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[HD2 General] otacon:
Mine died on me when I was actually out of the country (stuck in Vietnam without a phone). It would work for 5 minutes, then stop for hours. I would have to switch my phone on and off for a couple hundred times before it worked for another 5 minutes...

Got so tired of it that i sent back my HD2 for warranty repair. Expect it to be back tomorrow (or Friday at the latest). Hope there's no further problems with it.
[HD2 General] anrabi4:
I hate to say it, but the HD2 is known for its highly defective touchscreen. Even when it's working, a lot of people experience strange and bothering events, such as the touchscreen "touching" itself, a very high/very low screen sensitivity all of a sudden, the tilting of the screen to one of the four corners of the device and so on and so forth.

With a device so expensive one would expect it to work flawlessly. Seems to me that HTC doesn't think the way we do...
[HD2 General] berutti:
experienced the same problem. and oddly some lines work and some not.

after some soft resets and a while without battery started working again. it happened after an android on sd crash.

might it be a corruption of hspl? does it have some self restoring memory area that fixes across reboots?
[HD2 General] Perlitschke:
Hi Slackys,

to assemble the Touch with the LCD-Screen use Special 2mm 3M Sticky-Tape. You can´t buy this Tape at HomeDepot, but you can ask your Local Phone Repair-Center for a free Sample of that. I bet, they will help you out for free...

Here in my Toiuchscreen/LCD DIY-Webpage you find a complete BuildIn Process and a lot oft Pictures ( also a Picture from this Speical 3M Tape i use ):

http://mperlitsch.hintergrundbild.com/htc_hd2.htm#Zerlegeanleitung

Your Silicone Method is dangerous because between the Glas and LCD have to be air/space. If the Glas is to close to the LCD it will Touch sometime that and you see Dark-Touch-Bubbles ( often directly at the Center of the Screen )...

Best Regards,

Michael
[HD2 General] kostikos:
I have the same broblem. before one month toushscreen stop responding. actually i was stucked in the lockscreen. i tryied pushing the end button and then it was fixed. but now the problem apear again!!! and cannot be fix. i tryied pushing the end button for 3-5 secs but nothing. im stuck between the lockscreen and blackscreen.

Can anybody give a link to buy these things together. (lcd+digitizer+tapes). do i need also a Keypad Button Flex Cable Ribbon? i watched the video manual and i thin i can fix my hd2.
[HD2 General] Bolocho:
HD2 digitizer not working - Found a fix!!

Ok, so Istarted having this problem on and off about 3 months ago. The usual, hard reset, change ROM, Task29, etc, but the problme was still there.

Then read about the "Hard Press End Button" fix and it worked, for a while. And finally, about 2 weeks ago, it wouldn't respond anymore.

After reading all over the web and watching the dissasemble vids on youtube as well as the one about replacing the digitizer, I dissasembled the phone to see how easy it was and how far I could get; it was pretty easy to do the basics, but wouldn't venture in dissasembling the LCD.

When I put it all back together, it was working again! Then the problem reappeared, but was able to do the End btn fix.

Finally, about a week ago, it died big time and could not get past the lockscreen for two days, so I went and got a replacement digitizer, and decided to dissasemble again all the way this time, while preparing for the digitizer to arrive.

It was late and didn't get too far, and when I assembled back, it was still unresponsive.

The next day though, I was thinking about what was different this time from the prior dissasembling, long story short, I tried taking out the battery and pressing the back of the LCD (where the safety regulations sticker is) against the digitizer in several points with both my thumbs, and BAM! it's been working flawlessly ever since. Every now and then the screen goes unresponsive again, but I just take out the battery, press with my thumbs and it's good to go.

