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Dropped my XDA-Exec

Hi guys, this is not my lucky week, I dropped my Exec yesterday onto laminated floor from abour 3' it was oki so I was happy, dispite it drawing my attention to the dodgy stick on strip by the speakers thats now peeling after giving it a thorough examination. I dropped it again today, this time only a bath room floor with that odd grit like surface, this time its scratched up one of the corners realatively bad. I have also noticed now an odd hinge noise when opening the Exec, sort of like a creek or cracking noise, not to mention the fact that it now switches itself off and hard locks after a random period of playing music in both WMP and TCMP, is this sufficient reasoning to send it back to O2, is there a way I can get a replacement? The hinge noise and random crash hard locking was occuring before the 2 falls.
In other news, I also bumped my car in the work car park against an impossibly low wall, car got a little scratch on rear bumper out of sight, but is a testiment to my bad luck this week.
Would need to know quite quickly if I can get a replacement or should just return it to O2 as I have about 3 days left of 14 day money back guarentee left.
Thanks

What are tonight's lucky lotto numbers then, qui?

lol
bad luck..
I dropped my phones so often that i learned to live with it.. first day i had a brand new qtek s100 i dropped it on the carpet in my bedroom.. with the screen right on top of a screw.. only 1 screw lying on the floor in the whole room .. huge dent in the screen LOL
Cars... i bought 3 cars now.. first one head gasket blew, 2nd one valves started to sound like a diesel and the one i have now leaves huge trails of smoke when driving above 130km/h LMAO i can cry but i wont so i will laugh
And i have several of those stories.. haha nowadays i insure my new mobiles for damage by my self and insure it against theft etc..
If you don't have a special insurance you wont get a new phone or a repair if it damaged, the will blame it on you.
Just learn to live with it haha

Yeah, I don't suppose O2 will replace it FOC with damage unless you've got the insurance.
Bad luck qui . These things are pretty heavy so I'm not surprised it's suffered after a drop. Perhaps I should consider using the leather case for mine now...

I have insurance, however its on my old XDAII, forgot to add the Exec to it, however surely the hinge noise which is like a creeking/crack type noise as well as the random switch off the hard locks are cause to get the phone replaced. I have managed to buff out the scratch some what that its quite faint noise, you would be surprised what a little graphite and a polishing cloth can do these days :lol:.
Anyway can you tell me if they will replace is due the the hinge and software problem?

hmm
cracking noise i have too MDA PRO, only when i open it after not having used it for a while.. is gone after that first cracking noise hehe
You could try to hand in you Exec, and claim it as your xdII lol.. but if you are very unlucky they send you an brand new shiney XDA II back instead of your EXEC
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I'm now wondering whether I should have selected the £59 O2 Insurance (or whatever it costs)...
I've had a few minor incidents with my XDA2, I've never dropped it though.

Oki, looking at O2 Insurance T&C I can still buy insurance for the phone, are they likely to replace it for minor damage to the phone chassis?

They'll most probably ask you to send the phone off for repair, rather than issuing you with a replacement.

Just called O2, since I am in 14 day still I told the nice lady my issues, being the creeking hinge and the reseting hardlocking when playing music and she has agreed to send me a replacement, didnt even need to BS or explain about the dropping incidents, seems that if your in 14 days you will get replacement no matter what.

Whoa...Nice.

ehh
try that with orange or tmobile. lol or any operator in holland and they wont do it LOL..
had a mate who had a faulty orange m500 and brought it back after 4 days, he didn't get a replacement and it took 3 weeks for him to get his phone back.

hehe maybe its a form of karma its balancing out my misfortune.

Careful, 02 like to give you refurbished handsets on the insurance. If the new one arrives and it's clearly been opened before (IE no outer box, bags inside are open) then you should ask for a 'New' one. Chances are a refurb had a problem before which will resurface after a while.
-Mike

Will look out for it cheers, although i beleive its a new one as they just despatched it from their warehouse, as oppose to a repair centre as you would expect a refurb to come from, could be wrong though.

