Htc Tytn/Cingular 8525 Swap Housing

[cabi.costa]

Hi everyone,
as I've writed in a recently post I would like to change the housing of my Htc Tytn because it is totally scratched.
I've found a wonderful housing, the one of the Cingular 8525, which has eveything at its right place (like the front-camera hole).

:mad: The bad news: it's obviously that the front keypads are different (the video-call button is missing in the Cingy housing).

:( My first thought: what will happen if I swap the cover? Well, that's because I've just searched in the forums and I've found an amazing guide which shows (from the a-b-c) how to disassembly the pda 8525 and change the housing.
Thanks to a picture of this guide I can see clearly that the internal keypad at the bottom of the screen (of the 8525), is quite different from the internal keypad of my Tytn.

:confused: My questions:
1- If I'll mount the 8525 original keypads over my Tytn's internal keypads, what will change? (apart the use of the video-call button, that I've never used since now, and I think I'll never use)
2- Considering the case of the question #1, if I mount the 8525 original keypads over my Tytn's internal keypads, will I able to press and use correctly the "red/end" and the "green/start" call buttons?
3- Considering the case of the question #2, if the buttons won't be compatible, where I can find a 8525 internal keypad to swap with mine? Anyone has one for spare? I've found a website but the item it's out of stock.
4- Considering the case of the question #3, will my flex cable/ribbon support the internal keypad of the Cingy 8525?

Please help me I've looked in every past post similar to that one but I can't find any answer..

[Yagi]

May I ask where you got the cingular 8525 housing? I want to do the same thing and I cant find it anywhere

[cabi.costa]

I found it on eBay, there are many housing of the 8525 but the one that I'll buy soon it's great because it's all black with official logo Htc front/back:D

[cabi.costa]

Anyone who knows something??

[SD5150]

Where is the guide that you used to open it, I am interested in that...

[waffle418]

check out cnn.cn has some cases for the phone... as for the instructions, search on here I found them somewhere but I'm using an 8525 in an all black case... its my baby!

Here is the link to pretty pics... follow along I've actually swapped three cases now http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1152710&page=1&pp=15

[cabi.costa]

Ok thanks for the link in fact I was following that guide..but what I absolutely need now for swap my housing it's an internal keypad membrane of an 8525 Cingular/Htc (for the keypads on the top of the phone, under the screen) because I've got a TyTn and the keypads are different!

[killershot20]

I wonder if that's gonna work with the tytn.
It'd block the video dial button, bur that can be taken care of by the software.
has anyone tested this?

[cabi.costa]

I think that it's not a big problem have the videocall button blocked..