hi,
i lost my rubber plug that covers the external antenna port right under the kick stand.
does anyone know where i can get the replacement plug?
thanks.
could you find a broken thunderbolt on ebay and salvage the part from there?
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I've searched all over for an antenna to plug into the socket on the rear of the phone to improve the reception I get at home.
Does anyone know where I can get a simple external antenna?
Thanks
Found!
No response so perhaps no-one else is interested but...
I finally found somewhere selling the antenna and the connector/adapter for the 750.
It's at http://www.wpsantennas.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=672.
You can get an antenna cheaper elsewhere but I haven't found the adapter to connect it to the 750 anywhere else.
I have the wilson cellular adapter for the phone...I've broken 3 of them in as many months...they have a tiny little gold pin that extends past the end of the plug. They do help reception, but they fit in VERY tightly, and eventually that little pin will end up breaking...I had to extract one with teeny tiny surgical forceps! In short it does work well, but its very fragile...I'm waiting on a better design from somewhere else.
Plug was way too tight for me too.
So, I filed down the diameter of the black plastic/rubber sleeve that fits into the deep hole in the Treo's casing (using diamond-coated mini-file). Had to remove quite a lot of material. Now plug is MUCH easier to insert and remove.
I've also purchased spare patch lead for when the worst happens.
I bought a Fuze off ebay and the previous owner in repairing the phone rip off the external speaker wires and broke off the connector attach to board.
The solder pads and still there, actually the 2 posts still present on the mainboard.
Where can I buy the speaker connector? so I can re solder it back onto the board?
I can post pics if needed to better explain.
My last option is to buy a parts phone, will a sprint htc touch have the same speaker connector? or will it have to be another fuze.
My other option which I don't want to do is dig up my parts bin for a generic connector, so it can be disconnected to take apart.
If you are skilled enough to re-solder a connector in the first place, why don't you solder your own connector instead of trying to replace the original one. Better yet, solder a wire to the board to an alternate connector,then replace the connector on the speaker leads to the matching alternate connector. I already tore one speaker wire when opening my Fuze, because its is too short. Luckily I did not yank the connector so I was able to purchase a replacement speaker for $10 and reconnect.
I wanted it look stock, but it's hard to find a cheap parts phone so I will just solder on a different connector.
Does anyone know if the plug in rubber covers, once removed can they be put back in again as putting the 3d in the charger is annoying with them flapping about.
I dont just want to tear them off incase i want to sell or hand down in the future.
Thanks
Has anyone taken off these rubber tabs at all ? will they go back in again.
I'm looking for a cable to wire to the external antenna port of my I9505 S4. I need to know if there are any thinner cables that attach to this port so that I can mount a under the cover antenna for an aluminum battery cover. I know that people say that putting one of these cases on my phone will cut back on the reception so I want to fix this by perhaps mounting some kind of an antenna under the back plate, but have so far not been able to find a cable that will connect to this and will still be able to have the case on my phone. Telco makes that gigantic cable that attaches to large external antennas, but I don't want this. I either want to have something like a laptop antenna under the backplate or just use the whole door as an antenna.
So that being said, let me restate my purpose. I need a thin wire attached to a small plug that uses the external antenna port on my phone. If anyone knows where I can get one, let me know, thank you.
I was curious if anyone has tried to solder one of these on the board? I was thinking that then I could just drill a hole in the side of the case and put an external antenna mount there. The other end of the antenna would then just plug into this socket.