Just curious if anyone has tried this before.
Essentially, I'm leaving for vacation in a few days and wanted to snag a new S3 before I leave to replace my iPhone 4. My iPhone is currently acting up and don't want to be without a phone/camera my entire trip. I also want to experience what the 4g coverage is like in my area, otherwise I'll move to Verizon. The kicker is, I won't be back until 2 days prior to the 30 day return policy, so I really won't get to test it out at work and such.
I have been a customer for 10 years (I'm old), and I'm going to try to get the S3 for $99 like others had, but I'm hoping they will give me a 45 day return policy (sort of like BB's Premium member policy). Just curious if anyone has tried this and had any luck with the idea of a 45 day return policy?
Usually if you scream at the supervisor they would do it
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Generally the return policy is pretty firm, so I highly doubt they would do that.
S3 rocks and I used to be Apple Only and I have broadened my horizons
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Hmmm. Has anyone tried it?
Return policy is very firm, I know people that have tried and never succeeded. If there is an ATT store where your going to can always return it there. You wont beable to test LTE in your area since your gone anyways. Verizon LTE is nice since its everywhere, my buddy gets around 6-9mb down average. I get 4-6mb down on HSPA. ATT lte can hit over 50mb in some markets, average 15-25 dpending on market so its faster.
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So you're going away for 28 days? Cant you find an At&t store wherever youre going and get one there in 2 weeks so you'll also have time to test at work when you get back?
I would definitely not expect at&t to treat you special, or at least I wouldnt trust them so wouldnt risk it.
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As a manager in retail I am less likely to help a customer when they do arrogant things like this. Just my 2 cents....
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My mother returned hers a few days after the period was up but she had to fly out of country for a loss in the family. I guess you just need a good manager and reason.
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Still the return policy is pretty firm, you would know if you liked the device within that period of vacation and if your 2 days early wouldn't you know how reception was within that time? I mean I understand taking time to like the phone but reception is a pretty instant thing.
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Hey folks.
I guess I will have to find a ATT store on my vacation. Reception is important, we have deadpsots in our building from some reason. Verizon has one terrible spot where no one gets reception. I want to see if it's my iPhone or they're network thats causing the issue, and that will allow me to determine whether I switch to ATT. NO biggy, I'll just have to find a store in vacation like someone said.
Don't forget to walk with everything that came with it (box, receipt, etc.) so it's less hassle if you exchange or return it.
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The only way to take the contract off after the 30 days is to manually remove the contract and if you do that you could mess up the eligibility, so if someone says they can do it don't wait just return the phone within the 30 days.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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I just got a letter terminating me from sprint for roaming. I'm not going to lie at first I wanted this and roamed a lot, that was the first two months into my contract. Now I love my phone and coverage is better but I just got kicked. I'm so upset but I guess I asked for this. I have until April 4 to change. I'm going to miss this phone. If I flash it to metro can I still use custom roms?
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you could still flash custom roms no matter if you put it on metro or boost cricket or even virgin mobile
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I just got a letter terminating me from sprint for roaming. I'm not going to lie at first I wanted this and roamed a lot, that was the first two months into my contract. Now I love my phone and coverage is better but I just got kicked. I'm so upset but I guess I asked for this. I have until April 4 to change. I'm going to miss this phone. If I flash it to metro can I still use custom roms?
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Sorry to hear that man, gotta ask what was your data usage lookin like.
It was like 1gb 200 minutes one month it was 2gbs on 3g the next month . So mms will still work on boost if I use custom roms...
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Will of fire said:
I just got a letter terminating me from sprint for roaming. I'm not going to lie at first I wanted this and roamed a lot, that was the first two months into my contract. Now I love my phone and coverage is better but I just got kicked. I'm so upset but I guess I asked for this. I have until April 4 to change. I'm going to miss this phone. If I flash it to metro can I still use custom roms?
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I had a e4gt flashed to cricket and every rom I tried worked great! MMS is tricky but just do some research and you'll find a way. Good luck:thumbup:
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I had a e4gt flashed to cricket and every rom I tried worked great! MMS is tricky but just do some research and you'll find a way. Good luck:thumbup:
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Yeah I figured it would. I don't want another phone.everything but 4g will work and I can stay on blendz ics I hope
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Out of curiosity, since they terminated you, are you able to keep you number when you switch to a new carrier?
