I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones who has to send this phone in for repair.
Going there this morning..
My question is to those that have received their phones back. Any indication that the repair done has anything done different to the phone?
I mean, if they are just replacing the defective guts with essentially the exact same guts but working, does that not mean it will just happen again (SD Failure)?
Or did they actually change something within the phone to make it more durable and essentially eliminate what brought it to them in the first place?
Hopefully someone in the know could answer this... pointless to repair something with another soon to fail board or sd card.
that is a very good question, of all the phones i sent in for repair and got back
they kept their original IMEI numbers
they all came back with replaced PCB (motherboard) and cause of failure is "No Power"
by that i figure out they mean, it does not charge when you plug in the USB cable to the phone after it dies.
it seems like whatever controls the internalSD also controls the USB charging of the phone
so the problem might not really be with the internal SD but rather the power relay that supplies power to the internal SD and battery charge.
greeced said:
I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones who has to send this phone in for repair.
Going there this morning..
My question is to those that have received their phones back. Any indication that the repair done has anything done different to the phone?
I mean, if they are just replacing the defective guts with essentially the exact same guts but working, does that not mean it will just happen again (SD Failure)?
Or did they actually change something within the phone to make it more durable and essentially eliminate what brought it to them in the first place?
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This is a great point allgamer.
However fact still remains... if they are swapping out the guts for identical, but working internals, that defeats the purpose of actually correcting the problem as the problem will surely pop up again.
Lets hope it doesnt.. but this phone doesn't seem like a good candidate for constant flashing the way my old HTC Touch Diamond was. Especially if you're doing it with ODIN, you may not have a leg to stand on come out of warranty claims.
At least if you flash something with KIES, because it was an "official" update provided by samsung. So if the phone goes corrupt, you can yell to the heavens and they'd have to fix it, because essentially they corrupted your phone.
It would be great to get some feedback from other members who received their phone back from repair. I wonder if one of those members had the SD go corrupt again with the new Motherboard in place.
So.. after hours and hours of toiling with my buddies GT-i9000M (Bell Version), we were unable to fix the "Unable to mount to External SD Card. Mount point incorrect." notice, despite flashing different firmware, utilizing the the Flashing of Kernal in Recovery then connecting through adb shell and typing in those various commands.. Nothing worked! Referring to this method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845708)
So long story short. The same day my buddies i9000 broke the same thing happened to mine. I thought mine was done for. So all I did was flash the stock rom (JH2) in my case through odin with .512 pit and I didn't click "Re-Partition" and voila!! EVERYTHING WAS BACK TO NORMAL AND GOOD. No "Unable to mount to External SD Card" (aka Corrupted Internal SD Card) notice for me.
So the question is.. Should I keep this phone? Or sell it? This is the second restart in 2 months. (Screen goes black all of a sudden with two capacitive lights on at the bottom, and appears to be frozen. Only way to restart phone is to pull battery.)
My concern is... Whether or not the days are being counted until my i9000 faces the same demise of my friends i9000.. Reason is, I don't want to be left with a lemon.. Especially since there isn't a SOLID fix for this "SD Internal Failure" issue yet. (dont think there will be).
I purchased this phone used, so I have no warranty or company to fall back on to go for returning purposes.
What do you think? Someone with knowledge of this, or the same experience.. Please let me know your opinion.
Thanks!!
if you read through the entire topic, it does say it only works for soft problem, but not if it's an actual hard fail
if it is corrupted it can be fixed
if the PCB is dead, send it to Bell for repair, make sure you have a receipt / invoice from the original purchase if not they wont even care to look at your phone
I'd really like this question to be answered too. I mean i spent a lot of money.
I recommend you don't tell them you are not the original owner. Just act like you own the thing and scream like a little girl if they refuse you. Also saying it was a gift by someone helps i'm hoping
Oh believe me I did read through all the topics and the PCB wasn't dead, as I read your post already from previous threads about this.
But, for a hardcore noob, such as myself I was unable to do anything substantial to revive my friends phone. My phone on the other hand, which I am talking about in this topic, was solved by a simple flash through odin with stock 2.1 firmware.
But just sold phone, byebye. No more issues for me I hope?
Hi,
First of all, I am sorry if this is a long post; I just want to tell everything that has happened for clarity.
