Just bought a new HTC 10 with a respectable chain of stores in the Netherlands.
The serial number shows a production date of Sep 2017. Is this normal, half a year ago?
The battery setting shows ‘Last full charge’ 67 days ago. Did I buy a refurbished phone?
After two full charges the ‘Last full charge’ still shows 67 days ago.
Could be that when they got the phione they opened it up to make sure everything works and was there. Or if its anything like what ive been going thru its probably a 'used' phone
I think alot of the new in package phones that werent sold were either bought back by htc or some other company, reflashed with international roms and repacked in a crappy clone box with chinese accesories. Im on my second 'new' htc 10 but theyve all come used. I have not been able to find a brand new htc 10. This one i have now was flashed with chinese market firmware even though it was an original US unlocked phone. I flashed the us unlocked and then leedrid roms but i cant get LTE or data working.
So if yours came in a crappy box with a big textured sticker up top, charger with letters printed all crooked, a photocopied manual and with a generic sim removal tool (not the small square htc branded one) you most likely got one of these 'used' but new reflashed phones. I would simply take it out of the box inspect the phone for any damages or signs of use, plug you sim in and make sure it works. then do a imei and serial number check. If it comes up as something other than an htc 10 send it back.
Barracuz said:
Could be that when they got the phione they opened it up to make sure everything works and was there. Or if its anything like what ive been going thru its probably a 'used' phone
I think alot of the new in package phones that werent sold were either bought back by htc or some other company, reflashed with international roms and repacked in a crappy clone box with chinese accesories. Im on my second 'new' htc 10 but theyve all come used. I have not been able to find a brand new htc 10. This one i have now was flashed with chinese market firmware even though it was an original US unlocked phone. I flashed the us unlocked and then leedrid roms but i cant get LTE or data working.
So if yours came in a crappy box with a big textured sticker up top, charger with letters printed all crooked, a photocopied manual and with a generic sim removal tool (not the small square htc branded one) you most likely got one of these 'used' but new reflashed phones. I would simply take it out of the box inspect the phone for any damages or signs of use, plug you sim in and make sure it works. then do a imei and serial number check. If it comes up as something other than an htc 10 send it back.
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You bought yours from eBay...I don't think that's an equivalent comparison.
lol i bought last week a black HTC 10 from a respectable retailer in Europe and it showed in settings it was last charged 62 days ago. Could you tell me if yours has the CE 2200 marking on the back side of the phone or just a CE marking, i mean is the nymber 2200 there?
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I seem to have a problem of dropping my phone as of late... lol. Everytime i've got out of my car my poor hero has crashed to the floor and split into pieces a few times. The aluminium has taken a beating but luckily the screen remains undamaged at all! (for now) lol.
So I was looking at getting a "spare" mainly for rom testing etc, the seller says that the phone was on 3 UK but they had it unlocked for orange and since cannot get any signal at all and that it may be "blacklisted". Can a network lock/ban be removed with flash.
I can't remember how I changed the recovery image on my current t-mobile hero a while back but I think it involved fast boot...
Should I buy and how would I go about "fixing" it? .
Any help would be much appreciated!
if its been blacklisted i wouldnt bother. Ive got a blocked G1 and the only way for me to unblock it is to buy a faulty G1 (cracked screen etc.) and replace the radio with the unblocked radio
If the phone is blacklisted it is usually because it has been reported lost or stolen.
The block is placed at a IMEI level, something that is embedded in each phone so no matter what you do I think the block stands.
Although I have heard rumours that if you leave the region e.g. European blacklisted phone taken to USA it might work.
However do you want to risk purchasing a phone that may be stolen anyway?
Hi,
Just installed the latest Voadfone UK RUU on my phone as I'm having problems with the phone charging. I have an SLCD model purchased in August. When I originally received the phone it was branded, however, the phone now appears to have no branding (after flashing the latest RUU). I also cannot see the Phone Number (listed as Unknown) under Phone Identity in settings, whereas this used to work with the original OS.
Anyone know if Vodafone UK will accept my phone back for a warranty repair, am I screwed or do I need to do anything else?
Cheers,
Mike
I thought the latest version of the vodafone software removed (all?) branding and dodgy apps as people kicked up a right fuss last time they pushed down loads of vodafone360 junk? (was the RUU a vodafone branded RUU?)
Not sure though as I got my phone from Amazon and stuck in an o2 sim.
However, I did see somewhere about the 'unknown' phone number being an issue with the sim/carrier - old sim cards or such that didn't carry information about the phone number on - or numbers that have been transferred with PAC etc.
Mine also says Unknown - although it was a brand spanking new SIM and number around 2 years ago.
I think I read that you can contact Vodafone (in this case) and tell them about it and they'll do one of three things;
1) tell you to ignore it - it isn't important
2) push out an update to the SIM to update the information on it
3) send you a new SIM.
