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[Galaxy S II General] luner_orbit:
Sorry to hear that you are still having problems getting this sorted :(
[Galaxy S II General] AdzUK:
After 5 and a half weeks, Samsung have said today they will replace my handset. Does anyone know if they issue refurbished handsets or new? I have now completely had enough of Samsung, I already vowed a year ago to never touch another Samsung TV, and the way I feel at the moment it's the same now with their phones. Until they seriously sort out their customer service I want nothing to do with them, they seem to be copying Apple but not in the areas that matter i.e. customer service. I will most likely sell the replacement as soon as I get it, the HTC One is currently at the top of my list of replacements. Bit of a shame because I think aside from the cheap feeling plastic they use which I've been able to overlook, they make excellent phones. My ideal phone would be something with the spec of a Samsung with the premium feel of an iPhone running Android, and the HTC One seems to be the closest to this at present.

I think I may be waiting an eternity for this replacement to arrive but we'll see. Does anyone know how much I should expect to get for it, sealed and unlocked? They actually told me to go to the store I purchased it from and tell the store to ring Samsung, and they will issue the store with an authorisation code and they will be able to issue me a replacement handset immediately. I purchased my phone online though and mobiles.co.uk said there is nothing they can do, they said try cpw since that is who they are owned by and they simply said go back to mobiles.co.uk, so it looks like I will have to ring Samsung again tomorrow to find out exactly how I am suppose to get this replacement.

Word of advice: Avoid dealing directly with Samsung at all costs, they are an utter disgrace. Deal directly with whom you purchased your handset from if you can and let them deal with Samsung on your behalf.
[Galaxy S II General] AdzUK:
For those still following this thread -

Samsung have now agreed to replace my handset and said, I need to first send my handset back to them and once it is received, they will issue out the replacement. They have said it can take upto 10 days, but from my previous experiences that means more like 5-6 weeks.

Anyone ever had a handset replaced by Samsung, and if so how long did it take?
[Galaxy S II General] jr866gooner:
Jeez they could have at least replaced it in the first place! What a nightmare!
[Galaxy S II General] rootyourphones:
4 weeks and made me pay for shipping it back. Fed ex ground service from texas to Bellingham, wa took an extra week.

samsung wishes it was an iphone
[Galaxy S II General] AdzUK:
Samsungs incompetence knows no bounds!

I still have my 'dented' handset but I will not be letting it out of my sight until I have my replacement here first. I took delivery of a parcel yesterday, have they finally done something which has exceeded my expectations? Upon opening the package, I find they have sent me a WHITE GALAXY S3 when my phone is a GREY GALAXY NOTE 2.

The parcel I received (I was actually out when it came) has someone elses name, address and tel number on one side under 'Deliver too:' yet has my name and address on the other side. I have sent a strongly worded email to Mr Archer and he responded within an hour apologising.

I will now be holding on to my Note 2, and this S3 until I receive the correct replacement. If I don't get it, they can **** off. They can ring and email me all they want to arrange collection of these handsets, I will ignore their calls and emails for 5-6 weeks and fob them off to see how they like it. Time to give them a taste of their own medicine.

How can a company operate in such a way? How can they get it so wrong, on so many different levels? Truly astounded.
[Galaxy S II General] rootyourphones:
Yeah not worst than htc , notice there should be a phone inside that box but their isn't. Been waiting 7 days now for my phone to come back to me they made a mistake and shipped me a empty box fml.

samsung wishes it was an iphone
[Galaxy S II General] rootyourphones:
Htc sucks here it shows my phone still in repair center.

samsung wishes it was an iphone
[Galaxy S II General] AdzUK:
Well that's true I suppose, receiving no phone is always worse then receiving the wrong one. Although I've not actually opened the box so it might be empty, who knows.
[Galaxy S II General] NanoSurfer:
I say keep the S3 and send a big f*** u to Samsung for all the troubles they have caused you. Think of it as payment for all your phone calls and stress and incompetence from their side :D After all, whats 1 S3 out of the 100 billion or so handsets sold worldwide :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] AdzUK:
Don't tempt me! :p

