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Want Warranty Replacement Droid 3

So my girl's droid 3 has been acting up and want to try and get a replacement but she spilled cooking oil on screen and has a dark spot on LCD which happened early March. That did not effect the performance at all but lately its been going nuts. My question is can I get a replacement and not be charged for the the LCD problem even though it didn't effect the performance? Just want to know if anybody here has had the same incident or something similar or even your input would be nice. Thanks In Advance
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How dark is the spot you are talking about? Are the performance issues now related to the screen response? Because it kind of sounds like now there are issues with the screen because of the oil incident.. ;]
I had to warranty my D2G awhile back. I declared a few somewhat major cosmetic problems to them as I was a jeweler at the time and had probably damaged it in some way during the course of my work. The problem with my phone had ended up being hardware related and had nothing to do with the damage and so my phone was replaced.

Here's pics of the screen and the problems happened months after the oil spill
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But no the problem is that is gets hot and randomly reboots all day everyday the screen works perfectly except for the dark spot on screen
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Here's pics of the screen and the problems happened months after the oil spill
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make the background pure black, avoid putting light apps where the dark spot is, and then i would bring it in lol
maybe turn the brightness down a bit also

Well if I turn the light down its too dark and can't see anything where the dark spot is at. But that's not the problem I want to know can i get a replacement to fix the over heating problem and the random reboots that happens frequently. I have no problem with the dark spot on screen
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williep said:
Well if I turn the light down its too dark and can't see anything where the dark spot is at. But that's not the problem I want to know can i get a replacement to fix the over heating problem and the random reboots that happens frequently. I have no problem with the dark spot on screen
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Well if you bring it in and tell them about the spill, they will probably tell you the overheating & rebooting is from that and im pretty sure spills are not covered by the 1 year warranty. And the spill would void the warranty im pretty sure also.
If you have insurance they will replace it though.

You could always go to the store and see if the rep will let you exchange it. You might get a nice one. It's unlikely but withholding info I think is fraud.
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MrObvious said:
You could always go to the store and see if the rep will let you exchange it. You might get a nice one. It's unlikely but withholding info I think is fraud.
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True thanks for the idea my girl just won't stop bugging me about it because I sent in my lg revolution about a week ago and got the nexus so she wanted to get a replacement d3 or something else
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williep said:
True thanks for the idea my girl just won't stop bugging me about it because I sent in my lg revolution about a week ago and got the nexus so she wanted to get a replacement d3 or something else
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Looks like that dark spot is over the cpu... I'd try saying the dark spot was caused by the heating issue and maybe not mention the cooking oil...

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I second that. Tell them that one day the phone got really hot in her pocket and then this screen dark spot appeared. She had been dealing with it 'til now, but she's finally sick of it since these new issues arose.

I could also try that to just don't want to send the phone in and they open it and see oil inside and they charge me for a whole new device even though it happened months ago. Does anybody know where the water censors are or the only one is in back of phone?
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williep said:
I could also try that to just don't want to send the phone in and they open it and see oil inside and they charge me for a whole new device even though it happened months ago. Does anybody know where the water censors are or the only one is in back of phone?
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Just go in and they should replace it their if they have any in stock. Or they might offer you a different device.
It doesnt matter if it happened months ago, technically this would VOID your warranty. Like said above your best chance is to bring it in and say the it kept overheating in your pocket since a few months back and started noticing that dark spot.. If they did check the water sensors and they WERE TRIPPED then they wouldnt replace it, because that would void your warranty.

Should I trade it back in?

Got a small gap. Not really noticeableuntil compared with opposite side. If it stays like that I won't be bothered but what are the odds it could come further apart? Should I just be cautious and exchange it for a new one? Like I said. It doesn't bother me as I'll
Pretty much always have a case on it. But what are the chances it could get worse?
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Got a small gap. Not really noticeableuntil compared with opposite side. If it stays like that I won't be bothered but what are the odds it could come further apart? Should I just be cautious and exchange it for a new one? Like I said. It doesn't bother me as I'll
Pretty much always have a case on it. But what are the chances it could get worse?
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Top or bottom? I just went into the sprint store and picked one up outright. Smallest of gaps across the top, none on the bottom. Doesn't even really flex if you push on it. Still undecided on a swap or not. I guess I'd like to see one without the gap before going that route as the display model was the same.

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Top or bottom? I just went into the sprint store and picked one up outright. Smallest of gaps across the top, none on the bottom. Doesn't even really flex if you push on it. Still undecided on a swap or not. I guess I'd like to see one without the gap before going that route as the display model was the same.
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The same as yours. Just the trendiest gap across the top. You can noticeably push it back in though. I just don't want it to get worse.
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Yeah.. I saw some pictures with no gap now, so I'm going to go swap it out. They had like 30-40 of them sitting there. Shouldn't be an issue. It probably won't really get any worse, but the fact that theres some with no gap.. I just can't deal with it. lol

Think unlocking the bootloader would cause an issue with 14 day swap?
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I've never had them check at the sprint store.. Not to say they couldn't. But I don't see a problem with it. Not like unlocking ever caused a hardware issue.

