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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Questions & Answers] miniminus:
be ok if your ireland samsung support can help/ship ! .. do you have a proper Samsung shop there to talk to!? ..

if not then yes shipping it to the US on our expense to a friend in the US maybe the only option ! ..

im going to try talk it over with the eBay seller i got my from, as he MUST have links to the US ! ... and given some kind of money incentive im sure he could help ? !!

as its not overly about the expense. or of shipping, its getting a robust watertight S7active at the end of the day ! thats gonna last !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Questions & Answers] miniminus:
thought i would add these links here for other peoples and my info too ! ..

Link about S7active being under warranty if water damaged ON Samsung website (as cormie found)

https://news.samsung.com/us/officia...mer-reports-gs7-active-water-resistance-test/

instructions ON samsungs own site, on how to use aqua mode on the camera ...

http://www.samsungsupport.com/spsn/detail.jsp?ctg_id=202&sub_ctg_id&live_id=3&video_id=4962937378001

and also how to exchange a water damaged phone, with AT&T on their website;

https://www.att.com/esupport/articl...are&siteId=JAF5WzpxbKM-Jj6AIrBnJkQWFIlF54ZC9w

althou i cannot find "The Liquid Damage Indicator (LDI) is located inside the SIM tray slot. It is a small white square block with red “X” marks."

see this on another site that may also help ..

When you go into the ATT store or call in, they may hear "water damage" and try to tell you it's an insurance claim, not a warranty issue. Politely disagree and have them look up ATT CSP article 493258 which says ATT will replace your device with a new one under a warranty claim for one year from the date of purchase.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Questions & Answers] cormie:
I filed a claim through the PayPal resolution centre with the seller. I would have preferred not to go this route and to be able to just send it back to Samsung direct and for them to ship a new (manufactured after July 2016) replacement and that be that.

Anyway, the seller was a little reluctant, but I explained in detail and linked to this post (where the links to the video are etc of course).

This was my last communication with him:

So I have one solution, but this is not ideal. I will ask can they replace the phone with one with a manufacture date of August 2016 onwards and see what they respond. If they agree to this, I'm happy to go for it. If not, I will still explore returning to AT&T or Samsung direct, but if this is going to be too much hassle and I need to involve anyone else in the US, I will opt for the refund, but I'm guessing it's in the sellers interest to have a phone sold than not so fingers crossed :)

I need to decide quick enough as my current phone is a pain in the ass :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Questions & Answers] miniminus:
Totally agree... I too have sent msg to eBay person I got mine from. Maybe same person ?

I'm just wanting a route to get it done via Samsung. I dont mind paying the extra (postage and duty etc) to get this phone in its expected state, do will last the long haul/time of like you several years ....

I just don't wanna be left with either no phone due to lost postage, or unusable due to defect in 6 months time and out of warranty !....

Will see how it pans out ....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Questions & Answers] cormie:
I sent you a PM with the seller info :)

I've been on to AT&T since. The conversation went as follows:
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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Beeble:
Well, i'm in the process of upgrading my Hermes to a Kaiser on T-Mobile UK. My bill for the past year is £45-£50 a month, and it looks like it'll be about the same for the next year too. so my upgrade costs are.....

On the 30/11/07: £80

5/12/07: £100

20/12-07: £230

Tomorrow? god knows!

oh - on a brand new contract - it was £150 (early dec) now £190.

Have i missed something or is that just crazy????

think i'll wait til the middle of Jan... it'll either be 500+ or free!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dolbe:
you can get an o2 steller for £89 on a £35/month contract. thats why my girlfriend is leaving t-mobile and going to o2. t-mobile just dont treat their customers very well esspecially their returning customers
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] weasel:
It would be worth ringing T-Mobile and asking to end the contract; I'm sure they'll be more flexible in the upgrade cost once they realise they are about to lose a customer
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] someguy1015:
Thats how i got mine, i threatned to leave, as i actually was going to move to orange. But they ended giving me a really good price plan and the kaiser for £80 (unfortunately i couldnt get it for free :( ) The networks are very tight wen it comes to giving away things
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] obsydian:
I just went from a T Mobile Wizard to Kaiser, playing the give me my PAC Code routine does not seem to work, however, what does work is to just keep ringing, i rang 4 times and got 3 different deals ???

