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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djpeesh:
Also government, police, corruption ......
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
????

Too much of that.

Sent from my SM-G935F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] centaur31:
Hi,

I guess we are neighbours as I'm in India. Did you notice that in the first phone's pictures the IMEI is the same for both slots! You said it works fine but since both sims are on together, the network should only let ond work at a time because the device identification and imei are unique to each phone and even dual SIM phones have different IMEI. The network should be blocking one of them as it is a clone.

We have earphones in India too clone of all the expensive models but they are first cheap and do not have clone imei as they wouldn't get network in that case.

This cannot be paired with Refurbished phones. The refurbished ones are genuine phone's and come with all accessories and box or they specify that the box is not included. These phone's are the ones which come in from customers who may have had some issues and even at times when customer ordered a particular colour but got a different colored device. In the latter case they are called open box. They also iclude handsets used at exhibitions or demos.

In so these cases though if they are genuine they come with a warranty from the company and bills at. What is happening here is that once customers have learned these are good phones, there are people in the market who take advantage of this and sell assembled models or even models where the original parts have been replaced by locally available ones which brings down quality.

In our country and yours the one thing we lack is integrity and ethics and at least here people are willing to do anything for money and if you ask them why they are not inclined to work honestly they will tell you "my business will shut down as everyone else is doing it and I can't profit if I follow all the rules.

Think about just like you know of the people selling smuggled phones and other stuff in Pakistan we have the same thing here in places like Delhi, Karol bagh, the famous gaffar market. They exist because we don't want to pay taxes and people don't see it that way. They see it as being sensible to but some thing available in the brand store for Say 25000 forrs 15 or 17000. But no one in the govt wants it to stop.

How do suchmarkets get supplies? It is wholly commercial as containers come in. It's not that uncle selling foreign samaan he got from abroad. If we don't buy they don't have a market and can't sell.... that's what I think.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Actually here networks work fine if both SIM slots have the same IMEI, however it is illegal.

For example, it is very hard to import Xiaomi phones from China since the Chinese models have the same IMEI on both SIM slots and although it works, it's illegal here so you have to buy the international model which has a different IMEI on each slot.

Completely and 100% accurate. It's nice that things are similar on both sides of the border but unfortunately even the bad things happen on both sides. It's very hard to find someone here who will be selling legit stuff because almost every shop or stall will have fake, tampered with or smuggled imports.

Cheers,

Your friendly neighbour
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] thehunter466:
I had perfectly working Galaxy S4 with a custom rom (dirty unicorns) but i broke it and decided it is time for a new phone.I spent all my saved money for a refurbished S7,thinking it is a brand new.I live in Bulgaria.When i met with the seller he said he bought the phone from Germany.And because the phone looked and worked absolutely like a new one i didn't notice anything suspicious and bought it.It is a sm-g930f,that has been refurbished and instead of exynos it is with a snapdragon 820 and it is a sm g930v now .when i checked the IMEI it shows samsung galaxy S7 edge. :( The software was from the united arab emirates and had no software update button.i flashed a verizon rom version 7.0.It is full with bloatware and i can't use mobile internet in my country,so i brought my device in a service and i hope they find a proper rom that i can use in my country.

i have the original back panel,though with serial number and everything.I can't understand what is the story behind these phones,why were they refurbished,were they stolen as you say?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Yeah, most probably stolen. And sold outside US since they should work fine there because they're not on their origin network (Verizon, in your case).

If you want to get rid of the bloat, you can flash the 930U ROM, that'll fix mobile data and remove all the carrier crap.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] thehunter466:
thank you for the suggestion man.i installed the 930u rom and now everything works and i have no bloatware.Even the guy in the phone service said he is not sure if he will find a proper rom :D So do you recommend me to keep the phone and use it or i should sell it and buy a brand new one from the store?The only downside i see for now is that the phone is not waterproof anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
That's entirely up to you.

There's no point in spending money on a brand new S7 now so I'd say keep using this till it dies.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] UmarBurney:
A Pindi Boy never disrespects its own town. :laugh::laugh::laugh: Pindiiiiii all the wayyyy! :p
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
i was about to buy a used s7 g930 here in lahore , and all of you fellas knows that lahore electronic market is full of fraudiaye specially in hafeez center and now i am bit worried after reading this whole discussion .. how am i supposed to get a genuine unit :3
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
You looking to get the 930F or just any S7?

