I flashed cm9 rom for my t-mobile atrix 4g and ever since then the touch screen doesnt work properly you have to touch a little below the thing your trying to touch and as a result you cannot use the touch buttons at the bottom which makes it damn near impossible to use the phone any ideas????????
You probably nuked or corrupted your /pds.
Try to reflash first off, if it still happens try to revert to whatever ROM you had before. If issue still persists its likely a digitizer problem, which is bad news. Search the forums for help on that issue.
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yup sure sounds Like the issue to Me
i did that once when i tryed to flash a
Rom drunk on Newyears god it took me
12 hours to remember what i did the Night b4 but then i found the Pds fix.zip
and Life was Back to Normal
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Hello, my phone got wet and i dried it up and ALMOST AEVERYTHING WORKS perfectly exept the touch screen.. i have many issues with it.. one... sometimes i have to lock the screen for more than 3 times for it to unlock.... if my phones screen stays on for a couple of secs the screen starts goin of and the last one its not related to the screen... sometimes i have to try to plug my headphones for more than 10 times for me to hear my music on them.... is there lik anyways to solve that problem.... and im usin simply honey 2.3.4
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Is this recent or has it always been like that...? Any recent trauma to the phone? If not, try ODIN'ing back to stock JFD and then reflashing the ROM of your choice. I know you've heard it a million times, but it really does fix things.
(And don't forget to ODIN your bootloaders)
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Nevermind... re-read your post. I must have been tired to miss that. It may be a bad digitizer, if you intend to replace that buy the screen attached. Replacing the digitizer alone is damn near impossible. It's probably a hardware issue
Ok thanxs and yea i think its the hardware because its been a month since it got wet and i thot that it was gona fox by itself but it didnt so i guess some parts got damaged by the water...
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I just recently bought an Atrix 4G off a friend for 50 bucks so I'm not complaining at all.
This phone went through hell, I couldn't stand looking at the back cover it was so abused, I ended up buying a new one along with a battery. Now my only problem; the digitizer has an area of the screen, goes from the home key all the way up the screen, that isn't responsive and sometimes causes the screen to tweak out and select random things and sometimes goes completely unresponsive until i lock/unlock the phone again. Also the back and home keys are really hit or miss when they work. I just ordered a new digitizer and it should be here this week, I'm curious if this will fix it. Also I plan on replacing or removing the screen anyways since the ffc somehow has dust on the inside of the lens Anyway to prevent this in the future with this phone?
You wouldn't have happened to position your internal drive? If so, sounds like pds issue. Relatively easy to fix with moto fastboot. Google search pds fix Atrix
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I haven't messed with any of that, the most I've done is flashed Neutrino EE rom. Which is also giving me issues, but since I'm new to this board I cannot complain about it yet. I'll give the fastboot a try.
Would one for gingerbread work for my rom, I don't want to brick my phone
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damn.. it didn't work. I followed this thread h t t p : / /w w w . atrixforums. com / forum / motorola-atrix-help/7321-pds-partition-fix-screen-cpus-frequency-restored.html
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damn.. it didn't work. I followed this thread h t t p : / /w w w . atrixforums. com / forum / motorola-atrix-help/7321-pds-partition-fix-screen-cpus-frequency-restored.html
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So did that link work?
It's definitiely the neutrino rom. My phone has been working fine for ever and I flashed Neutrino and sure enough, same issue you are having. Now flashing any other rom has not fixed it. I'm going to try this partition fix when i'm at home, can't do fastboot at work.
Interesting. I just ran into this exact issue. I already ordered a new digitizer. I did flash Neutrino EE a while ago but only kept it for a day. I have a hard time believing the ROM will cause it. Might try that PDS fix but I'm afraid of any unwanted side effects. I thought I remember to never mess with the PDS.
I don't think it has to do with anything software related. I had this problem before and did my researching, turns out a lot of people encounter these issues. Even with stock roms, people that had never even rooted their phone. Screen wise this phone is a piece of ____. Had to exchange mine and now this new one is starting to act up again.
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well here is the pdsfix.img if ya want to try it http://db.tt/mRStSurc
save to Root of sdcard not in any folder
then
to install use Android terminal emulator
type
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/pdsfix.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
then hit enter
it should then read somthing like this
4096+0 records IN
4096+0 records out
2097152 bytes transfered in 2.746 secs (763711 bytes/sec)
then reboot and then ya should
be good as new
i have used it 3x now it works!
and yes the last time was when i was running neutreno rom g+ then wiped
and went back to darkside and thats when it messed up for me
THIS SHOULD ONLY BE USED IF ;
all your touch buttons on the phone
dont work AT ALL the keyboard work but
doesnt type Write when you touch a spcific letter
Also cant open anything like app drawer/settings / You lost your boot.img
and it was replaced with 14 differnt options. and a battery pull or fastboot -w and flashing a new rom didnt work!
PDS fix did nothing. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hoping the digitizer takes care of it whenever it arrives from Hong Kong.
It's not the Neutrino rom, it had this problem before hand when the phone was stock and unrooted.
