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Anyone know where to get HTC mainboards?

I've recently gotten into the hobby of buying broken phones and reselling them for just enough more to cover my costs. (that's why i'm calling it a hobby).
However, I recently purchased a pretty smashed up Tilt - it needed a new LCD and an entirely new housing.
After investing that $140, I've come to find that the mainboard is probably bad, as it wont power on.
Rather than toss my money in the crapper, I want to see about replacing the mainboard, but cant find ANYONE who sells them online...perhaps I'm searching by the wrong terms, but I'm no web n00b...and I'm coming up blank.
Does anyone know of a reputable website whereby I can purchase items like the mainboard for the Tilt? Does anyone who reads these forums WORK for HTC, and like to strike a deal?
Please, PM me if you know anyone that sells these hard-to-find HTC parts...
Thanks!!
- M

You might as well have just bought a new one!
Your best bet is to buy a broken one off Ebay, mainboards will be the domain of HTC repair specialists only and will probably need to be bought in bulk. They would also no doubt cost more than a broken second-hand device would.

Would be a rather boring hobby, buying working phones, dont you think?
But yes, this one is costing me a bit more than I care to admit....fortunately, I think I can probably sell off parts and recoup some of the money spent.... at least, once I call off the search for a replacement mainboard.

i remember trying to source a mainboard for an athena a while back and it was akin to getting blood out of a stone! I rang everyone i could find the number for and got no-where. You can buy a tilt for about 150gbp on ebay so one with a broken screen and housing damage (but a functioning mainboard) would doubtless set you back very little

HTC Devices Mainboards/Motherboards
lenknermj said:
I've recently gotten into the hobby of buying broken phones and reselling them for just enough more to cover my costs. (that's why i'm calling it a hobby).
However, I recently purchased a pretty smashed up Tilt - it needed a new LCD and an entirely new housing.
After investing that $140, I've come to find that the mainboard is probably bad, as it wont power on.
Rather than toss my money in the crapper, I want to see about replacing the mainboard, but cant find ANYONE who sells them online...perhaps I'm searching by the wrong terms, but I'm no web n00b...and I'm coming up blank.
Does anyone know of a reputable website whereby I can purchase items like the mainboard for the Tilt? Does anyone who reads these forums WORK for HTC, and like to strike a deal?
Please, PM me if you know anyone that sells these hard-to-find HTC parts...
Thanks!!
- M
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Hello.
I recently killed my HTC TyTN II.
I know it needs a working Mainboard.
I want to give you an idea,about my 2 cents as Mcmexican says.
You need to go to a HTC Taiwain site and regiter as a Reseler or repairer. Probably you can get these kind of things in deeper sources.
Im telling you that,cause youre saying you have the hobbie to fix them. Me to,but im unemployed,trying to get a job,im broke. So it seems i dont have time and economic positive status to do it myself. And im in Portugal,momentaniously in an Economic crisis..
Im on an exausting search,cause im in an unknown new town,and need the GPS,that my Qtek 9100 doesnt have..
PPl in this forum could work all together to also get Mainboards at a affordable price,for ppl with less economic positive status.
I will start a new thread about that.
Thanks for reading this ppl.
We need Mainboards at a fair price .

[Q] Unregisterable kindle fires on ebay?

Hi guys!
I don't know if I should post it here but if it's in the wrong section i'd request the mods to move it to the appropriate section. I'm recently getting into the tablet market as I'll be needing it for college soon (I'd rather spend more on the laptop than the tablet), I'm considering the original kindle fire since well its cheap and has lots of custom roms to go with it (plus I don't need extra features such as the front camera and store most of my stuff on the cloud anyways).
So I was looking on ebay some of the kindles are being sold for around $110-120 being unregisterable, what does that mean? and will I be able to flash a custom rom on it and use google play? Is it worth it to buy that?
Thank you!

It means they are blacklisted by amazon according to serial number so you will have no access to the Amazon market. Which really means nothing if you're going to just flash a rom on it. Then you can use the Google Android Market instead. IMO its a little high for a blacklisted device that's what I think you should pay for a fully functional 1st gen. device heck a second gen basic kindle is 159.00 70-80$ would be much better considering its dysfunction.

