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Anyone know how to change the wifi chip on a sensation??
Mine has died, just will not turn on at all, always delivers an error, i'm looking for where it is? So if anyone knows, first hand then let me know please
Thanks.
I don't think you can "change" the wifi chip...
it is integrated into the board/chipset. I think your only choice to replace the whole board.
Reflash the kernel
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atomfix said:
Reflash the kernel
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Software is not the issue m8, believe me i've exhausted every option available, it can only be a hardware issue.
Changing the board would be a pain, how much do you think a new board would be??
Put it back to stock then send it to Htc for a replacement.
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Put it back to stock then send it to Htc for a replacement.
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Yea i think that's the only way, problem is i got it for free from HTC haha, so it kinda doesn't have a warranty as it was given to me, so i guess we'll just see what they say.
Thanks anyway.
dladz said:
Yea i think that's the only way, problem is i got it for free from HTC haha, so it kinda doesn't have a warranty as it was given to me, so i guess we'll just see what they say.
Thanks anyway.
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Do you solve this problem?
I've an HTC Sensation with the same issue...
(in settings, wifi mac address is "not available") :S
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matpil said:
Do you solve this problem?
I've an HTC Sensation with the same issue...
(in settings, wifi mac address is "not available") :S
regards
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I´ve been reading about the wifi problem,
I have an Sensation 4G , that has a serious wifi problem, it only connects for a cuple of minutes then disconnected.
and other times, the phone restart..
I saw a post , that could be the broadcom chip, that its located in the flex near of the hearphones socket.
that chip, it´s an integrated that has internally , the WIFI, Bluetooth, and FM radio.
So , a few guys told that it can be heated and it works again.
So that´s what I´m gonna do..
charliert said:
I´ve been reading about the wifi problem,
I have an Sensation 4G , that has a serious wifi problem, it only connects for a cuple of minutes then disconnected.
and other times, the phone restart..
I saw a post , that could be the broadcom chip, that its located in the flex near of the hearphones socket.
that chip, it´s an integrated that has internally , the WIFI, Bluetooth, and FM radio.
So , a few guys told that it can be heated and it works again.
So that´s what I´m gonna do..
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If U do that tell us if it worked or not. . Tnx
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dladz said:
Anyone know how to change the wifi chip on a sensation??
Mine has died, just will not turn on at all, always delivers an error, i'm looking for where it is? So if anyone knows, first hand then let me know please
Thanks.
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Are you sure that it is not a problem with the wifi antenna? Maybe the contacts are not being made to the antenna on the back cover.
If it is the chip itself then you are really out of luck.
patspdaphone said:
Are you sure that it is not a problem with the wifi antenna? Maybe the contacts are not being made to the antenna on the back cover.
If it is the chip itself then you are really out of luck.
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On Ebay the whole Flex board that has the broadcom chip , its on 25dlls w/ free shipping.
so, first I´m gonna try heating the chip a little bit, if it doesn´t work , then I´ll buy the whole flex board.
Hi,
today I disassembly my sensation
Disconnecting all flex and antenna wires, and then connect and assembly all again.
Now I have my WiFi connection back with full signal and with more than 3hours without any fail.
I didn't know what was the main problem I didn't heat the broadcom chip.
But for now everything is ok
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charliert said:
Hi,
today I disassembly my sensation
Disconnecting all flex and antenna wires, and then connect and assembly all again.
Now I have my WiFi connection back with full signal and with more than 3hours without any fail.
I didn't know what was the main problem I didn't heat the broadcom chip.
But for now everything is ok
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Can you send me (with private message) a link to the product I have to buy?
I'm not so practical... but I want to try
Regard,
wifi
charliert said:
Hi,
today I disassembly my sensation
Disconnecting all flex and antenna wires, and then connect and assembly all again.
Now I have my WiFi connection back with full signal and with more than 3hours without any fail.
I didn't know what was the main problem I didn't heat the broadcom chip.
