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Hi Ive been watching these forums for a few weeks now, and now its time for my first post. Ive had an xda2i for six months now, but unfortunately ive broke the screen. I know how to replace this but am unable to find anywhere that sells spare parts for this model, does anybody know of a supplier. Before you tell me to send off for repair, ive already been quoted £165 to repair it and i dont think this is good for me as i only paid £99 for the xda2i new and i could get the exec new for £150. Please help if you know where i can get this part. Many thanks
ArgyleMoss said:
Hi Ive been watching these forums for a few weeks now, and now its time for my first post. Ive had an xda2i for six months now, but unfortunately ive broke the screen. I know how to replace this but am unable to find anywhere that sells spare parts for this model, does anybody know of a supplier. Before you tell me to send off for repair, ive already been quoted £165 to repair it and i dont think this is good for me as i only paid £99 for the xda2i new and i could get the exec new for £150. Please help if you know where i can get this part. Many thanks
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Evening, on eBay you can get the screen for £77 shipped from Taiwan, not sure if its simple to replace, do not know if soldering is required. I have opened Xda 2 to replace housing before so not hard to get to
Heres is an eBay search link:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sea...ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=
Where can you get an exec for £150 new?
Exec for 150?
From tiscali mobiles on an o2 contract, i ordered last week and im still waiting, although since i ordered the price has gone up slightly. It was cheaper for me to do this than getting my xda2i repaired. I still have six months to run on my current contract, but ive give that sim card to my misses instead of her PAYG sim. I am checking my order daily, but still no news although they say next delivery date should be 10 October. Fingers Crossed
Evening, on eBay you can get the screen for £77 shipped from Taiwan, not sure if its simple to replace, do not know if soldering is required. I have opened Xda 2 to replace housing before so not hard to get to
Heres is an eBay search link:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sea...ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=[/quote]
Thanks for the link, i may just buy one.
I dismantled my xda2i last night to see if the screen from my ipaq would fit, unfortunately the ribbon connection (if thats what its called) wouldnt line up, so put the xda2i back together with the broken screen.
So i dont see a problem or any soldering required to fit the new screen if i buy one, unless anyone knows differently. If anyone has experience in this department then i would appreciate you knoledge. Thanks
very cool...ive got the same problem and if it can be fixed with approx 100 pound i wouldnt mind payin it...for now i got a 3100 to use off ebay for 20 pounds...anyways let me know if youve ordered one
I have got a spare screen for my IIi just incase and there is no soldering involved.
Daz.
Where did you get your spare screen from? How much did it cost? and am i right in believeing that it is just a case of dismanteling the unit poping in the new screen and reasembling?
As i said before i dismantled and reasembled last night and the unit fired up no probs?
Thanks
I bought the whole phone for £100 for spares.
Yes afaik you just dismantel, put the new screen into place and attach the ribbon cable(it actually snaps into place) then reassemble.
Daz.
wicked...you made me one happy man
ordered one but just as i was tryin to open it...theres these weird screws...can someone tell me what are they called and where i could buy a screwdriver for that kind of screw plz?
cheers
Hi,
They are call TORQ screws and you will need a TORQ 6 Screwdriver to undo them they are available everywhere even on ebay, do you know how to take the camera cover (black bit) off?
I downloaded the service manual for the XDA2i from a link that someone put on this forum, that will show you how to dismantel and reassemble your PDA. Im sorry i dont know where this link is but someone else might be able to add it to this thread.
Ive orderd my screen and am just waiting for delivery.
ftp://xda:xd[email protected]/Himalaya/Himalaya-Service-Manual/
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m4mad try this
cheers mate, that was great...I owe you one
Thanks so much Mila81, i got new screen today and replaced in 10 mins, no problems at all.
Bad connecter and repairing / O2 customer service
Hi all, how are you ?
I am fine but not my XDA IIi.
I purchased it from UK but I live in Austraia now.
I've been using the device only for 2 months, but now it has a problem, which is "can charge but cannot sync" through original cradle and charger.
And it cannot be even charged by using non-original (third party) USB charger or retractable sync cable.
I just have been using it with normal care, did not drop or broke or anything..
I found that USB connecter looks one of the weak point of the device itself and to fix it , cost almost all the amount of purchasing new device through this forum.
I really think that this problem should be covered by warranty but just because my device came from UK so that service centre here in Australia told me as long as O2 UK allow me to use warranty here, then local service agent can fix it with the warranty.
So after a long chasing , at last I contacted UK service center, repair center , and customer service. ( i called there from Australia as they don't have any email contact!)
As I expected, I could not expect much support from them.