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Out of curiosity, since they terminated you, are you able to keep you number when you switch to a new carrier?
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Yes I have to get it portes , they said it takes up to 24 hours.
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Yes I have to get it portes , they said it takes up to 24 hours.
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That's what I wanted to hear. I guess I better force a different PRL this weekend and start using it
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That's what I wanted to hear. I guess I better force a different PRL this weekend and start using it
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Why? Sprint not cutting it for you?
If its any consolation the epic touch has great resale value. Maybe sell it and get the note with crappy at&t or galaxy nexus on Verizon. I'm currently using mine on Cricket and it fits my needs. Thinking of going with sprint once lte is available in my area.
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Why? Sprint not cutting it for you?
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Speeds are declining fast for me. Youtube vids buffer every 10 seconds for 30 seconds. I still have over a year on contract so I may exercise my "right" to get out of it
Thinking about it a little more, I just may want a new phone and sprint doesn't have any announced right now. I usually get a new phone every 6 months or so.... That Note is calling my name
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Thinking about it a little more, I just may want a new phone and sprint doesn't have any announced right now. I usually get a new phone every 6 months or so.... That Note is calling my name
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I was looking at that note its so big. though. I think I'll use my phone on boost or what's the best signal carrier I can use it on
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If were going to consider any new device that's coming soon (which I'm not), it would be the HTC One-X. The Note is too big for me. The form factor of the E4GT is my limit.
Haha I would love the note on sprint or my future is probably verizon since i want to move to the middle of nowhere. My max form factor is 8 inches. Steve Jobs could have started a clothing line dedicated to "Hummer" phones and made another billion instead of whining that no one would buy one.
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Haha I would love the note on sprint or my future is probably verizon since i want to move to the middle of nowhere. My max form factor is 8 inches. Steve Jobs could have started a clothing line dedicated to "Hummer" phones and made another billion instead of whining that no one would buy one.
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Hehe you said 8 inches
Do you still have to pay the early termination fee? If not I'm thinking about doing that..just to break contract with sprint. I'm thing the GS3 is coming to att and plus it support LTE unlike sprint only have two phone that will be coming out which support.
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Do you still have to pay the early termination fee? If not I'm thinking about doing that..just to break contract with sprint. I'm thing the GS3 is coming to att and plus it support LTE unlike sprint only have two phone that will be coming out which support.
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no I don't have to pay the early termination fee. Just the final bill since my cycle started already.
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I'm curious if Sprint is going to let you migrate that number over to Boost (Sprint owns Boost).
Also, I also wonder if you can get the E4GT over on Boost without doing some, how shall I say, questionable tatics.
Hi.
I bought this phone 3 days ago. It's all stock. Untouched!
I am having reception issues at my house.
I have spent hours with t-mobile reps.
Finally they admitted that my house location is "borrowing signal" from other carriers, as they have no tower here. So i am borrowing from AT&T and (could it be - verizon?? that's what the rep told me in any case).
In any case, is this a legitimate way of leaving the contract i signed? Obviously I can't keep using T-Mobile.
Also, if it is a legitimate cancellation reason, what is going to be done with my phone itself? Do I need to ship it back? Do I get to keep it?
Thank U all !!!
Unless u paid retail for the phone, im sure it still belongs to the carrier? I do believe its a legit reason for tmobile to cancel the contract tho.
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You just signed the contract 3 days ago? You have 2 weeks to back out of the contract.
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You just signed the contract 3 days ago? You have 2 weeks to back out of the contract.
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ironically, i just moved! so i had the contract for 5 weeks now.
I have one bar at my house but I couldn't care less...I use wifi calling. Is that an option for you?
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I have one bar at my house but I couldn't care less...I use wifi calling. Is that an option for you?
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No. To be honest, it's partly a matter of principle - u buy a phone, U want it to work. but that's not the only thing. I work from home. I do a lot of talking, and I go outside, walk around with the dog. Blah blah... i need a phone that has signal!
