[Q] G2 extended battery problem - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I bought an extended red battery, and it was working fine until today. I dropped my phone and now the battery will only work for a little bit and then the phone will shut off and not turn back on.
The original battery works fine, no problems. So my question is could my dropping of the phone have done something to the extended battery?

Did you peel the red sticker off? If you did then what's happening is the battery is making contact with the metal sd card holder and shorting your phone. An easy fix, which was already posted in another thread, is to simply put a piece tape on the battery in the same spot where it would normally touch the sd card holder and you should be good to go.
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Probably dropping of the phone Idk but I dropped my phone about three days ago and after that it would not connect to signal so I restored to normal and it started to get signal later on but now it is really weak where I would of gotten full bars like my house now I only get 2 bars usually.
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nyflyguy said:
Did you peel the red sticker off? If you did then what's happening is the battery is making contact with the metal sd card holder and shorting your phone. An easy fix, which was already posted in another thread, is to simply put a piece tape on the battery in the same spot where it would normally touch the sd card holder and you should be good to go.
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Thanks so much that fixed it.

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Crappy signal

I have noticed lately that my service is way worse than normal, there arent many places I can even use this phone anymore, I first noticed this not too long after I had flashed the newest liquid 3.2 rom, then went on a job all aaround the south east for about 2 weeks. I thought 228 would fix it but no, so I went back to sense (sabatoge), and no change, then I went to mikrunny, still no change, I keep doin full wipes in between, everything but sd card, I even flashed the newest radio, I was on 722, still no change, I can't figure this crap out but my phone is almost useless now, o, and battery life sucked since then too, anyone else having similar issues?
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I've been having literally the same issue and it started when I flashed a random rom
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Battery life is relevent to signal strength. Crummy signal = crummy battery life. Make sure that your battery cover is on tight. The antennae connectors are actually on the back of the battery cover and if it is not making a good connection then your signal will be dramatically affected.
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Battery life is relevent to signal strength. Crummy signal = crummy battery life. Make sure that your battery cover is on tight. The antennae connectors are actually on the back of the battery cover and if it is not making a good connection then your signal will be dramatically affected.
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Thanks, yeah I knew that and already checked, its tight, I think I'm gonna try and clean the connectors
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My gps wouldn't work for a while. Turned out the pins that connect to the cover weren't actually making a connection, so I pulled them up, GENTLY of course, and now they connect and my gps works great
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Well I pulled the connector prongs up and scraped them, seems to have helped, there was some kinda gunk on the anttena, but I was afraid to try and clean it off cause I was afraid that the paint that is the antenna would come off
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As for you battery life you may try a battery calibration. For some reason when you switch between some ROMs the battery stats get all confused and crap so you have to calibrate it.
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Thanks for this! I'm on mobile and can't hit thanks right now, but I bent the prongs out on my phone and the signal improved drastically! I was planning to send it back for a replacement if the signal didn't improve. Now to re-s/off and reroot since I undid all that to verify the problem was not software. Which ROM to go with though? Hmm:-*
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i drop my DHD and its wifi dead

yesterday i dropped my DHD, and i realized the wifi stop working. when i turn on the wifi at settings, it just said "error", and wont detect mac address.
thingkng it just rom acting abnormally, i just reflashed over, aaand.. it still the same. so i factory reset, and it still the same. so i came with a conclusion that the wifi hardware must be broken, so i gave a try to 'knock' it and it works!
so after a small knock again my wifi dead again..
i wonder if it possible to nudge the wifi module, but i dont know where the module located,
the service centre said, they had to replace the main board and cost $145, duh!
anybody had tried to work with wifi antenae?
happened to me two days ago
Check to make sure your battery cover is on properly and not loose. I'm pretty sure that is the wifi antenna.
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bcd420 said:
Check to make sure your battery cover is on properly and not loose. I'm pretty sure that is the wifi antenna.
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i'm not sure the battery cap has anything to do with this, but i'm pretty sure the battery cap was snap properly.
yeah, i hope someone had the clue how to nudge the antena,
The wifi antenna sits in the battery door, it's the little metal clip you can see in the door when taking out the battery.
You can try to fix yours if it's broken, or buy a new one on Ebay.
Hope it helped.
Zeitraffer said:
The wifi antenna sits in the battery door, it's the little metal clip you can see in the door when taking out the battery.
You can try to fix yours if it's broken, or buy a new one on Ebay.
Hope it helped.
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Well unless he killed his WiFi controller, then antenna fix not enough :/
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WIFI Broken
Nagelzz said:
Well unless he killed his WiFi controller, then antenna fix not enough :/
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It happened the same to me, I repalced the battery cover and still no WIFI.
I tried using an APK named "FXR WIFI Fix and rescue" it fixed it, but after a day it was unable to connect again.
Looks like it's time to change my dear DHD
Duh, is it so hard to try for yourselves before giving an useless advice?
I just tried wifi with removed battery cover and it's scanning without giving any error.
gampangingats, if you are using Sabsa, it's still possible that this is a ROM issue, happened to me a couple of times, but system restart (full) always fixed it.
Right. This is a royal mess here, with everyone giving different ideas.
First ensure that both covers (battery door & bottom SIM/SD Card cover).
Then try a rock stable ROM (BlackICE, or something CM7 based is always good)
Then try the rooted stock ROM (search for it, its here somewhere)
Report back once you've done all that..
If not, go to the Ace Think Tank (in my signature) and post there. Resident HW expert Glevitan can help you out)

