Has anyone heard of someone making an improved antenna back cover? Possibly one that can hold an extended life battery?
I don't know about improving the antenna signal, but a new backcover might be useful in itself. The stock one seems to flex towards the top near the speaker.
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Hiya, the case that came with my extended battery pushes down on the connector prongs more than the stock case did. Over time, after taking the case off again and again one of them was bent too many times and snapped off. I noticed the antenna bridges the connection which you can see in the first picture. Anyway, I did a fairly messy soldering job but the second picture is trying to show a tiny wire connecting both connectors together. I get signal again but the question remains, does the amount of metal touching the antenna pad affect the signal strength?
I have another month to return the phone at Costco who will just take it no questions asked, but is it worth the hassle. Do you think I should just keep the phone since it works well otherwise, is there a better fix, or am I just experiencing the placebo effect and everything is fine again. Thanks for any advice!
I think if it works well why not keep it?
these anttenna connectors on this phone are horrible. they are the poorest design. i had a flawed one that got bent somehow within 1 day of having the phone, i got a replacement cause it was poor workmanship and considered their fault by assurion so i lucked out, my 1 tab on the bottom left was bent then snapped(tabs below sd) and it didnt effect my signal at all compaired to the other one they sent me. also i think the ones up where urs is broke is for the gps (just an edu guess).
and if u do get a new phone from costco, ditch that bum back and case u have that caused the prob i got an htc oem from vzw for 37$ after 25% disc. that was batt and back. so if that messes up the tabs at least i can say i used oem htc.
I'd love to ditch it for a different back but have a 3600mAh extended battery that doubles the phone width.. I'm open to ideas though! This might be a bad idea, but could adding a tiny bit of solder underneath the pins where it bends (a very tiny amount) to secure it more in place, help it from breaking in the future? I wonder...
I noticed that pressing bezel at certain points and battery cover makes a click sound, then I came across a solution for battery cover by one of users here: putting a business card between battery and cover, it works and makes it completely silent.
So I think this space between battery cover and battery and those points on bezel might be noisy/bad implemented solutions to avoid cracks on bezels which are wide spread among Galaxy S2s and S3s (they appear out of nowhere and seem to be due thermal expansion & contraction)... Does anyone agree? Any ideas?
Eienkei said:
I noticed that pressing bezel at certain points and battery cover makes a click sound, then I came across a solution for battery cover by one of users here: putting a business card between battery and cover, it works and makes it completely silent.
So I think this space between battery cover and battery and those points on bezel might be noisy/bad implemented solutions to avoid cracks on bezels which are wide spread among Galaxy S2s and S3s (they appear out of nowhere and seem to be due thermal expansion & contraction)... Does anyone agree? Any ideas?
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The upper bezel squeacks because of the motion setting.
If you enable and double tap the upper bezel in emails/contact the list will scroll to the top.
You can try just by pressing and not tapping, it still works
Aint working here... only double tap works.
Any other ideas? What about battery cover?
I also have this problem with squeaking battery cover. I have idea that it showed up because of leaving phone in pocket while I tie a shoe and the battery cover gets pressed too hard. Few days back I also noticed that I have very small crack in battery cover that I can feel with nail. Very annoying sound and not impressed with quality Soon I will get cover case for note but if the sound will be there, I will need a replacement battery cover...
Samsung's Plastic At It's Finest.
I dont think it has anything to do with pressure... I have never put it under any slight pressure and the squeaking was there as long as I remember...
Any new ideas about this issue? I also get some squealing noise when I press batter cover. Tried putting some duct tape, but it is not working, sometimes it even gets worse.
All suggestions are welcome
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What models do you all have because I have not had this problem at all and I have the front cover.
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I noticed this because I constantly remove my battery to do a swap and charge it externally. There was another post about this recently that I posted in. I resolved the problem by replacing my bezel/frame. I had some small scratches and a ding on it from my desk so I felt compelled to make it look new. I noticed the small plastic tabs that the battery door connects to are fragile and break off from constant removal of the door.
The bezel was around $20 with a new battery door with NFC, not to mention only taking 15 minutes.
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Any new ideas about this issue? I also get some squealing noise when I press batter cover. Tried putting some duct tape, but it is not working, sometimes it even gets worse.
