Hi all,
it's the second time I ran in this problem:
all of sudden my HBH-IS800, full charged and paired to my HD, got freezed.
I found it with white light on, the one near the BT receiver, and there was no way to turn it off or restart it, completely freezed. The only way to have it work back was to connect it to the charger. After this input, it started to work again.
What could be related to this problem???
I bought it on Expansys. Please can someone confirm that on Action key there is any SonyEricsson logo as reported on official image? Mine has no logo.
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I read about the possibility to buy fake SE product which suffer of the problem i described in previous post.
Mine doesn't have the logo
I bought mine from mobilefun.co.uk, and it doesn't have the logo either.
I'm confident that it's not a fake (the fact that it's such a small BT headset and obviously so technically advanced would make it very difficult to fake so quickly)
I haven't had the freeze error that you describe, so I can't help, but I am very pleased with the headset - quality is much better than I thought would be possible from a BT headset (as long as you remember t disable hands-free in the options)
Good luck
Pete
I bought some from the Sony Ericsson flagship store (aka Carphone Warehouse) in London. They worked OK but I didn't realise at first that there should have been spare earbuds in the box, which were missing. (The box had been slightly broken open.)
Because they did not have replacement stock when I returned, I insisted on a refund (this was extremely hard work to obtain).
I bought a replacement from mobilefun.co.uk. These also work fine and thankfully came with the full compliment of accessories.
Neither headset had the Sony Ericsson printing on the "microphone bulge" like your photo, and neither exhibited any freezing. I'm certain they are genuine.
Difficult to say whether yours is definitely a headset fault or the phone. Have you had a chance to try any other bluetooth headsets?
- Steve
Can i just ask how you got your refund? When i ask and i'm given a no, I don't know what to say from there!
The question of refunds on the headset is a tricky one.
To be fair to the seller, they mentioned at the point of sale that they did not refund headsets unless they were faulty, for hygeine reasons. Fair enough.
But in my case, the "package" was indeed faulty; parts were missing.
Of course I could not actually prove that. I could merely show them the slightly damaged box.
No store manager was not present when I visited, and the salesman was polite and fairly sympathetic, but explained that he could not refund the headset without his manager's authority. He phoned the manager, who outright said "no".
I was well aware of my legal rights in this case, so I told the salesman that I was entitled to a refund and would, if necessary, refer the store to trading standards or take further action to get it. I appreciate the salesman was now in an awkward situation. Eventually he suggested that I call their head office directly, and kindly offered use of their landline for me to do that. I asked for their customer relations department, and after explaining the situation, authorisation for the refund was eventually given from them.
i wonder if there is anyone who hasnt had a bad experience with carphone warehouse... :/
asci said:
Hi all,
it's the second time I ran in this problem:
all of sudden my HBH-IS800, full charged and paired to my HD, got freezed.
I found it with white light on, the one near the BT receiver, and there was no way to turn it off or restart it, completely freezed. The only way to have it work back was to connect it to the charger. After this input, it started to work again.
What could be related to this problem???
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To revive this thread. I've had mine for 2 months, and the above described problem happened to me twice. Just for the record.
just got one of these on order...haven't heard much about this freezing issue, I imagine it is not a problem effecting all models based on the lack of results on the internet.
Guys im planing on buying that headset!
But a friend of mine with an iphone clames that it only works with Sony E phone propebly!
That it works with his iphone but he cant reduce tha volume or change it!
So dose it work good with the HD2 ?
3kgt said:
Guys im planing on buying that headset!
But a friend of mine with an iphone clames that it only works with Sony E phone propebly!
That it works with his iphone but he cant reduce tha volume or change it!
So dose it work good with the HD2 ?
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It works with the HD, I've used it for some while. You can reduce the volume by using the volume keys on the HD.
asci said:
Hi all,
it's the second time I ran in this problem:
all of sudden my HBH-IS800, full charged and paired to my HD, got freezed.
I found it with white light on, the one near the BT receiver, and there was no way to turn it off or restart it, completely freezed. The only way to have it work back was to connect it to the charger. After this input, it started to work again.
What could be related to this problem???
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weird i just bhought mine is800 4 days ago..i cant start that thing anymore...its charged to max..green light is on...
by any chance does anyone know where you can get replacement earpiece for this set. the regular sony earpiece doesn't fit these headsets
Also have the freeze problem with the light on.
Hi,
Very late to the game but brought these 3 years ago and really only used it hard in the last 6 mo.
I also have the freeze problem on the HBH-IS800 with SE Xperia X1i on a cooked Touch-it ROM off xda-developers.com. This happens every other day, and seems to always happen after finishing a call. This seems to be triggered by a certain combination of them hanging up, me hanging up, hang up via the phone, or hang up via the action button. However I can't reproduce it at will.
