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Is it just me or does build quality suck?

I've just recieved my replacement for my first HTC desire which had a dead pixel near the top of the screen (wish i kept it, such a minor issue :S) - I got it replaced for a new HTC desire which arrived today, which hs dust under the screen right in the middle of it - a bigger problem.
2 Phones unlucky, and managed to convince TMobile CS to replacve it as opposed to repair, so, I'm getting yet another one tomorrow.
Has anyone recieved a faulty replaement for a faulty phone or is it just me? :S
First HTC phone, very very bad experience, feel like cancelling it :/ (then again miainly for Tmobiles partially ****e coverage)

Funny, mines the most solid phone I've ever had, and I'm a long time Nokia user.

I'm not denying its solid, but one most annoying issue on a phone like this is the screen, and to have a faulty screen twice sucks.
I'm also worried HTC are rushing out desires now, so build quality/batch testing is effected - another reason i regret just sending my old one off now grrrrr :S

I'm guessing you're an unlucky chap. My Desire is of excelent build quality, no dust whatsoever. The backside locks firmly to the body, covering the battery verry well.

Every product has stories of unlucky customers. For me the three HTCs ive had have been the best built and most reliable phones ive had.

Nelsaidi said:
I'm not denying its solid
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Well, it seems you're using the wrong wording. A dead pixel has nothing to do with build quality...they don't make the screens they buy them from a third party. Dust under the screen, again a rare occurrence that happens to the best devices. You had some back luck, but the consensus seems to be that you're an isolated incident.

Still asleep - but yeah, you're right, typically I'd use build quality to assess how solid it feels and its qualty, it does feel solid, not plasticy. However Dust does describe something not working correctly in the bulding process, but yeah - isolated - doubt a whole batch would have such an issue.
Trying to remember what word to use to describe my scenario
They say third time lucky, hopefully that one will work, since HTC desire is the ultiamte phone atm, and if i'm going to invest in a phone now might aswell invest it into an android. Failing that, might sell it on ebay or equivelant

There are worse things than dust that could get under the screen.
Imagine if the person assembling it, sneezed! :O

oh shiiiiiiii lol!

FloatingFatMan said:
There are worse things than dust that could get under the screen.
Imagine if the person assembling it, sneezed! :O
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Did that when putting on an Invisible Shield on my Creative M3 player...was angry for several months after that.

Funny, mines the most solid phone I've ever had, and I'm a long time Nokia user.
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Eh, exact same here with the addition that I'm a long time Sony /HTC user too. Very solid phone tis.
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Nelsaidi said:
I've just recieved my replacement for my first HTC desire which had a dead pixel near the top of the screen (wish i kept it, such a minor issue :S) - I got it replaced for a new HTC desire which arrived today, which hs dust under the screen right in the middle of it - a bigger problem.
2 Phones unlucky, and managed to convince TMobile CS to replacve it as opposed to repair, so, I'm getting yet another one tomorrow.
Has anyone recieved a faulty replaement for a faulty phone or is it just me? :S
First HTC phone, very very bad experience, feel like cancelling it :/ (then again miainly for Tmobiles partially ****e coverage)
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It's not just you, I've had exactly the same problems but the other way around. The first phone I received had dust under the screen, replaced it and now have a dead pixel. I however prefered the first one because I couldn't notice it as much.
I'm getting my third as well but they are CONSTANTLY out of stock. Both times I've received the phone I've asked to have it replaced within a few hours of receiving it (after charging and noticing the problem) and both times they've been out of stock for about a week afterwards (vodafone uk). I mean its good if there is lots of demand for this device but I just want to get one for myself that is fine out the box!
Like you said 3rd time lucky i hope!

Unlucky about that
I waited 2 weeks to get my first replaced, failing that the third you can send of to HTC for repairs, or ebay it and end up with a cheap contact.

It's you. Build quality is very good.

I find the build quality is not the best.
On front screen above the back/search button. I can see key back light coming out of a tinny hole, where the bottom part, the so called chin connects to the screen body. Then on the top left and bottom right of the battery cover. It doesn't seem to fit as tight as on top right and bottom left. I'd say that poor build quality.

