Greetings. The other day I was at the beach and this wild wave appeared and got my phone wet. The phone turned itself off and I removed the batt. I re-inserted it not knowing the phone turnred itself on automatically and it turned on but i quickly took the batt off again. Thing is, it doesnt turn on anymore. So I was wondering if theres a way to remove the internal SD card from the motherboard and somehow addapt it to a new mother board. I know it might sound hard but I NEED to save the info on that phone. It's basically my computer and I'll do anything to save that info. Thanks!
Well if you have good soldering skills and know what to look for you could probably swap them out.
So, if it is possible to take the chip away from the board and solder it to another working one, which one would it be? My phone was giving signs that it might work but it doesn't respond anymore. Anybody heard about this procedure before?
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Hi All,
I've got a tytn 2 (kaiser) and its having some problems. Basically the keyboard is stuffing up (again) and it won't read SD cards. I've changed sd cards etc etc and still no joy. What I'm wondering is if there are parts that I can buy to fix this problem? I know I can buy a keyboard but can I dismantle the phone to fix the card reader side of things?
Its worth noting that I have also tried to reflash the phone from the micro sd card, and at that stage the device cant even read from the SD card. This makes me think its an actual hardware failure.
Thanks,
Lewis
So nobody can help me? D:
I can't offer much help here, but this topic will have at least some info that might help you out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=337102
More to the point:
http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/HTC_Kaiser_Service_Manual.pdf
Oh ok that helps. So where would I get parts for my kaiser? SD card reader etc.
Unfortunately I have no clue....
I would say check the threads about replacing the LCD panel, and the stores that have that, or the digitizer might have the LCM (Lower Control Module) that has the SD card slot
I've seen digitizers and housings -- but I'm afraid that for a lot of parts you'll have to buy an old Kaiser...
I have an LCM with a damaged flexi, the sd card slot should be fine, not sure how easy it would be to remove, or replace, it may be possible to do this if you have access to professional desoldering tools, or know someone who can do this for you.
Yeah well I got the kaiser to pieces, not sure how to get it back together lol
I think this will be my last HTC device. Looking at how it is made, the phone is 40% screws and 60% glue. It makes sense that when the device would warm up sufficiently that the glue would go everywhere. It just seems shoddily built.
I'll attempt to put it back together for one last boot to get my contacts etc however i'm not that hopeful. I think I'll be jumping to the nokia n900.
I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones who has to send this phone in for repair.
Going there this morning..
My question is to those that have received their phones back. Any indication that the repair done has anything done different to the phone?
I mean, if they are just replacing the defective guts with essentially the exact same guts but working, does that not mean it will just happen again (SD Failure)?
Or did they actually change something within the phone to make it more durable and essentially eliminate what brought it to them in the first place?
Hopefully someone in the know could answer this... pointless to repair something with another soon to fail board or sd card.
that is a very good question, of all the phones i sent in for repair and got back
they kept their original IMEI numbers
they all came back with replaced PCB (motherboard) and cause of failure is "No Power"
by that i figure out they mean, it does not charge when you plug in the USB cable to the phone after it dies.
it seems like whatever controls the internalSD also controls the USB charging of the phone
so the problem might not really be with the internal SD but rather the power relay that supplies power to the internal SD and battery charge.
greeced said:
I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones who has to send this phone in for repair.
Going there this morning..
My question is to those that have received their phones back. Any indication that the repair done has anything done different to the phone?
I mean, if they are just replacing the defective guts with essentially the exact same guts but working, does that not mean it will just happen again (SD Failure)?
Or did they actually change something within the phone to make it more durable and essentially eliminate what brought it to them in the first place?
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This is a great point allgamer.
However fact still remains... if they are swapping out the guts for identical, but working internals, that defeats the purpose of actually correcting the problem as the problem will surely pop up again.
Lets hope it doesnt.. but this phone doesn't seem like a good candidate for constant flashing the way my old HTC Touch Diamond was. Especially if you're doing it with ODIN, you may not have a leg to stand on come out of warranty claims.
At least if you flash something with KIES, because it was an "official" update provided by samsung. So if the phone goes corrupt, you can yell to the heavens and they'd have to fix it, because essentially they corrupted your phone.
It would be great to get some feedback from other members who received their phone back from repair. I wonder if one of those members had the SD go corrupt again with the new Motherboard in place.
Hey all!
Today my phone seems to have completely died, it only boots into speedmod recovery but wont let me do anything in it, I managed to access the 'Install Zip from SD card' but there was nothing there it said. It wont boot into android what so ever. I again managed to access speedmod recovery and get to mount for storage mode which when connected shown no files.
It hasn't worked right since I was pushed over in town, I landed onto of my phone and it came out unscathed but since then it has crashed allot and the when I remove the back the smell of like when a capacitor has blown up (If you don't know that smell it's nasty, my tutor at college popped one to show us what happened, he was actually bored and wanted to do something fun and random XD) but yeah it stinks like that really bad.
I tried to boot into download mode and access it to install stocks but my computer hasn't picked it up at all in any way, doesn't even play the device connected or device faulty sound...
=/ I guess it is broken. What can you tell me? Any help would be awesome.
Scott
Hi, first of all don't panic until you have tried every possible fix.
I had once a problem when the phone only would boot up to an ugly exclamation mark and a drawing telling me to plug it to the computer, but the computer din't even notice when I plugged the phone so I supposed it was dead.
