Thanks to this dude, I found out how to fix my kickstand (when Sprint couldn't, they said send it to HTC)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28138385&postcount=13
lemme guess OP.. The kickstand got a lot weaker than it first was? Same problem here. You can disassemble the top half of the back and you will see a nut right above the kickstand. Use a fine tip object to rotate it downward to tighten it and put a dab of glue (optional) so it doesn't loosen again. voila!
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So, I took a picture of what I did, just in case you guys have this problem (eventually I imagine you will)
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How often did you use your kickstand to make this happen? I rarely use it so maybe I'm glad I do.
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How often did you use your kickstand to make this happen? I rarely use it so maybe I'm glad I do.
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Well I kinda play around with it since it's fun lol. Less than 200 times though, no idea. Still, a fix is better than broken.
This is good.info although I figured it out by myself..out of nowhere my kickstand got loose and when I was holding the phone the kickstand would hang out a little bit..it drove me nuts..if u shook the phone it would slap around..I took a mini screwdriver and carefully pushed the nut around until the kickstand was tight as **** and its been fine ever since
Put some loctite on that nut
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Thanks man! My kickstand isn't moving anymore.
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Put some loctite on that nut
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i love that stuff man.
Thanks. This is good information to know...
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Put some loctite on that nut
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Just be careful -- loctite destroys polycarbonate (it leads to stress cracking). Even loctite fumes can weaken it. I would go with something like super glue. Super glue will cause polycarbonate to become foggy if it comes in contact with it, but it won't cause structural damage.
Thanks for giving me some of the credit
even tho I said to use some glue in that post I never actually tried it, mine gets loose every couple of days. Anyone have good experience using glue after tightening?
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This is good.info although I figured it out by myself..out of nowhere my kickstand got loose and when I was holding the phone the kickstand would hang out a little bit..it drove me nuts..if u shook the phone it would slap around..I took a mini screwdriver and carefully pushed the nut around until the kickstand was tight as **** and its been fine ever since
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Mine just started doing this a few days ago...drove me nuts as well! Did the exact same thing as you with a mini screwdriver (didn't really think it would work), but lo and behold, it worked. My kickstand is as good as new - I just hope we won't have to do this on a regular basis.
Anyone have any feedback on the super glue idea?
I have the loose kickstand problem. I attempted to tighten the the nut, but it just kept on spinning and spinning, without ever tightening. Messing with it actually made the looseness worse! Has anyone else had this happen?
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This.is what happens when u do forget
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Wow that sucks , did you cry?
Sorry to hear about the bad luck !! i almost started crying
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Hey is that your thrive? I'm thinking of buying one.
nahh i did not cried lolz, that was my old evo @jagox5 is not mine, i work at Radioshack thats a display
Dang there are a lot of these. If it flew off a car at speed I can understand this but people have been spider-webbing their screens just from a 2 foot drop. Maybe they should rename "Gorilla Glass" to "Sissy Screen" or "Fairy Film".
Mike
i had a rubber case on it and it stick to the car and i didnt notice for miles, but then i took the highway and i just saw that coming off and stopped right in the highway just to see 3 trucks running over the phone and thats the result... :-(
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Dang there are a lot of these. If it flew off a car at speed I can understand this but people have been spider-webbing their screens just from a 2 foot drop. Maybe they should rename "Gorilla Glass" to "Sissy Screen" or "Fairy Film".
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Or they could just rename it to what it most likely is, HTC's own proprietary glass and not GG.
Hell, seeing all these pictures of broken screens on here makes ME want to cry
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Dang there are a lot of these. If it flew off a car at speed I can understand this but people have been spider-webbing their screens just from a 2 foot drop. Maybe they should rename "Gorilla Glass" to "Sissy Screen" or "Fairy Film".
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It doesn't have gorilla glass. My epic had gorilla glass. I dropped it numerous times and intentionally keyed the **** out of it to show off with no ill effects.
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mikeyxda said:
Dang there are a lot of these. If it flew off a car at speed I can understand this but people have been spider-webbing their screens just from a 2 foot drop. Maybe they should rename "Gorilla Glass" to "Sissy Screen" or "Fairy Film".
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Gorilla glass is not to make the glass stronger, It offers a more scratch resistant screen, it will hold a little better than regular glass but it wont be much.
My phone never leaves my hand, you can ax my mama that.
I don't know about you, but it's virtually impossible for me to forget a $500 device sitting on the hood of a car, let alone for it to even be on the hood of a car in the first place.
Calm, that really Sux man. My wife one time left her og evo on the roof of our car, and we drove off, LOL... Luckily, she had a case (a rubber one) on it. Well, we didn't notice it on the roof, and we drove off. Later, we were looking for it and we couldn't find it. She remembered leaving it on the hood. Sol. Anyway, a day or two later we get a call from some lady saying she found a EVO on the side of the road, and asking if we owned it. I told her yes, and that my wife left it on our roof of our car. Well, LUCKILY, nothing was wrong with it. No broken screen, no scratches, nothing! I was amazed..