In the end i got the Kaiser for £80 and they let me downgrade to W&W 20 or whatever £27.50.

I looked hard at Orange and O2, but the W&W Tariff is far better VFM.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
just to let you no how it works with T-mobile. each account has a CLC customer lifetime contribution T0-S4 and is worked out on many different things, price plan, what type of cals you make/recive, what's outside your allowance, how much allowance how often u call customer service. basicly how much u cost to keep compared to how much u make them, but not loyalty as a lot of people still think I can't tell you what things have what amout of nfluance as I don't know and nobody apart from the big wigs can tell you either. any way T customers are high value but not many people are T customers, T0 T1 and T2 range from 230-320 on a 12 month and 280-380 on 18 but like I said this is rare and also an advisor can overspend 20 for any T customer without asking anyony. most common are mid value account S0-S4 S0=200 S1=180 S2=100 S3=50 and S4=RRP no matter contract lenth but S0 and S1 can also auto overspend by 30 but only on a 18 month plan baisicly if your S4 you don't get anything. anythibg else and your best option is either a web match so get the same as a new cust ore some times better to just pay some toward the handset, but will only be FOC ir you are a very high user. and threatening to leave and askeing for a PAC and a manager etc will not do anything a a advisor in upgrade team has all the same systems and accses as a manager and the same athority when people put you on hold to check with a manager there probably getting a drink. and kickibg of and demanding a manager will just be told a 2hr cal back which will not happen mainly because its a waste of time for everyone involved as a manager realy won't be able to do anything extra. hope this has cleared a few things up, and I apoligise in advance for punctation spelling etc its late now and im on my kaiser and can't be arsed to check it
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
forgot to mention vario 3 as a upgrade is 280 or 370 with co piolt
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dolbe:
well O2 will still be getting my £89 tomorrow and £42.50 a month for the contract plus web bolt-on. thats £845 over 18 months t-mobile will not be getting
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Beeble:
I already tried threatening to leave T-mob, but that doesn't (as said above) seem to acheive anything. They told me i have a £200 "upgrade discount" but thats 200 off any magical figure they pick out the air!

The t&c of o2 web bolt on doesn't reassure me, as despite what they told me in store, it only mentions web access ie web pages and doesn't mention other online services (messenger, voip, ftp, ssh, etc etc).

Oh, and O2 will charge me for the handset based on my voice package cost, then i have to add the web on for an extra cost, but no handset discount!

They way T-mob is swinging the prices about i think they may have a rush on for handsets so the prices are going up, hopefully in the new year they'll have too many and the price will drop....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
sory to dissapoint but its not going to get any cheaper in new year its stil going to be 280 handsets like that don't go down in price im afraid the vario2 and compact3 etc are still the same now as when they come out originaly. the prices vary because of who you speak to there not meant to offer full spend straight away and some won't at all and some wil overspend but most won't as the mony they spend affects their stats an also their bonas
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dolbe:
well my girlfiend called up t-mobile today to cancel her contract and the oddest thing happened, they undercut o2's handset price. end result, same web-n-walk flext 25 with added £20 a month for free. so £89 worth of calls texts, and mms. grand total £32/month and the handset was £69.99

this was the first call to t-mobile, no repeated calls, she just told them she was treated rude by the instore rep and said o2 had offered her the stellar for £89 with a better data package (£7.50 a month for full HSDPA) not t-mobiles cut down 3G web-n-walk service for £7.50.

