[Q] USB Port - bad solder, or just needs a clean? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've inherited an S3 with a broken USB port. It used to work intermittently, but has now stopped working altogether. I've added a wireless charging thing, so it's usable.
I had a quick look inside today, to see if there was anything obviously wrong.
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I'm not sure if those two soldered connections on the end look a bit dodgy, so I thought I'd ask on here if it looks like I'm going to need to reflow it, or if you think the connection looks fine and just needs a good clean?
Obviously, I don't want to start soldering things if it's unnecessary.
Thanks!

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I changed my system font with a tool called ChangeFonts to Helvetica. Most things work, however, Opera does not.
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It's using Wingdings, although I don't think I even have a wingdings.ttf on my TP. I'm using Juicy8 20090723. I'm fairly sure I'm doing things the wrong way to change fonts, does anyone know the correct method that will NOT give me this? I'm obsessed with Helvetica, don't ask
Also, when firing up activesync, I started to get a strange pop up box after selecting activesync through the HTC USB pop-up. Haven't figured out how to get rid of it, and it was never there beyond like a week ago.
Any thoughts?
See if your fonts works with opera mini..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455655

[Q] ONEX+ Back Cover Connector (OFF-TOPIC)

I've been looking around the web at the various information avaiable for the OneX+ and in pictures of the back side of the device there are 5 dots which look like metal spots for charging maybe, or a dock or something. Can anyone confirm what those are for? The pin out for a micro USB end has 5 connections, could it be a USB connection for a dock?
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Att one x has same thing.
Sent from my EVO
I think all 'one' series phones have this except ours, which is obviously a little different than the others. They are dock connectors.

[Q] Can't read sim card

My friend has a Verizon Casio Commando C811. He brought it to me after running over it with his bus. I replaced the LCD/digitizer assembly (which was a major pain as compared to other phones) it works fine except now the phone isn't reading the sim card., Before I go tearing back into this thing, does anybody know what the problem is?
Maybe it's damaged?
was working before it was taken apart. The ribbon cable that goes to the sim card wraps around one edge of the motherboard to attache on the other side. All of it looks great. I didn't need to disconnect it in order to remove the motherboard. Since then I have. and reseated it to make sure.
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[Q] Charging Port?

So, my S2's charging port is broken, I ordered new usb port for it. I got the usb port, I disassembled the phone and noticed it is impossible to change, so I ordered Dock Connector Charging Port Flex Cable Ribbon.
How can I change it?
Is it hard to do?
Can I easily break something else?
It looks like this :
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Sorry for horribly written thread, I'm writing this from my phone.
Fairly easy to do & you're halfway there assuming you've ordered the correct part. KeithRoss39 has a guide in General (not stickied; search for 'replacing USB charger board') which has all the info you need to get it done, and he's the expert on these things here.

Ultraslow file-transfer speeds with Galaxy S5

Hi,
recently my S5 started to act strange: everytime I try to copy files from or to the phone it's doing it ridicules slow. Right now I'm at about 0,3MB/sec.
Another thing that happens is that while a file is copied, it shows >2GB big until it's completely saved on the harddisk:
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Is there a known bug in the S5 that would explain those utterly slow transfer-speeds? Perhaps because the phonememory is almost completely used? I'm pondering to wipe it
and install Cyanogenmod, though for that I would first need to copy everything, which actually would take days....
Btw.: USB3.0 doesn't makes a difference, I would say it's even slower than 0,3MB/sec with a USB3.0 cable and MTP set to USB3.
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