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[HTC One X] Rusty!:
My guess would be that the solder failed
[HTC One X] mike877:
So what to do now? I saw a video of someone using a wire.

But what kind of wire should i use then?

Or did i just ran out of options?:(
[HTC One X] gffmac:
You could use a bit of foil or something to bridge the gap between the two or solder the thinnest wire you can find between the two connections.
[HTC One X] mike877:
Well now my other connector has fell off.. so i have no connectors left.

Could i just solder on the place where the broken connectors were, and use a wire also?
[HTC One X] gffmac:
Yes as long as there is something there to solder to.
[HTC One X] myself11:
Sent my relocked One X to HTC repair center in Portugal. They only took 3 days to repair the "radiofrequency circuit" and they even replaced the back cover to avoid similar issues.

THEY RULE!!! Happy (and lucky) HTC customer here.
[HTC One X] benjamingwynn:
I'm on my third HTC One X now. Second replacement. Vodafone UK have even withdrawn their stock of the One X and doing some research this shows that it is because of this fault and the amount of replacements they're having to hand out.

I'm going to try and sweet talk them into giving me a different phone this time instead of just another replacement that screws up in two months.

Even as I'm typing this now I'm in the room next to my WiFi router and I'm getting 1 or 2 out of 4 bars signal.

This just isn't acceptable from HTC. My old Wildfire S was indestructible.
[HTC One X] diabo_bom:
I have the same problem with wifi :crying:

My phone have 2y warranty.

Left for repair 26/07 here DataFax

Let's see how many time they need to repair it and if i have to pay, because i have bootloader unlocked.
[HTC One X] gnaredo:
Really work and simple solution try and signal came fully again.

Enviado desde mi HTC One X usando Tapatalk 2
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
Yeah this fault is so wide spread, I actually believe it will affect all international HTC One X's within a few months if they are used on a daily basis! except maybe the few produced after HTC implemented a fix. HTC produced very few One X with the fix and refused to say which batch numbers had the fix, as a total guess I'd say less than 5% have a factory implemented fix. I guess HTC thought, lets release another phone, the HTC One X+ and try to forget the HTC One X ever happened. Maybe the + mean +WiFi fix.

The One X's that didn't get returned are probably still faulty, just the owners don't use WiFi so didn't notice or they just assume HTCs have cr4p WiFi.

HTC rushed the One X into the market to beat the s3, they should have done a full recall one they realised the fault. Instead they just tried to keep it hushed up.

The losers where the HTC customer who got below par phones.

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[HTC One X] tomboygirl83:
hello, i have been reading some posts from this thread but i could not find what i was looking for.

I have a HOX and the GPS does not work, it never worked since i got the phone but since i rooted it and i bought it from china i can't really think of guarantee as a solution. So i would like to open it myself and see if i could fix it but i dont know how or where is the GPS antenna inside the phone. Could somebody show me a tutorial or video, or picture where i can actually see where it is or how it is done? thanks.
[HTC One X] myself11:
My back cover/besel was/were replaced. I don't dare to squeeze the right upper corner to check if it's still soft, but maybe HTC hardened the back cover in order to prevent this issue to occur on the fixed phones.
[HTC One X] diabo_bom:
They want 165e+taxes to replace my motherboard, because i have my bootloader relocked! Already call to HTC searching for a solution or, this is my last HTC phone.
[HTC One X] twistednl:
You are kidding? They repaired my relocked twice and failed and gave me a new one for free which works for 6 months without any issue.
[HTC One X] diabo_bom:
They dont want to repair because i have my bootloader relocked, but i know more people with the same problem and with bootloader relocked and DataFax repair it without any cost .

So angry right now!
[HTC One X] :
I have following problem, i tried tixing wifi but i did sth wrong during the process and now speaker does not work :crying: I noticed small part laying loose in case when i opened phone. Atm i put everything together, wifi is better but it would be good to have that speaker back(if possible). Any help with this one?
[HTC One X] mike877:
Well a friend of mine had soldering 2 wires from the place of the broken connectors to the golden plate.

1 day i had like a full bar.. next day after it was all nothing again.

So what is wrong ? maybe my friend didn't do it the right way?

someone? :(
[HTC One X] gffmac:
You would only know by taking the case off again, maybe the solder connection broke?
[HTC One X] mike877:
well it's odd because when i opened de case,, no solder was broken.

i placed the case back .. and the wifi was back again.. so i did that like 2 more times.. and strange enough the wifi was back everytime full bars.

So you have any idea?
[HTC One X] gffmac:
Can you take a photo of the solder work, maybe something is short circuiting when its closed (maybe with pressure) causing the wifi to be disabled?
[HTC One X] mike877:
i took some pictures but i don't know if you can see it very well.

I know it isn't the best solder ahah.
[HTC One X] Rusty!:
See the blob of solder that's joining the antenna to the shielding? That can't be good.
[HTC One X] gffmac:
Yes it shouldnt be touching any other metal parts or connections. That solder will need to be removed and redone.
[HTC One X] mike877:
so what do you suggest me to do then?

put the wire on the bottom plate of the broken connector and put solder on top of it?
[HTC One X] Rusty!:
Desolder it, and re-do it in a neater fashion.

Tin the wire, tin the 'pad' on the circuit board, hold them together and apply the soldering iron.
[HTC One X] gffmac:
Like Rusty said, you don't need much solder. When I haven't had the tools before I have used a craft knife to cut a break in the solder but its risky, just to break the connection stopping the short cicuit. Not on a phone tho.
[HTC One X] Rusty!:
There's no cable, don't worry.

Looking at pic 4 as the poster describes, I can only assume they mean be careful of the vibration motor connector.
[HTC One X] layoup:
The link for picture 4 is broken unfortunately but thanks a lot for your answser
[HTC One X] tush:
Whoa that's crazy, I did about the same thing yesterday. Cracked open the ol' One X but I didn't want to solder wires to the antenna, I find that inelegant and the possibility of screwing up is much higher. So I just decided to bend the pins back up (CAREFULLY!) as much as I could, then I tin the surface of the antenna contacts on the back of the case, using a flat edge of my soldering iron I just smeared as thin a layer of solder as I could.

Worked like a charm! Transferred a 20mb file over bluetooth, GPS locked on in seconds, and wifi signal strength much stronger. Over time, the solder will probably corrode faster than the real contacts, but I doubt they'll corrode before end of life for the device.
[HTC One X] layoup:
Someone knows if it's possible to buy somewhere the HTC repair kit in order to fix antenna issue ?
[HTC One X] Raymondbdws:
replay

take aluminium foil from the kitchen, bent it 6 or 7 times and put it underneath your wifi atenna :D
[HTC One X] ismethajametovic:
I used a soldering iron for mine.
[HTC One X] enemyrex:
I fixed mine by opening the phone and putting some silver foil under the pins and its worked a treat. I now have full WiFi signal. Its a cheap fix but I can't garuntee it will work for all
[HTC One X] anasmunir:
Today I accidentally dropped my One X from my bed. When I pick it up, I was shocked to see just 1 wifi signal on my phone.

First thing I did was restarting my phone, but that didn't solve anything. I was constantly having a very poor wifi reception.

So I searched XDA and found this thread. I did the squeeze test (mentioned in the OP) and I found the reception back to very strong, which show it was clearly the contact issue.

I read the OP carefully, watched all the Video Guides and then I carefully I opened my my beloved phone with the help of guitar pick and knife. The battery was glued with the cover so I took extra precautions and detach it gently with the knife while lifting the body up from the case. I cleaned the metal spring contacts and instead of soldering them, I very gently bent them upwards to make more contact with case. Then I carefully closed my phone and restart it and Voilà! :D My FULL Signals are back!

Thank you all of you for posting all these tips and tricks. They helped me alot.

The whole process just took 10 to 15 mins, and luckily I didn't even get any scratch on my phone. :)
[HTC One X] gffmac:
The problem will probably rear is ugly head in future in which case you may need to take more drastic steps like soldering. Glad you sorted if for now.
[HTC One X] Rusty!:
Might be back now, but they will degrade again.
[HTC One X] nikosssb:
Hey guys, a couple of months ago I bent my pins upward and now the problem is here again. As i was bending them again, one of the pins got broken. I used a temp solution of the aluminum foil and wifi is back. However I want to have a genuine fix. Maybe get new pins or something. Do you know any htc repair shops in New York that can do the job for me? I dont live in the us and my warranty is voided so i'll have to pay but I don't mind. Ill be in ny for a visit so I need to do it there.

Thanks!
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
I think it would be too expensive to let HTC repair your phone.

If the pin you snapped is on the motherboard, HTC won't just fix the pin with a new one, I'm pretty sure they'll want to replace the whole motherboard! If so it'd probably be cheaper to buy a new phone. The official WiFi fix includes replacing the whole motherboard, see OP for official fix.

Another member recently had this happen (I think the same problem) they snapped a pin, took it to a regular (non htc) service centre and had new pins put on it. The new pins where Nokia pins, but much stronger than the HTC ones apparently! Maybe you could try something similar? Below is the post I'm referring too..

I hope this helps, best of luck,

Oliver

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EDIT:..

Quote:

" Do you know any htc repair shops in New York that can do the job for me? I dont live in the us and my warranty is voided"

If you don't live in the US why do you want to know if there is a repair shop in NY?

The US spec HTC One X never suffered from the same WiFi fault, the fault only affects the European spec HTC One X that was sold across Europe, (India and Asia, I think) you'd be better sending it to a HTC repair centre that understands the European version better, like a repair centre in Europe.

Anyhow, I still wouldn't take it to HTC, try to find a good repair shop to soilder some new pins on (Nokia ones sound good), or if your quite handy? I've read posts about members soilder a wire where the pin used to be and making the connection that way.

One finial note.

It might be worth having your GPS, Bluetooth and 3g pins all done at the same time (there's a great video on YouTube about this)

HTC used the same 5hitty pins on all the antennas :(
[HTC One X] matique:
Heh I snapped my pins for the wifi ones. Doesn't matter, WiFi was so bad that even with one pin the speeds didn't change much. Shall bring it to a repair shop near my area.
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
OK, I guess you read my post directly above. Its shows just how weak the pins are.

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[HTC One X] bigoliver:
A year ago members where opening their One X's and lifting the antenna pins most of the time without them snapping, it was a popular fix.

One year on members are doing the same thing but are finding the pins either snapped off already when they open the HOX or the pins snap off as soon as they are touched.

Its shows just how poor the quality of the pins are, they don't last a year! This issue as far as I'm aware is limited to only the international (European) version of the HTC One X, I find it amazing HTC hasn't used the pins in other devices, especially the cheaper lower end phones, this was there flagship device at the time!

The HOX was rushed out to beat the s3 release date and by a few months too. The HOX was obviously never tested properly so the customers became the test group and many got screwed over by HTC refusing to repair the fault saying warranty void due to "relocked" bootloaders. So wrong! They admitted the design flaw, but should have admitted using cheap internal parts (pins at least) and done a full recall. Replacing customers phones with the "HTC One X+"

I would have respected them more and bought from HTC again. I had a HTC Desire before my One X but I won't touch HTC again.

It'd a shame really, I have the SG S3 now, but genuinely feel the HOX was a LOT better. If they only tested the phone more, used better parts it would have been my dream phone. If they did a recall instead of fobbing of repairs I would have bought HTC again.

Never mind I'm starting to get used to Samsung now. The outside may be plasticly and look cheap, but its been rock solid, surviving many drops and a full cycle in my washing machine (took battery out and placed straight into a bag of rice for 3 days). Yet despite its cheap appearance it refuses to stop working and GPS, WiFi, 3G, BlueTooth and NFC all work reliably and quickly every time they are needed.

HTC's are great phone, what was they thinking with the One X?

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[HTC One X] Rusty!:
They have, look at an HTC One teardown, it's got spring pins. It's not the pins that are the problem on their own, it was just the way they were used on the One X (ie. allowed to to flex constantly).
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
Thanks for the correction, I shouldn't write stuff if I'm not sure. I just assumed they realised the error and changed the pins.