They told me to send it to my friend in UK and ask him/her to bring it to O2 shop in UK. But still not sure to be covered with warranty......
I wish I could have good skill of soldering or fixing up electronical skills.... then I can open it up and fix it as there are some instructions to open up XDAIIi....
Anyway, has anyone have same problem and succeeded to fix up XDA IIi connecter ??? (Not XDA II as I found some quote in this whole forum... )
is anyone able to suggest the best way for me?
Thank you for reading long comment and listening my sad mumbling.
Regards
Tama
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tamanegi said:
Hi all, how are you ?
I am fine but not my XDA IIi.
I purchased it from UK but I live in Austraia now.
I've been using the device only for 2 months, but now it has a problem, which is "can charge but cannot sync" through original cradle and charger.
And it cannot be even charged by using non-original (third party) USB charger or retractable sync cable.
I just have been using it with normal care, did not drop or broke or anything..
I found that USB connecter looks one of the weak point of the device itself and to fix it , cost almost all the amount of purchasing new device through this forum.
I really think that this problem should be covered by warranty but just because my device came from UK so that service centre here in Australia told me as long as O2 UK allow me to use warranty here, then local service agent can fix it with the warranty.
So after a long chasing , at last I contacted UK service center, repair center , and customer service. ( i called there from Australia as they don't have any email contact!)
As I expected, I could not expect much support from them.
They told me to send it to my friend in UK and ask him/her to bring it to O2 shop in UK. But still not sure to be covered with warranty......
I wish I could have good skill of soldering or fixing up electronical skills.... then I can open it up and fix it as there are some instructions to open up XDAIIi....
Anyway, has anyone have same problem and succeeded to fix up XDA IIi connecter ??? (Not XDA II as I found some quote in this whole forum... )
is anyone able to suggest the best way for me?
Thank you for reading long comment and listening my sad mumbling.
Regards
Tama
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A friend of mine attempted to repair the USB/Cradle connector on his XDA IIi and completely killed it. I know this isn't what you want to hear but please be very careful if you take this job on yourself or you could render it useless.
Daz.
i think the cheapest way to get it fixed is to send it to imate repair center in dubai...O2 shop will just send it to their repair center in uk and will charge you £17 just to send it there...it be cheaper jus to contact the repair center yourself it be cheaper and faster
thanks for the comments
Dear Cadburys Man,thanks, oh sounds really Risky
and
Dear m4mad,
Dubai,,, oh ,, not familiar at all but I will try to find O2shop according to your advice,
thanks for your comments!
Tamanegi
phone stuck in demo mode...I got mine from ebay. there is no way of connecting the device to the pc I have pc cable connected and windows mobile device center installed and zune installed. zune detects the device but windows mobile center does not. In order to install a rom you need usb connectivity. I can't get it at all with this device. Am I stuck with a knockoff demo? the guy wont even respond on ebay. he seems legit. I got it within the next day like he said. guess i'll just send this back and wait till monday and get a real one. or if anyone on here can help that would be great.
I put in my sim card. I can send and receive text messages and call people. i can log into my own hotmail account and get email. I can't log into facebook or marketplace or any of the other programs.
okay I figured it out myself. this is what you do. you have to turn the phone on pressing power button and hold down volume button and let it go into the red blue green white screen that shows the radio info and everything wait till usb comes up at the bottom and then install this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810346
I am no longer in demo mode.
OMGsame thing happened to me from Craigslist, can u go step by step on how u installed it.. Thanks so much.
By the way did ur screen turn on every other minute showing the demo screen.
Dude you will be my hero if you can make it work for me.
when you install it will turn off at 11% don't panic it will come back on and finish installing.
i explained how to already.
Ok I get into the blue green screen and it says USB, then what?. Does the download have the program to install from.sorry I'm at work using my phone lol
download the signed rom. double click it. and go through the steps. do this from your pc
Ohh okay. Sorry lol. I'm excited BC I was so pissed that it was in demo mode..
was ur screen turning on and saying touch to see this phone or whatever before? And is it now after the rom
So what you guys have are store demos that someone sold you underhandedly and are most likely stolen? Why wouldn't you wait literally one day and get an actually HD7 from a store with a return policy and a warranty?
I got mine from a legit seller on ebay. not stolen. He sells only phones. he told me today that he is selling them regardless of the nov 8th release date.
If your right than there was just a mix up at htc and the wrong rom was loaded. In that case your seller should express ship a replacement and we can expect a lot more people to have your problem.
But what it sounds like to me is your seller has a store somewhere and htc gave him a couple demo units to display that he put on ebay early to make a few extra bucks. Not your fault, but I would be worried in that case that my phone doesn't have a warranty. No way htc honors any warranty issues with a demo IMEI and your seller isn't going to be any help either.
