SD Slot Broke :( - Nook Color General

The card will fit in and click, but whatever part that is suppose to catch it and lock it in until you push it in again doesn't catch anymore. Anyone have any ideas?

Warranty claim? This particular problem might make it trickier to flash back to stock if you've made modifications, but that sounds like a physical defect to me. It might be worth a warranty claim even if you can't get it back to stock--they don't need to power the device on to confirm something like that.

If you are not in the US and it's costly to ship your NC back, I had the same problem too and found a solution for it.
First, you will need to open up your NC to remove the back cover, once you do that you will be able to remove the card which is not ejecting.
Next, you can close your cover back.
Lastly, for all uSD cards you are going to insert in, stick get some good sticker (plastic type which are not too thick would be good). Stick about 4mm of the uSD card non-contact area and leave about 3mm outside.
All you need is to tug lightly at the protruding sticker to remove your uSD cards. I found a whole bunch of these stickers so I use them for all the uSD cards which are used with my NC. Works well enough.

I had the impression the problem was cards not staying in, rather than cards not coming out. I could be mistaken.

Same impression I got. Warranty claim it, it's not worth keeping a defective device.

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Stylus keeps Falling Out - Is it possible to correct ?

My Stylus is now very loose and keeps falling out, is it possible to remove the case and tighten the internal securing mechanisum. If so would it be possible to point me in the riight direction for instructions, and internal pictures.
Thanks
a18041967 said:
My Stylus is now very loose and keeps falling out, is it possible to remove the case and tighten the internal securing mechanisum. If so would it be possible to point me in the riight direction for instructions, and internal pictures.
Thanks
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This worked out well for me...
A far easier method is to cut about an inch square piece off of a thin plastic shopping bag (the cheap ones) and put that in the hole where the stylus fits. This solved all my problems and has worked for about 10 months with no further issues.
Saves you having to dismatle phone :wink:
wrap a small piece of scotch tape around the stylus. That makes it slightly thicker, and it fits tighter in the slot.
I lost several styli, had bought a few replacement packages of them, before I did this.
Scoth tape worked best for me too. I originally tried high end duble stick tape, but this is way easier and loger lasting. I'm afraid to split this baby open. I have a Siemens SL56 that once I tore into it was never the same.
remove the battery cover and to the left theres two small openings, cut a piece of paper thats wide enough to fit in there and shove it in between the battery and the little black plastic things in that gap. Thats what i do and it's been holding ever since i had the stylis issue.
Getting the right thickness of the paper takes a little guess work but give it a shot and i'm sure you'll be pleased at the ease of solving the issue.
Enjoy
I did something even better IMHO
I skinned my QTEK 9100 and my Stylus...now it look great and it fits perfectly... I will post picture asap
I rang up O2. Explained that the mechanism for holding the Stylus had failed. Resulting in me losing both my stylus's. Ive had the phone since April.
They are sending me a new XDA with the standard accessories pack (containing 3 stylus) Once I send my XDA back. Could be free but I want peace of mind through special delivery!
They will return my replacement XDA in about 5 working days.
I was quite impressed with this service from O2.
Garf said:
I rang up O2. Explained that the mechanism for holding the Stylus had failed. Resulting in me losing both my stylus's. Ive had the phone since April.
They are sending me a new XDA with the standard accessories pack (containing 3 stylus) Once I send my XDA back. Could be free but I want peace of mind through special delivery!
They will return my replacement XDA in about 5 working days.
I was quite impressed with this service from O2.
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Same here with t-mobile (UK) took it into one of their stores, they exchanged unit within 5 days.
the solution IS SKOTCH TAPE!
stylus remedy
same here, I'm okay with taking things apart, but puting things together...kinda risky, especially with my qtek 9100. So I took the easy way with sctotch tape. The only thing is to know how much tape need to be used to roll the stylus so that it will fit in the hole and yet still secure. maybe an inch or less for me. Seems that it will fix the problem. It's kinda irritating because I just bought 6 more stylus just in case. I should have check this out first before spending all that money on 6 stylus (styli?)
anyway, good luck
I'm with TMo USA and they'll replace the unit, but I have to buy the extra stylus because they consider it an accessory. Go figure! At any rate it'll cost me $15 USD to replace the unit (shipping costs) and $20 for the stylus pack.
Little ball of blu tak, push into hole with stylus.
Ta da, job done. Has been holding perfectly ever since.

Broken miniUSB on device!

