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Your 7.7, where does it "made in" from?

Hi all, long time lurker here, decided to go out and contribute more.
So, as the title, I'm just curious since I bought mine during the launching event. I received 32gb 3g version with bunch of freebies, such as, official case, usb+sd card plug, desktop stand, and 6 months of free unlimited datas (not calls).
When I checked at the back, it says that it's "made in korea". Which is something that I don't notice on my GNote. So, this make me wonder whether the early batches are shipped directly from Korea, or was it just for a few select countries?

There is nothing written on mine regarding where it's made, only that it's made by Samsung
It's a 16gb WiFi and 3g bought online in Denmark
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"Made in Korea by Samsung" on mine.
16GB Wifi bought from Fortress, HK.
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"Made in Vietnam by Samsung" i dont know if it of any indication but the screens on the Korea made are better in quality.
Bought in a local samsung reseller
16GB model
WIFI+3G

EarlZ said:
"Made in Vietnam by Samsung" i dont know if it of any indication but the screens on the Korea made are better in quality.
Bought in a local samsung reseller
16GB model
WIFI+3G
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mine is the same as EarlZ here in the Philippines 1st batch are all made in korea i think

The first batches I've seen in Cebu were all made in vietnam, but for the Galaxy Note I've seen some made in korea models but they to suffer some screen issues so its not a clear indication.

Got my local set in Singapore here recently.
Mine says ”Made by Samsung” but it doesn't say where.

Made in Vietnam, bought in HK. Screen problem but replaced screen assembly

EarlZ said:
"Made in Vietnam by Samsung" i dont know if it of any indication but the screens on the Korea made are better in quality.
Bought in a local samsung reseller
16GB model
WIFI+3G
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If the GS2 was any indication, I would say that, contrary to what one may be inclined to think, the screen quality of the units made in Korea is below what I have seen elsewhere.
In particular, my 7.7 was "Made by Samsung in Vietnam" and I have had no screen issues whatsoever.
Actually, come to think of it, I have had zero issues with my whole 7.7 in every respect at this point! No lag at all, no screen issues, excellent battery life, premium build quality, etc.
So, kudos and +1 to the fine people of Samsung Vietnam! They seem to be doing a pretty darned good job!
I just hope that the Samsung folks being treated better than poor the Foxconn slaves *ahem* I mean "workers" making iPads...

Jade Eyed Wolf said:
If the GS2 was any indication, I would say that, contrary to what one may be inclined to think, the screen quality of the units made in Korea is below what I have seen elsewhere.
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Could be, we dont really know where our screens are actually made until they are opened up.. when I had my Note's screen replaced the screen had a different marking behind its shell.
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
In particular, my 7.7 was "Made by Samsung in Vietnam" and I have had no screen issues whatsoever.
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Id like to invite you to the screen issue thread to post images but then again you'ed just say "why do I need to prove my self to you".
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Actually, come to think of it, I have had zero issues with my whole 7.7 in every respect at this point! No lag at all, no screen issues, excellent battery life, premium build quality, etc.
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On my Tab7.7 its only the screen, everything else is great so far.
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
So, kudos and +1 to the fine people of Samsung Vietnam! They seem to be doing a pretty darned good job!
I just hope that the Samsung folks being treated better than poor the Foxconn slaves *ahem* I mean "workers" making iPads...
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Made in Korea by Samsung. Unlocked International. No issues what so ever. Superb quality!

lowem said:
Mine says ”Made by Samsung” but it doesn't say where.
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Ditto.....

"Made in vietnam by samsung" and no screen issu yet

Made in Korea, no issues for 3 weeks and counting...

Vietnam and no issue
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Made in Vietnam and no issue with the screen.

Vietnam and its perfect

Vietnam and no issues.
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Vietnam, for 2 months now. No issues with screen

Mine has no country listed on the back and I have a pretty bad yellow tint on the bottom 3rd of the screen, especially visible on even-coloured dark grey surfaces, like the status bar and the backgrounds in settings and the video player list view
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My I9505 don't seem to have been made in any country ...

