Disassemble Your Sidekick

Please be aware that disassembling your sidekick will void your warranty.

Why would you want to disassemble your sidekick?  The main reason is to make a repair yourself.  Sidekick Repair Parts can be found fairly cheap on Ebay.

Or some people like to take the sidekicks apart so they can make a custom paint job, whatever the reason,  these handy links have great illustrated guides to help you disassemble your Sidekick II or Sidekick 3.  As I find more,  I will update this page.

Sidekick II

Sidekick II Disassembly

Sidekick 3

Sidekick 3 Disassembly

Not getting the battery life you want with your Sidekick?  Try these battery saving tips

1.Make sure you log out/exit out when done with application  or games.  The app running in the background is going to drain power.  Aim and Myspace will try to keep updated in the background.Keep you Backlight to a lower level, 2 or 3

2. Sleep mode whenever possible

3. Kill the sound for instant messaging chats
4. Keep you Back light to a lower level, 2 or 3.

5. Change your key guard time down lower, maybe  to 1 minute

6. Put into Airplane mode when not using for extended periods.

Hopefully these tips will give you a bit more time with your sidekick before you need to charge the battery.

Have been adding more items to the Sidekick Skins Shop.

Some of the new sections added are:

Sidekick 3 Skins

Baby Phat Sidekick Skins

Swarovski Sidekicks
TinkerBell Sidekick Skins

We also added a section for Cell Phone Straps and Sidekick Repair Parts.

Drop us an email if you need something that you don’t see in the shop.  sidekickskins@gmail.com

So I have been seeing a lot of people looking for a fix for this issue.  This is the cheapest work around available.  It’s going be about 40 dollars total but it will allow you to use your sidekick 3 again.

The Sidekick 3 has a charging issue that crops up after awhile. The unit will fail to charge at all even though you may get the charging light.  Not all models do this, but I have seen enough people asking about it on Yahoo Answers and Fixya to know that it is a widespread problem.

If you are under warranty, great! Send it in and get it fixed.

If not, buy an extra battery and a Sidekick 3 charging cradle . This will cost about 40 dollars but it that is a lot better than the 100+ it will cost to fix it!

When looking at a cradle, make sure it says it has a spare battery charger. Some of the Sidekick Charging cradles don’t.

If you decide to go this route, make sure to power down your sidekick 3 before changing batteries.  This will  save the data to the flash memory and  prevent it from being lost.  If you remove the battery while the sidekick is on, it will do a hard reset and your data will have to download again from server, and will take awhile.

Check out the Links below to find batteries and charging cradles.

Sidekick 3 Battery

Sidekick 3 Charging Cradle

I hope this helps you with your Sidekick 3 battery charging issues.

I checked today on www.t-mobile.com and they have the slide back in stock. The price is still 199 after discount and rebate. I checked the T-mobile Store in my local mall and they did not have it in stock yet. They thought it would be this week!

So if you have been waiting, now is the time. There seems to be a lot of pent up demand for the Sidekick Slide.

If you get one, check out the selections of Sidekick Slide Skins for it here.

So It has happened to most of us! Don’t deny it! I dropped my in the toilet once. Once, one got soaked during a water balloon fight. Heck, my wife just dropped one in the toilet a few weeks ago. Here are some tips on what to do if your cell phone got wet!

Here is an excerpt from a great guide for what to do if your phone gets wet!

Wet Cell Phone Guide

• Remove the Battery. This is one of the most important steps. Don’t take time to think about it, electricity and water do not mix. Cutting power to your phone is a crucial first step in saving it.
• Dry your Phone. Obviously you need to remove as much of the water as soon as you can to prevent it from getting into the phone. Use a towel or a paper towel to remove as much of the water as possible.