Hi gang.
I will be purchasing a Note 8 in the next few days. The end plan is to root the phone. My question is, all things being equal, which model would be my best bet? I’m currently on T-Mobile.
Thanks in adavance!
flyingmedic said:
Hi gang.
I will be purchasing a Note 8 in the next few days. The end plan is to root the phone. My question is, all things being equal, which model would be my best bet? I’m currently on T-Mobile.
Thanks in adavance!
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Note 8 Exynos
Nick216ohio said:
Note 8 Exynos
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Thanks for that.....any particular country “smarter” to buy, than any other?
Thanks again.
flyingmedic said:
Thanks for that.....any particular country “smarter” to buy, than any other?
Thanks again.
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That idk sorry. Someone else will probably chime in and tell you that soon in thread. I am in states so everything easy to get. What country you in? None of the major stores in your country offer that specific version? If you care about root like you said, make sure it's exynos.
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That idk sorry. Someone else will probably chime in and tell you that soon in thread. I am in states so everything easy to get. What country you in? None of the major stores in your country offer that specific version? If you care about root like you said, make sure it's exynos.
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I’m located in the US....however, I am a pilot for an International Airline, and as such have access to purchase just about from any country I like.....as I’m overseas more than I’m home.
In fact, out of all the electronics I own, I can’t think of any that were purchased in the US.
Thanks!
First a doctor now a pilot
OP,make sure you don't get a version that goes in and out of jail. Plenty of posts on that here.
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As long as is the N950F you should be good with wherever you purchase it.
Mr Pilot. I'm going to St Lucia in a few days is it dangerous there?
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First a doctor now a pilot
OP,make sure you don't get a version that goes in and out of jail. Plenty of posts on that here.
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Hehe, actually that user name I’ve been using since 1995...lol
At that time I was in College and working as a Paramedic.
Lol.....
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First a doctor now a pilot
OP,make sure you don't get a version that goes in and out of jail. Plenty of posts on that here.
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All we need next is a rocket scientist or astronaut and we're set. I am to lazy to write but OP this is for you.
Just trying to make you aware of few things.
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As long as is the N950F you should be good with wherever you purchase it.
Mr Pilot. I'm going to St Lucia in a few days is it dangerous there?
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I don’t know. St. Lucia is not anywhere I’ve ever been. What I CAN say....being an American outside of the country is dodgy AF.
Draw your own conclusions as to why. Really though, the rest of the world is either laughing at us, or, feels sorry for us.
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All we need next is a rocket scientist or astronaut and we're set. I am to lazy to write but OP this is for you.
Just trying to make you aware of few things.
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Thanks for trying to make me aware. Or, should I thank Amazon? I’m looking for actual user’s opinions. Not what the manufacturer’s do, or don’t want you to know.
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Thanks for trying to make me aware. Or, should I thank Amazon? I’m looking for actual user’s opinions. Not what the manufacturer’s do, or don’t want you to know.
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Okay sorry for trying to help. We just get tired of seeing same posts. Like someone crying they bought exynos and SOL on warranty. Or the guy that bought exynos and can't use on his network. Figured it would be useful information, but hey what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Okay sorry for trying to help. We just get tired of seeing same posts. Like someone crying they bought exynos and SOL on warranty. Or the guy that bought exynos and can't use on his network. Figured it would be useful information, but hey what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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No worries. I appreciate the reply. I have read all the “official” specs etc.....also have seen all the mistakes others have made....but never actually saw (or could find) a post that just sort of “bottom lined” it.
Thanks
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As long as is the N950F you should be good with wherever you purchase it.
Mr Pilot. I'm going to St Lucia in a few days is it dangerous there?
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Dude nice. I'm from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines which is next island south of Lucia. Can see it at night if you're on the south side of Lucia. Hope it's a fun trip!!!
