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i'm buying a used att 8525 thats has scratches and dents but the screen is protected by a screen protector and has no scratches.. the owner says he's been getting dropped signals and believes it to be a software issue.. does anyone know whether it's be a software issue or hardware? it's only 100 dollars as is meant to be a backup for my tilt.. any help would be appreciated..
Never heard of that before. That would raise a red flag with me and I would kill the deal and go look on ebay instead. I've had mine for two days now - att 8525 - I love it.
alright.. i had a 8525 b4 i bought my tilt but just wanted a backup phone.. for when i'm flashing my phone and reinstalling stuff since it takes me a while to fully put everything back with such a hectic schedule.. i remember some radios having bad signal and thought maybe of jus reflashing the radio.. so i just wanted to see other peoples opinions as to whether it could have been a hardware issue..
I picked up my used 8525 on ebay - and the original owner also mentioned that he dropped the odd call here and there - and was having communications issues with the sd card.
I did some reading and searching on this site - and there are radios that have better reception than others - and dropped calls can be radio related.
I thought that the majority of the issues were software related - so took a chance, and picked up the phone.
I payed $50.00 - and thought it to be an okay price to pay on a maybe phone. I unlocked and installed HardSpl and have been flashing roms for a few weeks now.
Not a single dropped call - and no communication issues with the sd card.
Good luck with whatever you choose
Have a good one
Bill
I'm having to sell my 8525
I got migrated at work to the blackberry, so I am going to sell my Cingular/ATT 8525.
I re-flashed it to Official WM6 from ATT. It has IPL 1.04, SPL 2.10.Olipro Hard SPL v7. It has been a stellar phone.
It has 2 scrapes on the outer edge( before I got it a helmet) and NO scratches on the screen.
What is a fair price for a buyer and myself? I'm not looking to get over on anyone; I want buyer and myself to be happy.
Would come with all original boxes and power cables, 1gig micro SD, extra battery, charging stand.
Daali said:
I got migrated at work to the blackberry, so I am going to sell my Cingular/ATT 8525.
I re-flashed it to Official WM6 from ATT. It has IPL 1.04, SPL 2.10.Olipro Hard SPL v7. It has been a stellar phone.
It has 2 scrapes on the outer edge( before I got it a helmet) and NO scratches on the screen.
What is a fair price for a buyer and myself? I'm not looking to get over on anyone; I want buyer and myself to be happy.
Would come with all original boxes and power cables, 1gig micro SD, extra battery, charging stand.
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You could always donate it
That being said, have a look on eBay and see what prices these things are going for. It's easier to get an idea of what the market is doing that way.
Hey .. let me know how much you want for it .. I just had mine stolen and to get a replacement here in Germany from 02 is 699 Euro wish is about 1000 US dollars. =(
I'm military so i do have a USPS address.
i'm actually trying to sell my 8525 as well. i just dont feel i get enough use out of it for what its worth.
think $325 is asking too much? i mean i paid $500 for it. i'd say the phone is in a condition of 9/10. there are two small scratches, one in the upper right and one in the bottom left. the screen is scratch free. its completely functional, i've never had any problems. hardly any wear and tear, i mean a few specs if you get up close with a magnifying glass.
i have all my original accessories & i'm throwin in a 2gb card. plus i have a load of software for the phone. right now it has the official at&t wm6 rom.
ps: if anyone is interested contact me darx07(at)gmail.com
EDIT: i'll sell it to anyone in US $300 shipped. anyone else, $290 + shipping.
I also wanna sell mine too...my sis got 1 cuz she liked the qwert but then now she thinks it's too big
Comes with a bluetooth bought from frys - brand 'Mini Blue', a bluetooth keyboard, a crystal clear case, a 1gb micro sd, and a car charger
i only have the items listed above, i do not have the wall charger, or the earpiece or the y-cable, etc...
there are scratches, but very minor, and the screen always had a screen protector attached.
