I am helping a buddy replace his lcd and in the process of taking it apart and disconnecting the ribbon cable for the battery he managed to rip the connection to the mother board completely off:/ I'm wondering if anyone has a fix or a place that it can be sent to in order to get this fixed or if the device is now only good for parts. Thanks for your advice in advance
mattytom87 said:
I am helping a buddy replace his lcd and in the process of taking it apart and disconnecting the ribbon cable for the battery he managed to rip the connection to the mother board completely off:/ I'm wondering if anyone has a fix or a place that it can be sent to in order to get this fixed or if the device is now only good for parts. Thanks for your advice in advance
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I think you can send it to Motorola for repair... but it'll cost almost as much as a new phone.
Well a little silicon and we got it to boot but the new digitizer don't work? I'm at a loss for what's wrong the battery connection shouldn't affect the digitizer if I'm not mistaken correct?
I'm at a loss for what's wrong the battery connection shouldn't affect the digitizer
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Well, of course juice flows from the battery to digitizer, so incorrect battery connection may deprive digitizer of power.
Sorry if I've misunderstood your question.
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The battery supplies power to the digitizer of course. But maybe I'm misunderstanding your question.
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One day I was charging my Milestone via USB and I unplugged it. The USB pins came out with the charger. My carrier told me that it was user-induced damage and not covered by the warranty, as well as telling me that you can't replace the charging port, so I'd simply have to buy a new phone.
This was quite unacceptable to me, so I went around to cellphone repairing shops and none of them have been able to fix it. In fact, the most recent attempted fix has left the back panel ripped apart, too!
The phone was in perfect condition before.
So does anyone know where I can find this elusive charging port - is it so special to the milestone that I can't replace it with another phone's USB port? I also need international shipping. Yes, pigs fly.
I have a dead Motorola Droid.
It sure is the same charging port.
PM if you are interested, I can ship worldwide.
MGA2009 said:
I have a dead Motorola Droid.
It sure is the same charging port.
PM if you are interested, I can ship worldwide.
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I see you're still trying to get your phone to work. I may take you up on the offer, but I'm going to try one last phone technician to see if he can fix it. If he can't, I'll find out if it's just because of the port or because of general incompetence. Then I might be able to take the phone off you. Thanks for the offer.
Hi I am looking for a motherboard for my milestone. I am from Germany. My Milestone has a water damage. The only thing that does not work is the touch.
I think if I were an undamaged motherboard in it have ,it work again.
Does your motherboard?
Dear Greetings from Germany Misch xD
won't you need a new touch panel as well? if ur mother board failed, how did u determine touch doesn't work?
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Hmm I think that the motherboard is damage. Because it has water damage suffered.
but maybe I should first install a new touch. Although I think the honest, the motherboard is scrap.
Do you have to sell a Touch?
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Hi
Has anyone had their Nexus 7 screen replaced by ASUS? How much did they charge?
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Contact customer care they will make u knw replacement cost of frisplay
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Sry display
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I did but she said she can't tell me.
All she said was £45 to inspect plus the cost of the screen
anyone able to help?
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I did but she said she can't tell me.
All she said was £45 to inspect plus the cost of the screen
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If only inspecting costs that much, you should buy a new one....
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yulet said:
If only inspecting costs that much, you should buy a new one....
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Indeed, chances are it will be close to 50% of the price of a new one with the chance of them messing it up instead of fixing it. And you will be without a tablet during the repairs (which can be 5 weeks + from what I've read others say). Probably best to cut your losses and get a new one. But since it's apparently a hard to give answer, I'm beginning to become curious as well
Hi,
I bought a new housing for my N7100.
After changing the housing I am losing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
It just gets turned off automatically within 1 second.
When I whack it hard couple of times it works for 2-4hours.
I even got replacement housing from seller but the problem persist.
Any suggestions?
A hardware experts help is appreciated.
No compatible nfc on the back cover?
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Declan79 said:
No compatible nfc on the back cover?
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Using original back cover.
Tried new one also.
Doesn't seem to work both.
SandeepEmekar said:
Hi,
I bought a new housing for my N7100.
After changing the housing I am losing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
It just gets turned off automatically within 1 second.
When I whack it hard couple of times it works for 2-4hours.
I even got replacement housing from seller but the problem persist.
Any suggestions?
A hardware experts help is appreciated.
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Ar you sure you have the n7100 model housing and not the other models.
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Ar you sure you have the n7100 model housing and not the other models.
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Don't you have any other things to do in life than messing with people?
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Don't you have any other things to do in life than messing with people?
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I'm only here for suggestion, not sure what you are getting at, i'm say are you sure you have the n7100 and not the n7105 or other models, there are slight differences between them all.
I know ur problem, take off the back cover and remove the screw next to the wifi antennae which is the one left to the camera, (not on the side where the flash is at).
it should work. If it doesnt press on that area kinda hard n it shud work. i do this and lik once a month or twice maybe the same thing happens. It is a bad connection with the wifi antenna i believe. When it stops working i simply take off the back cover and just push on it. Usually it happens when my phone gets real hot.
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also sorry for late reply, i was just lookin around forums n found ur thread
I recently had the unfortunate occurence where my phone no longer charges and therefore I need to get the charging port replaced. I went to my local repair shop and paid £25 for them to replace it. I'll find out later today whether they've been able to do it or not.
That got me to thinking about how easy it might be to teardown the M7. I proceeded to watch the following video and saw that it doesn't seem like too much hassle and maybe I'd have been better off doing it myself.
Have any of you been in the unfortunate situation where you've needed to take apart your M7 and decided to do it yourself. If so, how did it go and did you manage to mess anything up by deciding to do it yourself instead of getting a professional to do it?
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I recently had the unfortunate occurence where my phone no longer charges and therefore I need to get the charging port replaced. I went to my local repair shop and paid £25 for them to replace it. I'll find out later today whether they've been able to do it or not.
That got me to thinking about how easy it might be to teardown the M7. I proceeded to watch the following video and saw that it doesn't seem like too much hassle and maybe I'd have been better off doing it myself.
Have any of you been in the unfortunate situation where you've needed to take apart your M7 and decided to do it yourself. If so, how did it go and did you manage to mess anything up by deciding to do it yourself instead of getting a professional to do it?
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I have never done it, but from my observations here on the forums a few have successfully changed battery's while many others ended up with unreadable screens / broken antennas / broken usb ports / stuck in bootloader bootloop. I have disassembled lots of phones / PSP / Laptops / Ipods / iPhones and i would be pretty reluctant to try an M7.
KidCarter93 said:
I recently had the unfortunate occurence where my phone no longer charges and therefore I need to get the charging port replaced. I went to my local repair shop and paid £25 for them to replace it. I'll find out later today whether they've been able to do it or not.
That got me to thinking about how easy it might be to teardown the M7. I proceeded to watch the following video and saw that it doesn't seem like too much hassle and maybe I'd have been better off doing it myself.
Have any of you been in the unfortunate situation where you've needed to take apart your M7 and decided to do it yourself. If so, how did it go and did you manage to mess anything up by deciding to do it yourself instead of getting a professional to do it?
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I never opened my M7 but I did on my One X to fix it many times, should be very similar. The hardest part is to remove the back cover for the first time without damaging it, looks like its even harder to do on the M7, its very fragile around the volume keys. Once its opened, if you take your time and use the right tools, its not that hard, but you never know what can happen. I did manage to break the tiny power button flex cable on my One X even if it was the 4th time I was opening it, and Im not a newbie with this kind of stuff (I'm an avionic technician). Just to say even a person with high electronic skills and good dexterity can easily break these tiny components...
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And would also recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap to prevent any damage to the chips caused by electrostatic discharge.
Hi, thanks for looking into this thread.
I've used my HTC M7 during wintersports, where it got a little bit wet sometimes. The phone would only charge when turned off, so I put some WD40 on the mini-USB port and it worked fine again. Same problem week later, tried the same solution, but this second time I'd blown WD-40 under the screen..
So I decided to pull out the screen, ended up with the digitizer, and several screen parts in my hands. So I decided to order a whole new front, and a logic board(for USB port) from China, and put the existing parts over in the new front.
I did this yesterday, and tested the phone without putting the back cover back on yet. The phone worked like it had never worked before: awesome speed. I noticed however, that the speaker didn't work. I díd get sound out of my earbuds using my headphone jack, so it had to be the speaker.
I was so glad that the phone worked, as I do not have any knowledge whatsoever about hardware and I just repaired a phone with a 1.0/10 repairability score (iFixit). In my joy I thought that perhaps refixing a connection cable might do the trick. Now the horror: I touched the connection between the battery and the mainboard with a screwdriver, while it was still turned on.. I saw a sparkle, and since then the phone won't start. (And later I found out that the speaker didn't work because there was no pressure on it. When pressing on the phone, like the back cover would do, it would produce sound).
I've tried completely disassembling and reassembling the phone but that didn't work.
