The protective cover on my front camera has disappeared! Given that I haven't even dropped the phone, this is vaguely annoying! I'm sure it won't come to much harm, but anyone know where I can find another?
My Ameo is now getting WM6; for some reason it went into a mad rebooting cycle lately and refused to work reliably before, eventually, locking up entirely. Attempting to access messages or similar resulted in a locked-up phone with spinning progress wheel.
Very annoyed about that, it's going to take ages to get it all the way I liked it.
spooky mine has also disappeared. Have only dropped mine twice. Both on the same eve (excess alcohol). Although hammered asssumed that i would have noticed things flying off.
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oh wow... i hadn't noticed my lens was missing until after new year's eve also... my phone was perfectly fine on the eve of, but i guess a little too much Patron had something to do with that...
Same for me, I don`t know when. Thinking of going to a glazier to see if they can cut a small pice of glass.
BTW, I have also lost the small rubber thing on the joystick but this I have repaired with the eraser from a pencil (the one with lead) Cut the top of and glued it on the joystick.
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hiya. i have a small problem. i got really mad and slammed my fist down on my cingular 8125.
when i hit it, the battery cover flew off but that's about it. i checked meticulously and i don't see any damage whatsoever, almost brand new, not dents...
but the STYLUS comes out a lot easier now then it did before. does anyone know what could have happened? what is the thing that latches the stylus inside the phone in the first place?
thanks a million!
Stylus gets loose like that normally anyhow. There is a small plastic catch inside near the top of the wizard (see the groove on the end of the stylus that it clicks onto) that becomes defective. Fixes are tape on end of stylus, bluetack or bit of plastic bag inside. Occ people have taken device apart but only for v. experienced - i use tape
thank you! i'm just surprised how it could go defective from hitting it when the unit itself appears undamaged.
I don't know how well this would work with Cingular but, some users from other carriers were able to get warranty repairs for that problem. Just don't tell them that you did it with your fist, OK ^_^
The 8125 doesn't have the stylus problem as far as i know, just the wiza 200's. This may be something else.
guys - severe problem here
had my 8525 for 2 years or so and have had it insured thank goodness - two trips to the shop have been done already, one for the RED LED problem that i thought ruined my device.
now out of the blue yesterday the phone started shutting off on its own. seemingly randomly, at no specific times, it will just turn off, as if i held the power button down for 5 secs and hit ok.
it will only come back on if i hit the soft reset button or hold the power button and then it reboots. it is making life very frustrating as i'm missing calls and messages often because i have to constantly watch for the green LED to be on to know that the phone is still working
i have three accumulated three batteries over the years so i know thats not the problem, it occurs with all three.
anyone suggest anything before i send it back in? not excited to pay another deductible as i've already doubled the price i paid for the phone in insurance fees!!
My advice would be to do a complete backup, and then hard-reset. Assuming that the issue disappears after the HR, then restore from your backup. Hopefully, you will not restore the issue as well. If you do, then HR again, and DON'T restore from the backup ... install everything fresh.
HTH,
-pvs
There have been a few reports that the battery contacts can become less firm against the battery - causing random switch offs. This was easily solved by having a thin strip of card between the battery and the casing on the side opposite the contacts. Thus pushing the battery a little more firmly against the contacts. (Also make sure the contacts are clean)
Something easy to try at least.
Remember to search - here's one example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=315591
Mike
thought of that halfway through the day today when i was fidgeting with it and realized there was a little bit of play in the battery compartment. actually put a thin piece of paper on the opposite side of the contacts and the phone has stayed on for an hour so far!!! sure hope that was the fix - would make me pretty happy - keeping my fingers crossed!
i had done a hard reset last night hoping for a fix but to no avail. thanks for the suggestion though.
the weird part is no jarring or dropping took place so i am surprised this issue arose out of the blue??
thanks for the help - and i did search but will look more thoroughly in the future
Hope it works long term - I wonder if thin paper is enough, we'll see.
