Hello. I am totally new to this forum. Please help me. I am a complete novice.
I have purchased a galaxy watch at auction. It is in retail mode. I have looked everywhere for straightforward advice on what I can do to remove retail mode and make this watch work normally. I cannot even connect my phone.
Does anyone know where I can find this information in one place? Or where I can find a step by step tutorial to remove Retail mode, and make this watch functional normally. Is this possible or have I purchased a brick?
Thank you in advance
Sadly, I suspect you may have bought a dud. The retail devices very rarely contain the full technology to make the device work. This is certainly the case for phones, so I suspect its the same for smart watches. Someone may have a little more knowledge and hopefully prove me wrong. Good luck
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Just as bad as it sounds
I went to close my laptop and my laptop fell off my stand and the corner landed on my phone's screen and it cracked the screen significantly. (If my phone worked I would have taken a picture)
I do not have insurance and I'm in my 4th month of having it, what should I do? I figured I could attempt to do a repair myself and ordered a new screen for 179.99. I've looked up tutorials but really only found stuff relating to the I900 and not my t989.
Does anyone know if this process will be difficult? Or is there any hoops I can jump through for Samsung or T-mobile to help me out?
Thanks
Honestly, just look trough google for a repair shop.
Most places will only charge an additional 30-40 bucks on top of the cost of the screen but this way you don't have to worry about breaking anything as they will take responsibility.
After this, get insurance if you still can. Most people see those "We repair any phone for 50$" and don't realize that does not apply to Samsung owners.
Yeah I thought about that but considering that amount of time it would be between me sending out the phone and then waiting to get it back I figure I could do the repair myself without spending the extra $30-$50 and it would be a learning experience
I would like to know however if there is anything that samsung or t-mobile would do to help out or if there were some t989 tutorial
fmartine said:
Yeah I thought about that but considering that amount of time it would be between me sending out the phone and then waiting to get it back I figure I could do the repair myself without spending the extra $30-$50 and it would be a learning experience
I would like to know however if there is anything that samsung or t-mobile would do to help out or if there were some t989 tutorial
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You can send it to Samsung and they will fix it for a price, but your better off having it fixed locally at a shop as recommended above.
T-mobile can't do anything for you at this point.
I wouldn't recommend you do it yourself....This is an extremely risky and difficult procedure, in particular on this phone. Even if you have done this before on another device, this is one of the toughest, so be prepared to bring your A game.
You could end up breaking the phone all together....that would be one expensive learning experience. I would just take it to somewhere local and have them do it.
I heavily researched replacing the chrome bezel on this phone and looked at tear down documentation. Discovered this phone is very hard to replace things on yourself. I have done repairs on G1's G2's but this is a whole different ball game.
I found this tutorial and figured I'll try this out in the meantime
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-S-4G-Teardown/4977/2
If anyone has any advice on It would be appreciated
Fixed my galaxy s ii
Just reporting in, I received my new screen and successfully performed the transplant. I have some pics but not all of them on the screen removal I will post them ASAP.
FYI it is a fairly simple process not nearly as complicated as I feared but you have to make sure you have a fine touch and don't force any of the connections in.
In the meantime I have these two tutorials to thank
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253969
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Disassembling-Samsung-Galaxy-s-2-T-mobile-T989-Phone/8179/1
Hey guys,
Just signed up to ask a few questions, a very good friend of mine had her phone (T-mobile Samsung Galaxy SII SGH-T989) run over the other day. Needless to say she is not very tech savvy. She has a new S4 now. Now the problem is, that being she is not so tech savvy she didn't back up (ever?) So i am looking to somehow recover lost pictures and contacts if possible.
Now I have a small background in building computers and taking stuff apart so I agreed to take a look at the phone. The screen is shot. but besides that the other internals look fine. Nothing is broken as far as i can tell. When I plug the phone in with the battery nothing comes up at all, except when i leave it plugged in for a little bit the LED under the camera will flash about once every minute or so.
So i guess the question i have is did the motherboard somehow short circuit when it was run over? Has anyone had experience with a situation similar to this before?
And is there a way to get the phone on long enough to recover the lost info?
Help would be much appreciated if possible.
Justin
As phones don't have an actual hard drive, I doubt you can recover anything from a phone that isn't running.
Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
This is not easy, but can be done. I have done similar recoveries several times…
You’ll need:
1) The equipment & ability to remove a surface mount soldered chip, and re-solder it onto another board *without* damaging it.
2) Another identical phone to host the transplanted chip.
3) A service manual, or someone with intimate knowledge of the device, to identify the correct chip…
Note that if the pix were encrypted this will not work…
My mother got a Note 7, and gave me her Note Edge to replace the Note 4 I left on the bus. The first thing I did was a factory reset, and I regret it. Reactivation Lock = On.
