Archos 101 G9 touch screen quit responding - Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've had this G9 for about 2 years.
Slowly the screen has become unresponsive.
First you could turn the screen off with power button and back on and it would work.
Then it got to the point that you had to hold the power button for 10 seconds to reboot it.
Now nothing works.
Is this fixable? If so, how?
I'm a mechanical engineer so try to keep this in laymen's terms if possible.
Thanks in advance!

Try to check ribbon cable of touch screen connection and its contacts. Example for the same problem with screen ribbon cable: try to find "Android Tablet White Screen fix" on Youtube (I cannot post links to external resources).

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Can you see archos logo on the screen? If not, it might be totally bricked. First thing is to try to boot to recovery. This can be done by holding powerbutton and volume -, until you see white screen and some text. If you don't see anything, I can't help.
No, I cant see anything is TOTALLY BRICKED.
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Try charge the battery for 2-3 hours then try in recovery mode
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rioni said:
Try charge the battery for 2-3 hours then try in recovery mode
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Tried It. It didnt work. Its completely brick.
the_jako said:
Tried It. It didnt work. Its completely brick.
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Did you unplug everything? By that I main not only unplugging the charging cable, but also pull out any USB device(s) from the rear 3G USB port, also any microSD card, headphone, HDMI, etc.? I mean unplug EVERYTHING from every connector!
Then, press and hold the power button for over 10 seconds (I'd suggest holding for at least 20 seconds).
After doing the above... then plug in the Archos supplied USB cable, plug that into the Archos supplied charger, and then plug the charger into the wall power outlet. Notice I said "Archos supplied" USB cable and charger!
Do NOT do anything else, and do NOT mess around with pressing the power button or anything else!!!
If the device is working at all it should do one of the below:
1) If the battery is to low to start up the power LED may not light up at all, or it may blink quickly. If the screen does not light up and show the Archos logo at this point then just leave it sit until it gets enough charge to do so... and then leave it sit another 4 or 5 hours to completely charge.
2) If the power LED lights, but is not blinking, and the screen show the Archos logo and goes on through to a normal "lock" screen, then leave it alone until it is fully charged and the LED starts blinking.
[NOTE: The power LED blinks (although a bit differently) when the battery is to low, or when it it fully charged. Pretty stupid eh?]
3) The screen lights up and goes from the Archos logo right into the (white) Recovery screen with various options to fix things.
If it does this last one, then you should be able to get back to install firmware by connecting it to your computer. Of course, you have to have downloaded the Archos firmware .aos file with your computer first, and then copy it to the tablet.
If it does NOT do any of the above... well, then I guess you did totally brick it. Don't know how, but I do know that certain 101 G9's that installed the very early 4.0.24 firmware did get bricked by that "official" Archos firmware release. It was pulled from their servers as soon as they found out about it.
If you are still stuck in the last part of what I've mentioned... then the best thing to do is contact Archos and get an RMA to return you device for a replacement.
In all honesty, it's really pretty hard to brick an Archos G9 by accident unless there is something seriously with the device to start with.

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