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OK. So I dropped it and the the black piece for the antenna and where the stylus goes broke off, and I lost it....the case is also super scratched all over and a small piece broke off at the bottom where the SD card plugs in....
so I need..
Stylus
Case
Antenna plastic piece??? (I have the sping thats inside)
Also, is there some type of like antenna upgrade or something? to get better reception? my reception is crap....
Thanks guys...
iif you guys can hook me up with like, some links to where I can find these parts that would be great!!!
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Hi I have a pw10b1 gets good reception ...has leather case, usb cradle, car adapter , international adapter for power cord, problem with ear phone jack...have towiggle it to make it work. I am willing to sell it cheap just dont use it anymore. [email protected]
Ha anyone found a good MicroSIM adapter that works well with the vivid? I want to be able to switch back and forth between my iphone 4.
I tried with my existing adaptor (soft plastic, that is normal SIM thickness with a thinner inset for the microSIM to rest inside) and nearly got the SIM stuck inside. Due to the design of the Vivid's SIM slot, Isuspect that any added thickness will cause problems. The sticker-type adaptor may work better but is not reusable.
Has anyone found a good solution?
Go to amazon and search micro USB adapter. It's like the second or third down. There's two adapters for like $1.34. They work perfectly
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i have the same issue i am looking for a solution as well
Best solution I've found is to cut the sim and use NO adapter, just a piece of tape to pull it out. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get the position right but its easy to remove, and i can even remove without pulling the battery.
Hi All
My friend has used a sim adapter within the sim tray (he had a nano sim from having used in an iPhone 5). He cannot now remove the sim tray, comes out a couple of mm and gets stuck.
The phone has been sent to HTC UK for repair and they are quoting him £200 (!) to fix. He's asked them to return without fixing.
Any ideas on how a DIY repair may be carried out? I'm wondering if removing the top and bottom speaker grills, afters applying some heat, will allow access to screws to allow the screen etc. to be removed?
Any advice appreciated!
saquib said:
Hi All
My friend has used a sim adapter within the sim tray (he had a nano sim from having used in an iPhone 5). He cannot now remove the sim tray, comes out a couple of mm and gets stuck.
The phone has been sent to HTC UK for repair and they are quoting him £200 (!) to fix. He's asked them to return without fixing.
Any ideas on how a DIY repair may be carried out? I'm wondering if removing the top and bottom speaker grills, afters applying some heat, will allow access to screws to allow the screen etc. to be removed?
Any advice appreciated!
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get some pliers and yank the thing out clean
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get some pliers and yank the thing out clean
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He did use quite a lot of force to try to pull the tray out, but it seems to be catching something on the inside. I think if we try what you suggest we'll send up with with 2 pieces, with one stuck inside.
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He did use quite a lot of force to try to pull the tray out, but it seems to be catching something on the inside. I think if we try what you suggest we'll send up with with 2 pieces, with one stuck inside.
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if you remove the screen etc i doubt youll ever get it back on. its probably just the adapter which is misplaced and preventing the tray to come out, try wiggling the phone about and trying to pull and push at the same time. be prepared to order another adapter and maybe another sim card too
Seems like the nano SIM has fallen out of the adapter?
Get some fuse wire, one pack will have varying gauges of wire, make a loop with the wire, shove it in the slot, shuggle it about.
Good luck!
Take it to a local phone repair shop and see what they'd charge.
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I suggest not forcing it off. Look at the ifixit disassembly force pulling it might lead the plastic injected mold to break and you wouldn't want that to happen.
Damn! Sim has fallen out the adapter for sure. And if that's the case then your friend is probably screwed. Since the sim probably came off the adapter, the adapter might now be stuck on the pins that read the sim card.
Same thing happened to my friends sgs2 which I'm about to fix soon. The only way I was able to remove the sim was by prying it out. That resulted in one of the pins to break off and now it doesn't read the sim.
See the picture below for reference. You can see the 3 gold pins on the left side of the sim tray exposed. There are also 3 more under that metal piece to the right, which is the actual tray. You can see there's 4 holes where you can see 2 gold pins showing through and one is missing. There supposed to be 6 pins total. 3 on the left and 3 on the right. That's the one pin that got stuck on the sim adapter. I'm afraid this is probably the same problem you have.
I suggest your friend sents it back to htc and let them take it out. They will have to open up the device to do so.
