how to know if your galaxy s3 is new and never been used by other person ? is there shortcut key or option to know if your s3 is really brand new or never used ?
No. Nothing simple like that anyway. A smart person can reset the phone to a new condition without any problems.
Probably your easiest option is to look for physical signs of use.
Here's how:
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Get a magnifying glass and search for scratches on the device. Also, if you find grime in the spaces outside the buttons, then its used. You can also check the microusb port on the phone, if the port has paint chipped color black then its used. Also if look at the camera lens for scratches.
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I'd recommend just looking for scratches or marks.
I don't think you can always totally tell because where ever you bought it from couldn't just taken care of it very well.
A tell tale sign is the USB port though. Check to see if there's dust or lint inside of it as well.
I remember for my HTC touch pro 2 you could enter a sub menu that showed a life counter and manufacturer date. This information was not editable in any way shape or form other than by replacing the motherboard. Not sure about our phones though.
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I remember for my HTC touch pro 2 you could enter a sub menu that showed a life counter and manufacturer date. This information was not editable in any way shape or form other than by replacing the motherboard. Not sure about our phones though.
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I don't remember seeing any of this on any of the galaxy lines.
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The best way is to buy a new one from a tmobile store.
One thing you could Adonis get thebimei and call Tmobile. Have them check if its in use. With gsm phones if you are the first to put in your sim card on a phone it will register with the system and with your number. That's one option is to call and check.
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Ummm...quiet simple...if it came in a sealed Samsung Galaxy S III box, with all the hardware (charging cable, headphones etc) it's new. If your talking about refurb...there is a chance it's new...but 95% sure its a refurb if it comes in a plain white box with a return shipping label..
I'm coming from sprint, the code there is ##786# but doesn't work on tmo, I think have to be some code to check.
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So... I bought my galaxy s3 from tmobile customer service. With a full upgrade I've only paid $ 179 of 16gb.
I've wanted the white one but they were sold out in 16. So I've went ahead and placed a exchange of the 32gb.
The first (white 32gb) had many dust stuck under the sceen... and interfere with the camera as well... so I've called to get me a same but different one that isn't defective this time. (New in box course) now the new one has huge gap on the metal bezel area... I could fit like 5 business card.
So I called again and placed another one...
This time I've told them to put a notation on my account so that the manufacture date is most recent... (both of my defective white phones were made in 7/4/12)
Where as my blue one is perfect...besides the dark pixels.
I really think Samsung's quality control isn't as what they claim to advertise as... I understand that no phones are perfect... but at least do a better job at hiding... lol
So in my opinion I could be getting a bad batch or just unlucky... I will keep you guys updated with my next replacement in white.
Please tell us your experience with similar problems.
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You are just being picky.
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You are just being picky.
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No he's not, he's paying for a new product so it shouldn't have any defects or problems. What's the point of a 720p screen if it has dust underneath. My 2 yr old g2 doesn't have any dust whatsoever so why should this.
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You are just being picky.
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No ****. How close do you have to have the phone to your face to notice "Dark pixels?"
I wasn't aware that these screen panels could have dust considering the digitizer and screen are fused together. Hmm... :sly:
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Mine already has cracks in the bezel, only issue so far. Much better than the Galaxy Nexus screen issues or the first batch of One X ones.
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My first one had really weird screen issues (looked like there were fingerprints underneath the screen) but I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary on my second. 32 GB white.
I got wobbly power button and volume buttons...
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I got wobbly power button and volume buttons...
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They're supposed to wobble...
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I bought a white 16gb 2 days before launch and everytime it vibrated it sounded like something loose was in the phone.. I returned it, got another white one. no problems with it.
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So lets see here. Samsung has probably manufactured what 10 million Galaxy S3's? I would expect some to have issues. Mine has none of these flaws.
I got a perfect phone! Trolololololololo lo lo lo lo jk I got a bad screen same issue as the tom skyrocket. Blobs and stuff you know
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So... I bought my galaxy s3 from tmobile customer service. With a full upgrade I've only paid $ 179 of 16gb.
