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Please Help - I've got a huge XDA Problem - It's urgent

Hello,
i have a huge prblem with my XDA Mini. The phone has a loose connection that means I cant hear the person, i am calling. When I'm hitting the XDA Mini it works sometimes but not for very long.
I took a small peace of paper and jamed it between SD-Card. This works!?! But its not the real solution for my problem. I bought the XDA over the internet, and thats why i want to wait as long as possible before sending the device to the technical support, because this can take weeks!!
Is there any way to open the XDA to get to the headphone so that i can fix this small issue??? I want do this without leaving a scratch on my PPC because i dont want to loose the warenty!
Please help me!! Thank you in advance!
I posted this in the "upgrading etc." part of the forum, please delete the post in that area, because it doesnt fit. Here is the right place , i guess / hope!
MFG Jack Bauer

i hope it to becouse i even don`t hear sound. But im not sure if thats a software thing or such as you...
* edit: Handsfree speaker is working fine btw

How to open your magician
Take a look in the thread: Bad sound quality at http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=18384&highlight=nokia+speaker+magician
Probably some things in it that can help you.
Cheers, M

Hermes mic not working

Hi
A friend gave me a hermes to upgrade to wm6 hoping that the microphone would work again after the upgrade. Nothing happened, so I think the mic is broken. Are there any chances to change the faulty part by myself and where can I get spare parts?
best regards

E-Quake said:
Hi
A friend gave me a hermes to upgrade to wm6 hoping that the microphone would work again after the upgrade. Nothing happened, so I think the mic is broken. Are there any chances to change the faulty part by myself
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On the Wiki you will find the disassembly guide, but changing the mic will require soldering skills
E-Quake said:
and where can I get spare parts?
best regards
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Try looking on ebay for a repair/parts phone. Even in this forum I've seen parts for sale.

hermes mic not working
ooops sorry after a bit of testing I noticed that the mic is working: it is recording but not loud enough ... I have to almost scream to make it hearable in the speaker
I already tried to copy/make a shortcut of setacusticparam in the startup menu but nothing changed and I have half a dozen setacusticparam files in my windows directory which I cannot delete... any other ideas ?
best regards

E-Quake said:
ooops sorry after a bit of testing I noticed that the mic is working: it is recording but not loud enough ... I have to almost scream to make it hearable in the speaker
I already tried to copy/make a shortcut of setacusticparam in the startup menu but nothing changed and I have half a dozen setacusticparam files in my windows directory which I cannot delete... any other ideas ?
best regards
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Anyone have any fix for this? I suddenly encountered this.

fuzzvirus said:
Anyone have any fix for this? I suddenly encountered this.
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Hi,
New Member.
Have the same problem.
FussVirus or any Seniors out there, is there a fix ?
Please PM me
Many thanks in advance

No sound from earpiece during calls - only via speaker

I seem to have a problem with my HTC Touch (ELF)
I recently upgraded to another phone (diamond) and was giving my Touch to my brother.
After leaving it unused for a couple of weeks, I got round to flashing a new rom onto the phone (Blue Elves 5)
I gave the phone to my brother (without testing anything I didn't have time).
He then told me that there is a problem with the sound - nothing is heard at all via the earpiece during calls, however it works fine from the external loudspeaker.
I guessed that it may be that the rom didn't install properly so I talked him through a hard reset - no joy. Still no sound.
I have today installed another ROM - PDAVIET - latest version, and flashed the radio to the latest version. The problem is still there.
My brother insists that he has not dropped / knocked the phone at all, and I don't doubt him. I am however at a complete loss as to why all of a sudden there is no sound from the earpiece. I have used the phone for a year, with various different ROMs and never had any loss of or distorted sound from the earpiece.
Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem may be? How can I fix this?
Any help very much appreciated!
(Also - yes - the volume is turned up)

I think you better read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2273492#post2273492
let me no how you get on

thanks but this doesn't help as my warranty and contract are ended. any other ideas welcome.
thanks.

Could this be a problem with the registry? would flashing ROMs fix the registry? Is there a registry setting for disabling the speaker?

I have the exact same problem. Let me know if you find a solution please !

I think you guys need this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPEAKER-EARPI...39:1|66:2|65:12|240:1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
good luck!!

I have the same problem, but I did prefer to use the speaker anyway. So now I use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369399
Works fine on the Elf!
Bernard

Thank you 'thedaddy'.
You were right. I disassembled the phone and found that one of the copper connections of the earpiece speaker had broken. Bought a replacement from eBay which fixed the problem.
Thank you.
Chris.

xxxxchrisxxxx said:
Thank you 'thedaddy'.
You were right. I disassembled the phone and found that one of the copper connections of the earpiece speaker had broken. Bought a replacement from eBay which fixed the problem.
Thank you.
Chris.
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My pleasure mate glad you got ur baby working again,
and its 'thedaddyy'.......

I had the exact same problem
I had to buy an earpeace speaker for my touch on ebay for about US$15.
Look it up on ebay, and they are really easy to replace.
Look for the hong kong guys that ship it with the tools to get the job done.
Good Luck.

Please help, white screen issue!!

Hi all,
I'm real frustrated at the moment with my i-mate jasjam branded hermes 100.
It started a couple of days ago when my screen would get all glitchy. I ignored it. Then i got it whenever i put pressure on certain parts of the casing and now from that it manifested and it does it whenever i hold it in a certain position etc... It's really starting to tick me off... 1300 dollars for this? has anybody experienced this issue? ive heard it's a hardware problem... im running shamanx windows mobile 6 ultimate rom...
I need my phone to keep in contact with some real important people.. any ideas?

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howcome some other dude with a similar problem got replys instantly?? he didn't even use tags can anybody pleeasse help me???

Gr33kJag said:
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howcome some other dude with a similar problem got replys instantly?? he didn't even use tags can anybody pleeasse help me???
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He may have been lucky. Here we re-use threads and there have been quite a few on the white screen problem.
Here's one of the main ones - I suggest you look at the suggestions about placing a pad on the D-Pad chip:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321163
Mike

Ohk
ohk sorry but the buttons do work perfectly fine it's only the screen... also the usb port is loose so whenever i need to charge i need to push it in a particular way so i just place it on its face upside down to charge and i use an ftp program to get files off of it insstead of usb >-< it was a really nice phone till it started doing this and cbf sending for repairs il just buy a new phone when i get the money and yeah if i decide i might try something that requires opening it up but i just cbf

Gr33kJag said:
ohk sorry but the buttons do work perfectly fine it's only the screen... also the usb port is loose so whenever i need to charge i need to push it in a particular way so i just place it on its face upside down to charge and i use an ftp program to get files off of it insstead of usb >-< it was a really nice phone till it started doing this and cbf sending for repairs il just buy a new phone when i get the money and yeah if i decide i might try something that requires opening it up but i just cbf
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Well, the reason to pad the D-pad chip is because the d-pad circuit board is the one that the screen connector connects to and the chip is the one that processes the screen signals. So although your buttons work fine, it is still that board that causes the screen whitening.
The usb port sounds like the anchoring solder joints may be cracked. These can normally be resoldered.
Mike

Hi Gr33kJag,
Try to perform the solution provided by mikechannon only if u can assemble and de assebmle ur pda very accurately, because the pros and cons of that method are describle in that page.
This solution worked for me at least and i am very much thankful to mike for giving me solution to that problem.

[Q] My Uni's dieing..........

Hello all, I listen to a lot of music at work using my XDA EXEC not a good idea on a fork lift as the uni gets knocked around a bit! Anyway the headphone socket has broken off the circuit board so now I have no sound and can no longer make calls and I'm getting cheesed off with looking at it to see if the amber light is flashing?
I have another XDA EXEC which is like new, I bought it off Ebay some time ago hoping it was the screen and battery that was dodgy but it was blocked so as good as dead!
So what I want to do now is take what ever I need to take off the motherboard from the uni that I currently use with no headphone socket and replace it with the blocked uni so I can make calls and have sound!!
But I don't know what I need to take off or what it looks like?
The reason I want to do this, is because my uni I use has had a hard life and the motherboard is a little brittle and I'm loosing buttons!
If anyone can help me out here so I can carry on using the old girl!!
Cheers..

Have a look on my sig link, there is the service manual on hot to dismantle the Uni
Good luck!

orb3000 said:
Have a look on my sig link, there is the service manual on hot to dismantle the Uni
Good luck!
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Hello Orb, I have this PDF manual which I have used many times but what I want to know is what parts on the motherboard do I need to remove so I can get a radio signal from my spare uni as its blocked/Blacklisted. I presume its a chip of some sort? Where is it and what does it look like?? I can then make a good uni out of the two of them!

Oh! I get it, perhaps you can ask enigma1 as she is an expert on this matters
Haven´t seen her in long time
Good luck!

orb3000 said:
Oh! I get it, perhaps you can ask enigma1 as she is an expert on this matters
Haven´t seen her in long time
Good luck!
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Yes I remember enigma1 she was a very handy chick! I think she was around a few months ago?

Yep, try PM her, hope you fins your way soon!

Have you tried contacting your operator? I accidentally bought a blocked HTC from eBay, and after contacting Orange to see what was going on, they unblocked it with no fuss.

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Have you tried contacting your operator? I accidentally bought a blocked HTC from eBay, and after contacting Orange to see what was going on, they unblocked it with no fuss.
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Hello Jonny, Yeah I contacted O2 and they wasn't very happy that I had a blacklisted phone! I told them I bought it off Ebay but they had no intention of unblocking it for me so I didn't stay on the line long!

orb3000 said:
Yep, try PM her, hope you fins your way soon!
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I will do just that! Will need to search for her first I presume?

Here you can contact her
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=519072

orb3000 said:
Here you can contact her
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=519072
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Cheers for that Orb saves me a lot of time looking! I will PM her when I have a bit more time on my hands!

NP
Let us know how all goes and good luck!

Right have have sent a message and received a reply so I am going to copy and paste it here, Hope she doesn't mind!?
Hi, I had a quick read through the problem you have. I am not sure how the broken off earphone socket affects the main speakers or internal speaker altogether, there has to be some other underlying problem to stop the sound all at once.
Unfortunately, the only suggestion I can make involves soldering of the broken off socket/replacement of one with another socket. The entire board of the new Uni you purchased is of no use to you due to being blocked, however, I had some evidence that being blocked on one network will not necessarily mean being blocked on all, therefore you can always try it with another network's SIM. Of course you can take both apart and swap housing and LCD to make it into 1 device, the suggestion Orb3000 made is a sound one with regards to seeing the disassembly procedure, alternatively there is a HTC Universal Service Manual floating on the net that you can search for and download, it is very detailed and will lead you every step of the way.
ALTERNATIVELY, you can always try using your semi-broken Uni with bluetooth headset to make calls and listen to the music.... Even with mono bluetooth headset and Pocket Player you can do anything you want, from calls to MP3s and Voice Command - Pocket Player has an option of sending your music over the bluetooth.
My uni seems to have the sound back so hopefully it will stay on!

Glad to know that
Long live to Uni!!!!