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If anyone hasn't heard yet or hasn't visited allshadow.com recently, starting on Monday you can call T-Mobile and get a free extended battery with the proper back cover to fit your Shadow.
Some people have been having problems with getting T-Mobile reps to order it for them and most others hasn't had any problems, such as myself. There are a couple threads over at allshadow.com if you would like to read up more on this. Stay Cool ppl. Later....
i ordered mine already its free with ground shiping
Hey,
Ordered the new HTC extended battery on Monday at 2 PM and got it Thursday 11 AM. Talk about fast ground shipping.
I kind of don't like the fact that it's impossible to lock the battery in place without the cover. But who really cares, it's free, and gives me more POWER!!! (Battery Life).
Thanks T-Mobile, now can we get a discounted Shadow 2? I wish
I actually got mine yesterday, everything free! It's alright and not as bulky as i thought, and will definately help improve battery life.
Called and ordered mine on Monday and got it Wednesday. In fact, I got two - one for each color. I don't know why...
Kermit Woodall
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First time I called everything seemed to go smoothly, the rep went through the script telling me I would get a extended battery and new battery cover, confirmed color, asked what type of shipping and so on. 3 days later I got a regular battery - a little dissapointed. Called back and went the the steps again, rep told me not to worry about sending back the battery I just received, I am tempted to anyway since I will more than likely never use it. 3 days later I received the extended battery with the new cover. Other than the size, I am very happy with the battery. I FINALLY went through an entire day without the battery almost dying. On a normal day my old battery would get down to about 10% remaining by 10pm, this extended battery was at about 60% remaining last night. Awesome.
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If anyone hasn't heard yet or hasn't visited allshadow.com recently, starting on Monday you can call T-Mobile and get a free extended battery with the proper back cover to fit your Shadow.
Some people have been having problems with getting T-Mobile reps to order it for them and most others hasn't had any problems, such as myself. There are a couple threads over at allshadow.com if you would like to read up more on this. Stay Cool ppl. Later....
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WFT?! I dont get it. I called on friday and the rep on the phone told me that they dont carry a bigger battery.
Call back and ask for the smartphone\handheld support dept and then tell them you are calling for the "extended battery replacement program".
Worked great
Thanks for the post!
just got mine like 2 days ago!!
very fast shipping!
the battery is great! been using the music player all day and the WEB!!!
battery bars barely turned yellow!
get this while you can!!!
battery offer
does anyone know if this offer is still valid,icalled and said i need to take my phone to one of their stores and try my battery in their phones ,is this the norm or what ?
txs honda
Battery size?
How much larger is the battery?
does anyone know if this offer is still valid,icalled and said i need to take my phone to one of their stores and try my battery in their phones ,is this the norm or what ?
txs honda
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yes it is still valid. I just ordered mine.
They said I wasn't eligable for this offer, does anyone want to try to order an extra one, or if they no longer use their shadow want to send me their extended battery and cover, I don;t care what color the back cover is...
i just finished ordering mine free 3day shipping also i ordered my shadow a couple of day ago and it didnt come with the extended battery so they said they would send me one and not charge the shipping.
I just got mine in the mail, I also got one in the box with my shadow.SCORE!! Came 3 day shipping UPS with a new back also.
On the phone with T-Mobile Now
They transferred me to blackberry & pda support. Make sure you tell them it is not keeping a charge if they ask. I never put my sim card in this phone, so it did not show up on my account, make suer it registers on T-Network. Tell them its not keeping a charger, order it and you're done. Still on the phone with them, put me on hold, lets see if they finish the order. Now they asked to verify if the Shadow is under warranty, and requested the IMEI number. Was just told the Shadow is not under warranty. Warranty is only good on the original user.
So I asked for a Unlock Code for the Shadow. Will be emailed in 24 hours.
At Least I got something.
Damn't.
Got it ordered! Don't know if it was worth that phone call though.
