While soldering a new power button ribbon cable to my mainboard I accidentally bumped one of my NFC antenna pogo pins and soldered it solid.
As expected all attempts at soldering it only added more solder. I have ripped apart a stash of phones I had laying around and found a few pogo pins in them all too large.
Here you can see an image of the mainboard along with some example pogo pins.
something of similar size or a suitable method to make nfc great again would be cool!
http://imgur.com/a/eNSfA
Thanks for your efforts to help!
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I bought a Fuze off ebay and the previous owner in repairing the phone rip off the external speaker wires and broke off the connector attach to board.
The solder pads and still there, actually the 2 posts still present on the mainboard.
Where can I buy the speaker connector? so I can re solder it back onto the board?
I can post pics if needed to better explain.
My last option is to buy a parts phone, will a sprint htc touch have the same speaker connector? or will it have to be another fuze.
My other option which I don't want to do is dig up my parts bin for a generic connector, so it can be disconnected to take apart.
If you are skilled enough to re-solder a connector in the first place, why don't you solder your own connector instead of trying to replace the original one. Better yet, solder a wire to the board to an alternate connector,then replace the connector on the speaker leads to the matching alternate connector. I already tore one speaker wire when opening my Fuze, because its is too short. Luckily I did not yank the connector so I was able to purchase a replacement speaker for $10 and reconnect.
I wanted it look stock, but it's hard to find a cheap parts phone so I will just solder on a different connector.
I've been meaning to put this up here for a while, it's nothing special really just thought it'd be nice to share.
Basically all I did was open up a USB cable I bought off of amazon and added a resistor (and then later added a jumper).
The cables I purchased are legit data/charging OEM Samsung "U2" cables (the shorter 3ft long cables).
After doing my best to keep the original plastic housing intact while removing it, I then soldered some solid copper wire to the ID and GND connections.
(I used some of the internal copper wires from some cat5e cabling I had lying around.)
I then soldered a resistor between the two wires, carved out some space in the plastic housing for the new wires, snapped the plastic housing back on and applied some heat-shrink tubing to seal it all up.
This proved to be a bad idea.
Having the resistor always attached rendered the cable useless for anything but Download Mode (adb will not function with the resistor attached).
So I fixed that issue by adding a jumper to the resistor.
This allows to force Download Mode with the jumper on, as well as normal USB functionality with the jumper off.
So there you have it... my custom DL mode cable.
I went ahead and made an imgur album that has a few more pics.
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I used some BBCode "hide" tags to hide the excessively large pictures.
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THATS awesome! Legit, really cool!
Very nice!
I've been using a motorola data/charging cable Model:SKN5004A for all of my adb/download mode/everything else. It works great.
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I was doing a repair to my ASUS TF101 and damaged the connector for a ribbon cable on to a PCB. It's about 10mm wide and has 20 pins. It is the type where a black piece of plastic folds down to hold the cable in place. This has snapped off
Is it possible to get a spare part online and fix this? If not glue it in place??
See the link for a picture http://bit.ly/OPdO97
Thanks
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!
one of the pogo pins has broken off by one plus, not exactly sure how to repair it. it doesn't appear as if it was soldered to the board originally. Was thinking hot glue or super glue. what do you think?
tmmcbots said:
one of the pogo pins has broken off by one plus, not exactly sure how to repair it. it doesn't appear as if it was soldered to the board originally. Was thinking hot glue or super glue. what do you think?
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Hey, Did you manage to fix that pogo pin. I have the same problem, and I get no cellular network right now :crying:
Nope, luckily for me the broken pin had zero effects on my wifi/bluetooth or cellular network.
Sorry for the necro thread but anyone finding this on google the two pogo pins next to the solder joints for the power button ribbon cable are for the NFC antenna from the information I can find
this pogo pin is for gps. mine fell out and i have no idea where to get replacements. any suggestions?
i broke 1 wifi+bluetooth pin... i think i might put some soldering iron on it and check the result... how did you guys managed
any updates here? I have broken one of the GPS pogo pins (lower one from top). I do have the pin and some noob soldering skills.. Any help will be great..
thanks