Finally, bought Galaxy Note 3. Amazing devices, and 30 min of work to set up for my wife made my lovely ATIV S look so tiny and old-fashioned..
Beautifully designed sold square look and fast processer with tons of software loaded into. Feels like some of the softwares are still useless but I do see Samsung’s effort to differentiate the device with lots of nice softwares/applications. (i.e Galaxy to Galaxy migration app worked beautifully smooth..)
Anyhow, the take for me was – now I got a “small android ablet” called Samsung Galaxy 1 in my hand… 🙂
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)!
With company’s campaign to deploy Windows 8, had to say goodbye to “not-that-old” laptop. My TP X220
Only has been 16 months, but brought good memories of using Thinkpad….(Well this one was not that great though had some issues with TPM chip, part of my fault but display was unstable)
Anyhow, among various options of new devices, I made a bold movement to stay with extension of current one X230 not any touch enabled devices because of CPU & Memory specifications.
X230 is not technically different than X220 similar processor (upgraded) with all other same form factors while the upgrade is obviously in keyboard. Finally, Thinkpad is moving away from “easily pullable” butons and keyboad has some nice features like light up from keyboard (by Fn+ Space).
The challenge for me is adjusting on change of keyboard layouts. By moving the power button to right, the new keyboard gave up 2 lines of keys for Function line keys (forced to single line)
* pageup/down button moved down to arrow button
* Home End Insert Delete button location has changed -driving me crazy 🙂
출퇴근길에 애용하던 네이버 앱은 m.naver.com으로 들어가 보면서 무의식적으로 자꾸 옆으로 스크롤하다 좌절한다..ㅋㅋ 네이버 앱튠은 왠일인지 앱이 있으나 4-5개 보고나면 항상 “쫓겨”난다..
그리고 앱스토어를 보면 마치 “안드로이드 쌍팔년도” 시절 혹은 1.0시절의 잡스런 앱들만 리스트에 가득하다.. 아직 멀고도 험한길…
다수의 quality 앱을 갖추려면 많은 앱퍼블리셔와 개발자들에게 확실한 benefit 혹은 reach를 보장해 하건만, 특히 시작단계인 이 와중에 Nokia 1개 회사 중심만으론 한계가 명확해 보인다..사실, 잘 생각해보면, 안드로이드의 성공은 한 참 때 삼성, Moto, htc 등이 마구 경쟁적으로 단말기들을 찍어내고, 모든 통신사들도 경쟁적/적극적으로 push하는 과정에서 저변도 확대되고 성숙되었단 일어난났다는 사실을 타산지석으로 삼아야 하지 않을까 싶다…
Long waited ATIV S finally arrived at here……. also the phone must have had long journey to come here… Canada (has Rogers logo in program) to Conneticut(the seller) to here. 🙂
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