So i took off my siedo case just to clean the dirt and other stuff between the case and my kaiser (which i do about once a week) and i noticed that my mini USB port on my device is CRACKED!!
I didn't buy the warranty the ebay seller offered me from SquareTrade, its an ATT Tilt, so do u think ATT would honor the warranty?
This is the best pic i could get using my brother N82...
Any chance that happened while trying to blindly reach the reset hole with the stylus?
Very common mistake!
Just try to bend it upward (carefully) with a plastic or wood toothpick or something like that and it should be ready to go. Don't use a metallic object.
Good luck!
Rayan
fone_fanatic said:
So i took off my siedo case just to clean the dirt and other stuff between the case and my kaiser (which i do about once a week) and i noticed that my mini USB port on my device is CRACKED!!
I didn't buy the warranty the ebay seller offered me from SquareTrade, its an ATT Tilt, so do u think ATT would honor the warranty?
This is the best pic i could get using my brother N82...
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at&t specifically states that warranty is extended only to the original purchaser. Was the phone ever used prior to your receipt? If not them you can probably get by if you play dumb about the original pruchase date as all Tilts are still within the 12 month purchase whindow.
i bought it on ebay for $400 with $30 dollar shipping and it was stated "LNIB" like new in box. But what was funny was when i recieved it the imei on the device doesn't match the one on the box so either could be some funny business or a refurb device with a new box.
anyways after i posted this i was sitting in the library and i used a mechanical pencil with the led sticking out to push it back to place. It's syncing with activesync sporadically, will work then won't work, don't know if its do to this crack or my activesync could be busted (running windows through fusion on a mac)
Its charging fine right now and you can barely tell its cracked, other than one of the metal pins sticking out, i tried to push it back in with the led but the led kept breaking.
I think what caused it was the other day i was driving and had TomTom going and i plugged it into the car charger and put it in my center console. Theres a little edge on both sides of the center console and the charger was resting on it so i think thats what caused it.
If it does completely break off, I can definitely play the retarded stubborn customer and harass ATT till they fix it, I've got experience with these kinda things
Kyphur this happened to me yesterday also, but the whole piece came off... so the pins are hanging in the air... but im still able to synchronized and charge it.
do you think att will honor this one too?
i also cracked mine recently, when i pushed the stylus into the wrong hole =P
i managed to push the thing back into shape gently, and it would charge with the charger and sync with the supplied cable, but i found that it wouldn't sync with my retractable 3rd party cable, and also that if i tried copying files to/from the miniSD card with the supplied cable, the files and the card would become corrupted. this may have been because i used a screwdriver to push it back into shape...
anyway in the end i had to send it and for whatever reason, the service center kept on sending it back saying it "worked", even though when it came back neither my laptop nor the computers at the store i bought it from could even recognize the device. finally at the 3rd sending back they replaced the motherboard and now it works again.

Carry a second sd card...

Now, I use Winmo and Android.... and i have two sd cards, one for every OS... Because it is so easy to lose the new microsd cards... I cut the rubber that protects the battery and I put there the second sd card. For me it is sufficiently fixed, and I can carry ever my two sd cards with me.... (I dont use any case, only film protectors....)
I'm sure I'm not the first, but I think someone has not thought about it..
Regards....
Edit: probably, can fit a sd card plus a sim card....
lol
what a cool idea xD
im not using two sd cards, but probably soon xDD
I do that, a lovely tweak
I experimented with including an SD adapter as well, but no room
Guys...you don't need to cut anything for the microSD to fit.
Just put the second card on top of your SIM card. The clearance is sufficient without putting undue pressure on the battery/case/card.
That's what I did when I backpacked through Europe my HD2 + spare memory card for storing extra photos/videos.
Will the heat generated from the battery ruins the SDcard?
It's kinda funny seeing this. I've been doing this since I started running android on my hd2. But I didn't cut the foam and haven't had a single issue... didn't even try down by the simple but I don't want things sliding round inside the battery cover..
Sent from my Mytouch HD2
And I thought I was the only one..
Good to see other genius individuals in here as well.. Although, I did recently donate an 8 gig card because the card bumped out and got caught on the side seam.. Just keep an eye out.
this is how i roll, no sliding around either
fastwanabe said:
this is how i roll, no sliding around either
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this one is awsome xD
Thats how ive been carrying my two extra cards. Glad to know theres others like me out there.
Havent had any issues yet.
fastwanabe said:
this is how i roll, no sliding around either
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Been doing this for months, no problems with the cards when I've had to use them, 4 cards 3 android builds and a winmo build - easy
fastwanabe said:
this is how i roll, no sliding around either
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Double sided tape leaves glue on the cards? Or use Blu-tack?
no glue or tape required, just place card and slowly put cover on hd2
Excellent idea, thought of it just couple of hours ago but thought maybe it wouldn't fit. Gonna store my 2GB card there w/ copilot on it, for whenever I can't use Google Nav.
thanks for the trick. its a good idea to carry extra stuff in the back. im now looking for the cushion in the middle to put in my mugen extended battery back. there is no support inside so everything will slide around and get damaged. just for a temporary fix, i might stuff it with some bounty lol. picts when i find the cushion strip.

