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Dropped my i-mate

:shock: Just dropped my imate on to concrete floor. Amazingly, it survived, screen is OK, just badly scratched left edge of the unit. Now, I am wondering where I can buy replacement cabinet for it. Any ideas?

Welcome to the crowd!
I dropped mine on the street a week ago. Just a few scrathes, but it still works as new.
I don't think you'll have much luck finding a new case - expect at O2 (or T-Mobile).

If You find a way to get a new let us know. I also need one.

is it insured?
if so back it up.... then hold it over your head and drop it.... then repeat as neccessary. If the stubbourn blighter refuses to die, back you car over it.
Then go claim a new one.

Nice idea, :lol:
but I'm not sure about the insurance.
I'm not a murder
and right now it is hard to get a new one.
So I have to love my individual device with scratches made of my own.
Jens

Add me to the list... I dropped my imate this morning and a crescent shaped piece of black plastic broke off the top (right in front of the power button). If anyone finds these replacement cabinents or tops, please post it here!
Jon.

dadarkmcse said:
Add me to the list... I dropped my imate this morning and a crescent shaped piece of black plastic broke off the top (right in front of the power button). If anyone finds these replacement cabinents or tops, please post it here!
Jon.
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OUch! Even worse that mone!
I think, I am going to start a new thread - pictures of dropped IMATE

They made the bloody thing way too slippery for a phone........maybe we can fix iPAQ 2200 style rubbers on the side.......... :?

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

DAMN!!!, UNIVERSAL BROKEN!!!

I am so upset, i just got my universal on saturday, i have been enjoying it but i could not use it as a phone because i needed to unlock it. I had the damn thing in my pocket and was on a phone call on my other phone in the car, in my front pocket, not back. Got out of the car, walked into the hall and opened it and there it was, A BIG UGLY black gash on the screen, the screen cracked, it just in my pocket!!, closed too! Where can i get this fixed, i am in the states and the phone is not sold here so i don't know here to get it fixed. Please, the LCD liquid has made a dark smere across the left side, i need help, please. Also what is the best case to get, so this does not happen again?

Check Pocket PC Techs. They will replace the screen for you.

how?
Please how do i get to them?

ok
ok, thanks, thats really expensive, ok, what is best case to use for this device?

Broken screen resolution
Ok thank God i don't have to pay over $250 to get my screen fixed. T-mobile Uk agreed to replace it since it was gotten through them. The way this still happened baffels me. I have had my MDA3 for over 6 months and it has fallen about 4 times, and stuff and it still works fine, but the exec screen broke while in my pocket. Strange. My question is that, for people who have an exec, do you leave it in laptop mode or tablet mode most of the time, and have u had to replace yours or do a repair?

Broke my Wizard to, im so damn worried about my universal. Don't got the money over to fix that screen if it's gettin broke, have had almost all pda phones you can get in .se and never cracked any screen but damn qtek ive done it on

I use a krusell case but not because it is the best but because it was the only one available on hand. It cost 29€ here in spain.
Also, I never leave it in tablet mode in my pocket. Always in Laptop mode.
It's only in tablet mode while it's on my desk.

Purchase a metal case. You can keep it in PDA mode and view the screen while inside the case. It also has a belt clip
UD.

Thanks
I pray the second one does not break when it arrives, it is too expensive to fix these things. Can you post a link to the case? i have looked at most of the cases on here, i think i will go with the one for the T-mobile side kick 2, it is cheaper and looks ok. I just need something with a strong belt hook and is well paded, so if it is on my hip and something actually presses on it this time, it will not break.

I must admit , I feel my Unirversal is more vunerable than any other device I have ever owned - can't quit put my finger on why , but I feel as if it wouldn't survive being dropped as well as myXDA, XDAII , s100 , or wizard for that matter !
The XDA / XDAII came with a nice case vertical flip case with a metal plate in the flap - which would be ideal in my eyes , but I have only seen one like that on Ebay for the exec (Via hong kong! ) and I suspect the one you actaully receive may be different (horizontal )

here is the krusell case link:
http://www.krusell.se/product.php?productID=2095&category=7
and here is a metal case link:
http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=1355&t_mode=des
hope this helps

I had an XDA 3 and used a metal case. BIG ERROR!
one day the belt clip connector of the case broke and the device fell down, cracking the screen.
For my Mda Pro I ordered one Piel Frama case, which has not only a belt clip but also a fixed belt latch (you can take of original clip and then below) which should not break.
Also this case protects the device from all sides and seems to be thick enough to give it good protection in case of falls.
Details here:
http://www.pielframa.net/prodi.asp?ID=412

case
Replies, thank you all for your reply, i think i will go with a leather case, the metal ones are not attractive. The funny thing is that i just sent the phone back today, now it is gone, and as i got home, i got the unlock code from t-mobile UK!!!. DAMN!! I think i just have a bad luck week.

