I have an HTC One X that was dropped in the water.
The guy only wants the data, and i took it out of it and gave it to him. So he told me that the devices is all yours.
I've been trying to fix it ever since he told me that.
The phone boots up normally, sound is working, vibration is too.
The screen's backlight, although set to maximum, it too dim due to water damage. So i took it to a repair shop, he replaced the screen, and a piece of hardware inside the board, but the screen works for about 10 minutes then completely goes off. So we put back the old screen and peice and the same thing happens, 10 mins of dim brightness... then no brightness at all. I'm currently trying to root it so i could stream and control it via PC. I now have it with a very dim screen that works for 30 minutes then needs to rest for 5 minutes so it could go on again.
Any suggestions on what i should replace to really solve that problem is very much appreciated as i really would like to make this device go alive again.
Put him in rice..And it will pull water out from phone..If that doesn't help I think that motherboard is too damaged..
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Put him in rice..And it will pull water out from phone..If that doesn't help I think that motherboard is too damaged..
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we actually tore it down and left its parts for about a week in a box, would it still help if i did that?
Was the box warm? If not maybe there is still a little bit of water on connectors or somewhere..Cause I had the same problem on other phone..
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Last night I was out and during the night I pulled my desire z out of my pocket to find that the screen was dead, the soft touch buttons were still lit up and working but no display. I pulled the battery and tried to reboot and no luck, you can hear it booting and even unlock/receive calls and txts etc once it has booted up just the screen stays blank the whole time so have to do everything on feel.
Essentially does this just mean my screen has a hardware fault? is it worth trying to fix? I assume the only option would be to purchase a replacement screen and dissemble and reassemble it?
(warranty is not worth it as I live in New Zealand and would have to send my phone back to the UK where I bought it from, also I have dropped it quite a few times so probably voided anyway...)
Thanks in advance for any input
Does it never display anything? So not even a flash during boot or something?
Because then it is probably a hardware problem.
Since the soft touch buttons do still work I think there might be a little crack or something in the flat cable that connects the bottom half with the top.
Maybe you could check whether you can see if the cable is broken or not?
The best thing to do then is to look for a replacement and try to fix it yourself or bring it to a shop where they can do it for you.
No it never displays anything, completely dead the whole time. The touch input is still working though as I answered a phone call this morning on it by making the usual gesture just without being able to see anything. Doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the cable itself as far as I can see. Yea might have to get someone to have a look at it.
My phone is acting the same. I dropped my phone in the pond before, but pulled battery out on time and had it in rice for a day. My phone was still working for about two weeks after that incident. I dropped it and had one little crack at the top of the screen and about a week after that it died when I had a water balloon fight with the phone in my pocket. D;
Do any of you know if the replacement lcd screen/digitizer for the Desire Z would work for the G2?
I had the same thing happening to my G2 screen, only it was intermittently working for a little while, then just completely died and wouldn't work. It was doing this crazy flickering thing then the back light wouldn't go on at all. If I held the phone at a certain angle in the sun, I could see that the pixels were indeed working on the display, but there was no backlight to make them normally visible.
So I purchased a replacement screen from ebay and carefully followed the directions on a youtube video for a G2 take apart. Its not a hard task to take apart and get down to the screen itself. It was rather easy. After putting it back together the screen still didn't work! Sounds work, i can also receive calls etc. But the screen still doesn't work!
Is there any way that this could be a software issue?
Oh and PS, I believe the LCD replacement would work for both the desire Z and the G2. They are identical phones after all right? I'd say its a safe bet. The screen I bought was only 35 bucks. Didn't think that was a bad deal.
Another dead screen or something else?
Few days ago my phone fell of the couch onto a rug - no big deal, so far it has survived much worse, but when I picked it up, the colors were all messed up - overly green and red. Tried restarting - no luck. Everything worked fine, except the colors, but then the screen turned of completely. I could hear notifications, phonecalls, but the screen was dead. After some tapping on the screen, it turned on again - with ****ed up colors. Then started flickering and was gone again. Few more times I could turn it on by tapping before it was dead for good.
Figured, after all these drops it survived, maybe the screen connector is a bit loose. I mean, I could sometime get a contact when tapping it, so I dissasambled it completely, secured all the connection, put it all back tougether and fired up - same thing: dead screen, phone working.
Has anyone had such problem before? Is it screen that is dead, or connector or... I have no clue... I would like try to fix it on my own, with some replacement parts I could get on ebay - but, what gave?
Hi all,
the story goes like this. One fine day, i was jogging with my phone in my arm strap when it suddenly turned off and cant be turn on ever since. I sent it for repair the next day.
At the service center, the service person used a wall charger to charge it for a few minutes and the phone magically turned on by itself while i sent it in for repair.
