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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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iArtisan said:
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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Ngo93 said:
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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msedek said:
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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So after work last night we all got together to drink some beers and talk I took out phone to call the wife and phone slipped out my hand tried to grab it in the air and just added more force for impact now my GS2 looks like this :crying:
Now i need some help or the best place to replace screen maybe even looking to change it to a different color I am in California
And I don't drink
Dam
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It pains me to see that. Sorry man.
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Sadly i've noticed from my old vibrant that the gorilla glass is not what's it's made out to be... When you take your phone apart you'll see.. If you bend the glass it breaks with ease, and if you put pressure in one small area it's done for. I swear plexiglass is stronger than the ****.
check Amazon man. it cost about 50 bucks for the whole housing u can even find it in white
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check Amazon man. it cost about 50 bucks for the whole housing u can even find it in white
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EBay revealed a new screen to cost up around 180 bucks. I say buy a new phone.
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I was afraid that this would happen to my phone so I bought a Ballistics case for it (since Otterbox decided NOT to make a grossly over-priced case for the T989). Anyway, I'm sorry this happened to you
I would scour ebay for parts or see if someone is selling a defunct t989 you could buy and scavenge the parts. You shouldn't have to pay more than $200 including shipping.
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I was afraid that this would happen to my phone so I bought a Ballistics case for it (since Otterbox decided NOT to make a grossly over-priced case for the T989). Anyway, I'm sorry this happened to you
I would scour ebay for parts or see if someone is selling a defunct t989 you could buy and scavenge the parts. You shouldn't have to pay more than $200 including shipping.
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That's the price of a new phone...
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That's the price of a new phone...
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Not if he has to pay full price....this is why I get insurance....took me washing my phone 4 years ago and I have had insurance on every phone I have had sense.....
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Not if he has to pay full price....this is why I get insurance....took me washing my phone 4 years ago and I have had insurance on every phone I have had sense.....
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I use to have insurance. But after paying ten bucks a month for 22 months, plus the 100 deductible, that's outrageous for a refurbished device. They go for 200 on Craigslist in my area. Insurance is a rip off.. in my experience
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Well 9 times out of 10 when I have had to use the insurance....I have gotten a new phone and the few refurbished ones I got were all defective so then I called up and got a brand new one the next day....I will say not finding much in the way of G2s for less than 200 around here much yet....I got one for 180 but I got lucky
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Well 9 times out of 10 when I have had to use the insurance....I have gotten a new phone and the few refurbished ones I got were all defective so then I called up and got a brand new one the next day....I will say not finding much in the way of G2s for less than 200 around here much yet....I got one for 180 but I got lucky
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Ha I had a very poor experience with asurion.. every time I got a device it was defective, I ended up taking two apart and melding it into one functional device. Glad your experience was better!
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beezie916 said:
Well 9 times out of 10 when I have had to use the insurance....I have gotten a new phone and the few refurbished ones I got were all defective so then I called up and got a brand new one the next day....I will say not finding much in the way of G2s for less than 200 around here much yet....I got one for 180 but I got lucky
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Wait, you've used insurance 10 times? And 9 of them were new? You def need it.
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Wait, you've used insurance 10 times? And 9 of them were new? You def need it.
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He said 9/10...
It could have been more that 10 times lol
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That sucks, but please tell us more about the stick figure holding a knife in your picture...
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I use to have insurance. But after paying ten bucks a month for 22 months, plus the 100 deductible, that's outrageous for a refurbished device. They go for 200 on Craigslist in my area. Insurance is a rip off.. in my experience
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Not really because you get warranty for life you can have as many exchange as you want even when you brick your phone plus it works for any phone that is or was used to your sim card so I think paying my end 5 bucks is well worth it.
And by the way you are right, if i ever crack my screen I prefer to get a new one. people the repair cell phone screens never leave as it used to be. you can tell a lot that the screen been replaced
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Wait, you've used insurance 10 times? And 9 of them were new? You def need it.
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Hahaha the only phone I got from a warranty exchange that was new from tmobile was when my sensation got a power button defect and tmobile gave me the amaze brand new in box as a warranty exchange. then a few days later i guess they figure about the glitch because the amaze was not long since it came out and took it off from their system as a alternative phone lol.
but guess what I'm kinda tik off from tmobile is that I called to change a plan for my sons phone and the rep could hear an echo so we ketp talking and she said that if I wanted a warranty exchange, my answer was there is no point on getting the same phone that my have the screen bleed or else cause of samsung defect and she had the guts to gave me these alternative phone that I was like omg I better stick to what i have.
1. HTC AMAZE 4G I already had it sold it for the sensation
2. Sidekick 4g
3. Nokia Lumia.
4. Samsung Galaxy S 4G.
5. HTC HD2
Phones that are not even compatible to the S2
Warranty exchange and insurance claim is different. You can exchange as many times as you like but you can only claim insurance twice in 365 days.
