[Q]Flex cable

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I might trade my sensation for mytouch slide 4g only because of physical keyboard.

My old mytoich 3g slide is great but flex cable that connects broke after a month or so. Replacement for it was $60.

Was that fixed in this phone?

The flex ribbon breaking was definitely an issue on the 3G Slide, but I got mine for around $30.

There really is no way to tell if this phone will do the same, as most issues occured after about a year of heavy use, unless somone wants to volunteer to open and close their slide thousands of times.

My laptop is having this issue as well, so it's not necessarily a phone issue (although I hope they beefed up the wires or something).

I suppose you could consider my sliding in/out of the phone keyboard excessive.

I do a lot with terminal emulator on the phone, and you can't get some of the special characters ( / for instance ) using the hardware keyboard. I won't use the on-screen keyboard to actually type, though, I just slide the hardware one in, get my special character, then slide the hardware one back out.

You can imagine how much sliding takes place typing in paths to files on the phone.

This is in addition to "normal use".

I haven't noticed any issues thus far, but as pointed out above, it would take a long time for it to wear out.

Jury is still out on this one, so too early to tell, but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll post back here if I ever have any issues with it.

Yeah, it would suck because on my 3G Slide, my call speaker stopped working first, then the buttons wouldn't light up (but still function normally), then I had the dreaded half-screen drawing issues, and finally the thing no longer displayed the screen.

I followed the dissassembly guide here and fixed her right up (except I broke the connector for the volume switch)..!

Originally Posted by Blue6IX

I suppose you could consider my sliding in/out of the phone keyboard excessive.

I do a lot with terminal emulator on the phone, and you can't get some of the special characters ( / for instance ) using the hardware keyboard. I won't use the on-screen keyboard to actually type, though, I just slide the hardware one in, get my special character, then slide the hardware one back out.

You can imagine how much sliding takes place typing in paths to files on the phone.

This is in addition to "normal use".

I haven't noticed any issues thus far, but as pointed out above, it would take a long time for it to wear out.

Jury is still out on this one, so too early to tell, but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll post back here if I ever have any issues with it.

Hmm... if it's been a year and you haven't replied back then I may have an answer to my question. As a former 3g slide owner myself, I was curious about the life of the flex cable. Thank you search function and guy I am quoting!

Wow, it's been a year to the DAY.

I sold my 3g slide after I fixed the cable, but I'd imagine it lasts just as long as the OEM cable, which for me was a year with very heavy use (I used the keyboard like a mad-man).