[Q] HTC One: Sim stuck in Sim Tray

Hi All
My friend has used a sim adapter within the sim tray (he had a nano sim from having used in an iPhone 5). He cannot now remove the sim tray, comes out a couple of mm and gets stuck.
The phone has been sent to HTC UK for repair and they are quoting him £200 (!) to fix. He's asked them to return without fixing.
Any ideas on how a DIY repair may be carried out? I'm wondering if removing the top and bottom speaker grills, afters applying some heat, will allow access to screws to allow the screen etc. to be removed?
Any advice appreciated!
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Hi All
My friend has used a sim adapter within the sim tray (he had a nano sim from having used in an iPhone 5). He cannot now remove the sim tray, comes out a couple of mm and gets stuck.
The phone has been sent to HTC UK for repair and they are quoting him £200 (!) to fix. He's asked them to return without fixing.
Any ideas on how a DIY repair may be carried out? I'm wondering if removing the top and bottom speaker grills, afters applying some heat, will allow access to screws to allow the screen etc. to be removed?
Any advice appreciated!
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get some pliers and yank the thing out clean
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get some pliers and yank the thing out clean
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He did use quite a lot of force to try to pull the tray out, but it seems to be catching something on the inside. I think if we try what you suggest we'll send up with with 2 pieces, with one stuck inside.
saquib said:
He did use quite a lot of force to try to pull the tray out, but it seems to be catching something on the inside. I think if we try what you suggest we'll send up with with 2 pieces, with one stuck inside.
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if you remove the screen etc i doubt youll ever get it back on. its probably just the adapter which is misplaced and preventing the tray to come out, try wiggling the phone about and trying to pull and push at the same time. be prepared to order another adapter and maybe another sim card too
Seems like the nano SIM has fallen out of the adapter?
Get some fuse wire, one pack will have varying gauges of wire, make a loop with the wire, shove it in the slot, shuggle it about.
Good luck!
Take it to a local phone repair shop and see what they'd charge.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
I suggest not forcing it off. Look at the ifixit disassembly force pulling it might lead the plastic injected mold to break and you wouldn't want that to happen.
Damn! Sim has fallen out the adapter for sure. And if that's the case then your friend is probably screwed. Since the sim probably came off the adapter, the adapter might now be stuck on the pins that read the sim card.
Same thing happened to my friends sgs2 which I'm about to fix soon. The only way I was able to remove the sim was by prying it out. That resulted in one of the pins to break off and now it doesn't read the sim.
See the picture below for reference. You can see the 3 gold pins on the left side of the sim tray exposed. There are also 3 more under that metal piece to the right, which is the actual tray. You can see there's 4 holes where you can see 2 gold pins showing through and one is missing. There supposed to be 6 pins total. 3 on the left and 3 on the right. That's the one pin that got stuck on the sim adapter. I'm afraid this is probably the same problem you have.
I suggest your friend sents it back to htc and let them take it out. They will have to open up the device to do so.
Sent from my HTC myTouch 4g using xda premium
This happened to me with the One. Use a super thin razor blade (the kind that you use on the old school razors), stick it in through the side, and pry toward the side that it's supposed to be installed. Do the top and bottom little by little. Eventually it will come out enough to grab with a pair of small needle nose pliers.
killabee44 said:
This happened to me with the One. Use a super thin razor blade (the kind that you use on the old school razors), stick it in through the side, and pry toward the side that it's supposed to be installed. Do the top and bottom little by little. Eventually it will come out enough to grab with a pair of small needle nose pliers.
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This is on the right track. I have used plastic lamination that I cut, paper, cardboard, a piece of tape folded over so it's not sticky. Something that will bend and allow you to slide in between the sim card and the pins or whatever is holding it. You can then wiggle the tray out and then shake the nano card out. I have done this before it can take hours of playing with it. Finding the right object that you can slide in there is key. Also look for any pictures you can find of a teardown to give you an idea of what is holding it and where you need to slide something in to free it. The key is patience do not force anything or something will break. It will be long and tedious this I promise.
Does that make sense?
Try an auto feeler gauge set from Halfords for a selection of shim thicknesses, then trial and error.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Currently waiting for HTC to return the phone (for a £25 charge due to not proceeding with a repair). Once back will try to put into action what has been suggested.
Thanks again,
Yeah i had a similar experience with sim adaptors. Don't use them. (as you found out they just get stuck). I would take a really thin blade or something and push up on the sim tray (you said that it comes out a bit) .Thats how i freed my sim on another phone.
PS: DONT remove the speaker grills. This phone is pretty much impossible to put back together once you take it apart.
Just want to chime in and said that I bought the noosy nano sim adapter off of Amazon and my sim tray got stuck as well. The tray was only stuck when there was no nano sim in the adapter. When I placed the microsim adapter with the nano sim it worked perfectly, for me at least. I wanted to keep the micro sim adapter in the tray because I was afraid of losing it.
fffssslll said:
Just want to chime in and said that I bought the noosy nano sim adapter off of Amazon and my sim tray got stuck as well. The tray was only stuck when there was no nano sim in the adapter. When I placed the microsim adapter with the nano sim it worked perfectly, for me at least. I wanted to keep the micro sim adapter in the tray because I was afraid of losing it.
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Could you post how you got the tray out with the adapter in? I have the same adapter and can't seem to get it. THANKS!!!!
I ejected the sim tray as far as I can then slid some very thin lamination into both sides of the tray then prayed and pulled. Did this with and without the nano sim in the adaptor and realized that it was the micro adaptor without the nano sim. Busy of luck buddy.
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Could you post how you got the tray out with the adapter in? I have the same adapter and can't seem to get it. THANKS!!!!
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I actually finally got it just as I was about to give up! I used a blade from a straight razor. The pins that contact the nano sim are what got stuck. For future reference you have to push it in fairly hard on the side of the tray towards the back of the phone. and if like me you are using something narrower than the tray, it has to be closest to the top of the phone.
The pins that are sticking are on the back top of the adapter. It seems the pins are straight so they snag when they are in the opening of the sim adapter.
Haha congrats.I was a little frantic first but finally got it as well. As long as you don't scratch it up any thin item probably works.
So getting a micro SIM from your carrier(free) and not damaging your $600 phone trying to use a nano SIM would be the best solution.
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Need suggestions
My SIM tray is jammed. I got this ugly thing over 2 weeks back and feel like hell. I tried removing my SIM card check for data service in my other SIM but it didn't came out. I tried quite hard till my fingers started paining. I tried with a paper clip. My SIM is working fine without any issues but next month I will be travelling to India and hence will be required to change my SIM. I read about this a lot and seems like there is no repair for HTC ONE. Can you guys please guide me over this ... :crying::crying::crying:

