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[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] argyris:
I contacted Expansys, lets see what they have to say now....

Anyone know of any consuner rights group that might be able to help?

Thanx
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
The UK Government has a website that might help:

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

You can call them for a chat too. Might be worth a try.

Or put "uk consumer rights" into Goooooogle and see what comes up.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
One interesting paragraph on this page says:

I think Expansys have some wriggle room on the guarantee if in the small print of their terms and conditions (that you read and agreed to when you bought the Universal, right? ;)) it says that they're acting as agents to the manufacturer only. I think that kinda gets them out of warranty obligations and means your contract of sale would be with whoever they mention in their T&Cs. I've never bought from them though, so I've no idea how they operate.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] argyris:
You are right, I did a bit of searching in some goverment sites and it states that when they act like agents you cannot blame them for anything....you have to take it up with the manufacturer.

Some useful stuff I found out are:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/facts/distancesell.htm

http://www.euroconsumer.org.uk/

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/links/index.shtml

I think everyone should take a quick read and finally know their rights....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] argyris:
Final Update!!

Since neither i-mate nor SBE would reply to any mails I finally paid for the repair of the phone. The guy I spoke to on the phone admited that they have a lot of Jasjars in for repairs and at most of them the warranty is not honoured....

This is a warning for all people wanting to buy one! DONT! The warranty will not be honoured in case it breaks down and i-mate is only good for advertising.....

DO NOT BUT THE JASJAR!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] guinevere:
Would it be the same case trying to get warrenty for the O2 version?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] capcrackers:
I have had a similar problem and have had enough of O2 and need some advice. 2 months ago I plugged the charger into my XDA Exec and the charger port got pushed back into the phone. So I was a bit annoyed that this would happen but I took it to the O2 shop who said it's not a problem and as the phone hasn't even been out a year it will be under warranty and should be no more than 3 weeks being repaired.

After four weeks I got a phone call saying that it wasn't under warranty and that the cost for repair would be £350 because they had to replace some sort of chip. I know this isn't true as the phone worked perfectly it just couldn't be charged. So I said I would not pay this and I wanted it returned. After a week still no sign of the phone I called O2 to tell them the whole story and they said that it could be repaired under the warranty and it wasn't a problem, I just had to send it straight to the repair centre without going through the shop.

I sat and waited until today 2 months after the phone originally broke and it got delivered back to the O2 shop.

I think it's disgusting that this has happened and wondered what my next plan of action should be??
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] jpiek:
This doesn't work like that in all country's ! In Holland they suppliers is responsable, the is : The name in Header on the bill. They could say the're only agents, but when they give you a bill with their name on it, you bought it for tehm, thus; they are responable...

NO FINEPRINT CAN EVER OVERRULE ANY LAWS....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] argyris:
Hey all,

I got my phone back today and guess what???? It does not charge or gets recognised by the computer....It was returned with a QTEK ROM although it is a Imate phone....

I am now sure this imate/SBE thing is all a nice scam that rips people off....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fluffcat1:
If you paid for the repair then sue them for not repairing - find their local trading standards office in the UK to complain to, complain to your VISA company etc etc.

Do you have anyone in the UK who can do this for you?

Richard
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] argyris:
rICHARD,

I told them that I did not get what I paid for and I am expecting a repair. They came back saying that they do provide warranty for all repairs they make so they will accept it back and repair it without any more cost for me....

The only thing to do is wait and see....I will post back any news....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] fluffcat1:
Why not report them for piracy to HTC / Microsoft? I am led to believe loading a rom from one manufacturer onto another's device amounts to software piracy as your software was bought from i-mate and you now have Qtek's O.S.....
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] sandrobber:
Expansys

I bought mine through expansys you have to show proof of purchase, you can get this by emailing expansys or digging up your old email confirmation. The rest of your problem seem to be bs.

1.) email I-mate support@imate.com

2.) If I-mate gave you an rma number you don't pay for anything

3.) once you get you phone in prepare to wait
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SooSpecial:
argyris,

Have you tried to insert another SIM card in the phone?

I have this weird problem with the JJ. I have 2 SIM's with 2 different Operators. The JJ works just fine with one SIM .....

BUT, when I insert the other SIM, I can make calls normally, but I can receive only ONE call (i mean it, ONE), after that the damn thing won't receive calls anymore!

After trying to make calls for several times it does work, but again, one incoming call and that's it.

I tried that SIM in the 8800, it works just great.

Anybody has an idea on what's going on?

Thank you guys..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Hey everyone,

So, I'm pretty new to Android having had the past two iterations of the Nexus 7 and decided to take the leap from an iPhone (which I had jailbroken) to a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 LTE, which I bought unlocked and outright.

