@haydesigner so I have an app called hoverzoom that when your mouse is over links to jpgs/gifs/etc it pops up so you dont have to click the link, but if you do it over actual images, it also does the same. With GIFs theres a short delay so when I hovered on this, I was watching two instances of the gif with one on a delay… just like what happens in this scene from Spaceballs. Trippy
@jbartus I would argue that the reason it didn’t sell is that they removed the ability to swap batteries and add more memory. They were quick to add back the Micro SD slot on the S7. I switched to LG because of it.
@kevin8er the problem here is that you felt a need to argue when I cited the loss of water resistance as one of the reasons.
Do note that of the three reasons mentioned here so far two were restored, external storage and water resistance. Someone at Samsung apparently heard enough about water resistance to cause it to be restored to the feature set.
@ThoR294 Dad gave me his old S4 a couple of years ago. I gave up on it after a week. Just couldn’t embrace Touch Wiz. I despise having to spend so much effort learning how to use a tool that’s supposed to make my life easier.
@jaybird so searching the model number and seeing a similar model on amazon it specifically says will not work on sprint or verizon. why are there no good deals on verizon phones?
@jaybird
What one of the sellers said, but I really can’t say for sure if it’s true or not.
Q: Does it work with the carriers in usa only (verzion, at&t,t mobile) or with other carriers outside usa also?
Answer this question
A: Will not work with verizon or any CDMA provider. Will only work with gsm carriers like att or tmobile. see less
@jaybird GSMArena says there’s a G920P for Sprint, G920V for Verizon, G920T for T-Mobile, etc. Taking Sprint for instance, in the 3G bands, the vanilla G920 shows HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 while the G920P shows CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.
My conclusion, may work on all carriers, but only in LTE bands.
I’m fairly certain that LTE/4G works on any phone now, but if you’re outside those service areas with a CDMA on a GSM phone you’ll get nothing. Nothing.
@jaybird I used to be in the business. This is a GSM phone which means it uses a SIM card. Sprint and VZ uses CDMA which is sans SIM I do not believe it will work at all outside of a 4GLTE area and even in one, I wouldn’t bet on it.
@jake5snooze@spectrum201 Thanks. I was on the fence about trying to get some cash for this since I have a galaxy s3 with a very cracked screen that’s been slowing down and it looked like a good price. Gotta work on sprint with ting though, so no good.
@readnj Absolutely wrong. Verizon has used SIM cards since 4G was rolled out. They do still use a seperate 3G radio for fallback, so you do need a phone that is compatible with Verizon CDMA bands to use it properly on Verizon.
@readnj Verizon uses SIM cards. But Verizon used to not allow you to connect a non-Verizon phone to its network. It wasn’t a tech issue, it was a business policy. There are so many bands on phones these days that there are very little tech issues stopping you from using a network.
This is a weird deal for you guys. Good price, though. Shame most Americans are in the locked-smartphone-camp; you’d get better sales on this if you sold to Europe.
@bjartur I disagree. There are a lot of “pay-as-you-go” carriers here that use the big networks, have the same service quality and cost less. Why the big networks sell them the ability to do this and undercut themselves, I have no idea.
I use straighttalk, which is an att/tmo MVNO. Its $45/30day (not a month, which is bullshit, because me renewal date slowly marches backwards) 5 gigs lte then unlimited 2g potato speed, unlimited talk and sms/mms.
@givemeyoursoul MVNOs get lower priority when traffic is heavy, they typically do not offer roaming, and CS may be less accessible than the main companies.
@narfcake try ting. CS may be the best ever in any business. An actual human answers on the first ring every time. Plus they are Canadian which means they are nice to the point of sickening.
@givemeyoursoul Oh yeah, you totally can do BYOD or use a cheaper MVNO, and I recommend it. I’ve used Ting myself. My point was more that even despite the availability of all of those services, most people in the US still get their phones on-contract or leased and from their carriers. It’s a lot of the reason Sony phones flopped so much in the US (well, especially in the US).
@Jetlag Don’t worry, this phone saves you from having to go into settings and disabling WiFi calling so that way you can actually place a call, and you won’t be stuck with it “connected” to a WiFi network 30 miles away and not have any phone/sms/data connectivity till you reboot.
WiFi calling is a joke at best, and a pain in the ass at worst.
@Froggy Wow, maybe its your phone? I have had a note 4 for well over a year and love t-mo wifi calling. I have had no issues with swapping to the wifi where I am, call quality is fine. Being in the middle of a cube farm, having wifi calling is the only way I can get calls or texts. Works flawlessly for me, but YMMV.
@tagbiker Nope, I’ve had 4 different Wifi calling devices now, all of them worked like shit until I disabled Wifi calling. What really pissed me off was I was staying in a cabin in the middle of nowhere last fall, there was no phone service but I had good Wifi. It took 15 tries (not exaggerating) to get wifi calling to finally go through. Skype call worked on the first try.
@Froggy Not questioning your experience, but curious: How does one get good WiFi in the middle of nowhere without phone service? We have a cabin too, and would love to have WiFi.
@compunaut I believe they had DirectTV, I remember they had TV in the lodge and looking at pictures on their website I do see a small dish mounted to the side of the building. Internet service worked ok, or at least good enough for me to do basic facebooking and a few skype calls at the end of the day.
@Froggy Yep, I can see where that would suck. The only issue I have had was when wifi calling service ports were blocked by the company firewall, then it wouldn’t work. Hard cheese, old man. Hard cheese.
@beokabatukaba You don’t actually have to buy from T-Mobile to get Wi-Fi Calling - I walked into the store with a fresh iPhone SE straight from Apple and all it took was a phone call for them to activate the feature. It works BRILLIANTLY for me.
@heartny I currently have a 4, but if we’re all being honest here, I miss my old 2; when it fell in the ocean, I did the opposite of everything useful after fishing it out - including turning it back on immediately (but before taking it apart and laying the pieces in direct sunlight). If the metals weren’t already corroded enough after a few hours, the lumpy battery looked ready to fight.
@Cakestripe I actually like my S6 more than my S7. I find the S7 processing to be slower, but it might be because I have a gazillion apps installed. The main reason I moved to the S7 is for the removable SD card, which I mostly use for phones, music, videos and the like. I still miss being able to pull the battery, like I could do with my prior Galaxies. What I really miss most is my HTC EVO. Best phone ever, except for the extreme lack of memory.
Hey. I work in tech support for Verizon Wireless. This isn’t an official post or anything, but unlocked GSM phones will not work unless they’re one of the select few ones designed to be universal.
@Potatoboy thanks, but i guess we could roll the dice since the specs say will work with all carriers and then make @moose pay us back if it doesn’t work on verizon.
No idea how an “unlocked” phone works. I use a Pay As You Go plan so I am not familiar with “smartphones” and “unlimited data” usage. It would be nice to switch to something that does, though, as long as it doesn’t have a plan that’s something like $50 a month.
@JT954 Unlocked means the phone isn’t tied to one particular carrier. You would be able to use this with any carrier as long as the frequencies match (different carriers operate on different bands, for example this phone wouldn’t work with Sprint). You can check compatibility between phones and carriers at www.willmyphonework.net.
Which LTE bands does this particular model support? I use SaskTel in Canada (which roams out of province on Bell and Telus), and have a T-Mobile SIM for when I’m in the US (need band 12 LTE for when I go to the Dakotas).
Good deal but let me just say, unless you like storing everything on “The cloud” you’re going to run out of memory quickly. I bought the Galaxy Note 5 that came out around the same time. My son bought the Galaxy s6. I wanted the white one. The white ones where 32 GB and the black ones where 64 GB in the US with no expandable MEmory on the note 5 or s6. I’m kicking myself now.
While Verizon uses GSM for their LTE, it is not the same bands as AT&T. Also do not expect it to fall back to Verizon 3G network like it would with AT&T and T-Mobile. The claim above is way too broad to be stated as is.
Carrier 4G LTE Bands / Frequencies
AT&T 2, 4, 5, 17* / 1900, 1700 abcde, 700 bc
Verizon Wireless 2, 4, 13* / 1900, 1700 f, 700 c
T-Mobile 2, 4*, 12* / 1900, 1700 def, 700 a
Sprint 25*, 26, 41 / 1900 g, 850, 2500
Europe 3, 7, 20 / 1800, 2600, 800
China, India 40, 41 / 2300, 2500
*main band for each carrier is marked in bold
@knavekid When I was using my S6, I carried around one of these tiny USB drives that I got from Meh. Worked like a charm. I almost didn’t miss being able to add a bigger micro-SD card.
No, there was one android phone that was waterproof and you could use it with gloves. You could dial up the screen sensitivity so it can sense your fingertip through gloves. I was being lazy and was hoping someone here knew. Guess I can bing it. I want one to use as a gps and radio on my bike.
@miko1 Looks like it was the s5 that had the special setting. s6 doesn’t?
Edit: one site claims “The GS6/GS6 Edge have the increased sensitivity activated by default and no extra setting change is required.”
@miko1 There use to be special gloves to be used in the winter so that you could use your capacitive devices without taking your gloves off. Google it.
It’s a great smartphone and this is a great price. If I was in the market for a smartphone I would be tempted by this.
The only thing that would give me pause would be that it’s only 32GB. You’ll fill that up pretty fast if you take much video or lots of photos, which you probably will thanks to this phone’s excellent camera.
Another angle to consider… Grab this for $258 plus the $99 GearVR and you’ve got one of the least expensive VR experiences available. GearVR is hecka fun.
@The_Tim I succumbed to the deal so I could have a dedicated GearVR phone. I like to show off the vr experience, and it makes me feel much more comfortable handing someone a phone I don’t rely on; no more worrying about them dropping it or the battery dying. Added bonus, I won’t need to remove the case to use it.
I’m stuck with a dumpy but paid off ATT Next iPhone 5 and really don’t want to continue dealing with the Next plan by getting a new phone but having to pay their prices.
I have a Note 5 that I love and a Galaxy S6 thru work. These are the best “budget” phones on the market. And when I say budget I mean you can get them for 250-300 refurbished. I had an Iphone 6 and sold it. The galaxy phones are faster, have MUCH better screens(think OLED vs LED) and work within Googles infrastructure, which I prefer to Apple.
@communist It does what I need it to. Phone, emails, text, web, office, pics, and GPS. The app gap wasn’t a big deal for me. The low cost, reliability/stability, and day-to-day usability were my factors.
I started with a 521 shortly after it came out, “downgraded” to a 635 for a few months, then got a $20 640 last Black Friday.
I don’t want to be a further buzz-kill, but the S6 was just declared EOL by AT&T this week. Others to follow. Which means clearance.
Note 7 just launched (SKU’s in stores next week) and the S7 is going down in October.
@TenaciousBe Fi is not available in my area, and Fi cost more than Republic Wireless. (but I have to leave RW because I want a Nexus 6p but the new 3.0 phones and plan does not work in my area either) Thinking about boost mobile.
@TenaciousBe i really want google fi, but nexus phones are pieces of crap overpriced. its BS they limit you to their own phones only. (the whole garbage about only phones on the market to have all the bands to support two carriers is a lie. many cheaper, higher spec phones from indie type of companies have both set of bands you need, simply because they want to market their phone to every consumer)
@TenaciousBe Agreed. I had Project Fi for a little while. Customer service was excellent (so was the price) but I ended up switching to AT&T prepaid due to coverage. If you have a compatible Nexus phone and are usually in a good TMo or Sprint coverage area, I highly recommend it.
As for Nexus phones being bad, I disagree. The 6P has great specs for much less money than the latest flagships for the carriers. The 5X is a solid midgrade phone. Plus, you can shop around for the best plan prices because the Nexi are truly unlocked.
That being said, I might pick one of these up. I have a shameful cell phone habit and it’s been a while since I’ve played with a Samsung.
@upbeatanime You are insane if you think Nexus phones are overpriced and pieces of crap. The Galaxy Note 7 costs $850 compared to a Nexus 6P costing $450-500 and the Nexus isn’t loaded with crapware.
