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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / May 2004Dead Nokia - Options?
My Nokia 6385 died. The Nokia repair centre claims water/moisture ingress has caused a fault on the PCB and that it's uneconomical to repair ($850 was the quote). The phone's 6 mths old and they won't fix it under warranty. I'm surprised at this claim as I'm not sure how it could've happened. I got it on a $40 a month plan, which expires Sept 2005. Anyone care to suggest what options that I may have in order to get another phone for the lowest possible cost? I would like to get another 6385. I bought two CARK91 car kits for each of our cars. The missus has a Nokia 6310i GSM, so we can use either phone in either car. I'd like to retain that functionality. The Telstra shop has suggested that I could get another phone on a $40 plan and pay an extra $12.50 a month on top of that in order to pay off the existing phone/plan. Ebay has a few Nokias listed, from around $50 (early days into the auctions) to around $600. I'm watching the two cheaper bids. If they can be gotten for under $200 which is what I need to pay out the old contract, I might try for that. Or I might get a cheap pre-paid for around $70 from Dick Smith's. Or I might just do without the phone altogether. I've not had it for 2 weeks now, and haven't really missed it. Just pay the contract out and be done with it, perhaps. > My Nokia 6385 died. The Nokia repair centre claims water/moisture > ingress has caused a fault on the PCB and that it's uneconomical to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I got it on a $40 a month plan, which expires Sept 2005. OUCH :( > Anyone care to suggest what options that I may have in order to get > another phone for the lowest possible cost? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > be gotten for under $200 which is what I need to pay out the old > contract, I might try for that. Just make sure its another CDMA based handset, Telstra Mobile wont let you swap networks from CDMA to GSM while under contract... > Or I might get a cheap pre-paid for around $70 from Dick Smith's. Or I > might just do without the phone altogether. I've not had it for 2 weeks > now, and haven't really missed it. Just pay the contract out and be done > with it, perhaps. If you get a Prepaid from DSE make sure its something that there going to allow you to connect on to your contracted plan.. Paul Wright said.... >> I got it on a $40 a month plan, which expires Sept 2005. > OUCH :( Yeah, could've been better, but at the time it was the only plan on offer for this particular phone. > If you get a Prepaid from DSE make sure its something that there going to > allow you to connect on to your contracted plan.. If I got a pre-paid I'd be cancelling the existing contract. I never use up the $40 of calls that it allows anyway. So a pre-paid probably would suit me. However, I'd want a CDMA phone. The thing is, the 6385 is an excellent phone. I don't have any coverage issues, and if I'm in the car, the car kit works well in this regard. Might be a better bet to purchase another 6385 either off ebay or new if you can still find one and either connect it back on the contract or kill the contract off and keep the same number and move over to prepaid. > Paul Wright said.... > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > excellent phone. I don't have any coverage issues, and if I'm in the > car, the car kit works well in this regard. Paul Wright said.... > Might be a better bet to purchase another 6385 either off ebay or new if > you can still find one and either connect it back on the contract or > kill the contract off and keep the same number and move over to prepaid. There's a few 6385s on offer and varying from around $20 (early days into the auction) to around $600. So, I'll see what I can do. > Paul Wright said.... > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > If I got a pre-paid I'd be cancelling the existing contract. I never use Why woudl you do that? Just use the prepaid handset with your existing Telstra SIM. > > Paul Wright said.... > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Why woudl you do that? Just use the prepaid handset with your existing > Telstra SIM. I hate to be the one to break this to you dunny-boy, but CDMA phones don't have SIM cards. > > > Paul Wright said.... > > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I hate to be the one to break this to you dunny-boy, but CDMA phones > don't have SIM cards. Who cares whether its GSM or CDMA? If it isnt a SIM swap, its an ESN change Michael said.... >> If I got a pre-paid I'd be cancelling the existing contract. I never > Why woudl you do that? Just use the prepaid handset with your existing > Telstra SIM. For starters, I find that I'm paying $40 a month for a service that I'm not using as much as I did. I saw a cheap $70 phone in Dick Smith's the other day. It'd probably suit my current usage. However, I still have a $400 car kit in each of the cars that I'd like to use. Ideally, if I could source another cheap 6385 and convert it to a pre-paid, and cancel the other plan, then I'd be happy going that route. > Just make sure its another CDMA based handset, Telstra Mobile wont let you > swap networks from CDMA to GSM > while under contract... Crap. Feel free to change from CDMA to GSM Its called a technical transfer and thousands do it daily not while your under contract you wont be > > Just make sure its another CDMA based handset, Telstra Mobile wont let you > > swap networks from CDMA to GSM [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Feel free to change from CDMA to GSM > Its called a technical transfer and thousands do it daily > not while your under contract you wont be Yes you can > > > Just make sure its another CDMA based handset, Telstra Mobile wont let > you [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Feel free to change from CDMA to GSM > > Its called a technical transfer and thousands do it daily Well they must have changed it recently because I tried to swap a more4you and an old BYO plan and they wouldnt budge what so ever.. this was when the plans were current and no longer superceeded.. > > not while your under contract you wont be > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > Feel free to change from CDMA to GSM > > > Its called a technical transfer and thousands do it daily > My Nokia 6385 died. The Nokia repair centre claims water/moisture > ingress has caused a fault on the PCB and that it's uneconomical to > repair ($850 was the quote). The phone's 6 mths old and they won't fix > it under warranty. I'm surprised at this claim as I'm not sure how it > could've happened. Before you take their word for it, take it to another repair centre and do a warranty claim. Many pass through. Michael said.... > Before you take their word for it, take it to another repair centre and > do a warranty claim. > Many pass through. How would I do that? I took it to the Telstra shop where I bought it and they sent it off. As far as I could tell from the repair order, it was a Nokia service centre, not one that does work for Nokia. Do you have a list? > Michael said.... > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Do you have a list? Where are you located? There are usually quite a few service centres in each capital city. In melbourne you can try Phonetec in nunawading or ADI in footscray. i havent had any of my phones serviced in a while though Michael said.... >> a >> Nokia service centre, not one that does work for Nokia. >> >> Do you have a list? > In melbourne you can try Phonetec in nunawading or ADI in footscray. i > havent had any of my phones serviced in a while though A belated response. Had to find out the names that you listed. Just rang all these people, including mobilefonerepair.com.au who looked at the unit. According to them, I'd be up for around $400 or more to replace the internal components, and even then they reckon there may still exist intermittent faults. Therefore, they don't wish to do it. And I can't get over these people on Ebay who're bidding for the Nokia 6385s that are on auction. Yesterday, one of them went for over $700, and today there are some up around the $500 mark. http://snipurl.com/6p51 These are what's currently available that I've checked out. They're nuts. Either they've gone mad, are desparate to own one of these phones, and that there really is a geniune demand for the bloody things. The guys selling them must be laughing.... |
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