I just tried to change my working cracked display to a new one, now neither work. All I did was apply heat suction and carded the edges of the old screen off. Everything looks intact but idk. Any help please
I didn't check it for this phone but most of the cheap china phones don't support the LTE bands here in Europe (not sure if that applies to all of Europe but in Germany are such phones a no go if you Speed Test wanna use LTE)
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Bad Reception on All Networks Tried Compared to Older Nokia & Sony Ericsson Phones
I just thought I would post my issue here with my Desire HD. I will post updates following warranty. If anyone has similar issues with their handset please feel free to mention it here too. So far I've found a couple of comments googling about bad reception using a Desire HD when compared to an older phone. The girl I spoke to at HTC Australia said she had not heard anything about this before and said she believed it was an isolated issue.
I am experiencing very poor 2G & 3G reception on my Desire HD. I have played with all network settings including turning off Wi-Fi and selecting the network manually. I've also tried multiple radio versions, multiple ROM versions and factory resets and yes the issue was there to begin with and still is happening now after I've restored my ROM and radio back to stock. Compared to a much a older Sony Ericsson W660i and some other Nokia phone of the same age they all get much, much better reception. This is in the same room of the same house. Using sim cards from Telstra, 3, and Vodafone in Australia. The biggest change noticeable is obvious using 3 and Telstra SIM cards in the Desire HD. The old Nokia and Sony Ericsson keep a rock solid full reception bars. The Desire HD struggles around 1 or two bars. Often going to no bars, sometimes getting as high as 3 bars only for a moment and sometimes going to X bars meaning completely no reception. Using the Vodafone SIM card I get equally crappy reception but when I put the Vodafone SIM card in the Nokia or the Sony Ericsson it is not rock solid full bars but usually only just a bit bellow full. HTC have suggested a factory reset and a warranty. I have complied a complete guide to reset my phone back to factory stock ROM, settings, htboot, S-on ect. Which is here if anyone needs it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920876
Lastly to anyone who didn't know HTC Australia informed me that if warrantied during the first 28days of purchace and they find an issue they just replace the phone. After 28days they only repair the phone. I will taking my phone in today to get the full replacement.
Could be bad SIM cover antenna contact. Without it you'll not get good reception at all.
Also DHD does not support all HSPA bands but you probably knew that. At least on Telstra GSM any DHD model should get full reception.
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Yoshi_523 said:
Lastly to anyone who didn't know HTC Australia informed me that if warrantied during the first 28days of purchace and they find an issue they just replace the phone. After 28days they only repair the phone. I will taking my phone in today to get the full replacement.
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That's nice. In South Africa we got 7 days... I had to send mine in on day 11. Been waiting for almost a month for the phone to come back, but it should be any day now (holding thumbs, touching wood, etc).
Also DHD does not support all HSPA bands but you probably knew that. At least on Telstra GSM any DHD model should get full reception
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Yeah I did know that. Same as my Sony Ericsson W660i really. The Sony only runs on the 2100Mhz UMTS (3G) band along with the standard quad band GSM (2G). It gets full bars on Telstra & 3 but my DHD doesn't
Could be bad SIM cover antenna contact. Without it you'll not get good reception at all.
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Where is the antenna exactly? I was guessing the antenna is around the middle of the back roughly coz cupping my hand across there will make the Wi-Fi drop a little. Is it really got a connector in the plastic cover plate that covers access to the MicroSD Card and SIM Card that affects the antenna?
The antenna in inside the botom plastic sim cover.
IT is molded in the cover and has 2 connectors where the cover and the main body of the phone make contact
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The antenna in inside the botom plastic sim cover.
IT is molded in the cover and has 2 connectors where the cover and the main body of the phone make contact
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Indeed, and when I take the SIM cover off I can barely get reception near a cell tower.
The battery cover also has an antenna in it, however I think it's for Wifi and BT.
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have you tried taking the sim card out and wiping the contacts clean and doing a reset i.e. battery out reset. This was happening to me when I got mine and this fixed my issues.
^^ Yeah no dice. Cleaning the SIM card does nothing. I also used multiple SIM card of different carriers.
I've just posted a new thread with videos as the brand new replacement Desire HD still has reception issues and I've found it has a surprisingly similar "death grip" issue that plagued the iphone 4.
Here's the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10842571#post10842571
All phones have a similar death-grip issue. But have you ever dropped a call on your DHD while holding it? Mine's similar, but I'm yet to drop a call or data session.
