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Its really no big whoop. I use my TF normally, I keep it stored in a small neoprene laptop case. The s/n sticker is peeling and the back sticker which hass all the model info numbers and such is also peeling. I thought they would last longer than a couple of months. I dont own a KB yet but I assumed the big rear sticker was really for being able to slide the TF into the slot so as not to scratch up the back. Anyone else getting peeling stickers?
Perhaps a little contact cement will hold them. I had a similar issue with one of my cameras and contact cement made the serial # sticker permanent.
sounds like you need to rma tablet immediatey
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Its really no big whoop. I use my TF normally, I keep it stored in a small neoprene laptop case. The s/n sticker is peeling and the back sticker which hass all the model info numbers and such is also peeling. I thought they would last longer than a couple of months. I dont own a KB yet but I assumed the big rear sticker was really for being able to slide the TF into the slot so as not to scratch up the back. Anyone else getting peeling stickers?
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Mine is a bit, I would just take a note of the serial number etc and take the stickers off if it is annoying you, the sticker on the back just holds the FCC etc and isn't important.
Wow - one of the first things I did was to remove those stupid stickers!! Surely, then can get the S/N from the inside somewhere if they needed to, right??
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Wow - one of the first things I did was to remove those stupid stickers!! Surely, then can get the S/N from the inside somewhere if they needed to, right??
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Yes, but you do need it if you have to RMA your unit. As long as you have the box or the manual you should be ok (the S/N is on both these items).
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Wow - one of the first things I did was to remove those stupid stickers!! Surely, then can get the S/N from the inside somewhere if they needed to, right??
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Same thing here. Those stickers didn't look like they were meant to hold on except for in the box.
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Wow - one of the first things I did was to remove those stupid stickers!! Surely, then can get the S/N from the inside somewhere if they needed to, right??
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just to let you know, you can NOT get the s/n inside the tablet. I know this because my friend's tablet died and it was kind of a pain to RMA since his tablet never had the s/n sticker on the tablet itself and he threw the box away. But I did find out that the s/n is on the warranty card.
Ripped off stickers here as well, first thing I did. They should really be permanently etched into the case.
Does nobody keep their boxes anymore? The sn is on the box =p
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A little clear finger polish might do the trick.
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Does nobody keep their boxes anymore? The sn is on the box =p
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In today's market of get it out first then fix it later if customers complain enough you almost have to keep the box until out of warranty so it can go back.
Sticker definitely does not feel permanent. Disappointing considering the information listed. My old skool mp3 player (zune) has it etched into the back, looks good.
I don't think either of the 2 tablets I have received had serial numbers on the actual unit.
So does mine, I was considering tearing them off - is there any reason to keep them on?
I took the one on the back when I walked out of best buy
But the serial number one is still there. Might put some tape over it or something.
I placed my stickers inside my warranty booklet
Surely ASUS has another wat to obtain the serial number... Otherwise, if my 6 month old Transformer breaks, I can just go buy a new one, put the new one's serial number sticker on the old one and then return the old one as if it were only a few days old.... See what I mean? I woud hope that ASUS has another way of idetifying these things...
Hi. My screen has a touch imput free area on the top part of it. It is about a half inch, just bellow the notiffication bar. My phone is rooted, and i have hotspot enabled. Other than that is stock.
Plrase advise me as to what i can do. If there is nothig i can do, is my warranty voided because root? Who should i contact for warranty? Att or motorola?
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Which method did you root your phone with?...
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I dont remember. I was rooted, and than updated my phone to the latest moto release. Lost root and than i had to flash somethig to get root back and than to unlock the hotspot app.
This was about 2 or 3 months back. All was ok till about a month ago, when i dropped the phone to the floor. Noticed the screen issue shortly after. Not sure if the drop caused this tho. There are no scratches on the screen, and it had a silicone case on it.
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Is my warranty voided because of root or not? If not, than who do i contact? Att or motorola?
No help? Anyone?
