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Cant get my HTC Desire :-(

I hate T-Mobile!!!!! Well I love them up until now.
Theytold me when I renewed my contract over a week ago that the HTC Desire was in high demand and it would take 10 days to deliver! Ok not a problem they are now telling me though they have no idea when they will be able to get it to me and advised me to phone my local store (as I deal with the contact center). My local store is refusing to answer the phone and I have tried T-Mobile stores all across the county and they all have massive waiting lists and not accepting any more names :-(
They also said they would buy from Carphone Warehouse but none of their stores are answering the phones......
My last attempt one of the suppliers my company deals with on a weekly basis have 5 HTC Desires sitting in the warehouse ready for purchase but T-Mobile are refusing to let me get it from there! I can't afford to buy it myself and I don't see any harm in them buying it from there for me. They gave me the reason that each supplier gets a different price for it so I replied with well I will pay the difference (wouldnt be alot surely) but then they changed their story saying we are not allowed to purchase from companies that are not T-Mobile Accredited!!!!
This is winding me up now. Its my birthday tomorrow and I really want my new phone but I can't afford to buy one myself!!!!!
Sorry just having a rant. Anyone here work for a T-Mobile store and can get me one on my contract?

Man that sucks. I don't think its just t mobiles fault. Htc are having a mere getting hold of the AMOLED screens, as the manufacturers (samsung) are keeping them to themselves for their galaxy s phones. (and are probably enjoying having their main rival in the android handset market over a barrel.)
Could be some time for htc to get the phone altered to use the SLCD screens. Google amoled + htc + samsung for a better explanation than mine!
In the mean time, what is t mobiles "cooling off period" for sending a handset back after it being supplied? You could use this opportunity to try out the competition, and send the thing back before the dead line and try something else!
Make enough of a nuisance of yourself and you may move up the priority list!
Who knows, you may end up liking either a sony x10 or a galaxy s. If I could not have a desire, I'd lean towards the galaxy s.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

That's a bit out of order from Samsung, if they had an agreement they have to fulfill it with HTC...

Well when my Desire stopped vibrating I called up T-Mobile (This was within the first week of release) and the rep told me they had around 900 Desires in that morning and by 16:46 the same day they had 54 left. I got number 52 as two had been sold whilst I was explaining my problem. That was in April.
So either the phone is much more popular than I thought and HTC can't make them quick enough (which is likely due to AMOLED shortages) or they didn't expect such a high demand after the initial early adopter phase (First month).

Sounds like you are not making enough fuss to customer services!
I phoned orange up a couple of months ago as I was getting the same stuff.
First they said they were in stock and I could have a really decent contract with free phone!!!, but... literally phoned about 20 mins later to make an order and it had changed to 300 mins less and £50 for the phone! and the best part was they said stock would be another 2 weeks to a month and I can't go on the waiting list as it's full!
Pissed off, I decided to go to high street stores to get a more expensive contract and alas, no-one had any and if they did I was told that the tariff I was on would mean I would have to pay £75 for the phone!!!
So I got home, got myself in a strop and phoned orange to complain, funny enough they added me to the list (before it was full), they said when the phone was in stock they would text me and as soon as the text came through I needed to call them straight away as it was first come first serve after the text was received.
Patiently waiting (not) I decided to call the next day to find out whether it had come in, they said yes and were sending the texts out to everyone now, with 6000 odd people on the list I didn't fancy my chances!
Somehow while trying to get them to haggle on the contract (cancellations dept) which they did in the end - gave me a great contract, god opened up the heavens and I got my text whilst on the phone, the lady sounded like she didn't believe but I gave her the code and she said congrats and that I could reserve a black one!!
The next day there is my shiny new Desire on my doorstep!!!
The End... lol

they seem to have it in stock on the t-mob website:
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/pay-monthly/htc-desire/mobile-tariffs/

wnp_79 said:
Man that sucks. I don't think its just t mobiles fault. Htc are having a mere getting hold of the AMOLED screens, as the manufacturers (samsung) are keeping them to themselves for their galaxy s phones. (and are probably enjoying having their main rival in the android handset market over a barrel.)
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Judging by reports, galaxy s is the best sold phone in South Korea ever since it was released, and it surpased Iphone in sale numbers around the world. Samsung is planning to sell 10 million pieces of this phone...

T-Mobile and their stores are getting regular deliveries but because there is such a backlog they go before they even reach the shelf!
I spent the whole day on the phone to T-mobile yesterday they were phoning around all the stores in the county as well as Carephone Warehouse (who none of their stores were answering)
There was stock at one of our local suppliers but T-Mobile refused to purchase from there.
I finally late yesterday managed to get hold of Carphone Warehouse local to me who told me they had sold 10 that day and there was 1 left so I told them to hide that phone and keep it for me and went down there after work and collected so I finally have my Desire
T-Mobile did lie though and said it would be free but I had to pay another £30 to get it :-( - Better than waiting for months though

By the way I don't like the Samsung's
Not a device for me

Good news. You'll love this phone. Give the battery a few charge cycles before expecting to see it's full performance tho. Its worrying at first!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

You should have switched to another network

Well wr8_utd, There is that option but using the points below you can see why I dont:
> o2 - Had very poor experiences and hate them - My company used them as well when I fist joined and nothing but problems
> Orange - Poor to no signal in my local area
> 3 - Heard lots of problems about them
> Small dealers like Tesco - Can't offer me what I want
> Virgin - My dads on it and he doesn't get a signal anywhere! No point in having a mobile
> Vodafone - Possibly a viable option - Who my company is currently with and apart from two months having a bill around £6,000 for one handset they have been good.
> T-Mobile - I have been a very loyal customer for I think it must be about 6 years now (back when they were 1-to-1?) That gives me negotiation points
> T-Mobile - I have brought many customers to them over the last few years through my account - again adding to my negotiation powers
> T-Mobile - Always offer me exactly what I want (even when they don't have a contract that offers exactly what I want) - For instance When I wanted the HD2 to get it free their cheapest contract was £40 per month. I told them I wanted that phone for free but only pay £30 per month + wanted unlimited internet but I was happy to juggle min and texts with them and they were happy to comply
> T-Mobile - One of the best Customer Support Centres I have ever experienced. apart from one or two prats over there who don't know what they are talking about they are normally very kind / generaly know what they are talking about / normally answer quite quickly (until recently but select that you are leaving them and they answer very quickly )
> For what I am on every other network seems to charge me more
> HTC Desire - Seems out of stock with every network...
Now you can see my logic behind sticking with them.

Hehe yeah I can see why now
Is it out of stock at stores as well now?
Oh and how is the 3 Network?

As I said above I haven't personally used the 3 network but I haven't heard a single good word about it, its all been bad so I am not tempted to go near them.
All the T-mobile stores have massive waiting lists, Online shops all over the place say out of stock. All my suppliers at work apart from one our out of stock (even the mobile specialists suppliers are out of it) So I imagine its the same all round. The trick is to keep trying every day I was lucky, Our local carephone warehouse received stock in the morning I was ringing them all day but they were under staffed and too busy to answer the call. Finally got through to them abour 2pm and they had one left which they hid away and reserved for me

Nothing wrong with 3 UK service is improved from their call centre and shops are fab .. good deals as well plus the bombed all other companies out of the water £349.99 for unlocked unbranded desire when they first came out
Give em a go oh and very few two year contracts most eighteen months
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Oh forgot to add they were poor at beginning when they first started hence poor reports but honest they are probably on of the best now (just get unbranded handset if you do their firmware updates are the only issue )
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2 other option is
1) Get them to buy a nexus one for you and flash it
2) Get a wildfire

I intend to get one of the 3 Desire deals and unlock it. Will I have any issues after I unlock it?

meteor
i had problems getting my desire too, it was meteor in ireland i vent to 3 shops and they said they don't have them in stock and the third shop guy said they dont have it and he offered legend instead but some miracle happened when i said no he went to check stock second time and he brought phone over, they are acting strange ..

i hate t-mobile i have been with them over 8 years and they still treat me like S**T i only stay with them as its cheapest option but there like virgin terrible Cusomer support but as long as you never have to deal with them its mostly good. i personally went and got a desire off ebay 280 new, and a £10 pay monthly sim which was cheapest option and didnt tie me into a long contract which i hate especially with a company i dont like lol. mind you all phone companies need a slap for using the word unlimited to mean limited how much more proof do you need the benter then a 50p note.

