Phone was working 100% perfect, I got home flashed FreeGS3 rom considering it looked bad ass. I flash it everything goes all well. Until I boot it up flash back into recovery using "quick boot". Never had a problem with that app.
I go into recovery and I got this pink screen that just won't go away.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9660/imag0013h.jpg
I can get it to show recovery mode, and I did do a full system wipe along with wiping everything else, and I'm on stock JB right now and the screen still will not work.
I got it to show odin earlier but now it just won't show it.
I don't even think it will go into download mode.
As of right now the phone is on and is charging and I'm receiving messages as we speak, but like I said the screen is just all pink.
I've had clark44 help me with this problem and he has never seen this before, any help is appreciated.
It can get into download mode trust me. Your gonna have to time it just right if you cant see the screen tho. Do you have debugging on by chance so you could use adb? If so plug it in and run
adb reboot download. Granted this looks hardware related
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It can get into download mode trust me. Your gonna have to time it just right if you cant see the screen tho. Do you have debugging on by chance so you could use adb? If so plug it in and run
adb reboot download. Granted this looks hardware related
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What do you mean adb reboot download? and yes usb debugging is enabled.
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What do you mean adb reboot download? and yes usb debugging is enabled.
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Do you have adb set up on your pc?
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Do you have adb set up on your pc?
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Not that I know of :/
and by the way the phone boots up normally but the pink screen still shows up if I put phone in standby.
i would odin back to stock. Do you have a screen at all or is the pink constant?
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i would odin back to stock. Do you have a screen at all or is the pink constant?
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I have a screen. Until I press the standby button on the side then it messes up lol. How do you reccomend I go into download mode? I don't have the option through the reboot menu.
Is there an app?
are you rooted? If so download terminal emulator from the playstore. and in it type
su
reboot download
and flash this in ODIN
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390135922294523498
Did u happen to drop it or bump it on anything fairly hard? I ask cuz I've seen this on other devices after a screen/digitizer replacement and it happened from the ribbon cable not being fully seated on the board, a small drop or a hard bump might have unseated it if the latch wasn't fully closed during assembly, just a suggestion cuz that's the only time I've seen the crazy pink lines like that other than when LCD has started to die
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Did u happen to drop it or bump it on anything fairly hard? I ask cuz I've seen this on other devices after a screen/digitizer replacement and it happened from the ribbon cable not being fully seated on the board, a small drop or a hard bump might have unseated it if the latch wasn't fully closed during assembly, just a suggestion cuz that's the only time I've seen the crazy pink lines like that other than when LCD has started to die
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was thinkin that myself but figure if this doesnt fix it at least itll be on stock so you can get it fixed
I just remembered seeing it when I saw the pic. Happened to a cpl ppl on the og evo and the et4g. I've also known of a few phones to ship with the latches a bit loose from the factory, I had an intercept that came with the screen dead took it to sprint and the latch was open and the cable wasn't even connected, plugged it in and worked fine.
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I just remembered seeing it when I saw the pic. Happened to a cpl ppl on the og evo and the et4g. I've also known of a few phones to ship with the latches a bit loose from the factory, I had an intercept that came with the screen dead took it to sprint and the latch was open and the cable wasn't even connected, plugged it in and worked fine.
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Phone is back up and working 100% after 4 miserable hours..
Thank you once again !!!
Skunkscape helped 99% he has always helped me with everything all thanks to him and billard
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Phone is back up and working 100% after 4 miserable hours..
Thank you once again !!!
Skunkscape helped 99% he has always helped me with everything all thanks to him and billard
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Good deal, what ended up being wrong? In case others came across it
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Good deal, what ended up being wrong? In case others came across it
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Ahh nevermind phone is still acting up... :/
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Did u happen to drop it or bump it on anything fairly hard? I ask cuz I've seen this on other devices after a screen/digitizer replacement and it happened from the ribbon cable not being fully seated on the board, a small drop or a hard bump might have unseated it if the latch wasn't fully closed during assembly, just a suggestion cuz that's the only time I've seen the crazy pink lines like that other than when LCD has started to die
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Phone has been dropped multiple times...but it's been in a case. It honestly probably is a hardware problem.
