[Galaxy Note II General] cswithxda:
So I had permission from mod to start a group repair thread here to better gather all the N7100 SDS victim in the U.S. to get the phone repaired in the states. This supposedly saves u time and potentially some money (in case Samsung would not accept your phone or refuse to honor your warranty after you sent the phone to them)

So, everything started in

this thread

. Details have been discussed in that thread. So if you are interested, please read about the discussions in that thread. This thread here serves the purpose of a better way to find and inform U.S. owners who suffered SDS on their N7100, in order to get the group repair set up quicker.

I am going to summarize some important information from the other thread below.

The Repairer Found

MobileTechVideos.com

The page for Note II eMMC repair is located

here

BIG THANKS TO xryousukex

Also, xryousukex pointed out that they are on facebook. So if you want, you can go check out people's comments on their pages. I am quite trusting with them as they have been pretty honest and helpful when i talked to them on the phone, e.g., talking about success rate, pricing, and repair time.

Benefits/Price

Basically, the discounted price breaks down as follows. Note that the "refund deduction" is the amount that the repairer will charge in case of a repair failure. The eMMC costs about $80, so if the seller fails to fully recover the phone, their policy is to refund the labor cost but retain their costs of ordering these eMMC chips. They told me that the success rate should be greater than or equal to 85%. It is just an estimate because they have not seen as many SDS cases on Note II as they've seen on the GS3.

Group of - Price - Refund Deduction (in case of unsuccessful repair)

1 person - $150 -$80

5 persons - $135 - $15

10 persons - $130 - $15

20 persons - $125 - $15

So, as you can see, the major benefit is not BIG discounts, but the less sunk costs in case the repair is not successful.

Group List

So far, we have

FOUR

people on the list. I guess one we hit 5-person mark, we can discuss about whether to wait for more people or just go ahead. Feel free to update yourself into the list and reply here.

Tentative members

1 - cswithxda

2 - nochancenine

3 - pitflyer

4 - hull22

5 -

Payment Method

The company will send us coupon codes that can be used x times, with x being how many people we have. Or, I was thinking about having the company issue x coupons, with each one sent individually to each one of us, so we won't worry about someone using coupon more than once (e.g., giving the code to a friend that you found to also have SDS on his/her phone:p)

The rest of the payment details is just normal check out through their website. We can proceed individually once we have the coupons.

Repair Time

I did not ask about this but the guy I talked to on the phone reminded me of the repair time. I was told that it should take around 8 business days to get the phone back, which is essentially 2 weeks considering the shipping/handling. They are located in Texas so you can figure out how long it usually takes for the shipping.

Disclaimer

Neither am I, nor XDA forum, affiliated with the company mentioned in this thread. I am not responsible for anything that might happen to your phone during this repair process, even though I am the initiator of this process. My intention is to gather enough people quickly and get our phones repaired in a fast and economical manner. I am not "pushing" anyone to do this. This is not an advertisement.

Most importantly, XDA is not part of this group repair initiation.

Comments

Sorry for the unprofessional wording in the disclaimer section. I have not done this (initiator) ever in my life. This is also the first phone that I ever need to pay to get it repaired. So my lack of experience should be expected :fingers-crossed: Please don't hesitate to correct any misinformation in the thread by letting me know. I provided the best information I have from the repairer. And if you want, definitely feel free to contact them and verify that I have the facts put down correctly. I will also inform the repairer of this thread so they might chime in and answer some questions maybe. They were a little hesitant about this because they do not want to be deemed to be advertising without permission.

Lastly, feel free to ask any question or concern you may have. I'll try my best to answer.

@Mods: Thanks for your understanding and allowing me to start this thread :good: