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.
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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.
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?
Hi, I have a HTC ONE S. I recently dropped the phone from waist high.
Ever since, the phone been having spotty connection.
My SIM card is fine because i tried it in another phone.
I called TMOBILE and it is not on their end.
I am sure its a hardware problem.
How would I find the internal GSM Antenna Cable to make sure its connected right? I saw a video on how to disassemble the phone but it does not show where the Antenna is.
Please help.
Tumbz said:
Hi, I have a HTC ONE S. I recently dropped the phone from waist high.
Ever since, the phone been having spotty connection.
My SIM card is fine because i tried it in another phone.
I called TMOBILE and it is not on their end.
I am sure its a hardware problem.
How would I find the internal GSM Antenna Cable to make sure its connected right? I saw a video on how to disassemble the phone but it does not show where the Antenna is.
Please help.
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Pop off the bottom plastic cover and look at the metal terminals that connect the mainboard to the inside of the plastic cover which is essentially the antenna. Do the same with the top cover. Behide the top cover here's six terminals in total to, the left, right, and above the camera. I don't remember how many there are behind the bottom. Take a small screw driver or toothpick or tweezers etc and push the terminals outwards from underneath (gently) so that they stick out more. Then replace your covers and see if that helps.
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Pop off the bottom plastic cover and look at the metal terminals that connect the mainboard to the inside of the plastic cover which is essentially the antenna. Do the same with the top cover. Behide the top cover here's six terminals in total to, the left, right, and above the camera. I don't remember how many there are behind the bottom. Take a small screw driver or toothpick or tweezers etc and push the terminals outwards from underneath (gently) so that they stick out more. Then replace your covers and see if that helps.
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THanks. Ill try that and update you. Im at work right now. Ill try when i get home.
Hey guys I recently googled and made my own otg cable. Actually a few and the procedure that I found were very solder intensive. I dont mind soldering tiny things but its not easy and it is so easy to mess it up. I got an easier way for those who enjoy building rather then buying. These cables are not expensive but its more rewarding to say I made that.
Here goes:
Get a regular micro usb cord. I got mine for a buck at dollor store. Make sure it has 5 contacts inside the phone end and try to get the hard plastic ends not the solid ends. They are much easier to work with.
Crack the phone end open carefully with a knife along the seam. You should be left with the metal tip and wires exposed.
The phone end is made up of a few parts and if you carefully pull the plastic peice closest to the wires out of the metal housing you will have all 5 contacts exposed. Keep ever part. You will need them.
This is the only soldering you have to do. Use a match book or a peice of thin card and insert it between the 3rd and 4th pin. Count from the red wire side. Should be right after the green wire contact. You are soldering the black wire pin to the next one. I bend my card in half and tape the end down to the table so it doesnt move. Very carefully and with very little solder and some acid paste flux to help it stick solder the last 2 contact prongs together. Just a tiny bit about 3 mm from the plastic on wire end will do. Dont put to much on or go to far to the end of the contacts. Make sure that only the 4 and 5 pin are soldered.
Gentally slide the contacts back into the metal housing. Use a flashlight to look inside and make sure they are all evenly spaced and back wherebthey were. Put the plastic cover back on and glue or tape it tight.
Go back to dollor store (cause why screw up a expensive cord. Practice on this first.) And get a female to female conector and you are done!
Plug your new otg cable into phone with the female to female conector on usb end and plug in your ext hard drive, flash drive, keyboard, mouse, etc into the female connector and your laughin'
It still works as a charger ( mine is plugged in now charging) and you have a otg cable aswell.
This worked very well for me but I caution you to be really carefull. If you fry your phone I won't send you a new one
Good luck!
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.