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Think unlocking the bootloader would cause an issue with 14 day swap?
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Technically yes but they never check
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Aaand it's broken

Yes that's right my less than 24 hour old one is broken. There is a hairline crack that runs from home button to heaphone jack. By the home button there is another small crack too.
The phone was not dopped at all and has been in otterbox commuter, and pretty bc much in my hands all day. I was holding the phone and all of the sudden it cracked. I'm really just at a loss for words and dumbfounded at how this happened.
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Someone maybe got a hold of your phone and dropped it then put it back?
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Just holding it and it cracked? Suuuuure.
Inb4getouttaheresamsung
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Wouldn't want to shake your hand sounds like you have a mean death grip
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I hope you have insurance.
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If you purchased with a credit card such as discovercard, you may be covered by some sort of accidental damage protection.

Pics or it didnt happen...
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I understand it sounds ridiculous, I ran a phone store for many years and heard stories and saw things I wish I didn't. One guy hands me his phone said it doesn't work, I asked if it got wet and he tells me that his cow ate it and then threw it back up again. We go through a lot of purell. I've never had someone tell me it just broke while holding it and trying to take a screen shot, but that's what happened.
I love the phone, it was running without hiccups all day. I don't want a different phone, but I don't want to be looking at a long road of replacements either and I think most of us can agree on that, so I had to share my experience.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
I understand it sounds ridiculous, I ran a phone store for many years and heard stories and saw things I wish I didn't. One guy hands me his phone said it doesn't work, I asked if it got wet and he tells me that his cow ate it and then threw it back up again. We go through a lot of purell. I've never had someone tell me it just broke while holding it and trying to take a screen shot, but that's what happened.
I love the phone, it was running without hiccups all day. I don't want a different phone, but I don't want to be looking at a long road of replacements either and I think most of us can agree on that, so I had to share my experience.
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Lmao.... But teacher... My cow ate it!
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motoelliot said:
Pics or it didnt happen...
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When I get to work tomorrow I will post
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There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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gsxrdennis25 said:
There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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The way the crack is so hairline and straight it does seem believable some freak pressure point could have caused this. I have a good feeling we won't be seeing any more of these stories though =P

D3luSi0n4L said:
The way the crack is so hairline and straight it does seem believable some freak pressure point could have caused this. I have a good feeling we won't be seeing any more of these stories though =P
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I'm pretty sure it was from pressing the home button, I was having some of the issues with the home and back not working properly. If you are having those issues too I would try to get and exchange while you can, hopefully this is just a freak accident.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
There is the defect, and this is turning into quite the process to have replaced
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That's not a crack in the screen. It looks like a line of pixels went out. Who's replacing it for you? Sprint? Walk into a store and tell them this happened out of nowhere. If you're still within 14 days, they have to replace it.

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eXplicit815 said:
That's not a crack in the screen. It looks like a line of pixels went out. Who's replacing it for you? Sprint? Walk into a store and tell them this happened out of nowhere. If you're still within 14 days, they have to replace it.
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It is the internal LCD that is broken, not the outer glass. Sprint is giving me a fight but they will replace it, just sucks waiting and getting the run around. The more I use the phone the worse it's getting.
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gsxrdennis25 said:
It is the internal LCD that is broken, not the outer glass. Sprint is giving me a fight but they will replace it, just sucks waiting and getting the run around. The more I use the phone the worse it's getting.
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From the picks it doesn't look physically broken at all, it looks like, what someone else said, like a strip of pixels died. So, that could be a bad flex cable or a screen defect. maybe the otterbox was warping the phone? was it a snug fit?

I hate to be that guy, but I'll be the second story of "my screen actually did break and I have no idea how".
I will admit, the phone did take a drop off a couch on to tile; but no screen damage was done, just a slight scuff on the landing zone. That was 2 days ago.
Yesterday i'm out with some friends, doing some gardening at his place, and I pull out my phone and there's a hairline crack from the volume buttons to the home button, I'll update with a picture when I find my camera. And now today, when i woke up, I was using my phone and noticed some stuck pixles on the middle top of the screen. I bought the phone on the third and I'm not sure if this kind of thing should be covered or not; if it's even worht calling or going into sprint?
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I couldn't get the pixle since they are so damn small and i don't have a macro lens for the camera.
I don't even know how it could have happend while it was in my pocket or from the fall(last picture) since it wasn't broken at all that day.
I reveretd to stock rom without SU but we cannot removed the tamper markings if i contact sprint what do i do about that?