@connorbush Funny you mention TPO, got my kid a 6p because of the BYOP for plan 3.0 with RW, RW failed to mention they were changing radios with 3.0. The 3.0 has shitty coverage where I am at. Put him on TPO until I can get 5 on boost ($95 a month for 5 phones but you need 5 phones go get that great of a deal eg 4 phones cost $95 a month too.) That would be less than 20 a phone for 5 phones unlimited call and text with 2gb per phone.
@rcade81 Agreed! I had one of these S6s for a work phone, and it took me 45 minutes just to remove all the duplicate Samsung apps (why do I need TWO web browsers, TWO file managers, TWO music players, etc.?).
@Keslynn My experience with Fi was similar - good price, great customer service, not so good coverage in my rural area. I loved the Nexus 5X – amazing phone for the price. One caution: when my Nexus 5X died (water damage, my fault, not covered by warranty), my options were to buy a new Nexus phone at full price or leave Fi. I left.
Meh. Definitely not the thing I have the cash for. Just got a new G5 because my carrier couldn’t replace my under-warranty G4 with an identical phone, so free upgrade!
@caffeine_dude refurbished…something was not working to specs and was replaced, or something got broken, and was covered by warranty and they swapped a fresh phone for the old one.
@caffeine_dude I’m speculating these were not refurbished by Samsung. If they were, they probably would have a Samsung warranty rather than Servicereg123 warranty.
I am seriously, seriously, still crying over missing the LG 10" and was going to post my tears in that thread today again. I was over there a few hours ago, signed in, and just looked at that tablet. I finally got a sad gify to post, whenI heard a voice say “Wew, no one wants to hear you whine about missing that tablet again.”
So, I’m not getting a new phone till I get a tablet. I’m still using my Palm Pixi Plus with webOS. The ringer and buzzer don’t work, so I have to try to psychically predict when someone’s calling. No games on it–sad face. But it’s got that wonderful “Touchstone”, so I just throw my phone on it when it needs charged.
For slightly more you can get a 32gb Nexus 5X brand new (if you agree to be Google’s guinea pig for their Project Fi phone service like i did and activate within 30 days, no contract though and the phone is still unlocked, don’t sign up within the period you get charged the full price which is… 349 right now i think.) it would ship free too. It’s due for a price drop though with the new Nexus phones due to be announced any day now, it might not be called Nexus though.
Worth looking into if you don’t mind a bunch of your micro USB cables instantly becoming obsolete and maybe needing a few A to C type cables (please sell these soon, @snapster)
@Twiminy I have Fi and I’m pretty happy with it. The Nexus 6 is not the best phone I’ve ever pwned by far, but the price per month is fantastic. I’m hoping the next gen of Nexus phones will be carried by Fi. Fortunately, I’ve hit my break even point months ago by switching out of Verizon, so now my savings can go towards buying a phone outright.
@wickhameh my wife and I both have a Nexus 6 on AT&T. Totally my favorite phone (Motorola Razr V3i is tied for 2nd). I got into Fi when they offered the one day of open enrollments that were given instantly. So I have 2 Fi sim cards but still owe too much to pay off the phones to unlock them… Once they’re paid I’ll unlock them and make the switch… The fact that wireless providers don’t subsidize the cost of phones was a dumb move… I will always buy an unlocked phone from now on…
@Twiminy make sure you buy a quality USB C cable… Studies have shown over half of them aren’t up to spec…
I like my micro USB and separate headphone port. If Google pulls the Apple rumored drop of a 3.5mm port I’ll lose my mind… I want 2 ports on my phone not just 1.
@gwrankin I’ve definitely seen some of the work of that Google staffer reviewing all the type c cables he can get a hold of in a super granular way-nerdier-than-i-can-comprehend manner. Luckily he boils them down into a “pass/fail.”
I don’t listen to music on my phone much but i wouldn’t mind bluetooth headphones, in theory. Not a big loss.
@elysiumplain Off the back of an 18 wheeler that over-turned on rt 80 somewhere in the Midwest. Meh’s crack recovery team got away with just over a thousand before the police arrived on scene.
Bonus: the refurbishing company loaded a slightly modified image so they have remote root for each device.
@OnionSoup I’ve had moderate luck with meh and refurbished electronic computers. (bought 9 Toshiba Chromebooks had to exchange 3 because they were the wrong model, and had to send 3 back to Toshiba because of problems right out of the box. Toshiba makes you pay $30 shipping for each one… Kinda makes the deal less reasonable)
I’ve had great luck with refurbished everything else. (vacuum sealer, nutra ninja, crock pot)
@OnionSoup I buy a lot of “refurbished” items, from lawnmowers to cameras, including several phones. Most times they seem to be brand new, but with a much reduced warranty period. For instance, Olympus are just about to release their Mark 2 model of their OM E1 camera, so they recently had a big sale of “refurbished” (but actually new) Mark 1’s, with a 90 day warranty instead of the one year they have to offer, by law, on a “new” camera.
I have only sent one refurbished product back out of perhaps 20.
@OnionSoup I have a bit more confidence in manufacturer refurbished versus third party, but I agree that it can be a crapshoot these days. Refurbished gets slapped on used products because for some reason, people are afraid of used, never minding that it’ll be used after they use it too!
It’s akin to the dealers which label their used cars as “pre-owned” – and I’m not taking about just the newer models with a comprehensive warranty. They’re slapping on big “pre-owned!” letters on 8 year old cars with 100k on them too.
On the electronics end, hard drives tend to abuse the refurbished label a lot. A good number are data center pulls with 25k+ hours on them. They got a zero-fill and it’s call “refurbished”.
@Felyne How? My Dad had a Verizon flip up until a few months ago when he went to get a new one an iPhone was cheaper than what the monthly flip charges would have been… (Maybe you’ve had it for awhile and haven’t needed a new one recently)
Ugh, I’ve been wanting a new phone for a while now but haven’t found the right deal. This is a good deal, but bad timing for my bank account. Ugh, I mean meh.
Never going to buy a refurbished phone… Who knows how many battery charge/discharge cycles have been used…
Besides, I’ve decided I like my Nexus 6 so much that my next phone will be the Nexus Marlin a year after it comes out when prices are reasonable…
The timing was perfect for me on this. I bought three. Any carrier recommendations? Consumer Cellular will cost me $70/month for 3 lines sharing 3GB and 1000 minutes talk. (And why do people post their order # phrases?)
