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[Q] [Urgent, Please Help]: Finding Total Usage Hours in S5 G900F

Hi,
I bought a Galaxy S5 (G900F model) recently and I would like to know the total hours the mobile was used (Turned on Status) as I need to know it is a new one and not a refurbished or already used product.
(Note : I don't require to know the total duration of call being done from my phone rather total duration the phone was on).
Tried looking into Settings->About Phone->Status->Uptime. But it gets reset once the phone is restarted. So I cannot actually say with this whether it has used already or not. Please help me in this and can return them back if it is used already. I tried looking into other threads but none is giving me the option I am looking for. I assume there must be some sort of secret code to find that. Please help me on the same.

Additionally, there is another problem that i am facing now is that, I used Phone Info *SAMSUNG* to check the details of the phone. I see the SAMSUNG SERIAL NUMBER - 0000000000 but a valid IMEI No. and Serial No. But while trying to put the value as what it is in back of the battery, it says it may be refurbished. (It says the same if any no. is given ) My Serial No. is RFXXXXXXXX) But I have no problem in connecting to my mobile network or talking in the phone. Will i be in anyways concerned about this problem? Please help.
NOTE : This device is brand-new and not even rooted and still in STOCK ROM.

Top urgent help - weird issue

Hi XDA Superheroes,
Need your help before I got bonkers with my new note 4. I am currently in UAE and here SM910C Exynos is the one which is selling most and not the 910F snapdragon. Somehow i managed to get 910F and was informed there is no warranty as they are not supported by the main dealer of UAE however will be supported by Samsung service centre. When i got the phone i saw that the knox was tripped (this i should have checked first thing at the shop but i was busy with other services testing- damn me). I was aware it was a second had phone and also the serial number is wiped off but IMEI is there. The main issues with the phone is battery charging in Power Saving Mode...secondly it was on some nordic rom and phone info was showing serial as 0000000. the phone does not charges normally but if I put on power saving mode it works .
Second issue - IMEI changed after i flashed to BTU 4.4.4 :silly:...seriously i don't under how and why and what...But that my concern.
THE MAIN ISSUES IS CHARGING SO EVEN AFTER ROOTING AND USING CUSTOM EMOTION KERNEL IT HAS NOT HELPED.
Can anyone throw some light as whats going on. I will try to check if someone has note 4 and swap the battery as that may be issues. I cant expect Samsung to support and the only option is to fight with the mobile shop guy and get the 910 C.
Please do let me you suggestion at the earliest as tomorrow evening time it will be show down:fingers-crossed:

Samsung note 3 n9005

I own the phone mentioned above. I decided to root it becouse i wish to have acces to some of the factory locked options. My phone's screen calibration being bugged is one of the reasons. Second id love to get nightmode witch is default in note 4 i think? I would like to know witch custom rom should i install ? Id like to get some extra batery life aswell dough i dont have huge problems with it.
Or if any of you knows any good trick for calibrating screen rotation without actualy rooting the phone id like to know how.

My 910S appears as a 910F + battery draining problems

I've just bought a new Note 4, under settings and system it says it's the n910F version, but cpu-z says the bootloader is N910SKSU2COL1. If I boot it in safe mode (home button + volume up + power), it's says
Android system recovery <3e>
LMY47X.N910SKSU2C0J4
recovery mode (home button + volume down + power) gives me the warning in korean language then states product name as SM-N910S
Also, and what bothers me the most is that I have a huge battery drain on the phone. I tried wiping the cache and hard resetting the fone for the 4th time now, still getting a massive battery drain doing basically nothing. I've just lost 15% in less than 40 minutes from a 100% charge. My guess is that the phone was "badly" updated from KitKat to Lollipop (KNOX warranty void is on 1, and i can't get the OTA update for Marshmallow).
I would like to update it to 6.0.1 (or again to 5.1.1 myself) to see it that fixes the problem, but I am not sure how to do it since my case is a little bit "particular" if i may say so.
I come from an iphone, so any help would be extremely appreciated, I am completely lost.
Thanks
PS : can't find the option to attach screenshots of my settings and battery.