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do you think the problem came from dropping your phone or were you messing with something on your phone? and yes your warrentty is voided, but you could get your own new screen on ebay for like 30 buxs and fix it yourself
Not sure if the drop caused it. Maybe. I noticed the pb soon after. I didn't mees with the phone, other than rooting and enaibeling hotspot.
The screen on ebay, is it the same as the stock one? Same quality?
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Try a advanced restore of pds.img from the cwm only to see if that fixes your problem.. Thats if you did backup from cwm..
No, i didn't back up anything. Just rooted. I barely mannaged to do that.
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My phone had the same thing and I sbf'd back to 1.26 and took it back no problems. Mine was also unlocked.
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I also have that problem, the problem is with the touchscreen not the software. At first, the touchscreen will not work for sometime you'll need to turn the screen off and on again. The problem will start more frequent. Then, the touchscreen on some part of the screen will not work at all. Only to fix is to call ATT for a repair. But, I live in Thailand and I brought mine at US. So, it not worth sending it back. I buy the touchscreen off ebay for $60 and change it myself. Working great now.
Pretty cheap on ebay, some for $40. My screen started acting the exact same way. I honestly believe it's heat damage. I remember reading that there are layers of the glass that are glued together. Extreme heat could cause the layers to come apart enough that sections of the screen are unusable.
My screen is exactly as the OP said, about a half-inch from the bar at the top. I noticed it soon after I started mounting the phone in my car near the top of the windshield where it could get some steady sunlight (obviously I didn't realize it was doing that until I noticed this problem).
I just ordered my replacement off ebay and will give it a shot. It's worth $40 if it'll let me use my phone properly again and hold off having to get a new phone prior to my upgrade price kicking in.
Hopefully installation won't be too hard. Good luck to the rest of ya!
This happen to my boyfriend's phone recently as well. I posted everywhere trying to find a solution but no one could help. It started to get worse after about a week or so where another section, towards the bottom of the screen, became unresponsive as well. My boyfriend finally called Motorola and sent it in for repair. We don't have ATT's insurance so we didn't try that way. Anyways, he's suppose to receive the phone this Monday...we'll see if it's fixed.
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Pretty cheap on ebay, some for $40. My screen started acting the exact same way. I honestly believe it's heat damage. I remember reading that there are layers of the glass that are glued together. Extreme heat could cause the layers to come apart enough that sections of the screen are unusable.
My screen is exactly as the OP said, about a half-inch from the bar at the top. I noticed it soon after I started mounting the phone in my car near the top of the windshield where it could get some steady sunlight (obviously I didn't realize it was doing that until I noticed this problem).
I just ordered my replacement off ebay and will give it a shot. It's worth $40 if it'll let me use my phone properly again and hold off having to get a new phone prior to my upgrade price kicking in.
Hopefully installation won't be too hard. Good luck to the rest of ya!
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Did your touchscreen come with the adhesive? If not, you'll need to be extremely careful when you remove the old one cause you'll need the adhesive or you'll need the two sided tape with <0.25mm thick and apply it to around the touchscreen and remember to apply it as a close system or the dust will go under your screen.
If you need more info just PM me
I think i.ll call moto.
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This happen to my boyfriend's phone recently as well. I posted everywhere trying to find a solution but no one could help. It started to get worse after about a week or so where another section, towards the bottom of the screen, became unresponsive as well. My boyfriend finally called Motorola and sent it in for repair. We don't have ATT's insurance so we didn't try that way. Anyways, he's suppose to receive the phone this Monday...we'll see if it's fixed.
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Did u get it back? Is it fixed?
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Mine had the same issue, ive unlocked, rooted, modded the rom and radio, so no going to ATT, instead i took it to UbreakItIFixIt, just google them, best $99 i spent and kept all my custom goodies!
Sorry I haven't responded, hopefully you got your phone fixed but just in case you haven't...The phone came back and he hasn't had a problem with it whatsoever. The rep on the phone didn't know what was wrong with it or what they did to fix it but whatever they did, it worked. It took about a week or so to get the phone back and the only thing he had to pay for was shipping the phone out.
