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[Cracks] What to check before getting your X1 back

Ok, so, today is THAT day.
You had to wait 15 business days or more (fuc***g damn slow SE repair service!), but tonight you camped in front of your SE dealer to get back your X1 as soon as possible.
But, since you have read xda (every day, with a page refresh every 3 minutes, because you love xda ), you know that some X1 are not really new or repaired, but SE had that great idea of giving you a refurbished one (please, read Mein Kampf if you have Vodafone and leave every hope to get a new X1 ).
So,what do you have to check on your repaired X1 to be sure that it has really been repaired:
1 - no more cracks (that may sound stupid, but... it's definitively not!)
2 - tricolour screen shows original HardSPL (so, it doesn't show "Olinex")
3 - There is no cooked ROM
4 - Touchscreen and buttons works
Any other ideas?
I'll get my X1 back in 10 days, but hope this will help other people avoiding them other costs and surprises!

[email protected] said:
But, since you have read xda (every day, with a page refresh every 3 minutes, because you love xda )
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True .
Check for scratches on the battery cover. Especially near the USB port. Check the camera for scratches as well. It sounds obvious, but many people don't do it!
Nice idea btw.

when u get the phone back from sony repair centre they always wipe it clean (like when u get a new phone).
i was lucky to get a new handset replacement but now there is a crack on this one too. i hope they give me another new one as i dont want a battered one that someone else has sent back (or my one back as it has been treated well)

I waited 15 days i got my phone worse than before i sent to service.There was no crack on my phone but after repair i got 3 different cracks and they changed my navigation pad and button.And they were not working correctly as well.I called se south africa they apologised and they said please re-book for repair and i did.I am waiting new results.I hope i am gonna gel my phone 1 piece.Lol.Lets hope.Cheers.

15 days and a cracked phone... what the hell, why X1 support sucks in that way? and, it's not SE, since I never heard someone complaining on other SE model support.
Will let you know as far as I get my X1 back... witha 3,5% probability that it will be *really* repaired (really sad about this point...)

The usual bricked G1

Now I'm pretty sure this phone is fried. I'm nearly possitive. Here goes
Updated the radio, went to that neat little screen that says " writing radio" then it shows the arrow to the "rom" image. Well.... its stuck there. after about 30 mins, I thought it was safe to say "remove the battery you f_ed up"
Well rebooted the phone and home + power and cam + power does squat. All the phone shows is that rom image.
Is it safe to call t-mo and ask for a new phone? Could I call it a warrenty issue? Do i Just play dumb and home for the best?

Aythadis said:
Now I'm pretty sure this phone is fried. I'm nearly possitive. Here goes
Updated the radio, went to that neat little screen that says " writing radio" then it shows the arrow to the "rom" image. Well.... its stuck there. after about 30 mins, I thought it was safe to say "remove the battery you f_ed up"
Well rebooted the phone and home + power and cam + power does squat. All the phone shows is that rom image.
Is it safe to call t-mo and ask for a new phone? Could I call it a warrenty issue? Do i Just play dumb and home for the best?
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Yeah just go to a tmo store. Say that the phone said there was an update available and you chose to install it, left it alone, went back later and it was stuck on the tmo screen or something. Don't use anywords like "brick" just so they don't get suspicious

Neva eva EVA, pull the battery young one. If you were a doctor trying a new med on a patient on life support and it took a little bit to respond, would you pull the plug. Nope because that patient has family. Well now look at what you did, you got the g1's mamma crying, and his poppi wanting to kill you, and you left the little baby g1s without a father, what is wrong with you. You better watch your back because his brother is a hero and it's not too hard for a hero wanting revenge to become a villian

you MONSTER!!!!!!!

Omg, i laughing my ass off here XD

gridlock32404 said:
Neva eva EVA, pull the battery young one. If you were a doctor trying a new med on a patient on life support and it took a little bit to respond, would you pull the plug. Nope because that patient has family. Well now look at what you did, you got the g1's mamma crying, and his poppi wanting to kill you, and you left the little baby g1s without a father, what is wrong with you. You better watch your back because his brother is a hero and it's not too hard for a hero wanting revenge to become a villian
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lol....................

Me too.
Couldnt get alt x during the home and backspace mode and so I thought a reboot would work..
Went to the tmo store and played stupid and they gave me a new g1.
Pay ATTENTION, if you dont know what something is keep researching it. and never reboot until you are sure.

Good advice, yes, pay attention. now you just have to worry bout the brother hero and poppi, man, your g1 just a illegatimate baby mytouch too, shame on you

Well, T-mo said no on the exchange. Found one with a busted digitizer and swapped some parts and...poof. working g1. New rule of thumb. RTFM...twice. As my late father said, measure twice, cut once. So... back to the drawing board.

Why did they deny the warranty exchnage?

Must not have a mouth piece. I was able to change mine out in the store. I just wouldn't take no for an answer.

What is the best way to convince t-mobile to replace a bricked g1?

