Is there any rom that has the back, home and search button on on screen when I played with windows phone 7 there was roms that included these buttons in the rom as there was no hardware buttons the screen was removed wrongly and the 3 buttons have broken I fixing this for my brother I was going to try and droid the phone but seems no droid as been done for this phone what is very sad.
So my question is, is there any rom out there what is able to be loaded on this device what as the full screen WP7 with the 3 buttons back in it we not paying the device been fixed as the phone second only cost him 60 and the new screen will also cost him the same price.
Any help would be great.
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After the sprint service reset my phone and killed my calender, I got an automated message asking if my problem was resolved. Well then I pulled over and brang up the dialing pad on the screen and started trying to press the numbers but as with 90% of the time they do not work. I started licking my fingers and pressing on the display and started *****ing and my 17 year old daughter asks my what I am doing , she than says why don't you calibrate my display. That would be great if there was one! She has. An lg touch and hers has one but mine don't she asks? Now I need to know how to make mine work before I poke my finger through the screen. I can't even hang up the phone 50% of the time. Is there a secret way to use this touch screen or do I just have to use the right finger and licking my fingers to make it work just ain't right.
Capacitive touch screens, do not need to be calibrated, unlike their cheaper cousins, and if you are having accuracy issues you need to either Odin the phone or bring it to Sprint and let them do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
Licking your fingers?!? That's totally unnecessary good sir/ma'am. Capacitive screens work by picking up the electrical charge that we have in our bodies. So when we touch the screen, that charge is sent to the display, the sensor and cpu do their thing and figure out where the screen was pressed. That's why you can't use the screen with gloves on (like winter gloves). Anyway, it just sounds like the phone is acting wacky.
Have you just tried rebooting to see if that fixed it? Or turning the screen on and off a few times? My phone acts weird on the lock screen sometimes and just turning off the screen fixes it.
There are a few threads here that address accelerometer problems but if the screen is just not picking up your touch, you may want to take it to Sprint.
that would be sir and it is just one of many problems my phone has. I reset it ,sprint reset it, I am crossing my fingers I got a dud . I was suckered onto the shorter waiting list and had the phone since launch day and in the beginning it was told to me by radio shack that android 2.2 was shortly comming and was going to fix all these problems I am having. I love the phone when it is working correctly but now I am just tired of the issues and promisses not being fullfilled. I read the article in the posting and it explaines different kinds of capacitive tec, gut wich one does the epic have. my wifes epic is so sensitive that it senses 1/4 inch away at times. mine is a luck of the draw and her phone is not mine so I dont use hers enough to see if its really better. I *****ed to sprint enough ,and it took this long, that they are sending me a new one. I doubt they are sending me a new one and expect they are sending me a refurbished one to test. I want to make sure its not something like my fingers not having enough energy to sense or cosmic rays are making my page back button go wacky by itself at random when texting or browsing.
Lol, if cosmic rays are bombarding your phone, we all have a lot more to worry about than the responsiveness of your phone! Sounds like you may have just gotten a bad phone. I would be pissed if Sprint tried to give me a refurb phone. There's a command somewhere in the scripting history on the phone that will tell you whether the phone is refurb. I don't know how to do that. I bet someone on this site does though. I guess the bottom line though is that the phone just needs to work.
And to your wife's phone, yes, the phone can be extremely sensitive. Sometimes, I swear that I didn't touch the screen but the screen registers a touch just because my finger was really close to the screen.
Finally, you may want to flash your phone. If you are not comfortable using ODIN or adb, get Sprint to do it. And not just a factory reset through the settings menu. I mean resetting the phone through recovery or download mode. Good luck.
Just a FYI that the home,menu,back and search buttons stopped working yesterday morning. Phone was not damaged at all to cause the problem, the buttons just stopped working. Once it a while one of the buttons will work for 2-3 presses and then stop working.
Went to a nearby AT&T warranty center and got a replacement within an hour . No cost to me, we got the phone back in Jan/Feb.
Now to try out the ICS update!
This awfully reminds me about the Motorola Milestone (Droid for you US-citizen ), the touchscreen would go bonkerz when you exposed the phone to too much humidity, like using the phone when it rains etc. IIRC the problem was that because of the sliding mechanism, the back side of the display ways not protected anough and fluids could enter more easily than in normal phones.
