Hello.
My bootloader is apparently corrupted after an Odin restore attempt and from what I've read Riff Box is my only salvation. I tried the button combos, the 301K JIG and my phone is as bricked as a... Well, brick.
Are there any alternatives to riff box? Anything I can cook up on my own to make a dead Vibrant revive?
Thanks!
Try sending it back to TMO or Samsung if you can with your warranty.
If you can't...
hmm.. no.. a JIG wouldn't work...
nope sorry dunno any.
Riff box is the only way. I want to have one too so that I won't have to worry about hard bricking my phone.
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Riff box is the only way. I want to have one too so that I won't have to worry about hard bricking my phone.
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What IS a Riff Box? can you buy it? or is it for Manufacturers only?
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What IS a Riff Box? can you buy it? or is it for Manufacturers only?
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I think you can order it. it would be good if someone would order one then we can just send it to him if we are hard bricked. Of course we'll pay him.
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How much would it cost? if it was a reasonable price, i'd buy it, if its too expensive, i can't.
I think it's $150.
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YEAH.. i'm not buying it, i don't brick my phone every hour lol.
lol, riff box will handy foe me because I'll be using vibrant for a very long time.
Well...
From what I've read and my experience, hard bricks are pretty rare. This happened because I tried to do too many things one after the other without enough care, and the guy who owns one in my country is doing the fix for about US$30. In their webpage you can see a list of Riff Box owners all around the world, look out for someone close to you.
I have a RIFF Box being built and sent to me as we speak, but my only problem is I have no test phones to practice on yet. My dedicated JTAG computer sits right next to my JIG manufacturing equipment just waiting for the day I have all the hardware needed. Here's to hoping I can officially offer this service soon. My fingers are crossed....
P.S. Im located in NM, pretty darn close to the center of the USA, so maybe an ideal location for shipping out via USPS Priority?
I was in the same situation. Your only option is a RIFF Box JTAG.
I send my phone to this ebay seller and he repair my phone the same day and the same day he ship me back my phone.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-Galaxy-...ultDomain_0&hash=item3f0c87e20b#ht_719wt_1344
If the item expired on ebay you can find the seller items in here:
http://shop.ebay.com/olegor215/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562
or search for the sellers name ( olegor215 )
Sorry for my bad english
iynfynity said:
Riff box is the only way. I want to have one too so that I won't have to worry about hard bricking my phone.
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re: your signature. "Did you know every time you make a troll comment an android phone is activated?"
Awwwww muffin, try flashing it with gasoline and a match. Or crumble the T959D board into tiny little pieces after spending 12hrs with QPST (and ODIN trying to start connection then hanging). I finally lost my temper due to multiple stressors.
(oh and bollocks to grammar) Some were due to the dang buttons can't be found and farting about with a couple of screwdriver tips to hold down one button while at the same time reinserting the battery and holding power with a pen. Oh and I didn't have the back on the phone (no screws) so the mobo periodically flips off its base. Anywho, the phone had to die it has plagued me since last summer. I won't do the same with the SGH-I727R I have. And ironically the screen assembly I can resell. Ironically the mobo is worth next to nothing compared to the price of the screen assembly. Which is one reason I finally decided to have the satisfaction of tearing the skin from my fingers while twisting and snapping the board into 4 pieces which I shall bury at four corners of the city I live in lest its corpse finds its way back to me and bricks my other devices.
Oh and in case you are wondering. Yes!!! it was so satisfying and totally worth the total loss. (actually I need one button switch and the USB port for other damaged devices I am repairing.
I am going to get me a jtag if it's the last thing I do. Or make my own from an ATMEGA and whatever breakouts I need for it to work.
Just realize JTAG is hard. Real hard. As far as micro soldering and understanding circuits and crap like that. Watch a few videos before you thing of getting into it just so you can see how complicated the process is. It seems real sketchy for me.
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The unbrickable mod you can do it at home just requires a little bit of soldering
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The unbrickable mod you can do it at home just requires a little bit of soldering
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A little bit of soldering - it's true, but don't do it if you never did that before. It's very easy for someone with skills.