You can get a device in Mexico, and it would be a 950F Exynos with 128 GB, if you get it from official sources, color options are black and orchid gray
if you travel a lot then maybe a dual sim could be handy, if you got it in Europe you would have the 24 months warranty, got my dual sim on amazon uk but I know that Denmark only sell Dual-Sim models
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if you travel a lot then maybe a dual sim could be handy, if you got it in Europe you would have the 24 months warranty, got my dual sim on amazon uk but I know that Denmark only sell Dual-Sim models
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^^^this. Good point, since OP warranty will not be useless since he travels back and forth. Bonus being 2 years.l, thanks to beautiful EC consumer laws.
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Those ********s cancelled my order and said "this phone is only compatible in the UK and not the US, your order has been cancelled... I am very angry right now.
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Those ********s cancelled my order and said "this phone is only compatible in the UK and not the US, your order has been cancelled... I am very angry right now.
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Get it from clove, handtech!!!
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Those ********s cancelled my order and said "this phone is only compatible in the UK and not the US, your order has been cancelled... I am very angry right now.
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would you rather be "cancelled my order" angry? or "not compatible in US" angry?
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Those ********s cancelled my order and said "this phone is only compatible in the UK and not the US, your order has been cancelled... I am very angry right now.
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I ordered my Z1 from the UK and it works in the US. What are they talking about?
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would you rather be "cancelled my order" angry? or "not compatible in US" angry?
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OK please... I KNEW it wouldn't work on LTE (as discussed in a few threads here earlier) Who the hell are they to tell me what I need. Never doing business with them again. They're probably making excuses for overselling and offering too many sony smart watches. ****** ***** ****s. I ended up ordering from Handtec, Hopefully they have their **** together.
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OK please... I KNEW it wouldn't work on LTE (as discussed in a few threads here earlier) Who the hell are they to tell me what I need. Never doing business with them again. They're probably making excuses for overselling and offering too many sony smart watches. ****** ***** ****s. I ended up ordering from Handtec, Hopefully they have their **** together.
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Great choice. I live in US and ordered through Handtec. They got their stock on the 17th and it came on the 18th all the way from the UK! Plus the Smartwatch 2 offer is nice.
i think its only uk only for expansyuk
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i think its only uk only for expansyuk
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Right, you cannot order across Expansys' country specific webstores
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Right, you cannot order across Expansys' country specific webstores
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The funny thing is, they don't offer the Z1 on the american site and why do they even give me the option of shipping to the US????
so guys i plan on flashing my s3 to cricket later today i bought the phone off ebay and dont want to risk calling sprint to get it reactivated and find out it was stolen. im going to follow this guide http://www.cricketusers.com/cdma-samsung-galaxy-s3/33485-%5Btutorial%5D-full-flash-verizon-sprint-samsung-galaxy-s3-cricket-talk-text-mms-internet.html
anyone have any luck with this yet? or anyone know a better guide? jw i dont want to try and go through with this and find out its not working.
lastly after i do this how do i get an actual cricket number and get it activated do i just call them?
Very brave...
Suggest you are in the wrong forum Sprint Cricket not here .
Haha xD idk it doesn't seem to tough I just wanted to know if anyone here was brave enough to do it
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Haha xD idk it doesn't seem to tough I just wanted to know if anyone here was brave enough to do it
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Nobody here is a sprint or cricket phone users this is the I9300 and I9305 forum .
Flashing sprint or cricket stuff will brick our phones and in the majority of cases we would have no network as we are not in North America
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Nobody here is a sprint or cricket phone users this is the I9300 and I9305 forum .
Flashing sprint or cricket stuff will brick our phones and in the majority of cases we would have no network as we are not in North America
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The tut says nothing about not being compatible with those models. Also you may not be from north america but how does that decide where everyone else Is from? Do explain, also the 19300 comes in sprint at&t and t-mobile please research before you reply to my thead
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please research before you reply to my thead
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Please read, this is for the GT9305 LTE international only...
We play cricket we don't use it :laugh:
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Please read, this is for the GT9305 LTE international only...
We play cricket we don't use it :laugh:
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Mt bad I didn't realize there was a difference between the i9305 and gt9305 sorry
No difference between them, but big difference between GT-I9305 and the American models (model numbers beginning with SCH or SGH). If you have an I9305, there is no way to flash it to a CDMA/3GPP2 network, such as Sprint or Cricket, as it's a GSM/3GPP phone. (3GPP and 3GPP2 are rival standards bodies, making deliberately incompatible standards.) CDMA requires completely different hardware from GSM.
If you have a Sprint or Verizon Galaxy S3 (both CDMA models), you can flash them to Cricket, but you should ask in the Sprint or Verizon forums, as we are not familiar with the CDMA Galaxy S3 versions.
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so guys i plan on flashing my s3 to cricket later today i bought the phone off ebay and dont want to risk calling sprint to get it reactivated and find out it was stolen.
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Call Sprint (or whatever telecoms company you plan to use).
If the phone is not registered as stolen, then no problems.
If the phone is stolen, then report it to the police and eBay. You should get your money back via eBay and the thief will get nicked. It will stop the thief from selling anymore stolen phones via eBay - thus you are helping others.
I don't have insurance on my phone, so if it got stolen it would be at great expense to me. Also I have tracking software on mine, so I would be hunting the thief down.
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The tut says nothing about not being compatible with those models. Also you may not be from north america but how does that decide where everyone else Is from? Do explain, also the 19300 comes in sprint at&t and t-mobile please research before you reply to my thead
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Yes i agree it was extremely rude to think i actually know better than you . I was totality wrong flash anything you want .
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Yes i agree it was extremely rude to think i actually know better than you . I was totality wrong flash anything you want .
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Gears177, Can you post pictures of your brick please :highfive:
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Gears177, Can you post pictures of your brick please :highfive:
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i ended up findind a professionall flasher on ebay decided to go that route ive already revived my s3 from a haed-brick once tho ;p
haha，next time i get a stolen phone,the first thing to do is to turn on the flight mode , connect it to pc and dump out all the files,then flash a new rom！
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Hello,
I'm living in Israel, I don't know why but this case just caught me http://www.verizonwireless.com/acce...r-the-all-new-htc-one-m8-black-blue-geometic/ . Since im not a US citizen, i can't purchase it (beleive me, i've tried like 6 times).
Im willing to pay 40$ by paypal for someone to buy the case online for me and send it ouy to an address I have in the US (the case itself cost 34.95)
Can someone please help me? Incipio have tons of ugly case worldwide, but the only case who actually looks nice is verizon exclusive.
That is a good looking case. Very bold and yet still refined at the same time. I'd love to help you but I no longer have Paypal after one to many screw ups on their end. Otherwise I'd help you out right now. Sorry.
Good luck though. I'm sure there is someone here that'll help. Tons of really people on the forums.
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Hello,
I'm living in Israel, I don't know why but this case just caught me http://www.verizonwireless.com/acce...r-the-all-new-htc-one-m8-black-blue-geometic/ . Since im not a US citizen, i can't purchase it (beleive me, i've tried like 6 times).
Im willing to pay 40$ by paypal for someone to buy the case online for me and send it ouy to an address I have in the US (the case itself cost 34.95)
Can someone please help me? Incipio have tons of ugly case worldwide, but the only case who actually looks nice is verizon exclusive.
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I don't get it!
If you do have an address in the US wouldn't it be easy just ordering it yourself and have Verizon send it to that address?
to purchase it and send it within the U.S.
you don't have to prove you're american or not.
kbrn said:
I don't get it!
If you do have an address in the US wouldn't it be easy just ordering it yourself and have Verizon send it to that address?
to purchase it and send it within the U.S.
you don't have to prove you're american or not.
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I think he said he lives in Israel.
VZW-M8
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Hello,
I'm living in Israel
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He isnt in USA
I've tried to order it in the US, but verizon only acccepts american credit card, which i can't get.
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I've tried to order it in the US, but verizon only acccepts american credit card, which i can't get.
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Why not use bundlebox? Look here
I am from Germany and it works flawless.
Edit: Oops, just saw that it is a matter of payment - sorry. If it only would be a question of shipping, my link would help.
Can you tell which credit card have you used? or you have an regular american one?
I will help you. PM me.
I've decided to give up right now, i've bought the htc double dip, if i don't like it i'll try again. thanks
Hi. Just wondering if anyone knows of a fix. Traded my v20 for this op3t and I'm more than happy so far, but all I'm getting is hspa+ for data. Called att and they said they needed to make a case to get LTE enabled.
Anything I can do to enable it myself?
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Hi. Just wondering if anyone knows of a fix. Traded my v20 for this op3t and I'm more than happy so far, but all I'm getting is hspa+ for data. Called att and they said they needed to make a case to get LTE enabled.
Anything I can do to enable it myself?
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Hey I have LTE on my op3t, that's weird maybe some network settings
Its an att issue with unlocked non att phones. If you tell them its an official att phone from your past LTE will work fine. As long as you have the correct US version and not the international or Chinese version.
My LTE on H2O(att) is amazingly fast. But they have no idea what phone im using because they never ask
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Its an att issue with unlocked non att phones. If you tell them its an official att phone from your past LTE will work fine. As long as you have the correct US version and not the international or Chinese version.
My LTE on H2O(att) is amazingly fast. But they have no idea what phone im using because they never ask
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So how do I know if it's the correct us version?
Will32 said:
So how do I know if it's the correct us version?
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Hopefully you got it new from OnePlus and not from amazon or ebay or swappa. The LTE issue is probably just a nice benefit att offers its customers to keep you buying phones with att logos on them. Just tell them you went back to your old att phone and LTE will probably start working perfectly again.
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Hopefully you got it new from OnePlus and not from amazon or ebay or swappa. The LTE issue is probably just a nice benefit att offers its customers to keep you buying phones with att logos on them. Just tell them you went back to your old att phone and LTE will probably start working perfectly again.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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Just go for the OnePlus Store , you wont have any problems! i have got mine 2 weeks ago.
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Unfortunately it was Swappa, and it is Chinese. Luckily PayPal sided with me and I'm returning the phone to the seller. I'll be out the cost of shipping, but whatever. I'll be going to OnePlus website when the money is given back to me.
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You got it from these guys didn't you?
TheWirelessCircle
954wrecker said:
You got it from these guys didn't you?
TheWirelessCircle
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No it was an individual. Won't put his name here. He claimed that he had LTE working just fine on at&t.
Will32 said:
No it was an individual. Won't put his name here. He claimed that he had LTE working just fine on at&t.
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Oh ok I hope everything gets resolved quickly for you
I think i got scammed on Swappa also. Mate 9 on Saturday buyer in the same state. Tracking shows only a shipping label was created monday morning. Seller and swappa are not responding I guess I have to contact my credit card company. What a lousy company with lousy sellers Swappa is
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I think i got scammed on Swappa also. Mate 9 on Saturday buyer in the same state. Tracking shows only a shipping label was created monday morning. Seller and swappa are not responding I guess I have to contact my credit card company. What a lousy company with lousy sellers Swappa is
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That doesn't sound right. Swappa normally is very responsive when it comes to issues.
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daniel4653 said:
That doesn't sound right. Swappa normally is very responsive when it comes to issues.
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I get the feeling they have no way to help me besides instructions for me to go start a dispute regarding the transactions. I'd rather they just refunded me instead of making me waste more time.
Got my OP3T yesterday
Went and got a new sim from ATT
Needed to be turned on and off, but LTE popped right on
I'm on totally vanilla 7.0.0 nug I believe, def vanilla whatever it is
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I get the feeling they have no way to help me besides instructions for me to go start a dispute regarding the transactions. I'd rather they just refunded me instead of making me waste more time.