@getkind It’s just something we do. We like to search for images related to the order phrase. That is why when you use the slash buy option it generates a picture for you. We are just silly people.
@getkind cricket is the cheapest if you are in a group
its 5 people for $100 tax included https://www.cricketwireless.com/5for100
all lines get unlimited talk,text, and 2.5gigs of high speed data each
its owned and operated on ATT network
they charge an activation fee depending where you activate the line(online vs in store)
Wow. I’ve been thinking of switching from my apple to a Samsung. I love my iPhone, but it’s getting old, and a bit fussy. And, while I’m tempted to jump on this, the timing is horrible. With people owing me money and going on a vacation I’ve now determined I can’t afford…I cannot justify buying this even though I want it. Hmm, wonder if I can convince a bunch of people to give me a few bucks each before the end of the day so I can buy one?
@savvysapphire It is also terrible timing because the new iPhone is being announced on September 9. Good or bad, fan or not, it will impact the resale value of all phones for the worse. I’d not buy a phone until after that announcement.
@JonCBK ah, thank you. That is a very valid point, and one I had not thought of. I will wait and see what the release of the new iPhone brings. I may just find a better deal on a phone. Thanks for saving me from what could have been a bad decision.
I love my S6 so much I am going to buy another one. I also must be close to closing out my contract with Verizon and am going to look into Google Fi that people have mentioned here. The do cover my area.
@mfladd This phone is not compatible with Project Fi. It’s only available for Nexus 6, 5X, and 6P. Of course people have used other phones with varying success, but outside those 3 phones, they are not officially supported.
Be aware that, unlike the S5 and the new S7, they didn’t include a microSD slot on the S6, so no expandable storage. If they had, this would be tempting. Hopefully the S7 will be available via a similarly great deal next year and I’ll make the jump directly from S5 to S7. No expandable storage is a deal-breaker for me.
Im a Galaxy owner. Started with the S3, had the S4 and S6, now the S7. The battery life on the S6 was HORRIBLE!
Not just mine, my son in laws was just as bad. The S7 is far better.
Sorry Meh. : (
@darcy get vmp? It seems like it’s actually worth it now. I’ve been able to get two deals in the last month (including this one) that I wouldn’t have been able to get without vmp.
@Moose just read this about at&t phones, “Although Verizon uses the CDMA standard and not GSM, you still may be able to use your AT&T 4G LTE device on Verizon’s LTE network, as they both run on the same spectrum; so LTE data should, theoretically, work fine. However, it’s unlikely that you will be able to make or receive calls and texts, or access data over Verizon’s 3G service.”
if we could have the last letter of the model number that would clear alot of this.
@Moose - what’s the full model number on there? the write up just says SM-G920. there should be a letter after that.
(since the write up said AT&T, i assumed the full model number for this phone was SM-G920A)
according to willmyphonework.net, these phones will work on Verizon’s 4G/LTE network. they will not work on Verizon’s 3G/2G fallback network. no big deal if you’re in a fairly populated area. but if you’re out in BFE, you might be SOL.
they will not work at all on Sprint.
again, this is all on the assumption the full model# is SM-G920A. if it’s the G920F - you’ll get some love on both sprint and verizon’s 4G/LTE networks.
a) would have bought it if it was a week or two earlier. just got a new phone.
b) these are refurbs, and were offered on woots at the same price. while its a nice phone, I think these are hard to root. and since refurb watch out of KNOX app set up by previous owner. you’ll be effed.
Now that it’s mostly OOS, anyone still wanting one of these might look for a used/refurb Note 3 or Note 4 (both w sd slot and removable battery) or a used/refurb Nexus 6. All likely for similar $ if you look around. All phablets.
I kept adding phones only to see some weird half screen. Figured out (too late that you were out of some colors.) Got 2 of the 3 I wanted.
To be honest if it does not work with Spint, Boost TPO whatever I really do now want them. I figured it would work because:
Unlocked for use with just about any carrier this side of Mars
@elysiumplain Mine still says processing as well and the charge on my credit card is no longer there. I’m seriously starting to wonder if my order was canceled or delayed so they removed the charge till it ships/cancels. Contacted meh support and am waiting for a response.
@masteraero Maybe yes, maybe no. If they don’t follow through on the fee-hold within X days, it automatically releases and they have to reapply it when they ship. So it could just be that. Or it could be they’re in a serious discussion with the vendor about which providers the phones will absolutely and completely work with, and people are having conniptions and figuring out what to do with it. (Me, I want to run this at Consumer Cellular, and they’ve got ATT compatibility out the wazoo. So I definitely want the phone even if other providers will choke on it’s frequencies.)
@getkind Looks like there was a problem on my end as well. Due to recent move my billing address has changed. Bank was sluggish to change card billing over to new address (over a month, after putting in request) but now of all times decided to require new address for purchases.
Updated it on my account and sent email to support. Hopefully they will get it and try to charge with new address when they attempt to ship item.
@kylero This is a discussion area for customers to chat amongst themselves/ourselves. If you’re looking for an answer from customer service, you have to ask them directly. Click on Account at the top of the page, choose “my orders”, and on the order for your phone click the “I need help with this” button.
@caffeine_dude Edit wife and kid are waiting on Meh. (phone’s spell check edited “meh” to “me”)
To be clear I ordered a different phone after I could not get one for me from Meh.com and wife and kid are getting a refurbished Galaxy s6 from Meh.com (some day).
Wow another fedex update pushing delivery back another 2 days. I don’t care so much about meh service on my contigo cups or the salad bento boxes i am stockpiling -
but something like a 259.00 phone - i sorta thought it would actually be handled a little better.
@YETB when did you get your shipping confirmation/tracking number? I haven’t even gotten that yet. Sent them another email this morning asking for an update. I’ve ordered several things from Meh with no problems before. This was ridiculous a week ago. Now it’s to the point that if there isn’t an update I will be seeking a refund or disputing it with my credit card company. Very vague communication on their part as to what the issue is. Very unprofessional and very poor business demeanor.
@YETB You should clarify your point - but know that encapsulation is one of the goals behind the mail service…We’re all disappointed to not have them yet.
