Couple of months back I asked for advice on an N3 that crackles very loudly. Turns out that there are several soldering defects on the board that go away when the device is hot. Unfortunately running on high impedance phones in a British winter does not keep it hot enough. Not sure how routine...

sorry hit return too fast there tell us about back being glued on or not Thanks JV

Back to taking the back off an N3. Rather than Andy Kong going to the trouble of asking perhaps other people who have done it (e.g. nmathais) could maybe tell us? Thanks for any help everyone.

Back to the taking the back off topic. Thank you very much Andy Kong for images and sequence and implied need to tear off the leatherette finish. And, anyone actually doing it please note that the impressively large battery is glued to the back, so it only slides far enough to release the...

Any advice on taking the back off an N3? A colleague was so impressed by the N3 he got me one in HK (he got an i5), but by the time it arrived home all it managed to do was crackle incredibly loudly then stop making any sound at all (both cans and line out options, most other functions seem OK...