I would like to know if this fix works for others... please comment.
[HD2 General] koulbreeze:
my touchscreen stopped working and this is what i did...

leading upto the event.. i got a new wireless isp and connected my HD2 to it and then plugged my HD2 into my computer via usb. I didn't turn off the screen i just flipped it over face down and went to bed. The next morning i went to turn it on and it wouldn't respond to touch. buttons worked but the screen was unresponsive. opened online chat with tmobile who could do nothing for me except offer me the ability to upgrade my phone.. So i soft and hard reset, with and without the sim card. worked once but stopped shortly there after. searched XDA and tried all the tricks shown here, i.e. pressing hard on/around end call, back button, etc, everything. Nothing worked. then i got really stupid.. found the dissasembly/assembly video on youtube and took my phone apart to clean all the ribbon cable contacts... in doing so i broke the volume control ribbon cable. Anyhow, put it all back together and it still wouldn't work. So i had voided the warranty, broke the volume control so no more hard resets, and could only recieve calls. So i thought what the hell, i have to pay $300 to downgrade or $550 to get a new phone without extending my contract(cash up front) screwed. Ok mr phone ur going to hell, pulled sd card and battery and put my HTC HD2 in the freezer... Several hours later (3-4) i pulled it out stuck the battery in it and pressed the end call button, ya it was frozen so i had to repeatedly press the button until it thawd enough to start. and it did.. :)

Took a couple seconds for the screen to start functioning but it is now.

I think the cause was the overheating of the phone being left screen-on and plugged in charging overnight. Why it works now? idc as long as it is.

I don't recommend this unless its your very very very last resort and i wouldnt leave it in the freezer for more than a few hours.

Goodluck
[HD2 General] moxiot:
hitting the phone lightly against a table did the trick for me. i wrapped it in a towel and lightly hit the bottom right corner against a wooden table and voila!! it worked.
[HD2 General] almotwkell:
That exactly what the mobile technician told me, when my phone became unresponsive to touch 3 weeks ago, he fixed new screen for 80 US$ , now its working
[HD2 General] Number14:
@almotwkell Maybe you give me an adress because the HTC certified repair center in the Netherlands have tried to fix my HD2 twice.. First time they repaired my burted screen and I got it back with a not functional touchscreen.

They tried to repair that and it worked for about 12 hours before it stopped responding again...
[HD2 General] Mrted:
Hi,

This is my scenario:

Some months ago I had WM 6.5 on my HTC HD2. At once, the touchscreen suddenly stopped to work at all. I brought it to an HTC center to fix it. They fixed it (with some electro-mechanic procedure, not replacing the touch)... some months later I cracked the Nand and put Android ROM ( [06 Nov 2011][MAG/cLK] NexusHD2-Gingerbread V3.2a (GWK74)(Android 2.3.7)[tytung_r13] ).

1 week ago the touchscreen stopped working again, then I brought the phone back to the techs and I finally convinced them to not installing WM again, thinking that the problem was still the precedent. Yesterday night, one of my fellows (at whom I cracked the nand, too) called me claiming the same problem... Now I'm am very confused.

What should I do? Is it an unsolveble problem? Can I fix it?? Is there a way to avoid it? I'd like to keep Android on my phone, but if it would cause my phone crash, I could install WM back, sadly =(.

Please answer me, and sorry for my bad English.
[HD2 General] king786:
i have same problem best idea is dont use the end button when it is working becauss that is where the ribbon is connected and if you are on android get button savior best app fast and not memory hungry it does all the hardware button jobs for you to power up take battery out and then place charger then put in battery and then

bam the phone is switching on
[HD2 General] king786:
read wat i wrote above it is helpful and also if u require that app i can send the apk? ???

say thanks if i helped

also if u in uk i can help u with the fone
[HD2 General] theDante:
Mine completely stopped working :mad: Luckily I still have insurance and need to send it in for repairs.

But I'm running WP7.5... should I downgrade before I send it in?

If so, is there a easy way to backup my setup now and restore the factory version? Thanks for any help.
[HD2 General] gdsbalaji:
unfortunately you need to downgrade to original stock wm6.5...

i think you can sync settings and files to zune and sync back when u want to
[HD2 General] abdkok:
SOLVED

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| O O |

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press "O" marked places to see LCD color is changing,
[HD2 General] rezasn:
i have encountered the same problem recently someone help me
[HD2 General] lumbu:
There isnt much to do besides trying to jiggle the End key or repairing the digitizer as far as I can tell. I got away with this on and off for about 3 months before it finally get really bad on me about a week ago, to the point where my phone was unusable for days. Whoever posted that volume down end key trick is brilliant though. I had been pressing the end key as hard as I could, jiggling it around for days with no luck. 5 seconds of that and boom it works.
[HD2 General] ryanusu:
What is the volume down end key trick?
[HD2 General] ttownfeen:
Add my phone to the list of ones with unresponsive screens as of earlier this evening, at 7:40pm. At first I thought it was because my shattered screen glass had finally given way, but luckily I came here to find out if others had the same problem. The phone makes a click noise originating from behind the red key when I start it up now, so I'm thinking it's the digitizer ribbon. I've tried most of the tricks on this thread but none seem to be working.

