Another Screen Issue - Looks Like The Matrix
First things first: I dropped my phone. It appears that everyone who posts first takes the time to say how there couldn't be physical damage associated with the issue. Well, I dropped my phone back in early February. I have a spiderweb that takes up the top left corner and it covers about 15% of the total screen. I have been using the phone without any issue for the last three months, even with the spiderweb I have been able to enjoy full functionality, even being able to access the status bar and other apps in the affected area.
This morning, when my alarm went off I reached to turn off the alarm and was not able to get any response from the screen. I chalked that up to being half-asleep and pressed the power button to snooze the alarm. When the alarm went off again 5 minutes later, I grabbed the phone to turn off the alarm but when I looked at the screen it was a garbled mess. The coloration looks like the phone has overheated, with black splotches surrounded by dark blues and yellows. One of those dark splotches is in the spiderweb and there are two other squares of black on the bottom of the screen and the right hand side, each about a half-inch square. I can make out the notification bar, but I have the pattern lock on my phone and that part is completely garbled and the screen appears to have lost all touch functionality.
My phone has been taunting me with buzzes of text messages received and other notifications, and the alarm continued to go off every 5 minutes until I pulled the battery out. It appears that everything is running fine on the inside, but the more I type out the problems the more my hope of there being a quick fix for the screen is slipping away. I had an issue a month ago where the screen was black while the phone was on, and I found a fix for that by pulling out the battery and holding the power button down for a minute and that did the trick last month. That trick hasn't made a dent today.
Any tips or tricks? Or, at the very least, any thoughts of what the issue could be so I'm not walking blind into my Verizon store later today?
Thanks for reading!
-Justin
First things first: I dropped my phone. It appears that everyone who posts first takes the time to say how there couldn't be physical damage associated with the issue. Well, I dropped my phone back in early February. I have a spiderweb that takes up the top left corner and it covers about 15% of the total screen. I have been using the phone without any issue for the last three months, even with the spiderweb I have been able to enjoy full functionality, even being able to access the status bar and other apps in the affected area.
This morning, when my alarm went off I reached to turn off the alarm and was not able to get any response from the screen. I chalked that up to being half-asleep and pressed the power button to snooze the alarm. When the alarm went off again 5 minutes later, I grabbed the phone to turn off the alarm but when I looked at the screen it was a garbled mess. The coloration looks like the phone has overheated, with black splotches surrounded by dark blues and yellows. One of those dark splotches is in the spiderweb and there are two other squares of black on the bottom of the screen and the right hand side, each about a half-inch square. I can make out the notification bar, but I have the pattern lock on my phone and that part is completely garbled and the screen appears to have lost all touch functionality.
My phone has been taunting me with buzzes of text messages received and other notifications, and the alarm continued to go off every 5 minutes until I pulled the battery out. It appears that everything is running fine on the inside, but the more I type out the problems the more my hope of there being a quick fix for the screen is slipping away. I had an issue a month ago where the screen was black while the phone was on, and I found a fix for that by pulling out the battery and holding the power button down for a minute and that did the trick last month. That trick hasn't made a dent today.
Any tips or tricks? Or, at the very least, any thoughts of what the issue could be so I'm not walking blind into my Verizon store later today?
Thanks for reading!
-Justin
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