ebusmaximus said:
I've just bought a new Note 4, under settings and system it says it's the n910F version, but cpu-z says the bootloader is N910SKSU2COL1. If I boot it in safe mode (home button + volume up + power), it's says
Android system recovery <3e>
LMY47X.N910SKSU2C0J4
recovery mode (home button + volume down + power) gives me the warning in korean language then states product name as SM-N910S
Also, and what bothers me the most is that I have a huge battery drain on the phone. I tried wiping the cache and hard resetting the fone for the 4th time now, still getting a massive battery drain doing basically nothing. I've just lost 15% in less than 40 minutes from a 100% charge. My guess is that the phone was "badly" updated from KitKat to Lollipop (KNOX warranty void is on 1, and i can't get the OTA update for Marshmallow).
I would like to update it to 6.0.1 (or again to 5.1.1 myself) to see it that fixes the problem, but I am not sure how to do it since my case is a little bit "particular" if i may say so.
I come from an iphone, so any help would be extremely appreciated, I am completely lost.
Thanks
PS : can't find the option to attach screenshots of my settings and battery.
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My advice Dont flash anything just use as it is otherwise you will lose what you have.
Long story short i bought also n910c and in download mode and cpuz says n910s but when i bought it was running marshmallow n910c firmware and it runs smooth so i didn't flash anything cuz if i flash original n910s firmware I'll lose 4g and there will be no option in settings to switch beetween 4g/3g/2g and it will show roaming signal all the time and also n910s firmware included korean bloatware apps that i dont want.
I am also stuck on june marshmallow update i can't update anymore.but still working very stable.my knox is also void but who cares about useless knox.
Try another battery cuz i think mine is just fine give me about 4+hours screen on time .maybe yours is not orignal or low class battery.

Trex888 said:
My advice Dont flash anything just use as it is otherwise you will lose what you have.
Long story short i bought also n910c and in download mode and cpuz says n910s but when i bought it was running marshmallow n910c firmware and it runs smooth so i didn't flash anything cuz if i flash original n910s firmware I'll lose 4g and there will be no option in settings to switch beetween 4g/3g/2g and it will show roaming signal all the time and also n910s firmware included korean bloatware apps that i dont want.
I am also stuck on june marshmallow update i can't update anymore.but still working very stable.my knox is also void but who cares about useless knox.
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Does it mean I won't ever be able to get Marshmallow? Now that's pretty awful...

ebusmaximus said:
Does it mean I won't ever be able to get Marshmallow? Now that's pretty awful...
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You can update to Marshallow if you flash n910s official firmware but trust me you will hate it and regret.
My best suggestions will be sell it and get rid of it and get another model.

Trex888 said:
You can update to Marshallow if you flash n910s official firmware but trust me you will hate it and regret.
My best suggestions will be sell it and get rid of it and get another model.
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Actually i went back to the store i bought it from, and they are all like this (N910S or V models appearing as N910F). To make things worse, even the labels under the batteries say N910F
The worst part being that horrible battery drain.

ebusmaximus said:
Actually i went back to the store i bought it from, and they are all like this (N910S or V models appearing as N910F). To make things worse, even the labels under the batteries say N910F
The worst part being that horrible battery drain.
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The 1 shows n910f everywhere They are all refurbished
They can fake everything but not motherboard thats y in download mode your still shows n910s
Mine shows everywhere n910s even under the battery but the software only show n910c.cuz not refurbished
only they change software for multiple languages and 4g unlocking.
Check your battery if there is a chip kind of thing under the battery it self
Thats a chip for nfc and fast charge i beleive if it's not there then definitely your battery is fake.

