I went ahead and tried to paint my phone and it came out fine but i dropped it so i went ahead to re do the paint job. In the process of disassembly somewhow the power button off of the board was knocked off leaving me completely unable to turn on my phone. Is anyone here able to take one off the sides and re solder it into position for me or perhaps point me in the direction to buy a replacement piece thank.
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Hi there, sorry to burden everyone with another broken hermes thread but I was wondering if I could get pushed in the right direction on something.
I started having the white screen issues that ever so popular around here. Initially I managed to fix it but it always came back. I've taken my phone apart a good few times but I think I've really done it in now. I was trying the fix from user alkizmo with the foam on the D-pad connections but upon putting the phone back together I found that it would not switch on at all. I'd put everything back in the proper place and have now since removed the foam pieces but still to no avail. Even when plugged into the wall it won't switch on. It just sits there with a RED light instead of the usual charging orange light.
I'm not sure what I've done or if it's even fixable but any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. (Keeping in mind I'm not super tech savvy)
Thank you.
Try to reseat the connectors first. Don't think a bad flex cable or dpad would cause a red light. Sounds like the motherboard is fried. Did you ground yourself with a strap and be extra careful when taking it apart?
Well to make the story short, I took out an old lcd screen protector that left glue residues on my Shift's screen... Tried my best to take it out but it simply didn't want to come off...
Searched the web and in a bit of a panic mode tried everything, from antiseptic alcohol to toothpaste, and finally vinegar... The glue partially came out, but a mixture of all these substances got inside my screen and little by little consumed its light like a candle
But the good news after some silly self reflections was to find a replacement part and so I did.. ($90 including shipping and required tools from a eBay Chinese supplier) and just today I got the package, so I'm ready to rock..
To avoid screwing up again, I've managed to get my hands on the original service manual for this device and will follow step by step the indicated dissamble procedure..
So bare with me while I find myself a complete day to work on this project, while updating the status and answering any questions you may have (if you are in the same mess as I am right now).. I just hope the damage is just on the lcd screen, it would be terrible to realize once inside I require other parts (I would think not, since the device is working fine except for the screen, even the touch function still works!)
Did you broke your screen or simply there is glue on it ?
Right how to start this, I was happily taking a bath when a friend text me. I left it. He then text again 3 times and tryed ringing me figuring it must be important I picked my phone up and like you do I sneezed :O **SPLASH**. I grabbed the phone literally smashed my protective case of it which is now broken, and ripped the battery out of its socket
Left it for hours. Came back to it. Turned it on And YAY it worked but.....
The Menu and Back button didn't work at all it just flashed a bit. so i turn it off
Dissembled it and dryed it even more with hair dryer.
Now i assembled it and it works perfectly exept every water test is bright pink haahaha.
One problem tho, I lost the power button when dissembling it Could anyone point me to a person who will sell me this little plastic power button or could some one here sell me from spares maby Thanks for Reading
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Hey fellow xda-ers. I purchased a mytouch 4g through a friend that had a broken digitizer. I was fine with the cracked digitizer because the phone worked fine, the top glass was just broken. I dropped the phone the day after I got it and it immediately showed no signal. I figured I knocked off the antenna wire (from what I hear, it's as common with these as it was with the g1). Well since I had to take the phone apart, I figured I would order the new digitizer to replace while it was apart. I even broke down and bought the whole OEM digitizer and LCD combo.
This is where I'm having a problem.
I had no problem with disassemby. The clips came apart very easily and the shattered screen came out after a little finesse with a pry tool and hair dryer. I installed the new one with silicon and let it sit overnight to dry just to make sure.
I went to re-assemble the phone. Everything seemed to go into place like it should. I clipped everything back where it was suppose to go, paying careful attention to the power button. I clipped the see through black plastic piece onto the back of it and installed the screws so I could take it for a test run.
When it turned on, I was happy, I though I was done. But then it booted up to the bootloader. I couldn't press any of the hard keys. They were all jammed. I got a extra keypad, housing, and motherboard from a friend that fried his mt4g but same thing. I clip the phone together and the buttons get stuck.
TL;DR Im experienced with phone repairs. I replaced the digitizer on my mt4g. The hard keys at the bottom of the phone keep getting stuck.
I'm completely stumped. Someone please tell me its something simple that I'm missing. I've logged over 8 hours into trying to fix this between taking it apart, putting together, and testing it.
