N900 camera slider
 

Ok I had the following problem with the camera slider on my 2 day old N900. The black piece of plastic on the slider came a bit loose so the spring popped loose and the slider didn't lock good (the nice sound that it makes)

So i carefully pulled the black piece of and redid the spring and pushed it back on and everything works fine again. I e-mailed Nokia to get a replacement back cover ore something because i can see the black part starting to come loose again.

My question is: am I the only with this problem ore are there more people with the same problem that the black piece of the slider is coming loose?

I included a photo but it's hard to see.

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had that too, they replaced it quick and free under warranty.

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What do you mean by "replaced"?

It actually doesn't seem like Nokia has that huge stock of devices to exchange one just "like that"

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Checked mine, seems to be fine.

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No problems here either!
*knocks wood*

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So I wasn't able to go to the nokia shop but I found somebody who wanted to do it for me with the following result:

A brand spanking new back cover for my N900. The guy at nokia said that it was communicated out of nokia that it was a known issue.

The funny thing was that the guy at the nokia store had to start the phone to reset the settings for the new back cover. But all the settings are still like it set them up. It was the first n900 they got back so I guess they hadn't had enough of n900 playtime.

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I had this problem too. I took the black cover off. its just glued there with fairly weak glue. re-placed the spring and pushed it together again. I can see it happening again in the future.

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they replace the back-cover not the whole device...

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Funny to see this thread come to top again when my slider camera loose again. I could glue it back my self but it's an expensive device and i don't wanna glue on it.

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I seem to have the same kind of a faulty slider :(

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I had this exact issue happen to me a few days ago while away from the house. Same corner of the lens cover came loose slightly and spring popped out of place. I temporarily taped the cover closed and luckily I didn't lose the spring (it came completely out shortly after it popped partially out of place). Sadly it was on xmas so I couldn't easily use the camera after this happened.

Just got around to putting the spring back in like the OP, but yeah the glue is now weaker and I can see it will happen again soon. Good to hear that someone else had luck getting just a new cover shipped to them. I do not want to exchange the whole phone (I've had none of the hardware issues like watchdog reboots that some other people are having).

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It will pop of again.

But I didn't had it send to me but there is an emergency repair point for nokia, samsung and SE just 20 km from my home. They've some parts on stock and can repair things right away.

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ah. so ur replacement cover also had the issue again? hmm i might attempt to carefully superglue it... it was a pain in the butt to get the spring in position, though.

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Same problem here. The spring has made a deep scratch in the underlying plastic. komplett.no is sending me a new cover.

The scratch has apparently given the spring the space it needs , so it's working for the time beeing :-)

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The guy at the nokia repair point said it was a known issue. The phone was a week old and I was the first n900 they had to fix. A good chance the back cover was still from a bad batch and I hope they got a new batch of back covers.

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ahhh maybe this is the explanation why Nokia, were selling, then doing pre-orders, now selling again.

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I had my N900 back cover replaced by a Nokia repair service today. Unfortunately the batch of covers propably is same as of the original.

Does your space key sometimes fail to response and makes extra noice while pressing?

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Nothing like that, it works normally except for the camera slider.

But you know the slider is gonna fail again when you open it, and look at it from the side of the charger. If their is a small gap on the left side of the slider between the blue and the black piece it will fail sooner ore later.

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I had this problem too. I called the internet shop I bought it from and they said if I could fix it myself for under 35euros I oculd do that and send the invoice to them for a full refund of that. So I bought a spare backcover from http://www.klc.fi/ for 15euros + 7euros shipment. Its out of stock though so I am still waiting for it..

EDIT; btw, Nokia Care didn't care at all about this. They turned me to the shop I bought it from for help.

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This isn't a nokia shop but a emergency repair point. And I bought it from nokia so they have to help me.

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No problems here with 3 weeks old N900. Looking at how N97 did i guess Nokia still got couple of lessons to learn about camera sliders ;) Just hopefully Nokia devices still keep coming with the camera sliders thought.

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My brother and I both got an N900 pre-order from Nokia. His is good no problem at al and mine has this problem. It's like the nokia lottery with the grand price being an perfect working n900.

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yes the spacebar problem happens to me too. try not to press it at the bottom with your nail, that is when it happens.