So the pds did NOTHING. I replaced the screen and all my home keys work great now, the vertical line of nothingness turned horizontal towards the top of the screen AND my phone gets locked into a black screen when I make calls now??? What the hell??? This is really starting to piss me off.
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It's not the Neutrino rom, it had this problem before hand when the phone was stock and unrooted.
So the pds did NOTHING. I replaced the screen and all my home keys work great now, the vertical line of nothingness turned horizontal towards the top of the screen AND my phone gets locked into a black screen when I make calls now??? What the hell??? This is really starting to piss me off.
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are ya still running a neutreno rom
cause sometimes when i made a call
the screen would like go to sleep and wouldnt wakeup till they hung up or i rebooted its a issue a few people were haveing in the dev thread of neutreno
but it could be a cm7 weekly issue too
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Yeah I'm still on board with Neutrino, it seems to run a lot smoother than stock, it's the only other rom I've tried. I really like it.
It's defiantly the screen... When I'm in a call and it's locked into the black screen and I push the screen down into the phone it unlocks from the call.
I also tried the pdsfix from terminal and it didn't work.
Sometimes it wont even turn the screen off now........
as soon as u connect to a call
push the home button it your screen timeout is low like. ,30 try 2 min
but when in a call dont leave the dailer open backout to the homesceen should work "untill the phone gos to sleep.
and my pds issue didnt arise till
i flashed back to a blur rom (darkside)
it could have neen my fault too cause it was late on newyears eve and flashing roms and taquila dont mix IMHO, :sly:
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The phone will still lock itself...
Is the Atrix 2 any better of a phone because I could care less about the fingerprint scanner and the docks.
well in my opinion the atrix 2 Not in anyway better it almost seems worse(not much because its still an atrix
because The main selling points of the atrix is the dual core processer and the fingerprint scanner)
well i can confirm
wipe data
wipe cache
wipe dalvic
and flash eather the stable cm7
build or a lite blur rom
WILL correct this issue :screwy:
I'll give it a try, and suggested lite blur roms... I really dont like motoblur at all its crap
I'm just looking for something that runs smoothly and has good battery life.
And so far I really like everything about the atrix, exactly what I want.. just these screen and call issues make me want to grab another phone....
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I'll give it a try, and suggested lite blur roms... I really dont like motoblur at all its crap
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no on darkside roms you Can skip
motoblur setup I did and use a gmail app also with darkside 4.5.5 you also get landscape hdmi mirroring too
witch is BEAST with shadowgun game
(it was made for tegra2 devices )
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Its the screen -.-
I've experienced a problem with my Atrix actually quite randomly one day. While on jokersax's CM9 KANG ROM my touchscreen and capacitative buttons became unresponsive at a seemingly random time.
I've tried to wipe dalvik cache, reflash the ROM, wipe to factory settings and then reflash the ROM, even tried the PDS partition fix but nothing has worked.
I don't know what to do now... can anybody help from here? Thank you so much!
After trying all that I would start wondering about the hardware not the software
Hit thanks if this was helpful
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giants3b said:
I've experienced a problem with my Atrix actually quite randomly one day. While on jokersax's CM9 KANG ROM my touchscreen and capacitative buttons became unresponsive at a seemingly random time.
I've tried to wipe dalvik cache, reflash the ROM, wipe to factory settings and then reflash the ROM, even tried the PDS partition fix but nothing has worked.
I don't know what to do now... can anybody help from here? Thank you so much!
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Hi, you just described my exact problem. I'm using GingerMod 2.3.6 # 9 but I can't remember if I had this problem with the French ROM, that was my first Custom firmware. The only way to make it back to normal in my case was pulling out the battery and, recently I discovered that "adb reboot" worked too, so, if I'm not near a PC I need to pull the battery...
I'm afraid it's a HW problem, since my warranty was voided almost a week after I got the phone. Hopefully someone could post something that can help us.
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Hi, you just described my exact problem. I'm using GingerMod 2.3.6 # 9 but I can't remember if I had this problem with the French ROM, that was my first Custom firmware. The only way to make it back to normal in my case was pulling out the battery and, recently I discovered that "adb reboot" worked too, so, if I'm not near a PC I need to pull the battery...
I'm afraid it's a HW problem, since my warranty was voided almost a week after I got the phone. Hopefully someone could post something that can help us.
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I had this same problem and eventually my screen wouldn't work no matter what. I tried all the same things you guys did to no avail. I just flashed a stock fruitcake [couldn't find original recovery] and sent it in to Moto. They just got it a couple of days ago and I'm still waiting to hear back from them. Hopefully they look past my software modifications and realize that it's obviously a hardware issue.
When I was on miui rom a few months back, this problem was very small and almost never happened.
Back to cm7 nightlies and it happens all the time.
Just happened. Lol
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Same problem..
Flashed Turl's CM9, experienced a crash and 30% of the screen has become unresponsive since... It sucks and I need proof of purchase in order to send it in.. Too bad I bought it second hand.. Motorola... never again.
Me too. I've been blessed by unresponsive capacitive buttons. I was looking on how to edit an ICS Rom to include on screen buttons, but I just settled on downloading Button Savior to save time.
