I have a new Sammy GS3 from Tmo US. My brother had the upgrade, but my original phone broke, so he let me have his contract upgrade, and I picked up the GS3. Long story short, I got a small crack in the screen when I dropped it, but the LCD is shot underneath. We ordered the insurance, but it is under my brother's LINE, not under the PHONE itsself. So I need him to be able to access data for a couple days, but we cant do anything to the phone whatsoever.
I guess my question is, ideally is there an emulator that I can use on the desktop over USB cable? or (more realistically I suppose) even just anyway possible to control it remotely, without using the lcd? make a download here, attempt a call there?
Thanks in advance!!!
I dropped my phone from pretty high up onto pavement Friday and it totally obliterated the glass and digitizer. The phone still boots, and the screen still turns on, complete with computer syncing and audio but it's just a mess of lines. I looked up replacements and services but they're all half of what I paid for it (bought from Craigslist), and I don't think it's worth it. I want to sell it for parts but I want to factory reset it first- seeing as how the touch screen is useless I need another way of resetting it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can try to download the Stock ROM up here and then flash it.
Hello everybody, this is my first post here, and I hope that I'm not posting in wrong place, if I did that, I am sorry. Now, as the title says, i have problem with the digitizer on my WT19i, the thing is that I cracked my original digitizer, but it was still working great, even broken as hell , than I went to a local mobile shop, where I've been told that the replacement brand new digitizer will cost arround 40 bucks, and arround 50 with their installation and it will be truly genuine part, but after I saw how they were repairing mobile phones with parts flying all over the shop, I decided to replace the digitizer by myself, i mean how hard could it be right? Turned to be a little complicated, but nothing special at all, so I replaced it with new double sided glue tape (don't know for the real name for it), and I assembled the phone like it should be, and I was maximum careful during the process (took me about 5 hours ), but when I turned it on, I noticed that the digitizer was not very precise, and sometimes was stuck in non-workable state, the hard keys work all the time, but the digitizer doesn't, it seems like it has mind of it's own, he decides when to work and how, so I opened the device again, reinstalled everything, cleaned ports with alcohol, and reassembled it very careful again, but still the same issue. Then i tried everything to eliminate software mistakes, but when I opened flashtool, and connected the device, it said "your device is not recognized", so I dissasembled the device, and put the old digitizer in, turned the device on, and imagine, the digitizer was working even it is with missing pieces from it, and Flashtool then recognized the device, installed busybox to the device ( I am sure that I had busybox before, and the device was working great ), but nevermind, I put back the new digitizer, and has been recognized in Flashtool, so I relocked bootloader and installed GB factory rom, v58, so the device is in the factory state right now, but guess what, the same problem is still here, tried hard reset, and many other stuff, but no luck. I tried to go to the shop and they told me that I didn't mounted it properly , I guess it's because I didn't pay to them to mount it, however, they won't replace the part and no money back .. I don't know exactly how to see is the digitizer genuine/faulty, or is some other hardware or software fault, but I've noticed that on the original digitizer it has some barely visible horizontal and vertical lines, and on the new digitizer the same lines are diagonally placed, and I can tell that the new part looks kinda cheap and low quality. So if someone has some kind of a solution, I will be greatly thankful to him. Please help me, because I become desperate about this, spended my money and now I am still in the same mess. sry for the bad english, it's not my native language, and sry for the long and exhausting post.
I guess you won't have luck
Just a short summary:
-Your digitizer was bricked
-You bought a new one for 40 bucks (instead of 50 including replacing in the shop)
-You opened the device and replaced it
-It was not working properly
-You put on the old one and it worked
-You went to the shop and told them it's not working, but they are angry because you tried to do it by yourself and so they didn't want to replace the new digitizer
-The new digitizer looks cheap and you can't get back the money...
Did I get that right?
Hmmm.....when buying original digitizer, make sure there come with tools included in the packages....if your digitizer only then make sure its not from china.....
it's not hard to spot original digitizer and cheap digitizer...original digitizer comes with warranty and the cheap one can be spot by looking at the ribbons....also original digitizer fits perfectly on any LWW while the cheap one will have a small gaps from the cover....
as for you problem, you should ask the shop if the digitizer comes with tools and if there a warranty for it...if it doesn't then you should just lets the shop replace the digitizer cause if somehow any problem came out then you can blame them
mihahn said:
I guess you won't have luck
Just a short summary:
-Your digitizer was bricked
-You bought a new one for 40 bucks (instead of 50 including replacing in the shop)
-You opened the device and replaced it
-It was not working properly
-You put on the old one and it worked
-You went to the shop and told them it's not working, but they are angry because you tried to do it by yourself and so they didn't want to replace the new digitizer
-The new digitizer looks cheap and you can't get back the money...
Did I get that right?
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Yep, you got it.. is there any solution available for it or should I bent my tail and go buy new one from another mobile shop?
I finally solved the problem. I went to the authorized service, and they said that my digitizer is just fine, charged me 10 bucks, BUT, i was kinda suspicios about the repair, because they told me that the software was reinstalled and the problem was solved, which was ridicilous, because I personally changed and tried every possible software and kernels that I could find, so I tested the device right in front of them, holding other customers behind me waiting until I check it , turned out that the same problem is still present, I was pissed off, they were stunned that I found them lying to me, they took the phone back, changed the digitizer, charged me plus 30 bucks, and here I am, with finally fully working device. I just can't believe that Sony is allowing this to happen, I am totally disapointed in their customer care, and I just wanted everyone who has the same problem, broken digitizer etc. the original digitizer comes with the whole front cover, not only the glass, but the whole thing. I hope this post can help someone to not go through my pain and costs.
Ok, so here's the deal:
My nephew has an HTC Evo 4g LTE and just out of the blue gave him a 'system error', powered down, and would not restart. After talking directly with HTC and a local repair shop, we determined that it had a bad motherboard.
I then purchased a used phone off of Ebay as a donor for the motherboard (the original phone is in pristine condition, and I wanted to keep it that way). The donor phone has a shattered glass, but is fully functional. Please keep in mind that both of these are stock, never rooted or unlocked, and were never opened up before (black sticker was still in place over motherboard cover screw on both units).
Today I did the transplant. I have what I believe to be above average technical and mechanical skills. The process of disassembling and reassembling the phones was done very cautiously and meticulously.
Here's where the problem comes in. Upon rebooting the original phone with the transplant motherboard, the touch no longer works. I removed and replaced the motherboard 3 more times, each time making sure everything was properly plugged in and locked down, but I still have the same results. I did do a factory reset and a recovery through the bootloader menu.
I figured that someone here must know what is going on. The original phone worked perfectly before the 'system error', and again, the donor phone worked perfectly minus the shattered screen. Does anyone have some insight on what might be the problem? I would hate to have to purchase a new phone unless absolutely necessary. Like I said earlier, this is my nephew's phone, and he does not currently have a job, so any fix would require me to pay for it...
I'm not going to try to go into much detail on a subject that I don't know about, but you might want to look into troubleshooting and researching to see if your digitizer has been ruined in your transplant. From what I understand, it is a pretty common occurrence in some users' DIY endeavors.
My touchscreen is cracked, digitizer no longer working. I can't use the touchscreen anymore except for the very bottom. Decided to flash phone back to stock to remove any flag that the phone is rooted in case I would need to claim insurance on it. Device isn't showing up in ADB or fastboot on my computer, though my cable is a bit shoddy. Any way to get past this and at least to the "Welcome" screen? I would say that sending a touch event via ADB would be my first guess, but there's no ADB or even fastboot function, even in recovery mode. Any ideas?
I would replace your shady cable. Then try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57954105&postcount=10
So are you trying to get into the OS? Just replace your cable maybe that will help you get in but just to let you know on the MINI OS page you have to hold the power button then make your selection (had to learn the hard way). Here is a tool that may help if it is configured correctly then you can control the whole phone via adb. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395 they have everything you need in the zip just to let you know if you have linux it is a little hard to set up.
I had the exact same issue a few days ago as posted in this thread and the simple answer is your G3 is now as "dead" as mine is - without a working digitizer to allow you to press that OK button, you're not going to get any further. It won't work with any ADB tools because that Mini OS thing isn't Android-based from what I can tell and doesn't utilize those particular methods of device communication over USB. Mouse won't work either because that requires the Android drivers obviously.
