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I have a Samsung Vibrant T959 TMobile US with 2.1-update1, Baseband T959UVJI6.
The battery is fully charged, it registers in the phone as fully charged 100%, but when I hit the power button I get a progess wheel that gets stuck, then the phone just turns off. It never gets passed that wheel, it only displays for a second then dies.
However, when I plug in the USB and hit the power button, it comes right up like it should. Then I can unplug the usb and use the phone just fine. Its almost as if I need to jump-start the phone with a power source.
I have reset the phone, even re-flashed the stock firmware using Odin. Same results. I have even swapped batteries with a buddy just to see if that was the case, but I still got the same results.
Any advice or suggestions is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks Very Much In Advance!
Anybody? Any ideas?
Well, that is new to me...
I'll preface with, I have no clue how/why that is happening. But, this is what I would do:
1 - If really opposed to rooting, I'd call T-Mo / Samsung and get a replacement.
2 - If I liked my phone and wanted to make it better, I'd root it and flash a custom ROM. It likely would take care of the issue, as it clearly is not a hardware thing (well, I say clearly).
Worst case with #2, ODIN back to stock and then do option 1.
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also it says "USB connected" even when cable is unplugged? I had similar problem.. I tried everything, flashing, changing batteries.. none of that was useful. Then I find some post on some forum that says it might be corrosion, so i scratched my USB with thin wire and everything worked fine, but also scratching USB I was doing one more thing. In my opinion, I think that it's not corrosion. I think that USB is slightly bent (middle part of it), try to bent it in other direction, possible that it's too close to edge. That solved my problem. Tell me if this helpful for you, sorry about my english
we87 said:
Anybody? Any ideas?
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did you ever figure out? im in the same boat...
admirh said:
also it says "USB connected" even when cable is unplugged? I had similar problem.. I tried everything, flashing, changing batteries.. none of that was useful. Then I find some post on some forum that says it might be corrosion, so i scratched my USB with thin wire and everything worked fine, but also scratching USB I was doing one more thing. In my opinion, I think that it's not corrosion. I think that USB is slightly bent (middle part of it), try to bent it in other direction, possible that it's too close to edge. That solved my problem. Tell me if this helpful for you, sorry about my english
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i think i can get what you are saying, cleaning the usb port on the phone right??
BUT how does this affect turning the phone on?? if usb port is rusty, it will only affect charging, not turning the power on?
I experienced this identical issue last fall -- the USB would always say it was connected, wouldn't startup unless connected to actual USB, but otherwise worked fine.
Take your phone apart and look at the solder joints on your microUSB port... mine all had cracks in them or had broken free. I re-flowed the solder while holding the port down and it resolved my issues. (put on some flux, and run a hot soldering iron across the joints, clean up... it's not very difficult. just be sure you don't short out any of the pins.) I also added additional solder to the four points that just hold the mircoUSB to the circuit board. It's been rock solid since
Rahhstah said:
I experienced this identical issue last fall -- the USB would always say it was connected, wouldn't startup unless connected to actual USB, but otherwise worked fine.
Take your phone apart and look at the solder joints on your microUSB port... mine all had cracks in them or had broken free. I re-flowed the solder while holding the port down and it resolved my issues. (put on some flux, and run a hot soldering iron across the joints, clean up... it's not very difficult. just be sure you don't short out any of the pins.) I also added additional solder to the four points that just hold the mircoUSB to the circuit board. It's been rock solid since
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that sounds very difficult actually.. as I dont own any of the tools
anywhere cheap to recommend?
lazi punk said:
that sounds very difficult actually.. as I dont own any of the tools
anywhere cheap to recommend?
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See if there is a TV or electronic repair place still in business in your area. Or post an ad on CL asking someone with knowledge and skill to do it. Be careful they aren't an idiot just wanting 20 bucks and happen to own a soldering iron.
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that sounds very difficult actually.. as I dont own any of the tools
anywhere cheap to recommend?
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you could see if Cell Phone Repair/ is near you and describe to them what you want to do.
I would go through these guys they are top notch helped me when i soft bricked my wife's phone. He even convinced me that i could fix it myself when i was ready to send it to them for a jtag.
They can replace the usb plug if thats the issue.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant/
I would test to see if my battery is bad first before i went about resoldering, it could easily be a bad battery.
Xdogg said:
I would go through these guys they are top notch helped me when i soft bricked my wife's phone. He even convinced me that i could fix it myself when i was ready to send it to them for a jtag.
They can replace the usb plug if thats the issue.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant/
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thank you for the response. I definitely think the usb port is an issue. what is a jtag? haha
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I would test to see if my battery is bad first before i went about resoldering, it could easily be a bad battery.
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No my stock battery is charging and i did buy a separate battery. same issue.
Hello guys.
A few days ago, mi nexus 7 didn´t power up, tried pressing power and vol down for more than 30 seconds, nothing.
The screen turned on from time to time, but all i can see was some static.
After gathering some courage and reading a bit on the internet, i opened it and there it was, the battery plug was in an angle, doing a false contact.
I don´t know how that happened, it was working normally before, i didnt drop it, hit it, nothing.
Ok, then i push the plug and it fit, but mi finger slipped and broke one of the wifi antenna pin connector, it seems they are pretty weak...
I closed the tablet and it power up and works almost perfect, now the wifi signal sucks a lot, most of the time it can´t connect unless i´m really close to the modem/router.
What can i do? i still have the broken pin, can i solder it? or use something else to make the contact? return it to Asus for a fix? and i guess they will charge me.
Also i opened it again today, to take a picture, and i saw that the power plug again is slipping outside of his socket, i think there is a flaw in the design if the plug can´t keep is place...
Well, thanks in advance!!!
Laters
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Hello guys.
A few days ago, mi nexus 7 didn´t power up, tried pressing power and vol down for more than 30 seconds, nothing.
The screen turned on from time to time, but all i can see was some static.
After gathering some courage and reading a bit on the internet, i opened it and there it was, the battery plug was in an angle, doing a false contact.
I don´t know how that happened, it was working normally before, i didnt drop it, hit it, nothing.
Ok, then i push the plug and it fit, but mi finger slipped and broke one of the wifi antenna pin connector, it seems they are pretty weak...
I closed the tablet and it power up and works almost perfect, now the wifi signal sucks a lot, most of the time it can´t connect unless i´m really close to the modem/router.
What can i do? i still have the broken pin, can i solder it? or use something else to make the contact? return it to Asus for a fix? and i guess they will charge me.
Also i opened it again today, to take a picture, and i saw that the power plug again is slipping outside of his socket, i think there is a flaw in the design if the plug can´t keep is place...
Well, thanks in advance!!!
Laters
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You can solder a wire from the broken pin directly to the WiFi antenna
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And for the battery plug, electrical tape is your friend.
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Thanks for the answers.
And... what about of the solder? i don´t know if it have the properties to transmit the wifi signal, maybe i put a wire or the pin back with solder, but if the solder doesn´t transmit the wifi signal i´m still screwed...
Sorry about my bad english, i tried my best, in spanish i could have explained it better....
Thanks!!
icedfirefly said:
Thanks for the answers.
And... what about of the solder? i don´t know if it have the properties to transmit the wifi signal, maybe i put a wire or the pin back with solder, but if the solder doesn´t transmit the wifi signal i´m still screwed...
Sorry about my bad english, i tried my best, in spanish i could have explained it better....
Thanks!!
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Solder will be fine, I put solder on the pins of my one x to strengthen the connection and boost the signal worked perfectly.
Well, last night i put a small dot of solder and put the pin back in his place, i tried it in the same spot where yesterday i had no signal and now it works perfectly!
Thanks!!!
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Well, last night i put a small dot of solder and put the pin back in his place, i tried it in the same spot where yesterday i had no signal and now it works perfectly!
Thanks!!!
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Glad it worked
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I've had the exact same accident, well except that i broke not one but TWO pins. So basically all should i do is solder them back just like that?