Malfunctioning Phone...A Good Thing?

I lost data, voice and text on my phone last Saturday night (11/19) just by doing a factory reset on my Incredible. I didn't notice it until Sunday afternoon when I left the house because I was on wifi at home. I realized that I didn't have any 3G, so when I got home I disabled wifi and started to try and troubleshoot. I could not get it fixed, so I called Verizon.
I talked to the level one tech and she got my text and voice working. She couldn't get my data working, so she handed me off to level two. After a total of about an hour on the phone, it was determined that I was in need of a replacement.
I was told that I would receive the replacement phone on Tuesday (11/22) by 3:00 PM. I received it at work and opened it up to find the camera lense was loose in the box. I figured that it was not a big deal and just stuck it back on the phone. I put it aside since I was at work and didn't want to go through all the setup there.
When I got home, I started playing with it and realized the power button was messed up. I would have to push it 4-5 times to get it to work. I couldn't handle that, so I called them on Wednesday morning and they said that they would send out another replacement.
I received the second replacement today and got it activated. After the automatic reboot, it went into a bootloop. I pulled the battery and restarted it. I booted into the homescreen and I started to set it up. When I opened the app drawer, the phone rebooted. When it started back up, it went into another bootloop.
I called them back and I told them that I was getting a little irritated about this and they said they didn't blame me, they would be too. They said that if they couldn't get it fixed this time that they would try to replace it with something else.
The customer service rep transferred me to tech support and she had me go into the bootloader to do a factory reset. When it rebooted, it was still in a bootloop. She said that she would put in an order for another replacement and I asked her since I was only a month away from an upgrade, if I could just upgrade early. She asked me if that was what I wanted to do and I told her as long as I didn't have to pay any extra, then that was what I wanted to do. She told me that it would be just like upgrading on 12/28/11 (My upgrade date). I told her that was what I wanted to do. I also asked her if it affected my plan at all and she said no, everything would stay the same, just a different phone.
My Rezound will be here on Monday.

Nice! Though I'm sure that was a pain to deal with,it ended well.
I'm confident that it'll have root in due time,nevermind all the pissing and moaning about it over on the Rezound board

Devildog8791 said:
I lost data, voice and text on my phone last Saturday night (11/19) just by doing a factory reset on my Incredible. I didn't notice it until Sunday afternoon when I left the house because I was on wifi at home. I realized that I didn't have any 3G, so when I got home I disabled wifi and started to try and troubleshoot. I could not get it fixed, so I called Verizon.
I talked to the level one tech and she got my text and voice working. She couldn't get my data working, so she handed me off to level two. After a total of about an hour on the phone, it was determined that I was in need of a replacement.
I was told that I would receive the replacement phone on Tuesday (11/22) by 3:00 PM. I received it at work and opened it up to find the camera lense was loose in the box. I figured that it was not a big deal and just stuck it back on the phone. I put it aside since I was at work and didn't want to go through all the setup there.
When I got home, I started playing with it and realized the power button was messed up. I would have to push it 4-5 times to get it to work. I couldn't handle that, so I called them on Wednesday morning and they said that they would send out another replacement.
I received the second replacement today and got it activated. After the automatic reboot, it went into a bootloop. I pulled the battery and restarted it. I booted into the homescreen and I started to set it up. When I opened the app drawer, the phone rebooted. When it started back up, it went into another bootloop.
I called them back and I told them that I was getting a little irritated about this and they said they didn't blame me, they would be too. They said that if they couldn't get it fixed this time that they would try to replace it with something else.
The customer service rep transferred me to tech support and she had me go into the bootloader to do a factory reset. When it rebooted, it was still in a bootloop. She said that she would put in an order for another replacement and I asked her since I was only a month away from an upgrade, if I could just upgrade early. She asked me if that was what I wanted to do and I told her as long as I didn't have to pay any extra, then that was what I wanted to do. She told me that it would be just like upgrading on 12/28/11 (My upgrade date). I told her that was what I wanted to do. I also asked her if it affected my plan at all and she said no, everything would stay the same, just a different phone.
My Rezound will be here on Monday.
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LUCKY. now i know what it takes to get a new phone im going to try it.

