agh my cellular phone lcd shattered

TimidOCer

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Ok this is really important its for my personal buisness use and I have alot of numbers just in the phone that I need. I have insurance on the phone but I dont want to lose these numbers and they just replace the whole phone.. and I need this asap not 2 + weeks... I saw a site linked on either OT or Hot Deals about this place that sold aftermarket lcd screens really cheap, and I need one asap and as cheap as possible. My deductable is like 40$ so I would rather just replace the lcd too.

I will give a cookie if anyone can help me its the Nokia 5165 and I just need the lcd screen I dropped it and it just shattered now when you turn it on nothing of course ... grr this makes me mad.

HELP!
 

RossMAN

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This happened to my Nokia 6190 (my fault, it was on my belt clip and I hit the cell phone against a counter accidentally). Fortunately I was able to retrieve all my phone numbers and settings since I'm a VoiceStream Wireless customer and they use SIM cards which store ALL your info.

The phone was covered under a 1 year warranty, got a replacement one FedEx'd to me in 3 days only cost shipping around $15 put the old SIM card into new phone and it worked!
 

TimidOCer

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
This happened to my Nokia 6190 (my fault, it was on my belt clip and I hit the cell phone against a counter accidentally). Fortunately I was able to retrieve all my phone numbers and settings since I'm a VoiceStream Wireless customer and they use SIM cards which store ALL your info.

The phone was covered under a 1 year warranty, got a replacement one FedEx'd to me in 3 days only cost shipping around $15 put the old SIM card into new phone and it worked!


Unfortunately this phone is out of the factory warranty and I pay 5$ a month just incase I lose it or something or break it but I have a deductable that is like 40.. I dropped my phone just the right way on the pavement.... ack..

The ebay one is good but I was hoping for cheaper (me=optimistic) and not purple ;) I found one for 18.99 at cellphoneshop.net , hoping for cheaper because im gonna pay for 2 day shipping I need this back asap.
 

iamme

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Originally posted by: TimidOCer
Originally posted by: RossMAN
This happened to my Nokia 6190 (my fault, it was on my belt clip and I hit the cell phone against a counter accidentally). Fortunately I was able to retrieve all my phone numbers and settings since I'm a VoiceStream Wireless customer and they use SIM cards which store ALL your info.

The phone was covered under a 1 year warranty, got a replacement one FedEx'd to me in 3 days only cost shipping around $15 put the old SIM card into new phone and it worked!


Unfortunately this phone is out of the factory warranty and I pay 5$ a month just incase I lose it or something or break it but I have a deductable that is like 40.. I dropped my phone just the right way on the pavement.... ack..

The ebay one is good but I was hoping for cheaper (me=optimistic) and not purple ;) I found one for 18.99 at cellphoneshop.net , hoping for cheaper because im gonna pay for 2 day shipping I need this back asap.

Can I get a consolation cookie?
 

aphex

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That sucks, sorry to hear...

Thats the main reason i love GSM though. All your phone info (including phone #'s and everything else) is stored on a sim card which can be transferred from phone to phone just by popping in the card into the other phone. I have 2 cell phones i use right now depending on my mood and the amount of charge they have.

Might be something you wanna look into in the future...