Sent from my SM-N950F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] *Detection*:
Boot the phone into Download Mode before you buy it, make sure it says the correct Model there, everything else can be faked such as firmware / stickers, even the model number on the back of the phones have been known to be faked, download mode cannot be faked

Volume Down & Home & Power to enter download mode
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
G930F obv i want root and tweaks

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i agree but the thing is, we cannot find out either the components are changed or not in refurbish devices, i have heard a lot of things like lcd, camera and other board components are also changed in refurb devices ( specially samsung ) and those are basically cheap low quality parts which are used in these phones and hence they are almost undetectable apart from model/variant..

previously ( a month ago ) i had a bad experience with used s6, idk what was wrong but i just barely used that device for 2 days and sold it in loss.. it just started to slow black spots in camera so this kinds issues may happens in refurb devices i guess or may be i was out of luck
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Try getting one with the official warranty, used obviously, but ones that have the official PTA sticker on the box.

Benefit? The phones are imported officially through Samsung and if the phone ever had a repair in its life, it would've been done by the Samsung Service Center with OEM parts.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
s7 is 1 and half year old device so its no more available here in Pakistan with official warranty , that is the real thing to find an orignal used device :/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Yes it actually is.

And read my post again, I never said buy a new one.

It can be used but as long as it's the officially sold model, it'll have no issues.

Sent from my SM-N950F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
btw [MENTION=5063250]murtaza02[/MENTION] this is exactly what you got mate. it was a Chinese variant i guess with g9308 model ( although these are heavily modified to change kernel , imei etc ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3QDZJiTl94

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i got it :) edited my comment. this is what i am trying to say that it is difficult to find a original when there are almost every single device is refurbish
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Thanks for sharing the YouTube link, those scumbag sellers online are the ones supplying this sort of crap here.

I know they're hard to find, it took me around a month to find a used S7 with warranty, but it's not impossible.

Try searching online as well.

Also, why not get a OnePlus 3 or 3T instead? They're easily available in Lahore and they have tons of custom ROMs available.

Sent from my SM-N950F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
np, only olx is more reliable you know but now a days olx is also full of refurb and faulty crap i had a bad experience with olx , i bought that s6 from olx too which i have mentioned in my previous post.. oneplus 3 is pretty good deal but its about 30-35k here without any accessories or warrenty and those are also refurb too most probably here
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
There's a shop in Lahore selling them from 31,500 and upwards depending on whether you choose 3/3T and in what storage option.

OnePlus phones, even if in their own international warranty, can not be serviced here, but they're not refurbs.

A shop I usually go to now in Rawalpindi had some 3Ts a few weeks ago, and I checked them out, they didn't look refurbished and were in pretty good condition as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] *Detection*:
Don't buy refurbished?

If you're not buying new you have to take a chance somewhere along the line
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zainchuu:
oh, i will have a look then but still you know there are many aspects in with s7 is considered as better option
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Honestly, other than the camera, I'd have no reason to pick a 3T over the S7.

USB-C over microUSB

Great dev support

Much better fingerprint scanner

Will probably last longer with custom ROMs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ffactory:
My s7 is probably fake as well and I spotted it because I saw the G930V in download mode while the rest said g930f. The thing is that now that I have the g930u nougat firmware installed, it says g930u in download mode. So it can be changed, can't even trust that one anymore
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] mohamed161:
i bought a S7 edge (used) , on the box says SM-G9350 , i downloaded the antutu benchmark and tested the snapdragon 820 and it scored good (>140000) so i tought that every thing is good , when i went home i wanted to upgrade the OS and the first thing i noticed is that there is no upgrade option and the modul number says : SM-G935F with a snapdragon ! , so i thought that it was flashed with the wrong rom or something, but the real problem is on the back of the phone written : SM-G935F and the same IMEI number ... now i flashed it with 935U frimware and working OK , i think the back glass and the imei number aren't the original

i remembered something , the original CSC was UAE too for some reason

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mine too
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
My Micromax Canvas Spark q380 was stuck on logo screen after something bad happened during charging. So I did a factory reset from recovery screen but now it keeps showing some installation mode with that android guy. After 10 mins or so phone switches off automatically and on restarting that installation screen keeps coming up. I tried vol +/- but unable to go into even recovery.

Battery is nonremovable. Phone is not rooted.

