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Looking for XDA guy from Craigslist: I bought a Galaxy S2 from you

Hopefully this isn't against the forum rules.
I'm looking for someone, I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S2 from you off Craigslist yesterday. We were supposed to meet up today so I could pick up the box and accessories but I realized now that you don't have a phone anymore, I don't know how to reach you. You gave me your XDA username in case I needed to reach you but I'm an idiot and forgot it.
If you see this, could you PM me so I could get the box, the case piece, the receipt, charger, and extra battery from you?
Thanks

LOL and good luck.

If he sold you the phone I doubt he's in these forums any more.
Hercules Hercules!!

Do a search for his name...lawl missed that you lost his name.

this is literally the good'ol "looking for a needle in a haystack"
good luck buddy
i hope you haven't pay him yet

Yep, hope you didn't pay yet. Sounds like you hv the phone already though?
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Lol this is hilarious.
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Finally figured out his user name after a bunch of trial and error. Now hopefully he responds.
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manekineko said:
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Helllllll no! You're in deep now, boy! You keep us updated on this smart decision you made.

Now give us his username so we can all flood his inbox, lol.
Hercules Hercules!!

mettleh3d said:
Yep, hope you didn't pay yet. Sounds like you hv the phone already though?
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Lol, well, I paid him already.
But I do already have the phone, and the case, and the extra screen protector.
The box/receipt/extra part for the case/USB charger/extra battery seems like a weird thing to rip someone off over.
Heh, maybe I'll wait until tomorrow before I go nuts. From his XDA user name I found his Twitter and Google Plus accounts and contacted him on all of them. He's pretty active on XDA.
On the downside, he did mention when I met him yesterday he was leaving the country on Saturday....
On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....

Lol. You're kidding right?
manekineko said:
Lol, well, I paid him already.
But I do already have the phone, and the case, and the extra screen protector.
The box/receipt/extra part for the case/USB charger/extra battery seems like a weird thing to rip someone off over.
Heh, maybe I'll wait until tomorrow before I go nuts. From his XDA user name I found his Twitter and Google Plus accounts and contacted him on all of them. He's pretty active on XDA.
On the downside, he did mention when I met him yesterday he was leaving the country on Saturday....
On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....
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chib1panda said:
Lol. You're kidding right?
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If there's one silver lining to my situation, I suppose it's that it seems to be bringing joy to the people of this thread.
Sadly, everything I stated is true.

Wow, this story just gets better and better. Lucky for you, you can always do a warranty exchange if something is wrong with the phone.
Good luck!
Hercules Hercules!!

manekineko said:
On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....
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me think, me gonna faint

LMAO! This is too much! Schadenfreude overload...
Ok ok... Sorry... But that's just epic.
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Lol this guy is still a retard, why would he give his xda account
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cashyftw said:
Lol this guy is still a retard, why would he give his xda account
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+ 1 that's hilariously stupid
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tweak. said:
Helllllll no! You're in deep now, boy! You keep us updated on this smart decision you made.
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ahaha classic man! >.< well atleast all is well then. XD

Even though he sold you his phone, didn't he keep his sim card? his number should be unchanged...... unless he just totally went off the radar and decided he didn't need a cell phone anymore or switched providers without porting the number.

Easiest way to brick?

Ok I know some of you are probably wondering what type of question is this lol.. Last night I had a few drinks and dropped my phone, now I have a cracked screen at the bottom right of the phone. Called my friend (works at sprint) he said he can't swap it out just because of the screen but told me if I brick it he can swap it out, all I have to do is blame the new ota update when I come in so his manager gives the approval. So what's the fastest way to get a BLOD? Would removing the wire while running a sfhub OC do it?? I just can't live with a cracked screen ima go crazy!!!
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Yeah. In the middle of an Odin update remove the cable. That should do the trick.
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Haha yeah that's the way I bricked my beloved Fascinate T_T not on purpose though...
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Alrighty then. Thanks guys!!! So sad I'm doing this to my baby but I just can't deal with it, I feel like a bad husband who beats his lady
He said he can give me a discount on a gs3 but I'm not sure I want to make the jump. I love the phone but to leave Wimax when I have full coverage for an LTE device that probably won't see LTE for a year or two sounds dumb.. Think I'll just stick with another gs2!
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Or you can be an honest human being and actually pay for you're mistake.
But heaven forbid that huh?
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gilbydakid said:
Or you can be an honest human being and actually pay for you're mistake.
But heaven forbid that huh?
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Someone is jealous they don't have a hook up at Sprint I see.. You'll get over it! And it's *your mistake* Not you're! You're = You are :thumbdown:

