Hi,
I have an XDA1 and want to get an XDA2.
However, we aren't allowed cameras on site at work, and despite a long email conversation with the security jobs-worth where I volunteer to super glue a metal plate over the lens and the likes, I'm not allowed to bring an XDA2 to work :x .
So, does anyone know how difficult it would be to open up an XDA2, unsolder and completely remove the camera?
Thanks in advance,
Muddy.
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I have an XDA2 which works perfectly except the back light does not work. I dropped it in water. everything has returned ok except the backlight. the software is ok but I think that the bulb or what ever lights is broken. Any one know how to open up the XDA2 and if so how do I get the particular item?
It is quite easy to open the xda 2. You need a number 6 torx screwdriver and a small crosshead jewellers screwdriver. One of the screws is under the sticker bottom left of xda2. The top black plastic cover can be popped off. Once the screws are out you will need to get a thumbnail or similar and run it around the seam which will pop the plastic catches. If you remove the motherboard be very careful when releasing the flat connecter that links the screen to the motherboard. I dont know if the light is seperate from the board but once you have it open it would be a good idea to look at all chips and solder under a loupe or magnifying glass to see if there is any residue bridging pins and gently scrape away.
Try only to keep pressed the power switch...
Bye, M..
xda backlight dead
M
Thanks for the information. Have tried holding the on/off switch down many times.
Passing Thru
Thank you for the information on opening. Will let you know how I get on. Have one more avenue to try first.
Regards
Ross01
If you ever decide to open your device, don't hessitate to visit this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=8525&highlight=open+mda2
I managed to successfully fix my speaker probelm. But the pictures will guide you on the on the open/close procedure. :wink:
Good luck and make sure you document your procedure in pictures!
Best regards,
Rayan
I took the back off my vario to fix the loose stylus problem, on reassembling I could not find a place for the attached piece! Anyone have any ideas
If I had to guess, it goes at the bottom of the stylus hole -- it looks like the piece that retains the stylus in the hole.
Thanks 3waygeek, looks a fit to me, I wondered if the clip had to make a connection somewhere. Working okay anyway, cheers m8.
Just pulled my Wizard apart to do the silicon solution to the loose stylus. Even though I was extra careful to make sure that nothing loose fell out, I found the same part stuck to the side of the speaker (magnet). I can't for the life of me see where it can go. It is designed to make contact with some part somewhere in fact it reminds me of an earth strap of some kind. I can't see how it can go anywhere near the base of the stylus. Any suggestions???
Hi,
The speaker on the outside of my universal (the onw you hold against your ear with when the screen is on the inside) is broken.
That started as something like a bad contact (if I pressed the phone against my ear it would work, otherwise not). Now it is not working at all.
The speaker on the LCD side is working fine.
The advice I want:
I took a look at the service manual PDF I got and disassembling the phone to reach that speaker is a lot of work. I do have experience with diassembling electronic devices and even do some soldering, etc. However, my doubt is this: I have a phone which does work, but the way I like to use it to make calls does not work.
Question 1
Is it worth the trouble to diasassemble the whole device just to check if it is indeed a bad contact due to i.e. dirt? Or will I actually risk breaking something off, which will render the complete phone useless? Looking at the service manual, one needs to use a plastic tool to actually open the phone. How easy do the hinges break off?
Question 2
Has anyone had a similar problem? Was it easy to fix?
Thank you!
Cheers,
vma
you dont need to disassemble the whole phone just disassemble the screen . It isnt that hard to do, just remove all the screws from the screen . The screen casing is difficult to budge at first but once you have freed part of it open, the rest follows quite easily.
Hi,
Meanwhile I couldn't resist and opened it...
...and I found the guilty part.
It seems that the outside speaker is actually attached to the case and uses a contact connection to the PCB. This connection is made by to metal plates, which are tiny and folded. They will compensate the varying pressure made on the case (i.e. when you press it) and I guess with time they tend to break at the fold.
This happend to one of the two contacts. First I tried to fix it, but the truth is that it is so small that it is quite impossible to do anything about it. I considered soldering a small wire, but that would require to solder the other end to the pin on the PCB, which then would mean, I could no longer use a regular replacement speaker, if this one had any other fault (unless I could clean the contact again, but trying that, I could break something else, also).
This means: now I am not able to use the outside speaker anymore...
Question: where can I purchase a replacement one? Would anyone sell me one from a broken Universal (for a symbolic price - anything over 10 Euro is too much, as I would prefer to just buy a another second hand Universal)?
And as I was figuring this out, I used the occation to fix that loose stylus!
1) Open the underside case (4 screws, then open the case all around with some thin plastic).
2) Roll a little bit of celotape and place it between the case and the pin that fixes the stylus in position.
3) Try it out until it is OK.
4) Close the case and that's it!
Cheers,
vma
Hi buddy, in fact I did have the same problem that you're having some months ago, my uni fell and since then the problem just got worst, until some day a couple months ago I opened it and fix it.
It's just like you say, the little golden plated contacts wore off, then the little speaker's metal plates just were too high to make any contact against the pcb, it's really simple, just pull the plates gently away from the little speaker, do clean both sides of the contacts (pcb and speaker's plates), i did this with a little xacto knife (be very gentle), and that's it! It worked just fine.
The problem is that in my case one of the metal plates broke off.
I tried to fix that, but it is to small for me to achive anything.