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A little bit of soldering - it's true, but don't do it if you never did that before. It's very easy for someone with skills.
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agreed. you can also get it done from mobile tech videos. iv done it on both my vibrants
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Any HELP WOULD be greatly appreciate!!!!
4 days ago me and my wife bought notes. I recently discovered today that some spots on my phone do not work with the s pen. So i decided i need to take it back and exchange for a new one. But right before taking the phone back my phone was dropped and received hardly noticeable dents/scratches on the phones side on the metal. You have to be shown most likely before you even realize it has dents/scratches.
Will i still be able to return it or hope they just dont notice it?
Thanks for your feedback!!
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Was the purchase made at a corporate or dealer store, or ordered online? It'll be inspected at a corporate store, probably not inspected at a dealer store, and if it was an online purchase, the warranty department will try to get you to put a hold on a credit card till yours is shipped back because they seem to try hard as hell to not do their job. At all. You might be able to appeal to the manager of that store to let you swap it. Can you post pics of the "damage"?
Thanx for the quick response and to answer ur question. Yes it was at corporate store. But i don't want to return it just want to exchange it.
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Can't post picture right now cuz I have nothing to take it With at the moment
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Yeah, I got that much. It shouldn't be a problem if the damage isn't too noticeable, but it's iffy. There's a certain amount of discretion given to managers so you may luck out. Please post pics when you can...I'll try my best to give you an honest evaluation of your chances.
Actually hold on a sec ill get some
EDIT..... NEVER MIND CENT TILL TOM
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Safest way to do this is.......exchange for different color.dont tell them about defect it had.then they will blame on u. because u droped it.
Let's wait for the pics before we make any call like that. I say that as a current AT&T RSC and former third-party sales rep.
best bet is do the return over the phone if possible. call them and they will send you a device, on reciept of the new phone you will mail the defective one back. i have had the same problem as you with dropping a phone right before exchanging it and it worked out ok. good luck!
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best bet is do the return over the phone if possible. call them and they will send you a device, on reciept of the new phone you will mail the defective one back. i have had the same problem as you with dropping a phone right before exchanging it and it worked out ok. good luck!
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Not exactly the best way. If the damage is too extensive, or a grumpy person inspects the phone when they receive it, his account will be charge for the full price of a phone, and there's not much you can do about it without a lot of hassle.
The best thing for him to do is post pics on here of the damage, because we have many AT&T employees on here who could probably make a fair assessment of the damage based on AT&T's stipulations, as I'm sure they've had to deal with returns like this before.
That being said, to the OP: you should be fine unless the case is deformed or there is a huge scratch through the paint. I once returned my old Captivate due to a faulty external speaker, and i had scraped the paint off of the front speaker grill so it was silver, and I had a gouge on one of the corners that was still noticeable but I had smoothed out with a little very fine grained sandpaper followed by steel wool. Sanding it out will probably not work for you on the chrome-ish border of the Note however.
Here is the pic
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Here is a pic
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Could you maybe get one without a light reflection directly on the damage? It's a little hard to tell how bad that is. Your best bet either way is probably to go into an AT&T store, and see what they think about getting it replaced. If you have a device service center in your area, they can do an exchange on the spot for some devices, depending if they have it in stock.
The Note's too new. DSCs won't have any in stock and the only reasonable alternative is to exchange it in store.
As was said, if you can get a few more pics that don't focus directly on the damage, it might give us a better idea of what we're looking at.
This same thing happened to my phone and I never even dropped it. Right in the same exact corner. I pull it out of my pocket one day and bam the silver paint is gone.
Will i got it resolved!!!! THANKS FOR ALL THE THOUGHT OUT ANSWERS AND HELP.
took it in and was straight forward with them. Went in a corporate store down the street and was able to get an exchange done immediately.
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I'm very happy that it all worked out for you.
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I'm very happy that it all worked out for you.
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Thank you!