Back to the subject of Dropping . . .
I'd like somewhere to attach a lanyard. Missed this facility on the XDA IIs as well.
All my previous SOny Clie's had a post for attaching a wrist strap.
Anyone got any ideas how this could be achieved?

you could feed it around the external arial holes. Just pop the lil rubber blanking grommets out?
I may have to do this, i dropped mine and killed. it :evil:
I can see it now. Parker with an XDA sewn to one sleeve and a sandwich sewn to the other, just like school days. :lol:
Cya
Stot.

qui said:
Hi guys, this is not my lucky week, I dropped my Exec yesterday <snip> I dropped it again today
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I feel for ya, I dropped mine having had it only two days, the damn thing just got away from me - small scratch on the edge of the caseing. Then I went and dropped it a couple of days later on the tiled bathroom floor - ouch. Small dent in the edge of the lid now. Still working like a dream though.
I figured I would probably be dropping this a few more times over the course of a year so I'll replace it through the O2 insurance when it dies.
Please let us know if the replacement exec you get is in fact a new one, I'm still inside my 14 days at the moment.
Brett

My black thing fell off the back :|

The black rubber type thing fell off the back of the case.
The part just under the windows logo.
Anyone know where to get a new one?

mine doesnt have a windows logo but i assume your talking about the battery cover...
try super glue.... :idea: (if its the battery cover)

SBouri said:
mine doesnt have a windows logo but i assume your talking about the battery cover...
try super glue.... :idea: (if its the battery cover)
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Yeh thats the thing, it fell off without me noticing.
So i have no idea where it is..

Mine fell off too but found it in my case. Its just a small bit of rubber - suggest you find a bit of black rubber and cut one out. Otherwise its a new battery cover but i have not seen anywhere selling them!

Drop into a Cingular/T-Mobile store for a hands on "test drive".
:twisted:

I have a broken battery cover with the rubber part still on it. PM me your address and I'll post it to you.
First come first served.
Steve.

Everyone i know who has owned a Wizard for more than 6 months has lost the black thingy off the back.
Bet all the stylus's start fallin out soon

mine fell off over the summer. the 106 degree weather melted the glue an it just came off...sucks.

I contacted T-mo to get a replacement under warranty. They referred me to HTC USA. I called but could not get a hold of a human. I gave up.

I have had my I-Mate K-Jam for over 6 months now and these things haven't happened........................YET!!!! GULP!!!!

For dutch people (t-mobile) can order spare parts for the MDA Vario (qtek 9100) through the website http://www.solid-vision.com/ AKA http://www.gsmrepareren.nl/
A new cover cost about 15 euro.
Greetz

Mine fell off a couple of days ago too.
Is it really THAT big of a deal??
Like someone said, stop by a phone provider store and switch the back cover with the displays. Assuming it comes off.

I've had mine since the day the K-Jam got launched, I don't even remember how long ago that was haha. But yeah my rubber piece just fell off the other day too. I guess I'm just going to cut out a new piece and glue it on

I phoned up HTC UK for one, cost me £5
my insurance doesn't cover cosmetic damage the the excess is £20 so worth it imo

Prophet replacement housing

I've dropped my Jamin a few times and since the OEM case doesn't protect the corners of the phone, the housing looks like crap. So, I decided to look for a replacement housing.
Can't remember if I saw the post on here or at howardforums.com, but someone had pointed out that this place sells Dopod/Qtek housings.
http://cnn.cn/shop/dopod-e818-housing-p-704.html
I ordered a case and paid via Paypal. The order went thru fine but then the order status page was stuck on "payment received" for about a week and a half. I sent an email asking when my housing would ship and suddenly a shipment notification email arrived the next day. Don't know if that's a coincidence or not, but it shipped and that's what matters.
Received the case today and I was surprised to receive an O2 XDA case instead of a Dopod or Qtek housing. Actually, this was a good thing because I think the O2 logo is much more attractive than Dopod or Qtek.
I popped open my Jamin, swapped out all the guts into the new housing and pressed the power button. My Jamin still works!
But there's a problem...the stylus is REALLY loose in the new housing! #@%$#@!! I'm positive I didn't have any extra parts left over when I put the thing back together! I crack open the housing again to see what the cause is. Comparing the old and new housing (the middle piece, since that's where the stylus resides), I see that the new housing is missing a little white plastic part that holds the stylus. Unfortunately that little piece is welded onto the old housing! Lucky for me, the middle piece of my old housing only has very small anf faint scratches. So instead of trying to remove the welded stylus holder, I elect to reuse the middle piece of my old housing. Put everything back together again...problem solved!
My Jamin (now XDA) looks like new again. Overall, I think it was money well spent.
BTW, I used these instructions (linked in wiki) to help me change the housing.
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?s=b2088e44f8506a561c3db87e1bb575d4&showtopic=240109
IMO, the instructions could be much better. When I have time, I think I will write a better set with more pictures.

