Well, the vibrate motor on my Vox has crapped out. I got home from work and noticed something rattling around in it, I received a text message and no vibrate! I'll be busting it open later this week to find out what's up - and hopefully fix it. If not, I'll have to find a new and better (if that's even possible) handset than the Vox.
Argh. Anybody know where to get the vibrate motor from?
Sweet. I decided to open it now and it was just the weight had fallen off the spindle for the motor. I put it back on, closed up the back and it works mint again. I MacGyver'd it open with a knife to undo the Torx and to pop off the cover.
Yay.
Can you plz put instructions on how to open vox? i need to fix my earpeice plz..
There is a dismantling guide on modaco! let me just find the link ..
EDIT:
Okay found it..
Just scroll down the site and locate HTC Vox..
http://michael-channon.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat%3dDownload%2bHTC%2bService%2bManuals
Download the four parts and extract the first one, then it will automaticly use the other three..
Its a official guide from HTC on how to dismantle the vox and put it together again..
This link is not working
sure it is
Well my motor has seemed to have died now, it will not vibrate whatsoever. So, anybody know where to get another motor?
EDIT: I have found ones that will fit on eBay for only $2.50, but it's coming from HK which means I have to wait so long and I'll have to use my backup BB 8700.
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For some reason, my i-mate JasJar refuses to work in vibrator mode. I rarely use it, and am not sure when it stopped working.
A couple of days back I put it in vibrator mode and later noticed that there were quite a few missed calls/messages.
Any ideas on this anyone.
gmathews said:
For some reason, my i-mate JasJar refuses to work in vibrator mode. I rarely use it, and am not sure when it stopped working.
A couple of days back I put it in vibrator mode and later noticed that there were quite a few missed calls/messages.
Any ideas on this anyone.
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I assume you have tried to test whether it is a specific problem by going to "notifications" under "settings" and chosen "vibrate", then pressed the play icon and it didn't work.
In this case I'd make a backup and look what happens after a hard reset. If it never worked for you with this rom, flash an original one.
If the problem still is there by now, it most certainly is a hardwareerror. So open the unit and remove the vibrator. Be careful with its plug and use a tool or your fingernails as a tool, if they're long enough.
If you haven't a tweezer and short fingernails, ask your GF to do it or try if can come on to girls with asking them to help you with this
Anyway, once out measure the resistance of the vibrator. It should be within a reasonable range, meaning not about zero and not above some, hmm, perhabs dozens, Ohms.
I don't know if this thing gets connected to full battery voltage, but testing it with something about 3V should not harm it, if you don't have something to measure resistance. If it doesn't move, meaning vibrate, you have the reason why it doesn't work.
If you want to be sure you now measure whether it gets juice or not if your phone should vibrate. I don't know what the chances are, but it is possible that the circuit that enables it got damaged.
If the vibrator seems to be fine you should do this anyway.
What's up if the vibrator's working and full battery voltage is on it's connectors when the phone should try vibrate I do not know. But the chances of the problem being easy to fix are then gone to about zero
In this case I'd make a backup and look what happens after a hard reset. If it never worked for you with this rom, flash an original one. - Did this, without any luck.
If the problem still is there by now, it most certainly is a hardwareerror. So open the unit and remove the vibrator. Be careful with its plug and use a tool or your fingernails as a tool, if they're long enough. - It sounds easy enough - but could you help me here? - open the unit - i have never gone beyond replacing batteries so how do i know what to look for?
Thanks in advance
gmathews said:
It sounds easy enough - but could you help me here? - open the unit - i have never gone beyond replacing batteries so how do i know what to look for?
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Well, there isn't a button to press that will just open the case for you, but if you're not cursed to have more thumbs than fingers you should be able to do it.
You just need the proper torx screw driver and something to unlock the plastic hooks that keep the phone closed after the screws are gone. I used a cut out part of the blister package from my SDHC card, a good friend of mine always uses old credit and membership cards. Just be sure to use something made out of soft material that won't bend too easily when lateral force is put on it. If you use something made out of metal you will most certainly leave scratches.
If you don't really know what I'm talking about, go to the Wiki page, found here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Universal
There is a section "Hacks and Tweaks", in which is a link to the service manual. Get that and read through the pictured manual to disassemble te device. Now take a look at your phone and the narrow gap between the parts of the housing and you will know why I brabbled so much about that. And also the size of the torx screw driver you'll need.
In service manual everything is described step by step, with lots of photos. You have to know for yourself if you're gonna do that or leave it to someone else. It looks more horrifying than it actually is, the quality of the housing material is good and what you wanna do is relativly easy but if something should happen you are hereby told that nobody else can be held responsible.
Since I don't know you, I can't really recommend you to do or leave it, but it's really not a big deal and the bucks some guy at a shop will charge you for less than five minutes of easy work are better off to be donated to your favorite rom cook
don't vibrate
I had this problem when I opened my 64 mb uni and I managed to make it work again.It took many tries to get it work again.I think the way you put it in his "socket" let it vibrate or not...
Now it's the same problem with my 128 Mb uni which came back from retronix (upgrading ram) with vibrator "HS".I opened it and didn't manage to make it work again, i'll try later but i'm sure it's not faulty, just the way they put it back.
EvilJogga is right, service manual is usefull, I was afraid to open my uni's, now i do it with "eyes closed".
Sorry for my bad english, good luck !
Change the radio ROM
gmathews said:
For some reason, my i-mate JasJar refuses to work in vibrator mode. I rarely use it, and am not sure when it stopped working.
A couple of days back I put it in vibrator mode and later noticed that there were quite a few missed calls/messages.
Any ideas on this anyone.
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I had the same problem with Radio ROMs 1.17 and 1.18 - changing it back to 1.15 returned the vibration.
I have been lurking in the shadows of this forum and it has helped me out alot so far. I finally registered after developing a bug or hardware problem (not sure which) with the original FW (rc33) that is preventing me from rooting my phone. Its with my QWERTY keyboard. It seems the entire top two rows are now activating more than one key stroke when i only press one, ie. press "e" and it comes up "3e". This really sucks when i get to the part of the rooting process to type "telenetd" before launching telenet. I have tried every combination i can think of to fix, but i am at a loss.
So, my question to all who can assist, is there an alternative way to root my phone other than the common way i find on all the forums? Anyway to do this thru the computer or anything? My computer uses windows vista. My phone has a non-rooted rc 29 (i did get that far in the process. i downgraded from rc33, got the recovery img on the root of my sdcard, along with the update.zip file. i also installed telenet from the apps store). I am ready for the next step is there is one for my situation.
I don't care how difficult or how many steps are involved, i just want to root my phone. Am i screwed or do i just wait for the official g1-1.5 and live with that version?
Red
P.S. please don't tell me to turn it in for servicing. I am currently located in the country of Bahrain and that isn't an option for me for about another year. yes i am in the military and kinda stuck. Thank you for any and all support you all have to give.
since you cannot send it in you should try servicing it yourself. i do not have the link to the service manual on hand but i know there is one out there. download that and get a few torx srewdriver heads(i'm sure there are a few laying around the base) take the phone apart and try it that way. or as i have done in the past firmly press your thumb over a few keys in those rows and run it back and forth a few times, occasionally it can help it the buttons are stuck beneath the casing in some way, or stuck together
if you can connect to a wireless network and get tenetd typed correctly you can get into your phone from the comp using the telnet command on the comp
have you tried the "app for that"?
http://code.google.com/p/androidroot/updates/list
I haven't tried it so I don't know what's involved exactly but it is worth a shot.
simply type out the commands as if your phone were working normally...then use the trackball and backspace key and go back and delete the unnecessary keystrokes
Here's how the keypad works, if you're going to open it up and try to troubleshoot it:
The keys are capacitive, so there's no direct electrical connection when you press one down. There's typically one set of contacts that run in rows, and one set in columns. When you press a key, it activates the sensor in that row and column, whereas the other keys on that row and column only see half the signal. That reduces the number of pins necessary to get inputs from all the keys.
So if you're pressing "e" and getting "e3", the column wire is probably working correctly but you're getting the number row and the top text row.
Try taking it apart and seeing if there's some dust or grit between the keypad and the circuit board. If that's not it, usually there's a ribbon cable that connects the keyboard circuit board with the rest of the phone. Both the socket and the cable itself for this type of connection are notoriously finicky.
Let us know how you make out. Also, why will it be a year until you can get it serviced? Are you in the pokey?
great advice!! and timely too!!!!
Hey guys!,
Thanks for the options, it didn't take long for replies and that shows how wonderful this community really is. I will keep you all informed as to my progress. unfortunately i am going to have to wait until the morning to attempt to find a set of torx head screw drivers. right now its 11:52pm and everything is shut down. No, i am not in the pokey, just unable to get back to the states until then and if you thought the mail service was bad in the states, you should really see this place. i am not going to risk my phone through that service.
ohnoezmahfone, thanks for that information. my gut feeling is it has something to do with that ribbon cable. about 60% of the top two rows of keys are doing the same thing. Now, i have never dropped the phone or jarred it in any way, so i don't know why it just started doing this. but then again, it could be dust too. That one thing this place has plenty of!!! Sand and Dirt!!!. as soon as i get my hands on those torx screwdrivers, i will report back.
Now, if someone has an alternate method that might work before i perform open heart surgery to this android unit, by all means speak up! I can build computers but have never dove into something this small, nor do i have all the tools i am used to having. But i will give it a shot. Whats the worst that can happen? I hose it up and spend 400 on a G2 later this year? . Not a total loss, i guess.
i will follow up soon,
thanks again all!!!
Red
in case you dont have the service manual...
http://www.filesavr.com/htcdreamsma04
I used it to open one (got wet ) and it made the job very easy! One step at a time, and it really REALLY helps to have a plastic opening tool (or a plastic knife may work in a pinch).
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in case you dont have the service manual...