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What is the best way to convince t-mobile to replace a bricked g1?
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Just tell them you got the OTA update and when you updated it and came back to the phone it was messed up (don't say bricked). Play dumb and just act pissed off that T-Mobile did this to you. Just don't take no for an answer. I dropped my phone and it wouldn't turn on. I went to one store and said I dropped it and they wouldn't replace it in the store that I would have to go thru asus (insurance) cause it was physical damage. I then went to another store and told them the excuse I just told you and they exchanged it in store, so no mailing and waiting time. Had a new phone an hour after I dropped my old one.

hello,
I'm sorry put i don't now where i cand write my problem.
I have a G1 and before the insalltion of the spl-signed.zip my g1 freeze on the logo orange. I don't know what can i do. And when i want to put the backup nandroid, it doesn't work at the line: " mount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /tmp/system" failed: invalid argument.
My G1 is bricked or not ? What can i do ?
Sorry for my english and thanks a lot.

dada95 said:
hello,
I'm sorry put i don't now where i cand write my problem.
I have a G1 and before the insalltion of the spl-signed.zip my g1 freeze on the logo orange. I don't know what can i do. And when i want to put the backup nandroid, it doesn't work at the line: " mount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /tmp/system" failed: invalid argument.
My G1 is bricked or not ? What can i do ?
Sorry for my english and thanks a lot.
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Quit trying to argue with your phone, and maybe it might work.

supremeteam256 said:
Just tell them you got the OTA update and when you updated it and came back to the phone it was messed up (don't say bricked). Play dumb and just act pissed off that T-Mobile did this to you. Just don't take no for an answer. I dropped my phone and it wouldn't turn on. I went to one store and said I dropped it and they wouldn't replace it in the store that I would have to go thru asus (insurance) cause it was physical damage. I then went to another store and told them the excuse I just told you and they exchanged it in store, so no mailing and waiting time. Had a new phone an hour after I dropped my old one.
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Do you have to be a T-Mobile customer?
I have a T-Mobile tester sim card so I'm not paying anything. Will it still work?

Good experience with sending phone to Sammy

Well, I had completely screwed up my phone after flashing some roms.
For the life of me I couldn't get it into recovery or download mode. My phone was hardware locked. But I never bothered to add the hardware fix to the phone because adb worked just fine and I didn't think it was going to be a problem. Yeah, big mistake I know and if all you want to say is "I told you so" you can screw off.
Anyway, was completely stuck. I bought the phone out right on ebay, I am running it on att so there was no where really to turn but sammy to get the phone fixed. I called them up told them about some of the problems I was having and eventually got them to take the phone in for repair. It took about a week total but I got my phone fixed and I am now up and running foryo but this time I added the hardware unlock first thing out of the gate.

Hmmm, I say good on ya for resolving the prob w/o trying for a replacement phone. Just a guess, but it prolly takes Sam 15 mins to zero out your vibe and place it back on the shipping cart?
Thumbs up to Samsung a well. Free support for an ebay purchase is cool to begin with..

Yeah, that is what I thought too.
And I agree about the turn around. The day they got it from UPS they fixed it and sent it back out to me the same day.
I am very happy with the results, and the new froyo rom from 11\7\10 is really nice the phone really runs smooth.

[Q] my htc surround died tonight

ok it makes me mad...this is my second device(lost my original on a roller coster) i'm short on cash at the moment so i been doing research trying to find out if i could get a different device but it turns out i would have to pay full price...should i just file a claim and get the same device or would att let me renew my contract and get a different device....my last upgrade was in early april

Hi kilme14,
Thats to bad! What exactly happened to your second Surround? Does still function at all? Can you tell us if or what it does, or if its just doesn't turn on at all?
Is it not covered by warrenty?
Tough to say if they would let you renew your contract that early, and i think if they did you would still be paying almost full price for your new phone. I know I try with my phone companies and depending on how they determine when you get an upgrade its a tough shot.
Hopefully we can figure this out, or your phone company gives you a new one.
Thank you,
Coockoo

it wouldn't load past the white htc screen, and today i got an error about my storage card....but i finally got att to send me a new phone but i'm going to trade it in for a different phone...the windows phone isnt working for me

Alrighty cool, I'm glad they sent you a new one!
If by chance you end up keeping that one or go through this again. The stem of that problem comes from the SD. Its happened to quite a bit of people and replacing the 16GB SD that comes with the phone fixes. I've done this myself as they wouldn't give me warranty and it works just like brand new. I've done and there are several others who have fixed that same issue with the replacement of the SD.
I like windows phone but i keep jumping back and fourth between my desire HD and Surround. they both have so many cool aspects about them and i really can;t wait for MANGO to be released, it looks pretty nice.
Hopefully your new phone fairs a bit better! What are you going to try and get?
Take it easy,
Coockoo

oh man .
if you get eror - storage card is not working . either swapped either unavaible ( or something like . )
just hard reset phone and THATS all .
1. turn off
2. hold volume down key .
3. after screen says promt about factory settings - hit volume down again
dont be drama queen man ..

Damn, I feel bad for you man..
Got my 3GS stolen about half a year ago and I was pissed. Not the same thing that happened to you, but I hate being phoneless, and it dying must suck
Don't worry you'll get another phone soon enough !

