Hey, I have just "tried" to replace my screen, during the process I managed to break the flex cable at the bottom of the screen.
The only thing is I don't understand where the LEDS are that lights up the capacitive buttons, just wanna check I have'nt missed anything.
Cheers
there built into the screen Assembly. and you can not access them without breaking it open. ive looked into to it because i wanted to change the color of them.
Ah ok its just I have the phone apart and with no capacitive buttons the bottom doesn't light up ill just have to rebuild the phone and hope for the best lol
Well They are part of the flex cables that connect to the buttons
http://cnn.cn/shop/samsung-i9100-galaxy-keypad-p-13334.html
that bit
I have read other threads about users noting that the "glow" around the four buttons along the bottom of the screen is excessive but likely normal. My new white gs2 also has a couple little "lines" or bands of light when the keys are lit between the outer bezel and the screen. They're only a millimeter long or so but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and could, perhaps, post a pic of their white gs2 in the dark with the touch buttons illuminated.
Thanks
So before my GNEX i used to own a Motorola Atrix 4G, so one time when i was flashing some img files through fastboot, by mistake i overwrote one of the img files that store the phone's stock touch calibration, so as soon as i turned on the phone i noticed that wherever i touched the screen, the reaction was as if i was touching the screen 2cm above, and to my surprise, even below the screen on the black frame there was also touch response for 2cm above.
So I concluded that the entire glass sheet over the display is capable of detecting touch input, but it is calibrated to take input only within the display itself.
This got me thinking, what if the GNEX's touch surface had the same property, what if we could recalibrate the area of the bottom frame and possibly map (back, home, and recents) buttons into them and get rid of the space consuming,burn-in inducing nav-bar.
Discuss
considering the led is housed there I really doubt it's possible
But maybe to the left and right of the LED... I like the idea, man, like the Palm Phones, we could just remember that left of LED is home and right of LED is back or long press Menu on left side for home, I dunno, but I like the idea!
Messing with my old thunderbolt, I can start flicking down the navbar before my finger makes it to the actual screen, it works just above it.
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Touch should work over the LED area because technically it is uniform over the entire touch surface.
I understand the logic of your conclusion, but think of it this way, the display is technically the same thing, its a display with the touch surface a few millimeters above it. The reason there's no touch response on the frame around the display is because the touch response is calibrated to respond within those perimeters.
Cool idea. Any idea how to go about it?
I derived this theory from what happened with me on my Atrix
I was hoping someone with knowledge around this field would atvleast shed a light on whether this is possible or not. I, with my very limited knowledge around this field compared to most of the developers on this forum, believe that this might be possible if the GNEX had a similar approach to the screen touch calibration as the atrix and if we can have access to these drivers.
I disparately wish I could start resolving deleimas like these myself with practice and time, but in the meantime, who thinks this is a plausible idea?
Hi
Please can anyone tell me which bit of the inside of the phone (or the back cover?) relates to the capacative button brightness?
I changed my back cover from black to white and after doing so the middle button of the three is VERY dim. It looks like it's not lit at all but if I look at it in the dark it is actually still lit but extremely dimly. I was really careful when taking the phone apart but I must have disturbed something that controls these buttons. The two on either side are nice and bright as normal. I have no idea which bit I should be looking at to try to fix it.
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Regards x
eggshaped said:
Hi
Please can anyone tell me which bit of the inside of the phone (or the back cover?) relates to the capacative button brightness?
I changed my back cover from black to white and after doing so the middle button of the three is VERY dim. It looks like it's not lit at all but if I look at it in the dark it is actually still lit but extremely dimly. I was really careful when taking the phone apart but I must have disturbed something that controls these buttons. The two on either side are nice and bright as normal. I have no idea which bit I should be looking at to try to fix it.
I'd be very grateful for any help.
Regards x
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FIXED
In case anyone stumbles upon this in the future with the same problem the fix was really simple. I located the flex with the lights attached at the bottom, lifted it up and there was a thin black sticky band underneath which I assume was used to hold the flex cable down. Part of the black tape had covered the light, therefore making it less bright. I used tweezers to pull it away and lay it flat and all my lights were of equal brightness again. Simples!
Hello,
I broke my digitilizer and replace it with an lcd+touch unit from aliexpress, is suposted to be an "original"/oem instead of just a replacement, ~$70 instead of ~$35.
After replacement my screen it is extremely dim I just can barely see it on a dark room.
I didn't mess with the light sensor because I bought a replacement with the frame, so I think that is all assembled together.
Did anyone experience anything like this? Any suggestions how to diagnose the problem or is just a faulty lcd?
I can't remember is the hardware buttons lid up when pressed, can anyone tell me when and if the lid up.
Also the charge led light, when changing lid up all the white frame around the screen, is this normal?
Any past experiences or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance