Just dropped my phone on the edge of a glass table from a height if about 1.5 ft. The backing separated a bit (2mm, I just popped it back in) and there now a wee groove right by the headphone connector. Other than cosmetic, there *seems* to be no internal damage. Everything works fine as far as I am able to tell, including using headphones and I hear nothing rattling inside when I shake it. There are these barely audible squeal/ tiny beeps in that area which I can only hear when I put my ear right up to it, but that may be normal?
My question to you good people is, should I be worried that something on the inside may have become loose and cause problems down the lane? Or all is well as long it works okay? How can I check to be sure?
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You should be fine, if there doesn't seem to be any internal damage, then you probably have nothing to worry about. Water damage tends to be less predictable, not drops.
As for that dent, maybe you can get a replacement housing.
Beauenheim said:
You should be fine, if there doesn't seem to be any internal damage, then you probably have nothing to worry about. Water damage tends to be less predictable, not drops.
As for that dent, maybe you can get a replacement housing.
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Thanks, that kinda what I figured too, but now I'm just paranoid that something broke internally or damaged just enough to work itself loose in time. But that hint you gave about drop damage predictability makes sense.
I wish I could make sure.
Any ideas about the cost for LG repair service? I called them earlier and they were super unhelpful.
I should probably just look up a youtube tutorial on how to open the phone and peek inside.
Ok, yeah I should be fine After watching a guy disassemble his phone on youtube, there is nothing in that particular area other than the headphone jack. Looks like the plastic cover and the jack itself absorbed most if not all of the shock.
Caebron said:
Ok, yeah I should be fine After watching a guy disassemble his phone on youtube, there is nothing in that particular area other than the headphone jack. Looks like the plastic cover and the jack itself absorbed most if not all of the shock.
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If you ever experience issues with it, the headphone jack on a nexus 5 is a super easy part to replace, as it's not soldered anywhere. Just clips as I heard from iFixit.
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It appears to be a very common problem that the black paint on the Captivate's ear-piece has a tendency to scratch off VERY easily.
I am curious as to know how many people actually got fed up with trying to repair this awful blemish; and decided to just scratch all the paint off to make it look better.
Personally I removed the black paint completely and kind of like the silver that remains.
What are your thoughts?
What? I've never heard anyone mention this. My paint is fine.
first I've heard of this, and mine is just fine as well.
The paint literally flaked off of mine just by rubbing my thumb on it.
No issues here, maybe you got a defective model?
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This is bizarre I've never heard of this happening lol
If my model is defective, I don't think they would ever replace it because it's physical damage.
no problem here either,,if they sound good your good to go
No issues for me, trim your ear hairs.............
Sqdnguns said:
No issues for me, trim your ear hairs.............
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I actually don't talk on the device very often, I'm more so a texter
Anyway, it was more from putting the phone in and out of my pocket:
Here is a picture I just took:
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Mine is fine and i carry it in my pocket with no case. I would think that the piece would be annodized and not painted. Probably got one with a bad grille. If you complain enough they may replace it - hard to say.
In all honesty, it literally started as a small chip in the "paint"; I touched that up with a sharpie.
Next day I had another chip, I rubbed it with my thumb and more came off - at that moment I decided to just rub the rest off and it just flaked away into dust.
Never thought of it....My phone is a tool not a piece of jewelery. Scratches and blemishes don;t bother me. I don;t use a s case and carry it in my pocket with keys and crap. I do use a screen protector though. As far as paint goes...Meh..not worth worrying about of "fixing"
My wife dropped hers recently and broke the glass. I found the glass and tools on ebay for like $30, and even found a youtube video that steps through everything you need to do. I just wanted to know if I'm taking on something I shouldn't.
eclipsed450 said:
My wife dropped hers recently and broke the glass. I found the glass and tools on ebay for like $30, and even found a youtube video that steps through everything you need to do. I just wanted to know if I'm taking on something I shouldn't.
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well it depends if you are up for the task.
If you have no experience with tearing apart electronics, I would watch some videos first. Different ones, so you can really get a feel of what's going on. It's important to be very gentle, usually no force required.
Make sure you work on a static free surface (I.e. NOT carpet or your bed) and keep all screws in one place. I've seen teardown videos of our phone, it's not that bad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1586028
thanks blue6ix! i'm up for it, i just wanted to see if anyone else had actually done it after seeing it the videos/pictures and were completely overwhelmed/ill-prepared.
As with any other phone, be VERY VERY careful with ribbon cables. I swear, those things will tear if you blow on them.
dung8604 said:
I swear, those things will tear if you blow on them.
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new screen has arrived. will let you know how the replacement goes.
Yeah, um, don't do this if you haven't done something like it before or aren't prepared. Phone is back together with new glass, but it's in NO WAY as solid as it used to be. I feel like I need to take it apart again and glue some things down - the adhesive provided was not enough.
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Yeah, um, don't do this if you haven't done something like it before or aren't prepared. Phone is back together with new glass, but it's in NO WAY as solid as it used to be. I feel like I need to take it apart again and glue some things down - the adhesive provided was not enough.
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Did you take any photos?
only one of it all apart on my desk at work. This video and these pics were spot on, but more emphasis should be put on the adhesive that hold the lcd panel to the metal backing - that was the worst and required the most time, and a hair dryer or heat gun isn't just recommended, it's necessary.
I'm using you as a guide. Mine is getting irritating with all the dust, so I'll invest on the glue strip first.
Also, during your shopping, did you by any chance run into any keyboard replacements? The wife's one is repeating a lotta letters and she's been repeating a lotta comments to me....