Cracks in the aluminum. Just noticed today that my phone has cracks in the aluminum, i have never dropped the device and have had a Silicon cover on it.
I called the reseller and they want to send it to samsung, but that's gonna take like 2-3 weeks And samsung said that the warranty is gone, cus i have rooted it, but it has nothing to do with the software.
Anyone else that have seen this?
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Cracks in the aluminum. Just noticed today that my phone has cracks in the aluminum, i have never dropped the device and have had a Silicon cover on it.
I called the reseller and they want to send it to samsung, but that's gonna take like 2-3 weeks And samsung said that the warranty is gone, cus i have rooted it, but it has nothing to do with the software.
Anyone else that have seen this?
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flash a stock rom
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flash a stock rom
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Yeah, that was my thought to, but dont i have to use triangle away aswell?
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Yeah, that was my thought to, but dont i have to use triangle away aswell?
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From CF-Root 6.4 thread:
How to uninstall
This is by no means an extensive guide for unrooting, but if you want to sell or warranty your device, I advise the following procedure:
- Use Triangle Away to reset the flash counters, and pull the battery immediately after rebooting starts
- Boot into recovery and perform a wipe, and pull the battery immediately after rebooting starts
- Go to SamMobile and get the stock firmware for your region
- Flash that stock firmware on your device
- Let Android boot, go through device setup (without doing any logins) until Android is fully usable again
- Reboot
- Wait at least 10 minutes
- Check Settings->About device->Status and make sure Device status is not "Modified"
- Perform another factory reset
- Boot into download mode and make sure the flash counter and system status are all set to official
Some of these steps may require further info, if you can't figure it out, do some more searching, or ask people who aren't me
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Cracks in the aluminum. Just noticed today that my phone has cracks in the aluminum, i have never dropped the device and have had a Silicon cover on it.
I called the reseller and they want to send it to samsung, but that's gonna take like 2-3 weeks And samsung said that the warranty is gone, cus i have rooted it, but it has nothing to do with the software.
Anyone else that have seen this?
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Interesting... It does not look like a crack but a precise vertical cut.
Oh for God's sake this is like the 50th thread about this! And it's not a cut these phones do crack.
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Oh for God's sake this is like the 50th thread about this! And it's not a cut these phones do crack.
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Sorry, i did try to search, but the search function seams to be broken?
I honestly don't know what to do, flash stock and send it to repair or just live with is :/
One it does look like a cut from the picture but visual inspection may show a crack .
What will Samsung say crack or cut when they look at it .
But you do say cracks not one crack .
Two removing traces of root is easy and returns phone to a warranty state .
So do you want to remove root return the phone and get it back in a few weeks saying not warranty its damaged .
In that respect could you not get a local store to just look at the crack first to confirm it is and save wasting time .
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I have one of these too!
I have vertical CUTS at all 4 corners, where they smooshed together the pieces. There is no space between the two sides of the cut, and you can't even feel it, but it's there and visible if you look for it. My phone has been dropped a fair amount, but the cuts were there the day I got it.
"Don't worry about it" is my advice.
* BTW, yours is definitely a crack. I still just wouldn't worry about it.
I have one on the bottom right corner too. And it looks more like a joint than a crack
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It looks like that. Dont microscope your Phones corners!
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its there in all the four corners and it looks like some sort of cover and not crack
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I have vertical CUTS at all 4 corners, where they smooshed together the pieces. There is no space between the two sides of the cut, and you can't even feel it, but it's there and visible if you look for it. My phone has been dropped a fair amount, but the cuts were there the day I got it.
"Don't worry about it" is my advice.
* BTW, yours is definitely a crack. I still just wouldn't worry about it.
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Oh for God's sake this is like the 50th thread about this! And it's not a cut these phones do crack.
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Don't listen to the others telling you nit to worry. If you haven't dropped it get on to the place of purchase asap. I made the mistake of not doing that and dented my phone a little after so I'm out of luck. It will split all the way through soon. The ones in the four corners r normal.