Why is it always a pain in the butt to talk to Tmobile support???? Took 5 minutes just to authorize my account and then he hung up trying to transfer me to PDA support. I called back finally after 10 minutes I got someone in PDA support. She could not find any info on which phones I had. She said half of the form for my account is blank. 10 minutes of hearing her type and then finally she said o here it is. We will send it out today. Then her head set started shorting out when she was reading the end user agreement. Can you hear me?? Hello are you there?? Say again? What? JUST SAY YES!!! Yes. Thanks sir have a good day....
Doesn't have to be PDA support, customer service can order the battery for you too.... is what i've heard.... but I had the same trouble, warranty not verified.
warranty be damned, I need a battery. extended one at that.
Got it ordered AGAIN
They sent me a normal replacement battery. Called them back and was told there is only one battery made for the shadow. I directed him to a couple websites and forums showing otherwise. He checked with a few of his fellow employees and searched around on his system and finally after 15 minutes he said he found it. So we will wait and see what I get this time.
Just got my battery yesterday. It adds ~5 mm to the size of the phone, but it makes it easier to hold with one hand IMHO. I haven't had much time to test the better battery life yet, but it seems to deplete charge much slower than it used to (as expected).
Dear XDA,
After months of being a lurker while deciding which tablet to get, I finally joined just to share my situation and perhaps, obtain a solution I've not tried with you guys.
Basically, after careful consideration, I decided to buy the Nexus 10 to use as a general tablet, gaming device and for work/presentations. It has excelled at all of this, without the price of other tablets.
I consider myself to be a power user and tried almost anything I could with the tablet. But I decided to not root it as of yet and have not installed any apps outside of the Google Play store. I was in Northern Michigan when I decided to buy it and after calling over 20 different Walmart's and Staples, found one Walmart (in Petoskey, MI) that carried a single, non-display unit, 32 Gb version. Bought it on December 28th and now I am overseas serving.
Two days ago, I went to bed as the tablet was charging and downloading over Wifi about 600 Mbs by the Need for Speed: Most Wanted game. When I woke up, it was off and it's battery drained. I plugged it back on and read online about similar issues. Took it to the office, left it charging for 8 hours (I've always used the original Samsung charger on wall outlets) but nothing happened. Tried to take it out of its apparent "deep sleep" with the 10 sec power button trick, then the 30 sec one, then the volume buttons + power and nothing.
If the tablet is charging, it shows for 2 secs a battery icon (fully charged I might add). Also tried a factory reset to no avail. So I contacted Google Play store, and after walking me through the same procedures I had tried, they stated that I have to contact Samsung since I did not buy it from Google. Samsung was contacted yesterday through their online chat support and after giving them enough info and testing the same procedures, they said they need to physically examine it so I should contact their voice support team. That was done a while ago and here's the kicker: they cannot find my tablet's serial number in their system.
Samsung gave me a ticket number and said they will call me back within the next 48 hours (including Sunday) about this issue. Then I should be able to mail it to their service center. While I am waiting, I decided to contact Walmart for a possible exchange (I really like the Nexus, I just want a working one) Since I do not have the original box nor the receipt (but I do have a printed statement of the credit card used, and a copy of my driver's license) I had to fill a long form and am as of now waiting for a response from them.
I also followed a video on Youtube and went ahead and carefully opened the case (it was a pain to get a #00 Phillips screwdriver and then use it) in order to take the battery out, wait a couple of minutes and then put it back on (like others have claimed has helped them for the Nexus 10) but it didn't do anything.
I am afraid I am without options, and will have to pay for shipping from the Caribbean to the US at my expense, then use a courier to have the new/fixed one shipped back here. I estimate this will take between 2-4 weeks.
Any ideas/things to try I might be missing? I would really like to save the over US$100 in shipping fees for myself.
Guarocuya said:
Dear XDA,
After months of being a lurker while deciding which tablet to get, I finally joined just to share my situation and perhaps, obtain a solution I've not tried with you guys.
Basically, after careful consideration, I decided to buy the Nexus 10 to use as a general tablet, gaming device and for work/presentations. It has excelled at all of this, without the price of other tablets.
