Has anyone recently gotten a S4 refurb? I ask because I have a slight screen issue (screen fades brighter at the bottom) and I would like to get one that doesn't have this problem. It's starting to bother me. Anyway, I will not use a ME7 or above device, I will not tolerate being stuck to safe strap. So is there a chance I would get a MDK device? Or are all of them being shipped with new software? If so, does anyone have any suggestions for a fix that doesn't involve vzw or a few hundred dollars?
Thanks.
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Mine came with me7
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One I got came with me7 so I just sent it back and sold mine and bought mdk version now I'm happy.
Thanks to both of you. That's what I feared.
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One I got came with me7 so I just sent it back and sold mine and bought mdk version now I'm happy.
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So did you sell the refurb? Or the old device? How much did you lose on the deal? (if you don't mind me asking.)
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Me7 as well got a mi7 previoisly
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I was thinking of buying an S4 to replace my rezound. If I don't let the Verizon people touch it or turn it on, what are the chances that the phone will NOT have root breaking OTA?
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If you use a discounted upgrade price they are not going to let you walk out with them activating it.
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If you use a discounted upgrade price they are not going to let you walk out with them activating it.
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Discounted upgrades were discontinued earlier this year. You purchase just like you were a new customer.
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Discounted upgrades were discontinued earlier this year. You purchase just like you were a new customer.
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I think he means if you purchase one with a 2 year contract.
Buy online...
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Buy online...
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Yeah I meant to year contract but this will work for sure.
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warnette said:
I was thinking of buying an S4 to replace my rezound. If I don't let the Verizon people touch it or turn it on, what are the chances that the phone will NOT have root breaking OTA?
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I used my two year upgrade at flywire. Com
Came with mdk
When I first got my phone at the store I told them not to open it and they didn't. I told them I was in a hurry and that I'll activate it later.
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I bought my S4 from Best Buy last Saturday. They made me activate it and set it up, but it only began to download the update. When the update notification asked me to install the update, I said "wait 23 hours". When the 23 hours were over, I instructed it to wait 23 more hours. In that time, I was able to root my phone, install a custom recovery, freeze the update APK, install Darkside's ME7 rom, and sigh with relief. Also came from the Rezound. It was a good choice.
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One more day than necessary with this busted Rezound may kill me.
Thanks for all the info, I'm going to try the hurried customer approach.
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Just bought my S4 from best buy 2 days ago it came with the mdk firmware first thing I did was turn off mobile data to make sure the update could not download. Rooted unlocked and had CM 10.2 on my S4 within the first hour. Just make sure when you buy the phone you turn off WiFi and data that way the update can't download
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Also just came from the Rezound. They sure fooled us on that one. Gd paperclip hack. Those Norweigens sure are innovative
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Also just came from the Rezound. They sure fooled us on that one. Gd paperclip hack. Those Norweigens sure are innovative
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Don't get me started on the Rezound, by far the worst phone I have ever owned.
Anyway, just got back from Verizon. They said they wouldn't let the phone take the update before I got it, and it was pre update. So all is wel.
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Okay so I remember back when I had the galaxy nexus they offered me a RAZR and couple others as replacement to the nexus.
If I'm just not happy with my galaxy s4 for obvious reasons. Does anyone know if they'll downgrade you to the note 2 upon request.
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Okay so I remember back when I had the galaxy nexus they offered me a RAZR and couple others as replacement to the nexus.
If I'm just not happy with my galaxy s4 for obvious reasons. Does anyone know if they'll downgrade you to the note 2 upon request.
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what are these "obvious" reasons?
plus i cant stop looking at your avatar..
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Okay so I remember back when I had the galaxy nexus they offered me a RAZR and couple others as replacement to the nexus.
If I'm just not happy with my galaxy s4 for obvious reasons. Does anyone know if they'll downgrade you to the note 2 upon request.
