The screen is not frozen for stuck or anything, it is literally black and the touchscreen was and is broken. Like here is how it went. I got back from school, I was mad because I got a bad grade on my test somehow and my parents would not be quiet about it and when I got to my room my phone randomly shut down 5 times for no reason and then it happened. I threw my phone at the floor and then it somehow flew up and hit a sharp edge on my table and then it fell on the floor again (BTW my floor is cushiony and soft, not hardwood). I was scared because I love the Nokia Lumia 900. I went to go pick it up and when I did, there was like blue liquid, almost like pen ink, coming out of the bottom right of the phone (I do not have images because this happened at November 2013, it is January 2014 now.). I thought it would clear tomorrow but then later that night the "ink" had gone almost 4/6 of the phone. I thought it was nothing and it would clean up by tomorrow so I went to bed. The next morning I checked on my phone and I kept pressing the on button but that's when I knew it was on. everything on the phone worked except for that the screen was black and the liquid covered the screen so the touchscreen was out of order also.
My dad found out a few months later (I was scared to tell my dad) and he got really mad. The phone is not broken, the screen has just been overflown with this ink stuff.
What is happening and what should I do to clean it? Or should I just wait 11 months for a new phone? This iste helped me with my phone not starting so please help me!
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Hey, last night my friends got into a bar fight and the bouncers came at me and one of them tried to kick me and he kicked my phone like 10 feet in the air and it hit the pavement. the phone came into 3 pieces upon impact. (the battery, cover, and the phone itself) It wouldn't turn on last night, but today I took it apart a bit to see if I could see any visible damage, when I put it back together the opening screen flashed for a second then it shuts off again. The screen does not have any damage either. What is most likely the problem that is wrong with my phone? and how should I go about getting it fixed or fixing it myself?
Well after I took the phone apart and put it back together, it turned on and is working as if nothing happened. This phone literally got shot up roughly 10 feet in the air and hit the pavement and has only a couple of scratches- none on the screen. has to be the best phone I ever had in a means of durability, but I am still wondering why it didn't work for 16 hours or so.. Any ideas?
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Might have been some components loosened (like the battery contacts, or other pieces of the chain that supply power) that somehow fell back into place after you took it apart/reassembled.
Past experience with electronics is that things don't magically fix themselves. Whatever went wrong will probably happen again, just a matter of time.
So I got my Desire Z on Friday and have been LOVING it over the weekend. I got home from work today pressed the power button and the screen just faded into complete white (took about a second to go from off to faded totally to white). I took the battery out, put it back and turned the phone on. Exactly the same from boot. It seems to boot up the phone just with the screen not working. After a couple of minutes the leds flash as would be expected. Opening the keyboard clearly changes things, its clear the screen is trying to rotate. I phoned carphone warehouse and they told me to go to store with it.
Any ideas before I take it back tomorrow?
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So I got my Desire Z on Friday and have been LOVING it over the weekend. I got home from work today pressed the power button and the screen just faded into complete white (took about a second to go from off to faded totally to white). I took the battery out, put it back and turned the phone on. Exactly the same from boot. It seems to boot up the phone just with the screen not working. After a couple of minutes the leds flash as would be expected. Opening the keyboard clearly changes things, its clear the screen is trying to rotate. I phoned carphone warehouse and they told me to go to store with it.
Any ideas before I take it back tomorrow?
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Google "white screen of death" -- this can affect different phones from several manufacturers, it seems.
One victim said he took out the battery for 12 hours then got it to boot
Thanks, I had a google around, it doesn't quite look like what a lot of people describe, I had a Powerbook G4 on which the logic board died a while back, it looks exactly like that did once it stopped working.
Even so I've removed my battery and I'll leave it until lunch tomorrow before I pop it back in.
Well I took it into store, they replaced the phone without any issue, hurrah back to a working phone. Lost all my Angry Birds and OpenSudoku progress though, booo.
