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Well I switched from an iPhone 4 to the Nexus S (Nexus S is better) but I used a micro-sim adaptor but when I took it out one day it took a pin with it. I called Samsung and they said they don't do repairs like that so where in Canada can I get this repaired? I would love any advice. Thanks!
- Ryan
Same crap happened to me. But I guess I got a little lucky cuz only half of the pin broke off, the other half I just bent up so it would touch the sim when it was put in. Worked for me. Idk if yours came off completely or partially like mine did
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malikadnanm said:
Same crap happened to me. But I guess I got a little lucky cuz only half of the pin broke off, the other half I just bent up so it would touch the sim when it was put in. Worked for me. Idk if yours came off completely or partially like mine did
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Well one of the pins is shorter and one is completely missing so I guess I was not as lucky as you haha. Do you think I could take it to somewhere like Best Buy and just pay to repair it? Or will I have to go to a speciality cell phone repair place?
Maybe try calling Samsung again that's f'ed up they can't repair there own product
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BrianDigital said:
Maybe try calling Samsung again that's f'ed up they can't repair there own product
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The person on the phone said as long as it's not physical damage they can fix it for free... which is ridiculous if you ask me because most people on this forum could fix any non-physical damage on the Nexus.
They told me to go to Rogers for some reason to get it repaired even though I said I got the phone as a gift and it was not from Rogers. I guess I'll try calling them again to see if I can get anyone more helpful.
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The person on the phone said as long as it's not physical damage they can fix it for free... which is ridiculous if you ask me because most people on this forum could fix any non-physical damage on the Nexus.
They told me to go to Rogers for some reason to get it repaired even though I said I got the phone as a gift and it was not from Rogers. I guess I'll try calling them again to see if I can get anyone more helpful.
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I'd check Craigslist, there's always shops that do these kind of fixes. There's plenty here in Philly so I'm sure there're some where u are
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malikadnanm said:
I'd check Craigslist, there's always shops that do these kind of fixes. There's plenty here in Philly so I'm sure there're some where u are
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I looked and sent out a few emails, not as many shops as I would have thought. I'm going to go to Rogers tomorrow just to see if they do fix things like this. It will surprise me if they do.
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I looked and sent out a few emails, not as many shops as I would have thought. I'm going to go to Rogers tomorrow just to see if they do fix things like this. It will surprise me if they do.
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Good luck man
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Sorry for the bump but I still have not found a solution to this and I'm looking for any suggestions.
This is probably your best option right now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985733
Other than that, don't think anyone was able to find any replacement unit online.
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The person on the phone said as long as it's not physical damage they can fix it for free... which is ridiculous if you ask me because most people on this forum could fix any non-physical damage on the Nexus.
They told me to go to Rogers for some reason to get it repaired even though I said I got the phone as a gift and it was not from Rogers. I guess I'll try calling them again to see if I can get anyone more helpful.
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Lol yeah non physical damage so they will hard reset your phone for free. That sucks man
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Well after a long time of playing with it I manage to get the phone to read my sim by putting strips of tin foil on the contacts on the sim card. Disappoints me that I have to do this though and now the phone has no resale value.
I just got mine spoiled after returning from a holiday I've tried putting the copper thing back in place and slotting it back but it doesn't work. Now i have to wait till tomorrow to call Samsung support in hope that they will fix it if i pay money because my device has no warranty because it is from Australia and i'm using it in Singapore. Will they accept it to fix it if i pay for the repair?
And can anyone who used aluminium foil or anything to make it work post photos or videos on how to do it? I have no experience in soldering and stuff (15 years old) and i dont know how much foil to put there. Please help me!
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Well after a long time of playing with it I manage to get the phone to read my sim by putting strips of tin foil on the contacts on the sim card. Disappoints me that I have to do this though and now the phone has no resale value.
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Could you please post a video of how you put the strips in? or photos please. I have no idea how much to use and how to place them
yup! i agree plz post photos that we can help
I had similar problem with my Nexus S. I just went to Carphonewarehouse and told them that my sim is not being registering. They have fixed it for free but it took nearly 3 week.