[Q] LG E960

Ive had the above for about a month never have i been satisfied with the volume (being hard of hearing doesnt help)to the point where id all ready booked a repair date for next week
The phones unlocked and rooted (bit obvious else i wouldn't be on this forum would i )and in truth ive been playin with a lot of patches and apps out there to improve the volume
Now yesterday after tryin beats xlouder and a couple of sound boost apps. i followed a link to bryce09 kernel which i flashed only to find it killed the phone and i mean KILLED
Ive tried the Nexus repair toolkit/Wgfresh on a VM running W7 and nothing!!
Now im on an iMac and ive run Galaxy Nexus GSM unroot/stock and it goes through all the processes and at the end says press start
But theres nothing on the screen at all all tho and the power button does nothing
Now if i strip down the phone and disconnect the battery am i right in thinking it will reset it
or as ive all ready got a repair booked is it worth it

Oh hell no. You will void your warranty. Just send it back and get it fixed.

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Oh hell no. You will void your warranty. Just send it back and get it fixed.
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Surely thats all ready void as the phones unlocked/rooted

Can you get into fastboot?

As a bye the way
Ive just finished have a online conversation with LG who tried to phone me this morning about the booked repair ( why do they do that ? surely if youve booked a repair does it not follow that youve a problem with your phone )
Any way the out come is they dont want to know and ive to get in touch with Google and see abot send i to them for repair after some of the reports ive read on forum i can see this being a runner not
Might jus post the whole text on here later for peeps to view

EddyOS said:
Can you get into fastboot?
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the only way i can get any response is plug the USB in hold the power button for a long while then i get a red LED near the USB in

Update
So after speaking with LG about my repair they advised me to get in touch with Google (my god i was looking foreward to that)any way all went well didn't seem to get through to the ignorant irish
Finished up with my RMA and nearly £300 lighter in my pocket which i hoping wont ultimately go through
Gets the replacement Nexus ....now the TNT guy that delivered it i knew as i worked form them for many years he told me that he picks up loads of theses LGs for replacement they ship out to Poland of Korea ....must be by the lorry load
Just wish id knew this before i got rid of my old Sammsung Galaxy Nexus
So any ways its on eBay lol not even going to undo it
with out a doubt worst phone ive had

Please tell me you did not tell them what you did to the phone, because that would have been silly, and partially my fault because I forgot to warn you. If your phone was indeed dead, it would have been difficult for them to tell.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Did anyone actually send an unlocked/rooted phone back and got a warranty void e-mail/call? Everyone seems so concerned, yet i know users who sent theirs without returning to stock and it was no problem at all...

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So after speaking with LG about my repair they advised me to get in touch with Google (my god i was looking foreward to that)any way all went well didn't seem to get through to the ignorant irish
Finished up with my RMA and nearly £300 lighter in my pocket which i hoping wont ultimately go through
Gets the replacement Nexus ....now the TNT guy that delivered it i knew as i worked form them for many years he told me that he picks up loads of theses LGs for replacement they ship out to Poland of Korea ....must be by the lorry load
Just wish id knew this before i got rid of my old Sammsung Galaxy Nexus
So any ways its on eBay lol not even going to undo it
with out a doubt worst phone ive had
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Ignorant Irish **** you man. 300 to RMA sounds like your the dumbass glad your selling it now leave the nexus forum you smeg sucking git
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

Oadbylad said:
As a bye the way
Ive just finished have a online conversation with LG who tried to phone me this morning about the booked repair ( why do they do that ? surely if youve booked a repair does it not follow that youve a problem with your phone )
Any way the out come is they dont want to know and ive to get in touch with Google and see abot send i to them for repair after some of the reports ive read on forum i can see this being a runner not
Might jus post the whole text on here later for peeps to view
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Silly repair booking person, to assume you've given the a different contact number, considering your phone may be broken, they'd never assume you'd give them that number

vivid experiance
I purchased Nexus 4, on the 4th day it's failed to boot i don't root or damage anything
only stuck in boot process and nothing i searched xda
i got how to flash the firm from xda developers i did what they tell
but i flashed successfully
i turn on mobile the same boot failure again came it's not woking
what i do ? tell me i sent to mobile dealer they replace me and give me a new box
Oadbylad said:
Ive had the above for about a month never have i been satisfied with the volume (being hard of hearing doesnt help)to the point where id all ready booked a repair date for next week
The phones unlocked and rooted (bit obvious else i wouldn't be on this forum would i )and in truth ive been playin with a lot of patches and apps out there to improve the volume
Now yesterday after tryin beats xlouder and a couple of sound boost apps. i followed a link to bryce09 kernel which i flashed only to find it killed the phone and i mean KILLED
Ive tried the Nexus repair toolkit/Wgfresh on a VM running W7 and nothing!!
Now im on an iMac and ive run Galaxy Nexus GSM unroot/stock and it goes through all the processes and at the end says press start
But theres nothing on the screen at all all tho and the power button does nothing
Now if i strip down the phone and disconnect the battery am i right in thinking it will reset it
or as ive all ready got a repair booked is it worth it
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