I am going to agree and say that is a pixel issue. Glass does not crack like that or a LCD screen unless it is intentionally scored.

felacio said:
From the picks it doesn't look physically broken at all, it looks like, what someone else said, like a strip of pixels died. So, that could be a bad flex cable or a screen defect. maybe the otterbox was warping the phone? was it a snug fit?
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this is what I was going to say... I wonder if the case put some kind of pressure on the phone that damaged it or messed with the ribbon cable? or just bad QC

My one has some annoying defects

I bought mine with the htc deal a few weekends ago. Ive had it for a while now, and there are two things i have noticed. The area of the back button bends ina littlw if i push on it, it will go in and bend a little and it is very disturbing to me.
On the bottom right of the screen, there is a small streak of light, probably from the home button or something, undwr the screen and it goes a good inch and a half in the screen, on an angle. I think it may have gotten bigger since I have had the phone.
Does anyone else have either of these problems, and what shod I do? I bought it at newegg wireless, not the official sprint store.
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Pictures?
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grandboy3000 said:
I bought mine with the htc deal a few weekends ago. Ive had it for a while now, and there are two things i have noticed. The area of the back button bends ina littlw if i push on it, it will go in and bend a little and it is very disturbing to me.
On the bottom right of the screen, there is a small streak of light, probably from the home button or something, undwr the screen and it goes a good inch and a half in the screen, on an angle. I think it may have gotten bigger since I have had the phone.
Does anyone else have either of these problems, and what shod I do? I bought it at newegg wireless, not the official sprint store.
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take it back, it's defective

Unfortunately i cant provide pictures because the back button thing is not really detectable in a picture, and neither is the white streak of light, i tried. But i bought mine at the newegg wireless store online and it was more than 14 days ago so is there any way of them replacing it?
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contact with HTC, say there's some hardware issues for your mobile phone,maybe they will provide a new one to replace it

Disgusted with Google customer service

So I know this has been discussed many times already but i am appalled at Google's customer "service". My nexus 5 has the rattle issue pretty bad and also the sim tray protrudes. I contacted Google regarding the issue and they responded by saying this is normal and we wont replace???? Anyone else had this problem?
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I think they've been told not to RMA the phones now for what is widely considered to be 'manufacturing differences'. Could be wrong, though

Just say it overheats and you're scared that it might hurt you.
Give it a bit before you do though because all chat logs are saved and they will know you're lying..
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yea posting here will help

CheesyNutz said:
yea posting here will help
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I'm not looking for help? Just wondered if anyone had similar experiences
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snowwhite007 said:
I'm not looking for help? Just wondered if anyone had similar experiences
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I had a fantastic customer service experience when I RMA'd my phone. My micro USB chord would not stay in the phone and came out very easily. The service agent was courteous, professional and pleasant.
I think they've had too many people using the "button rattle" to just get a newer phone. Can't say as I blame them.

So you tried to report two non issues as a reasons to get an RMA and you were denied?
Glad to see Google reps doing their job properly.
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What do you mean that the sim tray protrudes? That it doesn't close fully and sticks out more than the power button? Or it sticks out less than that?

I'm glad they aren't RMA'ing for rattles. You will be hard pressed to find a smart phone that doesn't rattle. I think after the Nexus 4 debacle with so many people returning them, they changed their stance to stop a lot of frivolous returns. So many people try to abuse the system (and even a poster in this thread encouraged lying) that it makes it hard for people who might have legitimate problems.

Good.

Put your phone in a case. Both issues solved
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My buttons rattle.
Why would I RMA it?

So you're disgusted with google for not giving you a new phone when there's nothing wrong with your current phone? Is that what we're supposed to understand here?
K.

Stand by for threads complaining about google not doing rmas to get a red Nexus 5.
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My buttons rattle like crazy, but the phone works just fine. Why would RMA it?
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I just bought this phone but the Nexus logo on the back goes in a bit when I apply pressure. Is that normal?

iggie94 said:
I just bought this phone but the Nexus logo on the back goes in a bit when I apply pressure. Is that normal?
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Yup. Mine does that, but only when I actually press on it. If you really don't like it, just take the back off and put some thin foam or something under the back.

aooga said:
Yup. Mine does that, but only when I actually press on it. If you really don't like it, just take the back off and put some thin foam or something under the back.
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Thanks. I noticed the problem yesterday and it worried me a bit. I won't look too much into it. :good:

Mine rattled it bugged me so I opened the phone and fixed it. No issues since.

Jattro said:
What do you mean that the sim tray protrudes? That it doesn't close fully and sticks out more than the power button? Or it sticks out less than that?
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I had this issue on my first device. It was out a bit, but no way near the power button. It wasn't flush thou. But I didn't RMA for this. I RMA for faulty LCD. Orange spot appeared on my screen.
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