I've wanted the white one but they were sold out in 16. So I've went ahead and placed a exchange of the 32gb.
The first (white 32gb) had many dust stuck under the sceen... and interfere with the camera as well... so I've called to get me a same but different one that isn't defective this time. (New in box course) now the new one has huge gap on the metal bezel area... I could fit like 5 business card.
So I called again and placed another one...
This time I've told them to put a notation on my account so that the manufacture date is most recent... (both of my defective white phones were made in 7/4/12)
Where as my blue one is perfect...besides the dark pixels.
I really think Samsung's quality control isn't as what they claim to advertise as... I understand that no phones are perfect... but at least do a better job at hiding... lol
So in my opinion I could be getting a bad batch or just unlucky... I will keep you guys updated with my next replacement in white.
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You must be single and/or your colleagues and spouse, love when you're away lol. I'd hate to get you in the phone at work
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They're supposed to wobble...
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No they aren't. Mine used to firm.. my friend's are still firm though
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You must be single and/or your colleagues and spouse, love when you're away lol. I'd hate to get you in the phone at work
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Looks like someone forgot their meds tonight! 5 posts in about 10 mins? All useless.
Next time please go try to pick your fights in the physical world where it means something!
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Looks like someone forgot their meds tonight! 5 posts in about 10 mins? All useless.
Next time please go try to pick your fights in the physical world where it means something!
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dc bay....scary....please don't fool low my post count that is DEEP
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The guy shouldn't ***** about it, just exchange the phone. You make millions of phones bound of them a few are going to have flaws... Mass production.. and if you ever worked in quality control you know not EVERY SINGLE product gets checked just a few random ones...
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The guy shouldn't ***** about it, just exchange the phone. You make millions of phones bound of them a few are going to have flaws... Mass production.. and if you ever worked in quality control you know not EVERY SINGLE product gets checked just a few random ones...
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Correct. Look at the Asus Transformer Prime forums for manufacturing defects Haha. Just exchange the dud and move on buddy. Them enjoy your perfect one because this phone ROCKS!
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Oddly enough I had to exchange my gs3 because it couldn't get a 4g signal. Really weird. But now I have one that works perfectly.
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Ok it seems like some people are being rude
I said the first one (blue) has dark spots but I dont care for it ... oh but the device itself is perfect. No other flaws.
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Buy one and fix it.
http://stellatech.com/samsung-gt-i9250-galaxy-nexus-sim-card-reader,a,en,812361.html
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Fix it. How? Its soldered onto the mainboard
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It only has six points of contact and would be fairly easy for someone skilled with a soldering iron. If it isn't your forte, you could probably find a local electronics shop that would do it for you for a reasonable fee.
Hey man..I read your post and I have my old nexus..it is missing the battery door and the back is scratched but screen is 10 out of 10.. I would post it to sell but I do not believe I am able to sell on here I would let it go for like 50 bucks or 40 even..
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Hey man..I read your post and I have my old nexus..it is missing the battery door and the back is scratched but screen is 10 out of 10.. I would post it to sell but I do not believe I am able to sell on here I would let it go for like 50 bucks or 40 even..
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it does power on right and works functional right. I'm gonna pm you for more info
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It only has six points of contact and would be fairly easy for someone skilled with a soldering iron. If it isn't your forte, you could probably find a local electronics shop that would do it for you for a reasonable fee.
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Dude, trust me Its very hard even for experienced technicians
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It is relatively hard if you don't know what you are doing. Need an disassembly guide. A hot air gun and a soldering station.
Oh and some flux.
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It is relatively hard if you don't know what you are doing. Need an disassembly guide. A hot air gun and a soldering station.
Oh and some flux.
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yeahh I sent it in for repair and they said they could not repair it....then on top of that my note2 got stolen Friday. I'm using a old windows phone 7....its killing me
I had mine apart last night to do the USB port repair (replace the whole ribbon) and looked at the sim slot while it was apart. I am no expert, but I have replaced surface mount chips before that are much more difficult then what this repair would be. A fine tip temp control iron, some desolder braid (along with solder and flux), and it is pretty straight forward. Wouldn't need to take it apart any further then just removing the back.