Currently has K's Final Rom Full Ver and it's unlocked
$300 shipped
Paypal confirmed address only
Please PM me for more info n pics
http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?INTNAV=ATG:HE:Phones
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I was just coming to post this.
I may buy one or two just to root and mess around with.
Worth a shot anyways.
It seems a deal! Better than the one I brought from craigslist, paid $100 without sdcard and headset.
BTW, I don't have to activate it, right?
I'm thinking about getting one. I dropped my Hero last week and scratched it up pretty badly (I was going to swap housing, but I don't want to bother with that). I'd use the refurb as my daily, with my other Hero as a testing device
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It seems a deal! Better than the one I brought from craigslist, paid $100 without sdcard and headset.
BTW, I don't have to activate it, right?
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I just ordered one. I had the option to have it pre-activated but I chose not to do that. I'm trying to get my husband on the Android bandwagon and this was a cheap way to do it. (He's currently in our family plan with a BB but wants to jump ship to ATT and Iphone. ugh, I know right?) If he hates it, I have a backup Hero and I did not have to extend my contract.
ordering mine tomorrow, went from a htc vogue with android hacked on to it, to a blackberry curve and now to an htc hero till my upgrade kicks in, never again shall i upgrade to a blackberry....piece of crap
looks like they must have sold out of the refurb heroes... :/
sadly wasn't able to order my phone that night due to mail holiday keeping me from getting my debit card on time but called sprint and was told they would have them back in stock on thursday
Where do you click to see a refurbished model?
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Where do you click to see a refurbished model?
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They're currently out of stock, but according to the post above you, Sprint should have them back in stock by tomorrow.
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They're currently out of stock, but according to the post above you, Sprint should have them back in stock by tomorrow.
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i emailed their customer support and im waiting for respond, ill keep you guys updated
I looked yesterday and today and could not find any Refurb'ed Heros, there were some others. Wish I had seen this earlier, would have been nice to get one for my daughter.
yeah i checked into it again, won't have any for a while :/ i suggest you look into ebay if you want to try, alot of reliable sellers.
Keep looking... it's definitely worth doing.
Mine came in a Sprint OEM "Certified Pre-owned" box, packaged as if it were new. The only thing missing was an SD card (heck, it would be just 2Gb which is worthless anyhow) and a printed full manual. The phone looks brand new, except for one minor flaw--a tiny dent on the speaker grille. Otherwise, you wouldn't know this was refurbished.
The battery is in a small plastic bag with a sticker closure. It was not charged, so the phone required the full charging time to get going.
i found some from ebay that were bought up from sprint by bestbuy.
I just looked on eBay for a private party selling a Hero. I hate buying from the jerks too lazy to post real pictures of the product. I'm not buying a new phone, so why would I ever buy anything without being able see exactly what I'm really getting?
Anyhoots I won an auction for one the guy says is 4 months old for $133. Just watched for auction ending in a few minutes that fit what I wanted, placed my bid, 10 minutes later I had won.
Not refurbished, and more than $79, but I'm sure my daughter will love it.
Nice job, sadly my paypal account is locked because i forgot about it and never put in my information, i went looking for people selling and accepting non paypal purchases, i ends tomorrow so hopefully i win, it's refurbished.
Here you go guys,
http://www.cowboom.com/search/results.cfm?keywords=htc+hero
should be about 11 up, most are bids but 2 of em can be bought directly and shipped out.
no insurance on the phone, no upgrades available. Kind of out of luck here. Cheapest costs I've seen to fix digitizer run over $200 so it doesnt seem worth fixing.
I was contemplating buying the LG G3 off contract when it came out so this has now forced my hand. However, I need something to get me buy for basic functioning until that phone comes out (I don't know if itll be coming out shortly after their announcement next week or months after that like samsung did it, which changes things).
