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treo650 broken antenna
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Posted by: phocuschad

so I pulled out my treo650 from my pocket last night to take a call, and oops the antenna fell off. I dunno if it got hung up in my tight pocket, but this is terrible... all this copper stuff fell out of the hole where the antenna once was.. I tried putting it back in.. no dice, and I have no signal. I went back to my motorola V80 so at least I can make phonecalls (and actually hear people when they are talking to me) but I need my treo fixed.

anyone know what I can do?

Posted by: iDean

call palm, or cingular and tell them, but dont say you did it, just ask if its under warrenty

Posted by: one918

Can the antenna on the Treo be replaced?

Posted by: Runciter

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

wow... that's pretty impressive... the antenna seems pretty sturdy. did u not feel it when it made contact with something?

Posted by: whatever7

Can you use the Treo 600 antenna? I am a big fan of huge antennas.

Posted by: phocuschad

well, it's not like I could just screw a new one in or something, it's something that definately has to be repaired. when I called, cingular was like.. the warrenty doesn't cover damage to the phone casing, or screen, or other physical damage done the the phone. it also doesn't cover water damage.

I was like.. wtf does it cover? treo looks like they are going to charge me over 100 bucks for the repair.

Posted by: one918

That's pretty screwed up as far as the damage is concerned. Water damage, I can see, I mean my wife left her Samsung in her pants pocket (Doh

) and it went through the washer. She dropped it in the water at a seaside ocean park. Believe it or not, she's still using it.

The antenna, that's another thing, I mean, something that protrudes out from the phone is going to be prone to damage some way or another, it should be covered.