Rchard Richard Richard. First of all you need to understand a few things.

You obviously dont know anything about warranty's or phone manufacturers in general. You have headed this forum as 'how to remove a c550 cover without voiding warranty'. If you tamper with any electrical item in any way, you void the warranty! Just because you didnt remove the little white sticker saying void dosent mean you still have warranty. Dont you think that manufacturers are a little smarter than that.

For example:

1. When you take the screws out the back of a phone, didnt you notice the blue paint all over the thread. It serves 2 purposes:
First, its a threadlock type of glue, which helps keep the screws in place and stop them unscrewing themselves like they used to do on the old nokia 8310, if you rode a motorbike often. Second of all they tell manufacturers if you have been playing about with the screws. Thats because the paint gradually wears off, the more you play with them

2. All phone manufacturers set their screws to a certain torque. When you take you phone to a repair centre they can tell if the phone has been tampered with, just by the torque reading the screwdriver gives.

3. Any new mobile around today has screws that have been made to de-thread themselves the more they are used. Nokia invented them, (if you like) to stop any other corner shop tampering with phones , in the 8850 era. Any decent engineer taking a phone apart can tell straight away if a phone has been tampered with just by looking at them.

you cannot tell people that they are not going to lose warranty if they have a good dig around it with a hunting knife. That is just dumb. Think a little deeper before you start posting false information on decent web sites like this, and stop giving other people false information. Dont worry, i wont be posting or coming on this site again. I dont really want to waste my time talking to a jobsworth like you fluffy. I suggest you go back to work at McDonalds tomorrow and serve me a Sausage McMufin meal and a coffee when i come in to before i go to work.

see you!

Adam

EDIT by Pondrew: Bad language removed (this is a family friendly forum besides which flaming is against the rules...)

ok. i use a knife blade because it is the only thing i had in my tool kit that resembled the tools we use at work. im sure that the people who own a smartphone are all decent adults with at least some common sense. i mean really, how many kids do you see around with a mobile running windows. er non! because you need to be pretty smart to take advantage of the real power a smartphone has, being able to play dvd's and stuff like that. not ' got this nokia coz mi mate got one. look its even got a 1.3 megapixel camera hu hu' ***. maybe i just presumed that i was'nt dealing with children, which i apologise for and since one of your picures shows you holding a pen knife i didnt think that was too bad. i just want people to be as proud to own a smartphone as i am. scratching or dropping a phone can be gutting, especially when you try to take really good care, of it as i do (not like my mate who has had 3 in 6 months, useless). all i was doing bud was trying to make it a little bit easier for people following your instruction. having to send a phone away when you ripped a ribbon coz your 'a bit rough' can be pretty expensive and god damn anoying when you have to send it htc for repair and be without a phone for 2 weeks. i was'nt talking over you and telling other people not to listen to what you have put on this forum. i think its good that someone out there actually givs a toss and is trying to help other people that are having problems or just simply dont know what to do. that is why i came to this page in the first place. and the e-mail thing. just trying to help dude. i have tested my phone and its capabilities for over 2 years. i must have crashed it over 70 times trying new stuff. i only want to spread my knowledge like you do, and stop people thinking that because they have a nokia N90 or samsung D900, they have the best phone in the world. thats bull. 14 of my mates have converted to smartphones because i have shown them what a mobile should really do. im just trying to spread the word that spv's are the daddy, and if you own a samsung d900 you need to lob it because its a ***!! i dont want to fall out with you dude and forgive me for coming over all condesending. some *** had given me some stress at work and i just came home felling that way out. i just want to teach people that if you have the time and the patience you too can have the best phone in the world.

can i just say to anyone doing this i have been a mobile engineer for 5 years now and i have found that the easiest way to take off the housing and antenna cover (without scratching it) is to use a stanley knife blade. you can buy tools to do it but a blade is just as good. i have taken apart over 10 of these phones including my own and the blade works perfect. all you do is slip the sharp bit in the crack and "pop" it open. trust me it works better than a screwdriver, and you will be pissed off when you scratch up your new case.
if you need any more help e-mail me at adamlayzell69@hotmail.com. ill do the best i can to help you not mash up your phone. also just a point, the circuit boards are photostatic sensative so be very careful when your touching it.