[Q] Replace Kindle Fire

So I have apparently ruined my KF. Details fall under this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34584686#post34584686 if you care to look/help.
But what I am interested in is if I can replace my KF for free with the 1 year warranty.
I know this would be cheating, but can I loosen the micro usb port and get a new or refurb model of the 1st gen KF?
My uncle purchased it through Amazon as a christmas present last year for me. I have the case still, with the original charging cable and the little manual in the sleeve at the top of the box. I don't see any actual paperwork that shows proof of purchase, serial number, or anything like that.
I don't think this falls outside the lines of allowability, but if it does, I am sorry moderators.
Has anyone done this or know if it works?
And I know that this is a bad practice, but I have next to no money, and since about June, I have been using my KF for everything, and I need it replaced, so I am trying to go about this through cheating. Please don't put posts about how this is why there are locked bootloaders and all that. I know...

jma9454 said:
So I have apparently ruined my KF. Details fall under this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34584686#post34584686 if you care to look/help.
But what I am interested in is if I can replace my KF for free with the 1 year warranty.
I know this would be cheating, but can I loosen the micro usb port and get a new or refurb model of the 1st gen KF?
My uncle purchased it through Amazon as a christmas present last year for me. I have the case still, with the original charging cable and the little manual in the sleeve at the top of the box. I don't see any actual paperwork that shows proof of purchase, serial number, or anything like that.
I don't think this falls outside the lines of allowability, but if it does, I am sorry moderators.
Has anyone done this or know if it works?
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Amazon probably won't touch it if it's not fully stock.
Sent from my rooted SCH-R880 POS

guitarman2010 said:
Amazon probably won't touch it if it's not fully stock.
Sent from my rooted SCH-R880 POS
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I've read reports everywhere of people sending it in and getting it replaced...
Hopefully someone can say whether they were able to replace theirs.

Your kindle isn't that bad relax don't do much until you get help pm sent. Panic won't help the situation.

Unread your private messages.

[Q] USB jack broken - what to do?

Hey guys,
I got kind of a problem over here: While charging my Fairphone, I accidentally laid down on it (it happened on my sofa ^^) and sort of twisted my USB jack . Now I can't charge it any more - sucks . I tried fixing it by bending the USB jack back with a little screw driver, but it didn't work.
Can I fix this myself by ordering any spare parts? There's no separate USB jack available on the official Fairphone spare parts site, but maybe I could fix it by exchanging the Motherboard (that would be too expensive for me though)...
I hope I can solve this without having to spend a ****load of money Does anybody have an idea what I could do?

MicroDroidXDA said:
Hey guys,
I got kind of a problem over here: While charging my Fairphone, I accidentally laid down on it (it happened on my sofa ^^) and sort of twisted my USB jack . Now I can't charge it any more - sucks . I tried fixing it by bending the USB jack back with a little screw driver, but it didn't work.
Can I fix this myself by ordering any spare parts? There's no separate USB jack available on the official Fairphone spare parts site, but maybe I could fix it by exchanging the Motherboard (that would be too expensive for me though)...
I hope I can solve this without having to spend a ****load of money Does anybody have an idea what I could do?
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Bad news, buying the motherboard and some tools and using the iFixit guide is probably the only way to go, sending in the phone and getting it repaired would probably cost you even more (20€~ shipping to them, 112€ motherboard and 70€~ for the repair and shipping to you).
I broke my screen when spare parts were not available yet, send it in and had to pay 120,40€, +15€ shipping.

Jisifus said:
Bad news, buying the motherboard and some tools and using the iFixit guide is probably the only way to go, sending in the phone and getting it repaired would probably cost you even more (20€~ shipping to them, 112€ motherboard and 70€~ for the repair and shipping to you).
I broke my screen when spare parts were not available yet, send it in and had to pay 120,40€, +15€ shipping.
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Well, if it's really gonna cost me 200€, then goodbye Fairphone, I'd rather buy a new phone (that means, if it's cheaper than the repair, but that's pretty likely because I'm planning to buy a pre-owned phone. That'll sort out my moral concerns ^^).
Anyway thanks for your answer :cyclops:

