I knew you'd bring up ebay.
Chinese clones doesn't come into it.
Look, I buy most of my stuff off ebay as it's the only place I can find what I need.
This is the first time I've had a problem and it would be to easy to jump on the wholesale "don't use ebay or it's your fault" bandwagon.
The problem with this particular incident is that the issue happened over time, which made it difficult to determine and too late to take action by the time it was critical.
the clones I mentioned was just to highlight the fact that not everything is gonna be perfect on there...
but to be fair...just like dan said it seems MOST human error, as you rooted it then tried to down an update over the air..
whats the VERY VERY VERY first damn thing you do before rooting it *waits for the rest of the android forum to chime in*
thats READ up on rooting...
it states time and time again through ANY FAQ for rooting that if you dont know what your doing 100% DONT DO IT...simple as...it also mentions do not accept or download in OTA updates through the phone itself as this will tend to brick the phone..
so to be fair...we shall sum this up.....bought from dodgy ebay seller, rooted then OTA updated phone...
sorry to sound dickish there...but yes you may of had a faulty batch phone in the first place...but you didnt really help it at all..
and as to your warrenty bit mentioned earlier....HTC nor Tmobile will do nothing for a mobile with NO warrenty...its only Tmobiles job to do anything if you BOUGHT it from them...just cos its tmob branded doesnt mean anything most times...
if you took it to a HTC repair centre there is a chance that via serial number tracking it MAY still have a small parts and labour warrenty at factory level...but maybe not...you would of been charged obviously..
EDIT: Damn you dan...beat me to it
EDIT2: BUT on a more brighter note...yes there is actually a few 'camera' phones out there with proper lens on them...LG brought one out around 2 years ago...was quite a chunky beast with proper optical zoom...and in japan there is quite a number of models with full on optical zoom...
I know a phone over there has android 2.1 I believe as well as 4 inch screen and 14megapixal camera WITH full on optical zoom....looks a damn beast...BUT not 100% if its EVER going to be released over this side of the globe...because the japanese networks are much different to ours I believe and we HARDLY get the japanese phones...hell those bastards are running on 3D screens with a few of them!...not that I care for 3D its a fad...end of story lol