If you end up wanting to get rid of it for savagehax offer, I would be interested in yours, that being it would be missing a battery back and have a defective sim slot.
Speaking of which, are you sure the sim slot is the defective piece? It'd be worth it to put a meter on there and measure continuity between the pins and solder points.
Good luck with whatever you end up doing.
I had a sim adapter in it and when I pulled it out I guess it rip some pins.....cell phone repair pros told me they could repair it they put in a new sim reader and all...
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I had a sim adapter in it and when I pulled it out I guess it rip some pins.....cell phone repair pros told me they could repair it they put in a new sim reader and all...
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Ah... nice. How does the adapter work for ya? Can you switch on the fly or does it require a reboot?
.... I have a Micro Sim in my Galaxy Nexus.... I live life on the edge lol
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Iknoo....do not put the adapter in there without the sim inside the adapter....just a warning to ya
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Iknoo....do not put the adapter in there without the sim inside the adapter....just a warning to ya
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Interesting, never thought of that as an issue, but it makes perfect sense.. This goes into my treasure chest of things to remember lol
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Ya I just bout another one tho...i won't make that mistake twice tho
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Any body else has a galaxy nexus gem version with a screen 10 out of 10 condition I don't care what condition the body is?
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My nexus in immaculate condition. £239.99
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My nexus in immaculate condition. £239.99
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Really kinda looking for one low priced between 50 and 70 I need the screen and stuff I got my original white housing
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I kno there is someone out there with av nexus 4 that still had there galaxy nexus that's beat up. That wanna seek it for little or no money lol
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Hi guys. I want to ask if any of you guys can tell me if this is a fake galaxy note 2 or not. Because I can't seem to find any fakes that matches the device in the pictures below around the internet.
The inside of the device "battery compartment" is different than any version of galaxy note 2 that I can find in the Internet.
why dont u switch it on and have a look the firmware and kernel version?
Do you know which variant it's supposed to be? At first I thought it might be an n7102 but the back of that one is different.
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why dont u switch it on and have a look the firmware and kernel version?
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Because the device and pics are not mine. Someone selling it online in my country. My guts tell me that its fake. Just want confirmation from u guys.
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Because the device and pics are not mine. Someone selling it online in my country. My guts tell me that its fake. Just want confirmation from u guys.
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Sent the link where its getting sold would be able to tell ya after looking.. Cheers !!
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Not to mention that it's black. I didn't know Samsung made a black Note 2. I thought they only made them in White and Titanium Grey.
And that home key looks bit more squared than on mine Note 2 White...
Looks like a fake to me. If ya look at the gap between the home button amd the screen it looks to big compaired to my white note 2. I first thought it was the note when seen the first screen.
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Why is the picture on the box always covered up? I would give it a miss mate and maybe report it as a fake.
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Definitely a fake.....m 100 % positive
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Body shape is different than real sgn2. Pictures above are much more rounded than note 2. And yet there is not available black version.
Fake indeed :sly:
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Not to mention that it's black. I didn't know Samsung made a black Note 2. I thought they only made them in White and Titanium Grey.
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Hah, I didn't even notice that, I thought it just looked black because I had my display on the lowest brightness.
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The volume and power buttons are too high also.
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And the screen in smaller, quite a bit vertically, the side bezels are bigger.
I think its fake
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Definitely fake. BTW, isn't note 2 battery 3.8v? And more than 10.4w?
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damn thats one big ass speaker that fake has.
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Sorry dude...fake.
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Yeah the battery should definitely be 3.8v and 11.4w or so.
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Looks fake.
I like how they plaster the back of the phone with all their self made Samsung "seals" of approval.
Beamed from Jupiter on my Galaxy Note II
It is definitely fake bcz the thing at the right side of the phone is not a pen its a antenna, a tv antenna
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hey guys, is it me or are the galaxy power and volume rockers a tad bit loose? not very loose but just loose enough to move around?
i just got it and im sorta frightened for it being a little loose
Nope firmly in place better go in and exchange it.
