Hello Wizard Owners,
Last night, while plugging my Cingular HTC 8125 into my charger, I pushed a little too hard, and had the mini-usb held at a bad angle. The furthest left and furthest right charging pins bent and are now broken off inside the phone. The broken off bits have since been lost, and now when I plug in the mini-usb charger--my phone will not charge. Is there anything I can do to replace the charging pins or modify the phone so it will charge properly? Or do I have a nice expensive paperweight now? Thanks for your help in advance.
There is a thread in my siggy discussing this issue. I'd suggest reading through it and see if any of it can help. Beyond that, see if there is someone locally who can fix it. I paid $50 here in Fresno for my usb port to be repaired.
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My phone accidentally fell on the carpet from my desk while it was charging and the charging socket broke and now is loosely stuck inside the charging hole. USB as well as charging aren't functioning. I was about to open it up with the help of the wizard disassembling manual but I don't know what I need to do afterwards. I know I will be sautering but will it be just that simple or will I have to be careful how and what I sauter? Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated! I would contact T-Mobile but my warranty has already expired.
Well, the USB port falling out/in is pretty common problem that is covered under warranty (as long as you haven't "dropped" the device).
Post warranty replacement is $100, still a pretty good deal. If you clobber the device when you take it apart, I suspect you may be out of luck on the $100 out of warranty replacement.
I suggest Pocketpc Techs..costs 60 dollars to fix it. If not then just get a seperate battery charger and bluetooth usb to sync. Goodluck!
Thanks
Thanks everyone for getting back to me. Ever since the MDA broke, life has been a mess. Schedules are all messed up and I forget my appointments, hence the late reply to your comments. Clems, you said there is an external battery charger that can be purchased? Where can I find this charger? I will look up the procedures for sync the MDA with bluetooth.
Even if you decide to just use an external charger and bluetooth sync, you should try to remove that loose usb plug. If its rattling around in there loose, who knows what components or solder pads it might touch and short out. You might endup totally killing your phone
Hey all, i just recently bought this lovely phone from a friend of mine. I've been messing around with it for the past several days (Upgrading to WM6 and installing APPS, and even messing with the internet(tzone)). Anyways when if first got it everything seemed to be running fine and when i plugged it into the usb port for activesync, it worked. However the past day i tried to recharge my phone through the charger and later the car charger and it would not stay "connected." Like the little charge icon would come on and off. Me being the dumb person i am, tried to bend the plastic piece in the middle of the usb seeing if that would help make the connection better. While doing so i broke the plastic part and now it won't charge/snyc at all any more. Anyways, i figured i try to open up the phone see if i could maybe glue the piece back on. After opening it up though i see that i could maybe replace the whole conector ( with a lil soldering). i was thinking maybe buying some cheap electronic that had the same connector and replacing my wizard's connector with it. What are your thoughts on this? Could it work? I'm not an expert when it comes to soldering, but i do have some experience.
I've search the forum first before I posted this message, but no post that gives me the slightest answer to this problem
I lend out my tmo Wing to my gf because her phone broke and I had G1 for awhile already. Apparently it's too much to handle for her so I bought her a cheap nokia prepaid in order to get my wing back.
I'm trying to back up her pics and ringtones from the phone, but I noticed it won't charge. The amber light won't turn. I double check again and I noticed the miniUSB port is super loose. I tried wiggling it, putting the cable halfway, taking out the battery, etc. Nothing work.
What should I do? Does anyone have experience this problem before?
Check the contacts on the female usb port. If they are corroded, which could be the case if not properly cared for, try searching Google for a way to clean them.
The contacts could be skewed at an angle, like my old Kaiser. I used a pair of tweezers to manually move the contacts back to their original position.
Try switching to another USB cable. My phones will only charge with a cable that has a very heavy-duty end on it. Normal USB cables won't cut it, I had to use one that came with a removable hard drive.
That's all I have for now. Hope it helps!
My port is screwed too. I got this charger off of ebay and love it.
cgi.ebay.com/Battery-Charger-for-T-Mobile-MDA-Vario-III-HTC-TyTN-II_W0QQitemZ350298289224QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBatteries_Chargers?hash=item518f67b448
I have two batteries, so one is always charged. I like it so much more than a traditional charger. HTH
Hello there,
I was charging my Qtek normally with it's original charger. My sister umplugged it a couple of times to charge up her notebook.
My Qtek won't charge anymore. It's working fine. It turns on, I can use it normally. But It won't charge.
My guess is that something happend to the mini usb plug or circuit, because it won't charge with it's charger, neither with USB cable plugged in the computer. And it can't communicate with the computer trought the cable too. Bluettoh works fine with Actve sync.
Someone have any clue about what happened?
Same thing happens to me today...
I'll show in the Qtek...
But I think that "usb plug" is "unplugged" from motherboard...
Visualy no problem with my usb plug... Welds are well...
So, the problem is IN the USB PLUG ????
I have found some on Ebay :
____://cgi.ebay.fr/5X-USB-Charge-Port-Plug-HTC-Pilot-Universal-Wizard-/400125580417?cmd=ViewItem&hash=item5d2957d481#ht_2473wt_1137
Is there some doc about ?
Thanks,
I Haven't opened it yet. I'm travelling, and I don't have the proper tools. But tomorrow I'll be back home and I can say if something physical happened.
So rocksull ? USB Plug is dead ?
I bought the connector and and external charger too (5$) with a battery (6$) on EBAY...
But usb plug is sent from USA, so I'll receive it in two weeks...
Bye,
Well.
I opened up my Qtek. The welds were messed up (Cold Solder). I'm just waiting a friend that has a soldering station to see if we can re-solder the plug. I'll post results soon.
Hello Rocksull,
So, It's good for you ?
I tried soldering USB plug, but welds are too small...
So actually I'm using an external battery charger... ((((((
Bye,
I was able to solder the plug back, because I work with that.
It charged again, but the battery didn't last 1 minute. I opened again and saw that the circuit is also messed up. There's one or two transistors burnt, a little capacitor.
Anyway... I gave up. I was about to buy a new cell phone anyway, and I can use the other componentes (LCD screen, camera, etc) to build some projects. =D.
I was able to solder woth a hot air soldering station (I don't know of that's the name) and some liquid weld. We have this stuff because we work with SMD components.
Just plugged my good old LG G2 D802 32GB to charger that I always used with cable that I always use... and it's not charging.
Unplugged after about a minute and well.. there is that toasted electronic smell from the bottom of the phone...
Phone still works but it has just 10% battery charge so i have switched it off for time being...
Anybody had the same issue? is charging board separate on this phone and just attached to mainboard with ribbon cables? any clues whether swap of charging board from another LG G2 would work? i could probably source phone with broken screen from ebay to use parts... if that makes any sense at all...
if no hope... then maybe it's time I should get myself Q6 or G6 for Xmas... though... till now G2 was doing everything i needed...
The G2 has a separate Micro USB daughter board, yes. It has the big ribbon cables included. But I think most of the charging circuit is on the mainboard.
Does it still connect to a computer, even when not charging? I think the VRMs for power delivery could be indeed on the daughter board.
You can get it quite cheap on ebay, for example here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/LG-G2-D802...k-Connector-Flex-Ribbon-OEM-Part/171315113072
If it smelled burned, maybe you can detect a burned trace/resistor/transistor on the board, if its on the daughter board, there is a very good chance it will work again after you fixed that
Thanks for the info.
I get "Power surge on USB port" message in Windows when I try to connect it to PC and fried electronic smell immediately returns.
I will try to disassemble phone this weekend and see if there is any obvious damage and where is it located.