Hello I am buying a galaxy note gt-n7100 it is 2 months old. I searched but could not find answers. My question is how is it after 2 months of use? does it noticeably slow down does the battery get worse? the person said it is in perfect condition.
This next question here is aimed at Canadians, Will the the international gt-n7100 work on wind mobile? I checked it has GSM and UMTS bands.
Mine is okay after 2 months no lag or battery problems.
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If the device hasn't been abused and has no hardware defects it should still be just fine after two months of use. A quick factory reset and it should be as good as new other than the two months of wear and tear on the battery, which will be just fine.
The one other thing I might check would be for screen burn-in. It is unlikely after two months but you might want to check just in case someone was browsing a NSFW Reddit photo stream, then walked away and it was set to never turn off the screen (highly unlikely but it could be entertaining.)
Yeah.
2 months old, or 1 week old, or few days old are all the same.
It will be depends on the previous owner. Whether they abuse it, or not.
Battery wise, should be the same. And you can't judge that the battery is weakened just because it dried fast on your hand.
You should observe which apps you have installed, which kernel / rom you are using.
If I were you, I will just grab it, as long as the price is reasonable for a 2 months old phone.
Check everything first before you pay. Always good for you.
Good luck !
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Just check thorouhly and get the phone, with good usage a phone even after 6 months will be as good as a new one except for some physical scratches.
Good news we can replace the battery unlike the #isheeps
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How its 2 months old??? Phone only came out on the 1st october
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Well, 2 days ago I accidently dropped my Nexus into a sink full of water, right away I took the battery out and let it dry in a vent for hours, put the battery back in and my phone did continuous bootloops for hours until it finally got to the homescreen, but the touchscreen was not working at all, long story short I let the phonebdry on its on and tried turning the phone on again and the touchscreen and phone worked perfect, i dried the phone the next morning with a blow dryer on cool mode and everything was working great, but now out of no where the bottom half of my screen is not responding to touches so I have to turn the phone upside down to type this, I love this phone and got it 2 months ago when they dropped the price to $399. I have no insurance on this phone and only tmobile insurance that doesnt cover this phone, my contract is up and as much as I dont want to do it I guess I have to let this phone go and nove on to the GS3. :-(
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Should have let it dry for at least 2-3 days while sealed in a bag of rice
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Should have let it dry for at least 2-3 days while sealed in a bag of rice
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This
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I wish I did, but I needed my phone badly for my daughter and wife so I used i thinking everything was good. I think the GS3 comes in stores in 2 weeks I hope the Nexus gets better, great phone.
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Dude at my work dropped his in the sink also and I took it apart and put it in a bag of rice for a week and put it back together and it worked just the same :/
that sucks man I suggest using a loaner phone or old one if you ever find yourself in this situation again
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That sucks dude, sorry for your loss. **** happens... I keep my device as far away as possible from any liquids.
The phone has a 1 year warranty from Samsung though could you not send it into them to get it repaired?
That sucks though.
Upgrade to the GSIII, sell it and buy a new Nexus
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Upgrade to the GSIII, sell it and buy a new Nexus
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Just buy a new GN man. This is a bad idea because you're paying 280 for the GS3 and getting back into another tmo contract.
sounds like he did that on purpose as he's being pushy about buying a sg3.... so he was just looking for an excuse to get the new phone
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sounds like he did that on purpose as he's being pushy about buying a sg3.... so he was just looking for an excuse to get the new phone
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Funny you say that. I was trying to push the wife into letting me get a GSIII, and I accidentally dropped my GN in a puddle of water. Let it dry (only for about 12 hrs though) and started using it again. My charging port is real finnicky now, gotta wiggle the usb connector to get it to work just right and even then, it hardly ever mounts storage on the PC. So, it's down to modding my GN for a wireless charge mod (way cool), or spending $700 for an outright GSIII. Looks like wireless charging here I come lol.
