Can your TF300 be replaced?

I recently had a scare where something like a single drop of water got into my keyboard dock and the "T" key went unresponsive. I disassembled the dock, but I was afraid to pop the three "tension-teeth" nuts near the trackpad and so I couldn't really clean out the keyboard. I did the best I could and put it back together and then it was worse because the "T" was pressed all the time.

Eventually it got better, but after a day without my tablet, I came to realize how much I depend on the very specific skillset the TF300 gives me. I have an excellent Core i7 laptop from work, but it isn't as portable as my tablet, so I usually leave it at home. The battery doesn't last as long as my tablet even without the dock. The laptop doesn't have a touchscreen, either, so I can't use it for recording lectures using the tablet as a whiteboard. I write exams and even do some coding with the keyboard, but I can also disconnect it to read a book or watch the UEFA tournament on the couch.

In that panicked day, I spent a lot of time online looking for a replacement device I could afford and could justify buying when I have a perfectly good (and free) laptop at my disposal. I looked first to ASUS, but the TF103c seemed to be a step down from the TF300 and ASUS seems to be headed more towards bargain tablets and the Windows market. Since I use the tablet as a whiteboard recorder, I was tempted to find a device with an active stylus (VivoTab, Surface Pro, Galaxy Note Pro), but everything was practically in the 00+ range.

So my question to you is this - if you couldn't have another TF300, what device would you replace it with?

-Don

Screen replaced cant disable backlight

I broke my phone screen digitizer/LCD/frame and replaced it with ebay one.

My phone booted up and working good but i cannot to disable the button backlights next to home button. it worked like a stock phone, my phone rom and 3rd party software has no control over backlight. any idea what i've missed ?

Replaced the battery, cell signal got much worse...

Hey fellow Nexus 5 users,
So I ordered my nexus 5 nearly two years ago now, and I wanted to replace the battery to regain that first day battery life,
and since the performance is still top notch maybe keep the phone another year.
Anyway I replaced it, and now the cell signal is worse, I get Edge where I used to get H+ or LTE, sometimes the LTE signal is displayed in the status bar, but no data is getting through. but I can't explain it... and the weird thing is at home I get full working 4G. it really depends on the location.
I think I replaced it correctly, without damaging any internals, the only thing I noticed that I broke is (I don't know what it's called) a little thing that's on the back of the phone, that keep the back well attached to the phone. (see picture)

and I broke one that's on the top, where there are little pins that make contact with the phone. But even with one that's broken, the back is still very well attached to the phone.
My question is, are the contacts on the back used at all to improve cell reception ? What else could cause this issue :rolleyes:
by the way, wifi is working fine, phone calls as wells...
thanks for reading and the help

Replaced Battery and cradle charger on Galaxy Gear still no charge...

I have tried replacing the battery and the cradle charger on my Galaxy Gear and still can't get it to charge. I have tried using the USB cable trick and opening the cradle and holding the button also, but still nothing. Any other ideas? or is the watch just dead?

No speaker or microphone, even after I replaced parts

Hi,

My old Nexus 5 (vanilla 5.1.1 not rooted) is malfunctioning.

There is no sound coming from the speaker in the bottom of the phone and the microphone is not picking up any sound when making a normal call and/or recording a video.
The speaker at the top of the phone however, is working. So I hear people in phone calls, but they do not hear me.
Now to the strange part: If I change to the loud speaker while in a call it's the opposite; I can not hear them but they can hear me.
If I connect headphones into the headphone jack I can hear sound both in calls and in video playback.

So to summarize:
Playing video or music (YouTube, video recording, dialer sounds): No sound
Playing video or music (YouTube, video recording, dialer sounds) with headphones: Sound working
Recording video: No sound recorded
Making a phone call: Sound but no microphone
Making a phone call with loudspeaker on: No sound but microphone working
Making a phone call with handsfree connected: Not tested (I have no headphones with mic).

And what's even more strange is that I just replaced the flex cable with the microphone and charging dock and also the entire speaker with new parts from eBay. And guess what... it's still not working!!! :(

Flex cable I replaced: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281669874921
Speaker I replaced: http://www.ebay.com/itm/252003488330

Followed this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuCmfhzgbg

What now? I really thought the replacement parts would solve this. :crying:

Any help is highly appreciated!

Regards
P-H, Sweden

[Q] Replaced motherboard, now it's not charging!

Hey everybody! As the title says, I replaced the motherboard on my SM-G920V with one from my wife's old S6 (also 920v). She thought it'd be fun to throw it at me when she was angry, and shattered both front and back glass. BUT ANYWAY... After I finished installing everything how it's supposed to be, I started it up and was so happy to have my S6 back to OE2! My only issue now is that it won't charge, yet will recognize a charger. I haven't been able to connect it to a computer, because mine was blessed with a lovely RootKit/netbot that took over every aspect of my machine. So if any of my hardware people could help me out, that'd be great! What could I have done wrong?!

[Q] TWRP won't stay -- CM replaces with its own -- bootloops if replaced...

Ok, so I got the Z3c just recently since CyanogenMod now apparently supports it (odd it's not listed in devices on the wiki, but it's on their standard build system, so this is not even an unofficial build.) I found t here's even an official TWRP build for it. I really kind of need TWRP on there as I need to be able to do all of the numerous stuff it can do without having to hook it up to a computer with adb/fastboot/etc every single time. There are a huge number of features and conveniences to TWRP that CWM and CyanogenMod recovery both lack (frankly it feels like TWRP is a modern recovery and those two still feel like they date back to the Android 2.x days. I can remember the stock recovery on my Archos 43 back in the day being practically the same as what I get with CyanogenMod recovery especially.)

Anyway, this one is a bit odd. I've also setup a Z2 Tablet for my grandmother with TWRP + CyanogenMod and there are no troubles at all there. I put TWRP on it and it works normally basically. However, on this Z3c it's going a bit wonky. CyanogenMod somehow seems to be replacing the recovery with its own. I've disabled automatic updates and the option to update the recovery was never even enabled at all. If I flash using dd directly to the partition as the official TWRP page says I once again have TWRP, but then the system either won't boot at all (staying stuck on the SONY logo) or it just boots straight to TWRP over and over as if TWRP were the normal system instead of the recovery.

I'm wondering whether something is just going really wrong or if, alternately, there's some oddity like it having some sort of "boot to recovery" flag that gets set and does not clear? Is this something I can fix, or am I just stuck with CyanogenMod putting its own recovery on there without asking?


Honestly, SONY did a lot of things great on their devices, but not having a true separate bootloader/recovery is something I will never be comfortable with.

replaced 3rd generation kdx7 with 4.5.3

Hey guys, just wanted to ask what would be the best route to unlock the bootloader if possible on my replacement hdx7 3rd gen? It has 4.5.3
I want it rooted and romed:D