I guess the word yous are looking for are "poor QC"
and when someone mentioned sneezing, I remember some article about some poor dude finding squished bug inside a screen on a vaio laptop LOL.

Biggest turd I have ever owned.

Coming from a evo. This Samsung is no match. The screen is easily scratched, crappy 3g, an over all pos. Of course its fast and the screen is huge and pretty but that is about it.

Sell it and go back to the evo. Problem solved.
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Thanks for trolling.
Reported.

I don't know how you treat your phone but I have a pretty good idea because it is an incredibly durable phone. How much are you dropping your phone and if you're that clumsy, why don't you have a durable case like Ballistic? I just don't really understand the point of your rant. The answers lie within.

How many turds have you purchased? Lol.
It's the same glass as the Evo, it's the same 3G service as the Evo (I was a launch-day-rooted-in-the-parking-lot-5-minutes-later Evo hardcore enthusiast)...the radio might not be as strong, but, I thought the same of my Evo3D...then I returned it and got back to my Evo and realized that's not the case....YMMV based on region, time of day and expections.
So, to sum it up...you left a legendary phone (The Evo4G) and had expectations through the roof. After getting this phone you decided that the same Gorilla Glass that was on your Evo4G wasn't as strong on a Samsung branded device, the Sprint 3G service that got destroyed by the Evo a year and a half ago was no longer as awesome as it was as when the Evo came out and those two factors make this the worst product ever sold for money....
oh yeah, I can't tell why, but, U MAD.

No case since October and I have no scratches. No dust under the screen, my speaker works,my volume rockers don't look like a 4yo put the phone together,my screen isn't seperating,and I pull about -5 dbm better signal than my buddies 3rd Evo. Sprint's 3g sucks....the phone has nothing to do with that.
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yruugly said:
Coming from a evo. This Samsung is no match. The screen is easily scratched, crappy 3g, an over all pos. Of course its fast and the screen is huge and pretty but that is about it.
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Tell 'em why you mad son... Tell e'm why mad...lol

Go back to the Evo then.

poppygt said:
No case since October and I have no scratches. No dust under the screen, my speaker works,my volume rockers don't look like a 4yo put the phone together,my screen isn't seperating,and I pull about -5 dbm better signal than my buddies 3rd Evo. Sprint's 3g sucks....the phone has nothing to do with that.
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...hahahahaha, as a launch-day Evo owner you just gave me a flashback of what the forums were like for the first month. I lucked out and got a perfect Evo that never had any of those problems and never had any single problem with any rom experimental, nightly or otherwise....nothing......but, holy crap, I remember the *****fests you just described. lol.
Very true, and most of them for the E3D launch as well....just add in crooked screens, yellow screens, broken battery covers and "won't turn back on"....

never owned a htc phone. never have. Never will. and always rock samsung. Even Google agrees there top of the line.

Somebody is PMSing...

yruugly said:
Coming from a evo. This Samsung is no match. The screen is easily scratched, crappy 3g, an over all pos. Of course its fast and the screen is huge and pretty but that is about it.
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Your the biggest turd on xda
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hmmm, its very hard to scratch glass (why do you think people take keys to their phone and people remove window tint with razors)
So obviously you're a troll because unless you're keeping diamonds in your pockets that screen isn't scratching
The OG evo is a great phone btw, I loved it after I got my 2nd one due to glass separation. Mine took a large beating of drops and what not the only this g wrong g with it after a year was a few nicks and the battery was horrid. This phone is nicer in almost every way. People complain about the plastic chassis but its so well put together it doesn't matter. Plus plastic is lighter and flexible
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yruugly said:
Coming from a evo. This Samsung is no match. The screen is easily scratched, crappy 3g, an over all pos. Of course its fast and the screen is huge and pretty but that is about it.
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I know you're a troll but I'll bite. I had the EVO myself and while it was a good phone, that phone is a MUCH bigger POS than the E4GT and it's not even close. Light leaking, phone cracking near the power button, and the phone looks like it is almost about to splitting in half! I barely had the phone for a year and I baby my phones (never dropped it once).
The E4GT is a much better phone in EVERY single way and it is not even close.