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This happened to me with the One. Use a super thin razor blade (the kind that you use on the old school razors), stick it in through the side, and pry toward the side that it's supposed to be installed. Do the top and bottom little by little. Eventually it will come out enough to grab with a pair of small needle nose pliers.
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This happened to me with the One. Use a super thin razor blade (the kind that you use on the old school razors), stick it in through the side, and pry toward the side that it's supposed to be installed. Do the top and bottom little by little. Eventually it will come out enough to grab with a pair of small needle nose pliers.
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This is on the right track. I have used plastic lamination that I cut, paper, cardboard, a piece of tape folded over so it's not sticky. Something that will bend and allow you to slide in between the sim card and the pins or whatever is holding it. You can then wiggle the tray out and then shake the nano card out. I have done this before it can take hours of playing with it. Finding the right object that you can slide in there is key. Also look for any pictures you can find of a teardown to give you an idea of what is holding it and where you need to slide something in to free it. The key is patience do not force anything or something will break. It will be long and tedious this I promise.
Does that make sense?
Try an auto feeler gauge set from Halfords for a selection of shim thicknesses, then trial and error.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Currently waiting for HTC to return the phone (for a £25 charge due to not proceeding with a repair). Once back will try to put into action what has been suggested.
Thanks again,
Yeah i had a similar experience with sim adaptors. Don't use them. (as you found out they just get stuck). I would take a really thin blade or something and push up on the sim tray (you said that it comes out a bit) .Thats how i freed my sim on another phone.
PS: DONT remove the speaker grills. This phone is pretty much impossible to put back together once you take it apart.
Just want to chime in and said that I bought the noosy nano sim adapter off of Amazon and my sim tray got stuck as well. The tray was only stuck when there was no nano sim in the adapter. When I placed the microsim adapter with the nano sim it worked perfectly, for me at least. I wanted to keep the micro sim adapter in the tray because I was afraid of losing it.
fffssslll said:
Just want to chime in and said that I bought the noosy nano sim adapter off of Amazon and my sim tray got stuck as well. The tray was only stuck when there was no nano sim in the adapter. When I placed the microsim adapter with the nano sim it worked perfectly, for me at least. I wanted to keep the micro sim adapter in the tray because I was afraid of losing it.
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Could you post how you got the tray out with the adapter in? I have the same adapter and can't seem to get it. THANKS!!!!
I ejected the sim tray as far as I can then slid some very thin lamination into both sides of the tray then prayed and pulled. Did this with and without the nano sim in the adaptor and realized that it was the micro adaptor without the nano sim. Busy of luck buddy.
zampolit said:
Could you post how you got the tray out with the adapter in? I have the same adapter and can't seem to get it. THANKS!!!!
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I actually finally got it just as I was about to give up! I used a blade from a straight razor. The pins that contact the nano sim are what got stuck. For future reference you have to push it in fairly hard on the side of the tray towards the back of the phone. and if like me you are using something narrower than the tray, it has to be closest to the top of the phone.
The pins that are sticking are on the back top of the adapter. It seems the pins are straight so they snag when they are in the opening of the sim adapter.
Haha congrats.I was a little frantic first but finally got it as well. As long as you don't scratch it up any thin item probably works.
So getting a micro SIM from your carrier(free) and not damaging your $600 phone trying to use a nano SIM would be the best solution.
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Need suggestions
My SIM tray is jammed. I got this ugly thing over 2 weeks back and feel like hell. I tried removing my SIM card check for data service in my other SIM but it didn't came out. I tried quite hard till my fingers started paining. I tried with a paper clip. My SIM is working fine without any issues but next month I will be travelling to India and hence will be required to change my SIM. I read about this a lot and seems like there is no repair for HTC ONE. Can you guys please guide me over this ... :crying::crying::crying:
Heres the backround on what i did to get wireless charging going...
1) get palm coil and touchstone. i bought this on ebay for 10$ (just search touchstone charging kit)
2) carefully remove the coil from the back cover of the palm phone. plastic cover first then the rest.
