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[HD2 General] mitchec1:
Mine's back with the service repair centre in the UK for a cracked screen and have just had my quote for repair £118.

No one else seems to have the spares.

The screen itself and surround was quoted at £78 labour £22, and the rest is for delivery.

The service centre isn't the quickest it's taken them a week from receiving the phone to give me a quote and then it's 5 days after you pay for them to fix the phone and test the software.

Luckily the insurance is paying
[HD2 General] L3D'83:
i can't believe!!!!!

i cracked my screen too!!

it falls down from 50 centimeters and the glass cracked in 1000 pieces!! i'll post the picture soon.

tomorrow i'm going to call the italian call center ..
[HD2 General] aldaweb:
Ouch!

Got my HD2 yesterday, now it has a hairline crack in the screen about 1cm long - don't know how - it's only been in a jacket pocket and car cradle.

Screen too weak?

Edit: O2 shop said it's a scratch not a crack - so much for scratch resistant glass.
[HD2 General] precsmo:
this is really sad!
[HD2 General] L3D'83:
my htc hd2 !!!

You have to see this pictures !!!

ALL the people who wants to Buy this product must know that..is very easy to crack the glass!! ...

today i called the htc center in italy and now i must bring my phone to the center then they'll send it to England for the reparation.

After that i'll waiting 4/5 day and they'll send me the preventive ..and i'll publish it!

:mad:

sorry for my bad english.
[HD2 General] sunking101:
It isn't "scratch-resistant glass" - it's just glass.....which in itself scratches WAY less easily than plastic. You have owned a plastic screened mobile before I'm sure! You still have to be careful, this handset hasn't been built using Alien technology.
[HD2 General] L3D'83:
tempered glas ?

sorry i dnon't know if a tempered glass is an alien tecnology ... but it exist.

if some one, buy a phone for 600 euro and i think it is crazy if the glass is a simple glass!

i repeat .. the mobile phone fell from 20 centimeters!! on the side!

:)
[HD2 General] sunking101:
I wasn't replying to you mate, hence the quote above my reply.

Dropping the phone is another matter but I guess that's a problem when the screen is glass. Do you want scratch resistance or drop resistance? It's a trade-off lol.

I've never dropped a phone yet but it'll just be my luck that I'll drop this one.
[HD2 General] L3D'83:
I think u are lucky :)

sorry but i'm little angry because i break the glass after 2 days! :p
[HD2 General] sunking101:
Understandable! :-(
[HD2 General] audscott:
OMG!! I'm so sorry. I dropped my HD from waist height, the

only

I was unfortunate enough to have an incident and not a scratch. It landed flat on it's back.

My HD2 is due in Friday. I'll be doubly careful!

Sorry again about the bad experiences you guys are having.
[HD2 General] alvinlts:
lol...

I never thought the screen is as fragile as this...

I used an iPhone b4, and dropped it too many times to count, and it's still fine

Far as i hear, v. few ppl had cracked screens on their iphones from dropping to the ground

The guys at HTC should really take a lesson, I mean, with that much screen real estate they should have known better than to put breakable glass on the thing, right?

I've had my hd2 sheathed in a plastic case... though I doubt it'll be sufficient protection coz it seems be the shock, not the impact, that broke the glass :(
[HD2 General] kersh:
mmmm it is an affordable price, I will take tomorrow mines to the src.
[HD2 General] thedudelasse:
Glass need quite a lot pressure to break like that. Must have beem a pretty good impact.
[HD2 General] kersh:
In spain they want to charge me 220€ for the screen lmao

What it is your repair center? I have a house in london, so I prefer to use UK service, I am not going to pay £120 more for the same.
[HD2 General] chris10230:
I am gonna have to be so careful now!

Also another one for the list l3v5y's device...

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=11279 (this one is nasty)
[HD2 General] lee1980:
OUCHHHHH. It hurts me too and sorry for the experience. Hope this is gonna be your last one...

getting my HD2 in few hours and this thread makes me thinking about a mobile Insurance. My HD2 is gonna be delivered in few hours hopefully ....

