Month: May 2013

Thinking while Walking

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오늘 아침 버스에서 내려서 다운타운에서 회사까지 터벅터벅 걸어오면서 “난 어떤 환경에서 일할 때 즐거웠나?”의 생각을 했다…

결국, 짧은 생각 끝에 내린 결론은 나보다 똑똑한 사람들 주위에서 이런 저런 생각들을 공유하며 가족이란 느낌을 가지며 지냈을 때가 그랬던 것 같다..

이제 낙엽 떨어지는 날까지도 몇달 안남았다…

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Samsung Galaxy Note: DIY Replacing USB Charging Port

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So couple of days ago, my wife’s Galaxy Note was broken – whatever charging cable we tried, the phone hardly get charged – the only case it got charged was when I pulled the charging cable to extream southeast.. It was painful and inconsistent and not a sustainable way.. -_-;

So after some research, I found out, 1) this is not the problem of us only, and we had tons of folks who went thru this process, and 2) some folks do sell USB charging port modules on eBay.. The challenge was finding out the right part for Tmobile version of Note 1 – which is an extreme rare.. (it only sold for a short period with limited quantity)

Luckily enough I was able to order one from eBay, and followed all the directions from the youtube video below

– Open 9 screws at the back

– Open the surrounding cover (so painful!)

– Open 3 screws at the bottom and detach one module

– Open 2 screws at the mainboard

– Detach 6 connection cable points & 1 white line connection point & pull out mainboard

– Detach the white line connection from Charging port module

– Pull out the charging port & reconnect the line connection & all other cables and put back the screws and covers.

The biggest challenge was peeling out the surroundings case because I didn’t have that fancy plastic tool shown in video but I only have my nails as something similar (ouch!!)

With 1st try, it seemed working at first, but power supply seemed to be not feeding into battery.. so…after some thoughts .. I reopened it with hands & nails again (Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch!!!!), and found out the cable connecting charging port module to mainboard was not clipped properly.. 😦

Finally, rework after work, finally the galaxy note is back to its life.. 🙂

Gamble of $20 +pain in nails saved me $500.. but thinking this might have been done at one of the Samsung’s service center in Seoul with cheap service fee made me feel sad that I live across the ocean… I do miss that convenience…

Thank you eBay (and who sold this) & Youtube (and the person who shared the video)!

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May Day Nightmare Commute to Eastside :)

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Labor day event blocked all street’s traffic in Seattle.

Interesting way to get home

– 210 from Lenora and 4th detoured to Belltown

– Walked out of bus after getting stuck & no move for 40 min

– Walked 15 min along 3rd Ave to Westlake Tunnel: saw endless wait of buses on 3rd Ave.

– Took 216 and got off at Rainier Freeway Station (I do want to punch the person who made the idea of removing Eastgate Freeway Flyway for eastbound buses… ) waited 10 min for any bus to come

– Took 550 and got off at South Bellevue Park & Ride & waited 10 min

– Took 241 and arrived home

Normal 40min busing commute became 100min commute from combination of 4 Bus transfer +15min walk

I love commuting to Seattle!!!!!!!! -great lesson learned – go home early on May Day or go directly to Tunnel.

 

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Kris Kross

ㅎ 무섭다.. 정확하게 어제(5/1) 아무 이유없이 옛날의 점프하던 크리스크로스 어린이들 뭐하나 생각이 뜬금 없이 들어서 검색해봐야지 하고 었는데, 친절하게도 오늘 bing 톱검색어에 요 어린이들이 나왔다.. 오잉? 하고 click해보니 2명중 한명이 사망했다는 뉴스(마약과다로 추정) 흠….어디 작두 좀 찾아 봐야겠다…

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary

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