3) what worked easiest for me was to keep all the coil stuff stuck to the removable plastic piece holding everything together, then you can simply stick it in the back of our active covers. (make sure when moving the magnets all the positive sides are facing towards the dock)
4) Connecting it. I tried doing this a couple different ways and i eventually ended up pulling tiny copper wire out of computer speaker cable and used it like a twist tie on the phone terminals (then small amount of electrical tape to separate them...which worked out fine)*I attempted to do the same on the coil side of the connection but that was a bust so i ended up soldering it.. not my first choice but since its on the palm coil not my active I did it.*
5) you should be all good to go at this point
here are some pics too and of course if you some of mess your phone up...its not my fault
Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvO01b1CKBk
feel free to pm if ya got a question me... I am leaving the country tomorrow night for a week, but ill try to get back to ya
happy modding
in the picture with highlighting yellow goes to left phone terminal(positive) and brown goes to right teminal (negative)
bdgarel said:
Heres the backround on what i did to get wireless charging going...
1) get palm coil and touchstone. i bought this on ebay for 10$ (just search touchstone charging kit)
2) carefully remove the coil from the back cover of the palm phone. plastic cover first then the rest.
3) what worked easiest for me was to keep all the coil stuff stuck to the removable plastic piece holding everything together, then you can simply stick it in the back of our active covers. (make sure when moving the magnets all the positive sides are facing towards the dock)
4) Connecting it. I tried doing this a couple different ways and i eventually ended up pulling tiny copper wire out of computer speaker cable and used it like a twist tie on the phone terminals (then small amount of electrical tape to separate them...which worked out fine)*I attempted to do the same on the coil side of the connection but that was a bust so i ended up soldering it.. not my first choice but since its on the palm coil not my active I did it.*
5) you should be all good to go at this point
here are some pics too and of course if you some of mess your phone up...its not my fault
Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvO01b1CKBk
feel free to pm if ya got a question me... I am leaving the country tomorrow night for a week, but ill try to get back to ya
happy modding
in the picture with highlighting yellow goes to left phone terminal and brown goes to right
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This video seems very helpful with the process, just wish i knew which side was pos and which is neg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw1QIPwkZU
EDIT: i see the pics thank that helps!
joshuadjohnson22 said:
This video seems very helpful with the process, just wish i knew which side was pos and which is neg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw1QIPwkZU
EDIT: i see the pics thank that helps!
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Use a multimeter...if you dont know how, you probably shouldn't attempt this hack and should wait for an aftermarket back plate to come out
Out of curiosity, how strong are these magnets? Am I going to have to make sure that my phone gets nowhere near my credit cards (and other magnetic cards, media, etc.)?
jt3 said:
Out of curiosity, how strong are these magnets? Am I going to have to make sure that my phone gets nowhere near my credit cards (and other magnetic cards, media, etc.)?
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They are fairly strong but I have yet to have any issues with my cards...however I usually keep my phone in a separate pocket
Have you tested the phones waterproof capabilities since you did this mod? I love the idea, want to do it, but im on the fence, as it seems it would make it very easy to make the waterproofing gasket fail with a small wire.... on the other hand, you dont have to take the back off, or open the charging port, so if it doesn't void the waterproofing, it could be even better
Obviously, if any wire or any part of the wireless receiver protrudes over the seal, the water resistance will be compromised, but that's not the only issue.
In the back panel replacement sticker on the back of the S4A, it tells you to press under the camera LED. Pressing there engages the rubber seal. The issue is that any of these non-oem wireless receivers is going to slightly lift the central portion of the back away from the phone. Thus, even if no part of the seal-line is breached, I still wouldn't trust that the seal could engage fully.
Don't get me wrong... I'm going to do something similar, since I'd rather have wireless charging. Still... until an OEM wireless charging backplate comes from Samsung, I'd assume it's an either/or situation. Wireless charging OR water resistance.
jt3 said:
Obviously, if any wire or any part of the wireless receiver protrudes over the seal, the water resistance will be compromised, but that's not the only issue.
In the back panel replacement sticker on the back of the S4A, it tells you to press under the camera LED. Pressing there engages the rubber seal. The issue is that any of these non-oem wireless receivers is going to slightly lift the central portion of the back away from the phone. Thus, even if no part of the seal-line is breached, I still wouldn't trust that the seal could engage fully.
Don't get me wrong... I'm going to do something similar, since I'd rather have wireless charging. Still... until an OEM wireless charging backplate comes from Samsung, I'd assume it's an either/or situation. Wireless charging OR water resistance.
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I will fix the wire issue by using copper tape. I'm excited to try it...
I am doing this mod tonight and I thought I would share some information.
See below for the information I have gathered:
Yellow lines = Copper tape- as you can tell it gets very cramped around the end because of the gasket. I may need to use a different path or wires like the OP. The important stuff to gather from this is which is positive and which is negative on both the phone and the palm pre touchstone.