MicroDroidXDA said:
Well, if it's really gonna cost me 200€, then goodbye Fairphone, I'd rather buy a new phone (that means, if it's cheaper than the repair, but that's pretty likely because I'm planning to buy a pre-owned phone. That'll sort out my moral concerns ^^).
Anyway thanks for your answer :cyclops:
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Supporting the fairphone project didn't sort out your moral concerns?
Anyways, I really suggest you get yourself a motherboard and repair it by yourself, just for the sake of learning something new and the proud feeling after you get it working again. Talking about "learning", will buying a new phone change the way you handle your devices? Are you going to put it on your sofa to charge as well? And are you going to twist it around some more after you broke, maybe the headphone jack this time, too?
Put all these things in consideration and spending 150€ on a repair shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Jisifus said:
Supporting the fairphone project didn't sort out your moral concerns?
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Well yeah, of course, but they would come back if I, say, bought a new iPhone now. But if somebody has bought it before me, than whoever died for the thing didn't die for me Thinking about it after I've written it down, this sounds pretty ****ing pathetic
Jisifus said:
Anyways, I really suggest you get yourself a motherboard and repair it by yourself, just for the sake of learning something new and the proud feeling after you get it working again. Talking about "learning", will buying a new phone change the way you handle your devices? Are you going to put it on your sofa to charge as well? And are you going to twist it around some more after you broke, maybe the headphone jack this time, too?
Put all these things in consideration and spending 150€ on a repair shouldn't be a problem anymore.
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Well, I guess you're right. Damn. But the thing is, I just realized that I can't really afford anything right now, neither fixing it nor buying a new phone ^^ because the driver's license that I'm about to make is a little more expensive than I thought. So, for now, I'm just gonna go for my grandfather's old iPhone 3GS, and when I have enough money again, I'll think about this again

2nd gen digitizer

Hi, I have searched and searched but cannot find any info about any difference between the 1st and 2nd gen kindle fire digitizers.
Everywhere seems to advertise the digitizers they have as 1st gen and when people ask if they will fit the 2nd gen they say no, it will only fit 1st gen kindle fires.
From the language they use, I can't help thinking that they are referring to the HD or something when they say it won't fit 2nd gen devices.
I did find one place selling parts for the real second gen and the digitizers looks identical to the ones sold by others as 1st gen touch screens, the connectors look the same, everything.
It makes me feel the parts are the same but does anyone here know for sure?
I can't buy from the sole seller I have found specifically selling kf2 parts as he is in the states and I am in the UK else I would have already bought one.
Any help will be graciously received.
Thanks, steve.

steve_htc_wizard said:
Hi, I have searched and searched but cannot find any info about any difference between the 1st and 2nd gen kindle fire digitizers.
Everywhere seems to advertise the digitizers they have as 1st gen and when people ask if they will fit the 2nd gen they say no, it will only fit 1st gen kindle fires.
From the language they use, I can't help thinking that they are referring to the HD or something when they say it won't fit 2nd gen devices.
I did find one place selling parts for the real second gen and the digitizers looks identical to the ones sold by others as 1st gen touch screens, the connectors look the same, everything.
It makes me feel the parts are the same but does anyone here know for sure?
I can't buy from the sole seller I have found specifically selling kf2 parts as he is in the states and I am in the UK else I would have already bought one.
Any help will be graciously received.
Thanks, steve.
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Hi, I'm in exactly the same position and cannot figure out the difference. Did you get anywhere with this? Will a digitizer advertised as 1st gen work on a second gen (2012) kindle fire?
Hope you can help,
Cheers,

Really eager to know if the 1st gen ones work for the 2nd gen. I have also scoured the internet and am in completely the same mindeset as you were when you started this thread, having had the same replies from sellers and come to the same conclusion. I'm thinking I might just give a 1st gen digitizer a whirl, but it would really help if you could confirm/refute whether that would be successful.
Thanks.

mr.crabs! said:
Really eager to know if the 1st gen ones work for the 2nd gen. I have also scoured the internet and am in completely the same mindeset as you were when you started this thread, having had the same replies from sellers and come to the same conclusion. I'm thinking I might just give a 1st gen digitizer a whirl, but it would really help if you could confirm/refute whether that would be successful.
Thanks.
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OK then, fine, I'll answer my own question...
After much searching and scratching of head (and distinct lack of help on any forum I posted on, including XDA ) I found what appeared to be convincing evidence on the internet of a discernible difference between digitizers for the two different models. It would appear that the difference (and what makes the two incompatible) lies with the flex ribbon design. The first gen flex is bigger and the screw holes are in a different place. I have attached two images and it should be quite easy to see what I mean between the two.
To replace mine I ordered one with the correct looking flex. I ensured from my seller that it would be exactly the same as the image as advertised (gotta cover yourself, right). It was not advertised as being 2nd generation and when I asked the seller I was told it was not compatible. I threw caution to the wind and gave it a try. It turned up a couple days later and worked a treat. The only difference between the one I bought and the one already on my tablet was that the new one had a camera 'hole' in the top left corner. I figured it might be for a light sensor or something though mine did not possess such sensor a guess there may have been a few incantations of the 'same' hardware version.
The images I have uploaded are not my own, rather pilfered from the internet, credit to the owner. I also must stress that I do not own a 1st generation device to confirm that this is the case for certain, so maybe someone who does own one could confirm.
Anyway, I hope that helps somebody out who is in the same position that I was a couple of weeks ago.