[Q] Broken one GPS pin : how to fix it ? topic

Hello,

sorry for my bad English : I'm french and don't speak English very often ;)

I recently fixed GPS issue on my LG G2 D802 using paper under connectors (following well known Youtube tutorial). Everything worked well for two weeks, but since friday GPS signal was really weak.
I checked hardware and saw that I broke one of the two pins used by GPS.

How can I fix this issue ? I tried to add aluminium paper on broken PIN, but GPS fix remains poor.

Note : I don't have soldering iron.

Thanks for your help ;)

[Q] [HELP] My Moto G is dead after broken screen (with replacement) topic

Hi all

I have a Moto G (1st Gen) with kit kat dead since 3 weeks ago. My phone committed suicide and the result was broken screen. Some hours after that the screen stopped working.

I bought a new screen and replaced the old one. After that my phone did not boot. Then I tried the following:

1) At first I thought it was the battery problem, because the led blinks when I connect the phone to the charger (one blink) or when I press the power button for 10 seconds (one blink). But I had that problem before and now is different. Button combos, different chargers, ... nothing works.

2) I connected it to the PC and was recognized as qhsusb_bulk. Searching here on XDA I found it could be a bo2otloader problem, and here I am. Installed MotoFlasher and the drivers. But the flashing it's not working for me. I receive the next message:

OUTPUT: flashing singleimage
OUTPUT: FAILED (sdl-transfer-image:send-image:sdl-open-multi:error reading packet)

Only found that error in one thread but without responses.

* Don't know what else I can do. I was thinking in replacing the battery as the last attempt, but maybe the blinking pattern is not indicating a problem there. Maybe the screen does not work. Next move would be buying a new phone :( I hope you have more ideas!

thank you!!!

[Q] How to factory reset S3 with android 4.3 and a broken screen topic

I have a rooted I747 with an android 4.3 rom. The LCD is broken and I am looking to sell it as is. I am wondering if it is possible to factory reset the device with a PC (possibly with kies, odin, or adb). I have seen a kies tutorial but it bricks devices running android 4.3. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Broken touch sensor connector topic

I received a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 with a problem. The former user broke the PCB connector for the touch sensor and all that is left in the board are the pins but not the plastic case of the connector.

I want to remove the pins and solder a new connector but I have difficulties in identifying this connector and getting a part number to order it.

I know it is a FFC connector with 80 contacts, 0.4mm pitch and two rows but my search for a connector of these characteristics has been unsuccessful.

Can anybody help me?

Huawei P7 L-10 broken recovery, bricked topic

Phone Info:
Huawei P7 L10
android 4.4.2
emu 2.3
b126 official firmware
rooted
i changed a boot animation in romtoolboxpro from 800x800 to 1080x1920 and installed to my device, clicked the preview option and it wroked but when i rebooted i was left with an error message in place of my recovery, and i cannot boot up the phone normally. or at all for that matter. i can go into fastboot&rescue mode, and it shows that my bootloader is still unlocked but i have no way to flash the recovery img to my system, so my phone is currently a brick. HELP!!!

[Q] Any way to transfer data from an old Moto X with a broken screen and digitizer? topic

I dropped my phone, and
1) the digitizer, LCD, and glass are all broken.
2) I am not rooted or with an unlocked bootloader
3) I do not have USB debugging activated
I purchased a new Moto x (1st gen) and is there anyway, either directly or through a computer to back up my contacts, sms, data, and the like?

magnetic charging broken? Blinking light topic

When I use magnetic charging (original charger, tried a dock and magnetic tips) the LED blinks and the charging indicator keeps flashing off/on.
Its recognising the dock for sure because it will start the daydream, but it just won't charge this way.

USB charging is 100% fine and I am using the original charger/cable. Stock latest firmware, unrooted.
I think it started around the last update - but I'm not sure....
anybody got any ideas?

Broken Cradle Mod/Fix (*Gear S Dock*) topic

Ever since I bought this watch I wished there was a stand/display/dock for it, something that I could just lay it on at night to charge and would look good on my night stand, well last week my cradle broke, the ol' standard - top clip broke off problem (Still not sure why they changed the cradle from the Gear 1, but that's a whole other rant thread ...) needless to say I was pretty pissed, especially since I've read Samsung refuses to warranty the problem, plus are out of stock when forced to cough up another bucks for an obvious manufacturer flaw, and the icing ... dealing with extortion from Amazon asking for the cradle because the seller knows it can ask whatever they want ... supply and demand, I luckily got the hook on a new charger from a buddy I made here on XDA and I'm just waiting for it to arrive in the mail, in the meantime the frustration of clamping my watch against the cradle and hoping it'll be at 100% in the morning was pissing me off so I decided to try something, something I thought about long before a broken cradle.

