New phone arrived yesterday. S-off and unlocked with sunshine. Installed philz cwm and then supersu.
This morning working fine then suddenly screen is just coloured noise. Rebooted, tried to get into recovery etc. All I can see is the same screen corruption. No splash screen etc. Phone boots and plays startup sound.
Any suggestions?
Well scrap that. Just plugged into laptop to try adb commands and the phone woke up with the screen working perfectly!!
Defects:
The top and bottom speaker covers are not flush with the screen glass.
At the bottom the cover is proud on the right hand side, and the screen is proud on the left hand side. At the top the screen is proud on the right and flush on the left.
Would you return the phone for these reasons?
Well I did it again.
I pressed the speaker covers to see if there was any give to correct the flaws mentioned above, as that's what I was doing this morning, and the screen died again.
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This time connecting to the laptop isn't reviving it.
Some shots or the to and bottom speaker covers. You can see the covers are rippled, that's about all.
Looks to be defective. I would change it back to s-on and return it.
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I keep trying to revive it. No joy so far
Anyone have any ideas?
How to revert to s-off I mean.
I only have adb access
Vodafone are collecting the phone.
Sunshine can't help. Want to charge me the full $30 again too. (I can moan about that as it's a paid product right? )
I can get to fastboot but the su command doesn't result in an elevated prompt. No errors. So I can't even flash stock to see if that will do anything. Not that I think it will.
I think there must be a screen connection under the speaker covers that is damaged/ dislodged.
I'll update this thread with any results.
News in... I bashed the phone on my knee a bit with the idea that I might dislodge the cable back into a working position....
Voilà! Screen on again lol
Back to trying to get s-on
4.4.4 now of course... hunting for a 4.4.3 stock image...
With help from the guys in sunshine support chat I'm now s-on. No need to re image.
Re-locked, flashed original bootloader, factory reset... looks like new. Ready for collection.
Pushing on the speaker grills is not making the fault come back lol. Will have to write a note to explain. Not happy to accept now knowing it may reoccur.
I would return it. You wouldn't want to deal with it again
Another vote for returning the phone.
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Hello,
I have a HTC touch pro 2 and I removed the sticky thing (looks something like below)
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I did this to fix the "oil spill of death" which made my digitiser unresponsive anyways... thats a different question...
I removed it and now it is all dirty and covered with gunk - its no good coming back on my screen. So without it my phone works and here are my options:
A) Buy a new sticker off ebay for $22
B) Dont buy a sticker, but use my full mirror screen protector instead.
I just dont know the role of that sticky thing. Could someone please help me out?
Cheers!
Okay, you need that sticky thing, because it's your touchscreen!
Without it, your phone is very hard to use.
Just get one of ebay, stick it onto your phone connecting the cable, and it should work again.
Thats the first layer of your screen!
Can you send me the ebay link
Hi
Hi,
Well my touch screen works fine without it. Its not on ebay (by itself) but I can buy a digitiser that comes with the sticker.
I dont know what to do.
Thanks
Well, then you probably haven't pulled off the complete digitizer. It should have a connector to it. If it hasn't, you only pulled off the top layer. Either way, you should replace it, because if something happens to your phone now, it is unprotected.
Thanks steyn_e I think your probably right!
That is pretty special, i havent seen anyone before who hade just half of his digitizer pulled off.
Good luck with repairing it.
Steyn
yeah thanks.
i chose not to buy a new digitiser because the sticker is not sold seperately, I guess a screen protector PLUS a hard case will do the job. If I buy a new digitizer, I have to peel off the sticker...... or replace the digitiser. I dont want to get messy so ill take the easy n cheap option
Hi everyone,
Sunday my phone screen completely shattered and now Im payed Sprint's third party $100 and a new one is on the way! YAY!
BUT!!
I want to save everything on my phone and continue to use my current ROM yada yada yada. Before I pulled the phone apart it appeared to be completely functional beside the screen (menu buttons were working and notification light flashing).
QUESTION: If I can pull apart my replacement, put my motherboard in, and get it all working, CAN I make a nandroid backup, save it to a flash drive, put back in the correct motherboard, and flash the nandroid on the replacement, WILL it work?
I understand that is a lot of propositional logic so I can draw it out if needed :good:
Thank you to anyone that can help!!
It is possible that it will work. When i did the same thing with my E4GT replacement, i got bootloops. The nandroid i restored was stock stock Paranoid Android. No OC or UC/UV, wiped cache and dalvik after restore. In my experience, its luck of the draw.
Yes, but you will have to use this method to be able to restore it most likely-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390010
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I would also back up your personal data onto a pc, pics, videos game saves etc. Just in case there is a problem.
I just got a replacement and the damn capacitive buttons would activate if I held the phone a certain way or just randomly. I was so glad that I didn't flash it right when I got it, it took me a couple of days to find that out. So they sent a 2nd replacement, but I still only had 10 days to return my broken phone. I only like a day or two left at that point.
I would advise anyone getting a replacement to keep it mint condition and use it for a few days, make sure it activates, the gps works well and the capacitive buttons don't trigger themselves (probably a side effect of the just the glass being replaced on the phone).
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I would also back up your personal data onto a pc, pics, videos game saves etc. Just in case there is a problem.
