Hey all I just nabbed an i-mate JASJAM (Hermes) on eBay for AU $120 ($5.50 postage) to go along with/replace my Magician, the only defect is a non-functioning earpiece speaker, which I can most likely fix easily.
I've been missing a hardware keyboard for a pretty long time, I was considering modding my Magician to have a slide out QWERTY thumbboard.
I've had my Magician for a year or 2, I love it, bought a pink housing for it and upgraded it to Cotulla's WM6.1 and it's like a new phone It was originally given to me by my ex-girlfriend's mum when she got a new phone. She had never used it for anything but calls and txt, which I was appaled at lol
So did I get a good deal?
You didn't get a bargain, but as long as you can repair that ear piece you got a good price.
I paid $100 +postage 6 months ago for a JasJam via ebay, but I was picky and let about 20 go for a higher price before I finally got one.
This is my 2nd JasJam - first is still mine and had a white screen issue which I've fixed, this 2nd is now my wife's and is in far better condition than my 2.5 year old JasJam.
I love the keyboard and Windows Mobile too, so mine gets used heavily
Cheers + welcome!
G.
Earpiece speaker should not be a problem. Most often it's just the spring contacts not touching the board or a bit of oxidisation on the contacts. Just sometimes the speaker is faulty, in which case there is a motorola one that fits almost perfectly and is easier to find than the original. (pretty cheap too)
As for it being a bargain - well count yourself lucky if it's one that has no alignment and white screen problems, they are awkward if not impossible in some cases to deal with.
Mike
Well at least I didn't get ripped off like I would have been if I got one of the $200+ ones
@mikechannon Should be an easy task, had my Magician apart countless times to try out mods, change housings, tighten the stylus holder etc.
@Ogier I love WinMo too, it's so useful I can't stand using a phone with a closed FW for too long. It just annoys me not having a decent file manager etc.
Been lurking for a while and learning all sorts, glad to become a part of your community
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lol something against lurkers? I always lurk for a while before posting so that I'm not a complete noob when I start
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I sold my Wizard to get a Universal and funds won't allow it at the moment so going back to a Compact, sold my last a few months back. Just picked up a tatty one cheap....anyone know of a source for new cases if it can be done in the UK ? Ebay link maybe ?
monkeyphonix: do you mind changing the name of this thread to "New Magician housing?" to be a bit more helpful. It's a bit misleading right now.
I haven't heard of anyone selling 3rd party case, but if you search you can find HTC's telephone numbers and might get spares.
V
vijay555 said:
monkeyphonix: do you mind changing the name of this thread to "New Magician housing?" to be a bit more helpful. It's a bit misleading right now.
I haven't heard of anyone selling 3rd party case, but if you search you can find HTC's telephone numbers and might get spares.
V
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I have their website up now with a UK number, looks like they do the work, not sure if they sell spares but will ring them, cheers.
have a look on the board though, I do think a few guys have tried it, so you might be lucky! I still love the Magician, just don't find the wizard attractive enough really. Universal - good for beating a man to death with...
V
hahaha...I like the comment about the Universal......can be used as a weapon in self-defence
O2mini_noob - it's all true!
This is what I have to wear when I put it in my pocket:
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That's me in black :shock: (not really!)
I shouldn't be cruel. It's a nice device. I just wish they had put a lanyard hole on it, otherwise it's bound to fall and get mashed up like monkeyphonix's.
V
hahaha....that's a great illustration :lol:
There's another option for Magician cases
(1) Buy a silicon skin to protect your device ..black or brown will mask the condition of the exterior.
(2) At skinit.com, buy skins for your Magician and transform a tatty looking handheld into the coolest device in your area
(3) If the screen is scratched, get the "scratch remover" from ebay and DIY the repair of the screen. Then put a screen protector on.
Doing this will increase the resell value of your device when it's time for an upgrade
HERE you can find my auction for a brand new in box T-mobile Ameo.
As it states it's brand new in box so is locked to t-mobile.
