Related
recall of "made in china" ATK branded battery in galaxy tab (affect non-korean too?)
About two months ago my tab died. I'm a foreigner in korea so I went down to my local samsung electronics service centre (sec.co.kr). After talking shop with the service engineer he opened up that there was a silent recall on all made in china "ATK" prefixed model number batteries which I had. The battery was tossed in the trash can showing there is NO returns / credit (RA) arrangement with the chinese manufacturing contractor or the relationship had gone sour, but this is just speculation on my part.
The replacement battery is a korean model that seems to have diminished capacity after the wear-in period (like others have reported). It is well known that samsung, hyundai and other korean conglomerates sell second class products to its own countryfolk whilst only supplying top notch components on export orders. Let's test this theory. How many of you who dared to open your galaxy tab export models have chinese made batteries?
I kept a log of battery performance under my new and former batteries.
Sent from my SHW-M180L using XDA App
you'll be surprise that CHINA now the only country that made the original stuff and not to forgot the FACT that its also the #1 country who made the fake stuff
1- Cheap workers ...
2- ELECTRONIC Stuff are cheap
3- Intelligent Country
China now rolling the world by ELEC
Lets all hail China the land of fake brand knockoffs. They probably mixed up the genuine and fake batches with their OEM. Halarious! Go to china and try to buy a genuine electronic replacement battery or flash memory. Odds are you are buying a ghost shift fake. If china is so good why don't they design their own products like the koreans do. Their "dragon" mips knockoff cpu is a slow start.
Seriously guys. Its big news when a major handset is affected by a faulty component, or at least it was for the iphone 4. Now to assertain if this recall is for korean inferior product for domestic consumption with easy access to service facilities or their chinese cost cutting measure didn't pay dividends globally. Anyone got ATK branded batteries in overseas tabs? That's the issue here not how the chinese socialists peg their yuan to the us dollar to undermine the us manufacturing base (aka war machine) to overtake america as a super power. Reminds me of australia selling steal and iron ore to the japanese before it came back as bombs on darwin.
Sent from my SHW-M180L (now from 100% korean assembled components)
Im surprised there is no feedback. Someone PM rotohammer and ask him in the tabs he opened up to get JTAG working did he see a made in China ATK model battery. I used to work tec support for the now defunct daewoo electronics and it is no secret in the industry that OEMs will not own up to a product recall publically if they can help it and clean up the mess through their affiliated (or in house in Korea) service centres.
In case you dont yet get my drift this could be as big a scandal as the iphone 4 ariel defect that samsung capitalized on in the UK giving free galaxy S es to unhappy iphone users willing to blog their complaints online.
Does your tab have a defective battery? After 3-9 months your phone could refuse to start from a cold boot if defective and have very limited capacity compared to quality lithium-ion batteries. Samsung got screwed by their chinese subcontractor and don't want to clean up the mess if they can help it by keeping the userbase in the dark until they are all out of warranty.
That's why some of you need to check your battery model - especially early adopters.
Luke
Aussie expat exiled in South Korea
Google "burnpassport" for the youtube vid to see why.
Sent from my SHW-M180L
hojuruku said:
Im surprised there is no feedback. Someone PM rotohammer and ask him in the tabs he opened up to get JTAG working did he see a made in China ATK model battery. I used to work tec support for the now defunct daewoo electronics and it is no secret in the industry that OEMs will not own up to a product recall publically if they can help it and clean up the mess through their affiliated (or in house in Korea) service centres.
In case you dont yet get my drift this could be as big a scandal as the iphone 4 ariel defect that samsung capitalized on in the UK giving free galaxy S es to unhappy iphone users willing to blog their complaints online.
Does your tab have a defective battery? After 3-9 months your phone could refuse to start from a cold boot if defective and have very limited capacity compared to quality lithium-ion batteries. Samsung got screwed by their chinese subcontractor and don't want to clean up the mess if they can help it by keeping the userbase in the dark until they are all out of warranty.
