Well, a vibrate motor. It seems that the one in my IIs has died. I will also consider buying a whole broken/parts handset that I can salvage a motor from, but I would prefer just the motor.
Anyone have a source for the motor or know if it is the same as the motor in another HTC handset?
Managed to fit a vibrate motor from an old ericsson LX588 phone. Motor is similar in size, a little larger but fits in the rubber sheath and didnt require any trimming of the plastics.
Still looking for the correct motor if anyone has one.
F-Street it's where you need to go... :lol:
(just kidding, sorry coudn't resist...)
I noticed my phone didn't vibrate a while back and i thought it was my alert settings, turns out, vibration was on, but not doing anything. I took my BA apart and gave the little vibrating motor 1.5volts, nothing. gave it 3, nothing. Heck I gave it 4.5volts(D.C. of course) and still nothing. (I used a radioshack AC to DC switching voltage universal power supply)
Here's what I did, I had two old Siemens C56's lying around from an old ATnT plan, and I remember those phones vibrating the crap out of whatever was in my pocket. So I took the little C56's apart (destroyed it apart, I don't really care) and took the little vibrating motor out, and soldered the wires from my SX66's vibrator (since it was dead) to the push-contacts of the C56's, plugged the connector into my sx66, put it back together, called it with my house phone and voila! Vibrating notification back in business!
My advice, save searching around for a replacement motor off ebay, and take apart a phone you don't use anymore (provided you have one).
Good luck!
~Tim
Vibrator for sale
I have 2 Blue Angels and have parts for sale because one of them was not seeing the SD card and the other had a stuck Down navigation pad. So I took them apart and made one good one and now have excess parts. Please email me if you are interested.
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I don't need one anymore. The motor from the erricson has been going strong for several months now, its even stronger that the HTC motor because it has a bigger weight.
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Hey guys,
So last night I get home late, been diggin' the bop at local jazz joint, had some 4 Roses in me, entered the bedroom using my Qtek 9090 as a flashlight so I don't have to wake up my girlfriend by turning on the light. She had been a little sick earlier so had a bucket with some water by the bed, just in case. I make too much noise so I do wake her up, she recognises me and wants to move over to make room; struggling with blankets, she accidentally hits my hand. There goes my Qtek, falls on the matress, bumps to the side, down next to the bed, splashes into the bucket.
Damn.
So here's my problem.
My Qtek was completely immersed in clear water for a very short time. I let it dry, taking out the battery and SD card to allow air in and out of the device; but now, I can't turn it on. With the battery inserted, the flashing led on the top right is not working and I only get the 'Qtek 9090' boot screen. It's stuck there, backlight doesn't work. With the battery taken out and the device on mains power, the led on the top right is red but I get nothing on the screen. Hard reset not working either.
What do you guys think? Is it worth getting this repaired? Or does it seem that everything is damaged?
Thank you thank you
Sniffles
Robrecht
I would suggest to keep the battery off the device, open it, blow all the corners with hairdryer, close it, and test your luck. If it's under guarantee, I would do the same, and if it does not work, send it back.
US$200. I dropped it and it got a short in the keyboard cable, so I had to disable the menu/email/phone key because they triggered intermittently. After upgrading to WM2005, everything was ridiculously slow with any sound at all, and I'm tired of having it on vibrate only. The LCD is in perfect condition (I've had a heavy protector on it since day 1), and other than the short in the keyboard ribbon and the mark from the drop, the unit is in good shape. I dont feel like putting any more time into it. Use it for spare parts/LCD replacement, or spend some time replacing the ribbon.
Thanks,
Ezra
bitgazer at gmail
My BA was droppped by my daugther yesterday into a bucket filled of water.
I immediately disambled it and use a hair blower to dry all the parts.
Aftre 1 hour of drying I assembled it back and it worked again (except ofcourse all the data was lost).
Just now the LCD does'nt lit, but I can still see the display. So I disassembled it again to reset the connectors inside but unfortunately it got worst. Now total no display.
I know the unit is still working because I hear the beep when it boots up (just without the display). The beep I hear is the same beep after a hard reset.
Is my LCD deffective? Is it worth to replace it? (Even my BA is more than 3 years in service) Or it is better to have a new one?
Need advise from the experts, thanks.
greate said:
I know the unit is still working because I hear the beep when it boots up (just without the display). The beep I hear is the same beep after a hard reset.
Is my LCD deffective? Is it worth to replace it? (Even my BA is more than 3 years in service) Or it is better to have a new one?
Need advise from the experts, thanks.
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I feel jipped. Mine doesn't beep.
Now, I'm not what I would consider an expert, but my opinion is:
If you still want an angel, get a new/used one.
From my corner of the world, LCD's run about 2/3's of the price of used angels are going for on ebay.
If I was going to replace mine with another of the same, I'd buy a working SX66, pull the camera from the old one, and use the old one for parts.
If I leave my phone on and come back to in about an hour it becomes unresponsive. The screen is won't come on, usb won't work and the power button doesn't work as well, but the lights still flash. All I can do is take the battery out and turn it on again.
At first i thought the keypad must have been getting disabled after a certain amount of time for some reason, but since the usb the connection alos dies when it's idle it must be something else.
I've been having this problem for awhile now. It first it started every once and awhile, but now it's getting to the point that I have to reset it every hour or so.