Im just happy I got a phone that works. All I had to do was replace the rom. I will most likely be replacing this phone in a year or two when a better version comes out. not that big of a deal. my friends are jealous. they have iphone4.
samsung focus
Ok i have the same problem, I bought a focus on craigslist and have the same issue, stuck in demo mode, the only problem i have is there is no rom or clue how to install it. Any help from you guys would be great.
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Im just happy I got a phone that works. All I had to do was replace the rom. I will most likely be replacing this phone in a year or two when a better version comes out. not that big of a deal. my friends are jealous. they have iphone4.
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dude, you are not getting it. What the other poster is trying to tell you is that most likely you will not be able to use any warranty on the phone, so if the phone breaks, you are out of a phone. Hopefully you can add insurance to it, but if the imei is flagged, then probably not.
Good luck.
This one worked well for me ! Thanks for posting.
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dude, you are not getting it. What the other poster is trying to tell you is that most likely you will not be able to use any warranty on the phone, so if the phone breaks, you are out of a phone. Hopefully you can add insurance to it, but if the imei is flagged, then probably not.
Good luck.
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Actually, the DEMO mode is for stores to display. I think we all know that. I heard some TMobile stores actually sold these devices after they ran out of stock. In addition, I have heard that several stores, or more, have had their demo versions stolen. Any of these would generate the situation you are in.
If you purchased one of these devices from a store...take it back. They should exchange it. If you did it over ebay or craigslist....you get what you pay for .....including the warrenty.
Demo mode? It was stolen lol
Hi everybody,
Can you please plz plz showed me how to do it on HTC Surround ? I got that same sh*t .... plase help ...
To Mod: please don't remove, I can't find one in HTC Surround forum... (thanks...)
Thanks u all,
I saw a SGT that is hanging at the bootlogo on ebay.
it's ending tomorrow, so any answers till then would be appreciated.
I hope I understood it correctly from what the seller wrote.
Is this easy to fix and how?
Im hoping to save some €uros, would it be a good idea if I can get it cheaper?
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one more question. is there a clockworkmod bootable sdcard for the tab or what do I have to do to flash a new rom?
Mate, there are a lot of reasons the tab isn't booting. You may not be able to recover this.
I personally wouldn't buy a tab thats not booting, there could be a hardware problem and then those euros you spent have just been thrown away as you can't return the tab. You were fully aware there was a problem before you bought it....
Good idea is to visit other countries ebay, you may get a tab for cheap though do make sure it is compatible with your networks and the seller is happy to sell overseas...
seller writes it was like that when he got it?
is this possible at all?
or must he have done something to it, like flashing a rom and doing something wrong so that he cant recover it.
{Diemex} said:
seller writes it was like that when he got it?
is this possible at all?
or must he have done something to it, like flashing a rom and doing something wrong so that he cant recover it.
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Well, if you buy it from him like that you would then be able to claim it was like that when you got it. It could be anything, as stated before, and I wouldn't touch it unless it was super cheap and I could use it for parts. Mine was brand new and after having it for almost a month it had to go in for repair (covered under warranty, but still a pain). Since you will likely not be covered under warranty, I just wouldn't bother.
he is sending the original slip with the device.
someone bought it for 301€, quite a lot.
I had send my One to a repair for blown speaker and they call me that warranty is not valid because phone is UNLOCKED and ROOTED. The guy said that HTC have tool for checking that. On test he get some kind of error and that is reason for warranty void. Country Slovenia.
Any suggestions how to solve that?
Thanx,
Andrej
I do know how to solve something: Don't post in the wrong section. People will be annoyed and wont answer u.
False section, but anyways
Unlocking the phone doesn't lthe warranty on the hard ware except hardware like Cpu that could get damaged by over clocking etc.
So tell that to the guy and search up the terms of using HTC dev unlock and find a good quote of it.
Renovated.
Well i had to sent mine in too, with a bricked Mainboard. They changed it without complains.
And i was also at S-Off and Custom ROM.
Well i got a new phone in exchange, but as long as rooting doesn't affect your hardware your warranty should still be valid.
i have sent my HTC One to India Bangalore service center coz of touch screen problem..they have replaced with new HTC One device..mine also unlocked and rooted with custom ROM..they didn't asked about that..
airblade_si said:
I had send my One to a repair for blown speaker and they call me that warranty is not valid because phone is UNLOCKED and ROOTED. The guy said that HTC have tool for checking that. On test he get some kind of error and that is reason for warranty void. Country Slovenia.