2 Weeks later and my display is dead again (this was a totally new unit, it wasn't repaired). I'm sure I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary with it. Going to lose my save games again
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2 Weeks later and my display is dead again (this was a totally new unit, it wasn't repaired). I'm sure I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary with it. Going to lose my save games again
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Something else to consider -- I once lost a phone due to a bad car charger -- it was a cheap one that didn't have proper circuit protection, apparently.
In my case it just killed the phone -- no white screen or anything. I just plugged it in, then it was dead.
I also killed the screen digitizer on another phone due to static electricity -- went down a slide with my son with the phone in the pocket -- touched a metal pole and ZAP.
arabic support for desire z
my desire z is operating on 2.3.3 . build number 2.42.405.4.
emails i receive in arabic are not connected.
pls advice how to correct for this.
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Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
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Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
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If she doesn't come back, sounds like the screen digitizer could be bad and need replacing but I could be wrong.
Yes, I have thought that, but it is not an option as too expensive.. Cheapest screen and digi I see on ebay currently is about £80... Re-sell value of the complete phone is only about £150 now.
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Yes, I have thought that, but it is not an option as too expensive.. Cheapest screen and digi I see on ebay currently is about £80... Re-sell value of the complete phone is only about £150 now.
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very very true was going to say that but I was sure you already knew that!
Any other thoughts???
guess not.
disassemble your gnex and clean every part and connector with a soft teeth brush
Tried that... still no response from screen
Use a paralyze heal! Wait...
Seriously though, you've done everything you could've done short of replacing the digitizer.
sferg.410 said:
Hello all. I woke up one morning and found my GNex laying in a puddle of water (radiator leak) struggling for life. I picked her up, dried her off carefully, took her clothes off and wiped her dry before finishing of with the hairdryer.
She slowly came back to life over the next day or two. Her face was a bit blurred but soon came back to perfection. Her charging socket and power button needed replacing and a gentle clean of all internal connections seemed have everything working fine again.
Few days later she developed a bit of a problem, her face (screen) was becoming unresponsive, sometimes was just a short delay before coming to life, sometimes no delay, sometimes a couple of minutes before everything became responsive again. This would always happen on start up and sometimes when she was active.
Problem is, now there is no response at all, totally catatonic.
I was able to plug her into the other darling in my life (laptop!!) and reset her mind totally clean using Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, in case it was a problem with one of her apps but now she is just stuck on the first set up page (country selection) and still totally unresponsive to my touch.
Is she paralysed for ever and would be best taken to one of those Swiss doctors for a comfortable exit from this world or can she somehow be brought back to responding to my touch?????
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time for a new phone
yeah if you have already tried everything short of replacing the digi, might as well just get a nexus 4 now.
nah.. got a Nexus One Black instead.. and am very happy with it...
you just love that nipple on nexus one dont you
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you just love that nipple on nexus one dont you
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my mistake... i meant an HTC One Black... no idea what you are talking about with nipples...!!!!
i see.. original nexus one.. physical button is rather raised.. lol
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
Haha!! Nice to hear it!
Congo man! Srsly! :good:
Clareyboy said:
So last Thursday I dropped my OneX phone into my kitchen sink full of water & soap. It got fully submerged into it for at least 5 sec.
It still worked completely fine the moment i fished it out, but of course i immediately turned it off
Like 30 minutes later, out of of nowhere my phone came back online without me doing anything. I turned it off but it kept rebooting after showing the HTC splash screen. Water must have done something crazy I don't know...
I put in in a bowl with rice hoping it would dry out. In the meantime it kept rebooting for like 1 hour continuously I kept hearing the vibration
After sometime I noticed it was back on the 'unlock simcard screen' so it finally wasn't rebooting anymore. I unlocked the simcard and have been using my phone perfectly normal.
I've noticed some small darker blotches on the right downside of the screen, but those have slowly dissipated too. And today they are completely gone.
I just wanted to share this little story with you, I'm very happy that my One X survived this 'battle' against water haha.
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My wife had an One X but first she dropped it in the toilet. Had to wait a few days to let it dry, but it was OK. Then she dropped it again in a puddle full of water. And what was wierd was it worked. Then these blotches appeared
Then about a day later the screen just would be bright at all!.