[Q] dropped phone, now no service

after dropping my phone it was fine for a while (got a couple phone calls) and then it lost connection to the network. t-mobile troubleshot and couldnt help. i can use wifi calling fine everything else works (except screen is cracked and black - to troubleshoot i opened up my phone and gf's phone and plugged her screen into my phone) but i got a circle with a line thru it in the status bar. no data, no bars.
what broke (besides the god forsaken screen - see other post on that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112328)?
i've factory reset the phone and opened it up, poked around, unplugged/replugged the antenna.
Have you tried odining back to stock?
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Lol it is stock
Maybe your antennae disconnected from the board.
I can't use WiFi on my g2 after my gf dropped it.
Figured the WiFi antennae disconnected from the board.
A solder gun could fix it.
Or sending it to Samsung
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Did the sim pop out...
Might sound silly but did u reinsert the sim card? Lol that happen to me but was the micro sd card that moved out of place
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1slow4G said:
Might sound silly but did u reinsert the sim card? Lol that happen to me but was the micro sd card that moved out of place
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That's probably what happened.
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camacho.kyle said:
That's probably what happened.
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i dont think so, if its happened then wifi calling will not working too.
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Doesnt help you voided both of yours and your gf phone by opening them up. Something internally broke im guessing.
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warranty? lol i voided my warranty when i shattered my phone on the concrete.
sim card has been in and out several times. no sim card error, and as stated, wifi calling would not work if it was a sim card issue. sim card works fine in another phone.
as i said i unplugged and replugged the antenna (the long wire that goes from the the lower right to the upper right along the edge of the case when looking from the back.)
does anyone know what PRECISELY this is what it does? is this just the radio antenna for calls and data? is the wifi a separate component? and how else might this part have failed? the solder joints look good. i dont think the gf wants me removing her antenna to try it out and of course i would hate to damage her phone.
it really does seem like it's just an antenna issue...
Does anyone think that there is any possibility that having the rear panel removed (not the very outside cover but under that, the one that has screws) has any impact on the phone's ability to connect? there are a few little metal contact points on the plastic panel that touch contact points on the board. what do these do?

Htc one x connection problem

I just got my HTC One X battery replaced recently with a new HTC One X+ battery. Long short story, now the phone is unchargeable via computer or power socket, the storage doesn't connect to the computer when plugged in but usb fastboot still works for some reason. All of these problems instantly solved once I remove the white plastic cover, but of course I can't keep it like that. Any idea how to deal with this? Thanks in advance,
Could it be that the power button is misaligned so that it is permanently pressed when the cover is on? Or is the battery connection to the pcb coming apart when the cover is on - has the copper foil bunched up pulling the connection away when it's compressed?
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Swell6 said:
Could it be that the power button is misaligned so that it is permanently pressed when the cover is on? Or is the battery connection to the pcb coming apart when the cover is on - has the copper foil bunched up pulling the connection away when it's compressed?
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Thanks for taking your time answering me. The power button isn't the problem, I've had it misaligned once and I couldn't put the white cover back properly so I knew if it's misaligned. About the battery connection coming apart, I don't if that's the case but if that's the case then how do I solve it?
Welp, problem solved by taking the phone to a local phone repair store. It turned out that some kind of hidden wire related to the charging function got stretched every time the white cover is on, which made the phone unable to charge, or so my repairer said.
Glad you got it sorted.
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No service Nexus 5x water damage

So I did what every phone owner dreads, I forgot my phone in my pocket and went swimming with it. I was swimming with it for about 5 minuets until I noticed it when I noticed it I immediately took the back cover off and unscrewed everything and put all of the components in rice and then put the rice and my phone into a vacuume chamber. I left it like that over night and found that the water killed the battery. So I ordered a new battery and stick it in my phone and surprisingly i turned it on and if started booting. After it turned on I noticed that out said it had no service, but other than that all of my sensors and hardware all work. I know that it is not the Sims card reader that is broken because it can still give me the sim card information when I put it in my phone. Could this be the antenna, or something else?
Could be so many things. You can check that your antenna is making good contact but it's also likely one of the radio chips fried.
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Any idea where would the antenna connectors be?
Not on this phone. Maybe someone else does. There is usually prongs on a back door that need to make a connection.
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So I cleaned all of the contacts with alcohol but to no avail. If it is one of my radio chips that is fried could I get a new motherboard?
kerfun said:
So I cleaned all of the contacts with alcohol but to no avail. If it is one of my radio chips that is fried could I get a new motherboard?
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Replacing the motherboard is usually close to the cost of buying a new device from what I've seen.
I recently upgraded my phone to android N when it came out a few days ago, so I decied to see what would happen when I put my sims card back into my phone. When I put it in my phone it showed that I had a few bars but didn't say anything like 4g or LTE. So I tried to make a call and it still doesn't work.
Is it still a hardware issue?

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