I just upgraded my ROM to Kavana 080408, but I've had this problem running the T-mobile WM6 ROM as well, therefore I'm guessing it's a hardware issue?
Any thoughts, questions, or help is greatly appriciated!
call tmobile and ask them to send you a new phone... its hardware issues...
Thank you. Err.. the only thing I haven't mentioned (for lack of mistaking the problem) is that just 3 days ago I dropped my phone outside and it rained the next morning. When I recovered the phone it was soaked.. I let it dry out and it worked again.
I think the incedent had to have been irrelevant, because I have been having this problem for about 8 months regaurdless, just not as severe.
Would T-mobile be able to know it got wet at some point and not exchange it because they'd assume the problem was due to water damage?
Well if you look under the battery to the right where the sim card goes, there is a litmus paper that turns purple/pink when wet and its white originally. I would just remove the paper if it is purple/pink and try to cut and glue a white piece of paper the same size. And then I would call them and tell them.
Glue and fish strips?
Thanks, but hmm.. how exact should this be? I was thinking about going to the fish store and buying some test strips and using those. Then i was thinking about thinning out some glue and using that to stick it. Does this sound good? I'll post how it goes.
Dash Arrived then Died
I just got my dash about two weeks ago. Before I could start finding my way around, it began acting strangely. It would not respond and sometimes suddenly cut off on it's on. Then it got to the point where it would not turn on right away. I would have to play with it (battery and SIM removal) and then it might turn on. I thought I was using the power button incorrectly.
Finally, the dash would not turn on at all. Since it was new and insured I requested a replacement. T-Mobile insisted that I test it with a alternate battery (I had a charger stand + battery on order but it had not arrived yet.) Since it would still not turn on via USB or power adapter (no charging lights either) I was certain it was not the battery. After arguing with a T-Mobile Rep and Supervisor I finally decided to lie (er um exaggerate) and tell them I had tested an alternate battery.
Before the new phone arrived the charger and spare battery arrived. I tried both batteries in the new phone with no problems.
You may want to try and get a new phone but the T-Mo rep definitely asked me the color of the paper strip inside the battery housing. My rep told me that it would change color if the LCD was damaged or cracked but I checked another phone (Samsung T409 and Motorola V188) and based on the locations of the strips I would assume it's a water damage test strip.
You may also want to see it you can remove a strip from an older phone.
Good luck!
I figured I would share my experience, as I was pretty surprised. I fried an epic 4g touch by setting it down in a miniscule patch of water on a table a while back, so I didn't really have much faith my s3 would pull through.
Here's what happened, and what I did:
I had the PT waterproof case. Long story short, the earpiece membrane tore, and it was thrown in the pool. Didn't notice until I got out. Phone was still powered on, and water was all up inside of the phone, there was condensation on the inside of the camera lenses, etc.
I turned it off, took the back off, pulled the battery and SD card out, and dried up as much water as I could. Once I got home, I unscrewed and removed the 2 back panels and carefully dried up what I could with qtips and paper towel. I had to remove the rear camera block to dry up water underneath it. I then let it sit out all taken apart overnight for a full 12 hours.
The next day, I put everything back together, popped the battery in and plugged in the charger.
Nice, charging animation.
Let it fully charge then powered it on...
Everything seemed to work just fine. I expected the worst, and was quite surprised. I mean, it wasn't just a splash of water, it was literally everywhere throughout the inside of the phone.
The catch - launching any camera apps causes a FC. I'm pretty certain I plugged the rear camera back in correctly, as and I only detached the little connector rectangle in order to get the water under the block. Luckily rear cameras are 25$ on Amazon, and fronts are about 6$. I have one of each on the way so well see how it goes.
I've been using the phone for almost a week since then and everything seems to be working as it should. Speakers, microphones, light sensor, buttons, gyro, touchscreen, SD mount etc. are all fine.
Am I mistakenly under the impression that water logged phones don't usually pull through, or something? I didn't even power it off until at least an hour after the water got in it. It was even rebooted once while filled with water, before I noticed it.
Funny side note - my uncles flip (yes, flip. You can still get flip phones through sprint. He was recently forced by sprint to upgrade from his old brick phone, because they were literally discontinuing support for it on the network. I believe the brick was technically a nextel. It had an *extendable antenna* and no text capabilities. Sprint left him a message and said he had so many days to get a new phone because on X date, his would no longer work lol) phone got thrown into a lake. Apparently it rang when it was called for a full day while it sat on the bottom of the lake, until the battery finally died.
Update: installed new cameras and now it says it cannot connect to them. Before it would just crash.
In case someone out there, at some point in time, for some reason cares: I bought an s3 with a cracked screen off ebay for the motherboard. Swapped the boards and lo, the cameras work perfectly! I moved over the nv data from my board to the new one. I currently have 2 phones which are technically the same phone. Mine isn't getting 3g/4g, only network and wifi. Trying to sort it out but other than that my phone is back to normal, and double the internal storage (cracked s3 was a 32gb, got it for 120$). Total spent - 150$. Actual labor and repair was a breeze, and the replacements cameras were dirt cheap. I have insurance but this way i didn't have to file a claim and the actual repair was pretty fun (to me at least).
So the lesson is: no matter how bad you want to impress your 5 year old nephew, don't let him throw your waterproof phone in the pool.
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