Main reason for posting this is that I need advice for what to get in the meantime. Should I get one of those AT&T go phones for $60 or is there a better option for cheap out there? Dare i say an old iphone? ugh
On Wednesday my 4 year old killed my unicorn S4 and I was forced to upgrade because we are a cell phone only house. She turned a heavy nighstand over on it and killed the display http://imgur.com/RZFxsNR . It's a 32GB MDL firmware model so it's running CM11, Qi charger on battery etc. Oh how I cried, but anyway, would it be worth it to fix the display and sell or not cost effective? I know virtually nothing about hardware issues. I haven't had a phone destroyed for 6 years. TIA for any help.
Almost price of new
Its a $130 cash for the new lcd display and you could just buy another one same condition for as low as 170 to me I would just buy a whole different phone that way I wouldn't have to risk taking it apart and trying to put it back together I would probably sell it as is for $70 on ebay or about the only thing anyone is going to want is the logic board since its in MDl I know I would since im locked to safestrap
Hi everybody, i need help about replace the motherboard of my galaxy note 4. I will do it because i think that the eMMC of my device is completely messed, i've tried everything in modding but nothing help, the device it's barely usable, it keep rebooting and it lag, only if i use the app to keep the cpu awake it's usable. Plus it doesn't read the sim card anymore. All started when one day, totaly random, it do a factory reset by itself and i lost EVERYTHING in the phone. So i see that on aliexpress they sell motherboard for my n910f, if i buy and replace the one i have now, it should all work without any problem? thanks for any advice
ps: sorry for my bad english, i'm italian
Have you tried this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3488114
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk
I can confirm that once you get the eMMC read failure messages there isn't any coming back from it unless you either A) Replace the eMMC itself or B) Replace the Motherboard. Since trying to micro-solder an eMMC chip would be way to difficult for most people out there (myself included, I cant solder for s***) the motherboard replacement would be the way to go.
I did try all the "fixes" here on XDA I could find, but none worked. Flashing the full recovery software in Odin took AGES (15 + minutes, it never took me that long, plus then 20 minutes to even boot)
Finding the part is one thing, installing it is another. I have never tried replacing a phone motherboard but my main concern would be if the board is unlocked, or atleast knowing the carrier it was locked to in order to get a valid unlock code somewhere online.
I was told by a few repair shops locally that its totally possible to replace the motherboard but there was a risk the screen would also break (So a replacement may be needed there as well). Honestly it might have been that they just didn't have very good luck with taking these Note 4's apart without damage or they just were inexperienced. But in the end for me when my first Note 4 hit the eMMC error, I sold it for parts (sPen, Screen, battery ect) and bought another Note 4 second hand
Theres a ton a speculation about this chip issue, be it heat killing them, consistant flashing or just a bad batch of chips used and now failing over time.
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I can confirm that once you get the eMMC read failure messages there isn't any coming back from it unless you either A) Replace the eMMC itself or B) Replace the Motherboard. Since trying to micro-solder an eMMC chip would be way to difficult for most people out there (myself included, I cant solder for s***) the motherboard replacement would be the way to go.
I did try all the "fixes" here on XDA I could find, but none worked. Flashing the full recovery software in Odin took AGES (15 + minutes, it never took me that long, plus then 20 minutes to even boot)
Finding the part is one thing, installing it is another. I have never tried replacing a phone motherboard but my main concern would be if the board is unlocked, or atleast knowing the carrier it was locked to in order to get a valid unlock code somewhere online.
I was told by a few repair shops locally that its totally possible to replace the motherboard but there was a risk the screen would also break (So a replacement may be needed there as well). Honestly it might have been that they just didn't have very good luck with taking these Note 4's apart without damage or they just were inexperienced. But in the end for me when my first Note 4 hit the eMMC error, I sold it for parts (sPen, Screen, battery ect) and bought another Note 4 second hand
Theres a ton a speculation about this chip issue, be it heat killing them, consistant flashing or just a bad batch of chips used and now failing over time.
