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Originally Posted by matbob
Have any of you tried the DIY dust removal outlined in the tutorial here?
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3 times. 3 phones. On my fourth now. Thankfully my Best Buy guy is being VERY cool. He just tells me, if this one does it bring it back and I'll swap you out again.
Thoughts on cleaning it yourself:
1) It's really easy to take it apart. No worries there. The guide is helpful, but I have to admit, I didn't even use it the first time I cracked mine open cause the OP ran out of bandwidth on his image server.
2) Find as close to a dust free environment as you can to do it. Once you open that thing, you'll see just how much dust you have floating around in the average room because it will ALL find its way to your touchscreen or LCD.
3) Whatever you do, for the love of god and all that is holy, DO NOT touch the damn touchscreen on the bottom. Once you smudge something under there, you will have your work cutout for you cleaning it off. Here's why: There's a foam rectangle meant to seal the LCD to the underside of the touchscreen. If you get dust or a finger on that underside and try to clean it off, your towel will invariably touch SOMEWHERE on that foam and create a new smudge...rinse->repeat->rinse->repeat ad infinitum. Then you'll see smudge against the very edge of the touchscreen and it will be nearly impossible to get it completely off. Just don't touch it whatever you do and keep it underside down while you clean your LCD.
4) Consider this: The seal is faulty. Anybody with dust will "get that". Once you crack the seal, it will NEVER be as good as it was when you reseat the LCD unless you do something to make it better. For that reason, if you crack the seal, you should be prepared to run a bead of some type of sealant (silicon, caulk, elmer's glue) around the reseated LCD screen otherwise, see step #1.
Good luck,
J
PS I think HTC should be ashamed of themselves for letting an otherwise remarkable device hit the streets with this issue. Yes, I'm OCD. I admit that, but the phone *is* $479. That's alot of cake for a distracting user experience and given HTC's supreme efforts with Sense, I don't think that's what they're after.