Aura H2O Broken Kobo Aura H2O Screen

[filmo]

If it had a IR touch screen Black Paint might be OK but blocking IR invisible light with paint in wrong place stops touch screen sensing a touch. For me IR touch screen with my dry fingers always respond to a touch and capacitance or resistance touch screen seldom responds.

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by lytich

- For the benzen i have cracked a little, a litle dirty, but i have paint it with black, like new for benzen, but touch still not work, alway appear diagbox:"Water on your screen".

What did you paint? Can you take a picture?

The shiny part of the front bezel must not be painted over, that's IR optics.

The bezel itself must be aligned perfectly (it has little notches that sink into the PCB for this purpose)

[lytich]

Originally Posted by filmo

If it had a IR touch screen Black Paint might be OK but blocking IR invisible light with paint in wrong place stops touch screen sensing a touch. For me IR touch screen with my dry fingers always respond to a touch and capacitance or resistance touch screen seldom responds.

Originally Posted by frostschutz

What did you paint? Can you take a picture?

The shiny part of the front bezel must not be painted over, that's IR optics.

The bezel itself must be aligned perfectly (it has little notches that sink into the PCB for this purpose)

Thanks for your reply, i'm just paint inside side of benzen, i send to you some image, please help me.

[frostschutz]

https://uphinh.org/images/2019/09/06...906_095948.jpg

so, this whole part is for the IR touch function. if you painted over this part ... you have to find a way to remove the paint entirely, without harming the plastic in anyway. it'll probably be hard/impossible to salvage...

or find a replacement part (buy broken H2O off ebay or sth)

if this part is sold anywhere then I'm not aware of it

[lytich]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

https://uphinh.org/images/2019/09/06...906_095948.jpg

so, this whole part is for the IR touch function. if you painted over this part ... you have to find a way to remove the paint entirely, without harming the plastic in anyway. it'll probably be hard/impossible to salvage...

or find a replacement part (buy broken H2O off ebay or sth)

if this part is sold anywhere then I'm not aware of it

Thanks for your reply.

- So that i need to remove pain for 2 side left and right of benzen, right?

[MGlitch]

You’re going to want to put those pictures under a spoiler or resize them before a mod removes them

[mic85rm]

hi i change screen of my kobo but now it doesnt boot. i think new screen is working because it becomes white then black and then white. any suggestions?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by mic85rm

hi i change screen of my kobo but now it doesnt boot. i think new screen is working because it becomes white then black and then white. any suggestions?

The first thing is to make sure everything is seated correctly. I know I got something like this when I didn't push the SD card in enough.

Then you do a manual factory reset. Follow the last method on https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Reset:_Aura_H2O.

After that, you can try restoring an image.