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[Q] How disassemble HD2 camera?

Hello
My working place don`t allow to enter it with devices which have built-in camera (the reason is to prevent industrial espionage).
I have 2 options, the first is to buy very old phone without camera - i prefer not to do this and the second one is to disassemble my hd2 camera.
I have seen the youtube disassembling hd2 video but in the video they didn`t disassemble the camera.
My quastion is if it hard to do it?
Can it cause to some software problems?
Is someone here have ever did it?
Do you have some guides or good links for this?
Thanks and sorry for my english.
Ofir

Maybe you can modify the software so that the camera doesnt work.
What OS do you have on your HD2.

Hi,
Thanks for your answer,
I`m using andriod 2.3.3 but your solution isn`t good for them.
They want to see device without camera.

ofir_bl said:
Hi,
Thanks for your answer,
I`m using andriod 2.3.3 but your solution isn`t good for them.
They want to see device without camera.
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Oke thats kinda sucks.
I thinks the best way is to remove the cam en then remove the software as well.
I will try to find some more info how to remove it safety.

Remove the camera bezel, then electrical tape over it with the cover off. Put the cover back on, and volla! No camera.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

I have found a youtube video where they remove the camera.
Click an skip to 5:00

Hi,
I`m looking at the video,
Is the rigit flex board is used only by the camera?
Is it ok if i remove it from the device?

ofir_bl said:
Hi,
I`m looking at the video,
Is the rigit flex board is used only by the camera?
Is it ok if i remove it from the device?
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From the point of view the sound control buttons are on the rigit flex board as well.

your actually willing to break a fully functional Leo just for work are you crazy, wouldn't it be less hassle if you just got a different phone, what happens if you need to claim on your warranty at some point ??
just saying.

Screw it leave the camera in and do exactly what they are afraid of record everything. Post on YouTube
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

OK, I did it and everything pass fine.
Thankyou all everybody.

ofir_bl said:
OK, I did it and everything pass fine.
Thankyou all everybody.
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Ok nice good luck with your job .

HTC HD2 High-definition Motherboard Pictures

Hello guys. I need high definition photos of HTC HD2 Motherboard. I need to check one SMD part on motherboard because I think I accidentally broke one part on it. It seems like there is one missing part but I am not sure. So if anybody can upload really high def photo of motherboard it will be great. I searched google and forum here but its not enough to zoom in on that place.

This is what I had laying around
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA

wouternet said:
This is what I had laying around
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
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Nice one wouternet but can you also take the picture of the other side of the board? But thank you anyway i will need both sides of that board
Sent from my Dorimanx powered HTC HD2

It would be easier if you said what part your looking for
Don't mind the black stuff, I used a marker to mark this bricked mainboard
Sent from an awesome HD2 running Hyperdroid in a galaxy far far away

i am sending a pic of that place. its a small smd probably but i am not sure . the location of that part or better say place is very near to the edge of board it is the last solder point to the 3 gold connect points i am not sure for what they are used for. probably for extended battery? i just need to know if there is som smd part or not. because it looks suspicios on my board and i think that this is why main speaker is not working on my hd2 since i disassembled hd2 to repair vol buttons. flex cables are ok i already checked them because i remember when i bought phone the sound was not working because main flex was not properly pluged in on main board. i was very careful whem i was dis and assembling phone . i dont understand why aound is no longer working.

Nah there is nothing there. At least nothing that can break off easily. I'm sure the problem is somewhere else.
Is it the earpiece not making sound or is it the speaker on the back?

wouternet said:
Nah there is nothing there. At least nothing that can break off easily. I'm sure the problem is somewhere else.
Is it the earpiece not making sound or is it the speaker on the back?
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yep it is back speaker that is not working. I dunno what cause that problem with no sound
Sent from my Dorimanx powered HTC HD2

Well the problem should be near the GPS board... Or in the rear shell....
check this: (No need to take the speaker out) http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-HTC-HD2-PB81120-Phone-Speaker/5605/2
And this is where it connects: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/IKePYgHa1GxX1vZF.huge
It's left from the camera, between the Camera module and the where the white wire connects to the board. There is should touch the 2 golden squares.

wouternet said:
Well the problem should be near the GPS board... Or in the rear shell....
check this: (No need to take the speaker out) http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-HTC-HD2-PB81120-Phone-Speaker/5605/2
And this is where it connects: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/IKePYgHa1GxX1vZF.huge
It's left from the camera, between the Camera module and the where the white wire connects to the board. There is should touch the 2 golden squares.
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i will check that place near gps. Or maybe the speaker is broken. I will try another one if that help. I will let you know later when i fix it. Thank you wouternet.
Sent from my Dorimanx powered HTC HD2