You make a good point though. The 'high level representative' who rang me about 3 weeks ago promising everything would be sorted and they would be offering compensation, never left her details and never called me back. I can't understand how any company can operate like this.
[Galaxy S II General] rootyourphones:
Keep it htc just shipped my phone back , lets see if they send me htc one for free lol finger crossed .htc is more incompetent than samsung atleast my I get to test out the new s4.
[Galaxy S II General] grantwilliams:
Norwich claim s3usb port /circuit board 'user-cracked'

Dear Sirs,

do you by any chance still have the usb board, and would it fit an s3?? If so, I would very much appreciate being contacted on <grantadamwilliams@gmail.com>.

Basically my phone developed charging problems after doing an ics upgrade via Kies, was sent to Norwich who deemed it to be 'user-caused', and returned to me so that I can not even turn it on.

I returned it to Norwich, who returned it to me unopened claiming it was all user-related damage?????

At this point I am unsure where to turn, except perhaps returning it to mthem with your usb board, should it still be available.

Regards,

Grant Williams

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Dear Sir,

I was hoping that you might still have the name/email address, and if so would much appreciate it being forwarded to me at <grantadamwilliams@gmail.com>.

Regards,

Grant
[Galaxy S II General] alecjw1:
I just found this thread via google and joined the forum just to share my similar experience.

My galaxy nexus stopped charging whichever charger/laptop/usb cable I used. It also wouldn't connect via USB. Doing some googling I found this was a common problem and it needed to be sent off to Samsung for repair. I rang them up and had them send me a jiffy bag to send it off in. So I sent it off to them (using the packaging they sent me).

The next day I see they've updated the status of my repair to "non-defect (Working properly)" - ok, wat? I rang up samsung support and asked what was going on, they told me to ring the service centre (for which they gave me a geographical number, so +1 for that I guess).

After spending 15 minutes or so on hold, I decided to try again another day.

Today I got two identical letters from A Novo saying that my phone has a cracked screen and asking for £138 to repair it - see attached. Alternatively they'll destroy my phone for free - how generous! Needless to say, the screen wasn't cracked when I sent it off to them. Assuming they aren't completely making this up, this must have been damage done in transit in which case they should be claiming on RM (since it was sent via special delivery).

I'll be on the phone to A Novo tomorrow and if they leave me on hold for eternity, I'll talk to Samsung again...
[Galaxy S II General] jr866gooner:
You may not be worried but you left your name and address on the top right of the image! :thumbup:

Sent from my GS2 running LSW NeatRom
[Galaxy S II General] alecjw1:
Yeah, I know, I'm not too bothered about my address being on the internet - what are people going to do with it anyway? Thanks for pointing it out though!
[Galaxy S II General] grantwilliams:
Reply to anovo problems

I seriously suggest you contact sean Archer at uk.execoffice@samsung.com who at least with my dealings was both prompt and fair. You can use me as a reference. Grant Williams

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I should add my personal email as at a later date you may wish to correspond in person . Grantadamwilliams@gmail.com

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Tell them your pa had the foresight to take a photo of your phone pre-sending...mock one up quickly.

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If I were you I'd seriously consider contacting Sean ARCHER at uk.execoffice@samsung.com, who from my experience is fair and quick to respond. Grantadamwilliams@gmail.com
[Galaxy S II General] king_below_my_lord:
Chronicle buddy you should rename this thread as the "Chronicles of Samsung Service Center(UK)" or "The Chronicle Saga", I just read through all the posts here and currently I am inspired (though I never had a problem with the service center guy's in my area though).
[Galaxy S II General] theunderling:
Phone up and complain to Richard Hammond.If you get no joy,tell him hes as useful as James May or Jeremy Clarkson.
[Galaxy S II General] alecjw1:
OK, an update: I phone up A novo who said since hte packaging wasn't damaged they couldn't do anything, so I should contact samsung instead.

