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Ghetto fix for flimsy screen/keyboard

To start off I am not responsible if you break your phone, do at you own risk.
My device list goes Wizard>8525>Tilt>Fuze. From my previous devices all had the loose Screen/Keyboard and thanks to this forum Ive found ways to correct the problem. I tried this method on my 8525 and worked like a charm so I figured I try it on my Fuze.
step 1.. Open phone then flip, take small screwdriver and very very gently make a small dent in the rail to create friction when the phone is closed. If you look inside the actual rail you will see a small tab and thats where then dent need to be on both sides. see pics
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step 2..... do the same on the other side and it should look like this
Again... if you break your phone its not my problem.... not sure how this would affect warranty either.

Ouch, that was hard to watch.

You sir, have larger huevos than I.

Da_G said:
You sir, have larger huevos than I.
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+1
also you may have just kissed your warranty goodbye

hello,
What exactly is the behavior before this mod? KB sliding open 2 easily? KB wiggling as it slides open? Mine seems to be smooth and solid.

Mine moves a mm or so when closed. This seems a bit too OCD for most, IMO. I figure that if I were that OCD to do this dent and scratch mod, that those dents.scratches would equally drive me nuts.
To each his/her own though. God speed to ya.

jamespaulritter said:
hello,
What exactly is the behavior before this mod? KB sliding open 2 easily? KB wiggling as it slides open? Mine seems to be smooth and solid.
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My keyboard would also slide solid but was very easy to slide open when closed compared to my tilt. Since it opens opposite to the way the tilt did it would open slightly when I put the phone to my ear.

I say there ol' chap...
that there is certainly
'Ghetto' indeed.
+2 on the huevos part...

That is not ghetto, it is just plain stupid.

I see the discussion for this thread headed nowhere good. I personally wouldn't recommend doing this, but of course it's your phone not mine. The instructions are here, but i'm gonna close this thread.

acer s200 touch syntetizer (the clear plastic over the lcd)

Hi i have to change the touch panel due to a big scratch,anyone here know if i have to disassembly all the phone?Or else someone with a service manual?

My phone was out in the rain for a bit so my digitizer is all messed up. Only thing I can do is touch the bottons on bottom. Not much function in the touchscreen besides that. Have ordered a new digitizer and will hopefully get it by the weekend or next week. Can report back how it goes with the disassembly or have you already done yours? Please give a report on how to do it if that's the case.

I m still waiting for mine from hong kong.look s like someone else had changed the syntetizer in the forum,but i had no reply to my question

Ok. I guess we'll have to wait and see who gets his first. Whoever does though it would be nice with a report on how it went.

Hi i ve received the touch panel,but i tried to disassembly the phone,but i can not get the cover to open.I unscrewed the 5 screws on the rear but the cover is as strong as before.Have you ever tried to disassembly our phone?
And the touchscreen i received it s not the new one but the old engineering example,i think it s the same but i want to try the respone so i can give the seller the positive or negative feedback.The panel differ from the classic one for the acer logo on top right,not at the bottom center,and...there is the trasparent hole near the headphone for the front camera as you can see from this old sample picture
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And this is mine

I read in the screen replacement forum. There are two more screws at the left and right sides of battery house.
Hope that helps. The guy in hongkong that sent me the digitizer sent it by registered air mail first but sent another one by EMS so hopefully i'll have it this week.

Ok i ve found the way by myself,it s not so difficult,i ve seen the two screws after...You have only to pay attenction to not force too much the plastics when you try to open the cover and when you try to detach the touch panel.The best way is to use a guitar plectrum and start to open from the bottom right,for the touch you have to go carefully.Now i ask in the forum if they need a guide with high res photos,because i ve taked pictures with my nokia n95

Well I would be really interested in seeing the pictures. Please do share. How's the new touchscreen working out ?

You can see my guide in the general section,maybe will be sticked.The panel is working good,but it seems a little less sensitive than the official oem one.Maybe the engineering sample is a little different.In plus the light from the touch keys is not diffused good,and i have an hole for the front camera,wich is not present in retail s200.But if you go to the guide you can see pictures

I have now changed my digitizer and thanks to your guide it went pretty smooth. Was done in about 10-15 mins. I got the oem one but the buttons on the bottom is diffuse as you said yours was. maybe i can move the white from the old one to make it nices. Probably won't bother though. Don't really find a difference in response from before the change.

My power button stopped working - Man is this ever a challenge

This is a bit of a rant topic.
My phone case is one of those hard, yet bendy plastic cases.
Simple. $10 bucks. i think i grabbed it from a kiosk in a mall.
The case is a tight seal around my phone - as expected
however, through my 12 months of playing with the phone, taking the case on and off, hard reboots etc, my power button is officially unusable.
The button itself is stuck in the phone. it's as if it pressed it down and it never came back up.
This makes life with my One X very difficult.
turning the screen on and off is difficult. it's now extremely sensitive. just brushing the tip of my finger over the top of the phone turns the screen on and off multiple times.
I can't press and hold the button to bring up the reboot menu - although it does work sometimes (seems like the lower the phone's temp, the more likely it works)
Just makes life difficult. Sometimes a ROM needs a nice reboot, and it's near impossible for me to do so!
I've resorted to opening up a command line and giving it the ol' reboot command, but goddamn!
Im now officially waiting on the Nexus 5
Anyone else with similar experiences?