I tried taking it apart but to my surprise the battery was so soft and would bend super easy. The insides smelled very bad.
It never worked again but I was surprised it lasted as long as it did!
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I do hope for you it will keep working, but to be honest I doubt it. Water does strange things to electronic components.
It may even work fine for days/weeks or months after being in touch with water, but it suddenly can stop working or have other strange reactions due to corrosion or the chemical compounds reacting that were in the water at the time.
I have experienced this behaviour a lot in water damaged electronics, as I'm helping people with insurance claims in my profession. It's difficult to prove problems are connected to water damage, weeks or months after the accident occurred.
Repair centers normally don't give any guarantee on repairs due to water damage, in my experience. That's due to the fact damage may occur even after weeks or months, and it can never be foretold a repair was 100 percent successful.
So, it certainly still could have problems later in time, although of course I hope you were very lucky this time!
Rice is indeed one of the best things to try in these circumstances, it probably saved your phones life this time! :thumbup:
A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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A couple of months ago I spilt lots of pure alcohol on my HOX.
At first these grey spots on the right bottom side appeared and then after turning it off for about 10 hours they vanished but a big wide line appeared in the left side of the screen starting from the bottom until the middle of the screen.
Other than that the phone worked absolutely fine no problem what so ever.
I send the phone to be repaired (screen replacement) last week and got it back two days later with a new screen and a notice that there was no cost charged as the replacement was done under warranty.......
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yes because they thought it was a screen failure...htc wrote in the letter that the screen was abnormal so they replaced it with a complete new...but my screen was broken and repaired with just glued glass ...really nice from them to change the whole screen
So during my holiday my HOX got splashed with a bit of water from a wave. The battery was running on fumes and, when I looked at it, the phone was dead. It did turned on later while in my pocket and I happened to press the power button.
I let it dry on rice and nothing. I made the potential mistake of trying to charge it so it would heat up and it wouldn't charge. I then bought another mobile and, just to try it, I took opened the HOX and hoovered. Nothing.
Miracle happened yesterday when, just for kicks, I tried the charger again. It power up!! Everything seems fine, no visible screen damage, wifi works, everything works just fine but... screen won't respond to touch on the very bottom, say, the capacitive and menu buttons (the ones just above the capacitive ones).
What do you guys think? Is the screen dead there, maybe I didn't put the screen back properly or should I wait as some moister might yet be there?
Cheers!
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So during my holiday my HOX got splashed with a bit of water from a wave. The battery was running on fumes and, when I looked at it, the phone was dead. It did turned on later while in my pocket and I happened to press the power button.
I let it dry on rice and nothing. I made the potential mistake of trying to charge it so it would heat up and it wouldn't charge. I then bought another mobile and, just to try it, I took opened the HOX and hoovered. Nothing.
Miracle happened yesterday when, just for kicks, I tried the charger again. It power up!! Everything seems fine, no visible screen damage, wifi works, everything works just fine but... screen won't respond to touch on the very bottom, say, the capacitive and menu buttons (the ones just above the capacitive ones).
What do you guys think? Is the screen dead there, maybe I didn't put the screen back properly or should I wait as some moister might yet be there?
Cheers!
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This is a flashback to me. Same thing happened to me few weeks ago - first 3 bottom buttons stoped working, and now 7 days ago part of touch screen is not working anymore. I am going to replace lcd+digitizer+frame, lucky me nothing else need to be fixed. And IMHO trying to heat closed HTC when water was in it doesn't make a sense as a water will condense (as it is closed) so it would make more damage. Oxidation sucks :/
I do have the SIM slot opened but yeah, that's a tinny opening, not much space for water vapour to escape... it's been a few weeks since I thought it had died though, it's pretty amazing to me that it came back at all. Some tough phones, these...
Anyway, I think I'll try to take the screen out again, I wasn't too careful putting it back in because I saw it wasn't charging or powering up or anything at all.