I will try to turn off "hands free" in the option suggested above to see if it'll get better.
In the mean time this freeze problem is only documented here and reviews on Amazon doesn't have anyone complaining about this. I love my ROM and thank the one who cooked it but may I suggest possibility of the problem being in the HTC cooked ROMs?
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I had my Gtablet for a week and after the update, it works fine. Today, when I power up the tablet, the screen just went blank (white screen). I am a novice thus I did not mod the tablet. What happens? I hate to return the tablet since I was starting to enjoy it. PLease advise.
You might try to reload a working firmware. If you have clockworkmod, and a saved image, restore it and see what happens, perhaps a driver got corrupt somehow. If that does not work, it may very well be hardware failure. Take it back to Sears a white screen is just that. Not useable.
Thanks. Guess I need to run over to sears again for another exchange.......This was my second one. The first one just doesn't boot up and this one was working fine until now.
I am having this white screen of death issue. I'm hoping that getting the battery completely drained will reset something and allow me to see the birds again...never thought I'd be wanting to see those birds, but here I am.
Has anyone ever had the blank white screen of death and gotten their gtab to work again?
damn it, same thing just happened to me. I left it unused for 2 weeks, now I turn it on and white screen! not nice
Bump for the sake of my gtab? anyone??
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and bump again? anyone?
White screen follow-up
I believe that this "white screen" is the equivalent of when you see a "No Signal" notification on your HDTV. I'm pretty sure that the tablet is running fine, it's just not outputting video to the LCD. I didn't have a dock to do video out to verify this, but I am fairly certain that's what was happening here.
I had to RMA mine. If anyone has other results/info, please let me know.
The first gtab I bought when it started had a white screen that you could hardly see anything and it blinked. I took it back to office depot and got a new one.
Follow-up White Screen (more info), using HDMI output
Have the same problem with my second GTablet. However, I bought an external dock that has an HDMI output for the GTablet. With the working GTablet, when I plug it into my television, the television mirrors the output of the screen perfectly. With the white-screen tablet, only the television shows something. As I am a basic hardware guy, I guess there are two reasons for this:
1. The flex cable between the display and the computer is loose/broken.
2. Something in the electronics is wrong.
I have received an RMA number for this problem from Viewsonic, although they may just look at it and send it back to me. Any other experiments that people want me to try while I can still see on the external?
Otherwise, I'm just gonna send it to Viewsonic in a couple of days and wait 15-20 business days.
G Tablet White Screen
I have had this lately too. Once in a while when i turn my Gtab on the screen is white. When it first happened, i assumed it was bricked. I tried doing a update.zip back to stock...nothing...just white screen. Then when i was in the process of doing the update.zip flash again, i bumped the bottom, right corner of the tab on my desk and the screen all of a sudden when back to normal, showing the home screen. Now, if it does this white screen business, a simple tap on the right side usually brings it back to normal. I would also assume this is a loose connection of some sort. Anyone cracked the gtab open and been able to find where the screen connection is located? I bought my gtab Jan 14 2011 so it is out of the return window to Sears, and i haven't called Viewsonic for assistance yet as i fear i won't get very far with them. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Triple Love Tap Fix on Bottom Right Corner for White Screen Fix ... Back to Normal
After reading the last post, I tried a triple love tap on the bottom right corner on a white-screened g-Tablet, and voila. It's working again. The Internet is a grand thing. This love-tap thing is clearly undocumented Viewsonic security feature.
As for reference, I did break it open and tried to figure out where the flex cable went, but it's a pretty tight SoC design and when I removed the cover, the connection seemed to be sandwiched between the motherboard and the touchscreen itself. Not wanting to remove the 5 various cables and 3-4 various buttons floating around, I gave up at this point.
If I have to periodically do a love-tap, well so be it. At least, I'm not spending $600 for Motorola Xoom. Thus is the fate of cheap bastards like myself who like to play Fruit Ninja on the cheap.
I can't believe this worked!! "Love Tap" to the right corner brought my white screen back as well.
Bump really works, thanx!
i can't believe the bump worked. I took it apart and looked inside at every connection. I was about to throw it away and then i found this post. I did the bump and it's back to normal.
Another "love bump" success!
Just had it happen to mine this morning -- blank white screen. I did a love bump as suggested, and the screen is back! Definitely sounds like a connection issue, but I don't recall bumping it before it blanked out. I'll just keep fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again.