My cases are orange m600 OEMs, but logos can be removed easily, and include the stylus latch in the chassis as well as fascia buttons. And they are about $20 cheaper ;-)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130007457342
Richard

fluffcat1 said:
My cases are orange m600 OEMs, but logos can be removed easily, and include the stylus latch in the chassis as well as fascia buttons. And they are about $20 cheaper ;-)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130007457342
Richard
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Doh! Wish I knew that about 3 weeks ago! :? :lol:

How do you remove the logos on the prophet?

troyjam said:
How do you remove the logos on the prophet?
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Pro method - fibreglass pencil
amateur method - rub a sugarcube over
Both at your own risk mind you!
Richard

Wizard Facia Housing

Hello, I have a Qtek 9100 and unfortunately I dropped it and scratched the front of the casing up pretty bad. The phone is still in perfect condition and not even a scratch on the back or the screen. I am looking for the front housing. I do not have any scratches on the rear housing, keyboard, or even the battery cover. I have looked on Ebay and the only thing that I have found is for around $100 (US). I do not want to pay that much for something that I can conceivably drop again. So my question is; is there anyone out there that knows where I can get a front housing? I would even buy the total housing to use as a backup but I do not want to spend an arm and a leg for it. I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone has.

im looking for one myself.. i dropped my imate kjam a numerous amount of time...and the body has been scratched up rpetty bad
if theres a way to get it in canada, ottawa.. id really appreciate to find out..
thnx

How about vinyl sticker to put on top of the scratches? Like those offered by mytego.com?
you can see how it look like from this thread at howardforum
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=968555
That's my phone in the post by username ToNg

Oh. That's slick the way the background and vinyl work as one.

Cingular 8525 housing availablity?

Hi I have a Cingular 8525 and as usual due to my clumsiness I have drop it twice on the cement. Everything's working fine but being a person with a mild case of obsessive compulsive behavior I am buggin......
Also if you guys are looking for a case for your Hermes you should try to avoid this style. My 8525 was securely in this case and the phone 'flew' out of it when it was knocked on the front side of the case. The phone flew out knocking the battery boor, battery, and the sim right out of the phone. Not good! Also, the case uses a magnet for the flap closure so it goes without saying it is sending my phone into periodic landscape mode whenever I remove the phone from the case.
I have tried ebay for a replacement case and unlike all my other phone nothing is available and I mean nothing. Not even one cheesy knock off is on there for this phone.
Has anyone here looked into getting an OEM housing for the 8525?
Personally I would prefer to keep the phone in a 8525 case versus changing it out for other verients.
Sorry for the long post.....I'm sick in bed with a 103 fever so I figure that I would bug u guys
Thanks.
Derek

Looking for same for TyTN
I need a tytn oem case as well. I dropped and scratched mine. Irony of it is, I've had it for two months, purchased invisible skin two days before I dropped it - idn't get a chance to put it on before i dropped it!
Oh and mine was in a metal case. It rell out of that! So nothing's safe. Gotta put on invi skin!

try this
checkout this site. it has pretty much everything that is available.
you might want to invest in the hard metal case : )
http://www.thepocketsolution.com/cingular_8525_accessories.html

armedmetallica said:
I need a tytn oem case as well. I dropped and scratched mine. Irony of it is, I've had it for two months, purchased invisible skin two days before I dropped it - idn't get a chance to put it on before i dropped it!
Oh and mine was in a metal case. It rell out of that! So nothing's safe. Gotta put on invi skin!
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Did you happen to adjust the hinge(simply by bending it inward slightly) before placing your Hermes inside. I have an aluminum case, and I've test dropped it, and nothing happened.
***Please not from the factory, the hinge merely "clips" over/on the other side of the aluminum housing. If you want to make it more stable you have to slightly bend the "lip" that connects to the lower portion of the housing. YMMV. I had to readjust mine once as the first time I had it way too tight, and it was very hard to get my Hermes out of the case. Now it simply closes with an authoritative click, and I know my Hermes is secure.

