My K750i = in pieces!

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Well it's been the good part of my 24 month contract and the old casing took a fair beating with dents, scratches and various layers of dust settling unde the front lens so I ordered an "original" housing off the Bay yesterday which arrived today.

I've opened the phone up before so knew how fiddly the damn things can be to put back together, a bit more complicated than the K700i I had before this. Everything slots into their sockets really but it's just the tinyness of them that makes it a pain!

All parts

Here's how each main component fits
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This part is tedious, the little gold clip holds the keypad base onto the plastic underlay bit to stop it moving around, the clip is so fiddly and easily comes off.
The seller said the new housing has the protective surround padding which stops dust getting inside the lcd area, it did not so I had to improvise with a thin strand of Blutac around the edges...
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My phone is with Vodafone so was Silver, the last time I changed the housing I kept the silver keypad but this time round I'm going with black, new housing on left after fitting completed
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Good as new!
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I also ordered a desktop charger base at the same time, it was £3 as the old one I had was getting a bit loose on the power connector so often the cord would fall out!
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And here's the most tedious bit, after I put it all together I turned it on and realised the camera button and PLAY/PAUSE button were not making contact properly so had to take the whole lot apart again so that I could reseat the buttons back on :S

So yeah, mobile housing changing = pretty easy, but very fiddly.
 
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Have just done the same thing to get my old K750 looking presentable enough to auction off. This must've been the third or fourth time I'd done it though, so no big surprises this time around ;)

The worst experience I've had is with an S700 and a really awful-quality black housing. Stupid thing cut right through part of the ear-piece speaker. Serves me right for not buying original housings ...
 
yozzer2001 said:
what would be better is to change firmware and then you got a w800i ;)
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Already did this but I kind of prefer the K750i firmware :p
 
mrk said:
Already did this but I kind of prefer the K750i firmware :p
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Why and whats the difference?

My 750i is full of dust and quite scratched, so I might do this aswell. Mine though seems to have developed a problem where sometimes it won't take a picture. Its like it can't focus. Usually turning the camera on/off a few times or moving seem to make it work. Annoying though.
 
OspreyO said:
Mine though seems to have developed a problem where sometimes it won't take a picture. Its like it can't focus. Usually turning the camera on/off a few times or moving seem to make it work. Annoying though.
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Mine has exactly the same problem. Well it did anyway before I replaced the housing and reverted to factory settings - haven't tested it since to see if that fixed anything. I found that it focused fine, but only at certain ranges; if I tried to focus on something a couple of metres away it usually managed fine, but anything closer I needed to turn on macro to get it to snap.
 
OspreyO said:
Why and whats the difference?

My 750i is full of dust and quite scratched, so I might do this aswell. Mine though seems to have developed a problem where sometimes it won't take a picture. Its like it can't focus. Usually turning the camera on/off a few times or moving seem to make it work. Annoying though.
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The button for the camera has 2 stages, a microswitch that activates the focus and a full depress which makes contact with the rubber pad on the same switch fro what I could see - it's common for when the button gets overused that the rubber stops making good contact thus not focusing and because it cannot focus it will not take a picture.

I had the same issue after replacing housing and it turned out the new button the housing cam with was not the same quality as the original one so I kept the original button and the focus worked perfectly.

There were some contacts issues on w800i firmware when the k750 was put on it when I tried it, contacts would lose numbers so I switched back to k750i firmware and all was good.
 
Thanks for the pics mate , that helped me and a mate out earlier a lot , last week we decieded that we would have a crack at doing his missus phone and managed to snap the camera ribbon , was thinking that it would be bit of a nightmare , but the new ribbon came this week and this afternoon cracked on, with the aid of the pics we managed to get it sorted.

nice one for that , you could not have managed better timing indeed .
alex :)
 
I managed to bust the screen on my old k750, i'm guessing that wouldn't be cheap to fix?

Do you guys have problems with the joystick with a phone that old? Mine gave up after 12 months or so.
 
Mine seems ok after this long, sometimes iot would miss a direction but I just press a bit harder
 
The joystick going is *the* long-term fault with this phone AFAIK. Sometimes all it needs though is to be taken apart and have the dust blown out from underneath.

I managed to bust the screen on my old k750, i'm guessing that wouldn't be cheap to fix?
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Probably about £10-20 to buy a new LCD, so not too expensive. Even if you don't use it any more you can still replace the screen and sell it for £50+
 
I need to do this as well my 750 is full of dust and muck and the joystick doesn't work to well.

Out of interest how do you go about changing the firmware to that of a W800i?
 
I used the Davinci client which is a couple of £ to buy for each upgrade :D
 
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