Hahaha na I had a GS2 and dont want touchwiz anymore. Ive had a Nexus one and Im trying to stay nexus only from now on, my contract is up and I told myself why should I pay $130+ to fix my GN when I can just go get a GS3 on AT&T for $180? The nav bar on the bottom only responds to a few touches sometimes I have to flip my phone 180 to use my phone. I woke up this morning and my phone was working ok again and then later on It started acting up again with that portion of the screen. Ahhhhh.
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Hahaha na I had a GS2 and dont want touchwiz anymore. Ive had a Nexus one and Im trying to stay nexus only from now on, my contract is up and I told myself why should I pay $130+ to fix my GN when I can just go get a GS3 on AT&T for $180? The nav bar on the bottom only responds to a few touches sometimes I have to flip my phone 180 to use my phone. I woke up this morning and my phone was working ok again and then later on It started acting up again with that portion of the screen. Ahhhhh.
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It's not too late to pull the battery and put the phone in a bag of rice, leave it there for a day or two.
The American versions of the SGS 3 are crippled. Get the international version. The american version gets a lesser CPU in order to have LTE.
That seems to be a trend as the Galaxy note, HTC One-X and the SGS 3 have all received lesser cpu's in the American versions.
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I told myself why should I pay $130+ to fix my GN when I can just go get a GS3 on AT&T for $180?
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The American versions of the SGS 3 are crippled. Get the international version. The american version gets a lesser CPU in order to have LTE.
That seems to be a trend as the Galaxy note, HTC One-X and the SGS 3 have all received lesser cpu's in the American versions.
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Yea but the S4 isnt a slouch, plus the US versions got 2 GB of ram. Imm keep my GN till it dies hopefully.
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The American versions of the SGS 3 are crippled. Get the international version. The american version gets a lesser GPU in order to have LTE.
That seems to be a trend as the Galaxy note, HTC One-X and the SGS 3 have all received lesser gpu's in the American versions.
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FTFY Number of cores doesn't = superiority. Ask Intel.
The S4 holds its own CPU wise. GPU is weaker for sure but no slouch.
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The phone has a 1 year warranty from Samsung though could you not send it into them to get it repaired?
That sucks though.
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Depends on the terms. Most warranties don't cover water damage
When I have my phone plugged into the charger the screen runs perfectly fine. Weird.
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from my experience with water damage: Open the phone (service manual can be found on google. of course this voids warranty but the water damage already did that, so who cares.), take it apart completly. Carefully clean every single piece of the mainboard using a small/tiny brush and compressed air (make sure to keep enough distance to avoid introducing new water damage from the air). Use a strong magnifying glass to make sure you catch even tiny residues. I can provide you pictures of what to look for if needed, PM me for that.
If you're lucky there's no physical damage but just residue shorting contacts and increasing resistance and cleaning fixes that. If some chips got actual damage though you're out of luck, but it's worth a try.
I was in the same boat as you man. I unfortunately dropped in a bowl of water which I won't expand further on. I cried and ran to get rice and put it in it for 24 hours. It started working beautifully for a whole month. Then slowly but surely it started failing on me altogether. If I we're you I'd sell it on ebay and get about 180-200 for it, which is what I got, and get another one or something else. I'm using a brand new white one because nexus is in my blood. Try drying it a bit more. Oh and always good to have a spare phone lying around just in case
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The T-mobile galaxy note came out today.
Anybody plan to purchase the galaxy note?
No lame. Nothing worse than buying a year old phone , and weeks.just before the note2 is coming out.
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No lame. Nothing worse than buying a year old phone , and weeks.just before the note2 is coming out.
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Not only that. Who wants to carry that thing around!? Plus a screen that big, no way it gets half decent battery life. I love my s2 ^-^
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Not happening. Maybe if I owned a business and needed something that size vs a tablet...
based on the replies looks like the t-mobile note sales will be poor.
maybe in a few weeks Tmobile will be selling it for $99.
I thought the note has pretty good battery life?
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It does have great battery life actually and for Corp guys it would have been a great phone a year ago. I'm still completely stunned that T has gone ahead with this. For the few that do buy it , and let's say number is 5 to 9000. Those people just signed a 2 year contract for a 1 year old phone.
Take sec and let that number set in.
3 weeks from now the airwaves will be blasted with news of the Note2. This puts everyone just about that rushed out to get the Note outside of the 14 day return policy. Dirty, oh so dirty but planned oh so well.
Now about 2 months from now att and maybe vzw will be getting the Note2. A brand new full of bad ass tech that from the rumors will be freaking killer.
So back to that 5 to 9000 people that got suckered into buying the Note, well their screwed for 2 more years on a already year old phone.
Don't think for one min that alot of those in that number set aren't going to feel like the got taken.
I would even bet that a number as high as 40% will be calling up *****ing and I would say 5% cut contact and leave. Those that stick it out will have such a bad taste in their mouth will never re-sign and I bet that number would be in the 30% range.
The thing is, it's not that the Note is a bad phone. It's just way late to the party and priced insanely wrong.
Let's say you do this right.
T-Mobile is asking $600 + for their phone retail , "a year old phone". When the Note2 hits you should be able to pick it up for about the same price or maybe 50 more from car phone warehouse etc. Then you have a choice, run your new note2 on T-Mobile or on a prepaid like simple mobile for like 50 for everything. Or you could wait and buy one from att when they get it.
Point is you have choices and don't feel like your stuck with just what
T-Mobile hands you.
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Usually not, but damn. Last week my original GNex had it's radio's take a dump. After 11 solid months, I rebooted one night and had data, but voice never came back. So I put everything back stock and walked into Verizon and paid $15 to have a replacement overnighted to me.
Now, a week later, I've come to the conclusion that my replacement is fubared. I've never seen a device experience sleep of death + turning into an oven so quickly and consistently before. It's good for 30, maybe 60 minutes tops before it craps out. This is awesome when your phone is your alarm clock.
So here I go again, getting ready to waltz back into the Verizon store and do the same song and dance again. Pay $15, get a phone on Tuesday, probably have something massively wrong, rinse and repeat. Hey, devices take a crap from time to time, and luckily mine did while still under warranty, but I'm taking picks on how many replacement units I have to go through before one finally sticks.
My guess is the 3rd replacement is a charm. Who wants the over?
Those of you who have gone through the replacement fiasco with Samsung, how many tries did it take you to get a good one?
Why do you pay when you have still warranty?
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Why do you pay when you have still warranty?
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Shipping to have it overnighted. It's also awesome that my local store doesn't toss out loaner phones while you wait (It'd make it easy to avoid that whole shipping thing). Maybe I'll call Verizon Tech Support just to bug them about.
no issues at all with mine...
I love Samsung personally
OOOh, free overnight shipping. Thanks Big Red!
Hopefully the next one is a charm because honestly, I don't know what I'd do without a Nexus device on Verizon's network. The alternatives make me cringe.
why is there no option for none
Read the last line of the OP.
I'm just curious to know if getting bum replacements is a "normal" thing because for a phone that went through a "100 point inspection", well, they dropped the ball on this one.
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Read the last line of the OP.
I'm just curious to know if getting bum replacements is a "normal" thing because for a phone that went through a "100 point inspection", well, they dropped the ball on this one.
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Getting my third in the mail tomorrow Last one had ridiculous sensitivity issues, we'll see what the next one brings.
And why don't you just call em up instead of going in to the store? I keep my phone and they send me a refurb in the mail. The first phone was USPS, but after that one was crap they began overnighting it via FedEx.
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I went through 4 before I got my refurb, then I promptly sold it for a GSM model. That's one thing that I have to hand it to Verizon for, they were really good once I got the 1st defective one. I had 4 at one time, most overnighted at no cost and no fees or holds.
They did try everything they could to not send me one though... Unlike Google who were more then happy to send me multiple N7's.
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I had to replace one because of dirt under the screen even though its new and heat issues, the replacement was perfect and never get hot under normal use. I also bought one recently and it has heat issue and poor screen as well, but I'll live with it for the price. Its sort of a luck thing with this device, especially a lottery with AMOLED screen. I was going to get the N4 but it seem to also have lots of little issues on its own, such as getting too hot, I really hate phones getting overheat.I'm still waiting on confirmation on the USB OTG too.
