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People tell me I'm weird!

See the thing is I have been thinking about stylus development a lot lately. The Stylus on my Wizard was fine for the first few months but started to come lose eventually. Now with my new Hermes its all nice and Toight again but I almost feel guilty when I pull it out to use it.
THEN it hit me
Why not go to one of those fancy nail shops and ask the kind lady there to give me a fake nail on my index finger, but shape the tip just like a stylus! Now I know what you are thinking "Dam thats clever, Why didn't I think of that"
Just think you will always have a stylus at hand and it will be much easier to use than any other.
You will of course need to take care when picking your nose as to avoid doing some serious harm to yourself
The thing is people will think your a fruit cake when you try and explain why you have a pointy bit on the end of your finger, but if there are thousands of XDA users who all have "little pointy bits" on the end of the fingers I won't feel so strange.
Hmmm maybe those people are right huh!
Yours in Jest
Jules

or you could have just bought something like this
http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=14951&cat=2380&page=1
Would save you the humiliation of telling your friends you have to go get your nails done
I hope your signficant other doesnt mind that you are now high maintenance..... lol

Yes... and could be a problem picking your nose... and wiping your a**.

and ppl will suspect that the nail is for sniffing drugs

Hey, you're not weird .... I was thinking about this some time ago, especially if you use your pda in your car. In the Germany, you'r not allowed to kepp it in your hands while driving.
My idea was some kind of glove or something you can stick on your finger, like accountants use for sorting paper. If you play guitar, you'll know that there's an item especially for fingerpicking (you wear it like a ring) ... maybe this will do if you find one made of plastic, cause i only know them made of steel, waht definitly will kill your screen.
Regards,

Some one did just that quite a while ago, IIRC there were photos posted at the same time either BA or Uni section - can't find it now though.
Only problem is you can't opperate the reset with your fingernail, and your other half might have something to say about it! - Mike

Fingerpicks ...
.. this is what you are looking for ...

http://www.truetip.com/

esseff said:
Yes... and could be a problem picking your nose... and wiping your a**.
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Well that's one way to stop me biting my nails.

dedication!!! i love it

[FIX] headphones not registering properly

I and many others have had issues with this phone and the headphone jack not registering when you plug headphones in. Sometimes it would work if you pushed really hard, but it would always be picky about movement. I was convinced it was a software or hardware problem, but I have found the cause. Pocket lint! especially when wearing jeans lint can get into the jack and block the contacts. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Just take a thin paper clip, or for the nerdier of us an electronic component like a resister, works even better. If you are like me you have a huge pack of them laying around somewhere in your house. bend the very tip (1/16 of an inch or so) with some needle nose pliers, and with bright light carefully get the lint out, I've had to do it a few time now but it always works! I am mostly posting this because I am still laughing that I took my phone apart to find there was just lint, but hopefully this will help a few of you.

Might wanna take the battery out while performing this if you do use a metal hook.
Just a suggestion

kirkgbr said:
Might wanna take the battery out while performing this if you do use a metal hook.
Just a suggestion
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I do it with it on and everything. There is no power in the headphone jack. plus the battery is way to low powered to do anything (especially if you do it with a resister like me)

I understand you probably know what you're doing. However, there are alot of others who are gonna read your OP and start shoving paperclips down in their phone. Thus the reason for my comment.
After being in the electronics industry for 20+ years, I have learned(sometimes the hard way) to try and remove the power source if possible.
Anyway, I respect your assistance. Carry on and ignore me if you want.

kirkgbr said:
I understand you probably know what you're doing. However, there are alot of others who are gonna read your OP and start shoving paperclips down in their phone. Thus the reason for my comment.
After being in the electronics industry for 20+ years, I have learned(sometimes the hard way) to try and remove the power source if possible.
Anyway, I respect your assistance. Carry on and ignore me if you want.
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true. I understand. I have learned from electronics that it can never hurt to remove the power source whenever possible.
Sent from my MB865 using XDA

Thank you!
I have had exactly the same problem for last 2-3 weeks... I was getting ready to send the phone to Motorola for repairs.
Stumbled upon this thread and immediately had a feeling that this gotta be it. Took out the battery (usually something bad happens to gadgets when I try to fix them), used a paperclip to take some lint out, and voila! Headphones are back.
lkrasner, thank you for sharing, your post saved a lot of hassle and money!
P.S. Damn you, pocket lint!

Awesome.
Thank you! Never would have looked there. Worked perfectly.

[Q] Dont know where it belongs

Hi to everyone,
I'd disassemble my HTC Sensation Xe, and found this pin behind the speaker.
Does anyone know where this pin belong to?
Much appreciated.

It appears to be the case ground terminal for your device. Go to this thread and look at the first picture in the first post and see if you are missing the terminal that is circled in red is missing from your device.
No on second look that actually looks like that is at the top of the device close to the power button, look there and see if you are missing the piece in the photo i posted below.

Posts like this one and ones about poorly manufactured displays that make me realize how cheap our phones can be. I've had mine a year and can't wait til I come up on an extra couple hundred to get the next great "sensation" ps the sensation has been good to me. Hope u fix urs.

Oomike said:
Posts like this one and ones about poorly manufactured displays that make me realize how cheap our phones can be. I've had mine a year and can't wait til I come up on an extra couple hundred to get the next great "sensation" ps the sensation has been good to me. Hope u fix urs.
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Atleast they are more durable than iPhones
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using XDA

For sure! Drop an iPhone once and the back crack larger than my ass. I dropped my sensation twice and I just keep on trucking.
Edit: I saw my buddy's iPhone 3gs get ran over by a box truck on the airfield carrying supplies. The phone still worked and was readable with cracked glass. No protection at all. I'm too scared to put my sensation up to the task

Seriously dude?
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realsis said:
Seriously dude?
Sent from my Sensation 4G using xda premium
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Although I don't understand the random hate for the iPhone popping up in the thread, I've seen an iPhone sustain a two foot drop and completely shatter the back cover. Design can also be questioned, a glass back? Glass, a fragile material, covering the entire back of the phone? It serves no real purpose, so why is it there?
These are rhetorical questions, of course, but the iPhone is one of the more fragile phones out there.

sshede said:
Although I don't understand the random hate for the iPhone popping up in the thread, I've seen an iPhone sustain a two foot drop and completely shatter the back cover. Design can also be questioned, a glass back? Glass, a fragile material, covering the entire back of the phone? It serves no real purpose, so why is it there?
These are rhetorical questions, of course, but the iPhone is one of the more fragile phones out there.
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it is just a tendacy of android device owners
Who can blame us? iPhone sucks

Thanks
Thank you T-Macgnolia for sending your pic, although the pic looks bright cant see properly where that pin is located next to the power button.
My phone works just fine, but you know it doesn't feel complete when you have a part missing some where and you don't know where it belongs too.
Anyways thanks everyone maybe something will arise.

barascus said:
Thank you T-Macgnolia for sending your pic, although the pic looks bright cant see properly where that pin is located next to the power button.
My phone works just fine, but you know it doesn't feel complete when you have a part missing some where and you don't know where it belongs too.
Anyways thanks everyone maybe something will arise.
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It's over the front camera if you can't see the pic.

Holy S%$# Batman!!

Galaxy S III caught fire while chillin in in-car holster. Not even plugged into anything
Engadget link (click the link at bottom of page to see the pics if viewing from your skyrocket)
http://tinyurl.com/7thnvpa

cameronmfjay said:
Galaxy S III caught fire while chillin in in-car holster. Not even plugged into anything
Engadget link (click the link at bottom of page to see the pics if viewing from your skyrocket)
http://tinyurl.com/7thnvpa
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Looks staged to me. I have been doing SMT and hand soldering for years and it looks like someone took a iron and some soldier to it. I doubt that it got hot enough to melt soldier on its own even if it did catch fire that kinda heat would have done way more damage to the phone.

We were just talking about this in another thread, and I hate to be repetitive, but if you Google "<insert name of phone/manufacturer for just about any device> bursts into flames", you will get a ton of hits. Happens to iPhones all the time, and it's even happened to a few Skyrocket owners.
http://www.headlinenewsonline.com/h...s-ii-skyrocket-copies-iphone-by-catching-fire

Sorry i wasnt looking for help or asking a question so i didnt even think to check if this has a thread yet lol
But ya just scares me a little.
Could you imagine holding that up to your face on a call and having that happed? Blegh

It's completely staged.
There are no internals anywhere near that spot that could have burned the plastic.
And the day right before the US launch?
I'd say it's Apple approved.