You know how many defects and cracked screens the evo suffers from? I would know as a sprint tech see it all.
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Evo4g is a dinosaur turd.

Well I own an evo and its far from a pos, yet it is getting old. That being said I came over to this forum to ask what's the average battery life is for the e4gt before root and after root with applied tweaks or scripts. I was thinking of picking one up in the next week or two. I just don't see my self waiting a whole other year until my upgrade. Anyway thanks in advance.
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Battery life is great, myself coming from a long line of HTC's I was very impressed.

bbedward said:
hmmm, its very hard to scratch glass (why do you think people take keys to their phone and people remove window tint with razors)
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Well....yes and no.
As long as you have something on the Mohs scale that is harder than what is doing the scratching you will be fine. Gorilla glass is impervious to damage from pretty much everything except diamonds and sand.
Sand.
SAND.
If you have no screen protector and dusty pockets you will eventually scratch your gorilla glass. Silica is harder than gorilla glass...it will tear it to shreds. I have a friend with a Droid Incredible....Gorilla Glass....plays a lot of volleyball. It took him, oh, 2 weeks? Tops? Maybe not even that long....the phone looked years old. Keys? sure, scratch the fnck out of your screen with keys....metal is always going to be softer than glass.

Any One ever think that the e4gt is the love child of the evo 4g, galaxy nexus and epic 4g?
Just sayin.
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Pressing the screen

When I press my HOX screen at some pressure at the bottom it gives some color inside. Whether this is a problem?
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Put some pressure on your monitor (Providing it's an LCD or similar). What do you see?

Why are you pressing a capacitive screen in the first place??

This is a problem, the glas should never touch the lcd.
And why press capacitive touchscreen? While playing games and caught up in the action? Since it is a tegra3 phone, chances are big

Just did a test . Whether the phone can withhold pressure inside the tight jeans and under the pillow while sleeping.
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Get yourself a hot chick if u are that much into pressing..but please don't take it out on our lovely One X
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Techimplant said:
Get yourself a hot chick if u are that much into pressing..but please don't take it out on our lovely One X
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just noticed that mine now as well has that creak on the left hand side..basically when i press the left hand side i can feel it not being in the right place and it makes a noise when i push it down..right side is fine. spoken with my carrier and they said they can not replace it they need to send it to get worked on...and then once i send it they get a quotation of £20 and if i accept then they will try and fix it..i declned that and said you must be joking. spoke to HTC and they said they can not replace it but send it in for repairs..i do not mind that as long as they do not charge me..but they said the carrier should replace it if i am getting dust under the screen...here is hoping..dissappointed..as i really like this phone and already spend like few bucks getting cases for this phone S3 looks more and more appealing now...

Goku80 said:
S3 looks more and more appealing now...
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And if you don't think it too is going to have its own set of anomalies and QC issues you're a tad naive. Go check out the GN forum, it's the last phone Samsung released. It's a great phone but far from perfect. As is the One X. And as will be the SGS3.

BarryH_GEG said:
And if you don't think it too is going to have its own set of anomalies and QC issues you're a tad naive. Go check out the GN forum, it's the last phone Samsung released. It's a great phone but far from perfect. As is the One X. And as will be the SGS3.
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s2 came out never had any issues with that Barry mate. Look i do not want to turn this into a flame war..We both know how it was last week. Nah after clearing my head now i have two options.
One i am waiting an answer from HTC till tomorrow afternoon they said whether they will replace it for me or send it for repairs. If they say they will replace it i have a winner. If they say they will send it for repairs then i will go with my network provider. At least if they fix it i know i shall not have the issues as it will come back brand new.
And the good thing i am covered by warranty as it is the stupid flex issue that everyone is facing..Damn thing creaks like hell when you press on it

fallenwout said:
This is a problem, the glas should never touch the lcd.
And why press capacitive touchscreen? While playing games and caught up in the action? Since it is a tegra3 phone, chances are big
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I thought there was meant to be no air gap between the glass and the One X screen!?!?

