N 3230 Dust

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I think these are the answer to the PREVENTION part of the problem....

a phone "condom" lol

Wow, been a few days since i last had a chance to get on here, thanks for the pics, there ideal, the reason i said about the glue was cause on mine i seem to have a glue strip between the camera cover plastic and the top hood, well it looked like glue, i just couldent get the hood off and dident want to break it so hence dident risk it, but now i can see how to get it apart i'll have another try then clean things up and see about a little extra padding on the bottom edge of the screen, that should reduce/stop dust getting in. Thanks to everyone who's been working this one out 😊

Duke.

this is far from an isolated problem, my 3230 was full of dust after 2 weeks, but now its been changed due to another fault.
so far the replacement is ok but then its only 5 days old!

i've ordered me some screwdrivers...
now i'm just on the hunt for some foam that i can use to pack the gap with....
I do know that the foam used to pack ammo in UK army ammo boxes is IDEAL... i just have to get some!

lol

Proud_Iranian wrote:I believe they should place a long thin rubber plastic material on the inside of the cover, between under the screen and above the keypad! This would prevent the dust from getting near the screen!

Also the gap between the keys would allow dust particles to easily get in!

has anyone ever solved the dust problem by adding something from the fone's gap? :frown:

First, I wonder why would someone disassemble the phoen on his own? It certainly would void teh warranty I guess., at least here in Hong Kong. What something else goes wrong in future. In Hong Kong Nokai will charge you HK$300.00 before they even touch your phone if you don't have the warranty. Anyways, I have given my phone to Nokai three time sto remove the dust and it is always back. Now they told me that I can select some other phone model. Looks like they have realized that this problem can't be fixed. So within that price range I have selected Nokia 6670. I selected this cos I need it to sync with my PowerBook.

why dissasemble and void warranty you ask...

well read some posts regaurding nokia's customer service.. also some ppl (like myself ) may be past the "returnable period" with the phone on their contract....

I've done it to mine.. and i packed the gap with some closed cell foam (closed cell is as the name described.. ie no big air gaps for dust to get through)

heres a pic...

agreed, my contract grace period is over, the upgrade cost (�80) has been deducted from my account and for doing it myself i aint fussed about the warrantee, i'm a design engineer and the boards in these phones are huge compared to the stuff i'v designed, lol.

Duke.

kinda ditto...
i've got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering....
so dusting a screen aint exactly..... taxing

I'll come back in a few days on the results of the "foam pad test" ... hopefully this will be the fix but if it still needs refinement i'll let you all know.

Well, there is no such thing here in Hong Kong that is = to what you guys call contarct period. Here we have to pay the full price. The max we get is may be around US$12.00 if we are on contract for 1 year, balance we have to pay in full and there is 1 year warranty. Since this phone was released here only couple of months ago so many people still have warranty period of about 10 months. Anyways, I understand you can crack open your phones but I can't. I simply can't afford to risk US$411.00 I have paid for this phone. Now at least I have hope that Nokia will replace / exchange it.
Good Luck Guys!

One thing i dont understand is why doesnt Nokia recall the 3230's?
I mean alot of companies like microsoft (with their XBox's adapters) and apple (with their powerbook's batteries) have recalled them and given the customers new ones!

But what Nokia can do in this case is... recall the 3230's... basically have every 3230 user go to their nearest Nokia Care Center, and the ppl over there can replace the covers with new covers that have Foam or some type of air tight design under the cover...
That way Nokia will save money and gain more consumers, and the customers come out happy! 😊

they are too lazy, and they know that they are in control of the market, so they dont care

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Hello every1 . I just purchased new 3230 . 3 week before. N same problem of dust is disturbing me since few days. Well i m little confused after reading all article. And able 2 decide what 2 do as the phone is still under warantee. And if anyone is able 2 exchange his handset . Please hlep me out. Contact me at my email :- [email protected].

what to do...

buy a guitar pick, a t6 torx driver and a can of canned air....

It will end up in a far easier outcome than if you waste your breath trying to take on a large worldwide corporation.

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But what about warrante clauses .If i broke the seal warrante will become void. And if phone cause problem again nokia care will not entertain me . Could nokia care cant themself fix this problem . As i m not confident enough 2 fix this myself. Or i would be highly thankful to 1 who could send me some clips reg this operation on my email :- [email protected].

C ya

vabs
india

To be honest i never noticed any seal, and your only removing the covers, not breaking the actual phone electronics apart, the phone is surrounded by the shell design, the internals are all covered again which forms the main assembly as in the pictures, since i added my foam my dust problem is gone, so i am happy and my poor pocket is a haven for dust 😉 hehehe.

I can understand if you have paid so much for an item and your unwilling to open it, in a years time if i see something new i am sure my operator will upgrade me for another �80-120, so i'm not to worried about the bugs even now. Nokia could recall the phone, but i doubt they will, it functions and to them, that is all that will mater, unless there is a public outcry and a huge humillating press article about how poor the design and coding of this phone has shown, little will kick nokia's ass into dealing with it.