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you know, I think you have to go through a series of replacements and tech support calls before that will happen. Their excuse is that's what the 14 days are for and the G'nex had documented faulty radios so the tech support had that offer as an option for people with Gnex phones that had issues.
Yeah I just got off the phone with them. I have a me7 device. And it probably won't ever see unlock. And stock is well.. Stock
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Yeah I just got off the phone with them. I have a me7 device. And it probably won't ever see unlock. And stock is well.. Stock
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But the phone works...?
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Just wondering if people have received ME7 - updated phones when they replace their phone with insurance. My phone is broken but still mostly usable.
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I've seen people say both on the 16gb version but the 32gb version seems to only be on me7 which I got also.
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I have a stock rooted S4 I got as a replacement from asurion, for a S3, it's on ME7, I have not activated it. Just thoughts from the community, I am a long time aosp user, anti touch jizz since fascinate days. Should I keep the s4 and bear with it on rooted stock or send it back and get another S3?
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Put nova launcher lol.
It's much better device however I will patiently wait for few months then hopefully bootloader will be unlocked.
you can try to exchange it (or sell it and buy) for a mdk s4
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I wish I had got a replacement for my s3 with a s4, lucky you
reinaldistic said:
you can try to exchange it (or sell it and buy) for a mdk s4
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Any specific service you recommend?
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I wish I had got a replacement for my s3 with a s4, lucky you
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I know I'm somewhat lucky, but unlucky at the same time lol
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Put nova launcher lol.
It's much better device however I will patiently wait for few months then hopefully bootloader will be unlocked.
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Haha its the very first thing I did @ nova launcher.
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I have a stock rooted S4 I got as a replacement from asurion, for a S3, it's on ME7, I have not activated it. Just thoughts from the community, I am a long time aosp user, anti touch jizz since fascinate days. Should I keep the s4 and bear with it on rooted stock or send it back and get another S3?
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You have to ask??
SCORE!
Root it and move on. A device that is almost a year newer, better screen, better battery, two more cores and a better GPU.....
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You have to ask??
SCORE!
Root it and move on. A device that is almost a year newer, better screen, better battery, two more cores and a better GPU.....
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Butttttt TOUCHWIZ! lol
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I would sell you my mdk but the htc one max isn't out yet :banghead: can't wait to get rid of this thing
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Bu he had the S3 already...
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I would sell you my mdk but the htc one max isn't out yet :banghead: can't wait to get rid of this thing
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I didn't know anyone was actually buying that lol.
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I didn't know anyone was actually buying that lol.
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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What condition is your S4 in?
Does anyone honestly believe a unlock method is being worked on?
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What condition is your S4 in?
Does anyone honestly believe a unlock method is being worked on?
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mint condition. Never dropped. No scratches. Kind of undecided what to do with it now. The only thing keeping me on the s4 is 5in screen and battery life. Was definitely getting rid of it before I read the one max review, now I'm not sure what to do
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mint condition. Never dropped. No scratches. Kind of undecided what to do with it now. The only thing keeping me on the s4 is 5in screen and battery life
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Yeah, first you gotta figure out if you selling or keeping.
I honestly don't see any reason for any other phone at the moment. If I can get it unlocked I'm straight for a year or more.
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Yeah, first you gotta figure out if you selling or keeping.
I honestly don't see any reason for any other phone at the moment. If I can get it unlocked I'm straight for a year or more.
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Yeah I know. Your best bet may be a dev edition. I really don't think an unlocked bootloader is coming unless samsung leaves a door open for someone to get into in a future update.
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Yeah I know. Your best bet may be a dev edition. I really don't think an unlocked bootloader is coming unless samsung leaves a door open for someone to get into in a future update.
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This whole ordeal reminds me of the RIL bs with the fascinate.
