Rear Speaker (Ringer) Dead! Where to find in UK?

[damac]

Hi everyone.

The Ringer (Rear Speaker) of my Charmer has died. Does anybody know where I can find one in UK?

Or does anybody here sell this kind of stuff?

Thanks.

[nocturne.op.15]

well you may try any speaker that can play loudly enough. in my old sony cmd-j6 i was using speaker from tetris game and it was playing louder than original with less noise :-)
btw, what did you do that speaker is dead? i would recommend you to use multimeter to check if it is realy burned down, speaker has nothing inside that you could be damaged (of course, you can have burned down coil or damaged membrane)

P.S.: speakers do not like needels :-)

[damac]

Yeah, i've already checked with a multimeter. The speaker's coil is burnt out. I had a really loud ringtone (preamplified). I was using tomtom and while the tomtom was speaking, the phone rang and I suspect this caused a spike or something like that and the coil got burnt.

Needless to say, I won't be using that ringtone anymore.

And the problem with using any other speaker is that I don't know which one would fit the housing in the case as it is a pretty tight fit.

Any advice?

Thanks.

[nocturne.op.15]

And the problem with using any other speaker is that I don't know which one would fit the housing in the case as it is a pretty tight fit.


imho the best idea is to buy hardly damaged charmer (maybe prophet and other similar devices will use the same or at least simliar speaker). devices with broken display are cheap, coz they are useless for their owners.

otherwise, you can modify the plastic part that is carrying antenna tin. imho there is enough space to make speaker hole bigger and insert different speaker - the best way will be to consult right parametres with skilled electrotechnician...

[damac]

Thanks for the info. I looked up on ebay and at the moment, couldn't find any old or broken charmer. Will go and ask at T-mobile shop first, if they have it and if they charge something like 40 quid, won't get it.
Then will start going for other options like modifying the case to fit any other speaker.

Anyway, contract about to finish in 3 months or so, so maybe will just leave it like that and get a new phone when contract finishes.....

[jameslovell]

My speaker broke the other day too!... wish i could get a replacement...

i have found this one:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Internal-speaker-for-O2-mini-HTC-Magician-MDA-compact_W0QQitemZ260078869716QQihZ016QQcategoryZ10 364QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

[damac]

Thanks for looking jameslovell. But this one does not fit the charmer, and besides, i gave up looking two days ago and bought a random speaker and melted/reshaped inside chasis to fit that one :)

Now working fine

Thanks everyone for your help!