intercompatibility of parts between Herm100/200/300

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Hello all

I require some input from some of the gurus of xda-devs and its a question im guessing a lot people would like to know the answer to

Can we swap spare parts from say a Cingular 8525 to a MDA Vario II? (Herm200 --> Herm300)

what i mean to say is, lets say we could only find a front keypad for a cingular 8525, would it fit into the vario II?of course the orientation of keys would be correct for the cingular and not for the vario so you'd need a new front keypad aswell, but on the 'technical' level, is this possible?

many thanks

Don't quote me on this BUT I believe I read a post from Mike Channon saying that internally ALL the Hermes variants were the same. Be best to search through his threads, website or ask the maestro himself...
Cheers...

Yes that's probably about 99% true, BUT I notice the d/pad layout on some variants is quite different and so the underlying board may well be different - have not had time to fully check this.

Mike

Thanks for clearing that up Mike, as I said I wasn't totally sure...
Cheers...

many thanks

so mike, my theoretical scenario, would it work?

if i was to get a cingular 8525 d-pad board and a 8525 keypad to go over it, technically it ought to work right?

Originally Posted by duke_stix

many thanks

so mike, my theoretical scenario, would it work?

if i was to get a cingular 8525 d-pad board and a 8525 keypad to go over it, technically it ought to work right?

I tried to check that out and did not find much info. BUT I see no reason for it not to work circuit wise. You might need to remap keys.

Have you checked that the 8525 keypad will fit the housing you have?

Mike

id happily modify the housing as a temporary thing, but i reckon i'll give it a shot and report back. i have a hunch it will fix the white screen issue.

does anyone know of anyone who has a brick they'd like to sell?!

Ebay is good, bought a couple of dud jasjams off there to fix mine and wouldn't you know it, one actually worked except for the camera & battery. Ended up cannobilizing MY Jasjam to fix up the "broken" one I purchased for parts....
Cheers...