My G3 did work with the mouse just fine but my bad decision was not just leaving it alone in that working state and deciding to roll back to the stock ZV4 firmware - that wasn't what caused me problems, however: what caused me problems was that damned Mini OS mode and me not being able to press the OK button which was just inside the dead area of the screen, sadly.
I'll be ordering a replacement display assembly for mine later today if I can track one down on eBay that's an actual OEM part which seems to be a very difficult thing these days.
BUYER BEWARE:
If you're looking to get a replacement display assembly for your G3 like I am, be aware that many sellers on eBay are selling screen assemblies that are sub-standard crap, they don't have the LG logo on them, and they even come with resolutions as low as 960x540 which is obviously not a true factory replacement part considering out G3 resolution is 2560x1440 - I mean I'd be perfectly happy with a replacement display at 1920x1080, but 960x540 on a 5.5" LCD? Ugh...
Just be careful, ask questions if needed of the seller and if they don't respond in a timely manner (or at all as almost 10 of them haven't for me) then don't spend a dime until you do find someone that will confirm and verify it's the right part for replacement.
I still haven't found a seller I trust yet of the few that have responded to me, for the record. I may end up just holding onto this G3 until I do get the right part at a later time - I really want to get it repaired but I'm not going to waste money on some lame ass seller that tries to rip me (and others) off, it's just not going to happen.
If you call sprint or do the online chat they will send you a replacement device. Here is the link to contact sprint (if you want to):http://www.sprint.com/landings/chat/
Just to let you know the online chqt button comes and goes so you may want to call.
br0adband said:
I had the exact same issue a few days ago as posted in this thread and the simple answer is your G3 is now as "dead" as mine is - without a working digitizer to allow you to press that OK button, you're not going to get any further. It won't work with any ADB tools because that Mini OS thing isn't Android-based from what I can tell and doesn't utilize those particular methods of device communication over USB. Mouse won't work either because that requires the Android drivers obviously.
My G3 did work with the mouse just fine but my bad decision was not just leaving it alone in that working state and deciding to roll back to the stock ZV4 firmware - that wasn't what caused me problems, however: what caused me problems was that damned Mini OS mode and me not being able to press the OK button which was just inside the dead area of the screen, sadly.
I'll be ordering a replacement display assembly for mine later today if I can track one down on eBay that's an actual OEM part which seems to be a very difficult thing these days.
BUYER BEWARE:
If you're looking to get a replacement display assembly for your G3 like I am, be aware that many sellers on eBay are selling screen assemblies that are sub-standard crap, they don't have the LG logo on them, and they even come with resolutions as low as 960x540 which is obviously not a true factory replacement part considering out G3 resolution is 2560x1440 - I mean I'd be perfectly happy with a replacement display at 1920x1080, but 960x540 on a 5.5" LCD? Ugh...
Just be careful, ask questions if needed of the seller and if they don't respond in a timely manner (or at all as almost 10 of them haven't for me) then don't spend a dime until you do find someone that will confirm and verify it's the right part for replacement.
I still haven't found a seller I trust yet of the few that have responded to me, for the record. I may end up just holding onto this G3 until I do get the right part at a later time - I really want to get it repaired but I'm not going to waste money on some lame ass seller that tries to rip me (and others) off, it's just not going to happen.
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Yeah, I'm sitting on an LG G3 with a replacement screen that clearly isn't oem.. The touch screen worked ok in the regular OS, but it didn't work in TWRP so I decided to return to stock.. I can't press the OK button in the Auto Touch Test screen so I can't finish returning it to stock.. If you ever ended up buying a replacement screen that was worthwhile, I'd be interested in knowing what store you got it from.
This was what I ordered:
https://flashtechllc.com/lg-g3/21891-lg-g3-lcd-touch-screen-digitizer-assembly-gray-.html
Worked fine once received, and the price is significantly lower now - I paid over $90 for mine at the time. I did sell the G3 a few days after replacing the screen but that was the whole point I suppose: I put about $150 total into it and sold it for $225 so, ~50% profit ain't so bad.