Thread: all telephony functions ... are disabled due to a communication error - anyone else experiencing this?
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TheoX is offline TheoX
2013-05-01 , 22:46
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#204
Originally Posted by bigears5000 View Post
Yes. This problem is quite common. I've had three N900's all with same problem. Nokia replaced two of them under warranty but my current n900 is well past warranty age now. I have tried all the methods to fix the problem that are documented in this thread, unfortunately to no avail. The two times Nokia replaced them, they told me that they couldn't fix the problem for me, hence the replacement devices. I still live in hope for a fix. It's gutting, because I always take really good care of my devices.
Ok, I saw people put some spring and destroyed the shield to get to those parts. Try heating up the shields and press down the shield against the parts. Then heat up all the connectors of the SIM Reader. Do this with a soldering iron, and be sure it's hot like hell! BUT WARNING! Don't even go near the plastic parts!

If this is not working, heat up the GSM chips, press them against the MB, but trough the shield, get some epoxy, and inject epoxy on top of the chips. Then until the epoxy dries up (10-15 mins up to 1h) put something heavy to press it on the MB.

I just fixed mine this way, it's working perfect right now, but I'm going to give it some more time before I can say it really works.

P.S. Didn't use the epoxy on the chip method yet.