The Gadget Doctor offers free repair help, connecting you directly with highly trained technicians who can instantly tell you what is wrong with your iPod, Zune or Creative Zen MP3 player, and tell you how to fix it!
Don’t pay the fees at FixYa or Creative Labs to get repair help; chat directly with The Gadget Doctor techs! What are you waiting for? Click the link below to get instant help, M-F 12pm - 6pm. Sometimes the technicians are online on Saturdays; check it out!
The Gadget Doctor has hired an Electrical Design Engineer. With this new addition to the team will come a much wider variety of services and plenty of price cuts - a huge benefit to those seeking repairs for their gadgets. The Gadget Doctor will now repair your device with less parts replacements; for example, instead of replacing your whole motherboard for $99.99, The Gadget Doctor will fix your motherboard, and for half the price!
Not only will repairs be offered at a lower cost for the customer, but they will also be of the highest quality and workmanship, as they will be completed by, or pass inspection of, our Electrical Design Engineer.
The Gadget Doctor currently offers iPod & MP3 player repair services, but will very soon be accepting Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, select other game consules, laptops and computers for repairs. The Gadget Doctor also plans on accepting cell phones and PDA’s for repairs in the future. All repairs by The Gadget Doctor are covered by a 90-day parts and labor warranty.
The Gadget Doctor is expanding, hiring more staff, and will soon offer repairs for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Playstation 3. Classic repair issues are: Red Rings of Death (RROD), overheating, failed hard drive, does not power up, does not display video, does not read/load disk, and more.
The Gadget Doctor seeks Electronics Technician who can repair iPods & MP3 players - especially the Zune 80GB and 120GB. The Gadget Doctor seeks someone local to the Portland area who has intermediate to advanced soldering skills, including SMT and Through-Hole. The position will pay $40/hr.
Please email TheGadgetDoctor@gmail.com for inquiries.
AnyThingButiPod.com is a website that offers news, reviews and discussion forums for all MP3 players except iPods. About a year ago or so, AnyThingButiPod.com was sold to a new owner. Almost instantly, the new owner and the mods at ABI became hostile and extremely unfriendly to a long-standing member of ABI who wrote helpful “do-it-yourself repairs” articles for the site’s forum.
Before the site transfer, Erwin (the previous owner), allowed this member to have a link in their signature to their personal website, which offers repair services and do-it-yourself repair articles for MP3 players. Recently, I, the long-standing member spoken of above, tried to login to www.AnyThingButiPod.com, and was greeted with this highly professional message from the owner and mods:
“You are incredibly rude. I don’t know how many times i as well as my mods have asked you not to spam the site. All links to your site have been banned from this site. FUCK OFF! Date the ban will be lifted: Never”
Links to my site www.TheGadgetDr.com directed readers to instructional do-it-yourself repair articles and benefited members, but they were taken off the site. ABI members have been disappointed. But now they can just come directly to my blog for do-it-yourself-repair articles and take-apart video tutorials.
Since 2006, the Zen Vision M has had serious problems with its LCD screens: the screens crack from the inside or suddenly display white lines across the screen. Sure, if you sit on it, step on it, or roll over it with your car, the screen will crack. But what about the Zen screens that crack while just sitting on your desk? Or the ones that crack overnight while you’re sleeping? Or the one you pulled out of your pocket to discover that the screen has white lines on it? Why does this happen? This is very frustrating, and whats even worse is that Creative Labs will not replace your screen under the warranty; they consider it to be accidental damage that is your fault and will charge you a large sum to replace it. So, you might be asking, “Why does this happen, and what are my options at this point?”
Why Did This Happen?
I have taken apart hundreds of these Zen Vision M players with screen problems, and each time its been the same thing: there was either a complete break across the whole screen, or there were fracture lines on the lower left or right corner of the screen. I took some pictures of one such Zen Vision M screen.
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The fracture lines slice into the circuitry, causing the screen flaws. Fracture lines can be caused by force or heat. Force is the number one factor in causing the fracture. The Zen Vision M is not built to sustain trauma. The plastic that contains the circuitry in the screen is very thin as well, and is not supported by a metal backing or padding or anything. Even a small amount of force, such as dropping the Zen Vision M on one of its corners, can transmit across the lower corners of the screen. These fracture lines cause the white vertical or horizontal lines across the screen. Sometimes the entire screen will crack, and it will be very obvious that it is broken because it will look like there is an ink spill inside the screen.
Zen Vision M owners buy should buy a case that can absorb lots of force. Something with plenty of padding; thin casings will not do any good. But what if its too late for that now and your screen is already cracked?
Your Options:
1. Call Creative and see if they will replace your screen. If not, see how much it will cost.
Creative Labs phone number: 1-800-998-1000 Monday-Friday 9-6 CST
2. Replace your Zen Vision M.
3. Get a brand new screen professionally installed by The Gadget Doctor .
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