Hey there,
I just received my new Polaris - but one hole is not sealed by a cap. It's not the GPS antenna, but some other kind of antenna, but I don't know whether it's bad to have this hole on the back and whether there is a cap for it...
Does somebody also have this hole on the back and knows what this connector is for? Looks very similar to the GPS antenna... I already thought whether it's an antenna for radio or GSM...
Sorry, attaching a photo...
thats some serious hardware hacking...
if you got it like that return it back to the one that sold you it.
I have no hole or cap what so ever at that location. Are you sure this is a Polaris? Perhaps you got some test-model with an extra adaptor plug for something on it.
im asking the same question in another thread...
and hoping for answers there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3642734#post3642734
a guy there has dismatled the phone so im putting in a question about what is showed in your hole.
by finding out whats under there im thinking of (fm radio) maybe somone has built some extension from there.
example the personbe before you might have used the phone in a car alot and had bad FM reception and wanted to build a FM extension.
Good question
I wrote to HTC this morning. Let's see what they say...
Also I was wondering because the S/N for this phone is not known at HTC for the official download of the new WM6.1 update...
Anyways, somewhere behind the battery there is a "POLA100" printed on the phone... As it completely looks like that phone, as it has the "htc" logo on the front and as it has the "POLA100" written inside, it MUST be one..
Anyways, I was also wondering, because the plug for the power cable is some sort of UK one (without the third connector), no euro-plug..
Strange thing it is... I will let you know about the answer from HTC...
Ah, before I forget, I have a better picture of the hole... I attach it...
There is a slot for external gsm antena
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can anone help me locate the external antenna port for the raphael (htc fuze). I had the service manual, but i have no idea where the antenna is located. I know that it does have one eventhough its not shown. i have sevral htc devices, where i had to poked a hole thru the back cover of my touch dual in ordr to see the antenna! your help is aprreciated, because i live in area, that without hooking up to external antenna, i will not get any reception! thanks in advance.
The Antenna Port is under the Battery Cover of the Raphael, but hidden with stickers.
Sorry dont found any good pictures of the back so i dont give you the exactly position
there are a few antenna shown in the service manual. since it said that the internal antenna is located at the bottom of the phone near the usb, could the port you are referred to is also near that area? could you be a little more sure before i attempt to open up my phone to look for it? or rather i just need to poke a hole...but i need to know where to poke it. normally, ive always found the external port near the camera...should i try that? thanks much!
cachon619 said:
there are a few antenna shown in the service manual. since it said that the internal antenna is located at the bottom of the phone near the usb, could the port you are referred to is also near that area? could you be a little more sure before i attempt to open up my phone to look for it? or rather i just need to poke a hole...but i need to know where to poke it. normally, ive always found the external port near the camera...should i try that? thanks much!
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Have you considered a repeater antenna? I use one here at my house because I can't get reception inside. Works with all the phones in the area without having to directly connect anything.
can u recommend a repeater that you are talking about! i hvae never use one before, thnank you
Hi guys,
The story started before 1 week when happily i decided to buy a full housing spare parts for my omnia and hopefully it should looks like new...the package came and i opened my omnia to change the parts...the cover didnt fit 100% but with some small patents finally it fitted...the phone booted up and everything looked "ok"...the next day i realized that call quality was too low, sometimes call dropped(cause of the too low signal) and inside building i have no signal...
Now guys does anyone knows anything about that?
where is the phone gsm transmitter and it cables?
or what else can i do...
Please your the only help i can have...
Thanks,
Andy
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.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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.
Hello, while trying to repair the screen, i accidentally cut the one head of the wifi antenna cable.
So here come my questions:
First simple noob question, Is this cable two way? Or one way?
If it is one way, i can fix it easily, if not, i think i need a new one. Do you know where i can find one?
I would have already tested to see if it works, as i attached the head back, but i am afraid that this might cause greater damage, so i am waiting for you answer first, thank you!
ergotelis said:
Hello, while trying to repair the screen, i accidentally cut the one head of the wifi antenna cable.
So here come my questions:
First simple noob question, Is this cable two way? Or one way?
If it is one way, i can fix it easily, if not, i think i need a new one. Do you know where i can find one?
I would have already tested to see if it works, as i attached the head back, but i am afraid that this might cause greater damage, so i am waiting for you answer first, thank you!
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Anyone? At least, the simple one question, is this small antenna cable one way or two way? All phones have such cable, so, can you please inform me according to your experience, these are in other phones one or two way?
Thank you!
One last bump, no one knows if this small classic antenna cable,which can be found in all mobiles, is two or one way?
Damaged wire.
I apparently have damaged mine as well. No luck finding a replacement so far. It is a double ended connector though, if you take the bottom plate where the speakers are housed, you will see the other end of the cable that runs from the motherboard to the daughter-board.
Well I have been a owner of a LG Nexus 5 for the past (almost) 2 years now, in fact I am coming to the end of my contract very soon and will be able to either goto another company or get a new phone.