Luckily for me, my contract is up and T-Mobile is giving me a free upgrade for being a longtime customer (They always seem to do this every time I decide that it's time to go contractless). (I'm picking up my new phone tomorrow! I'm thinking of getting the Amaze or the S2...). The point of that is I don't need a long term fix, I just need one more day to run a new backup on Titanium. (The current one is a month old.) And I'm definitely not willing to pay anymore than some nominal amount to get this fixed for one day.
[HD2 General] Armazia:
I've had the same problem, but had no warranty. Bought an HD2 with bad Nand blocks(the 5/7 time vibrate at start problem), and replaced the board from the (defective screen) HD2, then placed it in the other one, Problem fixed :)
[HD2 General] ryanusu:
fixed touchscreen (replacement)

I finally broke down and spent $50 on ebay for a touchscreen with digitizer. It took me 2 hours to do the swap but my HD2 is now fully functional.

If you are wanting to do this I recommend getting double sticky tape as mentioned earlier. I had a hard time getting my phone back together and the screen itself is not all the way pressed together. However, it's pretty solid and the HD2 is working like a dream again.

I guess there is no magic fix to the touchscreen issue. You just have to replace the screen/digitizer. I recommend buying them together. You can probably get a digitizer by itself and use your existing screen but that involves very careful work and glue/tape and higher risk for ruining stuff.

All the best-

Ryan
[HD2 General] grega_slo:
Hey guys!

I finally came across this section :)

I had my HD2 for 2.5 yrs... All of the sudden touch stopped working...

OK I said what the hell and tried all methods described here...

Then I bought new touch+lcd already assembled and replaced it... I hard-reset went back to stock but my digitizer still won`t work... New LCD is doing fine, but touch no go...

Any idea more :) ?

Thanks!
[HD2 General] bedwar22:
New life for HD2

So now after 2 years, 1 and a half months I have the digitizer issue aswell. Its increible how these things happen. I just got a new contract for 2 years thinking my HD2 would last forever and even before the new SIM arrived it started gasping its last breaths.

I spent a lot of time searching the forums , especially this one. With a lot of button pressing I got things running again for a few days, then death, more button pressing, another few days and then nothing. I gave up and decided to look into getting it repaired. I thought HTC might have some sympathy being so close to the end of the guarantee period but after a pleasant telephone converstion, they called me, I was informed it could not be covered and I should send it in for a quote. If I did not like the quote they could dispose of it for me - I guess sort of geting rid of the evidence! Anyway as I had another quote for around €200 I eventually decided to get a new phone - EV0 3D for €290 from Mediamarkt. Its actually quite nice but has a cheaper feel. The 3D has no real use but does have a sort of Wow effect.

Back to the HD2 though. A tip for anybody who starts to get this problem - Install a VNC server program and activate it. After a last ditch effort , a lot of pressure here and there and a sore thumb I finally got VNC installed and running. Now I have an ex- phone I can control from a PC or another android device and my HD2 can start its new life connected to my amplifier as an Internet radio and Music streamer.

Hope this helps a few of the others out there who are out of guarantee and dont feel up to the challenge of replacing the digitizer.

Good luck to all HD2 owners - now I am off over to the EVO 3D section to see what they are upto.
[HD2 General] grega_slo:
OMG I hammered red button and it started to work...

But it works there and that...

I have to apply pressure on end key several times...

Shhhhhhhh...

I have my Sensation now, thanks god.

But HD2 gave me 2.5 great years :)
[HD2 General] theej:
HTC touch screen unresponsive

Haha, same problem here, last two weeks major problems with the unresponsive screen. Got my phone end nov.2009; was still hoping to use it for a while... guess they just build it to last max 2.5 years.. so sad... really loved the phone..