Anybody find a place to get the housing for an 8525 yet? There is a large (its not that large, but its visible enough to be annoying) gash on the metal bezel running along 3 of the 4 sides of the display of my 8525

im new to the forums, but my 8525 got knocked out of my hand and got pretty messed up. my "t" key has also started to lift off of the pad. i wanted to know if this has happened to anybody and if there is any replacement keyboards for sale also. can i swithc over to the tytn with the proper front keyboard? any help would be amazing.

i just bought a dummy 8525 off of ebay, Im not sure how they are made, but I am going to see if I can switch the housing

please let me know how it works, i was thinking of doing the same thing...

itlynstalyn said:
please let me know how it works, i was thinking of doing the same thing...
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The dummy thing did not work, it isnt an actual housing, only the front buttons work, the rest are fake and do not move, there isnt even a real battery cover, its one piece. That was a waste of $10.99

still really desperate to get a new housing, anyone know where one is available?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/OEM-Housing-for-...temZ260100290172QQcategoryZ3728QQcmdZViewItem
Well let me add that I am not the seller. so don't ask me any questions, but this is a seller I have bought housing for my imate jam before...

hrm, sorry about bring up an old thread, but I thought it would be easier than starting a whole new one.
I'm purchasing a used dopod 838 pro sometime this week, and was looking to get a replacement housing for it as it is fairly abused. Would something like the above posted (HTC 8525 case) work well? I notice that, that case doesnt have a powerbutton on the front of the case, will this cause a problem when I go to replace the housing?
Ta.

BSoD_leet said:
hrm, sorry about bring up an old thread, but I thought it would be easier than starting a whole new one.
I'm purchasing a used dopod 838 pro sometime this week, and was looking to get a replacement housing for it as it is fairly abused. Would something like the above posted (HTC 8525 case) work well? I notice that, that case doesnt have a powerbutton on the front of the case, will this cause a problem when I go to replace the housing?
Ta.
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If should be ok, but you wont have the power button on the right side... ahahhahah it would jzu be a 8525 hahah
Why dont you juz get this one instead... tho
http://cgi.ebay.ie/For-O2-Trion-iMa...ryZ15039QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

armedmetallica said:
purchased invisible skin
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armedmetallica, where did you purchase the skin from? could you please PM me, thanks!

I know this is an old thread, but i found this place and its pretty pricey...
http://www.cellphone-repair-shop.com/products.php?cat=156
Has anyone found any other place... to get OEM replacment parts..

I know this is an old thread, but i found this place and its pretty pricey...
http://www.cellphone-repair-shop.com/products.php?cat=156
Has anyone found any other place... to get OEM replacment parts..

http://cnn.cn/shop/tytn-grey-housing-p-1295.html
There you go guys.. I dropped my phone before christmas, and broke the latch that holds the battery door on, and I had to use some tape for awhile. I must have ordered one of the last Cingular 8525 cases, since all they have is the HTC Hermes black cases with the front camera hole.
That shouldnt be too big of deal to you guys though looking for new cases. It took about a week and a half to get here (FL, USA) from Hong Kong at Christmas time. Very good site..

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Also, the case uses a magnet for the flap closure so it goes without saying it is sending my phone into periodic landscape mode whenever I remove the phone from the case.
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I use a case with magnetic closure..............I put the device into the case with the screen facing away from the magnet and I have never had any issue with it.

http://www.gsm4world.us/shop/cingular-8525-8525-c-210_276.html
55 bucks and your back in business

I am having the same problem sourcing the correct housing for my phone. I am from the UK and have searched high and low to find a housing for the UK equivalent the SPV M3100 (HERM100 - so the label says).
I have checked all the sites mentioned above, at cnn.cn they dont have the correct housing as the front buttons are different? and the cingular housing is 1: not a nice colour! and 2:L i dont know if this includes the mid plate as well.
Does anyone know where i can get hold of the correct housing(not silver) i dont mind the branding.