Well you was right about the place near GPS where speaker is connected to the phone. The problem was there. For some reason one of the golden square dont work anymore lol. Weird huh. So the solution I have found out was to connect that non-working golden square to the little golden O point between those 2 golden squares.
Here is a picture
Selected red places are the points that are working.
So i connected non working golden square to the O point between those two golden squares with solder and after that woalaa. Speaker is working.
I still dunno why this golden square caused the problem because it looked like it is solidly attached to the board. But anyway speaker is working and I feel peacefully .
I will edit this thread as a guide if somebody needs it. I also fixed camera flash light because everybody who dissasembled HD2 know that cable from camera flash light connected to the mainboard is very fragile and it can be easily torn out of the connector and if you want to put it back into the connector it is really painfull and not always work so I decided to solder it to the board on camera flash light.
Here is a picture how I did it.
I connected those coloured cables using solder to the golden O points on camera flash light board as it is shown on the picture. Woalla again it works. Its free if you have soldering tools and some experience with soldering .

Thanks so much for sharing your solution.
Exactly this hint has given the life back to my phones speaker.
I used very thin copper wire to connect the 2 points.

wouternet said:
This is what I had laying around
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
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Please, I need a photo of USB motherboard zone area, zoom in,

motherboard htc hd2 t-mobile
I have a HTC HD2 from T-Mobile USA, which broke my motherboard. if anyone has any idea if it matches a motherboard in hd2 hd2 for Europe which my phone is t-mobile. I mean plugs, screws, joints ... etc.. I think that maybe easier to find the motherboard but if I search for a motherboard to hd2 t-mobile phone.
please if you can help me with any information any connoisseur, is welcome or if someone has motherboard for sale in working condition with no problems (not boot the, to lock up, etc ...) to me leave message here
sorry for bad eanglish

Parts MB525 and MB526 interchangeable?

Hello,
I broke the screen of my Moto Defy+ (MB526) which I obviously want to replace.
However, here (NL) we only have parts (such as replacement screens etc) for the Moto Defy (MB525) available.
Does anybody know if hardware parts such as screens/digitizers etc. are interchangeable between the MB525 and the MB526?
Thanks in advance,
TY

Although not absolutely certain, but I think they're identical with respect to the touch screen and hence parts should be swappable between models
Sent from my MB526 using xda premium

All the parts are interchangeable (caution with camera and battery) between defy and defy+.

Ignore of your taking about digitizer
I may be wrong but afaik display comes with rev versions so make sure its the same revision(may be written on the display itself
Sent from my MB526 using xda premium

OK
hackergnome said:
Ignore of your taking about digitizer
I may be wrong but afaik display comes with rev versions so make sure its the same revision(may be written on the display itself
Sent from my MB526 using xda premium
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Take care about battery and camera, all other parts are interchangeable, i think.

As far as display and digitizer goes its all the same Ive replaced mine manually with a chinese one. Works fine. Remember your speaker orientation before popping it out. Might not matter but why risk it and it looks identical rotated.

drawkcaB said:
As far as display and digitizer goes its all the same Ive replaced mine manually with a chinese one. Works fine. Remember your speaker orientation before popping it out. Might not matter but why risk it and it looks identical rotated.
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Slight bit of an OT regarding our Defy Screen.
Since you replaced yours with a Chinese replacement LCD, how's the quality of the display? Is it par with the original Defy LCD?
Though i always use the freezer trick to fix dead pixels on my Defy. I'm planning on also replacing my LCD with a Chinese one hoping that it will be more tough on dead pixels..
Thanks.

chipset used in defy+ is little different to that of the defy. Some Parts may cause problem

drawkcaB said:
As far as display and digitizer goes its all the same Ive replaced mine manually with a chinese one. Works fine. Remember your speaker orientation before popping it out. Might not matter but why risk it and it looks identical rotated.
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Hey,
Can you confirm the quality of chinese LCDs? I am getting MB525 LCD, which I hope is compatible with MB526. My phone, got dropped from bed & not almost half of the screen is black.
I stay in Mumbai, India.
Tnx.

mGforCe said:
Hey,
Can you confirm the quality of chinese LCDs? I am getting MB525 LCD, which I hope is compatible with MB526. My phone, got dropped from bed & not almost half of the screen is black.
I stay in Mumbai, India.
Tnx.
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Sorry been off XDA for ages. Yeah my Digitizer works fine. I didnt change the screen just the touch was cracked and i changed it along with the entire front housing. Works without any issues. I too live in mumbai and i ordered mine from ebay.com