But for now everything is ok
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might actually do that. I had given up on wifi ever working again.
osaedu said:
might actually do that. I had given up on wifi ever working again.
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you could try first disconnect and reconnect flex,
if not, then heating the chip, and finally replace the whole flex
charliert said:
you could try first disconnect and reconnect flex,
if not, then heating the chip, and finally replace the whole flex
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Hi Guys, so here´s me again..... After about 1 Day and a half, of wifi working, it´s dead now....
I think that I´m gonna heat the wifi chip..
so if someone it´s getting the same problem, please comments your testings and results.
Thanks
maybee
maybe a stupid answer, but try a new rear cover first before ripping the phone apart. The antenna contacts on the rear cover are literally just copper conductive paint that wears out easily.
I had wifi issues on mine, and instead of waiting for a new cover to arrive from ebay ( and the fact that no one on ebay sells them with the extra 4G antenna pins) I just went to a local electronics store and bought some of that copper paint. Dabbed a bit on all of the antenna contacts and now all of my radio devices have much better reception.
Worth a shot...
So i openned mine up, just take it apart b4 heating n noticed the metalic cover of bcm ic touching top of a line of resistors solder edge, can this be a defect shorting the board?
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Maybe its a defect
I heated the bcm chip and my wifi it's back again ...
I have 2 days with it and no problem..
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charliert said:
Maybe its a defect
I heated the bcm chip and my wifi it's back again ...
I have 2 days with it and no problem..
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heated it for almost 20sec and wifi is still not working...bluetooth is working just like before :/
Hello
Has anyone got any ideas on how to remove the back cover on the Photon Q 4G? I want to know if I can remove the SIM and replace with my 'foreign' SIM. I did research and found that the SIM is embedded under the battery, but in order to get to that you need to still get to the battery.
Please help.
fijmeister said:
Hello
Has anyone got any ideas on how to remove the back cover on the Photon Q 4G? I want to know if I can remove the SIM and replace with my 'foreign' SIM. I did research and found that the SIM is embedded under the battery, but in order to get to that you need to still get to the battery.
Please help.
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I was curious of this myself so I took my Photon Q apart right now for you and no it does not has a removable sim it soldered to the board and covered and enclosed in the board meaning you can't get to it with out breaking the Mother Board.
btw Im a Certified repair technician in a Sprint store...just so you know im not just some punk kid
iLiVeFrEeOrDiE said:
I was curious of this myself so I took my Photon Q apart right now for you and no it does not has a removable sim it soldered to the board and covered and enclosed in the board meaning you can't get to it with out breaking the Mother Board.
btw Im a Certified repair technician in a Sprint store...just so you know im not just some punk kid
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What, no pics?!?
arrrghhh said:
What, no pics?!?
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I think this went up prior to you being a mod here but I posted a few photos of the device a while ago http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850305
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I think this went up prior to you being a mod here but I posted a few photos of the device a while ago http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850305
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Hah, I'm not a mod here in this section... but yea. I did get the device fairly recently.
Was hoping to see the SIM - I'll look thru your pics, thanks!
arrrghhh said:
Hah, I'm not a mod here in this section... but yea. I did get the device fairly recently.
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Ah, whoops. Well still glad you've arrived mod or not.
iLiVeFrEeOrDiE said:
...btw Im a Certified repair technician in a Sprint store...just so you know im not just some punk kid
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haaaaaa hahahahaha
CornholioGSM said:
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No reason for that.
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What gives you the right to say what they are or are not? If all you're looking to do is promote your thread which to me is all this looks like I'll happily remove any posts like this. Leave your opinions about other members out of your posts.
Thanks
AvRS
Hey guys! I just bought myself an I9001 Galaxy S Plus from someone (second hand)... It's my first smartphone so i think i've been busted.
The phone seemed to work well, and everything was ok. But when I try to use the GPS (without internet connection), it does'n seem to find any server. I've changed some different ROMs with different Kernels, but it still can't reach any server.
I forgot to mention that with some ROMs the signal level is very oscillating...
Today i was looking at the phone and observed that there is a hole just above the battery where some component, like an antenna or something is missing. I don't know what component is that...
I think that the missing component is the one in te next picture. But what is its name and role? Instead of it, at my phone, there's a soildered wire... This trick was made to mask other issues of the phone? (if i replace the missing component the phone might have problems?)
I'll attach the photos, may be you can help me. Thanks!!!
Does anybody know?
alwaysfresh said:
Does anybody know?
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no need to worry my friend that is a normal component there is nothing missing. i would show you mine on my samsung brightside but cant find my camera xD.
edit: oh crap taking a second look at it (thought the third picture was your phone) it does look like its missing something Sorry mate
alwaysfresh said:
Hey guys! I just bought myself an I9001 Galaxy S Plus from someone (second hand)... It's my first smartphone so i think i've been busted.
The phone seemed to work well, and everything was ok. But when I try to use the GPS (without internet connection), it does'n seem to find any server. I've changed some different ROMs with different Kernels, but it still can't reach any server.
I forgot to mention that with some ROMs the signal level is very oscillating...
Today i was looking at the phone and observed that there is a hole just above the battery where some component, like an antenna or something is missing. I don't know what component is that...
I think that the missing component is the one in te next picture. But what is its name and role? Instead of it, at my phone, there's a soildered wire... This trick was made to mask other issues of the phone? (if i replace the missing component the phone might have problems?)
I'll attach the photos, may be you can help me. Thanks!!!
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I think it's a Connector coaxial, a micro miniature form of RF coaxial connector. Look at one i marked with an arrow.. You can replace that part from samsung service center
Best of luck.
The details:
Design LOC: RFS100
SEC CODE: 3705-001731
Description: CONNECTOR-COAXIAL
thank you!
but that's the reason why my gps doesn't work?
or that's the reason why the signal level is very oscillating when i'm using some custom ROMs?
do I need it, or i can live without ?
alwaysfresh said:
thank you!
but that's the reason why my gps doesn't work?
or that's the reason why the signal level is very oscillating when i'm using some custom ROMs?
do I need it, or i can live without ?
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May be. Not sure..
I used to have a i9000B wich is basicaly the same device.
THE GPS signal simply sucks, it was so bad that sometimes it took 2 minutes to lock in open field, with some roms it got better with other even worse.
I used GPS AIDS with that device an app that was developed just to try to solve this particular device problem at that time. look it up, maybe it can help a little bit, but i thing this device will never get a high speed gps lock.
thize recedust
vinnyconsorte said:
I used to have a i9000B wich is basicaly the same device.
THE GPS signal simply sucks, it was so bad that sometimes it took 2 minutes to lock in open field, with some roms it got better with other even worse.
I used GPS AIDS with that device an app that was developed just to try to solve this particular device problem at that time. look it up, maybe it can help a little bit, but i thing this device will never get a high speed gps lock.
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I know that its GPS sucks, but mine effectively sees nothing. no server
Am i blind, or my antenna is missing completely?
No. Sorry, the antenna is there. I don't know what my problem is with the GPS.
Doesn't seem like there is anything missing. GPS on this was really bad. I never got a GPS signal.
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WildfireDEV said:
Doesn't seem like there is anything missing. GPS on this was really bad. I never got a GPS signal.
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that's it then...
alwaysfresh said:
that's it then...
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I do believe so but I can be wrong so don't take my word for it.
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Does anybody know where I can find detailed information about the pieces of the hardware?
Like where is the wifi located, gps.. What connects to what. Things like that.
Maybe a diagram of the circuit or something.
I'm having issues with the wifi. It suddenly disconnects and reboots the device. When the phone turns back on the wifi is off and won't turn on again unless I press the back of the phone and reboots. Then it works for some time again.
gmsalomao2 said:
Does anybody know where I can find detailed information about the pieces of the hardware?