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Hopefully I'll never need it, but it's sure nice to have this sitting on my hard drive. Thanks!
gospeed.racer you are a lifesaver!!!! i recommend that .pdf to everyone. It bailed me out of having to enter the "g1, long distance throwing competition". Anyways, i followed the service manual step for step, took the g1 fully apart and when i got to the keypad module i didn't find any dust. kinda feeling like this was all for not, i proceeded to put the phone back together. once complete i powered it on. then i started to type and Holy Crap!!!!! it is fixed. all the keys are the way they should be and soon i will be on my way to rooting my g1!!!!!!
All of you here are outstanding and i am really proud to now be part of this forum. Thank you again, for pointing me in the right direction. I guess it must have been the ribbon cable not being seated correctly, causing my problem. well, not any more!!!!
Red
p.s. BTW i would like to thank all that posted in this thread. i couldn't have done this without you.
awesome that its fixed now. welcome to the world of root
get one of these http://www.androidaccess.com/sdcard/store.html
you wont need the top two rows of your keyboard to use it
it should reset your keyboard once you go back to rc 29 then it will allow you to just enter two commands that will root your phone. you can read about it here:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/...allow-you-to-run-apps-from-the-sd-card-15502/
Well i had small problems for a while but its starting to get anoying... i have the portection plan..i dont wanna change my vogue.. i wanna keep it .... ok here are the problems.. (on the order they started affected me haha)
1. when i touch the screen sometimes i can c the screen change a little form the side of the screen
2. Sometimes the battery justs falls off little bit from the phone and it turns off...
3. When i wanna correct something(when typing) .sometimes i wanna use the buttons that are on the bottom but recently they randomly stop working too
It also has scratches just little tho but its been a year since i got this phone... the same phone.i want a replacement! another new vogue =D
can anybody passs me the stock rom from sprint.
what should i do? any other problems i could tell them to get a new one.. lol
if i just show them the phone it looks ok....
Magicalan,
You've had it for over a year and you want to send it back and expect them to replace it?
Give me a break lol, any service centre will say its wear and tear.
Im closing this thread as it serves no real purpose. As for the original Rom, check the Vogue wiki.
I recently dropped my phone from my lap exiting the car Everything appeared to be alright and working, until a few weeks later when my vibrate function started to give out. For a few days after it stopped working all together it would occasionally try to spin and I could still feel very weak feedback.
My question is does anyone know how easy it would be to repair this? My screen is also cracked, but directly above the genius button, which I rarely use anyway.
If I wanted to repair this would it end up costing me more than simply replacing the phone?
If I had the tools and the patience I may be able to do this myself if someone could give me a heads up on this particular phone, or any experience they may have in this situation.
If I could simply open and examine the part I may be able to see if it can be a simple fix. Any ideas?
Well it could be something broke off and lodged into the edge of the motor not allowing it to spin freely. Or anything could be the solder joint broke. Depending on how the motor is set up it may be easier or harder to fix. If it is a solder joint that broke you could probably fix it yourself, by heating up a soldering iron and melting the solder to the pad again. If this is the problem and you want to attempt to fix, just make sure you don't hold the soldering iron on there too long, you don't want to burn the board or anything. It is possible (although highly unlikely) that the motor blew. There really isn't a easy way to find out for sure without opening it up though. Although if you download Z-device test, then you can go to the vibrate part of it and press the screen where it says press to vibrate and see if it is working at all through that.
I think this is the best we have for this kind of thing so far:
ifixsmartphone teardown of the doubleshot.
guess what my phone's vib stopped working about a day ago...
and it's fixed now...
this is how it went...
ppl were calling me and i wasnt getting notified by any means.
my ringtone got messed up some how... i tried taking battery out that did not help... to fix that i had to choose another ring tone and back to my default.
now i figued that my vib was also dead...
while watching a movie...
i took off the battery... and started hitting the phone upside down on palm of my hand.. and testing vib by turning the phone onn..
i started getting the vib back but it was very low...
so after the movie...
i took a peice(about 1 inch) of clear mailing tape and folded it backwards and made a thin pin alike... and stucked in the headphone jack hole... and twisted it...
guess what... a small peice of lint came out...
then i did it again... and another came out .. lol
and that's about it.....
my vib is back in action
seems like lint from my pants pocket gets in that headphone jack hole and some how blocks the vib motor to move!
have fun !
that's why I always have pouch for my phones
Hi all,
Ive got one of these chinese copy phones (Hero H7000), to replace my much loved HTC HD2...
Its a great phone, the dual sim is very convenient... and it was very fast in the begining, but has started to slow recently!
I was wondering if anyone knows of any tutorials anywhere that can help me replace the screen, I dropped it and it made a small crack, but still worked fine... I decided to take it apart (a practice run if you like) so I would know how to remove the screen when I buy one soon.
Long story short... Couldn't remove the screen from the circuit/motherboard and now I put it back together its not functioning properly i.e. screen lock drags down but doesnt unlock the phone, so cant access menu. When I plug the usb charger in it jumps onto the menu but I cant select anything, or it selects random stuff!
Has anyone got any ideas or is it a for sale spares or repairs!?
Thanks guys! :crying:
Also: Does anyone know of any ROM's for this device? Maybe it just needs a fresh installation... and a new screen! lol