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So here is my story
I purchased an HTC touch pro 2 last year, i bought it before it hit the US markets so i paid a load of money for it. No problem, i love the phones, and i Paid like $700 for the Touch HD when it dropped in England but the lack of the keyboard ended with me selling it.
So i get this phone from a guy that says its direct from HTC its in an exclusive white box blah blah blah right.
Get the phone and all is well, new roms are dropping and i have WM 6.1 on my phone (weak!) so being that i have a MAC computer i cannot do anything to update the phone with out buying a load of software and putting XP on my computer (nope!).
So i go to the HTC website and the update is there and it asks for the serial number, well i put it in and it wont recognize it, hmmm. So long story intro short, i mail it to HTC for an upgrade and maybe check out the loose hinge on the tilting screen.
They receive my phone, and my phone sits on the shelf at the warehouse for 5 DAYS!!!
I call and every time i get the same story, "well mr miller we will escalate this so that it gets taken care of right away sir." I called 3 times and it was never touched. Finally on the 3rd time they tell me, well this is a sample phone, one we gave to employees before it hit the market, so there is no warranty, and we cannot upgrade it, and where did YOU get this phone. Ummm i paid for it, out in the open on Ebay, not out of the trunk of some guys car outside the pool hall.
Anyway they wont fix it, i have no warranty and thats that, ok fine whatever give my phone back, this was on Monday (April 5th) of this week. So the phone is to be sent back to me per HTC on Monday.
Call on Tuesday to get the tracking number so i can see when it will arrive because i am out a lot, and they say it is still in the warehouse.
I call back on Wednesday to get the tracking number so that i can see when it will arrive because i am out a lot, and they say it is STILL in the warehouse.
I call back on Thursday to get the tracking number so i can see when it will arrive...... etc etc.
The rep then tells me there are no notes in the system and it has not even been started for ship out.
But she is going to escalate it so that it gets sent out ASAP Mr. Miller.
Lord not this escalate crap again.
OK BYE!
I call today Friday to get the tracking number, and its the supervisor i spoke with days ago that knows AAAAALL about my case.
Well Mr. Miller the phone is still sitting on the shelf in our warehouse/
WTF for a week+?!?!
It had been determined last WEEK that they were not going to repair it and were going to send it back.
So my phone has been held hostage by HTC and they wont send it back, no one will do anything to get me over to someone in the warehouse, they act as if its Area 57 or something and they dont have phones there.
So needless to say am very VERY disappointed in the treatment I have received and it is very likely that I will not purchase another HTC phone again after this nightmare.
Shame because i enjoy the phones, but i refuse to give my money to support a company that treats its clients in such a manner.
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Area 51, by the way.
Perhaps you should purchase phones after they have hit common carriers instead of trying to blame your mistake on the company.
Sure, they could have sent your phone back to you a bit faster, but if you're unwise enough to purchase a phone off of eBay, you've got larger issues than your phone coming back to you. Besides, it was only there for a week? I've not had any such luck with HTC and having my personal cell held hostage. I guess it all goes back to buying a phone after it has hit the market...
If you ask me, you did it to yourself, Mr. Miller.
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Already posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=661030
I've had to send my Desire back to HTC last Monday (11/10/10) as the external speaker has failed. They arranged UPS courier pick up and UPS supplied a tracking number which showed it was signed for by HTC on 12/10/10.
Also on 12/10, HTC sent me an email advising they'd received the phone and gave me a repair tracking reference. I logged in to the servioce on 12/10 and it did indeed show 'We have received your phone at HTC service center.'
This is fine, but we are now one week on since HTC reported receiving my phone and the status has not changed. I rang them today and just got fobbed off with "it takes 10 to 15 working days to turn around a repair". I'm not unduly worried, however, I don't see the point of a repair tracking service if it is never updated.
I just wondered what everyone else's experiences were of the HTC repair service and their repair tracking updates?
Cheers.
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HTC Repair
I sent my phone in for repair about 4 weeks ago. I had a similar experience as you where it stayed in that status for about 2 weeks! I was phoning constantly in that time, being given expected repair dates, being promised things would be raised as a priority etc, but to no avail. I complained to the customer service team that the updating was poor. The lady agreed but could only promise to pass my comment on to the complaints department and they would contact me in 24 hours. They couldn't be contacted directly.
I had no intention of believing that based on my past experience over the 2 weeks. I rang the head office and asked for the complaints department. I spoke to a really helpful lady who managed to get my phone repaied and back to me in 5 days! This would not have happenned if she didn't help me.
Unfortunately, the repair was unsuccessful. I was reluctant to send it back, but I went via the route of the same person in the complaints department, who set it up as a priority case. I sent if off on a Friday and had it back the next Friday! Fault was fixed.