BTW, for anyone else who needs to do this -- it's definitely a "bump" compared to a "tap". I had to give it enough oomph that I could have craked a walnut with my palm under the same force. Not a "whack" but a "bump" compared to "tap"
WTF WITH VIEWSONIC/USMERCHANTS! I Live in Mexico, I sent (paid..) my tablet to the US for warranty (white screen, the tapping doesnt seem to work with me..) they recieved it, send it back to a friend in the US and he sent it back to mexico (PAID AGAIN).
Just recieved my gtablet, turn on, white screen, nice they didnt even touch the friggin thing!
WHAT THE F...
Ok, bumping this thread again, and letting you know.
Since I was pissed, I opened up my gtablet! Well to letting you know, the CONNECTOR that goes FROM the motherboard to the LCD...was completely loose and not completely connected. This has to be a factory fault, since well, its almost impossible for it to disconnect! Anyway, My tablet is working just fine now, (after 4 months ¬¬)....I will try to get my shipping money back from US Merchants, bastards.
RAWR!
[REQUEST] A permanent solution than periodic love "tap/bumps"
Can you post a picture of the connector? I broke open my tablet before, but I was unable to locate this loose connection. Although I find the current solution very amusing/charming , I would like to have a permanent solution on this thread.
For long term care of the tablet, I've had to do this solution about once every 2-3 months on my 6 year old son's tablet. He had the tablet with the original problem and he may occasionally drop/jostle the thing more than I. So, for the lifetime of this product, the love tap/bump may be an acceptable solution. However, it is clearly a loose connection problem, and more information on your solution would be very helpful to the community.
pmcnano said:
Ok, bumping this thread again, and letting you know.
Since I was pissed, I opened up my gtablet! Well to letting you know, the CONNECTOR that goes FROM the motherboard to the LCD...was completely loose and not completely connected. This has to be a factory fault, since well, its almost impossible for it to disconnect! Anyway, My tablet is working just fine now, (after 4 months ¬¬)....I will try to get my shipping money back from US Merchants, bastards.
RAWR!
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My solution to the white screen!
I though how stupid I was since I didnt took pictures, but let me explain.
Using the hardware breakdown pics.
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I draw a Red Square in the "affected part".
In the top of the square is one end of the cable, in my case this was correct. The other end is underneath the motherboard, so you have to take out all the screws for the motherboard to check the other end, this was completely off.
I dont know if this will help everybody, because I gotta say for myself, the bumping in the bottom right didnt worked for me, not even once and I SMASHED the thing really hard!
Cheers
Paul
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BTW, US MERCHANTS warranty told me someone screwed up on their side, I should have gotten a new tablet ¬¬. Anyways, I'm trying to make a deal with them, since I paid like 50 dls for shipment (I live in Mexico..) and they didnt do anything. Will let you know maybe I get a free dock!!!
For the past day or two my phone has been enabling car mode.
I haven't made any major updates in a while either. What is really pissing me off is that it's disabling any sound coming from the phone and it is closing some apps instantly. It is happening whether my phone is plugged in or not, and if i want to use the phone for storage over usb and car mode decides to activate the computer claims it has been disconnected though the phone says it's still charging.
Is there any way to get rid of it? I don't have a car, or any sort of dock for the phone. I really have no use for whatever it was meant to do and I'd really like it gone...
Any ideas/suggestions?
I never had a problem with car mode activating at random, however I hate car mode and the Google car app with a burning passion, so what I did is...
- Uninstalled the Google Car Home app via Titanium Backup
- Downloaded (and subsequently purchased) the app NoDock. NoDock prevents your phone from going into car mode altogether, and its saved me a lot of frustration. I think its $1.99, but don't quote me. There's a trial you can get first for 7 days, I'd recommend that.
That;s obviously a road requiring you pay to fix the problem (and it might not even...) However, if your phone is acting abnormal for no reason, ie you haven't neglected it or played soccer with it, then vzw should replace it... But I have no experience with that, so that's all I've got for ya, sorry! Best of luck.
I looked for the trial version ad it doesn't seem to be out there anymore... The full version still advertises it as to use the trial before buying, but I can't seem to find it...
At this point the phone isn't making any progress charging and it is continuously connecting/disconnecting from the computer...
If it doesn't start working might have to un-root and bring it in >.>
my tbolt lately as well activates car mode when i am in the car but i hate it and want it dead... it happened after installing gingeritis.... but it also did it on das bamf gb... i refuse to give up my gb so i will execute the app!!
studiorat said:
my tbolt lately as well activates car mode when i am in the car but i hate it and want it dead... it happened after installing gingeritis.... but it also did it on das bamf gb... i refuse to give up my gb so i will execute the app!!
