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How to Unbrick SGS2 - even hard brick!!

I've just came across this service called JTAG which unbricks any SGS2 even those that are hard bricked which cannot enter download mode via USB jig or even turn on. The catch is that its a $60 service.
Here is the youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7le4GmxZs
Its from mobile tech review and they seem trust worthy ( i think) as they do have a lot of other related SGS2 videos on ''how to's'' and reviews.
This is not an advertisement about them, i just purely came across this youtube video as i am a subscriber to them. Just spreading the love guys.

Thanks for the referral, we have since reduced the service to just $50. You can catch us here on XDA helping out in various threads or on our site.

connexion2005 said:
Thanks for the referral, we have since reduced the service to just $50. You can catch us here on XDA helping out in various threads or on our site.
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very good service!

Unbrick Service
How do I get this service?

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How do I get this service?
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Hard brick your SGS2 !! LOL
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... and then contact http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-jtag-brick-repair/

Wasn't any Sammy device supposed to be unbrickable once a certain surgery is performed?....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1206216
Odia has posted some clues why SGS2 is virtually soft brick proof once you flash a working ROM

i had my bricked galaxy s2 repaired by them mobiletechvideos , in texas. quick service, just customs problems add to pay extra £25

wish you had a local rep in Israel :-(
connexion2005 said:
Thanks for the referral, we have since reduced the service to just $50. You can catch us here on XDA helping out in various threads or on our site.
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My SGS2 bricked itself. I suspect it may be a hardware defect though, and sending my precious across the ocean seems like an overkill if I am not even sure what's wrong yet... anything I can test before sending?

Its not really a new thing but really good thread for beginners!
Thanks and have a good day!
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He doesnt show what he does on the computer I would love to learn what kind of program he has and how i can use it...

60$ is a pretty steep price, especially once you add shipping and taxes.

hanks very good
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thanks very good

great info, thanks

tokayto said:
He doesnt show what he does on the computer I would love to learn what kind of program he has and how i can use it...
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Tokayto, I've hard bricked my sgs2 b/c repartition was auto selected and didn't double check but I believe that one of the programs used with JTAG is called RiffBox. Im sure there's others that Im unaware of but personally I know nothing about it... yet. My other problem is that I have ABSOLUTELY no clue about soldering I think I'll have to try sending my 2 week old sgs2 back to samsung to see if they'll fix it. If not then the mobiletechvideo guys are gonna get mine

jtag sgs2 unbrick in Australia
Does anyone know of anyone in Australia who performs this service?
If not anyone intrested in helping me set one up?

I've not seen details of one posted in the 8 mths I've been here. Your best bet would be to use the US-based one on the first page of this thread. Price is fairly reasonable, around $120 AUD once you take posting the phone to them initially into account. I'm sure Samsung/an authorised repairer would charge you more than that.
Alternatively, contact local mobile phone repairers, you might come across one with the gear to JTAG a Samsung phone.
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Does anyone know of anyone in Australia who performs this service?
If not anyone intrested in helping me set one up?
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I've been thinking about purchasing a jtag riffbox and offering my services to help repair any hard bricked phones for a fee obviously not going to advertise anything until I've purchased the hardware to do so. But what do you guys think ? especially if I was to do special offers for members of the XDA forum.

gal_axi said:
Does anyone know of anyone in Australia who performs this service?
If not anyone intrested in helping me set one up?
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Looking for the same thing..... it would be even better if the service is in sydney...

I have repaired my phone to ESD Romania and they say it changed my motherboard. I installed one of the official ROMs 4.0.4 and my phone was hard bricked. Fortunately the phone was under warranty and they fixed me free.
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wow nice service.
do any1 know how much money samsung takes to do the same job?

