Hello, looking for a broken/borked/dead HTC One to attempt a different disassembly method to try to help the One community.
It is my understanding that they are glued together, not screwed, and that the suction cup method does not work. I used to retrofit headlights that also used glues, some heat glues, some needed a solvent. I have a lot of technical skill, and i would like to try my hand at popping one apart WITHOUT destroying the case/screen. I dont care if its water damaged, cracked screen, whatever, as long as its intact.
Posted this in all HTC One sections, please PM me if you have one or know of one, i'll pay shipping to and fro (i will NOT attempt repairs, JUST non-destructive disassembly) and post the results and a video on youtube if successful, and ship the unit back disassembled if successful, and not damaged further if not successful.
Please PM if interested or if you have any heads up to exchange contact information.
Thank you,
Slade8525
Goodluck.
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this might alittle hard to come by considering it is still a pretty new phone and if anyone had problems they more then likely exchanged it for a working model..good luck though!
i can wait. someone is bound to break one.
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Hi there,
I posted the following message in the "Accessories" section about a week ago, but have had no replies. Perhaps more people look in this more general section, at least I hope so. In the meantime I have tried a couple more "pc repair" shops but without success. I appreciate that people who visit this site and offer their advice, do so on an entirely voluntary basis. It's great that so many of you have such an interest in the product/subject and that you are willing to share your experiences and knowledge with us. Even if no one can help with my problem, I must say that I have enjoyed reading the forum, and until this unfortunate accident I was starting to really enjoy using my XDA. I had upgraded the ROM, unlocked a SIM card, installed stacks of software, it was great. Ah well, maybe I will just have the memories!
"I recently dropped my xda and it would no longer power on, it seemed completely dead. Assuming it was a "connection" problem with the power to battery pins, I opened it up to see if I could see any obvious problem. During my poking and messing about (with tools which were not really suitable) I inadvertently damaged the small ribbon cables on the right hand side .
I took the unit to a laptop repair specialist but he was unable to fix it, he said he could not find replacement cables/plugs that would fit. Do you know of where I could obtain such cables, or can you recommend someone who would be capable of carrying out repairs?
I would really appreciate your advice, I'm lost without use of the xda. Yes, I did regular backups to the storage card, the last one being only a day or two before the accident.
I look forward to hearing from someone, hopefully with some positive news!
Many thanks,
Mikeyg "
Hi,
I have a Sprint Touch Pro2, recently it has been dropped and a little rock pushed the digitizer in,
I would like to know, those that own one, do you suggest replacing just the digitizer, or the screen as well? I read that it was very difficult to replace, if anyone can point me to the right thread that describes, or has a 'HOW TO'!
I am not an ignorant user, i did my research, but before i go ahead and take my phone apart, a confirmation would be helpful!
Thank you all!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-618793.html
There's a "how to" down the screen in that link...looks like I'd better hope I never break the digitizer...
HIT this
Commonwarrior downloaded the entire repair manual for the TP2, awesome help for all us owners!!!! Many cudos to him heres the thread with the .rar file:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=595996
Go here for some hints on places for repair parts Mikes been here for us all FOREVER, another great source:
http://www.mikechannon.net/page1.html
Know you did your homework, so did some us at times and these are the greatest aids I've come across in the endless Google searchs (lol), you'll get er done if nothing else understand it's not any good the way it is without a try - Go For It!! Can always send it in after the champion try, right???
PS, do both at the same time why do one without the other anyway???? You're already in there!!!
I had my phone in my pocket and headphones on. Walked by a doorknob, and damn, out comes the headphone plug, and then my headphone audio didn't work.
Turns out the repair for this is both easy and cheap. I found the part that includes the headphone jack, vibration motor, ambient microphone, and headset speaker for $25 (Google: sgh-i777 speaker flex cable assembly). Remove 7 screws on the back, pull apart the cover, and the part to replace is right at the top, no need to remove the motherboard. Disconnect the connecter labeled "sgh-i777", then pry up the headphone jack gently. Now you'll need to pull the in-call speaker -- it's above the connector and glued in, so pry carefully. Then pry up the circular vibration motor, which is also glued in.
Replace with the replacement part, removing the tape backings and gluing in the speaker and vibration motor. Lay everything else in and connect it up (push that connector gently!) Close up, screw back together, and it's as good as new. Easiest phone repair I've ever done yet. So glad I did it!
Nice. Funny how everything is held together with snot... er... glue.
Which glue was used?
Please don't necro threads. This was a year dead. PM the OP if you really want to know something.
