[One (M7) Android Development] baadnewz:
The Story:

The full story with all the details can be found here on my website. If it's too much to read (and i know it is ) here is the short version.

In my country the warranty services for HTC are outsourced to a company called Regenersis. So I went and delivered the phone personally to their HQ in Romania. I found a few days later after a chat with HTC Romania that Regenersis doesn't fix HTC ONE here in Romania, they send them to be fixed in Poland.

After another 3 days, I chat again with HTC RO to find out about my phone's status. They told me that in Poland they denied warranty because of custom software (the internal code is S 400 iirc) and is waiting to be shipped back to Romania. Now the only way they found out about this with a phone not powering on is by consulting the unlock database from htcdev, otherwise i think is impossible. and i covered all this again in my blog post if you want to know all the details and arguments.

Right now i'm waiting to be called by Regenersis Romania to pick up my phone in the same condition i left it a probably pay 10-20 euros for their trouble.

Update 1. I talked again with HTC Romania and they promised me they will escalate my situation to their superiors.

Update 2. HTC responded to me on twitter and they say will look at the file.

Update 3. (8 oct.) Service called me today to pickup my phone FIXED UNDER WARRANTY. I don't know what happened between last Thursday when they decided to void null my warranty and today because it has been fixed under warranty, my best guess is HTC Romania or HTC or someone from HTC talked and they fixed it. Thanks are in order to everyone who helped me with this

As promised i'll start issuing refunds to those who accept it. You should be expecting a PM today for details ( the ones who already said there is not need for refund don't worry i on bug you, but again i have to say thanks

InsertCoin Community Response and Support:

This community is so amazing that people already started to donate to me to get a new HTC ONE and I don't know how I will ever be able to thank them. But since there is hope, I have a list with everyone who jumped to my help and I will issue a refund because I don't want people to think I took their kind donations and spent them on beer. Or in the event it won't be fixed and I can't raise enough to get a new HTC ONE again i'll issue a refund. I don't want make one feel offended by this, I appreciate their effort more than I can say in a forum post, but it only seems fair.

If you want I can make the list public right now ( I will make it at some point to give proper credits to everyone) but is your decision if it should be public now or later when dust settles.

And in the spirit of full disclosure. the current amount is :

Final PayPal balance: €647.49 EUR ( enough to buy one from the store which is 600 eur or one from grey market for about 440 eur). Thank you. Goal more than achieved and way faster. Thank you. . I never though I will say this but i got more than enough for the most expensive ONE plus get drunk for a week. so again thanks. Please stop donating towards buying a new phone, I have more than enough.

Sure a few beers or coffees are ok, but for the purpose of the new phone is more than enough, is not my purpose to get rich :)

Let me tell you this: THIS COMMUNITY IS A M A Z I N G

Now, I won't run today to the store and buy a new ONE, i'm still waiting for HTC's response, maybe the decide to take care of it and then I can refund the money.

All thanks to the awesome community. You all should have my 1st born don't know how you'll share him or her though.

On serious note, the goal was reached with the help of:

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I'll keep the donations in my paypal account until the end of next week, hopefully by then I'll have a definitive answer from HTC, if they'll fix it as promised I will issue refunds to those who accept it because most you told me to have beer instead. if i have so much beer i'll be to drunk for the rest of the year which will be bad for my health and bad for your phones :D

Now really, I never expected of this, I know the community always came through went I was in need (and I had been a couple of times) but this fast... i'm both amazed and speechless, I don't know how I will ever repay you.