About the battery connector. Mine has a black tape over the connector. It's glued from the red yellow and black cables up to the motherboard socket where the pin connects. It may be a new revision because it's one of the latests
Broken wifi pin
FitAmp said:
You can solder a wire from the broken pin directly to the WiFi antenna
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this happened to me aswell when I took it to my local repair store they said they couldn't solder it, if I had the tools I would have a go. Any ideas as to where else I could take it to get soldered. Thanks. Also I have another nexus 7 with which I have tried all the tricks ie: hold power on, check battery etc but still nothing absolutely nothing won't turn on or show any signs of life
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Glad it worked
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As a nervous amateur I would like to see this being done, what degree of heat and what size of solder wire etc are there any video footage available anywhere.
I fixed mine
actually mine also got broken ....
soldering didnt seem a good option for me
so i took one of the gold plated contact pins used for holding the sim card from an old phone and improvised ...
(you can use any of the gold plated contact pins found in old mobiles)
photos attached ...
i held it in place by insulation tape and some rubber stickers so that it wont move away ....
antenna works fine now ... full signal strength
the main thing here is to get the same material for fixing the antenna
different material would result in poor signal
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actually mine also got broken ....
soldering didnt seem a good option for me
so i took one of the gold plated contact pins used for holding the sim card from an old phone and improvised ...
(you can use any of the gold plated contact pins found in old mobiles)
photos attached ...
i held it in place by insulation tape and some rubber stickers so that it wont move away ....
antenna works fine now ... full signal strength
the main thing here is to get the same material for fixing the antenna
different material would result in poor signal
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Thanks for that, what about a spot of superglue
Dec001 said:
Thanks for that, what about a spot of superglue
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noo dont use chemicals on PCB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi all,
during these months I have had a lot of problems with GPS Fix with my Z3C. These problems occurred after the update to 6.0.1 and I thought that It was a software issue.
In my case, GPS works well after upgrade but It degraded little by little. Applications like GPS Status reported a very very low satellite signal.
Reading every possible forum, I found some guys that explain how to "solve" the problem plugging the usb and powering the phone. An other post specified that the solution was not the "powering" and the fix become better if you lightly pulling the usb connector to you... and It was true! So the problem was not software.
So I opened the phone, disassembled the mainboard from the chassis and tryed to understand what part was involved in the "usb pulling solution".
I found that many connectors (like a little pin) were connected to some particular parts to the chassis (as if it were used as antenna).
In this photo you can see where the mainboard connectors impact on the chassis.
(Sorry the forum prevent me to post link or image)
And this is the specific connector involved in "usb pulling solution"
(Sorry the forum prevent me to post link or image)
It seem that this connector was linked in the edge of connection area, not in the middle as the other connector.
So I gently bent the connector upward and reassembled the phone.
After that, the GPS Status reported a signal very high. Never seen a signal so hight before!
The fix was very fast and the accuracy was constantly under 3mt
I'm not an expert, I'm only a normal user. I hope that this thread can help some other like me that need GPS works very well for run, drive and play.
Thank you for this post - I've been fighting with my GPS for months and am about ready to open up the phone too. Any chance you could post the images externally somehow? It would make this a lot easier to follow for me.
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Thank you for this post - I've been fighting with my GPS for months and am about ready to open up the phone too. Any chance you could post the images externally somehow? It would make this a lot easier to follow for me.
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I'm trying to post images but the forum reply me in this way:
"To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages. After approximately 10 posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thank you for understanding!"
I'm asking to the moderatos if is possible to unlock me.
I will let you know
Anyway... start watching "sony z3 compact disassembly" on youtube. You need some tool to do this without destroy the phone. But trust me, is not so difficult. In particular, take care about the battery door opening.
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I'm trying to post images but the forum reply me in this way:
"To prevent spam on the XDA forums, ALL new users prevented from posting outside links in their messages. After approximately 10 posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thank you for understanding!"
I'm asking to the moderatos if is possible to unlock me.
I will let you know
Anyway... start watching "sony z3 compact disassembly" on youtube. You need some tool to do this without destroy the phone. But trust me, is not so difficult. In particular, take care about the battery door opening.
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Just add a few 'well done Mr Developer' messages to a few threads, you'll soon get to ten
great news waiting for photos, maybe link to photopucket or something ?
