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[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellfonepimp:
Not a video, but hope it helps

I just replaced the glass digitizer for the HD7 and decided to explore a little in case I needed to do a lcd for this beast, so here is what I was able to find out.

After following the steps in the above teardown; ***If your not careful you will tear the main flex cable***** ( I know cause I did )

1 Carefully peal off the boards on the sides as you peal the flex label off with the manufacturer sticker still in tact. All the top boards peal off pretty easy, make sure you unplug all the wires that are in the way.

2 The phone should now be free of all boards and cables

Now from here on in its tricky:

1 I used a heat gun to remove the digitizer, theres a plug in on the back of the phone to the left, its tiny and flat. Lift up on the tightener and slide it out.

1a I lifted the lcd up a bit being very, very careful so I dont crack it or make it bleed and slowly removed the digitizer flex cable down also lifting it off the lcd, be careful the flex cable is glued down at the very bottom of the lcd as well.

2 Now this is not conclusive but it looks like the lcd is also held down by glue, in the middle and on the bottom sides. I never needed to remove the lcd so I never really took it off to see if thats how. I did take some heat to the areas I mentioned and the lcd lifted up about half an inch near the digitizer flex.

Thats all I have hope this helps someone!!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsedstech:
hmmm that guide might come in handy, im thinking of replacing the bezel on mine
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilpuppy:
hello, cellphonepimp perhaps you could show us which part of the #1 you remove using the heat gun ?? i've come to death end no idea where to start. below photo marking all completely sealed. :mad:
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dapupster:
Has anyone figured out how to actually GET to the LCD and digitizer? I have the motherboard off but cannot figure out how to actually ACCESS the LCD/digitizer...

Please see the picture below...I have NO idea where to go from here!! Help!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] professorwol:
Ugh I am stuck at this exact same spot! Please if any one has any knowledge share with us!!!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] professorwol:
I took the digitizer off by heating it up but i think I did it wrong because i cut a cable that I SWORE in my mind went to the digitizer but now i am not sure... I got the digitizer off but now the LCD is in the housing and I can't connect the new digtizer because of that flex cable and that I can't get under the lcd to connect the new digitizer... PLEASE HELP!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheRecruit:
HD7 LCD repair craziness...

I've searched everywhere for an answer to this question...

when i replace the digitizer+LCD unit...what tape do i use to secure it into the shell?

I literally had to cut the double sided tape holding the lcd screen into the shell to remove it. the digitizer connector is indeed behind the lcd screen. when i removed my screen and digitizer i wasnt concerned about the lcd breaking b/c it already was broken. i did accidentally cut the ribbon cable for the digitizer necessitating the replacement of both lcd and digitizer, i found them pre-assembled on ebay. if your going to try to save the screen, already having removed the digitizer, be very careful when removing it b/c it is extremely fragile with out the rigid support of the digitizer....

PS. there are only two ribbon cables coming from the front of the shell, the thick one (aprox 1cm wide) is the lcd, the other which is located at the bottom of the screen between the widows icon and the search icon is the digitizer flex cable (3mm wide aprox). hope that helps ur ID what you cut.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ttblondey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UBCFsMDTGA&feature=related.

you can watch this video.there's afew more which you can find.;)
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SelArom:
after watching that I'm scared to death of replacing it myself, there's no way I won't brick my phone!

Can someone recommend a reputable repair center that can replace it for me for under 100 bucks including parts labor and shipping?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ttblondey:
Me too ,I thought it was as easy as tytn2, well you need a heater whoooo,might as well send back let the pros do it.If i ever damage my screen.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StevetotheH:
If your having troubles with removing digitizer, set you phone in oven for no more than 5 minutes at a time, @ 135F. Take it out and pry, then repeat if needed. Set it on some crumpled up tin foil to get separation from the metal shelves.

As for the ribbon for the LCD you have to pry the corner of the LCD up as you push the ribbon into place. Your going to repeat with the oven in order to release the LCD as it is attached with several pieces of two sided tape. This may also be needed/helpful to remove the ribbon from in-between the metal case and the LCD as it is adhered to the back with something like Crystal Clear by 3M.

What it really comes down to is heat is your best friend through the whole process.

I have done 4 of these this same way

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[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawgirlval69:
seriously???? an oven???? i have now seen it all... btw for anyone wanting to cut the chance of destroying your phone by 80%.. dont use this method... not looking for a fight..just trying to help someone make a good decision...
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerMCT:
Removing LCD and Digitizer

My wife broke her phone (LCD and not the digitizer).

Tasked with buying a new one or repairing this one I choose to try to repair it. Watching the videos, I assumed I would break the digitizer trying to get the LCD out so I purchased the LCD & Digitizer Assembled (AND SO GLAD I DID).

The phone was very easy to take apart until I had to remove the LCD and Digitizer.

Here's what I learned:

There IS NO SCREWS holding the LCD and Digitizer in place

It is held together using two sided tape.

Put a sharp flat headed screw driver between the glass panel and grill and slowy lift the screen.

Once you have enough clearance, use a sharp knive to cut the tape holding them in place from the top working your way down.

You can then slowly pull the bottom away from the plastic casing.

Replace with the new Screen and your good to go!

I can't post pictures of it because the blog is preventing me from doing so. Contact me if you would like me to email them to you.

The phone is working great now and it only cost me $57 to fix it.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellion:
Just what I was looking for!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justinjk:
I need to replace my digitizer and the only thing holding me back from ordering it is the fact that I am not entirely confident about doing the repair.

A combination of this video:

along with this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31391410

give me a very good idea of how to get down to the digitizer, but then I don't have a complete understanding of how to free the old digitizer ribbon cable and then later feed the replacement digitizer's ribbon cable through. A new video was posted to youtube a few months ago demonstrating this step, but I'm still a bit confused... Here is that video:

[YOUTUBE]SGYN1JBtlGA[/YOUTUBE]

Honestly, from reading RogerMCT's post, it would seem that heating the phone (as seen in the video above plus StevetotheH's post) wouldn't be needed. I'm wondering, are there any things I should keep an eye out for if I'm attempting to cut this double-sided tape? Like are there other ribbon cables I should be aware of so that I don't accidentally cut them while trying to cut the 2-sided tape?

Any more details about or pictures of this process would be greatly appreciated, as I've spent a lot of time looking for more information about this task and there really isn't much on the internet about this aside from this thread.

Thanks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Teh_Tech:
Hi!

First off, if I have posted in the wrong place, I am sorry and if necessary please move to relevant location!

Right, I have had a major problem with my HTC Desire, I spent all day & night yesterday trying to fix!

I rebooted the device as it was running short of memory, then phone just got stuck on the white HTC boot screen & wouldnt move from that, so I restored a backup of the phone using Nandroid, but I had the same result, fine I thought, Id just download a RUU to reflash the device, this didnt work and came up with errors, BUT what I did manage to do is take the rom.zip and make a new ROM in Cygwin which flashed perfectly and I ended up with a stock 2.2 and all seemed to be back to normal, so I then tried to restore a backup again, but same problem, white HTC screen so I have came to the conclusion that I will have to TRY to re-create my old ROM & settings using this stock ROM!

So far I have managed to root the ROM & add everything that my old ROM had (was using the latest Lee Droid ROM - man big respect to you for what you do!!) but there are a few things missing which I do not know about and this is where I need all your help with!

Below are the bits I desperately need including with the ROM (my phone wont install any other ROMS other than the stock 2.2 I said earlier) I am not expecting the members here to do it all for me, BUT if you could point me in the right direction to either the posts with directions for what I need or other places where I can find the bits & how to do it!

*** Wireless N support (my router is N & so are the other wireless devices)

*** An overclocked kernel (such as Lee Droid's V2.2e_A2SD ROM)

*** The ability to wake up & unlock the phone with the optical thumb trackpad

*** The reboot option when long press on unlock button (ideally the nice, clear menu that includes Hibernate from the new HD ROMS)

*** Branding & naming the ROM (as Lee Droid does on his ROMS)

*** Custom wallpapers instead of stock wallpapers

I am sorry for the long post, but I really NEED this completed ASAP and I know with all your help, I can do it!

Also, I am making a simple program on my PC to custom ROMS (add & delete apps, alarms, ringtones & notifications etc) which I will upload for the community when it has been completed & working 100%!

Thanks in advance & I hope that you can find it in your hearts to help me!

Arty :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DiGi760:
I don't think nandroid restores the kernel. After you do a restore with it, you need to flash a kernel that is compatible with the rom being restored.

Personally, when I restore I backup on my phone, I reinstall the rom and then just restore /data from my nandroid backup.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Teh_Tech:
Thanks for your fast reply DiGi760, however I think you misunderstand!

I need a kernel that supports overclocking the CPU as I use SetCPU and so far its just the standard 998MHZ I can set the clock to, where I would like it to be higher, like 1038MHZ or whatever it is :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Syn Ack:
Your backup copy is broken. You can't "really" recover from this. Just reflash 2.2 and update it to whatever you had before and start over. You may be able to manually pull stuff from your SD card where the nandroid backup was written to but that would be a tedious amount of work.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Teh_Tech:
Thanks Syn Ack, why would the backup AND the info on my phone corrupt at the same time?

I do actually have a copy of the Clockwork folder from memory card stored onto my PC, but none of the backups will restore (I have a total of 10 going back a few months) but none will restore, not even any other ROMS that Ive downloaded with ROM Manager or from forums will install to it, only the 2.2 ROM that came with the RUU file I downloaded.

An update on my progress of making my new ROM:

I have managed to get the Reboot menu integrated into my ROM, so now I am just stuck on the following:

Wireless N support

Overclocked Kernel

Unlock the phone with trackpad

Branding & naming

Custom wallpapers

so if anybody can help me I'd really appreciate it! :)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Teh_Tech:
Wow, its been over a week and no replies, why cant anybody see it in themselves to help? after all, you all was newbies once too, just remember how you felt when nobody answered a post you *REALLY* needed help with!!!

Just saying :rolleyes:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Teh_Tech:
Gees thanks for nothing u lot!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] shlsrose:
I am rooting My HTC hero now and after hitting Root using Z4ROOT, it says "Please wait while root completes and your device is rebooted." How long does this take?
[General Questions and Answers] missparker76:
Sorry I can't help you but it would be helpful if you could add a title to your thread (and it would certainly attract more people) ;)
[General Questions and Answers] karrb:
It shouldnt take but a few minutes
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zylograth:
Every 2.2 ROM I have tried including the official release I have to either reboot or toggle airplane mode to get my voice and text connections to come back on. It happens intermittently, someone will try to call or text me and they can't get through or I find that I can't send a text or make a call. Data does not seem to be affected because they will email me to tell me my phone is out. Anyone else seeing this issue on their Vibrant?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkdawg:
odin back to stock 2.1 or stock 2.2 and then apply a custom rom, it fixed my issue , which seems similar to yours.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zylograth:
I always Odin back to JFD before I flash any ROM. Most recent steps were JFD via Odin, KA6 via Kies. After I got the same problem on the official update, I then used Odin to flash KA7 over top of KA6 hoping the newer leak would fix it. But it happened again yesterday, had to toggle airplane mode to send a text and then make a phone call.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zylograth:
Well I was in the Team Whiskey chatroom and it was suggested that I Odin back to JFD and check the option for Phone EFS Clear as a possible solution. So I did that and then used Kies to get back to KA6. Will let this run for a couple days and see if that fixed it and report back.

There were several warnings about using this checkbox if you wanted to go carrier unlocked at some time in the future, so do not check this box unless you are full aware of any ill effects it may have on your device. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
[Desire HD General] hasbai:
Hi All

Can i make different bacups under recovery with two different ROMs?

One with cyanogen und one with core droid.

Can i everytime use (restore) one of this?

If i want cyanogen, have only to restore it, or if i want core droid, only restore under recpovery.

It this posible?

Problems?

Thy
[Desire HD General] AndroHero:
ofcorse you can :) backups are stored in date order, in the clockworkmod folder.
[Desire HD General] CitizenLee:
Yes, it is possible.

I used to do it on my Hero to test different ROMs back when new ones were being released daily by different devs. It was hard to keep up with! :)
[Desire HD General] hasbai:
Thy for your interrest:)

Musst make for restore wipe?

or better fullwipe?

or nothing and only restore?
[Desire HD General] AndroHero:
do a full wipe from the mounts and storage menu (excluding sd card) before restoring backups :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
So ive decided to stop buying cd`s as their taking up to much space and im left with the choice of downloading/streaming? zune music or buying actual music downloads mp3 style. i hear that if you buy a song or album from zune then you cant keep it? but can only stream it? is this right? im also worried about the streaming as in not being able to stream anywhere, especially if im abroad cos the cost is way to high. there are pros and cons. i considered this because i only have an 8gb wp7 device which of course isnt a lot. any ideas what the best route is?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the92playboy:
I am from Canada, and therefore not able to get the Zune Pass, but I have read alot about it, and here is my understanding:

1) You are not streaming the music, but it is downloaded with some level of security built in so it expires when your Zune pass expires

2) You get 10 song downloads per month that you keep forever.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
Do i need need to subscribe to Zune to be able to download the music? or can i buy without subscribing? i have a 2 year contract and doubt that i will go on another contract after this one so if i buy from zune will i lose all my music after this period?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FishFaceMcGee:
If you want to download songs on Zune without buying them individually, you must subscribe to Zune pass. If you just want to buy individually, you do not need the subscription. Most (though not all) Zune songs are in mp3 format, and if you buy an mp3 song though Zune, there's no DRM. Not having DRM has the upside of being able to use those songs on any future devices, but the downside of being unable to recover the song if it gets deleted from both your computer and device.

Zune Pass is where the "you can't keep it" comes in. With Zune Pass you can download as many songs as you want and play them as much as you want, as long as you keep paying the $15 a month. To help out though, Zune Pass gives you 10 song credits a month to download up to 10 songs a month to keep. If you keep mp3 songs, then those are yours forever, just like if you bought them.

No matter whether you download through Zune on the phone or Zune on the PC, it will indicate whether or not the song you wish to buy is an mp3 file or not. If it does not say it's mp3, it's not mp3.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
You can buy any track you want at any time. But I highly recommend the Zune Pass. You can stream/download (albeit protected mp3s that expire if your Zune Pass isn't active) all the music you want! Plus you get to keep 10 tracks a month for free and forever! The cost of the Zune Pass is taken care of just right there. Otherwise you'd spend a crap load of money and maybe only like less than half the songs. Why not try before you buy ;-) Plus Zune Pass offers a free 2 week trial. I'm loving Zune Pass!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxbat121:
Zune Pass is a subscription service. You pay a monthly fee and you get to listen to unlimited music available in Zune. You can download either via cell network or via your home PC Zune software. You don't own any of the music. The minute you stop your Zune subscription, your songs on your phone stop working.

Mp3 purchase is a different model. You pay for each song through some 3rd party service and you own the song that you can listen to them anytime anywhere. There is no monthly subscription fee. But you need to make sure your purchase is DRM-free. Otherwise, it won't work. I know MP3 purchased from Amazon.com is DRM free.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FishFaceMcGee:
Zune mp3 purchase is DRM-free, as well.

Something to keep in mind is that DRM-locked Zune Pass songs are WMA and typically lower bit-rate than the DRM-free mp3s. I've never noticed a huge quality difference, though, but WMA doesn't tend to play nicely with Mac even though WP7 can.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adyrau:
Zune Pass is really awesome, and a pretty good deal. For US:

- if you pay in advance for 1 year, you pay for 10 months and get 2 months for free. That means 150 $/12 = 12.5 $ / month

- every month you get 10 song credits, that you can buy any songs you want (usually they are mp3). If you estimate each song about 1 $ each, that would make around 10 $. You need to make sure you don't forget about them and you spend them every month

So if you substract 12.5 - 10 (song credits) - that means for 2.5 $ / month you have access to millions of songs.

Zune Pass is also an amazing way to discover new music. I find it very useful that I can listen to entire albums before buying them, and in the end I think I saved money because I know exactly what I buy.

The Zune software also has a Smart DJ feature. You can start with a song, create a playlist, you can save it locally as a dynamic playlist and specify that you want it to be refresh every few days. Than you sync it to your phone :) So you always have new, fresh music with you.

And, you can use the Zune Pass on the Xbox as well :)

Anyways, you can always decide to buy songs without the Zune Pass. Regarding the pass, you can get the free trial and see if you like it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkRyoushii:
amazon music store. DRM-Free and cheap ;D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpaywk:
I would so use Zune if i didn't have an unlimited gold account with mp3panda and i still had my zune hd but as it is i use them. Though if it was a choice of zune, itunes or amazon i would jump on zune so fast you wouldn't see it coming.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Foo_Blyat:
What's the adb or terminal code to replace adw with launcher pro?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RavenWulf:
no codes needed... goto settings>applications>manage applications>ADW>clear defaults. after that click home button and it will let you choose which one you want to use, unless you tap "set as default" it will give you this option every time you hit home button.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Foo_Blyat:
I'm trying to remove adw completely tho, I'd rather do it thru terminal or adb
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esincho:
U can with titanium or root explorer. Just delete it. Myself, i freeze it with titanium so it won't show up every rom update
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Foo_Blyat:
I should have mentioned this is for my buddy running cm7 on his 4g.

Once removed will the new themes chooser app be broken?

Thanks for the tips so far but he's not looking to freeze it, hide it, or mask it. He wants launcher pro as the default and ONLY launcher on his cm7.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esincho:
U won't break it, and he can just delete it. Only reason i stopped deleting it cause i flash on the regular, nightlies, so when i freeze it, it don't pop up install
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
for my last few roms that ive been using it has always said i dont have any apps downloaded from the market, then includes apps i restored and new apps that i have downloaded, how do i fix this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Settings

applications

Manage

All

Market

Delete data
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
thanks!, ive been living with a useless market for almost a month now!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
it still says that i have no apps installed :[
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Did you back up your android id when on stock
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
How do I know if I backed it up? What you said on top works but it doesn't stick for more than an hour untill I have to do it again
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Honestly if you have to ask you probably didn't. Do you have a nandroid backup from when you were on stock
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
am i screwed now
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
Are you experiencing issues with market? If so you can get your id back 2 ways. Back to stock, save it, flash rom, load saved, change.

If you have a nandroid of stock look in zip for I think dbdata file. Copy over to your pc. open text it with text editor. Search android_id. android it down. Change id using android id changer
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsx19:
the only problem i have is the "you have no downloads" so im assuaing that falls under the category of market issues
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
I am not 100% sure this would fix but it may