Anyways, sometime ago I experienced a problem with my microphone and external speakers not working, or at at least some of the time... After a bit of research online I found out my problem was related to a connection inside the phone that connected the bottom assembly to the main board at the top of the phone. It required me to remove the back panel and a few screws to remove the plastic cover, but the poster suggested putting some tape on top of that connection to hold it down more firmly to the socket it connected too. So I did this. I put some black tap (electrical tape cut to fit.) on top and then assembled the phone again. Viola, It worked!
Well, a short time after I decided that I wanted to update my phone from stock kitkat (4.4.4). Always been curious about custom ROMs and gave Cyanogenmod a try. Not only that I got bold and tried the nightly releases of the new marshmellow update. After some time I started experiencing things not working, like the camera, and a lot of freezing, hang ups and random reboots (not so much the reboots as the constant freezing). Often I couldn't get anything on the screen or the phone to respond from a locked state and when I did, often the phone would lag so much, that doing anything would take a long time and proved to be impossible.
I started thinking it was the nightly releases as the source of my problem and just kind of shrugged it off and figured "they will eventually fix the problem". I kept this thinking for quite some time. But it occurred too me one day that something else was causing the issue I was facing for the simple fact that the lag started showing up in the recovery mode (also custom) and a lot of times would continue to show up after I rebooted my phone. Hence, would rule out any 'software' issues I was facing.
I began to think that my problem was hardware. Maybe it was just time for a new phone. But still months away from the end of my contract, this meant I would have to pay off the 'problematic' phone first before getting a new one. I really didn't like that idea. So while looking into this problem, in a last ditch effort, I opened my phone again. Dunno why but I also decided to get rid of the tap on the connection I tried to fix before... I popped off the connection there and had a look at it. It didn't seem damaged in any way nor did the socket. Strange as it was I put that connect back in the socket and put the cover plate back on making sure not to torque the screws and assembled everything back up....
Now the mic and ext speakers work just fine and the phone is working like I just opened the box and took it out for the first time. And I have not once seen any problems... I understand what's happening here... still just wanted to share that for it was definitely weird or what?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0pUNVcVRCJ7MThMc0NHLUNkSEU
Sorry about the link, only way I can upload an image.
Just so there is no confusion... an image of the effected area, inside the phone. The arrow points to the connector and more importantly the area of the connector that seems damaged. If I press lightly where the arrow is pointing on this image, the assemable at the bottom (speaker/mic) will work, indicating a loose connection. Although after visual inspection, I cannot see any damage to connector or the socket. I suppose the only way to really "fix" the issue is to order a new part. As stated previously, already tried tape on the socket to help hold it down, but that seem to cause just as many issues with the phone performance. Any other suggestions?
When ordering a replacement part, you need to be careful because there was another XDA member replaced the same part with a cheap 3rd party solution and the phone would not charge until he replaced it with an oem part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/to-buy-usb-charging-port-flex-cable-t3314357
Does anyone else have issues with there ext. speaker and mic not working?
An update on the phone;
back to square one. My ext speaker and mic will not work. And that socket has something to do with the LCD connection on the screen as it will black out if just the right area on the back of the phone is pressed. Only way to revive the phone is to long-press the power button for a reboot. Then will come up fine but speaker and mic still do not work.
audit13 said:
When ordering a replacement part, you need to be careful because there was another XDA member replaced the same part with a cheap 3rd party solution and the phone would not charge until he replaced it with an oem part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/to-buy-usb-charging-port-flex-cable-t3314357
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Wow, that sounds pretty low level tactics of LG... just shameful really, but not hard to believe these days...
Quite honestly, I am just going to replace the phone. Think I got a pretty good run out of it and think its pretty well time for an upgrade. Anyway, for the reason I got the phone, it wont matter the speaker and mic don't work. Just going to use it for development and it will be a good test device.
Oh an this post is related to this thread so I thought I would link it for it may help someone else facing similar problems....
https://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/125227-nightly-cm13-releases-make-my-nexus-5-very-slow/
I'm not sure that LG had anything to do with the low-quality replacement parts.
If I were you, look for a n5 with a smashed screen that is suitable for parts.
audit13 said:
I'm not sure that LG had anything to do with the low-quality replacement parts.
If I were you, look for a n5 with a smashed screen that is suitable for parts.
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Good idea, except the iphone is the most popular phone around here ... find it pretty hard to find one, been looking. But thanks.
I have seen quite a few busted n5 phones in Toronto. I have managed to get working phones with a smashed screen for as little as $30 which is rare for Toronto. Average I pay is $40 to $50. For this price, I either use the phone for parts in several phones or I get third part screen from Aliexpress for around $40 CAD.
I just want to update this as well...
I am fairly certain (now thinking about causes) its not really a design flaw, but more so because I frequently sat on my phone when it was in my back pocket...
audit13 said:
When ordering a replacement part, you need to be careful because there was another XDA member replaced the same part with a cheap 3rd party solution and the phone would not charge until he replaced it with an oem part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/to-buy-usb-charging-port-flex-cable-t3314357
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It was not me but I had that same experience. Replaced with a cheap oem and it didn't charge after that.
I found out why. The charger usb socket was not connected to anything ! Unbelievable! It lacked the black plastic backing for that part of the cable to connect to.