I am willing to unlock it if that is something the winning bidder would be interested in.
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Please feel free to PM me if your interested.
Just out of curiosity, why are you selling it?
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Just out of curiosity, why are you selling it?
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Long story but...
I have a wizard (for tinkering), a Kaiser (for day to day use) and the ameo for on the go media etc.
I don't really use the ameo that often and it therefore spends quite a lot of its time in my bedside drawer.
Anyway i had the misfortune of losing it on the way to work a week or so ago and have received the new one as a replacement.
Thought i'd take the opportunity to recoup some money (and maybe buy a meizu)
Thats odd, I've been searching Ebay for 4 weeks now. Thought I had every athena/advantage/ameo/x7500/u1000 in my watch list but for some reason I didn't have that one.
Anyway I just won one 2hrs ago for £300 so looks like your auctions going well.
went pretty good in the end. got 360 english.
Man I've been looking for one of those for a while. It's either that or the Shift for me right now.
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went pretty good in the end. got 360 english.
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you did well there. the value of ameo/athenas is plummeting so if you're not using one now's the time to sell. luckily there are still some wallies setting 500 quid buy it nows on ebay so by power of contrast its helping us more grounded individuals get a better price.
The ones on there for £400 buy it now just don't seem to sell
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The ones on there for £400 buy it now just don't seem to sell
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It's probably because there's better stuff out there for less now. It's not as high tech as it was at the start of last year which was the one and only reason for having it.
I wouldn't pay 400 quid for any pocket pc nowadays as it seems that no matter how powerful a new device might be will never get over the barrier of being a windows mobile device. i like my internet and windows mobile just doesnt cut the mustard these days, so im not as taken to the platform as once i was.
Well, the only concern I had with my Hermes was it is god dam big.
It's tolerable when it's without anything but I just want protect my 8525 from scratches.
I always cover my phone with plastic cover, but it looks so big when it's in my pant's pocket,
as someone once joked that he thought it was my PH.D(pretty huge D) skewed to left(or right),
and I'm an asian, the fact of which makes my figure pretty an irony(I can joke about my race, right??).
In my country, Korea, they cover phone with sorta printed plastic or film sticker,
which enables easy outfit reforms of phones as well as scratch protaction.
As they don't have 8525 in this country, I was looking for expansion drawings for 8525, which I couldn't.
I posted about this issue but no one gives a dam about that or my Eng was sucky.
Anyhow, I finally made it by myself. it's kinda not perfect yet.
I ordered plastic sticky sheet from cellphone reforming shop and I need to cut that sheet(or sh*t) by my self following the expansion drawing, but if they gets enough demand, I can ask for customized factory cut of the expansion drawing so that I(or we) don't have to waste my time for precise cutting.
I don't believe there would be such a huge demand, cuz this forum is for sorta geeks(at least a bit of), not for metropolitan-ambiguous gendered dudes.
So the product of covered phones will be like this::
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I will post mine soon if I succeed in making a versatile outfit. I am making it with Paul Smith stripes, and you can also cover your phone with sorta like Gucci or LV or BMW, Jessica alba....and so on.
So if you are interested in getting something like that, post a reply or enter a poll.
Then I am thinking about supplying through ebay.
The cost of the cover would be around 15 bucks including shipping fee.
Customized order(of picture) would be more than that, I gotta ask the shop owner.
So anyone interested??
It's only available for 8525, or other Hermes model which has totally same outfit.
P.S- How do you call that kinda cover in English, if it has name?
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P.S- How do you call that kinda cover in English, if it has name?
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i dunno, i guess you can call it a skin?
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a little googling and i found this http://www.skinit.com/ and it looks like they do have skins for the hermes
if you do decide to sell.......and if someone orders a hello kitty one, pls make sure to post that persons address here so we can go beat up that person
Hi there, selling my X7501. Has served me well, kept in pretty good condition, a few minor cosmetics on screen and keyboard. Comes with UK power adapter + international converter socket, phone, miniusb-usb cable, 2gb SD card inside, has always been used with a screen protector, a spare one is included (you might like to put a fresh one on, since i got a piece of dust trapped under the current one Also comes with the default handsfree headset. Naturally it's unlocked.