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It's slightly loose but I put an otterbox on it. It's not very loose but it just moves when it is not pressed
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What if it is slightly loose. Just a mere wiggle?
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What if it is slightly loose. Just a mere wiggle?
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Mine is like that, I was thinking of going to exchange it but then I checked my brother's s3 and it was the same.. Only the power button is like that for me though.. It also makes a creaking noise at times when I press it, which is a little annoying
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Yeah just notice the power button moves a little I guess they just have it. But my volume buttons are firms.
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Thanks and maybe it's built like it. I'm thinking if taking it to make them tighter. So you have a case on it?
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Yeah I have a TPU case on it. I think it came like this from day one
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It did? Because I was thinking that the case did it. Are you worried it might fall off too?
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No I'm not listen don't worry so much I doubt a case is going to cause that. Doubt is going to fall off if that was the case it's a major flaw by Samsung which I doubt they did. Then again I have a year warranty so I'm not worried about it. You have warranty on it right?
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I did further research and people are reporting on the Verizon forums that is pretty common multiple people confirming that power is loose. Again just Samsung being pretty cheap building their phones with everything plastic, just a poor build. Even brand new coming like that, also sprint s3 same thing.
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Link from research, I don't think they can replace it just because is loose I would though if it's off like some users reported theirs were.
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Thanks man! Really made me feel better that my device is not a defect
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Over time, did it eventually fail off?
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hey guys, is it me or are the galaxy power and volume rockers a tad bit loose? not very loose but just loose enough to move around?
i just got it and im sorta frightened for it being a little loose
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i just got mine on april 3 2014. tmobile. both power and volume rocker are loose. I accidentally press the volume rocker and can hear the phone beep after i put it in a thick leather horizontal case. I'll have a black s-line TPU case soon. Never noticed before, never paid attention in stores. Now i want to return it because of this. Don't want to play around with buttons. I had LG and tab 3 8.0 that have stiff buttons and rockers. WTF is wrong with this company???!!! They always fk something up in an otherwise very good device.
You are still within the buyers remorse period. (I think that's what it's called).
Never had any issue with mine. Take it back to a store and ask to compare to another, then exchange for another s3 or different device altogether.
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You are still within the buyers remorse period. (I think that's what it's called).
Never had any issue with mine. Take it back to a store and ask to compare to another, then exchange for another s3 or different device altogether.
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a thick case with vol rocker cutout fixes it so i'm not too upset. expected things to be perfect for this expensive flagship phone. ordered another phone but not because of the loose buttons, different provider under tmobile, so i'll compare but its going to be the same white tmobile sgh-t999l.
Update- If you are replacing your camera on your Tmobile Galaxy 4 Don't know about the other models make sure to not order the one most ebay sellers tell you is compatible with every model because is not and you will have to end up sending it back...... Double check you are getting the one I posted so you don't waste your time and money!!!!!!
So I dropped my gs4 broke the rear camera well camera is not entirely broken it displays just a white image...... But lets me switch out to front camera without no problem app doesn't fc or anything..... So I went ahead and ordered a replacement camera which said it was compatible with all gs4 devices when I received the camera i saw some difference by the plug but I didn't think it would matter " I ATTACHED SOME PICTURES " Well to make the story short when I connect this camera and try to open the camera app it gives me an error of connection failed or can't connect along those lines..... And makes the camera app close not even letting me switch to front camera or anything..... I tried this a couple of times reconnected my old camera connected just fine camera app worked fine.... connected new camere it just won't connect..... I'm figuring we have to use the version of the camera on the tmobile is different..... Here are some pics comparing them both
I RECEIVED THE TOP CAMERA AS THE REPLACEMENT THE DIFFERENCE IS THE TEXTURE THING BEFORE THE CONNECTOR IS WAY SLIMMER THAN THE TMOBILE ONE.... I BELIEVE SINCE THE OTHER ONE IS THINNER IS NOT MAKING ANY CONNECTION TO THE BOARD..... THE BUTTOM ONE IS THE ORIGINAL AND A PICTURE I FOUND OF A TEAR DOWN OF A TMOBILE GALAXY 4
Any1 ever had to replace their camera ?????
