I know, sounds bizarre..
iPhone 6 brought to me for repair; it had been run over and though the screen glass was entirely intact, the lcd and digitiser were broken. Turned out that tapping the phone on the desk improved the image on the screen so that it could be seen (ghostly/messed up colours/flickers) and the screen was partly touch sensitive but it stlll needed a new one. The metal case was a bit bent at the bottom end, a slight S shape if holding the phone so you could see into the charging port; top of the headphone connector was snapped
I've since fitted a new genuine screen (side note: new one has a black surround, old one was white) pulled from another iPhone 6 and straightened out the case. However, the phone exhibits a really bizarre behaviour:
When the battery is dead, and you try to power it on, it shows the "empty battery lus lightning bolt/cable" logo. If the charger is connected, the "empty battery with flashing red bar" is also shown perfectly. After some time the phone acquires enough charge to begin booting and the apple logo shows up, again perfectly..
But when the phone has booted up, all that is visible on the display is maybe 20 pixels in random colours, on various places on the screen. The phone is on, and works/can be used (siri voice over reads the screen, I can use it by tapping around blindly and getting voiceover to help)
Any ideas what's wrong? Is the hardware/software subsystem that draws the "i'm out of charge, plug me in" screen separate to the one that drives the phone display when it's on? At a loss to explain how the screen works fine when the phone is off/dead but not when it's on..
iPhone 6 brought to me for repair; it had been run over and though the screen glass was entirely intact, the lcd and digitiser were broken. Turned out that tapping the phone on the desk improved the image on the screen so that it could be seen (ghostly/messed up colours/flickers) and the screen was partly touch sensitive but it stlll needed a new one. The metal case was a bit bent at the bottom end, a slight S shape if holding the phone so you could see into the charging port; top of the headphone connector was snapped
I've since fitted a new genuine screen (side note: new one has a black surround, old one was white) pulled from another iPhone 6 and straightened out the case. However, the phone exhibits a really bizarre behaviour:
When the battery is dead, and you try to power it on, it shows the "empty battery lus lightning bolt/cable" logo. If the charger is connected, the "empty battery with flashing red bar" is also shown perfectly. After some time the phone acquires enough charge to begin booting and the apple logo shows up, again perfectly..
But when the phone has booted up, all that is visible on the display is maybe 20 pixels in random colours, on various places on the screen. The phone is on, and works/can be used (siri voice over reads the screen, I can use it by tapping around blindly and getting voiceover to help)
Any ideas what's wrong? Is the hardware/software subsystem that draws the "i'm out of charge, plug me in" screen separate to the one that drives the phone display when it's on? At a loss to explain how the screen works fine when the phone is off/dead but not when it's on..
