Hi everyone, I have a hardware issue with HTC 10. Firstly I love this once Flagship phone from the days when HTC was at the top of its game. I have actually purchased a few over the years second hand from eBay and repaired them. Herein lies my problem. I have enough known working parts to put a handset together. I was in fact trying to do this today with a known working Mainboard. The problem I encounter however was that once the phone was assembled with New battery and screen everything worked perfectly except the microphone. I assumed this was due to a faulty daughter board and mic. So I swapped out the bottom board for a different one, same problem. I then tried a third with no difference. I little perplexed I tried a few different options and mixing and matching components. I tried two different Mainboards with 3 different lower daughterboards and as last effort swapped the top daughterboard. Each time the phone worked perfectly with one flaw. The microphone would not pick up any sound. The only explanation for this, I could surmise, is the possibility that HTC has somehow matched their handsets components as to not allow this type of mixing and matching. i.e the 2 daughterboards and mainboard are coded only to work as a 3 piece set. I know the phone is now 5 years old and most tech junkies would roll their eyes and ask why I would bother. But I love this phone and come from an era where, when things broke you fixed them. If anyone has any feedback or experience with this issue I'd love to hear about it.
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I received my o2 XDAiis 2 weeks ago and have been plagued with what appears to be screen alighment problems. It is almost as if the program was designed for a bigger screen.
when I touch any of the items on the right hand side of the screen the correct function is selected but as I select itmes moving towards the left of the screen they move progressively out of synch.
For example: on the phone if i touch 'talk' the phone will correctly dial however if i touch 4, i notice that 6 depresses. when the pda does this it becomes impossible to operate. To receive a call , i have to touch an imaginary area half a cm to the left of the 'receive' button.
as you can imagine i have real fun trying to get my 'start' menu. when i touch it i sometimes get the connectivity or even the volume popup display.
Hard reboot does work but not always first time. besides why should i have to reboot 3-4 time a day?
at this stage i know why there is the slide out keyboard, it is a feature so that you can use your phone, without it i would have an expensive paperweight.
Any ideas on what it might be will be gratefully accepted.
i have the same problem. and i got mine around three weeks ago.
the fix is i re-align the screen like three - four times a day. if that does not work (because sometimes the misalignment is so bad, i can't access the menu) i do soft reset.
i am starting to believe that XDA IIs is the crappiest electronic device ever built. Makes me regret that i chose it over Ericsson 910i.
Ring up the people you bought it from, tell them it's faulty and get them to send you a replacement.
I did that and then read the last post. It seems that in early feb, a batch of defective screens was used resulting in about 4k defective units sold with the problem, mine was one. Just as well I did not trash my siemens s55.piece of plastic cr*p
thanks for the comments etc. I was thinking it was something I was doing
exact same thing happening with me as well plus that the touch screen stops responding for hours at least once in a day thats why i have to allign the screen several times a day.
BLoddy gadgets all this money and still no service.
Okay so there are faulty screens that got sold, 4k of them, and I suspect I have one. But has o2 announced how they plan to deal with this?
i went back to the store and got a full cash refund. i suggest that you all do the same. helps to make a point that if companies sell defective products, they will lose money in the end. now i am using SE P910i, 300$ cheaper. bye-bye o2
Hi ALL.
I had the same problem with mine (XDAIIs from HongKong - bought 1 week ago)
It really got me SICKKK .. Then I upgraded my device with the newest upgrade from the O2 UK page, due to another BIG PROBLEM ... and finally this problem DISAPPEARED!!!
Check my post here it will maybe HELP you out, too ;-)
Have a nice week!
Joern
Touch Screen not responding
I'm having the very same problem. :evil:
Started off as a drifting problem, but now the touch screen is like dead ...no longer responding...!!
Hopefully there is the keyboard and the various buttons, but it's far from being practical!!
By the way this is my second one, the first one has been returned immediately, it didn't even pass the initialization test!!!
This one is 2 weeks old!!!
Hardware or software???
HELP!!
Well, My first generation EVO ran fairly well for about 4 months and then all Hell broke loose. Random reboots ranging from 2-10 times a day. I was unable to solve this issue no matter what methods I tried. I read about this issue that had impacted a wide array of EVO owners and it came down to 2 different categories of problem, hardware and software divisions.
First off, this issue has been effecting EVOs with AND without root. Meaning there is no clear justifiable reasoning that rooting your EVO may cause these things to occur. Heck, my friend bought a BRAND NEW 2nd generation Evo just last month and 2 days after he had bought it, he was showing it to me at the exact moment it started to freeze and reboot. It ended up doing it 5 times within the 3 hours we were at the mall together. It was enough aggravation for him to decide to swap it out at Sprint and sure enough, it rebooted right in front of the Sprint rep and he gladly gave my buddy a new one.
There were a bunch of people that just disabled data and started experiencing the problem thereafter, but they were able to resolve the situation simply by enabling data once more. Even though that, in its self, is an unusual and inexcusable flaw, it's no big deal compared to the other side of this problem.
The hardware issue seems to stem from overheating and the pattern is that the reboots occur either during phone calls, using juice extracting applications, or multitasking with many apps open. Upon further digging for clues, I found out what MAY be causing this problem just from a common sense standpoint and why it effects even the Droid X:
Because both the EVO and Droid X have large 4.3" Displays that are LCDs and not LED (AMOLED or RETINA) and are crammed into a very thin body, they generate a lot of heat that resonates to the motherboard. AMOLED and RETINA displays take up less power and create less heat than standard LCD displays. In addition, Samsung's cheap plastic may actually be a benefit to HTC's more expensive aluminum unibody because the metal body is just a magnet for that heat and retains most of it within the guts of the phone. Same can be said about the Droid X even though it uses less metal than the HTC.
I'm very convinced that this is the source of the problem, although I cannot verify it. I never had this problem with my Nexus One and I was way more of a hardcore user on that phone than my EVO. Heck, I was scared to be on the EVO for long periods of time just because of how paranoid this reboot issue had made me. I'm very disappointed in HTC and hope they rebound soon because I've always been a fan. Since my first EVO, I've switched to the Epic 4G and while I definitely don't think Samsung's build quality touches that of HTC, I will say that the reliability issues associated with the EVO are enough to keep me away from it. I really hope that this AMOLED shortage is resolved by next summer. I will never buy another Large LCD display phone again!
I never used my Evo not being rooted and I had some issues (with the various guides out). I finally got it rooted but since day one the phone locks up randomly and reboots. It might be heat related....seems to happen when its warm.........
Coming from an iPhone i have to say I'm EXTREMELY annoyed at this. i just want a damn phone that works at this point. WTH.
Its my work phone but I'm out of the country. I'm going to ask the phone group if they can replace mine for me. This is ridiculous.
I don't think it's heat
I had this issue with my daughter's phone. Hot or cold, wiped and reimaged it would sometimes reboot and loop 10 to 20 times. I finally had oit replaced by Sprint
Im having this problem. Ive noticed that when it reboots and i get it to turn on the phone temp is usually at 100 degrees or more, once it cools down i can resume what im doing until it starts to warm up again. Needless to say next week ill be getting my replacement phone, hope they dont give me any trouble.
Hey guys.
In the market for the One X. Thing is, I don't wanna get one with the WiFi issue. Is there info somewhere on the serial numbers of the bad batch of phones? Is there any way to know that the one I'm getting is good or not?
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Hey guys.
In the market for the One X. Thing is, I don't wanna get one with the WiFi issue. Is there info somewhere on the serial numbers of the bad batch of phones? Is there any way to know that the one I'm getting is good or not?
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As of a tally taken two weeks ago there were 160 people in the Wi-Fi thread that reported their phone was suffering from the issue. If you double it for people with the issue not documenting it in the thread, that's 360 phones out of about 5K owners on the forum. That's less than 10%.
If you look at the pictures of the phone disassembled, the issue appears to be from how the phone is seated in the chassis at the factory. The connectors are on the body of the phone while the antennas they are connecting to are on the chassis. In the Wi-Fi thread, people are told to "press on the back of the phone to see if it affects the Wi-Fi signal." The connectors use dynamic tension vs. springs. Since the part of the phone where the connectors are located wouldn't experience compression under typical use, that's an acceptable design choice. People artificially creating compression to "test" their phones could be causing the problem their testing for. The fix HTC is putting in place is simply spacers to prevent compression; real and artificial (people pressing on their phones). I have an early March-build phone that's been dropped six times and the Wi-Fi's as good today as when I got it. It's better than the i9100 it replaced and a G-Tab 10.1 I’m still using.
In anything mass produced, precision of assembly improves as more are built. So you could make the assumption later built phones are less likely to have defects. You’ll see references to HT23 and the like. The “3” in HT23 signifies “March” and so on. But the design of the Wi-Fi connectors aren't being changed and, based on the number of devices affected, you have a far greater chance of getting a phone with great Wi-Fi than one with a problem. There are plenty of differing opinions so educate yourself and make your own decision.
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As of a tally taken two weeks ago there were 160 people in the Wi-Fi thread that reported their phone was suffering from the issue. If you double it for people with the issue not documenting it in the thread, that's 360 phones out of about 5K owners on the forum. That's less than 10%.
If you look at the pictures of the phone disassembled, the issue appears to be from how the phone is seated in the chassis at the factory. The connectors are on the body of the phone while the antennas they are connecting to are on the chassis. In the Wi-Fi thread, people are told to "press on the back of the phone to see if it affects the Wi-Fi signal." The connectors use dynamic tension vs. springs. Since the part of the phone where the connectors are located wouldn't experience compression under typical use, that's an acceptable design choice. People artificially creating compression to "test" their phones could be causing the problem their testing for. The fix HTC is putting in place is simply spacers to prevent compression; real and artificial (people pressing on their phones). I have an early March-build phone that's been dropped six times and the Wi-Fi's as good today as when I got it. It's better than the i9100 it replaced and a G-Tab 10.1 I’m still using.
In anything mass produced, precision of assembly improves as more are built. So you could make the assumption later built phones are less likely to have defects. You’ll see references to HT23 and the like. The “3” in HT23 signifies “March” and so on. But the design of the Wi-Fi connectors aren't being changed and, based on the number of devices affected, you have a far greater chance of getting a phone with great Wi-Fi than one with a problem. There are plenty of differing opinions so educate yourself and make your own decision.
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Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the info.
Quick introduction. For experience and training purposes I started buying broken phones (LCD, digitizers) and try to repair them. I bought HTC Wildfire S with just cracked touch screen. Bought parts and replaced. When assembling phone back the screen did not work on the whole area, what I mean it was working like partially, only vertical left hand side was working. Like writing text message, R works, then E and T doesn't.
Tried to disconnect the digitizer connector, maybe it was not touching properly, couple times. But that didn't work. It was just working in different places than before. Found here a thread about a problem for different digitizer versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942259
But the thing is I have no idea how to approach anything that these people suggest. I don't know how to replace software, reinstall it or whatever involves soft. I would like to learn too.
If you have any ideas or suggestions please share with me, if not I will just sell the phone back as not working. Thanks
ok, after nearly 5 years of using, i had have problems with the USB port of my N7000.
It was impossible to get a good power contact during recharging my battery.
So i ordered a replacement part for it. So far, so good.
But after replacing, i have only Edge (G2) and no G3/Umts any longer!
Have compared the new one against the old one twice but with the same result.
So i looked into the WWW and found different replacements with the same problem!!!
It looks like, that it is impossible to get the old original quality.
Ok, ~7$ is not expensive, but anyhow! Now i can charge but not surf in the net.
~34KB/s is 10 times less than with H+:silly:
I think, it seems to be a plagiarism with really bad quality.
So be careful if you will buy some (declared as a "original"!) replacement part.
I'm guessing Samsung (or the distributor) does not make the parts anymore so to keep with the demand there are attempts to create more of it by other opportunistic companies.
When replacing the connector you may have bent the connectors for the antenna or forgot to connect them. Check you motherboard brass connectors's health and the celular antenna's cable if it is connected right.
I think this phone being forgotten as so many dev leave and for the part replacement might be non ori at all. Within 5 years I got 4 times replacement for USB port & 3 times internal spraker, normally I let the phone repairman do at phone shop nearest my home. Lately they give discount for regular customer. Speaking about regular customer it also means this phone has nearly R.I.P as I always change the same part of replacement. Last week the 4th times USB replacement. What to do as I am unaffordable to buy new phone.
What are you doing with your phone bro. For all this time I have replaced the usb connector once and the display and this is my only repairs for this phone.
I ran into the same issue.
To my knowledge, there are at least 4 different revisions of the USB charging PCB. Some are incompatible with the device you own, because of regional differences between devices.
I had to buy two, one from china, one locally from a smartphone repair shop owner (cool guy!), as the china one didn't work. Only 1 or 2 bars GPRS when standing right next to the cell tower.
With the one bought locally, I have worse reception than with the original part, but it is very much acceptable and works in at least 90% of all areas I'm in.
Both replacement parts have different model numbers than the original one that was built into my note originally. Some sellers have pictures of another model number, so it suggests, that there at least 4 versions out there.
To further elaborate on my findings:
Two times so far, I experienced one very weird and almost esoterical bug.
This happened both times after reasonably long uptimes on bauners NightOwl 7.1.2 ROM (some version released early 2018).
I have the reception indicator once in the status bar at the top of the screen and one time in the notification area. For some weird mysterical reason, it can happen, that both of these indicators develop their own interpretations of the signal. It might happen, that the status bar will say e.g. H and the notification area will report something like E. The other way around it might happen as well. Telephony is not possible in such situations.
It is very weird and some online searches suggest, that this might be the note itself, not the software. It seems like several of samsungs devices are prone to this problem, not only the n7000. A reboot solves the problem, but I wanted to point this out as I thought the notification area signal reception indicator would merely mirror the status bar reception indicator, that is definitely not the case, so you might want to check for both signal indicators to be more certain about your issues. I'm sure nobody expects this, so a quick heads up.
Greetz