ok guys i just bought a bricked cdma touch pro for 50 bucks. I'm planning on taking the guts out of my fuze and switching it into the TP's housing. does anybody see any road blocks i may encounter before i start? Help wold be greatly appreciated if a more experienced person can give me and ok go for it. i will post pics of the experiment.
Isnt the CDMA housing going to be missing a simcard slot and does the sprint have a slot for microSD?
sprint has a slot for microSD, but not for SIM...
some internals can be switched(like keyboard and possibly screen), but other parts aren't compatible...
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Hi,
Does anyone know if the main-body structure of the touch diamond from Sprint and T-Mobile are the same?
They look the same, but the reason I am asking is that the back casing of the Spring is deeper with bigger battery and it would be nice to get one for my UK version which has the puny battery!
Thank you.
I myself tried that already. Im on tmobile USA and bought the mda compact 4 from tmobile uk. The sprint touch diamond has a different back altogether to the mda 4. The bottom part on the mda 4 cuts off where the sprint one extends further. I hope that makes sense just check out the pics.
Thanks. Pictures were very helpful
no problem
Since I declined HTCs absurd $210 LCD and refurbishment repair quote I've decided to do the repairs myself. The main issue is fixing the sticky volume button.. makes the phone unusable ATM. My question has anyone looked into what parts will interchange between the CDMA Touch Pro's and the GSM FUZE model? Seems there are quite a few more of the Sprint models out there and maybe a good source for parts. Thanks
Long story short, dropped and damaged my HTC TP2. It still functions, but reception is noticeably weaker and I get signal lost notices frequently. I have a replacement insurance with Asurion, but when I called to file a claim, they said that the TP2 is no longer available and the replacement phone would be an HTC Imagio. what?!
I told them heck no. They said to call back if I change my mind. I need a slide-out qwerty keyboard, and I LOVE my TP2.
You guys have any ideas or suggestions here?
Tell them to replace it with a moto droid as it has qwerty, then sell then new droid on ebay and buy a TP2 with the cash.
How badly damaged is it? can you pm me some pics or pm me to get my email. i might be able to help you .. PM only
The antenna lead on the TP2 snaps into place. When the phone dropped it may have snapped out of place. Removing the top two screws allows you to pry out the antenna ans check if the lead is properly snapped in place.
Is the physical damage bad? Because if not then verizon should replace it free.
Hey I'm a Tech at sprint, send me a picture and lemme see whats broken. I may have a extra part for you (if you wanna cover the shipping) depending on whats broken.
Guys, I know someone had this problem before but I could find any resolution so I thought I'd ask if anyone has any ideas.
I bought an inFuse new off ebay. Unlocked it and have used it with Miui for about 4 months. Wonderful phone. Then did a real stupid thing. I inserted a micro Sim in a holder to test it. It worked but on trying to remove it the Sim slipped out of the holder and the holder must have pulled out one or more of the pins under the metal sheath. Now all I get is No Sim Inserted. I bent back the pins that were bent at the front and I can see 3 which now look OK. The back ones seem to show only one. I'm guessing there should be three.
I checked on line and eBay to see if it is possible to get a replacement module but seems like no. Also every Samsung phone seems to use a different module.
I'm screwed I guess. Anyone had this problem and solved it? Obviously I never bought it through AT&T so I can't try for a warranty repair. Any ideas gratefully accepted.
Thanks
looks like you will be doing sugery get your tools out and a magnifying glass!!
I had the same issue, and carefully bent the pins up like --/ then pushed my sim against the pins and into the holder so that it bent them back and made good contact with my sim. This held for a while until I tried to put a different sim in and then it no longer was making good contact. Jammed a tiny piece of paper behind my sim and it held until my replacement came in.
Hope that helps!
Also if anyone ever needs to do a warranty replacement on this issue I suggest you skip all the bull**** about the sim and tell them the damn thing wont boot. I went through so many ATT warranty morons and they always blame the sim card before defaulting to "its damaged and we cant cover it". Brick it!
Did u register the phone on Samsung.com ? It happen to me also that same stupid thing so I send it back to samsung and they fix it for free of course I was whit out a phone for like 2 weeks since I didn't have a back up phone lol
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Do any of the other Samsung phones have this issue?
Guys, thanks for the replys. Yea back to samsung seems to be the only answer. I didn't rgister it but Ill try to do it now.
