hi i recently put a gold bezel on a iphone 4s all iss well except my wifi pick up is poor and blutooth is not working at all ive replaced the wifi antenna its fine my iphone picks up my wifi but is only half and blutooth is turned on but will not find anything ive tried resetting rebooting please can anyone help me
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hmmmm... you got a 24k gold part on ebay. Have you tested the material density? There is a reason most jewelers don't use more the 18k gold; 24k gold is extremely soft and has almost no structural integrity. You can easily bend 22k gold with your bare hands.... So any metal screw you tried to put in that 24k gold part would have destroyed the gold threads almost instantly. Plus, using it as the main structural element of the phone means if you put a significant weight (i.e. a big book) on the phone the sides of the "bezel" should bend outward (probably just a little till something else inside starts to take the weight). I have a bridge you may be interested in...
Beyond that, gold (or whatever random yellow material you have) will have totally different material properties (resistance, impedance, conductivity, etc) than the part you replaced. I'm kinda amazed you get any cell or wifi reception.
You can double check all the internal connectors. Try conductivity tests to make sure the 3 parts of the case are not connected to each other and the antenna conductivity reaches the connectors inside the case. Beyond that, it just may not be a carefully made antenna that will work as a "drop in replacement" without re-tuning all kinds of other parts and electronics.
PS: What happens when you put the original "bezel" back in?? If it works with the original, but not the "gold" one you can be sure that's the problem...
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just found other people can find my device even to the point of pairing but does not pair up and my device does not find them when i search ???
by mark
What do you mean when you said you "put a gold bezel" on an iPhone 4S? Where exactly did you put the bezel, and what (if any) parts did you disassemble/change to accomplish this? It sounds like your phone is transmitting, but not receiving/processing the responses. Is the cell reception impacted?
by Redradioflyer
gold bezel the complete middle part that everthing goes on to it was on ebay 24ct gold my dissambled everything and rebuilt it from nothing wifi is ok everything is good just the blutooth ive searched internet nothing really on it
by mark