I ran stock TouchWiz for a while and then wanted to play, so installed FoxHound 3.2. This worked fine for some time, but then I started getting random reboots which seemed to coincide with listening to music on the device. After a while the reboots suddenly became more regular and it got so I couldn't even open WhatsApp without it either restarting or going into a bootloop. Usually, if it went into a bootloop and I tried starting the phone straight away it would fail, but if I left it off for some time it would start up okay, only to reboot again later if I used it for anything. I also noticed the battery draining quickly.

I tried flashing the device with various other ROMs - PACMan, Google AOKP, etc. - but got the same issue. Many times, the system would crash just when I first started to setup the phone. I finally determined the reason it was crashing at the initial startup was that it was when WiFi was being enabled. So, I ended up following a fruitless several hours of attempting to fix the WiFi using files provided on this page: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2192025. I tried XXUDMH8, XXUEMJ7 and XXUEMK8 all to no avail - I installed both the firmware and the WiFi fix files using Odin and thought I had it cracked, only for my phone to eventually reboot again whilst WiFi was not even enabled - it did take a bit longer this time though, admittedly, but it still rebooted and went into a bootloop.

So, I finally followed this page: http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-tutorials/how-to-unroot-galaxy-s4-and-remove-root-completely/ to completely return my device to stock TouchWiz, but still no joy.

I have tried factory resetting the device and wiping all cache from the stock recovery and from Philz CWM (which I had while using the custom ROMs), but this does nothing.

I tried connecting my device to Kies now that I have the stock TouchWiz ROM back on the device, but it is now rebooting even more frequently and I can't get in long enough to run the emergency firmware recovery. It used to stay up longer (sometimes indefinitely) when connected to the PC via the Samsung factory cable or to a power supply with the Samsung charger, but now it is even rebooting when plugged in.

I am extremely worried that my device that cost me nearly £600 a few months ago is bricked for good. I did (understandably) think that returning it to default would've resolved the issue, but even this has failed.

Is there ANYTHING else I can try that I have not already........?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Repulsa:
hello mate, what bootloader do you have?(Boot into download mode too see if it says Knox void warranty or not) and can you still boot into download mode? thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Hi and thanks for your reply,

I can boot into download mode - one of the only things I can do! - and it says 0x1 under KNOX WARRANTY VOID, so yes it is showing Knox void.

Just in case you need it, the full information shown on the screen in download mode is as follows:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9505

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Official

KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1

CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30

WRITE PROTECTION: Enable

eMMC BURST MODE enabled

Thanks again..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Repulsa:
I want you to flash the 4.3 stock rom firmware from samsung (Sign up)www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/ make sure to choose the right one such as device, country . Then when your done flash the file via odin 3.09 and select AP ,Or follow the instruction from here, how to do a proper flash. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252982 . have a nice day.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Hey Repulsa,

Thanks again. Unfortunately, this is what I did. I signed up at samfirmware and downloaded the file: I9505XXUEMK8_I9505BTUEMK5_BTU.zip

The only thing I did different was that I used Odin 3.07 and flashed using the PDA option, but I'm presuming this is the same thing..? After the bootloop, I went into recovery and factory reset, but still the bootloop occurs.

I have since managed to get into my phone after leaving it off for a couple of hours again and looking through the settings it says I have "Samsung" as the secure boot status and "Official" as the device status. The build number is showing up as JSS15J.I9505XXUEMK8 on Android 4.3.

Should I try anything else that you can think of?

Thanks again for the reply.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Repulsa:
is the problem still persist? if it does Turn off your phone and Press and hold Power+Volume up and do another Wipe cache and Factory reset.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Yes, I'm afraid it does, and I have already done the wipe cache and factory reset, but no joy. I did it again anyway and on reboot it went back into the bootloop again, I'm afraid..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acer4605:
it can be a bad battery aswell if your battery serial starts with BD exchange it asap you may also experience any issues mentioned in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2570608
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Ah FFS. My battery serial does start with BD and I was wondering if it was a battery issue, but didn't want to replace it if the fault was wider spread. I guess I may have to try this then..

I'm just flashing to MJ7 right now, but if it reboots again I will see about a new battery from where I bought it on Monday :@
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
And, as I forgot to say in the last post: thanks for your reply. If this fixes it, much kudos, my friend..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Yep. The flashing of MJ7 did not work. Maybe my battery is a dud as it went straight back into a bootloop at the Samsung logo.

Carphone Warehouse visit on Monday methinks..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acer4605:
you can get passed the samsung logo if you boot while your charger is connected to the phone, the battery might swell as well or is already bigger then it originally was
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elkingyboy:
My phone has been randomly shutting down over the past couple of days and the only way I can get it to boot is to connect a charger/cable to pc. I've tried different ROMs and returning to stock. No joy.

