hey guys, just took apart my wing following a tutorial so I can try and fix my unresponsive LCD (maybe the ribbon was loose) but stopped after separating the screen from the pcboard. I was just wondering if there are anything hazardous in the phone, like mercury or anything like that.
there is some lead. As much as you may want to, don't lick it!!!
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Hi,
As my wizard dropped in the water it got completely soaked.
I disassembled it to let it dry, see photos attached, put it together again and presto, almost everything works!!!
Just four keys of the keyboard do not work anymore, and as it all happened a week ago now I do not think this will be fixed.
Does anyone know if they do not work because of the water or because of the impact (the Wizard smashed on the street first)?
Has anybody ever fixed a faulty keypad?
Can anybody tell me where I can get a replacement keypad?
Let me know if you need instructions how to disassemble your wizard.
many thanks!
manhattan.
I have no answer to your question, but it is nice to see the inside of the wizard one time.
A couple of other people were asking about disassembly in other posts - so the instructions would probably be handy.
Hi,
I would love some complete instructions on dissasembly as I am about to take mine apart for painting and a hardware mod.
As far as the keyboard goes, you would be surpised how long they retain water, i doubt its a hardware problem, keyboard are pretty much solid state with only a tiny membrane for contacts. However it is this membrane that is most likely to be your problem, the contacts are very close together and covered in a film that can be verry attractive to water as it has rubber over it. So in essence I am saying I bet it is still wet in there, just a few droplets of condensation would do it.
Options, take it a apart and check and leave in a very warm dry place for a day, or II place whole wizard on a warm heater (not hot) for a while and see if that gets it.
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Hi,
I also want to know the details of disassembly the wizard.
I think you had better post the instructions o disassembly here as I'm sure there are quite a few people who wuld like to know, me included.
Just a thought by looking at the picture (brave btw!)
Would it be possible to replace the 2,5mm headphone jack by an 3,5mm one and drill out a new hole for the larger connector?
Would be neat if you weren't so dependable on those stupid converters. Not a pretty sight anyway.
Thanks for sharing the photos.
I took mine apart some time ago to fix the stylist problem and when I put it back together some of the keys wouldnt work. The back light wouldnt work either. I found the problem was the little snap that secures the flat cable form the keyboard to the main board. There is a really small clasp that clicks down on the flat cable after you insert it into the connector. Once I took it back apart and snapped it, everything was normal again.
I plan on taking mine apart to change the keyboard form the English/arabic to just English, (anyone know where I can buy the keyboard/keys?) so any instructions you have will be appreciated.
Thanks
The stylii in the picture look like BA stylii.
Do I get 10 points?
will post instructions
OK guys I will put together the instructions and upload them here. I just have absolutely no time now so I hope you can wait a day or two....
Thanks for the comments. I am aware of the little lock that secures the mini flatcable that connects the keypad to the motherboard. I assume that is not the problem as I snapped it securely back in place.
I will try the heater suggestion, I suppose you mean to put the wizard in an oven set at let's say 50 degrees celsius?
The styluses in the photo are from my Qtek 2020. As the Wizard smashed I lost its stylus.... :-(
Sorry the photos do not show the display half of the wizard disassembled... I realised too late that others would benefit from pictures...
Cheers
Manhattan
I dont think I would put it in an oven. I would think that just inside a vehicle sitting in direct sunlight for a few hours would probably do, unless you are in a really cold climate. You may also try some electrical contact cleaner then get some additional heat to it after it evaportates. There is probably something that has trapped some moisture somewhere. Just for info, I dropped my Jamin the other night about 4 feet directly onto a tile floor. It bounced a couple times, ejected the SD card, and reset. But it is working fine. However, I had a bud that dropped his 2 day old Sony Ericsson P900 into water and dried it off immediatly and let it air dry. It worked, but he had problems ever since. It would drop calls and restart all the time. So there may not be a complete fix for it.
Good luck
Hey guys, someone posted the HTC Service manual for the Wizard!
In this manual you see pictures how to disassemble the phone!
It's realy the best manual to use for opening your mobile friend....
Good Luck
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=43836
I've successfully fixed my girlfriends crappy creative keyboard once after water damage using a pencil. Depending how the keyboard is made, most of the time there will be really thin conductive tracks literally printed on the substrate. The water isn't particularly nice to these tracks and I found that in some parts there was noticale oxidation/corrosion. By very lightly scratching of the affeted paint and then going over it with a graphite pencil this did the trick.
Just an idea, personally I probably wouldn't do it to my vario but then again I'm still in the honeymoon phase with it.
