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So I sent my HTC Touch Pro 2 away to HTC , after ringing up a few places and they telling me HTC dont give out parts so I have to send it direct to them.
Got email today...charging me £147 just for a broken LCD Screen so I rang up and complained...for "good will" they are sending me it back for free, which would usually cost me £12.
Any1 know of anywhere I can sent it without paying a stupid amount?
Cheers
If it's just a broken lcd screen you may be better off buying a replacement screen on ebay, or another respected site and just swapping it out yourself.
I have an Evo, and I love it despite it's minor flaws...
However, I have been suffering from the screen leaking issue from day one and it is just getting worse. This will no doubt lead to bigger things so I want to take care of it under the 30 day warranty (I didn't pay $200 to get a refurb). I bought my phone from a Walmart, because no one else had any and wasn't going to have any for like a week. I went back to the Walmart tonight to exchange the phone, they hadn't sold any more of the Evo, I had the been the only person to buy one lol. Since they haven't sold any I have no guarantee that the other phones won't do the same thing, as they are probably from the same batch of phones.
The tech there told me I should hold off until closer to the end of my 30 days in hopes of getting a newer unit, as he had been reading about the issues the current Evos are having. He also told me not to feel so bad as he whipped out his iPhone4 and showed me the magic disappearing reception trick (I wanted to laugh so hard).
So, some questions...
1. Should I just return my phone near the end of the 30 days and wait for a product refresh? (I kinda like the white model that best buy is gearing to sell)
2. I have another phone on my contract, but I assume they are technically separate contracts and that Sprint will simply let me cancel one while keeping the other. Does this sound accurate?
Thanks everyone, in advance!
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.
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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/
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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!
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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
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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.
Just wondering how much would you buy a HTC Wildfire S for?
1. £50
2. £100
3. £150
I am thinking of selling mine and maybe getting a new one but I need an upgrade from the HTC Wildfire S.
lynuxlover said:
Just wondering how much would you buy a HTC Wildfire S for?
1. £50
2. £100
3. £150
I am thinking of selling mine and maybe getting a new one but I need an upgrade from the HTC Wildfire S.
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I bought mine, new, from metropcs for $99. They had a special shortly thereafter where they were selling it online for $89. It is now selling for $119, both online and at their stores. These are cdma and yours is probably gsm. I figured you could use this as a guide. If you have a special Rom on it, that is an added value.
Good luck.
WTF??????!!!!!!!!!! 99 dolars??
In my country (Croatia) it costs 1900 kn, and that is more then 200 € !!!!
Wow I got mine s off for £100gbp I kinda feel sorry for you guys
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chicle_11 said:
I bought mine, new, from metropcs for $99. They had a special shortly thereafter where they were selling it online for $89. It is now selling for $119, both online and at their stores. These are cdma and yours is probably gsm. I figured you could use this as a guide. If you have a special Rom on it, that is an added value.
Good luck.
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Same here. I got mine for a whopping $39 upgrade fee from MetroPCS. (I "upgraded" from an Optimus. Wish I hadn't.)
Had I purchased it outright, it would have cost me $99.
Even with a custom ROM, its a used phone. I woudln't pay anything more than $50. Probably wouldn't even pay that.
in canada i bought mine for $280 unlocked
I got mine for £85. Had to unlock it as well so basically cost me £90 for an unlocked brand new one.
I'm guessing you'd be able to fetch a good price on gumtree or something. I try to avoid eBay as I usually end up broke after they deduct the goddamn fees..
And for the record, people love modded stuff!! I remember I sold my customed HD mini for £150 or so when I bought it for around a 100.
PS. But when listing, try mentioning that you can bring it back to stock if requested.
I am probably the only one here that got this phone completely FREE.
The company that I work for gave me a HTC Smart that I can use as my phone for work. It was a bad phone, didn't even have an Android OS. I've managed to somehow break the screen on it, so I've sent it back to service for repairs. Since they haven't returned it within the 45 days, as promised in the contract, I decided to sue them They gave me a WFS as a sign of apology, and in the meantime my company also gave me a new phone. Since the WFS isn't given to me by the company, and they don't even know that it exists, I can do all kinds of things to it.
Anyways, HTC Wildfire S costs around 180-210 EUR in my country. You can get a used version for around 110 Euros (£90).
Its worth £150. But I'd rather pay £100 only after user experience. 600mhz come on.
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Its worth £150. But I'd rather pay £100 only after user experience. 600mhz come on.
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If I had of known about the ****ty internal storage I would have never bought it, in fact I tried returning the phone the day after purchase but they refused to take it back, so I left the network I used for 10 years over it!
Luckily Vodafone Ireland are retarded and didn't lock the sim properly, a quick "clear simlock" in the bootloader sorted it and any sim works in it, I got it a week after it came out here, cost 230 at the time (PAYG- would have been free on a plan) and until I got s-off with Xtc clip only then did I start enjoying a proper phone! (with a2sd of course)
It's a good phone but I'd not pay more than £100.
laxsrbija said:
I am probably the only one here that got this phone completely FREE.
The company that I work for gave me a HTC Smart that I can use as my phone for work. It was a bad phone, didn't even have an Android OS. I've managed to somehow break the screen on it, so I've sent it back to service for repairs. Since they haven't returned it within the 45 days, as promised in the contract, I decided to sue them They gave me a WFS as a sign of apology, and in the meantime my company also gave me a new phone. Since the WFS isn't given to me by the company, and they don't even know that it exists, I can do all kinds of things to it.
Anyways, HTC Wildfire S costs around 180-210 EUR in my country. You can get a used version for around 110 Euros (£90).
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Probably... but not the only one.
Mine was given to me by HTC for... selling lots of HTC handsets (I work for vodafone).
Being massively unimpressed (I wanted at lease a Desire S) to show my appreciation I promptly bricked it from a bad flash. I've been trying to recover it for weeks.
Mine was $300
But it was just released.
Mine about 275$ on sale day.
Normally is about 330$
I paid £80 for mine on ebay about 3 months back. Not in the best of condition (not to bad either though) I'm happy with it.
Got mine for £40 :b and it was s-off
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Its not such a bad phone when you whack a custom ROM on it. I'm paying £12 a month for 300Mins unlimited texts and unlimited data. Free phone, 2 year contract. Good yes?
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I acquired my Wildfire S from T-Mobile back in November and it was free. Was my first Android up until I think around March I sold it for $150 in the middle of the night lol. Truth be told I wouldn't pay no more than $80. But it wasn't a bad phone for me. Just didn't like the small screen (eye problems)
laxsrbija said:
I am probably the only one here that got this phone completely FREE.
The company that I work for gave me a HTC Smart that I can use as my phone for work. It was a bad phone, didn't even have an Android OS. I've managed to somehow break the screen on it, so I've sent it back to service for repairs. Since they haven't returned it within the 45 days, as promised in the contract, I decided to sue them They gave me a WFS as a sign of apology, and in the meantime my company also gave me a new phone. Since the WFS isn't given to me by the company, and they don't even know that it exists, I can do all kinds of things to it.
Anyways, HTC Wildfire S costs around 180-210 EUR in my country. You can get a used version for around 110 Euros (£90).
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The "retail cost" is about 330USD here from US Cellular, but mine was free, no legal drama
Got mine for 80€ when it was released in France, but I think you can get one in pristine condition for 50€-70€ nowadays.
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
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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.