A very sad story...

[John Koenig]

That certainly sounds better than any of the other options I have been 
researching.

Is there anyone out there that has older Neo 1973 hardware (with a 
functional LCD display) they would be willing to sell or get rid of?  
Or  even  perhaps  someone with a dead freerunner?

John

Jeffrey Malone wrote:
> From what I can tell on the wiki, both the Neo 1973 and the Neo 
> Freerunner use the same LCD.  Finding someone willing to part with 
> their Neo 1973 -- or finding someone with a dead 1973 (but good LCD) 
> is probably not going to be a difficult task.
>
> Good luck
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Ben Wilson <ben at abcom.co.nz 
> <mailto:ben at abcom.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     There's probably a few people here that have dead phones with
>     other faults.
>     Maybe one of them could sell you a dead phone cheap and you can
>     swap the
>     lcd panel with your phone.
>
>     Ben
>
>     John Koenig wrote:
>     > Hey all,
>     >
>     > Usually my first post to a community mailing list is some basic
>     question
>     > that I could find if I just read 15 more mins on a wiki, but I
>     am sad to
>     > say that this isn't the case for this posting.  I have been an
>     openmoko
>     > user for 4 days now, and a happy one at that.  I was getting
>     involved,
>     > learning, and bothering plenty of people on IRC with the types of
>     > questions I mentioned earlier.  Today, I had my openmoko in my
>     pocket
>     > (empty at that) as I was out for a walk and when I turned it on
>     > afterwards I discovered a crack in the LCD panel!
>     >
>     > I don't really know how to proceed from here.  I contacted the
>     reseller
>     > I purchased the phone from, Koolu, and haven't heard back from them
>     > yet.  I need help in figuring out what to do next.  If Koolu is
>     > unable/unwilling to help, how can I go about getting another LCD
>     panel
>     > to replace the damaged one?
>     >
>     > Any thoughts/advice is appreciated.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > John Koenig
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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