@elysiumplain I messaged support earlier this morning asking for an update. They just now replied and simply referred me back to the email they sent last week which said there was a delay in receiving the phones to their warehouse, and that I would receive an update when my purchase ships. It appears from the comments above that some people have received shipping confirmation/tracking numbers, so that’s reassuring. Just curious what the delay is on mine and support doesn’t seem to want to say anything beyond your typical “customer service speak.”
@philly My order is still “processing” too. It’s frustrating that some people are getting shipment confirmations while the rest of us hope the order will ship this week.
@uncfanjustin - When I emailed support this morning they reiterated it would ship “this week.” I asked if they could give a more specific time frame for shipment and received this reply. Interpret as you will:
“AUG 30, 2016 | 10:38AM CDT
Holly replied:
We’re shipping these out the door as soon as we can, but I can’t be more specific than today, tomorrow, or Thursday at this time. I promise we’re working on it to get everything out as fast as we can.”
It’s Tuesday the 30th…My phone is 60 miles away, sitting in a fedex shake container going through the package durability testing. Delivery estimated to be on Friday the 2nd. I guess the guys at the fedex hub want first dibs on their new phone.
@nfi Same for me. My phone is exactly 100mi away and finally switching hands from Fedex to USPS. Supposed to arrive on the 2nd. I have never been more impatient.
@jmkiii Keep us posted. I want to activate mine on Sprint. Crossing my fingers for no issues but since this is coming from meh I’m trying not to have high hopes…
So is it only VMP members that have gotten notification of shipment on these? It appears most people commenting about shipping/tracking have the VMP indicator by their username.
@Barney That’s what I figured. I was a VMP member for a few months but got to where I wasn’t ordering often enough to make it worth it. Guess it would have been helpful in this instance though. Oh well.
@Barney WAIT ! What !!! VMP orders get shipped first? Did NOT realize that. Guess I should read the details of the exclusive clubs I belong to. So many…
I feel special - and somehow Justified…
I ended up with one sprint branded (G920A) and one verizon branded (G920V). The V seems to work for calls, but not data, and it has a notification complaining about my non-verizon sim card. The A seems to work for data and calls. I’m wondering if I just need to root them to remove the branding stuff, or maybe that wouldn’t do it. Maybe I need to talk to Meh. They came with warranty cards saying that rooting voids the 90 day warranty .
@jmkiii G920A is AT&T. Sprint would be G920P I believe. What network are you using them on? And just to be clear did you order both of these from this meh sale? I thought the description somewhere said they were all AT&T, unlocked.
@philly Sorry, had not had my coffee yet… Both phones were ordered from Meh. I should have said AT&T instead if Sprint, but everything else is correct. I got one G920V and one G920A. Additionally, I tried Pingpongroot and it failed to run on both phones.
@jmkiii See this has me a little concerned as to which model I’ll get. When the phone first listed on Aug. 18 I recall the listing saying these were the AT&T version unlocked. I ordered because an AT&T phone would work for me. If I get a Verizon version then I may be SOL. The ironic thing is Woot.com had these on sale a couple days after meh for almost the same price. Much better description of which phone you were ordering. I had already ordered this one though assuming it was AT&T model. Now the shipment has taken twice as long as they originally said and it sounds like I could end up getting a Verizon phone contrary to the original description (that seems to have vanished from the product listing). Not impressed with this one Meh.
@philly I’m pretty pissed as well - for 15$ more I could have gotten the same thing from another site, verified AT&T model. Instead I wanted to support the company I trusted, and now I am paying by limited service without 4G or LTE capabilities due to a Sprint model phone.
@elysiumplain I’ve got my fingers crossed that I’ll get the AT&T version that was advertised. If not hopefully Meh will make it right. If all else fails I will dispute the charge with my credit card issuer. I like Meh and am happy to support them with purchases. But at the end of the day they are a company promising products to customers. It’s one thing to flub on a $5 item. Different story when you’re talking a couple hundred bucks a pop and multiple customers having the same issues.
Received my phone today. When I try to activate my (Sprint branded) phone on Ringplus, the website says “This device has failed the Financial Eligibilty Date (FED) check.” I have contacted Meh about this. Anyone else having a similar experience?
Wow. Suffice it to say, I’m greatly disappointed with meh at this point. Having purchased several other items in the past with no foul-ups, this instance is making me question their business model. The morning these went on sale, I though, Ok, I’ll wait till the halt period ends and place my order. I have the original Galaxy S, and thought it must be time to retire it since no current apps will load on the old OS. However this “waiting” around for a shipment notification on a $250 purchase is getting old already. Hey meh, when you “sell” something, you should probably have it “in stock” so the customer feels like what they just spent their money on was actually worth the effort of a purchase. At this point (looks like it will be over 2 weeks for me to experience the new phone) its beginning to feel like a bad HS relationship, where you realize the the cheerleader isn’t actually going to put out like she did for the rest of the football team. I say get it together sessakcaj. When you accept money for the sale of an item that you do not have, and cannot seem to deliver on, it constitutes an act of fraud. You may actually make good on the “Gr8 deal”, yet I can assure you that the lingering sour taste that this transaction has left in my mouth will greatly limit any future purchases from you regardless of the perceived value…
@lwobaekoms So you say you have purchased several items “with no foul-ups” and now that there has been one screw up, you are accusing Meh of fraud. Shit happens even with the best of companies. Don’t worry, Meh will make it right. But if I were Meh, I’d be looking for a better quality of customer.
The phone is unlocked and registered with sprint network (so it’s encoded for sprint) but will work on any carrier. That’s the theory anyway…
NOTE: must register servicereg within 14 days of purchase, the serial number is not the one on the shipping label, nor is it the IMEI, it is the serial etched in the phone backing. It is easier to read with a flashlight.
Off to ATT store for nano-sim clone and upon return will validate Sprint phone working on ATT network.
@elysiumplain But I am leaving for a month or more for family emergency stuff and will never see the phone until later. @hollboll, I shall be emailing you about this.
@elysiumplain well - for 15$ more I could have gotten the same thing from another site, verified AT&T model. Instead I wanted to support the company I trusted, and now I am paying by limited service without 4G or LTE capabilities due to a Sprint model phone.