My Desire Z had a fall, and has developed two problems
1 - The hardware keypad has started to take hard-press and sometimes prints double characters on single press. I think the alignment is out or something... any other guess ?
2 - The touch screen sometimes stops working from an inch up from the bottom and continues to half an inch. Before and after that patch, the touch always works fine . Mostly, the whole touch screen works fine. But when the patch gets non-responsive, I have observed that by turning the screen off and on a couple of times makes it work again. I am not very sure what the problem is. Any clues ?
Thanks
I'm also experiencing a similar issue - for me it's usually an area that corresponds to the top row of the
on-screen keypad (for unlocking) or the top of the area for unlock patterns (portrait orientation).
Mine is a 2 year old DZ w. Cyanogenmod 7.1
No HW key problems & no droppage.
Liberal application of isopropyl alcohol and a microfiber cloth - especially around the edges of the screen
seem to help a little bit but not often enough to be better than random.
Switching the screen off and on occasionally helps but most often I get annoyed and use the HW keys to
unlock.
I have noticed that, after powering on the device, the SIM-lock keypad works just fine but the (different)
screen-unlock keypad fails. This leads me to believe it to be a software issue.
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I have had this experience on my G2
No fix for me but his my experience check out the url!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31264095
Sent from my HTC Vision using xda premium
Thread moved to Q & A section.
So i am going for Digitizer replacement will post the result when the phone is back.
And what about the Keypad taking hardpresses ? what can be the issue there ?
so my desire z is in the shop for repairs. lets see what problem is diagnosed.
I have read in another thread in this forum that the hardware keyboard (need to press hard on some buttons) issue can happen when the phone falls.
Apparently, the flat cable that connects the keyboard to the rest of the phone gets loose and causes such trouble.
Since your phone is in for repair, I'm sure this will get sorted when U get it back.
ok so my phone got back from repairs, the guy couldnt fix the touch-screen rather made it worse. Now the touchscreen doesnt work at all. So i cant unlock the phone and cannot test the Keyboard problem. The guy said the touch problem is related to the ribbon cable and not the touchscreen itself.
Note 1: He says he tried replacing the touch panel altogether but it didnt work.
Note 2: I still think the ribbon is fine (call it intuition)
Note 3: I am giving my phone for repairs again, but this time to HTC service center which would probably cost me a lot more than third-party repairs but at least it will get fixed.
I will update when I my phone back from HTC service center.
Could you not unlock the phone by opening the keyboard ?
It does smell to be an issue with flat (ribbon) cable to me as well. As if there was some loose contact before (caused by you dropping it), and after the repair guy took the phone apart, he probably made even bigger mess by ruining the flat cable completely.
From my experience (and I've claimed warranty 3x for the broken digitizer (touch panel)), if it's broken, an area of the screen (or the whole screen) will be permanently dead. It would not come back to life every now and then.
btw, mine always started being unresponsive in the very middle of the screen, a bar of height around 1 cm (somewhat less than 1/2 inch). Each time they replaced the digitizer.
If it;s the flat cable, you shouldn't end up being charged too much - those thingies are very cheap (in China) and the labour will probably be the majority of the price. Fingers crossed.
So I got my phone back again... The HTC repair center was not located in my city so I went to another (better known) repair shop. The guy said, "your phone hasnt been opened at all from the touchscreen side, any *repair guy* who claims he has opened it and tried this and that but couldnt fix is simply lying. This said, he opened up my desire z replaced its Touch Panel and voilah! my desire z is sensing again in 15 mins
What's the status for the keypad and need to press it hard to work ?
nope... I had it cleaned using alcohol / thinner. now it works fine.
So, I updated to CM 7.2 last night but the touchscreen problems are still there.
Updated using CWM and deleted data & cache whilst doing so.
I really hate the prospect of getting a new phone as the current models available
in DK are all without physical keyboards
Hi.
I would be really grateful for some advice.
I bought this phone (64GB version) in December 2019 (so out of warranty) and have been really pleased with it.
I scratched the screen, quite badly, about 3 months ago but it has been completely fine.
The phone was in pocket, when I was out in the rain the other day, and I noticed that the touch screen was completely unresponsive.
I tested the phone, with a mouse and an OTG USB cable, and it works completely fine - i.e. other than the touch screen not working, the phone is completely fine.
My question, now is what to do.
I have tried to dry the phone out for 48 hours (as recommended), but the screen will not work at all.
