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Would you buy it again?

Ok guys, here's my "delimma". I have an upgrade available to me. I've been wanting a gs2 since it came out in Europe. I had every intention of getting this within the first week it came out on tmo. BUT, reading about all the issues with lines on the screen, resolution, etc, I'm skeptical. It's basically going to be this phone or I'll cancel my line (I'm on a family line). I havent had a chance to play with one in person yet. So, in the meantime, I'm trying to gather opinions on the phone.
With all that being said, if you had a chance to relive Wednesday or whatever day you bought the gs2, would you buy it again?
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jburnette87 said:
Ok guys, here's my "delimma". I have an upgrade available to me. I've been wanting a gs2 since it came out in Europe. I had every intention of getting this within the first week it came out on tmo. BUT, reading about all the issues with lines on the screen, resolution, etc, I'm skeptical. It's basically going to be this phone or I'll cancel my line (I'm on a family line). I havent had a chance to play with one in person yet. So, in the meantime, I'm trying to gather opinions on the phone.
With all that being said, if you had a chance to relive Wednesday or whatever day you bought the gs2, would you buy it again?
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My phone is flawless and works perfect. I got mine through one of my partnerships shipped for around $200 while Tmobile its asking for almost $300. Pm me
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Yes I would

i dont have the access to another carrier and this phone is the best tmobil has so of course i got the best and i love it!!

Yes i would .Coming from vibrant running cm7 . Love this Damn thing

Definitely. My Iphone 4 got stolen two days ago, and yesterday I picked up this phone. Didn't even consider a 4S. Done with Apple and ready to get back into xda and the root world Tmo's 4G is amazing too.

i try to buy Samsung phones only. Samsung phones are slim and lightweight!
the lighter the phone, the more comfortable holding in hand!
the others is (H)eavy (Thick) (Craps) !

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(H)eavy (Thick) (Craps) !
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Haha couldn't have said it better.
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yup! I love the phone. More so then the G2X.

I would for sure. I think it's the best phone on T-Mobile and T-Mobile is the cheapest out of the major wireless providers for me.

I am eligible for an upgrade to my iPhone 3GS from AT&T. Picked up a Galaxy S II and ported my number over to TMO. Almost everything about this phone is better than my old iPhone. Couldn't be happier. Oh, and I'm paying less for my plan, too!

Yep, I can relate to some. I tried the epic 4g touch version on sprint. If I could swap the internals with that it would be more awesome. As it stands though, once root is here and I can tether I'll be stoked. As of right now I'm happy with it. It feels solid and has a professional look and feel to it.
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j0hnZ said:
Yep, I can relate to some. I tried the epic 4g touch version on sprint. If I could swap the internals with that it would be more awesome. As it stands though, once root is here and I can tether I'll be stoked. As of right now I'm happy with it. It feels solid and has a professional look and feel to it.
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Why is everyone saying they cant tether? I was tethering today
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Thanks for the input so far guys. Makes me feel like it is a great phone, worthy of a 2yr contract. keep the opinions coming.
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kennyp987 said:
Why is everyone saying they cant tether? I was tethering today
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Probably because they can't...why does everyone keep thinking that because it doesn't happen to them that it doesn't exist?
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kennyp987 said:
Why is everyone saying they cant tether? I was tethering today
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How did you manage that? I tried tethering today and the T-Mobile page showed up saying I had to get a tethering plan.

jburnette87 said:
Ok guys, here's my "delimma". I have an upgrade available to me. I've been wanting a gs2 since it came out in Europe. I had every intention of getting this within the first week it came out on tmo. BUT, reading about all the issues with lines on the screen, resolution, etc, I'm skeptical. It's basically going to be this phone or I'll cancel my line (I'm on a family line). I havent had a chance to play with one in person yet. So, in the meantime, I'm trying to gather opinions on the phone.
With all that being said, if you had a chance to relive Wednesday or whatever day you bought the gs2, would you buy it again?
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I'm going to give it a try again. The SGS2 was the phone I wanted from the git go. Sounds like the ones with the least amount of problems are the 9/28 boxes.
I'm going to give it one more chance tomorrow after I get off of work and I'll keep it over the weekend. I honestly really want to love the SGS2.
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I just used easytether on the market and tethered.