It's almost definitely caused by the cheap case you put on the phone. For rebooting, you could use an app called Quick Boot, it's a simple app which has options for rebooting (system/bootloader/recovery/power off).
Sent from my Evita

hey bro, fix that button is pretty simple, also dissasembly the phone is like a joke... look...
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timmaaa said:
It's almost definitely caused by the cheap case you put on the phone. For rebooting, you could use an app called Quick Boot, it's a simple app which has options for rebooting (system/bootloader/recovery/power off).
Sent from my Evita
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Thanks!!
nighthawk1991 said:
hey bro, fix that button is pretty simple, also dissasembly the phone is like a joke... look...
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Alright. How do I take it apart? Did you follow a specific video or guide?

idk how is in english but I use two "puas" pua is a guitar thing, ill upload a photo... then you have to dissasembly the down side and then left and right side... look...
http://youtu.be/PrArAes5liM

Ahh - We call them a guitar pic
(pick? pic? one of those...)
cool, ill give it a shot.
looks super sketchy!! lol

Alright that wasn't too bad
One thing i never saw mentioned was that hte camera is reeeeally glued on there, so you need to pull pretty hard.
I didnt see that in any video
Anyways, popped the thing off and even took my power button right off from the hosuing. Doesnt seem like thres anything i can do
i think the button on the actual mother board is stuck in

Buy a new button and replace easy fix
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[Q] LCD Glass unsticking

I have had the nexus 5 for about 6 months now, and i'm starting to notice a part of the glass coming off. The area around the volume buttons to the center of the screen makes a sticking sound when pushed down on, and i can feel it pushing in a little bit. It's most noticeable on the edge directly next to the volume buttons. There are no visible cracks as far as i can tell. Phone works fine besides this. Should I be worried and replace the screen or just let it be? I don't notice it if i don't push down too hard.
Never had this happen to me on a phone before. Thanks!

That definitely shouldn't be happening.

Mind sharing a photo?
Freshly baked from my Nexus 5

LewisGauss said:
Mind sharing a photo?
Freshly baked from my Nexus 5
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It's not very visible and pictures don't show the problem.
It feels like the glue in that area is just dried up in that area and isn't holding down the screen correctly. but its only a small area so right now its not too big of a deal.

argran said:
It's not very visible and pictures don't show the problem.
It feels like the glue in that area is just dried up in that area and isn't holding down the screen correctly. but its only a small area so right now its not too big of a deal.
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Ask for google support, they will replace it. Mine was losing the back cover letters and google replaced it

Hi all. Wasn't sure if I should reply to this old thread or start my own...
I have a Nexus 5 that's over 2 years old. So no warranty. It looks like my screen is starting to come off in the bottom right corner. I think it's just the glass. Take a look at the attached pic/video and let me know what you think I could/should do. You can see I can move it by pressing on it.
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It works fine otherwise. Touch/display etc seems all fine. I don't care about this problem if it stays as-is, but I'm worried it will get worse and come off further.
I'm thinking a bit of super glue would do? .

Thinking the same…

Flash bleed on Z3 ...

Hello all,
I have a problem with a Z3, when "i" take (my wife, i have a Note 3 ) a photo with the flash, i have a halo on the right. I know that the Z1C was the same problem ...
What is the solution ?
Which has the same problem here ?
Thank you

To you have a case on the phone ?

Please post questions in the Q&A section
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alino06 said:
Hello all,
I have a problem with a Z3, when "i" take (my wife, i have a Note 3 ) a photo with the flash, i have a halo on the right. I know that the Z1C was the same problem ...
What is the solution ?
Which has the same problem here ?
Thank you
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Cases can do this, and rear screen protectors that cover the flash can too.

x017in said:
To you have a case on the phone ?
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No case of course and the phone has just been unpacked ...

Hum ... When i use a case with the phone i dont have the problem ...
Like we said in french "bizarre bizarre"

alino06 said:
No case of course and the phone has just been unpacked ...
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Why "of course"?
Post some example pics, perhaps it'll be clearer then.

Yeah mine did the same on the weekend, I wasn't sure initially if it was the flash or a bright light off to the right of my shot, so I turned the flash off and the issue went away confirming it was from the flash. What is happening here is that the ISO sensitivity is was too high with the flash.
The best way to combat this issue, is to set the camera settings to manual, and keep the ISO as low as possible to get the shot
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Here are some extreme examples, the first with flash ISO800 the second with no flash ISO3200.

Those having bleeding problems l, it coupd be to do with light bleeding under the back panel, I smashed mine and got a replacement and it happened to me. The back panel was not secure so I reapplied it and now it has gone.
Just out of interest try putting a bit of pressure around the lens when you take a shot and see if the problem is still there.

jkr284 said:
Those having bleeding problems l, it coupd be to do with light bleeding under the back panel, I smashed mine and got a replacement and it happened to me. The back panel was not secure so I reapplied it and now it has gone.
Just out of interest try putting a bit of pressure around the lens when you take a shot and see if the problem is still there.
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The same happened to me now, got the bleeding after it was repaired in a store.
How did you make sure, the lens is secure? Just by pressure or did you heat it or added extra glue or something? :silly: