any one now where i can get one? dropped mine into the drink and after drying it up real good it only works as a tablet now, no more phone function.it cant detect IMEI and has no service( service disabled) sim card works fine on other phones by the way.
the phones a: LG G2 d802
open it up and clean it with battery detached with 90-99-100% alcohol,dry try again. Not fixed check which areas look broken/rusted/busted replace those. Chances are you may replace entire phone.
His EFS partition seems to be missing. Probably some storage damage.
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i think i shorted out my s4 trying to charge battery with stripped wires because charging port would not work,so i took all the parts from another activated s4 with a broken screen which is on my family plan and put them into my s4 which would not even turn on and after replacing innards the phone now turns on everything works but wont activate tried soft and hard reset tried both sim cards. My question is after you swap parts out is there something i have to do to get the phone to think all the parts now inside are the original parts. the only parts in my phone that are original are the circuit boards or what i call chips which would have to be heated and removed which i am not willing to do. please reply everything works except wont activate. is it possible i fried the circut boards out?
Hi, I'm curious exactly where you put the stripped wires?
I understand there are 2 leads above the battery that are to support a wireless charging module/case. Is That where you hooked it up?
What exactly happened? did it smoke or turn off suddenly? Any visible black spots?
Also, very important, the main board (directly above battery bay, rear camera attaches to it) stores the IMEI # which will persist with the physical chip. I assume that's why it won't activate, sprint sees it as a different phone instead of your phone.
This might be ok though, as long as your IMEI is clear for activation. In this case, you just need a IMEI change on your account, and you should be golden.
(If unsure, call sprint and ask for ESN/imei check)
If blacklisted/active, then there are ways of repairing your IMEI. Legality of it is in the grey, but my view is if you own both phones, you can swap the imei's. Just don't sell the unused one, or zero out the meid (Google play won't work with 0'd imei so you'll have to make a phony one instead)
I used CDMA Tool, it took a bit of fiddling but with the proper guide, you should be able to accomplish it. (There's some kind of efs backdoor, and you must always first zero out the imei, then write a new one, never write a current imei to a new valid imei. For some reason it won't work, otherwise. (That was my experience, YMMV)
Last, you can buy the USB board that plugs in for about $6 on eBay. (Bought this today) this one is relatively easy. Unfortunately I found out the home button replacement requires removing the digitizer, using a heat gun. The USB board is one of the first things you see after taking plastic back off (9 screws).
Also, let me know how it works out.
Mvmcad thanks for reply, i put the 2 stripped wires in ]between the battery terminal and the terminls on rear of phone under the case it sparked but no smoke and no black spots, phone just would not turn on anymore untill i swapped all the parts .to get a clearer picture if u pop off your back cover and with the battery in place slide wires in between phone terminals and battery terminals at top of battery. would sprint be able to switch IEMI # over phone ?
Oh I see.. Yes sprint should be able to swap a IMEI over the phonr as long as you can provide the correct account information (they probably will ask for old IMEI as well as new IMEI). Gl!
OK so here goes. I had a phone basicly get destroyed. The glass broke and then when I attempted to fix it the up glue got in every sensor and then when I tried to remove the glass again I tore the digitizer. So I bought a bad esn phone in perfect condition and swapped the main board. Here is the strange part. My background is now on both phones, my saved wifi ssid's are still on my old phone but not the new one, and the old phone with the bad esn has mobile data. So both phones have data but I can not have them both on at the same time or I get crazy data connection errors. From what I understand the main board has all of the memory on it so can someone please explain this to me.
Hello,
I had my phone water damaged and repaired, but now my WCDMA/LTE doesn't work and I have some suspicions they had a faulty repair on my phone. Here's a timeline of the events to understand why"
1. Bought I9505 (I live in europe, hence the european version). All worked fine, had HSDPA (no 4g when I bought it 2 years ago, since my carrier didn't support it yet).
2. Did a small dent in the phone's screen (cracked glass in the upper corner, near proximity sensor, tiny piece of glass missing [1mm], but touch screen worked fine)
3. Dropped it in water while on vacation. Quickly took out battery, bought a bag of rice and held it in rice for ~20h, hoping the water would be absorbed.
4. Next day I fully charged then turned on my phone, it was connected to 3g, I was receiving facebook notifications, my mother called me at one point and ringtone was working. The only problem: touch screen didn't respond at all so I couldn't answer or unlock my screen.
