galaxy s2 repair

conor.hogan.2

Hi.

Has anyone ever sent their gs2 (or any samsung android phone) back to samsung for repair?

What was the service like? Did you have it rooted? Was that an issue?

My gs2 will not recognize any sim cards and the battery wastes overnight with wifi off and screen off.

Thanks.

drunkmonkey

Put it back to stock if your sending it for repair. Drop it in where you bought it to send it for repair. Samsung are pretty good for warranty repairs, fonemenders, mprc etc can all fix it, if it was me i'd be sending it to SBE or giving it to a store that uses them.

conor.hogan.2

Flash back a Vodafone rom you mean? Also you recommend giving it in to Vodafone to fix instead of samsung?

I do not even have a Voda simcard anymore, which is why I am wary of giving it back to them as opposed to samsung directly.

The phone has no imei showing up, which seems to be a problem that can or can not be fixed depending on where you look. I have not rooted or flashed it for at least a year which is odd how this issue suddenly cropped up.

drunkmonkey

Put it back to stock it might fix it. SBE are level 2 Samsung in Ireland I think, after that it goes to Samsung, fonemenders and mprc are level 3. Use SBE or Samsung. You'll have it back quicker from SBE as their in Ireland.

conor.hogan.2

Putting it back to stock would be what exactly? Flashing any vodafone gs2 rom? Are SBE official repairers?

griffdaddy

Is no IMEI showing up the only problem with it? Do you have an efs back up by any chance?

conor.hogan.2

griffdaddy wrote: »

Is no IMEI showing up the only problem with it? Do you have an efs back up by any chance?

Bad battery life.
Sometimes stuck in Airplane mode.
Sim cards not being picked up.

I do not have an efs backup (I just backed up my memory card before factory resetting and sending in for repair)

Alexidium

I dropped my SGS2 and broke the screen. I went to Fonemenders in town and got it fixed for 150€. Quite expensive if you ask me. Also, after I got it fixed I had issues with it turning off randomly.

All in all, I did not like my SGS2/Android experience and sold it about a month ago after owning it for about 8 months.

The next expensive phone I buy will definitely be the iPhone, not particularly because of the actual phone and hardware but iOS.

~A

conor.hogan.2

Well that is great, but I do not like iOS even in the slightest*.

*sent from my MBP.

Alexidium

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Well that is great, but I do not like iOS even in the slightest*.

*sent from my MBP.

I guess everyone has their own opinions.:) Oh and just to mention, in Fonemenders if you are still under warranty, they will fix your phone for free I think if its a hardware failure where you didn't do anything to it yourself.

~A

griffdaddy

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Bad battery life.
Sometimes stuck in Airplane mode.
Sim cards not being picked up.

I do not have an efs backup (I just backed up my memory card before factory resetting and sending in for repair)

Hmm they could nearly all be rom/kernel related problems. Have you sent it in already? I remember something similar happening to me briefly with my old s2 but a rom change seemed to sort it

conor.hogan.2

Yeah, from googling they seem to be related but they also seem to only happen on recent changes and I have not flashed anything on it in nearly a year.

I have not sent it in yet, still don't know whether to send it into samsung directly or not.

griffdaddy

Maybe give it a go with a full wipe and whatever the most stable rom on xda is first. Before doing that you might want to restore it to stock and have a nand backup of stock settings/unrooted kernel etc ready for returning it if the new rom doesn't work. I always thought the checkrom roms were very reliable

conor.hogan.2

How do I restore it to stock?

griffdaddy

Get the most recent vodafone rom from xda and flash it with odin and it'll unroot and return it to stock, you can make a back up then and reroot it if you want or else you can see how the official rom works out.