Greetings!
My S II is still running fine, but the weather in my place is pretty humid. I'm wondering if the S 2 has a water damage indicator for me to check?
Thanks!
This post over at AndroidForums suggests the sticker underneath the battery is a water indicator, and there are also moisture indicators inside the phone near where the headphone jack & usb sockets meet up with the "circuitry" of the phone.
This makes sense as these are the two most likely points where moisture would enter the phone in the first instance (except for maybe thru the speaker on the back of the phone, and maybe around/between the home/volume/power buttons).
Thank you!
I see two small dots. one near the headphone jack, another near the usb socket. Not sure if they are water damage indicator though.... If they are, how will they turn into when the phone is water damaged? Those two are currently in black
HappyAngelGames said:
Thank you!
I see two small dots. one near the headphone jack, another near the usb socket. Not sure if they are water damage indicator though.... If they are, how will they turn into when the phone is water damaged? Those two are currently in black
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Dont know about turn off the phone the water damage indicators are their to reject a warranty claim on a phone that is damaged by water .
Condensation seems to be the big culprit .
jje
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I know this isn't a new topic and I've read lot's of posts about similar problems, with various causes and fixes, but my x10i isn't charging at all. Neither through the wall charger or through the usb. When I look into the charging port I can see that one of the little metal pins is bent right up, so I've decided to try and replace the charging block.
I got a charging block off ebay, but I'm no expert when it comes to soldering & electronics, but since the phone is dead anyway I have nothing to loose.
As far as I can tell when I look at the original one, there doesn't seem to be any signs of soldering in the first place, although the connections are all so tiny that it's hard to tell.
So am I right in thinking that the charging block doesn't need to be soldered at all, and could I get away with just gluing it to the board, and if so what would be a suitable glue for this kind of purpose.
Thanks ...John...
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I know this isn't a new topic and I've read lot's of posts about similar problems, with various causes and fixes, but my x10i isn't charging at all. Neither through the wall charger or through the usb. When I look into the charging port I can see that one of the little metal pins is bent right up, so I've decided to try and replace the charging block.
I got a charging block off ebay, but I'm no expert when it comes to soldering & electronics, but since the phone is dead anyway I have nothing to loose.
As far as I can tell when I look at the original one, there doesn't seem to be any signs of soldering in the first place, although the connections are all so tiny that it's hard to tell.
So am I right in thinking that the charging block doesn't need to be soldered at all, and could I get away with just gluing it to the board, and if so what would be a suitable glue for this kind of purpose.
Thanks ...John...
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i have the same problem with my x10 but i have warranty but whilst i was waiting for them to collect it, i cut my usb lead up and stripped the black and red cables back obviously positive and negative and took the battery out and wedged each cable on the phone connector with the battery my battery had a plus and negative signs on it so was easy 2 work out, it charges the battery but it doesnt come up as charging on the phone it will still blind red lights but doesnt turn off, you have to keep and eye on the charging levels on the phone status do not let it go over 99% as this method dont tell the battery to stop charging, also this is not full proof and could break your x10 if not dont correctly,but as for your question the usb port does need to be soldered good luck
j0hn0n1 said:
I know this isn't a new topic and I've read lot's of posts about similar problems, with various causes and fixes, but my x10i isn't charging at all. Neither through the wall charger or through the usb. When I look into the charging port I can see that one of the little metal pins is bent right up, so I've decided to try and replace the charging block.
I got a charging block off ebay, but I'm no expert when it comes to soldering & electronics, but since the phone is dead anyway I have nothing to loose.
As far as I can tell when I look at the original one, there doesn't seem to be any signs of soldering in the first place, although the connections are all so tiny that it's hard to tell.
So am I right in thinking that the charging block doesn't need to be soldered at all, and could I get away with just gluing it to the board, and if so what would be a suitable glue for this kind of purpose.
Thanks ...John...
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Hi John,
I fixed my friends USB port, you will need:
"helping hands" (a tool for holding small things with a magnifying glass)
0.5mm or 1mm Soldering iron
Hot glue
Under the magnifying glass, there you will see the 5 pins the usb port was solderded onto. You will need to put a little bit of solder onto each pin and onto the board.
Hold everything together with the helping hands, and just tick the soldering blobs with your iron. This will connect all the points. Do not solder for to long, or you will bridge pins or remove the solder.
Continue until all 5 is connected. Solder the 2 points on the side (holds the USB port, you could do this first if you don't have the helping hands)
plug in cable, use multimeter to see if there is current by you battery pins.
Voila.
If no power then you have to follow one of those fixes online where you have to bridge the doide and the V+ port.
Thanks for the info, like I said the phone is dead anyway, so I can't really make it any worse (That's what I keep telling myself anyway).
It the parts were a lot bigger, I probably wouldn't be bothered as much, but if I do get it wrong, I'm hoping I can take it off, remove the solder and just start again. (hopefully)
I think I have a good idea now of what I'm supposed to be doing, but I'll probably have to wait till I get a new soldering iron, as mine is a little bit too big.
Thanks ...John...
I noticed a weird connector at the back of the device, I dont have a way to picture it at the moment but I found it on the internet.
Its under the cover in the red circle I draw,
Do any of you know what its good for?
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I noticed a weird connector at the back of the device, I dont have a way to picture it at the moment but I found it on the internet.