5. Took it to a local service, they changed my screen (and did a full reset on my phone that I wasn't asked permission for - that I didn't understand why, but I thought who knows, maybe they needed it for the screen change). However, I wasn't upset since I was more interested in getting my touch screen to work, and it did.
6. HERE's THE PROBLEM: yes, they fixed my touch screen, but now i have to use it only in "GSM only" network mode, since the others don't work: whenever I choose any of the other options ("WCDMA/GSM, WCDMA only, WCDMA/GSM/LTE"), I lose signal completely, and I get "Not registered on network" message when trying to call. I should mention that APN setting are correct and I tried the SIM in another phone and it worked. I also tried another SIM in my phone and it didn't work.
7. Somehow I thought it might've been the water damage and I was ok (although upset) with it. But I searched the internet for answers since I thought maybe I'd fix my phone due to a software/bad config problem. I used ODIN to flash different versions of official firmwares with no success.
8. HERE's WHY I'm SUSPICIOUS: I found some piece of information that said the LTE/WCDMA(data) module is embedded in the display, not in the motherboard. Upon further research, i found the USSD code *#2663# that tells me the display is from a SGH-I337 (S4 model used in the US). Thus, if the data module truly is embedded in the display, that would render my data service useless, since the US frequency is not the same with EU frequency.
What do you guys think ?
Is it truly the display's fault or did I get erroneous information regarding the WCDMA/LTE ?
Am I entitled to negotiate with them because they put an incompatible component on my phone for a partial refund or is this my phone's fault ?
Is there any way to force the frequency somehow so my phone works (rooting & modifying some modem files maybe) ?
I'm sorry if I had some presumtious/loaded questions, but it's all information that I had from the internet.
Thank you for your patience to read all of this.
Do us a favor please? Enter download mode (Volume -, Home, Power) and read off the model number listed there. Reason being that I suspect your phone was totally replaced, with an AT&T model.
Did that just now, the product name says GT-I9505. The IMEI is also the same as before (checked with the product packaging it came with when I bought it). Could they have any way to overwrite this stuff ? Because your knack is not unfounded - under the battery, the IMEI/SN sticker seems to have been peeled and re-glued since it's wrinkly and misaligned.
Worst part is they're authorized Samsung service partners, that's the reason I went to them and not another service. (I can find them on the samsung website, when looking for service locations)
It sounds like they simply moved your motherboard into an AT&T midframe. I'd take it back to them posthaste and have them fix it properly. Because LTE isn't working, and it was before they did their work, they are responsible.
I've got an LG V20 (H990ds) with a damaged screen and/or main board. I want to recover data from it. The phone is encrypted. I know the PIN, but can't enter it.
I think the phone got some water in it. The screen comes up black, though I can see a bit of backlight, and get sounds that suggest it's functioning normally except for the screen. It has come to life further since it was damaged, with the display working, but not the touch-screen functionality, and on one occasion with full functionality. Unfortunately I didn't back up then, and it now won't come on at all.
I've bought another of the same model phone. Can I take the phones apart and use the new screen to access the data on the old phone? Is there a guide somewhere I can use for this?
Where is the internal SD card? Is it in fact a detachable item, or is it built into the main board? If it's the main board on the old phone which is damaged, what are my options?
Hello
On my XC with LOS 16 Android 9 sim card is randomly lost and need to reboot to get back online.
I suspect an OS issue because no specific situation ( shaking, falling, shock...) make this happen. Most of the time, no event is clearly is guilty.
As someone meet this behaviour ? do exist a way to fix it ?
Thanks
Try cleaning it's contacts or replacing it.
A cracked mobo solder joint or trace do it too.
So you think it's a hardware issue than software. I will do.
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So you think it's a hardware issue than software. I will do.
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If it's not a new phone assume phone hardware last otherwise return it.
Try clearing sim card tool kit data.
Clear system cache.
Try replacing the sim card; they can and do fail usually from ESD damage due to poor handling.
Always treat a sim card like a stick of ram. Follow ESD safe handling procedures.
Nobody does and that the #1 reason for failures!
A failure can happen on the spot (a mercy) or days, weeks, months even years after the ESD exposure. Don't let some goofball in leather soled shoes walking on carpet in a dry ACed store even touch it
In over 10 years I only ever saw one tech handle a sim card correctly. Like ram sticks they leave the manufacturer fully functional... until they are mishandled.
I've never had a blown ram stick or sim...
ok, how to clearing cache ?
what is ESD ?
it's an used phone in good condiiton ans the simcard was in other phone before but environements are so differents that is not a reliable comparison point.
thanks