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i VTAK

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Feb 10, 2010
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Indiana,USA
Ok, so my son's N7 has been down with a broken charger port for a few months.. When it died, everything was working fine. I just put a new battery and charging port in and everything went fine. The tablet powered right up and everything seemed to work. I started up a video and heard noise for a second then it quit and wouldn't come back. I switched to a different type of video and got the exact same thing. I tried YouTube, Netflix and my home videos and they all did the same thing. When I plug in headphones, I can get sound through them if I wiggle the port. I don't have a Bluetooth radio handy right now to test but I will soon.

I took the back off again and everything seems to be where it should and I was super carefully not to pull any wires other than the ones I was told to in the instruction videos I watched.

Please don't tell me to search for the answer as I already did. And please don't merge this with another sound problem thread unless they are having the same problem.

I know a few people have had to change the same port I did, I'm just wondering if anyone experienced the same thing. The tablet is not rooted and is still running 4.4, I haven't updated it yet.
 
The speaker does have to come out. It looks to be tightly hooked to 2 wires that goes somewhere under the battery, the wires all seem snug. I really don't see where I could have made a mistake. If it's not some sort of software problem, I'm guessing the new port may be bad somehow. The charge and headphone jacks are one piece.
 
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The speaker does have to come out. It looks to be tightly hooked to 2 wires that goes somewhere under the battery, the wires all seem snug. I really don't see where I could have made a mistake. If it's not some sort of software problem, I'm guessing the new port may be bad somehow. The charge and headphone jacks are one piece.
Oh, I forget that those two ports were the same.:oops: Those connections are secure?
 
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After reading a bunch of the reviews from Amazon I started noticing people having similar problems. I bought another one from a different supplier but it looks like I just need to get lucky to get a working one. The old first supplier I used and the new one both had high ratings, I'll have to hope it works this time. Luckily the installation takes less than 10 minutes.
 
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