"Hook up" at sprint is not equal to the "right" thing to do... I don't think he was jealous as much as he was pointing out what you are attempting to do could be considered/is fraud... I'm not passing judgment on you but perhaps if you're accident prone you may want to consider adding insurance to the line, which is the route many of us around here take... additionally no one is forcing you to live with a broken screen, replacements can be found on eBay for reasonable prices and to change it it's just 9 Phillips head screws and 3 cables to unplug/ replug... not super hard to do... lastly I hope I didn't accidentally mispell anything in this reply as I wouldn't want to feel the wrath of the grammer nazi fraudster...
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eh, no harm done, if anything he contributes to the increase of fees by Sprint to make up for this kind of losses

first world problems

RayTrue04 said:
Someone is jealous they don't have a hook up at Sprint I see.. You'll get over it! And it's *your mistake* Not you're! You're = You are :thumbdown:
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Yes, I'm jealous because you lack the intelligence to figure out something so trivial, I'm also jealous because "YOUS" to broke to pay to have a screen fixed. Also....I'm jealous that you have a friend that works for sprint, actually extremely jealous. I only have a brother and two close friends that work for sprint.
How does one go about getting only one friend that works for sprint and then begin to radiate this sprint branded swag that clearly creates uncontrollable amounts of jealousy because of said friend?
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I think some one needs to calm down. I don't have any friends at sprint...any more. I use to work for them but not as a phone tech but cell tower maintenance. The guy is looking to get hooked up. Good for him. I don't agree with it but to each their own.
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I think some one needs to calm down. I don't have any friends at sprint...any more. I use to work for them but not as a phone tech but cell tower maintenance. The guy is looking to get hooked up. Good for him. I don't agree with it but to each their own.
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"YOUR" absolutely right. Myself and others don't mind the cost of insurance going up because of false claims.
That's the problem with this world instead of holding people accountable for their actions, their stupidity is excused with acts such as these (eg. Ins cost goes up). Same concept as welfare. How many of us are ecstatic that our stolen tax dollars go to funding that?
/rant
I'll just keep my fingers crossed that he has rooted and flashed a ROM, so when he does brick and thinks he's pulling a fast one they see the binary and tell him to go orally stimulate a goat.
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g_ding84 said:
Yeah. In the middle of an Odin update remove the cable. That should do the trick.
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what he said

gilbydakid said:
"YOUR" absolutely right. Myself and others don't mind the cost of insurance going up because of false claims.
That's the problem with this world instead of holding people accountable for their actions, their stupidity is excused with acts such as these (eg. Ins cost goes up). Same concept as welfare. How many of us are ecstatic that our stolen tax dollars go to funding that?
/rant
I'll just keep my fingers crossed that he has rooted and flashed a ROM, so when he does brick and thinks he's pulling a fast one they see the binary and tell him to go orally stimulate a goat.
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Trust me I hate having to pay $100. Happened when I cracked my screen on my old Epic 4g. And ur rite this does bring up the cost. But so does joe on the street purposely smashing his phone because he wants a new one. Your preaching to the choir. Cheers bro. :beer:
Raytrue04: use a jig or triangle away to reset your binary counter. Before you brick it.
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Wow you guys still at it while I already have my new epic touch in hand lol. I have insurance for as long as I've been with Sprint, which is almost ten years now and I have only claimed twice before in the past.. I don't hear Sprint *****ing about all the money they have taken throughout the years for insurance I hardly ever use. Or how about these ****ty 3g speeds they give us? I don't hear Sprint saying they would give us a credit for all the money we put in their pocket for data which is barely usable.. Some of you are too funny! Acting like you the CEO of Sprint or something smh. It is what it is, if my thread bothers you find the x button and click it. :what:
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g_ding84 said:
Raytrue04: use a jig or triangle away to reset your binary counter. Before you brick it.
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I don't use roms im always stock rooted with sfhubs OC. I went back to eg30 non rooted then did all the ota's b4 I bricked it. Thanks tho!
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IBTL
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IB4TL lol
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g_ding84 said:
IB4TL lol
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Seems you have to, to be on XDA these days. I think that's why the mods have been cracking down like wardens.
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Double post, Wtf? Stupid Tapatalk...
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So I go to a repair center and here's what went down