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The other difference with an insurance claim is you have to pay a deductable of about 130 per claim when you have the TMOBILE US insurance. I had the insurance on my last phone the HD2 and never used it. Have it on the SG2 as well. Have no idea what you get when you have to file a claim, lesser phone if the phone is discontinued or refurbished?
I had coverage on other phones with SquareTrade and their servce was great. Bought a used phone off eBay, put on the coverage. If something happens, they basically refund the cost for up to two years. Not considering the insurance is dirt cheap compared to the TMobile monthly cost.
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So after work last night we all got together to drink some beers and talk I took out phone to call the wife and phone slipped out my hand tried to grab it in the air and just added more force for impact now my GS2 looks like this :crying:
Now i need some help or the best place to replace screen maybe even looking to change it to a different color I am in California
And I don't drink
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Ouch! Well, if this will make it feel better, I've had worse:
Phone + Pavement + Bus # 85 = I'll leave the state of the phone to your imagination. I will, however, say that the SIM card inside was also dead.
And if that didn't make you feel better, I hope it at least made you laugh (I can tell you I wasn't laughing when I saw the result of this combo). That was expen$ive.
Ok, here's the deal: the glass on your phone is just that: glass. What makes it strong is that it's laminated: several layers of glass at tension against each other. You compromise one layer, the entire piece of glass is garbage, it cracks in a spiderweb pattern like what you see. So your glass is a goner.
What about the digitizer under it? Test it very carefully: touch everywhere on your screen and test if the phone will detect it. If not, your digitizer is gone too, you do need that $180 screen assembly. What about the LCD? Any dead pixels / lines / areas?
HOWEVER
If the LCD and the digitizer still work, there is some hope yet: your glass is broken, but your phone still works! What you need to do now is find a way to glue it together again. It will never be like new. It will never be strong again, and your phone will probably die a nasty screen death within a year or so, but that's a year you don't have to buy another phone. I think Walmart has some service to repair broken glass (at least here it does). If the digitizer works, that is. IF it works. And IF your LCD is not damaged. And IF that service is what it claims to be.
Don't expect miracles, your best case scenario is a phone with visual artifacts from the broken glass.
Damn ...
Heard they were now selling our phone for $299 brand new. Not sure how much truth there is to that since I'm in Canada but worth looking into.
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Figured I would share this story with you guys.
So today I went to class and as I passed the breezeway that's located in the center of my university ( University of miami), I saw a Samsung kiosk being set up. After I got out of class I walked over and saw they were showing off the Galaxy s4 in the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1.
Along with displaying these products they were doing a Samsung challenge, in which you could take out whatever smart phone you owned at the moment and challenge it against the Galaxy s4. If your phone was able to beat the Galaxy s4 in a random challenge you would win cash, electronics towards your non profit organization, gift cards to our universities bookstore and also a Galaxy Tab 2.
So of course there was a massive line of students stepping up to challenge the s4. I saw people pulling out Iphones, droid razr maxs, S3's, S2's, HTC ONE's and DNA's, oppo 5's,evo lte's ....and losing horribly lol.
The challenges included turning your phone on without touching it, send a picture to another persons phone ( representatives s4) the fastest, have two apps on the same screen at once, highlight an item on the screen without actually touching the screen, swipe through pictures without touching the screen and a couple other random challenges that the application on the s4 would randomly pick. The more challenges you won, the more prizes/ bigger the prizes you get. Almost everyone lost in the first round.
So of course I signed up for the challenge not telling them that I have a galaxy note 2 ( had to sign up on a tab 2 and specify what phone you had, so told them I had a note....lol see what I did ). Whenever you begin the challenge one of the representatives takes a picture with the new samsung camera ( also being displayed) of the Challenger and the s4.
As soon as it was my turn I took out my galaxy note 2, and every rep looked me and said "....f***!" . As you can guess I ended up winning the challenge 3 times ( turn phone on without touching, sbeam photo and airview with the stylus) so ended up winning a galaxy tab 2, flips covers, " next big thing " tshirts, cash, 15000 dollars in samsung electronics to my umiami non profit organizations and a ton of 10 dollar gift cards.
Thank you samsung for an unexpected awesome day. They are apparently visiting a bunch of colleges around the country for the release so check with your University to see if they will be near you!
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How do u turn the phone without touching?
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How do u turn the phone without touching?
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Turn on quick glance in motion controls
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Woooow I had never seen that lol thanks. Got it to work once but not anymore o.o
Edit:nvm just saw how it works lol my room was too dark so it wouldn't work lol. This should be nice with my new flip case ^.^
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Awesome. I will keep my eyes peeled for something here!
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Turn on quick glance in motion controls
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Does that actually turn on the phone or just the screen if it's locked?
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Does that actually turn on the phone or just the screen if it's locked?
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Turn on the screen if its locked and off.
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Yeah, quick glance is a nice feature!
Have you guys try the proximity sensor app? where you can turning your screen on/off by waving it(without touching the screen ofcourse).
Anyone have any news as to which colleges Samsung will be touring? I'm guessing no where near Colorado?