I can't find a single YouTube video for bypassing this, and this isn't a common subject in specific phone threads on XDA because it's always in instructions to make sure this lock is off in advance.
I'm just hoping that members of this community might have some insight into recent developments to help me here. I still haven't ordered another phone but if it's looking bleak today, then I might have to let this brick sit around a while.
It's on BPC1, I believe? Can't access Accessibility Settings from the getgo, the OTG USB doesn't get a response from it, doesn't show up on ODIN. Some of ya'll r wizards tho so eh, I wont get my hopes up.
Thanks!
PS: This is for the SM-n915v, but that phone gets no love and is pretty similar to the Note 4 I left on the bus, so I am posting this here. I hope that is not an incorrect assumption.
i think this video will help u as me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPgiYFEvzw&list=LLGv33D1F1oeV3N95CbiCfkA&index=1
After the 1/29/2021, mandatory software update my phone suddenly stopped turning on fully. I sent my device to be repaired under warranty (purchased in October 2020) and it was returned saying the device is unrepairable because it was rooted. I got the phone brand new and I never downloaded any custom software or rooted my S20+ nor would I know how to. Unfortunately, when asked if I could have the device rechecked by the repair center to ensure this was the correct diagnosis they told me that was not an option. [Here](http://imgur.com/gallery/3I66p7C) are photos of the screens I could figure out how to view now, I have no idea how to read this. From what little information I could find online it seems like the fact that it says "warranty void 0x0" should prove that it wasn't/isn't rooted after all. Either way I don't know what to do now and I can't get any further with customer service at this time so I figured I'd check if anyone had a solution here. If you have any information that can help or you know how to fix this I would be so grateful. I really like this phone and have always had good service with samsung aside from this so I'd like to fix the phone rather than try buying from somewhere else and hoping something like this doesn't happen again. I definitely don't feel comfortable buying another phone from Samsung as of right now for obvious reasons and I almost laughed at them when they suggested I buy a new device from them since this one is only 5 months old. Please let me know if you have had this issue and know how to resolve it.
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After the 1/29/2021, mandatory software update my phone suddenly stopped turning on fully. I sent my device to be repaired under warranty (purchased in October 2020) and it was returned saying the device is unrepairable because it was rooted. I got the phone brand new and I never downloaded any custom software or rooted my S20+ nor would I know how to. Unfortunately, when asked if I could have the device rechecked by the repair center to ensure this was the correct diagnosis they told me that was not an option. [Here](http://imgur.com/gallery/3I66p7C) are photos of the screens I could figure out how to view now, I have no idea how to read this. From what little information I could find online it seems like the fact that it says "warranty void 0x0" should prove that it wasn't/isn't rooted after all. Either way I don't know what to do now and I can't get any further with customer service at this time so I figured I'd check if anyone had a solution here. If you have any information that can help or you know how to fix this I would be so grateful. I really like this phone and have always had good service with samsung aside from this so I'd like to fix the phone rather than try buying from somewhere else and hoping something like this doesn't happen again. I definitely don't feel comfortable buying another phone from Samsung as of right now for obvious reasons and I almost laughed at them when they suggested I buy a new device from them since this one is only 5 months old. Please let me know if you have had this issue and know how to resolve it.
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I'd take them to court, likely they'll resolve the issue before they're scheduled to appear.
Hi, I bought a used Galaxy S20 from eBay and everything works fine except benchmarking apps wouldn’t install. Direct APKs don’t work either and the only suggestion I found is to clear Play Store which had no luck. The Galaxy Store works though but they’re mostly outdated or fringe benchmark apps.
Later I found that when I choose Emergency mode in the power off menu, it says “Can’t use Emergency mode on demo phone”. Nowhere else does it mention it’s a demo unit, including boot sequence and demo mode is off in developer options.
Last problem I found while troubleshooting more and found out on another site that the IMEI belongs to a Galaxy J5 Prime from Saudi Arabia... What can I do? Would flashing a firmware help with any of these problems? It’s a Canadian SM-G981W model and I would prefer to flash a US firmware without losing any data if it’s possible. Recovery mode+download mode both work and I don’t think the phone has been rooted as Knox doesn’t seem to be tripped. But I thought that you would need to root in order to fake/spoof IMEI?
Here’s a photo of the phone in download mode, I think it’s missing a few things including the OEM lock status.
https://imgur.com/a/GIp9ffT
Is this fishy or help solve the problems as I’m not super tech savvy Thanks in advance!
That's why nobody should buy a used phone off eBay.
jwoegerbauer said:
That's why nobody should buy a used phone off eBay.
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Where should I buy them then? Swappa and Gazelle don’t deliver to Canada and traditional retailers are way overpriced. To be fair, the seller is pretty smart as the average Joe would probably never notice these issues as the phone works completely normal otherwise.
Return it.
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Return it.
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I would lose out on shipping and the only phone I have and was using broke so that’s why I was replacing it with the S20...