If he had wanted to know about glue and posted in General or QA, people might have wonked and said "Search before you start a new thread!!!!" Or "Wrong area!!".
I'm guessing he might have done so, and finds this thread and asks someone with first hand experience.
Then someone wonks that he should have PMed. Can't please em all. Ask your question in the thread. Worst thing that happens is the guy doesn't answer. Rather that then him giving you info that others might find useful but can't get to as its locked in a PM. If people can't get to search able info, kinda defeats the point of always telling people to search before they ask.
'Nuff said.
Not only did he, but in the thread.
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I have no idea what you just said. But my point was, the thread had been dead and no one had posted in it for a year. So it's safe to say the discussion was dead. Everyone knows that necroing a dead thread is a no no, so PM'ng the OP would've been the next logical step. He had a general question. Lets let this thread go back to sleep now
The point I was making was that this guy seemed to be following the usual direction of searching for a relavent thread first and posting there, rather than creating a new thread.
Secondly, had the gentlemen just PMed the OP and received a reply, then that information (the information about the glue specifics) would have been contained in a *Private* Message. This bit of information is now unreachable by any other user via a search. That follows no logic that I can see, given that the purpose for forums is to make information available as widely as possible.
Lastly, in your reply post to this gentleman, you said nothing about the original post, nor did you address his question. You simply wanted hit him with a rulebook. (Which, by the way, *would* have been better off being said by in a PM. Ironic).
To simplify the above, in case you don't follow me again:
In order to 1. Prevent a year old thread from becoming active ( even though it was on topic), you would rather 2. him send a PM, meaning the next person searching for the same information would have to PM *again*. If he didn't do that, you'd rather 3. him start a new post and risk someone jumping on him *for not searching for a post that might cover it first ( which, if he searched for headphone, glue, and SGH-I777, would lead him back to this post. And I've seen lots of people tell people to search first rather than start a new thread.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
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The point I was making was that this guy seemed to be following the usual direction of searching for a relavent thread first and posting there, rather than creating a new thread.
Secondly, had the gentlemen just PMed the OP and received a reply, then that information (the information about the glue specifics) would have been contained in a *Private* Message. This bit of information is now unreachable by any other user via a search. That follows no logic that I can see, given that the purpose for forums is to make information available as widely as possible.
Lastly, in your reply post to this gentleman, you said nothing about the original post, nor did you address his question. You simply wanted hit him with a rulebook. (Which, by the way, *would* have been better off being said by in a PM. Ironic).
To simplify the above, in case you don't follow me again:
In order to 1. Prevent a year old thread from becoming active ( even though it was on topic), you would rather 2. him send a PM, meaning the next person searching for the same information would have to PM *again*. If he didn't do that, you'd rather 3. him start a new post and risk someone jumping on him *for not searching for a post that might cover it first ( which, if he searched for headphone, glue, and SGH-I777, would lead him back to this post. And I've seen lots of people tell people to search first rather than start a new thread.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
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I have to agree with this! I've been on blogs/newsgroups etc. since the days of when AOL was the only internet provider and dial-up. I've never heard that "necroing" a thread as being bad etiquette. I think some people have become too dramatic about others' postings. There's annoying things that people do without meaning harm or hurting anyone every day. One must learn to be strong and thick-skinned to see past the drama and get over it!
I for one am curious about the type of glue in case I run into this problem, or can be used for another application.
glue
Did anyone find the glue?
rkshack
I need replace digitalizer screen, do you know any link to do it?
thank you....... I need your help
If youre not confident and ask about links to do that, Id recommend service, warranty or not, digitizer layer is glued to screen and anyone who hasnt enough experience will just mess it up badly
mindlesSheep said:
If youre not confident and ask about links to do that, Id recommend service, warranty or not, digitizer layer is glued to screen and anyone who hasnt enough experience will just mess it up badly
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then, it´s better replace lcd+digitalizer,for me to do it.
do you think so?
Its certainly better to replace whole screen, but still even better is to do it in service, i wouldnt do it if I havent had any previous experience/wouldnt be able to find how to do it by myself, that screen isnt exactly cheap, if you dont have problems with that, go on
I have two words to say:
1. I don't know why people answers: 'go to service'; he don't ask forum for answers like that!
2. I never dismantle DX but on other HTC devices (and I'm preaty sure here is the same) the LCD has nothing to do with digitizer. The LCD is inside the phone and on top of that is the outer case and on that is digitizer. Digitizer can be found on market glued on case or simple (cheaper but harder to replace). The link between them is a thin band.
If I'm wrong please correct me because there is some time since I haven't worked with such devices (hard or soft) and on that time digitizers were resistive not capacitive...
