Vogue Facelift - Inexpensive, Beautiful!
 

Before:

http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/r/mrg2nz2/Before1.jpg http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/r/mrg2nz2/Before2.jpg

Besides the peeling layers of skin, the screen was scratched quite badly and had become inaccurate to the point of making allignment attempts futile.

After:

http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/r/mrg2nz2/Avatar3.jpg

Now she has a perfectly accurate and pristeen screen, smooth velvety soft front housing bezel, different logo, and custom 'chromey' buttons! Just $8.99 will get the parts that make most of this possible, from here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Info re buttons, here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...05#post1739805

Still digging my Vogue, into latter half of 3rd year!

Wirelessly posted (HTC Diamond: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint MP6950SP)

Looks great Mr.G!
Nice Work!!
I like the chrome buttons! :thumbleft:
I still kinda miss my vogue.:(
Now...did you put a new rom on it too? ;)

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Nope, but that thought too is always lurking in the back of my so-called mind. The only ROM type things I've done were to flash from the original Wm6.0 to one of the 1st leaks of 6.1, and then to the official version, followed by using the haret.exe on SD card version of Android Cupcake 1.5, which led to Donut 1.6, and that was enough of that for me. WinMo 6.5 is tempting, but an awful lot of my software has known issues with it, including the applications I use most, like AE Button Plus, PaintWM, XnView Pocket, and Pocket Player:
http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/r/mrg2nz2/NuFacia.jpg

I'd've never attempted a facia fix, if it weren't for this forum having so many helpful posts. Huge heartfelt thanks to: TMZ

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Wow don't know what to say :) thanks so much... and I haven't forgotten all the help you gave me. Thanks Tony

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Oh and nice work ! looks great. keep it alive !

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Hey, you definitely don't have to put 6.5 on your Vogue. I have 6.1 on my Diamond. I think it is lighter than 6.5 so it uses less resources and you have lots of options for skinning. Unless you really like Titanium or Sense. ;)

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Hey - thanks for posting this!

It reminds me that I have another Vogue sitting in the drawer (my wife's old phone - she moved on to Imagio) - the screen started going out in bottom right corner. I'll get this, fix it up and I guess sell it then, works great otherwise...

Those things are hard to kill! Mine has been going strong for 2 1/2 years now...

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WOW, I wondered if anyone ever took the time anymore to fix their phones like this...obviously so! I love the phone renovatoins ;)

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MuhahahahaHAAAaaaa!!!

I have created a monster:

http://ipwbvg.blu.livefilestore.com/...h/CIMG0801.JPG

Yes, black new front but white Verizon rear! I wanted something different.

I realized now that I need a new screen protector hmmm...

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Different indeed, I luv it!

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can anyone help with the instruction on how to install the above things in the ebay post?! i dont wanna eff it up too bad, is soldering required? I really have no idea how to do this, so if anyone can help, thatd be great, and ill buy the kit after i make sure i actually know how to do it lol

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Nope. But you'll need a Torx T5, jeweller's Phillips #2, and plastic prying tool. I made my own pryer out of a plastic rod by filing one end of the rod at an angle. A guitar pic or even a credit card might work as opening helpers.

Did you see the manuals? Very helpful!
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...40#post1777840

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Maybe here to ? Thanks T M Z

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=96953

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thanks guys will check it out! im tryin to get a cheap one off ebay and fix it up hopefully for less than 50 bucks.

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I wanted to do this exactly but for me the shipping is about 5x the cost of the item itself lol. BTW, was it difficult to do the change? consider it risky?

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Not terribly difficult, but there's always at least some risk. For example, I certainly removed my memory card and kept fingers and tools away from motherboard. It's maticulous work on tiny parts and I have fat fingers, so had to use tweezers and wore 2 pair reading glasses! It went very smoothly except for one of the phillips screws that holds down the keypad circuitboard to the front housing. It would not bottom, kept on turning, as if the socket it screws into was too big or rheemed out already. It took some time before I realized there was a blob of plastic flash keeping the circuit board from getting near enough to where the screw goes in. Once I scraped some plastic out with an exacto knife, it all went together just fine.

Did you see this post:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...40#post1777840

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Hey, thank you, Mr. Good Tunes :D that's a helpful feedback :)