You can get cheap leather case with all sort of design off Ebay. I got mine from there and the quality is not bad at all

Piel Frama does NOT have a belt clip.
UD.
P.S. Some reviews:
Piel Frama leather case
http://pocketpcdubai.com/i-mate_pielframa/jasjar/review.html
Brando Metal Case
http://pocketpcdubai.com/reviews/brando/metalcases/jasjar/review.html
Proporta Alu-leather case
http://pocketpcdubai.com/reviews/Proporta/cases/jasjar/review.html

@universaldoc
check the link, I posted. I speak about a different Pielframe case. And this one HAS A BELT CLIP.

@BlackICE,
My bad! Thank for you for the correction. I thought you were referring to the standard case.
UD.

Just as an observation, the reason the screen would crack in your pocket would be something sharp hitting it? Could this not be easily solved by always making sure that the side of the HTC with the screen on it always faces towards your leg and not towards the outside? Sounds like an easier option than buying a metal case anyway :?

i usually keep my xda exec in my front pocket ... i'm not really a fan of cases esp. for the htc universals .... somewhat tacky ...

HTC
I had 15 cents in my pocket when it happened but i doubt that had anything to do with, it may have but with the way the coins were, i don't think so. I think maybe cause my knees bent, it stretched my trousers and that caused it (can't stop thinking about that day, ::sob::sob:.
With my MDA3, i always used the case that came with it, i like that, cause the case only holds the device. Thanks for your advice, :wink: i just ordered that ALU-Leather yesterday, but i am thinking it will be uncomfortable answering the phone with that leather all around it. I will see how it works out when it gets here but protection is number one now, i can't keep shipping it back to the UK. To people with cases that house the unit, do you answer the phone with the leather all around the unit or u use bluetooth, or you take it out of the case?

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..

spanky310 said:
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.

Personal "issue" regarding PDAir Aluminium Case and T-Mobile Vario IV

Thought id make a post to let anyone thinking of getting a PDair aluminium case for the Vario IV (UK) know about my experience with it.
I Recieved my vario just over a week ago and untill this morning i have kept it completely unblemished.
My black aluminium case arrived through the post this morning and upon inspection seemed to be just what i was looking for. the neoprene within the lower part of the case seemed to hold the phone snugly and the catch was firm, ensuring the case wouldnt open accidently and drop my phone. the one thing i did notice was the lack of neoprene on the upper part of the case (read lid), but after looking at a few pictures on the web and vids on youtube i noticed that this was standard on the case and not an error with mine personally.
So i continued to use it sucessfully, flipping the case open to slide the screen and use my keyboard, untill this evening after about 8 hrs of usage i noticed three deep scratches froming on the side of the screen part of the phone near the volume buttons. however on the lower part of the screen part of the phone, above the usb port a particularly nasty scratch has formed measuring 2cm in length. needless to say I am not happy, as the case i bought to protect my phone has caused this much damage.
I have emailed the supplier, hopefully it may be a fault with my case and that a replacement may work fine, but eitherway i felt it was worthwile reporting this to the community incase it saves someone else from getting their phone wrecked.
BTW anyone know of a way of polishing out the scratches i now have?

the only way i know of is to use an extremely high grit sandpaper or use a buffer.

I also got the PDAir Case and mine has got neoprene in the lid as well! I use it for 2 weeks now and no scratches on my phone.
But I have to admit that I don't use the clip provided with the case but carry it arround in this case: HTC Pouch Case

where did you get your aluminium case? i checked the pdair website and it states the tmobile vario IV case as "coming soon".
As an update, after i fired off a rude email to the store i bought the case from they said that the case i recieved was the wrong one and that the one for the tmobile vario IV isnt out yet, so i sent it back to them and recieved a full refund, which would be fine except the scratches i now have as a momento of that shop.
Think ill buy the case directly from pdair in the states and get it shipped over when they are out, save on alot of trouble

I got mine from ebay. But there are several other shops selling "PDAir" Cases that all look some different... Maybe mine is a fake - a good one ;-)