Hi,
Does anybody know if there is any reason why I can't take a 16gb and 32gb versions of Nexus 5 and swap the guts over?
I want to keep the digitizer LCD from the 16gb version and put all of the other 32gb version components in the 16gb body.
Is there just one board that has the Flash RAM on it? If so, I guess I could just swap that board over, maybe?
Thanks.
I would guess that the two devices are 100% identical apart from the memory. Rather than trying to swap pieces, why not slap the digitiser on the 32GB body?
This is a video that I watched when I first bought a Nexus 5 - you might find it interesting and helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuCmfhzgbg
Just swap the top main boards and you will be good to go.
10 min job.
Thanks for your responses peeps. Very helpful.
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Hi guys,
So i am one of the unlucky (stupid?) that flashed the wrong twrp and am now paying the price. I'm looking to get a new motherboard for my tablet and am happy to replace it. Question is. I can't remember for the life of me if I have a 16gb or a 32 gb tablet. I can't turn it on to check. any way to know from the serial number or from the old motherboard if I remove it? I am looking to buy one online and found one on ebay for a reasonable price. Anyone have any other suggestions for where to find a used/new motherboard? I don't really want to give Asus any more money. Thanks!
doesn't matter which one your had, just buy the 32GB one on eBay.
ASUS 32 GB Motherboard - eBay Link - $99.95
I currently have an S4. I love it, I also got an extended battery, and a 64GB MicroSD card. I was hoping a better S5 when the S6 came out but it actually seems like they kinda went backwards on a few things. This has left me thinking about just going to a different phone. What does anyone else think? I know extended batteries are on the way out I have given up on that for a next gen phone but was hoping that the S6 would keep the Water proof, USB 3, Removable Battery and MicroSD card. I can only wonder why they took away these features.
Hi, total newbie, first post, but.
As a Samsung owner from the original S, currently running a S4, I have to agree with your observations, in regards to going backwards.
Personally, I see the removal of the SD card as a money making scam on Samsungs part. Ok, I have no real world experience of what handset internal memory costs to buy in regards to manufacturing etc, but.
To me, the variations in memory sizes should have been costed against what the equivalent micro SD card cost to buy respectively.
Sandisc 32gig Class 10 £13
Sandisc 64gig £26
Sandisc 128gig £70 ish.
Not to robbed blindly at £200 for the extra 90 odd gig you get between 32 & 128 inbuilt.
The say they dropped the micro SD due to the full metal frame and glass back, rubbish. It looks like they have a machined slot to take the micro sim, so why couldn't they do similar with micro sd card?
Battery is an issue certainly, if it turns out like the original S4 ones, that ended up swollen.
It makes you wonder if these handsets will be operational in 5 years time. I mention this as I have a few old handsets, in pristine condition, with original batteries from the late 90's, early 2000 that all still work perfectly. Im afraid that I can's see the same with their modern builds.
Well,looks like we don't have much options left of removable batteries smartphones,but its not a big deal,at least for me,because its not like we can't replace it,its just harder but still possible.The issue here is that only 2550 mAh,plus with a unnecessary QHD display ,the S6 battery can perform any better than our S4?
For the SD Card,they don't drop it because of the glass and metal design,its performance related.S6 have amazingly fast R/W internal memory,and a SD card would ruin it.The price off course will be a issue,but i think they made a good choice.
The biggest drawback is the lack of waterproof,and for the USB 3,i wonder when they will begin to implement the Type C standard on Smartphones,that would be cool!
I think im gonna jump this generations of smartphones because I am still happy with the S4 and type C standard is actually a very nice practical thing to have. I'm even delaying my motherboard upgrade because of that.
Hello!
I have an LG G4 which has developed a fault with screen burn-in and so it's being sent back to LG for repair sometime over the next week. I am expecting to be without the phone for around anywhere up to a month, but in the meantime i have a 2013 Moto G 1st Gen that i can use, which is actually a pretty sweet phone when running CM13. The only problem is that the internal storage in the Moto G is only 16GB, and it doesn't have a card slot to put my SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSD.
I investigated the Meenova but it would be a little expensive for me to buy and have it shipped over to the UK, my calculations bring the amount to $15 which equates to approximately £11, which is a bit steep for something i will only use for a month at most. And besides that, the website states that postage from Hong Kong could take more than a few weeks or even a month!
Thankfully, i have come up with another idea. I have a microscopic adapter at home which converts USB to Micro USB. It does essentially the same job as a USB OTG cable but it's incredibly small and genuinely cannot be seen once it is fitted between two devices. So i thought that i could use this adapter to convert the Moto G's Micro USB socket to USB, and then have a USB to microSD adapter plugged into that to add support for my 128GB microSD card.
I am looking at two different cheap ones on eBay at the moment which are here and here. I'm all set for buying one of them but my question is, will either of those work with a card as large as 128GB (microSDXC) such as mine? I'm a little doubtful as to whether these will only support lower capacity cards which are 32GB (microSDHC) and below, but don't see why not because it's only a simple adapter, nothing more.
What do you guys think, would these cheap adapters support microSDXC cards with capacities such as 64GB and 128GB? Any insight on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hi guys, I am sorry because this is probably 1828318th time someone asks this.
I have samsung galaxy s6, I love it. I could get this phone for 120-150 euros, is it worth ? It probably wouldn't be my primary phone, something to have in reserve but I would also use it, one of the reasons I would like to try it because on my sgs6 is first time I flashed rom, so I would also like to experiment with it.
Thank you
It's a great phone, hardware-wise it's perfect. Great chipset (cpu, gpu), 2gb of ram is enough, go for the 32gb version since it doesn't take a sd card. The camera is very good, the screen even better, and it's a nexus, so you have many people working on it. It's cheap and you can find replacement parts cheap and easily on eBay (screen, battery etc.).
If you're planning on buying from eBay (specifically those from honk kong) be careful, I bought 3 of them (1st motherboard broke on its own, didn't have backlight, 2nd came with a literally broken motherboard) because they were all broken or faulty. Suspicious things I found when I removed the back covers. The 3rd was finally good.
I bought 2 of them for 180 dollars [emoji14]
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So it looks like my eMMC got fried after failing to write to all of the partitions from fastboot. Now, since my country doesn't have a whole lot of shops that are willing to replace a single SMD chip from the board I was left with going through laptop shops and finally found one that was willing to replace the chip. The only catch is that I'm left with sourcing the chip. On that note, I was left a bit of confused about the eMMC chips, specially after that 64GB mod.
Now, I have a 16GB Nexus 5 and from looking at the ifixit site, I can see that it is using a SandDisk SDIN8DE4-16G chip. Normally, for the repair, I would buy the exact same chip, but after seeing that I can "upgrade" I was thinking about getting the 32GB version of the chip i.e. SDIN8DE4-32G since the price is similar. Is that the chip from the 32GB Nexus version? Also, I didn't want to go the route of the 64GB since I didn't ivestigate as much into the compatabilaty of other ROMs with that chip.
So my questions are the following:
Should I go ahead and buy the SDIN8DE4-32G chip? Is the upgrade process that simple?
The second question is: Can I put in any eMMC chip in there and not just the SDIN8DE4-32G chip i.e. a faster eMMC 5 chip and how would the process differ (if at all)?
Any and all input is welcome, specially from the people that have some experience with SMD HW repair.
EDIT 1: Ok, after some research, I see that the 32GB version of Nexus does in fact use the SDIN8DE4-32G chip.
Depending on what they are charging you, you might be better off just replacing the whole motherboard with a brand new one from eBay for like $80US
Sorry I can't help with sourcing the actual chip.
username8611 said:
Depending on what they are charging you, you might be better off just replacing the whole motherboard with a brand new one from eBay for like $80US
Sorry I can't help with sourcing the actual chip.
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Yeah, I agree that that would be the easiest route, but it's the most expencive one. The 32GB Nexus 5 chip can be found for around 15$ (inc. shipping) and the shop would charge me another 25$ for the soldering so it would still be at like a half the price of a new board, and any repair above 50$ just doesn't make sence since I can find a used Nexus 5 16GB for 100$ and sell this one for parts for around 50$.
Am curious how did this adventure end
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Am curious how did this adventure end
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Sadly not the way I've hoped. I sold it off for parts for 30e and got a used one for 70e.
All in all a good deal, but still on the 16GB version and looking to upgrade to a new phone since there are some limitations of the 32 bit CPU architecture.
Was looking at the Motorola X4, but it doesn't support project Treble out of the box, so I think I'll wait a bit more until Android 8.0 phones come to market.
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Sadly not the way I've hoped. I sold it off for parts for 30e and got a used one for 70e.
All in all a good deal, but still on the 16GB version and looking to upgrade to a new phone since there are some limitations of the 32 bit CPU architecture.
Was looking at the Motorola X4, but it doesn't support project Treble out of the box, so I think I'll wait a bit more until Android 8.0 phones come to market.
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That sucks