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need ur help guys

guys i have been using windows mobile from past 5 years.i have used the following phones:
1 o2 xdaIIi(display cracked)
2 xda neo(dead)
3 xda mini S (display prob)
4 htc touch
5 omnia
6 htc diamond(dead)
now the problem is my htc diamond is dead..it was working fine and was kept on table,but as i pressed the power button to use it it was off...i thought maybe the battery is low..i switched in the ac power adaptor but there was no light around the cirlcle.it was out of warranty so i went to a local mobile repair shop...he told me that the whole plate(ic plate) is short...i was like???? how can this happen as the phone was working fine before i kept it on table....i went to another repair shop he told the same and i asked the reason then he told me that its water damaged...he also said that it got to life once when he used a fully charged battery but it drained the battery very quickly n never got on again....i asked him that how water can enter when it was on a dry surface,he replied that maybe becoz of moisture or some other reason water has entered......
now my question is :
is there any solution i can bring it back to life
if not is there any way i can backup my internal 4gb data??
should i now buy a iphone 3g 8 gb or should i again try to give chance to HTC HD(blackstorm) with fingers crossed
if there is anyone who wanna buy the following phone can reply here or pm me....i have following phones to sell
1 xda neo was working fine but is not starting now most probably software problem
2 xda mini s..working fine but the display is messy because of the display ribbon
3 htc diamond ....dead (reason stated above)

guys no one to help me decide which phone to buy????also help me to get my htc diamond back to life or recover the data from 4gb internal memory

plz someone help me....i have heard that htc hd also have alignment and newton screen problem as it was with my diamond also???????

I don't think anybody would buy the dead or damaged phones unless you disclose the original price as well as selling price

there are Marketplace to sell this things. You should post em..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=476 let use it..

well selling is not my first preferance,my main question is to buy an htc hd or iphone 3g,secondly i wanna know where is internal memory of diamond and can the data be recovered????

As this is a WM forum I think everyone would advise you to buy a HD (or even HD2), but after all it's up to you, play a bit with both phones and see what suits you better.
As to the internal storage... there's probably no easy way to recover the data .

[Q] o2 xda(htc wallaby)microswitch mod

Hello,I was wondering if anybody knows of a mod to bypass the microswitch that is located under the simtray door on my o2 xda (htc wallaby).
I have noticed that the switch as been completely removed and there is know no solder pad to connect another switch to.
so if anybody knows of a way around this (board link,etc) i would be very grateful.
Thank you.

If there is no solder pad, you must determine what connections the switch was using in the first place. If you can find the connections, you can make the bridge. If you can make the bridge, then your battery will think it's closed.
Worst case scenario, as a jimmy-rigged hack, you can use a #2 pencil to draw an electrical contact between the points. You just have to find out where the connection SHOULD go to.

o2 xda microswitch mod
Hello and thank you Adam for the reply.
I have checked and found that where the switch would have been, it would have been grounded when the simtray door was attached (which was missing).
On close inspection tonight i have found that there is a number of components missing or damaged and so i think it maybe a good idea not to waste any more time on it.
Thank you for your good advice.

[Q] Port near battery

Hey XDA,
I just got a Nexus S and when I went to put the battery in noticed what looks like an antenna port to the right of the battery, just curious if anyone knows what it's for as I didn't see anything mentioned about it in the manual (doesn't show up on their diagram of it).

I saw this the other day too, some info on the subject would be nice.

external antenna port. Lots of phones used to have them.
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Thanks,
Do you know the connector port name/type is? I get 1 bar at best of coverage in my home and generally only use my phone in one spot and wouldn't mind an external antenna of some sort.
Edit:
Found the port name MMCX, now just looking for a antenna that will work.

If you see the W!,R1,,w2 holes. they are your attenas and recivers. if you poke the small hole with something you break connectivity. Which you can now get it replaced if you have insurecnce doe.... dont listen to me this is just my expeice that i had with my samsung insinct, I'm sharing education. this is fraud.
please disregard all grammatical errors its 2am and im tired but bored... this is sad.

[Q] Oven QuickFix – Will it work for Nexus S?

Hello.
So it came. My Nexus S betrayed me. I started getting random "inabilities" to boot my phone. It was rather not booting than booting. The phone was booting like 1 out of 10 times (stuck at Google Logo). Suddenly I found out that applying pressure to the back of the phone (to the SIM card slot area) while pressing the power button solves the issue. At least temporarily.
The conclusion I came to is the following: Given this information (applying pressure) I came to the conclusion, that the soldered-on storage chip is not so soldered-on.
What about this: If oven-baking our laptops can repair them, is it possible to fix my Nexus as well? That is the question for you, guys! Will it take the heat? Can some components fall off the board when heated? Or get burn? If so, can I apply heat directly on that damn chip? That is the metaquestion!
Thanks in advance!