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Well, deleting Google's Car Home app will prevent that from launching, however, the Thunderbolt itself has a "car mode" that it will enable when the dock trigger is activated. So, unfortunately, simply deleting the Car Home app might not solve your entire problem, but its worth a shot nonetheless. Also, I'm not sure that NoDock will work with a GB-based ROM, but that, too, is worth giving a try!
bobz1993 said:
I looked for the trial version ad it doesn't seem to be out there anymore... The full version still advertises it as to use the trial before buying, but I can't seem to find it...
At this point the phone isn't making any progress charging and it is continuously connecting/disconnecting from the computer...
If it doesn't start working might have to un-root and bring it in >.>
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In all honesty, if its not even charging anymore, un-root, wipe, and nand that puppy and send 'er in. I know that the TB is unique in that it doesn't use a magnet to activate Car Mode like previous HTC phones, but instead it uses (to my knowledge) a short in the USB slot to decide whether the phone is docked or not. So problems with USB mounting, charging, docking when not docked, etc. would seem to indicate that you have some sort of problem with the port itself. That's just a shot in the dark, but man, I'd have sent that in yesterday
And as for NoDock, I just looked, and I can't find the trial either
To some extent it is still working. It isn't getting any charge, but if I unplug the phone it turns off almost instantly. Seems like it will be hell to move the stock stuff over to the phone to flash it, but looks like that's what its come to... Guess I'm bringing it in tomorrow...
bobz1993 said:
To some extent it is still working. It isn't getting any charge, but if I unplug the phone it turns off almost instantly. Seems like it will be hell to move the stock stuff over to the phone to flash it, but looks like that's what its come to... Guess I'm bringing it in tomorrow...
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If you have a friend with a smartphone or even any kind of bluetooth-capable storage device, you could send the files to yourself via BT... It may not be the fastest, but it might save you some major frustration. But yeah dude, that sounds straight messed up. Best of luck.
I just put the sd card into my laptop to transfer. Back on stock (feels soo different...) No more car mode... But the phone still isn't charging... Until I can bring it in I guess I'll make the phone look like it isn't brand new again...
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I just put the sd card into my laptop to transfer. Back on stock (feels soo different...) No more car mode... But the phone still isn't charging... Until I can bring it in I guess I'll make the phone look like it isn't brand new again...
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Either way, as far as I know, VZW checks for two things:
1) Obvious evidence of negligence and/or intentional damage
2) Something I don't remember that has nothing to do with root
So you should be in the clear, if anything just say you did a factory reset yourself to try to fix the problem
Well as it did when I rooted it, it recovered all of my apps w/o me having to do anything. So the phone already looks the way it did before excluding homescreen stuff and an empty inbox/contacts atm. And the most damage there is, is a small scratch where there was already an air bubble on my screen protector. If they would have ever made a case that fit the extended battery that probably wouldn't even be there =o
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Well as it did when I rooted it, it recovered all of my apps w/o me having to do anything. So the phone already looks the way it did before excluding homescreen stuff and an empty inbox/contacts atm. And the most damage there is, is a small scratch where there was already an air bubble on my screen protector. If they would have ever made a case that fit the extended battery that probably wouldn't even be there =o
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Haha yeah I feel you on that one. I think the type of negligence they look for is more like a mangled looking device with the customer claiming innocence. You should be fine in my opinion.
hmm... just woke up, about to bring in the phone, which did manage to charge overnight. noticed i still have a rotating rosie and it looks like i'm still undervolted as my kernel was doing earlier. well neither highly noticable as bad things... and car mode did come back today so, i'll be bringing it in now...
Go for it bro, I really doubt they'll check for little stuff like that, especially considering the bigger issue of car mode and your charging problems. Good luck though!
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never herd of this before
Unable to get out today, so I've been looking into other options for now.
This seems to be what it's used for though I've never been given these options when the phone goes into car mode. The icon shows up in the notification bar identical to the picture.
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On the VZW site these are their solutions. (none worked for me being there is no water damage and the port looks fine from what i can see, still gonna have to bring it in...)
Maybe this can help someoneelse if anyone runs into this problem or bring more options to try to help me fix it.
From what I can see, the first picture is of HTC's car home application, as opposed to Google's. When your phone enters car mode, the default action is to launch one if those applications, unless you've manually removed them. The fact that your phone enters car mode but launches nothing is abnormal in and of itself, not to mention the fact that it shouldn't be activating car mode in the first place.
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I did manage to make it to the vzw store and they were surprised to see car mode on the phone at all. The lady at the store took out the battery, restarted the phone and concluded that I would get a replacement after the bill that was just paid like yesterday clears with them.
Good! Hopefully all goes well and you'll have a functional device soon
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I bought my HTC Flyer few months back. It works really well for me.