Goku80 said:
s2 came out never had any issues with that Barry mate.
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I had one of the first SGS2's sold in the UK. It was a train wreck. Here's a list of issues I can remember:
1) Devices overheating to the point they shut down
2) Huge color temperature variations in the displays
3) Wireless (both Wi-Fi and 3G) that was so screwed up Samsung was pushing out updates weekly
4) Fingerprints on the inside of the display
5) USB ports that released and got pushed up in to the phone
6) Flashing covering the camera lens from inside
7) Light showing through from the edges of the bezel
8) Bad headphone jacks
If you had one at launch you have either short or selective memory. After about two months all the QC issues went away and we all know how great a phone the SGS2 ended up being. I kept mine for eleven months; the longest I've ever kept a phone. The point being, no phone is immune from issues especially when they first come out.

BarryH_GEG said:
I had one of the first SGS2's sold in the UK. It was a train wreck. Here's a list of issues I can remember:
1) Devices overheating to the point they shut down
2) Huge color temperature variations in the displays
3) Wireless (both Wi-Fi and 3G) that was so screwed up Samsung was pushing out updates weekly
4) Fingerprints on the inside of the display
5) USB ports that released and got pushed up in to the phone
6) Flashing covering the camera lens from inside
7) Light showing through from the edges of the bezel
8) Bad headphone jacks
If you had one at launch you have either short or selective memory. After about two months all the QC issues went away and we all know how great a phone the SGS2 ended up being. I kept mine for eleven months; the longest I've ever kept a phone. The point being, no phone is immune from issues especially when they first come out.
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i must of been one of the lucky ones then well whatever happens if the phone does not get replaced or if i send it in and they can not fix the issue i will just stick a case on it and not flex the damn thing..but knowing it is there will bug me

Goku80 said:
i must of been one of the lucky ones then well whatever happens if the phone does not get replaced or if i send it in and they can not fix the issue i will just stick a case on it and not flex the damn thing..but knowing it is there will bug me
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If you think about it, the devices we're buying today are about 1000% more complicated than just two years ago. A lot more advanced crap is being pushed in to a smaller space. At the same time, what we're willing to pay at the high-end is kind of fixed so the manufacturers have to juggle all of that while putting out phones at twice the frequency. My biggest ***** with all of them is the obvious lack of testing that takes place. I can forgive some of the QC issues (provided they go away eventually) but the flickering thing is kind of hard to overlook. As was the GN 2G radio problem. Alas, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. It'll be interesting to see how Samsung fares with the SGS3. People's expectations are so high I think it'll be hard to meet them.

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Alas, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. It'll be interesting to see how Samsung fares with the SGS3. People's expectations are so high I think it'll be hard to meet them.
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Spot on mate spot on. What would you advise to do mate? I mean phone is fully functional and nothing wrong with it. It is just that gap on the left hand side which is not really visible unless you really look at it and then when you press hard on the left you can feel the phone creaking and trying to adjust the shell to get in place.

Screen not assembled flush?

Anyone else have a problem with the screen not being assembled correctly?
If I swipe down from the top left for notifications, it's smooth going from the metal to the glass. But if I swipe down from the top right to do the quick settings, there's a noticeable gap. Or not really gap, but the screen sits higher than the metal. Friggin annoying as hell, considering how much I go to the quick settings. This and the notification light not working are already making me reconsider buying this thing....

I had that issue and T-Mobile gave me a new one. Manufacturered 4/9. I've yet tried to S-OFF.
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Cool, I'll call them and see if I can swap it out. Does your notification light work?

E30Nova said:
Anyone else have a problem with the screen not being assembled correctly?
If I swipe down from the top left for notifications, it's smooth going from the metal to the glass. But if I swipe down from the top right to do the quick settings, there's a noticeable gap. Or not really gap, but the screen sits higher than the metal. Friggin annoying as hell, considering how much I go to the quick settings. This and the notification light not working are already making me reconsider buying this thing....
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I've returned two to T-Mobile for the same problem and a few other issues. The 3rd one I got is much better, still not 100%, but it's fine... At this early point in the game, I'm starting to think that you have to be super lucky to get one that is perfectly smooth and flush.
I have seen some people say that a screen protector will solve the problem or at least make it better, could always try that.
I know that with every first batch or so of a new device, there will be some duds... but man, seems more people than usual having issues related to build quality on this phone. It's an expensive device and HTC is marketing it as a "premium" device - if you're not happy with the build, by all means, go exchange it.

mine had the same problem. I did exchange it for a new one it's a little better. but now I know why samsung don't want to make a metal device.

