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this blows.
of all the crap going on in life right now, the one thing I could count on was my Evo. music, games, and kindle for the commute now that i take the train to my internship.
a couple of days ago I noticed the phone wasn't charging. if i just plugged in the power cord it wouldn't charge, but if i pulled it down, so that it would be at an angle, it would charge. but of course i couldn't keep it that way all night.
opened up the phone and found that the charging plug thing was coming off on at least three of the four big solder points. we just recently fixed my LCD tv with a cheap soldering kit so i figured we'd solder those points and it would work. no difference.
tried it twice and put the phone back together twice, it would turn on and finish loading but wouldnt charge.
opened it again, took out the one screw holding the pcb board to the screen, and looked around to see if there was anything that could be done from that side. i don't think my dad did anything there. i've checked since and nothing got even a scratch. put it back together.
this time the phone vibrates when i turn it on, but the screen never comes on.
opened it again, the charging plug had completely fallen off. the solder does not stick at all.
at this point, i don't care. i can buy a battery charger, and I can remove the memory card to transfer files. i'm happy with my rom so i could live not being able to directly hook up the phone and change system files.
but no screen?!!
so at this moment, for the first time since September, my Evo is out of commission and I can't do anything about it.
anyone know what may have happened here? any solutions? i'm willing to try any suggestions since i can't use the phone at the moment and I need it back.
thanks.
You likely could have had it fixed under HTC's warranty. But once they see it's been opened I believe the warranty is instantly void. You could take it in to the store and see if they will warranty it out and charge you the $35 advanced exchange fee.
Pretty much what he said lol. If you already opened the phone you have voided your warranty so sprint won't want to fix it neither will HTC. Your only two options are fix it yourself with parts off ebay. Second one is run it over with the car pay 100 to Asurion if you have TEP and they will send you a refurb and you send your old one back to them other then that you kinda screwed the pooch when you opend your phone up.
Hope you get it worked out.
i have agree since you cracked it open you screwed yourself :/
the phone hasn't had a valid warranty since last year...so I didn't mess it up.
my question here is what could have messed up the phone. not what messed up the warranty!
you can pick up and evo for between $150-200 on craigslist. just sell your broken one for parts, you would be shocked how many people would buy it.
Max_Pain said:
the phone hasn't had a valid warranty since last year...so I didn't mess it up.
my question here is what could have messed up the phone. not what messed up the warranty!
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Made in China usually does it...
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Charge the battery and then put it back in and try try boot it. See if it works that time.
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nah the phone has taken quite a lot of use and abuse since I got it. i'm sad that it got messed up but in no way am I unsatisfied with it.
I did find some on craigslist already. now to wait until I can pay for one!
EDIT: the battery was at 70%. the phone does turn on. not the screen :-(
welcome to the club. That's why I stopped buying htc. They make cheap under performing phones that are guaranteed to fail early. I love my samsung epic.
really? this is my second HTC phone. first was 8125 and I loved it so much I lost it and bought a second one. now the Evo breaks after all this (ab)use and i'm planning on buying a second one or an Evo 3D if i can afford it when it comes out.
so, i'm pretty happy with HTC products.
SINNN said:
welcome to the club. That's why I stopped buying htc. They make cheap under performing phones that are guaranteed to fail early. I love my samsung epic.
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Well you just go enjoy your Sam****, and we'll suffer with crappy HTC phones....
Trust me your not suffering,the dude with the epic is...my big brother has it and he doesnt really like it lol. He is jumping the HTC ship,he is buying evo 3D. Samsung never responds,never update,the dev support is no where near evo support (IMO) but if I was you try to fix it or buy nexus S or evo 3D
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Dev Support isn't as good???????
Maybe not on here, but this site leans more towards HTC.
The Epic Sections of SDX-Devopers is FAT with Dev support.
+1. This is my 3rd HTC phone. All worked well for me.
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Max_Pain said:
the phone hasn't had a valid warranty since last year...so I didn't mess it up.
my question here is what could have messed up the phone. not what messed up the warranty!
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Did you break a connection from the screen to the board ( I'm not good with hardware) there should be a connection try to find it and see if it's broken
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SINNN said:
welcome to the club. That's why I stopped buying htc. They make cheap under performing phones that are guaranteed to fail early. I love my samsung epic.
