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Touch panel- fail

So the one time I decide to take the thundy out the case I drop it getting out of the car. I pick it up and its non responsive, can't get past HTC green/white screen. I tried holding vol down and I went into system info. It says touch panel- fail?!? Did I really toast this thing in one drop?

Ouch buddy let us know how it goes that makes me cringe as I always rock my phones naked, well except the nexus one neoprene that i have used on both incredibles and the nexus one I own. Wish it was big enough for my Thunderbolt that case has saved my ass a couple times

So Jcase helped me flash back to stock and it now says S-On in bootloader but I still can't get past HTC logo. I think it dropped just right and broke the screen. Be careful if your running your phone without a case guys, Im a good example. First drop, ruined the screen! Now I have to wait for a replacement to get shipped.

ok so I got the $5.18/ month insurance from Verizon, they tried to offer a $6.99/month plan that adds a 6 month warranty to the exchange and then took it back saying you cant with the thunderbolt.
So my question is should I just tell them I lost the phone and get to keep the battery, sd card, and possibly fix the touch screen later to put it on Metro PCS? Verizon says they cover lost phones, does anyone know if I will have more trouble if my phone is lost versus broken?
Also if its broken is there anyway of getting out of the $100 deductible?
Anyone know if I have to wait a day after adding insurance or any trouble I will run into with this?

So you would tell them you lost it even though you dropped it?
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Ill admit its sneaky, but to be honest Im mad that this phone didn't hold up better. The battery casing popped off relatively easy when it was dropped which was its downfall. Now I have to pay $100 and Im just supposed to be ok with this?
If Verizon still had a 30 day policy I could just take it to them but they are tightening the reigns.
Pics to follow showing light damage

Here are the pics

The only damage cosmetically to the phone is the nick on the corner and a scratch to the camera lens bezel that I can't really get to show up in a picture. Phone looks pristine, yet isn't worth more than a brick.

You can justify all you want but it doesn't make it right. Good luck
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azturbomini said:
You can justify all you want but it doesn't make it right. Good luck
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Your right this phone is built to withstand nothing. Seems weird that 15 days after the bolt's release verizon is changing all their return policy rules.
Also no extended warranty available for the replacement, when they are offering it on other devices. I think I will keep this phone as my own insurance policy..

I ended up using best buy black tie program because they gave me a phone on the spot. I didn't say I lost it, just gave them the broken phone. I was pretty frustrated yesterday when my TB failed!

Just brick it and say you downloaded an application and it shut off your phone and thats what came up
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Well I got it the 15th so Im outside of verizon's 14 day policy. Your saying if I dont tell them I dropped it they might replace the phone? You cant even tell I dropped it, the best buy lady was like why is your phone so useless? (its basically already bricked but now S-On, only going to boot screen)

Anyone try replacing a digitizer yet? Best Buy wants 30 days, plus 5 days for shipping, plus x amount of extra days cause their system was down for replacements....Im just getting so lucky, lol. I was hoping they were doing the 3 day rapid exchange, only on crapple phones though.
Link for $40 digitizer- http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/39....zer-for-htc-thunderbolt-4g-incredible-hd-6400
This will void my warranty huh?

Correct me if im wrong as I have not actually seen a TB disassembled but is it possible that a pin connection just jolted loose? I mean it seems must more feasible in my opinion..

That is always possible. I have seen it b4. My wife has a plasma tv that just quit the day after bestbuy return policy. They were gonna send a tech, but it was gonna be a week or more. So I pulled it off the wall and tore into it. They never pushed the lock down on the ribbon cable! Been fine ever since.
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If I were you Id tell them the screen simply "Just Stopped working". From the looks of it nothing is cracked or broken so they couldent claim you did it.
I know, I know. Im a horrible dishonest person who makes things expensive and make people kill themselves.

So let me get this right. You were cheap so you didn't buy a case. Then YOU dropped it onto cement and expected to just pick it up and it to work fine. Then you go to Verizon and tell them you lost it so you can get a new phone plus keep the old one you know the one that YOU dropped. You are so freaking ridiculous. I hope you drop your new phone on carpet this time and it breaks. People these days, really.
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So let me get this right. You were cheap so you didn't buy a case. Then YOU dropped it onto cement and expected to just pick it up and it to work fine. Then you go to Verizon and tell them you lost it so you can get a new phone plus keep the old one you know the one that YOU dropped. You are so freaking ridiculous. I hope you drop your new phone on carpet this time and it breaks. People these days, really.
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I agree... They need to get rid of phone insurance and let people be more careful.

