Dropping-down stylus reparation on HTC Wizard (MDA Vario, QTEK 9100 etc.)

CLASS="warning">IMPORTANT WARNING :: when you loosen the first screw, you almost surely forfeit your guarantee. That’s why only someone who knows, what he’s doing, should take the device to pieces, and also he should be at least adequately practical. One careless movement will be enough to make your device a dump of electro scarp. Regarding the maximal possible age of you device it is very probable that it is still under guarantee, so consider the possibility to make the reparation at the authorized service/dealer within the guarantee. Neither the author of this article, nor the web is responsible for the problems, which can be caused by taking your device into pieces. You do everything at you own risk!

So we get the warning over, let’s pass to the subject. For reparation you will need a screwdriver Torx 5 (I didn’t find it so I used a mini screwdriver from opener, which is a part of Victorinox knives and which can be found as I guess in every smart guy’s pocket), piece of paper rubber for deleting, a sharp knife and a little skill.

First of all let’s take the battery out, then the SIM card and the memory card. Then it is necessary to delete the capping strip at the back upper side, which covers the camera. It will be enough to loosen both sides (somewhere near the buttons of volume regulation and the voice dialing button) on the sideways and to lift them up. Where the plastic levers are and how to lift it all is better shown on the pictures. You can also use you nail :)

Next step is the unbolting of four screws Torx siye 5, which are located in every corner. One of them has a seal with the sign VOID, so it can be clear that after executing this operation you will forfeit the guarantee. However, manipulating gently I managed to remove the seal with the end of my Swiss military knife, and to put it back on its place subsequently, after the whole operation was over, although it wasn’t absolutely the best. In the lower right-hand corner there was a little holder screwed on the line, be careful do not let it get lost.

After loosing the screws up subsequently remove silvery plastic part. I did that using plane with screwdriver on the knife. I recommend to begin with the upper end of the machine because in the lower part there are such little paws and it’s not advisable to tear. In the pictures you can see where the plastic paws are and where it’s better to push them then. Unfortunately I didn’t have these photos, that’s why I incurred some petty scars on the sideways but they aren’t too noticeable.

On the other side of the plastic cover you will find a black plastic case, which serves to place the stylus. The case is gripped with two paws into the battery space (during the first experiments to take the main cover away I believed that the cover is fastened by them). On its end there is such a little jag on the elastic part, which holds the stylus at the notch on the black plastic end of the stylus. There hides the prime problem, why the stylus drops down. Using leads to plastic crack, subsequently the jag doesn’t weigh heavily on the stylus and the whole plastic spring thereby finishes its functioning. What can warm the heart is that it undoubtedly deals with evident construction defect and this trouble isn’t caused by current wear. So, to my mind the warranty claim should be recognized without any problems. Unfortunately if the producer doesn’t debug this defect in the modern models, this will be repeated round about. I found out as well, that while putting the stylus in it comes too deep into Wizard’s body and that pushes the jag more aside. Perhaps it is one of the reasons of resulting thin plastic’s crack.

When we know the reason we can pass to reparation. I rejected the first idea to glue cracked part with express glue, after I recalled why they call this glue express. Each time I glued something with it the result lasted for about a second. ;-). On www.xda-developers.com I found an advice to fill the gap behind the “spring” in with silicon glue, which will provide resilience. The disadvantages of this are that this glue stiffens in 24 hours, it is somehow non – rewirable way and primarily I didn’t have any glue. :-) However, I had a school rubber at home which I had last used in secondary school at technical drawings, I guess, that means her age was nearly 20 years. Of course you can use a younger artifact:-D. Cut a small piece of the rubber with a knife, big enough to fill the whole space behind the cracked spring up and compensate its function. It’s reasonable to cut it off lengthways on one side to let you push the rubber the deepest into the space and meantime let the height enough to touch the main telephone’s body by the other side when the cover is closed. The next piece of rubber I put to the end of stylus line that way to avoid its pushing too deep into body of the device. I don’t know if it was necessary but I put it there just to be sure. Be careful and don’t make it too high, because when you close the cover you weigh in on a small connector.

Another reason of dropping down I found later after I descried a small sprig on the table :). This small sprig is generally a small pressure spring, which brakes the stylus in the hole after its top is loosen up. The result is that the stylus pettily “rubs” and stays in the hole while pushing or pulling. Originally it holds on those 4 screws that we had loosen up at the beginning. Secondarily it is fixed on a small plastic spine on the stylus’s case and the spine is sequentially sealed. This spine is so tiny that it can crack easy so it is evident that it will loosen up and stylus will glide in the hole without any resistance. The whole reparation consists in petty clinch of the sprig to let it weigh on stylus more. I had this spine cracked but I didn’t mend it hoping that the screw itself will hold it. Just take care of back mounting and be sure that it doesn’t “escape” and screw it down firmly. The pictures will cue more again.

Let’s test the stylus’s functioning and if we are satisfied with it let’s screw up all the details and celebrate the enterprise with a small tot of plum brandy. The photo of brandy isn’t connected, because I’d drunk it before I managed to take a picture of it.

In conclusion I am glad to note that that wasn’t real reparation, but only some kind of an upgrade, thereby the problem of dropping of the stylus down shouldn’t be repeated (at least hope so…). Relevant comments are welcome. And some more just for fun – all this manual was tapped on Wizard’s keyboard.

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