SGH-i337 WiFi Problem (antenna related )

hello Guys ,, i have problem with my galaxy s4 (i9505) att version (sgh-i377) suddenly i get low and very poor wifi signal , i watch disassembly video about this phone , when i check the antenna i figured out that when my finger touch the antenna outside ,,directly beside the power button the signal become goooooood again , just i removed my finger it goes down again , what do you think i have to do , to end this headache !!!
Thanks

any kind of help !! :crying:

You probably have to rma it. But that may be a problem since you took it apart.
Sent from my Nexus 5

i didn't open it !!
i touch antena outside under the back cover , not inside the phone !
so what could be the problem ?

spidersxx said:
i didn't open it !!
i touch antena outside under the back cover , not inside the phone !
so what could be the problem ?
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If its still under warranty you should rma it. It's sounds like it's a hardware problem
Sent from my Nexus 5

jd1639 said:
If its still under warranty you should rma it. It's sounds like it's a hardware problem
Sent from my Nexus 5
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it's not for sorry
which part on hardware might b the problem ,, if you know !

[Q] What is covering my front camera lens?

Hi everyone. Today, I noticed that something is covering my front camera lens.
Do you know what is that piece covering the camera? Anyone encounter this situation?
I didn't drop my phone not even once and I tried to smack the top of the phone to see if it moves, but no luck.
P.S. The camera is able to take pictures normally.
I have a SM-N9005.
Thanks

Go exchange it... Looks like a faulty device. It could be a piece of electrical tape in the wrong position.
Sent from my SM-N900W8 using Tapatalk

bogdan2603 said:
Hi everyone. Today, I noticed that something is covering my front camera lens.
Do you know what is that piece covering the camera? Anyone encounter this situation?
I didn't drop my phone not even once and I tried to smack the top of the phone to see if it moves, but no luck.
P.S. The camera is able to take pictures normally.
I have a SM-N9005.
Thanks
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I have the exact same problem. Although mine is worse and i cant take pictures normally. Did you managed to solve this

bogdan2603 said:
Hi everyone. Today, I noticed that something is covering my front camera lens.
Do you know what is that piece covering the camera? Anyone encounter this situation?
I didn't drop my phone not even once and I tried to smack the top of the phone to see if it moves, but no luck.
P.S. The camera is able to take pictures normally.
I have a SM-N9005.
Thanks
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*boy*racer* said:
I have the exact same problem. Although mine is worse and i cant take pictures normally. Did you managed to solve this
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Looks like some sort of cover for the camera.
Maybe this site can help understand: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Note+3+Teardown/19209
But i think @nicholaschum 's solution will work best.

HanZie82 said:
Looks like some sort of cover for the camera.
Maybe this site can help understand: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Note+3+Teardown/19209
But i think @nicholaschum 's solution will work best.
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Hey you were right. Soon as i posted my issue, i thought i would watch a dismantle video and presto! It was a round rubber like washer that has slipped from around the camera.
All sorted now

Hi....Can you let me know how did you get this fixed as I am also having the same issue....

nelven said:
Hi....Can you let me know how did you get this fixed as I am also having the same issue....
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Hi,
I didn't
Now, that rubber is covering a lot more and I'm unable to take pictures.

nicholaschum said:
Go exchange it... Looks like a faulty device. It could be a piece of electrical tape in the wrong position.
Sent from my SM-N900W8 using Tapatalk
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i think its a faulty device or a piece of electrical tape too

3azmeo said:
i think its a faulty device or a piece of electrical tape too
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I don't think they will consider to be a faulty device and change it, although I would like a new Note 3 :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
To me, it seems to be a soft plastic that keeps the front-camera in position and not to touch directly the front-panel (display assembly).
So, probably they will change/remove the soft plastic

GO to your provider an request a NEW device
Do this : Contact 1st Samsung Service in your country and tell to them the problem becouse this a factory fault phone .
After you make some papers and a proove that you contacted already the samsung Service from your country , contact your seller and show him the problem
YOU MUST proove that : you did NOT DROPED your PHONE , DID NOT SHOCKED YOUR PHONE with some other things , like drop with speed in bed trow in the pillow etc etc , proove that you did not used any screwdriver , to have ORANGE WATER SENSOR in the back under the battery STILL ORANGE and NO ROOTED PHONE .
THEY WILL CHANGE YOUR DEVICE , BECOUSE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX THAT IS A PART OF A PLASTIC THAT WAS SLIPPERED FROM HIS PLACE .