My usb port is faulty. It wiggles a bit and wont allow the phone to charge unless i hold the usb cable in an exact certain position. What is worse it cannot connect to PC as zune wont recognise it. I tried various cables and various PCs. Same problem.
HTC say the usb port is not covered in the warranty and want to charge me between £60 - £100 to repair it.
i am hoping there is a quick diy fix.
Anyone please?
For the charging issue, you could just buy a battery charger. That obviously won't help when it comes to updating your phone though.
If you, or someone you know, has soldering skills, you can get a new USB connector for $4 Canadian off eBay. Even if you have to bring it to a shop to get it done, I'm sure it'll be a lot cheaper than what HTC want to charge you.
Thanks. Already bought the battery charger. Will look into the usb self repair. Any videos on taking HD2 apart?
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I am returning my 8215 for warranty exchange, but there is some slight physical damage (i know i shouldnt have done this)
I needed to plug my cell into my computer for activesync...
but my usb cable (the end tha t goes in the phone) was bent, so i unbent it and stuck it in the phone with some difficulty
I pull it out, and the phone will not charge with the normal charger, instead, I had to plug my usb cable that I used for activesync, which is the only one that works with my cell now, into my ipod usb adapter to charge it! When I examined it, the usb female plug on the 8125 is slightly bent, and only works with that 1 USB cable
So should i return the phone, and risk them charging me if they find this out? Will they find this out and charge me? Or when they say they will are they just threatning you? NO opinions please!
I also heard HTC repairs phones, how much would this cost for them to repair this issue?
Thank you so much for all help!
Just call them and tell them your phone isn't charging anymore. Doesn't hurt to know. If they say it's your fault well, what do you got to lose? Just keep using your sync cable and ipod charger :lol: If they replace it, great don't mess it up again.
As far as HTC...they're on the otherside of the country from us. I'm sure they'll repair it for an x amount of dollars, getting your phone back however will take months.
They won't know if it is bent because you bent it purposely or if it's just a result of repetitive plugging and unplugging. Don't be paranoid. This falls under normal wear and tear and should be covered under the 1 year warranty.
i took it to cingular today and told her the phone people told me to tell the girl to handle the whole exchange process, so she did it, that way, if they try to charge me, I can say the cingular employee did the call not me, and she should have seen any physical damages.
I'm starting to have real problems with my USB plug. At first it would drop charger plugs when it was on the wall, so I put it upside down. But now I can't connect to the PC all the time either. I have to jiggle the plug a bit or even breathe down in it (the moist makes the connection better). Has anybody else had that problem and fixed it in any way? I suppose the plug is soldered on in such a way that it has to go to a workshop, right?
i strongly suggest you to send it for repair or resolder the base of the connection(this is user servicable provided you have some soldering skills) so it doesnt wiggle. i'd probly even suggest to hotglue the plug but before you do so make sure the plug is sitted properly and it does sync
the same thing happened to me and with a bit of jiggle the plug broke off and now its permenently damaged(ie it will never sync via USB again) so far with self repair i only manage to make it charge
i got no idea how to reattach a 10pin mini USB plug to my board and some of the copper tracks looks damaged which means if i send it to the shops, its a $500 repair and a board swap
Hey all,
It seems my HTC HD2 is unable to receive any kind of charge. I've used a different usb cable, my roommate's myTouch 4G cable and a friend's HD2 cable, and they all cannot charge my phone as well. My phone doesn't recognize any cable that is being plugged into it. I've made sure I'm in the right USB connection setting, checked the little 3 gold prongs where my battery receives (electricity?) from the phone to make sure those aren't situated in an odd bent position, but alas nothing. Could it do something with the actual part on my HD2 that the cables plug into? Phone is currently dead and I have no phone and am out of warranty. Is it a part I can easily replace?
Thanks for your help!
Edit: It seems the HD2 was launched on March 16 so I'm a couple of days past the 1 year mark fo warranty. Do you think I could persuade tmobile or HTC into replacing my phone even though it this slim out of warranty?
Does your lex still show that the battery is charving when you plug your HD2 up to your charger? If so you may have a faulty battery. If not then it could be a hardware or software problem. I suggest you buy another battery and see if
Nope, the chord isn't even recognized. It's as if nothing is plugged in when in fact something is.
Sounds like a broken microUSB port. Unnless you have a warranty, you're out of luck. To replace the port, you'd need a whole new mainboard.