After reading this it makes me think I need to bug Asurion tomorrow, I had to get an insurance replacement so I have to go through them for warranty now, they are definitely more strict on some things but like 3 minutes of complaining about signal got me a new one once already. The current one gets EXTREMELY hot under even normal use, so hot that it is uncomfortable to hold and definitely would be uncomfortable up against your face.
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Getting my third in the mail tomorrow Last one had ridiculous sensitivity issues, we'll see what the next one brings.
And why don't you just call em up instead of going in to the store? I keep my phone and they send me a refurb in the mail. The first phone was USPS, but after that one was crap they began overnighting it via FedEx.
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The first time I went in, I was hoping that they'd have one in the back they could swap out for me, or a loaner phone (fat chance, I know). My job pretty much requires a working cell phone. I'm kind of surprised that Verizon was so willing to send a replacement out in just a few minutes. Granted, I don't know what alternative they'd have. There's no real way to troubleshoot SOD issues. My main concern is just not having to go through a massive fiasco running through multiple devices, especially with an 8 day vacation coming up.
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After reading this it makes me think I need to bug Asurion tomorrow, I had to get an insurance replacement so I have to go through them for warranty now, they are definitely more strict on some things but like 3 minutes of complaining about signal got me a new one once already. The current one gets EXTREMELY hot under even normal use, so hot that it is uncomfortable to hold and definitely would be uncomfortable up against your face.
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Well, if it's still under warranty, I'd jump on it.
Let's see... My first nexus has a seriously bad screen. I shipped it out the same day I got it. Got my replacement (#2) and the screen was worse than the first one. So I sent that bad and got another one (#3). This one had the same issue as OP. Radios wouldn't work....no voice or data and the phone got really hot. Enough to where I couldn't hold it to my face. So I sent that one in and they sent me a Samsung Stratosphere (#4 replacement). Sent that in and got the nexus I currently have making 5 replacements (4 with nexuses). I also went through Verizon...
Good luck
I had to replace one about ~8 months ago for screen ghosting. I was really satisfied with the replacement until now because the ghosting is back on the replacement. I'm contemplating switching to T-Mobile though, so I dunno if I'm going to attempt to replace this one.
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Let's see... My first nexus has a seriously bad screen. I shipped it out the same day I got it. Got my replacement (#2) and the screen was worse than the first one. So I sent that bad and got another one (#3). This one had the same issue as OP. Radios wouldn't work....no voice or data and the phone got really hot. Enough to where I couldn't hold it to my face. So I sent that one in and they sent me a Samsung Stratosphere (#4 replacement). Sent that in and got the nexus I currently have making 5 replacements (4 with nexuses). I also went through Verizon...
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Well that sucks. My screens have been great. Well, that, or I'm not picky. The second replacement seems rock solid so far. Good data speeds, strong signal, solid screen, solid GPS and no SOD/Overheating. Maybe I've lucked out...but I'm not uncrossing my fingers.
I've been through 5+ Nexi already. Tec Asurion is totally worth the $6.99 per month! Free overnight shipping FTW.
Well, so much for Replacement #2. I highly doubt it's the sim card.
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Well, so much for Replacement #2. I highly doubt it's the sim card.
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Lol why? Seems to me that 2 separate pieces of one HW with a common issue (signal) and only one other thing in common (SIM card) makes the one other thing the most likely suspect...
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Because I'm not that lucky.
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Because I'm not that lucky.
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Thinking you're missing the forest for the trees.
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I am an International Note user considering the switch to a Note 2. The original Note had an emmc bug that bricked a number of phones. I was wondering if there are issues that I have missed for the T-Mobile Note 2. In searching I only see problems with some SD cards which still seems to be getting sorted out. Anything else that I have missed that I should know? On the N7100 they were reporting a problem with sudden death. syndrome. Just wondering before I leap. Thanks.