A month back, my phone (Xperia Z1) fell on the bathroom floor and the screen got badly damaged. I took it to the Sony authorized service center and they told me that since my warranty period is over, I should pay for the replacements. Since the authentic parts were not cheap, I took it to another place in the city where they do cheap electronic repairs with second quality hardware. Sure enough, one guy told me that he can fix the phone and i have to change the display and touch. And he quoted me a price which was a third of what the Sony guys said. I asked him to do it. He asked me to come and collect the phone later on the day, but since I am very paranoid about all the security issues (all kinds of shady things happen in this place), I told him I'll just stay there till he's done. After he installed the parts, He turned the screen on and it said, "android is loading.." with the android logo. Like when we update or install ROMs. I wasn't sure why a system update or anything software related was needed to change the display. I asked him this and he told me that since this was a phone with non removable battery, when we remove and put it back, this will happen. I was actually thinking that he might be putting some cheap board from some other used phone and will finally give me a formatted phone saying he coudnt retrieve the data. I was paranoid for some time but when he switched it on, all my data were there. All well and good.
Last week, unfortunately, i dropped my phone again and the back glass panel cracked. This time i thought I'll order the part online and assemble it myself. So, i started watching YouTube videos on how to dissassemble and reassemble Xperia Z1. And then I noticed, in all the videos, they removed all the parts and put it back together, and when they started the phone, Sony logo appeared. Normal Loading screen. No "Android is Loading" part. This is when i started getting paranoid. Did he install some spyware on my phone? Is there any way to find out? I coudn't find anything suspicious in the installed or system apps list. My bootloader is not still locked. If it indeed is being tracked, Is there any way to remove it? I've done factory reset a couple times after that, that doesn't fix it, does it? Should i do a clean firmware reinstall. Please Guide me. Could he be tracing my phone for a month? I have had a lot of personal stuff on my phone and i would not like those to be compromised. Or, am i being too paranoid and it does actually happen when you change hardware?
Please please help..Sorry for the long post.. Hope you understand
First of all, STOP DROPPING YOUR GOD DAMN PHONE!
Second, you won't see anything when they install spyware or malware, that's the beauty of it, and yes, you are being paranoid.
Third, not that it's necessary, flash it with flashtool, make a backup of data (Images and Videos) to someplace ( Cloud, preferably) and then download the latest FTF and flash it, make sure to wipe data and every other partition (boo).
Fourth, stop watching too many "hacking" movies.
Hello all,
So heres my problem, i bought a Note 8 super cheap from a Rent-a-Center due to cracked back case, so i took it a person in the mall that was able to replace the back cover for me.
I then took my phone home and my kid was playing with it, a few mins later he hands it to me asking to fix, he'd put a lock on and not known what the passcode was i reset the phone....
This was my mistake, as when it came back on it asked for an email address to login with, so i entered my gmail address. didnt work. i then did some looking online to find that my kid had some how turned on the Google protection, and put in an email into it.. so i took my Note 8 with my receipt to the Samsung store who said they could remove the FRP lock as i had the receipt..
2 days later i get a phone call saying they cannot fix the FRP due to the case not being the original case.
So thats how i ended up here, because i now have my phone that i love and wanted to mod or tweak, and been reading up on it..
But now i'm stuck as i dont know enough, and no one wants to help because its not the original case, i do have the imei number etc.. but doesnt seem to matter for Samsung.
I've tried everything that i can find online about FRP locks on Note 8 without any success....
I would be grateful if someone could either help or point me in the right way.
I dont mind reading and trying things to get this fixed. but sadly i dont know enough about the note 8.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice on how to fix this.
Graham
bitsbb01 said:
Hello all,
So heres my problem, i bought a Note 8 super cheap from a Rent-a-Center due to cracked back case, so i took it a person in the mall that was able to replace the back cover for me.
I then took my phone home and my kid was playing with it, a few mins later he hands it to me asking to fix, he'd put a lock on and not known what the passcode was i reset the phone....
This was my mistake, as when it came back on it asked for an email address to login with, so i entered my gmail address. didnt work. i then did some looking online to find that my kid had some how turned on the Google protection, and put in an email into it.. so i took my Note 8 with my receipt to the Samsung store who said they could remove the FRP lock as i had the receipt..
2 days later i get a phone call saying they cannot fix the FRP due to the case not being the original case.