Conclusion: be carefull and first of all try to dismantle your phone. If you succeed you can decide what piece you have to replace, LCD, digitizer or both...
I just pointed out that if someone has no idea how to do such thing (this was nicely indicated by asking about links how to do it), it is pretty hard task to do and might end bad (and I mean really end like this, not like "you can brick phone this way, but it wont happen anyway if you dont just have big bad luck"), he will end with no warranty (not like unlocking bootloader, they should still replace bad screen when unlocked, at least only warranty service in our country is doing it like this, they are cool ), unless it was some software voodoo which messed up with screen this badly after opening bootloader, or own fault which isnt covered by warranty. But it doesnt matter, we dont know the story and I just pointed out, that if someone wants really to do this, he should at least some iniaciative, like "is better this way or this another way" instead of asking for links, which, and its friendly advice, would be better solved by some person who is acctualy providing some guarantee that he will repair it how it should be, since he get paid for it.
I am not trying to demotivate him, in the end, its not my phone...
So i'm in the process of converting all of my cars to cars to android. I am having quite the time actually getting units that aren't defective or used in some way. This one came w/ a harness cut so short it's nearly useless, it has SU on it, a bunch of the previous users documents, his phone pairing info, his email account, gmail account, misc documents/pictures, nova launcher, Pandora account, Xposed stuff, etc. Joying took in a return and didn't even look at the damn thing and just sent it back out to another customer. Nice job joying! Anyway after all this I wanted to see if they hacked anything inside and I found this thin 36ish AWG wire soldered between two resistors. I am unsure if this is a mod or stock. I cannot believe joying would do this however the solder job looks quality so I don't know. Can anyone tell me what the purpose of this is if it is not stock? I've probably going to send this back given the circumstances but I'd like opinions on this wire.
Thanks guys.
Dave
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So i'm in the process of converting all of my cars to cars to android. I am having quite the time actually getting units that aren't defective or used in some way. This one came w/ a harness cut so short it's nearly useless, it has SU on it, a bunch of the previous users documents, his phone pairing info, his email account, gmail account, misc documents/pictures, nova launcher, Pandora account, Xposed stuff, etc. Joying took in a return and didn't even look at the damn thing and just sent it back out to another customer. Nice job joying! Anyway after all this I wanted to see if they hacked anything inside and I found this thin 36ish AWG wire soldered between two resistors. I am unsure if this is a mod or stock. I cannot believe joying would do this however the solder job looks quality so I don't know. Can anyone tell me what the purpose of this is if it is not stock? I've probably going to send this back given the circumstances but I'd like opinions on this wire.
Thanks guys.
Dave
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All I can say is I bought a new unit from Xtrons and it was new and there was a very similar thing on the board mounted behind the touch screen. No idea if this will actually help you but based on all the other crap that is on the unit I would definitely send it back and ask them to pay for the postage as well.
I've looked more thoroughly and there are also resistors missing, I'm fairly sure this was modified by someone. I'd really be curious if someone can tell me what this person was up to here.
Dave
TT_Vert said:
I've looked more thoroughly and there are also resistors missing, I'm fairly sure this was modified by someone. I'd really be curious if someone can tell me what this person was up to here.
Dave
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It may be a last minute-change to the circuitry on the part of the manufacturer.
I have seen some similar things here and there in the past, where you purchased the last run of the "old-style" circuits that have to have a few extra traces or runs included, and the only way to do that is to install a jumper, leave out a few components, do some extra manual soldering, etc.
If it functions okay, and you're not noticing any critical defects in the performance of the unit, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. There is a very low likelihood that some end-user would simply go in and start desoldering things and throwing in jumpers, and you get a product that still functions in good order. The average Joe would simply break it doing things like that; the person who did that knew what they were doing, even if it looks somewhat unprofessional.
(If it works, don't fix it.)
Spoke to the vendor and they told me they did not do the modification.
Dave
I cant see anything that doesnt look like it wasnt done by the factory, does everything work ?
Resistors are missing and a jumper wire has been added. I would hope they wouldn't have left it like that. Regardless Joying says it was not done by them.
Dave
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Resistors are missing and a jumper wire has been added. I would hope they wouldn't have left it like that. Regardless Joying says it was not done by them.
Dave
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Missing, or just not been added because they are not needed on your version ? Nothing looks out of the ordinary to me. Joying are sellers, not a factory so I doubt theyd have done anything internally to your unit. Does everything work ?
The pads appear to have solder on them. The device also had someone elses data on it. There was no way I was going to accept this as a new device.
Dave