However, unfortunate things happen. I was restarting my Flyer when suddenly the power went off, screen blank. I held the power button, 2nd attempt with the volume up button; no go. I put it on charge, the LED did not turn on charging. I realised that when i held the power button for 10 secs, short red blink observed, but nothin happens.
I read bout how other HTC smartphones having the same problem. but they manage to restart it by pulling the battery off and put it on again. In flyer case, there's no way to do that, since the battery is well cased in Flyer.
anyone have the same problem? and solve it? appreciate your help guys. thanks.
btw, I love My Flyer.. huhu
hmm do you have adb setup? if so, try plugging the flyer into the computer, then type in "adb reboot" and see if that will turn it on. this happened to me on my phone once and doing that turned it back on
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hmm do you have adb setup? if so, try plugging the flyer into the computer, then type in "adb reboot" and see if that will turn it on. this happened to me on my phone once and doing that turned it back on
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Hi Gumby63,
Thanks for the response. I'd just downloaded the adb. will let you know if it works.. Thanks.
Hi Gumby63,
Its not working. it does not detect my device. I guess this must be an hardware issue..
are you positive you have adb setup correctly? that could be the problem but if it's not, i'm not sure what else there is you can try. maybe contact htc and see if they will repair it?
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anyone have the same problem? and solve it? appreciate your help guys. thanks.
btw, I love My Flyer.. huhu
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had the same problem last week! plug your Flyer into computer, and hold power button down and vol down for at least 15 seconds...this works for me! I hope it helps.
Had same problem yesterday,just pluq into pc and after 10 minutes works again.
chasosa said:
Had same problem yesterday,just pluq into pc and after 10 minutes works again.
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my happened today, and all the method mentioned in this thread does not work for me .. anyone got other solution for me ....
onemessagereceied : have u solved your problem ? and how ?
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my happened today, and all the method mentioned in this thread does not work for me .. anyone got other solution for me ....
onemessagereceied : have u solved your problem ? and how ?
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I have the same problem bought a few month ago and now the light does not go on and the flyer does not charge the battery Please help
Have you tried a different charger or leaving the Flyer connected to a USB port on the computer for a couple hours to charge it? If the battery is not charging and its below 10% it will not turn on.
I have the same problem, I can't turn my flyer on into bootloader.
The thing I did: tried downloading the official HTC upgrade from GB to Honeycomb and install it... didn't work, it just restarted and I get the screen with a droid by an exclamationsign, so I simply restarted it and choose factory reset in bootloader, but I didn't come longer than the htc letters so I simply restarted it again to bootloader and it couldn't find any bootpictures suddenly.
Afterwards it turned itself off and now I can't get it turned on by any way.
When it charges, the LED-light only flashes amber.
I've asked HTC about it and they recommend that i send my flyer to repair at a HTC-workshop.
Is to get it repaired my only choice or have some other other choices about my problem?
BTW! It is pretty new so I still have warranty on it (won't endanger my warranty by any way)
Basically what has happened in your case is that the aborted upgrade has left you with a recovery that is incompatible with your hboot. Recovery is used to control charging of the flyer when it is powered off, as a result your flyer is not charging and your battery is discharged.
Some people have been able to get some charge into the flyer by leaving it plugged into the wall charger overnight and have been able to fix the problem by reinstalling the software, others have not.
If overnight charging doesn't allow you to power on to the bootloader then you will need to send it in for repair.
my flyer just give me a huge shock.
it shown that cannot charge, cannot turn on.
luckily im stubborn enuf, i tried to plug in the power adapter, then hold the power on button, after around 10 second, the red LED blink once, continue hold, after around 20 second the red LED stay on, & my flyer turn on!!
Thanks god i dont need to send it for RMA, i have so much personal data in it!
If you are not under warranty and/or willing to unhook the battery yourself it is actually pretty easy.
1. Take the back cover off that hides the microSD card and remove the two screws, one under a black sticker the other a red. (remember it will void your warranty)
2.You can now separate the casing, the volume rocker switch will be lose so don't lose it. You can use you fingernail, plastic butter knife or plastic pry bar that comes with screen replacement kits.
3. Unplug the battery for a few seconds and re plug.
Re install the same manner.
I can post a picture or two if needed.
Take the two screws on either side after you open the back top portion to access the microsd card.
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Next you can separate the unit from the back cover.
and remove the white battery connector.
This link here has a complete tear down if needed.
http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-htc-flyer/6256123?seq=19&tag=content;siu-container#photopaging
Whether or not that is a suitable course of action depends on the casue of the problem. If the battery is completely flat then unplugging it will not help.