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My gut was right. The guy was a scam and swappa was extremely unhelpful. Took them forever to shut the guy down no matter how much evidence they had he was a scammer! Anyone know anyone who wants to do a story about how shady swappa is? I have so many screenshots and messages and saved web pages before they erased my messages. First and last time using swappa for sure
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My gut was right. The guy was a scam and swappa was extremely unhelpful. Took them forever to shut the guy down no matter how much evidence they had he was a scammer! Anyone know anyone who wants to do a story about how shady swappa is? I have so many screenshots and messages and saved web pages before they erased my messages. First and last time using swappa for sure
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That's terrible. Sorry to hear it. My issue is resolved. Swappa was super fast to refund my $15 fee, and PayPal was quick to refund me. Ordered my 128 gb op3t from oneplus website last night. Should be here Thursday. Thought about holding out for the oneplus 5, but I didn't want to wait.
I also noticed that they just made separate listings for the different op3t models. Hopefully nobody else has to go through what I did.
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I just bought a unlocked Sprint note 8 to use on at&t. Got a decent deal. Three days later it's coming up as blacklisted and the number for the guy is now out if service. Am I screwed or will I still be able to use it? Im currently using it with no problems
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I just bought a unlocked Sprint note 8 to use on at&t. Got a decent deal. Three days later it's coming up as blacklisted and the number for the guy is now out if service. Am I screwed or will I still be able to use it? Im currently using it with no problems
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You sure its unlocked?
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You sure its unlocked?
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Yes. It's a Sprint variant unlocked and I flashed the unlocked firmware on it
You got screwed. He double Dipped and also claimed on his insurance. Greedy scum doosh.
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You got screwed. He double Dipped and also claimed on his insurance.
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anything i can do with it? Its still working right now. Should i be prepared for it to stop working here shortly?
blane3298 said:
anything i can do with it?
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Sell it as USA blacklisted for overseas. So long as it's sim unlocked.
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Sell it as USA blacklisted for overseas. So long as it's sim unlocked.
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its sim unlocked. its still working on at&t right now
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anything i can do with it? Its still working right now. Should i be prepared for it to stop working here shortly?
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Was seller online or meet in person?
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Was seller online or meet in person?
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in person
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in person
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I can't promote violence on xda. But if that happened to me and ran into guy again. Hope he has aspirin for the next day. I take it you meet him through craigslist or something?
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I can't promote violence on xda. But if that happened to me and ran into guy again. Hope he has aspirin for the next day. I take it you meet him through craigslist or something?
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yeah it was a craigslist ad
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its sim unlocked. its still working on at&t right now
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eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
That way each mutal party will get a phone that will work on their corresponding country.
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eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
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might have to do that!
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might have to do that!
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Try the swap option first if poss. You get a black liwt listed euro phone and they get black listed USA phone. All happy
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Try the swap option first if poss. You get a black liwt listed euro phone and they get black listed USA phone. All happy
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wheres the best place to do that?
Limeybastard said:
eBay perhaps listing it available for Europe. If your lucky it'll sell for $400 minus fees , you'd end up with a smidge below $300.
If possible ,.try and swap it for a blacklisted unlocked UK or euro device.
That way each mutal party will get a phone that will work on their corresponding country.
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Good ideal but I wonder which site he would use to try and swap? And not get scamed? OP we seen another guy in another thread. Got scam with fake Note 8. Craigslist is full of douche bags who try stuff like this. Delete your craigslist app and never use again.
Use Offerup, Ebay, LetGo, FB ads, Amazon, etc. I will never use craigslist.
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wheres the best place to do that?
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That's a good question , I don't think there is anything to facilitate that. Shame as I've seen a few USA and UK blacklisted issues on this forum to date. Would have been nice if a swap took place to eliviate issues on both parties.
Perhaps a new market has now been envisaged .
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Yeah no more Craigslist lol
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Yeah no more Craigslist lol
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Yeah never ever deal with craigslist again. If you use another site pay attention to there feedback and details. If you buy anything that's expensive research the crap out of it. If you use other sites we suggested and lets say buy another phone. Have them meet you at your cell carrier. They will be able to tell you if it's stolen, locked, fake, etc.
Seller refuses then don't deal with them. Sites I have to deal with in person. If they don't have atleast 50+ reviews with 5 stars. I won't even bother dealing with them.
L0L 0wn3d