iandr0idos said:
It's completely staged.
There are no internals anywhere near that spot that could have burned the plastic.
And the day right before the US launch?
I'd say it's Apple approved.
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My thoughts exactly there is nothing that is going to get as hot as 728 degrees Fahrenheit in that area. The battery may be able to put out that kinda temps, maybe but that is further up in the phone, and other parts of the phone would have been damaged first not just the very bottom of it.

pcidiot said:
Looks staged to me. I have been doing SMT and hand soldering for years and it looks like someone took a iron and some soldier to it. I doubt that it got hot enough to melt soldier on its own even if it did catch fire that kinda heat would have done way more damage to the phone.
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agreed...and a casing like it has would be cracked and melted in more than one place...especially if its like our phones with the cpu in the top

Lol, they'll do everything to ruin the launch of this phone. Sad.

I wonder if they were playing Draw Something. It will cause the phone to stay on and it to run hot. My phone got extremely hot one time doing this. I didn't notice it for a while because I was walking around. I sat down and the phone got pushed up against my leg.. That's when I noticed. Combine that with an over clocked/volted cpu and you have a fire waiting to happen.
I would like to know if his phone has been overclocked first off..

cameronmfjay said:
Sorry i wasnt looking for help or asking a question so i didnt even think to check if this has a thread yet lol
But ya just scares me a little.
Could you imagine holding that up to your face on a call and having that happed? Blegh
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No need to apologize, my post came off wrong. I wasn't calling you out for a duplicate thread, I don't think there was one -- it was an off-topic discussion we were having in another thread. I just didn't want to go straight from that post to this one posting the same thing.
And yeah, that would suck. I'd rather have it happen to my face than have it go off in my pocket and burn my junk though...

Seriously though.. a bad lithium battery could cause that.
We all walk around with bombs in our pockets. That's why the laptop comes out of the bag at airports.
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mindmajick said:
Seriously though.. a bad lithium battery could cause that.
We all walk around with bombs in our pockets. That's why the laptop comes out of the bag at airports.
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The battery is nowhere near that section of the phone.
Totally staged.
If you look at the iFixit tear down, there is nothing in that area of the phone to get hot and catch on fire.
I have highlighted the area in question from the tear down pics.
It's just PCB board with no components in that area.

Anyone seen this screen issue

Noticed this when I looked at tablet from angle anyone else seen anything like this. Its under glass and can't be cleaned.
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Nope, never seen this before -- I do have some "fluid-like" sheen when ushing on the screen with some force (especially on lighter backgrounds), but that can only be seen with the unit turned on.
Off-topic: I would like to request you to not double-post. It is generally frowned upon -- not only because it clutters the forum but since it splits up the answers to your question in two different places. That makes it harder to see what has been taken up and what is let to b answered and/or amended. Just ask once, and if we know the answer or can help out in some other fashion, we'll get in here. Thanks.

MartyHulskemper said:
Nope, never seen this before -- I do have some "fluid-like" sheen when ushing on the screen with some force (especially on lighter backgrounds), but that can only be seen with the unit turned on.
Off-topic: I would like to request you to not double-post. It is generally frowned upon -- not only because it clutters the forum but since it splits up the answers to your question in two different places. That makes it harder to see what has been taken up and what is let to b answered and/or amended. Just ask once, and if we know the answer or can help out in some other fashion, we'll get in here. Thanks.
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that definitely looks like a warranty covered issue, i'd guess that there's a bad adhesive seal between the screen layers.

callousparade said:
that definitely looks like a warranty covered issue, i'd guess that there's a bad adhesive seal between the screen layers.
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It looks like mold. :S I thought they used clear (that is, transparant and colorless) glues for that?

I have this on occasion, but always on the outside of my screen. Never on the inside.
If it's on the inside, send it back.

ShadowLea said:
I have this on occasion, but always on the outside of my screen. Never on the inside.
If it's on the inside, send it back.
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White residue on the outside and not the inside: not chlamydia. You'll be fine with a simple scrub-down.
Sorry, I'm on shift in the hospital, couldn't withstand the opportunity. I'll scurry off now.
<goes off in shame>
:laugh:

MartyHulskemper said:
White residue on the outside and not the inside: not chlamydia. You'll be fine with a simple scrub-down.
Sorry, I'm on shift in the hospital, couldn't withstand the opportunity. I'll scurry off now.
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I'll be sure to tell my tf700 to take a thorough shower then! Such a relief, you never know what it gets up to with that ipad from next door... Kids these days...
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