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Bowzer
28th February 2007, 04:18 PM
Hi Guys.

I've had my orbit for about 3 weeks now, and its been perfect. I had a spare 512mb microSD card lying about so I used that, but my 2Gb microSD card came in the post yesterday.

I put the card into the phone, and then plugged the phone into my computer via USB. The screen turned off, and no matter what I did, it wouldn't come back on.
I reset it using the small button on the side (sticking my stylex pen into it) and it restarted itself, showing the splash screen no problem, but as soon as you would expect the Today screen to show, the screen goes off. It get's weirder, because if I hold down the camera button to turn that on, the screen switches itself on, and you can use the camera no problem. If i hit the windows key, the menu appears, but if I try clicking an icon, the screen goes dead again.

Also, sometimes (not always, don't ask why) if I leave it for a couple of minutes, the screen slowly appears, as if the backlight is very very dim. But the second i tap anywhere, or touch a button, it goes off again.

I can still answer calls, and my alarms still go off. The phone seems to work perfectly, but just not the screen. I think that it might be the backlight having been turned so far down its off, but I don't know how I would go about reseting that.

Sorry for the long story, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

bonkey
28th February 2007, 06:18 PM
have you tried to make a hard reset?

fubofo
28th March 2007, 07:50 PM
Man I had the exact sane issue. Its to do with the backlight. I had to angle the screen to try and see anything on it, then changed the backlight to full and made sure it didnt switch off after certain time, everything fine since then. dont know how it happened.

phsnake
29th March 2007, 12:16 AM
exactly like fubofo wrote,try to unplug,screen should be visible again, check backlight prop.-and plug it in.

TheGame1594
1st April 2007, 03:48 PM
i have the same problem this appears sometimes.I think this is a damn bug that appears randomized.It happend to me like 6 times.I have the o2 xda orbit with german o2 rom.What's about yours? it dims the light under the normal makeable settings this sucks.And the camera works because the light settings goes automaticly to the highest settings in camera mode.

BUSPBP
1st April 2007, 03:55 PM
Hi guys,

I remember having that problem but it was when I tried some programs, including HTC X-button and another called Invisible Shooter. I haven't got any further incident after uninstalling them.

Do you think what you've encountered with may also link to some program you've installed?

BUSPBP

Avatarko
3rd December 2009, 05:04 PM
Totally confirmed! Had same issue after replacing a touch screen. Thanks, guys, for a clue! :)