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That's cool, although still not a loose for Samsung as it was a Samsung phone that beat or matched the features of the s4. The note is a beast and I suspect the N3 will put the s4 to shame. I am sure they were thrilled about forking up the money though/tab lol
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They're here @ UC Berkeley today and for the next few days I believe?? (don't hold me to that)
You are entered to win a tab and money for your organization.
Guy just gave me some samsung lip balm since they didn't have anymore portable speakers
plus I got a $5 GC to the student store and a free titanium flip cover for my note 2 after giving them my IMEI (just so you don't double dip I guess)
Malevolence said:
They're here @ UC Berkeley today and for the next few days I believe?? (don't hold me to that)
You are entered to win a tab and money for your organization.
Guy just gave me some samsung lip balm since they didn't have anymore portable speakers
plus I got a $5 GC to the student store and a free titanium flip cover for my note 2 after giving them my IMEI (just so you don't double dip I guess)
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Lucky:thumbup:
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My school had this too
I initially wanted to try out all the challenges on my phone, but it was clearly rooted and themed. I liked the consolation prizes anyways. Even if you don't win, you still get a t shirt, speakers, flip cover, and lip balm. So I was happy either way.
I initially wanted to try out all the challenges on my phone, but it was clearly rooted and themed. I liked the consolation prizes anyways. Even if you don't win, you still get a t shirt, speakers, flip cover, and lip balm. So I was happy either way.
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What school do you attend?
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Yo. Seems like a goodbye thread? Not exactly. (but still kind of)
I recently went on vacation and drowned my Incredible 2 in the pool. That was 4 days ago so I think I'm past the point of hoping it will come back to life. Besides that I payed up a Verizon ETF and switched to T-Mobile's $30 unlimited data plan with a Samsung Galaxy S4.
I'm switching a little bit earlier than I thought because of this but this has been my plan for a while - timeline just got sped up. Anyway the whole point of this thread is
Does anyone want the phone for parts?
I'd be happy to send it on to anyone who might be able to use it. Remember it's a water-damaged phone, but maybe there's a chance for repair or parts.
These phones are almost indestructible. Glad I found out pools can kill it. Congrats on getting the s4.
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I'd take it for the usb part but don't know if it'll work because of the water damage, have an old inc2 that has a loose usb port and doesn't charge, and my sister wanted it.
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I'm currently driving a T-Mobile SGS2. Obviously, I don't do cutting-edge phones I'm seeing the Note II (used) on ebay for ~ $200-$250 which is in my price range. So, should I pull the trigger? What are the minuses for this device?
I had used this phone for over two years and this phone is awesome. For me there were no minuses for this phone but lots of newer phones come with few pluses.
Buying second hand phone is always a risk but who knows you may end up with a perfect phone but that's the risk you ll b taking.
I read somewhere that this phone will get the lollypop update so you should be good. I m currently using a note 4 and it has few additional features which I hardly use but again this is just my preference. The only reason I switched to note 4 is because I got it via my office.
There were quite few people with this phone who had their EMMC damaged just by itself and this is something to take in to consideration when buying a two year old phone.
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I had used this phone for over two years and this phone is awesome. For me there were no minuses for this phone but lots of newer phones come with few pluses.
Buying second hand phone is always a risk but who knows you may end up with a perfect phone but that's the risk you ll b taking.
I read somewhere that this phone will get the lollypop update so you should be good. I m currently using a note 4 and it has few additional features which I hardly use but again this is just my preference. The only reason I switched to note 4 is because I got it via my office.
There were quite few people with this phone who had their EMMC damaged just by itself and this is something to take in to consideration when buying a two year old phone.
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Thanks! I almost always buy used. You're rolling the dice, but most folks are honest. I wasn't aware of EMMC damage, I appreciate the warning.
Iv been using my note 2 for 2 years now no issue , i formatted my phone like a 100 time on my side i like it
I have been using the Note 2 for some time as my weekday work phone (I usually switch to a Moto G 2014 on the weekends). I have also flashed mine numerous times (usually 1-2 times a week...I can never settle on a ROM). I am pretty happy with Slimkat 4.4.4 the most...the device is outstanding IMO.
I have thought of upgrading to something else and had a Nexus 6 in my hand at the T-mobile store...the sales rep was acting shady about the whole deal though (I wanted the 64GB version and he was dancing around the availability) so I walked away. I think at this point I would upgrade to a Note 3 (I do not need the heartrate/fingerprint scanner that the Note 4 has) which aside from using slightly more premium materials, its almost the same device.
...right now, they have the refurb Note 2 on T-Mobile's website for $240.00 or $10.00/month.
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...right now, they have the refurb Note 2 on T-Mobile's website for $240.00 or $10.00/month.
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$240 sounds pretty good for a refurb...
I love my 2yr old Note2 also. Its still a pretty powerful phone. When I first got it I was made fun of for having such a big phone... guess I was trend setting.
But my opinion is probably step up to a Note 3 or something not so outdated.
Also download the OfferUp app ( I have No affliation with this app) its like a yard sale app. I see Note 4s in my area for $400 and Note 2s anywhere from $150-$200 ... always negotiate.