The best way to deal with them is to constantly ring them as the repair tracking service isn't updated often, whereas they can see other information on their systems. If that doesn't work, ring the complaints department.
Repair: UPDATE
Well, would you credit it, the day after I made my original post HTC updated the repair tracker to say my phone was being repaired. The next day, it was updated again to say phone repaired and being returned to me. That was last Friday and guess what? I still haven't got my phone, but and it is a BIIIIG but...
It's not HTC's fault. They did post it, and gave me a UPS Courier tracking number.
UPS reported the phone being sent from their depot in Tamworth, Staffs. On Monday just gone, it was then reported as being out for delivery to me that day....it never arrived. I rang UPS, they claimed they had tried to deliver it but my office was shut...BULLSH!T! I was ringing them from the office at 4.30pm that day! UPS then said they would reschedule delivery for Tuesday to which I agreed.
Then as I was leaving the office at 5pm, UPS rang me back to say I could call at their local depot (10 miles from me) at 6pm to collect the phone. I agreed and arrived at their office at 6.10pm only for them not to be able to find the phone, then tell me "We're really sorry, but it's still at our Tamworth depot. We'll get it to you tomorrow"
So Tuesday morning rolls round....I get a phone call from UPS at work asking was I planning to call and collect the phone from UPS today. I told them no because they had arranged to deliver it that day.
Then the bombshell. "I'm really sorry sir, we had a break in on one of our vans at the Tamworth depot. Your phone was on that van and has been stolen!"
Can't be helped I suppose, but it doesn't stop me thinking how unlucky can I get!!!
Still, at the end of the day, UPS have admitted it was stolen, so I should get a new replacement or a big fat cheque to buy a new one.
C'est la vie.
LOL - sorry, I shouldn't laugh, that's a horrendous story...
I was curious, did UPS pay out to you?
smeddy said:
LOL - sorry, I shouldn't laugh, that's a horrendous story...
I was curious, did UPS pay out to you?
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Thanks for the sympathy...lol!
You really don't want to know what a nightmare I've had with HTC since this happened. Suffice to say, it took 6 weeks to get a replacement (refurb) handset (wrapped in bubble wrap in a plastic envelope, my retail box which it was sent in was nowhere to be seen), which they sent WITHOUT a battery (which took another week to arrive...after shouting at them down the phone!!) and now this replacement handset it randomly freezing!!!
I hope you NEVER have to send your handset back to HTC....they have the worst customer service I've ever experienced...EVER!!! Still currently got an ongoing dispute with them. If I ever get a resolution and I have a spare 3 weeks, I might post the whole sorry saga for you all to have a laugh/cry/empathising pat on the back at....if it could go wrong, it did/has/probably still will!!
Let's just say I will NEVER buy HTC again!!!
And no, UPS didn't pay out to me, because the phone was sent BACK to me by HTC, so HTC had to make the claim. So, while they will probably get the full cost of the lost phone, I'm left with a refurb. HTC won't entertain a claim from me as UPS lost the phone and UPS won't entertain a claim from me because HTC were the sender and had to make the claim! I'm stuck between rock and a hard place...but I'm still fighting!!!
My story
Hey! I have a similar story to share! N.B. None of our phones are rooted and only her's was SIM unlocked via a code we purchased.
So since December 2011, my girlfriend (Phone B) and I (Phone A) have both been using HTC Desire Z sold by Bell Canada. I am a Bell user and she is a Rogers user. Mine was bought under my contract and her's was bought by someone else who got a contract to get the phone but sold the phone brand new and gave me the bill.
So we had been using our phones without any problems until I started experiencing issues in July 2011. The screen was not responding and I had to send it (A) for repairs. It was returned and was used without any issue until the next problem popped up (keep reading).
In December 2011, I decided to send my girlfriend's phone (B) since she had been complaining that her earpiece was crackling. So in December, I sent the phone.
I leant her my phone for the time her's was under repair. One night, my phone froze when she loaded a PDF. It restarted fine but the next morning, it was stuck at the HTC screen (A).
I called Bell. In Canada, it turns out carriers are responsible for handling the warranty so they consider that if you are not a customer under the carrier, you can't avail yourself of the manufacturer's warranty. This makes absolutely no sense as the standard product warranty from a manufacturer is 1 year.
I called HTC and fought for an hour until they sent me to a repair unit. With them, they told me that the phone was still under warranty and gave me a work order to send to the subcontractor responsible for repairs.
I sent phone A for repairs. In the meantime, phone B was returned. We sent phone B for repairs unlocked and they returned it locked (new IMEI). I paid to get it unlocked and my girlfriend started using it. She told me that it reboots every 2 minutes. I took a video of it and it is pretty ridiculous. With a Rogers SIM, it reboots every 2 minutes, without a SIM, it reboots every 15 or so. I'm now going to have to send phone B for repairs again and cross my fingers that it doesn't fail again.
