I have a audiovox ppc6700 and I don't know how to remove the battery

They don\'t release those. Try telling us what you want to do, I may know. Understand, anything to do with power output is illegal to modify.

take out the battery.

your operating system probably crashed. you can goto the UT Starcom website and download the operations system. make sure you select the proper carrier. it is a very simple process that will show you step by step on how to re-flash your software. it will erase everything on the phone and put it back to factory settings. if it is a sprint ppc6700 feel free to call us or stop in our store and we will take a look at it for you. 317.337.0030 M-F 9-6 Sat 11-2

Just to clarify, you ARE holding down both soft keys (left and right menu keys with dashes on them) and pressing the reset button?

If so, and it appears to only perform a soft reset, there should be a "clear storage" option in PROGRAMS. It will prompt confirming your selection (just go through the prompts). This is an equivalent to a hard reset.

I hope this helps,
Bill

what phone company was the phone using before you unlocked it (sprint) ?? that slot you are looking at is probably a memory card slot not a SIM slot. everything im reading says that phone is not a GSM phone aka it doesnt take SIM cards

Hi,

Firstly, here's the USB driver for your 6700:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/uploads/USB_Modem.zip

Install that, for starters..

Here's a .pdf for instructions for software upgrade for the ppc-6700.
http://www4.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/downloads/Software_upgrade_for_PPC_6700_release_final.pdf

or maybe you want to shell out the dollars and get the big Microsoft upgrade package, with all the frills:
http://ppc6700.handster.com/software.php?id=1845&for=PPC6700

Hope this helps :)
Season's Greetings!

Chris (ziraffa)

You just need the touch screen (digitizer). There are actually 2 pieces that are mistaken to be the screen. The other piece is the touch screen and beneath that is the LCD display. Be certain to order the correct piece.

To replace, you need a micro phillips head screw driver and a T-6 torx screw driver. Also patience, and a steady hand.

You must start at the back of the device, through the battery door. Remove the 2 micro phillips at the top of the battery opening (one is covered with a tamper evidence sticker). Then carefully, starting at the bottom of the camera plate, pry upwards and to the speaker to unsnap the smaller facing. Remove the camera by gentally pulling up to unplug, then unscrew the circuitry and remove. This will expose the 4 torxs (2 in batt opening) to remove the back cover. After screws are removed, gentally work the covers snaps loose around perimeter and remove (pay attention to the speaker wire) unplug it from the circuitboard. Pull the antenna nub to detach.

Remove the screws holding the circuitboard, unpluging the keyboard and slider ribbon cable. Gentally hold the ribbon cable and remove the securing tape. (dont pull too hard!) Pulling the circuitboard exposes the 4 micro phillips screws (2 each side) to detach the slider.

Remove the 4 torx screws on the back of the LCD slider, then gentally pry around to separate the housing.

To remove the LCD / Touch screen you must unplug the ribbon cables. To do this you need to open the connector's trap (black bar). It hinges. Just pry upwards from the ribbon side. Once bar is lifted ribbon will slide out. Be careful if you need to remove the gold foil tape. Remove the single screw holding the ear speaker, and the ribbon should come out. The screen will not come out after gentally prying it free of the holding snaps in the casing.

Installation is simply the reserve. Hope this helps....

After 2 years of searching... there is no way to access the GPS on the PPC6700. It can only be accessed by Sprint and the Police. I am sure you know that you can buy a bluetooth GPS, link it and use the GPS that way.
Sorry for the bad news.

One thing you can do if you have backup all your info is hard reset the phone. If you do not know how to do so please contact me and i will give you instructions.

Well usually the SIM card is under the units Battery, so remove back of phone and remove battery, you should now se your SIM, held in place by a carrier. Simply slide out the SIM.. & replace correctly orientated into the new phone's SIM carrier. Always power ya unit OFF. B4 doing anything.