The reason I am asking here, is that you guys are impartial. I know I can just call T-Mobile, but they might sell me something or not share the entire info. I am mainly interested in what is going to happen with the phone itself. I love the phone. I would even unlock it and move to ATT (and yes, limit myself to 2G - that's fine), but are they going to let me keep the phone?
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No. To be honest, it's partly a matter of principle - u buy a phone, U want it to work. but that's not the only thing. I work from home. I do a lot of talking, and I go outside, walk around with the dog. Blah blah... i need a phone that has signal!
The reason I am asking here, is that you guys are impartial. I know I can just call T-Mobile, but they might sell me something or not share the entire info. I am mainly interested in what is going to happen with the phone itself. I love the phone. I would even unlock it and move to ATT (and yes, limit myself to 2G - that's fine), but are they going to let me keep the phone?
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Negative. Unless you paid full price for the phone, it still belongs to T-Mobile. However, if you cancel, and then head over to ATT, they'll have some nice phones as well, including the Skyrocket (our sister phone), AND the international SII.
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I think you get a 14 day trial. You may have to pay a $25 restocking fee though.
Edit. When I posted this from the mobile app I would have been the third post, but ended up way down here. So didn't mean to be redundant.
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ironically, i just moved! so i had the contract for 5 weeks now.
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Your best best is to check with T-Mobile and see if they will allow someone to take over your contract and if so start looking for someone to do so. 5 weeks goes beyond any return period I have heard and they will most likely they would say it isn't their fault you moved to an area where they don't have great reception.
Isn't the etf $200? If so you can pay that. Sell the phone on Craigslist, easily and buy another on Craigslist for similar price. Better yet get the note for att.
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From my own personal experience, they will not waive the contract cancel fee for this situation.
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Just moved to t mobile and have a one s. Awesome phone, with spotty reception., which is the reason for wanting to exchange. Can't exchange for sgs3 due to backorders and 14 day exchange. Can go to sgs2 but is it worth the little downgrade?
I love mine. The device is rock solid and the multitude of custom ROMS, GB and ICS, should give you enough variety to find what makes you happy.
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How is reception, audio, camera, GPS, battery life
Don't do it because its going to take a while for us to get the new software (Jellybean). I'm going to give you a little advice that I learn the hard way. Only buy Google made phones like galaxy nexus. Never buy other parties like Samsung and HTC cause they never update phone and there's not a lot of development. For android only get Google specific manufacturer phone . I can't stress that enough
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Thanks but I'm well aware of that. I'm looking for a well developed phone hat doesn't have spotty reception the way the one s does
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Thanks but I'm well aware of that. I'm looking for a well developed phone hat doesn't have spotty reception the way the one s does
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Then just get the Galaxy Nexus unlock from the play store
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Had the nexus on Verizon. No thanks, battery was worthless
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Then just get the Galaxy Nexus unlock from the play store
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Might want to take a look...not available any more.
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Reception is a tough one as it depends on so many factors. I live just a few miles from the nearest TMO tower and my job is only 15 miles away so I always have great reception. I'm currently running the Whitehawkx AOKP ROM and have no issues with audio, camera, GPS or battery. Audio is crystal clear on calls and through apps such as Pandora, HBOGo, etc. The camera is what it is, 8mp is capable of quite a bit and if you get a solid HDR app such as HDR Camer+ by Almalence, you'll really get to see the hardware used to its potential.
I don't use maps much so I can't comment a whole lot on GPS other than to say the few times I have needed it, it has worked flawlessly. The battery is of course dependent upon far too many factors that all come from personal usage tendencies but I can say from my experience I get between 15 and 20 hours of battery a day on a full charge.
I'd suggest just checking the phone out in store if possible to get a better feel of what you'd be getting. Yeah, the OS updates are few and far between, and could very well be over at this point, but with all the custom ROM choices and the abilities of the Devs here, I wouldn't be shocked to see more custom choices as we go along.
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Had the nexus on Verizon. No thanks, battery was worthless
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so the verizon one may have had horrible battery life, but my gsm one that i bought last friday from the play store is at 60% battery with 15 hours of light use.
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Might want to take a look...not available any more.