Thats all it took and he sorted out the vario III to be picked up instore because the warehouse didnt have any

RESULT!!:cool:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Steve-C:
O2 seem to IMHO. Haven't paid for a phone from them in 4 yrs. Started with a Nokia 6230, then the 6230i, then to the XDA Exec (HTC Uni) and now the Kaiser (Stellar). My monthly spend is £30-£40 and all but the latest were 12 month contracts. Now on 18 month due to better offers. Interestingly, they seem to have upgraded my handset warrenty to 18 months too. I wonder if any of the other networks do this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Beeble:
Note quite, the online "my t-mobile" has the same upgrade price (getting more expensive since the start of dec), so its not the person i speak to, its the computer system. Either T-mobile are downgrading my "upgrade status" or the basic cost is going up. Also, the new customer cost has gone up in the past 2 weeks. Next time i speak to them i'll try and get a better deal, but i'm not confident they have that much power to override the computer. :-(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dolbe:
well I was first quoted £230 upgrade on my girlfriends contract from the Vario to the Vario III. when we called today to cancel they did have a better price, even though we had been told by an instore rep the compuer had the last say in your upgrade price and threatening to leave t-mobile would have no effect. he saud it was useless calling t-mobile as they would give the same price as he quoted.

He obviously was talking total crap because they where very quick to give a good deal. £69.99 for a vario III on w-n-w flext 25 is a damn good price as they also threw in the same extra £20 as the original contract and we got w-n-w plus for the price of w-n-w standard.

Prices are not set in stone so dont settle for those inflated prices quoted. Its all about who you tallk to as to what price you get. basically any rep that tries to charge £230 wants to give themselvs a decent commision and not give the customer a decent price

I was fully ready to get an o2 stellar after the way my girlfriend and I was treated in store. He was rude and refused to call customer services to check for a lower price. He told us we may as well go somewhere else if we wanted to pay less.

The way we where treated was brought up in the phone conversation with t-mobile and it may have had some bearing on the price, or it coud of just been the sales rep that wanted to give us a good deal, either way its was not a set price as he quoted two prices before we went for the final offer
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cotc2001:
I got my Stellar from 02 for £40.

I was going to move to t-mobile until i phoned up 02 and asked to cancel.

They guy on the cancellation desk was very helpfull and gave me a good deal so i decided to stay with 02

the only downside is that there is no 3g in my area with 02 but there was for t-mobile but getting the stellar for £40 instead of £117 I can live without the 3g
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
the cost for a new T-mobile vario did go up but i dont no why but the upgrade price has always been 280 and will be for a long time. your upgrade limit can change whenever it feels like it but can be overid by any 1 the advisor can overide any think on the system its just what wil happen if they do, thats why no one will and managers cant do anythin different, there are extra things that can be done but there is still a limit and never to far from the original.and one other thing NEVER listen to what my T-mobile offers it is always the absoultr minimum i work in the loyalty team at T-mobile as you can probebly gues from how much i no if any one wants to PM me with there number i will do u a favor and call u up with the absoult best we can do. im leaveing soon so dont realy care what my stats and spend are so ill let ya no the best we can offer
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
one other thing never listen to the people in the shops either there systems are compleatly different from theirs the ring us to set their offers on the system for them. allways call the network direct never upgrade online or instore unless its been set up first over the phone for you
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dolbe:
I sure wish you would of said this yesterday before we went for the £69.99 offer. :) although it was a damn good price for the fact she is still on webnwalk flex 25 with a £20 extra credit a month and webnwalk plus for the price of webnwalk standard.

Would you have been able to get a better price?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
to be fair 69.99 on flext 25 is a good offer anyway i dont think i could have done much more than that. you definitely got a good deal
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fatmcgav:
I'm glad i got mine when i did then.

Cost me £100 for the fone, but i kept my Staff discount even though i'm not staff anymore, so i've got 50% off everything...

Flext 35 and W&W Plus for £25... i'm well pleased...

