A friend of mine had his Galaxy S2 serviced since he had issues with his WIFI module, samsung issued a replacement motherboard for him and now the technician says that the replacement motherboards cannot upgrade to ICS because of several issues and lost features, Is there any truth to this ?
Well it it was changed to i9100G, and few weeks back that was true. Not anymore.
I think all the variants are on same page now.
So its possible that he got a I9100G motherboard as a replacement instead of a I9100 Exynos ?
That's the only thing come to my mind...
Both official galaxy s2 by Samsung.
But both are on ics now.
What's the firmware *#1234#
What does it says under about phone
Related
Got a new Galaxy S2 from Orange as a replacement for my old one (Charging fault), she said all the old ones had the problem and I had to wait for a replacement.
So, got the new one today and it didn't have a battery with it just the phone in a plain box, so wondering if its been manufactured very recently or something.. anybody know how to find the date of manufacture?
Hi, i bought samsung galaxy s2 from kuwait 2 months back.but in the battery compartment in the back here written MADE BY SAMSUNG. not written any country name..i am confused my s2 is original or not.pls help me to find the country of origin...thanks...
Yeah I've heard some say different things, including 'Made by Samsung'. The simplest way to know if it's original is whether or not it runs a Samsung firmware. A copy will not work on a Samsung firmware due to hardware differences.
Sent from my GT-I9100T
Ok here is the deal , my phone got hardbricked by this stupid 4.0.4 thing , so i gave to samsung and i was out of warranty , after 3 days they called me and told me it will cost about half of the phone to replace the motherboard
Now what should i do , get a new gs2 or get my old made in korea samsung repaired
Or just wait for the gs3 to get cheaper then buy it
Sucks man. How much is the repair? Maybe get a Galaxy Nexus. They are pretty cheap now and you will get the latest updates fast, no more rooting BS. I'm thinking of trading my S2 for the nexus. Brickbug has scared me too much
666fff said:
Sucks man. How much is the repair? Maybe get a Galaxy Nexus. They are pretty cheap now and you will get the latest updates fast, no more rooting BS. I'm thinking of trading my S2 for the nexus. Brickbug has scared me too much
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you know what you are doing or can even read, then the brick bug can never affect you.
And even if you have galaxy nexus, you will still eventually root the device.
Unmodified Aosp ICS Android build has it's own obvious limitations too.
Swyped from my Galaxy SII
---------- Post added at 01:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:35 AM ----------
Tefanym said:
Ok here is the deal , my phone got hardbricked by this stupid 4.0.4 thing , so i gave to samsung and i was out of warranty , after 3 days they called me and told me it will cost about half of the phone to replace the motherboard
Now what should i do , get a new gs2 or get my old made in korea samsung repaired
Or just wait for the gs3 to get cheaper then buy it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Motherboard is the most expensive part of almost any electronic device.
Getting it via official source will even be more expensive.
My advise:
1. Change your motherboard via unofficial route. It's will be cheaper
2. Buy used Galaxy SII or nexus while you wait for the price of galaxy Siii to drop significantly.
Swyped from my Galaxy SII
My Galaxy 10.1 tab has suffered from the 'newton ring' screen defect for a while now (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130230 if you don't have long memories) but it wasn't too bad so I never got around to getting it fixed. Anyway, I had to take my phone into a Samsung service centre recently so I thought I'd get the tab done at the same time.
It's still within 2 years from purchase, but was bought in the USA so I was kinda expecting the warranty question to get raised. Nope, they took it fine, HOWEVER they now say that they can't repair it at all as they can't get the appropriate parts because the USA and UK models have different screens and they can't put a UK part into a US model. After a bit of further questioning they also said "and the software is different too", which is quite true but completely irrelevant to a pure hardware defect (and a known one at that).
Before I go and pick it up, could one of the experts here tell me if the physical screen and/or digitiser are any different between the original USA Galaxy TAB 10.1 (Wi-Fi only) and the original UK variant? I thought they were all made with the same generic parts in the same factories? Any part numbers or reference sources would be very helpful too. Thanks!
Andre
I have a UK tablet and i've never heard about different components lol.. I don't think there's a difference between the tabs, it's not that we have a different ROM that we also have different components, i came from android 2.3 UK and running cm10.1 now with a US bootloader on a UK device, problems, samsung?
Anyway,, i never suffered from those newton rings, i remember the link you posted, but i will not laugh too loud my tab is 1 year and 1 month old now
Thanks, that's very much my opinion too from everything I've ever read about this defect, the screen and digitiser are common components between the US and UK models.
If anyone can give me any more info or hard facts (e.g. do Samsung USA and Samsung UK have a spare parts website where I can compare part numbers?) that would help before I go back into the service centre around noon today. Thanks!
Andre
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II
There are vendors selling the phone as new. Is the phone still being manufactored? Can you tell how old a phone is, not relying on pieces of information from a seller?
thmmht said:
Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II
There are vendors selling the phone as new. Is the phone still being manufactored? Can you tell how old a phone is, not relying on pieces of information from a seller?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No the phone isn't being manufactured anymore.
The phone the seller is selling may be new, but it was stored for a long time and wasn't used before.