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My question is if I get a an imate k-jam that has a bad motherboard would it be possible to switch the motherboard of my 8125 with the k-jams? and would it work fully? i'm not a pc tech or anything but I am able to dissassemble and repair laptops and pc's. if this were possible would I be capable of doing it? 'cos the keyboard on the 8125 is driving me crasy (button's jamming, unresponsive) and my friends k-jam's keyboard seem's like a hundred times better, so thats the main reason id want to. that and to change the case at the same time
Kenzeru said:
My question is if I get a an imate k-jam that has a bad motherboard would it be possible to switch the motherboard of my 8125 with the k-jams? and would it work fully? i'm not a pc tech or anything but I am able to dissassemble and repair laptops and pc's. if this were possible would I be capable of doing it? 'cos the keyboard on the 8125 is driving me crasy (button's jamming, unresponsive) and my friends k-jam's keyboard seem's like a hundred times better, so thats the main reason id want to. that and to change the case at the same time
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I suppose the only way to know for sure would be to take them both apart and see if there are any differences in the main boards. Theoretically, they are the same. Realistically, they may be different shapes or laid out differently. I have taken my MDA apart before and the main board is unbelievably complex.
Sorry I can't be of much help, but I think that would be the only option is to just "look and see"
PS:: This should have been placed under the Wizard forum, not Wizard Mobile 6 as it is not related to the developement of WM6 or or any previous WM6 Roms created to date. Try to keep your posts in the correct forums.
Dan.
okay, thank u. and nice cat lol. nd i'll do that in the future. can the moderator move this thread to the appropriate section?
thanks. no one knows of this being tried before?
Yes, you can switch motherboards. I just switched a T-Mobile MDA motherboard into a Cingular 8125 and vice versa (swapping parts to try to figure out why touchscreen didn't work on the 8125).
GnatGoSplat said:
Yes, you can switch motherboards. I just switched a T-Mobile MDA motherboard into a Cingular 8125 and vice versa (swapping parts to try to figure out why touchscreen didn't work on the 8125).
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That is actually really good to know. I have an old 8125 in the closet with a broken touch screen but I have been using my MDA with a broken USB port so all I would have to do is take my 8125 main board and swap it for my MDA main board and all will be fixed... Hmmm... I'm gonna have to try this.
that's not just good to know, it's awesome. thank's alot GnatGoSpat, nice screen name too lol
I thought it was so strange that when I scanned for bluetooth devices I picked up my (pc) internet modem (which is wireless enabled) so I thought bluetooth and wifi must share a lot of the same characteristics.
I was browsing for the latest Android developments and stumbled on the following
Please take a look at this page http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12000&contentId=4679
And this one http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12019&contentId=4635&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+bluetooth
This seems to mean that FM Radio and WiFi is a standard feature of OMAP 850 chips and (for the touch owners look at this page http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12028&contentId=4636&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+agps)
Seems If you have Bluetooth you also have wifi and possibly fm radio built in only lacking the drivers (no special wifi antenna is used in the omap 850 solution accoriding to TI)
It would seem that all we need is the right drivers and regsettings (so no new rom or radio rom should be needed)
Who can make it a working cab?
Woooooooooo!
Good news.
great job
if some solution, make me to buy one.
by the soft solution, strange story !no idea for none cost effective option. why do HTC designers make a 2008 PDA with no WiFi Option!
wow
wow...it might be dream come ture if it happens....please some body develop a driver for pharos Fm radio n wifi.....please buit up some regsettings......
This is a good information. Hope that we could make it work on our Pharos.
Good News... I hope who will make it soon because I don't understand about ARM work.
That is an awesome find man. I hope this info is used to get a wifi working ROM.
