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Help Broke my 5X. Fixable?

jojo99

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Is a service manual for the Nexus 5x available?

Long story short, I was having a problem with my camera, so I whacked the phone on the palm of my hand a couple times (yeah, that might help! [lol]) and after that I lost the network and nothing I have tried has been able to bring it back. Maybe I somehow broke the network chip or connection with that whack?

I am on T-Mobile running Android 7.1.1.

I cleared the cache, tried different combo's of network settings (2G, 3G, 4G LTE), rebooted in safe mode, cleared the network settings, changed the SIM card, etc. Nothing has worked. I get Wi-fi but no T-Mobile network bars (the triangle is blank).

I've opened the back of the phone previously to replace the glass (as a glass+frame module) and battery and everything worked fine after reassembly. So I am willing to reopen the case and poke around but I don't know what to poke at.

So thinking that maybe a manual will help or else if anyone has any ideas/help they can offer, that would be super!
 
Sounds like the whacking may have dislodged something. I would imagine that, even if you could work out what, soldering it back in place would be a very delicate task - well beyond a clumsy oaf like me!
 
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