replacing digitizer/touchscreen problems - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So last week i bought a replacement digitizer from ebay for my r800at. Once installed the touchscreen didnt work. None of the screen would register touch. I slid out the pad to get past the lockscreen and tried to launch applications and such but nothing would register. I reconnected the digitizer cable a couple of times to see if that was the problem but nothing. So i tried the old cracked digitizer again and it worked fine. So yesterday i got yet another replacement and the exact same thing happend.
Out of 3 digitizers only the cracked one works. I have noticed that on the ribbon connector of the new ones it says v6.0 while my cracked one says v7.0, could that be the reason? If so, where could i get a replacement for my r800at. The one i bought advertised that it worked on r800a/i/x/ so i thought it would work...

jax32 said:
So last week i bought a replacement digitizer from ebay for my r800at. Once installed the touchscreen didnt work. None of the screen would register touch. I slid out the pad to get past the lockscreen and tried to launch applications and such but nothing would register. I reconnected the digitizer cable a couple of times to see if that was the problem but nothing. So i tried the old cracked digitizer again and it worked fine. So yesterday i got yet another replacement and the exact same thing happend.
Out of 3 digitizers only the cracked one works. I have noticed that on the ribbon connector of the new ones it says v6.0 while my cracked one says v7.0, could that be the reason? If so, where could i get a replacement for my r800at. The one i bought advertised that it worked on r800a/i/x/ so i thought it would work...
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I have had the same issue. I disassembled my phone plenty of times, yet the new digitizer never worked. Frustrated, I used my cracked digitizer and it worked on its first try. I was assuming that I broke the new digitizer, but I was plenty careful. Quite strange.

I actually just had that same exact issue about 2 weeks ago. I just bought a refurbished x play on ebay for about 80 bucks since i didn't want to try fixing it again. If you find a way to fix that, let me know, as I wouldn't mind having a spare lol.

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Changed Digitizer on Touch Pro 2, now it is dead! HELP!

I recently recieved a T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 from a trusted E-Bay seller. When I recieved the phone it worked perfectly, but the digitizer screen was cracked up. I found the T-Mobile model digitizer online and replaced it. Now the phone is DEAD. I have checked and rechecked EVERY ribbon cable and connection I can find and have insured all is attached properly. Battery has a full charge and works (tested it on my Dash 3g as they use the same battery). I even tried plugging it in and turning it on with.without the battery in and still nothing! Am I sunk?
I am hoping someone may have the answer... maybe I am overlooking something like a bone head? I really would appreciate any and all input. Thanks.
ight dude, been here with an iphone. first, do your self a favor and disconnect the new TS and replace the old one. did it work?
if yes, you have a problem, and it can be isolated to the new TS. if no, yu just did something wrong OR you shocked the mobo. Try not ot to do that.
Most likely though, it is a reassembly issue. I remember hwen i did this to my tilt, there was hell to pay and i thought i broke it. not so much. Just had a switch constantly being pressed in that shouldn't have been and didn't allow the device to POST.
Also, if you cna, how did you replace the TS part? i am about to do that to a Tilt2 and a touch pro 2 (same phone)

If your Touchscreen/Home buttons are not working (Probable Error)