Someone said they exchanged the weak pins in the HOX with old Nokia pins that are way stronger than the HOX pins and can take the flex! (I guess its not a time tested fix yet though)

Though I'm sure we'll all agree, those old Nokia phone where almost indestructible. In fact 10 year old Nokia are still widely available on eBay. I'm not sure they'll be many HOXs or S3s alive in 10 years.

In fact in 10 years from now I bet they'll be more Nokia 3310s than HOX's and S3s combined.

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[HTC One X] ryman95:
THX

Works great for my HOX! Thank you!:laugh:
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
Just for fun and slightly off topic, but anyhow, the Nokia 3310 (13yo) is still cool, everyone still loves them, in fact if someone has an iPhone 5 and someone else has a 3310 at a party I'm sure the 3310 would get more attention.

Nokia 3310 vs iPhone 5 speed test...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMmoA4Y3vDw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nokia 3310 survives sledge hammer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWd4GQnS1E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nokia v's S3 in speed tests...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnE9_zrUbus&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Despite being 13yo the 3310 is still going strong! I think the 3310 might be my next phone :P

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[HTC One X] Rusty!:
Hahaha... that I can certainly believe, they are the mid-90's Volvo's of the phone world!
[HTC One X] anasmunir:
I still miss my Nokia 3310. :)

Beamed from my HTC One X using xda premium :D
[HTC One X] mqazimi:
Most of the phones I had were HTC, but I was not so happy with them. I always bought HTC thinking that they improved the quality of the phones. Time by time I have seen that the quality just got worse. With ONE X they made me to take the final decision.

I WILL NEVER BUY HTC AGAIN, just because it is crappy phone.

Do not take personally guys but I'm disappointed with quality of the hardware, updates etc.
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
I loved the HOX whilst it worked, it was luxury outside, nice UI, nice feel, nice camera, nice sound, nice screen. I loved it. Just put together badly with cheap untested internal parts.

I think HTC are trying to forget the HOX ever happened, it turned into a PR nightmare for them. I guess they don't expect HOX users to return to HTC again so no point in spending much time or money creating updates. Like they just decided to give up on it. Though I could be wrong, I don't have a HOX anymore so I don't know first hand about the updates,

I'm just speculating based on other users feedback. My s3 isn't too quick to update either to be honest, I think all brands except Nexus or (possibly)Moto are slow to release updates. If I don't get a 3310 as my next phone lol. I'll likely get a Nexus or Motorola phone.

I personally think Google/Motorola will release a next generation phone with great battery life and designed to last! Like a smart phone equivalent of the 3310 :)

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[HTC One X] knoxploration:
Plenty of us have early One X's from well before the official fix and have had zero problems. I am one example. My phone is like a tank -- it has even been dropped out a truck door from five feet onto concrete with nothing more than a slight blemish on two corners.

But I never put it in a back pocket and sit on it, and I am guessing many of the people with with problems do. How else would your phone get squeezed enough to bend the pins?
[HTC One X] matthew33:
The Craphone, I mean the Iphone doesn't survive to well in this test...lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnQ72sPZAI
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
I don't think many, if any? HTC One X's where made with the fix at production level, HTC would never say which phones had the fix. I assume they was already producing the One X+ by the time they realised the fix and this is why the HOX+ never had the same issue despite having the same chassis.

Any phone flex would bend the pins, for example many people wear jeans and would like to put the phone in their pockets, every step would slightly squash the phone bending the pins, just slightly but after weeks or months of walking this is enough to squash or after a longer period even snap the pins. I never use my back pocket of sit on my phones either.

I am glad you have had zero problems with your phone, but you are aware that you have a phone that has, according to HTC "a design flaw" OK HTC also said it only affected a small amount of the phones, but...

Please can soneone explain to me how, if all the One Xs before the alleged production level fix had the same design, how can they not all have the same design flaw? and, if they didn't all have a design flaw then why did they spend money designing a production level fix and not just copy the One X phones that had been made without a design flaw. They obviously didn't know how to produce the phones without the design flaw until they implemented the production level fix.

So it seems your phone does have a design flaw, that flaw means your phone is weak and could break through reasonable use like 1000s of others have.