Wow, I wonder how many people have this problem...
Like @aimfire72 said, with this being touted as a premium device with the whole "zero gap" design, you'd expect it to be assembled a little better... I'll probably be taking it back to T-Mobile tomorrow and hopefully the one I get is better.

I feel like I have been lucky. I have had no issues with the screen or speakers.
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Yeah same **** here this is very annoying
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My speaker grills are maybe MAYBE a human hairs width higher than the screen. We wound up with 4 lines, and all got the m8, and some of the other ones have more noticeable differences in height, but none of the other people using them have said anything, and I don't think they really care. I think that's something we often lose sight of, is that for most people that's just something they don't even think of. Sure, it would be nice if it was perfect on every device, but as long as it's within tolerance and the grills aren't popping up like some people have had, most people won't probably notice or care.
In any case, compared to my M7, the height difference is MUCH improved. My screen was decently higher than the top speaker grill, and that annoyed me as I always felt it when I swiped down the notification bar, but I got used to it and with a screen protector it just blended in to that bump.

My thoughts on Find 7a

Hi I got my oppo Find7a while on a business trip to China 2 weeks ago (348 euro)
I made the mistake of exchanging a perfect midnight black with a white one because the back was so slippery that in the first 10 minutes of use I dropped my phone on the couch twice!
On the white one the volume and power button are poorly fitted and rattle a lot.
Also the screen has on the lower right corner a yellow/orange tint apparent from the first time I turned on the device!
Apart from those minor issues my major complaint is the contrast of the screen which is lacking compared to my HTC one M7 (sharp panel) I currently use. In comparison it makes the screen look a bit dull like my nexus 7 2013 which also has a jdi made panel.
Camera and sound are awesome and I don't care about battery life since we have the insanely fast charging.
This is the only thing that is holding me back from claiming Find 7a the perfect phone.
I guess at this price point you can not complain.
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Foukos said:
Hi I got my oppo Find7a while on a business trip to China 2 weeks ago (348 euro)
I made the mistake of exchanging a perfect midnight black with a white one because the back was so slippery that in the first 10 minutes of use I dropped my phone on the couch twice!
On the white one the volume and power button are poorly fitted and rattle a lot.
Also the screen has on the lower right corner a yellow/orange tint apparent from the first time I turned on the device!
Apart from those minor issues my major complaint is the contrast of the screen which is lacking compared to my HTC one M7 (sharp panel) I currently use. In comparison it makes the screen look a bit dull like my nexus 7 2013 which also has a jdi made panel.
Camera and sound are awesome and I don't care about battery life since we have the insanely fast charging.
This is the only thing that is holding me back from claiming Find 7a the perfect phone.
I guess at this price point you can not complain.
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I have to say im impressed with the phone. The yellow patch on the screen goes away, leave the phone full brightness and playing a video, heat the screen up, its just the glue, had many a phone with the issue.
The button's do rattle on the white one, cant speak for the black, but not a massive issue for me. The screen looks slightly off to me as well, until i removed the factory screen protector, like night and day, have a nice glass protector on it now.
Fast charging is insanley cool. I get great battery life out of mines, but its nice to quick charge.
I have to say the phone phisically is perfect for me, its the software and lack of available customization that is the issue, but cyanogen should fix that