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What a story!!
I bought a galaxy note 4 right on launch day first thing in the morning. Ive had just about every phone but have been waiting for a while now to get my hands on the new note 4.
I ended up buying the phone at the St . Bruno shopping center in Quebec, Canada and once i singed all the papers for my contract and got home, I finally open the box and took the phone out of the box. I loved it, it did everything one would expect from the highest end phone on the market.
A week later however, I started noticing that my buttons, especially my home button were slightly loose and my phone was also developing a weird oil spot under the home button.
So I went back to videotron but this time at St. Catherine street corporate branch store and the manager there obviously didnt know much about phones because he looked at it and proceeded with putting windex on a paper towel and wiping my screen with it and than told me that theres nothing wrong with it.
After frustratingly explaining everything to him, he told me that if the phone makes calls and works, than these issues arent covered for any kind of exchange as its not affecting the functionality of the phone. My logic tell me however that if one buy's a ferrari and realizes that the paint is f-up, wouldn't the dealership do something about it??? Anyways, without any luck I eventually left disappointed.
The following week After exhaustive attempt to solve the matter with Videotron to no avail, I found out that there was a store here in montreal called Service Absolute which is a samsung repair center that I could bring my phone to. I called them first to not waist more of my time and was than informed that yes they could help me but that it could take nearly a month before they would have any parts for this phone.
So after patiently waiting, I finally got a call back from them and droped off my phone the following day. I only had to wait two days before i got my phone back and thought that the turn around time was great! Only after few minutes of playing with it however, I noticed that the phone's new screen which now didn't have the oil spot was actually lifting from the housing about 1mm at the top of the phone and that the buttons were all still loose.
Its easy to imagine at this point how infuriated i was with all the time spent dealing with a phone that should of been right in the first place.. All the waiting, calling and runaround I got only to get a phone that was now even worst!! I could actually see inside my phone and behind the screen. Dust was starting to get inside the phone and under the camera lens and so on and I was really starting to freak out and was completly desperate to fix this issue asap to prevent things from getting worse and worse.
So I decided at this pont to take matters in my own hands and use my old trusty screwdriver to take this thing apart and get
To the bottom of the loose buttons and screen seperation.. I know! Scray [email protected]$ but it had to be done because at this point I needed a working phone for work and nobody seemed to help me. So after watching a few youtube videos, I unscrewed the screws at the back and gently seperated the phone from the metal frame with my fingers.
The whole assembly came out of the metal frame the same komd of way the old HTC phones used to. After doing so, the first thing i found out was that if your going scatch your phones metal frame which makes up most of the phone outer surfice, it's no big deal as it can be swapped out for around 40 to 50 bucks.
Next I noticed that all the buttons (volume and power) aren't adheared to the frame but only clipped in with a few pins stratigically placed. So its normal that they have play and wiggle. They're not gonna break and we're likely engineered to be this way. The wiggling is not really important as it won't affect anything on the phone's motherboard.
The next thing I noticed was that the glue between the inner midframe (the part that holds the motherboard to the screen assembly) also wasn't glued properly and was able to gently seperate it from the lcd/digitizer assembly without a heat gun or anything.. after doing so, the home button fell out and was simply dangling from its flex cable. It wasn't actually glued in place or held in with clips or anything. It's only connected to a flex cable on the left side of the button but thats it. I was easily able to pull it out and inspect it. It was built to be completely free floating between the midframe and the screen.
Which means that again, no need to worry about anything breaking as the home button is not a solidified part to start with and only in place where it is because of the space tolerence engeneered in the screen's home button whole. So it being slightly loose is normal and something that will eventually happen to all note 4's sooner or later. The slight looseness actually makes sense to me as any dust material that will get in between the home button wont get stuck as as much as if the space toleren was less. In my opinion, I thik that iPhones have less issues like this as the home button is part of the screen assembly and is also round.
In the end, I wasn't able to adhear the screen back in place as I didnt have double sided tape but manages to send it back to samsung and get it serviced again. I clearly asked them to fix it properly this time and it looks like they finally did and glued it back properly now.
This was a crazy experience and all I can tell you is that I definatly got an up close look of this phone and decided to keep it afterall as it's still better than a refurbished one and also because it's super easy to repair if anything ever broke on it.
Anyways i know this is a long post but I thought I'd share my experience with everyone and put some of your worries to rest.
Cheers!