Then out of the blue, they returned my phone (despite previously demanding an administrative fee for its safe return). Sure enough, I have it here and there's NOTHING wrong with the screen as far as I can tell. Just like chronicle's burnt wifi chip, this seems to be at best incompetence and at worst a complete fabrication. I phoned up samsung support, who apologised. They've booked it in to a different service centre (regenersis) and I'll be posting it off to them tomorrow.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Homey:
I've seen quite a lot of Anti Virus apps in the Play Store but are they really worth having for the N7?

I've rooted mine so is it likely that I'm in any more danger than a non-rooted N7?

If so, can anyone recommend a decent one to have?

Thx!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nburnes:
No.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Don't side load any porn apps or cracked apps and you will be good. If you really need to get your fap on I'm sure someone can recommend a good mobile site. And if you are one of those cheap bastards that is unwilling to pay $1 for an app then, well, you deserve whatever bad happens when you install the pirated app.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Omar04:
Not necessary in Android. :beer::D
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muldy:
No.

Unless you want to burn battery faster and feel fictitiously "pretty safe"
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxss4:
Nope, the only thing it will do is slow down the device and drain battery

Send from my lovely Sensation XL, from a little town in france with a very very slow internet connection. ;)

If I succeed helping you (rare) don't forget to hit the thanks button
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnnieeli:
I just back from the ATT store in Lakegrove LI NY. They said they were only shipped the Note 2 in white. I played with it for 30 min then I bought one on the spot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnnieeli:
Ordered 64 gig micro sd

ordered the 64 gig micro sd card from Amazon.com. I went to Costco but they onoy had the 32 gig. It was 24.99 which is a good price. The Amazon 64 gig is 59 bucks, 64 with tax if that applies to you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] F123D:
There's been deals on the 64gb lately. Picked mine up from amazon a couple weeks ago for $43. RadioShack had it for $40. Best Buy had it for $50.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] peekeesh:
Anyone here uses 5ghz band on their home wifi network? I currently use it but the signal is so bad. Say i'm 6-7 feet away from the router, i run wifi analyzer on my GN2 to check 5ghz signal strength, and it sits at -70 to -80 db. Now if I go to my room signal drops tremendously and then it disconnects from wifi.

I initially thought maybe my router, which is a netgear WDNR4000, has issues. But after comparing the signal strength my laptop gets, i determined my router is perfectly fine. I ran inSSIDer to check signal strength on wifi.

Anyway, if you happen to be using 5ghz band, can you let me know how good/bad your signal is? If it's bad, what did you do to improve it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] iwin2000:
I have 5ghz and 2.5ghz support on my wireless router. on my pc at home i always get 100% signal on the 2.5ghz, whereas I get around 75%-80% on 5ghz channel.

i believe that the 5ghz signal degrades more rapidly with distance, it's nothing really to do with the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] peekeesh:
So based from what you are saying, this is normal for 5ghz signal? I guess my laptop uses more power or has better wifi card which is why it has stronger 5ghz signal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] sky1193:
I'm inclined to agree with this all my devices with 5ghz see this drop off quicker than 2.5ghz

Regurgitated From My Giant Note II
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] threestripebrand:
It's a known fact the 5ghz does have better speeds but lacks distance and penetration compared to 2.5ghz.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] Tbonekilla:
Your laptop has a larger antenna in it.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II.
[Member-Found Deals] chils41:
sorry wrong deal!
[Member-Found Deals] makki666:
Wrong link, it is for GS3 $199.

T-mobile Galaxy note 2 is $299. tmobile offical site sell it for $369. anyway Thanks.

and here is the correct offer's Links.

http://www.letstalk.com/samsung-galaxy-note-2-white
[Member-Found Deals] chils41:
My BAD !
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tusharmalhotra:
My Fellow android enthusiasts

Firstly, I would like to apologize in advance, as I have already asked this question in the 4.2 GAPPS section. re-posting it here since it is device specific (or may be). I am less than 2 hours into the forum so please excuse teething mistakes :)

I am stuck and need your help. I am running a rooted (of course!) VZW GS3 16 GB. I am on AOKP JB-milestone 1 ROM, Kernel 3.0.48. Android version 4.1.2.