Trex888 said:
The 1 shows n910f everywhere They are all refurbished
They can fake everything but not motherboard thats y in download mode your still shows n910s
Mine shows everywhere n910s even under the battery but the software only show n910c.cuz not refurbished
only they change software for multiple languages and 4g unlocking.
Check your battery if there is a chip kind of thing under the battery it self
Thats a chip for nfc and fast charge i beleive if it's not there then definitely your battery is fake.
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I know about the NFC chip in the battery. The one they gave me at first had nothing. I bought an OEM battery with the NFC chip, but still has the battery drain issue. This is giving me headaches...

ebusmaximus said:
I know about the NFC chip in the battery. The one they gave me at first had nothing. I bought an OEM battery with the NFC chip, but still has the battery drain issue. This is giving me headaches...
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Try this trick
Completely empty your battery to 0% until phone shutdown automatically
Then try to power on again if still have some charge left make it empty.
Then charge full to 100% while phone is turned off.
Unplug Then turn on phone it will be 98 or 99% plug in again and leave in charge for 15min.
Try this trick for 3 or 4 charges it will solve the battery issue and dont let phone heat up a lot it drains battery lot faster in any device.

Trex888 said:
Try this trick
Completely empty your battery to 0% until phone shutdown automatically
Then try to power on again if still have some charge left make it empty.
Then charge full to 100% while phone is turned off.
Unplug Then turn on phone it will be 98 or 99% plug in again and leave in charge for 15min.
Try this trick for 3 or 4 charges it will solve the battery issue and dont let phone heat up a lot it drains battery lot faster in any device.
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Already left it empty itself to zero this afternoon. Charged it back to 100% (took around 5 hours!!), wiped cache, factory reset, then lost 15% in around 30 minutes just setting it up (only installed cpu z, phone info and genuine galaxy. The rest was downloading the updates for the pre-installed apps, through wifi). I'll try what you said, but knowing that upgrading the phone to marshmallow will basically break it makes me pretty upset. Maybe i'll try to get a refund.

ebusmaximus said:
Already left it empty itself to zero this afternoon. Charged it back to 100% (took around 5 hours!!), wiped cache, factory reset, then lost 15% in around 30 minutes just setting it up (only installed cpu z, phone info and genuine galaxy. The rest was downloading the updates for the pre-installed apps, through wifi). I'll try what you said, but knowing that upgrading the phone to marshmallow will basically break it makes me pretty upset. Maybe i'll try to get a refund.
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Yea better get refund thats the best way to solve this headache.

Trex888 said:
Yea better get refund thats the best way to solve this headache.
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I'll try tomorrow, but they policy is replacement, no refund. I don't wan't another refurbished model with the same problems.
Another question : my bootloader and csc versions match the korean model, but not the pda, which apparently dosen't even exist (N910FXXU2COL1). Is it custom or something? How do they do that?

ebusmaximus said:
I'll try tomorrow, but they policy is replacement, no refund. I don't wan't another refurbished model with the same problems.
Another question : my bootloader and csc versions match the korean model, but not the pda, which apparently dosen't even exist (N910FXXU2COL1). Is it custom or something? How do they do that?
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They do through a dongle box called z3x or octopus this boxes they use to unlock sim for any device and fake the firmware.
Trust me the pda version is n910s also but its modefied and masked to n910f via this box .
Anyway they do stuff for all brands not just samsung.
1 of my friend bought note 3 sm-n9005 but i check the motherboard it was n900p sprint.i didn't tell him cuz he dont actually got any knowledge about this stuff he use as a simple smart phone.and he is very happy with it
More you know about flashing and rooting more you will mess up with the phone.
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Trex888 said:
They do through a dongle box called z3x or octopus this boxes they use to unlock sim for any device and fake the firmware.
Trust me the pda version is n910s also but its modefied and masked to n910f via this box .
Anyway they do stuff for all brands not just samsung.
1 of my friend bought note 3 sm-n9005 but i check the motherboard it was n900p sprint.i didn't tell him cuz he dont actually got any knowledge about this stuff he use as a simple smart phone.and he is very happy with it
More you know about flashing and rooting more you will mess up with the phone.
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Got a refund. Found a 910F with matching everything (pda, csc...). Slightly pricier, but if that gets me rid of the OTA upgrade and battery drain issue, that's good for me.
I WILL end up messing up with my phone, just not right now.

Did you check in download mode ? If if says n910f then your motherboard also matches the software

Trex888 said:
Did you check in download mode ? If if says n910f then your motherboard also matches the software
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Yes it did. I'll get it myself on monday, i'll take more time to double check everything before leaving the shop.

