I've watched the tear down and it doesn't look too difficult but I'd like an opinion from someone who has actually done it. I know batteries don't last forever and I'm going to have to do this sooner or later
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I took apart my n4 before just to see what was inside. Although I never had to replace the battery because they should last 2-3 years before you even start to see signs of degradation. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
If for some reason you do need to replace it, it's more than easy enough to replace.
i almost completely teared it down becuase i had to replace the screen (dropped it on silvester.. :/) and i can tell you it's really pretty easy - the hardest parts for me were getting of the back cover and getting out the battery because the double-sided tape underneath is really strong but if you have the right tools (which i didn't have) everything should be really easy!
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So, I've heard people having ridiculous troubles getting their battery doors off, but mine is quite the opposite. It takes only a little pull to get it, and when it is "on" it seems like there is a unintended gap between the door and body of the phone and it doesn't seem to lay flush with the edge of the body. I actually bought another battery door to see if mine just lost its ability to lock but the same annoyances occur.
Has anyone had a similar situation and know a fix? Is there a "right" way to put on the battery door?
Thanks!
Takes 2 people (or 3 hands) just to get my bloody phone cover off, but no issues removing the battery cover. Sure is a pill to get that darn thing back on though.
I believe you are possibly the first one to complain about it coming of that easy. Where did you buy the battery cover from? Ebay? Is it a genuine HTC part?
Try calling HTC, they might send you a replacement one and it will be genuine.
Mine was hard to pull off at first but I think I may have messed it up because now I'm having the same issue. Its quite easy to get off now. Eh well, I'm going to put a case on my phone this week so hopefully it'll hold the door tighter.
Haha, glad its not just me.
Mines been ridiculously loose since the first time I had to remove it.
I have a case mate barely there on now, and its working out great.
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Mine's not loose, but after reading and watching reviews, I was prepared to do battle with the battery cover if needed. In the end, some people are just brain dead. The battery cover isn't hard to take off, or put back on.
Still has me scratching my head...
They have changed the cover since the first ones came out. If you got your inspire early on the battery cover was a nightmare and usually got destroyed trying to take it off. HTC is actually sending out free replacement battery covers because the first covers were so bad.
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Some of them are great, and some are just horrible. We actually broke one at work trying to get the door off so we could install the battery for a customer. However; mine works great, pops right off whenever I need it to, without a hassle.
I just ordered a part with frame and I am wondering if anyone have replaced and would like to share the experience in doing so. Any suggestions or tips before I start installing the part my self.
I found couple of good videos on YouTube how to install this part.
I really would like to use N5 and have a pure stock experience.
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I just replaced my Nesux 5 screen yesterday, following this instruction. The youtube is 30 minutes long and it took me 3 hours to finish the job.
One thing to keep in mind, you need a very good screw driver. One of the screws of the CPU board has metal sockets (instead of just plastic like the other screws), the top middle screw. My cheap screw driver comes with the screen+frame module stripped the screw head, so that screw is stcuk in the socket and can't be taken out. At the end, I used a x-acto knife cut out the plastic around the screw to remove the CPU board cover.
You also may want to get a replacement battery. It's easy to damage the battery when you take it out. (My battery is dying, so I have to change it anyways)
Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. I ordered the LCD digitizer with the frame on eBay. It'd coming with some tool kit. So not sure if it has necessary screw driver you are suggesting.
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Never completely stripped it down but I hear it's easy enough. I was able to take the PCB, Battery out with ease.
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Nexus_5
However be careful with the cables that run down the side of the phone (both sides) they are weak, so remove them at the socket instead of yanking the cable off http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/wifi-cable-and-blue-tape.jpg?410b2a those little buggers, make sure you don't get them trapped either.
Battery is easy, don't use a screwdriver to pull off the tab at the top, otherwise it'll spark. Use something made of plastic.
Thank You. Hopefully I can get my N5 back to normal.
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So yesterday around midnight clumsy as I am I managed to drop my Nexus 5 in clean toilet water. Fortunately I managed to get it out of there in less than a second so the phone just like "paddled" in the water before it was in my hand again. Well when it was in my hands I quick took some paper and cleaned the outlayers of the phone but unfortunately it took me a few minutes until I managed to turn it off because of non-responsive touch because of the water on the screen. Still, until I turned it off the phone seemed like to work as it always have, perfect.
So when it was turned off I took out the SIM and card holder. I took a cotton swab and cleaned the headset and charger hole and put in it uncooked rice.
Now it's been in the rice for 5-6 hours and I just took a quick look on it (No, I did not turn it on.). I'm put it in again and I am going to leave it in the rice for 20-44 hours more.
How big is my survival chance? Should I try to take the phone and try to blow out the minimal amount of water with a vaccum cleaner? I left the back cover (the one who came with the phone) on but on YouTube it doesn't look like too much of an hassle to get it off. Should I take the back cover off and put in rice again or blow with hair dryer/vaccum cleaner?
And how many hours should it stay in rice?
To be honest... I'd sit it on a radiator as well to let it get hot and really dry out. Then it's probably just a 50 50 chance that nothing is damaged and turn it on and hope for the best
Just open it and dry it.
Half year ago I put the phone in laundry machine and washed like 5 minutes...
Open it up, get parts out, and make sure every part is dry after few hours.
Then put them back, and everything is fine as before
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K9998 said:
Just open it and dry it.
Half year ago I put the phone in laundry machine and washed like 5 minutes...
Open it up, get parts out, and make sure every part is dry after few hours.
Then put them back, and everything is fine as before
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I really don't want to open it...I destroyed the case of my former phone that way and it looks like the case for the Nexus is really hard to get off...
By the way I have now vacuumed some small, small drops of water out from the charger hole and the speakers. If I remember right only half of phone got fully in the water since the headphone jack was completely dry. The phone is in a container of rice now and I will leave it there for another 12-16 hours...
Do you really recommend me to try to take of the case?
I believe the back is pretty easy to take off - you can start with a fingernail. And it would certainly increase the drying performance. I think I remember doing it myself. Try iFixit for the Nexus 5 teardown.
Yep, there's a video, but it's really a narrative rather than showing the removal of the back cover. It shows that it's held on with clips with a very small amount on the bottom edge. It's as simple as I thought, and now I've seen it I remember doing it on my old N5 before I exchanged it for a refurbished model.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016
Worked
I powered it on now. Everything seems to work perfect
So where I live it's been getting very hot weather wise. I've had the phone in a toughcase for almost a year, the phones 2 years old and pristine.
Few days ago thought I'd take it out the case and give it a clean, took it out the case today and one side has started to come up, it looks as though the adhesive is coming off due to the high heat.
Has anyone experienced this? And if so what did you do? The phone is out of warranty so can't get ir repaired by Sammy. I'm fairly proficient when it comes to repairs and what not.
I can obviously replace the whole thing as a long term solution, but is there anything I can do in the mean time?
Thanks in advance.
I would guess that the battery has degraded over time and giving excess heat and expanded a little. I would suggest to replace it (maybe with S7 Edge battery).
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I would guess that the battery has degraded over time and giving excess heat and expanded a little. I would suggest to replace it (maybe with S7 Edge battery).
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The battery is fine as I've looked at it and normally with battery swelling the battery life is dreadful but I'm still getting 17 hours use with 3-4 hours sot. The back panel fits on fine it's just the adhesive one side, I've checked battery health too and it's good.
You can buy the adhesive from various places and google will take you to various guides on removing the back cover, you need to heat it up enough to loosen the glue.
So I've had an Xperia Z3 Compact for some time now. Not long after I got it I managed to break the original back (sheer absolute carelessness.) I've since had a long line of third party backs. Unfortunately, my biggest problem is that even the ones claiming to be tempered extra strong glass still seem to break 100x more easily than the screen (still doesn't have even so much as a scratch.) Obviously no one here can do anything about that. (Though someday I'd like to figure out if I can come up with some sort of plastic solution. Then I could even use a more permanent and better sealing glue than official screen/back replacement glue because presumably it wouldn't break and have to be replaced every so often.) One problem I am having that maybe can be addressed here is that they keep coming loose.
I believe I'm doing it right. First I shut down the phone first (since there's so much heat involved I want to stress it as little as possible in the process.) Next I put the back with the glue up and use a heat gun on the low setting for quite a while on it to get the glue as malleable as possible. Then I line it up and put it in quickly and apply a fair bit of weight (I'm afraid to put too much and break something in the process, but I've tried to give it a fair bit of weight) and leave it for hours (actually, typically I just leave it overnight.) Half the time it works great for a fair little while and half the time it only lasts a short while, but always I find the back coming loose eventually. (I do not bend or pry at my phone a lot or anything like that.) I would add here that while I keep my phone in my pocket all the time, I keep it in a case I've modified to help protect it where I even put a metal plate on one side to help keep it pretty flat (the last thing in the world I want is any damage to my screen, so yeah, I go a bit above and beyond...) This should keep it from flexing very much in that pocket and it should remain fairly flat as far as I know more or less all of the time.
One thing I've been wondering: it's very difficult to keep the whole thing heated thoroughly. Also, it's easy to overheat one area (while underheating another for example) as I managed to warp the material over the camera lens (next time I'll pop that out first and put that back in only just before putting the back on.) So I had a bit of a thought: why not use an oven? This could warm it much more evenly potentially, getting the heat in deeper and more consistently than I can do with a heat gun. Well, presumably it must work because why wouldn't it? But it does beg a few questions. Most importantly, what temperature would I even use? For an oven it would obviously be something relatively low. For example, might it be something about like ~100C/~200F? More? Less? I honestly don't know and this is my main question here. Would a toaster oven be too focused (eg with the heating elements too close to the glass)? Because it would really be best if I could use it instead of a full sized one. Has anyone ever done this before? I only ever found people using heat guns in googling around. But something isn't going right and I have to assume it's the consistency because nothing else even makes sense.
PS. Has anyone ever 3D printed a back or anything? If I ever do try to go plastic I'll probably have to cut something the hardest possible way with very little precision which is no small part of why I keep putting off even trying it. This thing will never be back to the full waterproof rating it originally had, but I do at least want it to be safe if I have to make an emergency call in the rain or something. (Well, that and finding the right plastic since it needs to be flexible and not brittle but tough enough to resist bumps without smashing into the battery or something if anything pokes it.) Getting sick of glass...