Help AMOLED Screen Problems

[Maninder]

Greetings fellow Incredible owners and enthusiasts.

I apologize in advanced if there is already a relevant thread, I looked but found none.

Here is my predicament: About a week ago, my Incredible's screen started flickering and inverting colors. I put up with it at first as it happened sporadically but not often. As the week went on the problem got worse and nearly every time I would use my phone the colors would be inverting to their negatives and the screen would flicker with random black boxes and strips appearing and disappearing.

I contacted Verizon and they basically told me that I'm out of warranty, and I had an early upgrade available and to upgrade. This is crap because I've only had my phone for about a year and three months and I honestly am not interested in any of the phones Verizon has atm.

So I figured I would take apart the phone and see if there was any hardware complications with the phone.

I carefully took apart my phone following a Youtube tutorial. I'd post the link but the forum won't let me because of my non-existent post count. I lurk here but forum doesn't care -___

After taking it apart, blowing out and wiping away tons of dust and crud that had accumulated on the inside of the shell, motherboard, digitizer, and LCD, I very carefully put it back together.

Once back in one piece I booted the phone and to my horror the phone booted normally but no picture was being displayed!

Now I honestly don't know what to do. I feel so empty without my phone for my daily use. Is this a common problem? Did I screw up on taking it apart? Has anyone replaced the digitizer and the AMOLED screen? Should I grind it out for about a month and then bite the bullet and buy a Galaxy Nexus? Any advice and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[sdrawkcab25]

Greetings fellow Incredible owners and enthusiasts.

I apologize in advanced if there is already a relevant thread, I looked but found none.

Here is my predicament: About a week ago, my Incredible's screen started flickering and inverting colors. I put up with it at first as it happened sporadically but not often. As the week went on the problem got worse and nearly every time I would use my phone the colors would be inverting to their negatives and the screen would flicker with random black boxes and strips appearing and disappearing.

I contacted Verizon and they basically told me that I'm out of warranty, and I had an early upgrade available and to upgrade. This is crap because I've only had my phone for about a year and three months and I honestly am not interested in any of the phones Verizon has atm.

So I figured I would take apart the phone and see if there was any hardware complications with the phone.

I carefully took apart my phone following a Youtube tutorial. I'd post the link but the forum won't let me because of my non-existent post count. I lurk here but forum doesn't care -___

After taking it apart, blowing out and wiping away tons of dust and crud that had accumulated on the inside of the shell, motherboard, digitizer, and LCD, I very carefully put it back together.

Once back in one piece I booted the phone and to my horror the phone booted normally but no picture was being displayed!

Now I honestly don't know what to do. I feel so empty without my phone for my daily use. Is this a common problem? Did I screw up on taking it apart? Has anyone replaced the digitizer and the AMOLED screen? Should I grind it out for about a month and then bite the bullet and buy a Galaxy Nexus? Any advice and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

From what I hear the ribbon cable is easily torn/dislodged, (if it's torn) you may need to replace the screen at this point.

There has been plenty of successful screen replacements, and is apparently semi simple.

 

[Maninder]

That's what I figured too, any suggestions on places to buy it for cheap beyond the usual eBay/Amazon? Also, how am I supposed to judge whether its the screen or the digitizer as they both have ribbon cables that lead to the motherboard.

 

[sdrawkcab25]

That's what I figured too, any suggestions on places to buy it for cheap beyond the usual eBay/Amazon? Also, how am I supposed to judge whether its the screen or the digitizer as they both have ribbon cables that lead to the motherboard.

"Repairs universe" sells incredible parts.

http://www.repairsuniverse.com/htc-droid-incredible-take-apart-repair-guide.html

http://www.repairsuniverse.com/htc-incredible-droid-replacement-screens.html

I'm not sure how to tell the difference between the two, I've been lucky enough not to break my screen yet.

 

[Maninder]

Yikes ~$90 to repair. Time to upgrade I guess? Galaxy Nexus is supposed to release later in the month I believe.

 

[Maninder]

So I've replaced the screen on my Dinc but the screen still flickers and inverts colors like crazy.

Something wrong with my motherboard?

 

[sdrawkcab25]

So I've replaced the screen on my Dinc but the screen still flickers and inverts colors like crazy.

Something wrong with my motherboard?

Hmmm, could be another hardware problem. I don't know much about how screen displays work.

 

[Maninder]

That's what I'm thinking, I'm hoping someone on here would know or would be able to give some insight. Not sure what I should do, as I'm typing this the screen is borderline unusable because it keeps flickering and distorting to different colors, it's pretty bad.

Please! Someone with any know how, help!

 

[Wpz2000]

If the symptoms with the new LCD are identical to that of the old LCD, I'd say you have a bad motherboard or loose contacts on the connector. Unfortunately, motherboard parts are not user replaceable. You can try putting a very thin piece of tape on the back of the LCD cable and inserting it into the motherboard connector, this may put more pressure on the spring contacts.

 

[jamala00]

That's what I'm thinking, I'm hoping someone on here would know or would be able to give some insight. Not sure what I should do, as I'm typing this the screen is borderline unusable because it keeps flickering and distorting to different colors, it's pretty bad.

Please! Someone with any know how, help!

There are a lot of people who moved onto other phones. I am sure if you post a thread about wanting to buy an Inc, you could probably get one from somebody very cheap. I'm with ya on no other phones are interesting enough to move onto.