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Looking to buy a used Shift

Been hunting about for Shifts on eBay and on various online retailers, so far no luck as they are all "NEW! / LIKE NEW" and as such, rather expensive.
I need a device that is a step between my notebook and my phone, however the large price tags of UMPCs is making finding such a device an issue.
Just wanted to put this out there for anyone who is looking to clear out their rucksacks or who bought it and realized they simply don't have the time to fiddle with it, that I would be willing to buy a working used GSM HTC Shift. (x9500 or x9501) (Even a CDMA shift if the offer is low enough)
Light or heavy use, doesn't really matter.
Even if there is a bit of damage, as long as there is no major physical damage or damage that interrupts functionality.
I operate through Paypal, no Western Union or Money Gram scams.
Looking to spend $600-700

Expansys have then for £499.. pretty darn cheap!
http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=177867&partner=uknews

True, that is the cheapest from an online store, sadly however that comes to about $740.58 USD when shipping is taken into account.
Thanks for the find.
Still going to look around a bit more, considering the horror stories from expansys, also hoping for a used one for a bit less.

Getting my screen replaced in Europe

Hi all!
I managed to crack the digitizer of my HD2 some while back. It's working but I'd like to have it replaced, and I really think I'll screw it up if I try it myself. However, the official HTC repair service here in Norway wants the equivalent of 370€ to do it, and most unofficial ones are only slightly under that price.
I'm wondering if you know of any reliable repair services elsewhere in Europe would be cheaper, and in that case, which ones?

I've seen digitizers & glass being sold online, but they say it's pretty hard to separete from the LCD.
There are also complete sets of displays for hd2, LCD+digitizer+glass going for around 85$ or more.

tdh_andy said:
I've seen digitizers & glass being sold online, but they say it's pretty hard to separete from the LCD.
There are also complete sets of displays for hd2, LCD+digitizer+glass going for around 85$ or more.
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Indeed, but I want to avoid replacing it myself, just not at any price.

quick consideration: I bought my hd2, second hand, for 440€ in february. Up to a 200€ expense for repairs (lower than which I think it would be really hard to find anything) I would seriously consider buying ANOTHER hd2 which now, being almost august, maybe can be found for less than 350€. I am not following the market.
At thjat point you could sell yours as defective for 200€ and still have paied 150€, lower than repairs

Thanks for the tip, that's not a bad idea at all..
However these guys says they'll fix it for 150£, so I think I'll just take a vacation in London and pay them a visit while I'm at it.
Anyone had any experience with this place? Turn on Your Mobile Ltd.

Cracked screen today...Repair?

Had a hard case, reallook protector and it was in my pocket while taking an old boiler out of house and unloading new one of truck (250lbs) so must have did it then.
Anywhere, anyone online or near Philadelphia that does repair? Saw one ad on craigslist, called and they said $125. Insurance is $130.

Smokeyla1 said:
Had a hard case, reallook protector and it was in my pocket while taking an old boiler out of house and unloading new one of truck (250lbs) so must have did it then.
Anywhere, anyone online or near Philadelphia that does repair? Saw one ad on craigslist, called and they said $125. Insurance is $130.
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I would do an insurance claim compare to having some random guy have your phone.

If you have the will
Get on Craigslist and look locally and then look in the bigger cities (you're back east) NYC Boston or alike. Type in cellphone IPhone repairs..... This will bring up a bunch of people who do repairs. IT ALSO brings up a bunch of suppliers of parts. Those I-Phone suppliers also carry other phones parts for like HD2 G1 and others. Look around and find the suppliers cost for the parts you are looking for (in your case the glass) Depending on the price I would then assess if I want to risk screwing with the repair.
In my case, I did repair my IPhone glass myself (when i had the phone) and I paid 28 bucks for the parts and took about 1.5-2 hrs to do the repair. The actual work was easy but, being the first time I ever tried working on a cell phone I went slow. if you are a techie it is not all that hard............ but that is up to you
BTW.......... never work on buildings, const, or anything like that with a cellphone on your person..........bad combo
Good luck

Same problem here. Yet i have repair experience. Is the glass really separate from the digitizer? Many are glued together, you don't want that mess.
I have found a US company supplier on FeeBay for $78.00 for glass and digitizer. I can do the repair save $45.00. But my dealings with third party insurance companies in the past has been lousy and long. Will Tmobile's be better? Doubt it.
What to do? Advice welcome, will help thread too...
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I repaired my own myself and got the screen/digitizer from here:
globaldirectparts.com/product-p/smsng6085995.htm
the price has gone up from when i bought mine ($65).
whatever you do, DON'T buy from Skystartrade. See: globaldirectparts.com/QUALITY-ASSURANCE-s/5411.htm and scroll down to the part about skystartrade (they've since changed their name to gounlock.com)
I had a similarly bad experience and had to end up going to paypal to get my money back.

