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Possible to put CDMA Hero inside of GSM Hero casing?

So... I was just wondering... would it be possible to disassemble the CDMA Hero and put it's parts inside of a GSM Hero casing? I just don't like the CDMA casing that much... and I like the chin on the GSM version.

Any this is possible, but is worth the extreme amount of time & effort, no.

you would be the only guy with a $1,100 dollar hero
(assuming both phones are retail)
there's the motivation right there, almost makes me want one.

mrinehart93 said:
So... I was just wondering... would it be possible to disassemble the CDMA Hero and put it's parts inside of a GSM Hero casing? I just don't like the CDMA casing that much... and I like the chin on the GSM version.
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Not possible. The form factor is not even close. The track ball placement is about ten miles off. The buttons and the trackball are on a separate pcb in the GSM version that is connected to the primary, the CDMA is all on one board.
I like the chin too, when I heard that we were getting the hero, I prayed that they would not change it. My prayers were not answered

I enjoy both form factors, but I did fall in love with and pray on the chinned version. While I've never played with a GSM Hero, but looks to me like the chinless version's buttons are easier to press... the chinned version's look pretty flush but blah.
I also think the chinless version's build quality (again, never played with chinned version) seems a couple notches above our chinless version. blah. ah well, what can you do?

There's a new T959 on the block

Just picked up a Telus "Fascinate", not to be confused with the Verizon Fascinate.
It is actually very much like the T-Mobile Vibrant(model number variant an all), not to be confused with the Bell Vibrant. Confused yet? Me too.
So, it's the T959D, four capacitive buttons, no FFC, has a totally black bezel (instead black chrome). The bezel is, well, identical to the bezel on the Verizon Fascinate, probably the same part. Actually makes the phone look really good. I bought this as replacement for my Bell I9000M that had internal SD card failure, and this looks better thanks to that bezel, I never liked the chrome. Do miss the physical home button already, though.
Rest of the phone is pretty much I9000 standard, backplate and all. And of course, it works on 850/1900 UMTS, not the T-Mobile AWS frequencies.
I do fear for the future of this orphan device's firmware. Mine is 2.1, running TLJJ2 baseband and PDA.
No Telus bloatware at ALL on it. Zip, nada, zilch, this is pure Samsung, not even a copy of Avatar.

New sealed box SGH-i257M came Rooted

An Interesting surprise unpacking a 'New' SGH-i257M sourced from eBay.
The Box was shrink wrapped, black seal with the 'Do not accept if seal is broken..etc. ' warning intact. The phone for all intents and purposes was new, plastic protective tape around the Aluminum edge band, standard screen & protective covers all new. Now the good part. Sold as unbranded and unlocked, it came with a Telus box, however when powered up it was indeed free of carrier bloatware and no case branding. When I looked into the Apps drawer there was SuperSU. Hmmmm.... Installed a root checker and dang, it was rooted. I powered down the phone, booted into recovery and yep, the latest CWM. Not a single sign of ANY use or even un-boxing, I looked VERY thoroughly.
I did have access to a US carrier's S4 mini and looked inside carefully and it's definitely not counterfeit. Very well repackaged somewhere obviously or someone at Samsung had some fun, (doubt that).
Along with that I got the thing from Canada to Florida the next day FedEx. But price included standard 3 day expedite.
And yes, of course it's 0x1. But it was going to be anyway within 12 hours. Now de-bloated and running on AT&T it works flawlessly.
Sometimes this hobby/obsession can have surprises.

This shouldn't be surprising, really. A great number of "new" and "unlocked" phones devices sold on ebay are formerly locked and branded devices like yours. I hope you got a great deal on it.
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Beware any unlocked/unbranded 4G tablet with US frequencies sold on ebay.

CafeKampuchia said:
This shouldn't be surprising, really. A great number of "new" and "unlocked" phones devices sold on ebay are formerly locked and branded devices like yours. I hope you got a great deal on it.
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Beware any unlocked/unbranded 4G tablet with US frequencies sold on ebay.
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The deal was unremarkable but the free overnight FedEx shipping from Canada to Florida made up for it.
The V1 Arco68 root/CWM is what surprised me, The case is unbranded, no Telus, Bell, Rogers or anything on the case, the same UPC as a non branded phone, same inside, no different from the unbranded & above the standard UPC code is printed TELUS in a different font, I suspect it was intended as a replacement for TELUS Tech and as usual some 'Fell off the truck', or it's 'overstock' China commerce. I am aware of the 'pitfalls' of new Cell purchases, A minefield comes to mind. That is where PayPal comes in very handy if something is not as it should be. Been there, done the dance before. I'm pleased with it and it saved me a small amount of time. It is an unbranded, unused phone, so what the heck. I posted the info since this is a case where something was done right. Unusual.

