so i decided to disassemble my 6700. guess what i found.

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I have had no radio for the past few days, and searching everything thinking it was a software issue. To no avail, so i decided to take the 6700 apart and do a good cleaning with alcohol. Upon examining the board, i noticed a small resistor/cap not sure exactly its a black ceramic/plastic piece about half the size of an ant. its broken off not sure how it happened.

Anyway, does anyone know how i could go about making theses points contact so the phone radio will start working again.

also i did think i might have knocked it out when i took it apart. But, the phone still works how its been without the radio, so i figure its been the problem.

'm going to try and post some pictures.
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here it is its the black dot on the top left of the black square. Anyone know if this is radio related? could save me a bunch of time trying to figure out how to replace it. would hate to replace it and then have it be something else. Please someone help please.. i know am a newbie to the forum.. people don't like us.. please help please..
 
I'm sorry, but I don't have any technical information that might help you in your endeavor.

However, I can say on behalf of senior merabers here: It's not so much that we "hate" "noobs". I think I can speak for all of us when I say that what our beef is that new merabers don't bother to search and look for answers/handouts without even trying first.

But if you are willing to take apart your phone to troubleshoot your problems, I got major respect for you, and I don't think anyone else here would consider you a noob for that either.

I digress: My suggestion to you is to farm it out for parts on eBay and get yourself a new one or a Mogul. It probably isn't worth fixing anyway.

Just my 2-hundredths of a dollar.
 
Well what i can say for you is solder the two contacts together with a little bit of solder. Turn on the phone test it out if it works then remove battery take phone apart again, remove the solder you just added and find a replacement one if youd like.. If it doesnt work then i would suggest selling it for parts on ebay as well
 
Goto XDA-developers.com

There are many photos of the phones main board. Look for the missing resistor, you can find a repalcement on E-Bay for less than buck. Soldering it is cake.

These Srab resitors are found on almost all electronics. Take apart an old phone, computer, VCR, etc... and find the one you need.

But whatever you do, DO NOT solder these two contacts together. That resitor is there for a reason. You phone will NOT boot, and if it does it will NOT work for long. There is a reason to limit current to that point on the board, thats why it has a resistor. HTC knows what its doing, thats why its there.
 
This is the best advice.

If you don't have soldering skills, you might want to call a small electronics repair or cell phone repair shop. If it's a simple repair, they'll probably do it for $25-30... or you can buy the tools and try it yourself. soldering is pretty easy.
 
Soldering SMT without expensive SMT tools is tricky. Getting a soldering iron tip small enough to be accurate - and still hot enough and well-tinned enough - is a real bizznatch.

I've had some luck (and several destructive failures) re-soldering SMT devices using a Radio Shack butane torch. Place the part on the pcb paRAB it came from, use a small flame on the torch, and sweep it quickly back and forth across the part until you see the solder soften. Usually there's enough solder left that you don't need to add more. A dab of soldering flux (rosin, NOT acid flux!) on the part can help alot, though. If you must add more solder due to using a new part or whatever, use a super-fine-guage silver-bearing rosin-core solder, pleace and heat the component as described above, then just barely touch the end of the solder to each contact while it's still hot. Also, although circuit boarRAB can usually take the heat of this torch for a few seconRAB without significant damage (many of these things are wave-soldered in a pool of solder almost as hot as that torch flame being moved quickly around), that plastic ribbon connector below the chip will not. Cover it -and anything else on that board that you're not working on, if feasible - carefully with multiple layers of aluminum foil (with a bit of air space between layers) before using the torch, and avoid hitting the foil with the flame, or you will insta-fry that ribbon.

(Disclaimer: don't try this at home unless you're fully confident that you can accept either a good OR a bad outcome. Your success is not even close to guaranteed. But I truthfully have successfully used this technique many times, often on much more sensitive and complex circuits than the one we're discussing. And I fried a couple of boarRAB well beyond repair the same way.)
 
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