I called today and made an appointment to see a sprint technician I go in and the manager stops me at the door and says can I help you with anything now any rooting veteran kn rows when u go into a repair center to play dumb so I said hum I have an appointment and he's like okay well come here and I'll look at the phone. That right there got me worried because and untrained cashier jockey was about to take a look at my phones sub port. The first mistake he made as I watched him carefully was he jammed his fingernail in the sub port and pryed the back cover off backwards and forcefully and almost throws my phone across the room. I wanted to say something but I did not want to spark him as he seemed to have attitude as it is. Well he outs a sub cable in ( first upsidedown) and he closely compares mine to the store cable I guess he doesn't know what micro sub looks like. And he says it charges just fine and decides to finally bring it to a technician and they ran a detailed test on my sub cable and determined it was frayed on the inside so I said to myself no buggy I then decided to ask if he cud do something about this crack in the screen bezel just about the volume rocker. And he employees and talks to me as if I'm 5 years old. The worst part is because he wasn't a technician I never got the survey call from sprint to rate his poor performance
Edit pleasebignor the subs* I opined back time stock today and you all know how shifty Samsung's spell check is
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...Huh?
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This is pointless Im a sprint technician and I'm sorry they way they treated you but I'm not sure what message your trying to convey here it was mostly gobberish
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Yeah im a tmobile technician and I didnt understand your point. Can you clarify?

Why was this thread started???

Well of course he treated you "like a 5 year old"... You were playing dumb and you probably over-played it.

Seriously, i wrote better than this and communicated myself across with more cohesion at 5 years of age. What exactly is going on here?
You took your phone into a Sprint store and..........???

ks2332 said:
This is pointless Im a sprint technician and I'm sorry they way they treated you but I'm not sure what message your trying to convey here it was mostly gobberish
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excuse my gibberish i angerly rage posted this on stock tw with the stock sammy keyboard and the spell checkis horrible basically what i was trying to say was that the manager tried to mess with my phone and failed , then gave up and went to a technition and then gave me attitude about it

I'm pretty sure I understand and that really really really sucks! I've always done my own repairs I will never trust someone else!
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matrixzone5 said:
excuse my gibberish i angerly rage posted this on stock tw with the stock sammy keyboard and the spell checkis horrible basically what i was trying to say was that the manager tried to mess with my phone and failed , then gave up and went to a technition and then gave me attitude about it
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Get swiftkey.
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jamcar said:
I'm pretty sure I understand and that really really really sucks! I've always done my own repairs I will never trust someone else!
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as do i amigo but this time would have been impossible as i could not tell wther my usb cord was funky or my usb port was damaged i also do not have the equipment to repair a busted usb port if that is at all possible.

yousefak said:
Get swiftkey.
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i didnt have time to i odin'd back to stock and ran out of the house

matrixzone5 said:
i didnt have time to i odin'd back to stock and ran out of the house
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Rooted phones are covered by sprint tep....no reason to play dumb
Definitely sounds like a communication issue.
Did they get you a new USB cable?
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00mred00 said:
Rooted phones are covered by sprint tep....no reason to play dumb
Definitely sounds like a communication issue.
Did they get you a new USB cable?
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thats tep im not paying 100 dollars for what could have been a bad usb port that wasnt my fault and no they did not get me a usb cable i actually didnt talk to a technician at all the manager was playing mr fixit with me and he told me i wud have to go buy a new usb cord. actually his exact words (he was american not indian nor hispanic he spoke perfect english no accents of any sort) "uhmm well uhh uhm you see this uhm this cord its uhh not good very bad so you need a new one its uhm cut inside and if you look at your uhm port (usb port) you can see that its bent (looked at it and compared to floor model mine was straight as a bullet).
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matrixzone5 said:
as do i amigo but this time would have been impossible as i could not tell wther my usb cord was funky or my usb port was damaged i also do not have the equipment to repair a busted usb port if that is at all possible.
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It's possible I've done it! It just takes a high level of a skill with a soldering iron and steady steady hands...
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I am very gud with a soldering gun I just don't have one with a thin enough tip to. E used on mobile electronics
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L2English

