⟐ Answered July 06, 2025 at 20:55 MST

Anyways, proximity sensor. Normally, one can turn that off (disable it) in the call settings under the phone app. Unfortunately, I do not see such an option on the Q6.

The purpose of the proximity sensor is to turn off the screen when you put the phone to your ear so you ear doesn't touch the "touch screen" and hang up calls. (You can just as easily tap the power button quickly to turn off the screen before putting it to you ear but LG thought a proximity sensor might automate things a bit.)

The problem I have, is that I have a severe visual impairment so I often have to put the phone's screen inches from my eyes to see it and, as a consequence, the proximity sensor shuts the screen off. Bloody !&&*.

I just want to disable the proximity sensor completely and there's no option in settings. And yes, I've looked MANY times.

⟐ Answered January 12, 2025 at 20:52 MST

I have an LGUS997 G6+, which was recently water damaged. Initially the screen was not working at all, but after removing corrosion from the display connector and a few other spots with 99% isopropyl alcohol, the display now works fine, but the touch input is still not working.

I'd say about 85% of the time, there's no response to touch, or there is a response but it's too brief to actually trigger any UI elements. About 5% of the time it works correctly, and the remaining 10%, touching the screen triggers sort of ghost touches - the device recognises the input but in a different part of the screen, often in multiple different spots at once, with no consistent pattern. I haven't seen any true ghost touches, i.e. input being recognised when there's no actual touch.

My intuition is that these particular symptoms point more towards the digitizer being damaged than the logic board, although I know the only way to find out for sure is to replace the parts. So I have two questions:

1. In your experience, am I right to think the digitizer is more likely to be at fault, or is it just as likely to be the logic board?
2. Is it safe to immerse the screen assembly in isopropyl? I have seen advice not to do this with iPhones because the alcohol will damage a coating on the screen, but I don't know if that would also apply to this device.

Thanks for reading, any other suggestions also gratefully accepted.

Its now June, I still need help with this, asked reddit but didn’t get a response there either.

⟐ Commented February 27, 2024 at 0:50 MST

⟐ Answer accepted September 25, 2022 at 18:16 MST

I have recently somehow broke my sim card tray and part of the tray and remained stuck inside the phone as the rest of the tray came out. I can manage to move part of the frame with the sim card key, but what's holding the piece inside the slot is the very end. It sort of wraps in an L shape if you can picture that. I really do not want to risk disassembling my phone, as I am paranoid I will damage something. The sim card AND the microSD can no longer be read. Im guessing it's due to this piece being stuck.

Thanks,

Peter

⟐ Answered December 27, 2021 at 4:16 MST

I screwed up - can anyone help?

I attempted to replace the sim/sd reader on this phone. (The reader had been damaged by a broken sim tray; a piece of the tray was completely stuck in the back of the reader, and one of the contacts for the sim had snapped off).

I set to work removing the broken reader: flux on, taped surrounding area, and heated up with a rework hot air gun. The solder seemed reluctant to let go, and I was worried I was overheating other components. I pulled too hard on the reader and ripped a bunch of pads off the board. (It’s amazing what you can achieve with a lot of inexperience).

Please see pictures. There is a total of 10 pads pulled out, plus one which has half lifted.

There is nothing else wrong with this phone, and I would like to fix it if at all possible; however it's not worth spending much money on, so I don't really want to send it away - I would rather have a go at it myself. I know its beyond my current skill level to guarantee a good result, but I would like to have a shot at it just for the sake of learning, and if it works, it’ll be a bonus and I'll be a very happy chap!

• Can this be repaired, or is it impossible?
• Where and how do these pads connect - i can't see any traces?
• Do I need a schematic for this board? ( I have tried scouring cyberspace without any luck, but maybe looking in the wrong places).
• Do the 8 pads round the edge of the Reader need a different approach to the 2/3 pads which are for the microSD contacts?

Any advice, comments, etc from all the gurus out there would be very much appreciated.

Thankyou!

⟐ Commented August 22, 2021 at 9:17 MST

⟐ Commented June 26, 2021 at 6:22 MST

⟐ Answer accepted June 19, 2021 at 5:25 MST

⟐ Commented June 13, 2021 at 8:59 MST

⟐ Commented January 10, 2021 at 18:59 MST

⟐ Edited by author August 17, 2020 at 15:34 MST

⟐ Answer accepted July 13, 2020 at 7:55 MST

He said when he picked it up to look at it the top half of his phone was distorted colors then the phone went blank can't get it to turn on or show its charging. I held both volume buttons with power button all 3 together, hoping to reset it to get safe mode to appear ..but I get nothing ..

could the impact have killed the internal phone screen (LED SCREEN

⟐ Commented February 27, 2020 at 16:25 MST