Any experiences or preferences?

probabely need to look for a case as well....Ay ay ay cost over cost... :-)

Cheers,

LEE
[HD2 General] le_paulo:
Not quite true mate - ever heard of Gorilla Glass as used on the Cowon S9? Check the Youtube videos out for this stuff - pretty impressive.

Judging by this thread, doesn't look like HTC is using it themselves... :(
[HD2 General] mitchec1:
I'll send you a pm as well but it's here on this link if you scroll down to UK you'll see HTC Global Warranty Service: +44 1279 206906.

I called them, they initially quoted £140 but they'll inspect it first and then send you a quote which you have to pay via their website (optimised for internet explorer) you either choose to pay or have the phone returned to you.

They'll e-mail you a copy of the call with your ticket number and print out for you to attach to the courier and arrange for it to be picked up the next day. You'll need to give them your serial no and IEMI

It's not quick it's taken them 5 working days to give a quote and further 5 working days to fix and test software.

UPS have just delivered it back as I type so it's taken 16 days in total

http://www.htc.com/europe/CA_Hotline.aspx
[HD2 General] gpfransen:
Got also a shattered screen :'( hapilly enough its only the glass and even the touch screen still works but only the idea allready that i'm gonna miss my hd2 for at least 2 weeks! :'(
[HD2 General] mitchec1:
That's exactly what mine had, I could still use the phone but it seems to have damaged the lcd as well
[HD2 General] Isadora:
just saw that on ebay...if anyone's brave enough http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/for-HTC-HD2-H...UK_Mobiles_Accessories_RL?hash=item45efe725ad
[HD2 General] gpfransen:
seriously thinking about it, only in doubt in concern with the waranty :( but it saves at least 1/2 weeks without the HD2 and I'm kinda addicted to it allready xD
[HD2 General] gpfransen:
Ok its not on stock at the insurance company so they will call me back in the next 2 days with more information. when it will be replaced, I could gonnan pickup another type straight away in the shop or a HD2 if they got it on stock but that's the problem everybody haves here now :( no stock :'(
[HD2 General] DexyG:
This is rubbish. I dropped mine from chest height onto a hard wood floor and there isn't even a scratch.
[HD2 General] ardsar:
Rubbish - as in????

Concrete is harder than wood plus it depends how it lands. Guess you were lucky - try dropping it onto concrete and see if you still think its rubbish.

The only way to protect yourself is to make sure you have a good case, and even with this, make sure you have insurance.
[HD2 General] kersh:
I would buy it, but my problem is the screen, the digitizer it is ok.

I hope that we will see in a few time screens.
[HD2 General] markfl:
I dropped my HD2 last night while out. :( Dropped it from waist height onto concrete paving stones. Per the image you can see the phone landed on one of its corners scuffing the edge panel. I am assuming the shock of the impact cracked the glass.

Very disappointed with HTC here. Given that they designed the phone with no margin between the glass edge and side panel of phone they should have invested in ensuring that the glass is shock resistant. I did read some design commentary that the actual glass screen forms part of structural integrity of the phone. If this truly is the case then they did a real bad job here.

More specifically, I have been reviewing all the photos on the net from various HD2 screen breaks and every break is occurring in the same area – the glass element that wraps itself around the 5 control buttons. Since the buttons are raised, a very thin piece of glass wraps itself around the edge of these buttons. This is the design flaw. Obviously the 5mm of glass is not strong enough to absorb a shock if the phone when dropped lands on the lower end of the device.

They should have ran the glass from top of the phone down to just above the buttons itself i.e. as far as the HTC brand. The remainder should have been plastic. I am gutted. :-(
[HD2 General] Towserspvm2000:
Dickhead.... massive difference between wood and concrete. Dosen't matter if it is "hard" wood or soft. Trust me... I know - I'm a track cyclist. You bounce on a wooden track, and die on a concrete one.

If you don't believe me, drop your phone from chest height onto the pavement outside your house. Unless you are 12 inches tall, you will be crying.
[HD2 General] Towserspvm2000:
Sorry for your loss there (and to everyone else who's dropped and bust their phone). Shame your first post is here to tell us this sad tale! I would be gutted too mate. We all would be.

This is one reason why I'm holding out from getting the HD2. I've dropped my Touch Diamond so many times in the last year, and it has barely got a scratch on it. I'm 6'4", so chest height is about 5'5"! ;)

Hope you get it fixed and you live happily ever after with it.
[HD2 General] madindehead:
Top tip: Insure it. And don't drop it!

I feel for you guys. I really do.
[HD2 General] ircghost:
Being an expensive phone, they should have at least used a quality glass like the ones used by the Droid. They mentioned a few companies is using the so called 'gorilla' glass but I dun see HTC being mentioned inside there.
[HD2 General] blike:
I actually fell while it was in my back pocket

The hd2 bended in a V shape

My screen is fine, no bursting or so.

But the device is totally broken.

It just doens't work anymore, doesn't even charge the battery.
[HD2 General] bel_z_bub:
from the picture you posted it looks like the lens/digitizer is cracked.. not the lcd

http://www.truesupplier.com/oem-htc-hd2-lcd-lens-touch-screen-digitizer-pad-pr-20090.html
[HD2 General] lude219:
There's no such thing as QUALITY glass. It doesn't matter if it's made of cryptonite...a drop at a wrong angle on a hard enough surface and you're screwed. Here's your precious gorilla glass on a Droid...
[HD2 General] Aqrab:
I feel sorry for you guys . I really do :(
[HD2 General] chalid:
the question is: can the digitizer be changed seperatly? with the touch HD it was possible, but with a lot of "hacking", because the lcd was glued to the housing ...
[HD2 General] angusmcintyre:
A warning!!!

I have successfully replaced screens and digitizers in the XDA, XDAII and Orbit II, so how hard can it be?

I have just tried to replace a cracked digitizer on my HD2 (dropped it on a concrete pavement) - I used the pictures from Mike Channon's website www.mikechannon.net/page1.html and scroll down to HD2 - I failed!

There is a reason why these pictures stop at photo 19. Once you get the mother board off of the digitizer/LCD assembly, you seem to be stuck. You can see part of the ribbon cable for the digitizer, but you can't get to the connector to release it. The rigidity of the whole assembly seems to come from the strength of the digitizer glass. By trying to separate the digitizer from the rest of the LCD/button assembly, all I succeeded in doing was to break the LCD as well. The problem is a metal plate (see Picture 18 in the above) which covers the connector for the digitizer (it’s the bottom third of the left hand part of the phone in picture 18). You either have to be able to remove that plate (I couldn't see any screws holding it on, it seemed to be part of the LCD frame), the other option is to try and prise the LCD from its frame (which is stuck in with some alien double-sided tape that defies removal). I gave up at this point and put it all back together again. - Looks like an insurance claim.

I do have a new and unused digitizer if anyone wants to buy it and have a go themselves. But I suggest we wait until an official HTC Service Manual can be found.
[HD2 General] saggydog:
Arrrr... my 4 days old HD2 screen cracked I didn't even drop it also don't how it happened
[HD2 General] garrette:
thats nothin compared to mine,....dropped it yesterday about 3 ft and it shattered. Called htc as i have no insurance on the phone and was told $120.00 to repair and 2to 3 weeks. this phone is not meant to be dropped at all. I dont advise anyone to carry this phone around leisurely. use at a table with it layin flat at all times....lol
[HD2 General] DrATty:
Sorry to see your damaged phones.

I found this page http://www.repairhppda.com/htc-htc-touch-hd-c-114_129_308.html

I haven't used them and can't vouch for the company. They stock battery covers (someone wanted one) and say they'll have screen soon.
[HD2 General] bigtall10:
This just happened to me today....two feet on hard concrete!
[HD2 General] DrATty:
It must be because the glass is brittle. It doesn't scratch but cracks easily. I've found devices with resistive screens scratch but don't crack. I dropped one 10 feet from a bedroom window and it survived intact. I first heard of screen problems like these when a computer magazine told of cracked iPhone screens when carrying the device in handbags.

Does using a screen saver help? It might stop a crack propagating.
[HD2 General] Qazz~:
Well, i for one feel that the glass on the HD2 is very thin, i can apply pressure to the corners or centre of the phone and feel it bend, obviously i did not press so hard as to crack it. Glass in its nature can bend to a certain extent, however, when dropping it, most probably the impact or reverbarrations caused by the impact causes it to break. In most of the pictures, the cracks appear to have started at the corners of the phones, where i said earlier are weak. So just to be cautious, dont drop your phone on its corners!
[HD2 General] Xp3RiM3nT:
would not better advice be just dont drop your phone?

I doubt anyone, mid-drop of their phone, is going to think ahh I cant drop it this way and suddenly do some kind of matrix style move in order to re-orientate the phone so that it doesnt land on its corners :P
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I did manage to break its fall using my foot when i dropped mine, if i was a professional footballer i probably could have flicked it back up into my hand.

Screens ok thankfully, thats twice now, third times the charm.......
[HD2 General] Xp3RiM3nT:
I cant say I have been too careful with my HD2 since I bought it, it has certainly had 4 or 5 drops to the floor, from tables and other places, but generally the floor below it is carpetted and it doesnt seem to have had any adverse affects to it.

I have always been careful when I am outside of the house to keep a firm grip on it and hold on to it at the epense of any other objects I may be holding at the same time if I trip on something :D (had a burger causalty this afternoon when trying to put a burger together and read a text message simultaneously)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royalbloodvi:
ive tried all types of focus, but even the slightest movement makes it blurry.. anyone hae a fix to this??
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pashax1:
Xperia has one of the worst cameras i've ever used in a mobile phone. My 5 year old $150 camera phone with lower pixel count outperforms this one on Xperia. The only use i have is for the light LED which i occasionaly use as a torch. I think the lens quality is so downright pathetic that it takes quite a bit of shutter lag to capture anything. This makes it prone to camera shake. There might be a way to reduce the shutter lag but then the exposure quality would suffer.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbajzelj:
all SE phones i had (t610, k700i, k750i ans X1i) were fine in outdoor conditians. the pictures were nice. but its normal if you are moving the phone while taking a picture that the picture wount be sharp. As I said in outdoor conditions everithing was fine.

In bad indor conditions its normal I guess for a phone to easily make a fuzzy picture. It helps if you hold the phone as still as you can. But if the conditions are realy bad like a semi-dark room its almost impossible to make a sharp picture.

You can even see on the screen before you press the shoot button if the pisture runs fluidly it will probably be a nice picture but in bad conditions even the camera view isnt fluid it can be laike 5 fps and then youll need to be still to maka a farly decent pic.

You can set the camera on several conditions like Auto, Outdoor, Indoor, Cloudy, Sport and such...

I have my camera alweys set on Sport so its fluid even in the dark. The pics are little darker then on Auto setting but if the pic is made in normal indor conditions that almost isnt noticeble. Sport works for me alot better then Auto.

Dont realy know how some phones (seen on some midle-low class Nokia) can have great visibilitiy and fluid camera view in realy bad conditions and why high end SE phones cant do that.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ganondolf:
there is another thread about this. if u put it in macro mode it seems to work better. the camera itself is fine and good quality but its too sensitive to the slightest movement making it blurry.

also install the r3a beta camera software as that is the best (for some reason SE decided not to include the r3 beta camera software in the final r3 rom, even though it is a lot better than the r3 rom camera software they included).

r3a camera software cab link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/314373093/R3A-XperiaCamera.cab
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] locomarco:
It seems like on a 6.5 ROM (at least the ROMs i tried) the Camera has longer exposure time. It was hard to shoot a clear photo. Yesterday i changed back to R3A stock ROM and it's much better now. I'll try the R3A beta camer app, maybe its even better.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crank1:
This may help you http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=577364
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
IMO the X1 is excellent.

But the trick is to:

Set it to unfished focus - ∞

In most conditions I use Sports mode - makes really sharp pictures.

I use Automatic mode only in a very bad light..

All the settings besides Sports raises up the exposure,

compromising the speed.

Note:

Check your camera glass.

I had to wipe off the invisible paint on it which became blurry after half a year.

Now it's perfect.

If you want, look at my blog photos:

www.doministry.blogspot.com
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ring-bearer:
Sports mode plus flash always on is the answer. Good results but dim indoor pictures.

How I wish I could hack into the flash settings to try to make it brighter... I never found any registry settings and I presume the two levels of brightness are hard wired in.