I thought it was some kind of cost saving to not include wifi, i.e. some missing hardware. If it's just a driver, that is the so friggen stupid! Why have such a great phone and then neuter it by taking away wifi? And the price is still just as high as the Artemis when it came out. The lack of wifi is the only thing that would keep me from buying one. Otherwise, it would be a great upgrade phone for me since I don't need nor have 3G with my service and and it has the cool flush screen that I wish my Artemis had.
someone knows if the touch dual then also could have the wifi option turned on by drivers? the touch normal has wifi, so i guess it should be possible.
anyone tried the drivers from the htc wizard? it also has a ti omap 850, so driver from such a rom could be coocked into the rom of other devices.
@VOODOOS!L
The touch dual uses the Qualcomm 7200 chipset. That chipset uses the arm926tesj as a co processor but i dont think its the full OMAP 850 chiset.
but there is a project for enabling niki wifi (started out as a project ot enabkle both wifi and gps)
@shawndh
Phone manufacterors do it all the time. Look at the Kaiser story, yes they have some great graphical chip (would be too expensive to make a different chiset with another graphical chip) so they just didnt include the drivers for it.
With some other phones like the touch HTC disabled the wifi in the radio rom... maybe some techies here could try to put an artemis radio rom in the pharos... but for none techies this would probably be an instant brick (thats why i didnt try it) tom_codon maybe you could say something about this....input would be apreciated.
Come to think of it, I remember that they had a crippled GPS radio or something in the TyTn I. The only reason I could think of for disabling wifi is so people who need wifi would buy the the Artemis. To be honest, if I had a choice btwn the two, I would get the Pharos over the Artemis if they both had wifi. Even so, it should still have wifi.
This ia a good news.
I'm waiting.
you know what... im giving up.
ive tried pm ing some guys working on the wifi on nike project, asking tomcodon. no response as yet and prolly not going to get one.
And tried to get qtopia and winlizard(gizard) working.
but in the linux world up is down, left is right, and smart is stupid. those people are (in dutch: contactgestoord) communicationally challenged. you cant find anything on their sites. there is no(or very little) documentation on how stuff works ...noone explains anything... so in order to learn linux you have to know it.
thats why m$ can afford to be so sucky: their competition sucks so much more
i said to the guys at irc #linzwizard hey thnx for the build, i can boot it too (gizard aka linwizard 0.3.0) but the touchscreen driver crashes.
he then said make a support request at sourceforge which i did (btw it isnt obvious how to .. it should be very simple. but hey... thats the linux way, isnt it) response was.. and this is a shocker.. your touchscreen driver doesnt work(.... grrreeeaat) you should disable it...(no description on how)
up for the rom with wifi for the pharos!
Thanks
Not to rain on anyone parade but from the first page from TI, it looks like to get wifi support you have to have a special chip in the phone(upper left corner) thats diferent that the chip to get wifi, so unless someone knows for sure that the WiLink chips are present, I think we are without wifi
Wait and see...
The only problem is... How long does it take to finalize such a ROM?
If it takes 1 yr, for example, I think I will have already changed to at least TouchHD..
Anyway, good news!
Hello! I have a HTC Pharos for one month. Yesterday, i accidentally have wetted phone by tea, and then i disassembled it for cleaning. Cleaning was finish sucсessfully, now phone is working
During disassembly of the device I have made some pictures. I think Wlan module is in the device. Look at the photo! Motherboard have many connectors for external antennas, and Wlan connector is on the board!
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos.jpg
thank you for the picture, its in a good resolution! but what would have made it more clear is if you would have looked for a specific Texas instruments chip with letter combinaton BRF or BL (there are 4 chips mentioned with a dual solution BL6450 BRF 6350 BRF6300 and BRF6150 last one is not good because its a bluetooth only chip) we should also be looking for TI chips with a WL designation and number 1271 1273 1251 1253
at least (BRF6300) - Bluetooth specification v2.0 + EDR single chip should be in the Pharos since we have that bluetooth spec.