I just got a replacement and the damn capacitive buttons would activate if I held the phone a certain way or just randomly. I was so glad that I didn't flash it right when I got it, it took me a couple of days to find that out. So they sent a 2nd replacement, but I still only had 10 days to return my broken phone. I only like a day or two left at that point.
I would advise anyone getting a replacement to keep it mint condition and use it for a few days, make sure it activates, the gps works well and the capacitive buttons don't trigger themselves (probably a side effect of the just the glass being replaced on the phone).
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Thank you so much!! My plan is to create a nandroid as well as back everything up to my laptop then later on change the ROM/RECOVERY to my liking!
:good::good:
Hi there brought this second hand Nexus from well known auction site. Fully aware of it being faulty, after finally switching on (power ribbon cable was loose) the screen switched on usual google popped up but once fully loaded it becomes fragmented. There are tears on the screen as I touch it.
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I went into bootloader where the screen loaded up as normal
As you can see there is no glitches with the screen loading this up. I then proceeded to do a stock flash from 5.1.1 to 5.0.0 to see if its just a corrupted rom. No luck still the same.
Has anyone come accross this problem and know what is the fix? Before I tear this nexus apart for spares for my other nexus or even plug the screen to test on another ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated
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Hi there brought this second hand Nexus from well known auction site. Fully aware of it being faulty, after finally switching on (power ribbon cable was loose) the screen switched on usual google popped up but once fully loaded it becomes fragmented. There are tears on the screen as I touch it.
I went into bootloader where the screen loaded up as normal
As you can see there is no glitches with the screen loading this up. I then proceeded to do a stock flash from 5.1.1 to 5.0.0 to see if its just a corrupted rom. No luck still the same.
Has anyone come accross this problem and know what is the fix? Before I tear this nexus apart for spares for my other nexus or even plug the screen to test on another ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated
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When you flashed the factory image, did you flash all of it including kernel? I would try to get into TWRP and install a ROM to see if the problem persists. (You can boot into TWRP without installing it if you want to keep it stock recovery)
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I'm still not sure how it happened, but I somehow managed to crack my camera. Not just the lense like everyone else due to heat issues, but the actual camera.
So I figured I'd replace it myself instead of paying someone 100$+ to do it, and then have them charge me double for the part.
I made a pretty bad screw up the first time and broke the cable going to the power/volume buttons when initially opening the casing, and didnt realize until after I had replaced the camera.
I just got the new SD card reader/button cable in yesterday, and finished replacing it about 5 minutes ago. But the phone still will not boot.
I double checked all of the flex cables/signal cables to be 100% sure everything is plugged in properly, and not broken.
All of the flex cable protectors are back in place etc., but it just won't boot. the charge indicator won't even turn on when I plug it in.
I followed the video shown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RRJAHbnYmQ to take it apart initially, then followed it backwards to be 100% sure I wouldn't miss anything when putting it back together.
The only thought I have, is that Im having issues getting the case to snap back together completely.
That's when I noticed the pieces shown in the pictures below.
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This is my first time actually working on a phone, but from what I assume, they look like some kind of spring based switches that will sever very important connections if the phone isn't completely put back together, with the case holding these raised parts down to complete a circuit.
I'm not sure if that's my problem, or if I somehow managed to screw up something a lot more important.
Can anyone at all shed some light on this?
Edit: Another thought just occurred, would I be able to use my UH-OH protection for this, even though technically speaking I'm the one that caused it to become completely non functional by opening it and attempting repairs on my own? Should I drop the thing in a bucket of water for a while first to claim UH-OH?
Hello. Some weeks ago I sent my Nexus 5X to the technical assistance with the problem I described here https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/brick-apparently-reason-t3680715. Now they told me that they won't repair it under warranty because they found traces of liquid/oxide inside it, so they are sending it back to me unfixed. Now I find this odd because the only encounters it has made with water were in the form of small quantities dropped on the screen (the amount you can drop by moving a glass in the air too quickly) which I dried immediately and the symptoms seemed to point to a bad contact. Anyway the repair center provided an image in which seems that actually some liquid has made it inside the case, but I can't recognize which part of the phone it is. Here's the image:
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So the questions are: which is the part in the photo? Do you have an idea about how could have a liquid made it inside the phone (I think that is unlikely that it was by dropping something on the screen)? Do you think that the problem I experienced is compatible with a water-induced short circuit or any other damage by liquid?
Thanks in advance for your answers and explanations
I actually thought that was a picture of the shipping box before I read your post. I took mine apart to where I could pull the motherboard off, and there definitely wasn't blue tape holding something down. The only thing I can think of is that is maybe the back of the screen. Which would be after pulling the metal frame off.
Check out these pictures. If you go all the way toward the end steps, you can see you get all the way until there is mostly the metal frame inside the plastic and stuck to the back of the display without seeing anything that looks like your picture.
Their picture honestly seems to be an entirely different phone. But of course they may have changed assembly and parts at some point. I would take it apart when you get it back, take pictures and if nothing looks like the picture they sent, see if you can appeal or whatever. Maybe you can just point to the 3rd party teardowns and ask them to point out where they claim the picture is from.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5X+Teardown/54403
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5X+Teardown/51318
I think it's under the battery, the blue part looks like the battery adhesive but it's normally black,
It was was to get behind there it would of had to enter via the simcard