r/PhoneRepairTalk

On Sunday At Around 8:30PM my phone's software crashed.

The phone shut down and won't boot past the android one screen (the phone is a Nokia X20).

Being a techie I tried to troubleshoot the issue via adb and discovered my bootloader is locked and the recovery options are inaccessible.

My phone's OS and bootloader are corrupted thus I can't even format the phone.

I've attempted a couple of solutions I found online but I haven't managed to fix the issue.

i think I need to reinstall the firmware and it's proven to be difficult due to the inaccessibility of the recovery options.

Has any one ever encountered a similar issue or knows a fix?

Any assistance will be much appreciated.

Hi. Am trying to buy replacement screen for vivo x200 ultra? Any ideas on where to buy it?

Many thanks

I accidentally dropped my phone into water. I took it back as soon as possible. I used freqency sounds to clear the speakers (it worked ig). And theres was water in the sim tray, i got it out and dried it using a towel. And there was water inside the charging port. It wouldn't let me charge for some time. But it got fixed. But still, sometimes when i move the charger, the charging stops and then starts again. Will it fix on its own? And also rn i noticed that there's moisture inside the camera (both front and back). It's all blurry and cant take photos. It it go on its own? Should I get it to service center?

I am looking for a replacement. The market is flooded is fakes and copies. I’m also not that rich to pay for an official replacement at Apple Store. Any recommendations?

Phone screen broke. Everything is working fine except display.

Will really appreciate any inputs on where I can a genuine repair done without having to shell out a bomb.

I need display and body both.

Hello my tablet fell on the floor and the screen broke but the tablet itself was working perfectly fine for 2 days and then the touch randomly stopped working. I've turned the power off over and over and it opens showing the lock screen and every thing but the touch just doesn't work. I am indeed looking forward to sending it to the repair shop but I was wondering if there is anything I can do to fix it so that I don't send it to the repair shop for something small. Thank you for reading.

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My phone infinix hot 9

I had a screen panel replacement every thing was working fine until a month later screen it wasn't turning on, I went again and he returned my phone said it's not possible to turn on take somewhere else, I took it to another store he showed me that previous guy burnt the motherboard so he can't fix it either.

He told me to take it to another city they will take the storage and put it in another motherboard to retrieve data.

My data is really important I don't know what to do at this point

Y si es lo que dice el título y también creo que pixels muertos o no se pero puedo hacer algo para que se quite eso o algo?

I do come to you. I'm a phone doctor. I do have a broken leg. Thank God. My skills is crazy almost 15 years in this business. I fix all iPads. I fix all laptops. I take Google lock off Google lock it don't take the same day. Google lock takes 24 hours. It all depends on your software. I do iCloud lock. It takes between 3 weeks to a month. All depends on the software. I do hardware issues. Software motherboards LCD power button upgrade shell, backlash game controllers and game systems

Hi everyone, my phone 14 pro is potentially water damaged it was exposed to some water but was still working fine up until when the the battery died and after that it just would not come on at all. I’ve tried leaving it to dry for 24 hours, putting it on the charger, force restarting it, nothing is coming up. I have some very important photos on my phone and really need to recover them. I just want to get my phone on long enough to send myself the pictures. Is there any way I could force it to power on, or anyone been in a similar situation? pls help!!!

It's been around 1.5 years since I bought this phone and out of nowhere one 4-5 black lines appeared on my phone and brightness gradually increased then phone goes black for 2-3 seconds and goes back to normal.

I immediately checked if there were any updates pending, I updated the software and rebooted. It went back to normal state but then next day , it just went black and unresponsive, nothing I was doing worked, even the force restart didn't work, after half an hour it went back to normal, and now this keeps happening 4-5 times a day , its been 3 days, what do I do 🥹?

What's happening? can anybody tell me?

Hi everyone,

I have a OnePlus 13 that got wet. The display itself still works perfectly and shows the entire UI, but the touchscreen is completely unresponsive everywhere.

I need to recover some important photos and notes from the phone.

The problem is that I never enabled Developer Options or USB debugging on the OnePlus 13.

Here is what I have tried so far:

The phone display works.

I can unlock it with face recognition.

When connected to my Windows PC via USB-C, Windows detects the OnePlus 13, but the internal storage appears empty because I cannot select "File Transfer" on the phone.

adb devices shows no device.

I tried using a Baseus USB-C OTG adapter with a USB mouse, but the mouse does not work.

I recently bought another OnePlus phone and tested the exact same Baseus OTG adapter and mouse on it. They work perfectly after enabling OTG Connection in Settings.

This makes me suspect that OTG is simply disabled on the OnePlus 13.

Unfortunately, since the touchscreen is completely dead, I cannot go into Settings and enable OTG or Developer Options.

Is there any way to enable OTG, enable USB debugging, or otherwise gain control of the phone from a PC without having USB debugging previously enabled?

I'm also interested in any legitimate method to access/copy the internal storage, especially photos and OnePlus Notes, without wiping the phone.

I have already tried ADB, but obviously it doesn't detect the phone because USB debugging wasn't enabled.

I really want to avoid a factory reset or anything that could erase the data.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I recently bought 2 Xperia 1 VI phones - one for me, one for my dad. After a couple weeks of using them my dad complained that people have been telling him they can't hear him clearly. I took both phones and recorded a bunch of audio and video clips in different apps, and there is indeed a marked difference in volume between the two. Prior to testing, I reset all settings and preferences on both phones to ensure there wasn't something me or my dad messed with that was causing this. I also factory reset my dad's phone, logged out of his google account, and downloaded only the apps I needed to test (the Fossify voice recorder, and Facebook Messenger).

I've included the sample recordings in this Gdrive folder. The phone with the consistently lower volume is in subfolder 1m6a, the one with the normal volume is in 1m6b. All voice samples were recorded side by side, with the phones sitting on a table in a room with the windows closed and the a/c and PC switched, pressing the record button simultaneously and talking directly at them with my face equidistant from each phone. Any differences in duration is from not hitting stop at the same time.

Using FOSSify voice recorder in the system default settings, we can see that not only does phone A have lower volume, it also sounds muffled compared to phone B, which is at a normal volume and very clear.

Things get a little muddled when we start using the phone's cameras to record a video. While a video shot with the main camera continues this pattern, with phone A sound MUCH lower than phone B, a video shot with the selfie sounds about the same in phone A and phone B! This would suggest only one of the two mics is damaged.

However, when we use Facebook Messenger, which I included in the test as it was the app we first noticed problems with, things got even more confusing! The issues described below also persist when I'm using the app for voice or video calls. Of course, I just recorded and saved videos because they're easier to share here, but I tested each of these live as well. Selfie videos sounded lower on phone A than phone B, even though they sounded about the same with the Sony camera app. But when recording a voice message or a video with the main camera, there was also a very audible whine like of a whirring fan in the background on BOTH phones! Phone A was, again, lower volume than phone B. But I can't explain the whirring away as an issue with the Messenger app, as it's not an issue at all when recording with the selfie camera, on either phone!

I should mention I've run Sony's built-in diagnostics on phone A, and it didn't detect any problems with the microphones. I'm happy to run any other diagnostic tests you can suggest!

Please help me diagnose whether these issues are hardware problems with phone A, because I've already had both phones awhile and I'd need to move fast if I'm to make an ebay claim to return it! If anyone believes these might instead be software issues that can be fixed, please let me know as I'd love to save myself the hassle of returning it!

And finally if anyone can work out why videos shot with the selfie cam using the Sony camera sound about the same on both phones but don't on Facebook Messenger's camera, and why Messenger audio while not using the selfie camera is completely messed up, that would be a bonus but not my main concern.