Rather pay slightly more for the fone and save over £300 line rental over the life of the contract... :)

G
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yakleback55:
yep im the same i get half price and i always pay a bit for the handset im on relax 35 (500min and 700 sms 12 month contract) with old W+W so i get a 2gb fair use policy and have HSDPA activated all for £21.25 a month. as i mentiond previously i will be leaveing in january and we get 5 half price line rental codes a year so if anyone is interested in half price line rental forever then let me no and i will see what i can do in january, as i have used all mine for this year. the only conditions are that you got your handset directly from T-mobile (if you got it from a reseller/dealer it can be added after the first 12 months of that contract) and that you pay by direct debit. so if you fit the criteria and you are interested let me no
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] galaxy0906:
2 weeks ago I went into a Tmob store and told the guy that I wanted the MDA vario III on the flext 35, he offered the phone for £85.00, I said I can get it for free (lying) the response was OK you can have it for free !!! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Beeble:
check your PM's!

:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] StellaDel:
T-Mobile W@~%#R's

I've got to say so far I have been very happy with my MDA Vario III and T-Mobile, that was until today...

Phone call goes something like this...

Me: Hello I am travelling to Russia and require Call Roaming activated.

T-Mobile: Yes we can do that, you have the flex whatever plan and Web n Walk plus - that's good. We can give you Call Roaming if you give us a deposit of £250 ($500), payable back in six months.

Me: Your f&#king joking aren't you, will I be able to receive texts while I am there.

T-Mobile: Er, No, nothing

Me: So I have a phone that I cannot use while I'm on holiday

T-Mobile: Er, Yes

When I get back from Moscow I'm gonna get the bloody thing unlocked, unfortunately my old Universal has just died on me and I'm regretting not getting it fixed. Suppose it's my own fault for leaving it so late. :mad: and I've given the QTEK to the daughter :confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] billu:
Just upgraded to a MDA Vario III from T-mobile uk. Phone was free on flext 25 (£25 a month) with a 12 month contract.
[General Questions and Answers] RapstronautMod:
Excuse me, I want to know, how to port android nougat:confused: I wanted to try its own port, the device I Lenovo A6000 plus and Smartfren Andromax Ec of Indonesia with the same specifications.

Thanks ~:o
[Huawei P9 Plus Questions & Answers] ndiri:
i would like to ask if there is any other way of updating phone either than dload method and twrp? i am on emui 5.0 the first version, i want to flash 135 update, but since there is not yet twrp for android 7.0, and dload method is failing, i am stuck.

please i would appreciate some help
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Menergy:
First I need to add that I find the so much advertised two DACs of the Axon very highly exaggerated in terms of power. They are just too weak, even compared to my previous Note 3, both on headphones and speakers.

Second, they seem to not be able to be effectively used on almost any app since 98% of apps do not utilise them by default and one cannot change it.

If you tweak Dolby Atmos a bit you can get it to amplify the general audio output, both on speakers and headphones, and this is why I use it predominantly. I am on the B09 update on A2017G and it is still very buggy. No matter what setting I choose, i.e. Music, Voice, Game, Custom, when I leave the Dolby Atmos screen it drops sound for a second and always resets to Movie, no matter what. Also the sound regularly interrupts, especially when unlocking screen or doing things in the background, or just on its own.

What annoys me most however from when I bought the phone is that at very low or low volume (only on speakers), when there is speach or the music starts, there is some kind of hissing, ss/sh-ing sound corresponding to the words said or the tiny beats of the music played. It's like a background noise added on purpose simultaneously with special, mostly high frequencies, i.e. words, tiny/starting percussions or similar, no matter the Dolby Atmos setting. This noise stays apparently at all times, it just is not heard when more, mostly low and middle frequencies get in. This "noise" is not available when no Dolby Atmos is used, however the volume then drops by a few levels down. Good or bad, Atmos also adds some spatial effect to the sound, which is why I like it for...

Does anyone of you, an A2017G or A2017U user, observe similar behaviour on your device? Is Dolby Atmos working better for you, i.e. unconditionally steady settings, no low volume added speakers noise, no sound interruptions?