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I have to say im impressed with the phone. The yellow patch on the screen goes away, leave the phone full brightness and playing a video, heat the screen up, its just the glue, had many a phone with the issue.
The button's do rattle on the white one, cant speak for the black, but not a massive issue for me. The screen looks slightly off to me as well, until i removed the factory screen protector, like night and day, have a nice glass protector on it now.
Fast charging is insanley cool. I get great battery life out of mines, but its nice to quick charge.
I have to say the phone phisically is perfect for me, its the software and lack of available customization that is the issue, but cyanogen should fix that
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It's beyond me why they had to fit a screen protector and a bad quality one since they state the phone has gorilla glass 3.
It makes me a bit suspicious.
Do you think I could use the phone with out one?
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I got so annoyed I removed the screen protector I am amazed at how good the screen looks now.
Screen protector was a hard sheet of thick plastic that makes the display look bad.
If they were going to fit such a bad quality screen protector they shouldn't have bothered at all.
I only wish for the yellow tint on the lower part of the screen to go away and I have the perfect phone!
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Foukos said:
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I got so annoyed I removed the screen protector I am amazed at how good the screen looks now.
Screen protector was a hard sheet of thick plastic that makes the display look bad.
If they were going to fit such a bad quality screen protector they shouldn't have bothered at all.
I only wish for the yellow tint on the lower part of the screen to go away and I have the perfect phone!
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Same experience here too, I removed the factory screen protector and the screen is just awesome.
I don´t see my yellow tint that often, but it really feels like its going away. probably I have to try the full brightness video thing for a day.

I'm a bit gutted really. After reading user reports about the build quality of the find 5, I was hoping that the find 7 would be a massively premium phone - this seems not to be the case as people keep describing it as amazing considering it's not a premium device.
May as well go get a one plus
Not sent from a shiny new phone.

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I'm a bit gutted really. After reading user reports about the build quality of the find 5, I was hoping that the find 7 would be a massively premium phone - this seems not to be the case as people keep describing it as amazing considering it's not a premium device.
May as well go get a one plus
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You got it all wrong the Find7a is a premium device !!!
Even phones costing triple and even more have small annoyances.
Oppo Find 7a is a very honest device no gimmics!

My white handset has neither the loose keys nor the yellow issue. The hardware does not look cheap and in fact has a premium vibe but isn't up to the standards of an M8. But then this is the down tempo device, the 7 would be a better price competitor and it is reported to have a more upscale feel with its carbon fiber (look) backplate. Meanwhile the reviews I've seen tend to place the OPO and Oppo as about on par in terms of perceived quality.
I would be a lot more worried about the horrid standby and bad battery life in general. If you're used to modern cell phones its going to catch you by surprise. I would be looking to see if the OPO has this mess with the radios and other low level software issues cleaned up and lean that direction if they did. I wouldn't buy either if it didn't until such time as they fix one or the other.
There is a lot to love about this phone, the hardware is excellent and even Color OS is a decent GUI with fun stuff and some legitimately useful ideas although immature. I liken it to a car that you really like but you're never sure if its going to start or if you'll get there. This phone is like that. It's software is not even close to final and you can expect it to shut down, lock up, have unexplained battery losses and such on an infrequent but regular basis.

I'll corroborate to say that my yellow tint went away. The first day I had it I was a little disappointed by it but I figured I would stop noticing it. One reason I bought a phone with such a big screen is to watch my anime on the go, which includes watching it at full brightness when on the bus/glare. I didn't even think that the heating up might address it and checking it again after reading this thread it appears the tint is gone.
I've also had some weird flip flopping with standby time. For the first week, it would only drain 3% overnight, but for the last 2 days, it's been draining 10-12% overnight, and then as of tonight, it barely drained again. I'm not really sure what's going on but there are definitely some weird little software issues that need to be cleaned up. If nothing else, Entropy and the others seem geared up to get Omnirom going

Foukos said:
It's beyond me why they had to fit a screen protector and a bad quality one since they state the phone has gorilla glass 3.
It makes me a bit suspicious.
Do you think I could use the phone with out one?
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The pre-installed screen protector is a common thing among some smartphone manufacturers. Sony also does it with their Xperia line, my friends Xperia S also came with a pre-installed screen-protector, and i don't know why you're saying it looks bad with the screen protector, it doesn't the only thing the screen protector may have has a step back is that fingerprints and grease from your hands get on the screen much quicker. Anyway, it is a quality screen protector, cheap ones scratch very easily, this doesn't. If you want to buy another one, buy one of those made of glass, those are supposed to be great.
My Find 7a came with a yellow tint also, i've already started playing District 9 via Plex on full brightness .