I used that exact excuse (sort of) to get a brand shiny new HTC Rezound a month early. I called Verizon "Customer Service" and told them the screen on my DInc shattered and asked if they could bump my upgrade date so I could just get a new phone rather that getting a warranty replacement. Two days later and a shiny new Rezound was in my hands.
What did you end up getting?
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dawynkoop said:
I used that exact excuse (sort of) to get a brand shiny new HTC Rezound a month early. I called Verizon "Customer Service" and told them the screen on my DInc shattered and asked if they could bump my upgrade date so I could just get a new phone rather that getting a warranty replacement. Two days later and a shiny new Rezound was in my hands.
What did you end up getting?
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I'm a year away from being able to upgrade
No hope for me in doing something like that.

Hit it with a hammer.

Still waiting to go hands on, Spewin'

Have had a crap run getting my HOX through Viginmobileaustralia.
They advertised it was available online early last week. So I rang to upgrade only to be told they would be ready to take orders the next day. So rang them the next day only to be told they were still not ready and to ring back the next day. Seemed like Dejavu.
Eventually they take my order on Wed last week. Several times I told them I wanted the black one to make sure she got the message. Didn't make the courier till the next day and was held till after Easter for delivery.
Finally arrived today Yay! Opened up to find a white one. WTF Oh well get a cover to keep clean.
Couldn't find the microsim in the packaging so thought it must be onboard already. Start setting it up to find it has no sim installed. Ring Virgin again to be told I would have to wait 4-8 days to get a sim sent or drop in my nearest store.
Great only 4hrs drive return to the nearest store. Guess i'll be heading off early tomorrow. Screen looks choice though and was smooth operating compared with the TF.
Sorry to whinge for a first post, just find the service of businesses in Aust a joke at times.

WOW... That sucks... Why dont you try getting a SIM cutter... Seems easier than going through all that...

kembro said:
Have had a crap run getting my HOX through Viginmobileaustralia.
They advertised it was available online early last week. So I rang to upgrade only to be told they would be ready to take orders the next day. So rang them the next day only to be told they were still not ready and to ring back the next day. Seemed like Dejavu.
Eventually they take my order on Wed last week. Several times I told them I wanted the black one to make sure she got the message. Didn't make the courier till the next day and was held till after Easter for delivery.
Finally arrived today Yay! Opened up to find a white one. WTF Oh well get a cover to keep clean.
Couldn't find the microsim in the packaging so thought it must be onboard already. Start setting it up to find it has no sim installed. Ring Virgin again to be told I would have to wait 4-8 days to get a sim sent or drop in my nearest store.
Great only 4hrs drive return to the nearest store. Guess i'll be heading off early tomorrow. Screen looks choice though and was smooth operating compared with the TF.
Sorry to whinge for a first post, just find the service of businesses in Aust a joke at times.
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Sounds rough mate. I just called Vodafone and they are waiving my 2 and a half months exit fee and letting me upgrade now
Now just to see how long til it arrives

Getting HTC to send you a new phone

So the problem is as follows - I have a contract with three mobile (uk) signed about a month ago (several days less) yesterday I spotted the yellow spot on my screen (as I understand faulty glue) so today i went to 3 and they told me I need to contact HTC and they will send me a new one.
So I have contacted HTC no reply yet - but that's fine.
My question is can someone who went through the same process tell me how that goes and how long does it take because I use my phone for work and I really need it so a week of not having phone is not acceptable.
Also are HTC going to be idiots and refuse to replace it because the boot loader is unlocked - I think that in violation with the trade and goods agreement.