That's why some of you need to check your battery model - especially early adopters.
Luke
Aussie expat exiled in South Korea
Google "burnpassport" for the youtube vid to see why.
Sent from my SHW-M180L
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WTF wrong now ? ? ? why you asking someone to ask someone for u ?
u got the F>>< pm function use it by yourself ... and thank you for stopping PM me ....... .
K0sh: U don't speaky no englishe.
Sent from my SHW-M180L
hojuruku said:
K0sh: U don't speaky no englishe.
Sent from my SHW-M180L
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Of course Kosh is not englishman-read his signature....
bongski55 said:
Of course Kosh is not englishman-read his signature....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah lets just ignore him. The issue here is with all galaxy tab "7 models. The issue is not chinese people (like kosh) but the products they make more inexpensive through their lower wages and low exchange rate pegged to the dollar that was even too cost compeditive for samsung to refuse. I guess samsung has to competete with the iphone that's made under contact by Foxconn who's workers are committing suacide in droves (including R&D staff) according to local news reports. Yes I once lived in china.
Surey a few xda developers have seen a galaxy tab with it's back cover removed! Does the battery's model number have "ATK" marked on it and the infamous words "MADE IN CHINA"? If so I'm telling you your battery is faulty and there is a recall on it in Korea
Sent from my SHW-M180L
My new battery isn't much better. Running on stock rom for a month with minimal applications I noticed the standby time was reducing.... I have to carry a battery pack in my backpack these days to get by.
Bump.... Has anyone oversees had a battery death or heard of defective chinese batteries stuck in overseas models?
Sent from my SHW-M180L using XDA App
Samsung have undertaken less
than subtle ways to continue its
fight against Apple in Australia.
They’ve set up a temporary shop
in Sydney just outsides Apple’s
own shop and are offering
Samsung Galaxy S II droids for
$2.
ounds like a great deal, right? It
is, but there’s a catch. Even so,
the line to the Samsung store is
reportedly longer than the line to
Apple’s store. A line of people to
an Apple store is practically a
tradition when there’s a new
gadget from Cupertino about to
be launched, theiPhone 4S in this
case.
So, this is a dirty play from
Samsung trying to beat Apple at
their own game. But I mentioned
a catch – only 10 people a day
get a $2 Galaxy S II, the rest are
there waiting to get a chance
tomorrow or the day after that.
You can check out the whole
article over at the Muswellbrook
Chronicle, which also takes a look
at the line in front of the Apple
store and tells the touching tale of
two friends who met while
waiting in line for the iPad 2, who
are now waiting for an iPhone 4S
(and have tons of free time, I
suppose).
Anyway, this is a transparent
publicity stunt on Samsung’s part but still, getting a $2 Samsung
Galaxy S II is a great deal. Not a
lot of people will get lucky
though.
Source: blog.gsmarena.com/2-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-phones-stealing-the-spotlight-from-the-iphone-4s-in-australia/
THANK ME FOR THIS OUTSTANDING NEWS
Hello ... I am buying Galaxy Note in the following 2 days .. I just want to know where this device is made before buying, unboxing and seeing that under the battery.. How can I know that the device " Made in Korea by Samsung " not other Countrys like China or Vietnam before buying such pricy Handset ? . Help Plz.
Thanks
My first international SGSII was Korean made. I was happy.
Sold it, used another phone, they re-bought an international SGSII. Made in China.
Absolutely zero difference.
Back in my Symbian days, I would smile when my phone was made in Finland. So much that I would agonize over others I bought, hoping they were MIF. Some that arrived were Chinese made (N8).
Again, not a lick of difference.
With modern manufacturing worldwide, any electronic component officially manufactured (not counterfeit) will be of equal quality.
I wouldn't worry one bit.
I bought "Made in Korea by Samsung" and now having problem with AT&T data.
read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399554
hi guys,
do you know where I can buy the galaxy note international version (preferable white color) in a retail store ?