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Will i got it resolved!!!! THANKS FOR ALL THE THOUGHT OUT ANSWERS AND HELP.
took it in and was straight forward with them. Went in a corporate store down the street and was able to get an exchange done immediately.
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Awesome! Honesty pays off. Glad that they were willing to work with you.
LOL the internet allows people to worry too much...
Anyone happen to know where I can source one of these? Aside from buying a bricked phone and swapping them... I can't seem to find any online, and yes I've tried searching. My i777 took a 4 foot drop and landed screen side down on tile floor (and I use the Neo Hybrid case)... glass didn't break but LCD panel doesn't illuminate/show anything and it seems the assembly is 'all in one' and I can't get the LCD panel separately.
happened to my galaxy s1
well, you can find most parts at globaldirectparts.com but to my knowledge it's out of stock
I think you should try to contact them and see if they can back order any
EDIT: since it's still 1 year you can send it to Samsung to replace it. same price or less and better servicing
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kulzboy said:
happened to my galaxy s1
well, you can find most parts at globaldirectparts.com but to my knowledge it's out of stock
I think you should try to contact them and see if they can back order any
EDIT: since it's still 1 year you can send it to Samsung to replace it. same price or less and better servicing
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I'm not the original owner, though. Hmm... I'd have to check it out. How would I go about doing that?
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I'm not the original owner, though. Hmm... I'd have to check it out. How would I go about doing that?
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Im not sure how you go about it but I've read that it doesnt matter if your original owner or not.
Always see them on EBay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-AT-...925?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20c4f46ead
I just ordered one from here.
https://www.gounlock.com/details.php?itemId=7096
Dropped mine from about 1 foot on pavement. Cracked, but it still works. Been like this since Dec, I was waiting for the prices to go down but they are going up.
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$147 for Sammy to do it. My wife just had hers replaced.
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$147 for Sammy to do it. My wife just had hers replaced.
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Do you call or what? I cracked mine and want Sammy to do it.
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Yes. Call Samsung customer service. They will hook you up.
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What is the number?
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Look on the sticker under your battery with the imei number. Should be on that.
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Thanks for the tips. I'm gonna give them a call tomorrow. I had sensitive information stored on the internal memory, but I was able to blindly tap through and mount the phone on my pc and grab it off - so I'm going to take the lazy approach and see if they'll fix it. It's an easy fix, but if they'll fix it for cheaper then I may as well send it to them.
Perfect. Been needing a screen for months.
Ok..so I connected my Atrix to a cheap car charger without a surge protector, and I guess it conked off and gave my Atrix the full 12volt treatment instead of 5v. The phone went off and its not powering on. Whenever I connect it to a charger the only thing that comes on is the green LED and that too at a level.of brightness I've never seen before. If I put a charged battery in the phone, the backside of the phone heats up and gets hot iin a matter of minutes. I took the phone to my local phone repair Guy and he told me that it's most probably the power IC that has blown up ...but can't be replaced individually coz it's sealed to the motherboard..so I will have to replace the whole motherboard. Is this true? Because I've seen Ads on the internet for standalone Atrix Power ICs. Doesnt make sense to replace the whole motherboard ..
I'd rather buy a new phone instead. Can someone suggest what to do?
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I think your service guy is most likely right and whatever ads you might have seen are false advertisement. Sorry.
Thank for your reply. You mean all these links are selling fake products?
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-MB860-Power-IC-p/mot1039590.htm
http://www.parts4repair.com/motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-at-t-power-managment-ic/
http://www.chinagadgetland.com/power-managment-ic-for-motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-p-10007338.html
http://www.casestores.com/motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-atampt-power-managment-ic_ p3052.html
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Well OK, those indeed seem to be genuine. But good luck replacing that on the motherboard. It's too tricky and risky and a lot of service centers won't even bother, since they can't charge enough for the effort to be worth it. This is also the biggest reason why the most common solution to this is simply replacing the entire board.
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Thank for your reply. You mean all these links are selling fake products?