One problem. It's awesome and as the battery last all day it will probably ruin any sort of relationship you have with your wife, children and parents…
Seriously though the only problems you should be aware of are that certain SD cards do seem to cause problems. I change from Sandisk to Kingston and now have no problems. Other may say the opposite.
The other problem is that the 16GB version is only 10GB and you will, I promise, fill that very quickly. You cannot save to SD without rooting and modding! If you have the money buy one with 64GB internal memory.
I have not had any other issues with my International non Lte version. It really is awesome.
One last thing. Buy a screen protector (hard plastic, NOT soft) and a case. Enjoy.
You should be aware - running Jedi9x with Xone kernel is serious-ly sick ! Better battery life than stock and OC'd .. amazing stuff.. you'll have twice as many haters!
*extended battery from Mugen can bring up to 4-5x days of use too..
Yes there is a SDS on some of the GNII'S depending on the chip... When you get yours, just emmc brick bug to see if your chip is one of those that are vulnerable and if so, warranty it for a new one... don't think any new phones are being shipped with the defective chip anymore but ya never know...
Other than that, only other issues (outside of the obvious rare hardware defects) with the phone are IMO more user error than anything else
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No wireless charging on T-Mobile version.
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Only issue I have is not the phone but tmobile being a huge douche.
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Only issue I have is not the phone but tmobile being a huge douche.
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Ouch. What happened to you? I have been a long time T-Mobile customer and I have never been treated better. An occasional glitch but overall great.
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Ouch. What happened to you? I have been a long time T-Mobile customer and I have never been treated better. An occasional glitch but overall great.
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The only issue I have is the fact I have to purchase everything for my Note 2 via amazon or ebay. It pains me to no end to see cellphone accessories dealers all over who only cater to the phone whom must not be named. But, at the end of the day, I have a large collection of various Note 2 cases, lol! Thankfully most of my cases were cheap, minus my UAG case (which made the phone too wide in my hand for my taste).
I've tried to search around a bit for some help but I'm not really sure what to search for. I found one other thread that was maybe similar to my issue but I'm not sure.
I ordered the note 8 from Staples and it arrived last Tuesday 9/10. I was a really hot day and the packing box was roasting hot. The product packaging was hot and the device was hot. I let it cool but when I finally powered it up the screen was buggy (see pic band of "static/snow" it was worse than that). I did a little search to see if I should return it right then or if it was just a temporary thing. What I could find seemed to suggest it might be the heat, factory reset and see if it was better. I did that and it was better for a day or two. Then it just would flicker a bit late in the day on days when I used it a bit more. Today it's been acting up since I first turned it on.
It doesn't get really hot just maybe a little warm in the 80 degree range maybe where I can just barely feel it.
So, I am bummed out wondering if I need to take it back to Staples or contact Samsung now that I've got it all set up ect. Or exactly what's going on with it? I haven't tried a reset again but not sure at this point it's going to do anything...?
So just looking for some thoughts on what I should do next or if it's able to be saved or not?
(pictures: it's not always that bad sometimes it's just tiny speckles on pictures or text sort of like at the bottom of the bar in the second picture)
Well now the charger doesn't seem to want to work so...
Pretty sure of my answer but feels like one of those moments when you just need someone else to say it haha.
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Return it
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Return it
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Was in the process of returning it right when you posted that I bet. It was beyond buggy this morning so there was no denying it needed to go back. I think I was in denial because I've been so lucky until now that I've never had to return something that was brand new like this.
First they wanted me to go through the warranty but finally decided I could just exchange it (sadly none in stock) so shipping a new one should get here Fri, knock on wood!
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It's a pain in the @ss, but better safe than sorry. Probably wouldn't made you pay the shipping on warranty to boot.
Good luck.
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I had the exact same issue with my first note 8 received, on the lower third of the screen, and it was getting worse as it was used.
Return is the best option, this is hardware related (maybe a simple connector, but it's better to have a good unit isn't it ?)
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It seems that the failure rate of the Note 8 is pretty high. I saw refurbished Note 8 sold everywhere: eBay, bestbuy, Walmart etc...
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