Good luck
I fix phones for a living for many stores and have many phones that have water damage
what you dont do is charge it.. it will burn out the board
what you do is let it dry out, use the service manual and let it dry out in parts
then get white spirit and a toothbrush... dip it in and clean the contacts for yourk eys
once done, again let it try and then see how it goes. thats what i do, although we have a machine that sends out sonic pulses but the above method works too especially when im lazy
HTC Wizard Disassembly
hi guys. a lot of confusion over this simple matter. I don't know where the PDF file everyone's talking about is, most links didnt work, but here's some pics. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! hahahahaha!
http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?a=274
Hi,
I have a O2 xda model
IPL 1.01
SPL 2.21
GSM 01.12.10
OS 1.5.4.2
there is problem in formating the phone.
Even after a hard reset the Os wont boot,
it says that "formating is failed".
there is a prolem in the flash memory of the phone.
please help me with the assembly and disassembly process so that i can fix it.
Any one?
My daughter's Shadow screen went blank... but the backlight was still working leading me to believe that something other than the screen had gone bad. When she gave it to me to look at, I noticed the sliding mechanism felt loose and I could hear something within (crackling like from a stuck or damaged ribbon cable). This further lead me to believe that the screen was probably ok. Following some instructions I found on how to disassemble the device, I was able to take apart the phone. What I found was that two of the four screws that hold the sliding mechanism had worked loose and that the spring had broken in the middle. The loose spring then appeared to have torn away at the edge of the ribbon cable that connected the main PCB to the screen. So, what I need now is a replacement spring for the sliding mechanism and a new ribbon cable. Does anyone know where I could get these? I am hoping that I do not need to purchase a whole sliding mechanism and screen but if I do, than I guess I will do that. Any insight appreciated.
This is the only place that i know of that has Shadow parts and it doesn't look like they have the parts you need.
http://cnn.cn/shop/tmobile-shadow-c-277_454.html
WHY??
Whats the point of posting unneccessary information?? He obviously cant use it. You could try Ebay. You could try buying a broken Shadow and using the parts.
http://cgi.ebay.com/T-Mobile-HTC-Shadow-Copper-broken-use-parts-repair_W0QQitemZ280238288102QQihZ018QQcategoryZ3312QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/T-mobile-Shadow-broken-Lcd_W0QQitemZ180255922628QQihZ008QQcategoryZ3312QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
did you buy this shadow directly fromn t-mobile with renewing your contract or with a new contract?
cause if so the shadow would have been covered under warranty, but if you opened it up and tore any warranty stickers then well you're SOL... i can appreciate the fact that you're trying to do it yourself, but warranty replacements through cell phone companies are no joke and easy to do if its not a problem caused by you
This is why.
I did it just to piss you off.
Hi Everyone,
I need to replace the screen and digitizer on my phone and I was wondering if anyone could please post a guide on how to do so that would be great. Also, I am a newbie and would like to know the difficulty level of repairing my wing? Any help is greatly appreciated! Great thanks to all in advance. Happy Holidays everyone !
I have the herald service manual... I used it to disassemble my phone so I could spray paint the case
arucard98 said:
I have the herald service manual... I used it to disassemble my phone so I could spray paint the case
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Thank You So Much. I have a quick question, what is the level of difficulty for a newbie?
rpp293 said:
Thank You So Much. I have a quick question, what is the level of difficulty for a newbie?
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It is actually very easy indeed, especially using Mike's tutorials
THe only slightly difficult bit are in getting the semicircular circuit out and back in when you take the whole thing apart but you dont really need to do this when replacing the screen. Dont be put off by the dissembly instructions which show you how to do this. When you have got the screen off, that it IT.
Lastly as others have commented, re-assembly of the keyboard to the base can be a bit tricky unless you are doing it quicly and remember exactly how it came off. I once broke an L shaped 'foot' which I insist mysteriously isnt shown on the YouTube tuturial.
You can even get the digitiser off the screen relatively easy, though there isnt much point in doing this as it isnt worthwhile getting a screen without a digitiser, nor does the digitiser often break before the screen does. (I DO have a Hermes which has a hole in the digitiser, which nevertheless does still work!)
Can this same flex cable be causing my phone to be constantly opening the phoneprogram?
licensedtoquill said:
It is actually very easy indeed, especially using Mike's tutorials
THe only slightly difficult bit are in getting the semicircular circuit out and back in when you take the whole thing apart but you dont really need to do this when replacing the screen. Dont be put off by the dissembly instructions which show you how to do this. When you have got the screen off, that it IT.
Lastly as others have commented, re-assembly of the keyboard to the base can be a bit tricky unless you are doing it quicly and remember exactly how it came off. I once broke an L shaped 'foot' which I insist mysteriously isnt shown on the YouTube tuturial.
You can even get the digitiser off the screen relatively easy, though there isnt much point in doing this as it isnt worthwhile getting a screen without a digitiser, nor does the digitiser often break before the screen does. (I DO have a Hermes which has a hole in the digitiser, which nevertheless does still work!)
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First of all, Thank You for responding. So using Mike's Tuts, and by reading the required info, I will able to easily replace the lcd screen? Also, what is the required reading for a newbie to replace the lcd? Again, Thank you for your help.
Hi all,
My wife spilled a glass of beer on my PDA, and now the top front buttons don't react like before. Sometimes you don't hear the 'click' and you can feel like they got stuck.
The keyboard looks fine, so the problem is only the with the top buttons at the front of the PDA.
Have anybody tried to take apart this PDA? Would be easy to open it and clean everything before putting everything back?
Thanks a lot
I completely soaked my Ozone about a week after I got it... knocked it in the sink. I like to think that I was among the first to void my warranty, Lo..l?
The phone is really well constructed for what you need to do. All of the critical electronics are very well shielded on the board, nothing difficult about separating the board from the case.
Six 'star drive' screws on the case (that's where the warranty sticker is), one tiny phillips on the board - board pulls up off of pins, away from the usb connector and Bob's your uncle. The keypad is not fastened to the case, pull it right out.
Watch the ribbon cable for the lcd - I would not recommend disconnecting it. there should be enough play to allow you to work. Make sure you're working in a really clean environment, and check the inside of the plastic lcd cover obsessively right before reassembly. If you're anything like me that one little catpet fiber or cat hair or whatever the hell will drive you to take the phone apart again 4 days later...
Sorry about the ramble... it's late. Short answer is: Nothing to it.
Good luck!
Thanks a lot for your post. It was really helpful.
I will probably try it this weekend.
I'll post here the results
Cheers
So if I wanted to buy a different color keypad (dont like the green) it shouldnt be hard to take apart??...I change screens in Env/Voyagers a bit so have a little knowledge...
Hello all, I want to first thank you guys for your support since I've joined up! I recently attempted a glass replacement on a note 3. The digitizer and lcd were ok before I removed the glass. During the removal, everything went smoothly, no cracked lcd or digitizer. It was my first attempt, so I did scratch it here an there, but they weren't too deep. They were negligible enough that they would be made invisible by the new uv-glue. So, before I fully removed all of the old glue, I turned the phone on to see if the lcd still worked and it did, however, I noticed that the touch screen was mostly unresponsive. It only worked at the top where the notifications menu is. I was able to pull it down about a quarter inch and then it would go back up as if my finger left the screen. I chocked it up to a dirty screen and possibly even the scratches I made on it. I read that those things would "confuse" the digitizer. I also read that cleaning the lcd and replacing the new glass with uv-glue would fix any digitizer touch issues, by filling in the scratches for one and by making contact with my finger more accurate. Anyway, I installed the new glass onto the lcd with the loca glue. Everything was clean as far as I could tell. After reassembling the phone I discovered that the digitizer was doing the same thing as it was when it had no glass. And now, when I turn the screen on from it being asleep, I see a blur where the unlock symbol is for a couple seconds, as if my finger was there above it. Then it goes away and the screen doesn't recognize my touch. I checked to see if my other note 3 did that when I turned the screen on and it didn't, at least not until I did put my finger there. I did a factory reset on the phone, disassembled it again and cleaned all the connections with alcohol. Everything looks like it's set up correctly. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas that aren't "the digitizer is broken" lol. I realize that may be the case, but I'm not sure what I could've done for that to happen. This will be my last attempt at finding a different answer before I trash the lcd. Thanks in advance guys!
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Hello all, I want to first thank you guys for your support since I've joined up! I recently attempted a glass replacement on a note 3. ... This will be my last attempt at finding a different answer before I trash the lcd. Thanks in advance guys!
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I presume you've been checking the sites for help & youtube videos on how to do it all? Can you think of anything you might have shortcut or done differently?
The fact the defect was there before the glass replacement suggests maybe there was either prior damage that you didn't notice before trying this, or you've perhaps moved the LCD in such a way that prior damage has become apparent. i.e. there was maybe hairline damage and as you moved things the edges moved apart.
Could it be something along the lines of the glue is a bit thick at one end so the screen is now not contacting properly? How much pressure did you use putting it all back in place? Did it take a lot to get it even?
Wish I could be more helpful but, it's not something I've tried. TBH I hadn't even released AMO screens COULD be removed from the glass...