Might have to some how unroot and bring it to sprint. Good luck man
Just hit that THANKS button for fun!
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Might have to some how unroot and bring it to sprint. Good luck man
Just hit that THANKS button for fun!
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Phone is unrooted and on stock I didn't buy this phone from sprint, will they still give me a new one?
Probably not.. but if it falls under the 1 year manufacture warrenty and it is defected I would fight it to the grave!
Just hit that THANKS button for fun!
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Probably not.. but if it falls under the 1 year manufacture warrenty and it is defected I would fight it to the grave!
Just hit that THANKS button for fun!
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I got it off craigslist i traded some guy.
But if Sprint doesn't trade me for a new one I'm going to be sad
If you're comfortable opening it up, crack it open and check the ribbon cables for the screen and digitizer, the shock of dropping it may have jarred one or both loose from the board. Like I said the only time I've seen the crazy pink lines in the screen was from improperly seated cables
Edit: if u take it to a sprint repair center they will probably check the.connections for you if you explain to them that it was the only thing you could find related when you were looking for an answer. It could also be the LCD starting to die
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I was told that the numerous shorts on this motherboard can't be removed, but I don't know how these things are supposed to look anyway. Does it look obvious to you, one way or the other? Is that gluey-looking stuff the problem?
Is that a T989 motherboard?
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Is that a T989 motherboard?
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'Tis indeed.
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'Tis indeed.
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Looks fried to me. Sorry for the bad news.
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i say its toast, too.
i just broke my screen last night...do you want to sell it?
pm if you want
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that is not a sticky mess, that is fried (burned).
How did that happen?
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Yea def toasted
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Btw, how literally do "toast" and "fried" apply here? Does this look like a temperature-related problem—somehow it got too hot and essence de mobo started leaking all over (leaving that visible gunk)? Or is it something else entirely? Assuming there's enough information in that image.
I don't know how it happened. The phone has symptoms that led me to the following thread about issues with the power button: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1783404 (repeated vibration like at the beginning of the boot cycle, plus the camera flash going off)
When I dropped it off to have the power button replaced . . . well, before they opened it up, they said they thought it was a software corruption issue to be solved by re-flashing the ROM, and that the phone had probably gotten wet. (It's never been immersed, although maybe it doesn't take much ambient moisture for a phone to count as having gotten wet.) Then they called me later and said: whoa, the motherboard, we can't fix it. So I got it back, opened it up myself, and posted this image in the hopes of learning something, because I'm still not sure what to think. Following some of the power-button-related advice from the other thread does seem to help (e.g., the boot cycle proceeds much farther immediately after I tap the phone against a semi-hard surface in a way that would loosen up the power button), and I feel like that shouldn't be the case if the motherboard were such a piece of toast.
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Btw, how literally do "toast" and "fried" apply here? Does this look like a temperature-related problem—somehow it got too hot and essence de mobo started leaking all over (leaving that visible gunk)? Or is it something else entirely? Assuming there's enough information in that image.
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that is a gunk? I think I can speak for everone and say, we think it looks like burned, fried, melted electronics. The real test is the sniff check, if you know what it smells like.
Try scraping it with a sharp edge. If its fried, it will crumble. If gunk, it should stick to the edge.
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...because I'm still not sure what to think...
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I think you should send me your mailing address so I can send you money and a box to put it in so you can send it to me!
This is my first thread so forgive if i put it in the wrong place. I wasn't sure where it should go.
So did the usual phone user mistake and dropped (threw) my phone. cracked the screen pretty good. I've messed with phones for a while now so i purchased a new screen and digitzer and tore down the phone. pulled the old screen off, replaced it with the new and everything was good as new. ran some tests with video and quick touches as well as multi-touch and zoom. everything worked great but i have no vibrate. the phone can be put into vibrate mode but it doesnt vibrate. i tried factory reset, though i figured it was hardware and not software. If anyone who has torn down these phones knows anything about the vibrate can you please guide me into fixing this?
On a side note, i also broke a little golden clip off the inside later when tinkering trying to fix the vibrate (im pretty sure it completes the circuit for sound because now i have no sound).