How can you fix a laptop by putting it in the oven dude ? Are you serious ? Ive never heard of that. Ever.
And i can't encourage you that this is a good idea cus it doesn't sound good.
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raducux said:
How can you fix a laptop by putting it in the oven dude?
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Here you go.
https://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+oven+fix
And you're welcome eventually

I would rather use a proper heatgun and try to heat the place little bit while isolating rest of the "working" parts.
But honest advice, spare yourself the trouble of disasembling everything and start saving for new phone :/
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Awkward solution. Anyway i think that the device itself cant handle 385°…
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Ted Mosby said:
isolating rest of the "working" parts.
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Maybe I could take aluminum tape and create rectangle around the chip, then heatgun the chip. That should work…

AW: [Q] Oven QuickFix – Will it work for Nexus S?
Oven quickfix does indeed work. I once repaired a HP nx7000 by disassambling the NB and put the motherboard into the oven. Worked like a charm afterwards.
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schurl85 said:
Oven quickfix does indeed work.
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I found out that my coleague has a heatgun and his friend even has a machine for this (reballing stuff I would guess).
It is, however, good to know, that I'm not lost once I find out I'm out of RMA period. I *THINK* my phone does does have a valid warranty BUT I'm not quite sure I can find my papers and get to the store soon enough. It's indeed good to have a backup…

Go for the heatgun if possible. A lot of the parts on phone are extremely heat sensitive unlike larger hardware and you would likely end up damaging something else rather than just fixing the storage. Have put back to life quite a few devices using a heatgun and proper shielding, mainly xbox 360, video cards and other random peripherals.
Still would save for a new phone though, because it's likely it might die completely on you in the close future.

Water damage

Soooo I'm in a super jam. Got water on my device.....had it in rice overnight....powered on fine...can see water damage behind screen but the touch screen works....my loudspeaker is shorted out, puts out super low volume. My WiFi works and my Bluetooth works but no cell service. I found the replacement speaker online for like $10 so that's fine....how do I go about repairing the cell radio? I didn't see that part anywhere. Is it part of a larger module?
Any insight is super helpful. Thanks guys!
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Before you do anything drastic, I'd verify its the not the sim card destroyed. I wet my device once and two days later all was fine except no reception and it turned out to be the sim card was corroded. You can also try cleaning the damaged sim card in alcohol but that's a last resort method.

I put the Sim card in my nexus 7 and it registered on network. Couldn't load any webpages or videos but it showed me as having "H full bars"
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briandresstoyota said:
I put the Sim card in my nexus 7 and it registered on network. Couldn't load any webpages or videos but it showed me as having "H full bars"
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It could still be the card at that point. I would still get a new one because you would need it either way. Worst case you paid 10$ for something you're going to need anyway. (If the damage was that deep it no doubt must have hit the sim card) its better to explore the cheapest option right off the bat before going in to repairs that mess with the inside of the phone.

Well I need to replace the speaker anyway
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So I'm actually posting from the damaged device. Turned it on today and the speaker is working. My WiFi is working as well as my GPS module. Camera and flash are both working. I guess I need to just try a new Sim card. There is definitely water marks behind the screen..anyone have any ideas on how to clear that up?
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My mic works too. Just tried it with a voice search. The vibrator motor seems to go in and out
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I actually just now had signal for a few seconds. No data but had bars. I intermittently have the display changing from "no service" to "emergency calls only"
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Anyone have any thoughts as to what would cause the intermittent signal? Is it a sim reader failure? and antenna failure? Something that can be repaired?

My USB connectivity came back!!! Can go through all my files and adb connectivity is functional. Anyone know if there is a diagnostic that I can run to find out what parts have failed? I'd like to just have to replace my antenna if that's all I need
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Um... I replied to the other same thread basically that you opened. ?

KJ said:
Um... I replied to the other same thread basically that you opened. ?
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yeah this thread as you can see is kinda dead. im like the only poster almost so i opened another thread asking for something different. if the mods want to consolidate the two thats ok by me. Sorry for clogging up the forum, just dying for some assistance from the great minds of our community

You're wasting your time in my opinion. 99.999 percent of the time... If something doesn't work after water got to it.... It's fried. Would be a gigantic coincidence that something went weird the exact same time. ?

KJ said:
You're wasting your time in my opinion. 99.999 percent of the time... If something doesn't work after water got to it.... It's fried. Would be a gigantic coincidence that something went weird the exact same time. ?
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ok well it was not completely sumberged.
the antenna cable is a separate module in the device
If everything else is working perfectly it would be very hard for me( a EE trained person) to assume that the motherboard is "fried"
im not even suggesting that something "went weird". LOL i am suggesting that possibly the antenna got water damage while the rest of the device survived. I am curious whether there is a diagnostic software that will let me know what hardware pieces are damaged. As it is right now i dont have a multimeter or i could just open the sucker up and resistance check everything LMAO

The radios toast. Just because everything else works doesn't mean the radio survived. Had the same issues with my wifes phone. She gave it a tea bath. I took it apart, cleaned it with electrical cleaner, dried it in rice for three days. Put it back together and everything worked great. Except the radio. Sold it for parts and moved on.