in the picture i can make out the TWL3027 chip with extra designation BZQW (at least i think its that chip ... according to the ti site that would be the baseband chip but it doesnt describe on the site what the extra letters mean)http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12311&contentId=4706
[URL="http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12025&contentId=4645&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+mwlan"]http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12019&contentId=4635&DCMP=WTBU&HQS=Other+OT+bluetooth[/URL]
hope this is readable since i have a hangover
Kostyan could you post the other pics you made of the interior of the Pharos
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thank you for the picture, its in a good resolution! but what would have made it more clear is if you would have looked for a specific Texas instruments chip with letter combinaton BRF or BL (there are 4 chips mentioned with a dual solution BL6450 BRF 6350 BRF6300 and BRF6150 last one is not good because its a bluetooth only chip) we should also be looking for TI chips with a WL designation and number 1271 1273 1251 1253
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Maybe this iron box is Wlan module?
http://flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos2.jpg
I may open this box, if it is requires for this research
And on this picture, front side of device it is found Wlan antenna? (if overwind board, supposed Wlan module with connector correspond (matched) to on position with Wlan antenna, and it connected with module)
http://flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos3.jpg
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Kostyan could you post the other pics you made of the interior of the Pharos
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Of course, there is all photos:
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos2.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos3.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos4.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos5.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos6.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos7.jpg
http://www.flash-remont.narod.ru/pharos/pharos8.jpg
Hi everyone! I wanna congratulate you xda developers for your excelente work in this world of the PDA. Sorry if my english is not right in some cases, in from Venezuela and it is hard to practice english with other thing that isn't the directv or movies
I buy a Hermes sometime ago and everything was ok, but last week the bluetooth stop working, it wasn't go on. Y some cases said Bluetooth Hardware Error. That scare me out. I can said that I take care of my phone like it was my child.. and sometimes better than my child it is sad but true.
I want to know if there is something I can do because that device have no guarantee here in my country and for politic reasons I can't easily send this device to USA for technical asistance.. so, I have to do it myself.
I have seen this links:
- http://www.pdacenter.ru/razborka/razbor_hermes/
- http://inuchanbt.blog54.fc2.com/blog-entry-100.html
But I don't know exactly where is the bluetooth antenna on the hermes so a have not open it because I will be driving blind.. For and start, can anyone tell me exactly were is the bluetooth antenna on the hermes??
I apreciate your help, and I hope that the bluetooth isn't bad, I think that find a new bluetooth antenna for this device is like try to find a PENTIUM MMX new and unboxed!
Thanks for your help!
Hi
HP RW6828 shows full reception, however, people cannot call me. "The mobile phone you are calling is switched off. Please call again later." There is just something wrong with my HP rw6828.
also i cannot call any one its showing Call ended withing few seconds.
i try to install latest firmware but still no luck. if i remove the battery and fix after 5 minutes then it work and its again after 2 minutes happen. i thing probably its a hardware fault.
Anyone got this problem?
I need to find out this problem and need to repair it. still it show full signal.
Please if anyone got the same problem? and how do you solve it?
I do Soft Reset,Hard Reset,install latest firmware change the sim card with other provider. profile in Normal general mode(not in flight mode)
Problem Solved
Hi Guys.
I found the problem and repaired. problem on Skywork SKY74045-21 RF IC (RF Subsystem for GSM, GPRS)
and i found this Rf ic on Water damaged old O2 Atom Pcb i just remove RF Ic from Atom PCB and fix to My HP now phone is working perfectly.
Here is the picture of ic and PCB.
I dont know how to attach Pics here so here is the link http://i40.tinypic.com/icnzv4.jpg
Thank you.
pmmali said:
Hi Guys.
I found the problem and repaired. problem on Skywork SKY74045-21 RF IC (RF Subsystem for GSM, GPRS)
and i found this Rf ic on Water damaged old O2 Atom Pcb i just remove RF Ic from Atom PCB and fix to My HP now phone is working perfectly.
