Asus Transformer Blank Scren Fix
Asus Transformer Blank Scren Fix
January Attempting to fix my ASUS Transformer TF101's blank screen
Been a while but finally I've got a moment to update my journal, lol. Saturday night, Andera (my TF101B1) slid
off the mattress and ended up with a blank screen, and briefly some green garbles. The backlight was still
working and my tablets survived the same and worse landings unscratched so, plus I know what kind of guts
these things are made out of, so I knew it couldn't possibly be hardware failure. The photo's I took are all
captioned and in an Album here [https://picasaweb.google.com/100811170724158927013/AnderaRepairsJanuary2012?
authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMiQhduhZTYowE&feat=directlink] .
Determined, on Sunday I went out in search of a torx screwdriver. As it happens, Fry's didn't have any T5's left,
just T6's and the threads over at xdadevelopers said T5. So I spent the worst $10 of my life, on one of these
[http://www.frys.com/product/6627894?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG] . It's a real piece of shit beyond the driver bits.
Turns out though that some joker decided to stuff a Phillips PH000 in place of a Torx T5, and not include the T5
anywhere \o/. Fucking bastards! But on the upside that was the right size for the Phillips screws I had to work
with.
So I ended up undoing the torxex on the bottom (by the docking port) with a T6, and left one of them stripped by
the time I was done. After that it was time to pry off the bezel, which I did a dandy number on; when putting it
back on resulted in a barely working power button,I pryed it up and used gravity to fix the power button before
snapping it back in. What I found was that it's a lot easier to pry off from the back end, YouTubest be damned.
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There are three screws on top and bottom, and two on each side. I kinda missed the top three taking off the back
plate so it might be good that it's just cheap plastic.
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Getting the base plate on/off was easy. Also under the metal plate that goes over the battery, is an empty space
that looks like it is where you would install the 3G modem on a TF101G.
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Most of the connectors are the ugly ribbon goes into stupid pin slot with flip holder kind of Flexible Flat Cable
thingy. I hate those and don't know why they are so popular, but alas, I didn't build the darn thing or design it. So
next up I had to figure out which one is the one I needed, I tried all of them that were readily accessible just to be
safe (bad idea).
In my poking around xdadeveloper's I found a link to somewhere that sells replacement screens, that told me
where to find it. There is even a YouTube video on the whole procedure (I'll edit in a link from my browser history
later). I personally found it easier to remove the power connector so I could access the video FFC better:
[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
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To be sure I was right or would more likely figure out what it does (in case of gross ID10T error on my part), I
pulled it and reseated it very firmly.
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Fired it up and voila! The touch screen was working. So I studied how much I fractured my bezel and put it back
together, note carefully that the holes nearest the docking port are for the TORX screws that go in LAST!
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On boot up, everything went perfectly well until I noticed that back and home didn't work. A little bit of testing
showed that entire portion of the touch screen is not getting any touch events :'(. I'm not sure if it's another ribbon
out of place or just that I missed a couple screws on the back plate (d'oh). But since I have the dock, I'm pretty
much able to use it. The one torx is now too stripped to drive, so until I figure out a solution to that, Andera is
missing touch input on the left most (view able) inch of the screen.
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I don't have a drill or I would just hit the hardware store for a drill bit to get the sucker out, and trust me, my
trusty awl doesn't seem to one to carve a slot in it. Don't have any rubber bands good enough to try, so I'm
thinking about grabbing a tube of epoxy on the way home from work and see what happens....if I can fix it, I'm
gonna fucking fix it! In the mean time, I've ordered a Transformer Prime / TF201B1, because the best I can get
here is a TF101A1; and I'm already using over 10GB on my TF101B1, so $400+whatever memory card Best
Buy has, is not worth it. Like wise, if I'm getting stuck spending so much money, may as well buy the prime
instead of a later version of TF101B1 (mines a B50 with no Q/C issues). I'm very partial to my midgeneration
TF101....
Oh, btw don't forget to put the screws in the back plate if you try this at home.
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Posted 10th January by Terry Poulin
Labels: computers, docs, Android
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