I got an Evo View 4g for Christmas from an online retailer (DailySteals) that was selling them for $239. Bye-bye Kindle Fire. That was a no brainer.
But all of a sudden it stopped accepting charges from the wall charger. I tried using the USB cable but no help. I left it plugged in all night, no difference. I did the soft reset but it didn't help or make a difference. It's like it can't get a physical connection through the mini usb port on the device any more. It has a blinking orange light until it quits and the entire screen goes dark because the battery is so low.
I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
I have never personally returned hardware to HTC for repair, but all reviews that I have seen have given them excellent marks for repairs.
rwitmer said:
I got an Evo View 4g for Christmas from an online retailer (DailySteals) that was selling them for $239. Bye-bye Kindle Fire. That was a no brainer.
But all of a sudden it stopped accepting charges from the wall charger. I tried using the USB cable but no help. I left it plugged in all night, no difference. I did the soft reset but it didn't help or make a difference. It's like it can't get a physical connection through the mini usb port on the device any more. It has a blinking orange light until it quits and the entire screen goes dark because the battery is so low.
I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
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In defense of Sprint, they don't manufacture the device nor did they sell it to you. I don't think the mere fact that it is able to be activated on their network gives them the responsibility to service it when you don't have a plan with them.
I am glad that HTC is standing up to their warrranty.
rwitmer said:
I took it to the local Sprint store. BIG MISTAKE. Unless you bought it from them they will not even talk to you. That was a big waste of time. Next I called Sprint, another big waste of time. Without a 4G service plan, they don't want to talk to you either. WTF? Hmmm, not sure I want to go to Sprint anytime soon. T-Mobile here now.
I called HTC and they were very helpful. The technician walked me through a few things but nothing worked. They are sending me a box so it can be returned to the service center. WAY TO GO HTC! I'll let you all know how it turned out.
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Why would you expect Sprint to help you? You bought it from a third party retailer and it never had a Sprint contract attached to it. So at that point it's just an HTC product, nothing to do with Sprint.
This is a Sprint HTC Evo View 4G. So where Sprint's responsibility ends and HTC's begins is bit murky to me.
The delivery box has Sprint all over it. The printed users's guide has Sprint all over it. The device has the Sprint logo printed on it. When it booted it comes up with Sprint logos. It initially guides you through a Sprint registration.
So using it as a Wifi only tablet without a 4G service plan removes Sprint from the equation is questionable at best.
I tried to replace the cracked screen on my i545 and wound up messing up the lcd/digitizer. The phone boots and is recognized on the PC but the screen is black. Replacing the lcd would be $80 to $100...not worth it.
BUT...I was wondering if I found a broken S4 for maybe $40 or less (bad mother board, bad esn, etc...) that has a working screen, could I just swap out the guts of my phone to the other one? Would it have to be an i545, or would one from AT&T, Cricket, TMobile, Straight Talk work? I only need a working screen and believe what I want to do is feasible. Let me know if I'm off base or not.
Thanks for the feedback.
I did this with the galaxy avant with no issue. so yeah, you can just frankenstein it.
ninjasinabag said:
I did this with the galaxy avant with no issue. so yeah, you can just frankenstein it.
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so long as its anouther i545 the i545 and i9500/9505 are differen't
IIRC some parts of the ATT/TMO versions work on the VZW mobo but the home button won't work. Also the motherboard on the i545V has a ever so slightly different shape than the i9500/505
Another thing you can try is find a local repair shop and offer to buy functioning but cracked S4 LCDs. There are no compatability problems between the i9500/i9505 screens and the VZW screens (source: my S4 is using an ATT screen).
This is going to be harder than I thought...everyone wants wayyyy toooo much for their old broken i545.
Found a dead I545 on ebay with a perfect screen for $40. Took a chance and offered $20 - he accepted. Yay! Put my motherboard in and it powered right up. So sweet and so easy! Having problems re-attaching the antenna cable but will get that done after work tonight. Most importantly, I don't have to use my cruddy, old LG F6 anymore. I didn't realize how SLOOOOWWW that thing is.
It's got me wondering though...which version of Android does the MDK bootloader run. Found a guy selling used motherboards supposedly running Android 4.2.2 - could be a cheap way to swap out for the elusive MDK bootloader.
Dang...new problem! Got the antenna connected and I can make and receive calls...I just can't hear the phone ring. The earpiece and microphone work but for some reason the speaker is not working. So i can't hear music, ringtones, or notifications. I've swapped in my original speaker that was working just fine but now that one fails too. WTF???
Any advice??? I refuse to sink any more money into this project. If I can't get sound I'll sell it for parts and buy something better that I can have more ROM flexibility.
Thanks.
