anyone tried it yet?
seems a tad more dangerous because of the material its on
i don't think that would work as the logo is under the sreen.. i have a pro on sprint and think of getting the fuze for my wife who is on t-mobile. i was think of doing that to, but like i said i think the logo is under screen
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Has anyone else noticed dust under the screen on the Fuze? I bought two of them and both had dust under the screen right out of the box... is it due to poor build quality or did I just run into some bad luck??? Safe to say both went back to the store but I want to try one more time.
Thanks.
I returned 4 Sprint Diamonds, and 2 Sprint Pro's for that reason. When I switched to at&t recently, they brought out 3 Fuze's from their stock room that all had the same issue, and I ended up settling for the one that was the least obvious. I never saw this on my past HTC devices, nor Treo's, so I think there is definitely something going on in their manufacturing process that's causing this. I'm actually surprised more people aren't talking about this, but maybe we are just more OCD than the average person
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I returned 4 Sprint Diamonds, and 2 Sprint Pro's for that reason. When I switched to at&t recently, they brought out 3 Fuze's from their stock room that all had the same issue, and I ended up settling for the one that was the least obvious. I never saw this on my past HTC devices, nor Treo's, so I think there is definitely something going on in their manufacturing process that's causing this. I'm actually surprised more people aren't talking about this, but maybe we are just more OCD than the average person
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Thanks for the reply. If you had that many issues with the screen of that many different phones, something is not right. It's hard to spend $500 on a device that has a issue like that from the very first time you open it. Who knows how bad it could get over a few months time... I'll try one more time...
I never had issues like this with other HTC devices... mogul, touch, ppc-6700... all were perfect out of the box.
Nobody else has this issue?
I just got the HTC Fuze. As much as I love the idea it is quad GSM and quad HDSPA, I hate the AT&T branding. I got rid of the AT&T software and the Fuze keyboard.
Now the last part is to get rid of the front AT&T logo. I was wondering if anybody tried to remove it somehow.
1. Is there a touch screen available WITHOUT AT&T logo and WITHOUT second camera window? These were the only two I found on gsm4world.us
2. Is the AT&T logo painted and the mild polishing abrasive could remove it?
2) believe the at&t branding is below the glass/plastic, so if you want to do it, sandpaper
how about painting over that part... get some matching color, or paint the whole top half?
i don't really care that much about at&t physical branding, as they can be ignored... so long as their crapware is out of my ROM, i'm happy
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you know... i also had the same idea... looking for something to remove, or at least cover the att logo... in fact im in another country and bought the att version of the touch pro because it uses the same 3G bands that are used in this side of the world...
KILL THE ATT LOGO!
my seidio case covers toe top at&t logo, the keyboard will still have the at&t logo on the internet key though. http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/csr2htfe-bk.htm
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I just got the HTC Fuze. As much as I love the idea it is quad GSM and quad HDSPA, I hate the AT&T branding. I got rid of the AT&T software and the Fuze keyboard.
Now the last part is to get rid of the front AT&T logo. I was wondering if anybody tried to remove it somehow.
1. Is there a touch screen available WITHOUT AT&T logo and WITHOUT second camera window? These were the only two I found on gsm4world.us
2. Is the AT&T logo painted and the mild polishing abrasive could remove it?
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that's some issues.. any particular reason you want to permanently damage your phone just to remove traces of AT&T?
You could always take a crayon and write "Verizon" or "T-Mobil" over it.
For years now, I've been hearing about and seeing examples online of knockoff phones floating around. I never thought I would actually come across one, however, until today.
I work at a major retailer and a customer comes up to me today with a manilla envelope and says that she wants me to setup her phone. She had bought a SIM online from prepaid service and came to the store to buy an airtime card. She then pulls out a phone from the envelope. I see a white "Samsung" phone. It looked to be something similar to a Galaxy S III Mini or Galaxy Express. I didn't think of anything when I first saw it, but I did first look for carrier branding to make sure it wasn't carrier locked. I saw none. The phone also had a hard plastic case on it with a strangely-skewed Android logo on it.
Upon closer inspection when I took the phone over to my work counter, I noticed some oddities. The screen seemed a bit strange. It was resistive. That was the first alarm. I then noticed that the "Samsung" logos on the phone were actually decals or stickers stuck to the front and back of the phone as opposed to being screen printed on, like they should be. After prying the back off, I noticed a really lightweight, cheap looking battery, with no branding whatsoever. There were also two SIM slots with two different IMEIs. I know that some international variants of certain phones have two SIM slots, but I've never actually seen one. Another alarm was something that was printed on the back of the phone under the battery: "Model: i9300." This was defiantly not a Galaxy S III.