Fool, if you paid for insurance, use it! Call them up and *tell* them, to send you a new phone. Be persistent if they screwing around, escalate to a supervisor, or just wait and call back and get another person.

Only reason I'm hesitant about new over repair is, a. Getting hardware locked phone and also have to reroot, do rom, all apps, etc.
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[Q] Trusted phone repair community

HI,
I'm looking for a good community of phone repair since a long time but I can't get to find a good one.
i'm talking about physical repair. Like the screen or the audio jack, things like that. How to do it and mostly where to buy trusted parts.
I'm repairing phone since a couple of years now and I always take the cheapest part on ebay and most of the time, it work perfectly but I'm interested to heard about other people who are not cheap chinese part reseller themselves I you know what I mean.
So is there such a sub forum on xda for this or somewhere else?
Thx a lot

i repaired my own phone through the octoplus
thank you for this article and my tool, i purchased an octoplus from china, it has a strong condition , it provided great help for my this repair, and i am glad to help them share his amazon shop in there, but as for the web, i think i should obey their's rule

Hogan285 said:
HI,
I'm looking for a good community of phone repair since a long time but I can't get to find a good one.
i'm talking about physical repair. Like the screen or the audio jack, things like that. How to do it and mostly where to buy trusted parts.
I'm repairing phone since a couple of years now and I always take the cheapest part on ebay and most of the time, it work perfectly but I'm interested to heard about other people who are not cheap chinese part reseller themselves I you know what I mean.
So is there such a sub forum on xda for this or somewhere else?
Thx a lot
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I have not personally repaired a phone, but I know a lot of people that go to you tube and look up how to repair phones. You can contact the manufacturer to see if they can sell you the parts, you will know for sure that the part isn't a cheap knock off. Or you can try the eBay and amazon reviews for more info on the products.

Hogan285 said:
HI,
I'm looking for a good community of phone repair since a long time but I can't get to find a good one.
i'm talking about physical repair. Like the screen or the audio jack, things like that. How to do it and mostly where to buy trusted parts.
I'm repairing phone since a couple of years now and I always take the cheapest part on ebay and most of the time, it work perfectly but I'm interested to heard about other people who are not cheap chinese part reseller themselves I you know what I mean.
So is there such a sub forum on xda for this or somewhere else?
Thx a lot
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I actually repair devices for a living and our trusted supplier for almost everything is www.mobilesentrix.com or another decent one is gadgetfix.com. You get what you pay for when it comes to cheap parts. Most will be faulty when you get them, or shortly thereafter. When buying from Ebay, always look for a top rated seller with a good return policy.
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There's a member led section for device repair here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/u/repair

Replacement screen: How can I tell if it's authentic ?

Basically, the title is my question. I cracked my screen And I'm taking it to a shop to get fixed I just want to make sure they give me authentic screen instead of a knock off. Is there any way to get specs and numbers from the screen so I can compare them? Thanks

dmullins80 said:
Basically, the title is my question. I cracked my screen And I'm taking it to a shop to get fixed I just want to make sure they give me authentic screen instead of a knock off. Is there any way to get specs and numbers from the screen so I can compare them? Thanks
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One way is to take it to Best Buy's Geek squad. They are a Samsung factory authorized repair center and your warranty will remain intact. If you take it to a 3rd party repair center, your warranty will be void.

cam30era said:
One way is to take it to Best Buy's Geek squad. They are a Samsung factory authorized repair center and your warranty will remain intact. If you take it to a 3rd party repair center, your warranty will be void.
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All Best Buy Geek Squad are Samsung authorized repair centers? Not a 100% sure, but I think the one in my town isn't An authorized repair center.