I would think from such a short drop it wouldn't be such a drastic result as the touchscreen failing. I mean, you must have dropped it "just right" for that to happen, I would think.
I accidentally dropped my BlackBerry down a flight of stairs at work and there wasn't even a scratch!
But I can see how a 4.3 inch screen could be more susceptible to damage than a BlackBerry.
Just remember, karma can be a *****, so pay it forward and be honest. You reap what you sow.

glass lifting

Hello,
Sorry, I accidentally posted this in the Desire HD forum first (not that it should really matter of course).
I've started to notice that the glass on my Inspire 4G is making a slight snapping noise and moving a bit sometimes when I press on the corners, almost as if the glass is lifting slightly over time. Once I press the corners, it is fine for a few minutes, then I can do it again, hearing the snapping noises.
I want to root my phone and install RCMix HD, but I don't want to void my warranty if the glass is going to lift off my screen in a few months. Is anyone else seeing this issue? Other than this and poor battery life, I absolutely love the phone. It's a HUGE improvement over the xdandroid experience on my Touch Pro 2.
Anyone else with this problem?

gnnash said:
Hello,
Sorry, I accidentally posted this in the Desire HD forum first (not that it should really matter of course).
I've started to notice that the glass on my Inspire 4G is making a slight snapping noise and moving a bit sometimes when I press on the corners, almost as if the glass is lifting slightly over time. Once I press the corners, it is fine for a few minutes, then I can do it again, hearing the snapping noises.
I want to root my phone and install RCMix HD, but I don't want to void my warranty if the glass is going to lift off my screen in a few months. Is anyone else seeing this issue? Other than this and poor battery life, I absolutely love the phone. It's a HUGE improvement over the xdandroid experience on my Touch Pro 2.
Anyone else with this problem?
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Yes, others have complained about the screen lifting. If you are within the 30 day return policy, you can try to exchange it. I don't think it'll completely come off over a long period of time.

yea, i didn't notice till after my 30 days were up. Still trying to find time to call HTC about it, Bugs the crap out of me! I'm sure it will lift to the point of dirt and moisture getting under there though. Damn tape!

mj0528 said:
yea, i didn't notice till after my 30 days were up. Still trying to find time to call HTC about it, Bugs the crap out of me! I'm sure it will lift to the point of dirt and moisture getting under there though. Damn tape!
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If you bought the phone from at&t, they can do a warranty exchange or like you said, call HTC and see what they can do. If you rooted your phone, you need to bring it back to factory original state prior to returning it to either HTC or at&t.

Radio Shack, i bet they'd tell me to jump in a lake. AT&T told me to call HTC

mj0528 said:
Radio Shack, i bet they'd tell me to jump in a lake. AT&T told me to call HTC
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LOL. HTC will do a warranty exchange. Not sure if rat shack will care.

If I do bring it in for a warranty exchange, will the next one just do the same thing? Is this common to all Inspires, or are most alright?

I know others have complained about the screen lifting or moving near the search key. Others have also complained about the lcd making funny colors while pressing on the search key. I guess its a hit or miss.
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Mine is also doing it
Sometimes it gets really bad and so annoying knowing that later through normal use eventually the glass will come off and or get all kinds of dust/lint under the glass.
I got mine @ Costco on launch day and they mentioned 90 days to replace if defective and after 90 days that I would have to deal with HTC for warranty? Is this true has anyone else dealt with Costcos wireless, will they replace it?
Funny thing is on launch day my brand new Inspire had white specks of lint under the glass and within the week I got it replaced and they agreed its defective.
So this could be an uprising defect.
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I bought mine directly from AT&T, and am still in my buyer's remorse period. So my biggest decision is whether to get another Inspire 4G or to switch to another phone. I love this phone, but don't want to get another if it is going to have the same problem. However, I don't know what other phone I would get in its place.
My corner by the search button is now visibly elevated. Either I just now noticed this, or it is rapidly getting worse. At this rate, I feel the glass would be off completely by next month.

kirk123 said:
I know others have complained about the screen lifting or moving near the search key. Others have also complained about the lcd making funny colors while pressing on the search key. I guess its a hit or miss.
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There is no lifting or moving on mine, though I can get a tiny bit of distortion if I hold down the search key firmly, however, you really have to press hard to get that, in normal use it is fine.
Edit-I guess some of this is like the patient who tells his doctor "it hurts when I move my arm this weird way", to which the doctor responds "Don't move it that way"

Damn... Mine is doing the same thing. This is bothersome...
It's not noticeable for me, unless I concentrate on it while I'm pressing on it. Also, if I hit the search button like others here, it discolors the screen.

Are there people out there who this doesn't happen to?
I'm considering "upgrading" to the Atrix. I really love the Inspire, but if it's just going to fall apart or get dust under the screen, I won't be able to handle it. The battery life of the Atrix entices me too, but there's just something special about the Inspire...
How long is the warranty on our phones? I suppose I could just replace it a few times before the warranty is up, but if my last replacement has the same issue later... I just don't know.
I sure wish that AT&T would have nabbed the Sensation. Then I would be switching right now, no question.

It's a "feature"
Mine does it, but it doesn't effect the phone. It's in a case so I don't even notice it now.

gnnash said:
Are there people out there who this doesn't happen to?
I'm considering "upgrading" to the Atrix. I really love the Inspire, but if it's just going to fall apart or get dust under the screen, I won't be able to handle it. The battery life of the Atrix entices me too, but there's just something special about the Inspire...
How long is the warranty on our phones? I suppose I could just replace it a few times before the warranty is up, but if my last replacement has the same issue later... I just don't know.
I sure wish that AT&T would have nabbed the Sensation. Then I would be switching right now, no question.
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I wouldn't consider that an "upgrade". The manufactures warranty lasts a year.
Seems the only solution to fix this problem is to hit the search button with a hammer xD.
All jokes a side as long as there is no dust and the glass isn't seriously falling out of the phone, I would just chalk it up as normal. Every phone has its quirks.
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mudknot2005 said:
I wouldn't consider that an "upgrade". The manufactures warranty lasts a year.
Seems the only solution to fix this problem is to hit the search button with a hammer xD.
All jokes a side as long as there is no dust and the glass isn't seriously falling out of the phone, I would just chalk it up as normal. Every phone has its quirks.
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Hence the quotes around "upgrade"
Anyway, I agree that every phone has its quirks, and that's fine. For me, the relatively short battery life of the Inspire is a quirk. But a lifting screen isn't a quirk, but a straight-up defect. A defect should never be considered "normal", even if it happens to all phones of a certain model.
I'm going to go and exchange the phone this afternoon. If the display model at the store is okay, with no lifted screen, I will go with the Inspire again. If the display model is lifted as well, I may go with the Atrix. Hopefully the bootloader protection will be broken someday, and development will flourish.
It really is a bummer for me though, as I really do love my inspire.

By the way, just got off the phone with HTC to see if this was a known issue that was being fixed in manufacturing. Apparently, my representative had never heard of the problem. Must be so slight that most people aren't noticing the problem.
Anyway, It sounds like it isn't being actively worked on to fix the issue.

If i push the glass in the corner of the search key, i can feel the glass mive and it creeks too.
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My right lower corner bleeds out a little if I push on it real hard and so does the left side but screen is not elevated at all. it's as flat as it can be. There is no dust trapped. This phone is like 1 month old. I also went to the at&t store and checked out to the display model and all are the same but none had the screen elevated.
This may be an individual issue. But I also tried to push the atrix and captivate on the right lower corner and they dont bleed.
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Talk about a pita, I have been transferred to everyone under the sun at htc and at&t with no one telling me anything but send it in. I don't know about you, but I can't live without my phone for that long due to work.
Should've bought it at Best Buy. Geek squad protection plan is expensive but very well worth it for oh crap moments or times like these.

possible solution for delayed texts, poor data and signal G2x

hey guys i was very upset that i had to turn my Wifi calling in order to check my email, call or even text someone at home. i was looking on what could be blocking the antenna so i decided to take of my body glove, then i removed the back cover, then on the bottom by the speakers i noticed a piece of "tape". (mine was blue and my co workers was black) i removed it and turn my phone off and guess what, im writting this without using my wifi and my text messages are going through fine since i texted my co worker to remove his "tape/sticker"......can anyone else try this....ill try to post some pic tomorrow of what "tape/sticker" im reffering to even tho it should not be too hard.

I noticed that too, already partially damaged from the cover being removed before I even got the phone. It is indeed safe to remove?

i just send a lg rep what i noticed, so far i have had no issues, my co worker keeps texting to test and so far we have noticed a improvement.