Again I wanted a display or docking station for this that also charged it, like the retail display except I wouldn't need the security device in order for it to work lol, so I searched online for simple retail watch displays and found some, got em ordered, decided to skip over the cheap flimsy looking felt ones and get some nice acrylic ones, waiting for them to arrive ... but today I was out shopping with the wife and came across one of those cheap felt ones and decided to pick it up and fiddle until my acrylic ones showed up, basically a proof of concept or prototype before I make the final, came home and got to work.

Stuff needed:
Samsung Gear S Cradle (Broken or not)
Wrist watch display (Buy online or at a place like Michaels)
Hot Glue Gun
Velcro (The kind with double sided tape on the back)
Tiny ClamShell looking hair clips (Thanks Babe! Lol)

* This can be done with or without a broken cradle, if done like I have the cradle is simply velcroed to the watch display, allowing you to take it in or off anytime, the male side velcro attached to the cradle had double sided tape on the back, the female side of the velcro did not, so I hot glued it to the display, which i would recommend to keep it attached to the display.)


I First: Applied the sticky back side of the Male velcro to the back of the charging cradle.

Then Second: formed the arm of the display to cradle the curve of the Gear S cradle back.

Third: In that curve I hot glued the female side of the velcro to the watch display.

Fourth: attached the Gear S cradle centered up and put my Gear S watch onto the Cradle.

Fifth: Adjust and formed the watch displays metal according to my watch band size but keep it tight and firm with the clasp of my watch band was tucked under the watch display. This is actually how the display fixes the problem caused by the broken clip, the watch display holds the watch snug onto it while pushing the charging cradle against the back of the watch thus pushing the pins into the watch, making the clips useless.

Sixth: Hot glued 2 of my Wife's tiny ClamShell looking spring loaded pinch clasp hair clip things (sorry don't know what they are called lol) on the inside of the displays watch band holder and one on the base, allowing me to run the charging cable under and behind the docking station, especially since the side I HAVE to slide my watch onto the display is the side where the charger plugs into the cradle (watch stand has a place where the watches clasps or band slides under to sit between the base and band holder)

Overall this was a concept in my head and that tonight I aimed to prove could work, came out actually amazingly better then I would have thought, even with the crude McGuyver type stuff that I did to it to make it work, which I'll perfect on the final model, but I Def underestimated the felt watch displays, I honestly might even just keep using this one, the pic attached makes it look more crude than it is, not to mention there were still hot glue hairs on it lol, but I normal lighting this thing is beautiful looking with or without the watch attached and functional, the pics I took I added flash and brightened them so you could see what I did.

Overall im happy, this Worked like a charm!

CHECK OUT THE ATTACHED PICTURE FOR ALL THE ANGLES OF THIS DOCKING STATION AND ALSO HERE'S A VIDEO OF ME ATTACHING THE WATCH TO SHOW IT WORKS.

Samsung Gear S Broken Cradle Fix/Mod:

http://youtu.be/Iu89HW3ezPk

HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ONE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED ANY HELP!

Sorry for any typing errors or mispelling, I wrote this thread all from my Note 4, talk about hand cramps!

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[Q] Lock screen broken. topic

After updating to 5.0.1 OTA. I can no longer pin protect my device, the lock screen is simply bypassed :( I have activated it, rebooted, reactivated, rebooted, again and again.

Is anybody else suffering this? I am finding 5.0.1 rather frustrating, I am also suffering from frozen screen in messenger for FB.

[Q] broken standard 5 pin usb plug / mod it? topic

ok, I realize that this is a android/mobile phone based website. I also know this is a regularly if not updated by the minute as far as well, the entire site/forums.. But my question could be a general question about usb modifications.. If i am in the wrong area/website please tell me. As far as my question goes, i have a nice little bluetooth speaker. It has a five pin usb female adapter but the pins have become well, screwed is the best way i can put it.. Is there anyway to bypass the usb aspect of it and hardwire it ? I know and have hardwired my motorola's when i happen to have too low of a battery level for a sbf to work.. so I know the concept maybe possible but dont know the first place to start without ruining everything by basically cracking it with a hammer (not actual technique but results are very similer)

ok. thank you and hope this was somewhat cohearant and undersatandable or atleast not to long to read..

-deadseth
"i die alot"

[Q] Broken tablet in recovery. Cannot connect USB from windows topic

Acer Iconia B1-A71. Stops during boot at Iconia icon. Factory reset didn't help. I can get to recovery menu. No options help. Need to get a new img to the tablet but windows will not see it in recovery mode (even though I have the correct USB drivers from Acer)? "Unknown USB" message when I connect or something.

I think I have the necessary files downloaded on my computer to fix this from scratch, I just cannot talk to the tablet????