Sent mine to samsung on monday 21st. he said 1-3 days so tomorrow will be the 3rd day which is the 24th. Hope i receive the call to collect it tomorrow. I miss my nexus
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The person on the phone said as long as it's not physical damage they can fix it for free... which is ridiculous if you ask me because most people on this forum could fix any non-physical damage on the Nexus.
They told me to go to Rogers for some reason to get it repaired even though I said I got the phone as a gift and it was not from Rogers. I guess I'll try calling them again to see if I can get anyone more helpful.
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Your post is kind of contradictory. You say they wont fix it for free. That suggests that YES they will fix it, but not for free. Which makes total sense, since you physically broke the phone yourself. That's not covered under warranty.
But then you go on to say they told you to talk to Rogers. Your post is very confusing.
Rogers is a carrier. If you have some sort of damage plan or replacement coverage they may help you. Otherwise, at best, they're just going to send it Samsung in the first place. More likely, they won't touch it.
Your options are to try to repair it yourself, try a local shop, or try Samsung again. I seriously doubt that they wouldn't repair it, for $$$.
Or get a 3rd party warranty. Although, that would be pretty unethical and possibly illegal, filing a claim for damage that occurred before you signed up for the plan.
shockem said:
Sent mine to samsung on monday 21st. he said 1-3 days so tomorrow will be the 3rd day which is the 24th. Hope i receive the call to collect it tomorrow. I miss my nexus
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Did you get your phone repaired?
I am in the same boat buy I gave my phone to a local cell phone repair shop in toronto. its been two months and they still are looking around for the replacement part. I think i am gonna take the phone back and just try to sell it off
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Did you get your phone repaired?
I am in the same boat buy I gave my phone to a local cell phone repair shop in toronto. its been two months and they still are looking around for the replacement part. I think i am gonna take the phone back and just try to sell it off
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Yeap they got it repaired within a week!
I will need one for a few weeks as I will be swapping back and forth with phones..
I ordered one from Amazon for 99 cents with free shipping and it arrived 4 days later.
I have no idea if it will work as I don't have my phone yet... But for 99 cents was worth the gamble
45 cents postage for the guy to send it to me.
I am just going to go to ATT on Tuesday when mine arrives and get a new one. I think my old one cant be trimmed. Hoping they dont give me alot of crap about it. Whoops!! Wrong HTC One X forum. Mines an import lol.
jpinks said:
I am just going to go to ATT on Tuesday when mine arrives and get a new one. I think my old one cant be trimmed. Hoping they dont give me alot of crap about it.
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All minisims should be able to trim into microsims. I've trimmed two different looking minisims successfully to work in this phone. I don't think it's really picky... I cut them with scissors and no reference.
With my luck lol I wouldnt attempt it
Idk but it says microsim in my order on att!
OK.
HOX takes the micro similar. ATT will give you one. If you need to use your similar card in another non HOX...non iPhone...non Nokia 900.. you will need the adapter to go back and forth
ricktat said:
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HOX takes the micro similar. ATT will give you one. If you need to use your similar card in another non HOX...non iPhone...non Nokia 900.. you will need the adapter to go back and forth
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Auto correct ownage
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if you look at the htc one x compatible accessories and look under the cases and play the game one of these items does not belong which is it??? lol had to share
Haha I see what you're talking about.
I just slid the memory card in under my SIM and it worked fine ?????
(JOKE people)
Saw that yesterday. This just shows what kind of fools are working there. Then we ask why we we get our ROM updates a year later than other carriers.
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If they are such "fool" then why don't you switch carriers? Seems a little harsh. Out of curiousity ... Where do you work?
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nicknations said:
If they are such "fool" then why don't you switch carriers? Seems a little harsh. Out of curiousity ... Where do you work?
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It's not harsh, it's the truth. I don't want to switch because these "fools" have the best network coverage and data speeds out of all the "foolish" carriers. I work here http://www.wto.org/
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In fairness, the way these e-commerce sites work, every time you load a new product, you can associate it with other products in the system so they show up as suggestions. Usually, you can pick specific products or default it to show up with everything in your store.
In all likelihood, someone just set that SD card to associate with all phones without thinking too hard about it.
I asked ATT this while on the phone with them yesterday. The guy looked and just laughed and said "would you like to buy one?".
When I bought my One X the sales rep went digging in the box for an SD card to insert it for me. He said "hmm let me get one from the back" I then asked him where I'd put it. He had no idea there wasn't an SD card slot on the One X.
