Questions about LG VX8600 Volume Buttons (or lack thereof)

I have a very pretty LG VX8600/Chocolate Flip from 2006, and although it isn't the most useful of phones, I love how it looks. It's in great condition but the volume buttons are missing. I'm completely inexperienced with actual hardware replacements and such but have been told that this just needs the plastic button on top and that the silver pads are the actual "button" part. I have no idea how i'd fix this without breaking it, i'm leaning towards 3D printing a new button for the top but nobody seems to have one of these, let alone a 3D printer, too. I've also been told hot glue on really low heat could work temporarily, but I don't trust myself nearly enough to not damage the ribbon inbetween the pads. I considered getting a second phone that's for parts but they all seem to be the same price as this working one or more for some reason.

I'm not the brightest, any help is appreciated. I don't have sugru or anything like that, just a Toybox 3D printer, which isn't the most precise either. This isn't the most thought out post, either, more of just a shot in the dark because I can't think of anything haha. Even a temporary fix would be good as long as it's with more common household stuff or cheap stuff from Walmart or something.

u/flipcdm — 1 day ago

oc? i think?

uh, im not at all an oc type of person, but i cooked up this dude in flipnote studio when i was very sleep deprived, so he exists now. i dont know if thats good or bad but he does. i named him snippy and gave him a dangerous kitchen utensil

since hes an oc or something and i think i have to give him flavor i'll just say hes an alcoholic chainsmoker whos in kahoots with mr beast, secretly using him to fund a new spin-off where he's the main character so he can gain more publicity and ultimately fund his alcoholism and cigarettes, but mr beast is a time traveling universe hopper and has eyes all around tree town watching everyone 24/7 with hyper-futuristic technology, so snippy has to keep his scheme extremely hidden and as a result lives just outside of tree town to evade mr beast's constant surveillance. he lurks on the outskirts of tree town and watches people from afar, deciding on a plan to lure mr beast away from every witness and into a nuclear power plant, framing it as a new video idea, planning to push him into the waste and kill him off, but against his plan he tragically slips up and gets caught by mr beast, who double played him and instead tied him up, held one end of the rope and pushed him into the waste, holding him upside-down just before fishing him back up and knocking him unconscious. snippy awoke in a cold, dark room, only to be questioned by mr beast, who eventually shook his head, the only thing visible from his shadowed face being a sick and disturbing grin, turning to a board with every member of tree town on it. he picked up handy's photo before deciding that the only fair punishment would be to chop off both of his arms. he held snippy down, axe dangling above one of his arms and eventually crashing down with a loud and deafening "crack", blood pooling around him. he raised the axe again, but as he took the second swing, snippy moved. the axe tilted and broke his arm, leaving it shattered but still attached to his body, and as snippy saw a glimpse of upreparedness in mr beasts eyes, he broke free and bolted through the door. he darted through money-lined hallways, mr beast not far behind, before crashing through the closest window. he fell through bushes and barely managed to grip onto the side of a cliff with his foot, which had an impressive amount of dexterity, the ocean beneath him and mr beast above him, glaring down. the trees and bushes hid him from mr beast, who decided that there was no way he'd survive a fall like that, finally turning around and leaving him there. snippy dangled above the water, glass stabbing stinging pains into his body, before he finally brought the strength to pull himself up. he was weak, nauseous and trembling before he soon realized it was because he hadnt had a cigarette in over 10 minutes and decided to light one with his foot, which had an impressive amount of dexterity. the relief washed over him instantly and he felt significantly better before realizing that he still had a broken arm, a missing arm, radiation poisoning, glass stabbing into him at every inch of his body, and was still an alcoholic. he was slightly annoyed by this but decided to get up and go home anyway so he could once again drink away the memories of giggles cheating on him and taking the kids. the alcohol stopped him from realizing the strange effects of the nuclear waste, leading him to think the bug parts growing from his face was just new facial hair, so he tied a pair of scissors to the bandages on his arm with his foot, which had an impressive amount of dexterity, and snipped them off, only for them to grow back. he hadnt smoked enough to care about this so he continued on admirably nonchalantly. when he got home, he realized his base had been griefed, all of his diamonds replaced by a sign that simply read "jimmy thundercock was here". he felt infuriated at the reminder that mr beast beat him in the annual chicken show all those years ago and decided to get revenge by getting mr beast addicted to heroin. he ventured off to mr beast's severely-out-of-place mega mansion, using a camo print t-shirt and goodwill shorts to be invisible to the naked eye, replacing all of mr beasts liquid gold injections with heroin. mr beast was slightly skeptical at the fact floating cigarettes kept appearing, but foolishly brushed it off. snippy escaped unharmed, and mr beast was later seen out in the town coercing civilians into joining extravagant challenges as a trick to rob them so he could continue to be rich while spending all of his money on heroin. snippy's leg later fell off with no relation to any incidents that took place prior

u/flipcdm — 10 days ago

i'm crying with ocular gushers because i cant find nuttys crazy eye asset either

I looked and searched and yet nothing was found, not an inch and not an ounce. That familiar round, light green sphere, I looked and looked and yet nothing is here. Through files upon files of endless assets, Nutty's eye remains to be absent, and through all of my sweat, tears and blood, it remains missing from where it once was. Now, I stand here, a tear in my eye, the only words I can muster being a simple, tragic, "Why..?"

Yet again I use Adobe Illustrator files (.ai). If anybody even has a simple, humble svg of the original asset for Nutty's crazy eye, i'll put you in my will

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u/flipcdm — 15 days ago

Where the hoohah is the asset for Nutty's "good" eye??

I know some of y'all have the actual, full .fla files for full episodes, but I don't since there are none I can find for Macromedia Flash 5. I have every asset from every .swf Mondo AND CartoonStar have put out saved as individual, editable, pre-grouped Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files and sorted by episode/game/og source. I've been going through, importing them into flash, sorting them by character and pasting them to different .fla files to be used as libraries (flippylib, nuttylib, gorelib, bloodlib, proplib, introlib, etc) in projects.

I cannot, for the life of me, find the little black dot they used for Nutty's good eye or when a character gets scared. I'm questioning if they just took two of the basic pupils, squished them and flipped and overlapped them, but I feel like that would be impractical (unless they grouped them afterward). Every asset I have is named plainly as, for example, "Icy You_shape1.ai", and for Icy You in particular since i'm looking for his eye asset there, there are 801 assets. It appears very early on in that episode but I still can't find it. I'm stumped. If somebody with a full episode's .fla file can just select his pupil and tell me if it is it's own asset, that'd be wonderful, because I could just mash together 2 pupils and make them a new asset but i'm trying to stay authentic. Come to think of it, I don't think I even have the pupil for his lazy eye yet. I can't seem to find 'em anywhere.

u/flipcdm — 15 days ago

Help finding .swf for Hail Flippy, Found .flv

https://archive.org/details/htf_hail_flippy

i've been trying to find a .swf for a mini site i keep reading about. if anybody has it or can help me find it, thatd be great, i have multiple other mini site swfs from them. I got the .flv for the video.

the snapshot it's from on the internet archive is https://web.archive.org/web/20100801220559/http://happytreefriends.com:80/index.php/episodes/break/all-hail-flippy and the direct link for the .flv is https://web.archive.org/web/20191104011918/http://cdn.happytreefriends.com/htf_hail_flippy.flv

i've been working on a VERY large .zip of everything htf related i can find (currently around 30-40 gb across multiple devices) and this would be nice to have in it. right now its looking like it was originally a file hosted by them and is no longer around, but i could (hopefully) be wrong.

ruffle fails on the main page i linked above. after failing, it gives the swf url. i put the start of the main page url in front of that swf url and visited that site (https://web.archive.org/web/20100919131124/http://happytreefriends.com/wp-content/player/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf). it has 4 captures, but after ruffle loads, it only shows a gray "play" button. lags the life out of my phone when it's loaded, too. i cant get past that point. i tried downloading the swf as its being loaded by using kiwi browser like i have before, but couldnt remember how to off the top of my head and decided to get back to it later. i'm hoping someone here is better at it than me.

u/flipcdm — 17 days ago

very sketchy fanart

Basically a doodle, I wanted to play around with colors for a bit. There isn't any lineart, that's literally just what my sketches look like most of the time. 1 hour 30 minutes with 3522 brush strokes. I'm tired so I drew another Flippy.

The colors on the flowers are every eye color he's had in the show and on merchandise.

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u/flipcdm — 17 days ago

what rhymes with fanart

MY NEWGROUNDS WAS SCOUTED!!! I'm so happy. This bad boy took 7 hours 32 minutes with a phat 18076 brush strokes. In competition (haha get it) with my biggest work so far!

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u/flipcdm — 18 days ago

smooth fanart for the soul

Looking throoough the window. This one took 2 hours 33 minutes with 7877 brush strokes. Much quicker than usual. I don't usually do fully shaded works but this is a much smaller shot.

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u/flipcdm — 20 days ago

Fliqpy 3DS Theme

https://www.mediafire.com/file/9297ot1hwoq4btf/(HTF)+Fliqpy+by+flipcdm.zip/file

Welp. A while ago I tried to upload my first ever custom theme to ThemePlaza before promptly forgetting the site after. I came back just now to see it was rejected. That's just how it goes sometimes. Instead of harassing the poor folks over there with my obsession for The Gore Show, i'm posting the zip for the theme here so actual fans of it with a 3DS can try it out. Not sure if it being HTF is why, but I don't care too much.

Here it is, this version is downloaded from my page on ThemePlaza. It has custom folder images too. I'm very proud of this and have been for the many many months i've had it for, despite it being pretty simple. I made it with Yata Online and Procreate. Hope y'all like it, Reddit keeps silencing me and won't let me put the MEGA link in so i gotta use MediaFire. I might try to put the MEGA link in the comments if needed for longer-term downloads or try to refresh the MediaFire one. Sadly since the ThemePlaza link is donezo, you'll have to use your computer or FTPD to get the file on. I'm sorry!!

u/flipcdm — 22 days ago

you never wouldve guessed it would be more fanart

I had another dream about him so I drew more fanart of him. I think he's haunting me. This one took 3 hours 54 minutes with 3074 brush strokes. Maybe the keychain of him that I sleep with in my nightstand is communicating with me.

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u/flipcdm — 22 days ago

i fanarted my pants

No, Nutty isn't safe. He's probably my second favorite in the show, although it is very hard ranking them when you love the whole cast so much. This one took 5 hours 32 minutes with 15214 brush strokes.

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u/flipcdm — 25 days ago

knock knock its more fanart

More Fliqpy! I had a little slump sadly, very tired lately so I probably won't be posting aaaas much for a bit. This one took 6 hours 22 minutes and 16884 brush strokes. I can't believe that less than a year ago me coloring my art was extremely, extremely rare, haha.

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u/flipcdm — 28 days ago

thats right its more fanart

More! And even more! 4 hours 26 minutes and 11432 brush strokes. This episode has been on my list of things to draw, but someone commenting about it on my last artwork sealed the deal. I'm extremely, extremely happy that so many people seem to like my art so far, I love this community!

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u/flipcdm — 1 month ago