Hey all.
Accidentally dropped my N1 today and funnerly enough i dropped it on carpet however its kitchen floor and hard... only from a distance of 3ft id say.
Now i cant hear people when they phone me, they hear me fine.
Camera doesnt work.
LED doesnt work.
Not good =(
Theres no signs of damage visually looking at it.
So can only leave 1 thing to do...
Going to strip it down see if i can find out whats wrong if anything loose.
What people think?
Did you ask if you can get warranty on it?
You might be able to get it repaired under warranty. Even if unlocked, if you are nice and knowledgeable to the right Google rep, then HTC rep (you must call Google first for approval, I found that out last time I did an exchange) There is no physical damage, and I doubt that that fall should have caused any issues. I would suspect that there was a faulty part/solder joint that is causing issues since the fall. Of course you can't tell them it was dropped though. And it might be good to restore it to stock software as well.
Kind of too late now took the void sticker off
Also noticed the charging light doesnt work either.
The loud speaker does...
This would have been hard to get warranty replaced. Too many issues make it look obvious. It's one thing to call up and say "my camera broke" is one thing. But to have a list of issues, "yeah my camera, charge light, ear piece, speaker, and LED" all stopped working. Good luck trying to get HTC on board with that one
It sounds like every broken function you mentioned is located on the small PCB at the top of the phone (cf the ifixit teardown).
Maybe it's just one of the connectors from the main PCB to the one at the top that got dislodged?
If its broken and no warranty....I got dibs on the shell!
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
Imaperson said:
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
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I just swapped one of my Epics out a couple of weeks ago because of this issue.
mattallica76 said:
I just swapped one of my Epics out a couple of weeks ago because of this issue.
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I would have of just gone to sprint. But it seemed easier to me to just get the speaker off of ebay for 13 bucks and have an excuse to pop open the back cover. And I am le lazy when it came to going back to stock. Strange there are no void stickers of any sort on the thing though.
Imaperson said:
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
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Yeah, I'm having the same problem... Samsung tried to blame the issue on Sprint haha!
But, no I don't feel comfortable taking the speaker out and replacing it... =/ good luck if you can figure it out though!
Imaperson said:
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
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If I can find a speaker on Ebay, I will certainly give it a shot. This distortion is really bugging me. If I turn it up, it sounds like crap. If I turn it down, I get no ringtone, so I miss calls.
I got the same issue. I thought it was related to eb13.
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Imaperson said:
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
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I just replaced the big speaker on my epic, the sound works,but now I have to signal. Can't connect to the towers. Any suggestions?
Check the wire that leads to the antenna. Its a tiny one.
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austin420 said:
Check the wire that leads to the antenna. Its a tiny one.
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It attaches to the speaker asembly, on the right side, grey ish right? When I replaced the speaker, the wire didn't seem to reattch right. should it be replaced? Any idea where I can get one?
Imaperson said:
Well, The speaker began making crackly death sounds in my epic. From what I've seen via google search and here on the forums, It isn't entirely uncommon.
I've tinkered with some electronics before so i decided to avoid the whole going back to stock thing and picked up a speaker on ebay and replaced it. Along the way i decided to pick apart the failed bit. Took a few pictures but I am unsure of the cause of problems since i damaged the speaker prying the metal cover off. But I figure that one of the corners of the cone is getting popped inward and not letting the speaker do its thing.
If anyone else happens to have a failed/ noisy speaker and cares to take it apart please take a picture or two. I am simply curious as to if the corners are just creasing themselves inward somehow.
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glad to see im not the only one with this issue. my speaker sound like ass! unfortunately im not hardware savy enough to gut my epic but im gonna try and get my buddy at the repair center to see if he can fix it for me at his place instead of having to flash to stock to get it fixed then reflashing everything.
I always assumed it was an improper grounding issue, not the speaker itself. Different firmwares and ROMS have produced different results, so I have my doubts about the speaker being the issue.
Ya, mine is "blown" too... but it happened one day while I was at work... on silent. I was also kinda thinking it has more to do with software than hardware... but it hasn't fixed itself yet and it's been almost 2 weeks.
Looks like I might be doing the Odin thing soon, thank goodness for TEP.
Well, mine started to sound blown too. It happened overnight, I wasnt even using the speaker. Im farked too because I dont have insurance on this thing. Is this a software issue or what?
futureprospect said:
Well, mine started to sound blown too. It happened overnight, I wasnt even using the speaker. Im farked too because I dont have insurance on this thing. Is this a software issue or what?
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Just for the record, if your wire wont attach again, its because the technicians have a special tool to pop in on and off.
If your speaker isn't working, take it into a repair center. If they can fix it in store and it's under warranty, it will cost you $35. If you have insurance, then it should be no cost. The store I went to was cool about custom roms and rooting, was even asking me about it.The store I went to was not a corporate store as there are no corporate stores in the area that do repairs.
Forgot to mention that if they can't fix it in store, they will send to Samsung and Samsung will send a refurbished model. So in that sense, it may be a good idea to Odin.
Mutiny32 said:
I always assumed it was an improper grounding issue, not the speaker itself. Different firmwares and ROMS have produced different results, so I have my doubts about the speaker being the issue.
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I was hoping it would be a software issue but no amount of flashing back to stock would fix it. It started when my alarm went off one morning. Started out fine then turned to crackly death sounds all at once.
So far so good on the replacement speaker however.
Imaperson said:
I was hoping it would be a software issue but no amount of flashing back to stock would fix it. It started when my alarm went off one morning. Started out fine then turned to crackly death sounds all at once.
So far so good on the replacement speaker however.
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yup, exactly how mine malfunctioned. I set the alarm, worked when i set it, then woke up to a gawd awfull crackly noise, and the speaker was blown.
Since i don't have TEP, should i just try and buy it and replace it myself or go back to stock and have the techs look at it at my sprint store?
I am experincing the "blowing" or "bursting" speakers, too, all of a sudden. I am on Bonsai 4.0.1, but I experienced that on stock ROM, too. I wish we can find a solid solution to this intriguing issue.
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It might not actually be blown!
Long time reader, first time poster.
Ok, here is what I discovered about the Epic speaker. Like everyone else here I had my speaker die the same way, suddenly was distorted at any normal volume and no sound when you turned the volume to low, after awhile it just up and quit.
One thing i did discover was the if I tapped the speaker module it would start working again but blown sounding, so I thought "hmmm, seems like a loose connection". Got bored the other night and decided to take the speaker module out and see if I could spot a loose connector. No, no such luck, so after tearing the speaker module apart and playing with it, I narrowed it down to a bad solder joint in the ?diode? array under the red goo. when i would flex the cable it the speaker would suddenly start working again normally (no distortion, nice loud volume).
Now, as near as I can tell, Samsung is only using 2 leads of the connector hence the diode array (best guess due to the wiring pattern), voltage one way and the speaker plays, voltage the other way and the vibration motor runs. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Unfortunately, I cannot say if this is a permanent fix or not, my diodes appear to have taken some damage due to me continuing playing around with the speaker module while it was on (Either cumulative from running it messed up, or maybe I shorted them while I was poking around; but the speaker volume decreased gradually over time, no distortion though). But I do know for awhile everything was working fine, and my speaker worked like it was supposed to.
If any of you have the same problem, and can manage small surface mount work, this might be a way to save a few $$ or get it working again in short order since the only replacement speakers in can find right now appear to be coming out of Hong Kong with a long delivery time.
Hope this helps someone. Thanks for all the help that you guys have given me over the years.
As in everything in life, YMMV.
Hmm, I did not think to check out the wires while i had it out. I no longer have the broken part so if i encounter the issue again i know where to start looking.
Thanks!
I had the same problem. Thankfully i have best buy black tie insurance.
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The situation was that I was standing with my phone out and my friend hits my arm and my phone dropped and hit the ground and my vibration no longer works. I've tried the Hard Reset and it didn't work. I'm thinking that the problem is a hardware issue, so if anyone can tell me how to fix it, I would be really appreciative.
Thanks!
You dropped it...there is a good chance of "it's borked". There is no magic fix for a dropped and busted phone--either open it up and look, or get a new one.
TheSneakerWhore said:
You dropped it...there is a good chance of "it's borked". There is no magic fix for a dropped and busted phone--either open it up and look, or get a new one.
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Or live without the vibration not a deal breaker for me. Better than having to go buy a new one
Yeah if the phone still works forget the vibration. Its not that important
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open it up and check the cables by the vibration unit.
I'm not sure exactly where its at but you should see it somewhere.
I would guess there a little detachable cable that popped loose when it was dropped.
Taken apart every cell phone i've had and I've noticed they've have all had a detachable cable connected to the vibrator.
I'd be surprised if it required any soldering at all.
Refer to some pictures posted in the "Correct Hardware GPS Fix" thread in the general forum.
It has some pics of the vibrant disassembled and you may be able to locate the vibrator from that.
The phone is surprisingly simple to take apart. The thread also tells you how to do it.
imitebewrong said:
open it up and check the cables by the vibration unit.
I'm not sure exactly where its at but you should see it somewhere.
I would guess there a little detachable cable that popped loose when it was dropped.
Taken apart every cell phone i've had and I've noticed they've have all had a detachable cable connected to the vibrator.
I'd be surprised if it required any soldering at all.
Refer to some pictures posted in the "Correct Hardware GPS Fix" thread in the general forum.
It has some pics of the vibrant disassembled and you may be able to locate the vibrator from that.
The phone is surprisingly simple to take apart. The thread also tells you how to do it.
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I'm in the same boat as the OP--thanks. I'll try this.
OP, did you try the recommendations? did they fix your vibration issue?
I'm in the same situation rn and mom said me to just try that hard reset but you tried it so yeah it won't work so ig that I'll just try to open it as that dude said and I hope that it will work,!
I repaired my phone a week or so ago and ever since, my GPS won't work. I obey broke something but don't know what to look for or do. I can say that the motherboard got a small Crack up by the top speaker somewhere. That likely is the cause of this and I'm probably SOL, but maybe someone has some insight or good ideas.
Thanks!
My guess is maybe the crack goes across part of the antenna for the GPS. Not sure though I haven't pulled this phone apart so I don't know where the antenna is. Worth a shot to look and see if you can solder a jumper.
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Thanks for the thoughts. I'm trying to decide if it is worth the risk and hassle of opening the phone back up if this isn't even related. I'd love to learn where on the phone the GPS is (Is it a module?, an antenna? something else?)
ahent said:
My guess is maybe the crack goes across part of the antenna for the GPS. Not sure though I haven't pulled this phone apart so I don't know where the antenna is. Worth a shot to look and see if you can solder a jumper.
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Did you ever find a solution to this? or can you tell me where the board cracked? ill be the guinea pig trying to fix mine if i know where to look.
Or has anyone else ever been able to identify the GPS hardware inside the phone?
Mine came back from motocare with the GPS broken. I sent it in mint but with a defective camera. Been like that for months. Yesterday I broke the screen, which I just changed. Still no GPS. I could not find anything GPS related, antenna, cables, etc.
I must say these phones are a pleasure to fix. Just tape and 21 screws.. all the same size except one.