Hey guys
So recently, I removed the back cover of my nexus 4 and did the power button fix, which said to put something like a small piece of paper on top of the lock button, and I did the fix and the button is working perfectly now
But now I have a new problem, after putting back the back cover in, all the sides snap back and taper in like normal, except the bottom side. At the bottom where the microUSB is, there is a line of space where the cover and the chrome meets and it looks horrible. For some reason the bottom isnt snapping in properly, because if i press on top of the cover near the microUSB port then I can feel it snap in, but it will snap out again by itself. Is there some sort of tab or something I need to pull out from the phone so it snaps in properly or something?
Can someone please help me with this? It's really ruining the feel of the phone & making it look old
Here are some photos to give perspective:
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Thank You!
EDIT: When I take the screws out and push the bottom sides together the gap closes significantly, but as soon as I screw back the screws in then the gap becomes as big as the photo again...wtf? I think i'll have to use my N4 without the screws
BassBlaster said:
EDIT: When I take the screws out and push the bottom sides together the gap closes significantly, but as soon as I screw back the screws in then the gap becomes as big as the photo again...wtf? I think i'll have to use my N4 without the screws
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You didn't crossthread the screws, did you?
The screws themselves screw into 2 metal posts that are on the back cover. It seems to me like maybe your screws aren't hitting the holes in those posts, but instead are missing and pushing it them out. Maybe something loose got in your case and is preventing it from closing down tightly, It could be something foreign, or it could be the antenna wire isn't nested between the battery and the frame, or if you completely disassembled the internals, perhaps something isn't snapped down all the way. But it definitely sounds like the screws are missing the holes in the posts, and instead your screws are going inbetween the top of the posts and the back cover, pushing it out and creating that gap.
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Hi!
if anyone wondered what are that little hole marked on the photograph?
Found in all versions Defy / Defy +
and it is not a second microphone
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i hadnt noticed it till you put up this topic! :S
does anyone know what that is? now even i'm curious!lol
now i am curious TOO....
I gees it's the 2nd microphone, which is used for noise canceling.
Don't know what it is but it's not the noise canceling mic. That is located under the screw on the top right (when looking at the back with the battery cover off), there is actually a hole in the battery cover for noise cancellation mic.
Well its right in the middle of the phone, maybe its used during manufacturing?
I always thought it was the motion sensor myself.
Hole for a HW reset ???
Hi all,
While using my new defy+ with a CM10 rom, it was seriously blocked, without any capability to recover it, no USB, no boot, nothing could wake it up again
I decided to disassemble it, and found out that behind this hole was a kind of button
Isn't it a HW reset button ?
this question because once reassembled, my Defy booted again, came up to life again
Any idea, confirmation about this ?
regards and thank's to all of your contributions
Well it might be 18months late but It looks like a tiny external antenna socket or test connection, presumably used for setup and testing by factory/repair depot, judging by this picture:
Its a microphone used to record sounds while taking videos.
Try tapping the hole when recording videos and tapping the hole at the bottom.of the phone and see when you hear the tappjng noise
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oSandmaNo said:
Its a microphone used to record sounds while taking videos.
Try tapping the hole when recording videos and tapping the hole at the bottom.of the phone and see when you hear the tappjng noise
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Did you try tapping it though?
I did try tapping it and it isn't the microphone! with the back cover removed and in record video mode I tapped the middle hole and the hole to the right, clearly the mic is on the right hand side just under the screw (where the hole in the back cover is, oddly enough) It would make no sense to have a mic made of brass and with no hole in the back cover for it to receive sounds.
On the picture above you can even see the mic has a little orange rubber seal around it, it's the square rubber just below the round orange rubber screw hole.
Yes i did try tapping it. I did it long ago to see what it was
hi, this hole is for water detector.
The detector is only a small paper which change color in contact with water.
Ok i dont have much light bleed from the edges of the screen, i dont have (so far) screen separation, but on the other side, i have one weird issue with the screen, this issue just started about 4 days after purchase. Now I see some light (you read well) coming in the form of two little filaments, very short about a quarter of an inch, separated by black, now these light filaments are on the left side of the screen about in the middle, But they do not show where the screen is, they are on the black bezel, in vertical fashion, aligned to the screen about halfway from where the screen ends and the side begins, right smack in the middle of the black bezel, i believe that is the right word.
My question is obvious, what could this be??? ps. i know it is light coming from these cracks or whatever they are because when i turn up the brightness these spost appear brighter as well.
I am not sure i have explained the problem too well, taking pictures might not help....this is my issue, im asking you all for you help..
Thanks
Daniel
I've had the same issue. Strange light bleed from underneath the black bezel under the screen:
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(This issue isn't visible in this photo. I marked where it is located).
Today i received my Nexus 7 from ASUS Repair Centre in Poland. They replaced the whole screen (LCD+Touch+Silver bezel) due to screen lifting. Now i don't have any lifting and this strange light bleed.
Did you resolve the light issue by sending the tablet to asus for the screen liftin problem? is it fixed now? could the light issue be a sign of a screen lifting problem in progress that is gonna manifest soon? i just dont know wether to think this is a big problem or a small one..
As I wrote earlier:
"Now i don't have any lifting and this strange light bleed." - after screen replacement.
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could the light issue be a sign of a screen lifting problem in progress that is gonna manifest soon?
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No, I don't think so. That strange light bleeding was "out of the box". My screen started lifting after 1-2 weeks.
Hi there,
Quickly after installing a new screen protector sheet on my Motorola Defy, I discovered that it is causing my proximity sensor to be next to useless.
By peeling off the screen protector off the proximity sensor I verified the source of the problem. (The sensor worked properly without the protector sheet on it.)
I used a black permanent marker to mark out the proximity sensor area, to cut out a little window through the protector sheet with a knife.
Drum roll please, we arrive to the part where Newton got an apple to his head and Archimedes ran naked out of his house yelling "Eureka!",
The black permanent marker fixed the problem. once I painted over the proximity sensor (On the screen protector sheet of course!!), It started working fine again. Yeah. Weird.
Yes, Yes, I know, this is life changing information for many of us who just couldn't hang up after dialing the wrong phone number because of sensor problems...
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Shawn
wow.. epic fail on the part of the screen protector maker. did you bring this to their attention? good thing it has an easy, albeit, chinsy fix!
Long ago, I discovered something similar on the myTouch 3G Slide. That phone has a small rubber box cover over the proximity sensor, with a small hole for the sensor to peek through. When I changed the flex ribbon cable, the sensor wasn't working anymore. I eventually realized that on the old cable, there was that small rubber box over the sensor, & the new cable didn't have that. I put the rubber box over the sensor, & now it worked again. It seems that if the sensor is left wide open, it won't work right. I notice that on newer phones, the sensor is usually encased in its own little box in the housing. I guess they need most light around it blocked off in order to work right.
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did you bring this to their attention?
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-nah, just a cheapie on ebay
This is a well known fix for the proximity sensor issues with aftermarket replacement iPhone glass that doesn't have dark enough tint over the sensor.. (cheap import products not oem) good to know it works in this case too.
I repaired my N4 yesterday with a new screen/digitizer/frame and everything seems to be working fine, except that it's missing the light diffuser in front of the notification light and some kind of white rubber thingy. Do you guys know if I can transfer those from the old frame, I couldn't find any resource about this.
of course you can, just use black 3m double sided tape on perimeter of diffuser to be sure it will hold in place .
OK but I don'tknow how to remove the part from the old frame...
it's simple piece of plastic with adhesive to hold it on digitizer glass, just use something like knife to separate from glass ...
I really don't see how it's done though and I'm afraid I'll damage something... If anyone has a video, that would be useful.
You have mounted your screen assembly in phone front frame already and don't have access to back side of glass ? then I think it's too late to ask about light diffuser ...
But I bought the lcd/digitizer/frame pre-assembled...
just remove your old broken lcd from frame and you will see where that white plastic piece must be glued...
I think I will. I just want to be able to put it on the new one without screwing anything up!
problem is that this white plastic must be applied to back side off digitizer glass before mounting glass in the frame ... Now i think only you can do - try to put that white plastic through the hole in frame where notification led is mounted ...
i also forgot to change the diffuser from the old glass. What i used instead was the white piece from te side of the paper foil (in picture), that i cut to desired shape and sticked it in place with 1mm adhesive tape. It looks great, maybe better than the originalone.
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i also forgot to change the diffuser from the old glass. What i used instead was the white piece from te side of the paper foil (in picture), that i cut to desired shape and sticked it in place with 1mm adhesive tape. It looks great, maybe better than the originalone.
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Can you tell with more details how you did it? You had to disassembly the screen from the frame? You had to take out and put new adhesive strips on the frame? Thanks in advance.
I used the white strip and cutted small rectangle that fitted. Then i put adhesive tape around and sticked it to place. Thats all
Hello! I had 1st gen nexus 7 laying around with smashed lcd. I ordered new one from china and changed it, but my new display looks faulty. I wanted to ask if someone had similar experience.
New display is split on vertical axis. and left side looks a bit darker. most visible is on white background
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sometimes there is a thin line seperating both parts.
line disapears if i switch windows or re- wakeup the device.
there is also a flicker on the left side when i wake up the device.
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the dark and bright sides do not change when I turn the tablet around. display orientation changes but vertical split stays in the same place.
when I first changed the display and turned on the tablet it started to flicker like crazy and un-readable after few seconds of loading screen (google logo was fine and few seconds of spinning colored bubbles too)
I got it working only after full wipe/factory reset.
any chance the vertical split could be software issue? or should I return it?
Thanks!
njakts said:
Hello! I had 1st gen nexus 7 laying around with smashed lcd. I ordered new one from china and changed it, but my new display looks faulty. I wanted to ask if someone had similar experience.
New display is split on vertical axis. and left side looks a bit darker. most visible is on white background
sometimes there is a thin line seperating both parts.
line disapears if i switch windows or re- wakeup the device.
there is also a flicker on the left side when i wake up the device.
video:
http://vid224.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/dvc_05/BE61304C-4AE0-439A-A87E-B8E1E5411AE9.mp4
the dark and bright sides do not change when I turn the tablet around. display orientation changes but vertical split stays in the same place.
when I first changed the display and turned on the tablet it started to flicker like crazy and un-readable after few seconds of loading screen (google logo was fine and few seconds of spinning colored bubbles too)
I got it working only after full wipe/factory reset.
any chance the vertical split could be software issue? or should I return it?
Thanks!
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Or you broke something when changing the display or the display is garbage
Typically this is from dirty, damaged or not fully seated connectors in my experience.
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Typically this is from dirty, damaged or not fully seated connectors in my experience.
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+1 Exactly what I was going to say. If it were a faulty display, most likely the issue would be constant and on all views.