I do have an old laptop with Linux on it which I can maybe try tonight? Any help or advice would be so much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Malk

[Q] Broken screen, access files from CWM. topic

Hi all,

So, I am trying to fix my friend's S3 mini. The screen is not working and touch is not working. I managed to (blindly, phew!) flash CWM on it to be able to access the files on the internal SD card. In normal mode, USB debugging is not enabled, so I can't unlock the screen to copy the files.

In recovery mode, ADB finds the device, and I am able to access ADB shell. It lists the directories, but inside each folder, it lists nothing. What can I do?

I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks in advance!

-Ari

[Q] I have broken my Yarvik tablet! topic

Hi guys, i hope you can help me.

Somewhere around 2011/2012 i bought a tablet (Yarvik TAB467), one of the worst mistake of my life because it is absolutely terrible, it can hardly load a website!
Yesterday i found it lying in a closet, i decided to dust it off and see if there was a better rom for it (it had an andriod 4.0.4 install on it from 2012).
Please note that i am an absolute novice when it comes to these kind of things, but with the help of google and a youtube video i decided to give it a try.

The first thing i read was that i had to root it using something called TWRP, so i downloaded Ainol Spark since that was used in the youtube video, placed it on my microsd card and managed to get into the boot menu.
There i selected the TWRP file, installed it and after rebooting the tablet is dead. The only thing that happens is the backlight turns on, besides that.. nothing.

I can no longer access the boot menu, it also won't boot the regular way, it does not respond to usb-cables, nothing.
Is there anything i can do from this point on, besides throwing it in the dumpster?

I found people saying the tablet was similair to the Allwinner A10, since i couldn't find anything specific for the Yarvik TAB467 i decided to focus on the allwinner roms.
The tables should have a Cortex A8 processor.

Any help would be gratefull.

[Q] Any hope for a stock recovery boot loop with a broken charging port? topic

I have an old Sprint S3 that I am using as my son's media player that I swap batteries to keep it going because of a broken charging port. It's usually in airplane mode but I connected to wifi and noticed there was a System update (L710VPUDNJ2). I accepted the update but after rebooting into stock recovery I got a system 7 error (I'm not sure what I did in the past that would cause a system 7).

I think it's possible to sideload this OTA update via ODIN but since the usb port is non functioning I can't try that. Factory reset did not get me out of the recovery boot loop. Not that I expected it, but applying the update via sdcard did not work either.

Any hope for this phone?

Digitizer broken. USB Debugging disabled. Pattern lock on. topic

Please help me guys. My digitizer is broken. My USB debugging is disabled, my device is protected by a pattern and my bootloader is locked. I need to enable debugging. Please help me.

[Q] CM12 Network Issues,Yatse won't find host-XBMC, ES-FileExplorer FTP Server Broken topic

Hello,
a couple of days ago i updated my Galaxy S5 from rooted stock Kitkat (Touchwiz) to Cyanogenmod 12 (nightly 26.01. at the moment, recovery is TWRP).
I know CyanogenMod from using it on my Galaxy S2 already.

unfortunately i keep having some network problems..

At first the phone didn't connect to my Wifi. The Router assigns a fixed ip to the phone's MAC-address. I was able to fix that by configuring the Wifi-conection on the phone to the same IP instead of using DHCP.
Wifi works fine now.

Second: My ES-file-explorer FTP-Server isn't working. It starts well on the phone, but i can't access the IP ftp://192.168.178.xx like i was used to from my windows pc. Also if i ping the ftp://ip-address in the command promt i get a "couldn't find host"-error..

Third: My Yatse XBMC / Kodi remote won't find the Host. it is active in the same network and i can controll it with my girlfriend's stock Galaxy S5, but i can't add the host to my Yatse.. Even if i enter IP and Webserver-Port directly the JSON-RPC check fails..

Any advice?

Thank you very much for your Help!!

Broken screen topic

Hello i have a samsung galaxy s4 i have broken screen any cheap original suggestion ? Thanks

Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Free mobile app

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Xperia Z3 tablet:Charging flap broken topic

Hi, anyne knows where to order the charging flap for Z3 tablet?

[Q] Download Mode Not Working, Stock ROM With a Broken Root [ZVE, 4.4.2] topic

Hey guys, I bought my phone used and am trying really hard to fix a broken root that's on the device.

It's a Sprint LS980 with the latest ZVE update. Rootchecker fails, and the SuperSU app is unable to update the binary. StumpRoot will not run as it thinks the device is already rooted.

The phone is on stock recovery. My plan was to flash the stock ZVE firmware/ROM using a .tot, however this is impossible until I can get download mode working...

Any help would be very much appreciated, I really want to get this phone sorted out.

broken screen maybe? topic

https://www.dropbox.com/s/asc56xny7o...AG1416.jpg?dl=
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iahgmi6t1a...G1414.jpg?dl=0

So that's my one x right now, about a year or so ago the screen did this intermittantly and so I bought a new one and it worked consistantly for 2 months then it did this for good. Is it truly just another bad screen or is this another hardware issue?