I would by it again times 10. It's an awesome phone.

Happy to say I took back the amaze and looked.at two 9/28's in a back room watching a dark movie off the SD with the lights off. no lines at all even with zero brightness
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Verizon warranty experience

I changed this into a my progress thread. I have verizon and insurance.
I tested everything on the phone over a 24hr period. And here is progress.
Still using phone 2 as of now.
Phone 1 - random reboots.
Phone 2 - proximity sensor failure, vertical banding
Phone 3 - 2-3 screen purple, loses full signal and data then comes back. Few times a day. Basically like a ping out. Timeout. Whatever.
Phone 4 - coming tomorrow 8-15 maybe this one will be good!
Phone four is good so far! No data drops. Good screen. Korean model.

imablackhat said:
okay so i have verizon, i went back stock to warranty my phone locked it back up and everything, called verizon and they are sending a refurb to my house overnight.
question is, i'm ocd about my phones, they say its a refurb and they don't know if its been used and has gone over a 100 point inspection. but has the screen ever been touched and such? scratched etc.??
im sending back because i have issues with proximity sensor in the phone and defect screen.
this is going to be my third replacement, my second however i did within the 14 days of buying the phone so they gave me a new one off the shelf.
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I have had 3 replacements. All looked new! No scratches just a little dust hahah. Had to send two back due to weak signal and loss of data. My third one works fine!
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imablackhat said:
okay so i have verizon, i went back stock to warranty my phone locked it back up and everything, called verizon and they are sending a refurb to my house overnight.
question is, i'm ocd about my phones, they say its a refurb and they don't know if its been used and has gone over a 100 point inspection. but has the screen ever been touched and such? scratched etc.??
im sending back because i have issues with proximity sensor in the phone and defect screen.
this is going to be my third replacement, my second however i did within the 14 days of buying the phone so they gave me a new one off the shelf.
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I've had 14 replacements. I've had only one that didn't look brand new and that was due to the protectors shifting when it shipped. They are pristine when you get them.
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I've had 14 replacements. I've had only one that didn't look brand new and that was due to the protectors shifting when it shipped. They are pristine when you get them.
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Holy crap.... 14 replacements? Why did you go through so many?
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I got my phone replaced once for screen ghosting. I'm almost certain this "refurb" is BRAND NEW. They even re-apply the oliophobic coat. I'm very pleased with Verizons return department and I'm pretty sure the lemons people got weren't verizons fault.
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Every time I get a refurbished from them it all ways has the plastic on the screen and plastic around the edges
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I got my phone replaced once for screen ghosting. I'm almost certain this "refurb" is BRAND NEW. They even re-apply the oliophobic coat. I'm very pleased with Verizons return department and I'm pretty sure the lemons people got weren't verizons fault.
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whats this coat your talking about?
my first replacement was within the 14 day period, my phone was randomly rebooting every day.
this is going to be my third nexus, this time proximity sensor doesn't function even after recalibration and such.
i'm just worried that i'm going to get a phone worse off then my current. since there are so many bad ones out there, and i've heard of horror stories of refurb nexus's on youtube and such.

I would trust a refurb from Verizon over a new unit. They're all tested thoroughly and any parts replaced are new...

You would think that however there are tons of people who go through more then four replacements trying to get a good one from Verizon. There are videos of un boxing and having issues from first power on.
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Foxy Roxy said:
Holt crap.... 14 replacements? Why did you go through so many?
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Everything from defective screens to a totally borked antenna. Got one scratched to hell too.
Adamallica said:
I would trust a refurb from Verizon over a new unit. They're all tested thoroughly and any parts replaced are new...
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i honestly don't believe this being I was sent a refurb that had a trashed antenna and couldn't ever receive signal.
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Got my first replacement today everything is working as intended so far.
Edit. Only thing I can find is sometimes radio timeout. I'm on jelly bean. And it'll say full service and 4G or whatever and then ill try to do something with Internet and ill lose service completely timeout and it'll reconnect.
Is this normal? Gonna test it for another day before I return.
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Got a gnex coming overnight from vzw to replace my gf's gnex with a faulty charger port
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when one reports to Verizon about a fault in the phone and they send you a refurb/recertified phone, do I send them my current phone first or I can just sit on it and ask for a replacement and just walk to a verizon store and return there?