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-MB860-Power-IC-p/mot1039590.htm
http://www.parts4repair.com/motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-at-t-power-managment-ic/
http://www.chinagadgetland.com/power-managment-ic-for-motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-p-10007338.html
http://www.casestores.com/motorola-atrix-4g-mb860-atampt-power-managment-ic_ p3052.html
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You'll also never solder a BGA device by hand. It's a machine fit when the rest of the surface mount parts are fitted.
You can solder BGA. You need a reflow station, or access to one.
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Pardon my ignorance... But what is a reflow station?
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Pardon my ignorance... But what is a reflow station?
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Reflow station
Lol. Thanks. There's no way I'm gonna get access to one of those.. So might as well give up on the phone. Thinking of the note 2 or the nexus 4 as my next phone. November 13th will tell...
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Dropped it from like 3 feet straight down on the screen.....
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Ouch.
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Damn that sucks! I have the otterbox on my phone now since my shatter the screen on this phone breaks easily. Now my question for you is were you rooted and all that good stuff? And are you getting a replacement from Verizon ? If so welcome to ota stock Rom you'll be stuck if you weren't already.
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He wasn't rooted or unlocked he was stuck locked up from the ota update.
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Damn... that's more busted than Christina Aguilera!
Same thing happened to me but I'll be swapping the motherboard when the replacement comes so I can maintain root
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Same thing happened to me but I'll be swapping the motherboard when the replacement comes so I can maintain root
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Isnt that illegal? And wont they find out anyhow?
That is surprising to me. Mine has flown off my lap on onto the street when getting out of the car, fell out of my coat pocket onto the ground, dropped it from a ladder while painting, and dropped it numerous times at home on the floor. Never broke or cracked or nothing. I have a case but never use it. This phone is nice and slim, the case made it too damn bulky.
If you're going to toss it I'll take it. It would be a good experiment phone.
Orrrr if you want to fix it
http://compare.ebay.com/like/170983563786?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
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That is surprising to me. Mine has flown off my lap on onto the street when getting out of the car, fell out of my coat pocket onto the ground, dropped it from a ladder while painting, and dropped it numerous times at home on the floor. Never broke or cracked or nothing. I have a case but never use it. This phone is nice and slim, the case made it too damn bulky.
If you're going to toss it I'll take it. It would be a good experiment phone.
Orrrr if you want to fix it
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Maybe your phone is magical. All it took my first phone was about a 3 feet drop on tile. With the way the glass is raised on the phone it should easily break anyhow lucky you.
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Naw I'm gonna go through insurance. I'm so bummed. I think my heart skipped a beat when it happened. At least I can still use it
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Say you lost it not broke it. Keep it or sell it on eBay
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Keep your fingers crossed, you might just luck out and not have the OTA. Mine didn't but it was a refurb. I'm sure you'll let us know, lol
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Maybe your phone is magical. All it took my first phone was about a 3 feet drop on tile. With the way the glass is raised on the phone it should easily break anyhow lucky you.
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I'm just really surprised to see so many DNA breaks from dropping it. In fact I have never cracked a screen, knock on wood. My old Droid Razr was pretty durable too. Now my daughters ipod touch broke if you looked at too hard, haha JUNK
The DNA is supposed to have triple gorilla glass too. I wonder if some of these are refurbished with fake junk digitizers? The screens should not be shattering that easily.
I'm hoping like crazy. And you can bet I'll let everyone know lol
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I'm hoping like crazy. And you can bet I'll let everyone know lol
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I had to get a replacement for my DNA, which came with the OTA, due to battery issues. I was looking forward to getting a phone with the old software and when the replacement came it had the old OS; but that had to go back due to the power button being concaved, so it was flush with the top, blown speaker and a dead pixel; and this was how it came out of the box! (100+ point inspection my a$$). The next replacement came and it too had the old software but wouldn't connect to WiFi. I received the third replacement yesterday and it was perfect, but the OTA was pre-installed. Hope you get not only the old software version but also a workable phone.
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Say you lost it not broke it. Keep it or sell it on eBay
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You can keep it, but don't sell it. When you report your phone lost, the carrier gives it a bad ESN.
