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

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...

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

Good as new!

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!

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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what would be better is to change firmware and then you got a w800i

Already did this but I kind of prefer the K750i firmware

 

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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.

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.

 

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It was destiny

 

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Mine seems ok after this long, sometimes iot would miss a direction but I just press a bit harder

 

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I used the Davinci client which is a couple of £ to buy for each upgrade