a
http://cgi.ebay.com/USA-NEW-OEM-LCD...990712?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item335d05c2b8
I would appriciate any help
Thanks.
Update:
Looks like its not a dead pixel. some how the humidity has cause water to go behind the screen between the LCD and front cover. Any ideas how to get ride of it with out opening up the LCD? I tried blow dring but that has not help alot. The strange part is it goes a way after a while and touch screen starts to work but then it comes back again.
any ideas would be appriciated.
Thanks.
Help - Daughter broke LCD on her G2 :-(
So we ordered a new one from Repairsuniverse.com and meticulously followed their instructions. Everything appeared to go very well and the screen worked afterwards. There was however a faint strange blue spot in the center of the screen. 2 days later the brightness stop working. Now the screen is very dim and can be only read the dark room. When I contacted the supplier they attempted to blame it on the motherboard.
Any ideas? My daughter wants her phone back :'(
It sounds like the backlight for the screen went bad. It may be a loose connection to the motherboard though. I would try to disassemble the phone again and make sure the ribbon cable from the screen to the board is tight. If it is and there is still a problem, it is probably the screen.
Thanks... Appreciate any and all input.
If the ribbon is loose, I would think that the screen would work intermittently or not at all though. Instead it works consistently, only dimmly and won't brighten or respond to brightness control
I would tend to think so as well, but I have seen some strange things for cables being just slightly loose. If you feel comfortable disassembling and reassembling the device I would suggest it just to rule out a loose cable.
You may just have to fight with the LCD supplier to get a replacement though.
Thanks again for the input. I definitely feel comfortable enough to take it back apart. We already had to do a complete breakdown once before in order to replace the LCD. Now the LCD works but it's stuck on the lowest setting.
Hello, and I appreciate everyone who has taken a look at this post.
I recently replaced my LCD and Digitizer. A couple of months ago I dropped my phone into the bilge(bottom of a boat) filled with oil. When this happened the digitizer had a crack in the corner and the LCD got flooded with oil, not to mention the phone. I took of the back cover and let the oil drain out. I didn't open up the housing or anything. I soaked up as much oil as possible. Still though, half of the screen was a few shades darker and difficult to read text messages and playing games were out of the question. Everything else was fine, the OS didn't slow down and I saw no signs of rust anywhere.
During the holidays, I got the digitizer and LCD. So I followed the video on youtube from this website on how to take apart the Xperia Play. I replaced the LCD and I used the same adhesive strip over again with the digitizer. Now when I turn on my phone, it vibrates, but the back light comes on periodically for about 2-3 seconds and then turns of. And then a few minutes later the back light will turn on and turn off again. i get no picture from the LCD. I have turned it off and on a few times. Same thing. I have also tried turning it on while holding the power button and random combinations of the other buttons. I plugged it into my pc and when the back light goes off, my computer detects a device but shortly after losses it.
I have read through other threads to see for similar stories. The only thing i can think of is maybe, I damaged the strip of the LCD or i fried my mother board. I just would like to know if it is another problem or if anyone has some good solutions for this.
If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. I love this phone and this n00b needs some help. Lol.
If it was just oil you dropped it in then the electronics will probably be fine as it is non conductive so the problem probably lies somewhere else. I do many phone repairs, mainly to iPhones, HTC's etc, but I have never done an XP so not too sure on specifics but what you describe would probably be ribbon cable related, either not a perfect connection or slightly damaged. It only takes a slight nick on the ribbon to render it useless. I replaced a digitizer on an HTC sensation once and the phone did exactly the same as what you describe. I took the new one off and put the old cracked one back on and the phone was normal again.
Dunno how much that helps but hope it's of some use
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Hello everyone you kind assistance is needed
Here is the problem I accidentally spilt lots of Alcohol(the kind you use to disinfect a wound or something) on my HOX.
Now the screen is bright white in one section and sort of grey on large part on the botom of the screen.
The phone appart from that works fine.
My intial though was to turn it off pluged it for charging leave it and hope for the alcohol to evaporate.
I plan to leave at that for like at least half a day.
Is there is something else you can propose?
In case it proves to be a hardware problem and I have to replace the screen can you give me an estimate of the screen price?
By the way I am in Greece.
Hi,
please have a look at the attached image, cause its hard to explain.
It was kind of strange... it started with some cloudy pixels in the middle of the screen, they went down to where they are now and got more intense.
Its now there since about 4 weeks without change.
Anyone experienced it? I guess I need to replace the screen, or is there any other chance? In case I have to replace it, what would I need to get? The touch screen digitzer or the full lcd display?
Thanks
Susi
susi_g said:
Hi,
please have a look at the attached image, cause its hard to explain.
It was kind of strange... it started with some cloudy pixels in the middle of the screen, they went down to where they are now and got more intense.
Its now there since about 4 weeks without change.
Anyone experienced it? I guess I need to replace the screen, or is there any other chance? In case I have to replace it, what would I need to get? The touch screen digitzer or the full lcd display?
Thanks
Susi
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Although i'm not an expert on this, But i should suggest you to replace Digitizer only because it seems like Display is okay just chemical imbalance between digitizer and display panel.
If you've proper tool to disable the device and with some flat hard plastic or something try to take this to the edge where it easily go out. To me Display seems okie. Because such things happen when we put phone in tight jeans and due to over compression such happens but it has nothing to with display panel, its just chemical in between display and digitizer.
I had an iPod 4th Gen,. Same kinda Dark black spot i've noticed after single drop on top right corner and later it disappear automatically. So just saying try that first rather buying whole new panel or digitizer. Flat blunt plastic to take that bubble to the side