I have a tiny little cluster of what look like pinholes on my screen. Hard to describe, but they are virtually invisible but you can see them with the screen off when in the right light.
Now, although this doesn't bother me, and I'm not worried about getting it replaced but this is supposedly a virtually indestructible screen.
To my point, if I decided to get it replaced, what is the warranty? Is it 1 year from purchase (it was a Three upgrade). Do I need to unroot just for screen replacement?
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I had my screen replaced this week because light vertical line appeared on it.
As long as you in the EU, phone should be covered by two years warranty.
No idea if root will matter in your case, mine was not rooted and had official ROM on it.
Be careful though that SGSII screens roughly since end of 2011 are significantly inferior - they are darker and lack the optical anti-reflective coating. So if you bought your phone before of that you may want to reconsider.
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Hey,
I have an ATT tilt 2, running an Energy rom. It worked great till 3 days ago, when I noticed a "light" spot on the screen (about 50mm in diameter) , like something had scratched some film away.
I disregarded it as just that, a scratch, but the next day the screen was completely unresponsive. If I press on the spot, it "fills" with a darker color, I am guessing this is the digitizer pressing into the LCD screen, the screen then becomes responsive for a few seconds (Just long enough for me to reset my alarms!), but not always.
I have ready through these forums and online, and it sounds like I damaged something, digitizer or LCD, but I am not sure which I need to replace.
Also, I have read that replacing just one or the other can be problematic as they need to be aligned just so and with no particles in between, but I cannot find any Digitizer+LCD assemblies online for Tilt2...
So I guess what I am looking for is:
Based on above, do I need just Digitizer or LCD or Both?
Can you point me in the direction of a good vendor? The ones I have found are either selling just tmobile or generic replacements (which if I understand are incompatible with the att version cause of camera placement?) or are very unclear which version they are selling and do not clarify it in emails...
Thanks XDA Forums, keep up the good work!
gryswynd said:
Hey,
I have an ATT tilt 2, running an Energy rom. It worked great till 3 days ago, when I noticed a "light" spot on the screen (about 50mm in diameter) , like something had scratched some film away.
I disregarded it as just that, a scratch, but the next day the screen was completely unresponsive. If I press on the spot, it "fills" with a darker color, I am guessing this is the digitizer pressing into the LCD screen, the screen then becomes responsive for a few seconds (Just long enough for me to reset my alarms!), but not always.
I have ready through these forums and online, and it sounds like I damaged something, digitizer or LCD, but I am not sure which I need to replace.
Also, I have read that replacing just one or the other can be problematic as they need to be aligned just so and with no particles in between, but I cannot find any Digitizer+LCD assemblies online for Tilt2...
So I guess what I am looking for is:
Based on above, do I need just Digitizer or LCD or Both?
Can you point me in the direction of a good vendor? The ones I have found are either selling just tmobile or generic replacements (which if I understand are incompatible with the att version cause of camera placement?) or are very unclear which version they are selling and do not clarify it in emails...
Thanks XDA Forums, keep up the good work!
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Do You Have A Screen Protector On Your Phone?
@ Doo Doo
Nope, deluded myself into thinking I was careful enough to not need one... that mistake won't happen again ><
gryswynd said:
@ Doo Doo
Nope, deluded myself into thinking I was careful enough to not need one... that mistake won't happen again ><
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If it's under warranty, do an exchange. That would be the easiest/cheapest option. HTC provides a 15 month warranty normally. Going through your carrier would be a better option, however, as they usually just swap out the headset. If you have no warranty, then just search eBay or Google for the digitizer and LCD. They normally come together. Based on your description of the problem, you'll need both anyhow. Some come with instructions, and some don't. YouTube has a few videos detailing the replacement, though.
I have had a very similar problem on two Tilt 2s now. Looks like the glue leaks out of the side of the plastic over the lcd. Both phones did this on the right side of the screen.
Just in case anyone turns this up in a search like I did and can't swap the phone thru their carrier....
Global Parts Direct sells the ATT versions of these, though the LCD was out of stock at the time of this posting. (I'm too much a newb to post a direct link.)
I just had the same thing happen to me and I was able to swap the phone out with AT&T.
Oddly enough, the bubble wasn't there when I called AT&T but showed up the next day. My screen was unresponsive, called, went through a ton of questions but I had gone through this before with a couple of Fuze phones.
One thing I noticed before this happened which appears to be symptomatic before the phone becomes unresponsive is a large rectangle appears on the phone's LCD. It doesn't obstruct the viewing or anything I have just noticed that it has been on all my phones that have had trouble with the LCD/digitizer.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Hello! For about 2 month the display of my HD2 randomly stoped responding to my inputs, but came back to normal operations after a while. At last (last week) it seemed to be out out function completly. After one and a half day not beeing able to use the phone ( I did a hard reset, switched it off for over an hour ), i send it back to my dealer. Today i got a letter in which they tell me the display is supposed to be broken, as consequence of incorrect handling. They want me to pay over 200 Euros for the repair. Additionally the send me an internet link where i can see a picture of a little crack in the buttom left corner of the display (not the glass).
First thing is, that (as i think) if this had been there before the display would have been fully unuseable, whithout resuming normal operations. Is this right?
Second I wonder how that can happen? Wouldn't the glass break to if some outer force breaks the display?
And last but not least. Can this crack have been there before invisible and gotten bigger during transport or so?
I dont want to imply it is theire fault, but I feel a bit deceived.
I hope my english isn't as bad, as I suspect...
Mine is currently in on warranty repair for what sounds like the same fault. It seems to be common with the HD2, I've seen several other posts from users with the same problem.
Worth pointing out to them you know its a common problem and that the minor casing damage is unrelated (and possibly occurred during shipping).
i had a break in the glass and the touchscreen was functional... till i crushed it even more in my pocket...
After a lot of searching, I have narrowed down to Optimus One as my first Android buy. The only thing that bothers me is the dust under the screen problem. Since I live in Delhi, India, which is a generally dusty place, it scares me even more.
Is it a safe buy despite this? Has the problem been rectified by LG?
Well my house is extremely dusty and this is why my laptop is hardly working anymore because it's so full of dust... there's nothing I can do about it, because this is how this city is. But my LG hasn't had any dust under the screen, only on top.
I don't have any dust under screen of my phone too..
I bought my 01 two weeks ago and it already has dust under the screen, so I do not think this problem has been rectified.
been using the phone for about a month, and no problems here
no problem for me too. been using for 3 months, and always carry in my pocket, which is rather dusty.
Bought mine in the first week of january. Its got loads of dust under the screen. The manufacture date is of november 2010 and firmware is 2.2
I think the newer model which has a revised hardware ( with the sd card slot on the left hand side of the phone) does not have this problem. The older model has the sd card hidden under the back cover and the back cover has to be removed to insert our remove the card.
You can also recognize the new model with its cover box. It is white in color and bigger than the older box which is small and black in color.
In simple terms check the manufacture date. Also buy a phone without insurance or hw related problem (dust under the screen) will not dealt by the lg service center
I think it just effects certain batches as I have the one with sd slot under the cover, and have no dust at all after 3 months.
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Try looking at the screen in broad daylight under the sun with the screen turned off.
I used to think the same until I looked at the screen in the outdoors.
The dust goes in though the physical keys.
Home, menu, return and search
Hello!
Just bought Optimus one in Slovenia a week ago. Dust under screen in lower right corner. You can see it in under the sun.
What did you guys do about that? Is it better to open it up yourself and clean it and possibly put something on the lower part of the screen to prevent dust getting in (tape?, piece of foam?) or take it back to the shop? If they're just gonna clean it, it will happen again, can they ''fix'' it? Otherwise it's a great phone, but this issue is annoying.
Dont open the phone your self. You will void your phone warranty. Better take it to the service center and tell them to put a piece of tape at the bottom portion of the screen. if they dont do it, dust will re enter the screen area.
hmm i have a custom Rom on it but I guess they probably won't check that stuff for this kind of repair...
I think this may be just with some countries a lot of people are reporting no problems, so if you had red that indi optimus had this problem you could be another.
no dust went inside my o1
I bought a 32gb model, it was total crap so I sold it. Now I buy the 64gb model and everything works amazing.
Well maybe not so much. In the bottom left area of the screen there is a blemish and it is extremely visable on white and greenish screens. It is very annoying to know I spent over $600 and have a damn bright spot on my screen. And I thought I was finally lucky cause there is little to no light bleed.
How long do I have the ability to request an RMA? Should I do it now or later?
You've got until the factory warranty is up. So roughly a year.
Mine needs to go in for a BT/WIFI fix, but apparently there isnt a fix, so I'll be holding off a while.
A few days ago, my phone began showing weird bavior: The very top of the touch screen was not reacting to any input, so I couldn't open the menu. I found out I could circumvent this by using the touch area below the speaker to draw out the menu. But now I randomly have ghost touches and the phone is not usable any more. Maybe it will be back to normal later, since that has already happened before. But this is unpredictable. I also did a full reset of the phone via Android.
In the meantime I bought a replacement, but would like your opinion if I should spend 40-50€ on repair parts and try to replace the display. Do you think the phone will receive security updates for 1-2 years from now?
I am kind of mad at Honor for the poor build quality (my phone is just around 2.6 years old!) and lack of bootloader unlocking. Will definetely not buy a Huawai/Honor again, unless they change this.
So I actually did a replacement following this guide:
And it worked! But it was quite pricey: 40€ for screen with battery unit, another 20€ for a new back cover (the old one easily caught scratches while cleaning off the glue) and 15€ or so for tools and thermal compound (which they almost never use in videos, but i felt was necessary).
One disadvantage is also that you need to be very careful while placing the back cover on, because unless you use glue only (i used the strips only version), you cannot move it after placing. So the back cover was off by maybe a millimeter or so. Not great, not terrible.
Anyway, the new owner is happy and I hope he can enjoy it for two more years or so.
I bought myself a Redmi Note 10 Pro and now have LineageOS (unofficial) running on it. While I enjoy the much larger battery and screen of the Redmi, I would probably have kept using the Honor 10 for one or two more years if it wasn't for the defect and locked bootloader. I think it still has sufficient performance and camera.