The Herald is dead, long live the Herald! - Wing, P4350 General

Just to let you know that the Herald is officially toilet proof!!
Dropped mine in the toilet last week (while trying to put on a swimsuit). I removed the battery immediately and rinsed it again with clean water, and didn't put it under the sun to dry....
After 3-4 days i sent it to the local dealer and they told me it couldn't be fixed.
Got it back today, pressed the power button and everything is working perfectly (Wlan, phone, bluetooth etc..)
Herald 1 - Toilet 0
Cheers

hahaha too funny

That proves too that you are a really lucky guy!
Congrats to you and your swimming herald!

My friend had a similar experience. Dropped PPC-6700 in the toilet a few days after I sold it to him. Managed to get it working after a using a blowdryer, but there were many problems with the phone.

lol @ moullas
indeed you are very lucky! everything is still working??

everything still operational!
i think the red cancel call button may be dead, but i'll have to do a hard reset to confirm, because i remember it working just after recovering it, and i've installed a lot of stuff that may had something to do with this problem...

moullas said:
i think the red cancel call button may be dead,
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Even if so, your still lucky

disaster ?
The Dutchman said:
Even if so, your still lucky
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May be slightly OT, but a friend of mine poured an Irish Coffe on the keyboard of his laptop (dont ask ..). Initailly it was stone dead, after 1 day it actually booted, and after 3 days he were able to type on the keyboard. Now, after a month or so, everything works EXCEPT one of the keyboard keys. Oh well

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OLTP begs for sympathy

Hi,
This is just one big cry for sympathy.
I know it's my own fault, it slipped from my cold fingers. But now my magician is stone dead, no blinking led anymore, no activity when connected with usb, nothing when you press the power button, soft-reset or whatever. I removed the battery & the sim, inserted it again, nothing happens :-(. Now it just feels strange, sort off naked without my magician on my side, no 7*24 web-access anymore :-(
So any response is welcome, even if you call me names. If you got any idea how to solve this pls let me know. Otherwise it will be going off to the repair center tomorrow afternoon. I'm even thinking what my replacement will be: a wizard, a prophet or just wait till the HSDPA devices come out this year.
Refards, M
hi oltp,
sorry to hear that (
i'm with you...
bad, bad, bad..
i'd better wait for small factor HSDPA/HSUPA device...
my hima was dead once, and those three weeks were like eternity...
buzz
Tnx buzz,
Three weeks without it, only the idea makes my wanna cry & all shivery. I think I'll follow your advice, but first wait & see what the repair center will do. If I'm very lucky it will be repaired under warranty, it's still covered by it. Only normally not valid for this kind of damage :-(
M
Sterkte kerel
Good luck
Small update: Went to the shop I bought it at last june. Good news it's covered in a two year warranty & they ship it for free to the repair center. Bad news they needed the invoice as well & I didn't bring it with me. They didn't even wanted to check their computers to see what data is in there about my magician or whatso-ever :-( Now I've got to go back tomorrow again & they take around ten working days to fix it, so a three week period without magician will be reality I guess.
Man I do feel stupid.
M
buzz_lightyear said:
i'd better wait for small factor HSDPA/HSUPA device...
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What are these devices?
HSDPA & HSUPA
Those are the next generation devices. Now we got GPRS, which will be replaced by UMTS, which will be replaced by the even better HSDPA.
M
Hi oltp,
Thats really really sad to hear and i know how incomplete it feels when we are without our device, even for a day..
Anyway hope everything goes fine under warranty.
But i heard that warranty expires if you do a ROM upgrade or a patched Big Storage. Hope the repair centre doesnt finds it out.
Il pray for you, don't worry..
Regards
Carty..
Hi Carty,
Thanks man indeed I'm worried about the 'minor changes' made to my device. The rom-upgrades I've done don't worry me the least, cause they were all TMO supplied, but the other changes might be dubious. I've send it in wednesday and the lovely lady at the desk assured me it will all be ok, maybe they'll give me an other one she even said. Nothing heard anymore since then, which is normal in my opinion. So now I count the days...
Regards, M
Last update on this:
I got a NEW magician, they covered it under warranty & I'm about the happiest person on the forum for today. Course I got the patch the rom to BIG Storage again to be able to restore my backup properly, but that's peanuts. & I need to buy a new screen protector, which will be delivered tomorrow. The old one wasn't returned & I didn't want to make a great fuss about it. They're actually sending me a new standard one, but I like the Brando ones more.
Thanks everone for feeling with me.
Cheers for now, M
Congratulations! Getting a replacement for free is something that doesn't happen in many countries. Just take good care of your new baby. :lol:
You bet I will ;-)
oltp said:
You bet I will
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Sounds good homey.
Thanks for all your hard work on this.
Been rocking this Rom since the beginning.
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Blackstone defect -> always vibrating