It's a noise issue with the gps antenna and other h/w on the board (mainly lcd cable.) It can be fixed by insulating the board from electrical shorts (scotch tape in my case) and shielding the board from the antenna with aluminum foil. Not for the faint of heart, obviously you can ruin your phone if not done correctly. If your wondering how much of a difference it'll make lets say my GPS works in my basement, in walmart, even in a multistory business office. I have yet to find a spot where it won't work. Most times it locks the instant it's opened, indoors you might have to wait maybe 10-30 secs.
If you think shielding the whole phone will help the other antennas, it won't I tried. You only have to do the corner that the GPS antenna is located and of course ground it. The GPS antenna is labeled with the letter G on the case of the phone. It's inbetween the camera, battery, and power button. Face down camera up, it's located upper left portion of the phone. Each antenna looks like a black label, please don't peal them off. Phone must be disassembled to perform this mod. I will not tell you how to take it apart (google it) nor be responsible if you break it. If you don't understand the concept of shielding or are unclear how to do this mod you shouldn't be doing it. You should be asking a friend that understands electronics better (aka major electronics geek) to do this for you.
Sorry I don't have pictures at this time.
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Only the area where the GPS antenna resides needs to be shielded which on the Nexus S 4G happens to be circled in red.
Don't forget to protect the board from electrical shorts with scotch tape or the like.
Please don't put tape or aluminum foil over the spring terminals as they provide contact to the antennas on the back of the case.
The shield must be grounded for it to work, I used the metal casing inside the phone.
You can see where it comes close to the edge of the phone, it happens to be metal there and its grounded
In for pics. Also, which model phone.
crespo4g aka SPH-D720 aka Nexus S 4G
But TBH this solution should work on any phone that has bad GPS reception due to bad design and/or h/w interference.
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Sounds similar to the other fix which didn't work for me. Do you have pics of your mod?
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Sounds similar to the other fix which didn't work for me. Do you have pics of your mod?
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Yea I just put one up. I've tried many things myself but this has made my phone's GPS f***in fantastic and thought I'd share it with the rest of the world to enjoy. I first tried modifying my antenna with a wire after trying a bunch of useless s/w mods but still wouldn't work once reassembled and then it became obvious what must be done.
Dude, that fix looks so hood rich. I love it.
Hi guys,
Well, I'm that idiot who broke his GPS/WiFi antenna.
With the new launch of the OP3, and my utterly empty wallet, I thought it was about time to replace the battery on my OPO since it was lasting about half a day now. Ordered a battery online, broke apart my phone, replaced the battery, bish bash bosh didn't take long at all.
Little did I know, when taking off the board protector it looks like I managed to snap off this little bugger (red circle bottom right):
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Since I didn't realise I'd done it, I never found the little bit I broke off and it's forever into the void (you know, the one where socks and case screws go).
Since I'm a very broke university student and I really wanted my OPO to last me another 2-3 years without me getting lost (I have a really horrible sense of direction), does anybody have any knowledge about this board that would give me a hand modding it to have the antenna work again?
If only it were just WiFi, or bluetooth, or NFC, or something else I never use, but it had to be GPS, the thing I use constantly!
If anybody could help me I'd appreciate it significantly, and if you're nearby I'll buy you a pint. Or a pizza. Or something.
Thanks guys.
PS My battery lasts two days now, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Makeshift27015 said:
Hi guys,
Well, I'm that idiot who broke his GPS/WiFi antenna.
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I think someone else did the same thing and hacked theirs with a piece of foil or something. It's just a contact. Maybe you got a bud who can do some nice surface-solder.
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I think someone else did the same thing and hacked theirs with a piece of foil or something. It's just a contact. Maybe you got a bud who can do some nice surface-solder.
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Possibly, yeah. I might fiddle around with it. It looks like the tiny antenna slot on the left of the red circle is the part of the same antenna system, do you reckon if I plugged an antenna cable into that it would be a workaround? I don't suppose you happen to know what that type of connector is called?
Cheers.
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Possibly, yeah. I might fiddle around with it. It looks like the tiny antenna slot on the left of the red circle is the part of the same antenna system, do you reckon if I plugged an antenna cable into that it would be a workaround? I don't suppose you happen to know what that type of connector is called?
Cheers.
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Got no idea on the answers to any of those questions. Google for ideas? Good luck.
Is there any safe product that won't destroy the phone, but can be used to drop a couple of drops where the broken corner glass is to prevent the glass from further breaking and seal the phone. I was thinking paint, but are those toxics going to maybe eat the plastic under the rear glass and possibly damage seals and other things if the fumes enter the phone. There has to be a way to apply something, and it down and polish it to show minimal damage if there is no way to replace the rear glass.
Just before I had the chance to get a case, I dropped it. From reaching out my pocket it slips. My attempt to catch it slowed it down, but I'm shocked how weak, let me repeat, WEAK AS FUUUUK pixel 2 is. Every spot it touched, looks like it got dropped on. Because it hit the back and then flipped like a fish onto the screen which caused scratches on screen and frame.
The damage is:
11 screen scratches.
View from the front shows upper right scratch and lower right.
From back upper left. Right side is cracked and crack line runs across to camera side.
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Anyone? Just need something that's going to harden but that it won't have fumes going inside the phone breaking apart internal glue and other seals.
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Anyone? Just need something that's going to harden but that it won't have fumes going inside the phone breaking apart internal glue and other seals.
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Did you check how much it'll cost to fix it? And without pictures it's hard to make any suggestions
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...mobile&field-keywords=google+pixel+2+bonafide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGcNccfpacE
I saw there is a replacement glass available recently. I'd still rather try to fix the small crack. Just a drop or two of something that will bond to the crack seems the way to go. Easy to do, keep the phones water resistance.