Been reading alot about the differences between where the storm was made but i originally bought a Canadian Storm and did the torx fix and everything is somewhat good for now but the buttons seem to be falling off, and other small problems like that ect.
So i decided to order a replacement and it is the Mexican Storm.
Comparing the phones they are rather very similar and it seems i would have to do the torx fix on the new one as well. As of now I am planning on sending back the one i just got seeing as there is no improvement.
Is there any reason i shouldn't do this and keep the new one?
I am not sure of this, but my Mexican one was junk. I got a new one with .75 on it which I am assuming is the revised hardware and it works beautifully. Oh, and it is from Canada.
I think the thread was started on a racial note...
really who cares, mexican or canadian, they're just assembled there. im sure all the parts come from china.
staying on topic though... keep the one you like better.
I swapped my storm and got one in a brown box with the phone only and all i have to say is im glad i did it. The new one I got is perfect running the latest Beta OS. Everything works and you can REALLY hear the screen click like on the Verizon commercial. My first Storm I got you could barely hear it click and their is a huge difference.
My advice is if its under 30 days you minus well get a replacement that makes you happy with out any hardware tweak (screws or cards behind the casing).
Out of all the threads i read i think its just luck of the draw of getting a good storm. Whether its from Mexico or Canada i don't think it really matters.
How do you get storms with loose keys? My replacement storm is a Canadian made, my first was hencho en mexico . I don't really care where there made as long as it works well. As for hardware problems, no phone will be perfect. So what if you can see light around the screen or a gap. Its a piece of plastic people . Not a rolex.
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Both mine and my girlfriend's Storms are both from Mexico. Mine, thankfully is fine, hers keeps rebooting and the gap between the screen and the top of the phone is horrendous. We are replacing hers and I will, naturally, keep mine.
I think the thread was started on a racial note... really who cares, mexican or canadian, they're just assembled there. im sure all the parts come from china.
staying on topic though... keep the one you like better.
I think this phone is just too new for some folks. The ones that would take a torx driver to their phone instead of back to the supplier are selfish, because they break it then they want to return it with some lousy excuse as to how it broke unknowingly. Stop messing with the hardware and return it if you don't like it and go get what you think works better. Nothing you use nowadays is made where the manufacturer claims, it's place of assembly is usually listed as place of origin.
based on my very unscientific poll with few responses, it seems likelihood of hardware issues are tied more to the model number than build location. the least likely to have issues are the 21009 models, regardless of where they're made.
based on my very unscientific poll with few responses, it seems likelihood of hardware issues are tied more to the model number than build location. the least likely to have issues are the 21009 models, regardless of where they're made.
Ooh boy, those are some pretty small numbers to pull any kind of real info out of. 4 more votes in any direction and you would have a landslide result...
great idea though
Ooh boy, those are some pretty small numbers to pull any kind of real info out of. 4 more votes in any direction and you would have a landslide result...
great idea though
totally agree it's a tiny sample size. it's probably a coin flip on whether or not you have problems, but...when you look at the poll below, which tries to tie dust problems to build location, it seems those assembled in canada have more dust issues than those from mexico...
one could start to put the data together a little and deduce that 21009 models made is mexico are less prone to issues. like i said, probably a coin flip, but it's worth asking the question to see if we can find any pattern to the source of issues.
I think this phone is just too new for some folks. The ones that would take a torx driver to their phone instead of back to the supplier are selfish, because they break it then they want to return it with some lousy excuse as to how it broke unknowingly. Stop messing with the hardware and return it if you don't like it and go get what you think works better. Nothing you use nowadays is made where the manufacturer claims, it's place of assembly is usually listed as place of origin.
my Canada storm had a clicking issue. I ordered a new one from CS. While waiting for the replacement, I did the screw trick and it made it great.
Got the replacement from Mexico and the click was just as bad, if not worse, then my orig be4 the screw trick.
Saying I'm selfish is completely false. Waiting another week for a 2nd replacement phone, taking away from somebody's 1st storm opportunity when i can fix my issue in under 5 minutes is selfish.
My first Storm was made in Mexico, and the screen worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box. It does have a huge gap between the top and bottom of the phone body, and I'm guessing that let dust in my screen much more easily than "normal". My replacement comes Xmas eve day, so hopefully it's a little better as far as screen fit goes. I hope it's another Mexico device, because IMO the "yellow" screen looks much better than the washed out "blue" screen that usually comes on the Canadian devices.