| Cell Phones: Repair or Replace? |
| Written by John Barrie | ||
| Friday, 08 June 2007 | ||
 Americans throw away over 125 million cell phones per year. Even more strange, we have over 500 million retired cell phones sitting around our homes awaiting disposal. This not only is an expensive and wasteful habit, it represents an avalanche of e-waste which will hit our landfills sometime soon when we collectively realize its time for spring cleaning. Cell phones are complex assemblies containing the toxic metals lead, cadmium and berillyum plus a fire retardant that actually may retard the user. So the question becomes, when these little buggers go on the fritz, what do we do? Search out the nearest trashcan? Or try and save ourselves the hassle of trying to lie our way into warranty protection, or the expense of just buying a new phone. A friend of mine has repaired his phone several times...he even rode is bike over the thing, but somehow brought it back to life. Check out Jim Rees' web page devoted to repair of his cell phone. If Jim can do it, we can too.
And then there's this article from Lance Ulanoff who gives tips on how to repair things. Read the article and laugh, because most of the time Lance is fixing broken items in under 5 minutes. Is the “broken” cell phone in your drawer really beyond repair? We can create an infrastructure for repairing cell phones, we just have to invite a few hundred DIY cell phone repair techs from China to work over here for a few years. They could open kiosks at malls, “Cell Phone Repair While U Wait”. Not quite as slick as the new iPhone, but a heck of a lot cheaper. Via: EcoIron
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written by drkness , June 11, 2007
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written by Andrew Lynch , June 11, 2007
Check out this website if you want to recycle your phone.
http://wirelessrecycling.com/home/index.html
Not only in China
written by Mohammed Raei , July 02, 2007
Here in Jordan they repair mobil phones too. I guess you can get the mobil fixing techs from almost anywher outside the developed world.
repair Nokia 6100 screen
written by Chien-Liang Shen , September 20, 2007
Hi:
I have a Nokia 6100 cell phone, the screen was broken by accidence. The other functions are working good. I am seeking for repairing my cell phone. If you can help me out, could you email me, or call me: 801-836-9070 I am in Salt Lake City
repair broken screen
written by Shaheen Campbell , March 19, 2008
samsung sgh d807, can you fix please.
Cell Phone Repair
written by Alex Lopez , March 28, 2008
Let Remedy Wireless be the solution for all of your cell phone problems. We repair, refurbish and sell new and used cellular phones and accessories. The staff at Remedy Wireless is trained and equipped to handle most of your cell phone repair needs. Our services range from simple transferring of data from one phone to another all the way to difficult board-level solder work. We also offer a Liquid Damage Cleaning process to customers who have gotten their phone wet. In addition to our retail services we offer discounts to wholesale customers in need of large quantities of phones repaired or refurbished.
www.remedywireless.com
fix a cell phone water with water damage
written by katherine , May 09, 2008
ive fixed my blackberry pearl after it sat in the bathtub for hours. all i did was take the battery out and point a blow drier at the phone for a couple hours
lights on my phone are not working!
written by marguerite , June 10, 2008
my phone works i can get my calls and messages but i can't see any of them because the light on my phone is'nt working. the botton lights are working but the skreen is black iv turned my phone on and off but nothing seems to work can you help me please!
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written by Dave , August 27, 2008
I need to know how to fix my screen ok my cell phone it is cracked.
my 8800 phone recevies no network
written by JAMES EMOKA , October 06, 2008
Hello there my nokia 8800 recevies no network and it is not from the antena, i think it needs part replacement or somthing like it im willing to pay any amount....but i dnt want a new one
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guess I did save some trees..
actually quiet surprised the reasons people believe their phones cannot be fixed.. quiet trivial..