^^ I'm sorry I cannot answer that question as ever since got the phone with this SIM card I've been waiting for Vodafone to get back to me to change over my existing phone number so I've put on hold to use this Vodafone SIM card to make any calls or to use data. I can't believe that many years after the Australia wide policy to be able to keep your phone number that Vodafone are making a stink about it being such an issue to swap my number over. So in short I haven't been using the new SIM card and only been using Wi-Fi till because I want to wait till it's transferred to my old number. I would imagine holding the phone vertically as shown that web browsing on zero bars wouldn't be great. I would also guess that once I move to an area with even less reception that it would drop out. Again this is just my educated guess. Others will probably have more experience on this.
Secondly yes I can understand that maybe all phones have a particular death grip hold (depending on where the aerial is) that will cause reception to drop however I do think that this is bad planning with this HTC phone. Being a touch screen phone I unusually hold the phone in my left hand as in the video for general application and web surfing use. The old Nokia and Sony Ericsson I'd really have to try hard to hold my hand strangely to get it to drop reception.
Again please keep in mind I'm not against you guys. I'm only new to this phone. I realise it's one of the best on the Australian market. Hell I love this phone and have bought into a 24month contract. I plan to keep it and I only wanted to show you what I've found and hopefully if others have seen similar maybe they can tell HTC and then they can work on something to help. Maybe it's me being optimistic but I would like to thing that maybe that plastic bottom plate holding the antenna could be re-engineered and replaced with an upgraded one or something similar and problem solved?!?
Here we go again. HTC made the best considering the laws of physics. You can't have metal body without some non-metal part that holds the antenna. The only other possible solution is WiFi and gsm antennas to switch places but that might not be practical from the internal design point of view. If you hold your phone and look at it, you'll see that the only place you never put your hand is the top of the phone but I wouldn't want a cover there especially on a rainy day .
Our "death grip" and iPhone's is completely different. We have attenuation of the signal because when holding the phone your hand is in the near field of the antenna which messes with its properties to some extend (and attenuated the signal too) and Apple experiences signal cuts because some bright boy liked his design too much and did not listen to the engineers. IPhone's antenna is exposed and by touching it you cause much more trouble than being in the near field. And as if that's not bad enough, that same bright boy has put the WiFi antenna too close and if you bridge the two, the signal drops. Actually with the silicon case on, the iPhone and the DHD experience the same. If it doesn't look like it that's because with the software update Apple changed the way signal strength is reported to the user.
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I'm not sure this is actually an issue at all, the OP has stated he has no idea if it drops calls or not, merely that the recorded signal drops, also comparing signal strength with that of older phones, or even phones of different makes is nonsensical as all manufacturers set there own scale as to when the phone displays full reception and when it displays less, and since apple got caught fiddling the scales they appear to be overly cautious at reporting full reception
How to know the Fake & Real Galaxy S4 before buying
Guys as you all know their are number of fake phone now a days ....... so to avoid it....
>>>Is their any app to check the real nd fake mobile on that spot when buying ?????:good::good:
>>>Any small instructions to check before buying.
>>> Any signs to check quickly.
>>> Any other relevant suggestions
please comment below and help the buyers :highfive::highfive::highfive:
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How to know the Fake & Real Galaxy S4 before buying
Guys as you all know their are number of fake phone now a days ....... so to avoid it....
>>>Is their any app to check the real nd fake mobile on that spot when buying ?????:good::good:
>>>Any small instructions to check before buying.
>>> Any signs to check quickly.
>>> Any other relevant suggestions
please comment below and help the buyers :highfive::highfive::highfive:
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App to check phone details, very useful and should make clear whether phone is a clone or not.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo
Try and boot into download mode (power off and hold volume down while powering on again), the chinese clone phones wont have this function and usually only have a stock android recovery.
CPU Z app will let you check the hardware in the device as well. Anything with a MTK brand processor will be a clone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpuid.cpu_z
The majority of models should be single SIM, many of the chinese clones will be dual SIM, however there is an official chinese dual SIM model to look out for. The I9502, which does not come with any of Google’s applications and services, because Baidu is the dominant search giant in China.
If you can hold the device in sunlight, you should see a blueish tint to the screen if its genuine, thats the AMOLED screen, the clones will most likely use a cheaper LCD panel. You can try the same in a dark room, the official S4 will be deep black when rebooting, whereas an LCD sceen will have a grey tint when on the black boot screen, as again it will probably be an LCD screen.
Heres a good comparison video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTHk4CNjtc
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App to check phone details, very useful and should make clear whether phone is a clone or not.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo
Try and boot into download mode (power off and hold volume down while powering on again), the chinese clone phones wont have this function and usually only have a stock android recovery.
