Hi to everyone.
About three month ago I received my Elephone P9000 Lite. Six weeks after my display was broken. Had the phone in the back pockets of my jeans and sat down (..no, I am rather thin). Four weeks later I received the spare lcd via aliexpress and changed the broken screen.
Now the signal is very bad, sitting at my desk. (Did not check how the signal here was before the thing broke). I can not use the phone. The signal is always jumping. I geht HSDA+ with 81 db and 14 ASU sometimest drops to 110 db and 8 ASU - while the phone is lying on the desk.
At first I thought that my computer equipment (tft, notebook, w-lan printer, notebook,...) might influence the signal. But my old LG Optimus X2 gets -85 / -79 db with 17 ASU with the same sim card exactly at the same spot on my desk. Carrier is o2 /e-plus in Germany. They are supposed to have a weak network, althoug I live in a larger city 10 km of Frankfurt /Main.
My question: Mitght this be a hardware failure? Or is it merely a bad baseband / software problem?
How do I check if the antenna is faulty?
I had to take the phone apart, maybe I damaged some cable (there is a black one running parallel to the frame of the phone at the side where the sim slot is located.
The phone is running factory android 6.
System Elephone-P9000_Lite_20160628
Baseband Version MOLY.LR11.W1539.MD.MP.V9.P12,2016/06/1410:18
Thanks for your help. Jens
Shot of the phones.
I had a spare sim of the same provider. Here are the shots of the phones.
Elephone -101 db 39 asu
Optimus x2 -79db 17 asu
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This may not be the solution for you but I got a GlobalSat BT 368 that is about the size of 2 match books longways and thick ways. I use the free bluetooth gps in the market and I now have GPS better than my epic 4g or my wifes 4g touch. In fact I am now thinking about getting a full size navigation program like copilot or sygic any thoughts on a good program
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018YZ836/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details
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Looks good. How long battery last?
Can't tell you from experience I only got it thurs. Its rated at 11 hours continuous use but cuts off after 10 mins. if not connected. If it's anything like a speaker phone with the same ratings and features it will probably need charging every three weeks. 2 hour charge.
I have been thinking about just leaving it plugged up in my glove compartment and on continuously. Once locked it doesn't lose signals for anything that I have been able to try in the house.
HI,
Glad you got your GPS working. I don't know type of phones you have available, but if they are Win6-7 phones, there is a program out there called WiFiRouter (costs, but it works great....use it all the time), then you can use a free program called WAZE that uses online data. I find the routes selected, but the the nice thing is that it is "user-interactive"....that is, users identify construction/police/slow-stopped traffic. It should work great in DC. Other than that, I'd go with CoPilot for now because it's cheap. Magellan and Garmin have operation apps for the iphone, but not the Android Market yet, and those are the 2 companies that I would recommend.
Personally, my current setup is a Garmin 4390 standalone, with WAZE running to let me know where the traffic and cops are. Haven't had the Prime long enough to see if there's any others available....The other company to look at is Tom-Tom.
If you're going to connect the Prime to the internet via the phone, then you probably need to apply this fix, so ad-hoc networks are available. ICS stock has them locked out.
If you have an Android phone, there are apps similar to the WiFiRouter, I'm sure.
Good luck,
Bob
Surecall makes a WIMAX amplifier/repeater for Sprint's network that amplifies 70db. This is great for those who have WIMAX in their area, but cant get a strong enough signal indoors.
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sells for $200 on ebay (link 1)
too bad I cant find it on alibaba. I would love to get it, but dont think its worth it till the 2015 WIMAX cut-off unless I can somehow modify this in the future to amplify/repeat a different frequency.
findthedr said:
Surecall makes a WIMAX amplifier/repeater for Sprint's network that amplifies 70db. This is great for those who have WIMAX in their area, but cant get a strong enough signal indoors.
sells for $200 on ebay
too bad I cant find it on alibaba. I would love to get it, but dont think its worth it till the 2015 WIMAX cut-off unless I can somehow modify this in the future to amplify/repeat a different frequency.
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It seems the spec link is broken. Here are the specs from Surecall's site. Its currently selling for $219 USD.
CM2500W 70dB | 4G WiMax Signal Booster
70dB WiMAX | For buildings up to 6,000 sq. ft.
Frequency 2496 - 2690 MHz
Average Gain 70dB WiMAX
Maximum Gain 75dB
VSWR ≤2:0
Standard Supported WiMAX
AC Power Transformer Input AC110V, 60Hz; Output: DC6V
Maximum RF Output Power 3 Watts EIRP
Noise Figure 5dB
Cable CM400 recommended
RF connectors N Female connectors
Power Consumption <10W
Dimensions 5 1/2” x 4 3/4” x 1 1/4” (1.7m x 1.4m x 0.4m)
Weight 2 lbs. (0.9kg)
VSWR <2:1
thanks for posting the info.