Now I love the new camera and gallery. I have grabbed and flashed multiple versions of the same (android police, droidlife, the whole GAPPS 4.2 package... and multiple more).

In every version I have tried, I have had the same issue.. everything works (video, panaroma, stills during video, photoshpere viewer, gallery effects etc..) however, the most BASIC function, the one of taking still pictures DOES NOT WORK!!!.

The moment I take a still picture, the camera and the gallery crash, and I have to reboot to get them working (as previously) again. I have tried and tried and tried, multiple versions, complete rebuild, everything, no effect. I am at my wit's end, and seek the asistance of your prodigious intellectual faculties to help me put of this jam...

On a side note, I have not yet figured out a way of changing the storage location to external memory card in this new camera.. cant find the setting...

Please help me out friends..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Its a known bug on at least AOSP roms on the galaxy S3 that taking regular pictures without first touching the screen to focus causes the camera to flash. Also i believe using the camera flash causes issues as well. You just need to touch to focus first.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tusharmalhotra:
THANK YOU!!!!

Thanks MaN... You saved me.. SUPER COOL.. working for me now.. Thanks again.. many thanks... and did i say THANKS!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
You're welcome :) just glad i could help you out!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] matt68000:
I'm having the exact same problem on the GSIII for AT&T, just to clarify after some guess and check. You have to hit the shutter button immediately after tapping the screen to focus. If you wait till after it achieves focus to hit the shutter button, it'll still lock up. You might want to have a standby camera app in case you want other people to take a photo for you and don't want to explain the bug in your camera app. :confused:

Thanks for posting the problem in such detail. Google took me straight here. And cheers for answering so quickly!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zappoo:
THANKS matt6800 - that solution works. Kinda sux though! So is there any fix yet?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adamt19:
Another wrinkle to this:

EDIT: not a new wrinkle! Discovered that my photos were in fact saved at the beginning of my gallery, not lost
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shangrila500:
That's a ***** of a bug. I had no clue it was that bad, I stayed away from it when I found out if I forgot to touch the screen I would have to reboot cause I knew I would inevitably forget to touch it. I wish there was a fix for this. It'd be nice to use the new camera.

Sent from one of the many Anthropomorphic Personalities on the Disc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adamt19:
Please see my edited post! I was wrong

-AT (mobile)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zappoo:
I assume they'll fix it soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zappoo:
Another work around..when taking photo, hold down the shutter button for longer..then no crash
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adamt19:
tried holding until the focus turned green, then let go, and it still crashed :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] goldsmitht:
for those who really want the 4.2 camera, and are VZW, try these two TW ROMs (i know, they are not AOSP, but at the moment, these are the only two with working, unglitchy 4.2 cameras):

rally rom, has working 4.2 camera and other 4.2 gapps. This is a stripped down (432MBs) ROM, quick, and smooth.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2025739

SYNERGY ROM: this one also has both cameras and galleries, so you can pick and choose which one works the best for your situation:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1792499

SYNERGY was just recently updated and the dev team is really good about answering questions.

:cyclops:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] madworld5671:
Thanks a lot, Matt. that solution also worked for me!!!

I'm so happy that i could revive my camera app now!!

Thank you again!!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cowboyv:
Does anyone know if there is a working app mod or hack to enable the incredible2 to have nexus-like on-screen buttons and disabling the lights and functions of the hardware buttons like on ParanoidAndroid has it?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ThePhantom97:
This is the main reason I stick with PA. :) If someone can mod the framework of the rom you are using, it may be option, but most of the roms don't have that built in. :( You might mention it in the thread of the rom you use and see if someone can hook you up.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cowboyv:
Yeah, I'm wondering if maybe you can copy and paste the frameworks folder from PA rom to the other rom and if that would activate the on screen buttons.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ThePhantom97:
I doubt that would be a good idea, but I'm not the one to answer that one. :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Triscuit:
Just a warning, that very well may put your phone into a boot loop, if you decide to try it......BACKUP first :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cowboyv:
@Phantom: according to this thread it's just a matter of decompiling framework-res.apk, making some changes and then recompiling the whole thing, which is why I'm thinking maybe it is as simple as copying/pasting the apk.

@Tricsuit: Yeah, I know. I already learned my lesson and before attempting stupid ideas like this one, I run a full back up of the rim, settings, apparently and data, and then make sure to save the back up file in my box to be able to retrieve it from my computer just in case something else hiccups.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ThePhantom97:
Thanks for the share m8, I will try to look into this one more over the weekend. If you decide to give it a go with a copy and past let me know how it works out. :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cowboyv:
Yeah, I'm on call for the next couple of days so I won't be able to play with the rom, but if I'm able to make it work I'll post it here. :beer:
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] cowboyv:
Welp, I began to toiler around with this, succeed in decompiling res-framework.apk, changing the bools, arrays and dimens values and added the menu images, basically all the way down to step 5, but I can't seem to recompile it back into .apk... uhm... a little help guys? ^^;
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] Ntypeled:
i have searched in here and other places and i did not find

anything

... im searching for the new walkman, the one that the ics phones are using.. pls help
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] ElmirBuljubasic:
Ah..you can find it here..just scroll down ;)!

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1970144

This doesnt work on gb
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] Ntypeled:
I'm searching for something that will work with my GB..
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] terranx8:
you won't find one, because its only for ics. you can use achotjan's sde as it has a similarly styled music player for gb
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] X8invisible:
Impossible

Gb walkman-only Sony ROMs

Ics walkman-everything 4.0+

Simple as that:)

Sent from my heart™ using a Shadow
[XPERIA X8 Themes and Apps] Ntypeled:
Where I can find it?
[HTC EVO 3D] KossKnowsKarate:
Keeps going back and forth. Weird. Any solutions?
[HTC EVO 3D] bamick823:
Not just virgin. My sprint evo 3d is doing the same thing. Had to go in and set clock manually
[HTC EVO 3D] KossKnowsKarate:
I was afraid it was just me. It's really annoying
[HTC One S] toybreaker:
I have an HTC One S, rooted and unlocked. I downloaded CM10, attempted to update to it, yes without wiping(my fail) and sent the phone into a bootloop. In my attempts to fix I lost the ability mount the SDCard.

I did this to fix the SDCard and it worked - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1630459&page=12

I have tried to do the RUU update to bring it back to stock but it failed with error 171, USB Connectivity lost so I abandoned that idea. I did play with drivers, HTC Sync, reinstalls and registry cleanups all to no avail. This is the process I wanted to follow but no luck.....http://www.htconeforum.com/forum/ht...e-your-htc-one-s-back-100-stock-relocked.html

When updating with CM10 it installed VERY quick, like 20ish seconds. This seemed very fast so I thought maybe a different ROM would work and I went with Dark Jelly http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1848100

No matter what I do I am stuck in the bootloop. Looking for any guidance available of things to try. I have searched all over and tried the solutions that make sense but to no avail.
[HTC One S] toybreaker:
Fixed

So I did this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33857020&postcount=2181

delete that file and it booted right up. Have not looked at the Dark Jelly rom to see fi it has that file too but that may have been the issue with the other ROM as well.

Summary - CM10 contains that file that needs to be deleted before upgrading if you have hboot of low versions...I know, not very descriptive but its all in my posts above.
[HTC One S] diabolusmiles:
nvm, you got it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N1nJ4H:
Guys after update every music I transfer on phone is copy twice is there any way to fix that
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NatTheCat:
ROM??

Player??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N1nJ4H:
Orginal samsung rom and player.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopard:
Anyone have issues with trying to delete a screen? Every time I go to edit and drag to trash it fc tw...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] truth77:
Clear launcher data and reboot
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] chopard:
Thanks that worked!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] wish777:
In the notification pull down...hit the clock walaaa world clock pops up...lol :eek: