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Broken iPads Becoming Common
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
It’s nice to know that if you break your iPad, an independent repair shop can fix it.
Before they’d been off the shelves for an entire day, reports of iPads being damaged by consumers started to pour in. “I’m not sure what it is. Are people just being careless or are they real klutzes that should have ‘I’m stupid’ branded as painfully as possible into their foreheads?” said iPad chief pundit Kid L. Vicious. Vicious reported that most of the damaged iPads had been dropped, some from great heights. “One was dropped from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon by a consumer who was moonlighting as a tourist,” Vicious explained, “People who climb around precipices while holding an iPad just sicken me,” he said, in his characteristic raspy voice well-known to residents of Bayonne, New Jersey, where Vicious was born and raised. “Right behind one of the big oil tanks,” he remembers fondly, “We used to play in our kid street gangs on top of the things and hope one of us wasn’t pushed off.”
Typically when an iPad is dropped, the glass digitizer panel gets cracked. “Some of these consumers are so stupid they can get cut with the broken glass shards,” Vicious explains, “One guy I know got his cornea scratched that way, and he was howling in pain. It was sort of funny.”
The lack of human decency and compassion displayed by Kid L. Vicious notwithstanding, reports of dropped iPads are increasing. Other common repair problems occurring with the iPads involve the port at the bottom. Some consumers have reported issues when plugging their iPads into a computer application such as Windows 7, getting messages such as “device wasn’t recognized” or were simply unable to connect their iPads to a computer. Some consumers were unable to get their iPads charged. They’d plug it into a socket and nothing would happen.
Although Kid L. Vicious would probably recommend something less helpful or even something unprintable, a more prudent course of action is simply to go to your nearest independent repair shop – but please remember to take your broken iPad with you. If you don’t bring it, it can’t be repaired. At the independent repair shop, a certified service technician will be eager to help.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod Repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. Visit http://www.chicagocellrepair.com
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Laptop Charging Port Repair
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Yes it is true! We repair Laptop Charging Ports for just about any model (we’re honestly worried about MACbooks for obvious reasons..). They do take a while and they do come with a 90 day warranty. Any question click here for a free estimate.
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LG Xenon
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
We now have parts available for the LG Xenon. So if you smash that nice Touchscreen we can repair it for you. All of our replacement parts come with a 90 day warranty. Any questions click here for a free estimate..
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Laptop/Notebook/Netbook Repairs
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
We now repair Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, Tablet PC’s etc. We remove viruses, install operating systems, and can upgrade just about anything you can throw at us. We repair Charging Ports, LCD Screens, Internal Webcams, etc…. All of our repairs are fairly priced and turnaround time is about 3-5 days (in most cases). Any question click here for a free estimate.
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CPR Attacks Computer Viruses
Monday, August 24th, 2009
CPR does more than repair cell phones and electronic devices these days. The independent chain of repair shops is now into cleaning up PC hard drives.
With the sad passing of pop icon Michael Jackson during the waning days of June, it was bound to happen: Evil geeks set loose a computer virus that played on the music superstar’s death.
In fact, at least a baker’s dozen worth of viruses, malware, and spam bearing the subject heading ‘Michael Jackson’ were making the rounds of computers worldwide.
One significant contaminant was posing as an innocuous e-mail under the subject line “Remembering Michael Jackson.” This techno-crawlie was circulating with a worm contained therein. A zip file attachment would latch onto a victim’s hard drive if downloaded. The e-mail, claiming to originate from sarah@michaeljackson.com, indicated that the attached zip contained secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson. But it was only a worm that was up to no good, no good at all.
Whether or not your computer has been “Michael Jacksoned,” you’ve probably picked up vicious viruses at some time in your downloading history. You might even have difficultly when trying to eradicate contaminants messing up your hard drive right now. What can you do about it when your name brand virus protection software package fails, and all else seems to?
You can have a good geek come to your computer to clean it up, at outrageous “house call” rates. You can take it in to a computer retail store where you got it, lock, stock, and hard drive – with all of the hassle and expense potentially entailed. Or you can take it down to CPR – especially your laptop or notebook – the same place where you got your cell phone and your Blackberry and your iPod fixed so cheaply and quickly.
CPR’s expert and experienced technicians are ready for any virus that might be ruining your Internet surfing, rearing its ugly head like a worm bearing fangs. It seems like there’s a new malicious virus or malware catching you unawares just about every week. If it wasn’t Michael Jackson, it might have been something equally trendy just to make you open it … open it … why don’t you open it? Not!
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Spam Wars This Summer
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Coming soon to a computer near you is all the spam, viruses, and Trojan-spawned malware that you’d ever want to meet.
The bad geeks couldn’t even spare the already tarnished memory of pop superstar Michael Jackson within days of his tragic demise. They had to create a worm piggybacking in an email that lured the unsuspecting into a treacherous Moonwalk when opened. The bad geeks have no shame.
The e-mail in question with the innocuous-sounding subject line “Remembering Michael Jackson” contained a corrupted zip file spread by USB memory sticks. Claiming to originate from sarah@michaeljackson.com, its wormy zip was supposed to contain secret songs and photos of the dead but bigger-than-life legend, but instead it was primed to infect your hard drive, and any others that you contacted with the efficiency of a Ponzi scheme.
Michael Jackson is just the tip of the gravestone. While spyware is on the wane, the new computer mal-boy of choice for evil geeks is the deceptive Trojans, no nicer now than they were in the time of Troy when Helen was still around. A Trojan used to be something else, an article worn that offered protection. Those safeguards are gone, only to be replaced by fake antivirus protections, counterfeit creations like MDW.
What to do? Where do you go to eradicate the lying software once it’s mistakenly loaded onto your ‘puter? An unlikely destination is the independent repair shop, the same place where you went to fix your iPod, Blackberry so cheaply and quickly you can take your notebook or your laptop. Increasingly as a sign of the times, these convenient places are becoming the ‘in’ place to find out what condition your condition is in – at least when it comes to infiltrators messing up your hard drive because some bad geek wants to have a little malicious fun at your expense. Don’t get mad, get even. Get rid of that MDW before it has a chance to cause too much hullaballoo.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
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CPR Does Computer Repair of the Best Kind
Friday, July 24th, 2009
It had to happen. The cell phone repair shop that has been fixing all devices smart, has graduated to repairing computers – cheap and fast.
They break down so often that if it was anything more expendable, we’d abandon the computer age en masse. But we need them, like a co-dependency that won’t quit. Still, the computers crash and crash so much that you get the urge to mash and mash – and they’re not potatoes. What kind of computers will CPR fix? Any brand of laptop or desktop is doable. Got a virus or too much spam? Worried about hackers or spyware? Is your broadband like the freeway at rush hour, clogged and mired so you can’t get wired? We can repair your ‘puter so that it’s cuter. Can’t access your email or Twitter? Bring it over to CPR and cease your titter.
It was inevitable that we learned about software and hard drives and modems. Got Windows on your PC or Final Cut Pro on your Mac? It doesn’t matter. We can fix it without much adieu for you, just for you.
Where that familiar smile on your FaceBook? What, you can’t access it? The Internet is down. You can’t even get WORD to work. Your favorites are being neglected now that you’ve crashed? Your passwords and URLs are worthless suddenly, don’t you know? CPR does computers now. We can fix ‘em. Yes we can. Our expert technicians are compulsive geeks when it comes to making your desktop seek, especially on Google but on other search engines too.
Says Stanley L. Succotash who was a vegetable before he started fixing computers for CPR, “I am genuinely curious about what ails your ‘puter,” he asserts with his distinctive Japanese brogue. “I like to poke around their innards. I’d do it for free if CPR didn’t pay me. It’s a compulsion, like eating gravy with turkey on Thanksgiving. I can’t help it. I fix computers for CPR. That’s my life purpose. I’ve found my religion.”
Says Stanley’s brother Seth P. Succotash, who also fixes computers for CPR, “He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother.” Of course we already knew that.
To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
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Who Does Batteries?
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
It’s rare as a chicken’s foot in a potpie to find a cell phone repair shop that repairs batteries in electronic devices.