All it does is this loop when I hold the power button for 5 seconds:
- Flickering home/return button
Then when I release the power button:
- The phone vibrates once
- Then it keeps making a startup/boot sound (with about 6 seconds intervals) but the screen stays black, untill it has drained all energy from the battery
When I press the power button for a couple of seconds during this loop, it starts at the beginning of the loop again.
What parts in this phone are probably broken? The main board, or the battery? Both? Or possibly more?
I was just an idiot to touch a live circuit with a screwdriver..
Thanks!
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so I put some WD40 on the mini-USB port and it worked fine again.
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Never put oil on electronics! Clean the port using a Electro contact cleaner and once cleaned you can wash it using a contact enhancer" The only time you want to use WD40 on electronics is to remove surface corrosion. Part must then be cleaned of that oil.
Same problem week later, tried the same solution, but this second time I'd blown WD-40 under the screen..
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Another reason to use electro contact cleaner. This solution evaporates so fast, like 10 times fast than rubbing alcohol. Even if you had blown contact cleaner under the screen, it would have done nothing.
I touched the connection between the battery and the mainboard with a screwdriver, while it was still turned on.. I saw a sparkle, and since then the phone won't start. (And later I found out that the speaker didn't work because there was no pressure on it. When pressing on the phone, like the back cover would do, it would produce sound).
What parts in this phone are probably broken? The main board, or the battery? Both? Or possibly more?
I was just an idiot to touch a live circuit with a screwdriver..
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Probably the main board. Doesn't worth it imo. You can get a new M7 for like 150-250$ on ebay.
alray said:
Never put oil on electronics! Clean the port using a Electro contact cleaner and once cleaned you can wash it using a contact enhancer" The only time you want to use WD40 on electronics is to remove surface corrosion. Part must then be cleaned of that oil.
Another reason to use electro contact cleaner. This solution evaporates so fast, like 10 times fast than rubbing alcohol. Even if you had blown contact cleaner under the screen, it would have done nothing.
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Thanks! This is really helpful information for possible fixes of other phones/parts in the future.
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Probably the main board. Doesn't worth it imo. You can get a new M7 for like 150-250$ on ebay.
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Thanks for your reply. Indeed, I think I will just buy another product.
But just for the sake of fixing it (not for net present value of the project), I think I will try to buy one with a broken screen or something from the Dutch Craigslist alternative. However, the M7 stores data internally. Where does it store that data? Can I remove a data chip from my (now broken) M7 motherboard, and replace it on a working motherboard?
Thanks! :good:
japzz said:
Thanks! This is really helpful information for possible fixes of other phones/parts in the future.
Thanks for your reply. Indeed, I think I will just buy another model.
But just for the sake of fixing it (not for net present value of the project), I think I will try to buy one with a broken screen or something from the Dutch Craigslist alternative. However, the M7 stores data internally. Where does it store that data? Can I remove a data chip from my (now broken) M7 mainboard, and replace it on a working mainboard?
Thanks! :good:
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Data is stored on the emmc chip and is not removable. You can not access your data with the phone not booting.
If buying a used phone for parts, make sure it have a clean imei first. Imei # is tied to the motherboard so if you take a motherboard from a blacklisted imei phone and put it in your phone, you won't be able to connect to any carrier network.
alray said:
Data is stored on the emmc chip and is not removable. You can not access your data with the phone not booting.
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Well that's a bummer.. But thanks for the clear information!
alray said:
If buying a used phone for parts, make sure it have a clean imei first. Imei # is tied to the motherboard so if you take a motherboard from a blacklisted imei phone and put it in your phone, you won't be able to connect to any carrier network.
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This isn't really clear to me straightaway, but I will like into how I can look this up etc. Great information to start with. Thanks again!
japzz said:
Well that's a bummer.. But thanks for the clear information!
This isn't really clear to me straightaway, but I will like into how I can look this up etc. Great information to start with. Thanks again!
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The IMEI number is a unique identifier. If a phone is declared lost or stolen or is linked to unpaid bills. its imei will be blacklisted. The blacklist is international and every carriers have access to it. If the phone is blacklisted, all carriers will refuse to active the phone on their network. The IMEI # is stored on the emmc chip so its tied to the motherboard. If you change motherboard of your phone, your IMEI number will change to the new one linked to that motherboard. So before buying a phone to swap motherboard, make sure the IMEI is not blacklisted. Ask the seller first and then you can check if the IMEI is valid. If the seller can't provide the IMEI, don't buy the phone.
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IMEI Explanation
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Wow thanks for this comprehensive explanation and practical tip. Thanks for helping me again and again, means a lot to me!