A few questions:
1. Is there any way I can check the phone for an error code in respect of the screen?
2. How much would it be to have a replacement screen replaced?
3. Is there a possibility that the screen is fine, but there is something on the phone's board that is in fact at fault?
4. Should I consider, economically, to just get a replacement instead - either the same phone or something else?
elsmandino said:
Hi.
I would be really grateful for some advice.
I bought this phone (64GB version) in December 2019 (so out of warranty) and have been really pleased with it.
I scratched the screen, quite badly, about 3 months ago but it has been completely fine.
The phone was in pocket, when I was out in the rain the other day, and I noticed that the touch screen was completely unresponsive.
I tested the phone, with a mouse and an OTG USB cable, and it works completely fine - i.e. other than the touch screen not working, the phone is completely fine.
My question, now is what to do.
I have tried to dry the phone out for 48 hours (as recommended), but the screen will not work at all.
A few questions:
1. Is there any way I can check the phone for an error code in respect of the screen?
2. How much would it be to have a replacement screen replaced?
3. Is there a possibility that the screen is fine, but there is something on the phone's board that is in fact at fault?
4. Should I consider, economically, to just get a replacement instead - either the same phone or something else?
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Check Developer options > Show Taps to know where the tap location of screen not working. If it has 'dead touch' partially or all of it, the digitizer or the touch layer is damaged. Mine was damaged at the right edge of screen where it did have a row of dead touch. I did replace mine. I recommend Screen + Frame package rather than screen only or even difficult touchscreen only.
It did cost $20 + $2.99 shipping on our online shop (Lazada, a Southeast Asian AliExpress affiliated online shop) for replacement of screen + its frame package. The risk is that it is not original screen anymore (not made by Xiaomi glass) and sometimes, it's a lottery to get working screen. You can do it yourself or assist it with your friend (or technician) who knows how to replace phone's screen.
Screenshot of the said developer option
Hi there,
I recently changed the screen of my OP 3 because it fell on the floor and did not show anything afterwards (I don't know if this only damaged the screen or also other parts of the phone).
Now, the screen works very well and and the phone does turn on as well (I even type this with my OP3). But I now have two problems:
1) My phone shuts down almost immediately after I lock it (after one or two seconds I can still unlock it but after 5 seconds or so it is dead). It does not shut down while the screen is on, though.
2) It heats quite a lot during using and especially during charging. I know, this seems to be a general issue with older OP phones and happened to me as well, but never to that extent (after charging 30 min it gets overheated which never happened before).
Plus, there are two issues that might or might not be related to these to problems so I add them as well: My volume control buttons did not work before the screen replacement, which is quite odd, because the power button works well. And I think I have destroyed the home button/fingerprint scan while changing the screen.
What do you think, is there any hope of solving these problems without having to buy a new phone?
Best, thank you all!
Clemens
Oneplus 3's sides buttons assembly is really fragile. When i was replacing my screen i replaced it too. With my second display, i broke the replacement button ribbon and installed the original one. So you might broke it.
For screen issue, are you using latest OxygenOS? Because some custom roms have issues with third party displays.
clemenssayshi said:
Hi there,
I recently changed the screen of my OP 3 because it fell on the floor and did not show anything afterwards (I don't know if this only damaged the screen or also other parts of the phone).
Now, the screen works very well and and the phone does turn on as well (I even type this with my OP3). But I now have two problems:
1) My phone shuts down almost immediately after I lock it (after one or two seconds I can still unlock it but after 5 seconds or so it is dead). It does not shut down while the screen is on, though.
2) It heats quite a lot during using and especially during charging. I know, this seems to be a general issue with older OP phones and happened to me as well, but never to that extent (after charging 30 min it gets overheated which never happened before).
Plus, there are two issues that might or might not be related to these to problems so I add them as well: My volume control buttons did not work before the screen replacement, which is quite odd, because the power button works well. And I think I have destroyed the home button/fingerprint scan while changing the screen.
What do you think, is there any hope of solving these problems without having to buy a new phone?
Best, thank you all!
Clemens
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Most likely a hardware issue. To confirm, clean flash OOS latest version (9.0.6 I think) and check. If it is ok, your problem is solved. If not, there are too many variables (screen, volume, home button and any other thing that you disturbed while replacing the screen) to trouble-shoot.