Now the pièce de résistance is coming up. I just received a call from the repair company and they are asking 200$ to fix phone A. They consider that a phone under warranty with a work order and sent because of random software failure needs 200$? What is this?
Posted my story on the HTC Canada facebook page and guess what? INSTANT DELETE! Because of this, I started my own Facebook page. We are customers, I bought not 1 but 2 phones from them and look at what they do!
So here it is, the facebook page where all of you should post your stories:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HTC-Cell-Phone-Issues/302964459751052?sk=wall
If it gathers wind, we might finally get some real help from HTC. I was a BIG fan of them. Until they fix this mess, NEVER again will I buy or advise anyone to buy their products!
Thank you and sorry for the long mail.
Show some support, this might happen to you!
I will be starting a thread to elicit people to share their own stories and hopefully all post on the Facebook page. Can you guys copy-paste your stories? It would help gather some momentum.
Sent my Desire in for repair (reboot issue) and got an acknowledgement.
On the HTC Support site, when I put the ticket number and my email into the status of repair utility, zilch, nothing happens. Is it because I have to wait several days for them to get round to my phone?
When they have looked at your phone they will update the repair
SBE Ltd might be worth a try, they've repaired my Desire via T-Mobile.
http://extranet.sbe-ltd.co.uk/enduser/
Turn your pop up blocker off. Took me a while to work that one out. Although you'll probably find that the info is rubbish. Mine never got past being received before I got an email saying it had been dispatched again.
WOW
Booked in Monday; Main Board replaced Tuesday, despatched back to me today..
Could not ask for better than that. Well done HTC
I have an issue with my One X, the G-sensor totally will not respond, I have tried everything short of flashing a new ROM (but I'm still stock due to no S-off)
Now, I've decided to stop putting off sending my phone into repair after having this issue for over 3 weeks.
What I want to know is;
What was your experience with HTC repair?
How long did they take to fix and return your device?
I go on holiday in 22 days, and I very much need the camera on this phone however it's stuck in the wrong rotation, I'm assuming it won't take HTC 22 days to repair the phone?
I have had a good and a terrible repair experience with them. But if you send it in now hopefully the turnaround will be 2 weeks.
So far so good. I called them on Monday, they sent the courier to pick up my device yesterday and on the website it states that my device is being repaired as of 9:58am today. Hopefully the rest goes smoothly, I have heard some real horror stories.
long story short. send my phone in for repairs in the first week of may and was suppose to get my phone back within two weeks.. ended up getting back a month later..so two weeks more on top of the estimated time they told me...but the good news was that ever since i did not have any issues and the phone is a beast.. so even though there was a delay i am happy with the outcome and work they did on the phone
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long story short. send my phone in for repairs in the first week of may and was suppose to get my phone back within two weeks.. ended up getting back a month later..so two weeks more on top of the estimated time they told me...but the good news was that ever since i did not have any issues and the phone is a beast.. so even though there was a delay i am happy with the outcome and work they did on the phone
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What country are you in?
Many people in the UK have said they've recieved their device back within two weeks.
Anyway, HTC quoted me a 7 working days turn around time and i'm sending it off tomorrow morning, heres to hoping.
TommUK said:
What country are you in?
Many people in the UK have said they've recieved their device back within two weeks.
Anyway, HTC quoted me a 7 working days turn around time and i'm sending it off tomorrow morning, heres to hoping.
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UK mate
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
I'm in UK, they sent it to regenersis in huntingdon, firstly for a misaligned front speaker hole (which i sent them a pic of) and dead pixel.
It said repaired etc on the website a few days after they received. Spoke to the htc live chat, and asked what had been done to it. 'The software was reflashed'
It was returned to me a few days later, no different to when i sent it off.
I resent the phone eventually (to same place, regenersis) as it developed the wifi antenna problem as well. The repair tracking website was never updated, and live chat didn't have a clue what was happening with the phone. 2 weeks later the phone turned up at work. Unrepaired again. Zero difference.
I'm currently in the process of arranging a replacement from HTC instead.
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I'm in UK, they sent it to regenersis in huntingdon, firstly for a misaligned front speaker hole (which i sent them a pic of) and dead pixel.
It said repaired etc on the website a few days after they received. Spoke to the htc live chat, and asked what had been done to it. 'The software was reflashed'
It was returned to me a few days later, no different to when i sent it off.
I resent the phone eventually (to same place, regenersis) as it developed the wifi antenna problem as well. The repair tracking website was never updated, and live chat didn't have a clue what was happening with the phone. 2 weeks later the phone turned up at work. Unrepaired again. Zero difference.
I'm currently in the process of arranging a replacement from HTC instead.