Based on my experience, the after market ones don't usually have the oleophobic coatings, or at least not as good in quality.

dmullins80 said:
All Best Buy Geek Squad are Samsung authorized repair centers? Not a 100% sure, but I think the one in my town isn't An authorized repair center.
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Not every Best Buy has techs that are trained and factory certified. But it's worth trying to find one in order to keep your warranty intact.

ikeny said:
Based on my experience, the after market ones don't usually have the oleophobic coatings, or at least not as good in quality.
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Thanks for the tip. So, I guess there's not an app that list hardware numbers?

cam30era said:
Not every Best Buy has techs that are trained and factory certified. But it's worth trying to find one in order to keep your warranty intact.
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I'm not 100% sure how it works for phones as I only work on laptops but usually if there's not a repair agent in store they'll send it out to one of our main repair centers. Again I can only speak from experience of working on laptops but if you don't have adh coverage through best buy the repair cost is usually not worth it (we junk out probably half of the tablets that come in with cracked screens).
Source: I work at Geek Squad City, our largest repair center.

I never thought they could produce fake s8 screens. I thought it was samsung patent to do that.

Honestly, I don't think any 3rd party has the manufacturing power to make a fake S8 screen. In the worst case it will be manufactured by samsung, but either assembled by a 3rd party or distributed thru an unofficial channel. Maybe this affects the oleophobic coating as mentioned, or the digitizer, but I really doubt it, I haven't seen knock offs for this model.

Once the display is in place, I don't think you can do much about it. So the only thing you can do is to make sure that either the repair service is genuine and trustworthy, or you can buy a Samsung screen yourself and take it to your local repair shop (preferably one that does an open service - in front of the customers).

The reason why I question the Quality of the screens is because I've been to several different phone repair shops and they all give me different prices of the screens. For example one place told me they get there screens for 180 and will put it in for 229 (cheapest I've found) while another place told me 299 for a screen and they'll replace it for 380( most expensive I've found). So, im wokndering how the other guy was getting it for 180.
Also, I want my Digitizer and LCD screen back and the most expensive guy was acting like he didn't want to give it back and also he was going to charge me more if he gave it back.
I was going to try and repair just the screen and keep it as a spare.

dmullins80 said:
The reason why I question the Quality of the screens is because I've been to several different phone repair shops and they all give me different prices of the screens. For example one place told me they get there screens for 180 and will put it in for 229 (cheapest I've found) while another place told me 299 for a screen and they'll replace it for 380( most expensive I've found). So, im wokndering how the other guy was getting it for 180.
Also, I want my Digitizer and LCD screen back and the most expensive guy was acting like he didn't want to give it back and also he was going to charge me more if he gave it back.
I was going to try and repair just the screen and keep it as a spare.
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FWIW: I paid $249 at Best Buy, including labor. OEM screen, Samsung factory certified repair facility, warranty intact.....

You can get either OEM screens directly from samsung certified vendors, or generics. They aren't knock offs, they're considered "after market". The vendor who quoted you a lower price likely has a deal set with another vendor to buy in bulk, thus lowering the price of each individual screen.

Jsudds said:
You can get either OEM screens directly from samsung certified vendors, or generics. They aren't knock offs, they're considered "after market". The vendor who quoted you a lower price likely has a deal set with another vendor to buy in bulk, thus lowering the price of each individual screen.
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I have bought screens for other devices that claim oem but they most def where not. Broke again splintered not like authentic gorilla glass. But like a cheap sheet of glass. When i brought it to the companies attention they removed. Our screens are oem replacements from the website. I had it in screenshots. It was a horrible ordeal because there substandard products they claimed quality broke on their own. No drops no nothing. I've repaired my share of phones. So i only try to buy oem direct

OEM. most after markets have nothing but a certified sticker on them. True, the quality might be less, but you'd also get the same from a bad batch of OEM that failed QC due to a new member on their production team. It happens at every factory, in every field not limited to tech. I use both aftermarket and OEM every day, multiple times per day. Truth be told so far, the only issues I've had were from Apple's OEM on the iPhone 6 and and some samsungs without frames.
Also, my comment still applies with basic economic reasoning. Buy more, pay less, gain repeat customers.

Jsudds said:
OEM. most after markets have nothing but a certified sticker on them. True, the quality might be less, but you'd also get the same from a bad batch of OEM that failed QC due to a new member on their production team. It happens at every factory, in every field not limited to tech. I use both aftermarket and OEM every day, multiple times per day. Truth be told so far, the only issues I've had were from Apple's OEM on the iPhone 6 and and some samsungs without frames.
Also, my comment still applies with basic economic reasoning. Buy more, pay less, gain repeat customers.
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How can one know an original OEM screen from a copy version? I broke my Samsung S8 screen and want it fixed, however i'm scared of replacing it with a copy version as against the original version. How can i tell which is which? Pls note i don't live in the USA