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Bad touchscreen

Ever since I purchased my evo I have had strange touchscreen issues. Ie.. it will start pressing buttons or long press all by itself. At first I thought it was the rom I was running but later found out that every rom I have ran does it. Now I'm sure everyone is going to tell me to just replace the phone but I don't really have the money to do that right now. Just wanted to see if there has been any other evo owners that have run into this and if they had any suggestions. Thanks.
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kbizzle said:
Ever since I purchased my evo I have had strange touchscreen issues. Ie.. it will start pressing buttons or long press all by itself. At first I thought it was the rom I was running but later found out that every rom I have ran does it. Now I'm sure everyone is going to tell me to just replace the phone but I don't really have the money to do that right now. Just wanted to see if there has been any other evo owners that have run into this and if they had any suggestions. Thanks.
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I had a similar problem with my HTC HD2 back in the day and it turned out to be a hardware problem. I took it back to the store where they confirmed it and replaced my device right there. If you rooted your phone and have a custom rom installed on it right now....unroot it and put the stock rom back on it and take it back to the store where they'll be able to give you a brand new one for free! Things like this aren't your fault and so they shouldn't charge you at all!

As mentioned, Sprint should replace the phone free of charge - especially if you have insurance. Be sure to take it to a true Sprint store and not just a store that sells Sprint stuff. Without insurance, it may cost you $35, more, or absolutely nothing.
Just be sure to unroot first, as Sprint may void your warranty or refuse to replace it if they see that it's rooted (and since the issue is with the screen, they will). If you used unrevoked to root, remember to flash the s-on tool in recovery before running the RUU. Also double check that you're s-on before taking it in.
Good luck!

Thanks for the responses. I do have insurance but the quirk is that I purchased the phone second hand from an acquaintance. The screen issue happened so minimally that it didn't really bother me until late. Now its happening more often. I guess I'm gonna have to suck it up, lose it in the bathroom at my local pub and fork out the deposit for replacement. Thanks again.
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My stepmom bought her BB Curve on ebay. She has insurance, it went funky on her & they replaced it for free.
She's a customer service rep's worst nightmare, though.

I dont think it matters where you got your phone if you have TEP....
I was once giving a phone by my nephew they replaced that phone 3 times for me! I love sprint!

[Q] Insurance for battery?

okay so my g2 is rooted and lately it has been dying and if i plug it in, it does'nt turn on the orange light blinks a few times and then...blinks orange and green, i left it on there for a while and then turned it on after unplugging it and it just keeps dying but this morning i woke up and it wouldn't even turn on. I've heard that this means its overheating, and i just wanted to know if my tmobile insurance covers a battery replacement.

You have to call the HTC Accessory line which is: 1-888-871-3305... just dont mention that your device is rooted and they will replace it, usually with free shipping

Thanks, but i went to tmobile and they took one out of another phone and the lady plugged it in and said it did the same thing.. we ordered a new one with the warranty still going until October. When I got home I plugged in the phone again and it worked.... i'm thinking about just returning this phone and using the new one but i'm not sure how (and if) i can unroot this thing and get it back to complete stock could you help me out?

yea I can help you.... can I ask did you do the gfree method or the older method (putting files on sdcard and typing in commands in Terminal)....

Yes I used visionary and typed commands with the terminal, I have s-off also
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how long does it take before your battery dies.... if it stays a decent amount of time I would do this.... (make sure to fully charge between each step and if you need help with any step just ask)
1) Flash this Rom inside of clockwork recovery http://www.4shared.com/file/XlIDy7SV/ota_odex_V11.html
(charge)
2)flash the original recovery image http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834545&highlight=recovery
(past 2 steps were just incase phone dies out in next step
(charge)
3)now do the instructions on this site.. (And Make Sure you Charge as much as possible before flashing PC10IMG.zip)
then you would be unrooted....

Oh with the new battery the phone is fine now I just wanted a brand new g2 before my warranty ended
Besides it was already ordered before we found out that my phone would work properly with the new battery so why go through the trouble of canceling it.
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Battery warrenty
If you got your phone less then ninety days ago the battery is still under a warranty. You need to call T-Mobile and tell them that your phone is randomly rebooting and when they ask you if you have another battery to try tell them you don't. You can also just say that the battery dies very quickly, or that the battery will not charge when you have the phone on the charger but it charges when you plug it in via USB. All of those complaints will lead to a free battery replacement.
Source: I used to work for T-Mobile customer service. (For three years until I went back to school last year)

Thanks but now I'm returning the old phone because we already ordered a new one under warranty so I need to figure out how to get back to stock
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MykulG76 said:
Thanks but now I'm returning the old phone because we already ordered a new one under warranty so I need to figure out how to get back to stock
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Try to figure it out? Dude just gave you instructions lol
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[Q] HOX self shuts down

Hi all, i'm having a big issue on one x with original 4.0.4 rom. The phone just keep shutting down while gaming taking photos, now also while updating apps. I thought that some app could cause this so i did an hard reset, and right after the initial set up, when i started updating the applications, it shutted down. I'm really worried, what is happening? could it be an hardware problem? Should i bring it back (it has warranty, i'm on stock rom)?
I noticed some log files in the memory, but after the hard reset it doesn't create them when it shuts down, while it did it before. any way to activate the log creation?

nobody can help me? today i tested it a while and it happened again 2 times, but this time whlie browsing (i use quick ics browser) and not while gaming. the second time when i rebooted it the battery indicator had a "!" on it, and it's not the first time, and it didn't recognize my sim.

Means that your phone is overheating, the battery being at or above 48c.
If you don't want to go down the modding route, then I suggest taking it back to the shop for a replacement.
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Does your three soft buttons blink randomly? If so go to the service centre asap.
My cell overheated and burnt out.
It would not charge nor start. My cell to sometimes restarted itself automatically.
Do you keep many apps open in the background?
I had mine replaced and now its all smooth :thumbup:
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it doesn't feel too hot, sometimes it's just cold and buttons don't blink. it simply show for a while "android system" (in italian) if i remember well and it shuts down normally with the htc logo. the strange thing is that thing with the battery and sim indicator. however i'll surely bring it back to the shop, i paid it 629 euros, i won't take it if it will shut down randomly. do they give you another one or i have to wait htc to repair it? :S i don't want to wait months.....

sorry for the double post, but now i'm sure that i will have to send it to htc so the question is another. Does someone have experience with htc reparations? how long will it take them to fix it and send it back to me?

My One X suffered from bad screen fitment out of the box (creaking, screen moving up and down inside the casing...) and I unlocked/rommed it before I noticed the flaws.
I relocked the bootloader, installed the 2.17 RUU, and sent the phone back to Germany (as it was bought in Ger and I live in Croatia) to get it repaired, they accepted it and repaired, it's on its way home now, should be here tomorrow, took 3 weeks to repair.
Positive experience for me.

cuzzo94 said:
sorry for the double post, but now i'm sure that i will have to send it to htc so the question is another. Does someone have experience with htc reparations? how long will it take them to fix it and send it back to me?
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Service is hit and miss from what I see on forums but I might also note that more people complain than praise.
I believe that with shipping and things its about 2 - 3 weeks in total for a repair.
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it's very much 3 weeks without my phone, but it's less then other brands... i really hope that one day they will use apples policy for this. it's the only thing that i like of it. if the phone isn't working you get another one immediately, then they can give yours to someone else, but it's not possible that i pay 630 euros and i have to send it to repair, wouldn't be the same for htc if they gave me another one, maybie a repaired one immediately? they can use mine later for some one else...

treebill said:
Means that your phone is overheating, the battery being at or above 48c.
If you don't want to go down the modding route, then I suggest taking it back to the shop for a replacement.
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Even I had the same problem but I ready for modding,
Can you tell me what should i need to do for getting out such problem?

today i used it with apex launcher and it didn't shut down, even after 30 minutes of gta3 and 30 of dead trigger and some browsing- facebook ecc... now i'll try a day with sense but my question is: is there any way to flash the original rom from 0 ? doesn't factory reset delete just user file? maybie something else is corrupted. Can i flash the stock 4.0.4 without unlocking bootloaders or soing anything that voids my warranty? I'd like to try before changing it... THANK YOU

and today too it never rebooted with sense.... i don't know what to do. when the update to jellybeans will be available, there will be a way to flash it from zero with a ruu witout unlocking anything or void the warranty?

ok i asked to htc for the nearest point to repair my HOX and saturday i'll keep it there. Now it's unusable, it keeps shutting down.
Look at this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18387650/2012-10-03_21-46-06.png

Camera purple/blue/red tint problem

Hello all,
This problem occurs when taking pictures when there is less light. From what I have read the only way to fix this is to send the phone to HTC for a hardware repair. However, I had bought this phone second-hand from someone online. How could I use the warranty now? Please advise.

stealth09 said:
Hello all,
This problem occurs when taking pictures when there is less light. From what I have read the only way to fix this is to send the phone to HTC for a hardware repair. However, I had bought this phone second-hand from someone online. How could I use the warranty now? Please advise.
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The phone should still be under warranty. Just get on a chat with HTC and get a repair ticket set up and you'll be good to go.
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brholt6 said:
The phone should still be under warranty. Just get on a chat with HTC and get a repair ticket set up and you'll be good to go.
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Thanks for your reply, but will they accept it if I am not the original buyer of the phone? I bought it second-hand from Gumtree.

stealth09 said:
Thanks for your reply, but will they accept it if I am not the original buyer of the phone? I bought it second-hand from Gumtree.
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They should since it would be within the one year. I don't think selling a phone breaks the warranty. If you get on a chat with them they'll ask you for your info and worst case scenario is they tell you no.
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Yes, I bought mine off of Craigslist. They didn't even ask me if I was the original owner. It is under warranty and they fixed my camera issue without any problems. Took almost exactly 2 weeks to get the phone back from the day I sent it.
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HTC repair sucks!

zetsumeikuro said:
HTC repair sucks!
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Go on...

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Go on...
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I'll leave it at that for now. I raged at their chat for about 30 minutes before I got offered 2 more options.

I had HTC repair my camera and not only did they expedite shipping (standard overnight) the camera looks great now when taking pics, The phone looks perfect just like I sent it in. Looks brand new. The actually changed the motherboard and put a new sticker with all the new info on it.
I called them, ask if they could do something more than standard ground and had a prepaid label in my email about an hour later. I brought the phone to fedex saturday morning, it shipped to htc by monday morning 9:30am and was showing in repair at 11am then an email around 5pm that it was done and setup for fedex pickup. Received it at 230pm today.
I think their service and repair was outstanding.

I've been waiting to send my M7 in for this camera issue but now that I've picked up the M8 I was thinking about just selling it as is. It's rooted unlocked with s off.

So I did some Googling in order to get an answer as to whether I can send my phone in for this fix without getting it back unrooted/S-On.
From what I've read it seems to be hit or miss.
Anyone reading this sent one in that was S-Off, only to have it come back stock/S-On?

omgyeti said:
So I did some Googling in order to get an answer as to whether I can send my phone in for this fix without getting it back unrooted/S-On.
From what I've read it seems to be hit or miss.
Anyone reading this sent one in that was S-Off, only to have it come back stock/S-On?
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If you send it S-OFF, technically you are breaking the warranty. And that would REALLY suck for you, cause you would be without a phone for about 2 weeks and it would come back in the same condition, AND you wouldn't be able to fix it anymore afterwards. So you kinda gave birth to 3 birds with one womb.
I S-ON'ed mine when I sent it in, and luckily since this was within a week or 2 of 4.4.2 coming out, they only flashed 4.2.2 (I think. This was like 8 months ago. Whichever version is currently rootable). I would suspect that now, your phone would come with 4.4.2 + Sense 6.0, which is not rootable.

I'm considering flashing a stock rom, then doing a faux h-boot that indicates s-on and removes the unlock/development red text from the startup image.
I just worry that they might have a flash stock rom/recovery step that they do regardless of what is on the phones that get which would lock me up with an unrooted phone once I got it back.

[Q] Camera with purple fringing - ok to send to HTC for repair with S-off/root?

Hi guys,
So my trusty M7 finally started exhibiting the infamous purple fringing camera defect after close to two years. I thought I got lucky and got one of the original good ones, oh well. I've been busy with school and unfortunately haven't had chance to keep up with the M7 xda developments since I did S-off and root with the original exploit. I've been running the stock verizon ROM - never updated (blocked OTA update) because I need foxFi and I thought the more recent updates (kitkat) killed or crippled tether/foxFi operation.
Two questions:
1. I'd like to have send my phone to HTC to repair the camera module. A friend who did the same last fall had his phone updated to kikat and the latest official ROM. However, his was completely stock when sent in (no s-off or root, stock recovery). Is it wise for me to send in the phone as is to HTC? If not, what steps should I take?
2. I'd like to keep my existing ROM for the sole purpose of keeping FoxFi/tethering fully operational and trouble-free. Am I being completely nonsensical - do the more recent Android builds (kitkat and beyond) from Verizon really kill FoxFi/tethering?
Ideally, I'd love to have the camera repaired and keep my S-off/root status. Is this possible with sending back to HTC?
I did a search on the topic but didn't find an exact answer. If I missed it, I apologize in advance. Trying to finish grad school, and unfortunately just don't have as much free time to keep up with all the cool stuff at XDA as I used to be

I don't have any answer for you, but would like to know myself. The purple tint is the only reason I'm considering getting rid of my M7 soon.

Return to stock and lock/s-on. HTC may give you a different device, they may change the board out. If you send it in stock with s-off, it may invalidate the warranty on a worst case. If they honor the warranty, they will run their ruu and turn s-on anyway,, so just save yourself the trouble and do it yourself to avoid invalidating the warranty.
Edit: when you get your phone back, you can s-off with Sunshine and then use the old ruu's to return your phone to the old stock Rom and firmware.
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My roommate sent his phone in for HTC to repair it. The CSR said for him to send it in and if they deem the camera issue is due to H/W malfunction they would repair it at no cost. He sent it in and it took over a month for him to get contact from HTC on whats going on with his device. He tried online chat, email, phone calls, and no one could give him an answer about whats going on. Another month goes by and he gets tired of waiting so he went onto his claim ticket and checked the box saying "just return my device". This is when he started to get emails, lots of emails, that they want him to pay $250 for the repair because it is out of warranty. I had him do another online chat with HTC and tell them, on htc twitter account they posted a tweet (that is no longer available) that the fix they had for the camera was software and that it WILL fix the purple hue issue. After about an hour or so the CSR wouldnt confirm HTC would fix the device so he requested for it to come back, as is and he would get just go insurance route. Another month passes and a box showed up from htc. It was his phone, or we thought it was. He hurried up and activated it and proceed to see if they fixed the issue. Once logging the IMIE into sprint site, it came back saying the phone was a Black HTC One m7 (the device is grey). Not a big deal, and we didnt think anything of it and tried out the camera. Camera worked great, and still does but now he is seeing the screen lifting off as if they forgot to glue it back down. you can almost separate the screen from the body with a finger nail or guitar pic. HTC wont offer to repair it because in the system it shows he declined the repair and wanted the device back. (they had to do something to the device because the IMIE is for a black phone not a grey one)
now i have the purple hue issue on my phone. I dont have a back up to let them have for 3 months as they figure out what parts they can pull to put into it. so i wont be dealing with their repair center. to much hassle to maybe get the phone fixed.

@synisterwolf
I find it VERY hard to believe in your story. (Trying my best not to sound negative... lol) Because I was one of the first people people to get the M7 and I got the Purple Hue as well. From the day I sent me phone, to the time it came back repaired at my doorstep... it was about 10 days. Including shipping. My HTC rep online was so helpful and helped me send it in with ease.

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@synisterwolf
I find it VERY hard to believe in your story. (Trying my best not to sound negative... lol) Because I was one of the first people people to get the M7 and I got the Purple Hue as well. From the day I sent me phone, to the time it came back repaired at my doorstep... it was about 10 days. Including shipping. My HTC rep online was so helpful and helped me send it in with ease.
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When did you send it in? Everyone has different experiences. If you read up in the international One section, you would see his story isn't too far fetched. If you used an unlock token or sent it in s-off and/or unlocked, they can in fact deny warranty claim and try to charge you for a new motherboard. (That is where the $250 charge would come from).
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Uzephi said:
When did you send it in? Everyone has different experiences. If you read up in the international One section, you would see his story isn't too far fetched. If you used an unlock token or sent it in s-off and/or unlocked, they can in fact deny warranty claim and try to charge you for a new motherboard. (That is where the $250 charge would come from).
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I did S-On when I sent it in, I'm sure that made my process a lot smoother. This was about exactly a year ago. My purple issue wasn't horrible at first, but it progressively became worse so after like 6 months of suffering I sent it in.

im_high_tech said:
I did S-On when I sent it in, I'm sure that made my process a lot smoother. This was about exactly a year ago. My purple issue wasn't horrible at first, but it progressively became worse so after like 6 months of suffering I sent it in.
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Well,, if you sent in shortly after the m7 was realised, HTC said up and down it was software for quite awhile. You must have sent it in after they admitted it was hardware.
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im_high_tech said:
I did S-On when I sent it in, I'm sure that made my process a lot smoother. This was about exactly a year ago. My purple issue wasn't horrible at first, but it progressively became worse so after like 6 months of suffering I sent it in.
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it was easy because it was in warranty. Mine and my roommates are both out of warranty. Even though HTC did say they would fix because they acknowledged it was in fact hardware related. I was like pulling teeth to get it done. I understand they will be fast for warrantys but the could care less if you are out of the 1 year range.
My roommates phone was never S-off or dev unlocked. he still has it 100% stock (which is weird to me) and HTC still did what they did. I guess you need to catch the right CSR on the right day or you could end up like he did. I'm not trying to persuade you not to do so. i just wanted to share the experience he had. When i couldnt get HTC to tell me they would without a doubt fix mine for free i gave up. I do have bestbuys insurance and i get a NEW device if i pay the 150 delectable. So i might wait till the last month i have on contract and pay the delectable and get the new device.

Appreciate the feedback. I haven't contacted HTC yet. My phone is obviously out of warranty (got it aug 2013 I think), though I was banking on HTC taking care of the repair for free since it was a hardware defect. I don't have access to a backup phone, and at this point, I am starting to think it's not worth the trouble to send it in :-/
This is a bummer... I really like the M7.

dashbored said:
Appreciate the feedback. I haven't contacted HTC yet. My phone is obviously out of warranty (got it aug 2013 I think), though I was banking on HTC taking care of the repair for free since it was a hardware defect. I don't have access to a backup phone, and at this point, I am starting to think it's not worth the trouble to send it in :-/
This is a bummer... I really like the M7.
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its worth a shot if the devices isnt your main device. wait till you upgrade then contact HTC and have them fix it. i wish i could remember where i saw that they accepted it as a H/W problem so i have proof but i cant. only the part where they said S/W would fix it. :/

synisterwolf said:
its worth a shot if the devices isnt your main device. wait till you upgrade then contact HTC and have them fix it. i wish i could remember where i saw that they accepted it as a H/W problem so i have proof but i cant. only the part where they said S/W would fix it. :/
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I said it. It is in the device F.A.Q. I will look up the support call as all calls are recorded for legal purposes. I will edit this when I get home and look up my ticket number for you.
Edit: sent PMs to you both with the support numbers as these shouldn't be shared publicly.
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synisterwolf and uzephi thanks guys for the input! Got the PM uzephi. I'll definitely give this a shot whenever I do upgrade, although that might not be until August or September. The M7 is still pretty sweet even now, despite the camera issue. Honestly, if I could put in a new battery, I can see myself using the M7 as my main device for at least another year if not more.
Going on a tangent here, but it looks like I may have to with the mixed reviews of the M9 so far. I am guessing Qualcomm really messed up with 810 this time around...