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Just for all you UK people, if the device has ANY problems in the 1st six months take it back to the retailer and demand a replacement. You might have to push them but ultimately you will be successful . In the first 6 months the fault is considered to have been there since manufacture, after six months it's a bit different.
The Sales of Goods act covers this for you.
Here's a few links that might help
http://whatconsumer.co.uk/the-sale-of-goods-act/
http://whatconsumer.co.uk/shops-responsibility/
HTc repair center here in the us is suck big time, i'm still waiting on my htc one that i sent for repair since July 5th, finally i got an email from them that they ship it back to me, now its gonna take another 6 days before i receive it, they could at least overnight since they took that long to repair it.. never again
HTC EVO View 4G Repaired
My View stop working just like that: I got some strange pop-ups about apps force closing then I decided
to reboot and that got stuck. Pressing power for a long time didn't help. The charging led no longer
lighted up. Pressing all kinds of button combinations didn't help me. The tablet was dead!
This is a refurbished tablet that I bought off Tech4Less. I had it S-OFFed and rooted.
I called HTC customer support to inquire about the repair policy. I could get a box shipped and send
in the tablet for repair (here in the US). I was told that they would quote me the cost per email and
if declined I would have to pay a $35 fee. Well that to me was worth the try. Pay $35 to learn whether
you have a brick or not. I got the box, shipped the tablet to their repair centre and waited. By the
way the Fedex shipping label came for free. So far no costs and no word from HTC, although customer
service promised to send me email about the repair policy. Also the repair centre never acknowledged
receipt of the tablet. This was a few days before 4th of July. Two weeks later I shopped for a new tablet
and got a great deal on a new 2012 Nexus 7 from Staples.
I had given up on my View. No notice of what was going on with the repair; no repair tracking number.
A few days later I was happily unpacking my new Nexus and showing it off to my wife. She remarked
that the HTC repair probably was a hoax and that my old tablet was lost. I checked my email at that
moment and lo and behold threre was an email from HTC stating that the tablet was repaired and on its
way back to me. It mentioned the serial number and a repair number and I was able to use those to
look up the actual Fedex tracking number on their web site. I couldn't believe it... Every day I checked the
progress and eventually I got the box on my doorstep. Indeed, my good old trusty View was working
again. HTC provided a repair sheet and noted that among other minor replacements, the motheroard was
replaced. Wow! And no bill. Yes, really. Maybe a mistake on their part, but lucky for me.
I am very grateful to HTC and can only hope that others are treated similarly.
im not happy at all, since i bought my htc one in june 2013, its been repaired twice , i was suurprised it was collected and returned within 7 days from my door. This 3rd time its been over 10 days, it was howing as "reapired" in the tracking info, but today its showing back "in repair"...whats going on htc?..apparently hey dont have a repair centre here in the uk its in poland :laugh:
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Angry
I live in the UK. I sent my HTC One M8 off to UK on the 11th of May 2015. It is now the 9th of June 2015 still haven't received my phone. On their tracking page it says itshe being packed to be returned. It's been on being packed for 2 days now they are seriously p*ssing me off. I haven't had a phone all this time.
Hi
Bought my HTC in April and was happy with it till 2 weeks ago GPS stopped working completely (seeing satellites but no fix despite trying everything). Phone was in original software no unlock made to it.
Send it to HTC service in UK and got message from them with picture that my screen i broken and is not under warranty??? I send them good condition phone (a part of GPS) and now they said its smashed. I have picture of my phone before delivery in good condition but they say is not a proof. Waiting for response from HTC
Sad user
Pedro
panoramixus said:
Hi
Bought my HTC in April and was happy with it till 2 weeks ago GPS stopped working completely (seeing satellites but no fix despite trying everything). Phone was in original software no unlock made to it.
Send it to HTC service in UK and got message from them with picture that my screen i broken and is not under warranty??? I send them good condition phone (a part of GPS) and now they said its smashed. I have picture of my phone before delivery in good condition but they say is not a proof. Waiting for response from HTC
Sad user
Pedro
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Where did you buy this phone? It's very well possible (although should not be the case) that your phone got cracked during transport..... If that's the case then somehow it is not their fault... but this is a ****ty situation to be in to be honest.
what method of shipping did you use to send it to htc? was it their ups service? or did send it yourself?
at this point if htc don't back down i'd look to the shipping company for compensation - just hope it was insured transit
They did not come to pick it up theirself?
In Belgium they insist that they do the packaging themself. You just sign a paper that it is not damaged (if i remember correctly 5 aspects).
Anyway this is not the first time I hear you story. If you google it, then it has happened a lot.
Hope you get a new phone man
Update
They send UPS courier to pick up phone (was double wrapped in bubble foil and bubble envelope) HTC after I phoned them confirm that package arrive non damage but phone it self smashed!!!! so they raised complaint against UPS will see what gonna happened.
Cheers for support
Pedro