All suggestions are welcome
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I put a small strip of duct tape on each side of the battery and then when I put the battery back in its spot the fit was quite tight but all my squeaks were gone. The device feels much more solid now.
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Thx, I'll try
This is completely normal for the Note 2. After a while the plastic pieces are no longer aligned precisely due to heat, pressure, cheap quality just like korean cars.
I was thinking about how the Dinc2's back cover is the antenna, and how BAD this phone's reception is. Has anyone ever tried to add copper tape or mod the rear cover in any way to increase reception?
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I was thinking about how the Dinc2's back cover is the antenna, and how BAD this phone's reception is. Has anyone ever tried to add copper tape or mod the rear cover in any way to increase reception?
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Not being an Electrical Engineer with concentrations in antenna design and RF, I can´t say for sure, but you may harm or hurt the phone. I´d first look at cleaning the contacts of the existing rear cover to try to increase the efficiency of the antenna as designed, and watching how I hold the phone. This could also mean the phone has less work to do searching for signal, which can boost battery life. Also, maybe use some conductive paint. I´d imagine the copper tape would be a bit thick in the case personally, and as for the design of the new antenna, I´m clueless.
but seriously, give it a shot and let me know how it works! If all else fails, you can use the external antenna port to really boost the sucker, especially if you´re driving, or using it at home.
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I was thinking about how the Dinc2's back cover is the antenna, and how BAD this phone's reception is. Has anyone ever tried to add copper tape or mod the rear cover in any way to increase reception?
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there's a thread about it in the general section. since I'm nice here's the linkclick here
I am in one place wich signal strength isn't good enough and for any reason when I put the back cover on my phone signal decrease one line. I believe is something about antenna or maybe cover is to tight, I don't know exactly. Something like this has happened to someone????
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I just replaced the battery on my Samsung Galaxy S9 phone. After the battery replacement people calling me (regular phone calls) complaints about hearing an echo of their selves. I'm able to fix this by removing the back glass cover (the one that is glued on) but as soon as I put the back glass cover back people calling me hear them selves again. So I'm not sure if I have broken anything on the back cover itself when I replaced the battery or if I have broken anything related to the speaker or mic here? If I put people on speaker there is no echo, and if I use bluetooth headset everything is working fine as well.
I'm guessing this is hardware related so the question is which hardware component I should replace here?
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I just replaced the battery on my Samsung Galaxy S9 phone. After the battery replacement people calling me (regular phone calls) complaints about hearing an echo of their selves. I'm able to fix this by removing the back glass cover (the one that is glued on) but as soon as I put the back glass cover back people calling me hear them selves again. So I'm not sure if I have broken anything on the back cover itself when I replaced the battery or if I have broken anything related to the speaker or mic here? If I put people on speaker there is no echo, and if I use bluetooth headset everything is working fine as well.
I'm guessing this is hardware related so the question is which hardware component I should replace here?
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Seems some kind of crosstalk related to mic or antenna. You shouldn't have reapired by yourself.
So a replacement of the antenna and charging coil module could potentially fix this? If so I think that is a bit odd since both wireless charging and antenna coverage seems to be OK. Also, as I've mentioned there are no echo if I remove the back cover.
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Seems some kind of crosstalk related to mic or antenna. You shouldn't have reapired by yourself.
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rather presumptuous of you to say that they shouldnt have repaired it themselves.
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So a replacement of the antenna and charging coil module could potentially fix this? If so I think that is a bit odd since both wireless charging and antenna coverage seems to be OK. Also, as I've mentioned there are no echo if I remove the back cover.
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many of the mics ive seen while doing the many repairs ive done have little rubber footings or adhesive foam rubber isolation material around or on them, did you get all of the stuff put back where its supposed to go?
I took another look at the rubber footing of the mic that you mentioned. I also noticed the little "rubber net thing" on right hand side of the mic seems a bit melted - not sure if this could play any part?
Again, what is really puzzling is that the error occurs only after I've firmly put some pressure on the back cover after mounting it (so that it is glued back on). If I loosely put it on people don't hear the echo of them selves.
Any idea?
ps. I've got some pictures of the inside of the phone but since I'm new to this forum I'm not able to post pictures yet. Please let me know if there are any other methods of sharing the photos and I'll be glad to share.