Huh, interesting just removed mine as well. It is the really thin plastic that is used to protect something before it is sent to consumer, like what you would find on a tv or kitchen appliance. Guess they forgot to take it off or expected us to do it. I get signal at home so I am gonna report back once I go too school bc reception is there is awful and I am finally getting a bar when I normally didn't.

Nice post!!!!
Ok mine was black tape... i just popped the cover off pealed it off and laying in the exact same spot it was when i read this post i went from 2bars to 3bars.
Coincidence? Hmmmmmm
Thanks though, never noticed the damn tape....thinking maybe it did help... normally where i sit and lay my phone on my desk here at home i float between 1-2 bars, same place it has 3 now...

Wow thanks for the info! I too was curious as to the purpose of it, but feared if I removed it there would be consequences lol

i see it but im not touching it. just gives tmobile another reason to screw you over.

no, you still have a 14 day trial. is like taking of the screen protector that comes with the phone and have tmobile not taking it back because of it. besides a close source says it should be okay.

Really? TMo will voide warranty for a piece of plastic tape that doesn't say "void warranty if removed" just peel it off.... lol

ozkerr said:
no, you still have a 14 day trial. is like taking of the screen protector that comes with the phone and have tmobile not taking it back because of it. besides a close source says it should be okay.
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nope not doing it lol. call me paranoid.**peels slowly**

charlieb620 said:
nope not doing it lol. call me paranoid.**peels slowly**
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im sorry your reply had a bit of a delay....lol what did you say

They already beat this up pretty badly on the O2X forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1023053
General consensus was any benefit was "placebo effect." I left it on my phone for a day and then took it off and didn't notice any difference.

charlieb620 said:
nope not doing it lol. call me paranoid.**peels slowly**
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im sorry your last comment had a bid of a delay..lol

Some damn good placebo then cuz i can assure you around all these servers etc here i've never gotten better than 2 bars... hmmmmm
thats it, i'm putting it back on and off and on and off and on and off and... ok i'm confused now...

idk, i have never seen another "plastic/sticker/tape" on another tmobile phone (i have 25). i mean i really relied on wi fi calling to do anything on my phone at home on my g2x. is been two hours now. if this has nothing to do then im wrong but in the meantime my text are not delayed.

ozkerr said:
idk, i have never seen another "plastic/sticker/tape" on another tmobile phone (i have 25). i mean i really relied on wi fi calling to do anything on my phone at home on my g2x. is been two hours now. if this has nothing to do then im wrong but in the meantime my text are not delayed.
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Just noticed yer in houston... i'm in mcallen area... so guess this tape thing working for us must be a Texas thing lol

lol hahaha, i guess we will find out once everyone wakes up and try this......i have another friend that we will try to test again ill try to update with pics before and after

It seems odd that a thin plastic tape would affect signal, but I saw a solid 1 bar increase as well. It appears the tape is directly over the antenna.

x-ravin said:
It seems odd that a thin plastic tape would affect signal, but I saw a solid 1 bar increase as well. It appears the tape is directly over the antenna.
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Yep as did I! Phone seems better now signal wise, and true, data / sms / mms is behaving now? I dunno... maybe it's us wishing for better signal by removing tape so hard that it actually affected the earths EM field allowing for one more bar of signal.

and people with iphone thought the death grip wasnt real until they got a free case from AtTT.

Have you dropped/damaged a phone?

Just curious if anyone dropped or damaged a phone before. Is it possible that anyone never broke a phone? I hear people say they don't buy insurance because they're always careful. Are you one those mystical people?
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I have never broken a phone by dropping it. Somehow I have drove over 2 of my phones and wrecked them but past that I have been very fortunate I guess
Pin it to Win it.

Had to replace one as a result of dropping it. My newest replacement was due to a fail digitizer.

I ive dropped my SGS many times. So many people rip on samsung for using plastic build materials but it is really durable.

Deggy said:
Just curious if anyone dropped or damaged a phone before. Is it possible that anyone never broke a phone? I hear people say they don't buy insurance because they're always careful. Are you one those mystical people?
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Yeah,drop em all the time. Pick up,wipe off the dust and reboot. Haha. Insurance for a phone? Maybe theft.
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x-iphone user
I was very happy with my jailbroken i-phone 3gs. I thought it was protected by the sleek looking CaseCrown surround. However, after dropping it while on the treadmill, stepping on it while on the treadmill, and seeing the result shoot backward and hit the wall, I realized that CaseCrown was no Otterbox. Broken case, broken on/off switch, and speaker that rattled. Anyway, my hands are not as steady as they once were, so I was unable to make the repair myself. I sent it off to a third-party vendor, and it was returned with a new case, but the volume controls did not work and neither did the antenna. After arguing back and forth, (the vendor insisted that my jailbreak was responsible even though it has worked just fine for two years) they tried to fix it again. In the meantime, I got fed up wit the wait and opted to move to the 'droid side. Now I have a shiny new Galaxy Note (i 717 AT&T with stock ICS). Never looking back -- I love the note! (not rooted yet -- I am still reading the various posts about it. I want to be sure I know what I am doing, and how to recover, before I mess with it.)

I dropped my old flip phone(s) repeatedly but it never really broke, just got some wear and tear.
Dropped my first Android a few times, but my case saved it.
So for now, I've been really careful with my phones.
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My old vibrant took a 7 ft face first fall onto a concrete warehouse floor. Not a scratch, thanks to otterbox. My GS2 has been dropped one or twice, but also no harm done. I'm confident that without proper cases, that vibrant would be broken, instead of being used by my son.

I use electronic devices carefully specially mobile phones, i dropped my Nokia 5800 once and its case cracked.

Rickh123456 said:
I was very happy with my jailbroken i-phone 3gs. I thought it was protected by the sleek looking CaseCrown surround. However, after dropping it while on the treadmill, stepping on it while on the treadmill, and seeing the result shoot backward and hit the wall, I realized that CaseCrown was no Otterbox. Broken case, broken on/off switch, and speaker that rattled. Anyway, my hands are not as steady as they once were, so I was unable to make the repair myself. I sent it off to a third-party vendor, and it was returned with a new case, but the volume controls did not work and neither did the antenna. After arguing back and forth, (the vendor insisted that my jailbreak was responsible even though it has worked just fine for two years) they tried to fix it again. In the meantime, I got fed up wit the wait and opted to move to the 'droid side. Now I have a shiny new Galaxy Note (i 717 AT&T with stock ICS). Never looking back -- I love the note! (not rooted yet -- I am still reading the various posts about it. I want to be sure I know what I am doing, and how to recover, before I mess with it.)
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The moment I read glass in the iPhone description it was a dealbreaker.
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I don't usually drop my phone, but I have a good friend who quite regularly drops her galaxy s2 xD i think both cameras are dying now.

my first phone was a lg 4400 (it didnt even have a camera),which my daughter dropped in the toilet. thankfully the water was clean! i took it apart to let it dry for a few days, put it back together and my wife used it for 6 months before it died. been very lucky/carefull with all my other phones.

my phone is BB 8700, and I don't care about that

Dropped a phone, I often do this. Many times battery even get out of my phone when dropped.

I have had Motorola phones for the past 2 years, I dropped my old Droid 2 from a 10 foot ladder, and all it got was a slight scratch on the raised bezel bottom left of the screen. made a switch to the nexus a while back have dropped it a few times with only a screen protector on and it hasn't acquired any noticeable damage cept for a small scratch on the battery cover.

trojans63 said:
i got pushed in a swiming pool with my iphone 4. i was so mad
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Ouch
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Always dropped my bb8520 and the call quality was the worst
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Wow the iphone being pushed into a swimming pool is really ****ed up the one while running is just funny mine sgs has been dropped kicked drowned in a toilet broken glass in upper right corner i can see the inside there.. and every time battery and back cover fly there own ways yeahhhh samsung is hardcore im running cm10 jellybean from pawitp with the newest semaphore jb kernel and some other visual tweaks and big mem. it has never been so smooth so both Samsung and XDA thank you.
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Just picked this one up. Battery came out and flew in the opposite direction when it dropped.
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Slider Hinge a little lose

Hello everyone,
my Photon Q fell two days ago and since nothing really happened except that the slider mechanism feels more lose than before, I wanted to ask you guys if 1) with your phone it is the same or 2) do you have an idea how to make it "tight" again?
I opened the phone but couldn't really find out what causes this gap on the left side (when the phone is closed and you are looking at the front). Even it's cosmetic (for some ) it bugs me a lot
Thanks

I've got the same issue, but I thought it could be an issue caused by a fall of the Photon Q.