Odd that you've not heard from them, they usually arrange to collect the phone when you call them.
They won't replace it, just repair it. Takes about week.

Im also in the UK. I arranged repair over the online chat which was more helpful as it was obviously instant conversation rather than waiting for replies. It took 7 days, Monday to Monday. My repair was the WiFi problem though. My bootloader was (and is still) unlocked. I just restored the stock recovery and ROM and nothing was mentioned of the unlock they just repaired it. I'm not sure what u can do with regards to having no handset. When I had my old HD2 direct from o2 they fixed it directly with their own repair center and provided a temporary phone for me to use. Having this HOX on orange through dial-a-phone they to told me to contact HTC also.

mishooo said:
So the problem is as follows - I have a contract with three mobile (uk) signed about a month ago (several days less) yesterday I spotted the yellow spot on my screen (as I understand faulty glue) so today i went to 3 and they told me I need to contact HTC and they will send me a new one.
So I have contacted HTC no reply yet - but that's fine.
My question is can someone who went through the same process tell me how that goes and how long does it take because I use my phone for work and I really need it so a week of not having phone is not acceptable.
Also are HTC going to be idiots and refuse to replace it because the boot loader is unlocked - I think that in violation with the trade and goods agreement.
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it's not down to HTC, it's down to 3 to sort your repair out. I've not used 3 but I upgraded with P4U and had to swap 4 Sony Xperia S (yellow spot) all within 28 days each time being told that after 28 days they would have to send it for repair.

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it's not down to HTC, it's down to 3 to sort your repair out. I've not used 3 but I upgraded with P4U and had to swap 4 Sony Xperia S (yellow spot) all within 28 days each time being told that after 28 days they would have to send it for repair.
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I know - i was a bit surprised as well.
I mean i have my contract with 3 not HTC - true - htc made the device in a bad way but still....
Well anyway thank you all - a week i guess will be fine i have another device its just a bit outdated and I`m having trouble running openvpn and stuff on it

If it's within 28 days of purchase return it to where you bought it and they're obliged to replace it if it's a defective unit.
I had same issue and carphone warehouse were happy to replace it.
Good luck
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

mishooo said:
So the problem is as follows - I have a contract with three mobile (uk) signed about a month ago (several days less) yesterday I spotted the yellow spot on my screen (as I understand faulty glue) so today i went to 3 and they told me I need to contact HTC and they will send me a new one.
So I have contacted HTC no reply yet - but that's fine.
My question is can someone who went through the same process tell me how that goes and how long does it take because I use my phone for work and I really need it so a week of not having phone is not acceptable.
Also are HTC going to be idiots and refuse to replace it because the boot loader is unlocked - I think that in violation with the trade and goods agreement.
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My experience isn't in UK, but my first HOX also got a bright spot on screen. What I did is, I placed in an ELF (Early Life Failure) order as soon as I found the problem in retail store (I signed up the phone online), it took repair department of my carrier (not HTC) 3 days to response and approve my claim. Ultimately, I picked up a new one in retail store, and thats the happy ending of my story.

Just to keep people updated if someone has the same problem.
I spoke with HTC today - and I have to say I`m amazed by the support.
A UPS person is going to come and collect my phone tomorrow so it is quite quick and within 7 days I`ll have new or repaired device. I had to include proof of purchase and a form they send me.
I have been asked if I unlocked the device and they actually apologised to me in case it gets relocked during the repair process - so unlocking it is not a problem.
Well teats for now - I`ll say what happened when it returns

Interestingly, I've never been asked for proof of purchase from HTC, and I've used the repair service four times, including my One X which was collected today.
Funnily enough though, I wouldn't even have it if it wasn't for someone else being asked for its proof of purchase for a repair lol

The repair email says to include proof of purchase, but I think people get away with not doing so. My first repair got replaced with another phone, which was unlocked, then it had to go in for repair and as I included my proof of purchase which states my phone was with 3, HTC flashed 3 firmware onto it, relocking it.
That was just the beginning of my issues though, now after months of problems, HTC finally sent me a retail unit (not from repair centre), but it ended up being defected as well as it was from an old batch...
It never ends. My tip is if you ever deal with HTC sending you a new phone, request it's from the newest batch possible.

