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Iphone 4 Death Grip Fix...Seems to work...

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Juicy D. Links

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Jun 24, 2010
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Posted by a friend on another board and through testing it seems to work...

Below are the details.


Alright, for those of you who have the new phone and are loosing signal when holding your phone, I'm pretty sure I've figured out a fix for this. This contacts on the sim card were previously bridging with the frame. I've added some roll on white out to insulate where it was making contact. Perhaps some very thin tape would work as well?


Locate sim
dglocatesim.jpg


Pull out sim with paper clip
dgpulloutsim.jpg


This shows the sim out and you can already see where I have added whiteout. Only add it where the gold contacts are touching the sim tray
dgsimout.jpg


Closeup of whiteout applied
dgwhiteout.jpg



Now put it in the tray and install it back in the phone. Seems to get rid of the issue completely. :thumbsup :thumbsup
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Well those are very nice photos.
I guess there's no reason a step by step shouldn't have some class, huh?


I did my fiddling last night with a bunch of tape and stuff to no avail... It certainly seems probable that the connectors should rest in the opening of the tray- like there's just a bunch of badly cut Sim cards (which, hilariously enough, would mean it IS really AT&Ts fault after all!!!!!!!) I'll check back in the morning to see how many people have success with this.
 
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