Unfortunetaly the poor service center guys will be the ones to get our tempers and really it aint there fault, so if you do go to a center, smile for the poor chap helping you there, he's just doing his job 😉

Duke.

the solution that i gave was to buy a body glove
BUT THE PHONE IS NOT SO EASILY REACHABLE
you cannot se the screen very good
and the plastic sticks on the screen making more difficult to take it out

they have to improve the design .... :icon13: :frown:

by the way why my phone has 1.2 megapixel camera?

😮 WHO TOOK 0.1 MEGAPIXEL OFF MY PHONE????????????? 😮

ALXandros wrote: 😮 WHO TOOK 0.1 MEGAPIXEL OFF MY PHONE????????????? 😮

mostly the ppl who made the phone.. it is 1.2 ... do the maths.... (multiply # pixels horizontally by vertically 😉

Ok I have just taken my 3230 to pieces. I have had the phone for about 2 weeks so I presume it is from a recent batch. All around the inside of the covers screen is a foam layer which gets squeezed around the edge of the main screen. This seems to have stopped any dust getting through so far.

Also i brought a red case to replace the standard black one to stop me picking up my house mates 3230 by mistake. The fittings on the new case were not the same as Nokia's fittings. I would have needed to take all of the circuit boards, screen etc out and pfitted onto the new case. Needless to say I am back to black until I can get a case with Nokia fittings.

I have bought a case in bluefrom hong kong too, its slightly differently moulded, but once i can remove the rear cover ( its not willing to let go of the charger socket that easily...) I will be able to fit all the panels to my phone fine i think. Howeever this replacement case doesnt have the foam which is present in the original case at all, which i suspect means dust galore.....

Just a note, all the Nokia black cases should have the foam under the front cover, however it is so thin and due to the shape of things it does not compress and form a seal at the bottom of the screen, so dust gets in through the keypad and up the screen helped by static charging in your pocket, so even thought there is foam fitted there, it is understandable why some of us have added additional foam to cure this once and for all, mines been perfect since i modified it.

Duke.

detailed photos of your mod please??

My mod wasnt 100% fix.. but is improved..

i used some double sided cushioned foam, its about 1 1/2mm thick, i cut about 2mm wide strips and made a box around the phone screen, not on the cover, then squeezed it all back together, this way both foams meet and fill all chances of gaps, as both top and bottom are glued to its surface its near impossible for dust to get through the center point where the two foams compress, unlike extending the cover foam it might still leave a smooth surface on the metal for dust to creap under, dunno, but thats how i did mine 😊

Duke.

excelent...
now just to find some self adhesive foam.... suggestions?

self adhesive trim tape for cars. its double sided but just stick a bit of paper on one side or leave the cover strip on that side. its bout 1mm thickish too and will do the job.

Thanks for the pictures showing how to dismantle the cover. I've finally cleaned mine up after it bothering me for months. Luckily I had the correct Torx screwdriver from when I kept having to fit new screen elastomers to my 8210. I've added a little piece of foam to the lower edge between the keypad and the screen. It has to be very thin to not obstruct the up direction on the joystick. Hopefully this will keep the dust at bay...

please friends help me out , I have figured out how to clean & prevent future dust from getting into my screen , but I wondered whats the starting trick & with what tool to get the top speaker cover out ( Ive tried the finger nail with no any help) & even start to use thin sharp angles between the rear top case & the camera , but thing getting worse by the fact that I am satring enjered the margion plastic edge , so please (specilay those able to get pieces out ) , show me the way to sarting opening it from the begining (with what & how) , I need a true last demo l

The speaker cover is not about just getting your nails in the gap, its also about pulling that bit you get your nails into away from the phone, once you have your nails in the gap try to use them to leaver the cover outwards, this then releases the two little clips on each side. Once there out the whole thing will flip over and the front clips will let go and hay presto, removed speaker cover.

Duke.

the thing thats got my back up today is this dust problem ( see pic below) club nokia tell me i need to take the phone to a service centre every time it needs cleaning (that'll be every 2 weeks then) the service centre tell me there isn't a new seal available for the screen and nokia tell me that if i take the phone apart myself I'll be voiding the warranty, this then leads onto all the faults that i need to get fixed before the warranty becomes void. orange tell me they've never had one reported problem with the phone (well i know thats rubbish) club nokia tell me to phone the service centre but they have no fixes for anything and they cannot tell me when any will be available.
i already have a 3rd party fix downloaded to sort out the camera stretching problem (how can someone else do this before nokia can fix the problem?)

if the phone worked as it should I'd be very happy with its features ect, I'm just gettting really pissed off with the lack of help from orange and nokia. so today I've ordered a t6 screwdriver 😡

At last . I am happy to open the top cover & flip it out (not by my nail) , thats hurt somewhat , but with a very thin fine metal piece , & getting one margin out then the other side , after that , the remain is simply done , just remeber to clean the inner screen with some leather tissue (or special eye glass tissue) , dont use usual tissue , it will not do the job , any how , the important trick , is to fill the gab below the black seal at lower inner screen margin , with some thin foam & that will prevent future dust from getting back & thats realy work & my handset return brand new again , thanx all friends for giving advise & assisstance .