Few days later HTC called and informed me they wouldnt fix the phone for free as it is damaged by water. I then took back the phone and realised it took 10 minutes to boot and autorotate and autobrightness is not working. In bid to solve the problem, I dismantled the phone to find lots of oxidation between the screen and the motherboard. Strangely there are no oxidation on the back of the motherboard. I then used alcohol to clean the oxidation away and put it with 2 boxes desiccant in a zip lock bag for 2 days.
When i reassembled the phone, the problem remains. HTC is quoting me SGD$700+ to repair the phone which includes replacing motherboard, powerbutton volume button etc which makes no sense at all since all other components are working fine! I believe this is a small problem which could be fixed easily by those who knows their stuff(definitely not htc).
SUMMARY: 10 minutes booting time + autorotate and autobrightness not working after water damage(water damage is diagnose by HTC). All other things work fine after booting into the os.
Can somebody who had similar experience or have the technical capabilities point me to the right direction to fix my phone?
Hey guys,
I think I destroyed my HTC One X. I just bought it a month ago from Ebay, and it worked flawless. At some point the display just turn off. I restarted the phone, heard the sound when it starts and even the softkeys worked. But the Display was still off. After after a few restarts the display turned on for a minute, just to freeze after that and turned off again. The phone was still on though.
However I've read a bit around and found out that it could be a cpu heat problem, which could be true because my phone was way too warm sometimes. So I removed the display and put a tiny little bit thermal compound on the cpu. Somehow I managed to rip off the connection cable to the display ... also I managed to rip off the little black cable near the soft keys. The soft keys still work though.
When I start the phone the starting sound comes, the softkeys blink when I restart the phone, you hear the volume buttons etc. So it seems the phone is fully working. Just the display or touchscreen is damaged.
Some pictures:
http://i.imgur.com/LQ4M2Gb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uWZTfNe.jpg
So, what can I do?
Do you think I could just send it to this site http://www.directfix.com/product/REP-0063.html and let them repair it? Or did I destroyed my phone too much already?
Thanks in advance.
Well,the top cable is ripped off,you can't do anything at this point.The bottom one just seems out of slot as far as i can tell from the pics.
Basicaly you can send it to the repair shop,but i don't think that you can only change the cables,don't really know what to say...Could cost you some to repair it.
I don't want to only change the cables. I want to use this full repair service:
"HTC One X Complete Screen Replacement Service (Includes LCD & Digitizer)".
So they change the cables and put on a new LCD & Digitizer as far I understand.
But do you guys think they will put back the other cable back in slot too?
Please just answer, do you guys think they can repair it if they put on a new screen & digitalizer?
I don't see why not,you can also contact them and explain them the situation.Those cables are quite easy to put back with the proper tools so you don't have to worry about it.
My Bf recently dropped his HTC One X in the water for approx 2 seconds. We were not able to put it in rice.......Dont even know if that actually works.....The phone kept power and appeared fine. Took it home and used it for a couple hours with no issues. Then the screen just went black. The phone was still powered on, sounds and lights on the keys at the bottom. We took it to a cell phone repair shop, they waterproofed it, and replaced the battery, none of these worked and they said there was nothing they could do with it. We did not have insurance for it, and are forced to pay full price for a replacement, or revert back to the dinosaur age until our next upgrade. If anyone knows of anything that could be done to possibly fix the phone, it would be tremendously, greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Nothing you can do I'm afraid, best advice you can get from here is, if it happens again turn the phone off immediately, if possible put it in a bag of rice overnight or wrap it in a few layers of kitchen towel. If you leave it powered on the water seeps into the parts slowly and starts to short out the parts one by one as you have found out
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Hey guys,
So i flooded my phone, dried it, left in rice for 2 days and now when i connect it to my charger the screen goes up after a minute or so but its not charging. My screen shows battery icon with a bolt inside and a zero below, or battery with a cable inside and zero below. Any idea what can i do to fix this? I can boot to bootloarder mode, but when I'm trying to boot to recovery/other modes it goes back to 'charging screen'.
Thanks in advance!
The battery is eeprom controlled so you probably damaged it when teaching the phone to swim. Flashing will do nothing for it.
Putting the phone in rice is a bad idea as it isn't as absorbent as you think. You should have left it over a radiator for a week or so to evaporate the water before even thinking about switching it on, but by then the damage was probably already done.
If it doesnt start working in week or so then expect it to be expensive to fix.
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Not sure what eeprom is, but if its in the part below, then i could replace it myself with no problem. What are Your thougts? I know that more thing may be broken, but if it would go back to life i would be glad because I don't want to spend money on any new phone, maybe apart from S8/pixel but its expensive as hell.
https://e.allegroimg.com/original/0115f6/28e0dc9447338f8114880dfb6c1e
If i couldn't repair this bad boy then I would probably go with 6s, but I'm not sure if I want to make the transition to iOS.
Cheers and thanks for previous reply