Loader009 said:
I've got the same issue, but I thought it could be an issue caused by a fall of the Photon Q.
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So yours fell too? Its probably due to the fall
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Mine has been like this since day one. Thought it was just crappy manufacturing. MUCH more loose compared to my old Epic4g

judogti said:
Mine has been like this since day one. Thought it was just crappy manufacturing. MUCH more loose compared to my old Epic4g
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You probably should have exchanged it then. It's likely yours was dropped during shipping or by someone in the Sprint store.

Solust said:
You probably should have exchanged it then. It's likely yours was dropped during shipping or by someone in the Sprint store.
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Yes, I think so too. Before the drop it fit nicely...Hmm...but noone knows what to do to get it like that again?
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I'm not experienced in hardware repair or mods, but if you can separate the two parts of the phone it looks like it has a single hinge with two rails for the slide mechanism. I don't think those would be damaged based on your pictures but there are also two pieces of metal, one on each side of the display connector. My bet would be that one of those got dented. The two pieces seem to be used as a stopping point for the slide as well as distancing/orienting the display.

Solust said:
You probably should have exchanged it then. It's likely yours was dropped during shipping or by someone in the Sprint store.
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Nah, Im less than thrilled with this phone, I hope it dies soon and I'll switch models. I love having a slider but there are too many disappointments with this one looks like I'll have to go with an S3 or S4.

judogti said:
Nah, Im less than thrilled with this phone, I hope it dies soon and I'll switch models. I love having a slider but there are too many disappointments with this one looks like I'll have to go with an S3 or S4.
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Congratulations. You came to say that you don't like this phone and happened to bring nothing to this conversation. We won't miss you.

Solust said:
I'm not experienced in hardware repair or mods, but if you can separate the two parts of the phone it looks like it has a single hinge with two rails for the slide mechanism. I don't think those would be damaged based on your pictures but there are also two pieces of metal, one on each side of the display connector. My bet would be that one of those got dented. The two pieces seem to be used as a stopping point for the slide as well as distancing/orienting the display.
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Thanks, Solust, for your ideas. I've been thinking the same. I inspected both of them, when I opened the phone and one felt a little lose. Not as lose as the upper part of the phone feels now, though. Can you confirm that it are those things you were mentioning?

oTToToTenTanz said:
Thanks, Solust, for your ideas. I've been thinking the same. I inspected both of them, when I opened the phone and one felt a little lose. Not as lose as the upper part of the phone feels now, though. Can you confirm that it are those things you were mentioning?
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At this point I do think it is beyond me and I'm a bit surprised someone more familiar with hardware hasn't stepped in yet. Might be worth a try PMing someone involved in the SIM mod.
The two metal pieces I was thinking of are on the keyboard portion of the phone. On the back of the display portion they create a mild groove the same size as the groove for the rails. One groove is left halfway up the phone and the other between that groove and the top of the phone. When the phone is together the display cable fits perfectly between them.
I'm sorry, all I can really do is speculate. I really don't know enough about this sort of thing. I may be mistaken as to what these parts are.

Solust said:
At this point I do think it is beyond me and I'm a bit surprised someone more familiar with hardware hasn't stepped in yet. Might be worth a try PMing someone involved in the SIM mod.
The two metal pieces I was thinking of are on the keyboard portion of the phone. On the back of the display portion they create a mild groove the same size as the groove for the rails. One groove is left halfway up the phone and the other between that groove and the top of the phone. When the phone is together the display cable fits perfectly between them.
I'm sorry, all I can really do is speculate. I really don't know enough about this sort of thing. I may be mistaken as to what these parts are.
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I think it is pretty impossible to fix a dent in the hinge, right? But would that http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOTOROLA-PH...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item20d0b14dc6 fix my problems?

^ I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. My Q is suffering from the very same problem, though I got over it quite a while ago since it's kind of a 'minor' issue I actually have the same exact part sitting on my desk right now, my listing on eBay to sell it just ended haha. I could test it out for you, if you really would like to know.
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xLoveHateLegend said:
^ I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. My Q is suffering from the very same problem, though I got over it quite a while ago since it's kind of a 'minor' issue I actually have the same exact part sitting on my desk right now, my listing on eBay to sell it just ended haha. I could test it out for you, if you really would like to know.
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Haha, interesting I'm not so sure either, but I'm eager to do it lol. Hence I bought this yesterday night, although I'm not even sure how this hinge is fixed on the phone (glue etc?). I'd sure like to know how u fare, fella!^^
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There's no glue, it just slides under these 3 little slots on the left side
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xLoveHateLegend said:
There's no glue, it just slides under these 3 little slots on the left side
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So why didn't u try it?^^
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