Almost there. The speaker contacts were not making a clean connection. Another forum suggested taking the speaker off and prying the gold contacts on the USB connector up a bit. Did that and sound started working right away. Unfortunately, in my haste, I snapped the red antenna cable and lost my signal. Replacement cables are ordered for $3. So I'm into this rebuild for a total of $31 ($40 if you count the original screen I bought but didn't use since I ruined the LCD). So, for a little aggravation and $31 I get a nice working phone again. Doubt I'd get anything new for that price.
Keep updating us, OP! I'm pretty interested myself in what you're producing
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Keep updating us, OP! I'm pretty interested myself in what you're producing
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Not sure if that's sarcastic or not
Anyway, got my new antenna cables installed and the phone works awesome! The whole process was actually easy but tedious. The actual process would have just been swapping motherboards but the speaker threw me for a loop (which was easily fixed).
No sarcasm at all! I'm trying to do something similar, but with the main board
I took the frame and display from my bricked I545 OF1 and put the main board from one with a broken display that was discarded. The results were outstanding.
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No sarcasm at all! I'm trying to do something similar, but with the main board
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Basically all I really did was switch the mainboard as well. Before I started I thought there was more to it than that, but like bg260 wrote, simply swapping the mb from one to another is all that needs to be done. Since it was apart I swapped the usb/sound board because I didn't know any better at the time, and I thought it was related to my speaker/sound issue. Essentially, I did the same thing as bg260 with a bunch of extra (unneeded) steps.
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Basically all I really did was switch the mainboard as well. Before I started I thought there was more to it than that, but like bg260 wrote, simply swapping the mb from one to another is all that needs to be done. Since it was apart I swapped the usb/sound board because I didn't know any better at the time, and I thought it was related to my speaker/sound issue. Essentially, I did the same thing as bg260 with a bunch of extra (unneeded) steps.
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It has to be the same carrier though. A Sprint Mobo will not fit (completely) in a Verizon box. I've tried. Subtle differences that become huge when considering the limited space inside these devices.
Well, this was short lived. I was texting with a friend Saturday just fine. An hour later I checked my phone & could not swipe the screen open. The screen was totally unresponsive...couldn't answer calls, reboot the phone...nothing! The power button worked fine as did the capacitive buttons, and the screen displayed, but would not respond to any touch. Pulled the battery for a reboot - no love. Reset the phone - no dice. Odined back to stock - nada. IT'S DEAD!
That sucks! I had no functioning backup phone either so I bought a Moto G4. I was not going to sink anymore time or money into the S4, although I really liked it despite the unlockable bootloader. Marshmellow is going to take some getting used to.
Thanks to everyone here for all the help. Good luck to everyone.
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Well, this was short lived. I was texting with a friend Saturday just fine. An hour later I checked my phone & could not swipe the screen open. The screen was totally unresponsive...couldn't answer calls, reboot the phone...nothing! The power button worked fine as did the capacitive buttons, and the screen displayed, but would not respond to any touch. Pulled the battery for a reboot - no love. Reset the phone - no dice. Odined back to stock - nada. IT'S DEAD!
That sucks! I had no functioning backup phone either so I bought a Moto G4. I was not going to sink anymore time or money into the S4, although I really liked it despite the unlockable bootloader. Marshmellow is going to take some getting used to.
Thanks to everyone here for all the help. Good luck to everyone.
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Take it apart and recheck the digitazer connection. Don'r throw away your phone, worst case scenario you find a spare phone at thrift stores or flea markets.
Jalh said:
Take it apart and recheck the digitazer connection. Don'r throw away your phone, worst case scenario you find a spare phone at thrift stores or flea markets.
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Already did that. I plan to keep it just in case I can find another cheap "for parts" S4 on ebay. If so, I'll have the S4 as a backup.
After sitting for a week powered off, I decided to turn on the S4 for giggles...AND IT'S WORKING NOW. Been on for 24+ hours and all touch response seems to be fine. Very weird. Now I'm not sure what to do with it. Not sure I can trust it to keep working?
I have called multiple numbers and once I hit the speaker button the call mutes and I cannot get it back, anyone else have this problem?
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I have called multiple numbers and once I hit the speaker button the call mutes and I cannot get it back, anyone else have this problem?