I love educating AT&T sales people
gunnyman said:
When I bought my One X the sales rep went digging in the box for an SD card to insert it for me. He said "hmm let me get one from the back" I then asked him where I'd put it. He had no idea there wasn't an SD card slot on the One X.
I love educating AT&T sales people
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"sure i'll take a 32GB, i'll copy all my stuff when i get home, dont worry about installing it"
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"sure i'll take a 32GB, i'll copy all my stuff when i get home, dont worry about installing it"
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I like the way you think
gunnyman said:
When I bought my One X the sales rep went digging in the box for an SD card to insert it for me. He said "hmm let me get one from the back" I then asked him where I'd put it. He had no idea there wasn't an SD card slot on the One X.
I love educating AT&T sales people
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Except AT&T stores don't have troves of memory cards in their back rooms, or give them away with phones. Gotta call shenanigans. They also require pretty in depth training on all their devices. Sales people do often allow the customer to think they are smart by simply agreeing, so you may have been played. The online store is another story. Like stated before, it was probably just a automated form, it happens.
I found a S3 today and it looks BRAND NEW. no scratches, in a case, looks perfect. So I want to be able to give it back to the owner. I went into my verizon store and they said they wouldnt do anything. It was a young guy and maybe he didnt care or maybe because its hawaii and everyone is laid back... Anyways, I want to be able to return this phone to its owner. I tried putting in random passwords for the lock screen and i got up to attempt 55 and its not asking for an email; though i dont know if it would show their email. Anyway I can hook it up USB and use a debugger and grab some kind of info? Name? Number? Email? Bypass lock screen to call one of their contacts? Any help would be great!
Call a contact in the across book or put up a craigslish add in lost+found
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check if it has an sd card, swap it on your phone or direct to a pc, look for identifying information.
ericrcan said:
I found a S3 today and it looks BRAND NEW. no scratches, in a case, looks perfect. So I want to be able to give it back to the owner. I went into my verizon store and they said they wouldnt do anything. It was a young guy and maybe he didnt care or maybe because its hawaii and everyone is laid back... Anyways, I want to be able to return this phone to its owner. I tried putting in random passwords for the lock screen and i got up to attempt 55 and its not asking for an email; though i dont know if it would show their email. Anyway I can hook it up USB and use a debugger and grab some kind of info? Name? Number? Email? Bypass lock screen to call one of their contacts? Any help would be great!
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hey man, cant really help but wanted to say thanks for being a good person.
Id try the vzw route again. im surprised theyre unwilling to help. maybe call the 1800 number and tehy might be able to help and relay information to the store closest to you wtihout giving out the persons information to you over the phone. or call local PD and see if anyone reported something like that stolen. maybe they have the persons info on hand in case its found.
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Call a contact in the across book or put up a craigslish add in lost+found
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what is the across book? If I go to emergency call it doesn't show any contacts. There is no sd card, and I have a att phone so I can't put the sim card in my phone to look at it for contacts. I posted a CL ad already, and will go to the police station and talk to them, though they ha e been rated the most corrupt in the US its hard to see if they will help or just take the phone. I know what it feels like to lose a phone, hopefully I can find the owner!
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what is the across book? If I go to emergency call it doesn't show any contacts. There is no sd card, and I have a att phone so I can't put the sim card in my phone to look at it for contacts. I posted a CL ad already, and will go to the police station and talk to them, though they ha e been rated the most corrupt in the US its hard to see if they will help or just take the phone. I know what it feels like to lose a phone, hopefully I can find the owner!
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I wouldn't worry about the police necessarily especially if they say they're bad. I'd say keep it, and if nobody claims it from craigslist keep it and sell it after wiping it.
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Yea there's not much to do at this point except play the waiting game. Usually after a week or so it'll be claimed IF its gonna be claimed.
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ericrcan said:
what is the across book? If I go to emergency call it doesn't show any contacts. There is no sd card, and I have a att phone so I can't put the sim card in my phone to look at it for contacts. I posted a CL ad already, and will go to the police station and talk to them, though they ha e been rated the most corrupt in the US its hard to see if they will help or just take the phone. I know what it feels like to lose a phone, hopefully I can find the owner!
