After more than 2 wonderful years with HTC Legend I have a problem with the plastic holder battery.
The rolling piece that we have to roll out to take tou the battery and roll in after the battery is in.
Can anyone help me to find this item or give me a solution to hold the battery in the right position?
thanks
Ale
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, tape. A lot of it.
alemercuzio said:
After more than 2 wonderful years with HTC Legend I have a problem with the plastic holder battery.
The rolling piece that we have to roll out to take tou the battery and roll in after the battery is in.
Can anyone help me to find this item or give me a solution to hold the battery in the right position?
thanks
Ale
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I came up with a crude but simple solution to the problem.
I superglued a few layers of thick paper on the edge of the battery (the edge oppositte to the contacts),
in such a way that it formed a small ridge towards the side which is towards the back of the phone. (see drawing).
In this way, the plastic rolling piece is held in place firmly.
(actually have to push the battery further in, just to be able to open it now).
I hope that it helps.
just put a guitar plec between the battery and the case that worked quite well for me.
alemercuzio said:
After more than 2 wonderful years with HTC Legend I have a problem with the plastic holder battery.
The rolling piece that we have to roll out to take tou the battery and roll in after the battery is in.
Can anyone help me to find this item or give me a solution to hold the battery in the right position?
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What exatly do you mean?
I don`t know about you, but i`ve never actualy used that thing to remove the battery...i let the gravity do it`s work. xD
My battery was huge. And when its life ended, because it was a third party battery, I had to replace it. I didn't know about the red lever. So I just shook the phone in a very suggestive gesture for about 45 minutes when it finally got out far enough to pull out. And it took quite a bit of strength to pull out. Now there's a huge bulge on top the battery, which I'm keeping as a wallet support.
Good times. I love this phone!
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haha I have just recently changed phones. Was using a mugen battery and it finally died. The phone managed to deform over the 2 years and the slider didn't work to get out the battery. After trying so much I just hit the bottom of the phone on the floor and it came out so easily. This phone is a TANK so don't worry about breaking this phone
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.. my apologies if this not the appropriate place to post this, but I need help..the little battery door/flap that clips into place which holds the actual battery in place and covers the SIM card (not the black battery cover/antenna) has broken!!.. Now whenever the phone drops or is handled rough enough to cause the battery cover/antenna to come off, the battery slides out of place and the phone turns off.. this happens multiple times throughout the day..i'm ready to throw this phone into the far reaches of this galaxy to say the least... if thats not bad enough, the little chrome peice that surrounds the sensor part of the optical trackpad on the front of the phone has fallen out .. it really takes away from the beauty of the phone!.. any idea where I can find replacement parts for these???.. used or new, it doesn't matter ... If ANYONE can help me i'd be indebted to you for ever!!!
Try contacting HTC.. They make the phones and they should know.. And btw.. Handle your phone a little more careful..
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Damn, i've always been afraid of that happening expirimenting and having to remove the battery frequently. Don't know anything to help you, sorry
I have the same broken part. Been looking around for this part for a while with no luck. HTC want £44 to replace it, only by sending it in for a repair. They will not sell me the part and I cannot find it anywhere.
I will keep an eye on this thread for more suggestions.
Tape? Although it would have to stick to the aluminum unibody. See if it works! My head's imagery seems like it could.
Yes, my Legend is basically held together with tape. Without it, the battery cover comes of very easily. It's been like this for about 6 weeks now.
I've also been in to my local Vodafone shop to see what they say. They will not repair it as it's a moving part.
Buy your Legend a silicone or rubber case. That should prevent black cover from falling off.
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why don't u fill the gap between the black part and ur battery with a soft rubber?
i think it'll solve ur problem
I want this part too. The center clip mechanism has failed due to taking the cover off regularly.
