z3 compact repair usa

tronjojo

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Dec 23, 2011
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Hi,

I thought I saw a success story about a sony repair recently, but i cannot find the thread. I've got a z3 compact which has served me well for almost two years (I'm on the concept rom now, and besides poor battery life when bt is on, i'm still quite pleased with the phone) MY brother ought the same phone at the exact same time, and his lost use of the front facing camera and gps relatively quickly (about 6 months.) He is pretty busy dayd to day, and sony customer service was terrible, so he gave up trying to get it repaired (still under warranty) and switched to an iphone.

I now have his old phone and was hoping to have it repaired, but Sony will not repair out of warranty devices? any ideas? I've seen something about fixing the gps by opening the phone and fiddling with the usb port, but i haven't opened a phone since my old moto defy.

any advice greatly appreciated

thanks