Bump. Sorry but this is kind of urgent. does anyone have any ideas on this?
th3 game said:
Bump. Sorry but this is kind of urgent. does anyone have any ideas on this?
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It is possible that the connector came loose. Try checking that. The motor could have also been damaged so it make need to be replaced.
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This is my first thread so forgive if i put it in the wrong place. I wasn't sure where it should go.
So did the usual phone user mistake and dropped (threw) my phone. cracked the screen pretty good. I've messed with phones for a while now so i purchased a new screen and digitzer and tore down the phone. pulled the old screen off, replaced it with the new and everything was good as new. ran some tests with video and quick touches as well as multi-touch and zoom. everything worked great but i have no vibrate. the phone can be put into vibrate mode but it doesnt vibrate. i tried factory reset, though i figured it was hardware and not software. If anyone who has torn down these phones knows anything about the vibrate can you please guide me into fixing this?
On a side note, i also broke a little golden clip off the inside later when tinkering trying to fix the vibrate (im pretty sure it completes the circuit for sound because now i have no sound).
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Joking put aside - which it's VERY hard not to go there with this - contact Tuscani1821 and he might be able to help you troubleshoot it further.
garwynn said:
Joking put aside - which it's VERY hard not to go there with this - contact Tuscani1821 and he might be able to help you troubleshoot it further.
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i can deal with the jokes lol i did it. but thank you for the help. I'll pm Tuscani1821 and see if he help me out
When u have phone apart do u have a tester to see if vibrator is getting power?
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When u have phone apart do u have a tester to see if vibrator is getting power?
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like a multimeter? no i do not.
Tried taking the vibrator out of something else?
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moparfreak426 said:
Tried taking the vibrator out of something else?
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I don't have a different phone. I'll be posting pics of the Motherboard and other internals later tonight
That probably wont help.... Just to be honest, if u had a backup phone i could look at for you but since u dont..... Lol.... I would suggest even getting a cheap blue samsung flip phone (verizon) all models of those have same vibrator as the e4gt
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This phone isn't my daily driver and I got a skyrocket on Ebay but it came without volume buttons. Being an idiot, I figured same phone same part....not the case. Long story short, My phone turned back on after putting it back together and my touch screen works but none of my soft keys work and they won't light up. Phone is running stock, non rooted.
the hell did I do? Did I break something or did I just knock a cable loose? Should I be checking for anything specifically?
Thanks in advance.
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This phone isn't my daily driver and I got a skyrocket on Ebay but it came without volume buttons. Being an idiot, I figured same phone same part....not the case. Long story short, My phone turned back on after putting it back together and my touch screen works but none of my soft keys work and they won't light up. Phone is running stock, non rooted.
the hell did I do? Did I break something or did I just knock a cable loose? Should I be checking for anything specifically?
Thanks in advance.
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Probably didn't put the flex cable back.
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Probably didn't put the flex cable back.
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i'll check now.
Thanks for the reply.
I really hope you didnt break it...
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Probably didn't put the flex cable back.
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graydiggy said:
I really hope you didnt break it...
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All the ribbons seem to be plugged in. I think I broke it, but how?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! I'm not really worried, i'll just throw it on Ebay; I just don't know what I did wrong. Well, I opened the phone, I know I shouldn't have done that. Any idea on what ribbon cable I should be looking at specifically?
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All the ribbons seem to be plugged in. I think I broke it, but how?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! I'm not really worried, i'll just throw it on Ebay; I just don't know what I did wrong. Well, I opened the phone, I know I shouldn't have done that. Any idea on what ribbon cable I should be looking at specifically?
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Make sure the ribbon cable isn't torn.
The attached image should help.
Also, Each carrier specific phone will normally have different hardware inside.
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Also, Each carrier specific phone will normally have different hardware inside.
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it's the Sprint variant.
Edit: I tore the cable, didn't even realize it until you posted that picture. Wow, I really shot myself in the foot here. How difficult is it to replace?
thanks for the info.
Sooppex said:
it's the Sprint variant.
Edit: I tore the cable, didn't even realize it until you posted that picture. Wow, I really shot myself in the foot here. How difficult is it to replace?
thanks for the info.