The machine was tiny enough. The “pod” preceded by some no-longer-mass-marketed universally popular letter contained an LCD screen that would be large enough for an ant’s eye view if only it opened its compound peepers really wide. But inside the LCD was something more miniature still, something that couldn’t be plucked out even with the most delicate of tweezers. It was my X-pod. I wondered why I had purchased it in the job lot store, a warehouse of all sorts of odds and ends. Why didn’t my X-pod work? I wanted to dig out the microscopic battery with my clumsy fingers, but knew I wouldn’t dare.
I knew there were independent shops that repaired electronic things such as my X-pod, and could dig out the batteries inside, while teaching them to hum. I made a dash for the nearest cell phone repair shop, and then another, and then another. I saw the heads of clerks and desk attendants shake back and forth like negative bobble heads; a supposed technician said that he wasn’t “qualified” to open even a lowly X-pod’s case. “I can’t. It’s internal,” the guy with the dyed orange hair muttered, as if mouthing a pearl of wisdom from his foolish gob. I was beginning to grow weary of walking block after block, like a darn Quixote in search of a chicken’s foot in a potpie. “You will need to find a trained and qualified technician to do that,” said a cowardly technician with a lion-like mane who protested when I asserted that he was probably trained. “Do you want me to ruin your battery?” he finally said, “or maybe lose it on you?” This brought to mind a contact lens I’d once lost in a restroom at the airport, down one of those filthy sinks.
I kept walking, not daring to look back, as if somebody stupid might be gaining on me. Finally, I came to a storefront that gave me a tingle, and it wasn’t Jimmy. My heart started pumping faster as if it had just been resuscitated in a cardio-pulmonary manner. I’d never been to Utah, but something told me, perhaps a tiny voice inside the battery, that this was indeed the place. I walked in, confident. “Do you do batteries?”
“I’m a trained and qualified technician,” the dark-haired geeky guy said, “Let me see it. Yes I can.”
“It’s internal,” I warned him.
“Duh,” he said.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
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Laptop Repairs
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
We are now excepting minor Laptop repairs. Charging ports, system wipes, etc. Due to the pricing and availability of LCD screens for Laptop computers we currently won’t engage in any repairs for them. Any general repair for them comes with a 90 day warranty. Any questions, click here for a free estimate.
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If Your Cell Phone Breaks Its Manufacturer May Not Be Your Best Option
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Repair shops specializing in cell phone repair might fix your phone faster than the phone’s manufacturer. It could also cost less money.
It happens. You’re standing up talking to a friend, and an aggressive bull moose that’s been stalking you bumps you from behind, sending your brand new cell phone that was held carelessly in your hand smashing onto the pavement; or sinking beneath the human-caused ripples of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, with deleterious results.
It doesn’t matter who the manufacturer is – Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Siemens, Sanyo, Blackberry, Sprint’s Treo, Nextel, Cingular, T-Mobile, or U.S. Cellular – to name a few of the bigger names – if your cell phone breaks, it’s likely to take 2-5 weeks to get it repaired, and if it’s not under strict warranty guidelines, it won’t get fixed at all. In any case, having its manufacturer repair your cell phone isn’t going to be cheap.
Contacting any company for support let alone a warranty repair typically entails a sense of dread often synonymous with portents such as Error! Hyperlink reference is not valid. After receiving a message like that, it’s hard to feel validated ever again. Sending in your cell phone is like executing a childhood dare. Months later, the battered and abused phone might come back, or it might return sooner, say in a week, still broken, or unlike Lassie, it might never return to its owner at all.
By contrast, independent repair shops specializing in cell phone repair have been springing up like dial tones, all over the United States, and some of these shops offer solutions that might seem miraculous to frustrated cell phone owners. Many of these cell phone repair emporiums offer 48-hour, or even same day repair services. A majority offer 5-7 day turnarounds on mail-in repairs, and a few will repair a broken or even a mangled cell phone while a customer waits. Cost is also an issue; often the overhead and miscellaneous charges disappear at independent repair outlets; besides being a great deal faster, charges for the actual repair might be a fraction of what the manufacturer would have charged. At the independents, another plus is that warranty restrictions are not likely to preclude or interrupt cell phone repair. Such “non-warranty” repairs are also, in rare cases, guaranteed to produce superior results or your money back. It used to be that sending your broken cell phone back to its manufacturer was a customer’s only option. The operative phrase is “used to be.”
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
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