4) you can apparently put the sim into a blackberry or similar and there's an option on some handsets (i know there is on an old blackberry i have) to add the number on to the SIM itself that way... and it should then transfer the number to your Desire
hope that helps... I may of course be wrong with some of the above as I dont have a branded phone and i ignored the unknown number on my own phone
When i got my Desire with Vodafone branding last month I was surprised too. The only place where the "branding" is visible is under settings-personalize-scenes which has an added Vodafone scene (besides a different firmware version of course...).
It's also unable to detect the phone number from my simcard but i don't really mind.
Perfect, thanks guys. Just dropped it into Vodafone to get it repaired.
I'm tempted to move my SIM to the blackberry and set the number up on it and move it back just to test... in fact I may do that now...
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Perfect, thanks guys. Just dropped it into Vodafone to get it repaired.
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Out of interest - why are you sending it back to vodafone? What else is broken?
The (almost) non-branding seems to be part of the update...
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Out of interest - why are you sending it back to vodafone? What else is broken?
The (almost) non-branding seems to be part of the update...
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he mentioned that he has some problem with charging his phone
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I'm tempted to move my SIM to the blackberry and set the number up on it and move it back just to test... in fact I may do that now...
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Darn - the BB handset is locked and won't accept my o2 Sim
ah problems charging silly me
Recently i upgraded to a samsung nexus via this company unforuntly i had quite a bad experiance. I swapped three nexus phones out of those three the first had transparant lines which was swapped this phone had 2 warranty stickers on it and 2 serials / imei number which had been stuck over.
I queryed the shop to be told they do this to check the phones ie put sim in make sure it works reseal, whilst this might explain 2 warranty sticks it does not explain 2 serials. Anyhow the next i recieved had awfull banding which was swapped , again the phone arrives with 2 warranty stickers and 2 serials so i ask again why this is, to be told as before the stock is brand new and to be honest we dident know they had 2 warranty sticks and 2 serials on untill i had pointed it out to them.
Anyhow third phone arrives and the camera rattles + screen is shockingly bad , it had really bad colour banding which can be seen via a search on these forums. They checked this phone against 5 others apperntly and mine was the best so you can only imagine how bad the other 5 was. Anyhow i returned and canceled the contract , they told me same as before they are brand new from "there" supplier.
Anyhow fast forward tryed mobile phones direct yesterday recieved nexus today no grey lines on screen no transparant line no camera rattle slight colour banding on greys but hardly noticable. Most importantly 1 warranty sticker and 1 serial number as it should be, Im very happy with my nexus
Its possible other people might not have experianced what i have with this company but if you are considering bestbuymobiles.net id think long and hard before grabbing a phone of them i can see no reason why the box should have 2 serial stickers stuck over each other unless they are buying B grade stock or something ie someone returns phone for whatever reason that goes back to samsung , samsung say its fine and bang it out again.
Needed a phone to fill the app-gap coming from Windows(don't judge) until contract expires, and bought a H791 5X on ebay last October. (more on that). Works very well for about 8 month, then it started bootlooping. Searched XDA and found thread by xcnathan32, managed to revive it. Yesterday it was updating apps(not OTA security patch), dropped dark, and won't turn on at all. Held power+vol down until fingers turned blue, and maybe 1 in 20 chance it will light up, warns that bootloader is unlocked, then stop responding and drop dark again. Twice I got it to get to recovery screen, but it froze on one occasion, and on the other occasion shows a weird orange line towards bottom of screen, and I wasn't able to flash anything before it froze again.
As I'm fairly certain this is a hardware issue, I tried chatting LG support. Gave them IMEI, and they say this is a international phone, so LG USA won't support it. chatted with Google, really nice service, but when I gave them IMEI they couldn't bring up any warranty option since they don't have my IMEI in inventory...suggested calling LG support. Just called them, and they checked IMEI and said the same thing from chat(they even greeted me by name without me saying a word), but they did tell me my IMEI belongs in JAMAICA. YeahMan. Or...NoMan?
So I'm running out of options - what should I try next? give up? Go the Chinese route for repair?(and 4GB upgrade?) new ones are on ebay for ~230 so repair in US doesn't make much $ sense...
TL;DR: got international 5x, bootlooped, no repair from LG/Google, what do?
So this is my second 10 this month. Had to send the last one back as it was being sold as new but it was clearly used.
Anyway so I bought this hoping it was the 6500 us unlocked version. The back casing has the 6500 lettering and nothing else. All was good till i put my tmobile sim card in and can only get EDGE networks. Fiddled with apn settings but nada. Booted into download mode and behold this thing has a 6500 mid. Now Im not even sure this is new phone either. It is clean and in mint condition but the box it came in could fool anyone. The charger was all etched with crooked lettering and the box had a glued piece of textured paper for the top to miminc an oem box, unless htc also did this.
Anyways before i send this back is there anyway to check if this phone is an original 6500 that was simply flashed with 6200 mid/rom? Software number has a 401 regional code, china is 400 so it may be a modified chinese phone? Do you guys need any specific info?
If i were to keep it, will flashing a radio make it possible to get the missing lte bands people dont get when simply ruuing/ flashing a rom? Or will it always not recognize certain lte bands?
Also where can i buy a new 6500 us unlocked phone? Everyone seems to only sell international versions.
Any help would be appreciated