Like where is the wifi located, gps.. What connects to what. Things like that.
Maybe a diagram of the circuit or something.
I'm having issues with the wifi. It suddenly disconnects and reboots the device. When the phone turns back on the wifi is off and won't turn on again unless I press the back of the phone and reboots. Then it works for some time again.
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this may help you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmQG29mIRk
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SdtBarbarossa said:
this may help you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmQG29mIRk
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Well, that was not what I was looking for.. But interesting, anyway. Thank you.
I'm actually looking for diagrams of the circuit of the mother board.
gmsalomao2 said:
Well, that was not what I was looking for.. But interesting, anyway. Thank you.
I'm actually looking for diagrams of the circuit of the mother board.
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You will not find electric manual for any Sony Xperia smartphone, because they don't exist. Sony has changed their policy and they do not repair electric components. If something is broken on main board, they are making just a main board swap. So buy working Xperia L with broken LCD and swap main board.
and try http://d-h.st/qUk my help u
do not forget to say thanks to @droid102
this the main thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-l/general/sony-xperia-l-service-documents-t2517926
Hey all,
I'm having a few issues with my multitouch. Firstly using a multitouch app it picks up all of the fingers a different inputs but they flicker unless you're moving your hand around, so it's impossible to use it for games and such. I'm fairly certain that this is a hardware issue. Although it doesn't seem like it's completely broken as I can still register multiple touches, its just impossible to have continuous multiple touches. Any idea on how to fix this?
gfish4573 said:
Hey all,
I'm having a few issues with my multitouch. Firstly using a multitouch app it picks up all of the fingers a different inputs but they flicker unless you're moving your hand around, so it's impossible to use it for games and such. I'm fairly certain that this is a hardware issue. Although it doesn't seem like it's completely broken as I can still register multiple touches, its just impossible to have continuous multiple touches. Any idea on how to fix this?
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How old is your phone?
itisiryan said:
How old is your phone?
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Its around a year old.
gfish4573 said:
Its around a year old.
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It should still be under warranty if you haven't rooted it. So I guess you should take advantage of it.
Sounds like the calibration for the active digitizer for your device needs to be recalibrated.
iceepyon said:
Sounds like the calibration for the active digitizer for your device needs to be recalibrated.
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How do I go about doing this?
gfish4573 said:
How do I go about doing this?
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There are some apps for it.
I tried a few of these apps to no avail. I'm going to have to assume its a hardware issue. unless theres any more ideas.
gfish4573 said:
I tried a few of these apps to no avail. I'm going to have to assume its a hardware issue. unless theres any more ideas.
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Most probably it's a hardware problem.
Could it be that it's a lose connection? Or do you think the whole screen and digitizer assembly will require replacing.
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Could it be that it's a lose connection? Or do you think the whole screen and digitizer assembly will require replacing.
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We'll never know unless we open it up.
Looks like a hardware issue...may be you should replace..
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How do I go about doing this?
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Enter *#*#2664#*#* into the dialer to run the Touchscreen diagnostic test to see if your device's active digitizer is really to blame. I don't know the code that will recalibrate the active digitizer of your device. You would probably have to send your device to Honor to get it recalibrated.
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Enter *#*#2664#*#* into the dialer to run the Touchscreen diagnostic test to see if your device's active digitizer is really to blame. I don't know the code that will recalibrate the active digitizer of your device. You would probably have to send your device to Honor to get it recalibrated.
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This code doesn't do anything. I'm not sure Huawei will be willing to do anything as I have unlocked the bootloader for root.
gfish4573 said:
This code doesn't do anything. I'm not sure Huawei will be willing to do anything as I have unlocked the bootloader for root.
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Haven't opted for repair yet?
itisiryan said:
Haven't opted for repair yet?
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Will they repair it as I unlocked the bootloader?
gfish4573 said:
Will they repair it as I unlocked the bootloader?
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Just make everything stock..relock bootloader...
And claim warranty...