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A whole new screen assembly is needed... It is very hard to replace just the soft keys. A heat plate or heat gun is required to separate the glass from the screen to get to them. Much easier to just get a whole new screen/digitizer assembly.
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A whole new screen assembly is needed... It is very hard to replace just the soft keys. A heat plate or heat gun is required to separate the glass from the screen to get to them. Much easier to just get a whole new screen/digitizer assembly.
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Thanks for all the help, I'm just going to sell it.
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Thanks for all the help, I'm just going to sell it.
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Sell it in separate parts. The mobo and battery will pull the most money. Don't even bother to keep the screen on it. That will lower your total price to maybe $75 at the most. You can easily pull that on just the motherboard alone. the battery can probably be sold for 10 or 15. and the other stuff will vary as well.
Hi I have a note 2 and replaced the screen completely before that the phone was working perfectly. I assembled everything back checked that everything was connected putted the battery tried to turned on and nothing. I also connected to the charger and still nothing no charging doesn't boot up. What could be happening here I double checked everything and nothing is missing if anyone could help me I'll appreciate it
Random guess, but like a computer you could have had static electricity and not grounded prior to working and fried your motherboard
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man this is scary as I broke my screen on july 4th and is waiting for my replacement screen to arrive. I'm going to try to replace the screen myself. Maybe you broke a wire or something while you were detaching the screen from the digitizer.
Now i'm nervous about doing the screen replacement myself...oh wells, gotta save some money...lol
I think I know why it doesn't work is because I'm trying to use the n7100 screen on my sgh-t889 this version of t-mobile uses the n7105 screen and I bought the wrong one. That's why it won't work
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Hi I have a note 2 and replaced the screen completely before that the phone was working perfectly. I assembled everything back checked that everything was connected putted the battery tried to turned on and nothing. I also connected to the charger and still nothing no charging doesn't boot up. What could be happening here I double checked everything and nothing is missing if anyone could help me I'll appreciate it
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Well, I hate to point out the obvious, but apparently that is not the case.
Did you wear some type of non-conductive gloves when you were doing this? handling circuitry with bare hands is a big no no. It is very possible that you ruined the device simply by touching it.
Here is what I would do (not anything but troubleshooting to pin point a possible problem really):
Warranty the thing.
Good luck.
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I think I know why it doesn't work is because I'm trying to use the n7100 screen on my sgh-t889 this version of t-mobile uses the n7105 screen and I bought the wrong one. That's why it won't work
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I replaced my wife's phone with the n7100 and its working. Slowly try to back track everything and make sure everything is plugged and not broken. Was ut workibg before you replace it.
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I replaced my wife's phone with the n7100 and its working. Slowly try to back track everything and make sure everything is plugged and not broken. Was ut workibg before you replace it.
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and it receives 4G? I don't know if that has to do something with the signal but it says in the back 3g so I wanna be sure
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Well, I hate to point out the obvious, but apparently that is not the case.
Did you wear some type of non-conductive gloves when you were doing this? handling circuitry with bare hands is a big no no. It is very possible that you ruined the device simply by touching it.
Here is what I would do (not anything but troubleshooting to pin point a possible problem really):
Warranty the thing.
Good luck.
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Agreed. .. except the warranty part. Samsung wore their gloves when building. It was the op that didn't.
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Well here are my results the motherboard is not defective because I switched to another note 2 from tmobile and booted perfectly . I'm starting to think that the lcd display is defective
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and it receives 4G? I don't know if that has to do something with the signal but it says in the back 3g so I wanna be sure
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Yea it has 4g although its on lte
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maybe a defective part..
How do you know the replacement screen is not bad itself..
have you tried connecting it to the computer and getting into download mode or seeing if the phone is ACTUALLY Working..Also a bad or cheap lcd could have shorted something out if you are sure you did not do so replacing it..
Sorry for your luck but it sounds like you need another note 2 phone for some testing. or RMA THE LCD and try another .
