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What’s this cable?

I accidentally broke the cable (which looks like a piece of plastic). What’s?

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Andrew

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Hi Andrew, it looks like an antenna cable.

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What kind of antenna, 3G, bluetooth or Wi-Fi?

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are you talking the one behind the headphone jack?

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Yes, it’s black.

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ill have to take a look at one to see looks like it is screwed to the jack?, do you have another charge port? looks like you can just change the charge port.

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That’s the lower antenna tuning cable. It does not break any RF function, but breaking it will degrade RF performance.

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headphone jack's plastic protrusion

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