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nightbreed813

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Bought my awe on black Friday and got unlucky with one that has WiFi connection problems. Didn't have internet for a while so didn't realize until recently. My question though does anyone know the location of the WiFi chip? I have another phone that had a torn ribbon cable, but the WiFi works. If it is on the main board I'll just switch them.
 
nightbreed813 said:
Bought my awe on black Friday and got unlucky with one that has WiFi connection problems. Didn't have internet for a while so didn't realize until recently. My question though does anyone know the location of the WiFi chip? I have another phone that had a torn ribbon cable, but the WiFi works. If it is on the main board I'll just switch them.
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Who u have service through?
 
VM will gladly replace it...for about the same cost as phone was at purchase. Not a good deal. Maybe for their "upper tier" (i say that with the sincerest sarcasm) devices...but not this device. Good ole Virgindian Mobile :)
 
And no...that was not a racist remark about my brothers from the country of India. They run the best liquor and convenient stores :) just a little humor people ;) Sort of like this...if us southerners ran Virgin Mobile people would call it Viredneck Mobile. :) for $39.95 youll unlimited netzero support!!!
 
Really, if I have to put any money in to it I rather get a new phone. Have tried every rom from stock to lolipop and have the same issue. Flashed the same roms to my gf's phone and she don't have the problem that I have. Did some reading and found that some batches had bad wifi, was hoping to just change hers for mine but in trying to fix her broken usb I stupidly broke one of the ribbon cables. Fixed the usb but, because of the torn cable it has no sound. Everything else works though. o_O

Figured I could try to swap the motherboards but wasn't too sure if the chip was on the main board or one of the side boards.
 
Ok ... I decided that the best thing to do was to open the phone up and see what I could do to fix it. Pulled up the meid sticker underneath I realized the ribbon cable that I had torn was applied with double sided tape. Pulled the ribbon carefully off the broken phone and transplanted it into the working phone. Swapped phone on the VM website and now I have a perfectly working phone.

Should have taken pictures as I realized that the two phones were of completely different build qualities. Surprisingly the phone that was not working seemed to be of better quality. The screws had thread lock on them where as the other did not. The plastic on the inside was a thinner grey on the working phone and the non working phone was a thick black. The clips that hold the motherboard wore out on the working phone but the not the non working phone. The only good parts of the working phone seemed to be the heat sinks that had Chinese symbols written in marker (gussing tester signatures) were thicker aluminum and the button had a plastic backing where as the non working phone had no backing only the thin ribbon cable attached to the buttons.

Just happy everything works again.
 
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