Good LUCK
I'll start by saying I don't have a whole lot of specifics on the issue as this isn't currently my phone. I'm looking to buy one and the seller said that one morning the phone would sporadically not respond to touch and by the end of the day wouldn't respond at all. She said that sometimes if she repeatedly locks and unlocks the phone it will work for a short time before becoming unresponsive again. She says there has been no water damage and she hasn't done any sort of software updates recently. She did say that a couple weeks before the issue started that it fell off her night stand but didn't seem to effect it at the time.
My question is has anyone run into this issue before? If so is it a software issue that could be remedied by doing a full wipe back to stock software? Or is it a hardware issue such as a bad digitizer or maybe something as simple as the digitizer cable coming loose?
I did some googling and the only thing I found about this issue was a result of flashing the wrong ROM to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
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I'll start by saying I don't have a whole lot of specifics on the issue as this isn't currently my phone. I'm looking to buy one and the seller said that one morning the phone would sporadically not respond to touch and by the end of the day wouldn't respond at all. She said that sometimes if she repeatedly locks and unlocks the phone it will work for a short time before becoming unresponsive again. She says there has been no water damage and she hasn't done any sort of software updates recently. She did say that a couple weeks before the issue started that it fell off her night stand but didn't seem to effect it at the time.
My question is has anyone run into this issue before? If so is it a software issue that could be remedied by doing a full wipe back to stock software? Or is it a hardware issue such as a bad digitizer or maybe something as simple as the digitizer cable coming loose?
I did some googling and the only thing I found about this issue was a result of flashing the wrong ROM to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
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Try doing a factory reset see what happens.
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Try doing a factory reset see what happens.
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She says she managed a factory reset before the screen completely quit responding. But I don't know if she just cleared her data or did a full reset
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This happened to me once. I fixed it by factory resetting and reflash the ROM.
Looks like it'll be an easy fix(fingers crossed). I'll update after I purchase.
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Well it appears to be hardware... I tried doing a wipe/reset in recovery and after that didn't help I flashed back to stock using odin. Still nothing so it looks like I'll be replacing the screen.
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Well it appears to be hardware... I tried doing a wipe/reset in recovery and after that didn't help I flashed back to stock using odin. Still nothing so it looks like I'll be replacing the screen.
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I was going to say it sounds like the digitizer controller died/was bricked by a wrong rom.
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Well it appears to be hardware... I tried doing a wipe/reset in recovery and after that didn't help I flashed back to stock using odin. Still nothing so it looks like I'll be replacing the screen.
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Try seeing if the ribbon cable is loose? Very possible, and would save you quite a bit of money , also, nice to see you on the S3 forums :highfive:!
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Try seeing if the ribbon cable is loose? Very possible, and would save you quite a bit of money , also, nice to see you on the S3 forums :highfive:!
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Forgot to mention it but I pulled the back off and checked the ribbon cable. Removed and reseated it as well as made sure it wasn't corroded. Still a no go but on the bright side I found a nicely priced "blemished" screen on eBay so in a couple weeks I should be rocking the s3! And I'm glad to be in these forums. Looks like I'm going to have more options than I can handle.
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Forgot to mention it but I pulled the back off and checked the ribbon cable. Removed and reseated it as well as made sure it wasn't corroded. Still a no go but on the bright side I found a nicely priced "blemished" screen on eBay so in a couple weeks I should be rocking the s3! And I'm glad to be in these forums. Looks like I'm going to have more options than I can handle.
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If blemished means lightly scuffed just use some glass cleaner on it in a small coat, buddy of mine did that with his iPhone looked brand new.
& yep lol, soo many choices for ROMs and kernels for this phone, gotta love it :good:
So I got bored and disassembled and cleaned the connections on the board as well as the connections on the back of the screen. After reassembling it I get response from the touch screen again although its as though there's a phantom finger making random movements on the screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiulrZHsDuc&feature=youtu.be
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Looks like you've got ghosts
Making the iPhone jealous one user at a time.
So I guess it was just a bad digitizer. Just got my new one and got it swapped out and I'm good as new! Though if anyone else is looking to replace a screen and aren't too brave when it comes to taking a phone apart I would suggest getting a screen that has the frame already attached to it. Removing the screen from the frame and reattaching is a bit tricky.