[Q] Screen Dead Zone - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
Few days ago I noticed that when I wanted to accept or cancelled some pop-ups, or when I was writting I had no more the accuracy I used to.
First I thought it should be an ICS issue, but then I realized that this lack of accuracy was only on a specific zone of the screen, so I decided to activate one of the Developer options, the Pointer location one, to asure it was a concrete zone and this is what I found out:
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As you can see, there's a zone where you can drag(sometimes) but, as it is shown in the last picture, instead of one single touch it makes to right out of the zone.
I have to say that the mobile hasn't suffered any falls nor hits.
So I'd like to know if anyone else has suffered this problem or if someone has any possible solution.
If not, I'm afraid I'll have to send it to repair so I take advantage of the thread to ask if someone knows if I'll have trouble to send it because I bought it to a swiss guy(which sent me the bill too) and I'm from Spain...
Any help is grateful,
greetings!
P.S: The last thing I flashed or installed was days before this started to happen

Bringing it up...

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O2 XDA Screen appears jagged and mirrored!

Hi all...
I have an O2 XDA that I hadn't used in several months (I was waiting for my Serial Cable to show up - don't ask why it took several months to show up). When I placed it on the cradle again, the unit came on and the screen was mirrored and jagged . Please see the image to understand what I mean...
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Any ideas as to what is wrong and how I can fix it?
Thanks,
--IM
I suggest you already tried soft and hard reset?!
Chris
I sure did... But to no avail.
I contacted O2 and thankfully it is still on warranty and they will take a look at it...
Any way to re-lock the O2?
Thanks,
--IM
This was a common hardware problem on the first generation iPAQs (36xx series), which were also manufactured by HTC (the company that makes the XDA hardware). It happened to my iPAQ 3650, and the only fix was to send it back to Compaq to be repaired. IIRC, it's just a loose connector, or something, inside. Hopefully, O2 will take care of it for you.
JoshB
I had this effect on my XDA recently, but it was much worse than shown in that pic. Sent it back to o2 and it needed a new screen.
Paul

XDA-developer day-job mystery unveiled: CryptoPhone

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You may have heard some of us talk about our mysterious day-jobs. Now is the time for us to tell what we've been working on. We've been creating an encrypted telephone, in software, on the XDA.
The following links tell more:
http://www.cryptophone.de
http://news.com.com/2100-1029-5109327.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=cryptophone
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That's impressive.
Good work ... do not have such a requirement for now but it's good to be out there.
And since "our" developers are in front line ... it's even better.
Decebal
This CryptoPhone reminded me about a question I 4got to ask...
When ever i make a call, for about the first 5 seconds (sumtimes longer or shorter)... I can hear other ppls conversations....so i was wondering, is there any software to make the device into sum sort of scanner? 8)
I dont think I will be ordering one as the price seems to be aimed at industrialist multi millionaires and the like. I do admire the fact that the spooks have no access but I dont know how long that will last as I am sure that as we speak some beaurocrat is wording the legislation to outlaw it on the basis that it threatens security or some such nonsense.

[Q] Did Your Google Navigation Screen Change With The Last Update

On a recent trip I decided to use Google Navigation on my WI-FI tablet while tethered to my phone, in doing so I noticed that the screen looked odd as in the screen shot below:
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I also ran into a problem were it began to not only give direction it was also reading out load the html behind the route.
Today I decided to undo the update that was applied and the screen once again looks like the original:
Has anyone ran into this issue and does your screen look like any of these two?
i guess no one is having this problem ...
Mine looks weird too.
I have never the app used though. wifi-only.
yeah i got that too...i updated my tab apps few hours before....its kinda weird....someone give a good solution
I'm wifi also but I tether to my phone when I go out and don't have access to Wi-Fi. The only way I've figured to fix it is to remove the update, everything works after that. Beware if you install it.
Issue Solved
Looks like the update to 3.2 corrected this issue. The screen now looks polished and functional.

[Q] paranormal Activity im my Ray :\ :\

hello everyone,
it looks like i'm facing real problem here
it started when that mobile fell on the ground it had some cracks on the screen and then when i turned the power on again it appeared....
when i leave the mobile and the screen go black for about 10 minutes (standby mode ) the whole mobile powers off and i have to remove the battery and put it on again to power it on but if i left the mobile screen goes black with a music on then it doesn't do that it works normally
that problem disappeared for 5 months after that came back again few days ago and do the same
so anyone have any idea what is that !!?
Try Reflashing software ...
or probably get it repaired by qualified personnel since there appears to be loose contact ...
ofcourse if your phone has the problem as you suggested in title then it's better off contacting these guys ...they are allegedly pro at such stuff
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sorry... couldn't resist the reference ...
That is a hardware problem. You have no choice but to get it repaired. The symptoms clearly state that this has nothing to do with software. I am sorry.
thanks guys for helping i tried to reflash it but nothing happened so it's a hardware problem
guess i'm gonna repair it anyway
thanks alot for concerning

[Q] Both cameras on my phone taking photos in greyscale

Hello,
So last night I went out with some friends, had a few (read: like 20) drinks and don't really remember much (read: anything). I'm not sure what happened to my phone but when I try and use either camera now everything is totally grey. There's zero physical damage to my phone (that I can see). Both cameras seem totally fine from inspection of the device. So I'm thinking this must be some kind of software issue? It would seem strange that both cameras would break at once.
Front camera:
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back camera:
One other thing is there are 3 pictures on the phone from last night, two of them totally back and the third grey (looks exactly like when I take a picture now of total blackness). So I can deduce the problem started between 12:50am and 12:51am lol.
Anyone ever had this happen before? I haven't found anything on google. Anyone know of anyway to fix or troubleshoot it? I should also mention I'm on CyanFox 2.0.2-20140216-NIGHTLY (I haven't updated in a while whoops).
Thanks

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