When I looked under the battery cover of my I9505, it doesnt say any country name, it just says "MADE BY SAMSUNG".
The strange thing is, this is a replacement for another i9505, that I returned (mainly) for a rattling volume rocker and the headphone crackling issue. That previous S4 ALSO said "MADE BY SAMSUNG" under the battery cover, no mention of a country on either of these two devices, nor on their boxes. I'll be returning this S4, because it has the same issues but with the added bonus of a dead black pixel, chip on the chrome rim and it gets extremely hot, much more so than the previous model.
Does anyone else's S4 say "Made by Samsung"? Googled it but they all seem to made in either China or Korea or Vietnam...
S4 is on O2 network in U.K.

my GS3 says made in china by samsung
so check your bootloader if its not chinese bootloader ur good to go

Vietnam under my battery. Is there supposed to be major difference between counties?
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GR13V3R said:
Vietnam under my battery. Is there supposed to be major difference between counties?
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no it's just in which of samsung's factory it has been made

My i9505 is "made by samsung" and my s3 also same.
Thanks God i don't have any problems with none of them.
So far i didn't experience nothing from what i see here on forum, just the purple smearing which doesn't bother me at all.
Everything is smooth and is on MDM which was out of the box.

[Q] Sprint vs International Variant Housing Differences

Has anybody tried buying one of the third party battery doors off of Ebay and using it with a Sprint variant? They all say they're made for the International variant, but I don't know how different the housing of the hardware is between the phones.

There shouldn't be any difference. I'm not saying there isn't. I bought a battery door off eBay from a guy in Florida that was for the sprint version. The reason I liked it was because there was no carrier branding on it. I don't know if the guy is still selling them, I didn't look.

If it is the back cover just go for it. There shouldn't be any difference
But if your going for full casing I would advice against buying the international version because I've never seen the guts of either and since they have different processors I'll just guess the guts have different sizes/shapes
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Thanks for the feedback, guys. I did order the housing in the end. Should be here in about 10 days, so I'll post whether or not it works then, if anybody's interested.

Where did you bought your P900\901\905? And where was it maded in?

My first one is P900, I bought it in China, and it was made in China. Its quality is
I bought another P900 in Korea, and it is in transit.
I hope it was made in Korea, because the samsung devices made in Korea usually have good quality.

I bought in Germany via Amazon. Quality is good. Only the silver Frame is extremely fast scratched.
Where to find the "made" Country
On my backside is only "made by Sammy"
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Criminal23 said:
I bought in Germany via Amazon. Quality is good. Only the silver Frame is extremely fast scratched.
Where to find the "made" Country
On my backside is only "made by Sammy"
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Maybe it's on your manual or something, but in some countries it is not necessary to tell the costumer where the device was made in.
You can also try the app phone info samsung.
I just find the samsung devices made in Korea has even a better quality than apple devices.
usually made in Korea > made in China > made in Vietnam, but Samsung (or exactly the Samsung's factories) usually decide to sell worse devices made in China to Chinese, because China's law on protection of consumer is a joke

I boughted my SM-P900 off Amazon (usa), and it was apparently maded "in Vietnam by Samsung."
I've been quite happy with it, no issues. It feels solid and sturdy, although, I tend to baby new electronics for the first year or so. I got one of the Samsung book cover cases and a zagat screen protector (which is awesome, btw), and put both on immediatly after taking it out of the box.
So far, this tab appears to be much more solid and well built than my old asus TF700T, that's for sure. I still want one of those dual booting asus trio whatever. Google made asus scrap the duet, but they just came out with a better, more expensive dual boot convertible and called it a "trio."
Criminal23 said:
I bought in Germany via Amazon. Quality is good. Only the silver Frame is extremely fast scratched.
Where to find the "made" Country
On my backside is only "made by Sammy"
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On a sticker on the box. Or possibly by looking up some sort of serial or batch number and comparing it to some list that may or may not exist somewhere. If you're dying to know, you coukd call Samsung, I'm sure they could tell you. Most likely it's either China or Vietnam. I doubt it was made many other places.

Bought at Best Buy in Canada. Made in Vietnam.

I bought my P-901 from Cairo, Egypt and it is made in Vietnam By Samsung. Its quality is good but the silver borders are ugly.

skyhigh73 said:
I bought my P-901 from Cairo, Egypt and it is made in Vietnam By Samsung. Its quality is good but the silver borders are ugly.
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Still not as ugly as the bezel on the Galaxy s5. It's hideous. If you get an s5, you better have a case to immediately throw that sucker in.

P905 LTE Black, Bought in Germany (Media Markt Nordhorn), no information on country of production.
Almost no device in the EU has that information on it. I spend 6 hours looking for it regarding my Note 3. No luck.
Quality is excellent, as I'm used to from EU devices.
What we established a few years ago is that legal quality demands in the EU are MUCH higher than in the US. A fact I've run into more and more often with newer devices. US devices had issues with creaking cases, loose screens, extreme light bleed, colour issues, loose buttons.. For the TF700T the entire US batch had these issues, including a quickly-breaking hinge, whereas the EU ones did not. Part of it is the legal laws, as our quality certifications are MUCH higher, and another part is our return policy. Where US shops easily accept a device that was used for 2 weeks back when the user 'dislikes it'. For us in the EU, the only way to do that after opening the box is if there's a factory defect. Used = No Return.

SM-P905 LTE. Purhased online from Negri Electronics. Fed Ex paperwork says Made in Korea.

In the Netherlands
Bought my P900 from Trendy Computers (Netherlands) for € 608,00. Works fine, no creaking case, almost no screenbleeding, I am a happy owner. Can't find any information about about where it is made.

made in Brazil
Mine is from Brazil made in the Samsung factory in Manaus the first one I got hat the silver part damaged near the power button the metal was gonna an u could see the plastic inside revealing that the metal isn't metal just a thing covering the plastic inside
So I changed worried that over time the silver plater could go loosing more and more of the silver finish the second one has the finish perfect but at first use the vibration sound was weird the stopped not sure why it seems xda has relates about similar issues in other people's tablets too it was like if my vibration was more strong Than most... really loud ...
As it has stopped I kept the device change things in Brazil is not easy even when broken they don't want give u a new but fix the broken I think mine warms a bit near bellow the camera location on normal use web browsing etc it gets 33 Celsius 90 f
What is the temp of yours ?

I bought my Black P905 in Germany (Base/Provider), yesterday i root my Device.. Yeeaahh

Bought in USA made in Vietnam.
Quality seems fine, kinda hard to judge with such a large plastic device, but no noise or uneven seems.
While at Best Buy i noticed that the display model flexed when picked up from a corner, after mentioning this to the Best Buy associate standing next to me, he took the tablet and proceeded to bend it, quite forcefully. The tablet bent what appeared to be between 3/8 and 1/2 in. across its width, with no damage, i was pretty impressed. Thats not to say I am going to show this feature off to friends but its nice to know it won't fall apart if treated a little rough.

Black 64GB P900 purchased in USA from Best Buy and it's made in Vietnam.
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what is DIFFERENCE between manufacturers

Hi
in the market there there is some manufacturers of same model any quality difference and which one is better : made in korea ,made in vietnam , made in china , made by samsung also what is manufacturer of last one is it also made in korea please explain all.

FARSHOOD said:
Hi
in the market there there is some manufacturers of same model any quality difference and which one is better : made in korea ,made in vietnam , made in china , made by samsung also what is manufacturer of last one is it also made in korea please explain all.
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lol.
I haven't heard or read the last one. All of samsung product is made by samsung, you won't find galaxy note 4 made by apple or sony. x.x
I believe that is their strategies to reduce shipping cost and import taxes in some country..
Later, you will also find made in indonesia because samsung has plan to make their factory in indonesia. But still don't know when that will happened and what they made in the factory, it can be their phone, tablet, tv, home appliances, etc.

ar216893 said:
lol.
I haven't heard or read the last one. All of samsung product is made by samsung, you won't find galaxy note 4 made by apple or sony. x.x
I believe that is their strategies to reduce shipping cost and import taxes in some country..
Later, you will also find made in indonesia because samsung has plan to make their factory in indonesia. But still don't know when that will happened and what they made in the factory, it can be their phone, tablet, tv, home appliances, etc.
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dear sir thank you for your reply my mean is any quality difference between all country assembling mobiles(cellphones) under licence of samsung if yes which country made is best excluding korea

FARSHOOD said:
dear sir thank you for your reply my mean is any quality difference between all country assembling mobiles(cellphones) under licence of samsung if yes which country made is best excluding korea
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I can't tell you for sure, all samsung phone and tablet that comes to my country is made in vietnam, but it should be no difference if they have good quality controls.
But as far as I read here (for note 4 ,correct me if I'm wrong), device made in vietnam have better screen curvature so TG will fit easily, I only bought 1 TG and has no halo since day 1, not like most people over here that already bought many TG.
And I also never have to return my device like few peoples experienced over this forum, so maybe I'm just lucky, or device that made in vietnam has best quality control.
And that is my experience with my old s4, my dad note 3, my note 8.0 tablet, my gf s5, and my note 4. Never had hardware issue until now, and all of them is made in vietnam.
That's just my experience though, need confirmation and experience from people that get product made by samsung factories in other country.