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Damn same thing on mine.
Should send back to Samsung but they say I drop it cost £100 to replace
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Same on mine, can't say I'm bothered though. Mine are quite obviously from manufacture.
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Oh for God's sake this is like the 50th thread about this! And it's not a cut these phones do crack.
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Wwwhaaaaat!!! These phones do whaaaaaaaaaaaaattt!!!
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These cracks appears in white phone only?!
Have the blue and all 4 corners have the crack. Not sure if this is consider normal! Been looking at high res photos of the phone and they aren't there, so question is how is this normal?! I will go to samsung monday and check this.
I did drop my phone. Samsung are say the cracks are from the phone been dropped.
I think it's from the over heating problem the phone got.
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Is this a bad idea for any reason? It really mars the beauty of this phone imo
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Is this a bad idea for any reason? It really mars the beauty of this phone imo
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The IMEI sticker on the back? That's part of the screen protector that comes with the phone when you first opened the device. I thought it was separate when I had it on for the longest time haha.
What IMEI sticker?
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The IMEI sticker on the back? That's part of the screen protector that comes with the phone when you first opened the device. I thought it was separate when I had it on for the longest time haha.
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Ditto.
I would say it shouldn't be a problem. The IMEI is software accessible and on the original box too. Probably internal on the casing as well. I am sure most people take this off with no issues. Mine is still on because I've had to RMA this phone and I am awaiting my replacement.
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The IMEI is also found on the SIM tray.
The IMEI is displayed on several places as mentioned already.
Settings / About Phone / IMEI
is probably the easiest one to check.
So peel with confidence!
(But since it's an important thing to have you might want to write it down somewhere.
You know, in case your phone doesn't boot one day for whatever reason)
Has anyone any experience sending their phone to the HTC repair centre after bricking their phone?
Long story short but i flashed the wrong boot animation and completely wiped the phone and despite several attempts to get a ROM on it again (spent days) I was unable to do so so brought it back to the shops where I bought it (was locked to o2 but I got it unlocked)
They sent it to company here called Fonemenders, i got a text today saying it has to be sent for level 3 repairs and mentioned something about the motherboard, now that has scared me a bit, it's bad enough I have to wait another 7 to 10 days but does anyone think I'll get charged given they'll see that it says tampered on it, i fail to see how it could be a problem with the motherboard too.
Has anyone any experience sending their phone to the HTC repair centre and what was the process.
Seriously contemplating never flashing anything again on my phone after this nightmare
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I don't have any experience with HTC's repair centers, but I've sent in several rooted Samsung devices and a bricked Asus Transformer for repair. My experience has been that the people in the repair centers really don't give a crap. Relax and hope for the best :good:
Samsung phones are seriously easy to modify compared to HTC, I'm no noob and read extensively on here and followed instructions to a t but still couldnt manage to get a stock or custom ROM back on my phone after that bad flash and me wiping it, no matter what I done.
Feel like I'm missing a limb here have gone over a week without it and now have another week wait, i won't rest easy until I have a fully working phone again.
Hope you are right my friend.
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I don't think HTC phones are difficult to flash, sure, not as easy as Samsung, but on the other hand, much harder to brick.
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I don't think HTC phones are difficult to flash, sure, not as easy as Samsung, but on the other hand, much harder to brick.
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I'm a bit concerned though why they mentioned the motherboard (see attached) there was nothing wrong with the motherboard all that needed to be done is for stock ROM to be flashed back on it.
I'm reading some reports of people being charged a lot when they are informed the motherboard has to be replaced, i should have just sent it into a repair shop in town for €25.
Well the flash ROM is soldered to the motherboard, if it is bricked, it would require a new motherboard.
It's probably not bricked, but in order to maintain your warranty, sometimes they say they must return it in "factory condition", which means unlocked. Which means a new motherboard. That's probably not really true in most cases, but once it's been unlocked, it's possible to overvoltage and overclock, which has the potential, however slight, to cause hardware damage.