Oh yeah, so it does. Never noticed that before (on account of never reading the email)
None of the reps I've spoken to on the phone or chat have mentioned it, so I've never sent one.

And here we go with the update - the device arrived yesterday - I was quite excited since it was actually fast It was send back to me on friday (so 2 days for repair and delivery) and i received in ot monday just because UPS dont deliver on weekends apparently.
Anyway - the first thing I noticed was when charging i can see the light not only from the speaker but from the top of the creen as well - well that was fine with me. But what i have noticed today is that when charging the touch on the screen goes nuts - i just put my finger and it starts thinking i have pressed on random locations with like 100000 fingers.
(BTW anyone had that problem - i presume it is building some kind og charge on the screen due to the charge but have no idea why)
And so here we go again - I contacted the support and they are coming to pick it up again (this time on 13-th of Aug since I`m outside the UK for a week).
I hope they will just replace it this time instead of trying to fix it.

I'm in the UK, I had lots of issues with my senny XE in repair 4 times eventually they gave me a free upgrade to the hox with a nice new 2 year warranty
I'm replying just to give you the direct number in case you don't already have it
01279 206906.
You have to request a replacement they won't just replace it HTC don't repair their own devices apparently so repair centre will just fix anything I had a new screen motherboard and chassis on one repair all because of dust lol
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Finally received my phone after the second repair - for now it seems to be working properly. Hopefully that will be the end of the story

In Australia if you pay A who is on selling a product for B your contract(warranty/consumer law) is with A as they received payment. I purchased my HOX outright and also had a problem with the screen, the seller was giving me the same BS until I set him straight. Received a new HOX the same day.

Just realised the screen is a bit less responsive when charging ..... again ....
is that something normal - I mean if i have to send it again for repairs I`ll be quite pissed - I mean that's like a month of not having a phone overall
Just found a video of htc desire having similar problems - mine is not as bad tho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpDyMykRH9M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
does anyone know if thats actually because of the charger not the phone ?

I feel for you. I had mine die in the first 2 weeks. Took my provider 5 weeks to replace it.

sent phone back to lg for repair

Quick question. My G3 developed a screen fault on the 6th so i rang three for repair. LG sent out all the envelopes, padded and special delivery so i sent the phone back on the 9th which they signed for on the 11th. Apparrently that isnt the day they count their 3-5 days from, as that starts at the point it gets to the technicians. I spoke to a guy on monday whio simply said its with the technicians and to wait...its a pain in the backside as i am phoneless, am paying for a contract that i cant use and see no timescales. the guy on the phone on monday wasnt much help (though not his fault i suppose) but as im going away next week i kinda want the phone back before i go. has anyone sent their phones back to LG and got it back quick or is it looking unlikely that it will be back by next week? Its a pain as they havent told me a thing, havent said if they are going to mail me, ring me etc. not good though that its lasted less than a month before needing repair, after my very light usage of it. should i keep ringing them to chase them along?

Also had a bad screen. After two months the middle of the screen just stopped worked, in a horizontal line.
Called my reseller and said that it could take one month maximum to get it fixed (she couldnt say anything more in detail). Thats insane, imo. Especially since its here in Sweden and bought from a well known reseller with quick and good support. But yeah, i sent it to LGs service center.

lossah said:
Also had a bad screen. After two months the middle of the screen just stopped worked, in a horizontal line.
Called my reseller and said that it could take one month maximum to get it fixed (she couldnt say anything more in detail). Thats insane, imo. Especially since its here in Sweden and bought from a well known reseller with quick and good support. But yeah, i sent it to LGs service center.
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Apparrently it has been repaired and is being returned today so i should get it backl in the next day or 2...lets see if they say what was wrong with it?