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Try talking inside the car next time ;-)
UhQ said:
Gorilla glass is not to make the glass stronger, It offers a more scratch resistant screen, it will hold a little better than regular glass but it wont be much.
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wrong.......
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wrong.......
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+1 ..............
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dxtyle said:
i had a rubber case on it and it stick to the car and i didnt notice for miles, but then i took the highway and i just saw that coming off and stopped right in the highway just to see 3 trucks running over the phone and thats the result... :-(
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lol I was gonna say.... That phones been ran over a few times lol!
Hi guys. My Atrix was walking fine until today in class, I suddenly feel something going off the power button, when I check, a sort of black tape from the fingerprint scanner is peeling off. I'm not really sure what to do about this. I can't claim warranty since its a Korean Atrix, bought in Vietnam and using in Australia
What should I do with this ? peel it off and get a DIY fix or any other option ?
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i recently noticed that myself..just slap some regular clear tape over that ***** and u'll b fine lol
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i recently noticed that myself..just slap some regular clear tape over that ***** and u'll b fine lol
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as in 2 sided tape ? if its normal clear tape then how can the scanner works then lol
Whatever you do do not peel it off you will ruin your scanner. This is what I did to fix mine. I took some of my girlfriend's fake nail glue and put a tiny drop of it in the tip of a pair of pointed scissors and put a tiny dab under the corner of the tape. Hold the tape down for about a minute till the glue dries. Don't use too much or it will lock up the button. Works like a charm.
Out of curiosity how long did it take for this situation to develop for you?
Mine was like It when I got it. Not from att tho. From a trade. I think the phone was only about a month old
My is around 2 month old. Thanks for the tip, will try it out
Aight let me know if it works for ya. Like I said just use a tiny tiny bit
Hmph, mine is fine and it's 7 months old, but it's a bit slanted
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Hmph, mine is fine and it's 7 months old, but it's a bit slanted
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Mine is a bit slanted too! I hope it doesn't peel off too... Too bad, I love this phone!
Why oh why did I have to read this?
Never using the scanning feature again.
#OCD
Just curious, to those of you having this problem...do you store your phone in your pocket?
I have my Atrix in the otterbox defender with a belt clip, haven't seen this. I'm wondering if it is getting caught on something in your pockets?
Had this phone since the release date and do not have this problem.
I hate you people just looked at mine and noticed there's the tiniest bit coming off from one corner
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I wonder if there is a replacement part available to be ordered online.
Got mine release day in US. Scanner was initially perfectly level but over time it became slanted. No issue with the tape peeling off though.
Slow down guys, the "slant" is quite common - and there's an old thread about that around here too.
The sticker peeling part of it, is uncommon... (and hopefully it stays that way)
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+1
I remember that when the Atrix was first released, people were pooping kittens over the slanted button (here and in the Moto forums) until they realized pretty much everybody had the same issue.
If you look in this picture you can see where the cable is connected which in turn "holds" that end of the button down giving the appearance that it's "crooked" (source: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Atrix-4G-Teardown/4964/2 )
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Slow down guys, the "slant" is quite common - and there's an old thread about that around here too.
The sticker peeling part of it, is uncommon... (and hopefully it stays that way)
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I don't have "tape" on my fingerprint scanner it had clear tape when itvcame out the box new but I took it off no big deal oh and I put it in an otter box case and it would get way too hot like 140+ so I took it out went with a bodyglove case and made vent holes in back of it ; )
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I also can't see any tape on mine, and I've kept it in my pocket without a cover for 5.5months now with no problem, I've also used the fingerprint scanner frequently during that time.
mine is slanted too! haha
After having my Photon for four days I have been loving it, but have one complaint regarding the kickstand.
If you have the kickstand employed, you can not plug in a charger. I was trying to watch a movie during my lunch break yesterday and the battery was dying, but I could not plug it in.
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mind....blowing
duh
Now I feel dumb.
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Now I feel dumb.
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I do too. Technology always has some obscenely simple answer to the issue's that torment us the most.
Lmfao
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actually its a good thing its main kickstand side is on that side cause no buttons can be accisentally pressed(ive been charging and using the kickstand like so, was resting my hand ontop the phone reading and it hit the camera button exiting my window) so maybe in the future theyll come out with some alround better design for a kickstand and plugin/button placement
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Ports on bottom of phone?
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Maybe two centered kickstands that can rest and be locked either way. With a slant we could also do this vertically.
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Ports on bottom of phone?
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My favorite thing about the OG Evo right there.. bottom usb port.. made life so easy
Actually the port placement is terrible for the Photon/Electrify. Consider the car. You're driving, and you have your phone in a holster within reach of the driver. In America, where this phone is primarily sold, the driver sits in the left seat, so the phone is to his/her right, probably on the left side of the instrument panel. Probably, the 12V outlet is somewhere to the right of that, so the charging cable has to reach around. Mine isn't quite long enough, so it threatens to pull the phone out of its holster. This is unsafe for driving. With the port on the bottom, it would be convenient for drivers on both sides (e.g. UK for the right) as long as your holster has an open bottom (mine does).