Its under the cover in the red circle I draw,
Do any of you know what its good for?
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I think it is for attaching a stylus.You just loop the thread through it and close the cover.
It's meant for a wristband. You can buy the accessory, loop it through that hole, and then close the back cover (so it never falls off).
Are you sure about it...?
I think you're wrong,
the wristband/small things you put on your phone like small dolls is the yellow square
this one is something different.
It its a connector for an external gsm antenna. However be warned, do not plug any thing in to it as others have reported this will disable the internal antenna and you will not get a signal afterwards without a visit to a service centre or some soldering.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1273292&highlight=antenna
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I've seen that type of connector on other phone's in the past. I always thought it was for an external antenna. I'm not sure though.
Edit: mrm1 just beat me to it ^^^
That was my first impression, after seeing a similar connection for the wifi antenna in laptop's hardware..
Thanks, and of course, Im not planning to connect anything to it anyway
I opened my tablet to try and fix the signal strength on my wifi and gps. everything was going great until my screen turned a little and bam... the ribbon cable came out of the connector. When I went to pry the lock up it broke(very cheap connector). I tried to insert the ribbon back in but I noticed when some of the black plasctic that broke away there were wires that seemed to run through it. Anyway long story short. Can I remove the connector and wire the ribbon to the board? Is there anyway to fix it other than ordering a new pcb board? Any ideas would be appreciated. It is working now but there are spots on the screen that do not accept input or touch. I have used electrical tape to tape it in place for now. Thanks inn advance!
Sorry bro I think your s.o.l. those ribbon s are not really repairable and the main display one j think has 24 connectors or so. Soldering those is next to impossible. Same with the touch panel ones.
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yup face-palm he had his s3 in back pocket riding bicycle drunk home, fell off bike right on backside, phone taking most the impact.
the screen doesnt seem to be cracked just a small chip on the edge near camera.
he had it in a double sided leather padded case so we dunno how it got chipped
very small crack on body above usb port, but i think that crack is common.
the main point being the phone will now not switch on, is not charging or accessible via usb. no led nothing. button combo's do nothing. battery change no help
do you guys reckon it'll b worth replacing the usb port? or just a spares repo?
you can't replace the usb port unless you buy a motherboard, desolder one from there and solder it on your old one, which obviously doesn't make sense and won't work anyway, because the phone is clearly broken. The phone would switch on if the port was broken if there was any charge in the battery
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you can't replace the usb port unless you buy a motherboard, desolder one from there and solder it on your old one, which obviously doesn't make sense and won't work anyway, because the phone is clearly broken. The phone would switch on if the port was broken if there was any charge in the battery
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well you can just buy the usb ports from part stores.
and yup i made another face-palm, its not the usb as a fully charged battery wont power it lol
im just gonna assume when he landed on it he just bent the motherboard and crushed something/many parts lol.
kinda strange he damaged the internal parts but not the screen.
he bought it like 6months ago so i doubt samsung or t-mobile will help eh.
oh well, what divv rides a bike with an s3 in theyre back pocket?
Hi there.
I have a G5 as my backup phone. Recently, I've replaced the fingerprint scanner (it stopped working as a button, no cleaning would help, so I've bought new part online and replaced it), and after that I have no signal (-1dbm 99asu). Not even an alarm call is possible.
From my research, the antenna module is the bottom slice of the phone, you attach the battery to (one with mic, USB-C and bottom speaker)? I have both original bottom part and a Cam+, no signal on either of them. Where else should I look for any damage, that would lead to my problem - no signal at all?
I have a similar problem. The signal is very low everywhere, I tried to clean all the contacts between the bottom part and the phone, and nothing changed.
Me too i have a problem with the signal since display change. How can i get it fix. The phone has very low signal and it has network only on 3g on LTE it hasnt any network and 2g signal doesnt have.
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Well, the pcb or mainboard has a small flex type antena on the back of it, it's black and has some lettering on it and it connects using coaxial type push connectors, also the phone connects to the aluminum case via some exposed pins on the mainboard, the case acts as an antenna also, if you need pictures I can take some tomorrow, I work in a cellphone shop and I fix an LG g5 almost every day, we have some main boards laying around, you most likely bent one of the pins that connects to the case
nah i got the same problem here after disassemble the phone. I already clean all things that contacted with the backdoor or with mainboard but the problem still there. Only got 0-1 bar of 4g even it near the tower until it change to 3g with the same condition. but the 2g signal is always full bar.
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Well, the pcb or mainboard has a small flex type antena on the back of it, it's black and has some lettering on it and it connects using coaxial type push connectors, also the phone connects to the aluminum case via some exposed pins on the mainboard, the case acts as an antenna also, if you need pictures I can take some tomorrow, I work in a cellphone shop and I fix an LG g5 almost every day, we have some main boards laying around, you most likely bent one of the pins that connects to the case
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so is it located on the mainboard or part of screen? could you take some picture of it :crying:
Jc_master said:
Well, the pcb or mainboard has a small flex type antena on the back of it, it's black and has some lettering on it and it connects using coaxial type push connectors, also the phone connects to the aluminum case via some exposed pins on the mainboard, the case acts as an antenna also, if you need pictures I can take some tomorrow, I work in a cellphone shop and I fix an LG g5 almost every day, we have some main boards laying around, you most likely bent one of the pins that connects to the case
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maybe post foto where is gsm ahtenna?