I called into the carrier and had the SIM activated. Everything on that end seemed to go through just fine. I put the SIM into the phone and booted it up. I was greeted with a really cheesy boot animation of a stylized Galaxy S logo. When the UI finally loaded, I noticed something reminiscent of a Gingerbread-based TouchWiz homescreen. The fonts were some really pixelated serif fonts and all of the icons and "widgets" on the homescreen were really bad looking icons. When I finally found the settings menu, I dug around looking for APN and after quite a while, I finally found them. I struggled to use the onscreen keyboard with a stylus and put in all the correct settings. I rebooted the phone and was unable to make any calls. A few other oddities that I noticed were an articulating extendable antenna popping from the top of the phone and a "WiFi" logo under the battery. I could find no actual WiFi functions in the software. After playing around with all the call and APN settings, I decided to break the news to the customer.
She said that a "tech-savvy" friend of hers bought the phone for her online for $80. It was hard to tell someone they just basically bought an $80 paperweight. She left and then came back after a short time (after saying she had cried) wanting to buy a "real" Samsung phone. So about $150 later, she had an actual Samsung that was actually able to function as a smartphone should.
Not sure what I want anyone to get from this story; I just thought it was interesting and I thought I'd share it. I just wish I had gotten pictures of the actual phone. Oh well.
Just wow. I've heard about good "fakes", but it's sad that that one was completely unusable.
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beanboy89 said:
For years now, I've been hearing about and seeing examples online of knockoff phones floating around. I never thought I would actually come across one, however, until today.
I work at a major retailer and a customer comes up to me today with a manilla envelope and says that she wants me to setup her phone. She had bought a SIM online from prepaid service and came to the store to buy an airtime card. She then pulls out a phone from the envelope. I see a white "Samsung" phone. It looked to be something similar to a Galaxy S III Mini or Galaxy Express. I didn't think of anything when I first saw it, but I did first look for carrier branding to make sure it wasn't carrier locked. I saw none. The phone also had a hard plastic case on it with a strangely-skewed Android logo on it.
Upon closer inspection when I took the phone over to my work counter, I noticed some oddities. The screen seemed a bit strange. It was resistive. That was the first alarm. I then noticed that the "Samsung" logos on the phone were actually decals or stickers stuck to the front and back of the phone as opposed to being screen printed on, like they should be. After prying the back off, I noticed a really lightweight, cheap looking battery, with no branding whatsoever. There were also two SIM slots with two different IMEIs. I know that some international variants of certain phones have two SIM slots, but I've never actually seen one. Another alarm was something that was printed on the back of the phone under the battery: "Model: i9300." This was defiantly not a Galaxy S III.
I called into the carrier and had the SIM activated. Everything on that end seemed to go through just fine. I put the SIM into the phone and booted it up. I was greeted with a really cheesy boot animation of a stylized Galaxy S logo. When the UI finally loaded, I noticed something reminiscent of a Gingerbread-based TouchWiz homescreen. The fonts were some really pixelated serif fonts and all of the icons and "widgets" on the homescreen were really bad looking icons. When I finally found the settings menu, I dug around looking for APN and after quite a while, I finally found them. I struggled to use the onscreen keyboard with a stylus and put in all the correct settings. I rebooted the phone and was unable to make any calls. A few other oddities that I noticed were an articulating extendable antenna popping from the top of the phone and a "WiFi" logo under the battery. I could find no actual WiFi functions in the software. After playing around with all the call and APN settings, I decided to break the news to the customer.
She said that a "tech-savvy" friend of hers bought the phone for her online for $80. It was hard to tell someone they just basically bought an $80 paperweight. She left and then came back after a short time (after saying she had cried) wanting to buy a "real" Samsung phone. So about $150 later, she had an actual Samsung that was actually able to function as a smartphone should.
Not sure what I want anyone to get from this story; I just thought it was interesting and I thought I'd share it. I just wish I had gotten pictures of the actual phone. Oh well.
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My friend got suckered into buying a phone that's similar to be the one you described. I took some pics of it. He's pissed as he paid $300 expecting a real GS3.
I have an AT&T branded G2 and I was wondering how to remove the AT&T logo on the back? Or if its at all possible?
Umm question. Why would you want to remove the logo in the back?
1. I just scratched it off gently with tweezers. Thanks anyway.
2. Idk it looks ugly IMO I don't want a globe on the back of my phone. It bothers me its like an ocd thing I don't like carrier logos and I came to the g2 from my nexus 5 because it got dropped in water and died.
I'm in Canada and I got a G955F right when it came out. I recently noticed that there appears to be something under the screen creating a big black spot. All this time i thought it was something under the screen protector so i never worried about it, until i took it off and the spot was still there.
The local samsung store will not honor the warranty as it's different models, however is this really true and is the screen different for each version of the S8 plus?
Doubt it, probably just a manufacturing defect.