Hey guys, I'm considering parting out my nexus 7 because its digitizer is partially broken. I was just wondering if you guys have a need for any of the parts, and what you would pay for them. I'm not selling the parts yet, just getting an idea of if its worth my time to do so. Thanks!
I'll take the back cover for $10 shipped to Miami.
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lamboboy732 said:
Hey guys, I'm considering parting out my nexus 7 because its digitizer is partially broken. I was just wondering if you guys have a need for any of the parts, and what you would pay for them. I'm not selling the parts yet, just getting an idea of if its worth my time to do so. Thanks!
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I'll buy the LCD flex cable (photo below). I'll offer $10 incl mailing it to St Louis.
It's the little short cable that pops off the main board - it's located in a small gap between the battery and the main board.
You have to be very careful with this cable as the LCD end is damaged very easily. Do not pull on it at all.
To remove it, you have to
-remove the battery,
-remove all the small screws holding in the sub chassis - unscrew the speaker
-pop off the upper connector - it just pops straight up - do not pull on the cable though
-remove the digitizer cables - flip up the white cable clamps at the rear of the 2 connectors
-remove the subchassis - you'll have to remove the copper heatsink that is taped to the back of the LCD
- flip up the black cable clamp on the rear of the LCD flex connector and carefully slide the connector straight out without bending it up at all.
Let me know if you're interested.
Thanks
Thanks for the replies. Ill let you guys know it I'm going to sell the parts.
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Ok, so i have the "power button failure" problem. No more warranty, and the local gsm repair shop can repair it, but doesnt know where the connections go, to make a bypass.
anyone has this manual, or anything that could help me?
thank you
You can't repair it.it needs a new flex cable.
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cobrax2 said:
Ok, so i have the "power button failure" problem. No more warranty, and the local gsm repair shop can repair it, but doesnt know where the connections go, to make a bypass.
anyone has this manual, or anything that could help me?
thank you
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I had this problem recently. Out of warranty. Sent to HTC repair center and got quoted for about $50 USD (given that I'm in Singapore, there is a physical HTC service center that I can go to).
If you want to fix it yourself, you can buy the board from ebay, this is the cheapest of them all, with tools included.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290522246328&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
You can follow some disassembling guide from ifixit or this youtube series (very detailed, but to repair the cracked screen instead) to replace the flex cable and board. Should not take more than 1 hour. I planned to do it if the quote is higher than $80, but it's not.
Let me know how it goes if you decide to fix it yourself. Take a few pictures as you go along would be great too.
Easy way to start nexus one with out power button:
1)Plug in phone through USB or wall charger.
2) take battery out
3) put battery back in real fast
Phone should boot on.
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thank you guys for replying, i knew i can replace the board, bu i wanted to see if i can "fix" the flex cable. i gues there are only 2 wires inside it and i need to see where those go. not to fix it myself, but the guys at the shop. i think they can use a "strap", which is a loose wire connecting the 2 points. i dont really plan on using that button very much, i got used to the trackball wake, but, i want it to work, just in case
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thank you guys for replying, i knew i can replace the board, bu i wanted to see if i can "fix" the flex cable. i gues there are only 2 wires inside it and i need to see where those go. not to fix it myself, but the guys at the shop. i think they can use a "strap", which is a loose wire connecting the 2 points. i dont really plan on using that button very much, i got used to the trackball wake, but, i want it to work, just in case
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I've taken my 2 nexus apart, and I can tell you that there is no easy fix.
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i have fixed it in the gsm repair shop. well, they did
they waited to come in another faulty nexus to check which wires were faulty, compared them, and they put in a new external wire replacing the old one on the circuit board. everything works now. it costed me around 30 usd. anyway, i intend on using trackball wake though in the future, only if necessary the power button
Hi ,
Yes you can repair this problem. Besides the option of buying a new flex cable for 50-80 USD, I found in this very same forum a thread where somebody posted a picture and indications about how to repair the flex that contains the power button.
If you disassemble your N1 and remove the large flex that carries the power switch you will notice that i has two large connectors on the bottom end.
One of these has 44 pins (two rows of 22 pins). In the top row of this connector, counting from the right the pin number 10 is the one that turns the nexus one ON/OFF
The switch does this only by connecting it mmomentarily to ground.
TO FIX IT:
All you need is a fine end soldering iron, a good lens, a T5 screw driver, soldering wire and adhesive tape. And most importantly 20 cm of very thin magnet wire (enamelled copper wire of about 30 to 50 micrometers in diameter (it is thicker than hair do not worry).
Then solder an end of the wire to the pin #10 as counted in the way i described. route and tape the wire along the flex until you get to the switch.
the switch has 4 pins one pair is ground, the others go to pin #10 in the 44 pin connector. The ones that are gong to the pin #10 are actually on the side of the switch that has a golden "[" bracket. Solder the end of the wire that comes from pin #10 to any of these two pins of the switch. This completes one part of the process. (the most difficult).
The back of the board that holds the switch has a large ground plane. Solder a second piece of wire to this golden pad. From there, stretch about 30 mm of wire towards the upper corner of the logic board, and solder the end of it to the round golden pad where a screw goes. This is a ground point.
Reassemble the phone. Your power switch should now work again.
I hope this helps.
Jose
This may seem obvious to the tech savvy but not to all.
I bought a new flex cable/board on ebay. It was supposed to be new but it is obviously used. I have my doubts that it works. I am trying to test it before installing. If I press the power button, pin 10 (as described) should be electrically connected to ground, right? This is not the case with the board I have. Is the connection between pin 10 and the switch a direct trace on the ribbon cable or is something else involved? is there a diode or anything else in this circuitry? Does the battery holder come into play?
Other information. My phone does power on with the charger/remove/replace battery trick. All other buttons work.
Hi there,
the cover for the USB port of my HTC Dream /T-Mobile G1 became loose. The little plastic cable that holds it to the phone ripped but I still had it - I planned to glue the cover back to that plastic cable thing.
Unfortunately I lost that cover now. I was searching the web (including ebay) for replacement but even if I bought a complete housing they'd come without that little plastic cable holding the USB cover.
Does anybody know where to get replacement? By the way I would like to know where to get good (high quality) tools for opening the housing without breaking it.
I appreciate your help.
You would probably have to buy a broken phone and hope that the cover is still intact. While I managed to maintain that cover on mine, I did find it highly frustrating. Many people actually PREFERRED to rip it off. I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to replace it, since that cover really is quite redundant. You won't hurt anything by not having it.
Yes, you're right somehow, it is redundant. It looks a little ugly, though. Maybe someone can still point a way to that cover
2 bricked G1's for sale on ebay for parts:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-BRICKED-G1-PH...652?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b72aa884
Thank's for the ebay link. I am already bidding on some broken phones on ebay.de. though. I though was hoping to find that cover as a sparepart somewhere.
jdb78 said:
Thank's for the ebay link. I am already bidding on some broken phones on ebay.de. though. I though was hoping to find that cover as a sparepart somewhere.
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Try topicovers.com if you are still having problems. I bought some and now is a big fan of them. Good luck!
Any one know of a company that can fix the USB port on a HTC Raider in Canada. Rogers wants to charge me $250 to fix it.
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Any one know of a company that can fix the USB port on a HTC Raider in Canada. Rogers wants to charge me $250 to fix it.
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You could probably buy two new Raiders for $250! Replacement might be the best bet, as you can likely find one on Kijiji for $100 or so. If you have a local cell repair joint, give them a call, and see if they offer the replacement. It might be tricky since the USB on the Raider (as other HTC phones) is actually a special type of HDMI jack that also has USB (known as MHL).
If you're adventurous, you might track down a broken Raider and attempt a part swap yourself. I've not seen the inside of the unit, so I can't say how easy or hard that would be at any skill level...
Hope you get it fixed up!
The part is on eBay you can always try to do it yourself should be a few small solder points
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KillerbawX said:
Any one know of a company that can fix the USB port on a HTC Raider in Canada. Rogers wants to charge me $250 to fix it.
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A friend needed this. We ordered one off ebay ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-USB-Pow...328529?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27c422a1d1 ) and although it required opening the phone up and voiding the warranty, it required no soldering. He doesn't open electronics up very often, and said it wasn't very hard to do.
i was babbling abt this in a thread in the dev forum, thot i'd best do it also here in the proper forum for it:
i changed the USB port in my Raider, was very simple. Six little screws, two different lengths so keep track of them. One screw also holds down the teeny cover under which is where the tiny connector resides that connects the port to the fone circuit board. Once the fone is back together that's where you make the final connection between port and fone.
Slip off the battery cover, undo the six screws, take off that tiny little cover. Carefully work off the entire back housing. There's no front housing, just the screen glass and the fone circuitry bundled together.
Micro-USB port and ribbon connector is fastened to the housing with two more of those little screws. Change out the port with the new one. New part may not be an exact duplicate of the old part: that's ok. Reassemble the fone. Under that hole left by the tiny cover, press home the miniscule plug that connects up the port to the fone.
Put back the tiny cover, fasten back all the screws, and you're done. Port cost me $9 USD plus shipping on ebay.
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i was babbling abt this in a thread in the dev forum, thot i'd best do it also here in the proper forum for it:
i changed the USB port in my Raider, was very simple. Six little screws, two different lengths so keep track of them. One screw also holds down the teeny cover under which is where the tiny connector resides that connects the port to the fone circuit board. Once the fone is back together that's where you make the final connection between port and fone.
Slip off the battery cover, undo the six screws, take off that tiny little cover. Carefully work off the entire back housing. There's no front housing, just the screen glass and the fone circuitry bundled together.
Micro-USB port and ribbon connector is fastened to the housing with two more of those little screws. Change out the port with the new one. New part may not be an exact duplicate of the old part: that's ok. Reassemble the fone. Under that hole left by the tiny cover, press home the miniscule plug that connects up the port to the fone.
Put back the tiny cover, fasten back all the screws, and you're done. Port cost me $9 USD plus shipping on ebay.