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But I believe its coming back so I would wait for now
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There isn't a bright future for this phone. Most of the devs are moving away for greater phones. Our aokp dev doesn't have this phone anymore so it's not looking too good for aokp jellybean. I'd figure out a way for an s3 or wait for the nexus to come back (hopefully).
But if you must then this is a good phone with good Rom options at this point in time. Just don't be too hopeful about the future.
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But presently its still chugging along. I'm starting to drift towards getting the gs2, interchangeable battery expandable storage, bigger screen, stable roms. Let's here some more opinions.
If your still in your 14 days why don't u return the one s and cancel the service. Go buy a cheap prepaid phone get on T-Mobile prepaid or another prepaid service. Then when the gs3 becomes available resign up for service thru T-Mobile.
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Can't do that have my wife's and mother in law on my plan.
Each line is a separate two yr agreement if yours is in its 14 days u can cancel your line specifically. Your wife and mother in law will still have service. You just won't.
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Don't get this phone. Get a Galaxy Nexus.
I'm not paying full price for the gnex.
If you're looking for a really good phone but don't want to spend $600.00 then the S2 is for you IMO! I've enjoyed my S2 since I first bought it. I don't know how big you are on rooting, ROMs, and the like, but even if you don't root this phone is great! The only thing that might turn you off is the larger than average screen (the Galaxy S3 is even bigger, but thinner), in that case I would go with a Blaze.
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The s2 is a great device. Just because nexus got jellybean, people are acting like the s2 is complete crap. development is slow but at least we have something. Signal is great for me, battery lasts long and is interchangable ,SD, fast GPS lock, and lots of other things.
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Over a month in and only solution for our serious connection problems has been an air rave (which definately worked but doesn't come close to getting this phone where I need it to be (just receive calls)) not to mention I think it just blew up anyway!!! Question becomes ...does anyone know if I unlock and flash all Verizon firmware. Radio....etc ...can I take this gnex to local Verizon store and have it connected? I'm sure its not that easy?
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Take it back get a replacement. This is an ongoing issue.this is assuming your reception is bad everywhere and your data bars turn to grey alot..
Yea they offered that ...is it viable solution? They want to ship refurbished ...doesn't seem fair..just bought this month ago...and was bad out of the box....
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Worked for me I went to the store and they gave me a brand new one..
Verizon's policy is <14 days = New.
>14 refurbished.
You may be able to explain the situation (stating that you simply thought it was a Galaxy Nexus thing) but you've since realized this is not the case and you'd like a NEW device considering the damage was always there and is not related to abuse.
This is a confirmed hardware issue...and many users have gotten a replacement that has worked perfectly after simply thinking the GNex got terrible service.
I have been with at&t now for three weeks - Noc'd up 1x - still gonna go back and try to get new gnex....this is all good bit miss that straight up google/android.....senseless. guess just have two lines....thx for tall help
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Yea they offered that ...is it viable solution? They want to ship refurbished ...doesn't seem fair..just bought this month ago...and was bad out of the box....
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Verizon gives you 30 days to return your phone. Still within that window? You could return it and buy another new one.
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Yea it's sprint...and I documented everything on time but we were troubleshooting weak signal and towers and all instead of the real problem... Never would a thought google would put a phone on market that didn't work...
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I just gave up too, I've been considering making a thread about my experience.
I've had 6 CLNR Verizon Nexus. Several had severe burn in/screen issues. The other have all had radio problems where I am constantly dropping data anytime I'm on the move. I waited for the leaked radios and the 4G seems to stay locked longer, but I'm still having the same issues.
Verizon is sending me a S III and it will be here next week. It may technically be a better phone, but it's bittersweet. I hate TouchWiz and love the idea of having a Nexus device, I just wish I could get one that worked. Hopefully I can just run CM10 and be happy.
Be on the lookout for me selling all my Nexus accessories and batteries soon, ha.
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Yea it's sprint...and I documented everything on time but we were troubleshooting weak signal and towers and all instead of the real problem... Never would a thought google would put a phone on market that didn't work...
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Google doesn't have anything to do with the issues, blame Samsung and maybe your carrier.