Replace USB PCB board?

I have a broken USB port and looking to open this up and replace, but haven't seen anything posted. I found this, so if this will work...the heating up bit I haven't' done before to remove a back cover, but if lieu of a repair not sure how useful the tablet is
Anyone replace this part before?
Thanks!
NitDawg
It looks like it's modular - probably pretty simple to fit.
But remember - the Tab is plastic welded shut and you need to heat it up to separate the halves.
Depending on whether Murphy's Law visit you a lot (as it does me), you might be better of sending it in for repairs.
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I have a broken USB port and looking to open this up and replace, but haven't seen anything posted. I found this, so if this will work...the heating up bit I haven't' done before to remove a back cover, but if lieu of a repair not sure how useful the tablet is
Anyone replace this part before?
Thanks!
NitDawg
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I've read about many different ways of heating to open the tablet. A simple solution that worked well for me, was using a plain old steam iron, a single edge razor blade of the type used in box openers and an exacto knife. Be careful not to cut the LCD ribbon cable on the bottom edge of the tablet. It starts about 3" in from the Samson logo side of the tablet.
Thanks all! Yeah, I've opened up a few others before, but not one with heat. Using a place close by in the Raleigh area, they were willing to do it for $70 including the part...so well-worth it to me.
Thanks again!
Worth the price is they do it right, seal it up again, guarantee the work...
So after 2 different repair shops and half a year later, I was able to get this replaced. The first place held it for a month waiting for the part and eventually said it was not going to come in (strange). I let it sit for a while and then hit up another repair store...they said they can get the part. Was read the riot act on the risk, etc...but it was worthless at this point, so why not. They were able to do and all appears fine.
However, I wanted to transfer some files in prep for maybe a newer ROM when I noticed the replacement port does not allow any data transfer. I have another T810, so I know its not the various cables I tried. So that part is a bummer, but at least it charges...not sure why data transfer does not work, but I'm taking it!

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