Replacing housing - Page 2 - Motorola Q Forum

cindra · 07-07-2008, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by aubba_bell23

Okay so I got the housing and figured out how to put it back together the correct way... But as soon as I turned my phone on I found that I had absolutely no SERVICE... So then I looked back on the back part of the old housing and saw there was this little metal thing that bent around the upper left part of the phone. So I went to take it out and put it on the new faceplate and I broke it... I'm not sure if the little metal thing really is the problem but I need to know why I am now not getting any signal... If someone could please help I would greatly appreciate it...

My guess would be the metal thing was the antenna?

trdspectacoma · 07-08-2008, 01:15 PM

most likely that was the antennae. you might need to buy a scrap phone with a bad esn for parts because I dont think any one has the antannae piece for sale

aubba_bell23 · 07-09-2008, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by trdspectacoma

most likely that was the antennae. you might need to buy a scrap phone with a bad esn for parts because I dont think any one has the antannae piece for sale

Thank you so much... This is what I needed to do...

robotphood · 07-09-2008, 04:51 AM

Is this it: http://cnn.cn/shop/motorola-cdma-c-22_158.html

trdspectacoma · 07-09-2008, 01:38 PM

that is the one. but my thinking is to buy the whole phone so you have all the parts and not need to worry about trying to find things. You could just buy the antennae but The way I usually do it is try to buy bad esn phones so I can use all the parts.

robotphood · 07-09-2008, 04:45 PM

That's a good way to go to. Even the bad esn phones go for quite a bit though.

trdspectacoma · 07-09-2008, 05:09 PM

some times. i just saw a couple for under 50 . so you figure if you have to buy every piece separate. you would be better off buying the bad phone

robotphood · 07-09-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by trdspectacoma

some times. i just saw a couple for under 50 . so you figure if you have to buy every piece separate. you would be better off buying the bad phone

True. I did get lucky on my Q (working). About 50 shipped on ebay and it came like new. I ended up swapping the housing (also from ebay) anyway because I preferred black over sprint grey.