Sorry about the search comment
Cheers
Mike
the weird part is no jarring or dropping took place so i am surprised this issue arose out of the blue??
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Well, those spring contacts can get a bit tired and maybe a little oxidised and they loose the spring in their step - a bit like me really. I'm stuffing in the cream cakes however not slips of paper but I still randomly switch off from time to time, in fact more and more often!
haha - yea i suppose same goes for me!
however it stopped working =\ worked for about an hour and a half then i bent down to pick something up with phone in pocket and it died. seems like slightest movement would make a difference, but then later on it died at my desk again =\ thought i had found the culprit too
on the gold prongs, on the phone part, there is a tiny bit of evidence of melting on the black plasting holding the prongs. on either side of the black plastic where it meets the green board of the phones interior, there is a silver weld. on one side, it looks like the black plastic melted a bit and the silver weld is barely visible. the plastic is rough and not the same edge as the other side. that's the only noticeable difference
thought i had found a quick fix, but i suppose the last option is the old $50 deductible for the third time =\
Mmmm.. not good. However it seems it is a contact problem and there have been reports of that complete battery contact assembly coming off. Some have been successfully re-soldered, but in one case the contact was broken inside the mult-layered board.
I'm slightly puzzled about the melting - almost as if someone has previously been re-soldering it. (seems a little improbable that a poor contact at that ampage could cause enough heat to melt it - but I could be wrong)
Mike
mine was doing this and nothing fixed it apart from a reflash, its been working fine since i reflashed two days ago
hope this helps
My stylus fell out of the phone a few times, a couple times when I had it in my pocket and once when I picked the phone up off my desk to answer a call. I didn't really notice it falling out I just noticed it later when I reached for it and it wasn't there. It's really weird because I put it back in and the magnet is still working so I don't know how it just slides out. Does anyone else's do this?
Mine has never fell out, its magnetic so its never done that...strange yours did.
It also fell out today when I had my phone in the cupholder in my car. Didn't notice until I was inside and then spent 20 minutes trying to find it.
Is it the original stylus you're using? Some "replacement" ones are just plastic so the magnetic "hold" doesn't work on them
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It also fell out today when I had my phone in the cupholder in my car. Didn't notice until I was inside and then spent 20 minutes trying to find it.
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OMG THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME ALSO. TWICE! and it took ages to find it under the seat. My opinion is that the stylus got caught on the rim of the cupholder when taking ur phone out, and it slide out
Well, well, don't be astonished, magnets lose their memory over time and the unlucky spot HTC chose for the stylus slot will teach you that lesson eventually. A simple replacement stylus should do it, AFAIR a second stylus comes packaged with Touch HD... Mine hasn't fallen out yet ...
When i got my replacement HD i realised how much magnetism my stylus had lost. So yeh.. over time the magnet gets pretty weak.
That's stupid, it never does that on my Diamond.
today i lost my stilus in this way. now, i looking for the second in the package :-(
Had my device for over a year, no issues what-so-ever with stylus. Suggest you replace stylus and test magnetism.
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My stylus fell out of the phone a few times, a couple times when I had it in my pocket and once when I picked the phone up off my desk to answer a call. I didn't really notice it falling out I just noticed it later when I reached for it and it wasn't there. It's really weird because I put it back in and the magnet is still working so I don't know how it just slides out. Does anyone else's do this?
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I had only used my stylus once since I had one from my old Palm Treo. One day I just noticed a blank space where it used to be, don't know when or where it fell out.
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!
I am having an issue where the filament seems to have stopped feeding. The nozzle moves as if it's printing, but nothing is coming out. Here are a few facts laid out that hopefully can help someone steer me properly...
Replaced Extruder Parts, nothing seemed worn
Replaced Extruder Motor, still nothing
Removed Extruder cover and nothing seems to move when it should be
When I unlock the extruder and push filament by hand, it comes out fine - hotend is hot
I use the Community Firmware and when I try to "Load Filament", it doesn't feed filament through
Not sure what else could be causing it, I haven't had this problem happen ever. Any thoughts?