I consider myself to be a power user and tried almost anything I could with the tablet. But I decided to not root it as of yet and have not installed any apps outside of the Google Play store. I was in Northern Michigan when I decided to buy it and after calling over 20 different Walmart's and Staples, found one Walmart (in Petoskey, MI) that carried a single, non-display unit, 32 Gb version. Bought it on December 28th and now I am overseas serving.
Two days ago, I went to bed as the tablet was charging and downloading over Wifi about 600 Mbs by the Need for Speed: Most Wanted game. When I woke up, it was off and it's battery drained. I plugged it back on and read online about similar issues. Took it to the office, left it charging for 8 hours (I've always used the original Samsung charger on wall outlets) but nothing happened. Tried to take it out of its apparent "deep sleep" with the 10 sec power button trick, then the 30 sec one, then the volume buttons + power and nothing.
If the tablet is charging, it shows for 2 secs a battery icon (fully charged I might add). Also tried a factory reset to no avail. So I contacted Google Play store, and after walking me through the same procedures I had tried, they stated that I have to contact Samsung since I did not buy it from Google. Samsung was contacted yesterday through their online chat support and after giving them enough info and testing the same procedures, they said they need to physically examine it so I should contact their voice support team. That was done a while ago and here's the kicker: they cannot find my tablet's serial number in their system.
Samsung gave me a ticket number and said they will call me back within the next 48 hours (including Sunday) about this issue. Then I should be able to mail it to their service center. While I am waiting, I decided to contact Walmart for a possible exchange (I really like the Nexus, I just want a working one) Since I do not have the original box nor the receipt (but I do have a printed statement of the credit card used, and a copy of my driver's license) I had to fill a long form and am as of now waiting for a response from them.
I also followed a video on Youtube and went ahead and carefully opened the case (it was a pain to get a #00 Phillips screwdriver and then use it) in order to take the battery out, wait a couple of minutes and then put it back on (like others have claimed has helped them for the Nexus 10) but it didn't do anything.
I am afraid I am without options, and will have to pay for shipping from the Caribbean to the US at my expense, then use a courier to have the new/fixed one shipped back here. I estimate this will take between 2-4 weeks.
Any ideas/things to try I might be missing? I would really like to save the over US$100 in shipping fees for myself.
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Same boat. Bought from google on launch day,
Woke up this morning to what appeared to be a dead battery. Plugged the tablet into the supplied charger/cable, and the battery charging screen does not come up. Has anyone had any similar experience? I was running AOKP PUB 1/17 and Franco r4 at the time of the incident.
funkybrunk said:
Same boat. Bought from google on launch day,
Woke up this morning to what appeared to be a dead battery. Plugged the tablet into the supplied charger/cable, and the battery charging screen does not come up. Has anyone had any similar experience? I was running AOKP PUB 1/17 and Franco r4 at the time of the incident.
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Thanks for sharing your experience mate. I'd suggest you try taking the battery out even though it didn't do anything for me.
Guarocuya said:
Dear XDA,
After months of being a lurker while deciding which tablet to get, I finally joined just to share my situation and perhaps, obtain a solution I've not tried with you guys.
Basically, after careful consideration, I decided to buy the Nexus 10 to use as a general tablet, gaming device and for work/presentations. It has excelled at all of this, without the price of other tablets.
I consider myself to be a power user and tried almost anything I could with the tablet. But I decided to not root it as of yet and have not installed any apps outside of the Google Play store. I was in Northern Michigan when I decided to buy it and after calling over 20 different Walmart's and Staples, found one Walmart (in Petoskey, MI) that carried a single, non-display unit, 32 Gb version. Bought it on December 28th and now I am overseas serving.
Two days ago, I went to bed as the tablet was charging and downloading over Wifi about 600 Mbs by the Need for Speed: Most Wanted game. When I woke up, it was off and it's battery drained. I plugged it back on and read online about similar issues. Took it to the office, left it charging for 8 hours (I've always used the original Samsung charger on wall outlets) but nothing happened. Tried to take it out of its apparent "deep sleep" with the 10 sec power button trick, then the 30 sec one, then the volume buttons + power and nothing.