Nice you've fixed it yourself!
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It seem that this connector was linked in the edge of connection area, not in the middle as the other connector.
So I gently bent the connector upward and reassembled the phone.
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I've already disassembled a plenty of Sony phones (from Xperia X10 pretty much to every single later Sony phone that was available in Poland) and the issue with bent connectors is very very common. I also had this problem in my Xperia PLAY where my WiFi and cellular network connectors were bent and were linked on the edges of the plates.
ALL Connectors
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgldca344e3h7be/WhatsApp-Image-20160710.jpeg?dl=0
GPS Connector
https://www.dropbox.com/s/egh4vjmpt96qdzp/WhatsApp-Image-20160710%20%281%29.jpeg?dl=0
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Nice you've fixed it yourself!
I've already disassembled a plenty of Sony phones (from Xperia X10 pretty much to every single later Sony phone that was available in Poland) and the issue with bent connectors is very very common. I also had this problem in my Xperia PLAY where my WiFi and cellular network connectors were bent and were linked on the edges of the plates.
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Do you have a connectors map?
Hell. I had the same problem : suddenly the GPS signal became very weak, almost unable to catch any satellites and degrading over time, so since I still had 1 month warranty I sent it to the repair center and they changed my PBA (which is the motherboard, I believe.) It is now working like a champ again. If I were to get the problem back in a few month, after my warranty expiration, I'll definitively try to do what you did.
Thanks for the info.
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Do you have a connectors map?
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Unfortunately, no... but I recommend visiting iFixit site where some of the phones are nicely described.
Thanks a milion gepp81!
I ve ordered some replacement parts and tools and I will try to resurrect my z3 gps.
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Hell. I had the same problem : suddenly the GPS signal became very weak, almost unable to catch any satellites and degrading over time, so since I still had 1 month warranty I sent it to the repair center and they changed my PBA (which is the motherboard, I believe.) It is now working like a champ again. If I were to get the problem back in a few month, after my warranty expiration, I'll definitively try to do what you did.
Thanks for the info.
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Same with me.
I believe that since we got a new imei number e got new warranty. I have to check the law.
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Can anyone confirm this please? It looks weird to me. According to service manual all antenna connectors are on secondary side of mainboard (accesibble without removing battery, just after opening rear cover and removing that frame around, which has 4 screws, if I remember correctly).
It works
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Can anyone confirm this please? It looks weird to me. According to service manual all antenna connectors are on secondary side of mainboard (accesibble without removing battery, just after opening rear cover and removing that frame around, which has 4 screws, if I remember correctly).
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It works. All the connectors are on one side of the motherboard (not the battery side). The picture gepp81 posted shows the antenna area where the connectors connect to, so not the actual gps connector.
Thanks a lot!
I had absolutely no GPS signal.
After trying every software tweak / wipe / rom.... (I was hopping it was a software issue) I finally tried your solution, straighten all the little contacts, and now my GPS has a wonderful signal!!!
I destroyed my back cover, but it doesn't matter I prefer that than no GPS
Wow, thank you. I can also confirm this. Despite that official service manual says something different.
Previously zero signal at all (23 satellites with 0 SNR), sometime 1 very weak satellite. Now 9 fixed, another 6 visible. Those 15 doesn't have very strong signal, but it's usable.
I am thinking about using some thin wire to improve it (like this: https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z3-Compact/GPS-issue/m-p/1006245/highlight/true#M12642 ).
Another successful story here - gps stopped working, i updated my rooted kitkat to slimm 2.4, opened phone, did the connectors trick, but gps was still dead. Then after few days i checked "Device only" in Location settings and GPS came back to life! Now works with "High accuracy" mode as well
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Another successful story here - gps stopped working, i updated my rooted kitkat to slimm 2.4, opened phone, did the connectors trick, but gps was still dead. Then after few days i checked "Device only" in Location settings and GPS came back to life! Now works with "High accuracy" mode as well
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Also had problems with my gps. First I thought it was water damage. But pulling with the usb connector made it work again.
Did the trick with bending the connector. Now I have signal but is is not very strong.