Oh my goodness, I should stop switching SIMs every now and then. I'm scared, actually.
branch8 said:
Damn, i've always been afraid of that happening expirimenting and having to remove the battery frequently. Don't know anything to help you, sorry
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I was thinking of placing a secundairy antenna on that part, so you would stil have an small antena if the lid is missing. or maybe even better reception.
If you still have problems with the battery cover/flap, here's what i did on my legend: Take out the battery, look inside the battery compartment, you'll see the four battery contacts/pins, and right next to them you'll see there is a small black square rubber, glued to a metal spring underneath. The spring is heavily glued to the chassis/plastic body. I took a small (but strong) set of tweezers, and pulled the thing off the phone (the spring + the small rubber attached to it), and my phone works perfectly now, with the broken flap. The thing is that the spring is actually pushing the battery out, for "easier" removal, thus making the battery loose contact/fall out on every shake/impact.
I think that the design of this part is the worst about the legend. On mine I have experienced that the grip is weaker and weaker, and now comes off quite easily (unintended).
Mine unfortunately creeks and I think that it has to do with the back battery door.
I would like to find a new one so I don't have to put paper behind it to keep it from creeking.
If you have one from a Refurb or anything like that please PM me as I would be very grateful to purchase this.
Pretty sure I've seen them on Verizon's web site. Not terribly expensive.
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andybones said:
Mine unfortunately creeks and I think that it has to do with the back battery door.
I would like to find a new one so I don't have to put paper behind it to keep it from creeking.
If you have one from a Refurb or anything like that please PM me as I would be very grateful to purchase this.
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$14.99 on verizon site
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Thanks dudes, exactly what I was looking for!
$16 shipped is a great deal.
the only ones I could find were on ebay lol and are selling for 60$!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-OE...639?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2318264d0f
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-OE...387?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519ca13083
---and it seems like by reputable ebay sellers??
hopefully this will fix the need for some paper behind the battery to stop the door from creeking.
will update when the new back door arrives!
Eventually these things will be everywhere like the inc2 as the back battery doors actually come with refurb replacements from Verizon. I myself had 3 extras for my inc2 lol.
Just got my new backdoor in this morning.
100% fixed the creeking noise on my phone!!
very happy about that, I have however kept a few small pieces of paper behind the door as there was a little gap frop the back door to the battery that i could feel, perhaps this was on purpose for cooling of battery? idk, not sure but my battery hasn't gotten any hotter than normal.
I've swapped out 2 battery doors and I still have the creaking. I'm fairly certain the only phones that don't creak are the iphone and droid razr/razr maxx.
my first rezound creaked like crazy, then i had a replacement sent out and it was fine. pretty weird issue to have lol.
Just add some papers the size of the battery behind the door, works wonders.
The back cover/door for the extended battery is a piece of crap, and creaks like a rusty hinge all the time. So annoying. I finally got it to almost entirely stop by taking some sticky notes and cutting two thin strips on the adhesive part, and sticking them on the sides of the inside of the back cover, then sticking a little bit of paper on top of the battery. For mine, at least, most of the sound was coming from where you grip it on the sides and this solved it.
@HTC: It's annoying that we have to do this, please take more care with the design of it on future super-phones. Save the cheap back covers for mid-range/low-end phones, in my opinion. Lol.
Og droid had a metal back cover and didn't creak. I had a bionic, and it creaked
Roland Deschain said:
The back cover/door for the extended battery is a piece of crap, and creaks like a rusty hinge all the time. So annoying. I finally got it to almost entirely stop by taking some sticky notes and cutting two thin strips on the adhesive part, and sticking them on the sides of the inside of the back cover, then sticking a little bit of paper on top of the battery. For mine, at least, most of the sound was coming from where you grip it on the sides and this solved it.
@HTC: It's annoying that we have to do this, please take more care with the design of it on future super-phones. Save the cheap back covers for mid-range/low-end phones, in my opinion. Lol.
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Mine doesn't creak at all.
Are you guys using some sort of death grip or something? Don't use the extended battery often but neither it or the regular door creaks.