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sorry 4am typing kills me....
Why not look through the contacts see if any contacts say mom dad brother baby etc... Call them...
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He can't get into the phone. It's locked with a code.
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It has a pin lock and no way to see the contacts. What does everyone feel a reasonable time would be to wait before claiming it as my own?
Maybe a week
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ericrcan said:
It has a pin lock and no way to see the contacts. What does everyone feel a reasonable time would be to wait before claiming it as my own?
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Id try verizon one more time. If theyre willing to let you keep someone elses device then my conscious would be clear to be hoenst with you.
A carrier should be more willing to help you in this situation youre doing the right thing.
I'll try them again and see. Anyone know if it will work using my att sim card? I know the phone had a message that said global mode and its the i535 version
ddurandSGS3 said:
Id try verizon one more time. If theyre willing to let you keep someone elses device then my conscious would be clear to be hoenst with you.
A carrier should be more willing to help you in this situation youre doing the right thing.
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Carrier is not useful at all! i once ended up buying A AT&T Iphone and it was around the time they started Black Listing IMEI, Anyways long story short..the guy who sold it to me had stolen it! So went to the Store to try to see if they will call the owner and give it back. They told me if id try to do that i could possibly end up in trouble and just toss the device in the garbage or keep it as a Ipod.
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Carrier is not useful at all! i once ended up buying A AT&T Iphone and it was around the time they started Black Listing IMEI, Anyways long story short..the guy who sold it to me had stolen it! So went to the Store to try to see if they will call the owner and give it back. They told me if id try to do that i could possibly end up in trouble and just toss the device in the garbage or keep it as a Ipod.
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Wtf?!
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Still no owner yet.....
How has the owner not called his missing phone by now?
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ericrcan said:
Still no owner yet.....
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Is his phone rooted? If it is you could reboot, backup, and dirty flash a rom... or would that keep the lock? can't think of anything else
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blueb0x said:
How has the owner not called his missing phone by now?
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Exactly!
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Is his phone rooted? If it is you could reboot, backup, and dirty flash a rom... or would that keep the lock? can't think of anything else
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That would still keep the lock if all you did was wipe the caches. I had an idea of maybe using a no wipe stock image to Odin flash but wouldn't the same thing happen with the lock screen? Either way, I think runs the risk of it bootlooping and there would be less chance of getting through and calling someone. If it's rooted, maybe there is a nandroid you could restore and maybe they didn't set the lockscreen up?
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I know this may sound dumb to some, but I should have my new Note 5 by noon, and it has a nano card, I upgraded on one of my other lines that was due an upgrade, but want to use my number not that one, will I have to go into the store to have them change it or can I do that over the phone? I apologize if this is general knowledge but a search got me a zillion answers but not exactly what I was looking for
Just call
MDANavymom said:
I know this may sound dumb to some, but I should have my new Note 5 by noon, and it has a nano card, I upgraded on one of my other lines that was due an upgrade, but want to use my number not that one, will I have to go into the store to have them change it or can I do that over the phone? I apologize if this is general knowledge but a search got me a zillion answers but not exactly what I was looking for
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Why not just swap-out the sim card yourself?
charliest said:
Why not just swap-out the sim card yourself?
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The MDANavymoms signature says that she has a note 4. The note 4 uses a micro sim.
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Just call
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I had previously called, and of course was told Note 5 had Micro Sim and I could just swap, yeah, not the brightest bulb, so just got off the phone again with a different rep and was told that I just had to call in when it got there and give them the sim # and tell them which number I wanted associated with, so that sounds simple enough.
Did you receive the phone yet?I was told that the stores wouldn't have any in stock for 2 weeks after release but a very ride rep
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Did you receive the phone yet?I was told that the stores wouldn't have any in stock for 2 weeks after release but a very ride rep
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Just got a text from UPS, phone has been delivered! I've gotta leave work at noon to babysit plumbers at home, so now I have something to do besides supervising them!
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The MDANavymoms signature says that she has a note 4. The note 4 uses a micro sim.
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Good point; in the past, I have trimmed several micro-sims into nano-sims with a scissors. It is easy enough if one is careful. You can also purchase a punch that will cut the sim precisely to size. At about $5, it is a good investment.