Hi everybody,
Is anybody else having the issue that the screen starts blinking (turning off and on) when you turned the screen off and later back on again?
At the moment I can use my phone only right after rebooting, after that the screen will keep going on and off till I reboot.
I have experienced this a couple times so far. The screen just keeps waking up a few seconds after it turns off (either from timeout or manually turning it off) and it loops until I reboot.
Interestingly it also happened on my 6P once. It might be an Android 7 issue or a rogue app? I think it happened to my 6P before I got the 7.1 beta OTA.
Kicking this one up cause I get the feeling I bought a broken phone.
I also checked and when I do a factory reset the screen flashing also happens during the setup wizard.
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Recently my Captivate glide has been having many issues. Originally it started when my phone would just randomly turn off for no reason, I attributed this to overheating and figured maybe it was a normal thing. Eventually it got to the point where the battery would hold no charge and I could not power on the phone. I replaced the battery after noticing that it was swollen and this seemingly fixed the issue. Though after a week or so I noticed there were still a few problems with it in regards to it going off randomly and coming back on but nothing major. Last week though I was at the gym and it dropped from my pocket I picked it up, put it back on but a few seconds later it turned off again. I just figured it needed to charge. I tried later to turn it back on that's when I noticed that the phone would keep randomly going on and off constantly and the lock button no longer worked when it was on so the only way to unlock it was to slide it out. I figured it was just a matter of replacing the button but it got worst and now the phone wont stay on, It comes on for a second, boots up then turns off, the battery has 0% at all times and even if it's on the charger and shows the charging icon, it won't stay on. For the few minutes that it is on for, the lock function spasms and the phone keeps locking and unlocking itself, eventually showing the lock button menu then finally going off and coming back on. I gave the phone to my friend to check out as he fixes a lot of phone, he took it apart but there was no damage to the button or anything holding it down that would cause the problem, he used a tester to test it and found that it was working fine. He thinks it might just be a software issue and suggested I reinstall the OS. Does anyone have any insight as to what might be the problem and a solution?
TL;DR Lock button on phone acts as if it's constantly being pressed and won't remain on for longer than a few minutes and even when it is on, just keeps locking and unlocking itself before shutting off.
Hi!
I brought my Xperia Play phone USED two years ago and I've never had any problems with it.
However, recently, the phone has started to freeze itself in "screensaver" mode (Where the screen goes black after 15 seconds and locks the phone), but the screen won't light up no matter which button I press. I've had to restart the phone every time this happens.
It's been behaving strange at start up as well, as it sometimes take 20 minutes just for it to turn on, while on other occasions, it won't turn on at all!
Is this problem caused by the battery, or is it the hardware?
Is it with stock firmware?
Vortelf said:
Is it with stock firmware?
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Yes.
I've never modded it or installed custom firmware/apps.
Have you tried factory resetting it?
Vortelf said:
Have you tried factory resetting it?
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Yes, but it didn't fix it. The problem still occurs.
tldr: Black screen, no display, everything works "under" (I can answer the phone etc). Not a flex cable problem because occurs randomly, regardless of the slider being open or closed. The problem also occurs during boot up, so rather not a software problem.
I think I have something similiar. Everything was fine until a few days ago the screen didn't want to unlock..or at least I thought it was that.
Basically the phone sometimes works OK but sometimes if I turn off (lock) the screen, it won't go back. To be precise, the phone works and if someone calls me I can pick it up moving the finger where the slider should be, it's just the display doesn't turn on. Same goes for booting, bootloader logo etc, so IMO it's not a software problem.
Strange thing is that it just randomly pops back, sometimes when I move the gamepad slider, sometimes when I put in a jack cable or if I hard reset the phone (remove battery). I've had problems with the flex cable in the past and this time I know that it's not it (no difference if I open/close the slider).
My guess would be some power supply or LCD driver IC issues, because the screen stops working almost everytime if I put the phone into the dock. Moreover, if the screen doesn't work, the orange charging LED is not working (green and blue are OK). The moment the screen starts working, the orange charging LED starts working too.
it's very strange but I'm used to electronics doing strange stuff. Just wondering if I should give a try disassembling the phone and trying to fix it or just buy a new one or something?
I might add that I have bought a new battery ~3 months ago, but it's been working fine to this point. I have tried if the same problem occurs with the old/original battery and it's the same.
well, any ideas?
edit: This video shows something very similiar (except the backlight): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4p0-kv1cxA
Same problem. And I guess this guy has it too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-play/help/problem-flex-cable-brightness-t2803991
Any help?
Is anybody have the same problem? Screen on my 5X sometimes goes black, its still working but its completly black. It is happening when Im using apps like snapchat, facebook, or sometimes i don't even need to do anything, it just go randomly black and after couple pushes of power button or even several restarts of phone screen back to normal. I tried factory reset but it doesn't work.
You should return it for warranty replacement (if you have not installed any custom ROM or modification...)
It happened to my wife's 5x, the replacement phone is just fine
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Is anybody have the same problem? Screen on my 5X sometimes goes black, its still working but its completly black. It is happening when Im using apps like snapchat, facebook, or sometimes i don't even need to do anything, it just go randomly black and after couple pushes of power button or even several restarts of phone screen back to normal. I tried factory reset but it doesn't work.
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Are you rooted? This happened to me yesterday twice. I'm on MDB08L, rooted with classic method and xposed installed with gravitybox....
Also, I was low on battery, around 15%
I've had it happen a couple of times too. Seems totally random, doesn't appear to be linked to any particular app, process, or battery state in my case.
I have installed Chroma rom this morning. No black screen since then... I'll update tomorrow.
UPDATE: Second day with chroma, no black screen so far.
Update 2: still no black screen...
I sideloaded the July patch 2 days ago and now out of the blue, my screen has decided to start flickering if I manually press the power button to lock the phone. I turned on AOD when the June patch came out because of the horrible lag that was introduced but now I've gotten used to the AOD and don't really want to turn it off now. When I tested it by turning off the AOD, the flicker doesn't occur. Did Google just revert back to pre-June patch with that setting? I thought they said they found a solution that both takes care of the lag and the flicker? Furthermore, why was it working fine for 2 days and now just randomly decided to start flickering?? I have also noticed that I am getting a little higher battery drain. It may be time for a wipe to see if that clears these items up but other feedback and experiences are appreciated to determine if I'm the only one or if it's wide spread.
Side note: I turned off AOD and then forced a restart by holding the power button for 10-12 seconds. Once the phone came back on, I turned AOD back on and it hasn't had the issue but for how long will this last, I don't know.
Well that lasted about 30 minutes and the flicker came back. I may try a wipe soon to see what happens but I'd hate to do it for nothing.
I've experienced this multiple times, doesn't matter what update I was on, but it went away after some time. Haven't experienced it in some time.
Never knew what the cause was or what the fix was either. p:
This used to be a major issue and it disappeared for most with the first beta. Weird that you're suddenly experiencing it. Google were/are aware.
It seems to be coming and going with AOD on. I haven't done a wipe yet but if it keeps coming back over the next day or 2, I will.
Hello, I have an a5y17lte with latest official LineageOS 18.1 build which yesterday started exhibiting an issue with the screen where when waking it up the screen stays black. I was able to fix it by force powering it off, but soon it happened a couple more times, one time the screen not turning on after the 1st force reboot and thus requiring multiple force power offs to start working again. Later on during that day there were no issues with the screen, but since this morning this happens constantly and regularly and it always takes more than one force reboot to fix it. I have tried reflashing the system image, which worked for a bit before it started doing the same thing once again. Does anyone have a clue what could possibly be causing this?