I am not geek so plz explain in detailed.
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
no one?!
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Do a Google search for:

"Unbrick (your model number)"
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
I found a couple links showing to flash stock rom on Micromax Canvas Spark but they looked fake so I went to service center and the guy there flashed the rom (not sure what he did) and reported that it did not worked and will have to change the hardware :(

Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Who knows, you didn't state the condition of the device after the service center flashed it.

Does the device have any signs of life, does it do anything, does it respond any kind of way, does it connect to PC, does it charge when connected, does the LED come on when connected? Anything at all?
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
Oh sorry to forgot mention about it.

The mobile is still in same condition (see pic in 1st post) wherein that green android guy keeps moving its antenna relentlessly.

So after I came home from service centre I tried to flash is myself (I choose Download only mode in sp flash tool). After flash the mobile tried to start up and showed that mobile is encrypting but it got switched off soon after. So I charged it for some time and switched on. Than it showed that since the encrypting process was interrupted, the mobile needs to reset so I clicked on reset.

Next I got same screen (with that android guy running) but with "Erasing" written at bottom. And after some time stock recovery screen appeared. Then I selected Reboot from there and on start up the mobile again went into that screen with android guy. :(

Now I think I will flash again in "firmware upgrade" (will it make any difference?) mode. But waiting for battery to drain out. Another problem is my battery is non-removable. So maybe it switches on while flashing?

Any thoughts?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yikes, it's never good when a device powers down during flashing or during first boot after flashing.

Seems to me that you might have hardware issues now since the service center couldn't revive it. You might need to replace the motherboard. Trying to recover it with software tools is probably just gonna be a wild goose chase and will probably end with things being worse which will lead to replacing the motherboard anyway so just save yourself the headache and go straight for replacing it.
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
I think the service center guy was lazy. He did not even bother to remove my battery or let it die (since its unremovable). He flashed with mobile on.

I again tried flashing with sp flash with "download only" option and it showed download successful at the end of flash. Before starting the mobile, I charged the battery fully and then the mobile started with "Encyrpting mobile...." and it got stuck at 229% (how can something be more than 100%? .. anyways) for some time and then it company logo screen appeared. I let be like that for few hrs but then nothing happened.

Do you think I should flash again? Does appearance of company logo screen indicate any hope?

I am sorry if it's too much of trouble... but replacing hardware will cost too much to me and am trying my best if I could make my mobile work.. :(
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If it powers on and tries to boot and can get to flash mode then yeah, you can probably fix it. But without knowing what got corrupted, it won't be easy. It's gonna take trial and error between adb/fastboot, flash mode and flash tool, etc.. you can try flashing or pushing the individual .imgs form your stock firmware one at a time until whatever is corrupted gets replaced.
[General Questions and Answers] Biker Biker:
Thanks [MENTION=5691352]Droidriven[/MENTION] for your leads.. I will check out what is adb, fastboot and .imgs
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] srharshajava:
Here is the thread of the same : http://www.oneplusbbs.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3166188&extra=page=1&filter=typeid&typeid=123

Can anyone upload it to AFH or GDrive or Mega ?? I live in India and here the download speeds from the baidu are not at all starting and below 2-3 kb / sec. Any help is Appreciated !! Thanks in Advance .... :)

Hope Someone Uploads !!
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Kookitza:
Give us the link and we try to dl
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunarora:
Can you give me download link..?? I will try.
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] tatail:
this is the baidu link..

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1c9s6We#list/path=/一加手机/oneplus3T/MIUI8&parentPath=/一加手机
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] qq523860169:
mega。nz/#!H5xEEARQ!jIFx7bad4wBN3s1xXmEd6-8EQGQETMD9_EWsjYWMWSM
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Kookitza:
Whats the flash instructions?

Do we need gapps? supersu?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] gr8techie:
thanks but mega links do not work in India as it is blocked due to some reason! could you or anyone else upload to AFH or Drive?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] craigzhong:
gapps works fine.. wipe after flashed the gapps.zip(arm64+6.0 ver)

then flash SUPERSU...
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunarora:
It does.. I just downloaded it.. Use a VPN and try
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] cheeziz:
Does it works perfectly without SuperSU?

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xie xie ni
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Kookitza:
From where i download the gapps.zip? Opengapps?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunarora:
It has its own root thing.. Should be ok
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] cheeziz:
Need help, I couldn't flash it. It says unable to mount userdata.

What i've done is I changed the file system for Data to ext4 since is F2FS. Still not working, any idea?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] craigzhong:
dont know..

but... i personally think miui needs supersu...