CPU Z app will let you check the hardware in the device as well. Anything with a MTK brand processor will be a clone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpuid.cpu_z
The majority of models should be single SIM, many of the chinese clones will be dual SIM, however there is an official chinese dual SIM model to look out for. The I9502, which does not come with any of Google’s applications and services, because Baidu is the dominant search giant in China.
If you can hold the device in sunlight, you should see a blueish tint to the screen if its genuine, thats the AMOLED screen, the clones will most likely use a cheaper LCD panel. You can try the same in a dark room, the official S4 will be deep black when rebooting, whereas an LCD sceen will have a grey tint when on the black boot screen, as again it will probably be an LCD screen.
Heres a good comparison video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTHk4CNjtc
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Also check the really basic stuff. And I mean REALLY basic stuff.
Make sure things like SAMSUNG is spelled correctly on the phone and that the font is correct. You would be shocked how often Chinese clones of things miss little details like this. I recal cloned iPhones a couple years ago that looked absolutely perfect, except the bite on the Apple logo was on the wrong side. HTC Sensations were cloned a couple years ago as well and the HTC logo on the back of the phone was in all upper case letters, instead of the H being a lowercase 'h'. Little details like that will be a dead givaway.
Check the ROM build specs in settings. Make sure they match what they are supposed to. Often a Chinese hacked rom will look very real, but the developers won't bother to clone the build date / version serial number / etc.
Price is another dead givaway. If it's $200, it's either a clone or it's stolen. Either way, you don't want it.
And finally just trust your instincts. If it smells fishy, walk away.
Hi,
Not had alot of luck with this this thing!.
Fixed an update problem last week to only drop it at work last night!!!
So just a Q before i go and buy a screen,
Will any SM-G900 model screen fit my H ? I will have to fly to Bangkok to collect this so need to make sure any will fit.
Cheers
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Will any SM-G900 model screen fit my H ?
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Screen is an unfortunate description. Most people use this to describe the exterior Gorilla glass. But it is sometimes used to refer to the AMOLED LCD or digitizer as well or even all three together as a module. If you are using screen in the common parlance, yes. If you really meant the LCD, then no.
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Screen is an unfortunate description. Most people use this to describe the exterior Gorilla glass. But it is sometimes used to refer to the AMOLED LCD or digitizer as well or even all three together as a module. If you are using screen in the common parlance, yes. If you really meant the LCD, then no.
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Why wouldn't it fit? Display assembly should have the same measures even if they are sourced from different providers.
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Why wouldn't it fit?
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The differences are not necessarily physical. They may be electrical differences. Why do that? Ask Samsung, but it could be cost control - leaving out parts not used by a specific carrier or country. Or it might be an effort to prevent using a lower priced grey market part in countries where they price a variant part higher.
Whatever the reason Samsung did the same thing for the S3 /S4. For example there are at least three physical S3 layouts. Sprint, the remainder of the NA modules and the international version. The Sprint version is electrically, but not physically interchangeable with the other NA modules. And neither is electrically compatible with the international variants. I have direct experience with this on the S3. I'm told by Samsung parts that the same situation exists for the S5 and have little reason to doubt that this is the case as it is what they have done in the past.
I have two phones. One is a busted screen g935f.
I want to take the guts out of the g935f and put it
In the g935v (which is a Qualcomm variant) and use
The body and the screen of the g935v. Will the parts
Fit? Will it work?
Thank You!
As far as I know the only difference betwee these two models is just the cpu
The design screen size and what not is the same, so it should work.
I've heard that the placement of some of the parts are a little different Between the Qualcomm and Exynos versions but I'm not sure.
That the body or frame is manufactured a bit different from the two.
It would be so much easier than having to tamper with that ridiculous edge screen.
Just take the backs off and swap parts.
Logic would dictate that the bodies are the same
Inside But, knowing how stupid these companies are.
Even if I have to forget about the camera connections. I just want access to all the Exynos roms here at xda.
Hi so i have an LG K20 with a smashed screen through Metro PCS. I bought another LG K20 online that is through T-Mobile (i THOUGHT since they merged it would work for Metro PCS) but that never happened because the phone i purchased ended up having a bad imei. Can i just switch out the motherboards to fix my smashed glass screen problem?
Should work just fine. These phones are super easy to take apart, but I would suggest watching a video on YouTube first to get a game plan.
It's all screws to take out, no heat gun needed.
https://youtu.be/szo_MCabGpM
The metro/TMobile phone are going to have identical hardware
Also, I've bought the screen in the link of the description of the above video and I can verify they're OEM. I'd only honestly buy from them.