Is there a way to make the signal stronger?
Is the copper strip the antenna?
Can I replace this with another copper strip that works as a better antenna?
Or .....?
If your gps antenna is somehow damaged, you could fix it using silver paint:
http://www.2spi.com/category/silver-paints-pastes/
I didnt try it, but friend of mine uses it to fix broken boards on laptops... Should work in phones too
Same problem. I sent my phone to service. They changed motherboard. Now GPS Works perfect. And my warranty is extended for 2 years, because of different motherboard and IME. Thanks Sony, very good service
Like the title says I now have little to no wifi signal unless stood next to the router?
Can anyone help me out am getting really cheesed off with this.
thanks in advance
Checked for loose connectors? Does wifi improve if you remove the cameras?
Was perfectly fine, before I did the camera, checked the conector the little point bit snapped off but not the ful connector so I am still able to lift it up slightly?
Are you referring to the centre pin?
no the little connector on the oppisote side of the bored
located here in the green ring, the whole connector is still attached all tho a little bit on the top has came of no bigger than a half centimeter
Maybe the connector is not making proper contact with the back casing. Maybe add a bit of solder to the gold contact to raise it up a bit to it makes better contact?
Would adding solder not damage it?
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PhaseCoder said:
Like the title says I now have little to no wifi signal unless stood next to the router?
Can anyone help me out am getting really cheesed off with this.
thanks in advance
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Sounds to me like the device was opened to replace the camera, and it could be something easy to fix. Fix step open the device, and check that suckers WiFi Antenna wire....looks the same as a Laptop WiFi Antenna Wire, except smaller and shorter, it may be disconnected from the logic board connector location, or the wire is broken or damaged.
Adding a but of solder may work as long as you use low-melt solder, a very fine tip iron, and you do not let the solder flow to other parts of the board.
I suppose the alternative would be taking it to a cell shop to see if they can fix it.
I have Samsung i9505l updated to lollipop via OTA after updating All the sensor stopped what does it mean is Samsung killing their devices via ota's i said to my friends that it's hardware (sensor Hub) problem! and he was saying no it's software problem after downgrading to Kit Kat... everything works fine I lost $30 bet on it.! poor Samsung ! so the main question is there anyway to upgrade to lollipop with working sensors?
http://samsung-updates.com/
Hi to all,
sorry for my english but i gonna try to explain how to fix GPS in LG G5:
1. you need to unsoldering 2 mhf rf connectors like you see in pic1.
2.after that you need to solder 2 wireup cabels like you see in pic2.
3.in the end this is how it gonna look, like you see in pic3 and pic 4.
Good luck!
Where to solder the two cables on the other side?
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No where, they just attached to the frame with duct tape.
Can you explain a bit more, what are pic 1 and pic 2 are are you removing whatever is there. It look like pogo pin not sure...
In pic1 you see mhf connectors\pogo pins as you call it on the board as they comes from the factory. in pic2 I unsoldered them, so this is how the board looking like after I removed them. I marked with the yellow dots where I solder the wireup (wireup is marked in red).
I understand now that you are using a thru hole RF connector and place a wire that act as an antenna, I wasn't able to locate where is the normal antenna and why is it not connecting right at the first place. it seem that the RF connector is not used normally so it is probably there only for factory test purpose from the ifixit teardown pictures.
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/KEVL1LUslTEBSoVO.huge
What kind of improvement did you get on the GPS, mine is working but not great so I am tempted to fix it but I am still not understanding what the fix does for now as I have to extrapolate that you are actually making an antenna with the wire. Lenght should matter quite a lot then, did you make a few test with various length to came up with the fix you documented.
There's another thread with a gps fix, but he's only putting more spring into some pins this fix may be better on the long run!
Thanks for the explanation
Before fix I barely get gps fix, I needed to wait about 5 min to get fix, after that the gps was not stable at all, it always get 5 satellites in max.
After fix I get gps fix after 10-15 sec, and I always get between 19-21 satellites, and gps works stable without any disconnections.
About the wire length, I didn't tried various lengths.
