maybe someone can help with my ipaq 3600?

[TechMage]

Maybe it has just enough power to run everything besides the screen. Is there a button to turn off the backlight on an Ipaq? Maybe it's as simple as him turning off the backlight. If you hold it to sunlight or a lamp can you see anything on the screen?

[Boorish Id]

no it doesnt work while plugged in, im not that dumb. Aslo there is no picture with the backlight off when it orginally broke the back light wasnt on.

[refractor]

Do you mean the silver cable on the left like this? <img src="http://www.dalecoffing.com/iPAQ/DustCleaning/ipaqscrn8.jpg">(from http://www.dalecoffing.com/iPAQ/DustCle ... eaning.htm)

I'd suspect that was the power to the LCD rather than the touch-screen wiring, because it's relatively heavy-gauge wiring (though I'm not an electrician or anything).

[Boorish Id]

yep thats the cable. but the way it goes to the front of the screen makes me think its a ribbon to send the touch data back to the mobo and proccesor.

[TechMage]

[James S]

[Boorish Id]

Sorry techmage :).

Yep it just went dead out of the blue it was the wierdest shit. but as i said where those two parts meet on the silver cable it looks like the leads inside of it maybe cracked or seperated from each other. Is there anyway to replace this cable or something?

[James S]

You could easily solder the lead back together if it truly is broken. But when I broke my Casio E-125 in a nearly IDENTICAL way... I broke that 4 lead cable's counter-part in the E-125, I flipped the cable around so the lead connections were reversed and the screen came on full brightness, I couldn't control the brightness of the screen, but it came on. So after seeing that I came up with the idea to cut the cable below the point that it was broken and then shave down the covering to expose the leads. This allowed the leads to connect in the correct order. But my lead broke really closely to the orignal location, around 3mm away. I don't know how far down the line your lead has broken, so cutting it might not be the best idea in your case

Maybe you could BEND the cable at the location and, with the blade of a pair of scissors, shave the covering from it so the leads are exposed. You can always use tape to close it back up again.