If the tablet is charging, it shows for 2 secs a battery icon (fully charged I might add). Also tried a factory reset to no avail. So I contacted Google Play store, and after walking me through the same procedures I had tried, they stated that I have to contact Samsung since I did not buy it from Google. Samsung was contacted yesterday through their online chat support and after giving them enough info and testing the same procedures, they said they need to physically examine it so I should contact their voice support team. That was done a while ago and here's the kicker: they cannot find my tablet's serial number in their system.
Samsung gave me a ticket number and said they will call me back within the next 48 hours (including Sunday) about this issue. Then I should be able to mail it to their service center. While I am waiting, I decided to contact Walmart for a possible exchange (I really like the Nexus, I just want a working one) Since I do not have the original box nor the receipt (but I do have a printed statement of the credit card used, and a copy of my driver's license) I had to fill a long form and am as of now waiting for a response from them.
I also followed a video on Youtube and went ahead and carefully opened the case (it was a pain to get a #00 Phillips screwdriver and then use it) in order to take the battery out, wait a couple of minutes and then put it back on (like others have claimed has helped them for the Nexus 10) but it didn't do anything.
I am afraid I am without options, and will have to pay for shipping from the Caribbean to the US at my expense, then use a courier to have the new/fixed one shipped back here. I estimate this will take between 2-4 weeks.
Any ideas/things to try I might be missing? I would really like to save the over US$100 in shipping fees for myself.
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I have the same problem, I have also opened the case to take the battery -yes, its a pain in the ass-, tried the power+volume solutions, I have tried with the charger of my galaxy note 2, and nothing... I live in Mexico and I have no warranty because I bought my tablet from a guy in a local page.
Have you found a solution??? Honestly I dont know what to do....
Please help!!!!!
chortiman said:
I have the same problem, I have also opened the case to take the battery -yes, its a pain in the ass-, tried the power+volume solutions, I have tried with the charger of my galaxy note 2, and nothing... I live in Mexico and I have no warranty because I bought my tablet from a guy in a local page.
Have you found a solution??? Honestly I dont know what to do....
Please help!!!!!
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I only logged back to answer this. In the end, I had to ship it to Samsung's repair center (at my cost) and they fixed and sent me back the same one. Hasn't experienced any issues since then. Unluckily, I believe you'd need to do the same.
Guarocuya said:
I only logged back to answer this. In the end, I had to ship it to Samsung's repair center (at my cost) and they fixed and sent me back the same one. Hasn't experienced any issues since then. Unluckily, I believe you'd need to do the same.
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Thank you for answering. I guess I have no other choices. Best regards.
I ran into the exact same problem as the OP yesterday. Don't know what happened really but i suspect that for an unknown reason the battery that just got fully charged, totally drained over night resulting in the same blinking battery icon (showing full) when trying to power on with the charger attached.
Now what i believe is that when this happens, the battery gets drained to the last bit, so much that even when connected to the charger it doesn't have enough juice to power on. That would explain why it eventually came back to life after a few minutes connected to the charger.
So basically, if you ever run into the same problem, you might want to try to wait for a few minutes with the N10 on charge and see if it ends up booting up again, mine did and it was quite the relief.
Good luck to everyone who experiences that.
UPDATE:
I bought a new battery on ebay from china and installed myself and now my nexus 10 works as good as new!!!
The battery plus the screewdrivers necesary to open the tablet costs arround 28 dls including international shipping to México, and the instructions to open the tablet are in youtube.
Good luck to any one that has this same problem.
The problem seems to be solved by now, I suggest to put the tag [SOLVED] in thread title . As I saw it's really a battery problem, which is caused by it draining and having no power to even boot with the charger. I guess the Pogo Charger may do the work better, as it may give the power enough to the Nexus (it's more powerful than the USB).
Google did a big mistake by using USB charger on a tablet, when we're talking about cellphones, which battery isn't as big as a tablet neither screen and processor, it's okay, but tablet requires much more power.
