[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] demkantor:
HTC... WTF?

seriously ive taken apart many different phones, i used to buy broken phones on ebay, refurbish them and resell, im no stranger to disassembley, and ive even taken apart many HTC phones before too. but why so much sticky! seriously ive never had a seen a phone with so much glued/stuck together components before!

well anyway, heres my story

girlfriend is obsessed with apple and their iphone, mostly due to their camera, but like any good boyfriend would, i have forced her to only have android devices (not going to get into my views on apple as a company here) but every phone shes ever used has had a subpar camera, at least in her mind. so i searched around for a good deal on the doubleshot (hard to find one cause im so cheap:D )

finally was able to snag a mint condition ds for about $50 that only fault was the internal speaker didnt work. being ive replaced these so often i didnt research much first and just bought it. so to make sure it wasnt software related i immediately rooted/s-off/JuopunutBear same day (should have maybe checked with HTC first to see if there was a warranty - damn HTCdev unlock)

so ended up buying a new speaker, waited a week to get it, then opened up the phone... wow, but easy until i got to the separation of chassis (for lack of better term) and the digitizer/lcd assembly. im used to using a heatgun to remove adhesive but this was far more then i could image! again WTF HTC!

so finally got it apart and pulled out the flex, saw the speaker came unsoldered from the flex and decided to just resolder the old, put all back together, and... blank screen. must have damaged the lcd, damn. so i tore it apart again to see if i somehow forgot something, all was good. so i quickly ordered another, waited a week, took apart, reassembled... blank screen, FML.

so did some research and found out there were multiple, non cross compatible screens used in this phone (WTF HTC) so did some research, found a cheap sony, waited a week, disassembled, resembled, and... blank screen........

ebay seller accidentally thought they had a sony but turns out theirs was also hitatchi or whoever, so sent it back, did research and found what to look for to make sure it was the sony screen, ordered, waited a week, put it in... yeah!

but... no sound! tore it apart, unsoldered old speaker, put in the new one i bought and it fixed the problem! but... all this tearing apart and such ended up damaging the digitizer! so, ordered new, waited a week, put it in, and.. bam! new phone... just like that!

any way... if your still reading my ramblings, the moral is dont be cheap! still ended up costing me only about $130 for a mint phone but also costed me well over a month of dicking around. the good thing is i can teardown and reassemble the doubleshot in under 20min now! any one wants tips on what to do im here!

so yeah thanks to all the great devs here, ive played with about five or six roms during all this but had to turn the phone over to my girlfriend. so i wont be able to test too often (when she sleeps i will... hehehe) but ill be following this thread as i do any phone im into! hope my little story gave someone a nice 5min break from life to read, feel bad for me, laugh at me, whatever! have a good one!