[Desire HD General] krzych:
I am another victim of faulty flash cover with gps antenna. I did what the movie shows because of one thing: my colleague has HTC Wildfire and his phone was much more precise in GPS coordinates than my DHD (whlie my DHD had 80m accuracy, his had about 20-30m). i suspected that I should clean those connections between antenna and phone.

So... I removed this cover. I wasn't easy. The hardest thing was to find the tool to lift the cover from inside. I could not find anything that was not too soft but soft at least to bend it correctly. But... eventually I went to make some coffee... and I spot a SPOON. Yep, a spoon. It's handle was already bended, so I tried to fit it - it worked perfectly. i lifted gently the cover (it was really gentle push), then I catched it in this position by few plastics and removed the cover with few moves. It was scary. I was scared that I will break the "hooks". But everything went very good, the cover was in one piece, not even scratched and phone case wasn't scratched too, so full success.

Yep. But this is one part of the story.

The second part was less fortunate... I did clean the connections (was not so dirty as I suspected, so I did not hoped it will help). Then, I tried to put the cover in it's place... And this is hardest part of whole repair. Yep. It is. The proof is: when I eventually closed it, GPS was not working AT ALL.

Yep. I did broke my phone. I was mad.

But then, I read much of the posts here... I have found that I am not only one of such people which wanted to repair and broke his phones. So, I thought a while and finally I got into a conclusion that reason of completely deaf GPS is the cover, not any destruction inside my phone (by spoon). So, I asked HTC to send me the cover and paralelly asked my friend to send me it from england. HTC just pissed on me giving me a link to polish HTC shop stating, that they HAVE such cover - but this shop has only battery covers. So I pissed on HTC and got the cover from England (three weeks of waiting - I had to have nerves of steel because I could not be sure that it is a covers fault, it could be GPS module too, for example, a mainboard pushed too hard...). But eventually the other of my colleagues got it after those three weeks, and I asked him to put it back (he owns a cellphone service).

Now epilogue...

Yes. It worked. It was covers fault. Now GPS works again (cost: 8 pounds).

But... most important - it works BETTER. Not only accuracy is now quite goot but there is second advantage - before cover replace I could not record a movie with embedded position - everytime camera was on, GPS loosed it's fix. Now not only it works paralelly, but it's even quite precise and stable! :D

Summary:

1. It is VERY EASY TO BREAK THE COVER!!! (while putting it back mostly - the thing is - cover CANNOT BE BENDED - I bend it a little to ease the putting back process and I suppose this broke it)

2. I think that statistically ALMOST EVERY DHD needs this repair EVEN IF YOU DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT GPS.

3. Please, if you can, go to cellphone service and save yourself scary weeks and cash. It is not as easy as it looks on the movie! Removing IS that easy (or hard, depends how you do it, but it's shown very accurately), but putting it back, closing is HARD. Not because you cannot do this - you CAN, but you can also BREAK IT.

@Original poster or moderator - please, if you do not mind, append my post to yours first post it this thread - let othe know my story (as there are few similar already here) and think TWICE before doing it by ourselves.

And most important - I wish you all luck with your DHD's. It's a good phone, but not quite perfectly assembled... and delicate if you try to open it.