Actually, my Electrify does the Hero S (Evo Design 4G, for you Sprint folks), which I had for 6 days, one better. Hero S also had it on the left, but right where the holster grabs the phone. So using the holster was impossible with that phone. Just one of the reasons I traded up to Electrify.
Back to topic: Reverse kickstand is cool, but it depends on the spring action being intact. I'm not sure if it can go out on you, but that would kill reverse kickstand if true. As it is, having the charger cable coming out the "top" can pull it back if the cable doesn't have enough slack.
If you want normal kickstand, I recommend rigging a stand, like a poor man's HD dock. Put a hole where the USB port goes, and if you really wanna be fancy, fix it in there permanently. But if you were gonna be fancy, you'd give it a backing (with a space for the speaker, of course) but all that implies you're better at woodworking than most people. I'd like to think with the right hardware I could do alright, but I know my zero woodworking experience means I would utterly fail to produce anything approaching reasonable quality.
I dont know how but i never dropped my phone. Butthe lens on my camera cracked. How the hell? They marketed it as sapphire. Why?
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I dont know how but i never dropped my phone. Butthe lens on my camera cracked. How the hell? They marketed it as sapphire. Why?
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Its a glass, not bullet proof glass.. Thank god you didn't crack the front glass..
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Its a glass, not bullet proof glass.. Thank god you didn't crack the front glass..
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But im careful with my things. I never dropped this. Hell my nokia phone c2-00 dual sim fell 6ft to the hard marble floor but it is still fine...
look what I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46252774
so sapphire isnt that good at all, yes?
one possible reason probably is that i am always fingering the volume up button. im using the international version btw where the lens an dthe button is flat and too close to each other. this is a flaw to the design. but it's sapphire it shouldnt crack like that.
It magically cracked :-\ that's what they all say.
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It magically cracked :-\ that's what they all say.
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the point is, for a high end phone with camera lens that cracks on a normal day to day use is not good LG should look into this. If it is heat related, then definitely they should all recall the unit and replace the international version with the Verizon's version. My nokia is still alive after 10+ landings on hard floor.
Well of course it can brake. Everything brakes. The main point of sapphire on lens glass as I believe is that it is very scratch resistant.
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the point is, for a high end phone with camera lens that cracks on a normal day to day use is not good LG should look into this. If it is heat related, then definitely they should all recall the unit and replace the international version with the Verizon's version. My nokia is still alive after 10+ landings on hard floor.
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One case out of thousands and thousands will not cause a company to look into anything. It might have just had a defect.
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Impact break. Left side.
And this crack is from a normal day to day use?...
Not in my opinion. That is definitely not a flaw or internal pressure break. Something hit it, pressed very hard on that one area, or focused pressure on that area.
Its always in my pocket. Probably twisted because sometime when i talk the nillkin case off it sounded like its gonna snap. Lg support in ph wont cover it though. I guess im gonna pay to have the glass replaced. But i can live with this becausd image wuality is not aggected. It just looks ugly.
They are right for not covering it. It is visually end user fault. Can't be to expensive to get it replaced.
Just wanted to know what you guys think about this.
The photos don't even do it justice. I looks a lot nicer in person.
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I also did my phones battery cover and the chrome bezel because it was messed up from scratches
Nice
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Thanks man didn't take to long either. Just layed it and used an exacto knife to cut around the band
I deicec to do my phones battery cover and the chrome bezel as well because it was messed up from drops. What do you guys think?
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Just wanted to know what you guys think about this.
The photos don't even do it justice. I looks a lot nicer in person.
I also did my phones battery cover and the chrome bezel because it was messed up from scratches
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Me like it long time. Where did you get the material?
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Me like it long time. Where did you get the material?
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I Purchased it From a Company Called Metro Styling.
You can Google them and find their site. they have a lot to choose from.
I purchased 3x 1squarefoot sheets. Came out to $10 with shipping.
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I deicec to do my phones battery cover and the chrome bezel as well because it was messed up from drops. What do you guys think?
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I really like the look of this! If I still had my s5 I would consider doing something similar. Really like how you covered the chrome bezel also
Thanks man I appreciate it.
I've gotten creative wrapping other things as well, I'll update and post photos of all the things I've wrapped tomorrow
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I've gotten creative wrapping other things as well, I'll update and post photos of all the things I've wrapped tomorrow
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Any followup on this? I want to see other stuff you've wrapped
its rely nice look, did it take long to make it? and did u wrap the band inside to? and hows the feel on it, and different on wering
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Any followup on this? I want to see other stuff you've wrapped
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Hey my Apologies man I've been extremely busy and haven't been on xda much as I've pretty much gave up on root for note 4. Ill post these after I get some good lighting to take the photos.
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its rely nice look, did it take long to make it? and did u wrap the band inside to? and hows the feel on it, and different on wering
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No this took about 10 minutes. I do not wrap the inside of the band. I cut a price of vynl the length and width of the watch leaving about a half inch every way. Cut that in half and laid it on each ending of the opening on the game for the watch (with the watch out). Heated it and then took an exacto knife to cut it how needed. Because it's not on the bottom or inside of the band it feels just as it would without it.