My two-year-old HD2 has developed connector problems shortly after it's first birthday. First the charging/data micro USB connector would increasingly not stay connected, and then the wired handset microphone became intermittent and finally stopped working completely. I tried new handsets and USB cables, but no joy. Turns out the problem in both cases was impacted pocket lint in the phone connectors. No joke. I keep the phone in my front trouser pocket, and over time lint has settled into the connectors and been jammed to the connector bottom each time I plugged in a cable. After a while the impacted lint became hard and sufficiently thick that it interfered with proper seating of the connectors! Solution was to carefully dig it out using a hat pin and some very thin and fine tweezers. Much easier solution than trying to open the HD2 and replace the connectors!
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This is for those of you with intermitent loud speaker problems especially those who have noticed problems when the stylus is inserted into the silo as mentioned here and here. Facing a daunting 4-6 week separation whilst my UK import TyTN was shipped to Germany for warranty repairs, I caved and cracked open the back.
Attached is a slightly grainy closeup (the macro on my Contax U4R sucks) showing what I found. Yes, that's the damnable clear vinyl shim (pink circle) that others have encountered. And that's a loose speaker connection (thankfully not a full blown short as I had feared).
The shim appears to have been jammed by the stylus into the loudspeaker connection (red circle) and unseated the plug 'just so' (burgandy circle) from the mobo. The case was keeping it partially seated. However the case would flex out thanks to the stylus- a condition that was probably exaggerated by the shim. Without the shim my stylus no longer comes out of the silo fully extended- but that's a small price to pay for hearing the phone ring.
In addition to what teambnet says - even if your stylus retaining block of rubber has not come off and hit the connector - that connector (see teambnets picy) is not the firmest and could easily come loose as teambnet says and cause poor/non-existent connection to speaker. Simple fix it's just a push in pull out block connector. Don't assume you have to have given your device a hard knock. Even the odd vibration over time could work this one loose.
This does not of course 100% rule-out, that some folks may have a software issue instead.
Mike
Thanks,
Very useful tip. It fixed my phone
Hi,
The keyboard stopped working on my device so I opened it up to find the tiny flat keyboard cable not properley seated on the mainboard. I tried putting it back but 1)its SOOOO tine and fidley, and 2) the tiny plastic saddle / clip bit that holds the cable down broke in half.
I suspect it may have been cracked already somehow and that why it came loose.
Anyway, anyone know where I can get one of these little clips? Any tips for putting them back together?
Thanks!
Anthony
Hi, I have G1 with touch screen not working. On the back of the LCD, the small clip down connector for touch screen ribbon cable doesn't seem to grip tight. Even when closed, cable can be pulled from connector quite easily. Any suggestions please?
Last week I replaced my flex ribbon cable because I tore the ribbon cable to the power button while replacing the digitizer.
After installing the new flex cable my blutooth signal has been terrible. When listening to music via S9-HD's when I go to put the phone back in my pocket the audio cuts out just in the motion from texting to placing the phone in my pocket. Also when walking its impossible to listen to any music because it cuts out so much.
What might my problem be? Is the blutooth antenna on the flex cable or did I mess something up when I took apart my phone?
anyone?
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We aren't ignoring you dude. I promise. Have you disassembled the phone again and tried wiggling things around?
Finally had the time to take it apart again and wiggled things around. It improved a little bit, but still the range is no where near what it was before I replaced the flex ribbon cable.
Does anyone know which cable is the Bluetooth cable? is it the black one on the left near the white cable or the single black cable on the opposite side? I did notice when I took my phone apart again was a small pinch in the single black cable. Would that pinch be enough to break the wire under the shielding?
I can get pics if needed some time this weekend.
wonderbread24 said:
Finally had the time to take it apart again and wiggled things around. It improved a little bit, but still the range is no where near what it was before I replaced the flex ribbon cable.
Does anyone know which cable is the Bluetooth cable? is it the black one on the left near the white cable or the single black cable on the opposite side? I did notice when I took my phone apart again was a small pinch in the single black cable. Would that pinch be enough to break the wire under the shielding?
I can get pics if needed some time this weekend.
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Those types of cables are made of SUPER fine wire. A pinch can easily sever them inside the shielding.
How do i know for sure that the kinked cable is the bluetooth cable? So I can order the right one to eliminate that factor.
Does it look like that?
http://www.cellulardr.com/t-mobile-...y-touch-4g-blue-tooth-coax-cable-tmobile.html
There are two that look like that.
One on the left side and one on the right when looking at the phone with the back open and the screen facing down.
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Well, there is a white and a black cable. The one in the product photo is black. Provided that is not a generic stock photo it should be the black one.
So i think that i somehow got a small stone in my headphone jack (it could be something else but it's most likely a stone) and now i wonder if i somehow can get it out or if my only option is sending it in. My headphone cable goes in halfway so i get sound in one side but it's not going all the way down.
Edit: I solved the issue by first removing the rock and then using a toothpick with a brush like tip which immediately removes a piece of cloth dust from my clothes. It seemed as if I had both a rock and this cloth dust in my headphone jack, what are the odds.
First, with a lamp, try to see what's inside it, and until problem is fixed, don't try to put your jack in, the stone would get stuck deeper and harder.
I would try first to suck it with a vacuum cleaner.
Next option is to try to gently unstuck the stone with a toothpick, and then to tap the phone gently on your hand, until the stone comes out.
chironfr said:
First, with a lamp, try to see what's inside it, and until problem is fixed, don't try to put your jack in, the stone would get stuck deeper and harder.
I would try first to suck it with a vacuum cleaner.
Next option is to try to gently unstuck the stone with a toothpick, and then to tap the phone gently on your hand, until the stone comes out.
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Ok so I followed your steps and got out I small Stone using the toothpick but my iems still won't go all the way in. They are now going enough so I get sound on both channels but the mic isn't working. My headphones at home however go in all the way with a satisfying click sound as usual. Could there still be a tiny bit of something in the bottom and is so how do I get I out? I didn't see anything with a flashlight but I suspect that whatever is there it must be smaller than the difference on my headphone cable jacks which is like 0.5mm.
Cool you could solve it. About the lint, same sh.. happens with usb keys that do not have covers.
edit: I've just had the same issue with fast charging. I removed lint from the connector and everything is back to normal.