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thanks for the reply! ok so, i must have to buy the motherboard. I've find one interesting on aliexpress, 55$ and full unlocked (at least they said that), replace it isn't very hard cause you don't have to take the screen off, just the rear parts of the phone (i've already did it when i change the headphone jack), so Tomorrow i order it and when it arrive i will tell you if it works i hope so at least
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thanks for the reply! ok so, i must have to buy the motherboard. I've find one interesting on aliexpress, 55$ and full unlocked (at least they said that), replace it isn't very hard cause you don't have to take the screen off, just the rear parts of the phone (i've already did it when i change the headphone jack), so Tomorrow i order it and when it arrive i will tell you if it works i hope so at least
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Best of luck with it and hopefully the swap goes well. I probably could have tried finding parts but the 910W8 model is different I guess.
I have replaced a mainboard with one from aliexpress, which generally worked fine, but for done reason my gps didn't work. Not sure if that was a problem with the board or just some connector not during properly?
Regarding the emmc error, I've actually managed to revive the old board after it had been sorry of bricked by the previous owner in a failed flashing attempt by putting it in the fridge while flashing the firmware with Odin (on xda someone suggested this, they actually say to put it in the freezer for a while, but I don't have a freezer and putting it in the fridge and taking it out for flashing want enough). It still has the error, but seemed to run relatively ok with a wakelock app preventing the CPU from falling asleep.
Though I get your idea, it feels safer to have a fully working mainboard.
The only problem buying a motherboard is from other sources other than Samsung you not sure if the MBA are brand new. I would say go to Samsung and pay for a new MBA and they will write your original serial number and IMEI to the new MB and you get a warranty..
Just replaced a mainboard...
Bought more than a year ago a faulty Note 4 thinking it was one with a faulty screen as the blue LED and vibrator would come on while pushing the start button and the phone was recognized by my PC. Turned out to be a faulty MB and while trying to replace the MB I damaged the screen.
So I ended putting all on the shelf. Meanwhile bought a note4 for my wife and figured that the spare MB could serve her phone in case it would go bad...Then recently stumbled upon a faulty note 4 where the owner claimed it was one with a faulty MB. The asking price was ok so I ended up buying it and fitting the spare MB. I was lucky in a way that the previous owner already swapped the display so it came apart very easy. I did put all in place using the OEM tape ordered specially for the Note 4. It is a fact that this MB is manufactured in Feb 2015 so it could be well that in the near future it fails although when checking the chip with the app it tells me I have a sane ship...
trasposone said:
Hi everybody, i need help about replace the motherboard of my galaxy note 4. I will do it because i think that the eMMC of my device is completely messed, i've tried everything in modding but nothing help, the device it's barely usable, it keep rebooting and it lag, only if i use the app to keep the cpu awake it's usable. Plus it doesn't read the sim card anymore. All started when one day, totaly random, it do a factory reset by itself and i lost EVERYTHING in the phone. So i see that on aliexpress they sell motherboard for my n910f, if i buy and replace the one i have now, it should all work without any problem? thanks for any advice
ps: sorry for my bad english, i'm italian
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You should search for videos on replacing the MB in the Note 4; it seems to be fairly involved and you run the risk of causing additional damage to your phone.
Samsung in the US is replacing MBs for about $50 to $150. I got mine replaced (plus a bunch of other repairs) for $70 (which is about the same cost of a MB through AliExpress). Samsung paid the postage for me send my phone to Samsung Service in Plano, TX, they then diagnosed the problems and said they would fix it for $70 or they would return the phone without repairing it at no charge. My phone was over two years old and out of warranty. I had them repair the phone and it was returned in like new condition and it is still working great. The entire process took about 10 days.
You may want to contact Samsung Customer Service directly (in the US call 1-800-SAMSUNG) and see if they are willing to look at your phone and hopefully make any needed repairs.
Dwillian said:
You should search for videos on replacing the MB in the Note 4; it seems to be fairly involved and you run the risk of causing additional damage to your phone.
Samsung in the US is replacing MBs for about $50 to $150. I got mine replaced (plus a bunch of other repairs) for $70 (which is about the same cost of a MB through AliExpress). Samsung paid the postage for me send my phone to Samsung Service in Plano, TX, they then diagnosed the problems and said they would fix it for $70 or they would return the phone without repairing it at no charge. My phone was over two years old and out of warranty. I had them repair the phone and it was returned in like new condition and it is still working great. The entire process took about 10 days.
You may want to contact Samsung Customer Service directly (in the US call 1-800-SAMSUNG) and see if they are willing to look at your phone and hopefully make any needed repairs.
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Thanks for the info will try it, my note 4 will not even
finish booting anymore. It is alteady out of warranty hope they don't mind it is rooted.
There are plenty of video's on you tube on how to. Look at them, look at different video's to get as much info as needed. Don't mess around with you screen, just replace the mainboard and you will be ok! Mine still goes very strong, its GPS is working very well even indoors. I owed a few Note 4's and this is the first one where the GPS is usable. Putting both note's side by side...well one GPS gets a fix and the other one.......well is useless! Did the same with a Note 2 where I replaced a faulty mainboard and this thing has the fastest GPS I ever seen. This Note was due to be sold but I have decided to hang on to it a bit longer...
Hi I am Samsung Note 4 user I have a problem since yesterday it is not registering on 4G or Lte Network only 2G is working. I tried lot but could not fix this problem. I changed the setting LTE/WCDMA but still it is not registering. Can and body helps me to resolve this issue. even I format my phone also by the problem could not rectified. I visited Samsung Center they are saying there is problem in motherboard. for replacement it costs 280$ in India which is very huge.
Dwillian said:
You should search for videos on replacing the MB in the Note 4; it seems to be fairly involved and you run the risk of causing additional damage to your phone.
Samsung in the US is replacing MBs for about $50 to $150. I got mine replaced (plus a bunch of other repairs) for $70 (which is about the same cost of a MB through AliExpress). Samsung paid the postage for me send my phone to Samsung Service in Plano, TX, they then diagnosed the problems and said they would fix it for $70 or they would return the phone without repairing it at no charge. My phone was over two years old and out of warranty. I had them repair the phone and it was returned in like new condition and it is still working great. The entire process took about 10 days.
You may want to contact Samsung Customer Service directly (in the US call 1-800-SAMSUNG) and see if they are willing to look at your phone and hopefully make any needed repairs.
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$50 to $150 is a pretty big range considering whatever caused these issues is originally still on Samsung itself for cheaping out. I thought about going the AliExpress route but I've never bought from there before and their site isn't the easiest to navigate...seems every seller with reviews is selling used boards (questionable lifespan?) and the ones with no reviews appear to have brand new ones, but are these brand new with the same old issue, so we're buying boards with borrowed time or is there a chance they're ones that won't have this issue. One could only hope that the new ones via AliExpress AND the ones being installed through Samsung have been revised to not have this issue, but we may never know until it takes a dump in another 3-4 years like the original phones appear to last.
I bought my phone used via Craigslist, so I hope that isn't their justification for additional gouging.
Hi all,
Looks like this guy on YouTube was experiencing the EXACT same issue that we're all experiencing (random restarts, boot loops, bricked phone, etc.) as a result of motherboard. I'm thinking about ordering one of the N910T motherboards off Aliexpress and hope for the best. I can't even restart my phone anymore...and I know my phone batteries are fully charged.
Seems like it works...I'm just nervous about taking it apart!
Regards,
Jeff
HI
i had troubles with my Note 4 lately, blocking and restarting randomly,
baked the motherboard in an oven and it worked great again but only for a 1 whole day then it only shows blue notification light when trying to turn on,
tried the baking today again at a bit higher temperature 200c for 10 min,
and it is completely dead now,
i am looking to buy another 910F board but reading the feedback on aliexpress seems like they are all baked, people are not satisfied, it works for a very short time,
dont know what to do,
can i put some other version like 9100 dual, some other that has better chips(not heating so much) exynos instead snapdragon or something like that?