Philosophre said:
when one reports to Verizon about a fault in the phone and they send you a refurb/recertified phone, do I send them my current phone first or I can just sit on it and ask for a replacement and just walk to a verizon store and return there?
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You have 5 days or so to ship the faulty phone back upon receiving your new phone. They pay for the shipping both ways. If it is faulty just tell them you have already wiped data etc....battery pull blah blah blah so they don't make u do it and you aren't tied up on the phone. So glad I pay the $6.99 for TEC from asurion on both my lines. This process the few times I have had to do it is relatively painless.
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Just delt with them again on the phone. The woman said I can mail it back tomorrow morning and they will mail the next one out before they receive the old return as in they are going to mail the next one tomorrow as well. Is this true or is she bs.?
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imablackhat said:
Just delt with them again on the phone. The woman said I can mail it back tomorrow morning and they will mail the next one out before they receive the old return as in they are going to mail the next one tomorrow as well. Is this true or is she bs.?
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I've had three phones out at once before so I guess so
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Next one comes in tomorrow! Woman on the phone said she flagged my number to make sure they do a good inspection since it's my fourth one. Haha okay lady.
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90% of warranty exchanges are garbage.

Finally got my Note II

Hot Dog....finally got my Note II. I've been waiting for Sprint to get a Note variant since they orginal Note first launched in Europe.
Came close to switching carriers a few times becuase Sprint never seemed to want to catch-up.
I'm glad I waited though.
The Note II is awesome.
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Congrats and welcome ! I'm hoping we have a very active community. Fingers are crossed!

got mine too ..... the sprint store only had 4 :victory:

Yes yes I have very high hopes for this community. This is the only phone I have bought on launch day along with all of the anxiety and anticipation to go along with it.
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Just got mine also! Oh man is this thing awesome. I've waited for something like this and had an Epic 4g slider the whole time.

I've been a bad boy, I know I shouldn't but the temptation is killing me. My Evo LTE will get push to the kid (hope I don't regret the switch). Now on to root and all.

I got one too.
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emagdnim082 said:
Just got mine also! Oh man is this thing awesome. I've waited for something like this and had an Epic 4g slider the whole time.
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Well, how's the difference? LOL....I too have the Epic 4g and have to wait until tomorrow to go to the Sprint store.
I am REALLY getting tired of the daily lockups/reboots.

Picked up mine a couple of hours ago. Loving it so far!
Everyone I work with is getting a kick out of it every time I get a call! "Look, Ricks talking to his laptop again."

HeroHTC said:
Well, how's the difference? LOL....I too have the Epic 4g and have to wait until tomorrow to go to the Sprint store.
I am REALLY getting tired of the daily lockups/reboots.
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This is my first full touch screen so it's really different as I could text without looking before. All I need is a hotspot workaround and this phone will be awesome! It makes the epic feel like an old Palm.

I have to wait until 12/1 for mine :crying:

He123321 said:
I have to wait until 12/1 for mine :crying:
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That sucks big time. Well at least you might get a better deal by that time.
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He123321 said:
I have to wait until 12/1 for mine :crying:
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Best buy price matches amazon and radio shack.