Is it possible that there is a bad connection inside the phone that I could fix by myself?
If someone knows how to make a ROM I would love if there were an on screen keyboard ROM (fingers crossed!!!).
F word... same problem for me.. i dont think it is hw because i just got my phone back from motorola for a dead touch zone repair. it never became unresponsive until i put cm9 on it... WE NEED A FIX!!!! i cannot use my phone at all. pds fix didnt work for me either
A small part of my screen does not work. The part above the menu button. It has been this way for a while and the phone is usable. I can't type w,e,s,z and the comma in portrait mode. I thought the digitizer was damaged but last night everything started working and did so for quite some time until I charged my phone. After that it has been the same. Anyone ever have this problem before and could someone suggest a solution?
PS: The pds partition fix did not work.
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What caused this? Did you recalibrate the screen with aroma installer?
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darkhokage said:
A small part of my screen does not work. The part above the menu button. It has been this way for a while and the phone is usable. I can't type w,e,s,z and the comma in portrait mode. I thought the digitizer was damaged but last night everything started working and did so for quite some time until I charged my phone. After that it has been the same. Anyone ever have this problem before and could someone suggest a solution?
PS: The pds partition fix did not work.
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There are random reports of Jokersax's CM9 causing issues, and my phone is currently out on warranty repair with the same issue (dead area in digitizer). I have also heard that Motorola used crappy digitizers in the Atrix, and for this reason rolled the Atrix 2 to market quickly. All of these theories are unsubstantiated.
I tried the PDS fix (after backing up my PDS partition), a Google Play screen fix solution, flashing different ROMs on a fully wiped phone, SBF'ing to stock, and another calibration solution I found on XDA, but none worked. At that point it was back to Motorola with the phone. Hoping for a 2 week TAT. Good luck.
Soldier-2Point0 said:
What caused this? Did you recalibrate the screen with aroma installer?
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I don't know. This happened a few months after I bought the phone. Since I am in Pakistan, the phone came without the international warranty and repairs are not that easy. Up until a day ago, when everything started working, I thought that the digitizer was broken but now I have started to think differently.
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tobnddl said:
There are random reports of Jokersax's CM9 causing issues, and my phone is currently out on warranty repair with the same issue (dead area in digitizer). I have also heard that Motorola used crappy digitizers in the Atrix, and for this reason rolled the Atrix 2 to market quickly. All of these theories are unsubstantiated.
I tried the PDS fix (after backing up my PDS partition), a Google Play screen fix solution, flashing different ROMs on a fully wiped phone, SBF'ing to stock, and another calibration solution I found on XDA, but none worked. At that point it was back to Motorola with the phone. Hoping for a 2 week TAT. Good luck.
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I guess I will just have to live with it. The incident where everything started to work still gives me hope though. I will keep on trying and let you guys know if I make progress.
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I had the same exact issue. If you still have warranty, send it in. This is a well documented problem.
If you have unlocked the bootloader, just flash the proper sbf back to stock.
That's what I did, and they sent me a brand new phone.
Hi... I was on latest Temasek CM11, and flashed Googy max kernel. I got a bootloop, and touch screen completely unresponsive, even on philz recovery. Tried factory reset, another rom, kernel, etc ... Now the phone boots normally, but no touchscreen at all. I´ve heard about burned touchscreen controller when flashing a wrong recovery or kernel, but it wasn´t the case.
Is there any last solution before replacing the screen (again) ?
Stock rom ???
Yes try stock rom.
pvtnelson said:
Yes try stock rom.
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Trying ... hard to download 890mb over unstable 3g
But even on Philz recovery I can´t get touchscreen to work
If it doesn't work in recovery then the digitiser is blown, new screen assembly required.
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agm2112 said:
Trying ... hard to download 890mb over unstable 3g
But even on Philz recovery I can´t get touchscreen to work
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Flash with odin?
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Flashed stock through odin, factory reset, but still no luck... Seems dead. I still dont know why it happened after googy kernel flash.
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can software really cause certain hardware to stop working especially the touch and/or LCD ???. because I have a S3 here too, but the problem is I can't see anything but the touch works. phone boots fine an everything. played music (by randomly touching areas of the screen till I heard a song started playing) it makes sounds when I touch tap the screen, vibrates when i'm typing stuff
the person i bought it from says its a software issue. idk if they are lying to me or not. only way I'm gonna know is if I put another motherboard in and see if my screen
turns on. u can try that too if u have a friend or something that has a S3 too, if the touch works with their motherboard, then its either your motherboard or firmware issue
deptic said:
can software really cause certain hardware to stop working especially the touch and/or LCD ???. because I have a S3 here too, but the problem is I can't see anything but the touch works. phone boots fine an everything. played music (by randomly touching areas of the screen till I heard a song started playing) it makes sounds when I touch tap the screen, vibrates when i'm typing stuff
the person i bought it from says its a software issue. idk if they are lying to me or not. only way I'm gonna know is if I put another motherboard in and see if my screen
turns on. u can try that too if u have a friend or something that has a S3 too, if the touch works with their motherboard, then its either your motherboard or firmware issue
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Its the screen lcd display fault.
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