I would recommend you to try to make the JIG cable recommended in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551, I managed to put my phone in a working download mode and use odin to flash the SO again
Hope this helps
Hey! Thanks for the quick reply but unfortunately I tried this and nothing would happen. I had the download mode problem when I first tried to install custom roms, it worked then but unfortunately this time it hasn't =[
From what you say I would be very careful, from the smell you describe it sounds like a short somewhere, and could feasibly cause a fire , so pull the battery!
GTi 9000 insanity006/glitch
Smell of burned capacitor? Dude, dont turn it on.
Take battery off, disassemble it and watch the mainboard for any broken elements, if you have got a little electronic physics knowledge then take service manual, all onboard elements are marked there as R, C and so on, test them with multimeter, or ask someone to do it and pray you'll find damaged element. Start checking from power circuits (most likely the biggest capacitors sets onboard)
Also some soldering around may be broken, on battery circuit it would cause high temperature gain, use magnifying glass and little tool to make careful pressure to check it.
If some BGA chip unsoldered/bricked, then you are screwed. Maybe you know someone in hi tech service can resolder it for you, as usually it is not cheap.
Thanks for your help, I haven't disassembled the phone where the scent had grown stronger then faded slowly, I placed the battery back into the device enough so that the contacts were fully meeting and the scent came back strong. I will check it with a multi meter to see if there is any kind of fault to do with that.
Thanks again for your help, it is much appreciated =]
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Hey guys,
I just want to post a quick update to say I've got my Galaxy S working again. I managed to get the phone into download mode and it was eventually picked up in Odin3 I managed to get the phone working again, rooted and installed Darky's ROM 10 and as it turns out it is that causing the problem, sorry Darky but it doesn't work for me, 9.5 runs like a dream though so it's all good on that front.
Just got all my apps downloaded and installed and everything is in perfect order.
The wierd smell I spoke of in an earlier post is actually because of the wallet I kept my phone in, I've taken it out n it's stopped smelling so I've bought a new wallet for it, don't know why it smelled, probably because I kept my phone in my friends rucksack which has had alsorts spilled in it XD Thanks for the advice, it was much appreciated.
Hi,
This is an old phone now that I switched to the EVO, nevertheless, I would like to resolve this issue if it is resolvable. I broke my Sprint HTC Hero's USB port a while back. The device is rooted and can power up (with the help of a charged battery from my evo. It can do just about everything except download for some reason. I can access the market, internet via wifi, you name it. I haven't been able to access the sd card though. I have an sd card adaptor, so I could copy any files I needed onto the sd card, but I don't know where to go from there. I heard that the usb port can't easily be repaired as a separate item. If anyone has any ideas or if anyone can tell me that I am wasting my time, I would appreciate both. Just want to put this baby to rest.
Thanks
cns
cityneversleepz said:
Hi,
This is an old phone now that I switched to the EVO, nevertheless, I would like to resolve this issue if it is resolvable. I broke my Sprint HTC Hero's USB port a while back. The device is rooted and can power up (with the help of a charged battery from my evo. It can do just about everything except download for some reason. I can access the market, internet via wifi, you name it. I haven't been able to access the sd card though. I have an sd card adaptor, so I could copy any files I needed onto the sd card, but I don't know where to go from there. I heard that the usb port can't easily be repaired as a separate item. If anyone has any ideas or if anyone can tell me that I am wasting my time, I would appreciate both. Just want to put this baby to rest.
Thanks
cns
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When you say Broke do you mean Physically, or is it just Not Recognizing its Plugged in? I had a Similar Usb Port Issue also in the past, but I Fixed it by Installing Pcsc11
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When you say Broke do you mean Physically, or is it just Not Recognizing its Plugged in? I had a Similar Usb Port Issue also in the past, but I Fixed it by Installing Pcsc11
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Unfortunately for me I mean broke. I don't know what to say other than it was a lot of bad luck that day. I was in a huge hurry. I was driving and needed gps desperately. My battery was going dead. My kid's charger was plugged in where I usually plug in my charger. I thought it was mine and forced it in. The prongs are history now.
cityneversleepz said:
Unfortunately for me I mean broke. I don't know what to say other than it was a lot of bad luck that day. I was in a huge hurry. I was driving and needed gps desperately. My battery was going dead. My kid's charger was plugged in where I usually plug in my charger. I thought it was mine and forced it in. The prongs are history now.
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Ugh... That Sucks!
What Exactly are you Trying to do with it? Fix it to where it could be Hooked back up? Or just Fix Everything to have a Spare phone?
Since you Now have a Evo I'm guessing it would be just to have a Spare... but as far as the Sdcard issue, I Don't really see why that would be giving you a Problem? Unless that's a Separate issue?
Why fix it? I guess it just bothers me to see it - ha ha. I really liked the hero. If I could get it to work, my wife might use it, who knows. The sd card might be a separate issue. If I can't fix the usb port, I guess the rest really doesn't matter.
So, title says it all - my phone died because of i was taking pics in sea, and it looks like it cant be fixed. Thats not a big problem, I already had it for 1.5yrs and was thing about buying a new one, however - I seriously wanna backup photos from internal memory. Is there any way how to do it? Has somebody some experiences? Or it's useless to try? Phone is completely dead, only thing which works is, when i connect charger, notification diode turns red. Otherway impossible to turn on, and in service they said it can't be fixed cos there is lot of salt inside.
I understand that, but at least data should be easily recovered - damn, internal memory, it's just some stupid SD card attached to motherboard, or am I wrong?
If you can't even enter fastboot mode then i think it's pratically impossible, sorry. Teoretically you could (and i can't stress this enough) solder your internal memory chip onto a new motherboard, but it is way too expensive and (more importantly) plain ridiculous just for some photos (and i wouldn't know if it actually works).
Next time enable cloud backup!