systwk said:
An Interesting surprise unpacking a 'New' SGH-i257M sourced from eBay.
The Box was shrink wrapped, black seal with the 'Do not accept if seal is broken..etc. ' warning intact. The phone for all intents and purposes was new, plastic protective tape around the Aluminum edge band, standard screen & protective covers all new. Now the good part. Sold as unbranded and unlocked, it came with a Telus box, however when powered up it was indeed free of carrier bloatware and no case branding. When I looked into the Apps drawer there was SuperSU. Hmmmm.... Installed a root checker and dang, it was rooted. I powered down the phone, booted into recovery and yep, the latest CWM. Not a single sign of ANY use or even un-boxing, I looked VERY thoroughly.
I did have access to a US carrier's S4 mini and looked inside carefully and it's definitely not counterfeit. Very well repackaged somewhere obviously or someone at Samsung had some fun, (doubt that).
Along with that I got the thing from Canada to Florida the next day FedEx. But price included standard 3 day expedite.
And yes, of course it's 0x1. But it was going to be anyway within 12 hours. Now de-bloated and running on AT&T it works flawlessly.
Sometimes this hobby/obsession can have surprises.
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Does it get AT&T LTE? Can you confirm whether it has a notification led like the Verizon version?
Sent from my XT1053

phositadc said:
Does it get AT&T LTE? Can you confirm whether it has a notification led like the Verizon version?
Sent from my XT1053
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As to working on AT&T, yes both HSPA+ & LTE work, but it is still the Canadian/NA band phone. No notification LED. The AT&T's from what I have been told will not be out until January. The few phones that have been pre-released earlier may not be the final product. It's a 'wait ans see' situation. I wanted one that will work on T-Mo as well so I have the option of popping in a pre-pay SIM and switching APNs to have access to two networks. An AT&T or T-Mo phone will not do that. I suspect as the user base grows, a BLN compatible Kernel will be available for non AOSP Roms.
Once AT&T rolls out we can extract individual components from the firmware that are unique to AT&T.

systwk said:
As to working on AT&T, yes both HSPA+ & LTE work, but it is still the Canadian/NA band phone. No notification LED. The AT&T's from what I have been told will not be out until January. The few phones that have been pre-released earlier may not be the final product. It's a 'wait ans see' situation. I wanted one that will work on T-Mo as well so I have the option of popping in a pre-pay SIM and switching APNs to have access to two networks. An AT&T or T-Mo phone will not do that. I suspect as the user base grows, a BLN compatible Kernel will be available for non AOSP Roms.
Once AT&T rolls out we can extract individual components from the firmware that are unique to AT&T.
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how are you getting lte?
I started with a rogers i275m on 4.2.2
I am getting a 4g indication but never an lte indication. I rooted with vroot, flashed twrp with odin, and then unlocked with the regionlock away app. I debloated ALOTof apps, maybe that is why I do not have lte? stock rom, slimkat, and carbon all do not show lte. Im stumped.

Bizarre hardware question

I have a very unusual question. I have a bootloader locked Verizon S4 that has a broken LCD and an AT&T S4 with an unlocked bootloader that works perfectly fine. Knowing my Verizon SIM won't work on the AT&T model and being a flashaholic, is there any way I can tear each of them down and potentially switch the hardware (ie. AT&T's mobo with Verizon's modem or vice versa) in order to keep the AT&T phone with CDMA network from the other phone's hardware and use my Verizon SIM?
I'm sure there is no in depth guide anywhere about such situation but some insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
And this is all cause I lost my Nexus 6

Might be better asking in the at&t or Verizon forum

While this is the completely wrong place to ask this, being the International S4 forum, the answer to you question is "no". You cannot mix and match parts like that as the motherboard of the SCH-I545 is designed differently from that of a SGH-I337. What you'll need to do if you want to use CDMA on the AT&T S4 is mess around in the service menu of the AT&T S4 and change from GSM to CDMA. Even then, there's no guarantee that will work. Assuming the AT&T S4 is carrier unlocked, you would still have an issue of potentially not getting service, as I believe Verizon requires phones to be registered on the network before they can be used. Worse, you may lose LTE service due to Verizon policies.
You'd be better off just replacing the broken screen and midframe. Less hassle, though much more expensive.

Prouder said:
I have a very unusual question. I have a bootloader locked Verizon S4 that has a broken LCD and an AT&T S4 with an unlocked bootloader that works perfectly fine. Knowing my Verizon SIM won't work on the AT&T model and being a flashaholic, is there any way I can tear each of them down and potentially switch the hardware (ie. AT&T's mobo with Verizon's modem or vice versa) in order to keep the AT&T phone with CDMA network from the other phone's hardware and use my Verizon SIM?
I'm sure there is no in depth guide anywhere about such situation but some insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
And this is all cause I lost my Nexus 6
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Wouldn't recommend you doing that, probably just screw up both devices. What you could do is replace one devices lcd with the working one. Much easier.

Actually, it's not that easy. He'd have to heat up the AT&T and Verizon S4 screens to peel them both from their midframes. If he didn't permanently damage the AT&T screen through use of a heat source like a heat gun in loosening the adhesive which bonds it to the midframe, he would then have to apply new adhesive to the Verizon midframe, and then place the AT&T screen on top.
Too much risk for too little reward, as there are too many opportunities to break an extremely thin screen. That's why he'd be better off buying a I545 screen/midframe replacement and moving the innards to the new midframe.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Actually, it's not that easy. He'd have to heat up the AT&T and Verizon S4 screens to peel them both from their midframes. If he didn't permanently damage the AT&T screen through use of a heat source like a heat gun in loosening the adhesive which bonds it to the midframe, he would then have to apply new adhesive to the Verizon midframe, and then place the AT&T screen on top.
Too much risk for too little reward, as there are too many opportunities to break an extremely thin screen. That's why he'd be better off buying a I545 screen/midframe replacement and moving the innards to the new midframe.
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Or just change the digitizer.

The screen and LCD on the AT&T is fully functioning so I don't have to peel off anything. I guess I'm stuck with a bootlocked S4
Thanks for the replies

yilun said:
Or just change the digitizer.
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That's just as bad, because you still have to heat the screen to loosen the optical adhesive bonding the digitizer to the screen. You also run the risk of cracking the screen when you try peeling parts of the digitizer off. Twist the tool you're using to pry the two apart just wrong and you'll kill the screen. You should search back about two months. There was a poster who had asked whether his screen could be saved, after he had tried peeling off the digitizer. Just from the picture I could see his screen was toast, and told him so.
He went and bought an assembled digitizer and midframe off ebay, transferred the sensors and boards to it and has a perfectly working S4. After seeing enough people on YouTube and here break their screens trying to go the cheap route, I know for a fact the cheap route is not the best route.

Which model of S7 edge is best for me

Hello, I want to buy galaxy s7 edge and it has many model numbers
what I'm looking for is 2 things
1- to operate CDMA and GSM network...
2- support from samsung updates and custom ROMs here in XDA because I have galaxy note N9005 and has many ROMs but galaxy note 3 verizon doesn't have even more than 20 Roms
I prefer if it to have only has only 1 slot but 2 slots is ok in case it has more support

Please help

Hmmm, you have to pick a specific carrier. There is no such s7 edge that has all you currently want
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

There are only 3 versions that support CDMA, and those are Verizon, Sprint and the Chinese version. I wouldn't count on the Chinese version supporting all the necessary bands in the US.
The Sprint and Verizon versions support GSM radios for international roaming, and can be carrier unlocked to support US GSM carriers (but I'm not sure if they support all the right bands or not).
Neither the international nor the AT&T and T-mobile versions will support CDMA.
But none of the U.S. phones can be rooted now. Maybe never. So there's no phone that will meet all your requirements. You'll have to choose between CDMA support (Sprint or Verizon models) or rooting (International Exynos version) which will work on AT&T and T-Mobile.

I have a few quick questions. Does the Exynos model support band 30 (or whatever AT&T's new band is)?
How do screen protectors work on the Edge? Particularly non glass protectors? They seem like they could be problematic with the Edge curve.
I've heard Apple like horror stories of the entire phone shattering from drops. I'm not one to drop my device very often but this worried me a bit. Any insight?

Don't know about the Exynos and AT&T.
Look in the accessories forum. There are some film-type screen protectors that seem to work fairly well, although using them with a case can be a problem. There don't seem to be any good fitting glass protectors available.
I dropped my Edge and shattered the screen. First phone ever I've broken the screen on. That said, every model of phone available has been broken by someone. It all depends on how the phone lands, and what it lands on. But logic says a glass back is going to be more fragile than a plastic or metal one, and that the curved screen increases the likelihood of the screen breaking if the phone lands on it's edge.
The edge is the first phone I've put a case on, and the first I've gotten insurance for.