Hi, today my play's digitzer crapped out The bottom inch of the screen has been unresponsive in the past but has evetually began to work again.. Today it just stopped the top half of the screen works fine. I'm guessing it's a faulty digitzer. My question is do you think I should replace the digitizer via a 3rd party company or do you think I should go to o2? I have an unlocked bootloader (testpoint method) I know my warranty is void but do you think they'll pick up on it? I remember having the problem way before I even unlocked as well - Any suggestions?
Well I bought a digitizer of eBay and it worked fine put it in myself... There are allot of videos on how to disassemble the phone... So that's a cheap option for you...
I bought myself one too, on AMAZON you can get one for 20€
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About two months ago, my screen decided to die. I ended up getting a new phone, but I still had my Play sitting here bothering me. So I decided to get to fixing it.
When I tore it apart, I thought that the digitizer had died, but what I found was actually the connecting the digitiser, LCD and Buttons together was damaged.
So I ordered one on ebay for about $10. When I got the cable, it seemed to be about 3-4CM shorter than the OEM one. Which supports why I think this may have been a design error on Sony's part. What was happening was Sony's god awful mechanism for sliding the screen up and down had pinched the cable, and caused it to be damaged.
I know this might be a longshot, but I think that some people might be able to save a dead device by replacing this one simple part, I know it worked wonders for my play, as well as a friends.
I will post a link to the part as soon as my post count is up.
So not the digitalizer?
steamdnt said:
About two months ago, my screen decided to die. I ended up getting a new phone, but I still had my Play sitting here bothering me. So I decided to get to fixing it.
When I tore it apart, I thought that the digitizer had died, but what I found was actually the connecting the digitiser, LCD and Buttons together was damaged.
So I ordered one on ebay for about $10. When I got the cable, it seemed to be about 3-4CM shorter than the OEM one. Which supports why I think this may have been a design error on Sony's part. What was happening was Sony's god awful mechanism for sliding the screen up and down had pinched the cable, and caused it to be damaged.
I know this might be a longshot, but I think that some people might be able to save a dead device by replacing this one simple part, I know it worked wonders for my play, as well as a friends.
I will post a link to the part as soon as my post count is up.
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so my xperia play has the same issue, i replaced the digitalizer and the touch screen still doesn't work. could i please ask which part specifically you replaced, thankyou
jakkebrown said:
so my xperia play has the same issue, i replaced the digitalizer and the touch screen still doesn't work. could i please ask which part specifically you replaced, thankyou
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I am having this problem as well. touchscreen doesn't work nor does the home button. Volume down button seems to fail while in CWM recovery as well. I was thinking about replacing the digitizer but now I'm not so sure. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated
If OP's saying what's busted is the part where all the digitizer, physical buttons, and LCD converge, that's the SLIDER FLEX. I replaced mine twice already. It gets pinched very easily. That's the weakness of slider phones. You have to accept that from the moment you decided to buy the Xperia PLAY. It happens to all sliders, live with it, face it.
So last week i bought a replacement digitizer from ebay for my r800at. Once installed the touchscreen didnt work. None of the screen would register touch. I slid out the pad to get past the lockscreen and tried to launch applications and such but nothing would register. I reconnected the digitizer cable a couple of times to see if that was the problem but nothing. So i tried the old cracked digitizer again and it worked fine. So yesterday i got yet another replacement and the exact same thing happend.
Out of 3 digitizers only the cracked one works. I have noticed that on the ribbon connector of the new ones it says v6.0 while my cracked one says v7.0, could that be the reason? If so, where could i get a replacement for my r800at. The one i bought advertised that it worked on r800a/i/x/ so i thought it would work...
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So last week i bought a replacement digitizer from ebay for my r800at. Once installed the touchscreen didnt work. None of the screen would register touch. I slid out the pad to get past the lockscreen and tried to launch applications and such but nothing would register. I reconnected the digitizer cable a couple of times to see if that was the problem but nothing. So i tried the old cracked digitizer again and it worked fine. So yesterday i got yet another replacement and the exact same thing happend.
Out of 3 digitizers only the cracked one works. I have noticed that on the ribbon connector of the new ones it says v6.0 while my cracked one says v7.0, could that be the reason? If so, where could i get a replacement for my r800at. The one i bought advertised that it worked on r800a/i/x/ so i thought it would work...
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I have had the same issue. I disassembled my phone plenty of times, yet the new digitizer never worked. Frustrated, I used my cracked digitizer and it worked on its first try. I was assuming that I broke the new digitizer, but I was plenty careful. Quite strange.
I actually just had that same exact issue about 2 weeks ago. I just bought a refurbished x play on ebay for about 80 bucks since i didn't want to try fixing it again. If you find a way to fix that, let me know, as I wouldn't mind having a spare lol.
Help ME!!!! Ive recently had my screen being unresponsive when i press the power/home button. its been about 2 days now and im struggling to get it to work at all now.. Is there anything is can do?!
The phone switches on and sometimes i get the screen to come on and as soon as i lock it i cant get it to come on.
I'm thinking its a dodgy connection to the battery. Its nothing to do with my rom etc. as i managed to restore back to Saturday before it started being faulty and its still the same...
Any knowledge is much muchly appreciated
Hey, I'm new to xda!
I'm having the same problem, my Xperia Play R800i will work for awhile after plugging it into the mains then when the screen goes into standby it won't turn back on!
I've tried a multitude of firmware and also tried relocking my bootloader.
Any suggestions?
Your flex cables have broken, these are the thin ribbon connections which connect from the motherboard to the screen itself. The Xplay has two flex cable. Best option is to send it warranty (2 years warranty) or you can buy a flex cable repair kit for the Xperia Play which will cost you around 30-40 bucks. There is an" Xperia Play Disassembly" guide on YouTube which should help you on the way.
Thanks for your reply!
I have had a look at the video and reseached a few replacements.
Would it be better to repair the ribbon connection with a kit or purchase another LCD screen?
The display does work sometimes and is fully functional when it's on. (I can reply to texts, make calls etc.)
OK, first of all you must consider if the phone has warranty as this is the free option you can go for. Are you in a country where there is a Sony Repair Centre? If you do not think you have the chance to acess a Sony Repair Centre then you only need the flex cable, the LCD digitizer seems fine to me, I think you have the same problem I had. You will need to buy something which comes with the tools to open up your phone.
Something similar to this.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FREE-SHIP-f...148?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4607b9d1fc
I ended up messing my n7100's digitizer, it fell and cracked. I replaced the digitizer but now the phone turns on but the screen stays dark. I can hear it, i had a hdmi adapter for the phone to connect to tv and if i do that, i can see the phone is fine but the screen is not working.
I had bought the phone LCD/digitizer assembly online and returned it as the first one didnt work then i got another from the same vendor as a replacement and it is the same. I dont think i got two bad digitizer assemblies. At this point i am thinking of sending it to samsung but can anyone point out some steps that i can do to maybe bring it back. already spent 200$ for the digitizer and i know what i am doing so i dont think i am broke anything.
any guidance will be great.
My P2X touchscreen randomly died recently. Now, I've had it for over 3 years and already changed the screen once and it was no stranger to drops. But I legit woke up one morning to no touch. Thankfully I had replaced my main phone and was in transition phase. With the setup-transfer of data + pics in the cloud era, it was no urgent matter, but I would like to do something with it. But now I want to repurpose it or get rid of it. I found a screen for $100 on ebay, about half the price of iFixit. Does anyone know if these $100 screen are reputable? Is it worth replacing the screen just to sell it? If I can buy a "For Parts" phone with a good screen, could that conceivably be worth it?
It's a VZW model so I would guess there's no root for it, right? Thought I'd ask...
Or is it just junk? Of note, I wouldn't mind coming out in the red (not too much) for the funsies of another phone repair under my belt even as Right To Repair is slowly dwindling away...
Thoughts?
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Unrelatedly, it seems it's been a while since I've been around here (I guess because after my G2, I have not had a rootable phone (Thanks, Big Red...)
That has a cracked and non working screen too...Not sure I ever offloaded that data...I think I have an OTG adapter somewhere...
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My P2X touchscreen randomly died recently. Now, I've had it for over 3 years and already changed the screen once and it was no stranger to drops. But I legit woke up one morning to no touch. Thankfully I had replaced my main phone and was in transition phase. With the setup-transfer of data + pics in the cloud era, it was no urgent matter, but I would like to do something with it. But now I want to repurpose it or get rid of it. I found a screen for $100 on ebay, about half the price of iFixit. Does anyone know if these $100 screen are reputable? Is it worth replacing the screen just to sell it? If I can buy a "For Parts" phone with a good screen, could that conceivably be worth it?
It's a VZW model so I would guess there's no root for it, right? Thought I'd ask...
Or is it just junk? Of note, I wouldn't mind coming out in the red (not too much) for the funsies of another phone repair under my belt even as Right To Repair is slowly dwindling away...
Thoughts?
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Unrelatedly, it seems it's been a while since I've been around here (I guess because after my G2, I have not had a rootable phone (Thanks, Big Red...)
That has a cracked and non working screen too...Not sure I ever offloaded that data...I think I have an OTG adapter somewhere...
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Pixel 2 XLs in good condition are going from around $100-140 on Swappa right now. So you may be able to make around $40 at the most. Depends if that's worth it to you.
No, you won't be able to root a Verizon model. Their bootloaders are locked.