Wel, hopefully i get in once more; going to pair a bluetooth mouse or something (previously successfully operated HD2 phone with bluetooth keyboard and mouse, so hopefully works again)...
[HD2 General] marrisnwosu:
Found a fix

THIS IS A WORKING FIX.... SOMETHING SO SIMPLE

The digitiZer is under the hangup button. press the button bit hard till it nudges the digitiser a little. it worked for me.

Found this in the comment section of : htcphones.net/htc-hd2-problems-with-touchscreen

ENJOY
[HD2 General] :
That does not always work for me.. ^ Sorry to burst your bubble, but even if it did, it is only temporary and the problem will only get worse over time/usage...

BTW, I am very interested if most people with unresponsive digitizers have T-mobile (no solder digitizer) or EU (soldered digitizer)?

If less people with EU have digitizer problems, then I might try and replace an EU digitizer/lcd assembly onto my t-mobile hd2..
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
Good point!

I wouldn't recommend you to do such a thing: it is well-known that US version combo(digitizer+lcd) is better in quality!
[HD2 General] jackrabbit72380:
Yes it is a hardware problum i have the same problum and it relates to the very delicate part mentioned ^ but i want to know exactly what part it is and make a gyed to fix this issue and also but some protecting metal around the ribbon if thats posible to stop it from happening agin also what to know exactly what part is damaged and what part to order to fix this issue with total repair guide because this is an extreamly annoying issue i think htc should be offering a recall on the device with the issue because its pritty random and of the blue error i have managed to find a temp fix...

Take the battery out push in middle back alittle bit. push hard on the power RED button and then push the power RED button fealy fast like 20 times pop the battery back in and should work but dont hit the red button because it may go in to hybernate agin and lock up! this is just a temp fix!!! From my findings somehow the phone heted up the solder connecters or something like that between the red power button and digitalizer connecter making shure it works and red button is not messing up giving it alot of heat like with hair dryer and then carfuly moving to freezer for a good 15 mins may permenetly fix the problum but i personaly think a nice protective peace of metal around that pat may prevent this hardware problum from happening..

I plan on ither buying a new one or 2 or paying full price to have mine fixed if possible or something maby even rip it aprt my self and tinker till I can find a permenet fix where i know the issue wont come back

hope that helps someone!!!
[HD2 General] :
That would be a good idea to cover the ribbon but it may be safer to use a thin piece of plastic, maybe styrene from hobby store.
[HD2 General] snuphy:
Kind of sort of maybe fix?

I love this phone. Mine died almost a year ago. I read all about the issue and decided I didn't want to wait.... So I got a new phone. A few actually over the last year.

Then a friend randomly tells me he has one in perfect condition. Naturally I jump all over it and trade my g2 for it. And I'm in love again with my hd2.

It got me wondering about my old phone again. I realized I don't care if I break the old one but I want to play with it.

I ended up taking a very small flat head screwdriver and separating the glass from the rubber outside below the hard buttons. I was so angry with the device for not working I was just going to snap the screen in half for the hell of it. But when I did this I realized the hard buttons moved a lot... so I stressed it to the max and wiggled the power button a bit and to my surprise the screen is now responsive... Now I have two of these and I don't really care about the recently fixed phone so I've literally been trying to get it to mess up again by pressing the power button really hard and restarting the phone. But for the last few hours or so it's working perfectly.

No idea if this is a viable solution... That's a lie... this is most certainly not a viable solution but those of you out of warranty and an extra hd2 laying around with nothing to lose... why not :)
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
You already figured it out: this is just a temporary solution, a definitive one is replacing touchscreen.
[HD2 General] arbrib86:
holy SH*T... its true...just working after an afternoon trying to find a solution..I just booted nand android without the sd card on the phone....

edit: after a couple of minutes it stoped working again...
[HD2 General] eugenile:
This is why I use tablet tweaks so I hardly use the hard keys
[HD2 General] kateryaris:
I had the same problem with you at first I thought that it was something wrong with the rom and I did a clean install but the problem was still there. Then I installed the default rom but the problem was still there. Unfortunately it was hardware problem and they had to fix a chip from the phone. I read that many people had similar problems with that because of the overuse of the phone.
[HD2 General] mofunkymoney:
My solution for now....

eye did soft reset, hard reset, nothing happened... While fumbling with de END KEY, de slider became operable somewhat, so eye use an Xacto blade to pry de edges of de end key & 4now eye got action...