Nice idea, curious to see how this works out.
Update
My copper tape has not arrived but I installed everything else. It does appear that the coil makes the rear housing push out which leads me to believe it will not do well to repel water away from the seal during extended use but I would prefer wireless charging
If you plan on using a case I would recommend ordering stronger magnets from supermagnets.com part number Disc - D1046. These should work well with any case and it will fit more snug because they are a lot stronger. I will update with photos once the copper tape is installed and everything is working.
Am I missing something? Why doesn't the Samsung wireless charging kit work or the wireless receiver tags you can get for the S4 so you can use a Qi charger?
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holysnikey said:
Am I missing something? Why doesn't the Samsung wireless charging kit work or the wireless receiver tags you can get for the S4 so you can use a Qi charger?
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The battery door is different. In theory it will work but you would have to figure out a way to gut the back plate and that would be a lot harder than palm's touchstone mod. Or just wait for the active's wireless back plate to be released. This is a lot cheaper IMO $10 vs $30-150
Ya I just realized this. But still do you think the wireless charger receiver tag could work? If you search on Amazon or Ebay "Galaxy S4 wireless charging receiver tag" there's the component which is stuck inside the back cover Samsung is selling. Except it can be bought for $10-20 and most likely can fit in the Active. I don't know because I have the original S4 but just trying to throw out some ideas. In theory if the tag works you can get it for $15 then use any Qi charger and you're good. While not quite as cheap it's only a few bucks more and much easier and looks way better probably. That is if it works of course.
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holysnikey said:
Ya I just realized this. But still do you think the wireless charger receiver tag could work? If you search on Amazon or Ebay "Galaxy S4 wireless charging receiver tag" there's the component which is stuck inside the back cover Samsung is selling. Except it can be bought for $10-20 and most likely can fit in the Active. I don't know because I have the original S4 but just trying to throw out some ideas. In theory if the tag works you can get it for $15 then use any Qi charger and you're good. While not quite as cheap it's only a few bucks more and much easier and looks way better probably. That is if it works of course.
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that would probably work... if i understand it correctly...
That's the image of what I'm talking about. The official back plate you buy from Samsung is just the battery door with that tag glued on the inside of the door.
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That's the image of what I'm talking about. The official back plate you buy from Samsung is just the battery door with that tag glued on the inside of the door.
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It probably will work but it will cost a lot more than this mod we are talking about. It will be a lot easier to install though
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That's the image of what I'm talking about. The official back plate you buy from Samsung is just the battery door with that tag glued on the inside of the door.
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I went ahead and order this 2, so we will see
joshuadjohnson22 said:
I went ahead and order this 2, so we will see
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Same here. Amazon. 14.99
jdminpdx said:
Same here. Amazon. 14.99
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I paid a little more because I wanted to get it this week. The cheaper ones come from China and may take a while. I now need a replacement back for my active, somehow with the palm mod one of my clips doesnt work any longer so under my volume rocker it is propped up. Excited to have wireless charging. Hopefully this week
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Hello,
I'm looking for a good case with USB dirt plug. Does anyone know of such a case?
Regards,
Only one I know of:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Waterproof-Shockproof-Aluminum-Metal-Phone-Armor-For-Xiaomi-Mi6-Mi-6-Case-With-Tempered-Glass/32811879870.html
Rauke said:
Only one I know of:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Waterproof-Shockproof-Aluminum-Metal-Phone-Armor-For-Xiaomi-Mi6-Mi-6-Case-With-Tempered-Glass/32811879870.html
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Seems quite protected but my concern is what about the volume button? Considering that it is enclosed in a shell, what about the sound quality?
But have to say it definitely look solid for someone who rides motorcycle and have to go through the rain with the phone. I have encountered many unpleasant experience after rain. Phone will detect that there's a headphone connected and speaker volume sounds very cracking and raspy.
I'm also looking for a cover with proper protection for usb port. Nillkin transparent covet have this for some models (i.e. Redmi Note 4) but not for Mi 6... If someone find nice thin cover with plug for usb please let us know
LOVE MEI does a good one.
You can separately but usb type c dirt/dust plugs for cheap. But having it as a part of case is more convenient so I'll update my comment to add link to the case I'm using that has usb dirt plug.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B078...dpPl=1&dpID=415vgll9UxL&ref=plSrch&th=1&psc=1
This.