Good decision to get rid of this phone, sadly its getting more and more difficult to find second hand original phones as the market is flooded with refurbished phones from China. Its big business there...
Bought a Note 2 - brand new in its sealed box etc for my wife. Turned out to be a refurbished phone. I did not know and was concerned I was buying a clone...sadly its not a clone but a rebuild phone with cheap imitation parts.

cfds said:
Good decision to get rid of this phone, sadly its getting more and more difficult to find second hand original phones as the market is flooded with refurbished phones from China. Its big business there...
Bought a Note 2 - brand new in its sealed box etc for my wife. Turned out to be a refurbished phone. I did not know and was concerned I was buying a clone...sadly its not a clone but a rebuild phone with cheap imitation parts.
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Exactly. Went to 3 different stores to find that all the units they are selling, while appearing cosmetically new, are actually refurbished Korean version flashed to appear as international (even the label under the battery had been replaced).

I need this software
ebusmaximus said:
I've just bought a new Note 4, under settings and system it says it's the n910F version, but cpu-z says the bootloader is N910SKSU2COL1. If I boot it in safe mode (home button + volume up + power), it's says
Android system recovery <3e>
LMY47X.N910SKSU2C0J4
recovery mode (home button + volume down + power) gives me the warning in korean language then states product name as SM-N910S
Also, and what bothers me the most is that I have a huge battery drain on the phone. I tried wiping the cache and hard resetting the fone for the 4th time now, still getting a massive battery drain doing basically nothing. I've just lost 15% in less than 40 minutes from a 100% charge. My guess is that the phone was "badly" updated from KitKat to Lollipop (KNOX warranty void is on 1, and i can't get the OTA update for Marshmallow).
I would like to update it to 6.0.1 (or again to 5.1.1 myself) to see it that fixes the problem, but I am not sure how to do it since my case is a little bit "particular" if i may say so.
I come from an iphone, so any help would be extremely appreciated, I am completely lost.
Thanks
PS : can't find the option to attach screenshots of my settings and battery.
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Hello, I know this thread is probably dead but internet doesn't die, I need this exact version of software..why?
Well I have been using a note 4 for a very long time and the motherboard got a problem and I took it to the repair guy to change, but he put exactly this type of motherboard software with the exact problems as yours ( it only gets 3G/4G when there enough network and can't use it at home and yet my previous board was working flawlessly), at first i thought it's because of software being outdated (5.1.1) but nothing got solved even after updating,tried different custom Rom like nemesis refined but didn't solve the problem so I decided to take it back, now this guy is claiming it was working very well and for me to get a replacement I must put back the software that was there, by that he means the new softwares I put spoiled the network so my problem I was very stupid, I didn't make a back up before flashing new Rom, so please anyone who can provide a link where I can download this Rom, or someone with it to upload for me please am desperate. ( it's PDA version doesnt exist on sammobile but it appears they normally put it on refurbished phone like cloning the software of N910S to appear as N910F .Thanks

How to identify CID 15 without turning on the phone!

I have primarily used G900V (Galaxy S5) phones for the last 5 years. When the bootloader was leaked I started looking for ways to ID an unlockable phone without having someone install the app to find the CID. When you're trying to purchase a used phone from craigslist or ebay, it's hard to get a seller to turn the phone on, set it up temporarily, log into their own account and install an app just to see if it's what I'm looking for. I think I have the solution to that problem. From polling the S5 forum I've found that on the IMEI sticker under the battery there is a number above the IMEI that seems to correspond to the RF Cal date on the phone. See the attached image. This date corresponds with the CID change in every phone I've personally used and every phone that I've been able to get verified through the forum. A date code of 14.08 or older is CID 15. A date code of 14.09 and newer is CID 11. So in September of 2014 it seems Samsung made the switch to CID 11. Now there could be some overlap there, but I haven't found any yet. Given that the Note 3 was similar to the S5 I thought I'd get my hands on one and see if it had a similar date code. The Note 3 I just purchased indeed does have the code and it seems to correspond. I just picked up a Verizon Note 3 with a date code of 14.08 and it is a CID 15 phone.
Looks like I'm going on a buying spree with this new found information. No telling how long these phones will be around for anymore and I like my freedom phone.