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Doesn't your phone still have 2.1?
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SINNN said:
welcome to the club. That's why I stopped buying htc. They make cheap under performing phones that are guaranteed to fail early. I love my samsung epic.
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This is a ridiculous comment.
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Hi, I never posted in this area of XDA before(have a Dash 3g that started acting funny, I want to get another phone) I might have a chance to buy Droid 2, but it has a cracked glass screen, but the owner says it works, the phone is very cheap(not close to 100 dollars), would it be worth buying it and i replace the screen either by trying to do it myself or paying for a repair?
This is hard to answer. How comfortable are you with changing a screen? I'm not, so I'd pass. I got my Droid on Craigslist for $150 in immaculate condition. Perhaps you should keep looking, but it's your call.
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I'll be looking, but i don't have the money to spend 150 right now. If i bought it and try to fix it myself i might just have to be slow and take my time. Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, don't buy one with a cracked screen. Just keep looking around.
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Juanito216 said:
I'll be looking, but i don't have the money to spend 150 right now. If i bought it and try to fix it myself i might just have to be slow and take my time. Thanks for the reply.
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To fix the screen, you'll have to pretty much take the entire phone apart.
And it's very easy to damage parts if you're not careful. Plus, there's the cost of the replacement glass (digitizer). It might not be worth it for the small savings, if any, after you put the work into it or pay someone else to.
yeah, i think in the end, its going to cost you more to repair it than to simply buy a used one on craigslist or something.
Thanks for the responses, I didn't buy it.
So I bought my girlfriend a N7, she had it for almost a month before her dog decided to chew on it. It had a case on it but the screen got a small hairline crack and so the digitizer is toast. She was heart broken so I ended up splitting the cost of a new 16gb N7 with her, and she's sending me her old one.
So what should I do with it? I have $125 into it, maybe I can find a N7 with bad hardware and swap screens? Or wait to find a replacement screen for cheap enough and fix it? Use it with a mouse and keyboard? Sell it? She kept it in good condition so the only cosmetic issue from the cracked screen is a teeny scratch on the plastic bezel.
Maybe sell it for parts?
If you do I call dibs on the speaker since I just blew mine the other day :/
Sorry I'm not more help tho
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Hold on to it... There will be someone have a screen replacement for it maybe .Or who knows Google and Asus might be forced into doing the right thing and Fixing this screen cracking issue..
I know hers does sound like its not a warranty issue.. But so many are cracking with NO HELP FOR PUPPIES...
Good Luck .. asus will fix it for you for 160.00 i think is whats been going around...
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Or who knows Google and Asus might be forced into doing the right thing and Fixing this screen cracking issue..
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Absolutely. Everyone who drives a car over their Nexus really deserves a new one at no cost to them.
Probably a new car too. Just in case the tablet damaged the tyres.
Will it blend?
Fix it yourself
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/home.php?cat=709
Or
http://www.dfwpcrepairs.com/google_nexus_7__tablet_screen_repair.html
michaelkenward said:
Absolutely. Everyone who drives a car over their Nexus really deserves a new one at no cost to them.
Probably a new car too. Just in case the tablet damaged the tyres.
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Don't forget pain and suffering. Not only for the victim but for the readers of this thread..AND the mod too
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The replacement screens on that site are used, which I guess is good because they'll be the same as from Asus but $129, sheesh. I think I'll just wait for someone to fry their N7 or brick it and buy theirs for parts. Maybe I'll just wait for the cost of the screen to come down, it's a 16gb model so if I could find one for less then a $100 it would be worth it. I already have one so I'll probably end up giving it to my sister once it's working.
would you sell it? if so what for? There are a few of us around that are working on trying to get an OTG setup internal that might be able to put it to use.
Ive been living with a stupid freaking blackberry style for the past 2 months. I CANT TAKE IT ANYMOREEEE I want my evo back sooo badly but no matter what I do to repair, nothing works. I have been working on this for a while now.
3 digitizers and lcd's have been used. My problem right now is that i believe that the digitizer port is somehow messed up. The annoying thing is that sometimes, randomly, the digitizer/touch panel will work and the phone will work perfectly. Which is what happened a couple of days ago after i finally got a new lcd after some wait and everything was going perfect until it happened again. What happens is that in hboot i get a touch panel fail, the phone will not boot past splash, and recovery is inacessible. If i remove the digitizer cable altogether it will boot and it will let me go to recovery. I have tried the 2 others i have and rarely, one will work.