migueldias94 said:
The pre-installed screen protector is a common thing among some smartphone manufacturers. Sony also does it with their Xperia line, my friends Xperia S also came with a pre-installed screen-protector, and i don't know why you're saying it looks bad with the screen protector, it doesn't the only thing the screen protector may have has a step back is that fingerprints and grease from your hands get on the screen much quicker. Anyway, it is a quality screen protector, cheap ones scratch very easily, this doesn't. If you want to buy another one, buy one of those made of glass, those are supposed to be great.
My Find 7a came with a yellow tint also, i've already started playing District 9 via Plex on full brightness .
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Well the one installed on the Find 7 is quite thick and makes the display look bad.
Let me know how you get on with the yellow tint I am very interested to know if it goes away
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Foukos said:
Well the one installed on the Find 7 is quite thick and makes the display look bad.
Let me know how you get on with the yellow tint I am very interested to know if it goes away
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So, after running approx. 4 hours of video on full brightness, District 9 followed by The Hurt Locker (two very bright movies, cinematography wise) i can confirm that the yellow tint went completely away. Thanks to the user who suggested this!

Will try tomorrow and let you know...
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Will try tomorrow as well, let's play nyan cat for 10 hours ;p
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Will try it in the evening
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migueldias94 said:
So, after running approx. 4 hours of video on full brightness, District 9 followed by The Hurt Locker (two very bright movies, cinematography wise) i can confirm that the yellow tint went completely away. Thanks to the user who suggested this!
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I tried this today, ran a YouTube video for about 2hrs at full screen brightness but doesn't seem to have made any difference. I will try again this eve and run it for longer, but would be interested to hear from others to see if it works for them?

So the general consensus is that the screen looks much better with the factory protector removed?
I got my device yesterday and have to say I love it. I was very impressed with it the second I took it out of the box and felt it in my hand. I knew it would be a nice device as I owned the Find 5 as well but it was much nicer than I had imagined. The build quality is top notch. My buttons do not rattle but they do have some play in them but then again the Nexus 5 buttons had some play, a lot of HTC m8 buttons have some play. As long as the button isn't falling off who cares if it has some play?
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Mr Woolf said:
I'm a bit gutted really. After reading user reports about the build quality of the find 5, I was hoping that the find 7 would be a massively premium phone - this seems not to be the case as people keep describing it as amazing considering it's not a premium device.
May as well go get a one plus
Not sent from a shiny new phone.
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Hi, agree in some points,
so in direct comparison to the Find5 screen the Find7a Screen is not that good, (for me) very too blueish, not good black color, weird pixel densitiy (maybe this is up on my still existing screen protector where i think i cannot read super small text which is no issue on the find5) and the yellow tinty glue on the bottom side.
I just rund benchmarks for 2 hours, yellow tinty get little faded but still visible also i used a hair dryer some minutes (not on full heat and really careful and with battery out of the device) which makes the very hard things disappear, but still not yet in full, also i´m absolutely not wanted to do such things as customer when i receive a new device ;o)
I will give it a try with the "long hour video playback" this evening, else i send it back tomorrow in hope to receive a device which has a little warmer display and with biggest focus without the tinty stuff (which is a no go).
From all other sides for me the find7a is nearly perfect and i find it better than find5, find7a is awesome (size / sound / performance / colorOS in the meantime), the build quality is also okay, but find5 was little more ahm - unique / premium feel in hand, but also heavy for its size.
Regards, Silver

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Anybody managed to get the Galaxy Gear (1st generation) to work with the 7a?

graffixnyc said:
So the general consensus is that the screen looks much better with the factory protector removed?
I got my device yesterday and have to say I love it. I was very impressed with it the second I took it out of the box and felt it in my hand. I knew it would be a nice device as I owned the Find 5 as well but it was much nicer than I had imagined. The build quality is top notch. My buttons do not rattle but they do have some play in them but then again the Nexus 5 buttons had some play, a lot of HTC m8 buttons have some play. As long as the button isn't falling off who cares if it has some play?
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Sir, if I'm not asking too much, please compare camera quality of this phone with other(if you have of course). As I've seen on reviews, camera of this phone is great. I'm looking to renew my phone and my decision is LG G3 or Oppo find 7(a), or 1+1 if will be available to buy without invitation. Thanks