@elysiumplain same issue here. I received an SM-G920SP. I can’t find on the internet what provider this phone originally belonged to. I can only get 3G so far with AT&T. Great. Just great.
@jmkiii my phone is the Verizon model and I’m on T-Mobile. I’m sending Meh an email to start the return process but if you’re in Austin and wanting the Verizon model I’m down to give you all the stuff for the price I paid for it.
Received my phone today- a SM-G920V and locked to Verizon. Red Verizon loading screen on startup and error notification that it is a non-Verizon SIM card. Data and calls do not work on my AT&T SIM, so this phone is useless to me. Not at all what I expected from an “unlocked (will work with all carriers)” GSM phone.
I’ve spent $1,000+ here and been a VMP member since September 2014, but this will likely be my last meh purchase. Great deals and they do their best to set things right, but I just don’t have time for this hassle.
@mgroppo We all knew going in on this item that it was questionable. I wouldn’t write them out completely. That is - I’ll be happy to give them time to make things right. The frustration with a phone is REAL though.
@mgroppo unlocked does not under any circumstances mean ‘will work with all carriers’. Unlocked means that it’s not locked to a specific carrier. Technological limitations still apply and there is nothing about locking or unlocking your phone that will make a GSM unit work on a CDMA carrier or vice versa. Verizon is a CDMA provider, AT&T is GSM, you received a CDMA model and need to contact support to have things made right.
Here is the message I just sent Meh just in case anyone else is going through it with their phone.
This phone is not unlocked. Upon inserting my t-mobile sim card, a pop-up appeared “SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN” and then “ENTER NETWORK LOVE CONTROL KEY”. Since I don’t have any numbers I exited these windows. Then the drop down menu displayed “Invalid sim card. Network locked sim card inserted”. After a lot of phone calls to both t-mobile and AT&T, an AT&T rep sent me to att.com/deviceunlock where I was able to insert my imei code and immediately received the message “This device isn’t eligible to be unlocked now because all the installment payments have not been paid. Login to your account to check your payoff information and pay the installments online. You can submit a new request 24 hours after you make the payment.”
@tatims The legal code on this states the carrier must unlock phone, provided your contract term is up, and phone does not belong to active user on another provider who has not paid off the phone which was sold to you.
you don’t qualify because you have a contract still OR
2)the phone is registered with another account which is not paid off. (this one would 100% verify that Meh got shafted by a bad Vendor…let us know if you can find any further info).
@elysiumplain The latter applies, I have no problems with contract. I have tmobile and the s6 is at&t. After I wrote the previous message I checked the camera and noticed the images on rear-facing have about 3 dozen dark spots ranging in size and color… and it’s not a dirty lens (on the outside, anyway)… Also the glass on both sides didn’t seem level with the borders. I mention this because even if you did get a phone that works with your carrier the refurbishing can be crappy so make sure to check it thoroughly.
I was really excited for the phone, I had already bought the ballistic screen protector and 3 phone cases. I can return screen protector and 1 phone case but I already tossed the packaging for the others:/ Kinda my fault for purchasing before I saw the phone but didn’t see these problems coming
The people at Meh have been great at responding through customer service emails. Super fast, too : )
I think we all noticed Meh got gypped, I hope they don’t have too much trouble recuperating their investment from their vendor
Very disappointed. Mine arrived looking in decent enough shape. Just got back from T-Mobile today, this phone is LOCKED TO VERIZON. Just unbelievable.
False advertising much?
Sounds like this is a pervasive issue based on all of the comments. Depending on how this pans out probably would not buy from Meh again, nor recommend it.
I sent an email to support, hopefully there’s a fix for it, or if not they at least cover the shipping for me to send this dud back to wherever it came from. Get what you pay for, eh?
Also, 2 week shipping, but you must register within 14 days from the invoice date. Anyone else see the problem with that?!
Verizon is CDMA, T-Mobile is GSM, even if you get Verizon to release the phone there is no way to get that phone working on T-Mobile.
Clearly Meh has had an issue with the company responsible for providing these phones. Speaking personally I don’t measure the quality of a company on the basis of whether or not an issue occurs but rather on how they comport themselves when issues occur. To all appearances Meh support is going out of their way to make things right for affected parties, you should really drop them a line: https://meh.com/support
If you ask nicely I would expect that Meh would be quite willing to provide you a post-dated receipt if their shipping issues caused an issue with getting your warranty registered. With that said, as you received a Verizon phone and they seem to be refunding, not replacing, problem units I don’t expect this will apply for you.
From what a lot of y’all are saying, I’m very nervous to be getting the phone in the mail. This was my first ever meh purchase and this so far isn’t making a great impression.
@lucasoutloud they had yet to take delivery of the devices from the supplier. Meh is not a large company, they can’t afford to float tens of thousands of dollars in a single SKU long-term so I would expect that the listing went up within days of the purchase agreement being signed. I sincerely believe that everything posted to the listing in terms of information was true to the best of Meh’s knowledge.
The issues described thus far, except for the model type issue which can most likely be blamed on the vendor who sold Meh the phones, are all limited to either carrier mismanagement when they took in the returned phone (mind that these are refurbs) or user ignorance of the differences between different cell providers and their attempts to activate CDMA configured phones on GSM networks, all of which stems from the model issue.
My phones arrived today and I’ll email customer service. I ordered 3 phones with the intention of running them as 3 lines. Offering described them as ex ATT but unlocked and suitable for all carriers. They are from 3 carriers. One is SM-G920P, the second is SM-G920V, the third is SM-G920A.
I called Consumer Cellular and set up my 3 line account and ordered 3 SIM cards before I realized they are all different carriers/models. Consumer Cellular terms for BYOD say “Your phone should either be a Consumer Cellular phone, a phone previously used with AT&T or T‑Mobile, or an unlocked GSM phone”. I hope I’m not out of luck.
Plus the warranty info says the phone must be registered with them within 14 days of invoice date. Would that be the date meh billed my card?
@getkind these are unlocked so they should qualify. However that does come with the negative fact that for those on ATT who did not get ATT model phone, you will not have 4g/LTE service. only 3g
@getkind Let’s suppose that meh had some cash flow problems with this deal, so they ran the sale without product in hand to collect the cash to pay the vendor to deliver the product to them so they could ship it to the purchasers. Purchasers paid $55,856. Meh conceivably could have to refund that money while chasing after the vendor to recover the cash laid out. Ouch. Cash flow problems intensify.
