Goodbye Vibrant board

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My vibrant gave up the ghost 2 days ago. Turned itself off and now it won't fully boot without turning itself off unless I leave it undisturbed on a table.

Something on/under the ringer/speaker is loose or corroded, because tapping on that part of the phone makes it cut itself off.

Been using a Galaxy Tab as my phone for the past day and a half. Galaxy Nexus should arrive at home this afternoon.

Goodbye vibrant and Bionix. I would have liked to keep you as a media player, but I guess it is not to ever be. You worked well... except for your wonky GPS and tendency to 'forget' custom ring tones for contacts.... and your shrinking battery life (I have 4 spare batteries).... and taking 2 minutes to read the SD cards during boot up.... but you sure had a nice screen.

You could still use it as a media player. Odin it back to stock then flash a rom. There's one that's design just for that.

You said when you tap it on the side it cuts its self, do you mean it shuts down?

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When I tap it on the back surface of the phone, close to the top (basically where the ringer/speaker-phone is) then it shuts itself off (power goes off)

Other things can cause it to shut off, but that seems to be the problem area.

you may can fix it

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well, if you have a soldering iron and a oven proceed, if not but you want to fix it go and buy one.

**Do it only as last resource and if you dont have an soldering station.**

take out the board of you vibrant, solder a small piece of any wire you have on an insignificant par of the board (like the gold border around it) put the board in the oven nearly at 200ºC and wait a bit of time till the solder you have done got liquid an the wire goes down.Turn off the oven and let the door open in order to cool ,wait till it got fresh enough to test.

Be happy!

Obs.:the board will get damage if you let it got more hot than necessary.

Good luck!

Are you suggesting that I connect the board to an electrical ground?

Did you have insurance on the phone? If so I'd get it replaced and then sell the new phone.

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No. Phone insurance is mostly a rip off unless you lose it in the first ~4 months of ownership.

It was worth a shot.

I have it on mine, but I wonder what they would replace it with on a claim if I was to break it since they stopped selling the vibrant quite a while ago.


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Originally Posted by Tarzanman

Are you suggesting that I connect the board to an electrical ground?

no, only to you resolder you board without the full equipment needed.

Sorry for my bad english, it's not my natural language.

***BUT, if you still on warranty,wipe all,odin a stock rom and let they replace your phone.

Could you sell it for parts? I'm in need of a few vibrant parts at the moment.