Hi... i brought my blackstone back to the shop and now its getting fixed.
What was happening: This afternoon my phone was vibrating in my pocket and i thought i'm getting a message. But nothing happens. Short time later my phone laid on the desk and it starts vibrating, not a short one a not ending vibration. I pick it up and it stops, i lay it down and it starts. I was wondering, whether the g-sensor is connected to the vibrator? So the vibration came and went.
I restarted and even hardreset my phone and nothing happened, same as before. Even when the phone was switched off, it sometimes was vibrating. Only removing the battery stopped it forever.
So now i'm going to ski and hope i'll get my phone back in a week.
Ciao
Rico
Oh dear, I'm so sorry, hope you get it fixed soon.
But I can't resist suggesting that some people might have paid good money for a phone that did that
Did you try a hard reset?
Latest HTC model: Touch Vibra ;-)
Hi Rico
As the other guy in the Swiss/German HD forum said where you posted the same question: What you got is the brandnew HTC Touch Vibra which had been expecially designed for women
Take it easy, man!
Same problem
Hi Rico, (nice name)
I had the same problem. Contacted HTC and they told me to send it in, So i Did.
Have not had it back so can't say if they were able to fix it.
keep you informed.
Rico
kenofalte said:
Hi Rico, (nice name)
I had the same problem. Contacted HTC and they told me to send it in, So i Did.
Have not had it back so can't say if they were able to fix it.
keep you informed.
Rico
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Sad for you but nice to hear i'm not the only one
nagging said:
Hi Rico
As the other guy in the Swiss/German HD forum said where you posted the same question: What you got is the brandnew HTC Touch Vibra which had been expecially designed for women
Take it easy, man!
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The post on the swiss board was also from me
kenofalte said:
...
I had the same problem. Contacted HTC and they told me to send it in, So i Did.
Have not had it back so can't say if they were able to fix it...
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Hi,
and another one...had the same problem, sent it to my vendor. Didn't get any response yet, but I'll let you know...
btw...unbelievable error, isn't it? Even when I switched off my phone it kept vibrating all the time...
Greets!
I had the same problem with mine after only a day, even when switched off it was vibrating. The only way to get it to stop was take the battery out.
After tearing it away from my wife I sent it back and they just sent me a new replacement.