If I had more time I'd make a little sound activated xenon flash that triggers through the 3.5mm jack. It's a Radio Shack project that's not even too difficult. Anyone out there wanna try? EEs?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royalbloodvi:
howw can ii cheeck if i have r3a camera? i installed barebone rom r3.. but i have autoflash init already.. shoukd i still install the r3 camera cab since this one is blurry even on the ssettings u guys rec ommmended?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viper89:
Thank you Ganondolf for the link for R3A beta camera cab, yay I know have zoom. I still don't get how the infite focus is the best focused:confused:, IMO I think macro is the best focus:).
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viper89:
Another question came to me, sense we can import things like zoom is their away to import image stabilization red eye removal, face detection from other WM phones?. The one I'm the most intersted in is Image Stablilization.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] palmwangja:
Camera lens dirt

Would you take a look at where your lens is located? There must be a severe smear. You better peel them off compeletely with your nails and erasers. It's a known problem of X1 lens film's poor quality and not sure that thin film has done any good till now, but now i have a crisp clear quiality back with that fix.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] goldenwallet:
Hello!

I'm new to the ROM upgrading buisness, just got my new ENERGY ROM installed!

I used the HSPL method, now i was wondering if my phone's preformance will be better with an HTC SPL compatible with my ROM

if so how can i change it and where will i find that SPL?

Thank you in Advance,

Roman :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] ClydeB1:
Please do not start new threads for questions that are best treated in the threads specifically dealing with flashing. There are specific threads for HSPL, USPL and a Tutorial discussing and explaining both.

An official spl will not work (unless it is 1.54.0000) but you will still need to use USPL in that case to keep the spl. That being said however, AFAIK the spl will not have any performance related enhancements to the device unless of course you have the wrong one, in which case the performance will be negatively affected.

You have the choice of either using HSPL or USPL for flashing new roms. As you have chosen HSPL this permanently replaces the standard spl (it can be reversed though).

With USPL, the way I understand it (have not tried it myself as I use HSPL), you first upgrade to an official spl - 1.54.0000, and then using UPSL this allows you to "crack" the standard spl to flash a new rom and each time you flash you need to repeat the process.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fejth:
hey there you guys!

anyone seen the pocketnow video of the omnia2 pro?

brandon miniman showed off the samsung homescreen, the new kind!

i was pretty surprised to see how good that worked and looked!

do you guys think it's possible to rip it from the omnia2pro rom,

or something like that to get the plugin running on the x1??
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lennie:
ok, I made a stupid mistake without realizing it until it was too late: I installed a rom that was too large and it corrupted the whole structure and now I'm with an unbootable device that just shows pure jiberish when I power it on....does anyone know how to fix this?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ioannisman:
I propose to set the Athena in bootloader mode and flash the AP4 rom as we did the first time to set our devices in SPL 3.5. I believe that this will repair the file structure and eventually give you the chance to flash any other SPL 3.5 rom after that.

Please keep us informed and I wish you all the best:)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lennie:
thanks, but if I remember correctly, AP4 rom can only be flashed through activesync/wmdc so I can't flash it from the bootloader....I'll double check though.....
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ioannisman:
You are most correct lennie, the first time that the upgrade process is initiated from SPL 1.2 to SPL 3.5 with AP4 the Athena should have a proper Activesync connection. But since you have SPL 3.5 already this will not be a problem, I have personally flashed our little wonder numerous times through bootloader with every 3.5 rom that exists, AP4 included, to finally settle with Michy's latest Manilla 6.1, at least until either Avengerpenguin or the Elite Team provide a final 6.5 product.

Te key factor here is whether or not the Athena can enter bootloader successfully.If you can see the three coloured lines and the SPL 3.5 sign then proceed with flashing the AP4 or any other SPL 3.5 rom.

Please keep us informed and best of luck to your efforts:)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ioannisman:
Also something very important.

Before you do anything remove the battery for about 10 seconds and also any cable that connects the Athena with your pc.After that replace the battery again and try to enter the bootloader to proceed with the flashing.

This procedure is literally my life savior for evey time that the flashing process was stucked even if a succesful activesync connection existed and I had to enter manually bootlader to resume flashing from there.