Cheers,
vma
Hi
i would like to buy the Touch HD but at my company no camera are allowed
Is there a way to disable / remove the camera
Today I have QTEK S200 and I disabled the camera in SW but I think security now would not like this solution
Thank's for any help
Moti
Deleting the photo software should do it, but I don't know the security policy of your company. You should ask them for a solution.
Also need to disable the camera
I also need to disable the camera since it is not allowed at my work place. What should I do??
Thank you,
shilera
Easiest solution would be to remove the "Photo and Videos" tab from the manilla then put some gaffer tape over the back or get those covers that will cover the back entirely.
Dont they allow putting black tape under the back cover, and then over the cover aswell, or use a silicone case without pinhole for the camera. This way you would have to remove the back cover in order to remove the tape. So no direct photo taking. You could try to find a way to deinstall the photo app aswell. Just trying to remove some folder or registry keys should do the trick (try this when you havent fully configured your phone yet, so if something goes wrong you can hard reset).
This phone has two cameras, so if you are going to cover it with something, do the same with the VGA camera on the front.
mmmm
Most secure sites around the world have a no camrea policy , this does not mean how ever the fact that any device taht can take photo's would be removed, other wise all phone scine .. well scince phones's had camreas would not be alllowed in the building, go to an MD and remove his Blackberry.. see what happends!!...
The rule means dont take photo's.... so dont.
it is possible to tell me, how to disable the 2 cameras in the HD?
Is there any way to disable/lock the camera button on HTC S710 with AllKeys(true). I tried it but it disables all keys without the camera button and function keys on qwerty keyboard.
Please let me know
It's like carrying a GUN in some places.. loaded or otherwise immaterial. ANd such places allow only devices with camera physically removed. In case of HD provided you void warranty main camera is a separate broad I guess. But front camera can still be a problem.
I'm hoping somebody with some knowledge of the HD2's innards can help me...
My vibration stopped working on my HD2. I found the plastic LED flash cover to be 'pushed in' (with the help of a couple xda threads I dug up). Others said it was an easy fix: Open the case and push that piece of plastic back into place.
I opened up the case to correct it. But after putting it back together not only does vibrate not work, but the volume keys, speakers (both earpiece and speakerphone), flash, notification led, and camera all don't work.
I obviously screwed something up, but I have no clue what it could have been. I was very careful. One thing I'll note is that when I pulled the case apart, the plastic volume rocker went flying. When putting the phone back together I got it back into place so that I THOUGHT it should work (it was seated properly and felt "clicky" for up/down movements.
But clearly wasn't just the volume rocker that was affected. It doesn't seem that I pulled anything else loose or anything like that...
But no luck, all that I listed above is non functional, and what I'm left with is a glorified 3.5 in tablet
Any ideas?? Thanks in advance!!!
Snapped a couple quick pics which may help:
http://i50.tinypic.com/mmsa36.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/sl1kdx.jpg
Unfortunately when comparing these to other pictures of the inside of the HD2 that I found online, I fail to see any differences, or anything I could have inadvertently screwed up.
Most likely you screwed up(or disconnected from motherboard) somehow your main flexboard, but your picture are not usable for this, you should take off your motherboard+main flexboard from chassis to have a full view!
You probobly just disconnected a small cable. I have no idea of the HD2 innards but did multiple repairs of small stuffs and the flat cables hold in place by a plastic clicker pull out easily - just reopen and check them all, you should be fine.
Thanks for the input! I figured it's something like that, just one small cable. But I didn't even take off the board at all... The pictures show the full extent of the disassembly... Do we still think it's necessary to disassemble it further?
I checked all visible connections, but yeah, maybe I somehow yanked out something that is NOT visible. I'll try to check again today... In the meantime, any more ideas from anyone else? Thanks!
For al that to be not responding I would assume main-flex damaged or as mention before maybe connection to mainboard got moved during pulling cover !
Volume button can be troublesome, sometimes the little plastic caps come off but if it felt clicky should be good in that respect.
also be very carefull of thin spring metal legs that contact antenna pads on back cover, one near screw above & right of vibro motor looks a to be a bit flat. They bend easily & break easily too ...
Have u tried starting up the phone without the backing? I had this issue when I painted my housing the led cover was stopping the motor from spinning but if i took out the backing it works. So I just trimmed the led cover and now it works.
Mister B said:
For al that to be not responding I would assume main-flex damaged or as mention before maybe connection to mainboard got moved during pulling cover !
Volume button can be troublesome, sometimes the little plastic caps come off but if it felt clicky should be good in that respect.
also be very carefull of thin spring metal legs that contact antenna pads on back cover, one near screw above & right of vibro motor looks a to be a bit flat. They bend easily & break easily too ...
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I'm nooby with regard to this stuff; I only attempted the repair since I read in a couple other threads about multiple self-proclaimed non-super-tech savvy people were able to open it up and move the plastic LED cover for an easy fix.
So what exactly am I looking for with regard to the main-flex? Where is it? I thought I wouldn't really see that unless I removed the board which I haven't done... is it still possible I knocked it loose or damaged it? I didn't think that would be possible since I ONLY removed the back cover (though it does take a slightly uncomfortable amount of force to do so, so I guess anything can happen...).
If not the main flex cable, is there anything else specific to look at which may be disconnected? It seems to be all the stuff at the top of the phone that fails to work (camera, speakers, vibration, flash, volume keys). While the stuff on the bottom (other hardware buttons, charging jack, headphone jack, etc).
THanks!
I have given up. After being stumped briefly how to hard reset the device without the volume keys working (I have Android installed), I was able to do it via ADB from the Android dev kit.
To ebay I go...