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Hey guys, recently I bought a Sprint Note 3 off a trusted seller on Amazon, and when it arrived I headed straight to the Sprint store. I took it up to the counter and they started trying to switch the number over and came across a problem; it wasn't a Sprint phone. Even though it passed the lost or stolen test, and did indeed boot up as a Sprint phone, they simply could not activate it on the Sprint network. After some thought the employee concluded that the previous owner had tried to flash it to (boost I think it was) and failed miserably, then proceeded to try and flash it back to Sprint, somehow messing something up in the process. I'm pretty much a (complete) noob at everything Android, but I was wondering if any of you had anything I or my Android intelligent friend could do to make it activate-able. I figure it's a (very) long shot, but thought I might as well see if there's anything I can do before returning it and buying a different one of Swappa. Cheers.
Hi,
I'll have your thread moved to the note 3 section. The experts there will need to help. You will need to register to reply to anyone.
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Hi all,
I have been a lurker for god knows how long, and have to say, I truly enjoy the posts on this website.
I purchased an S7 Galaxy Edge (SIM-free) from "Currys/PC World" in the UK. After a month or so of using it, the phone just died one night. Had all sorts of errors in recovery mode, so sent it back to Samsung for repair. 12 days later, I receive the phone back, excited. I switch it on and it starts working. What I sigh of relief. Wait...
I am then asked for a Network Unlock code!
Has anyone experienced this before? I spoke to the Samsung and they have confirmed that the unique code of the phone is tied to a Network and when they rebuilt the motherboard and flashed the phone, it went back to default (which included a network lock).
Now, who is at fault? The retailer who sold me a "SIM-free" phone, which in fact was a network locked phone but unlocked with a code? Samsung, for re-locking the phone?
I have gone round and round and no one is owning up to it. The phone is locked to EE (with whom have never dealt with). My SIM is from Three, UK.
Advice / Suggestions anyone? Thanks, and much appreciated!
railfanatic said:
Hi all,
I have been a lurker for god knows how long, and have to say, I truly enjoy the posts on this website.
I purchased an S7 Galaxy Edge (SIM-free) from "Currys/PC World" in the UK. After a month or so of using it, the phone just died one night. Had all sorts of errors in recovery mode, so sent it back to Samsung for repair. 12 days later, I receive the phone back, excited. I switch it on and it starts working. What I sigh of relief. Wait...
I am then asked for a Network Unlock code!
Has anyone experienced this before? I spoke to the Samsung and they have confirmed that the unique code of the phone is tied to a Network and when they rebuilt the motherboard and flashed the phone, it went back to default (which included a network lock).
Now, who is at fault? The retailer who sold me a "SIM-free" phone, which in fact was a network locked phone but unlocked with a code? Samsung, for re-locking the phone?
I have gone round and round and no one is owning up to it. The phone is locked to EE (with whom have never dealt with). My SIM is from Three, UK.
Advice / Suggestions anyone? Thanks, and much appreciated!
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Simply take it back to currys with the receipt and tell them its locked and you either want your money back or they pay to unlock it, or save messing about, spend a few quid and buy a network unlock code off ebay or something and unlock yourself, will cost you £12
From the stories I'm hearing about Samslow, this will be the first and last Samsung phone I ever buy, I hate this phone, can wait for my next upgrade.
I have seen posts regarding battery drain, but none seem to be as severe as mine. It started a couple of weeks ago. Phone would reach 15% and literally do a countdown to 0%. It has since gotten even stranger. It might be at 25%, 30% or higher and phone will shut down and show empty battery icon. None of the "fixes" or a factory reset have alleviated the issue.
I have insurance through Verizon and thought it would be a free replacement, but discovered that a couple of cracks on back will likely disqualify this option and require that I pay a $150 deductible to receive a refurbished S7. I am going to be leaving Verizon as soon as possible and getting a new device with either T-Mobile or Sprint (heavily leaning T-Mobile after research). New phone, or not, I would obviously like to have a fully functional S7.
Sorry for the novel, but here is my question. Do I pay the $150 for refurbished phone or is it highly likely that the issue will be resolved by simply replacing battery (actually not that simple, but you get my point)? I should add that phone is unrooted and has no other performance related issues. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Noob