Here is the picture of ic and PCB.
I dont know how to attach Pics here so here is the link http://i40.tinypic.com/icnzv4.jpg
Thank you.
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I saw your pic.Which one is the RAM? im curious..just asking if you dont mind.. i see you pretty good on hardware tho.did you replaced it by you self?
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I saw your pic.Which one is the RAM? im curious..just asking if you dont mind.. i see you pretty good on hardware tho.did you replaced it by you self?
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ITS A RAM?
what are you talking? Here is the DATA sheet of SKY7405-21
http://www.skyworksinc.com/uploads/documents/103152H.pdf
ITS not RAM its a RF IC.
Yes i have replaced it my self.
and everyday i REmove-Rebole and replace Flash/Ram CPU ics for Nokia BB5 samsung and and other Brands. coz iam a Hardware Technician
if my 3g not working but gsm are working,is it this IC that bring the problem?
pmmali said:
ITS A RAM?
what are you talking? Here is the DATA sheet of SKY7405-21
http://www.skyworksinc.com/uploads/documents/103152H.pdf
ITS not RAM its a RF IC.
Yes i have replaced it my self.
and everyday i REmove-Rebole and replace Flash/Ram CPU ics for Nokia BB5 samsung and and other Brands. coz iam a Hardware Technician
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yes mate i know its the RF FC.im a hardware technician also perhaps you can show me which one is the ram.probly i can try to upgrade my ram by myself. btw did you try to repaced any atom ram? it should be good if we can upgrade the ram to 128mb or 256mb tho.
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if my 3g not working but gsm are working,is it this IC that bring the problem?
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For you Most propebly Antenna switch if it fail then same RF ic
@Redtabs
RAM IC on ATOM is Spansion S71PL032J its Located near the CPU (CPU Analog Device AD6532AXBCZ)
and iam very new to Windows phones still i dont play too much with any windows phones.and i dont thing atom phones ram can be upgrade coz there are no any extra pin connection to upgrade or swap different rams.
Regards,
pmmali said:
For you Most propebly Antenna switch if it fail then same RF ic
@Redtabs
RAM IC on ATOM is Spansion S71PL032J its Located near the CPU (CPU Analog Device AD6532AXBCZ)
and iam very new to Windows phones still i dont play too much with any windows phones.and i dont thing atom phones ram can be upgrade coz there are no any extra pin connection to upgrade or swap different rams.
Regards,
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thanks man,i can see where the ram is.i agree with that.and also there's no extra pin slot on the board.very disappointed. actuly i own an atom life.i been thinking probly i can swap the CPU to other phone that got bigger RAM.coz the pin got the same number.very wasted 624mhz proccessor comes with 64mb RAM.what do you think?
Hi folks,
The USB connector on my Universal (an O2 XDA Exec) came loose a few weeks ago, so it's basically useless to me. I managed to get some charge into it by very carefully positioning it with tweezers so that it rests on the PCB correctly, but that's too much hassle for daily use. With the charge available, I did a factory reset to clear the onboard memory.
Other than that, and the main camera not working, everything is fine; the ROM is upgraded to WM6 thanks to the good folks here.
If somebody in the UK wants it for spares or whatever, just let me know - no fee, but something to cover postage would be appreciated, or I'm based near Staines if you want to meet up to get it. Please reply to this thread, so that everybody knows when it's taken.
Cheers,
Darren
Hi Darren,
I'd appreciate it, if it's still available please. I'll PM you
Is it still available? I'd really could use a screen!
Thanks!
Hi Darren
I would very interested in the Uni if is still available as mine needs a few bits and pieces after a dodgy recasing effort by a so called expert. I live in the UK and will gladly cover your postage.
If still available please PM
Hi folks,
Sorry for the late response. My XDA Developers account profile had an old email address, so I didn't get notified of your replies.
As the first person to reply, xiasma gets the phone.
Cheers,
Darren