So thats how i ended up here, because i now have my phone that i love and wanted to mod or tweak, and been reading up on it..
But now i'm stuck as i dont know enough, and no one wants to help because its not the original case, i do have the imei number etc.. but doesnt seem to matter for Samsung.
I've tried everything that i can find online about FRP locks on Note 8 without any success....
I would be grateful if someone could either help or point me in the right way.
I dont mind reading and trying things to get this fixed. but sadly i dont know enough about the note 8.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice on how to fix this.
Graham
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This is a clasic issue. The most people take off the oem unlock or have a samsung account problem. When the phone restars boom is lock by frp. I have lock my note 8 too before 7 months. You can fix the frp lock very easy. You need to download an official note 8 stock rom. https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note8/SM-N950U/ or search into xda for note 8 stock rom if you cant download from this site. When you download the stock rom you need to download the flash tool https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/official-stock-firmware-update-odin-t3677072 when you have download the rom and the flash tool. You are ready to flash the stock rom. How to flash the stock rom? You want a pc and a note 8 usb cable and a note 8 more than 80% charged. Follow this steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPAgVic9GRM very easy way. You dont need more than 10 minutes to fix the frp lock.
flah a stock rom with odin
zx1202 said:
flah a stock rom with odin
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i flashed its using odin, with a stock rom downloaded, and said it passed. but when i go into the phone to activate it still wants the google email. so it didnt work, i dont know what i did wrong as it said passed in odin, took like 10 mins to install the stock rom using odin. but still cant get into the phone..
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i flashed its using odin, with a stock rom downloaded, and said it passed. but when i go into the phone to activate it still wants the google email. so it didnt work, i dont know what i did wrong as it said passed in odin, took like 10 mins to install the stock rom using odin. but still cant get into the phone..
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If you can remember the email used, you can recover the password via Google, so you can login on your phone...
Just putting a google account on the phone enables FRP. Flashing with Odin or factory resetting the phone is what FRP lock is for... Factory Reset Protection.
You won't get much support here on this issue as it comes across as a stolen/found phone.
stonedpsycho said:
If you can remember the email used, you can recover the password via Google, so you can login on your phone...
Just putting a google account on the phone enables FRP. Flashing with Odin or factory resetting the phone is what FRP lock is for... Factory Reset Protection.
You won't get much support here on this issue as it comes across as a stolen/found phone.
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if you read my first post, i have the receipt for the phone, it was my kid who was playing with the phone before i had it activated as didnt think he really could do much damage, and if he did mess it up, i could just flash it. Samsung and ifixit said they could remove the frp as i have the receipt, however due to the case being replaced, they will not do anything now due to not the original case. so either i have a paperweight that is useless or someone knows a way round, or can give me someone that i can show the receipt to that will fix it..
Rent-a-center cannot do anything to unlock as its an frp and they said to contact samsung, i contact samsung who tell me to goto ifixit and they can do it, i goto ifixit and they said on the phone that can fix, but in person they say they cant fix due to not original case.
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if you read my first post, i have the receipt for the phone, it was my kid who was playing with the phone before i had it activated as didnt think he really could do much damage, and if he did mess it up, i could just flash it. Samsung and ifixit said they could remove the frp as i have the receipt, however due to the case being replaced, they will not do anything now due to not the original case. so either i have a paperweight that is useless or someone knows a way round, or can give me someone that i can show the receipt to that will fix it..
Rent-a-center cannot do anything to unlock as its an frp and they said to contact samsung, i contact samsung who tell me to goto ifixit and they can do it, i goto ifixit and they said on the phone that can fix, but in person they say they cant fix due to not original case.
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I understood the OP... I stand by my comment.
I Honestly think that changing the back cover does not constitute any type of violation to consider not servicing a lawful owner, the only really important factor always is LEGAL OWNERSHIP PROOF
these posts about bypassing frp appear from time to time, and always are from people that never return to post anything again
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if you read my first post, i have the receipt for the phone, it was my kid who was playing with the phone before i had it activated as didnt think he really could do much damage, and if he did mess it up, i could just flash it. Samsung and ifixit said they could remove the frp as i have the receipt, however due to the case being replaced, they will not do anything now due to not the original case. so either i have a paperweight that is useless or someone knows a way round, or can give me someone that i can show the receipt to that will fix it..
Rent-a-center cannot do anything to unlock as its an frp and they said to contact samsung, i contact samsung who tell me to goto ifixit and they can do it, i goto ifixit and they said on the phone that can fix, but in person they say they cant fix due to not original case.
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The fact that you have a receipt doesn't mean anything to us on here because we didn't give you the receipt and anybody can easily make one nowadays.. You're saying that they won't touch your phone because it's not the original case? I talked to someone I know at IFixit and was told that the case has nothing to do with it since the phone doesn't need to be opened up anyway in order to remove the FRP (Factory Reset Protection) You also said.. "I then took my phone home and my kid was playing with it, a few mins later he hands it to me asking to fix, he'd put a lock on" It would take a lot more than "playing" with it to magically end up with a gmail account and password on it.. Your kid would actually HAVE to HAVE a gmail account.. What you're saying isn't holding much water and it's exactly why we don't help people bypass the FRP security lock..
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The fact that you have a receipt doesn't mean anything to us on here because we didn't give you the receipt and anybody can easily make one nowadays.. You're saying that they won't touch your phone because it's not the original case? I talked to someone I know at IFixit and was told that the case has nothing to do with it since the phone doesn't need to be opened up anyway in order to remove the FRP (Factory Reset Protection) You also said.. "I then took my phone home and my kid was playing with it, a few mins later he hands it to me asking to fix, he'd put a lock on" It would take a lot more than "playing" with it to magically end up with a gmail account and password on it.. Your kid would actually HAVE to HAVE a gmail account.. What you're saying isn't holding much water and it's exactly why we don't help people bypass the FRP security lock..
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firstly heres a copy of the receipt, which Phil at Ifixit (402-932-0187) in Nebraska Furniture Mart confirmed, as he called the store and came into the store on his day off and talked to me and Justice Keene at the store.
https://mega.nz/#!tlkxHAIA!r4ooTH9Scy9yVwrPzk8b9gSY4OiNs4gK3xPWNL1Av5Y
as u can see the shop owner wrote on the receipt, included her business card, as the information..
That was confirmed by Tim in person and on the phone. He told me bluntly in the store that he would have been able to do it, but as the back cover doesnt have the imei on number on the sticker, samsung wont fix it.
I've put in a complaint to Samsung concerning not being able to help due to the cover. I've also written a complaint to Ifixit at Nebraska Furniture Mart concerning this.
I really dont care if someone even wants to call Ifixit in Nebraska to ask, or call Rent a Center on (402) 408-0710 to confirm that i bought the phone from them.
As i didnt steal or find the phone, i have everything i need including Rent a Centers information, and best part is, if anyone knows anyone in Rent a center, with the IMEI number they can confirm it was a cash sale made at omaha 90th and mapple store.
all i want is someone to help, or if someone knows someone in Samsung, or Ifixit that will help, as the store in Nebraska Furniture Mart doesnt want to help.
you for one thing, should/ must figure out which email your son allegedly registered, as it must indeed be a valid one, as for finding someone here to help you, I think no one is going to, if everything you say is true, I wish you good luck
bitsbb01 said:
i flashed its using odin, with a stock rom downloaded, and said it passed. but when i go into the phone to activate it still wants the google email. so it didnt work, i dont know what i did wrong as it said passed in odin, took like 10 mins to install the stock rom using odin. but still cant get into the phone..
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try to flash with data wipe
So after taking it back to the rent a center store. They ended up sending it to the service center who unlocked it for me. Got it back today, so took some time, but now got it working.
I hate these threads because I always assume the device is stolen, but in this case my friend left his S10 here last night and I cannot access his phone book to let him know where it is (He won't remember)
I can't reset it because it has all his pics on it
Any other way?
It does not even ask for a PIN
Wait, why not just call or text him from your phone? Why do you need his phone contacts to let him know? Sorry to attack you like this but to me it looks shady and I'm pretty sure he'll notice losing a 1000€ phone
Not to point out the obvious, but if the OP has the persons phone, calling it would just ring the phone that he already has and can't unlock.
Oh come on. This really doesn't sound legit too me at all.
Go to your friends home and give him his phone? Call their landline if they have one and tell them? Call your other friends and ask if they have details of how to let them know you have the phone?
I see absolutely no benefit of unlocking your friends phone, which in fact would not help at all.