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What are u going to do with your old phones?

As the title says, where do you put ur old phones? GF, sell, throw away, donate it?
I'm pretty happy that I managed to sell my HTC Tattoo, but maybe there are phone models which can't be sold anymore because they are not valuable anymore...

i have plenty of friends with less money then i

Selling my Htc magic hehe to a guy that was honest with me that he wants to buy them to fix and re-sell them (doesn't care about condition), and a good price too of 235$ canadian.
unless I can find higher i'll sell to him.
can't wait for sammy phone

The store I ordered it buys the old phones

As I do with all my old phones, give it one of the nursing staff who need it better than I.
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Forgot to say, it's an HD2

The phone i'm currently using is having its last breath and i don't know how it's working right now :\
Plus its company had a bankrupcy so even if i tried to donate it ,it'll be thrown back at my face ... guss what is it ?!
Its name is O2 Atom Life , i had Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 before but it died in front of my eyes so i went back to the mentioned device >_>
When i buy Galaxy S i want to do something with my O2 that'll makes me feel good and right now the only idea i'm having is throwing it from a high place

Gonna try to sell my bricked G1 on ebay. Hopefully someone would need parts when I do.

Giving mine to the GF, its the HTC Desire, which I still like immensely and want to keep around to play with when it gets Froyo etc

o2 mini
Putting my legendary O2 mini as table clock. Task reminder and daily weather report.

Wife's destiny!
The goal before my eyes, to buy the galaxy s, I had to promise my wife that she is allowed to crush my diamond with big hammer!!!
She hate's it so much, cause I played araound and flashed new ROMs all the time
I have a feeling that it will be getting worse with the galaxy s, but at least I have green lieght to buy one...

mderm said:
The goal before my eyes, to buy the galaxy s, I had to promise my wife that she is allowed to crush my diamond with big hammer!!!
She hate's it so much, cause I played araound and flashed new ROMs all the time
I have a feeling that it will be getting worse with the galaxy s, but at least I have green lieght to buy one...
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...... That's the trouble with Wives, they NEVER, EVER forget.
Men work in single-cell attitude.... we see something, and either walk away or buy it.
Women on the other hand are complex multi-cell beings, wholly composed of unknown quantities of interconnected or interwoven argumental parts.
....My heart goes out to you.

Beards said:
...... That's the trouble with Wives, they NEVER, EVER forget.
Men work in single-cell attitude.... we see something, and either walk away or buy it.
Women on the other hand are complex multi-cell beings, wholly composed of unknown quantities of interconnected or interwoven argumental parts.
....My heart goes out to you.
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Thank you man.
But, I love her and I especially love the idea to make a HD video of the crushing & perhaps burning session with wicked and wild look in her eyes.
I'm looking forward to the death of my Diamond since it is already half-dead and I'm really annoyed of it.
Greetings

mderm said:
Thank you man.
But, I love her and I especially love the idea to make a HD video of the crushing & perhaps burning session with wicked and wild look in her eyes.
I'm looking forward to the death of my Diamond since it is already half-dead and I'm really annoyed of it.
Greetings
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In that case.........

So very, very mad at my G1. A trip to the desert with my 12 gauge will set things right!

Use it as my drunk phone when I'm out and drinking.
Or maybe I just use my even older W850i for that.
X1 wasn't really cheap when it come out and I dont know if I want to lost it when I'm drunk.
It's still awesome phone.

Ill send in my nexus one to google to get it replaced for minor cosmetic damage. Then i'll either sell it, give it to the wife (which is unlikely since she drops and loses all the gadgets i give her) or put it in the draw on top of my Xperia X1i.

BuddyLee said:
give it to the wife (which is unlikely since she drops and loses all the gadgets i give her).
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Ahh, so you have one of those as well.
...and there I was thinking mine was from a 'duff batch'.

Beards said:
Ahh, so you have one of those as well.
...and there I was thinking mine was from a 'duff batch'.
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Dont even make me bring up umbrellas ... The loss of my umbrellas brings a tear to my eye ... they were not just regular umbrellas they were art.
A week later after she had borrowed my umbrella ... "Hey babe do you know where my umbrella is ..." She replies ... "Oh, yea, I forgot it in the train, im sorry. Can i borrow this other one its pouring outside?"
At that point I just have to give up and give in. It is a helpless cause ... what did i get myself into.