You have known about the flaw for months, you've been active here for a while, so perhaps you've been extra careful not to let your phone get compressed.

Final question, you say you don't have the WiFi fault, so why have you been so active on this thread? I did say in the first sentence of my original post that this thread is specifically for people with the confirmed WiFi fault! Quote below...

If your happy having a phone that has a design flaw affecting its strength that's fine, but most people who paid around £500 for a phone are not happy. This is why I think the honourable thing for HTC to do was to do a full recall and replace all the phones with the design flaw for ones without. As far as I'm concerned this is the moral thing to do and perhaps in some countries a legal obligation, but I don't know, I'm no expert at international law.

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[HTC One X] knoxploration:
No, I have not been extra careful. It goes in my pocket every time I go out, but in my front pocket. Hence I don't ever sit on it, but other than that my usage is completely normal. And no, I don't wear loose fitting pants, if anything I need a diet so my pants are too tight. :)

As for why I am active in this thread, Google "squeaky wheel syndrome", "confirmation bias", and "woozle effect".

Are there thousands of people with problems? We have no empirical data to go on, but perhaps. But even if there are, we have no real idea of sales volume, making the number meaningless. It could represent a thousandth of a percent of all phones sold, for all we know.
[HTC One X] bigoliver:
OK great.

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[HTC One X] knoxploration:
Edited my reply to answer your question, but you replied before I got the edit in. ;)
[HTC One X] warsmith:
Wifi Error

Hey i just recently started having this weird problem with my Hox

i mean im aware of the Wifi signal problem..... but on my phone when i try to turn the wifi on it take a few seconds and then it just says "Error"

And when i tried with the Bluetooth the bluetooth is working flawless, which means the antenna contacts are still okay...

So i read up a bit and people all over were suggesting its a kernel problem...so i wiped my rom which was viperX 3.7.5 and flashed fresh from the start new boot.img with new rom with full wipe (fastboot erase cache yadda yadda)

Even tried an AOSP rom to see if it was a problem with the ViperX rom.

But the problem still persisted....

Any suggestions.. or solutions..?
[HTC One X] knoxploration:
Yep, didn't have time to explain it myself just then.

Not intentionally, no. It's just a simple fact of life: people who have problems complain, and often loudly. People who don't typically aren't vocal, and often won't even mention their good experience at all. That leads to threads like this where everybody believes with absolute certainty that the manufacturer is intentionally ignoring them, that there is a problem of staggering proportions, that almost everybody suffers from it, and that the manufacturer basically despises and disdains its customers.

It's usually not true. The truth of the matter is that the problem is usually tiny to infinitesimally small, shows up only in some obscure edge case, and affects a tiny fraction of a percent of customers. One in thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands. The problem is, all the rest aren't speaking up. I consciously attempt to do so.

Has HTC done wrong here? Certainly, but not in failing to issue a recall. It has done wrong by not standing behinds its product in *every* case, and making the fix for every phone that has the problem free of charge, regardless of warranty status. The cost to HTC of doing so likely wouldn't even be very high.

It is *that* we should be concerned about. Asking for or expecting a recall though, that's not going to happen. Almost certainly the vast majority of One X owners will never experience the problem. If they did, you'd be getting a vast amount more posts here than you are. Since its inception, and even ignoring the fact that many people in this thread have posted numerous times (including myself, I might add) -- and not everybody posting even has the problem -- you still have averaged less than nine posts a day.

It's really not that much in the greater scheme of things. Especially not when one considers that this thread is currently the third Google result for "htc one x poor wifi" (at least, when searched for from the southeastern US in an incognito window.)

The expense to HTC of a recall would be vast, and would gain them almost nothing in terms of customer satisfaction. Simply fixing the problem promptly and free of charge regardless of warranty status -- and correcting it in production as we know they did -- was the correct response. It's a shame they didn't make that move, and I am less likely to buy another HTC phone because of that fact.

But we shouldn't let ourselves believe this to be a huge, widespread problem, because it isn't. It's a relatively minor, rare problem that looks bigger than it is because vast numbers of these phones were sold, and people have a nature to complain when something is wrong.