I guess my battery could well be the problem :(

---------- Post added at 11:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ----------

My phone has randomly started shutting down over the past couple of days and the only way I can get it to boot is to connect charger/cable to pc. When it dies, it also loses all of my wifi passwords. It's a bit of a head scratcher. Any help appreciated :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R1V4L:
Definately the battery, dude

I was experiencing the same problems, and I observed that the battery swollen. So I replaced it and now the phone is functioning properly. Do not wait for the battery to modify its volume because you are risking to put pressure on the display and crack it. Beware.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KalarAzar:
Was, indeed, the battery

Hey everyone,

Just to let you know that I went back to Phones4u with the receipt from September (when I bought the new phone) and they filled out a form to request a new battery from Samsung and replaced mine their and then in the shop with a new battery from another Samsung Galaxy S4.

My old battery did, indeed, have a serial number that started with BD and the new one starts with AA so hopefully I am now sorted.

Massive thanks to everyone who replied and hopefully this thread will save someone else the time and lost data that flashing ROMs can incur.

Cheers,

A very happy Steve :laugh:
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sid_dominic56:
I tried everything but the ussd sound doesn't change, normal message sound has changed though. I even deleted the Life is good audio file but still when I get a ussd message it notifies with the life is good sound. Please help me.

I am using the stock rom.

Thank you.
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] vividblu2020:
Hey I had a question. Seems like when start to use my phone for whatever the battery dies pretty fast. But when I don't it seems to just stay at that last percent. Android is using a lot of battery. I asked earlier about if I removed the bloat ware if that would help. Seems it would. But what about using this app called greenify. Have some people tried it ? I've read that it causes the apps to stay in hibernation until you use them. And getting cpu tuner helps too.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ngyurov:
Hello,

I'm facing an issue when I mount an external flash drive to my nexus 7 using a simple USB OTG adapter. When i plug the external memory in, the flash drive's LED indicator lights up, which means that it's powered by the tablet, but the device itself doesn't react whatsoever and when browsing with ES I don't see any external drive. What am i supposed to do? My nexus 7 is entirely stock and no root, so i don't void the warranty.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] sparksd:
ES won't see the drive - you need to use a 3rd party app like Nexus Media Importer to access it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] ngyurov:
Yeah, I got total commander plus a paid usb otg plugin for it and now I can use it normally. Turns out Nexus devices can't boot external flash drives on their own.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Pyroh:
When my USB port wasn't broken I didn't need any additional apps, I just plugged my USB drive into my OTG cable then into my device and it was instantly recognized. If that doesn't work for you try usinh Chainfire's Stickmount.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] droidshadow:
You could try OTG helper but that requires root access...

If the light is coming on you should be able to use it. You are just going to need a 3rd party app such as "file explorer".

I can understand the worries of voiding your warranty but you may need root access if you are going to trouble shoot. If things go bad you can always unroot your tablet and take it back to factory settings. WuGFresh's Nexus Root Toolkit has a nice feature on his windows program that does that automatically for you!

WWW.wugfresh.com/nrt

Check it out...

Hope it helps...

-droidshadow
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaehyeok Koo:
Hi XDA users.

My problem is just same as this thread's title.

A few months ago,

suddenly I had an idea which try to disassemble my Xperia Play.

So I did that and consequently one part of touch screen couldnt work normally.

So I decided to repair it and it has been repaired.

But another problem was happened...

First, the speakers didnt work.

At that time I flashed Gin2Kitkat.

Though I flashed any other ROM, they havent worked still now,

I think the reason of this problem isnt software but hardware,

The only solution seems to replacing this part.

Moreover it cant connect network.

In my country there are two carriers which I can connect with my Xperia Play.

But though I selected one my SIM card support, it couldnt get any network.

However SIM card itself isnt wrong.

Because it worked normally when I put it another device.

I want to repair it.

But I dont know what should I replace component.

It is main board?

Also I wonder whether there is a way I can buy it.

For reference if there is any item in eBay, I can purchase it.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Accessories] Toje2:
Here is a video I made showing it fitting, encase anyone was interested, you need to remove the back cover.

[YOUTUBE]JdosjkZly3c[/YOUTUBE]

My videos suck, so sorry about that.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Accessories] 5u4573:
The 'Otterbox Defender' are very robust but often the best protectors for devices
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fabiofacir:
Hii to everyone, i'm new here this is my first topic.

Today when I'm was coming out of gym my phone just fell to the floor. The battery disassembled but it seemed not a big problem.

When I tried to switch it on, the screen became black, but i noticed that the screen turns on beacause it is not complete black, i noticed a bit of light change. And the most amazing is that I can ear the sound of the music of boot, and the tactile buttons are also with light.

Is this a problem in the board right??

Maybe I can't solve it at home because i would need to dissasemble it but I look for my guarantee and that's in time, the problem is that the phone is rooted, and with rom enhance 236, and this broke my guarantee, can install stock rom just using usb cable?

Sorry for my bad english !!

Please help me

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hnkotnis:
If you want to flash stock ROM, download 3 file firmware for your device, get Odin and drivers ready, switch off phone, put in download mode and flash away. This will make your phone as if it was just bought.(data all erased, unrooted, no sign of root access, no way for service centre to find out you rooted & custom OS was installed). Then you can go to service centre for repairing screen.

Using CWM........Busybox Commands........No I use my hands :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fabiofacir:
Thanks!! I have just did it and I sent it to warranty!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hnkotnis:
Just press the Thanks button. It was created to reduce the length of thread by mentioning thanks :D :silly: :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svukov21:
Hi!

I have here some MTK6572 phones that I want to flash, but I'm getting this BROM ERROR (please look at picture). Phones are new and there are Samsung Galaxy s4 copies 1:1.

First I have root them, after that I have read flash with MTKDroidTools, then make !Files_to_FlashTool. Now problems began.

I load scatter file from !Files_to_FlashTool folder and untick preloader and mbr and have some errors I think 8038. I repaire that with editing scatter file but after that I'm getting BROM ERROR: S_NOT_ENOUGH_STORAGE_SPACE (1011)!!!

I have try to flash original flash files(readed from phone), I have try to flash files from same other phone, I have try to flash one file by one (EBR than UBOOT than BOOTIMG...) but always this BROM ERROR.

Now who can help me understand this BROM ERROR? I have read tons of posts on the net but nobody have solution for this kind of error or they don't want to tell.

In attachment is picture of error and SP flash log folder (with BROM log). I'm here for all kind of testing so please if someone have more experience with this kind of error help here.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

P.S. I have space in my pc and in phone that I'm trying to flash so why is this error keep coming I don't understand. Maybe it is problem in scatter file addresses but I'm not sure. I know how to flash Chinese phones this is not my first time or something like that.

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[HTC EVO 3D] Anonymuszymus:
Can be the Ubuntu touch ported to the evo 3D?
[HTC EVO 3D] jag9:
Please someone port Ubuntu touch to our HTC Evo 3D.... Thanks in advance....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] rreinink:
Hi All!

Ok, this might be a like very stupid question, and please don't laugh (too) hard :wink:, but:

I can't find a Bluetooth Manager in my Qtek 9100, what I mean is, a browser like thingie (for other phones etc.) , is it not present, or haven't I looked in the right place?

Thanks in advance!

Rik
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Koksie:
you can see it when you try to send a file over BT. in file explorer, navigate to the file you want to send, click and hold, tap send file. The manager will then first look for IR connections, then for BT, although I admit it is not very easy to figure it out. But, with a little patience it will see the other devices with BT and start sending. That's the only BT manager I can find anyway.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] rreinink:
Thanks Mate!

This was all the information I needed...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bionicsquirell:
Hey, i saw on another forum and his facebook with screenshots that there was fully stable 4.4.2 for our device by penguin449, but when i look here we only have 4.4.1 with bugs? I was going to PM him for the build on xda but he was banned and facebook wont let me unless i'm his friend, and i do not trust the other forums other then xda? plus limited bandwidth! Has anyone used this build? Or can we use his tree and kernel source to build us 4.4.2?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] hack4er:
what? what did you say? fully stable kitkat ha??

man, even official CyanogenMod 11 isnt stable yet(still in nightly builds)

because of that do not believe fully stable kitkat roms at the moment
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bionicsquirell:
No i meant, no lags, no bugs, not stable, but no bugs, i thought that was stable? well it has no bugs and runs really smoothly with 8k antutu.

Edit: No Device related Bugs.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] hack4er:
no bugs ha?

there are still bugs in cm11 for galaxy w for example stock browser is laggy

and cm11 for galaxy w is including well known bugs from previously cm roms(camera greeening and google maps 7.x flickering and some others)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bionicsquirell:
Greening on photos is still there in the vid on his facebook, and he didn't show maps, and the stock browser wasn't lagging at all! data switching also worked without the reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] malybru:
Mod Edit

Thread closed at [OP] 's request

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vihru:
hi, here is OPPO N1 official firmware

http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/n1-stable-coloros-v1-0-0i.7851/

maybe someone port/make that kind of theme on our S4?

it could be possible, i look that zip file.. it include media/bootanimation and all system files etc..

just info for you.
[General Questions and Answers] s7562:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_NLqfSyZfYASTRjUFVidTVUb2c/edit?pli=1

can anybody download above file and provide me the mirror link(mediafire) ?