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[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
Yeah, I'm guessing a tear-down thread would be in order unless there's some way of changing your thread title. Appreciate it.

I spilled a bit of an "adult beverage" on my Captivate last nite. Dang cat... Nothing went wrong w/the phone... save for the power button & the volume rocker... They were a bit... sticky.

I was able to get them cleaned up a bit using a razor blade & some alcohol wipes, but I'd love to be able to fully clean everything by disassembling the phone. I removed the 4 screws in the back beneath the battery cover, but got nowhere...
[Captivate General] isyiwang:
Can someone confirm if the fm radio chip is there?
[Captivate General] iLoki:
There are actually 6 screws. Two are hidden underneath the sliding latch for the battery door.

Thats one of the purposes of tearing the phone down, I'm hoping to answer that question, or at least give enough people enough information to find out.
[Captivate General] YellowGTO:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas...me=N&application_id=200666&fcc_id='A3LSGHI897'
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
pretty cool :) u think now that we can tear it down, we can add the front camera too it?
[Captivate General] iLoki:
I don't know, it would definitely take someone much more skilled than I to fit the Front camera in.

The layout on the top is a tiny bit different, and it would require some changes to that as well as making space above the screen on the opposite side for the camera.

So, definitely NOT an easy job, if it is even possible.
[Captivate General] larryccf:
if you look at that video of the teardown of a galaxy S i9000, it looks like the FFC is part of the rear facing camera module

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9XNnjAcBc&feature=player_embedded

at 2:59 in the video the camera is taken out, and at 3:07 she turns it over and you can see the front facing camera - does your rear facing camera look different (except for the obvious, missing that small black square with the FFC)?

if it's not different, except for the missing ft camera, i suspect these are all modular components so sammy could assemble them, as needed, to a customer's specs - which means, if someone can source that correct module w/ffc, and rip the driver and software for it from the i9000, that it'd be possible
[Captivate General] iLoki:
The camera is identical, minutes the front facing piece, if course. The connection to the main board is the same as well.
[Captivate General] larryccf:
if you pull it apart again, it'd be nice if you had a magnifier or a camera capable of macro shots so we can definitively identify that gps chipset
[Captivate General] iLoki:
The macro on my camera is good, but not that good =)

My magnifying glass, however, shows me that the chip is a BCM4751.
[Captivate General] NikAmi:
My research shows that this chip does not do anything with FM radio so that is quite disappointing. Dammit AT&T! Always got gotta crap up a great phone. So now we don't get FM radio and we don't get the FFC.
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
if its the same camera module minus the FFC, im sure we will find some junk galaxys on ebay for parts soon enough, sum1 will develop a new front for us hopefully, pop in the new camera, get the ROM for it to work, and hope it can work. i am by no way an engineer or anything technically, so im not saying its plausable, just saying it could work if some1 knew how to do it.
[Captivate General] XorZone:
This chip is the broadcom gps. He replied to the larryccf question.

So, I hope fm radio is here.
[Captivate General] larryccf:
tks - it may be sammy did use a different gps chipset in the captivate

and btw, macro will magnify - take a high res shot, then open on your pc, depending on how hi res, i've had them open the picture in 25 X 22" or so sizes

and you can see mosquito footprints - had an Omega, a high end one that had a serial number on the backside way too small to read even with a 6X magnifier - had to have been laser etched

used a macro shot to read it - no joke

try it some time
[Captivate General] iLoki:
Like I said, my camera is not that good lol. It was good for it's time, but it's not the greatest :D

I need a new camera >.<
[Captivate General] YellowGTO:
Found this

"Chip maker Broadcom has unveiled no fewer than three new mobile-themed hunks of silicon this week in preparation for MWC in just a few days' time. You ready for this? Alright, first up we've got the catchily-named BCM20751, which performs the rather ordinary tasks of GPS, Bluetooth, and FM radio management but also throws in an audio processor to offload some work from the phone's primary CPU, which the company says can reduce battery consumption enough to improve playback time by up to 100 percent in some situations. Next up, we've got the BCM4751, a GPS receiver that Broadcom's confident is going to set a new benchmark for mobile location-based services; a complete setup takes less than 30 square millimeters of precious board space and is claimed to be a guru at picking up weak signals all the while sipping power. Finally, the BCM2049 supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, FM (both transmitting and receiving), and Bluetooth Low Energy -- something that was recently adopted for standardization in Bluetooth 4.0. All three should be on display at the show next week. That's not all, though -- the company is also announcing comprehensive support for Android across much of its product range, which seems like a pretty prudent business decision all things considered."

I saw somewhere that a Galaxy S guy said they have the Broadcom's InConcert. That would be the BCM20751. We might now have FM :-(

Sure isn't setting any records on my phone lol
[Captivate General] WillyDavidK:
Hey guys, new captivate owner here, found this thread in doing some preliminary research before tearing down my shiny phone. I wanted to contribute but I didn't realize most of the chips were under a stacked board and efi shield - I'm not really experienced in removing those... o.0

If it helps at all though, I did identify the touch controller as an ATMEL MXT224, I tried to post a link to the specs but apparently I can't post links because I just registered. A google search on the model number will turn up the spec sheet however.

I'll post more if I find anything else interesting!

UPDATE: Okay, nevermind what I said before, I managed to get the sim/sd board and shield off with little problems (didn't expect it to pop off so easily...). I managed to identify the modem chip as an Infineon BGA735. There's also a TriQuint TQM6M9014 RF transceiver.

UPDATE: On the backside I managed to find another very small chip with the following markings:

MAX8998

EWQ 1012

EA89

I can't find out what it is. Possibly just a voltage regulator, but I'm not sure. Thought it was worth posting!
[Captivate General] YellowGTO:
We confirmed that the uk version 4571 also.it was in some file.so we might have fm. The hope is back:)
[Captivate General] WillyDavidK:
I can also confirm that the GPS chip is a BCM4571. It took two magnifying glasses and a lot of squinting but I did eventually manage to identify it!
[Captivate General] YellowGTO:
How did you get the battery door holder thing off to take out the last 2 screws?
[Captivate General] \/icious:
man i want to strip down my phone but i think my wife would kill me lol. If someone finds that putting a front facing camera on the phone is do-able i might just have to dremel one in and i dont even really have any particular need or use for one. I love hardware mods =-D
[Captivate General] WillyDavidK:
You don't have to take the door off, you just have to muscle it a bit until you get it to slide open all the way. Normally it only slides down half as far as it actually can.

@vicious the camera is actually the easiest part to access. As soon as you get the back cover off it pops right out!
[Captivate General] t-readyroc:
iLoki's going to post a step-by-step tear-down with photos & instructions. He's been working on it for a day or so, so I'd expect him to be finished with it by beginning of next week. Going to be a dedicated "tear down" thread, so keep your eyes open for it.
[Captivate General] iLoki:
It was up yesterday :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=740022

OP updated with link.
[Captivate General] vendetta007:
Bigger Pix

Not the be a thread necro or anything, but I have read a couple more posts recently wishing for higher res pics and I have some 15 megapixel pix of the boards. I tried to post em on photobucket and they were automagically reduced in resolution for me. I wouldn't mind sharing the full res pics via dropbox or something if anyone is interested.

The photobucket link is below if you're interested.

http://s379.photobucket.com/albums/oo239/vendetta-mr2/Captivate/
[Captivate General] YellowGTO:
I can host the pictures for you, if you want.
[Captivate General] vendetta007:
certainly! have a drop box or something i can use to transfer the pictures to you? The zip is 123MB.

Posted the pics here.

Zips here.
[Droid X General] grdm:
I have been trying to get the PDANET BlueTooth DUN to work with my PSP for a while now and no luck.

I put in #777 as the dial number and leave the rest blank, but it always gives me an error when trying to connect.

Any ideas? Anyone done this yet? Thanks.
[Android Software Development] LeifAndersen:
I was looking on google code and found this: code -dot- google -dot- com/p/androidgens/ And by extension this: sourceforge -dot- net/projects/androidemu/ (sorry the links aren't clickable, understandably, that's forbidden from new users. ;) ). And so I went to download them. The svn repository in the first link runs, but does nothing (I started looking at logcat, and got missing library exceptions), the one in the second link wouldn't even compile. I than noticed that the project had native code which I probably needed to compile. So I downloaded the android-ndk-r4b, and started reading the documentation. It seemed simple enough, just cd into the project directory, and run it (or use some other flags if the native code isn't in the jni folder). Unfortunately, the code didn't compile, they first thing it did was complain about missing libraries: utils/Log.h and nativehelper/jni.h, here is the full output:

(Output redacted in an attempt to get this post posted)

So I first thought that my computer must be missing some dependencies...and than I realized that that was probably a stupid idea, because unless the android-ndk statically links your computer's dependencies into the generated library, it wouldn't actually work. So I realized utils/Log.h and nativehelper/jni.h probably should be in the ndk (or linked to it at least) itself. I preformed a query, and it seemed like it was. So I'm out of idea...can anyone help me compile this code (or at least figure out what this specific issue is?) Thank you.

Also, if this is an inappropriate place to ask this, I apologize, and am willing to ask it somewhere else if needed. (And sorry if this is a dumb question...I'm still a bit new to the ndk (a know a bit more about the sdk though...)