Not sure if other Samsung phones have this problem. I've looked at a bunch of replacement sim holders for other Samsungs and they all seem to be a better construction. The metal cover is much smaller and shows both rows of contacts. Also the pins look sturdier and look like it would be darn hard for them to get "picked up" but the sim adapter. The sim holder in the inFuse looks like a pretty poor design.
Did you buy it new? If you got it used maybe att will still swap it out. The warranty transfers.
Guys,
just an update on the broken sim card holder. Well unlike most other Samsung phones, the simcard holder is not a separate component on the infuse. Had the infuse been a Galaxy S etc then 10 bucks for a new bit and bingo, we are away. The infuse has everything surface mounted to one motherboard. In the end I bought a broken screen infuse and just did a heart transplant. I was traveling overseas when I bust the card holder and Samsung in 2 countries couldn't fix it because they didn't have the bits as the phone wasn't sold in those countries. In the end rather than return the phone to Samsung in the US and "lose" it for Lord knows how long I just bought a scrapper off ebay. Took me about 30 minutes to do the swop and unlock the new board.
Working like a dream again and I must say I missed it........
Happened to me a while back and I made a thread on it. was able to just swap it out at a warranty center
Has anyone used a Micro SIM to full size SIM adapter with a G2 or G1?
http://www.amazon.com/AFC-Trident-M...JQVU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336362098&sr=8-2
The reviews mention a reference to it working in an HTC Sensation and an HTC TITAN.
Problem: My new phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) uses a Micro SIM. But I still want to run my old G2 or even the G1 as spare/backup phones. For when I go somewhere I don't want risk damaging the new phone. Once I move my account over to the Micro SIM, the old full size SIM will be dead.
The T-Mobile guys at the store said they would re-program a full size SIM from a micro size SIM, but I don't want to have to go down to their store just to do that!
And cutting a full size SIM down to a Micro size SIM isn't going to help me go back and forth.
I know it's only a buck for this particular adapter, but I don't want to wedge something into my G2 that's going to not work and mess it up. That's why I'm asking if anyone has had any good or bad experiences dealing with this yet.
Well the SIM slot is basically quite simple there's real nothing to snag onto as you're just making sure to face the contacts towards the phones contacts and just sliding past them. With no vertical room to move (only horizontal in and out that has next to no wiggle room) I double very much you could actually damage the phone with said adapter.
This however concerns me: "Simply cut the GSM sim card to fit the adapter (please make sure you do not cut the metal contact.)"... if you go thru with it, I recommend using a razor blade like in those house blade assemblies, instead of scissors.
For a free micro sim adapter, order a giffgaff sim below as it comes as a microsim inside a normal sim so you can either use the new sim or use it as a template to cut your old sim to size.
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rwitmer said:
Has anyone used a Micro SIM to full size SIM adapter with a G2 or G1?
http://www.amazon.com/AFC-Trident-M...JQVU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336362098&sr=8-2
The reviews mention a reference to it working in an HTC Sensation and an HTC TITAN.
Problem: My new phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) uses a Micro SIM. But I still want to run my old G2 or even the G1 as spare/backup phones. For when I go somewhere I don't want risk damaging the new phone. Once I move my account over to the Micro SIM, the old full size SIM will be dead.
The T-Mobile guys at the store said they would re-program a full size SIM from a micro size SIM, but I don't want to have to go down to their store just to do that!
And cutting a full size SIM down to a Micro size SIM isn't going to help me go back and forth.
I know it's only a buck for this particular adapter, but I don't want to wedge something into my G2 that's going to not work and mess it up. That's why I'm asking if anyone has had any good or bad experiences dealing with this yet.
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When i went to t-mobile to get a replacement sim (the old one started to bow and didnt always make contact) they duplicated it for me, and gave me both the old one and the new one, saying if it ever stopped working right that the old one would work still. Why not got ask for a new one? then you have two sims that are functional, you can have one full size and one micro ?
i know you want to avoid the store but it might be a simpler solution
I use a micro sim card in my desire z without any adaptors. I just slot it in where a normal sim should be and it works.
But it's a bit fiddly
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I use a micro sim card in my desire z without any adaptors. I just slot it in where a normal sim should be and it works.
But it's a bit fiddly
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So do I, perfectly working
I have nano SIM and adapter, working without problem