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I don't think HTC phones are difficult to flash, sure, not as easy as Samsung, but on the other hand, much harder to brick.
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they r very easy to flash
I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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I sincerely hope you are right mate, I'd snap up a new device now.
I will report back anyway, if they come up with obscene charges I'll have to just leave it into a mobile repair shop here, i already went there and they said it would take a week and I thought that was too long but in retrospect I should have just left it with them.
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Well the flash ROM is soldered to the motherboard, if it is bricked, it would require a new motherboard.
It's probably not bricked, but in order to maintain your warranty, sometimes they say they must return it in "factory condition", which means unlocked. Which means a new motherboard. That's probably not really true in most cases, but once it's been unlocked, it's possible to overvoltage and overclock, which has the potential, however slight, to cause hardware damage.
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Sorry when I said bricked it's just a term, i could get into recovery and I even relocked the bootloader so i tried all the various commands but i simply could not get anything to work, can't they just flash a ruu.exe for my device, i tried that myself but the ruu.exe in question was not compatible with my phone (earlier version)
What happens in an event that they fix it and then try and charge me and I refuse to pay or is it likely they'll be contact me first to inform me of this, and if i refuse to pay they'll just give me back the phone as it is?
I'm skint and haven't really got the money to pay for repairs, can afford a few quid but not over €100
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I'm very curious to see how HTC will replace the motherboard without causing dents in white polymer or screen damage, as we saw in ifix only with heat and a scalpel can be open the ONE.
Unless HTC repair center have an opening method that we dont know, they should give you a new device.
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iFixits teardown was flawed. If you pop the two speaker enclosures off there are screws that allow you to open the device.
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iFixits teardown was flawed. If you pop the two speaker enclosures off there are screws that allow you to open the device.
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Oh lord...... I hope that is true, in that case the chances of choosing the ONE increase to 95%, because I'd really like to have one.
Even i will not have the need to open it, I get psychologically rested with this subject.
thx.
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Oh lord...... I hope that is true, in that case the chances of choosing the ONE increase to 95%, because I'd really like to have one.
Even i will not have the need to open it, I get psychologically rested with this subject.
thx.
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Yup. The detachable speaker covers are the last seal in the assembly but iFixit acted under the assumption it's fully zero gap, so they broke it
Check the anandtech review discussing assembly :good:
is it possible to buy the speaker covers, i dented one of them :crying:
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is it possible to buy the speaker covers, i dented one of them :crying:
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I haven't been able to find just the speaker covers But you can buy a ton of other parts here.
I'd bookmark it, they might add the speaker covers eventually. And who knows, if you're feeling adventurous maybe you can just do a color swap
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Yup. The detachable speaker covers are the last seal in the assembly but iFixit acted under the assumption it's fully zero gap, so they broke it
Check the anandtech review discussing assembly :good:
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Could you show me the path to that discussion, already searched on google and can't find.
thx.
If they have identified an issue with hardware then thats good for you as you'll get a new device and your flashing has not been identified as they issue..... Your lucky they're doing it under warranty.
Mate don't worry about sending it off I've done it before sometimes its delivered earlier than expected and had my screen replaced before and there was nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned...I was happy with the service some people may have different experiences
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HTC repair centres vary by country. HTC usually employ a company to look at them. So each experience will be different.
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HTC repair centres vary by country. HTC usually employ a company to look at them. So each experience will be different.
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Apparently they are
www.sbeglobalservice.com/ireland
Who are the HTC repair authorised people here
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If they have identified an issue with hardware then thats good for you as you'll get a new device and your flashing has not been identified as they issue..... Your lucky they're doing it under warranty.
Mate don't worry about sending it off I've done it before sometimes its delivered earlier than expected and had my screen replaced before and there was nothing wrong with it as far as I'm concerned...I was happy with the service some people may have different experiences
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Hope you are right mate
Fingers crossed
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