Touchscreen Dead

Well it's been a helluva ride, my HD2, after nearly two years of faithful service, my touchscreen finally killed my phone. I can't even get past the lockscreen on my phone, so now it's time to move on. I'll see about getting a Nexus S or something but thanks to all the devs here and all of the community here for their wonderful advice. If it sounds like i'm giving up, unless someone here can provide a solution, i realize that cellphones have a two year shelf life anyway.
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Well it's been a helluva ride, my HD2, after nearly two years of faithful service, my touchscreen finally killed my phone. I can't even get past the lockscreen on my phone, so now it's time to move on. I'll see about getting a Nexus S or something but thanks to all the devs here and all of the community here for their wonderful advice. If it sounds like i'm giving up, unless someone here can provide a solution, i realize that cellphones have a two year shelf life anyway.
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Me too.... I've tried to restore stock WM6.5 and touch-screen stills not working.... Any idea from anyone??? I still believe that it's not hardware issue. The phone doesn't fall down... I hadn't any problem, 'till yesterday.... Please.. someone.. ;(
It happened to me. I replaced the digitizer/LCD and have been good since.
P.s. I hadn't ever dropped my phone or even scratched the screen when mine stopped responding.
You must replace screen.. no other solution :\
rjones9902 said:
Well it's been a helluva ride, my HD2, after nearly two years of faithful service, my touchscreen finally killed my phone. I can't even get past the lockscreen on my phone, so now it's time to move on. I'll see about getting a Nexus S or something but thanks to all the devs here and all of the community here for their wonderful advice. If it sounds like i'm giving up, unless someone here can provide a solution, i realize that cellphones have a two year shelf life anyway.
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Well mine have been faithful since now, i got it since December of 2009 and still going....
There are many things that made your touch stop working..for example:
humidity!!!! the eternal enemy of electronics...
Maybe while you were taking a bath..you got your phone playing music for you...THATS DEADLY!!
Humidity its the first thats got in my mind...if you got your HD2 pimped with android try installling wm6.5 again...if nothing happens..then its no software...!!!
The HD2 has the most "pain in ass" touchscreen ever made.....its a nitemare for technicians haha!! so i dont recommend you to try replacing it yourself
R.I.P. for you HD2 mate...and peace all over
I just bought a used HD2 that needs a new touch screen. It was weird because I bought the phone then 10 mins later the screen stopped working. I think it wasvjust epically bad timing, because the HD2 is in GREAT condition, but the phones are growing in age so the digitizer must have died.
I live in the Boston, Ma area and I'm going here to have my phone repaired...
http://www.megamobileboston.com/cell_phone_repairs.html
They sounded great on the phone and they actually list the HD2 specifically under screen repair on their website which is the first time I've ever seen that. So if you're driving distance from Boston, Ma, they will repair your HD2 screen for about $100.
yeah... i am on my second HD2 now, the first one died, the screen died twice, but it is covered under manufacturer warranty, and that is two years, so if you have had yours since december of 09, you are still in warranty i suppose.... you should give them a call and get it replaced... but if you are hspl'd then you should get rid of that before sending it back
wait, there may only be a one year warranty, because mine expired in june.... and the phone hasnt even been out for two years.... lols, silly me..... oh well, to the guy who posted above me, it is worth giving htc a call to see if your phone might be under warranty, because the screen ish is annoying, mine died a second time 3 months after being replaced...
I just got off the phone with HTC USA...they said a screen repair not under warranty is around $120....motherboard repair can be up to $290..cosmetic dings on the casing can be anywhere from $50-$150
Their prices considering the retail value of the phone...seem fair, and they are VERY thorough, they'll clean and replace EVERYTHING. But they don't pay for shipping if ur not under warranty so it's cost of repair plus about $20.
BTW - haven't been on the forums for about a year and it feels good to be back. Once I get the HD2 up and running i'll be contributing a lot to the Android forums and the HD2 forums I'm a designer and developer myself.
Dakargr said:
Well mine have been faithful since now, i got it since December of 2009 and still going....
There are many things that made your touch stop working..for example:
humidity!!!! the eternal enemy of electronics...
Maybe while you were taking a bath..you got your phone playing music for you...THATS DEADLY!!
Humidity its the first thats got in my mind...if you got your HD2 pimped with android try installling wm6.5 again...if nothing happens..then its no software...!!!
The HD2 has the most "pain in ass" touchscreen ever made.....its a nitemare for technicians haha!! so i dont recommend you to try replacing it yourself
R.I.P. for you HD2 mate...and peace all over
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Exactly brother.... humidity is the worst enemy ever.
I had this problem a while ago while i was running wm6.5. I just did a factory reset and everything was fine. It happened again while running android cm7 and i did a task29 and it was fine again. Ive been happily running a custom rom ever since! hope this helps...