Yes if your HD2 is not recognizing the USB cable then yes it sounds like you have a bad mini USB port on your HD2. You can try a hard reset if you want to but make sure to back up all your personal information first, but I kinda doubt it will do you any good to hard reset. You will have to get the main board replaced if this is your issue, wi h I believe it is. You can either find a cell phone repair shop or do it yourzlc ic you feel comfortable enough doing it. replacing the mainboard requires no soldering as all the ribbons just plug in. You just need to be gental with everything as you are working on it.
Now to get you by until you can either fix the phone or just to be abale to harvesting the battery for day to day use. You can by a external charger. Or you can take a old USB cable or buy a cheap USB cable and cut the end off of it. Strip it back a little and the zrip back the red and black wires a little. With a little tape attack the red wire to the positive(+) battery terminal and the black wire to the negative (-) battery terminal. Then plug the cable into your wall charger, don't worry the oltage comming out the wires is very low and will not hurt you, in fact you can not even feel it. They are marked on the battery. I do suggest just using this as a very temporary fix until you can vet an external charger or get your HD2 fixed as I do not know if this may be detramental to your battery with long term use. Also I give credit to Senior Member Samsamuel for this idea as he is the one I learned it from.
I contacted HTC and they confirmed the phone is still under warranty. The problem is I'm running CM7 on my phone so I'm asssuming when they start it up and view I have a 3rd party ROM, they'll void my warranty. I would rather fix it myself personally but I don't know anything nor do I really want to touch/pay for a new mainboard. But if my phone does get it's warranty voided, I'll have to pay either way. I think I might just go ahead and buy an external battery charger until i figure out what to do
axyrus said:
Hey all,
It seems my HTC HD2 is unable to receive any kind of charge.
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Phone is currently dead
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axyrus said:
The problem is I'm running CM7 on my phone
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magldr wont let battery charge when phone is off.
No fault with phone, dead battery and user error.
Use another hd2 that isnt running magldr to charg ebattery, OR use friends battery to flash to winmo and use winmo to charge battery, OR take an old usb cable, mini or micro, cut end off, find red and black wires, connect red to + black to - on the battery (the markings are on there faintly) and plug in to wall charger for a half minute or so then try start phone with real usb cable plugged in. should be enough charge to boot far enough into android for the charging to start. If nothing at all happens, then maybe there is really a problem.
You can hold the wires on by hand, you wont feel it, or i used tape.
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I contacted HTC and they confirmed the phone is still under warranty. The problem is I'm running CM7 on my phone so I'm asssuming when they start it up and view I have a 3rd party ROM, they'll void my warranty. I would rather fix it myself personally but I don't know anything nor do I really want to touch/pay for a new mainboard. But if my phone does get it's warranty voided, I'll have to pay either way. I think I might just go ahead and buy an external battery charger until i figure out what to do
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Which HD2 (model number) do you have and which provider did you buy yours from?
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Which HD2 (model number) do you have and which provider did you buy yours from?
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I have the USA HD2 from TMobile
axyrus said:
I have the USA HD2 from TMobile
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http://dl.htc.com/ruudownload/t-mobileUS/Filedownload.aspx?pid=leo2
stock ROM. download it, extract the .NBH from the .exe, stick the .NBH on the SD card and rename it to LEOIMG. Hold volume down + power when the phone is off.
may i repeat, just to confirm you considered this before you go about getting it repaired,, , if the battery is flat and magldr is installed, the phone wont charge.nothing will happen when you plug in usb.
The USB port on my HD2 (T9193) is basically shot. The clips that normally hold cables into it are all but gone, so any USB cable you plug into the phone falls out if you so much as look at it wrong, which is a real pain when it's charging, you pick it up to check something, and the cord just falls out, or you're trying to put files on it with a USB cable, bump it, and the USB cable falls out.
Anyone have any experience replacing this? What tools will I need? Where can I order the part?
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The USB port on my HD2 (T9193) is basically shot. The clips that normally hold cables into it are all but gone, so any USB cable you plug into the phone falls out if you so much as look at it wrong, which is a real pain when it's charging, you pick it up to check something, and the cord just falls out, or you're trying to put files on it with a USB cable, bump it, and the USB cable falls out.
Anyone have any experience replacing this? What tools will I need? Where can I order the part?
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If you're an experienced soldering specialist than everything will be OK, otherwise I wouldn't recommend you even try!
Ditto, If you think you have the skills to micro solder it yourself, the connector is $8 on ebay, and the wiring diagrams are here:
www.ebay.com/itm/260913779440 microUSB $8
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=930412 solder point pics
If the connections still work, a better option would be to leave it as is for the occasional file transfer or flashing, and do the charging via induction. Amazon has the HD2 PowerMat Induction Charging Door for $6, and the base plus a somewhat universal microUSB door is going for $5 today at CowBoom (BestBuy's DailyDeal online clearance site).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1561894 (LINK)
links provided in above thread if you want to mod the $5 droidX combo pack into the HD2's car docking port next to the battery.
I had a go on a cheap one I got from ebay, the usb port had fallen off.
The connections/soldering points are very small, I mean tiny, and really wouldn't recommend it unless you are very good at micro-soldering and have some good tools.
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Hi so I bought the device about 3 months ago and it was awesome from the get go everything was great until today when i plugged in my device for charging. After a while i noticed it was charging very slowly so i instinctively disconnected and reconnected the type a usb cable from the charger. On reconnecting there was no indication of charging on my phone. I reconnected it one more time and nothing. So i took out my voltmeter and connected that in series. The moment i connected it it started to restart continuously. On off on off and i had to disconnect it to make it stop. I thought it might be a cable issue so i tried a micro usb cable with an adapter. Same result. Then i switched chargers, again same result. Whenever i disconnected the phone it would stop restarting. On one charger it did stay on but the voltage dropped to 3 volts and amps up to 2.3.
So i have concluded from above stated facts that the charging port/ board is kaput. If anyone has any suggestions on this please let me know.
After this i started to search for a replacement type c charging board for the redmi pro but i cant find any. Any help in finding one with international shipping would be appreciated.
Please leave Ur thoughts on my conclusion.
replace your usb c cable
Thx. But luckily i was able to repair it. Woohoo
Anyone know where to get a replacement usb charging pcb ?
was it a easy fix or did you replace the usb board?
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Anyone know where to get a replacement usb charging pcb ?
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Sorry for the late reply. I searched for the port on various websites when i had the issue but couldnt find anyone who sold redmi pro parts. Luckily however i found a seller on ALIEXPRESS who said that he did have it. He had asked me to pay using mi max charging board which was around 7 usd and then he would send The redmi pro charging board.
Sadly i cant find the seller who said this so i cant share the link here.
What u could do is go on aliexpress, find the largeat stores with the widest variety of xiaomi charging boards and ask them if they have it.
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was it a easy fix or did you replace the usb board?
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For me it realy was an easy fix and fast one too.
I was out of option at the time so what i thought of was that if i could find a 4 or 5 amp usb brick i could probably melt the shorted portion of the circuit. Ofcourse that in itself is dangerous because it could ruin the phone completely.
Anyways sadly i could not find any such power bricks. When i had almost lost all hope i thought of trying this out in my cars charger because car is already running on a DC system and is capable of providing alot of current to the usb charger, which is just a sort of regulated stepdown transformer. So hopefully that would provide the power i need. I started the car and then connected the phone. The moment i connected the phone to the charger the cars rpm lowered slightly for a second as if it were under stress and then went back to idle. AND MAGIC! It was fixed.
What it did was provide alot of current to the phone which heated and melted the shorted circuit. Since then ive had no issue with the phone.
It might be different for u though so i wouldnt recommend just doing what i did. If u have waranty claim that. If u r out of all options and u feel like ur phone is a dead piece of metal (like i did) then go ahead. But do not hold the phone in ur hand or anything while doing so because it can be dangerous in a number of ways. DC is much more unforgiving then AC.
Hope this helps.
I-AM-LEGEND said:
For me it realy was an easy fix and fast one too.
I was out of option at the time so what i thought of was that if i could find a 4 or 5 amp usb brick i could probably melt the shorted portion of the circuit. Ofcourse that in itself is dangerous because it could ruin the phone completely.
Anyways sadly i could not find any such power bricks. When i had almost lost all hope i thought of trying this out in my cars charger because car is already running on a DC system and is capable of providing alot of current to the usb charger, which is just a sort of regulated stepdown transformer. So hopefully that would provide the power i need. I started the car and then connected the phone. The moment i connected the phone to the charger the cars rpm lowered slightly for a second as if it were under stress and then went back to idle. AND MAGIC! It was fixed.
What it did was provide alot of current to the phone which heated and melted the shorted circuit. Since then ive had no issue with the phone.
It might be different for u though so i wouldnt recommend just doing what i did. If u have waranty claim that. If u r out of all options and u feel like ur phone is a dead piece of metal (like i did) then go ahead. But do not hold the phone in ur hand or anything while doing so because it can be dangerous in a number of ways. DC is much more unforgiving then AC.
Hope this helps.
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are u serious? please help me, i have same problem :"