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Hey, dude, I know this thread is a little old, but can you PM me the link to where you bought your USB port? I think I need to replace my port (issues connecting to PC and charging requires wire wiggling), but I've read about certain ports not working with data transfer and only charging, and I don't want to make that kind of mistake.
projectisaac said:
Hey, dude, I know this thread is a little old, but can you PM me the link to where you bought your USB port? I think I need to replace my port (issues connecting to PC and charging requires wire wiggling), but I've read about certain ports not working with data transfer and only charging, and I don't want to make that kind of mistake.
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Try this? Says OEM so I imagine you wont lose functionality.
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/product-p/htc747235-qs.htm
Thank you! And only $8 too
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So my brother accidentally cracked the screen of my Nexus 7 a while back.
Yesterday I received replacement screen, put the device back together ant turned it on.
But the screen stays black without a hint of flick.
Device is definitely on, internal SD mounts when I plug it in a PC and I hear the sound from the Nexus when I pull the cable out.
I've inspected the flex ribbon cable, looks undamaged.
Is my video output chip fired or something?
I would say reseat the flex cable and try again if it doesn't turn on perhaps bad screen.
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If you pulled on the small flex cable that was connected to the display before you released the small retaining lever on the back of the connector, there is a good chance you cracked one or more traces on the flex. I had this happen and had to buy a replacement flex. Asus made the traces too narrow right where the flex enters the LCD connector.
EBay vendors sell the flex for $10-20
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bigbop said:
If you pulled on the small flex cable that was connected to the display before you released the small retaining lever on the back of the connector, there is a good chance you cracked one or more traces on the flex. I had this happen and had to buy a replacement flex. Asus made the traces too narrow right where the flex enters the LCD connector.
EBay vendors sell the flex for $10-20
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Yeah, after thorough inspection with a magnifying glass it seems like the flex cable is the problem. Ordered the replacement already.
Meanwhile, gonna play with some conductive paint
So my Nexus' battery has gotten deteriorated after so much usage. I used Accubattery to find out the rating and it showed 2500 mAh after a full charge, which I think is pretty bad. The problem is that there are is no Nexus market where I live. Even the local phone shops say they cant change it. So I was thinking about ordering the battery online and doing it myself. But sadly, the battery is internal and I have no experience whatsoever with electronics. Has anyone changed the battery themselves? What do you think I should do.
Pretty easy, if you buy a new one, don't buy a cheap replacement
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Td78lS_rfU
coremania said:
Pretty easy, if you buy a new one, don't buy a cheap replacement
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Td78lS_rfU
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Do you where i can find an original replacement online? Thanks (Dont know a lot about online ordering)
I guess eBay or Amazon, try to find a original one. May someone's here who already replaced one. I replaced it on my older phones, my nexus 6 battery is still good
I replaced mine a month ago. Not to difficult. The back cover is held on with double sided tape. Then 23 crazy small screws to remove. Thankfully they are all the same size. The 2 connectors to unclip from the main board and the mid frame hinges off from the top. The battery is glued onto the mid frame and the Qi charging coil is stuck on the battery. Carefully peel it off and put it on the new battery. Pay close attention to where you put it back as the connector end of the charging coil has to align with pads on the board. The replacement was bendable, and needed some tweaking to fit properly.
It took me about 45 minutes to complete.
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I replaced mine a month ago. Not to difficult. The back cover is held on with double sided tape. Then 23 crazy small screws to remove. Thankfully they are all the same size. The 2 connectors to unclip from the main board and the mid frame hinges off from the top. The battery is glued onto the mid frame and the Qi charging coil is stuck on the battery. Carefully peel it off and put it on the new battery. Pay close attention to where you put it back as the connector end of the charging coil has to align with pads on the board. The replacement was bendable, and needed some tweaking to fit properly.
It took me about 45 minutes to complete.
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Where did you purchase it from? I'm looking to replace mine too, but from the reviews I found many of them fail after a short period of time. Others lack reviews altogether. None of the Amazon listings look good to me and I don't know how legit the eBay ones are because it doesn't have reviews for specific products derived from specific sellers. The top two that seem the most legit to me are this eBay listing and Repairs Universe, from which I can't tell how legit it is.
Here's how mine held up today. I unplugged it at six this morning before I left for school and got home roughly an hour ago, so this is very close to not cutting it for me, especially on days where I'd have work in addition to school.
Got it on Amazon it was described as an OEM. Picked it out, screenshot to the GF, and it ended up under the Christmas tree.?
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What battery did you end up getting? I see Repairs Universe... and Amazon as good places, but I don't want a bum battery.
funkpod said:
What battery did you end up getting? I see Repairs Universe... and Amazon as good places, but I don't want a bum battery.
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See this thread
T3 not T4!
coremania said:
Pretty easy, if you buy a new one, don't buy a cheap replacement
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Td78lS_rfU
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I nearly stripped several screws using the larger Torx T4 driver recommended in this video instead of the T3 that fits these screws perfectly. I bought the replacement battery & T3 driver from eBay.
odontastic said:
I nearly stripped several screws using the larger Torx T4 driver recommended in this video instead of the T3 that fits these screws perfectly. I bought the replacement battery & T3 driver from eBay.
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Where were you when I was buying the wrong size torx driver!
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