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I am having an issue where the filament seems to have stopped feeding. The nozzle moves as if it's printing, but nothing is coming out. Here are a few facts laid out that hopefully can help someone steer me properly...
Replaced Extruder Parts, nothing seemed worn
Replaced Extruder Motor, still nothing
Removed Extruder cover and nothing seems to move when it should be
When I unlock the extruder and push filament by hand, it comes out fine - hotend is hot
I use the Community Firmware and when I try to "Load Filament", it doesn't feed filament through
Not sure what else could be causing it, I haven't had this problem happen ever. Any thoughts?
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I bought a an Ender 3 S1 pro, after less than 30 days it's basically doing this to me like yours apparently.
The printer is pretty much brand new as far as I can tell, it printed successfully about 3 times while having minor under extrusion. I adjusted the E steps based off a guide and it seemed to improve that issue.
I started a 1 day print and it failed half way, no bundle of stringy mess it simply stopped extruding plastic all together and keeped moving as if it were still printing.
Now the printer's extruder basically stops working after the first layer has been laid, It's like the motor is dying or shutting off or struggling to run somehow.
I took the whole thing apart thinking it was just jammed up at first but quickly realized the extruder was acting weird, before I took it apart the gear that spins when printing would randomly stop spinning or shake back and forth like it's stuck or grinding.
In addition to the gear seeming to be misaligned somehow the machine would loose all functionality preventing me from having it do basic movements or cancelling an extrusion test, it's like it just freezes randomly while it's in the process of extruding plastic.
I took the thing apart and nothing looks damaged what so ever, somehow the gears did get misaligned before I took it apart but I basically did nothing except replace the nozzle and adjust the tension screw and check to see if the gears rotated properly which they did.
After It was put back together I thought I fixed it however it still continued to do the same exact thing print maybe one layer then fail as the extruder just completely stops working and it still randomly freezes the whole machine if I try to test the extruder by telling it to push 100mm.
At this point I am defeated and planning to return this machine as I believe perhaps it's got a bad motor or a wire connection somewhere is faulty and I have found NO HELP with this problem so far and it's very daunting for no reason honestly.
I got the machine with a 100$ discount so this is probably what I deserve I guess. Kind of sad that this probably happens to other new users and they never get to return it or repair it for lack of experience and there's no telling if replacing anything would actually work I am dumb founded with this cause I did not expect such a simple failure with no information on it what so ever normally you would see at least one video out there explaining this.
If I don't find any information in the next day I am officially returning it and seeing if I can just get one from the manufacturer or a licensed dealer that will give me at least some level of guarantee because I think I almost just got screwed on this one even though it looks brand new.
I see lots of videos about trouble shooting printers but I think the content is lacking if this is not being addressed discovered or explained by anyone yet is it really that RARE? Because it annoys and confuses me into believing it's all my fault somehow.
Beware of sales on these things I guess with brand new ones at least.
Yesterday ran into the same problem -- ender s1 just stopped feeding the plastic in the middle of the print. Brand new printer, 1kg milage.
Checking extruder cable revealed the problem -- wire number 6 was broken. Soldered it back, guess it'll work fine until replacement arrives.
My suggestion:
1. check your extruder cable with multimeter. make sure, connection is reliable.
2. knowing the exact failed pin inspect cable visually. my defect was visible.
3. order spare cable. two cables, quality is ****.
Bad luck, bro. Hope you will find soultion.
If you have the little wheels pushing filament they have to be replaced. On my Creality they went bad in a few months but looked fine. To keep prices low they ship with really soft cheap wheels.
Check tension on the plastic piece before bowden tube the gear and wheel need to spin. If it's not thingiverse has a spacer to print small and quick if u can .05 .1 on opposite side to help the spring. The plastic arms are good for a few hours to if lucky a month buy a 10 dollar metal one with dual gears and Capricorn tubing.