Okay, let me give the rundown.
Co-worker's E4GT, was running my GB27 Rooted package since the same day I posted here.
Told me today his display isn't working.
Battery wasn't charging so I charged it.
But after that I was able to flash GB27 Rooted Nodata again to rule that out. That's working.
Phone came up, MTP came up and I can even screencast.
Here's what I'm wondering:
1) Battery was still showing zero, so I'm charging again now to see if that restores display.
If I fully charge and it shows on screencast zero I'll replace it next.
2) Although screen shows nothing, phone is completely functional except that.
Audio, LED, even the digitzer responds to input! (It's a little tricky touching based on screencast but possible.)
Any thoughts on what this could be?
They apparently took it to Sprint but said there was water damage on it so wouldn't fix it. (I call BS on that by the way until I open the back case. That will be on Monday)
Hate to see him get a new phone when it works fine except the display itself. Thanks!
Flex cable.... Look for black spots on cable itselfbor the gold teethtthay connect to circuit board
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That's a new one... I bet you're on the right path with the battery.. Did you give it the spin test I hear so much about..
If its the LCD that's bad thankfully it can be replaced pretty cheap.
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Gil81 said:
That's a new one... I bet you're on the right path with the battery.. Did you give it the spin test I hear so much about..
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Yes. No spin, so I'll let it charge overnight and see if it holds a charge.
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Flex cable.... Look for black spots on cable itselfbor the gold teethtthay connect to circuit board
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I'll be checking tomorrow when I have the tools to open it up.
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Sounds to me like the backlight might've gone out.
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When on screencast can you mess with the brightness setting?
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Has anyone else noticed this on the E4GT? I had this problem on my Evo when running Cyanogenmod, but not Sense. I've tried both the Sammy charger that came with it and my old HTC charger.
While charging, the touchscreen becomes erratic. It will input various places nowhere near where you're touching or sometimes not at all. It only happens while charging, remove the device from the charger and it goes back to normal.
Yes, there's a gigantic thread about this already. The gist of it is our touch screens are very finicky and if you use a non-voltage regulated charger (like inexplicably the one that comes with it) the screen will go nuts on it while charging.
I bought a Blackberry charger for it and it works perfectly while charging.
I'm going to punch a baby if I see another one of these threads!
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I'm going to punch a baby if I see another one of these threads!
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You better go ahead and tape that fist up. I give it 48 hours tops lmao.
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Bigjim1488 said:
I'm going to punch a baby if I see another one of these threads!
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Haha right!!! Damn!!
What's up guys, Love this phone got introduced to the android community from it. All the pins are busted jus little nubs let inside the port any body have any creative tips for me I do want to lose another phone this way.
TIA
Chris
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Im guessing you meant to say you "don't" want to loose another phone this way. I really dont know what to do to be honest. you'll porbably have to cough up 100$ for a replacement unless you have insurance
Lol yea I "don't " want to lose another. I don't have insurance I'm not with sprint. I might invest into one of them external charging things they got. Even get crazy and hard wire it some how or modify a usb cord and extend the charging pins. Good thing I jus gave my brother my other epic.. Thanks for the quick responce
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anyone know how bad having 4848 mv feeding my phone from a wall charger and not using the battery is gonna be temperature seems alright so far 20 minutes on
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anyone know how bad having 4848 mv feeding my phone from a wall charger and not using the battery is gonna be temperature seems alright so far 20 minutes on
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Haha ur about 800 mv over what this phone normally works with but i dnt see any issue haha u might even be able to overclock higher jk
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Oooh wee I'm runnin stock oc settings right now with nyan kernal. If I don't melt I might play with overclockin
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Recently my red LED has been staying on. Even when the phone is turned off it will be on so this is not a software bug. For some reason it isn't always at full brightness and sometimes fades in and out, but doesn't blink.
This is definitely hurting my battery usage, and just plain annoying so I'd really appreciate some help.
Thanks!
Never heard if this problem. Try throwing your phone out a window no but seriously how long has it been doing this?
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Might need a little more information. Are you running a custom rom? I could recommend removing the checkmark for pulse notification light in display settings if available. Might help.
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Might need a little more information. Are you running a custom rom? I could recommend removing the checkmark for pulse notification light in display settings if available. Might help.
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I'm running the stock ROM. But like I said, it even does it when the phone is off.
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Never heard if this problem. Try throwing your phone out a window no but seriously how long has it been doing this?
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It's been doing it for a day or two.
Hmm well the red light comes on when the phone is charging. Is there any type of debris in your USB port? Just throwing out ideas. You could also try flashing a different rom and see if it does the same thing.
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Hmm well the red light comes on when the phone is charging. Is there any type of debris in your USB port? Just throwing out ideas. You could also try flashing a different rom and see if it does the same thing.
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Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
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Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
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That sounds like the reason why honestly. Even a couple drops can mess things up and cause issues. Right now it might just be that red notification light but more serious issues down the road. At least from my experience with water damage so YMMV.
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Perhaps. I dropped it in the sink under running water the other day and I don't think it got very wet but I put it in rice just to be safe. I'll flash a ROM if nothing else works.
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You shouldn't have left that out! I was about to go research for you because I thought there's a possibility it could happen to me,until you mentioned water,lol. Sometimes rice is not enough specially when it got wet while it was on. Something must've short circuited.
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You shouldn't have left that out! I was about to go research for you because I thought there's a possibility it could happen to me,until you mentioned water,lol. Sometimes rice is not enough specially when it got wet while it was on. Something must've short circuited.
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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Don't bother, eventually it will go away not if you have a back up phone leave it in the rice a bit longer if not just let it be for now....unless you wanna take it apart
Cleaning the usb port may fix this problem
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Wasup Josh what ever happened with your first opsa daisy??
I actually got my setup running. It worked great on GB notso much on the ICS superbricks though.
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So you think If I took it apart and checked/re-soldered the LED it would be fixed?
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I don't think there's a point in opening it up to solder anything as nothing is cracked or lose solder joints, like AJC9000 said maybe leave it on rice a little longer or maybe it will eventually go away. Good luck I hope nothing is permanently damaged.
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Whenever i unplug the phone,the battery drops to 99%. Is it Normal or just me?
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pretty much every android phone ive owned has done this
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Whenever i unplug the phone,the battery drops to 99%. Is it Normal or just me?
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Happens to me too. Or if it does hit 100 it drops immediately to 99 the moment i take it off the charger.
Well It happened on my dad's E4GT too. But fascinate/OG Epic/Illusion/Evo 3d Which I own never did so!
Take a glass and fill it up with water until it overflows, think of this as your battery. Tip it just a little and you lose some, at which point you will not have 100% of the water anymore. The moment you take it off the charger, it would only make sense for it to immediately go to 99%
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Looks like its a common problem! Thanx for ur inputs everyone.
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Hello peeps, I was just wondering how can a phone charge on its own?? Im surprised never seen this happen. my brother showed me hes pre paid cricket phone that it was charging without being plugged in. Proof in the video I took. I know its out of subject but was just wondering anyone have an explanation? Was at 50% and now 63% all on its own? Watch "Phone chargine by itself?" ...h?v=oRkCQ0ecG-s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Watch "Phone chargine by itself?" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkCQ0ecG-s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Wireless charing... nothing new.
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Wireless charing... nothing new.
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Thing is it wasn't connected to NOTHING. It was charging wireless
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Thing is it wasn't connected to NOTHING. It was charging wireless
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Well can't see the video. But I gonna say he had the pad for it and I can bet you if he picked phone up in the air it would not charge anymore
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Well can't see the video. But I gonna say he had the pad for it and I can bet you if he picked phone up in the air it would not charge anymore
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Lol Watch "Phone chargine by itself?" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkCQ0ecG-s&feature=youtube_gdata_player youtube_gdata_player
It isnt plugged to anything im holding it In my hand and its charging
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Lol Watch "Phone chargine by itself?" on YouTube
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It isnt plugged to anything im holding it In my hand and its charging
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Lmao wow what an idiot thanks for the heads up bro
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Try now bro
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Try now bro
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OK what kind of phone is it and what battery cover is on it. It definitely not gonna charge by itself
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My phone has done that if I pull it off the charger too fast....drains the battery like crazy
though it IS an ancient phone compared to 2012-2013 gear (Xperia Play R800x)
Is it one of those fake display apps? My brother had one that would show screen being used as solar panel, more light would show more charging current, all fake to amuse others. Or really strong electromagnetic field capable of inducing electricity even from larger distance.
My battery has a habit of charging on it's own.. To an extent. When I reset my phone when the battery is full. It'll boot up with 15% battery, then it'll slowly creep itself up to 20%-25% then it stops. Then again, my battery is going bad.
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There's is absolutely no way it is actually charging. I had this happen on my s3 a few times. It ended up messing up and not charging at all
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Lol either way fellas the video is proof their is also many other videos of othee phones. Guess it happens to them when you dont take care of it as good? Idk either way still a mystery to me. Sure will see a self charging phone soon. Remember that one girl who invented a battery that charges in less than a minute full charge? Google aquired it some time back. I wonder what ever happened.
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Or he had one of these
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It didn't have a charge case on it you can see its just the phone shows front and back
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It didn't have a charge case on it you can see its just the phone shows front and back
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You must be talking about a different video because the video in the link posted in op does NOT show the back of the phone. He never once flipped the phone over to show the actual back of the phone, so no it does not show the front and back (I have no clue how you landed on that conclusion)! Just for a brief second he tilted his hand (with the phone still lying flat on it's back in his hand) at an angle where you can see the very bottom part of the battery cover, and you can tell it's 2-3 times thicker than the stock S3 battery and door cover so it's obviously a battery case! Sorry to burst your bubble but unfortunately there's no such thing as a magical self charging phone lol
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You must be talking about a different video because the video in the link posted in op does NOT show the back of the phone. He never once flipped the phone over to show the actual back of the phone, so no it does not show the front and back (I have no clue how you landed on that conclusion)! Just for a brief second he tilted his hand (with the phone still lying flat on it's back in his hand) at an angle where you can see the very bottom part of the battery cover, and you can tell it's 2-3 times thicker than the stock S3 battery and door cover so it's obviously a battery case! Sorry to burst your bubble but unfortunately there's no such thing as a magical self charging phone lol
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No I never said there was but there are such things as glitches and such. I've seen stuff like that happen with phones before either from a glitch or issues with the battery, and thanks for the reply but I'm no idiot I know there isn't any magical self charging phones but thanks for the input. Have a wonderful day.
Wait so the self charging phone the guy just sold me is fake. Damn
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