About two months ago, my screen decided to die. I ended up getting a new phone, but I still had my Play sitting here bothering me. So I decided to get to fixing it.
When I tore it apart, I thought that the digitizer had died, but what I found was actually the connecting the digitiser, LCD and Buttons together was damaged.
So I ordered one on ebay for about $10. When I got the cable, it seemed to be about 3-4CM shorter than the OEM one. Which supports why I think this may have been a design error on Sony's part. What was happening was Sony's god awful mechanism for sliding the screen up and down had pinched the cable, and caused it to be damaged.
I know this might be a longshot, but I think that some people might be able to save a dead device by replacing this one simple part, I know it worked wonders for my play, as well as a friends.
I will post a link to the part as soon as my post count is up.
So not the digitalizer?
steamdnt said:
About two months ago, my screen decided to die. I ended up getting a new phone, but I still had my Play sitting here bothering me. So I decided to get to fixing it.
When I tore it apart, I thought that the digitizer had died, but what I found was actually the connecting the digitiser, LCD and Buttons together was damaged.
So I ordered one on ebay for about $10. When I got the cable, it seemed to be about 3-4CM shorter than the OEM one. Which supports why I think this may have been a design error on Sony's part. What was happening was Sony's god awful mechanism for sliding the screen up and down had pinched the cable, and caused it to be damaged.
I know this might be a longshot, but I think that some people might be able to save a dead device by replacing this one simple part, I know it worked wonders for my play, as well as a friends.
I will post a link to the part as soon as my post count is up.
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so my xperia play has the same issue, i replaced the digitalizer and the touch screen still doesn't work. could i please ask which part specifically you replaced, thankyou
jakkebrown said:
so my xperia play has the same issue, i replaced the digitalizer and the touch screen still doesn't work. could i please ask which part specifically you replaced, thankyou
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I am having this problem as well. touchscreen doesn't work nor does the home button. Volume down button seems to fail while in CWM recovery as well. I was thinking about replacing the digitizer but now I'm not so sure. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated
If OP's saying what's busted is the part where all the digitizer, physical buttons, and LCD converge, that's the SLIDER FLEX. I replaced mine twice already. It gets pinched very easily. That's the weakness of slider phones. You have to accept that from the moment you decided to buy the Xperia PLAY. It happens to all sliders, live with it, face it.

[Q] Xperia Play Digitzer Dead?

Hi, today my play's digitzer crapped out The bottom inch of the screen has been unresponsive in the past but has evetually began to work again.. Today it just stopped the top half of the screen works fine. I'm guessing it's a faulty digitzer. My question is do you think I should replace the digitizer via a 3rd party company or do you think I should go to o2? I have an unlocked bootloader (testpoint method) I know my warranty is void but do you think they'll pick up on it? I remember having the problem way before I even unlocked as well - Any suggestions?
Well I bought a digitizer of eBay and it worked fine put it in myself... There are allot of videos on how to disassemble the phone... So that's a cheap option for you...
I bought myself one too, on AMAZON you can get one for 20€

Screen Repair questions

I ended up messing my n7100's digitizer, it fell and cracked. I replaced the digitizer but now the phone turns on but the screen stays dark. I can hear it, i had a hdmi adapter for the phone to connect to tv and if i do that, i can see the phone is fine but the screen is not working.
I had bought the phone LCD/digitizer assembly online and returned it as the first one didnt work then i got another from the same vendor as a replacement and it is the same. I dont think i got two bad digitizer assemblies. At this point i am thinking of sending it to samsung but can anyone point out some steps that i can do to maybe bring it back. already spent 200$ for the digitizer and i know what i am doing so i dont think i am broke anything.
any guidance will be great.

Bad Motherboard?

I bought my brother a second-hand M8. It had a cracked screen but it was really cheap. I put the new screen in and a new SIM card reader. Everything worked fine for months and out of the blue the screen stopped responding to touch. Everything else worked fine as far as I could tell. Even in TWRP touch was gone so I figured maybe it was a cheap screen or something like that. I took it apart and the backlight was falling apart. Ordered a new screen that had the frame with it to save time on reassembly and because the old one was a little tweaked. Same problem, ran the RUU from Windows, ran different RUU's from several threads via Fastboot. Ran the latest firmware package on Santods thread and still nothing. It has to be the motherboard at this point right? The display and digitizer cables go right into the motherboard and the only cable that looks replaceable goes up int the daughter board with the cameras and top speaker assembly. Am I missing something or should I just scrap this mess?
4/5/16: I have since purchased a used motherboard from eBay. This has corrected the issue with the digitizer not working. The SIM card will not be recognized now is the problem I am fighting with. It was giving me this issue before on the old phone but it was off and on. I got it to work once with the new motherboard installed. I have RUU's and everything. This motherboard is S-ON and I don;t want to waste another $25 on Sunshine if the problem isn't software related. I have also replaced the daughterboard and the flex cable as well as used a different SIM Card reader. I am out of ideas at this point.
Does anyone know if there is a way to make sure a motherboard from eBay will work?
No one has any idea?
In my case, as I took my M8 apart because of cracked screen and as I put it back together my M8 couldn't recognize my Sim and what helped in my case was that I've put a piece of thicker tape on my Sim just so it is thicker than it was and since then everything works flawlessly.
Hope this helps you,
Regards Talpes

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