I can't give my old one to the misses, she already wants a Galaxy S too, and being Korean she thinks she's more entitled to the first one!
I'll probably put a stock ROM back on my HD and offer it up on FreeCycle.

I'll keep my touchpro and drop the sim in it when I'm out on the water. That way if my phone goes swimming at least it's not the galaxy.

BB got more evo's in, i'm going to replace mine!

I got called about more evo's today at BB, so i'm going to replace mine, wish me luck!
I'll post here with the hardware code and such to see if it's a brand new batch.

tell us if you find anything.
mad curious --- but the possibility of a new batch already is kinda low right? i mean would HTC put a new better batch into production this fast? if they do, damn our massive amounts of emails are helping.

chim4ira312 said:
tell us if you find anything.
mad curious --- but the possibility of a new batch already is kinda low right? i mean would HTC put a new better batch into production this fast? if they do, damn our massive amounts of emails are helping.
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Very likely no changes yet, they are just pushing out very little. Curious note, the store got one single evo in, not a whole shipment, just one.
Old:
HW:0002
problems:
screen pealing
light leak
grounding problem
bad wifi
bad battery life
New:
Hw:0002
no light leak
screen is stuck firm(for now)
Problems:
Grounding (still present)
Headphone jack is fine on both and i'm still testing the wifi and battery.
I had them put my name back on the list at the bottom so maybe I can get a different batch next time.
I showed the BB people the screen grounding issue and they were like holy crap, then tried their test unit and it did the same thing.

hm. just one? just yours?
could that hint that sprint stopped production for a bit and are trying to fix the issues and readying for a new batch??

chim4ira312 said:
hm. just one? just yours?
could that hint that sprint stopped production for a bit and are trying to fix the issues and readying for a new batch??
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I'm hoping so, i mentioned to a friend earlier that the huge delay could be that htc is fixing things before putting out more phones. Dangerous thing to do given that cell phones get 'old' VERY quickly but if it's what they are doing then they are amazing.

That sucks both have the screen issue.

do u think that radio shack will be getting more preordered evos in today..idk if radio shacks affiliated with best buy or not

radioshack is not affiliated at all with bestbuy lol
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radioshack is not affiliated at all with bestbuy lol
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Ohh lol..i had a airhead moment..thanx..but do you think they would cuz it seems sprint,radioshack and bestbuy get them around the same time on fridays? ive been waiting for mne since last thursday

Radioshack told me to call back on Friday. If not they probably won't get any until next Friday.
Bestbuy has no idea and don't expect anything this week.
Either HTC Evo production is more backed up than Incredible or Sprint/HTC is shutting it down to fix issues.

jerryparid said:
Radioshack told me to call back on Friday. If not they probably won't get any until next Friday.
Bestbuy has no idea and don't expect anything this week.
Either HTC Evo production is more backed up than Incredible or Sprint/HTC is shutting it down to fix issues.
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The BB didn't even know they had this one coming in, called them to confirm that they had my name on the list and 30min later they called back saying they had one for me

mrono said:
Very likely no changes yet, they are just pushing out very little. Curious note, the store got one single evo in, not a whole shipment, just one.
Old:
HW:0002
problems:
screen pealing
light leak
grounding problem
bad wifi
bad battery life
New:
Hw:0002
no light leak
screen is stuck firm(for now)
Problems:
Grounding (still present)
Headphone jack is fine on both and i'm still testing the wifi and battery.
I had them put my name back on the list at the bottom so maybe I can get a different batch next time.
I showed the BB people the screen grounding issue and they were like holy crap, then tried their test unit and it did the same thing.
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chim4ira312 said:
hm. just one? just yours?
could that hint that sprint stopped production for a bit and are trying to fix the issues and readying for a new batch??
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mrono said:
I'm hoping so, i mentioned to a friend earlier that the huge delay could be that htc is fixing things before putting out more phones. Dangerous thing to do given that cell phones get 'old' VERY quickly but if it's what they are doing then they are amazing.
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The thing is that there's only like 15 days left, I've calling them since past Monday without luck.

I'm glad I have insurance. Going to wait about 3 months then file my claim

rutter9 said:
I'm glad I have insurance. Going to wait about 3 months then file my claim
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I am doing the same, although I certainly hope they dont patch the rooting by then and have that preloaded on new phones...that would be a tough choice then....defective screen with root or fixed screen without root

The Great White Hope II

As in i hope i do not screw my phone up, it all started when i first laid eyes on the white version of the gs2, i had to have it but since im in the greatest country in the world i knew i would have to shell out another 600$(out of the question). so i hit the webs amazon, ebay and finally i found a website that had the parts to buy. And 125$ later here we GO( joker voice)
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there is a first time for evrything
time to pop my cherry PAUSE
point of no return
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[/IMG]damn bootup fine but no sound had to go back under and remove speaker and put it in the new housing. that part wasnt in the youtube tutorial oh well
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if you got bad nerves don't try this at home nice huh

http://www.imgur.com/k7uQJ.jpg
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all I can say is WOW

Where did you get the parts?

I was in the same boat as OP. However, seeing the demand of the galaxy s2 is still high (especially on my local craigslist), I just decided to sell my black sgs2 and bought a white one. Sold my sgs2 for $550 (could have gone a bit more but i was in a rush to fund the white one) and got a brand new white one for $670 incl taxes. So thats a difference of $120 for getting a bnew authentic white version of the sgs2 without the hassle of ordering parts and doing a little diy.
Nevertheless, this is a great alternative for those wanting to change colours!
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Cellular nationwide network website out of hong kong,

bimmerboii said:
I was in the same boat as OP. However, seeing the demand of the galaxy s2 is still high (especially on my local craigslist), I just decided to sell my black sgs2 and bought a white one. Sold my sgs2 for $550 (could have gone a bit more but i was in a rush to fund the white one) and got a brand new white one for $670 incl taxes. So thats a difference of $120 for getting a bnew authentic white version of the sgs2 without the hassle of ordering parts and doing a little diy.
Nevertheless, this is a great alternative for those wanting to change colours!
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Your right it is a great alternative versus shelling out 600 more dollars so to everyone in the market for a color swap I say go for it it was a simple process of taking out one piece and putting it into another piece don't be scared to try it just remember to also change out the speaker lol because even by going this route it's a great way to get an authentic white galaxy s II, now next up all I need is that new 64 gb microsd card it's been tested on the gs2 and it works so my phone is about to be an authentic beast!!!!

Not a fan of the white GS2, but I do think you did a fantastic job with the port. GJ man!

could you provide links to the vids you used for helping you understand which screws to take out and what not to touch ect?
looks amazing btw, great job.

I sold my black i9100 for $629 on eBay 10 days ago and bought the white i9100 for $559 from mobilecityonline and had it the next day..... not only did I not loose money on parts, I made money! And...... my warranty is not void. Not trying to put you down, good for you OP. But there are better ways to go about this I believe.... I own a mobile device/Mac repair shop and do these conversions (or do some like these) everyday... no way I'm tearing apart my baby unless I have to! Congrats though bro, its beautiful!
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Mobilecityonline has a $20 off promo code right now by the way, Google it.
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Yeah I can respect that I also have the evo 3d gsm so I went into it knowing that if I f'd something up then that was on me. As far as warranty goes, it's not like I threw the black parts away if need be they'll go right back on in a heartbeat. I'm a phone geek any way so who knows what phone I'll own in the next couple of months got to many to choose from but that galaxy sII HD sounds very interesting

Shoutout to daddymatt repping GA

Holla!!! I'm in the Macon area... I'm seriously contemplating the Galaxy Note! It looks freakin sick!
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yeah the note is sick, since im in loving this phone i might wait to get the gs3 if the specs are right then a full hd phone would be cray.... to many phones to little time

well now i know someone local to hit up if i ever need help tearing down a phone.

aerobahn said:
Not a fan of the white GS2, but I do think you did a fantastic job with the port. GJ man!
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Ditto. white looks fugly to my eyes on any phone. But yeah, excellent job

Right on man! I own Gigahertz Computers in Warner Robins, GA and we are a full service Mac and mobile device repair shop. If you ever need anything at all let me know.
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well now i know someone local to hit up if i ever need help tearing down a phone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKztg1ra4-0&feature=player_embedded#!

