Wildfire S - Please confirm its death
So here's the deal: My sister has been using my other sister's old Wildfire S. Now the touchscreen seems to be broken, the image shows the result of Simple Touchscreen Tester (white dots are registered touches).
The touchscreen is basically useless except for the two areas (the small line in the left half and the right third of the screen) and therefore using the phone is pretty impossible. It seems to me as if something in the smartphone is broken hardware-wise but I read in a German forum that this could also be because of a faulty bootloader.
Is there any chance this problem could be caused by software (and thus allowing me to fix it) or is it definitely a hardware fault?
Thanks for your help
Posted Nov 8, 2014, 2:19 PM UTC
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I'm guessing that would be a complete hardware side failure. If there are important pictures/videos etc on the phone I think you should be able to hook it up to a pc and extract those.
Thanks for the response. So I guess I have to tell her to get a new one.
I just moved the SD card to another phone, so no data loss as far as I can tell (and she hasn't complained yet). Your method won't work by the way because as far as I know the storage is not accessible through USB when the phone is locked.
Pretty certain that you could hook up a mouse trough usb otg or over bluetooth somehow to unlock the phone, that is if the screen works?
I did the unlocking part the "unusual" way by factory resetting it. Data was on the sd card anyway
My only concern is now if it's possible to repair the damage somehow (Although I'm not too optimistic about it)
Guessing that the only way would be to buy a new display, could be other ways tho