Which camera replacement did you order?
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Which camera replacement did you order?
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Order a camera that said it was oem from samsung and compatible with every model galaxy 4.... I will be returning it and making sure I get one exactly like the one on my phone now
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Was it this one?
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http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=230989843729
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I have a few phones I'd like to fix the cameras on.
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The camera you took out looks like the same as the ifixit teardown; they did the ATT version. They do note that it barely makes contact with the board...not sure if there's something you can do to help 'secure' it in there...
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Was it this one?
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I have a few phones I'd like to fix the cameras on.
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Yeap thats the same one I ordered which wont connect with my phone..... and damn I wonder if there is anything I could do to make contact with the board or just go ahead and order the same one that was on my phone
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The camera you took out looks like the same as the ifixit teardown; they did the ATT version. They do note that it barely makes contact with the board...not sure if there's something you can do to help 'secure' it in there...
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Toleraen said:
The camera you took out looks like the same as the ifixit teardown; they did the ATT version. They do note that it barely makes contact with the board...not sure if there's something you can do to help 'secure' it in there...
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Yea I tried a bunch of times today it won't work even pushing the little connector piece down it still fails u could tell is the wrong camera since the connector that goes to the board literally stays in the air u have to push it down making the other plug almost pop out to touch the board but it won't work
That sucks bro.. makes the 8/10 repairability score unworkable when there are different components and nothing is documented
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That sucks bro.. makes the 8/10 repairability score unworkable when there are different components and nothing is documented
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Yea disappointed.... I ended up going on ebay now and found some1 selling a camera from a tmobile galaxy 4 and order it dont wanna take the risk of getting the wrong part again..... if u look on ebay some sellers list their camera compatible with just some galaxy 4 some list the same camera compatible with all of them be careful when u order a replacement camera lol
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Yea disappointed.... I ended up going on ebay now and found some1 selling a camera from a tmobile galaxy 4 and order it dont wanna take the risk of getting the wrong part again..... if u look on ebay some sellers list their camera compatible with just some galaxy 4 some list the same camera compatible with all of them be careful when u order a replacement camera lol
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Btw received a replacement tmobile camera connected it and camera started right up so the other camera deff doesnt work in our phones be aware........
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The same problem solved!
Hey guys,
I had the same problem and was getting message that camera is failed to lunch. However, I ordered at one place the camera for my SGH-M919 and it worked. Since XDA does not allow me to post links, I would suggest to write me a private message and I will share the place where I bough the camera. Hope, it helps because many sellers on ebay keep saying that all S4 cameras the same which is not!
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Hey guys,
I had the same problem and was getting message that camera is failed to lunch. However, I ordered at one place the camera for my SGH-M919 and it worked. Since XDA does not allow me to post links, I would suggest to write me a private message and I will share the place where I bough the camera. Hope, it helps because many sellers on ebay keep saying that all S4 cameras the same which is not!
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Yeap this is deff true
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Yeap this is deff true
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I have not replaced the camera but this is just a suggestion so take it with a grain of salt. Maybe you can use some solder to make contact if it is too thin?
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I have not replaced the camera but this is just a suggestion so take it with a grain of salt. Maybe you can use some solder to make contact if it is too thin?
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I literally put a thin piece of paper to make it lift up so it would touch and is not enough even if u press them together they won't connect..... I would suggest just looking for the tmobile version and just plug n play
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I literally put a thin piece of paper to make it lift up so it would touch and is not enough even if u press them together they won't connect..... I would suggest just looking for the tmobile version and just plug n play
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Well, solder is a metal alloy. Not sure paper is a viable option.
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Well, solder is a metal alloy. Not sure paper is a viable option.
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I know but what I'm trying to say is I held both sides the camera and motherboard part together and it still won't connect why go thru all this hastle if you are going to waste money and order the part might ass well make sure u are getting the correct one is not like these companies are giving their products away for free
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