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[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brock4111:
I am having this white screen of death issue. I'm hoping that getting the battery completely drained will reset something and allow me to see the birds again...never thought I'd be wanting to see those birds, but here I am.

Has anyone ever had the blank white screen of death and gotten their gtab to work again?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
damn it, same thing just happened to me. I left it unused for 2 weeks, now I turn it on and white screen! not nice
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
Bump for the sake of my gtab? :( anyone??
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
and bump again? anyone?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brock4111:
White screen follow-up

I believe that this "white screen" is the equivalent of when you see a "No Signal" notification on your HDTV. I'm pretty sure that the tablet is running fine, it's just not outputting video to the LCD. I didn't have a dock to do video out to verify this, but I am fairly certain that's what was happening here.

I had to RMA mine. If anyone has other results/info, please let me know.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notsob2002:
The first gtab I bought when it started had a white screen that you could hardly see anything and it blinked. I took it back to office depot and got a new one.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijonglin:
Follow-up White Screen (more info), using HDMI output

Have the same problem with my second GTablet. However, I bought an external dock that has an HDMI output for the GTablet. With the working GTablet, when I plug it into my television, the television mirrors the output of the screen perfectly. With the white-screen tablet, only the television shows something. As I am a basic hardware guy, I guess there are two reasons for this:

1. The flex cable between the display and the computer is loose/broken.

2. Something in the electronics is wrong.

I have received an RMA number for this problem from Viewsonic, although they may just look at it and send it back to me. Any other experiments that people want me to try while I can still see on the external?

Otherwise, I'm just gonna send it to Viewsonic in a couple of days and wait 15-20 business days.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CivilDroid:
G Tablet White Screen

I have had this lately too. Once in a while when i turn my Gtab on the screen is white. When it first happened, i assumed it was bricked. I tried doing a update.zip back to stock...nothing...just white screen. Then when i was in the process of doing the update.zip flash again, i bumped the bottom, right corner of the tab on my desk and the screen all of a sudden when back to normal, showing the home screen. Now, if it does this white screen business, a simple tap on the right side usually brings it back to normal. I would also assume this is a loose connection of some sort. Anyone cracked the gtab open and been able to find where the screen connection is located? I bought my gtab Jan 14 2011 so it is out of the return window to Sears, and i haven't called Viewsonic for assistance yet as i fear i won't get very far with them. Any help is greatly appreciated!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijonglin:
Triple Love Tap Fix on Bottom Right Corner for White Screen Fix ... Back to Normal

After reading the last post, I tried a triple love tap on the bottom right corner on a white-screened g-Tablet, and voila. It's working again. The Internet is a grand thing. This love-tap thing is clearly undocumented Viewsonic security feature. :D

As for reference, I did break it open and tried to figure out where the flex cable went, but it's a pretty tight SoC design and when I removed the cover, the connection seemed to be sandwiched between the motherboard and the touchscreen itself. Not wanting to remove the 5 various cables and 3-4 various buttons floating around, I gave up at this point.

If I have to periodically do a love-tap, well so be it. At least, I'm not spending $600 for Motorola Xoom. :rolleyes: Thus is the fate of cheap bastards like myself who like to play Fruit Ninja on the cheap.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JayMonster:
I can't believe this worked!! "Love Tap" to the right corner brought my white screen back as well.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehurling:
Bump really works, thanx!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urbanartfx:
i can't believe the bump worked. I took it apart and looked inside at every connection. I was about to throw it away and then i found this post. I did the bump and it's back to normal.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reisa:
Another "love bump" success!

Just had it happen to mine this morning -- blank white screen. I did a love bump as suggested, and the screen is back! Definitely sounds like a connection issue, but I don't recall bumping it before it blanked out. I'll just keep fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again.

BTW, for anyone else who needs to do this -- it's definitely a "bump" compared to a "tap". I had to give it enough oomph that I could have craked a walnut with my palm under the same force. Not a "whack" but a "bump" compared to "tap" ;)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
WTF WITH VIEWSONIC/USMERCHANTS! I Live in Mexico, I sent (paid..) my tablet to the US for warranty (white screen, the tapping doesnt seem to work with me..) they recieved it, send it back to a friend in the US and he sent it back to mexico (PAID AGAIN).

Just recieved my gtablet, turn on, white screen, nice they didnt even touch the friggin thing!

WHAT THE F...
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
Ok, bumping this thread again, and letting you know.

Since I was pissed, I opened up my gtablet! Well to letting you know, the CONNECTOR that goes FROM the motherboard to the LCD...was completely loose and not completely connected. This has to be a factory fault, since well, its almost impossible for it to disconnect! Anyway, My tablet is working just fine now, (after 4 months ¬¬)....I will try to get my shipping money back from US Merchants, bastards.

RAWR!
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijonglin:
[REQUEST] A permanent solution than periodic love "tap/bumps"

Can you post a picture of the connector? I broke open my tablet before, but I was unable to locate this loose connection. Although I find the current solution very amusing/charming :p, I would like to have a permanent solution on this thread.

For long term care of the tablet, I've had to do this solution about once every 2-3 months on my 6 year old son's tablet. He had the tablet with the original problem and he may occasionally drop/jostle the thing more than I. So, for the lifetime of this product, the love tap/bump may be an acceptable solution. However, it is clearly a loose connection problem, and more information on your solution would be very helpful to the community.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pmcnano:
My solution to the white screen!

I though how stupid I was since I didnt took pictures, but let me explain.

Using the hardware breakdown pics.

I draw a Red Square in the "affected part".

In the top of the square is one end of the cable, in my case this was correct. The other end is underneath the motherboard, so you have to take out all the screws for the motherboard to check the other end, this was completely off.

I dont know if this will help everybody, because I gotta say for myself, the bumping in the bottom right didnt worked for me, not even once and I SMASHED the thing really hard!

Cheers

Paul

edit:

BTW, US MERCHANTS warranty told me someone screwed up on their side, I should have gotten a new tablet ¬¬. Anyways, I'm trying to make a deal with them, since I paid like 50 dls for shipment (I live in Mexico..) and they didnt do anything. Will let you know :P maybe I get a free dock!!!
[Nexus S General] tominater12:
I would love some help as to what settings would be best for the nexus s in handbrake.
[Nexus S General] webplus:
I have a preset set that works great for the Nexus but I will update the screen for the Nexus S and post it here as soon as I get home.
[Samsung Mesmerize] userno69:
So I'm wondering... with the recent news of Gingerbread being ported to the Galaxy S from the Nexus S, will the Mesmerize ever be getting it? It seems that the CDMA phones are like the black sheep compared to GSM, and out of the CDMA SGS phones, the Mesmerize is the black sheep in the shadow if the Fascinate.

So do we have any hope of ever seeing Gingerbread on it?
[Samsung Mesmerize] cloudstrife7:
I sure hope so. Just skip froyo and go straight to gingerbread.
[Samsung Mesmerize] 02busa:
Atleast you guys have a section on the forum... The Samsung Galaxy S Showcase has nearly no support in contrast.. Though i'm seeing alot of Mesmerize sys file matches..
[Samsung Mesmerize] monthlymixcd:
So why would anyone spend time working on Froyo for the Mez (or others) when 2.3 is out there?
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
There are lots of reasons why a company wouldn't throw away time, money, and resources spent on a project that they had already completed and shipped to a provider. First off, their end is done except fixing bugs. If Samsung, or any other company for that matter, stopped working on 1.6 because 2.1 was just around the corner, then that phone would be obsolete before it got it's first update. We've only been waiting a couple of months for froyo. Why would you want to wait another 6 months to a year for gingerbread to be our first update? Let's get froyo in our phones, and then we can all hope like hell that gingerbread hits for us before we've gotten rid of the Mes for something new.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oranium:
what is this update that Sprint just released ? Can I get it elsewhere ? And if I do get it will I have o wipe out everything ?

Rooted Evo via UnrEVOked 3 with stock Rom Froyo 2.2 .

Any release date on gingerbread ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgruendler:
Let the flaming begin!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weaselp1:
Its just a maintenance release, it tweaks some things, upgrades your radios, upgrades the kernel, and adds a few new programs. If you want this update, search the forums for the latest sprint ruu and flash it...if i were you, i wouldnt bother with it, u wont notice anything. You won't see gingerbread till sometime early 2011
[Nook Color General] devis:
I was listening to some music while using the NC and I happen to notice something. Whenever I would press the home button the music would get louder. Presses on both sides of the button, same thing. Maybe a manufacturing defect? Jt seemsvtbe speaker isnt fully attached to the case.
[Nook Color General] norkoastal:
I wonder who will upgrade the speaker first? The stock speaker is extreme suckage.. Come to think of it..... I would buy a case that has some speakers built in... There is a product that is called Imaingo who has some thumpin mini speakers, but would require extreme hackage to house the battery and bass ports without chunking up the NC thin appearance... hmmmmm
[Hero CDMA Android Development] fann52:
After receiving my second Hero I had noticed something weird about its software version... From what I remembered, it started with 2.27 on the last one I had and raised my curiosity/concern. I had heard about a root patch that was being sent out OTA by Sprint and after a little digging found the extremes that everyone was going through to achieve a successful root. The most common was to flash back .6 then to .5 which doesn't have the patch. I spent over an hour trying to find ANY copy of the 2.31.651.6 update and could not find anything. Then there where methods using the SDK which I'm sure could work, however the bootloader was a b!tch to access. I thought it would be entertaining to see If Sprint's new .7 root patched could be broken simply by the android market and third party developers; no use of Odin, unrevoked, HTC sync, no messing with debugging, not custom 2.31.651.7 (careful) and absolutely no flash backs! So here it is... enjoy.

All you will need ready is:

1).zip file of whichever OS you plan to flash. (I prefer the cm build's).

2)Rom Manager from the market (work's well with clockwork and cm).

3)Heroroot101.apk (Don't remember if it's on the market or third party).

4)NANDROID!!!!!!

All you do is run heroroot010 and push the root me button.

Reboot your phone and let it fully boot back up (give it a minute or two).

Turn it off and boot into recovery by holding down volume button and power.

I'll be damned there is a recovery image now by darchstar.

At this time there is no need to wipe just choose and flash rootme.zip

When you reboot you will see that sprint know's you're rooted already and wants to update you... This is fine.

Open Rom Manager, flash Clockwork (replacing darchstar) reboot into recovery mode and flash your new OS (DON'T FORGET TO WIPE).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cybertimber2007:
I like your detailed method, but SuperOneClick was really easy too.

Install HTC Sync (v2 for Hero)

Enable USB debugging

Open SOC

Click Root

Plug in phone when prompted

Wait a bit.... then done.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Porkrinds:
There really is alot of outdated information on these forums. All versions of the stock ROMs can be rooted one way or another.

Above is two possible solutions :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] laie1472:
I agree with porkrinds but y would you replace Darchstar Recovery its the best IMO Thanks Darchstar

Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Forum update, prune, re-sticky time?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Mich2Ga:
I used one click method & there's no recovery image.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Mich2Ga:
Great Way to Root Hero with 2.31

Used this without a hitch, has recovery & all took about 2 minutes...

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=643
[Hero CDMA Android Development] towir022:
Hey man I just used your little posts instructions to root my Wife's hero (my evo is already rooted)

I can't believe how easy that was thanks so much everything appears to be working I have superuser authority and am going to try flashing a new rom momentarily
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
Quick question, hopefully i'm not being redundant at all :confused:

1. For EVO users who switched to Cyanogen, Do you miss 4g? I know they're working on it now, and it will be out soon, but I'm thinking of switching from my rooted stock rom to CM6.1.1 and that way I atleast have a nand of CM before the new version hits.

I AM in a 4g coverage area, and I usually get 5-9 Mbps with 4g and only around 1Mpbs with 3g.

2. Also, Why do so many people switch to Cyanogen? I use Launcherpro, and it's pretty snappy, and with root I have wireless tether, I'm running a theme, and you really can't even tell it's sense. Am I losing speed by having sense running in the background? I guess I'm just looking for someone to help me justify the move to CM, haha.

3. Also, Do i NEED to do a full wipe before installing rom? Or is it not absolutely necessary?

Thanks to any replies in advance!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
CyanogenMOD (AOSP) is a completely different level of performance than any Sense-based ROM can offer. You can install LauncherPRO as your launcher in CM just for familiarity.

I do miss 4G with CM occasioncally, but it's not a dealbreaker. I'll go without 4G to stay with CM (which should come to an end hopefully very soon).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
OOO thanks for the reply, Do I need to do a full wipe before installing?? Or is it okay if I don't?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] housry23:
No because my area doesn't have 4G yet. Maybe when I go out of town next week and am in a 4G coverage area I will, but I will flash the nightlies to see if it is implemented and if I really want to use it, I will flash a sense rom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
Yes, you need to do a full wipe: Data, Cache, Dalvik Cache. Also, you need to make sure you have downloaded and flash GApps, otherwise you'll have no market.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackroseMD1:
Nope, don't miss it at all, especially since we don't have 4G in San Diego yet, although I do travel to a lot of 4G cities for work. Also, 4G is now working on CM...it just hasn't been integrated into the nightlies yet because they are still smoothing out all the kinks. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] admorris:
Don't miss 4g, but like you I really don't see a real reason to have switched...I just like changing roms. I don't see much of a difference in performance between cm and fresh, BUT one thing I do like is that it has a much smaller footprint. I gained about 50mb by switching to cm.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
How do I get my data back from titanium backup? DO I have to redownload it?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onefreeman:
you only have to download titanium backup from the market and run restore from there. I recommend the pro version though
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dongator7:
won't have to miss it for much longer...already in the works
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
I know I can't wait!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OgremustCrush:
CM has a lot of small tweaks that just make the experience better. Like the lockscreen gestures for example, or the notification bar power controls. Plus since its AOSP, tweaks and themes from other phones are far more likely to work, and things like changing your phone's lcd density look much better. And getting the latest android updates months before they're released by htc is pretty nice too.

Posted by my rooted EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
No, because WiMax is now finished, and just getting polished right now. By the time the Gingerbread nightlies start rolling out, so will WiMax support. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdh10475:
I like CM but no 4G is a deal breaker. I use my Sling Box for sports and 3G + sling-box = sucks. I gotta have me some 4G.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
I mostly use 4g just for browsing the internet and updating my Feedr...

So MOST of the time I don't need 4g, when I look at youtube, or somethign like that, it IS nice....

AHH I can't decide whether I want it or not! haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
What many people don't realize is that, while WiMAX (a.k.a. 4G) is often faster than 3G in file transfers, the high ping times, i.e. latency, are almost identical in most situations, so doing basic things on your phone won't have a major boost in speed on a WiMAX connection. If you were downloading a ROM from Clockwork or any other large transfer, 4G ideally would be significantly faster than 3G. Updating Twitbook or Facespace wouldn't have a big difference in speed unless you had a gawd awful 3G connection and for some reason a good 4G connection. The major dealbreaker for most is the extremely negative impact it has on battery and how shaky the signal is when you're in motion.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donisewell:
Nope. I don't get it in my area anyway.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subcypher:
Ha ha ha. Not where I come from. I'm in Iowa. We won't be getting 4G for a while.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DraginMagik:
easy way to see whats it's like...turn off your 4G radio for 5 days and see how it feels. then imagine that the UI itself is a bit smoother with more customization options. you now have an idea of CM6. course, we are expecting 4G in the sooner rather than later time frame.

i live in a 4G area and have lived without 4G for months. I look forward to having it but since i don't tether or stream movies its not a big deal. i miss the 'copy/paste' everywhere more than i miss the 4G radio.

a nandroid backup

a titanium backup

do a full wipe

enjoy
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nrre:
i ran CM nightlies for a few months, i have no 4g though.

i do have WiFi at home, at work I get a crappy connection to anything, if 3g is pulling down @ 300kbps i'm happy with that...tried Verizon PRL but it bumped ping up to 300ms instead but got 1.4mbps down. Stuck with Sprints 160ms ping though.

Probably flash the 12-17 nightly though, running the stock rooted sprint rom now, tired of how sluggish it feels.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
Cyanogen doesn't have Copy Paste everywhere??

Oh, And I'm from Iowa too! just moved to Kansas City though, SPrint is pretty much based out of KC (overland park) So I get 4g EVERYWHERE..

I'm stuck switching between Vaelpak's latest and CM.1.1, I love em both, I need help! Ha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazyloof:
What?? What in the world are you talking about...

With CM6.1 I have 24~ hours of battery use with the stock kernel and moderate usage. I tried TONS of sense roms and all different kernels and hardly ever got 24 hours with a good amount of use. Sense requires MORE processing power to run, your statement doesn't even make sense (no pun intended).

Also the signal is the EXACT same, in motion or not. The ROM doesn't effect your signal at all. It uses the exact same radio drivers and hardware as any other ROM, once again making your claim just ridiculous...

However my opinion on CM6.1 since changing from Sense ROM's:

All the little tweaks on cm alone make it worth it. You can change literally anything. I use launcherpro on both sense and cm and feel like its a totally different experience on cm. It's much quicker. Another reason are all of the theme's that are out for CM. Most of them look great and are almost on a completely different level then the sense themes(ick) and I love the gingerbread theme I am running now. It actually looks legitimate and everything is skinned, even the animations. Performance wise CM destroys sense, hands down.

The only negatives for me are.. no 4g ofcourse and I do live in a 4g area but don't really miss it. I only use it for browsing, if I choose to download something I'm usually on wifi anyway. And the lack of kernels. You have almost NO CHOICES on kernels for CM. It's either stock, snap(out dated and doesnt even work on 6.1), zendroid(rarely ever gets updates)... and thats about it. There is nothing wrong with the stock one I would just like to flash an undervolted or battery fixed one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] travis.rudd:
Thanks for the reply,

Firstly, I think the Mike was just saying that 4g is bad for battery life because it is kind of unstable as far as how different of a signal you get from even one room to the next ,and that you lose it alot and it has to search for the signal alot. Which uses battery. He was basically saying CM is better for that reason, so Idk why you're argueing with him, but it must just be a misunderstanding.

Have you tried Vaelpak? I'm using Vaelpak with matted blues theme and it's WAY Fast, as fast as CM is for me, which is why I'm just looking for a reason to switch to CM, but I can't seem to find one until 4g is implemented! I mean, I know it's faster than stock sense, but Vael removes the sense ui and basically just leaves some of the aesthetic touches and you CAN install some of the HTC widgets and applications (browser, clock, lockscreen...etc...) if you want, but those all come AOSP.

Let me ask you this, if you have a NEAR senseless rom with 4g, does it beat out CM if the speed is nearly as snappy?

Thanks again
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
I wasn't speaking of the signal and battery life in CM... I was speaking of the signal and battery life when using WiMAX. Sorry if I wasn't more clear.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
I've always had issues of reliability and random FC's with just about every Sense ROM other than Burnt Droid. CM is just one of those ROMs that I have to almost try to break to get it to start having issues.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike.r.olson:
Also, in response to crazyloof: With SetCPU OC'ing the CPU to 1119MHz while in use and UC'ing it to 422MHz while the screen is off and only using WiFi when I am in a terrible 3G area, I could get 24-30 hours out of the phone. I just charge it every night out of habit.