[HTC One X] bigoliver:
Hey that's rare, we are agreeing on things lol :)

Though anyone who read the about the squeeze test on this thread, must have read my warnings. If you look again, its basicly impossible to read "gently squeeze your phone" without reading the warnings before and after that sentence! Only one person in all of this 3000+ thread has blamed the fault on the squeeze test, he never did explain to me why he did the test if he was sure 100% that he didn't have the fault before doing the test, I linked to his post at the top of the OP with all the warnings, if you'd like to read more about that. IF having read the warnings people still squeeze their phone, I can't be held responsible. In the same way I can't be held responsible if people start opening up their phones without reading the full OP like I advise. I regularly say I wouldn't do the fix myself (not with my huge fat shacky fingers) and I advice against it.

They are competent people out there who don't have warranty or was refused repair who have benefited greatly from this thread the repair guides.

They are also many people who was able to (after hours trying different router settings and other peoples routers) finally diagnose their WiFi problem, thanks to this thread.

This is what the thread was created for, to help. I have done all I can to warn people of the dangers within this thread.

Yes the odd few silly people (out of 600,000+ views) might do more harm than good, but any sensible person should benefit from this thread, even if its just to eliminate this as the cause of their poor WiFi. If you read through some of the replies, its mainly thank yous and this thread really helped us replies, not the opposite!

In the OP I have linked to the leaked HTC official repair document (don't ask where this came from, someone's job could be at risk). If you read this you'll notice even HTC advice the repair centres to squeeze the phone to diagnose the fault.

If they was another way to diagnose the fault, I'd tell people to do that, unfortunately its the only way to know for sure.

I do wonder what you think...

Do you think it would be of better benefit to community to delete or keep this thread?

If you think keep this thread, in what way would You improve the OP to highlight potential dangers?

If you think delete the thread, what about people who might get the fault and never know, they'll just assume the HOX is a phone with bad reception and battery when, in fact it could potentially have amazing WiFi. They could stuggle with the reception until getting another phone, when all they maybe needed to do is send it back to HTC have the phone repaired, then start enjoying the phone the way it's meant to be.

I have a few times been accused of knocking HTC, like I have a personal vendetta against them. I really didn't want to come across that way, though I am guilty of knocking HTC when people have been billed for the repairs because they had a relocked bootloader, which I feel is at least morally wrong. HTC have been asked by many people in this thread if a relocked bootloader would invalidate the warranty in this situation, HTC have dodged the question as much as possible, the only answer I ever remember HTC giving was something like... (We decide if a warranty is void on an individual basis) or words to that effect.

Oliver

PS just to make clear, I really don't hate HTC, I loved my HTC desire dearly for 2 years it was a great phone! And (when working correctly) I still regard the HOX as the BEST phone I have ever owned, even better than my current phone a Galaxy S3.