Again, thank you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acme64:
There's too many posts and threads about this and i'm super confused. Can someone explain real simple what is the issue with the 4G radios? Let me give you some background on my own issues and let me know if this coincides:

I bought my phone, went to Baltimore, 4G wouldn't connect at all.

I rooted and flashed Damage Rom and Toasty recovery (i believe). Apparently i have the old wimax radio.

Today I tested wimax and it did connect for a minute or 2, then it seems to have dropped (this was in Manassas)

Do i need a new radio or something?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mast3rpyr0:
Im not going to pretend to know completely, but the biggest issue i think was that this is the only phone that has 4G right now, and HTC was the only one with those drivers for android. So now our devs here have to get ahold of them and figure out exactly how to use them before 4g will work.

If you tried it out before you rooted your phone, then that would be sprints fault on coverage.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aznphatb0i:
Hi,

I'm currently running Myn's Warm Android with DZO's kaisimg-panel2-320-tilt-froyo-15-07-10.nbh

Everything seems to be working fine except camera-

Is camera working in the latest kaisimg-panel2-320-tilt-froyo-26-07-10.nbh - or should i be using the 'custom kernel' found here- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=660158 ?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] matt11601:
Edit: Having some trouble too w/ camera
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Philux:
Read my sig and link to the nbh I use that has everything working when I used Myns Donut. (NAND kallt_kaffe 06-29-2010)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Using a froyo nbh on any build other than a froyo one will result in a non-working camera, you can use the latest eclair nbh in donut however, just remember to edit the nbh before flashing in order to set HW3D for donut.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] huttonjd:
ROM: VaniljEclair RLS7c - NAND

NBH: kaisimg-panel2-320-tilt-eclair-02-07-10
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] loserskater:
Have you tried editing the latest NBH using my editor? If using a Donut build, set it to Donut if using Eclair set it to Eclair and the camera should work.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skittlesV1:
Im running the latest fresh rom. Im using the plantronics backbeat 903's. I cant get it to control the music app or any other music app besides double twist. If i press pause it pauses the headphones but not the music on the phone and I cant change songs. I read that people are able to use headphones to change songs on pandora and last.fm but I cant. Does anyone have any insight into this problem? Ive already tried unpairing and repairing. Any insight will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skittlesV1:
anyone????
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Kernel? Hardware version? Have you tried uninstalling DoubleTwist? I've only gotten A2DP to control the Android/Sense Music app (Pandora, andLess, and RockPlayer haven't worked).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skittlesV1:
yeah, I only installed double twist because nothing else works, im using the toast kernel with overclocking, I really want it to work with pandora but it only works with double twist and before I installed that it worked with nothing.
[Droid X General] videohammer:
My friend has one and is already over it, im on Sprint (with a rooted hero) is there a way to get it working on the Sprint network?

Thanks in advance for any help guys and gals..
[Droid X General] wanimal:
In short, yes, you just need to know someone in sprint that will transfer the esn and the meid
[Droid X General] sniffs:
As posted above, yes it's possible.. You'll need not "someone", but a high tier DB technician to hack the ESN into the Sprint database.

However, it's more easily said than done. From what I recall, both the CDMA carriers do ESN sweeps randomly and will boot off any ESN's they did not purchase.
[Droid X General] pauliewalnutted:
Lol your friend just bought the x and is over it?
[Droid X General] Garrett07:
The x is a grotesque brick...
[Droid X General] ksizzle9:
Only people who don't have the phone that they are envious of slam it.

sent from Shawn Micheals...The heartbreak Kid
[Droid X General] Sheen160:
If you don't like it, then don't say anything about it. And don't come on the X boards. It's simple as that. no need to go starting stuff. :)
[Droid X General] autoprime:
you could scan the phones memory for all esn/meid locations.. zero them out.. creating a 000000 esn. copy your current activated sprint device esn to the droid x. copy 3g profile from activted sprint device.

all done. and as long as you dont ever turn on your "donor phone" this should all be considered legal since the new law allows editing the phones software for the purpose of changing carriers.

you're welcome.
[Droid X General] bouchedag:
What your suggesting he do, is not only still considered "Illegal" it is also impossible on any motorola phone, unless you have the "Black Box" which is capable of making such changes without issue, and seeing as how there are only 4 of these boxes in existance, I highly doubt anyone here has it, I hope one of the admin's comes along soon and deltes this post before someone without this knowledge creates an overpriced brick.
[Droid X General] autoprime:
show me how this is illegal after the new federal ruling from the LoC allowing jailbreaking/unlocking/rooting/editing the phones software to be used on any carrier?

and the black box myth is just that..

nothing illegal is being talked about here.. just legal and legit possible methods for using a phone on a different carrier.
[Droid X General] bouchedag:
"Jailbreaking, Unlocking, and Rooting" Are correct all legal, Tampering with the phones electronic serial number, and FCC ID are still quite illegal, and punishable allthough rarely enforced under federal Law, and as for the black box being a myth, why don't you hook it up, scan the locations, and do as you suggest so we can all have a good laugh at your expense, and you can admire your new expensive paperweight.
[Droid X General] bendotson:
could you point me towards instructions on how to get the droidx on Sprint?
[Droid X General] grndnpnd:
number 1 its not illegal to flash to another carrier but he is right changing the fcc id is very illegal on the other hand good luck finding someone that has done this the other option is to pay for a program such as hudinisoft, or cdma ware which allows you to force a esn from another device with out a "black box" ( dont believe every thing you read on gizmodo bro lol) this all can be done from your pc Good Luck dont brick it
[Droid X General] bouchedag:
Correct on all points with the exception of the "Black Box" How do I know you ask? I have a motorola Droid 1 in my desk drawer I thought I knew it all and would try, now it does nothing, went through successfully or so I thought, and soon as it shut down, it doesn't boot anymore.
[Droid X General] grndnpnd:
so you did the esn force on a black box and it failed? what is the actual name of this suposed black box i woul like to research it a little

and i was thinking couldnt you do this with qpst load the phone click EFS explorer it will prompt you for a spc which is now called msl you will have to pull this off the device that you are taking the esn from (your hero) on sprint i belive its 000000 it may be 00000000 i know they use a universal msl for all devices then wait for the NVM to load then navigate to "nvm sys.esn" there may be a $ before the sys i cant remeber im not looking a qpst atm now copy that esn down and save it incase this doesnt work and you can go back to the stock esn there is an embeded tool in qpst called esn checksum calc open it and put the heros esn in there to generate the right checksum for that esn. now go to XVI32 and nav to the "nvm sys.esn" again now its going to look nuts in there but in all the numbers you will see the devices esn with a set of numbers after it those are the checksums you just generated now enter your new esn and checksum done

if you cant get it im sure there is an old qpst walthrough running around i belive there used to be one on ehow back in the day

gl

ps i take no responsiblity for your bricked device so dont send me a bill
[Droid X General] bouchedag:
No, did it using the full version of Workshop, and while your method is close, it's not 100% correct, and all you have to do is google Motorolla ESN "Repair" or "Change" and you'll get all the info on the "Black Box" that you need, to my knowledge through research there are only 4 or 5 of these machines in existance due to substantial cost, Moto likes to lock their stuff down
[Droid X General] Zafad0:
Well i haven't done these for years but as i remember that

Was a problem with the first version of motorolas like the motorola

Vader, if you flash it wrong it seems like the phone is death

But there was an original default flash version that after flashig

Make the phone work again, even when the technology grows

So fast i see that they still using the same technics as before.

As a big tip i should say that all model and brand use the same

Fabricant of "system" and is qualcomm, this way we can know

That sometimes we can make work the phone trcking them with

Psts with diferent brand becase of compatibility.

I hope this helP someone
[Droid X General] vzt:
Read the final Paragraph on this webpage.

http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/resources/esn/

"In an Order, the commission adopted a rule (22.919) requiring that all cellular telephones for which type acceptance is sought after January 1, 1995, must be designed such that the factory-set ESN can not be reprogrammed. At the same time, the commission stated that it considers any knowing use of cellular telephone with an altered ESN to be a violation of the Communications Act (Section 301) and alteration of the ESN in a cellular telephone to be assisting in such violation. The Wireless Telephone Protection Act (Public Law 105-172) was signed into law on April 24, 1998, expanding the prior law to criminalize the use, possession, manufacture or sale of cloning hardware or software."

ESN tampering is technically illegal since it falls under the basic idea of cloning or tampering of "factory-set ESN".

Although it is impossible to check if its an esn from a damaged device, and unless you walk up to a cop point it out, and he actually gives a crap. Then you could be charged a low level felony for breaking the WTPA.
[Droid X General] vzt:
Not really, they no longer do those kinds of checks, for him its going to be more of an issue is if the esn will show up as an evdo phone in their database.
[Droid X General] casper55117:
i hate to burst everyone heres bubble. if you read the fcc regulations it is only illegal to change ESN # if your intent is fraud. if you do not intent on committing fraud. it is legal :D
[Droid X General] infazzdar:
You could have a Droid X on Sprint as both networks are CDMA, but I don't believe you would be able to have a data connection, if I remember correctly.

Half the battle is getting Sprint to put a Droid X on one of their plans.