Android phone repair

[Tyler Aviss]

Along these lines...
I got a USB micro adaptor that had a bad pinout or short (thanks XS cargo).
It fragged the charging/USB circuit in my milestone, so it now recognizes
the cable is connected, but does not show up on a PC and only actually
charges on a charger which supplies > required current.

There's a plug in the battery area that may be for charging or an antenna
(not sure, which).

Anyone know a way to fix the charging or use that little plug I'm the back?
On Aug 29, 2011 9:19 AM, "Michael Hill" <mdhillca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Since we're talking about Android phones...
>
> A few months ago I got tired of the protective case on my rooted HTC
> Desire, and took it off. I was cycling to work one day soon after and
> heard a sound like I'd run over a strap of metal; I circled back to
> investigate and found my phone divided into its three component parts,
> front, back and battery. There was a small scratch in one corner of
> the case, but no damage to the screen. I re-assembled it and
> continued using it with *no* noticeable effects. (I put the
> protective case back on.)
>
> On Friday, the phone slipped out of my hands in my apartment from a
> height of *possibly* half a metre and landed flat on its back *in* the
> protective case on the laminate floor; the life had gone out of the
> screen. If I press with varying degrees of pressure (sometimes a lot)
> with a knuckle from one hand against the middle of the battery,
> *through* the case, contact is made somewhere inside, I get a screen
> that works and can type with the other hand. (This is very
> inconvenient.) I wadded up a piece of paper and stuck it inside the
> case against the battery, but this didn't work for long.
>
> There are videos on YouTube about disassembling my particular model...
> does this sound like something that can be fixed by doing that? Is it
> something with which someone here has experience? If I haven't
> already voided the warranty by installing CyanogenMod, I'm pretty sure
> it's been more than a year since I bought it. I've also replaced a
> cooling fan in my ThinkPad, so I'm not afraid of taking the thing
> apart.
>
> Mike
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