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Root Something fishy... AMOLED vs. SLCD

OK, check this out. I rooted my Incredible, and I had problem after problem with rooting because of what I THOUGHT was an SLCD issue (I lost all function of my touch screen whenever I flashed a ROM or kernel, even if they were compatible with both screens). After 3 days I finally found a combination that worked.

My husband wanted me to root his phone, and I wanted to physically see the difference in speed between rooted and stock while doing a Web search. Well, when I put the two side by side while on Google, there was a blatantly obvious difference in the screen color. My screen had a pink tint and his was crispy white, to the point that it almost hurts the eye to stare at.

So, I downloaded the "mirror" app (which is just a black screen that shows your reflection) and yep, sure enough, I had a bit of brightness on mine, and his was just black as night.

Both of our phones had the 003 under hardware, which is suppose to mean the screen is SLCD, but mine is clearly AMOLED.

I am thinking, since they were both refurbs sent as replacements, that I got a phone that was originally produced with an SLCD screen but it got replaced with an AMOLED.

Could this be the reason that when I flashed a ROM I had no touch screen function? Could there have been an incompatibility issue between the original hardware and the replaced screen that got triggered by trying to flash a ROM?

This is kind of blowing my mind right now...
 
I have the same issue only the reverse. I got a refurb that was supposed to be AMOLED, but im fairly certain that its a SLCD. If I run the app you were talking about I can see backlight even though its supposed to be black. I didn't have any issues rooting it though and the really strange thing is that it still has the pink hue that the AMOLED's usually have...
 
Ya know, I have an AMOLED screen on my Incredible which I have had since it came out, even had to wait for it... problem is I rooted it, and since then I can only seem to run Cyanogenmod on it, it seems that any HTC Sense based ROM I put on it works for a little bit, then suddenly the phone chokes and becomes almost unresponsive hitting any of the bottom navigation buttons makes the phone vibrate, and lag extreme... I'm talking seconds to do anything, if it responds at all. Rebooting gets functionality back, then the whole thing happens again, its like it runs out of memory or something, I have been wondering if it has something to do with the method I used to root (unrevoked) ... I have been searching for a reason
 
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