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No creaking here either.
Standard door does not creek at all. The extended one does a tiny bit on the right side, if I death grip it like someone above said lol. Not annoying enough to try and fix it.
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Both mine creek. The extended one creeks the worse that's for sure. It doesn't matter how you hold it. Not the biggest deal though since I don't use it too often. I don't seem to get that much more life out of it to justify the size compared to the standard battery.
KORM via the beast known as the Rezound.
I have an awful creak on the left side. I am going to try a bit of gaffers tape.
My extended battery door doesn't creak but is missing the Beats logo. I noticed they didn't forget the HTC logo..
Tape didn't fix it.
Any ideas?
I have two to sell I'll sell both for 25 with shipping.
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so it seems my battery just isn't what it use to be. phone seems to drop 50% with in hrs nothing running. tried many different roms. I'm figuring more then likely due to constantly being powered via charger. m-f 8hrs plus its in my car dock in my work truck with gps on. then by 9 10 pm at nght i place it on the home charger. weekends seem to be the only time its actually of the chargers. mine is a launch date lte. so wondering if anyone elses battery is shot. i have tep. but of course sprint wants to look at it. im still hboot 1.12. i really don't wanna relock s-on to have them look at it and tell me sorry not replacing. so i figured i would buy a oem replacement battery and have at it. i know i need a t5 and a phone pry. i have both. anyone done this yet with positive results?
Is was wondering the same thing. The last 30% of my battery just disappears. I'm thinking I'll be needing a replacement myself fairly soon
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Ill let you know soon.my replacement oem is on it way. Hopefully I'll be doing this Saturday.
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kaos420 said:
Ill let you know soon.my replacement oem is on it way. Hopefully I'll be doing this Saturday.
Sent from inside my mkv.
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I did mine. It's really easy. I tried to disconnect the antenna without tweezers and pulled it out the connector....Don't do that lol.
redskykiter said:
I did mine. It's really easy. I tried to disconnect the antenna without tweezers and pulled it out the connector....Don't do that lol.
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Now your making me worried. I watch a few diy I don't remember seeing them disconnect a antenna to remove the battery. Just a cap load of screws. All the ones for camera cover. Then under bottom cover. Then pop apart. Didn't see a antenna connect. So I will have to remember watch again. I got the Guitar pick style pry coming. New oem battery. And already have tweezers and t5
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kaos420 said:
Now your making me worried. I watch a few diy I don't remember seeing them disconnect a antenna to remove the battery. Just a cap load of screws. All the ones for camera cover. Then under bottom cover. Then pop apart. Didn't see a antenna connect. So I will have to remember watch again. I got the Guitar pick style pry coming. New oem battery. And already have tweezers and t5
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Nah don't be worried...I forgot when initially removing the battery it was glued down good and I accidentally grabbed the antenna pulling it out...Sorry been a while...so don't do that. I used the tweezers to put the new antenna on. Sorry for the misinformation
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Nah don't be worried...I forgot when initially removing the battery it was glued down good and I accidentally grabbed the antenna pulling it out...Sorry been a while...so don't do that. I used the tweezers to put the new antenna on. Sorry for the misinformation
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lol no problem. ya i went and watched the video like 6 times. kept saying wth is he talking about antenna. lol ill keep a eye out for the glue. tracking says all my stuff should be here tomorrow or friday. i cant wait to have a better battery again. this thing craps out so fast now. being its a launch day phone. beside my battery thing looks great and still works fine for what it is. the battery at least will get me through till replacement time around march.
just wanted to report back installed it tonight. no issues.
kaos420 said:
just wanted to report back installed it tonight. no issues.
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I guess I will give it another shot....broke my screen
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I guess I will give it another shot....broke my screen
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really? wow i just took the screws out. i didn't even use a pry tool. i used my nail to take bottom speaker cover off. as well as top plastic camera cover. then just worked it apart. the glue on the battery was the most pain part. i just kept even pressure and it peeled right up. replaced it used old yellow tape off old battery to hold connection down. and reassembled. all was good.
