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More info?)
"John Kester" <j.kester@aolhell.com> wrote in
news:7ycIe.831$jq6.9@newsfe2-win.ntli.net:
> Not sure, probably best if you strip your phone yourself. Been a while
> since I've had mine open but I'm pretty sure there are some ribbon
> cables that connect everything.
Thanks John. I was starting to give the handset the evil eye
(as in "I'm gonna dismantle you") already. Followed the instructions
you linked to as far as getting the front cover off, and then
stalled because I was in the office, and my T6 driver was at
home!
On the way home, I got to thinking. This telephone is behaving like
it was plugged into the PPH-1 hands free kit. The last time I
remember it working properly was in the car. I wonder if...
So I went down and hopped in my car, powered the car up, plugged
the phone in/out/in/out a few times and... it came back to life!
The phone seemed to have decided that it was connected to the
hands free kit, and was behaving accordingly. All along I was
unconvinced that the problem was hardware, because there were a
whole range of things happening that *must* have been more than
just a loose cable or a fried component.
So I didn't need to dismantle the phone, and I still have no
idea where my t6 driver is!
> Once you have undone the screws any put a pin to ease off the
> case, just run a credit card round the outside of it.
Credit card was a good move, thanks. I would have used a flat
bladed screwdriver and carved up the case! The phone came out of
the exercise largely unscathed despite my ham fisted approach!
> Probably cost more to send the phone to be repaired than to
> buy a new one
Zactly. I actually did a shop around for a new phone yesterday
and, price aside, there really isn't anything on the market right
now that interests me. Remember when telephones were things you
talked to people on?! I wanted speakerphone (for talking on the
phone without taking my motorcycle helmet off), scope for a
car kit, maybe a camera, and something that can talk to a computer
for SMS (ie: not a symbian phone). There's really nothing out
there. I had actually dug out a couple of old Nokia 8210s and was
planning to revert to those if I couldn't get the 6600 to work!
Thanks,
G