Solution: How to fix Blackberry Bold 9700 white screen problem

Here's a step by step guide and a solution to fix Blackberry bold 9700 white screen problem, many users called it a White Screen of Death(WSOD. This solution may help if having a problem issue like below.

The Blackberry Bold 9700 showing a bright white screen display

Here's what your Blackberry Situation that may possibly fix this solution:
The phone hasn't been anywhere close to water and the moisture stickers are intact. Can still hear tones from incoming call or text messages.
Other than the display screen the phone is fully operational. Dm sees it perfectly, You can still do a blind-call out and receive calls. Only problem is i can only see a bright white screen.

Many sites has been suggesting a solution such as this: Battery pull, wipe, reinstall 4.6, reinstall 5, backup and restore files, clean install, battery left out for 24 hours and installed a new battery but it doesn't fix the problem.

Now, heres' a solution on how to fix a a Blackberry Bold 9700 with white screen problem.
1. Reassemble the Blackberry bold 9700, only do it unless the warranty period has already expired.
 Now, locate the highlighted components as shown on the image. These are the display filters. Works as electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electromagnetic Interference (EMI) filters, and once being damaged it will cause and result to a white screen, sometimes being garbled or saturated screen display.

Blackberry Bold Display Filters Components

Check those components and have it replaced, you may find these parts from any old Blackberry phone PCB board that are already junked. Just like the one below that taken apart from the damaged Blackberry 9100 PCB board.

Then in place it to your Blackberry bold 9700 display filters. Try replacing one by one then power it again to check, just repeat until all four filters being replace and get the screen display fix.

That's it! all credits goes to Rievax_08 and GSM Solido for the repair tricks. Happy fixing hope this helps.

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Here's a a solution how to fix Blackberry Bold 9700 earpiece problem or no sounds can be heard when making a call conversations. This solution may help especially when already tried replacing the said earpiece speaker but still there is no sounds or abnormal sounds can be heard on it.

Just refer to the solution below and locate the highlighted components. Then visually check it, do a re-hot, re-solder or replacement when necessary.

The highlighted components are the filter components for the earpiece speaker, if it become faulty it will result  an audio signal interruption through the ear speaker of the Blackberry Bold 9700 .

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Blackberry curve 8520 stuck in headset activated mode when making a call solution

Here's a solution for blackberry curve 8520 that the headset shows or in activated mode when making a call or someone calling the unto the device.

If trying to fix this problem do this some simple steps below:
1. Try to upgrade or update the blackberry 8520 firmware.
2. Pull the battery out and reinsert it back again in a few seconds.

If the above doesn't' work, you may then proceed to hardware troubleshooting.
The solution below shows a certain components that needs to be check.

Blackberry Curve 8520 headset activated mode solution

You may first try to clean the headset jack, then reheat, rework or replace the chip shown on the solution above if the problem still occurs.

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Some Blackberry Main PCB Board

Here's some of blackberry phones main PCB board components layouts that Ive collected for a month ago.
This can help and serve as a guide on repairing and locating particular IC components.
 These covers the following models, Bold, Storm, Javeline and Curve like, 7130, 8130, 9000,9630, 9700
and more....

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Solve Blackberry 8700 series shorted PCB board's battery terminal

This solution can be used or apply to  Blackberry series like 8700, 8700c, 8700g, 8700t, 8700v, if found shorted by checking the positive and the negative battery pin terminals.

This problem may occurs if the device is being damaged by a liquid or so called water damaged. In blackberry 8700 series there are two power voltage filter capacitor just located near the SIM card socket, this two capacitors will commonly cause the shorted and failed to power up the device. You can try to remove it first then check if multimeter shows no shorted readings (multimeter range to X1 - deflecting of the pointer approximately down to zero ohms in both by reversing both test probes on the battery terminal)

Then replace it with another one same from other blackberry 8700 series handsets.

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Fix Blackberry bold 9000 NO Power - Dead Set device solution

Here's a repair solution on how to fix blackberry bold 9000 unable to power up ( No -Power ).
In this guide it shows that the cause or having a faulty component is the Power Management IC, the PMIC is the one that controls and feeds power supply voltage to all other components from the battery source., Therefore, if the PMIC is damaged the device will totally paralyze (dead set )
. The main key solution for this problem is to rework, change or replace the PMIC. You can found this in other non working blackberry bold PCB board, just make sure that the said IC is still working.

Here's the finish product after replacing the Power Management IC.

Wait for the booting mode then its done....

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Solve Camera Flash Light failure on Blackberry Bold 9700

Here's repair guide on fixing a blackberry bold 9700 camera flash light failure.
This solution shows on how exactly the particular components that failed or being damaged when the camera flash light will unable to light up if using the camera on the device. 

Manage to change the a certain IC called a camera flash light chip from a non working PCB board of blackberry 9000 to replace it to the damaged blackberry bold 9700.

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 Here's a repair manual, guide how to fix blackberry bold 9700 camera hardware failure problem. Just follow the instruction indicated on the repair guide picture to solve the problem. This solution  may only help if the problem has  the same related issues as this and might also does not help, it depends on case to case basis on how the phone being damaged.

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Blackberry curve 8900 water damaged result no network signal - solution

This blackberry curve 8900 no signal problem is caused by a liquid or water damaged.

This solution can be used or applied only if same things happen also to your blackberry curve 8900. In picture one it shows that a a supply voltage to the RF amplifier is missing or being cut due to a damaged or corroded resistor,

In picture 2, a jumper wire is being applied to sustain the necessary  supply voltage to the RF amplifier IC.

and its done..

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Hardware Repair Guides Blackberry Packed

This Solution software pack is a Hardware Repair guides on the following Blackeberry models: 8310, 8320, Javelin 8900, Bold 9000, Storm 9500,
This solutions Covers the following problems and repair solutions like Scroll Ways, Keypad ways, Buzzer or Ringer, Mouthpiece Microphone, Camera, SIM problem.
It also includes the PCB layouts and how to Format blackberry.

Download Hardware Repair Guides in Exe

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