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really? wow i just took the screws out. i didn't even use a pry tool. i used my nail to take bottom speaker cover off. as well as top plastic camera cover. then just worked it apart. the glue on the battery was the most pain part. i just kept even pressure and it peeled right up. replaced it used old yellow tape off old battery to hold connection down. and reassembled. all was good.
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I was being sarcastic. Battery changed a while ago...dropped my phone. This looks like more fun
When reattaching the bottom piece, is it fully flush, or is it obvious it was replaced?
When someone at the sprint store worked on my original release day device (5 months old at the time), it was obvious the bottom cover had been removed.
gpz1100 said:
When reattaching the bottom piece, is it fully flush, or is it obvious it was replaced?
When someone at the sprint store worked on my original release day device (5 months old at the time), it was obvious the bottom cover had been removed.
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i just had to. lol
gpz1100 said:
When reattaching the bottom piece, is it fully flush, or is it obvious it was replaced?
When someone at the sprint store worked on my original release day device (5 months old at the time), it was obvious the bottom cover had been removed.
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Mine is flush.
gpz1100 said:
When reattaching the bottom piece, is it fully flush, or is it obvious it was replaced?
When someone at the sprint store worked on my original release day device (5 months old at the time), it was obvious the bottom cover had been removed.
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ya same for me mine is flush. but when i removed it i did notice the glue tap kinda wanted to roll up. so i basically used my t5 and rolled it flat again before replacing that piece. i bet it bunched the glue tape and they didnt give a rats @$$. that just pops right off. you could fix it.
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i just had to. lol
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thats the video i watched. lol ill fix it for you.
where did you buy your battery from? mine is also a launch day evo and the battery is just terrible. i found this website: http://www.etradesupply.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-battery-2000mah.html
and thought that it was a pretty good price. is that comparable to the one you bought?
suicidal acorn said:
where did you buy your battery from? mine is also a launch day evo and the battery is just terrible. i found this website: http://www.etradesupply.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-battery-2000mah.html
and thought that it was a pretty good price. is that comparable to the one you bought?
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Kaos doesn't have his LTE anymore. You'll have to PM him.
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can i ask how long in general does the z ultra last, as someone on the official sony forum posted that it might last 1 to 2 years, as in my country they decided not to bring this phone for sale as it has no market for it
i was wondering is it really difficult to replace the battery by myself in case it becomes defaulted
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I don't know. My guess is that we'll see a drop in battery life in about 10-12 months, and it'll keep dropping from there. This heavily depends on the quality of the battery, but it's too early to tell if we have a good or bad one. Changing the battery might be rough (since it's waterproof), but it shouldn't be impossible. Just note that it might not be waterproof after you've changed the battery yourself (and your warranty will explode into one million pieces of nope from Sony's service centers)
hahahahah chill my friend
yeah well i saw a youtube video its says z ultra where he just used a hair dryer but i am not sure as it does not look to me like the z ultra more like the xperia z.
maybe by that time we will know if people on this forum changed their battery by themselves, u are lucky because in Israel they will not bring this phone so initially i don't have warranty, i hope it will be easy cause this is the first time I want to stick with a phone for more than 2 years.
so i hope my battery will not fail me
hykhleif said:
hahahahah chill my friend
yeah well i saw a youtube video its says z ultra where he just used a hair dryer but i am not sure as it does not look to me like the z ultra more like the xperia z.
maybe by that time we will know if people on this forum changed their battery by themselves, u are lucky because in Israel they will not bring this phone so initially i don't have warranty, i hope it will be easy cause this is the first time I want to stick with a phone for more than 2 years.
so i hope my battery will not fail me
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In the service manual it says:
Use Suction cup to get space for inserting the Guitar Pick.
Gently slide the Guitar Pick along to release right side of the Back Panel Assy.
