Moving couch = Broken Tilt

[brianlb]

I'm assuming I smashed my At&t tilt or something, there is no cracks on the screen or anything, but the pic below shows the display I get. I'll have the phone for about a year in about 2 weeks. Anyone have an idea as to how much At&t or HTC will charge to fix this or am I better off buying a new phone? Or any ideas as to what could be broken and how it can be fixed? It doesn't allow me to do a hard reset. Thanks

[RizwanKhan]

well i don't know if warranty will cover it or not but you are still under your one year warranty so you could try to get a replacement. Its hard to say what could be causing it. You can check out mike channon's articles on disassembling a kaiser.

Good luck.

[pyraxiate]

I'm assuming I smashed my At&t tilt or something, there is no cracks on the screen or anything, but the pic below shows the display I get. I'll have the phone for about a year in about 2 weeks. Anyone have an idea as to how much At&t or HTC will charge to fix this or am I better off buying a new phone? Or any ideas as to what could be broken and how it can be fixed? It doesn't allow me to do a hard reset. Thanks

Well to my trained eye, it looks as though you have actually cracked the lcd screen. This damage isnt generally covered by any manufacturers standard warranty. Unless you purchased an extra warranty including accidental damage, I think its up to you to repair yourself unless you want to spend 400USD + for the repair. Taking it apart isnt terribly difficult and I have seen links to lcd screens posted all over for no more than 100USD. Check Ebay also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/LCD-Replacemet-Screen-HTC-TILT-AT-T-8925-TyTNII-USA_W0QQitemZ270293835394QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item2 70293835394&_trkparms=72%3A1205|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A13 18&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Here is one for 45 USD

Hope this helps ya

[brianlb]

Well to my trained eye, it looks as though you have actually cracked the lcd screen. This damage isnt generally covered by any manufacturers standard warranty. Unless you purchased an extra warranty including accidental damage, I think its up to you to repair yourself unless you want to spend 400USD + for the repair. Taking it apart isnt terribly difficult and I have seen links to lcd screens posted all over for no more than 100USD. Check Ebay also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/LCD-Replacemet-Screen-HTC-TILT-AT-T-8925-TyTNII-USA_W0QQitemZ270293835394QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item2 70293835394&_trkparms=72%3A1205|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A13 18&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Here is one for 45 USD

Hope this helps ya

I don't see a crack in the screen. Can there still be a crack in it that isn't visible or not noticeable until you take it apart? If that's the case I'll either buy a new screen or just buy a new phone on ebay for 200bux. Also anyone have any recommended sites on how to replace the screen?

[Stu_Can_Sam]

This raises a great question for me. i work in a clean room/static sensative environment and repair and calibrate many different types of electronics (mostly signal generators & spectrum analyzers). I was wondering if anyone here has actually attempted to replace a LCD screen with success. And if so, how complicated the process was. I have downloaded the schematical drawings and have found replacement parts for the kaiser online for extremely cheap. i will post the site as soon as i find it again.:D

[whistler4ever]

I did a screen replacement on a Wizard, and it wasn't that difficult. just make sure you don't break anything while trying to pry small pieces off to get to the screen.

[kristoff_sz]

This raises a great question for me. i work in a clean room/static sensative environment and repair and calibrate many different types of electronics (mostly signal generators & spectrum analyzers). I was wondering if anyone here has actually attempted to replace a LCD screen with success. And if so, how complicated the process was. I have downloaded the schematical drawings and have found replacement parts for the kaiser online for extremely cheap. i will post the site as soon as i find it again.:D

ITs easy as hell.

I've done it two times with success.

Its only matter of two connection belts and thats all at all ;).

Screen replacement is really easy here.

[pyraxiate]

I don't see a crack in the screen. Can there still be a crack in it that isn't visible or not noticeable until you take it apart? If that's the case I'll either buy a new screen or just buy a new phone on ebay for 200bux. Also anyone have any recommended sites on how to replace the screen?

Generally you will NOT see a physical crack on the surface. The surface is actually JUST a digitizer ( a separate piece which is built into or ontop of your LCD for input purposes ). The digitizer is basically your touch screen portion of the LCD. What is actually cracked is the thin film below that which contains all of the liquid crystals.

As far as the replacement goes, I believe it is Michael Channon who has the step by step instructions on how to disassemble and replace the LCD. It isnt a hard task from what I can tell. I had taken my hermes ( Tytan ) apart so many times that i could do it in my sleep. Its not a terribly difficult process.


Here is Michaels Guide (http://www.pdacenter.ru/razborka/razbor_htc_kaiser/)

Its not in English but its not hard to follow the pictures. He has done a great job at documenting the procedure.

If you are a bit scared to try it yourself, have a geeky friend do it for you ( maybe get him a date to a movie or something lol )

It should only cost you no more than 50$USD to repair ( Minus the bribe for a date lol )

Hope this helps you out !

[brianlb]

Generally you will NOT see a physical crack on the surface. The surface is actually JUST a digitizer ( a separate piece which is built into or ontop of your LCD for input purposes ). The digitizer is basically your touch screen portion of the LCD. What is actually cracked is the thin film below that which contains all of the liquid crystals.

As far as the replacement goes, I believe it is Michael Channon who has the step by step instructions on how to disassemble and replace the LCD. It isnt a hard task from what I can tell. I had taken my hermes ( Tytan ) apart so many times that i could do it in my sleep. Its not a terribly difficult process.


Here is Michaels Guide (http://www.pdacenter.ru/razborka/razbor_htc_kaiser/)

Its not in English but its not hard to follow the pictures. He has done a great job at documenting the procedure.

If you are a bit scared to try it yourself, have a geeky friend do it for you ( maybe get him a date to a movie or something lol )

It should only cost you no more than 50$USD to repair ( Minus the bribe for a date lol )

Hope this helps you out !

Thx, I'm gonna give it a shot. I went ahead and bought the screen off ebay from the post by pyraxiate. Worst case I mess it up and buy a new phone of ebay for 150-200, which is what I originally thought I'd have to do, so this at least gives me a chance to save some $$$

[pyraxiate]

Thx, I'm gonna give it a shot. I went ahead and bought the screen off ebay from the post by pyraxiate. Worst case I mess it up and buy a new phone of ebay for 150-200, which is what I originally thought I'd have to do, so this at least gives me a chance to save some $$$

Let us know how it goes :)

Glad I could help :D

[brianlb]

Got it all done, actually my pops did it. Works great, he took it apart just like the Mike Channon pics show, don't know if you had to do all of it or not just to replace the screen, but he did. Only one little annoying thing now that it's back together is that a small part of the black plastic out case hangs out just a tab and isn't flush, which makes it a little annoying when hitting the power/standby button on the right side of the phone. But I can learn to live with that I think. thanks for all the help.

[ASCIIker]

good to hear you've achieved a successful repair!

correct me if i'm wrong...are you saying that the two halves of the phone (screen and keyboard) don't align properly when the keyboard is closed? if so, i remember a thread in this section of the kaiser forums that details (with pictures) how to possibly fix that particular problem!!!

"search and ye shall foundeth it !!!" :D

[pyraxiate]

Got it all done, actually my pops did it. Works great, he took it apart just like the Mike Channon pics show, don't know if you had to do all of it or not just to replace the screen, but he did. Only one little annoying thing now that it's back together is that a small part of the black plastic out case hangs out just a tab and isn't flush, which makes it a little annoying when hitting the power/standby button on the right side of the phone. But I can learn to live with that I think. thanks for all the help.

Im glad i could help :D Im also glad to hear the phone is up and running again :)

As was stated before, there is a thread for the case not aligning. I did some quick looking but to no avail. If i come across it ill be sure to post it :)

[brianlb]

I'm not sure if I'm explaining it correctly. But it's basically the outer case, and around the power button it's not flush. Not sure if you can tell from my pics. I tried also doing a search w/no luck. I'm sure there is some specific name or something other than case that it's under.

[DemoShadow]

When i replaced my faceplate i had the same problem. all i did was push it in...kinda hard, and it poped in, or you could use a plasic flathead and pop it back in...

[brianlb]

When i replaced my faceplate i had the same problem. all i did was push it in...kinda hard, and it poped in, or you could use a plasic flathead and pop it back in...

I tried that, and it doesn't seem to pop in at all.

[pyraxiate]

I think its just like DemoShadow said. I dropped mine once and it seems to be a similar issue. I also just pushed really hard to get it to pop back in. I think its just that clip isnt in place as it should be when it was put back together. If anything, try to take it apart and put it back together :)

[Ninlour]

ITs easy as hell.

I've done it two times with success.

Its only matter of two connection belts and thats all at all ;).

Screen replacement is really easy here.

how did you put the keyboard back on????????????????

[Rustafergi]

Hey,

I literally just replaced the screen on my backup Tilt last night. Still got most of it in my head.

What, exactly, do you mean about putting the keyboard back on? Got any pics of where you are now?

This was one of the easiest things I've had to do...asside from it being somewhat tedious. Most of my issues were resolved by MAGNIFICATION! Once I could see what I was doing, there were almost no issues.

I only paid $31.99 on eBay for a screen with free shipping (from USA no less)...less than the $35 I would have had to pay with the insurance through my Provider Dealer...and I didn't have to wait for 3-5 weeks to get it back.

I'd do this for people with broken screens as a service, but I can't guarantee the cost of the screen...it goes up and down too much.

If you can be real descriptive, or have pictures, I'm pretty sure I can help get you back together.

Let me know, I'll keep an eye on this thread...

RAF

[XtreMe_G]

here's some dismantling guides

http://www.mikechannon.net/page1.html

you dont have to remove the keyboard to replace the LCD, unless u're talking about the outer keypad, which just sits in its spot

[raghavghei]

um i feel ur pain same thing happend to me superbowl 2008 phone got stuck between theater seats :-(