This blows extremely. Let me know if you decide to sell yours. Or if you wake up and decide touchwiz is your friend I'll trade with ya
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Will do
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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Yeah I don't know that One design just doesn't scale well. I mean look at a One compared to a Moto X, it's a joke. They have the same screen size but the Moto X is almost the same size as an iPhone while the One is bigger than our phone. So the BoomSound speakers plus the 5.9" screen means it massive. It only has a Snapdragon 600 after all these devices are coming out with the 800. It loses OIS, which ruins the whole point of their "UltraPixels" with the larger light aperture, in favor of a fingerprint reader which so far hasn't been reviewed very well. Apple integrated the reader into the experience of the iPhone by putting it right on the home button, the One Max makes the same mistake as the Motorola Atrix. Furthermore, it doesn't even retain the best part of the One design, the unibody aluminum shell. It features a plastic ring around the phone like our S4 as well as an apparently spotty removable back that doesn't even feature a removable battery. Very disappointed in the One Max.
Today I woke up and learned that my phone wouldn't charge! I took it into the local Verizon store and I was lucky enough to get a new phone on the spot for free! best news? I had stupidly upgraded to 4.3 and lost root on my old phone. The new phone was still on 4.2! It's like I got a free downgrade! Now I can and will root and upgrade. How cool is that?
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I don't mean to be a hater.... But I'm totally hating on you right now. Congrats man!
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Wait, what's the baseband??
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Bah! Much hate! So envy. Such downgrade. Wow.
I'd do a lot to get back root and TWRP like I had when I first got my S4. Lucky!
Haha!! My s4 died wouldn't even recognize charger Saturday just got my replacement today and bam it to is on me7 haha love it!!!!
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Bah! Much hate! So envy. Such downgrade. Wow.
I'd do a lot to get back root and TWRP like I had when I first got my S4. Lucky!
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I'm not sure why you ever thought taking an OTA was a good idea.
The whole point of this phone was to take control of it before the bootloader was inevitably relocked. Remember the delay of the Loki release for AT&T so that Verizon wouldn't close it? That should have made future developments obvious to everyone.
MDK forever.
My phone was me7, then my daughter happened to get a hold of it..... Well my replacement came with mj7 as most people in this thread. Why does everyone think we're dumb enough to take an update? Only tards update without checking. Sorry, I'm not pointing this at anyone, just throwing a mini tantrum.
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I got my phone through a trade and it came with mj7
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My phone was me7, then my daughter happened to get a hold of it..... Well my replacement came with mj7 as most people in this thread. Why does everyone think we're dumb enough to take an update? Only tards update without checking. Sorry, I'm not pointing this at anyone, just throwing a mini tantrum.
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No, you're absolutely right. I'm kicking myself, quite hard. I got suckered in by native App-to-SD support when I could have just flashed a decent ROM. I had the tools, but I was a [email protected]$$.
Never forget!
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No, you're absolutely right. I'm kicking myself, quite hard. I got suckered in by native App-to-SD support when I could have just flashed a decent ROM. I had the tools, but I was a [email protected]$$.
Never forget!
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Lol, new features in some OTAs can be rather tempting. I learned to patiently wait for rooted OTAs to be made available since I got the original evo in 2010. I've been tempted a few times though. OTAs on Sprint were never as risky as these on Verizon. These folks are serious about locking down our phones!
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Have any of you guys gotten a "tap here to update your security policies" today?
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Not today but I got it before with mj7
I didn't root or do anything with it
Just popped up during normal use
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Wait, what's the baseband??
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It's on ME7. Cool huh? Got the original phone in August and I love it to death.
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I could be wrong but isn't the only one you can get a custom recovery on is MDK?
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I could be wrong but isn't the only one you can get a custom recovery on is MDK?
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No you can on me7 and ml1 as well (not sure on the newest mj7). Mdk is just the only one with a boot loader work around
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I don't care about getting around the bootloader because I'm staying stock as I don't feel the need to get anything else at the moment. I would overclock and lower the voltage very carefully. I want more battery life as my main goal and speed as my secondary goal.
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