[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] deed-elvis:
Hello there guys, I searched the forum and can't find any section/topic/stickie for new members to introduce themselves so I thought I'd start a topic here saying hello.

Deed-elvis here, (AKA Laurence in Real life :) ), I currently possess an HTC kaiser, Which I've owned for 2 Years after buying brand new, As well as a recently acquired, second hand, Sony Experia X1. And what Started me rolling is a now defunct Imate Jam which kept ended up constantly Hard resetting itself. Currently I'm in between The X1 and the kaiser as my main phone of choice and The reasons for this will be made clear in the not to distant future on these boards

I've searched XDA Devs every so often for Little titbits here and there before, Like the slide2unlock app, And I also had the kaiser in bits not just once, but twice in order to replace the touchscreen. What Had happened was that I bought the device when it came out in 2007, however after flying back from Amsterdam to Scotland not long after I bought it, The Screen cracked & Expansys Weren't willing to replace under warranty :mad:. SO I kept the device as something of a Dust gathering paperweight whilst I reverted back to my Imate Jam. it wasn't until 4 months later I found that they were retailing appropriate screens on Ebay. Once i had the screen, I googled around Like crazy for methods of stripping down the kaiser. I found one and got to work:

The second time (around the end of last year) I slipped on a small rocky outcrop and my kaiser took a dent to it's front casing, afterwards, the Kaiser screen that I had replaced lost a bit of touch calibration as stylus taps were being recognised totally out of position. so I replaced it again.

Also the confidence from doing this has led me to "attack" other broken electronics. For Example, i had a Canon SD600 Point and shoot digital camera that I took on a ski holiday and cracked when I fell on my arse trying to look graceful on 2 planks :o ( it was in my back pocket), so without even a manual or even googling. I ordered the appropriate LCD screen and Went about replacing that as well:

And that now works too :cool: the experience with both of these has taught me a great deal about how modern Electronics are designed and put together :)

Also I realise that the Kaiser Has it's its issues with Image processing (AKA redundant graphics processor ) through HTCclassaction.org. but It was through there (and loads of movie format experimentation) that I managed to get wind of corecodec's coreplayer and turn it into a movie and podcast playing powerhouse with the added benefit of a 16GB microSDHC memory card (as well as an Audio adapter that can only be found on the far echelons of Amazon and Ebay, and not locally in the UK :mad: ) :

The Kaiser was, and still is, very good to me for reasons that I will go into in future postings where I will compare and contrast with the X1. I also intend to take the Kaiser on installing custom roms so I'm still doing a lot of reading on SPL's and hard resetting, I'm not gonna dive in and ask questions willy nilly without looking at or searching out stuff that's already been posted.

But currently, the Kaiser is in "rude" health :P