Phone located in australia, will ship insured/registered for peace of mind
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Hoping for $550 AUD + user pays postage, but i'll consider any decent offer. (bumped)
I also have a official Jawbone bluetooth headset for sale, these lil fellas are probably the best out there. For seperate or combined sale.
That's all the pics for now.
bump for $550.
Hi there, my first post here. You still interested in selling? Is the unit working without problems, what rom is running? Cheers.
Interested, too
Love mine. Can't always find my keyboard, and the housing on mine is a lot, lot worse than yours. I'm also having doubts about my mini usb connection - seems that I plug it in too much. Housing by itself was running US$180 in July, but it looks as if the guy has run out of them: I can't find any now.
I live in the US, and I just checked exchange rates, so it comes out to about US$360, today.
PM me. I'm very interested.
PM me... I consider this sold for that price.
Thank you.
Still waiting on a response
I'm guessing you've got a buyer - but please let us know. If you feel inclined, it would be helpful to know how much you got for it so we can deduce a good going rate.
Thanks!
I've been seeing them go for 450-550 here in the US
If it's still going for sale ... I'm in Darwin so it won't be so far to ship
Send me a pm or email if it's sale going begging.
Andy
I just picked up a fuze last night but I wanted to thank everyone on here for all the help to make my old 8525 rock as hard as it could
Picked up a Fuze?
What do you mean?
Sounds like dB Zac is a bit of a live wire doesn't it?
He got a new phone, I believe its HTC though its in America and could be called just about ANYTHING elsewhere....
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He was thirsty:
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Actually, the HTC Touch Pro is the AT&T Fuze in the US, which slight modifications/improvements.
my bad, its a Raphael
hahahahaha
It's all right with you?
So far I am amazed by it. I had no idea that manila could run so smooth and really become a better way to toggle programs and layer the today screen. The one thing I didn't expect was even though the screen isn't any bigger it is way more useful in respect to the touch screen because of the lack of a "lip" around the screen
I will say I don't like the gloss black finish but I think that that is only on the ATT version.
Saying goodbye, Selling my Hermes
After years of not having the balls to leave my girl, I finally did it and hooked up with the G1. So I'm putting her back on the market. To be specific its the ATT 8525 version, and unlocked of course. She'll be coming with an invisible shield pre-installed, 1GB Micro SD Card, 2 stylus, stock rom or your choice of any custom rom on here, and a wall charger. I'm hoping to get $150 obo. She is still in very good condition, no notable scratches or anything. Here are some pics of this beauty, PM me if you are interested. Thanks! I'm letting my xda family have first debs on her first before I put her up on eBay.
Goodbye Hermes. The time has come.
Well I hope to see some of you in the Raphael section but I picked up a ATT Fuze on the 11th. I never thought I would be so attached to a phone lol. The 8525 has treated me very well and made it through a deployment to Iraq lol. It’s so dented and chipped up its amazing it still works. Well guys see ya later, its been a great few years. Thanks for the help.
Sincerely
Matt
Man, talk about horrible timing. lol 3 members posted threads with similar titles of saying bye to their phone. Now my thread just seems so out of place in this one. Don't take it as me derailing the thread, it was moved here. Sorry.
hey, what ever makes easier to find info in searches and what not is ok in my book
Goodbye Hermes, you have served me well
Hello all
Well, its that time now that i have to move on
i have had one hermes for the last year and a half and then another was purchased just last week in the hope of reviving my ailing hermes leaving me with one perfectly working, cosmetically almost brand new hermes and one hermes which is slightly scuffed and has the white screen issue
and the order was placed for one HTC Touch Pro last night ready to arrive at my door in the next few days
well, its been a good long stretch! hope to see some more people over there soon!
if anyones interested in a hermes or even parts from a hermes please post here and i shall duly send them on!
many thanks to all