Glad you got yours! Just picked mine up a little bit ago and I love it.
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just got home with mine too. no white one unfortunately =/
i expected more activity in this section of the forum on release day i guess people will be getting theirs monday in the mail and/or over the weekend

twoeleven99 said:
just got home with mine too. no white one unfortunately =/
i expected more activity in this section of the forum on release day i guess people will be getting theirs monday in the mail and/or over the weekend
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Yea me too but they just opened this forum. Ive been lurking in the international one. So maybe this will pick up. Plus from what I can tell, the launch seemed very limited. Anyway, I have never seen a nicer phone outta the box. Put root on this sucker and ill be a happy camper!
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Wife and I got the only 2 white ones the store had... felt stupid being the only 2 there at 8 but it paid off when the next guy to come said they only would have 4 phones, 2 white and 2 gray. 4 people walked in and got sent away to look at other stores.

yeah all the stores i called said people bought them out when they opened the doors..then the store that had on left said that people were buying 3 and 4 of them at a time...didnt think this phone would be that popular..ive had the og evo, galaxy , galaxy s2 and about 4 or 5 other android devices as ive bounced around from carrier to carrier, and NEVER had a problem finding a store that had the phone i wanted until today.

First store I went to their lock broke on the cabinet holding the phones. They couldn't get into it to sell them. Drove another 10 minutes and got a grey one at another sprint store. Really liking it so far
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loveshinesthru said:
Best buy price matches amazon and radio shack.
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You know I will be shopping around for a deal

Discontinued Verizon Nexus what now?

So Verizon discontinued the Nexus today, and I was wondering what I would get if my phone was replaced by insurance through Verizon?

They might still have refurbished ones but ones those are dome they will offer u a different phone. No idea what.
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Well, I need $60 till I can buy a Nexus 4. Should have one in a couple weeks.
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Smokeey said:
Well, I need $60 till I can buy a Nexus 4. Should have one in a couple weeks.
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If they ever come back in stock for longer than an hour.
Since Verizon kick the gnex out, I wonder if Verizon is going to sweep your 4.2.1 update under the rug and act like they forgot about it.
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Esteway.619 said:
They might still have refurbished ones but ones those are dome they will offer u a different phone. No idea what.
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Heh, NOW you can REALLY forget about that android 4.2.x update for your GNEX....

That's what I was thinking too. Or we may not see for ungodly amount of time.

Doctor Dedroid said:
Heh, NOW you can REALLY forget about that android 4.2.x update for your GNEX....
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I really don't care if Verizon release it or not. Ive had 4.2.1 since it came out. I don't care if its not official or not. Lol.
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Esteway.619 said:
I really don't care if Verizon release it or not. Ive had 4.2.1 since it came out. I don't care if its not official or not. Lol.
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exactly, it's not like verizons going to bring anything groundbreaking out with the official 4.2.1 release, so really, who cares? i feel bad for the people who aren't into messing with their gnexs being stuck on 4.1.1 because verizons being a bunch of douches. as far as i'm concerned, i'm keeping this phone till it dies, and i might even buy another gnex after this one, as long as development is still rolling with it.

About two weeks ago I got mine replaced by verizon due to my phone having charging issues. I went into the store, didn't call before hand.
I had flashed back to stock before i went in. Told the girl there that it wasnt charging right and i have multiple batteries and they all do the same. she went to look up on some database if others were reporting similar issues (there were none). after giving her my phone number and 5 minutes later she said a replacement is on the way and to mail my old one back in the same box (shipping was paid for)
I was very pleased by how quick and painless it all was. She never touched or looked at my phone at all and asked hardly any questions. my phone also had a chip in the screen (about 2 cm at the bottom right, no cracks though)
the replacement phone had a sticker saying "like new" replacement but it was absolutely pristine. absolutely 100% perfect cosmetically and works great as ever (screen colors seemed better than my original one imo).

As with my luck with CNL devices, I've had nothing but problems with them from Verizon,GNex included. Hope you got a good one.

[Q] Warranty

If T-Mobile stopped caring the Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue 16 GB and replaced it with the Titanium Grey version; and a manager said the warranty replacement is on backorder; and the Pebble Blue hasn't been in stock for at least 2 months, does that mean I will still get a Pebble Blue one since it was my original phone?

nviz22 said:
If T-Mobile stopped caring the Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue 16 GB and replaced it with the Titanium Grey version; and a manager said the warranty replacement is on backorder; and the Pebble Blue hasn't been in stock for at least 2 months, does that mean I will still get a Pebble Blue one since it was my original phone?
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If they don't have it in stock they will send you the titanium gray. Login to your my T-Mobile account and look under orders to see what they ordered for you.
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My bet is you will still end up with blue. Maybe out of stock for new but I'm sure there are plenty of rebuilt ones for warranty replacement. Usually when you return a phone it goes to a rebuild factory and get a few things replaced like charger port and power button and things like that. and than they use those for replacement. Of cause I'm not talking about "recent purchase" but warranty replacement. Keep us posted.
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myowin said:
My bet is you will still end up with blue. Maybe out of stock for new but I'm sure there are plenty of rebuilt ones for warranty replacement. Usually when you return a phone it goes to a rebuild factory and get a few things replaced like charger port and power button and things like that. and than they use those for replacement. Of cause I'm not talking about "recent purchase" but warranty replacement. Keep us posted.
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He was told that they are out of stock on refurbished blue s3's. They don't give new phones for warranty replacements so they wouldn't have told him their inventory on them. This happened to me with my s2. They were out of refurbished black ones so they sent me a brand new white one. It depends on how long it is going to take for them to get you the original color/how far backordered they are.
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I just hot off the phone with t Mobile. Not real happy. They are out of stock on s3. They are back ordered with no eta. I asked is there a different color or something else they can do? She was no help. Ill be leaving town Monday and looks like ill have to dig up an old RAZR i have somewhere. Very disappointed in Tmobile. Pay warranty and insurance month after Month after Month. Need a replacement one time and this is the service they deliver. Shame on you rmobile. Pi$$ poor.
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I actually just talked to them today to replace my white one. After issues I had with a waaranty replacement they offered me a brand new one but since they are completely out of the white one they offered me the titanium. I don't care about the color its the same phone. I didn't care for the blue ...so . but they lady told me as far as she knew the white was out of stock and they only had the gray or blue but blue was backordered. I must have gotten the. Last titanium . . Maybe they are getting rid of the. For the lte version.
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I begged would they send whatever color they had. Ill be gone Monday for 2weeks and need a phone with net. Now I'm stuck with my old centennial wireless moto flip phone from about 8yrs ago.
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Maybe they are getting rid of the. For the lte version.
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Dang, but the silver lining might be that you get a T999L model as warranty replacement due to their inability to provide a T999 model. Just have to wait until April to receive your replacement phone.

SeaFractor said:
Dang, but the silver lining might be that you get a T999L model as warranty replacement due to their inability to provide a T999 model. Just have to wait until April to receive your replacement phone.
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Well for me actually they overnighted it. So I'm getting my replacement new phone Friday 22. It'll be a new phone not refurb. Huge conflict spending three days with customer care and loyalty dept.
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I called Tuesday got a blue one on Friday......
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Called last Friday and got my issuance replacement Tuesday. They ran out of the s2 so I got and upgrade to the white s3 . Lucky me, though it's a refurbished Chinese one
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Still waiting for mine to be shipped. Ridiculous service for 799 insurance
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Got my titanium yesterday earlier than expected and it looks way awesome compared to the white. Also got credited back the full price of thebphone and what I spent shipping back my n4. 0pretty good day for me. Almost 5 calls to tmobile in less than 3 days. But glad that mess is over.
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I'm getting absolutely livid. Still no phone shipped. Ill be leaving town now with out a phone I'm paying for.
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mike102871 said:
I'm getting absolutely livid. Still no phone shipped. Ill be leaving town now with out a phone I'm paying for.
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They sent my phone to me on the 21st. I got a bad IMEI and I still cannot get it unblocked. They told me 48 hrs on 3/21, 24 hrs on 3/23, and then 24 hrs on 3/25. Sounds like they cannot do jack for me. I have to wait till like 6pm ET tomorrow if not, call and get them to send me another phone and I sent this POS back to T-Mobile. My parents are pissed that T-Mobile is treating my like crap. $400 for an S3 that I paid out of pocket from work during the summer down the drain. Bad luck for the college student, smh.