You guys have ANY ideas? I tried cleaning with 91 alcohol and that didnt help.
PLEASEEEE I miss my 3 year old child.
EDIT and yes i am up at 4 like i have been to fix my evo
ebay.
i know fixing it by hand is a path you have gone a long way down and if that's something fun for you (and I realize it is for some) by all means keep on going down that path.
but times have changed from the days when evos were $450 on ebay.
now you will probably pay less for a mint condition clean esn evo than you would for all the parts you described, to say nothing of the value of your time.
i have personally repaired front speakers, rear speakers, camera lenses and digitizers/LCD assemblies, just about everything but the vibrator. i once loved tearing apart evos. but now i just buy evos whole.
intermittent connection problems are the worst. do you really want to spend more late nights fighting this thing? craigslist, ebay, swappa, whatever. get this behind you.
100% what NxNW said.
If it is in fact the connector on the board, then this will be no fun at all. The solder points on that are far too much work AND risk for the reward. Although, you can find a good board, just the board alone. Same part# as the one you got and just exchange whatever it needs, if anything. But it really is better to ebay the whole device. I got one for under $12 that needed a new charge port. Another buck and some soldering and BOOM.
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Wambo_Bomb said:
100% what NxNW said.
If it is in fact the connector on the board, then this will be no fun at all. The solder points on that are far too much work AND risk for the reward. Although, you can find a good board, just the board alone. Same part# as the one you got and just exchange whatever it needs, if anything. But it really is better to ebay the whole device. I got one for under $12 that needed a new charge port. Another buck and some soldering and BOOM.
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You guys are right; just looked on ebay and theirs mobo's on here auctioning with no bids. 20$ for a fully functional one? Ill take it!
Thanks for the advice
my very quick survey of recent "completed auctions" for plausible looking phones with clean ESN's shows the current price for a non-janky Evo you could just activate and use as-is is around $60
i am seeing a range of $40 to $100 depending on whether it is in below average condition on the low end, or pristine condition plus some accessories on the high end.
basically 60 bucks for a ready-to-go evo with just a battery, no charger or usb cable, possibly no sd card.
a lot of auctions with reserve prices of $70 and higher are closing with the seller not getting any bids that meet the reserve.
on the flip side if you are "winning" an auction at $20, that phone is just "for parts".
actually i have bought phones described as "for parts" that *already* had parts harvested from it (usually the USB/charing port). sometimes you just get a picked-over carcass.
if the description doesn't *say* clean ESN, it's not. i even had to send back an evo once because the ESN was bad even though the seller said it was ok. they refunded my money claiming someone *else* told them it was clean. whatever. ebay can be a hassle but there's an endless supply of cheap clean evos out there, you just have to be observant.
If the seller is in your area, I would also HIGHLY suggest meeting them in person at a Sprint store to activate it on your line. I have seen dozens of posts in the S3 forums recently about people getting stuck with a blacklisted phone because the seller reported it stolen after selling it to them. So beware.
NxNW said:
my very quick survey of recent "completed auctions" for plausible looking phones with clean ESN's shows the current price for a non-janky Evo you could just activate and use as-is is around $60
i am seeing a range of $40 to $100 depending on whether it is in below average condition on the low end, or pristine condition plus some accessories on the high end.
basically 60 bucks for a ready-to-go evo with just a battery, no charger or usb cable, possibly no sd card.
a lot of auctions with reserve prices of $70 and higher are closing with the seller not getting any bids that meet the reserve.
on the flip side if you are "winning" an auction at $20, that phone is just "for parts".
actually i have bought phones described as "for parts" that *already* had parts harvested from it (usually the USB/charing port). sometimes you just get a picked-over carcass.
if the description doesn't *say* clean ESN, it's not. i even had to send back an evo once because the ESN was bad even though the seller said it was ok. they refunded my money claiming someone *else* told them it was clean. whatever. ebay can be a hassle but there's an endless supply of cheap clean evos out there, you just have to be observant.
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The one for 20 said it was in fully functional form. I only need a phone for a couple more months. Unfortunately, i forgot to bid before the auction ended I need to get better at ebay lol
So I have a S4 that was dropped in water and everything works great. . . other than the touchscreen. The picture is clear as can be on it, but I just cant touch it.
So I am looking for ideas on what to do with such a device.
Any ideas would be great.
chaos67731 said:
So I have a S4 that was dropped in water and everything works great. . . other than the touchscreen. The picture is clear as can be on it, but I just cant touch it.
So I am looking for ideas on what to do with such a device.
Any ideas would be great.
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buy circuit cleaner, buy a cheap toothbrush with no rubber bristles, open up your phone, remove your motherboard, spray brush and motherboard and quickly clean before liquid dries up, also do the same thing to the flex cables connection ports to the lcd and digitizer. lastly for good measure spray the charging port flex connectors and the actual charging port are cleaned. if it doesnt work you might need a new digitizer + lcd assembly.
Throw it in the garbage or claim on insurance. While sometimes phones recover after a water soaking, you will usually end up with a paperweight after the real damage begins to materialize later on.
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If the phone was waterlogged recently, I would say to let it dry for a few days to a week,before turning it on again.
cruise350 said:
Throw it in the garbage or claim on insurance. While sometimes phones recover after a water soaking, you will usually end up with a paperweight after the real damage begins to materialize later on.
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I did claim the insurance on it, and kept it. So I have a extra one to mess around with. . . . if I can get it working.
I am not sure if it will work, but I am thinking of getting a cord to do video out and use a bluetooth or use mouse and seeing where I can go from there.
I know some phones have chrome OS as a ROM so I might try that.
If you can't get it to work...
If you can't get the phone to work, you can sell it for "parts or repair" on eBay. People do this a lot with their broken phones and you can get a pretty good amount of money for a newer phone like the S4. The person who buys it will either try to fix it or use it for spare parts. I've seen broken iPhones go for hundreds of dollars. Trust me, even if it works now, it won't work a few months from now. I had a phone that got waterlogged and after it dried out it worked just fine but it died a few months later.
chaos67731 said:
I did claim the insurance on it, and kept it. So I have a extra one to mess around with. . . . if I can get it working.
I am not sure if it will work, but I am thinking of getting a cord to do video out and use a bluetooth or use mouse and seeing where I can go from there.
I know some phones have chrome OS as a ROM so I might try that.
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Was it Assurian? Won't they bill you for the retail price of the phone if you don't return it to them?
cruise350 said:
Was it Assurian? Won't they bill you for the retail price of the phone if you don't return it to them?
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Not is he "lost" it
Nukie_Freak said:
Not is he "lost" it
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It amazes me how so many people on XDA promote fraud! No wonder the prices of phones and deductibles are so high.
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It amazes me how so many people on XDA promote fraud! No wonder the prices of phones and deductibles are so high.
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If I am going to pay the same price for a lost phone vs a broken phone then I will call it lost and keep a half broken phone around for a fun project.
And I am almost sure they get their money worth...
$10 a month for 3 years is 360 plus 150, so I have paid them $520 in the long run. Now they give me some refurb phone, and I am going to say they are still making out very well. . . and that is just counting the insurance I pay on that phone. . . . so I have not even added in the money I pay or the other two lines.
Just saying. . . .
Also, not really the point to what I am asking, I am more looking for fun or cool ideas as to what I can try with it.
But the price of phones are so high only because we all pay the price and let them charge it. I mean do you really think it cost $600 to build a S4?
With 27.2 billion US dollars in profit for 2012 I am going to take a guess and say they are not hurting? Well thats just how I feel about it.
Well I might try to repair it, but after that I am still trying to find something cool to do with it. . . . . I dont want it just sitting in my desk for the next year.
Just an idea
Here's an idea:
For a small amount of money you can get some really good emulators on the Play Store that will allow you to play Play Station 1, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance and PSP games on your phone. There are also emulators for older consoles, too. Download ROMs (but only for games that you paid for) and turn it into a dedicated gaming phone!
Try these:
FPse
DraStic
SuperN64
PPSSPP
My Boy!
or you can paste plastic googley-eyes on it, sharpie yourself a crazy-mouth, and use it to keep your important documents from blowing off your desk!