WTF ATT!!

So I got my phone today and low and behold I have some serious (at least to me) blemishes and scratches on the back. Some pics below. I know they may not seem too bad but come on, this is a brand new phone, and unexceptable if you ask me. So I actually go to my nearby ATT store to see if they have stock already so they can swap it out and they don't have any yet. You could see it in the eyes of the workers that they hadn't seen one yet. Borderline oogling over it.
Anyways, they say call ATT and they'll send me another. I call and low and behold they CAN send me a replacement (not overnight mind you, I'd have to pay for that), but as I had to remind them, there is a backorder for it so they couldn't tell me when I'd get it. All this time I wouldn't be able to activate the phone. I say screw it, I'll keep it but you gotta give me something here. All they can do open a customer credit report and see if it goes through. Suffice it to say.....I'm pissed.
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Yeah this is a total case of WTF. Must have happened in the flashing process when they added all their carrier crap.

Wow. Was it shipped in bag full of rocks?

Thats how mine is from GPlay! Not as bad as yours but the same type of marks.... Seems like it was slid around and there was a bunch of dust/debris in the box on the phone.. I called them up right after I saw and they were gonna set me up with a new replacement but there is a problem with there system with that apparently...:roll eyes: So I have to wait for them to fix that then get in contact with me to set up the replacement... Im using this one in a case in the mean time but it definitely shouldn't fly to get one that looks this way!

Looks like someone was skate boarding on it before shipping. Lol I would return it. There is no fu#king way I pay over $700 for a screwed up phone.

Probably happened while they were tattooing that sweetass globe on the bottom. Well worth the sacrifice, IMO.

h0bnail said:
Probably happened while they were tattooing that sweetass globe on the bottom. Well worth the sacrifice, IMO.
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Sorry about the phone man - Thankfully sprint didn't add any type of logo..
But this comment had me rolling for like 5 mins..

h0bnail said:
Probably happened while they were tattooing that sweetass globe on the bottom. Well worth the sacrifice, IMO.
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Hilarious
Seriously, that is unacceptable. I'd be pissed. Hope u get the replacement soon, you never feel like its quite yours until you get the replacement.
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h0bnail said:
Probably happened while they were tattooing that sweetass globe on the bottom. Well worth the sacrifice, IMO.
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Hahaha this comment had me rollin as well. Sorry about your phone OP. Hopefully they give you some type of credit or something.

That valiant phone fought tooth and nail and tried to resist being tramp stamped. In the end the handset torturers won

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Probably happened while they were tattooing that sweetass globe on the bottom. Well worth the sacrifice, IMO.
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You sir win the internet for the day.
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How is that AT&T's fault? Lol.

"A Lenovo company..."
I would try blast them Motorola and ATT on social media. No way you fork over that much cash money for A defectove unit. I also suggest you QC the camera carefully. It may have got the lense.

Motorola QC issue.

I was at my tmobile store when they unboxed their demo unit and it had the same nonsense. We considered that maybe they just purposely sent the ****ty ones to stores for demo purposes. Hope this is not a widespread issue

That's what you get for purchasing a phone from the devil.

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How is that AT&T's fault? Lol.
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They would have touched it last when flashing their splash screenand doing the logo on the back. But a previous commenter said his gplay device was the same. I would look at how the phone fits in the retail packaging. Does it have room to move around at all, is what i would be looking at.
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Cy_n_ic said:
They would have touched it last when flashing their splash screenand doing the logo on the back. But a previous commenter said his gplay device was the same. I would look at how the phone fits in the retail packaging. Does it have room to move around at all, is what i would be looking at.
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I think it has some room to move because there doesn't seem to be anything keeping it in place or anything protective it has to sit on. Its just sitting on indent of the phone with the documentation. I think it happened during shipping possibly especially if it was man handled it could bounce around and scuff up but idk? i don't see how sliding on cardboard could cause marks like that.
Im also still waiting on Gplay to reply and fix there system to get me a new replacement...