Enough posts about how shi** I spell when I'm pissed off please the topic is sprint treated me like dirt today and I'm pretty sure t
What the manager did could have been a big mistake on his part had he splipped up worse.
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matrixzone5 said:
Enough posts about how shi** I spell when I'm pissed off please the topic is sprint treated me like dirt today and I'm pretty sure t
What the manager did could have been a big mistake on his part had he splipped up worse.
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I have a good relationship with the tech supervisor at the local repair center. The thing that kicked it off was when I brought my OG Epic in back when I was trying to get MIUI on it (before MIUI was release for it), he thought it was pretty cool that I was tweaking the phone like that and asked me if I could do anything with his Evo......free service/repairs ever since, no questions asked.

shiftr182 said:
I have a good relationship with the tech supervisor at the local repair center. The thing that kicked it off was when I brought my OG Epic in back when I was trying to get MIUI on it (before MIUI was release for it), he thought it was pretty cool that I was tweaking the phone like that and asked me if I could do anything with his Evo......free service/repairs ever since, no questions asked.
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I had a similar situation with a technitian we would keep up with each other me being a Sammy fan boy and her being an HTC fanatic we always had good debates about which xhipset was more efficient and blab blah blah any ways she left sprint to go work for Microsoft and since then getting any sort of repair has been a living hell.
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HELP! Is Wifi permantly broken?

My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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lovenokia said:
My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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Physical damage can only be fixed by insurance claim. Will set your friend back 130 bucks. Now, the bigger issue is why would your friends mom stab a phone? Was he protecting himself with the phone from getting stabbed!?
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Physical damage can only be fixed by insurance claim. Will set your friend back 130 bucks. Now, the bigger issue is why would your friends mom stab a phone? Was he protecting himself with the phone from getting stabbed!?
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Extremely long story, basically she wanted to break the phone somehow. Is there any chance I could replace that part of the phone myself? Is it part of the motherboard or not? Thanks!
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Are you five?
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Move out?
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Smgdh
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Okay, can the WiFi be fixed? Sheesh it may be a really strange situation but I am not five... Some places the WiFi will work normally but very few of them
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lovenokia said:
Okay, can the WiFi be fixed? Sheesh it may be a really strange situation but I am not five... Some places the WiFi will work normally but very few of them
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XDA is great at fixing things, hacking and tweaking things.
but if you read all the threads here, you will soon realize 99.999999% of the things people do here are all software related.
You have physical damage done to the phone, there is really no way to figure it out..
Get a new or used phone!

fastfed said:
XDA is great at fixing things, hacking and tweaking things.
but if you read all the threads here, you will soon realize 99.999999% of the things people do here are all software related.
You have physical damage done to the phone, there is really no way to figure it out..
Get a new or used phone!
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+1 I honestly don't know if it can be fixed. Even so, it will be less trouble just to do a insurance claim, that is if you have it.
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If u have the technical knowhow then it's possible to fix it.. You could search YouTube and see what pops up in ways of some kind of tutorial /guide.. But if you are not the kind of person who knows how to do it then it would be way easier just to get it professionally repaired..
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+1 I honestly don't know if it can be fixed. Even so, it will be less trouble just to do a insurance claim, that is if you have it.
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Do you know what component would need to be replaced? The back cover of the phone is being eroded by the way. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
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lovenokia said:
Do you know what component would need to be replaced? The back cover of the phone is being eroded by the way. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
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Its the fact there is erosion that tells me you can't just replace a piece. How far has the erosion spread? Had it got to the motherboard?
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that component is eroding, and the back cover, the plastic one is close to having a hole into it.

lovenokia said:
My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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this is sad but very funny sorry haha dang she stabbed it?! thats insane..
what about replacing the wifi reciever.. once you smell the bad smell that seems like its cooked..

You sure it's not electrical current damage?

abesgs2 said:
this is sad but very funny sorry haha dang she stabbed it?! thats insane..
what about replacing the wifi reciever.. once you smell the bad smell that seems like its cooked..
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it has a very bad smell to it

Look up t989 teardown. It looks like that is not the WiFi module, but the signal lead. Seems like its part of the mother board I believe. None the less, if it's just a copper lead it should be repairable. Being exposed may be causing some shorting out leading to the damage and bad connection. Repairing may not make it perfect though.

I was trying to find a tear down video, but couldn't find one. What component would I have to change?

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I was trying to find a tear down video, but couldn't find one. What component would I have to change?
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a link to that component anyone, thanks a lot though

Chainfire;s GotBrickBug App.....

I know there's a lot of talk going on here about the EMMC bug and I'd seen an app somewhere at XDA for Chainfire's GotBrickBug App. Found it and ran it but i'm not sure if my replacement board is different from my bricked return but it's not in Chains database of EMMC chips that are suspect. Can anyone decipher this?
Chainfires thread with app - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27014974
I'll edit this post with the screenshot I took after running the app.

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Here is what I found from the Brick thread which is stickied in our forums.
Mattix724 said:
My new Epic 4G Touch that I just received from Samsung has a MAG2GA eMMC chip revision 0xE.
From what it looks like this was a brand new E4GT. If there is anything else I can help with just let me know.
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hakaz said:
So up to now we have 2 eMMC chip versions not on the patch list:
VIS00M found on GT-I9100 (int'l)
MAG2GA found on E4GT, GT-P6800
Maybe someone with a new N7000 can state its chip version too ... cheers.
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Here's a screenshot from the brick bug app.
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So does that mean the MAG2GA is the newest eMMC chip?
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Bump.
And MAG2GA appears to have the newer f/w revision that avoids the bug from what I've heard.
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Beautiful, I hope..
Thank You....
Maybe Samsung is putting new boards in later phones of the same model? My guess by this information is that they possibly knew about the issue pretty early in production because they wouldn't have just replaced chips midstream. I'm still gonna be a tad leary of doing too many wipes because Yes i did try more than 5 different roms so I'm pretty sure it was all the wipes. Funny that it bricked in the middle of just taking pictures.
Thank You....

I have the same results on my phone.
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Where is Radnor?
Where is Radnor, Ohio near? Wish I had those WiMax speeds here. I work in Canton and I hit 1 spot near Massillon for about a whole 5 seconds on the way to work. Spotty 3G at most and of course working in a steel mill pretty much scatters everything Sprint has. These guys on Verizon get LTE everywhere but I'm not gonna pay twice as much as I do now for LTE.
Sorry, just noticed Radnor is the server you connected to....

extreme sense said:
I have the same results on my phone.
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Is that a fairly new phone or a refurb replacement?

Teknician said:
Where is Radnor, Ohio near? Wish I had those WiMax speeds here. I work in Canton and I hit 1 spot near Massillon for about a whole 5 seconds on the way to work. Spotty 3G at most and of course working in a steel mill pretty much scatters everything Sprint has. These guys on Verizon get LTE everywhere but I'm not gonna pay twice as much as I do now for LTE.
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Central Ohio. 40 miles north of Columbus.

Uh that's near where I live in Loudonville (Mohican State Park). Be nice if you could pump some of that here. Yes, I drive 50 miles East to work 6 days a week to Canton and takes me an hour from here so maybe they could put a tower between here and Canton also.
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Teknician said:
Is that a fairly new phone or a refurb replacement?
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Just got it replaced two month ago. But they took it out of the box so it's a new phone
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Looks like there may be a modification from Samsung. Mine looks to be a refurb more than likely with a new motherboard. I'd bet Samsung has fixed the issue on new and motherboard refurbs. Just got it a little over a week ago after a week and a half of being backordered. Wish I would have seen what my last chip version was before it bricked.
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I got mine in July, brand new.
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AFAIK the new chips have had this issue put to bed.
Those still with the ones marked known - MAG4FA, for example - are still susceptible.
Hopefully though these will be put to bed with JB.
(JB sources, including the i9100 - have so far seemed to contain the official patch.)

So do you think the MAG2GA 0xE may be safe? I'd be willing to test this chip format and I'll make sure to post that in the General section. I did however, just last night flash Snipers PacMan after I made a backup of my Lightweight v0.5, did a little configuring and did a backup again with PAC. Now I'm back on my Lightweight by restoring from CWM. Couple more times of doing that may brick me with all the wipes. We'll see!!
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Teknician said:
So do you think the MAG2GA 0xE may be safe? I'd be willing to test this chip format and I'll make sure to post that in the General section. I did however, just last night flash Snipers PacMan after I made a backup of my Lightweight v0.5, did a little configuring and did a backup again with PAC. Now I'm back on my Lightweight by restoring from CWM. Couple more times of doing that may brick me with all the wipes. We'll see!!
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Considering the issue was known and fixed in the GNex - and that this is not in the official patch list - I have always considered the new eMMCs as not susceptible to the bug. That's not to say that good practices should still not be in order... but for most people the problem was proactively addressed by the community and should not be an issue.