[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Costed you $110 to send your phone to FutureTel via Bell?

I thought you've said $80 or something? Where did the $110 number came from ?

How many dead Galaxy S's do you have ?

Also, just to clarify, there should NOT be a fee if sent via Bell, isn't it? Since the Phone is well within the warranty? or did Bell charged only because you are not their mobile customer? If so, maybe you should have bought yourself a $5 SIM card for PrePaid? (than again prepaid customers are like it sounds you pay, you use, that is it. So you will not get same customer service as a full regular customers but you never know).

As for FutureTel, don't stay up as you will not get a reply until business hours. Also, since you are dealing directly with FutureTel (Markham location) you will very likely be charged with various fees from things like diagnostic & maybe the actual service fee... etc. (I don't know but I am assuming).

If you are going to send your phone to them, make sure to ask & confirm about how the transaction process work. Because for all I know, you'll be sending your phone in and that could be the end of it.

Finally the update some of you have been waiting for...

I couldn't wait so I decided to take a drive to MTech as jark99 mentioned. Boy oh boy,,, it is a TINY tiny local shop. When I walked in, place was full of xbox 360 & PS3 parts all over the place, few flat screen TVs, phone parts with motherboards of XBOX360 and PS3 gutted out with and it's processor chips all ripped out. Either this technician who at the time had his wife & a baby with him is very good tech or crazy. I am sure you won't be able to run a business being crazy... anyways. He had to go pick up his pizza (I guess they gonna have a late lunch) so I had to wait few minutes.

Sorry for useless yak~ing.

So I showed him my phone being booting upto the initial logo and shutting off, than he goes on to say... ah another Samsung Galaxy. He also mentioned that this thing got way too much problem and he basically said from my understanding is that ... 'This phone is crap!'

I asked him if this can be fixed and such and he right away said that it requires a JTAG or something to test & fix this. (Someone please explain to me what JTAG is but importantly HOW it works to fix it?, general idea of this machine).

So I asked if he had a lot of customers come with this phone and he said he had several come in and that they all required jtag to service it. He never answered me as to whether all those phones were fixed. (either he can't remember? or don't give a damn? or whatever).

But he did tell me that if it can not be fixed, there is no service charge. Service/repair cost he told me was $85.00 and it will take about 2~3 days as he does not do it in-store. I cant remember but I think he said he send it to somewhere to do it or have it done or something. I am sure others can confirm it.

Also he said, he'll be giving you 30 days warranty for the repair since it is a used phone. (Who cares if it is a used or not? he didn't sell the phone?)

We'll see how it goes.

Good Luck To Me.

By the way, who really fix! things these days than to just replace it? other than maybe authorized techs & manufacture service centres? He said PS3 got some bad graphics chip problem and that he had like 1000s come in for repair. (that many? really? hmmm.... I am not too sure, I guess he just ment **** load came in for servicing). Last time I seen someone fix things to electrical level was like... back in 486 computing days.