I have a Blackberry Pearl 8100 which I got from T.Mobile in the US. Now, that I'm here, I can't find any support for my phone. The track ball is not working as well and housing is in a deplorable condition. I have been looking around for someone or an official service center (original distributor) for Blackberry and I faced the same problem as r3kahsttub, which is bloody expensive.

Well, I don't mind replacing the trackball with an original one, but the housing is not cheap. The metal side housing and plastic housing, is what I'm looking for. If anyone can point me into the right direction, that would be great!

From eBay, I see that they sell the whole assembly for the trackball which includes that ring you are talking about.

For my Blackberry Pearl, the chrome part of the trackball assmebly is slightly cracked, but the trackball is still in place.

I'm quite sure that Low Yat, you will be able to find something there. I will check in Digital Mall if any. Will update if I find anything there.

This is basically what I need!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Blackberry-Housing-Len...1QQcmdZViewItem

monchichi, I think all you need is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TRACKBALL-TRACK-BALL-F...1QQcmdZViewItem

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I went to Low Yat during the long weekend, and found the original distributors for Blackberry. They have quoted me about RM300++ for the housing and trackball. But they need to reconfirm this with their HQ in Singapore.

Another retailer in LYP, quoted about the same as well.

Both of them said that they don't have the stock now. So, they would need to order the parts and thsi would likely take up to two weeks. Darn it. And I thought that they are producing AP sets for the Blackberry Pearl already, which would make finding parts for this set easy.

The original distributor is at Plaza Berjaya, their shop notes nothing about Blackberry but under Motorola. Anyways, their number is 03-21412330. They are apparently are acting as the collection centre for Blackberry phones. Stock comes in from Singapore.

As for the other one, their shop is part of the MANY phone shops, I've asked in LYP. They said that need to order as well. I'm not really confident about their little deal though, since I'm going to pay roughly about the same price as the original distributor.

Anyways, I've been trying to contact this guy who advertised an AP set 8100 Pearl, in Lelong.com, to see whether he has parts as well. I haven't gotten any reply yet. Will update if anything.

Hi gfunk11,

I can't seem to find what I want from Crackberry.com. I mean, I need a whole new housing and trackball (i think). The housing is so I can get it back to looking like new, as it has tons of scratches and the track ball is acting up on me.

The best seems to be on eBay, but I'm finding it hard for retailers from US to ship it over. Plus it is expensive too.

I'll still try to get the local official distributer to get the neccessary parts and also service it for me.