Note! Start in the middle of the right long side!
Gently slide the Guitar Pick along to release top side of the Back Panel Assy as show in picture.
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When you are done, use a suction cup and pull the backside up. It's not difficult to change the battery and the backside (to make it waterproof again) if you just get the spare parts
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In the service manual it says:
When you are done, use a suction cup and pull the backside up. It's not difficult to change the battery and the backside (to make it waterproof again) if you just get the spare parts
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so after you remove the back glass and want tp put things back together do u to apply a certain type of glue on it or just reheat and press back the back glass
hykhleif said:
so after you remove the back glass and want tp put things back together do u to apply a certain type of glue on it or just reheat and press back the back glass
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no you replace it with a new one part no- 1271-0879
http://www.nutelsolutions.co.uk/spa...eria-z-ultra-antenna-sub-1270-6164-50132.html
You can probably mix something on your own like epoxy or similar but the problem is you might not get it off again in the future if its too strong
Hi guys,
I have my z2 for a while now (2 years I think), and he has tried to beat down the floor sometimes and until now, hasn't been victorious.
So the thing is, after the last try, he has the back cover a little openned in the middle (I can see a little of the glue and can stick something between the cover and the phone), and also, has a little opening in the screen, just like the cover. After this, the buttons got a little strage too, need to press power and up too hard to work, down is ok.
I would like to now, if anyone has experienced that, and know what could it be, I haven't openned it yet as it need the adhesive to put the cover back and I don't have access to it in my city, have to order it online.
Thanks!!!
And sorry for the bad english.
It could be the battery swelling as its on it's last legs.
If it was mine I would remove the back cover to inspect the battery, before things got (possibly) much worse.
My Z2 is over two years old and the back cover started to lift adjacent to the charging port. The cause was the pcb spring contacts for the NFC antenna pushing against the cover,which I've subsequently remedied. The physical appearance and size of the battery is all good so I have no safety worries although it will need replacing simply due to its age and noticeable decrease in capacity.
The back cover was only raised about a millimetre but it was noticeable enough and annoying. There is no problem with screen separation.
If my problems were similar to yours I would immediately take off the back cover, remove the battery and fully inspect it for signs of swelling. A new rear gasket / seal is easier to remedy than a complete phone wrecked by a screwed battery.
Good luck :good:
I see, can I use it without the back cover?
Cause it would take something like 2 weeks to get the seal from internet.
Your problem is kind of like mine, but mine isn't in the nfc point, but in the battery point, just above her, I thought about it at first too, I'll see about it then! Tnks!
Google "Xperia Z2 teardown" and you will see that the battery occupies more-or-less the mid-to-lower part of the phone. If your screen and rear cover are bulging from the centre outwards then it *probably* is the battery swelling.
I removed my rear cover about 6 weeks ago and the gasket was mostly intact so after sorting the NFC contacts I just reattached it as-is. It's stayed in place so far, but I also have a CASE-MATE transparent polycarbonate rear cover that adds further protection.
Once I find a genuine Sony battery and replacement gasket at reasonable prices I will get them ordered. So far things are fine.
If you manage to keep the gasket intact like I did it should be fine to reattach the cover until you get a new one.
And even if your battery hasn't swelled it may also be worth replacing that too, considering it's 2 years old.
I see, I also use a case-mate to protect more, cant handle it without it, I guess I'll try to do it then, seriously? I thought that battery would last longer, I'll see into that, now it makes sense, the battery started to die faster a while ago, nice to know.
Thanks!
Just oppened it, It was the battery as discussed above. Thanks!
Now you know what the problem is its easy to sort it out.
Would be good if you post a pic of the battery.
Here it go:
http://imgur.com/a/5Z48h
Got pic from the the battery and the back curved.
Yeah it's obvious from the pics. I think you've caught it just in time.
A new gasket and battery and your Z2 will live maybe another 2 years :good: