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Screen Failure?

  • 30-03-2022 10:26AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭


    I have this phone for just over a year, recently its acting up the screen flickers and then goes blank i can still receive calls but the screen remains blank, is it worth fixing? the phone cost me 90 quid, how much to fix/replace a screen?

    btw - would a factory reset do the trick?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,372 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Screen flickering could point to either a proximity sensor failure or a screen issue itself.

    Androids can usually run a suite of hardware tests by dialling #*#4636#*#

    Try that and see if you have a proximity sensor test. Quite often, screen protectors and cases, in particular fold over cases can trigger the sensor and cause screen drop outs when using a phone in speaker mode.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    but by dialing the above number - will i see the screen?

    btw - i have a screen protector on it, should i take it off permanently?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,372 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    If your screen is off permanently? Then no the code won't help. You need to be able to view your dialler keypad to enter.

    It's very likely a screen failure. However if the screen issue starting is coincidental with applying the screen protector? Then it may well be a factor.

    If the issue is screen off and not functioning, with flicker of lines, or green blocks? The screen or perhaps the screen cable is likely at fault.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    no i had the screen protector on from day 1 - no issues

    but now the screen comes on for 5sec it flickers and then goes blank?😕

    so how much to fix? - ballpark



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,372 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Not a Scooby tbh.

    It may well be just a loose ribbon connector or z-clip but I don't know how much the screen would cost but given it's an Ulefone and generally they are fairly generic partswise?

    I'd expect €120 to be the max, unless it's a specific screen type that's hard to come by.

    Other thing to consider, is if it's a part that needs to come from China? Massive lockdowns in ace there again particular Shanghai



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭TheRona


    You've had it less than 2 years, it's still under warranty. Just get it repaired/replaced via Amazon if that's where you bought it.



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