Did you have any issues getting AT&T to initiate the return? This is ridiculous, mine has this too.

Cy_n_ic said:
They would have touched it last when flashing their splash screenand doing the logo on the back. But a previous commenter said his gplay device was the same. I would look at how the phone fits in the retail packaging. Does it have room to move around at all, is what i would be looking at.
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AT&T wouldn't have done it themselves, just semantically speaking.
They would have made a deal with the OEM (Motorola) to make the modifications on their behalf before packaging.
Not defending AT&T or anything, of course.

Mystery gift is a lousy water bottle

I had hoped that they would have sent those of us who ordered before the pop up box came up would have gotten the same gift, but boy was I wrong. A lousy water bottle included with the supposed $99 discount.
Had I known, I would have cancelled and reordered.
Anyone get a better mystery gift?

Superguy said:
I had hoped that they would have sent those of us who ordered before the pop up box came up would have gotten the same gift, but boy was I wrong. A lousy water bottle included with the supposed $99 discount.
Had I known, I would have cancelled and reordered.
Anyone get a better mystery gift?
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That's some BS. Just one more thing I gotta throw or give away. Mine is supposed to be arriving tomorrow. I'll let you know what my mystery gift is.
Honestly, I was hoping it would be earbuds or something like that.
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IM said it could be earbuds or a bottle. But apparently, the bottle is worth $99. ?
Trying to upload a screenshot of the conversation where he said it was actually with $99. I told him it better have gold in it.
I asked him to escalate, as he said they'll contact me soon.
OP makes a good phone, but it's always their weird business crap like this I find irritating.

agreed, the water bottle is a slap in the face. i hope we all make our voices heard and maybe they do something.

Just received mine too. Feel like a sucker. Damn water bottle

dreisus said:
Just received mine too. Feel like a sucker. Damn water bottle
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Right? Well since I also received the $99 water bottle I had to go to a T-Mobile store where I could buy a decent case for $42 dollars. Sigh.

Sadly my experience was the same, got the same stupid tiny water bottle/thermos, I was hoping for another charger like they used to do (or at least something more useful). I also had to buy a case from T-Mobile since my nicer case is coming from China and could be here anywhere in the next 3 mo (sadly I'm not exaggerating shipping time).

I also received a really shiny metal water bottle. It's too small to be of much use and was I was pretty disappointed when I realized that's all the "surprise gift" was....

Pic of the water bottle please
Someone please upload the pic of the $99 goddamn water bottle....

Here's a link to the OP forum where people are pissed. I love what this guy did with the pic. ?
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/mystery-gift.1322017/page-6#post-22254938
OP ordered me $20 to their overpriced store.
They also asked for feedback to be submitted to https://forums.oneplus.com/feedback/

This pretty will be my last Oneplus phone due to their deceptive marketing and screwing us over
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g96818 said:
This pretty will be my last Oneplus phone due to their deceptive marketing and screwing us over
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I think that pretty much sums it up.
May send this back and get a Samsung instead.

Superguy said:
I think that pretty much sums it up.
May send this back and get a Samsung instead.
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I concur. Was thinking maybe a pixel since it should be more mod friendly

I got today my oneplus 8t with just a bottle, without cover. Even the clear does not come with that one

Emanuel09 said:
I got today my oneplus 8t with just a bottle, without cover. Even the clear does not come with that one
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Are you serious? I haven't opened mines yet.

Yes, of course just charger and cable. And misery box a bottle.

I'm really disappointed about the bottle too. I was hoping for at least a case and maybe earbuds but damn this really was a slap in the face. Unlike someone else that posted, I couldn't even find a case at my local T-Mobile store (or others within 15 miles of me). The cases on amazon seem like garbage right now as well.
Only good side is that shipping was fast... I got my phone before a lot of T-Mobile stores even had time to put up a demo unit according to one store I went to.

Graphically it is better
From NEVER SETTLE to NEVER MORE!!!