Getting yourself familiar with the insides always a good ideal. There's a good app in the play store called 'iFixit'. It's helped me with a lot of different devices opening up.
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How bout does the iron need to be? What kind of solder should I use?
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How bout does the iron need to be? What kind of solder should I use?
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The iron temperature actually depend on the solder you use, you ideally need something that melt fairly low like 63/37 alloy 63/37 Sn-Pb used principally in electrical/electronic work. 63/37 is a eutectic alloy of these metals, which: has the lowest melting point (183 °C or 361 °F) Other eutetic alloy without lead may be availlable in your area. You also need the type with Rosin flux not acid or water washable.
You will also need a small tip at the end of the soldering iron and a good magnifier, but working with multilayer PC board with no experience can easily lead to catastrophic failure.
I would recommend you start with easier mods than this one if you are not familiar with soldering and general soldering on PCB, this is a fairly easy thing to do for someone familiar with this type of work as the hard work is to figure out what to do
Maybe find a local cellular repair shop and ask them if they can do it for you.
@slavush - thanks for the info here. Can I ask how you determined which connectors were related to GPS? Any documentation about the PCB or similar?
There are different people mentioning different pins all over the G5 for GPS. I have opened up mine 3 or 4 times now, each time finding success for a short period. So I failed to determine which were actually the ones to focus on.
In your opinion, instead of welding the cable, would it be possible to plug it into the connector hole?
I tried to put the cable in on the phone as in the picture without connecting it. But when the cable is inside the phone does not turn on.
My gps does not work. It does not even hook up to a satellite
slavush said:
Before fix I barely get gps fix, I needed to wait about 5 min to get fix, after that the gps was not stable at all, it always get 5 satellites in max.
After fix I get gps fix after 10-15 sec, and I always get between 19-21 satellites, and gps works stable without any disconnections.
About the wire length, I didn't tried various lengths.
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How about now? Is this fix still working?
Also curious about. Any fix that really works?
I already fix my GPS without soldering.... But in order to fix it you should disassemble the G5 and look for 3 pins....
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I don't think the 3 pins mentioned are concerned with the gps. I tried myself lots of time to raise them up and the gps for a while worked, but, now i broke those 3 pins. No more volume...but gps works...extremely bad and slowly as before. If you look at the flex
you can see it is only related to the volume buttons. So...I don't have any idea.
About this soldering fix.....why shall I have to unsolder those two things?
the 3 pin worked for 6 month... and never worked again, 3 is crashed a bit now, also, i added aluminum foil to the 3 min, so volume up down still work.
I was going to try this fix mentioned here, untill i open the phone and found how Small the POGO pin is.
seems quite hard to remove as there is so many electronic around it.
i am going to just Plug in the cable and TAPE it in place and see if it can work this way..
Update:
Interesting enough, the phone refuse to turn on (with the 2 cable TAPED over the pogo pin. ) it just wont turn on.
Now, i removed the wire from lower pogo pin, with the upper remain. and the phone can turn on.
will go test the gps and see
@slavush, I see that you are from Israel. Any chance you're from Tel Aviv? I could use some help with this.
@scoobychau, did you get success in gps signal improve?
How did you it ?
scoobychau said:
the 3 pin worked for 6 month... and never worked again, 3 is crashed a bit now, also, i added aluminum foil to the 3 min, so volume up down still work.
I was going to try this fix mentioned here, untill i open the phone and found how Small the POGO pin is.
seems quite hard to remove as there is so many electronic around it.
i am going to just Plug in the cable and TAPE it in place and see if it can work this way..
Update:
Interesting enough, the phone refuse to turn on (with the 2 cable TAPED over the pogo pin. ) it just wont turn on.
Now, i removed the wire from lower pogo pin, with the upper remain. and the phone can turn on.
will go test the gps and see
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Hello scoobychau,
My LG G5's 3rd pin is also crashed, broken, destroyed. Can you explain me more about how you fixed it with aluminium foil ? It's my girl friend's phone, and I am so sorry having broken its volume buttons' spins or/and GPS feature.
Thanks a lot for your answers.
Concerning the soldering, I am so bad that I can't imagine doingit myself...