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I think unless your country has strong consumer protection laws, you may need to try again. Ask to talk to the guy's manager. Explain that rooting can't cause this type of hardware problem (can only possibly cause overheating, not speaker problems). Ask to talk to the technician's boss.
I had send a complain about my warranty to them and now I'm waiting for replay. I think that my phone was first that was rooted and they do not know what to do and the simplest solution is no warranty .
I'm going to let you know what will be the solution.
bye
Hello, all.
To my complain they said that phone is going to be send to another EU service that is not in Slovenia. So after 14 day I got a brand new HTC One, HBOOT 1.55 S-Off. On the same day I all so become FATHER i got a baby girl :victory::victory::victory::victory::angel::angel:
So thank you HTC, and F-U-C-K OFF Emonogram ( Slovenian warranty company).
What pisses me off is that in minutes that they said i'm warranty void I got quote for 480€ for new phone. grrrrrrrrr
Bye,
Andrej
airblade_si said:
Hello, all.
To my complain they said that phone is going to be send to another EU service that is not in Slovenia. So after 14 day I got a brand new HTC One, HBOOT 1.55 S-Off. On the same day I all so become FATHER i got a baby girl :victory::victory::victory::victory::angel::angel:
So thank you HTC, and F-U-C-K OFF Emonogram ( Slovenian warranty company).
What pisses me off is that in minutes that they said i'm warranty void I got quote for 480€ for new phone. grrrrrrrrr
Bye,
Andrej
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congrats on the baby Girl - and the new phone
Congrats on the birth of your daughter and getting a new phone. Cheers.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
airblade_si said:
Hello, all.
To my complain they said that phone is going to be send to another EU service that is not in Slovenia. So after 14 day I got a brand new HTC One, HBOOT 1.55 S-Off. On the same day I all so become FATHER i got a baby girl :victory::victory::victory::victory::angel::angel:
So thank you HTC, and F-U-C-K OFF Emonogram ( Slovenian warranty company).
What pisses me off is that in minutes that they said i'm warranty void I got quote for 480€ for new phone. grrrrrrrrr
Bye,
Andrej
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congrats for both!
Hi, I finally gave up on trying to keep my note 4 revived but being in almost perfect condition, I made a decision to purchase a replacement motherboard.
Knowing people are trying to unload parts with the same issue, I chose to purchase a new one (as so it says)
After getting the part, I was able to install in about 25 min.
Booted up upgraded to latest firmware...
Ran good for 1 day before issues started!
The moral to the story is buyer beware!!?
sloanster said:
hi, i finally gave up on trying to keep my note 4 revived but being in almost perfect condition, i made a decision to purchase a replacement motherboard.
Knowing people are trying to unload parts with the same issue, i chose to purchase a new one (as so it says)
after getting the part, i was able to install in about 25 min.
Booted up upgraded to latest firmware...
Ran good for 1 day before issues started!
The moral to the story is buyer beware!!?
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does anyone know of a resource to purchase replacement parts note 4?
sloanster said:
does anyone know of a resource to purchase replacement parts note 4?
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Just read about someone with same issues He sent it iin to samsung for out of warranty repair for $70 and he says all is back to normal.....i just requested the same from them and they are sending me a return label and i get a 90day/1yr warranty .
hofs1 said:
Just read about someone with same issues He sent it iin to samsung for out of warranty repair for $70 and he says all is back to normal.....i just requested the same from them and they are sending me a return label and i get a 90day/1yr warranty .
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Please, Provide Detail...
Is your unit under warranty, what did you say to them etc...
Thanks in advance!
sloanster said:
Please, Provide Detail...
Is your unit under warranty, what did you say to them etc...
OUT of warranty basically told them i kept getting the mmc error etc etc ...they asked if i tried resetting etc i told them i even tried the samsung update program and it still acts up......dont accept the local repair option cause they dont have MB in stock....im sending mine back to samsung in texas in a few days after i back up everything and burp it back to stock........hope the know flag wont matter because it is NOT in warranty . they quoted me $70.31 cost..... ill see what happens.
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I'm over UK for now but my Note 4 was out of warranty it's a Network 3 brand network factory unlocked. I had this same problem as everyone else here ddi : mmc_read fail got to a point where the freezer trick worked but I got fed up and took it to Samsung Service Centre on Friday. Told the the problem ad showed them video footage of the problem. They replace my motherboard with a brand new one and FREE of charge which was a bonus as I was going to break it down and sell it for parts. If there were sign of water damage they would of billed me for the work and new motherboard which is not cheap.. They did it on-site within 90 minutes..
It's always worth a try to go in house and ask..
They check the warranty with their database and not your bill invoice for the device.