Galaxy W

[D-Dan]

Not sure if this is a rant, a complaint, or just pontificating, but here goes.

My phone was an inexpensive Huawei (made in china, named by Geordies) phone, and in serious need of an upgrade. My boss was about to sign a new contract to get an S3, and so agreed to let me have his Galaxy W (which is still a good spec) at a low price, but the battery was stuffed. New battery off Amazon - £4.99. Now, I'm a proud geek and wanted ICS on it, but before I had a chance, the touch screen packed up. Back to Amazon and I ordered a new one (£12.99).

Phone stripped, new touch installed and rebuilt, and it was (almost) good. Some double sided sticky tape fixed the "almost". Clockworkmod and cyanogen ICS fitted and all was good until today, when the touch went haywire. It still worked inasmuch as touch wasn't dead, just a bit erratic with some weird super fast scrolling and stuff reacting that I hadn't touched.

Strip down and rebuild number 6 this week, and it's working again, but I'm sure if I have to keep stripping it down and rebuilding it I'll eventually kill it. most of the strips were looking for a loose connection, and then I killed the speaker connection (now sorted), but nevertheless, tonight's was unplanned.

Have I bought a lemon or got a bargain (even with the cost of the battery and the digitizer (I hate that "z" but that seems to be the spelling) it's still £100 cheaper than ebay.

I guess time will tell, but if anyone makes a habit of stripping their phone down to the basic components (and I don't mean soldered) - tips to avoid problems would be appreciated

[Simon]

Never used a Samsung phone, myself, Steve, but I believe Gary has.  This is a fairly average review:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-w-1061527/review