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I am having the same issue. It's fine if you toggle the speakerphone while the call is still ringing before it connects, but once it does, and if you weren't on speakerphone already, it definitely mutes all sounds so that even the other caller can't hear you and also you can't hear them. Very weird issue. I wonder what we have in common though? I'm on AT&T, what carrier are you on?
sounds like a bug that should be reported to asus
I am having an issue with my Bluetooth headset doing the same route of thing. Several calls I start with the Bluetooth headset on but start the call using the phone and not the headset and it says the Bluetooth is connected, but when the person picks up, no sound, I have to toggle it to another speaker and back to the Bluetooth.
i notice that if you are running the phone with one SIM only and second sim is deactivate and u make call the speakers will reduce in volume to 50% and the problem is that the speakers will act very week and to solve that u have to restart your phone and speakers will return to normal loudness after that which is strange !!!!
but in other hand if ur 2 SIM are active then u make a call nothing will happen and the speakers will work just fine !!!
so i think the problem is from the dialer or SIM network manager which i have bug and need some software tuning
I confirm the same issue. Here the deatils:
-if the calling start you are unable to switch from phone to speacker beacuse you loose the conversation. Even if you turn it back to phone
- if you enable the speacker before the other person answer, then it works. Try it!
It's for sure a sw bug...hope they fix it soon
Noticed the same thing. Quite bugged by it, actually.
Waiting for a fix =P
Has anyone reached out to ASUS on this issue?
I'm on "Chat" (waiting) with them.... will pass this thread info to their support
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Here is my case number if anyone want to continue with this... cause I can't handle stupid and I am going to call ASUS eShop to return the phone. I can't handle working with stupid
Case number: N181157358
and this is gonna be my last phone from ASUS
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Has anyone reached out to ASUS on this issue?
I'm on "Chat" (waiting) with them.... will pass this thread info to their support
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Here is my case number if anyone want to continue with this... cause I can't handle stupid and I am going to call ASUS eShop to return the phone. I can't handle working with stupid
Case number: N181157358
and this is gonna be my last phone from ASUS
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Must have a newbie, maybe try again later.
I've haven't tried, but maybe their forum for the phone is better?
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=433
Edit: nm.. I see you have already posted there
I got am RMA # so I have 2 weeks to decide to return this phone or not....
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro 8G/128GB is looking mighty good right now.
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So I decided to update the firmware to Version WW-15.1616.1809.48. The speakerphone works fine. Switch over to speakerphone while in the call and my opposing party still heard me and I could hear her. Switch back over to headset, works fine too.
mbze430 said:
I got am RMA # so I have 2 weeks to decide to return this phone or not....
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro 8G/128GB is looking mighty good right now.
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So I decided to update the firmware to Version WW-15.1616.1809.48. The speakerphone works fine. Switch over to speakerphone while in the call and my opposing party still heard me and I could hear her. Switch back over to headset, works fine too.
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Where did you find the firmware? If i try to find it from the phone settings it say it's the latest version. Is there a tool to flash a new firmware?
Just follow the instructions
ROG Phone Latest firmware
Click on "See All Download" to view CN and older version
mbze430 said:
So I decided to update the firmware to Version WW-15.1616.1809.48. The speakerphone works fine. Switch over to speakerphone while in the call and my opposing party still heard me and I could hear her. Switch back over to headset, works fine too.
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I'm glad the update fixed this. You wouldn't know by reading the description of the update. I hope they fix all the firmware issues soon. Besides the glass back, are there any other hardware issues? What I like most about the phone is the display and front facing speakers. What do you think of them?
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Besides the glass back, are there any other hardware issues? What I like most about the phone is the display and front facing speakers. What do you think of them?
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The back is slippery AF! .... The hardware is really good, it's the software that needs a LOT of work. Do note the LED notification indicator is a RED/Orange/Green only. Because their firmware doesn't remap colors not supported to either Red/Orange/Green, apps like Snapchat and FB Messenger won't get a blinking LED. Again another software issue.
I love this screen hands down one of the best. I wish there are more HDR apps for it. Love to watch some of my HDR movies on it; YouTube HDR video plays HDR. I have yet put my spectrometer to see how accurate the DCI3P 108% claim is.
The front firing speaker is actually pretty good. I had an HTC 10 awhile ago, and I think these are a lot better.
I still haven't actually put the DAC to the test yet. I own a pair of Audeze LCD-3 for reference listening. Maybe this weekend I will. (not even sure if the internal 3.5mm amp have enough juice to drive the Audeze LCD-3)
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I still haven't actually put the DAC to the test yet. I own a pair of Audeze LCD-3 for reference listening. Maybe this weekend I will. (not even sure if the internal 3.5mm amp have enough juice to drive the Audeze LCD-3)
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I know this is going off topic, but I was wondering if when you test the DAC can you test the front facing speakers to see if true L/R Stereo?
they are true L/R Stereo. It also stay L/R correctly depending if you are at 90 or 270 degrees. But that's with the chrome browser, haven't tried an audio app if it will stay true L/R when turned 90/270
I used this to test the front facing speakers
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