coffee!!
 

my friend spilled coffee on my phone and now the screen just turns white! is there anything i can do?! i dont have insurance because of stupid sprint didnt added for me in the beginning when i got it even i had asked them to so when i realized i didnt have the insurance and i tried to add it they didnt want to add it anymore!! so is there anything i can do!? or am i AO?

yikes that sux major....should have checked those bills ;) anyways so its just white all the time? only options I see is to take it apart and try and dry it maybe (doubt it will work tho) or find a cheap one on ebay just for the screen and see if u can replace it. if not u may be sol. sorry. :)
~mike

yea, start lookin for a new ppc. you could try taking it to sprint and they might be able to sell you a refurb for cheap(not that cheap) good luck. or you could buy a cheap phone and swap, then add insurance and 30 days later add the 6700 back on and do a tep replacement or take into sprint store

another option I just remembered. if u cant find one that cant be activated and u dont think u could replace the screen urself, pocketpctechs can replace it for 169 bux which is better than having to buy a new one. :D anyway heres their link.... http://pocketpctechs.com/main~unit~A...updateunit.htm

~Mike

i think the screen is the least of his problems. coffee is probably going to fry his board and destroy his phone completely!

So your ppc is dying for some coffee, huh? I would just bring it to a sprint store and see what they say before you do anything. You might get lucky and get it replaced. Good luck my friend.

I got mine for sale still :)

LMK if you want it

PM me

how much are you selling it for?

man...i feel your pain. is sprint willing to fix it without their insurance plan? i had to get the insurance when i bought my phone because i paid too much for it. now for me personally, the insurance is worth it. i bought my first 6700 back in march and my daughter destroyed it over the summer. 2 year olds and 6700s don't mix well. luckly for me, i had the insurance and sprint replaced it later on that day.

sprint will fix it for a price. it depends on what actually needs to be fix and the price will keep goin up.

Which insurance did you have the $3/$4/$6?

$6 plan...i thought that was the only plan that sprint had.

No they have $3 ESRP which is basically service&repair, $4 ERP which is replacement and the $6 which is both combined

I had that same "didnt add my insurance" problem from sprint. got my phone in aug. and when i just happened to look at a bill in oct. i noticed it wasnt on there...after about three calls and having to " get hood" with a rep i finally got it added on as it should have been anyway.....sorry to hear of your misfortune,but i would make the friend pay at least half!! :twisted:

the way it works when u dont have insurance is that sprint can look at the phone for a $35 dollar fee...... given ur phone is "liquid damaged" there is nothing sprint can do for u....i work for sprint as a manger i should know....the only thing u can do is probably go to the store and not even mention the whole coffee thing and see if they will let u pay the $35-$55 and hope that the technician doesnt see the damage because that would be an automatic denial as "liquid damage" voids warranty......also the fee is not refundable so think about it......how bad is damaged? is there corrosion?.....try to clean it up as best as u can before u go.....if not its full price.....good luck!!!!!!!!!.....................


also dont even try replacing it with ur own parts if there is corrosion there is no point because the phone is $@#!ed!!!!!!!!!

if you friend has homeowners or tenants or comprehensive personal liability (CPL) insurance and will admit that they spilled the coffee on your 6700, then they can put a claim in under the third party liability section of their insurance policy. This will pay the cost to replace the phone. There is no deductible applicable to the CPL section of the policy (a deductible applies only in the first party section for loss to his own property.) There is no exclusion as to cell phones or small portable electronic devices.

ok so .. so the phone works now there is only two things wrong with it. the ear speaker sounds really low and the front buttons do not work. i managed to clean it before the coffee soaked in to where the battery is so the sticker that turns red with liquid did not change color, so they wouldnt be able to tell that it got wet. i still want to get a replacement so if any of you are selling on let me know. but im kindo broke so it has to be cheap.

I was under the impression you could add the insurance anytime you wanted...but that you couldn't add it and immediately make a claim...

Like you had to be able to use the phone for a month after adding the insurance...

the thing is that most technicians will open the phone completely and look for corrosion....unless theyre being lazy and u get lucky.....just try it it wont hurt...maybe if u talk to the tech and slip a few dollars he'll look the other way and just go ahead and order u the phone

the 6700 phone is a phone that techs cant open up and play with. they look at it and try to turn it on themselves. if they cant, they dont bother to further investigate. if the 6700 has one of those color changing stickers, then they probably look at that, but they wont take it apart.

guess what?!! i got it replaces all it took was a manager from radioshack, who knew a manager from the sprint store and a couple of burgers and now i have a brand new box with a brand new 6700, and all of its accessories, so now i have double accessories. wooohoo!! haha!! im so happy, except that now i have to reinstall all the things that i had installed in my old one!

Lucky you. I thought it would atleast take a beer to pull this off. :D