I never got it b/c it is too much for a dead technology.
I'd like to set up a list of known good locations to test 4G LTE around the Metroplex.
If you have a great place to test, please list it here. I'd love to have some verification that I actually have working LTE... I haven't seen hide nor hair of anything over 3G on my phone so far.
Note: Please don't post where LTE isn't working. That's counterproductive to this list. Also realize that at the time of this posting, Sprint is less than 10% complete with the D/FW rollout, so there are a LOT of places that aren't up yet. Finally, please also remember that LTE coverage has been reported as spotty in some locations, so if you get there and don't get LTE, it's not necessarily the end of the world.
Places I've heard have an LTE connection (I haven't verified any of these):
Cedar Hill Best Buy Parking Lot
Dallas: 635 & Garland Rd
Ft Worth: 820 & I-30
Fort Worth: 360 and Trinity
Ft. Worth: Loop 820 and 35W (I got nothing on the S side of town, might be the N side)
Lewisville: 121 and round grove rd.
Mansfield, 287 & Debbie Lane
The Colony: 121 and Main/Josey Lane - Walmart Parking Lot
There is a tower in downtown arlington with it. I can connect to it in my office but when I go down to the parking lot I am back on 1x or 3G. In my office it comes and goes but god when it goes you are dumped back to 1x or 3G. Nearly unusable data when 4G is not working. No idea specifically where a good place to test it would be though I have not driven around. Like currently my wicked fast 0.01Mbps connection sigh
I've been working in Dallas since Sunday. I can confirm that it works well at 360 and Trinity. Really all around the Centerpoint complex.
Lewisville:
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121 and round grove rd.
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Hi, a friend dropped a glass of beer on his galaxy i9100. Phone looks dead but when he give it to me i've tried another battery and the phone turns on with apparently no problem. So he bought another new original battery, put on and charge the phone. But, temperatures reach critical level and the phone stopped the charge. The temperature raise even without charge with battery in and phone on. So i disassembled and scan for damaged components or some trace of "beer" but the phone looks clear. I then sprayed with a product similar to wd40 (we call it crc in Italy, removes dirt and clear electric contacts) and wait for dry. But same problem. I turned on the phone partially disassembled and the heat is concentrated in the flex hook of the frontal buttons but probably the heat comes from the chip near that.
unfortunately there is no code on that chip so i hope you can understand wich i'm talking about. The only thing is that i don't really know if the heat is from that chip or the flex hook, i don't know how to test it. Looking at it there is no sign of damage. Any advice?
Hope you can understand the problem and apogologize for bad english
ps: with the crc the temperature focused on that chip, before that all the charging flex was over heating
Just post a picture.
Are you talking about the usb/mic board.
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this is the place where heat reach is max
no ideas? i cleaned the phone completely and nothing changed
All I can say is you look through previous posts about motherboards and see if anyone has an old board you could get.
I dont know how easy it would be to change that component your after.
I dunno about beer but mine (GT-I9100P) had a couple of vodka baths and it still works impeccably. (and when I say baths, I say full glass spilled on it)
Hey guys, long time reader, first time poster here (and it's a long one too).
My OnePlus X is my daily driver and I was planning on using it for some more years if this is fixable
Recently the USB port started to fail, so I decided to replace the part. A little setback was that i also had to replace the GSM antenna cable, which I had damaged during disassembly. So far so good, the phone is now charging again and reception and mobile data are working fine.
However, ever since the repair my Wifi reception has gone to ****, it is now so bad that it's pretty much unusable even when right next to the router. I've come to the conclusion that this is not a problem with the antenna cable replacement, as removing this cable only kills cell reception, wifi is unchanged. You can see the cable i'm talking about running into the long side of the frame in the bottom of this
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, with the golden connector on the lower edge of the motherboard (the other side connects to the USB flex cable, under the metal housing on the right). I believe the Wifi chipset itself is contained within the small housing in the upper middle of the board, with the + sign.
So now on to my question:
Does anyone know where exactly the wifi antenna on this phone is located? I'm assuming that it is being routed into the plastic/metal housing cover that's over the mainboard. I've made sure that none of the pins on the motherboard that connect to the housing cover are missing/bent or corroded. I've angled them up a little bit and cleaned them with alcohol to ensure a good contact.
But still, no wifi. Is it possible that the wifi chip itself got damaged in the repair and is there any way to find out?
Hopefully someone here knows something useful, I would be eternally grateful
Did you ever find a fix? I am having similar problems for one plus 3t
No, zero news on that front. I did some superficial research but was unable to pin-point the fault. I had to replace the phone, sadly.