So my camera broke. It was just the outside of the part, and the pictures didn't show a crack, but I still wanted to get it fixed. It turned out to be 50$ from one of the mall cell phone repair shops. Anyways he fixed it, but now my camera won't focus now. It tries, but then the thing goes red. Is this something he possibly did? Could it also be the rom I am now now? Like a bug?
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Joe
I would think you got a defective camera if it's not working. Not too many things that I know of that would cause that issue if it was working fine before you replaced it unless you didn't make sure it was hooked up firmly.
Sounds defective. My friends did that. I ended up ordering the replacement camera for $20 on ebay. Next time consider replacing it yourself. It's very easy.
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Febby said:
Sounds defective. My friends did that. I ended up ordering the replacement camera for $20 on ebay. Next time consider replacing it yourself. It's very easy.
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I might just see if I can get money back and do it myself if they don't cooperate, but how would I do this? What part would I need and what tools?
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I might just see if I can get money back and do it myself if they don't cooperate, but how would I do this? What part would I need and what tools?
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You'll need:
* Phillips #00 screw driver (I bought husky set at home depot for $5)
*guitar pick or plastic opening tool. Can also be bought on eBay.
Those are the tools I use.
Camera part here:
http://pages.ebay.com/link?nav=item.view&id=390656276300
Febby said:
You'll need:
* Phillips #00 screw driver (I bought husky set at home depot for $5)
*guitar pick or plastic opening tool. Can also be bought on eBay.
Those are the tools I use.
Camera part here:
http://pages.ebay.com/link?nav=item.view&id=390656276300
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Is there a guide you used as well?
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joeym11 said:
Is there a guide you used as well?
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I didn't follow a guide but watch this video. Its about how to take it apart. You'll have to only do the motherboard disconnection which is very simple
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My plays flex cable bit the dust a few months ago but now I have successfully brought it back to life and it works just as good as ever!!
Ps. Installing the flex cable is not fun or easy lol for those who want to try. I broke the first flex cable I ordered doing it and had to order a second but now she works great! Prolly keep this as a secondary phone while im still in a rogers contract.
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Another flex cable bites the dust. SE really went to town with the cheap components they used.
My PLAY will be out of warranty in about 4 months, thanks to the 2 year warranty in the uk, so I plan on opening and closing it several hundred times until it breaks so I can send it to the service centre to be fitted with a new one.
Its not the quality of the cable thats the problem it rubs against a metal peice everytime u open and close it. All they really had to do was put a plasitic protector over that metal peice lol. The stupid slide thing is riveted shut so I cant really do anything myself just keep throwing cables at it lol only 12 bucks on ebay
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Play back to life!!!!
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For a second I thought that they released the new update !
But congratulation on getting your Play fixed and thanks for sharing your experience
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For a second I thought that they released the new update !
But congratulation on getting your Play fixed and thanks for sharing your experience
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Haha my bad I prolly should have put the title as (my play)
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psxpetey said:
My plays flex cable bit the dust a few months ago but now I have successfully brought it back to life and it works just as good as ever!!
Ps. Installing the flex cable is not fun or easy lol for those who want to try. I broke the first flex cable I ordered doing it and had to order a second but now she works great! Prolly keep this as a secondary phone while im still in a rogers contract.
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Hey can you link me where to get that flex cable? Mine went bad yesterday. Do you by chance have a guide or any pointers to change the cable as well? Thanks, I really appreciate your help.
They're on ebay all the time. Mine wore out but it was under warranty, they sent me a new phone as a replacement. I had already moved on to a modern Android phone so my brand new PLAY is still in a box. I like to take it out and look at it sometimes.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SONY-ERIC...ABLE-FLEX-CONNECTOR-R800-Z1-Z1i-/270850617696
any advise
Mine broke also any advise/how to help you can pass forward?
No broken cable yet, but maybe I haven't slided mine enough yet. :x
alquistador said:
Mine broke also any advise/how to help you can pass forward?
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Ya when you fix it take the platic head off the connecter and be reeeeeallly gentle
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Ahh the flex cable issue...
Mine has never faulted, however I've replaced the cable in my friend's Xperia Play twice already.
Spizzy01 said:
Ahh the flex cable issue...
Mine has never faulted, however I've replaced the cable in my friend's Xperia Play twice already.
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Ya I think it happens because the slider gets loose causeing a pull on the cable and it rubs on the metal peices hard
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I have to replace mine. Any information to help the repair go well?
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I have to replace mine. Any information to help the repair go well?
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Ya theres a video on it in YouTube that should help its done by a British black dude hell walk you through it step by step
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I was just cleaning off my screen and I noticed theres some dust under the screen in the front camera hole. There's dust, and some stuff that looks like ice crystals or salt. It's been in my pocket all day and I think it's really weird. I'm not going to RMA or anything, because I will probably never use the front facing camera anyway. I always use the back
I too have dust in my front facing camera. Not a big deal but really LG? The build quality may look good on this phone but it's actually pretty bad. This is my fourth phone. I'm not rma-ing again.
You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.
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I don't understand why OEM's cant manufacture a phone with a proper dust seal gasket. It drives me absolutely nuts when there is dust under my screen. My old HTC Desire HD had dust under the screen within a week of purchase, and i took it back to telus. Unacceptable.
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Accidents happen.
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You can easily take out the back cover and remove it.
You just need a #5(?) torque screw and a prying tool to open the back cover.
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I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.
Krunk83 said:
I shouldn't have to do this. I would rather rma it than possibly damage the phone and void the warranty.
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Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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Okay.
It's relatively easy. Here's the video that I used.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=AZDAIgwbXk4
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Nothing about removing the front camera to clean it.
Get it RMAd.
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Girn said:
Get it RMAd.
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Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.
Krunk83 said:
Ugh, that is such a pain in the rear.
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Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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Many of you won't agree with this but this is the reason I bought my phone through tmobile I did get it for 49.99 though.
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It's not the rma that is a pain, it's setting my phone up again that is.
Hi everyone,
Somehow this morning (no idea how it happened) I broke the back glass on my phone. The camera also seems to have stopped working, but I'm not sure why. The impact point for the break was near the bottom of the phone, not the camera.
Has anyone else had a similar issue and how did they fix it? It's making the lockscreen quite slow, probably because of the camera widget
EDIT: Please ignore this post. I tried the camera again right after posting and it has fixed itself. My apologies.I'll be ordering a new back soon
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...and it has fixed itself.
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This phone is amazing, isn't it
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How are you ordering it ? and how much will it cost ?
Janne79 said:
This phone is amazing, isn't it
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Sure is!
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How are you ordering it ? and how much will it cost ?
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I'm thinking ebay, I'll have a better look tomorrow. Also considering just using clear nailpolish or something then getting a case to save some money.
Prices look like they're around 55AUD, plus 40 or so postage. I'm sure they'd be around cheaper though
...aliens...mysterious cracks...Nexus 4...
Hey there, long time lurker here but now I really need your help. I managed to drop my Nexus 4 this morning from about 3 foot onto lino flooring in my bathroom. It landed smack bang on it's back and the back glass is shattered.
Are there any cheap solutions to repairing this? I saw some glass on the bay for about £20, I don't know how easy it will be to repair though. Also thought about getting a skin from dbrands and just sticking it over it, hoping it holds.
Thanks, Ben.
I guess there aren't any alternatives.
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I hope u fix it :s
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Hey there, long time lurker here but now I really need your help. I managed to drop my Nexus 4 this morning from about 3 foot onto lino flooring in my bathroom. It landed smack bang on it's back and the back glass is shattered.
Are there any cheap solutions to repairing this? I saw some glass on the bay for about £20, I don't know how easy it will be to repair though. Also thought about getting a skin from dbrands and just sticking it over it, hoping it holds.
Thanks, Ben.
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You might wanna take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe1I0MlpLI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The link to purchase the back cover is in the description. Good luck!
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You might wanna take a look at this video:
The link to purchase the back cover is in the description. Good luck!
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It's not the screen, it's the glass on the back.
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their are 2 options you will find the one with NFC with be more expensive if you dont use NFC get the one without it and i got one for a friend off of ebay just search" nexus 4 back housing".
As far as buying a new back, I've heard a lot of people going on eBay, but where you get it is up to you.
As far as how to replace it once you obtain a replacement back, check out this thread. It has pictures and a nice step-by-step guide on how to do it. Scroll down a few posts and the OP also tells you where he got his replacement from.
Call LG
LG charged me $69.00 to replace the back glass.
Personally I'd save myself some money and time and go with a dbrand skin. The carbon one actually looks very nice on the N4 IMO (look at Taylor Martin's posts on www.pocketnow.com if you want to see it).
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Personally I'd save myself some money and time and go with a dbrand skin. The carbon one actually looks very nice on the N4 IMO (look at Taylor Martin's posts on if you want to see it).
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It's whether it will stay on though, with the glass being shattered and all I thought it might peel off with the shattered glass.
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Call LG
LG charged me $69.00 to replace the back glass.
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I rang them in the UK and they said they don't do repairs.
The people they referred me to (Carphone Warehouse) quoted me £79.99.
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Decided to get a dbrands skin and a ringke fusion case. Maybe some superglue to hold that glass together.
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It's not the screen, it's the glass on the back.
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Sorry, that was the wrong link. This is the correct one, if you're still interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZDAIgwbXk4 (the first 2:30) and the oem back: http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-lg-nexus-4-e960-battery-door-nfc-version.html
Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
send it in to LG for repair... i know when my screen cracked it cost $140 to repair, i'm unsure as to what the cost would be to repair the back as well.
alternatively you can buy the glass itself and replace it yourself but in my case it was cheaper to just have lg fix it.
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Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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Buy a new phone?
Am I close? Maybe get virgin mobile and build your way back up to the nexus.
silver456100 said:
Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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When this happened to me I just bought another one that had the opposite damage. You could probably get away with a water damaged phone if the digitizer isn't sensitive to a little h2o.
Is that all that's damaged?
Pictures? Did you fall on it or something, I mean, 185 lbs, lol...
Picture or it didn't happen :thumbup:
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Lol yeah if 185lbs was dropped on it I feel like more than just glass was damaged.
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You can give it to a hobo to eat
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silver456100 said:
Phone is cracked on front and back what're my options here?
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get the front and back replaced rough estimate= 150+60=210 $ best of luck
well i took it in to get repaired.. the guy came out half way through the repair and said that they put a new screen in but that it wasn't responsive.. i'm thinking more than just the screen and back broke.. the guy said it was for sure their screen though.. he told me that they'd order a new one and have it done tomorrow.. hope it was actually a faulty screen...
Leave us an update. I got my pop corn nearby
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