Blew my SGS2 up...

couldnt believe it. had my phone since day release and loved it so much, been using CM7 since 1st nightly and i plugged it into my hifi to play some music and as soon as i pluged the headphone jack into the phone it fried it lol.. everytime i plugged my batt into the phone it instanly got very hot.. no screen nothing. tried using jig but no luck.. just a major hot phone around the camera and screen.
took it to be repaired under manafacture warranty...
just cant beleive it!
I feel sorry for you, man.
Something similar happened to me a few days ago, after a buggy shutdown phone got really hot.
Luckily I've touched it before it fried so I removed the batt and let it cool down, scary as hell!
goodey said:
couldnt believe it. had my phone since day release and loved it so much, been using CM7 since 1st nightly and i plugged it into my hifi to play some music and as soon as i pluged the headphone jack into the phone it fried it lol.. everytime i plugged my batt into the phone it instanly got very hot.. no screen nothing. tried using jig but no luck.. just a major hot phone around the camera and screen.
took it to be repaired under manafacture warranty...
just cant beleive it!
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Oh my GOD!If that had happened to me,I'd have gotten a heart attack,a stroke and my balls would fall from the rest of my body!I am really sorry man.
And I am overclocked at 1.6GHz...Jesus!
Thread was a dissapointment.. Was hoping for a story about you being a demolition guy and had left your phone by the tnt and accidently blew it up
But anyway, Unlucky dude, Do you have it rerpaired yet?
So they got you covered, even while you have CM7 installed. Will they like that? I'd really expect them to ignore the whole custom firmware aspect. Maybe the hardware is this damaged, they can't check that.
prodygee said:
So they got you covered, even while you have CM7 installed. Will they like that? I'd really expect them to ignore the whole custom firmware aspect. Maybe the hardware is this damaged, they can't check that.
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well they will never know.. its proper ****ed tbh... just dead..i reackon myhifi some how pumped voltage thru to the phone and blew up some resistors or sumut on the phone.
i made sure after i realised i couldnt get anything from the phone that they wouldnt get it fixed as i cooked it to make sure... i left batt in and charger to fry it even more to make sure...
+ tnh honest its hardware related.. cant see why even if they could find out jtagging it they would blame a rom for the cause...
MacaronyMax said:
Thread was a dissapointment.. Was hoping for a story about you being a demolition guy and had left your phone by the tnt and accidently blew it up
But anyway, Unlucky dude, Do you have it rerpaired yet?
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sent it off y'day.
take a few days to sort. but they already told me its 95% chance its a straight replacement...
UPDATE
Finally after 20+ days i got my phone back today.
they replaced the whole board inside..(damn i wanted a whole new phone)
anyway at least im bk up and running
goodey said:
UPDATE
Finally after 20+ days i got my phone back today.
they replaced the whole board inside..(damn i wanted a whole new phone)
anyway at least im bk up and running
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Great stuff..Now go and blow it up again
just messing man hope everything goes good for you..i could not live with out my beauty now
if i were you, i must be sad coz there is no more excuse to get the new Galaxy Note :/
bah im gonna wait a bit tillit gets a few more scratches and break it and claim on insurance... fuk it
You scared me a bit. brb checking the temp of my phone.
Dropped mine down the toilet yesterday its dead, on my 3rd s2 now after breaking a screen aswell
rojdag said:
Dropped mine down the toilet yesterday its dead, on my 3rd s2 now after breaking a screen aswell
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damn! u guys are tough!
How did you manage to break a GORILLA glass???
henrychukx said:
damn! u guys are tough!
How did you manage to break a GORILLA glass???
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Feeded it to a dinosaurs I guess
pcboyy said:
if i were you, i must be sad coz there is no more excuse to get the new Galaxy Note :/
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Haha
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Harsha Raj said:
Feeded it to a dinosaurs I guess
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Hahaha. This post made my day! Lmao!
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rojdag said:
Dropped mine down the toilet yesterday its dead, on my 3rd s2 now after breaking a screen aswell
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I wish i could meet such people in real who could handle such expensive device so carelessly .... U guys are god ... Till date ,i must nt say, i havent dropped my phone i care the fone like a baby ....U know wat i refrain my self taking da fone out of house when i m partying with frnds always in thought some thing bad will happen .... Such a scared s...r i am ..
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Harsha Raj said:
Feeded it to a dinosaurs I guess
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rofl.... yea, it never ends well when dinosaurs are involved
Mine had i problem with the usb.
The S2 kept thinking it was charging which kept the wifi on and caused mayor battery drains.
Luckily I got the phone back to stock when it was a bit stable on the usb and could send it back after doing the jig connect.
Got repaired in 1 1/2 week
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[Q] can't be heard

Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
ironside2011 said:
Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
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I would take it back, mine has been flawless since I got it shortly after the release date.
maybe
I was thinking about that. But maybe a factory reset would help
ironside2011 said:
I was thinking about that. But maybe a factory reset would help
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That's the first thing I would've tried !! I mean heck, if my phone isn't working, it's time to drop 5 yards and punt ...
Chopstix9 said:
That's the first thing I would've tried !! I mean heck, if my phone isn't working, it's time to drop 5 yards and punt ...
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Well yeah, but hard resets are always a pain. And most of the time don't fix what's wrong
ironside2011 said:
Well,just this week nobody can hear me when I make calls or they call me.
I've had my phone work perfect since September 2nd when I bought from Verizon.
It runs 4.4.4 totally stock. Tried clearing out the microphone port and only helped a tad.
Is there a way to fix it without a return exchange?
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Go exchamge it. My first S5 (this is my third) had a microphone issue where my voice was muffled and hardly audible. Exchanged it and never looked back.
BigBot96 said:
Go exchamge it. My first S5 (this is my third) had a microphone issue where my voice was muffled and hardly audible. Exchanged it and never looked back.
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I'm gonna go Monday to exchange it. Hopefully it doesn't decide to work while I'm there. Happens a lot to me.
simonkelso said:
I'm gonna go Monday to exchange it. Hopefully it doesn't decide to work while I'm there. Happens a lot to me.
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Lol yeah... Same here. They didn't believe me but I was within my 14 days so they swapped it with a new one. My second S5 had a black speck right in the middle of the display.. Like a peice of bark under the digitizer. 3rd times the charm lol
Good luck!:good:
BigBot96 said:
Lol yeah... Same here. They didn't believe me but I was within my 14 days so they swapped it with a new one. My second S5 had a black speck right in the middle of the display.. Like a peice of bark under the digitizer. 3rd times the charm lol
Good luck!:good:
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Unfortunately I'm beyond the 14 day exchange policy... Hopefully they be nice about it. Since I can't really use like intended
simonkelso said:
Well yeah, but hard resets are always a pain. And most of the time don't fix what's wrong
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You said U R running totally stock. What's the pain of a hard reset? Backup appz and it's a snap to restore phone to pre-wipe state. I have odined back to stock, gone through the whole process to root again and restore everything a couple of times now. If anything, that would be considered a pain but it really ain't chit ...
You can be sure that's prolly the first thing the rep is gonna try in the store before giving you a new phone.
Chopstix9 said:
You said U R running totally stock. What's the pain of a hard reset? Backup appz and it's a snap to restore phone to pre-wipe state. I have odined back to stock, gone through the whole process to root again and restore everything a couple of times now. If anything, that would be considered a pain but it really ain't chit ...
You can be sure that's prolly the first thing the rep is gonna try in the store before giving you a new phone.
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Yeah I know.... I just don't like the whole hard reset process. I'm lazy about it
simonkelso said:
Yeah I know.... I just don't like the whole hard reset process. I'm lazy about it
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If there is a problem might be best to go through Samsung for a repair instead of Verizon to just get a refurbished device. That's what I'd do.
Before you reset/return...take your battery out for 10 min. or so...and then restart your device...maybe the battery voltage or calibration is causing the speaker interference...it's worth a shot.
shroyede said:
Before you reset/return...take your battery out for 10 min. or so...and then restart your device...maybe the battery voltage or calibration is causing the speaker interference...it's worth a shot.
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I did notice its been getting rocket hot a couple of times this week.
I haven't made any calls or received any since I factory reset it 2 days ago. Maybe it works again, I'll try tomorrow than go to Verizon
Well I think it was the battery. The microphone seems to work now. Did 3 voice recordings. All of them came out crystal clear with and without background noise.
Good to hear...it wouldn't hurt to purchase a new charger too.
I'm gonna hang on to the charger, its the first offical charger I've had in awhile. My DINC, nexus and gs3 all burned through their real charger oddly quick. I think its the weather where I'm from its been 111°-120°f for all of September
Hot damm...try to stay in the shade...lol
shroyede said:
Hot damm...try to stay in the shade...lol
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Yeah, i leave it inside now unless I need to bring it with me

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