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yup!

choose the right ver.

i personally flashed the arm64+6.0+pico.. works fine so far
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunarora:
Use latest twrp and Mount system before flashing..
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] cheeziz:
Done, doing that but I think is the link that provided by post #5.

The file probably corrupted.

Can anyone upload the file proper file in mirror?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] wappla1911:
Is it the global or chinese version of miui?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] arjunarora:
So which one did u flash..?? Me confused..!
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] pyroemaniac:
It is working perfectly from the Mega link. Much more smooth than the both of the previous builds. You do need to flash supersu if you want root because the built in permissions manager root does not work. I just hope that the ota's work :D
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] FroZine:
Everything is working in the rom ?

Stock miui music player available ?

Want to try this soon. Coming from 7.1.1 AOSP. Gonna flash Stock 6.0 Rom first and then this miui right ?

(i always got error 7 in twrp if I want to go cm13 for example ^^ don´t know why .... )

Thank you
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Dashing_97:
Does it have forced encryption?? If yes, then which custom kernel can we use to remove it?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Kookitza:
+1 Someone that installed this allready, please answer...

What languages are included? :confused:
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] srharshajava:
Volte Working in India??

Is Volte working in India on jio ??
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] ayyan84:
U have to use 3.5.4 firmware to get rid off this annoying error 7
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] effrem123:
Tips to Flash it with not problems

1 You need to have your stock rom preferably to use this tool kit executing MsmDownloadTool V3.0.exe

2 them download the mega file above mega。nz/#!H5xEEARQ!jIFx7bad4wBN3s1xXmEd6-8EQGQETMD9_EWsjYWMWSM

3 unlock the boot loader and flash twrp using this tool kit OnePlus3&3T-ToolKit-v4.5U -RUN

4 flash the mega file also the supersu 79

5 after miui8 boot clompletely on your phone about 3-5 minutes go to mi miui app store and type google and the google installer pop up download

and installe it on your phone in order to get you google play store.

I hope this help
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] ZombieTheBest:
Is this GLOBAL Version? Nobody can Answer this simple question?!
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] ast00:
Doesn't work for me. Running F2FS on /data (could be the problem?). Full wipe, mounted everything, flashed, then it showed the Oneplus logo and then black screen with white notification LED.

Then I tried unmounting everything before flashing, but it's still the same.

Got a log here. I also backed up my daily ROM, so I cut the first 90% of the log to where the flash starts.

Can someone figure this out?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] ZombieTheBest:
Just flashed. Same output as yours (including the /data mount error).

My data partition is ext4, and it's working, so I guess the problem may be the F2FS Filesystem.

Btw this is NOT the Global Version.

For me right now it's not worth to install this until we get the Global one. Besides that Brightness is not working and the Camera quality is not good. I don't recommend this rom
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] young_fresh:
+1
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] srharshajava:
Volte working or not ?? Please someone answer this man !!
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] Dashing_97:
Yes it works
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] prateek_gemini:
Did any one get the theme store to work in english ?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] pakino:
This version have the italian language?
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] elia222:
No, it's not global rom
[OnePlus 3T Guides, News, & Discussion] pakino:
I have download global rom....but i not found the italian language....
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] msimon4:
I recently received a refurbished Pixel XL from Google (warranty). The night light mode seems very orange and dark compared to my old one. Is this how it is supposed to be?
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] CZ Eddie:
No.

The only time I've seen my night light orange was on a custom ROM that I guess had it miscalibrated or using the wrong driver.

Have you tried wiping and updating to the latest firmware yet?
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] msimon4:
I factory reset and it's up to date. Looks like it's going back.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Silentoath21:
Just received a replacement device with the same issue.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] DespairFactor:
I smell another RMA
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] bobby janow:
Can you post a better picture side by side with a device without the tint? This is not a known issue so I'm curious to see it.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] TonikJDK:
What is your brightness set at. I can make mine look like that if I turn the brightness down to 25 percent or so. Once my brightness is up to 60 percent or so it looks exactly like the images of it I can find on the web.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] ithehappy:
It looks different because the camera is not able to pick up the proper exposure, I think its the same as ours. The mode is pretty yellowish/orangish indeed.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] TonikJDK:
I agree, i don't think it is broke.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Silentoath21:
Here it is next to a pixel. Both have nightlight on. Changing brightness didn't make it any less orange/amber.