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Isnt that illegal? And wont they find out anyhow?
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well i suppose so yes it could be outside of the boundaries of the insurance agreement but i pay a subsidy and an insurance fee for a reason. I could claim the phone was stolen swap the motherboards and sell the broken unit to cover the insurance premium but i wont be doing that. I see no harm no foul. They will be recieving a perfectly functional peice of hardware in the exact condition I reported during the claim... to each his own though
If you swap the motherboard you will be converting the new Dna to the old esn that you just reported lost... So you are just giving yourself a bad esn. Lol
Also its fraud but whatever you want to do
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What type case was your DNA in when this happened?
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So I have insurance through a 3rd party. Not Verizon or Asurion. They give me and address of somewhere in MI and want me to send it there to be fixed.
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So I have insurance through a 3rd party. Not Verizon or Asurion. They give me and address of somewhere in MI and want me to send it there to be fixed.
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Didn't I post a link with a video? It seems really easy to fix, that's why I wanted it. I even put an ad on craigslist. If you report it lost or stolen you could always "find it again" and they can reverse the bad ESN. My cousin bought a bad ESN phone from ebay. Verizon ended up calling the original owner and he went ahead and released it, they made the ESN good again. I don't know all the details but that's what he told me, sometime last year.
Hmm options, how much will it cost? Since the phone has to be sent away and cracked open anyway, buy the digitizer and send it to be jtagged, 2 birds with one stone. It might cost you a little more but you will be golden in the end. Fixed phone and S-off.
Hello once again audience,
I have a question and basically the title says it. The repair shop is going to replace my phone's motherboard, so what does this mean? Does the motherboard come with new core components like the CPU and GPU? Because my phone was water damaged, and I would prefer all the key components replaced along with the motherboard so it wouldn't corrode over time. And of course the CPU might have been worn out? I hope my phone's performance would be as good as new...
Thanks
You might as well buy a new phone if he is replacing everything,most likely it will cost more than a new phone if he is to replace everything and there would be no warranty.
Get a new phone. Cheaper and more reliable option. The motherboard IS the whole brain of the phone. You can get an s3 or s4 for basically the same price
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Mobo is about 150 bucks.
But well, you didn't say if warranty/insurance covered your device.
If so, yes, performance will be the same as new.
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Get a new phone. Cheaper and more reliable option. The motherboard IS the whole brain of the phone. You can get an s3 or s4 for basically the same price
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No not same price without contract still $600 cheaper
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Mobo is about 150 bucks.
But well, you didn't say if warranty/insurance covered your device.
If so, yes, performance will be the same as new.
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Yes it is really snappy now I just got its for about SGD$300
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There is some very strange advice in this thread.
There are several other components that maybe need changing as well as the mb.
If it was me;Id sell it as water damaged on ebay.
And if s4's are the same price as s2's motherboards....Ill take 20.
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There is some very strange advice in this thread.
There are several other components that maybe need changing as well as the mb.
If it was me;Id sell it as water damaged on ebay.
And if s4's are the same price as s2's motherboards....Ill take 20.
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Ikr... S4 so cheap? -.- BTW in my situation there are limitations to my choices since my parents are in charge and all that..
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theunderling said:
There is some very strange advice in this thread.
There are several other components that maybe need changing as well as the mb.
If it was me;Id sell it as water damaged on ebay.
And if s4's are the same price as s2's motherboards....Ill take 20.
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Lol, as he said if S4's cost the same as S2's motherboard Samsung might have shipped 100 million devices instead of the 10 million. (and I am using only a rate of 10x instead of the underlings 20x).
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Lol, as he said if S4's cost the same as S2's motherboard Samsung might have shipped 100 million devices instead of the 10 million. (and I am using only a rate of 10x instead of the underlings 20x).
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Thats not what he said,reread post 3 again.Dont attempt again to quote me and try to change what someone said.
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Thats not what he said,reread post 3 again.Dont attempt again to quote me and try to change what someone said.
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I reread it and he states that the OP can get an S3 or an S4 for basically the same price as the S2's motherboard?? Wtf? here an S2's motherboard is 8k rupees and and an S3 costs 29k and S4 costs 42k I was just stating that it's not like that at all now, and I quoted you because you said something what I was thinking, and what the hell do you mean I was attempting to change what somebody said, I was saying if the S4 costs that less, the sales would go over the roof.
Edit :The sarcasm was meant for the third poster if that's the problem, when I said "like he said" I was actually referring to your statement "if S4 cost same as S2's motherboard, give me 20" which I thought was a good joke.
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Thats not what he said,reread post 3 again.Dont attempt again to quote me and try to change what someone said.
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Lols he agrees with you ==
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Right ok.The OP doesnt need clowns like that guy in post 3 saying a s2 mb is the same price as an s4 phone,this is why I posted originally.
Also I wouldnt bother keeping a water damaged phone;as said earlier maybe just about everything may need replaced.
The OP may get about £100 for it on ebay,and if its any help I could possibly sell him a s3 mini for £100.....so he ends up with a working phone with warranty.
I bought the phone for the wife at xmas unlocked for £300,and Ive given her cash to get an iphone5.
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Right ok.The OP doesnt need clowns like that guy in post 3 saying a s2 mb is the same price as an s4 phone,this is why I posted originally.
Also I wouldnt bother keeping a water damaged phone;as said earlier maybe just about everything may need replaced.
The OP may get about £100 for it on ebay,and if its any help I could possibly sell him a s3 mini for £100.....so he ends up with a working phone with warranty.
I bought the phone for the wife at xmas unlocked for £300,and Ive given her cash to get an iphone5.
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Again Completely agreed, sorry for causing the misunderstanding, I actually meant to support you. Well I did learn one thing though, never buy from eBay.
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Well I did learn one thing though, never buy from eBay.
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There are genuine sellers on ebay like me,or my wife,but we only sell phones that are fully paid for when we buy them.
But if a seller(and theres loads of them) says hes selling because of "unwanted upgrade" then
1.WTF has he got it if its unwanted
2.Means to me hes still got to pay some sort of contract,and if he doesnt pay phone gets blacklisted.
Anyway,I would try a new usb port kit,and if its still faulty,then stick it on ebay.
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There are genuine sellers on ebay like me,or my wife,but we only sell phones that are fully paid for when we buy them.
But if a seller(and theres loads of them) says hes selling because of "unwanted upgrade" then
1.WTF has he got it if its unwanted
2.Means to me hes still got to pay some sort of contract,and if he doesnt pay phone gets blacklisted.
Anyway,I would try a new usb port kit,and if its still faulty,then stick it on ebay.
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Thanks for your help, but I already had the shop to fix my phone lol. I get a new phone when my contract ends
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Research + eBay + Patience = Save Money
I just replaced the motherboard of my S3 for essentially <$40. I bought an S3 on ebay with a broken screen but good motherboard (keywords like 'it charges', 'turns on', 'vibrates', and 'plays sound' come to mind) and swapped it into my S3 in about 20 minutes or so total with great success. The other super important thing is to verify a clean IMEI / ESN number because that lives on the motherboard too {However, I assume you could inject the 'good' IMEI from your old board into the new one with some pain and research. Not ideal.}
Anyway, yeah, the broken phone cost me a tiny but under $100 including shipping and I resold it just now on ebay for $66 including shipping. Big win, as the random tech guy in my town was going to charge me $220 and said it would almost definitely cost as much or close to as much as buying a new/refurb unit. My functionally and cosmetically perfect phone and the fact that my wallet is only ~$34/35 lighter determined that was a bold faced lie.
Disclosure: I do have electronics experience, but not with phones. And this fix was literally about 10 or so small screws and a few adorable itty bitty lil ribbon cable things. Easy day.
TL;DR-- Enter the Google Fu and observe your enemies upon the fields of eBay to fix things for cheap and/or at least know when it's good time to give up :good: