Recent content by mddolloff

For anyone who may stumble on this thread....... I finally bought one of those dual suction cup tools and with heat got the phone open. Replaced the io Daughterboard (which has the USB port on it), reassembled and everything is working again. Fsdy charging and connection to a computer are...

So I have the parts in hand now, and I can't, cor the life of me get the back cover off the dang phone. I've been using a hair dryer to heat it up and it seems to get pretty hot but I can't get the adhesive to budge at all. I heat it so much I'm actually afraid I'll damage the phone. Any...

Yeah I'm probably going to try replacing the i/o board and see if that fixes it.

I was thinking that was probably the case since I did the factory reset. Any ideas what the hardware problem might be?

So my s8 has been acting funny for the last couple months and I am trying to figure out what is going on. At times it will fast charge and other times it won't. Sometimes I plug it in and it says "fast chagrining" and then promptly switches to "cable charging." Sometimes it still sees like...

well yes I know that the IP address and MAC address are different things. I was suggesting assigning a given MAC address a static IP rather than dealing with DHCP. I have no earthly idea if this would fix the problem. FYI, this problem had gone away for me, but reared it's early head again...

Smart switch off and didn't fix for me. I'm debating a factory reset on my router but I'm running DDWRT so i'm highly doubtful that's the problem.

IPV6 was already disabled on my router and still get the problem. So I don't think that is the fix either. You could always set the static IP for the MAC address in the router as well, but that seems like a pretty advanced solution for what shouldn't be a problem at all on a phone of this cost.

Thanks for the info. Will be interesting to hear what they say. So they just call you with an estimate to fix it? Posted via the Android Central App

Never was able to resolve. I am 99.9% sure it is a bad power button. I couldn't get a good estimate on the repair but it is beyond my soldering skills so I just installed the gravity app and am milking it until I just can't take it anymore or until there is a replacement I really want that isn't...

I tired and failed. I'm about 2 months out of warranty (this was actually and replacement one already). They told me to call LG who will want to replace the whole motherbaord. About $90 from a local shop to replace it. I think I may just buy a new phone.

I'm out of warranty. Is it even worth calling them? Posted via the Android Central App

So I think I've narrowed it down to the power button. I'm getting cases where I hit the power button to wake the phone up and it flashes on then off. Or sometimes I'm going to turn it off and it flashes back on like I double hit the power. Any suggestions on how to replace the power button...

Yeah it is totally free of third party software and it's updated. It's really strange. I'll try and boot into safe mode and see if that works. I've been reading that there are some issues with the power button so I'm trying the jiggle and hard press but and things seem to be behaving a little...

Hello all. I'm at my wits end and am hoping someone can help. I've got a nexus 5 running lollipop (5.0.1) and the phone will randomly shutdown or reboot. I've tried a factory reset as well as clearing the cache after the reset. That did not solve the problem. I'm hoping its not a harware issue...