WHY it's important to know the CRSD date (production date)

In a nutshell -Jan-2006 I sent in a "babied" Motorola V3 for warranty repair thru T-Mobile USA... tooks pic's of phone
LDI under battery =WHITE
LDI on main board=WHITE

(LDI=Liquid Damage Indicator)

T-Mo hit me with with a $100 oow fee (Out Of Warranty)... deeming it so-called "liquid" damaged.

(Neat trick since I'm a tech, have phones from 1992 that still work, babied the unit, did not expose it to temp changes, don't do stupid stuff like take the phone in the bathroom while I'm taking a SHOWER... don't have kids (which like to while you're not looking "dip" your phone into their milk for example like a cookie, stick it in their mouth...)


The only thing I can think of is that the phone was stored improperly for several months -during that time the damage occured.

Here's the deal about the CRSD date and WHY it is important:

Most phones take about a 4-6 weeks once the CRSD date is generated for the phone to be shipped from China, go thru customs, be shipped to your local store / Or from your online vendor+ be in the customer's hands.

On the unit deemed oow.. the CRSD was 9-2005
Date of purchase was 3-2006

Notice that is wayyyyyy over 4-6 weeks... so it appears the unit was in storage for several months.

My advice? - If you get a phone with that has been in storage keep the above in mind.

(PS: While all phones may NOT be damaged during storage, knowing the CRSD date is useful as a earlier CRSD date means the hardware itself is of a earlier hardware revision...
From just a pure hardware prespective it's better to get a phone with a later revision of the hardware. Later revisions usually being more stable.)


HOW to fiqure your CRSD date if you don't have the box:

CRSD date is on the box, if you don't have the box you can get a pretty good idea of the CRSD date by running
TTC v.1.2 (Triplet Tool Compilation v1.2)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oogl e+Search

When you run TTC, look at where it says FINAL TEST DATE- then add maybe 4-7 days after that date to get your CRSD date.

Add about 4-6 weeks to that date to fiqure the time it should arrive in your hands....

Anything beyond that means the unit has been in storage somewhere... which may cost you $$$$$ later on.

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