QUEST ION: would contact cleaner cause de end button to get better contact... eye'm figgering at all de action de end button receives + dirt, etc from daily use could cause? button contact problems...

High Chief Otunba Omowale Agbasaga of Ido-Oshun:cool:
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
No, howgh!
[HD2 General] sakkyoku:
Some have suggested that it's the flex cable that passes under the button. I can confirm that this was the case with mine..when I opened the phone, the cable looked cracked/broken on the edge, presumably from being pinched and pushed under the end call button. I believe that if you are experiencing the problem as described by the OP, it is very likely to be this particular hardware issue and no ROM or tweak is going to fix it. Bending or flexing might help for a while. Minimizing your use of the end call button for waking the phone as soon as you notice this problem beginning will help also, and if you aren't experiencing this problem yet on your HD2 I suggest getting used to waking your phone with other buttons to avoid it. Hope this helps someone.
[HD2 General] Crippius:
Here's an answer I made on another thread, you've got all details in it
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
Good point!:highfive:
[HD2 General] Morpheus3600:
Thks for this option. Tried it after my screen was non responsive for 2 days, and it's working again ! Won't question it, it worked !!! :good:
[HD2 General] Bonefreeze:
somewhere in deep ungle of xda I had read that hd 2 end call button has a "touch" with touchscreens "hardware" (vcables/connectors, not sure how to translate) every time it is pressed, therefore, after some time touch screen goes numb.
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
Confirmation

You're right, it is typical for HD2(a design flaw): using very often END Call/POWER button will determine, over the time, a premature failure of your touchscreen.
[HD2 General] nickriley:
So, there goes my story... I was never aware of this issues until yesteray, when I prodly (or not so prodly) became one of you guys, those who have huge issues with the digitizer :(.

Yesterday in the evening, after a normal day I suddenly realized that I can't really unlock my phone, at first I thought it was a software issues but then realized that it's not.

I've been reading for several hours different threads on our forum, and no temporary solutions mentioned helped. I still can unlock my phone once in 20-30 attempts but I'm afraid it will get worse in time...

I have installed a tool called Screen Off and Lock (to lock the phone) and turned on Volume rocker wake option in Tytungs ICS build to wake the phone up by pushing one of the volume buttons, quite weird I'd say but it seems to work flawlessly.. I'm gonna try out some other work-arounds and I'll let you know.
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
IMO, anything you'll find (Good LUCK!), it will be at most temporarily...
[HD2 General] fanaras:
I replaced my screen and worked fine. I found an LCD + digitizer on ebay for about 30euro... The digitizer is the first to brake on hd2 because it's robbon cable gets presure from the on-off button. The one i bought is protected.
[HD2 General] nickriley:
So.. It still holding on, but being used to the Power Button can sometimes press it and then struggle to unlock it, but as long as I'm using only Volume Down to unlock and the Sleep shortcut it works fine.

I understand that it's a temporary solution so that's why I'm going to move for a while to HTC Explorer (Pico) which will be a huge downgrade. :(

If I understand correctly you ordered it from one of the European pages? Could you please provide the direct link? Maybe I'll decide to buy myself the digitizer and stay with HD2

Also, did you replaced it by yourself or you went to service?

Thanks
[HD2 General] BrianXDA:
get a new screen model

.. And it wont happen again! Maybe your phone has the old one! the old lcds have failures!
[HD2 General] vini59:
Same problem for me

I checked ebay to find a new digitizer too and it seems to have 2 versions

1 with big connector and 1 with very small connector

Is there a way to know the one I need ?? (without unmounting my HD2 now)
[HD2 General] BrianXDA:
you must take it apart, you don't have any other choice. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1341927 hope you phone has the ClickOn 60H00300 Version!
[HD2 General] bib*oops:
As far as I know, it's not quite true: in original boot loader there are some characters(numbers and letters) in the last row(if my memory doesn't go wrong) specifying very clear type of lcd and digitizer, just searching here, on xda, would clarify this issue...:confused: