White Screen of Death! (LG VX9800)

[mad0maxx]

Ok I looked at my cell phone this morning at 7:30am and it was perfectly fine. Went to school and in the middle of class I decided to check out the time on my phone since I can not see the clock in the class and I pull out my phone and look at the front LCD and the damn front screen is pure white and whatever I do on the phone it does nothing and shows nothing but a pure white screen. I never dropped it or done anything to it for it to suddenly just do that. Anyone with this phone have the same experiences?

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/stor...n=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2345

 

[dabuddha]

Ahhhh that kept happening with my Nokia 6620. It would reboot or lock up frequently. Whenever it would lock up, the screen would go all white. I hated that piece of crap phone :/

 

[CTweak]

Have you tried taking the battery out? It's like rebooting a PC ...

 

[AStar617]

http://www.howardforums.com/

 

[mad0maxx]

I took it to the verizon store and they told me that the phone was effected by moisture and that Verizon and the Warrenty would not cover it...

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Happened with my Samsung slider... mechanical defects suck. The phone only works when the phone was in the default position, but when you slide it you get a WSOD.

As for the moisture... open up the phone and get the goop off, use rubbing alcohol if needed.

 

[mad0maxx]

How would I open a LG VX9800 phone?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Open up the battery cover and unscrew the screw hole thingys.

 

[WW]

Originally posted by: AStar617
http://www.howardforums.com/

Anandtech should have a phone/camera/tv/gadgets forum...

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: WW

Originally posted by: AStar617
http://www.howardforums.com/

Anandtech should have a phone/camera/tv/gadgets forum...

I've thought that many times....

 

[WW]

so, was the phone really dunked or not? why did they say that? moisture from what, the air?

if not, then that's bull...you can return a phone if it white screens, that can happen for many reasons (trace on the flex breaking, display module, software, etc)

call verizon and tell them you want to return it

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

3 people in my family had LG phones with Verizon and we all had problems. I thing we went through 8 replacement LG phones between the 3 of us within a year. They kept breaking. Verizon refused to downgrade us to another brand. LG sucks and so does Verizon.