Bricked your phone? UK based JTag

Bricked SGS2 Ressurection in the UK
Hi All,
Boxing day 2011 I bricked my SGS 2, yes a FULL brick as in it did nothing, it was my fault as I was tired and flashed the wrong bootloaders after trying ICS.
After the initial tears and frustration of feeling helpless I hunted around the internet for someone in the UK that did JTag restores.
I came across http://fonefunshop.co.uk and as luck would have it they had a team member online using their instant MSN chat, so I jumped on and spoke to Mark who reassured me it sounded very repairable.
The bad news was they were shut for holidays until 3rd January 2012, but none the less I felt better. I boxed the phone up after paying via Paypal and posted on Friday 30th which got it there for the 3rd.
By 1pm on the 3rd I had an email stating the phone was with them and it was waiting workbench space, I checked again a few hours later and it was on the bench... next I heard was via email on the 4th stating the phone was fixed, this was accompanied by a photo of my phone working (nice touch).
2 hours later an email arrived saying the phone was on route to me via next day delivery and sure enough, this morning at 10.30 am the phone was here.
Its not often I come across a company thats worth shouting about but this is an exception to the rule.. the guys at fonefunshop.co.uk are very professional and fast and I HIGHLY recommend them to ANYONE that has issues with their phones.
I am in no way associated with this company!!
Nice work, 10 outta 10
TrOjAn

Thanks for the headsup, makes experimenting not so worrying
Address Pasted in Favourites.

Service sounds good, out of curiosity how much did it cost you?

markp1989 said:
Service sounds good, out of curiosity how much did it cost you?
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I paid £6 to send it to them (insured next day) and I paid them a total of £33 which included next day return.
Total cost under £40 which I paid willingly.. not often we in the UK get a service which warrants shouting about.. such a nice change
TrOjAn

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is JTag repair? I get that its for fully bricked phones, i just dont know what it is that they do to them to fix them.
Thanks

Basically its like flashing the BIOS on a pc.. if theres no bios the pc dont work.. they strip the phone down and attach wires all over it then flash a stock Samsung rom.
Before anyone flames me for this description its just a way of sort of explaining it.
Heres a video on an SGS i9100 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7le4GmxZs
TrOjAn

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Ninja edit up in here

m00moo, before you start crapping here, i advice u to read up some thread or search up what's the different between soft brick and hard brick. don't try to act clever, it doesn't help.
if you really wanna know what is the different between soft brick and hard brick, let me know. coz u definitely have no idea what you are crapping there.

I've bricked my phone a few times. Full brick, so no hardware button response at all. Before I started flashing I bought a USB jig from eBay for £1 (free delivery). Puts it into download mode so you can flash a from through Odin, and restore my back up.
Sounds like a good service, but if like me, your a bit of a tw*t and brick it every now again, for a pound you can't go wrong. Beats 40 a pop!
Worth investing the £1 as a first resort.
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alonjankelewitz said:
I've bricked my phone a few times. Full brick, so no hardware button response at all. Before I started flashing I bought a USB jig from eBay for £1 (free delivery). Puts it into download mode so you can flash a from through Odin, and restore my back up.
Sounds like a good service, but if like me, your a bit of a tw*t and brick it every now again, for a pound you can't go wrong. Beats 40 a pop!
Worth investing the £1 as a first resort.
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If the phone responds to USB Jig thats only a soft brick. Full brick is when it won't respond to that.

Northern-Loop said:
If the phone responds to USB Jig thats only a soft brick. Full brick is when it won't respond to that.
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Semantics. The advice still stands. If you think its bricked. First port of call should be a JIG, not a 40 service. If the jig doesn't work, use the service.
PS. Wouldn't surprise me if the guy who created the thread works for the company, and is trying to get some free advertising.
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alonjankelewitz said:
Semantics. The advice still stands. If you think its bricked. First port of call should be a JIG, not a 40 service. If the jig doesn't work, use the service.
PS. Wouldn't surprise me if the guy who created the thread works for the company, and is trying to get some free advertising.
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OP details says he is in Essex and http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/contact.htm says they are in Sheffield so I doubt it.

Northern-Loop said:
OP details says he is in Essex and http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/contact.htm says they are in Sheffield so I doubt it.
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Thanks Morse, good detective work. I'll inform your superior.
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alonjankelewitz said:
Semantics. The advice still stands. If you think its bricked. First port of call should be a JIG, not a 40 service. If the jig doesn't work, use the service.
PS. Wouldn't surprise me if the guy who created the thread works for the company, and is trying to get some free advertising.
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Plastered all over this forum are the words use a USB jig to boot to download mode 99% should know that by now .
JTAG is a further step on the repair that until now i have been unable to locate in the UK thanks to the OP for the heads up .
As to the fact you think he is advertising the company and he works for them is uncalled for from you and just makes you look a pratt .
jje

JJEgan said:
Plastered all over this forum are the words use a USB jig to boot to download mode 99% should know that by now .
JTAG is a further step on the repair that until now i have been unable to locate in the UK thanks to the OP for the heads up .
As to the fact you think he is advertising the company and he works for them is uncalled for from you and just makes you look a pratt .
jje
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Forgive my sinicism, you can't blame anyone for thinking that though. I'm sure others who read the first post had that thought flash through their minds. Why not put it out there? It would have been a good move by the company to open a thread stating how good he service is. I work for a marketing company so, I would have missed a trick if I didn't think that.
I don't dispute it is a good service. Not knocking the company. Just merely stating that a USB jig would be a better start than paying £40 for the service.
Trying to help less experienced forum members keep some cash in their pocket after probably spending a ****load for the phone anyway.
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I'm all for idiots spending money to support honest engineers. Anyone who sends off their phone for a jtag recovery instead of doing a bit of reading deserves our encouragement.

People gotta learn the difference between soft and hard bricks seriously, anyhow im glad it worked and also its awesome that there are ways to repair the phone without having to spend an extreme amount of cash for it
OP did mention he doesn't work there so, this
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As to the fact you think he is advertising the company and he works for them is uncalled for from you and just makes you look a pratt .
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tshoulihane said:
I'm all for idiots spending money to support honest engineers. Anyone who sends off their phone for a jtag recovery instead of doing a bit of reading deserves our encouragement.
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How do you know he didn't read? And how do you all know he didn't try a USB jig. Look at his stats he is hardly a noob. If you've messed up your bootloader chances are its hard bricked and no jig will help you with that.
p.s. I think this is a bargain if samsung refuse to fix under warranty. Is a jtag able to restore an efs that aint backed up??
Ricey

Your right, it is bargain if out completely **** your phone. But I would say 90% of bricked phones wouldn't need this service as a jig would work. If you have spent a lot on a phone and it bricked, and you hadn't done much reading, you probably Google it and this thread would pop up. You would read it and probably use it, without realizing that you could actually fix it for less. Most people wouldn't trawl through threads for the answer if they have just created 400 brick.
I don't why everyone is getting so uppety about my comment about him working for the company. If he doesn't, good find, he company is obviously very reasonably priced etc. If he does work for them, a why would he say he does? Second good on him. If people brick their phones, they are normally flashing and therefore using this forum. Would be an awesome place to get word around and increase sales.
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Unlocking bootloader X8

Hello
I have posted something similar in the thread where you told us not to unlock the bootloader if your phone is highier than 11W29. But unfortunately I didnt read that thread and I have now a dead phone and my phone´s date is 11W46 (I know I messed up big time here). So my question is: Can I do anything now? Should I look for help with ppl that have the JTAG/RIFF box to resurrect my dead phone or just go to the shop and ask for a new one?
The problem is that I am not sure if my warranty is lost this way and if they will give me a refund...
Please give me back the hope of brining my phone to life again :´´(

If you have tried to unlock the bootloader you have rooted your phone. If you have rooted it you have broken the warranty so im sorry about that.
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IHawkeyI said:
Hello
I have posted something similar in the thread where you told us not to unlock the bootloader if your phone is highier than 11W29. But unfortunately I didnt read that thread and I have now a dead phone and my phone´s date is 11W46 (I know I messed up big time here). So my question is: Can I do anything now? Should I look for help with ppl that have the JTAG/RIFF box to resurrect my dead phone or just go to the shop and ask for a new one?
The problem is that I am not sure if my warranty is lost this way and if they will give me a refund...
Please give me back the hope of brining my phone to life again :´´(
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Go to shop and say that phone was dead at normal use! If in repair center will find that you brick phone by yourself you will pay some money. I was bricked my daughters phone (11W35) and take it to nearest mobile phone workshop (not SE warranty), phone was be repaired in 1 day and that was cost 15 Euros.

UserWith-A-Cupcake said:
If you have tried to unlock the bootloader you have rooted your phone. If you have rooted it you have broken the warranty so im sorry about that.
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there isnt a way to find out if the phone is rooted as long as it doesnt open and there isnt a way to open it(they will change the motherboard or replace your phone), so it doesnt matter

@stamatis16
Great news for me . Thank you for sharing that. I could go to the shop then and just tell em the phone died. Thank you guys a lot for the optimism I ll do my best to bring it to life again

Just take it to the shop and say that you put your phone to charge and since than it cant start
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Odnesi ga tamo di si ga i kupia i reci da se sam od sebe ugasia prilikom punjenja i gotovo,meni proslo 2 puta

Its funny to read something like this from a croatian.

Hello again...
after 3 -4 weeks I finally got a call from the shop and they told me that the phone is ready to be taken. So I did. Never had to pay for anything .. they just told me the mother board was switched. Such great news.
now
I am thinking of putting the GingerDX ROM on my phone .. Why shouldnt I do it ? Are there any problems I should know about it? Anything to tell me?
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Sorry for double post

IHawkeyI said:
Hello again...
after 3 -4 weeks I finally got a call from the shop and they told me that the phone is ready to be taken. So I did. Never had to pay for anything .. they just told me the mother board was switched. Such great news.
now
I am thinking of putting the GingerDX ROM on my phone .. Why shouldnt I do it ? Are there any problems I should know about it? Anything to tell me?
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Sorry for double post
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go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1168738 or easy way is...just go nearest phone shop & ask them to upggrade urs to froyo or GB(with a little paying,of course).doesnt matter which roms,u can change to dx later.

You just have to say that you haven't rooted it.

zmuhammx said:
go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1168738 or easy way is...just go nearest phone shop & ask them to upggrade urs to froyo or GB(with a little paying,of course).doesnt matter which roms,u can change to dx later.
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No this is too old, go here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518803
Or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921637
You can send me pm if you want any detail.
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stamatis16 said:
No this is to old go here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518803
Or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921637
You can send me pm if you want any detail.
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Aiyaya... I dint noticed the link is dead in there.Thanks man.BTW u know what i mean by easy way

zmuhammx said:
Aiyaya... I dint noticed the link is dead in there.Thanks man.BTW u know what i mean by easy way
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The true is that I am not sure if I get it,with the easy way you mean to buy a new phone?
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stamatis16 said:
The true is that I am not sure if I get it,with the easy way you mean to buy a new phone?
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Easy for him,just ask some guy in phoneshop than do it himself.Maybe for some of us its "piece of cake" but in certain case,who knowns?sometime we also confused which one is our right & left hand.Me just didnt want this guy crawling back in here with such title as"Guys,I messed up when bla...bla..bla.."

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Easy for him,just ask some guy in phoneshop than do it himself.Maybe for some of us its "piece of cake" but in certain case,who knowns?sometime we also confused which one is our right & left hand.Me just didnt want this guy crawling back in here with such title as"Guys,I messed up when bla...bla..bla.."
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Yes,yes you are right! But seriously are there phoneshops that help people with custom roms?! In my town I'm sure they don't know even what root is...
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Yes,yes you are right! But seriously are there phoneshops that help people with custom roms?! In my town I'm sure they don't know even what root is...
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If that so, lucky u.If i were u, i will open a phoneshop which is provide a rooting service & ask me to work with u.In my place, its good side income for phoneshop worker & they will take responsiblity if anything goes ugly.I mean,these guys has practicing a hundred times so the chance of bricking is nearly zero.

zmuhammx said:
If that so, lucky u.If i were u, i will open a phoneshop which is provide a rooting service & ask me to work with u.In my place, its good side income for phoneshop worker & they will take responsiblity if anything goes ugly.I mean,these guys has practicing a hundred times so the chance of bricking is nearly zero.
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Oh man, this is awesome and convenient!
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Won't need my G2 anymore... any takers?

Hey everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that I have switched from T-Mobile to Verizon Wireless, as the TMO coverage in my area has been pretty bad for the last year. I've gone to TMO customer service and even a couple of their stores, and I always had the impression that they just didn't care if I had good coverage or not. I have the G2 currently running Cyanogenmod 7.2.0 Stable, and will be looking at selling it once my transition to Verizon is complete. If there are any people interested in purchasing it from me, please send me a direct message here. I have no idea what the phone is worth, but would like to get something worth my while for it. It's in great condition, except that the back metal door is all scratched up. But when you think about it, if you've owned a G2 before then you'll know that this door gets scratched up with everyday use.
Here are some photos/screenshots for you to see... PHOTO GALLERY
This G2 community has been great, and I've learned an awful lot from so many here. I will miss this little area of XDA.

I sold my Desire Z for almost a month ago, and I'm still here, coz I like to help other people.
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You should probably try the xda marketplace. Follow the rules and post everything except private info out in the open forum. Read the rules. Good luck.
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Warbuff said:
You should probably try the xda marketplace. Follow the rules and post everything except private info out in the open forum. Read the rules. Good luck.
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I know about the Marketplace, but I wanted to offer it up to this group first before posting it over there. I'm sure there will be someone here that may need a replacement or additional G2. If I don't get any bites, I'll post it in the Marketplace. Thanks for the suggestion though.

How much are you looking for? My mom got suckered into buying some random nokia symbian phone on a 2 year and loves my phone. Pm me if possible.
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scottmog said:
How much are you looking for? My mom got suckered into buying some random nokia symbian phone on a 2 year and loves my phone. Pm me if possible.
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PM sent... thanks!

O man, a couple of days too late for me. I just bought a G2 in fair condition off ebay. I love my old G2, but I've worn out the power button and the battery meter is wonky. Gonna try transferring my CM7.2 backup to the ebay phone tonight or tomorrow.

Just letting everyone know my phone is still available.

Does the G2 support UK 3G bands?
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Sent you a PM.

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Does the G2 support UK 3G bands?
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I am not sure if it can or not.
I've replied to all incoming PMs. Thank you for the interest in my phone. I want her to go to a good home.

Safe way of getting a 6P outside of the US ?

Hey,
Okay, so I've been using the Galaxy S2 for god knows how long and I really need to move on.. and also the fact that its battery is dying for the third time... that helped me to take the decision to go with the 6P.
There's just a major problem, I'm neither from US nor Europe... and I don't wanna pay 200$ or 300$ extra just to get it.. because the only reason i'm buying it is it has a great value in its current price..
I have seen a few nice forwarding sites, like fishisfast and usgobuy and they do look promising... I can buy from the Google Store and ship to my country and that would only cost me about 50 bucks more.. which is great...
My only concern is defective units... I've seen so many complaints on the forums here about defective units starting from the slight pink screen to speakers and the list goes on... and I'm afraid that If I receive a defective unit i won't be able to get a replacement...
is there's any safe way of getting the 6P without compromising warranty or paying like 200 extra bucks

I'm not sure about your situation but wanted to tell you if you reply to your own post with the word bump it will get moved to the top and people will see it. You don't have to keep starting threads. Just a friendly FYI.

Gizmoe said:
I'm not sure about your situation but wanted to tell you if you reply to your own post with the word bump it will get moved to the top and people will see it. You don't have to keep starting threads. Just a friendly FYI.
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Keep Starting threads !?
I guess you might be confusing me with someone else !?
this my first and only thread here on XDA

biascoblix said:
Keep Starting threads !?
I guess you might be confusing me with someone else !?
this my first and only thread here on XDA
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Sry. Yeah I did lol. My app was doubling some of the threads. My bad.

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Sry. Yeah I did lol. My app was doubling some of the threads. My bad.
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no problem, so any recommendation or ideas how to get that thing ?
I've never thought i'd struggle that much to get a phone before...

Where are you from in the first place?

bradputt said:
Where are you from in the first place?
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a country far far away, Egypt...

Got mine out of HK, no issues...
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Got mine out of HK, no issues...
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HK ?

I got mine via a company that ships from the USA and I'm all the way in Zambia, why now try expansys.com they shipped to Zambia before so i don't see why they wouldn't to Eygpt

neoian1277 said:
I got mine via a company that ships from the USA and I'm all the way in Zambia, why now try expansys.com they shipped to Zambia before so i don't see why they wouldn't to Eygpt
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Yea, I was totally gonna do that... I'm just afraid to get a defective unit somehow...
If that happens, I don't think you can return it, right ?

Okay, I'm going with a forwarding service.. which one is better to order from, Huawei or the Google Store ?

biascoblix said:
Okay, I'm going with a forwarding service.. which one is better to order from, Huawei or the Google Store ?
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From a returns standpoint I'd easily prefer the Google Store. However, I'm not sure how that applies (or doesn't) to your current situation & questions.

ohlin5 said:
From a returns standpoint I'd easily prefer the Google Store. However, I'm not sure how that applies (or doesn't) to your current situation & questions.
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Ugh, I'm sick of this, I've always wanted to buy a Nexus.. Starting from the Nexus 4, to the 5 and then 6P... and I never did.. Why google makes them that damn hard to get anywhere else on the world !!
I think I'm gonna wait till Amazon start selling them officially.. That's probably gonna be the best in returns standpoint..
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Okay, No Nexus for me then... I am buying the HTC M8.. It does have a pretty active dev community.... Definitely not as good as the 6P.. But it's currently for half its price...