I live in Chicago, IL.
Note: Primary, I prefer not to buy online so I can inspect for the screen quality before buying it. Secondary option is the Amazon. but if possible I hope there is still an online store that is more cheaper than what Amazon currently offers ($533 dark blue and $544 white)
Those are some pretty good prices in the US. I bought mine when it first came out and it was $730. As for the screen, you won't find a better looking screen on any device made before February.
Sent from my GT-P6810 using XDA Premium HD app
Ditto
I'm here looking for the same info as you.
I bought my last phone off of eBay.
It had problems that would have made me return it if I bought it locally, but since I would have to wait for all the shipping I just lived with the issues.
I considered buying the ATT version from BestBuy but they still want $750 for it and it doesn't have Exynos.
If the only USA option is buying online the best price I've seen is $499 + free shipping
http://www.expansys-usa.com/samsung-store/
souleater11 said:
hi guys,
do you know where I can buy the galaxy note international version (preferable white color) in a retail store ?
I live in Chicago, IL.
Note: Primary, I prefer not to buy online so I can inspect for the screen quality before buying it. Secondary option is the Amazon. but if possible I hope there is still an online store that is more cheaper than what Amazon currently offers ($533 dark blue and $544 white)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
PHug said:
I'm here looking for the same info as you.
I bought my last phone off of eBay.
It had problems that would have made me return it if I bought it locally, but since I would have to wait for all the shipping I just lived with the issues.
I considered buying the ATT version from BestBuy but they still want $750 for it and it doesn't have Exynos.
If the only USA option is buying online the best price I've seen is $499 + free shipping
http://www.expansys-usa.com/samsung-store/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sunday, May 13, 2012
souleater11, PHug, & XDA Members:
Have either of you ever had any serious hands-on time with an N7000? The reason I ask is because I am also a resident of the United States.
I purchased my blue, 16GB, unlocked GT-N7000 on Amazon for $730 at the beginning of January this year. At the time, it was the best price I could find. However, I was making a rather big leap of faith when I purchased my Note. I had never used, touched, or even seen a Galaxy Note in person before. To make matters even worse, I was transitioning to the Note from an iPhone 4. So I was really worried that selling my iPhone would turn out to be a ginormous mistake. I had just ordered a $730 device that I had never even been in the same room with. My decision to purchase was based solely on an Engadget review, a few YouTube videos, and the generally positive customer reviews I found in a Google search. Oh, and don't even get me started on the whole PenTile RGBG debate. I was coming from a phone that pioneered the extremely high dpi display. Honestly, there wasn't much that didn't worry me.
So anyway, I obviously went ahead and ordered it. Waiting for it to arrive was nerve-racking; but after three days, it showed up. I popped that sucker out of the box, fired it up, set the language to "U.S. English" and went to town. It was the most amazing device I had ever used! The Exynos 4210 is a beast. With "Chainfire 3D" installed, the Exynos blasts through any game I can throw at it. It truly is the best mobile phone I have ever seen!
Now, the screen issue. I have to be honest about this. At extreme and uncomfortably close distances to the display, the eye is barely able to detect the nature of the display's color matrix. Under normal circumstances, ALL normal circumstnces, the PenTile RGBG disadvantages are not detectable. I believe this is due to the fact that the Note's display is 285dpi. With pixels that small, the advantages/disadvantages of PenTile RGBG versus RGB stripe begin to disappear. In my personal opinion, the Galaxy Note's display matrix isn't even worth discussing. It is absolutely beautiful! I've yet to see a phone with a display that can match it. Aside from a couple of Samsung's other offerings, like the Galxy Nexus, there is no other phone with a comparable display. As a matter of fact, I'd have to say that it's PenTile RGBG color matrix is the display's ONLY shortcoming. If it were a Super AMOLED Plus HD display, it would be absolutely perfect. Anyway, I should go ahead and wrap this up. If I don't, I'm likely to rant myself a novel.