I also noticed browsers do not get use of the DACs/Dolby Atmos, i.e. YouTube, online videos, many video players. My favourite before Aimp was unable to do so also so I had to transfer to Jet Audio and PlayerPro, both of which can work with the Dolby.

Why did ZTE add (two) DACs when they couldn't be used by 95% of the apps and games by default and even manually, also there seems to be no gain in output at all? Was this the case with the Lenovo Phab2 Pro's Dolby Atmos? For the "regulated hiss" (not present on headphones at all) I cannot currently watch any movies on the phone with Dolby Atmos enabled, unless at very high speakers volume. It hisses so badly every time a word is pronounced or some subtle 'invisible' sound plays. The same is with playing music...
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] trasheris:
I dont use Dolby when I listen to music - it makes everything so much worse and much quieter. Listening to flacs on stock music player with Super HiFi on. No hisses on low or high sound levels. Silence is silent. as for speakers - no hiss also.

ZTE did not add 2 DACs for music, 1 is for music other one is for audio recording which is records at 128kbps. and quality.. I dunno it's quite clear, I had recorded a room full of people, with two girls singing and some people chatting in backgroud and I can hear everything. but sound itself if on the lower end, girls vocals are lower than they are, everything seems shifted to lower sound spectrum.

Tooks some time and checked spectrum of that sound file 50-2000Hz. everything over 2kHz is just a noise.

and a little edit: it records nothing less than 50Hz - total silence there.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Menergy:
The stock player is OK but it's lacking on features, also not sure if it can play video.

I have noticed the low volume speakers "noise" with Dolby on when watching movies using almost any player - VLC, BS, MX and more. If I go above 30-40% volume it seems to disappear, but more like you don't hear it and it stays. I say "noise" but it is like a hissing/ss-ing sound added to sole frequences only, i.e. speech only or single instruments. When more frequencies get in, you don't hear it. Weird these don't exist at all with the Snapdragon amplifier, i.e. when Dolby is off.

https://community.zteusa.com/thread/12853, here is a similar thread in the ZTE USA community. I believe it has something to do with the Axon's own amp or its software and happens at low volume only. There was a thread in Reddit exactly about what I am reporting but I can't find it now.

If you go to your phone's Music\Settings\Dolby Atmos app, then move all sliders up you will notice that it significantly increases the overall volume when Dolby is on. So it's not low, if you change it, it boosts up the volume by at least 30%. On another note, the Axon's mic recording quality is quite poor/muffled, even compared to the old Note 3, hopefully they will improve it at least a bit by some future update.

I bought the A7 exclusively for its audio capabilities so am disappointed that I have to report insufficiencies in this exact area.

Does your Dolby Atmos set itself to Movie only if you exit the Music app? Are there any drops in sound when it's on and you do something in the background?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] obladi64:
There are two DACs. "AKM AK4961 DSP CODEC, which can be considered the primary chipset for Hi-Fi audio playback and recording. The AKM AK4490EN DAC is an independent Hi-Fi audio sampler". So AK4961 works in standard mode and AK4490EN in Super mode. ADC is only in AK4961.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Oki:
You can consider rooting your device and install ViperFX or the whole A.R.I.S.E. sound system. That will solve all the problems with sound output. However the sound recording filtering is surprising, leaving only the vocal spectrum is not normal. There should be a setting somewhere.
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] raffa28:
I suggest this ROM to everyone, is very smooth and fast, good battery life. The best I tried! Thank u madsurfer!

I found only two bugs:

1) I can't connect to my car's bluetooth, or better, device disconnects few seconds after the successful connection; (same problem in other ROMs);

2) I can't transfer files from the device to USB otg flash drive! I can only read/view files!

Thank u all for the attention.
[LeEco Le Max 2 Questions & Answers] Razor99:
Hello here!

I have the same ROM - yes, is great! But I can connect to my car's BT without any problems. Connection is stable all the time. Calls and media play are OK too.

I assume the problem is in your car wifi module or you didn't make a clean install of ROM.