I decided to type this lengthy review/opinion of the GT-N7000 because, like I said, I am also from the U.S. and I wish that I had been more informed when I purchased my Note. If I had been, I still would have bought the Note, I just wouldn't have nearly had a heart-attack while waiting for it. Overall, the Note is a fantastic phone. I just upgraded mine to the official, German ICS build. That's another advantage of owning the GT-N7000 and living in the U.S. People in India, for example, are physically able to install the new German ICS build. However, the German build is missing all of the region and carrier specific software and settings for them. Living in the U.S. though, there are no carrier-specific settings for me. There is no U.S. build of ANY firmware for the GT-N7000. Strictly speaking, I can install any region/carrier's build without worry. All I have to do is change the device's language to "U.S. English", setup whatever APN(s) I need, and I'm all good to go. I also have a couple of other steps to "domesticate" the GT-N7000, but they require root, so I'll leave them out of this. Anyway, the bottom line is that the GT-N7000; no matter if you purchase it through Amazon, Expansys, Negri Electronics, or somewhere else, is a fantastic device. Look for a seller with a good price and a good return policy; but I seriously doubt returning it will ever even cross your mind once you've had a chance to use it.
I hope this has been both helpful and informative.
Thank you,
Ed (Mister_Mxyzptlk)
Sent from my GT-P6810 using XDA Premium HD app
Finally laid my hands on a white note 4 in jarir. Sadly out of stock in less than a day. Also out of stock in extra stores. I have to say a very beautiful phone my note 3 looked ugly next to it but I dont know why samsung didnt stock up there were a lot of potential buyers looking for it. Also did not notice any gap or color shift in the screen. Looks like I will have to stop fantasizing over the edge hehe.
Any saudi owners with one?
Sold out in all stores in mall of dhahran why is samsung sending limited stocks they should know itll be a huge seller here in saudi
I got one from a shop in King Fahad street with an extra SR100. He had 3 sets at that time.
I love it, I root it to change the ugly font and bought an orignal s-view cover (perfect). Now I am happy (CHEEEERS).
hi what colors do they have? will they sell the gold too? whats the name of the shop everywhere i go they have no stocks
There is more stock in almursalat in riyadh from 2800 to 3000
all of them is vietnam made
I'v got black one for my brother priced at 2750 SAR because it's opened box
I will wait for snapdragon version as it seems to have slightly better battery life
riyadh is too far. well more time for me to wait if saudi will release the note edge here or the note 4 gold lol
Great to see thread from KSA....... It is 'OUT OF STOCK' in almost all dominant sellers in KSA (i.e. Jarir/Extra/Al-Haddad etc.) but it is available in local market with little extra price. Battery preformance is excellent on Exynos version. I hope this time Exynos version will have better Android development since it is the International one and distributed on large scale throughout the world.
do the local markets sell out fast too? gold is still not making an appearance
Yep! They are.... Even some of my local friends (Saudis) have told me that executive working in jarir are selling note 4 out in local market with high rate say 100-150 SAR extra ..... And people are buying them like flies over food..he he he.... Gold version is still far away and I believe edge will also take some time. I don't why Samsung has not allocated sufficient amount of set in this region although they have a big market out here.
i think they will sell a load of gold note 4 and note edges here in saudi if samsung did their research lol
They are leader in marketing tricks by promotions and road hoarding. But should keep KSA/Gulf region in their prority list.
Just to update u guys jarir is selling the gold notes but beware coz they sell out really fast (white ones too). Even new note 3 ' s are sold out wonder why samsung is not restocking
pink note 4 available in extra
edit: just now i checked it sold out but you know now where it will be sold lol
Lulu Supermarket Khobar
Lulu supermarket Khobar
Black, white and gold available for 2699.
Made in vietnam i bought a black one..
I got my Note 4 in Jarir, Jeddah a couple months back.
I receNtly wanted to get the new Samsung Smart Watch, but the Saudis took one of the friggin cameras off it! WTF.