I was very close to buying this. Hopefully the carrier stuff is sorted next time* they sell them. 'Cause if I know they’re good on ATT, I’m’a jumping on it.
I think Meh got scammed by their supplier on this one. Can not use on Verizon. Previous owner didn’t pay their bill. WHAT! Will not activate. Blah… Plus the thing looks “used and abused” not “refurbished.” I think these might be “repo” phones.
I received my phone today (16 days after invoice date) and the Warranty registration refuses to register the serial number. sent a note to meh service.
ps. I did receive an AT&T version. will update if i can get it activated etc. (trying to activate on Cricket)
@YETB no activation is needed if it’s an existing line, just swap the SIM card over… if it’s a new line they sell the cricket sim kits at target, walmart, gas stations, etc.
@thismyusername
Hey - thanks a bunch for posting this TIP - not a phone wiz - did NOT realize it was that easy. you saved me a trip to Cricket (and the eye roll and disdain of the clerk as they explained the same thing).
Appreciate the help ! (ps - it worked fine !)
Crap both my phones are not compatible with TotalWireless. (My nexus 6p phones are).
I found something else out too. I need to contact customer service.
Has anyone attempted to get a refund from Meh on these? Mine is still en route but just curious what to expect if don’t get an AT&T version or it won’t activate or if I get a damaged phone like some are getting. Is Meh working to resolve these issues?
@philly customer service wants me to wait until I get my SIM cards from Consumer Cellular to test the phones (one ATT, one Sprint, one Verizon) to see which, if any, won’t work on their network before they’ll authorize a return.
@getkind Just received my shipment. I received a Sprint branded phone (920P) instead of the AT&T version that was originally advertised. The phone I received is not compatible with my wireless network. I contacted support and will see what they say about a return.
UPDATE: Decided to give it a second try on my network (Cricket) and lo and behold it worked this time. Not sure what the difference was as I followed the same process as I did when I got the phone. Anyway glad it works.
@getkind Consumer Cellular operates on AT&T and T-Mobile’s GSM networks, you’re lucky in that you have a Sprint model which has decent GSM support but is not going to be able to access the full network for either carrier. The Verizon phone doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
It says unlocked mine came in locked to sprint. Tried to call sprint to unlock said I need to old user pin. Which did not come on paperwork… Now I have expensive paper weight?
@deathrow goto your orders page, click the “I need help with this” button under the order and explain your issue.
Give them time, customer support won’t be back till monday and I am guessing they are a bit deluged in issues with these phones. It might not be quick but they tend to make things right, fear not.
Despite my doubts from other posts, the phone works just peachy! I got the Sprint model but it works perfectly on Cricket, which is GSM. Well done, Meh.
@lucasoutloud@philly you should be aware that you will have a fair amount of network access to the network Cricket uses (AT&T’s) but not full 4G FDD LTE access. It’s up to you to determine how significant an issue that is.
@lucasoutloud I received the Sprint model. When I tried to activate it with Ting, they could not activate it because the previous owner had an unpaid balance with his phone company. Now I am stuck.
@deathrow After doing as @thisismyusername says, you’ll also need to update your APN settings on the phone to match cricket’s in order to get mobile data and MMS working properly
@deathrow Cricket should work fine on a Sprint model because the Sprint model covers all of the AT&T model’s GSM bands but not all of the 4G FDD LTE bands which will limit your access to 4G depending on band coverage in your area as compared to a proper AT&T model. (Cricket uses AT&T’s network)
@jbartus Actually the Sprint version seems to fully support Cricket’s LTE bands. Cricket operates on bands 2, 4, 5, and 17 (which AT&T also broadcasts as band 12 through MFBI). This phone supports, among others, bands 2, 4, 5, and 12. It does not support band 17 directly, but since AT&T allows interoperability between bands 17 and 12 this does not seem to be an issue. For instance, I am currently showing connected (on my sprint branded Galaxy S6) to AT&T band 17 even though this model does not directly support band 17. The frequencies utilized in band 17 are a subset of the entire range of frequencies of band 12. It would appear AT&T has allowed interoperability between the two bands, whereas they used to not. This is a good thing in terms of being able to keep your same device between carriers.
@philly yeah I was mixing up a couple of models in my head, it’s kind of hard to keep them all straight at times!
Sprint models should be in good shape for AT&T as it hits all of the important spots, Verizon on the other hand is missing all of the 700 MHz range which is unfortunate as it really screws it for AT&T customers. U.S. Cellular’s variant is totally screwed unless you’re in a solid LTE coverage area for use on AT&T as it doesn’t support any of the 2/3G bands/frequencies.
@jbartus Interoperability has gotten better with the move to LTE but with various bands and all the variants in phone models it is definitely confusing. So far I seem to have my normal network coverage though so that’s good.
@philly yeah with LTE things got way better but there are coverage concerns for people who live or travel outside the larger metro areas and suburbs potentially having service issues if LTE is under developed in their area
@deathrow I received the Sprint model. When I tried to activate it with Ting, they could not activate it because the previous owner had an unpaid balance with his phone company. Now I am stuck.
I need to clear up what seems to be a popular misconception here, namely the definition of ‘unlocked’ as pertains to cellular telephones. Unlocked does not mean compatible with all carriers, it means that a given phone is not restricted to a specific carrier.
When a phone is ‘locked’ it is restricted by software such that it can only be used with a specific network or carrier, you cannot take a ‘locked’ T-Mobile phone and insert an AT&T SIM card card into the phone, the software will prevent the phone from loading the foreign SIM card and it will effectively be a paper weight until such time as it is either unlocked or an appropriate SIM card is inserted into the phone.
With that said, let’s move on to more important matters…
On The Topic of Network Compatibility
Assuming the supplier did their job right (so far it looks like they didn’t) all of the phones received should be unlocked. With that said, they are not all compatible with a given carrier, there are five main models (there may be limited availability of a sixth but I don’t think the global variant was sold here in the states and the rest of the variants are all international versions) of the Samsung Galaxy S6 sold in the United States, they are as follows:
Carrier
Voice
Data
S6 Model
AT&T
GSM / UMTS / VoLTE
EDGE / HSPA+ / LTE
SM-G920A
T-Mobile
GSM / UMTS / VoLTE
EDGE / HSPA+ / LTE
SM-G920T
Verizon
CDMA / VoLTE
EV-DO / LTE
SM-G920V
Sprint
CDMA
EV-DO / LTE
SM-G920P
US Cellular
CDMA
EV-DO / LTE
SM-G920R
See those voice and data columns? They’re really important, and what sucks is even with all of those acronyms nobody understands it gets even more complicated! Even though Sprint and Verizon and US Cellular all share EV-DO and LTE they don’t necessarily operate within the same frequencies bands as each other meaning a phone designed for one network might not be compatible with another, at least not with every feature.
I’ve tried to assemble a table using what is publicly available regarding the frequencies and bands each carrier operates within and then cross-indexed each model according to Samsung’s specs regarding network compatibility. Some information is not entirely clear or is explicit on one source but missing or slightly different on another. In general, you should look at the checked off bands for your carrier’s version of the phone and compare them against the other variants’ coverage of those same bands within your carrier’s operating frequencies to get a general idea of what kind of service might suffer depending on the coverage in your area.
I cannot emphasize enough how important band coverage matters, and further how important it is that your carrier’s coverage is matched by any phone you wish to use. The carriers all worked directly with Samsung to develop the phones for their network, so any coverage areas listed on this chart were considered important enough to spend money on R&D for by the carrier. If you do not have full coverage of the bands your carrier specified with the model you received you should really think carefully about how important that service is to you, if you don’t use LTE much then it might not matter if you’re dead in some areas other customers of your carrier aren’t, it’s just something you’ll have to decide for yourself.
Some things of note. AT&T is phasing out their GSM / EDGE service by January 1, 2017 so it’s not something you want to be dependent on. Similarly, Verizon will be shutting down their 3G CDMA network by December 31, 2019.
@jbartus more notes I got edit blocked on before I could share:
700 MHz block A band 12 is an important LTE band for T-Mobile, 1700/2100 MHz band 4 is also important but the best LTE connections are available on band 12 of 700 MHz block A.
700 MHz block C band 13 is Verizon’s main LTE band. If you don’t have coverage with your model for this band on Verizon you’re not in the best of shape
700 MHz blocks B and C in bands 12 and 17 are AT&T’s main LTE bands, the others are supplemental and do not provide complete coast to coast coverage.
1900 MHz band 25 is Sprint’s primary LTE band. WIthout it or 800 MHz band 26 you are highly unlikely to enjoy LTE coverage.
T-Mobile is removing UMTS / HSPA+ 3G coverage from their 1700/2100 MHz band 4 to make room for more LTE coverage.
As for US Cellular customers… nice to meet you, didn’t know there still were such people! You guys have so few frequencies and/or bands you should probably treat each one as vital.
@Barney OOOH! you mean like a side deal? maybe that could be another lab experiment. of course my comment is more tongue and cheek, but i am at least 2/3 serious. maybe i should message @hollboll
@Barney also, i suspect that the returned phones are going to go directly back to the supplier who messed the whole thing up in the first place so meh wouldn’t necessarily have any leftovers for me.
@jaybird Maybe, maybe not. Meh could get stuck with them. Who knows? It wouldn’t hurt to check in with Customer Service. I’d hate to see you get stuck with tens of dollars in your pockets.
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1x Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S6 phone
1x USB to Micro USB charging cable
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@somf69 Don’t.
/giphy never again
@haydesigner so I have an app called hoverzoom that when your mouse is over links to jpgs/gifs/etc it pops up so you dont have to click the link, but if you do it over actual images, it also does the same. With GIFs theres a short delay so when I hovered on this, I was watching two instances of the gif with one on a delay… just like what happens in this scene from Spaceballs. Trippy
/giphy recursion
@somf69 Ummmmm, That’s not my original post, must be the same gremlins that stopped my 370 consectutive meh streak…
@somf69 I know you were first… even if the powers that be don’t want it known.
Too rich for my body meh!
Can I pour champagne on this model?
@jsh139 Who’s gonna stop you? Probably should buy three just in case the first two don’t react to the champagne how you want though
@Moose aw, whatta salesman!
@jsh139 yes, it is very water resistant. If you open the case you can see a gasket that protects the boards and battery.
Sorry, I was thinking s5. Don’t know about this one. Quick, pull it out of that champaigne filled slipper!
@zippyus The S6 was not water proof / resistant which is one of the reasons it failed to gain much sales traction.
@jbartus I would argue that the reason it didn’t sell is that they removed the ability to swap batteries and add more memory. They were quick to add back the Micro SD slot on the S7. I switched to LG because of it.
@kevin8er the problem here is that you felt a need to argue when I cited the loss of water resistance as one of the reasons.
Do note that of the three reasons mentioned here so far two were restored, external storage and water resistance. Someone at Samsung apparently heard enough about water resistance to cause it to be restored to the feature set.
@jbartus ok. whatever
It’s what’s for “cell” tonight !
Dang. Just got a DROID Turbo 2.
Now for something completely different.
At least it’s not a bluetooth speaker, knife, or mug.
@cengland0
Now you’ve made me want a Bluetooth speaker knife mug.
@cengland0 But it has bluetooth and a speaker! And you can probably use it as a knife to “mug” someone!
@ELUNO You’d have to sharpen it first… not sure how it would handle a whetstone or a grinder…
@SuperJew It might not work correctly afterwards, but I am sure you can sharpen it very well.
Would consider it if I didn’t have $700+ invested in iOS apps already. Can’t start over.
Next iPhone could be a soup can with 20 ft of string connected to my wife’s soup can, and I’m stuck with it.
@MehnofLaMehncha Here is the plan get google opinion rewards and get free money. slowly buy all your apps back. I have earned $90 int he past 2 years.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.paidtasks&hl=en
@MehnofLaMehncha And this is how phone loyalty works. I’m in a similar boat (plus I actually prefer iOS and apple).
That said, this is actually a pretty decent deal.
@rileyper so hard to spend all the free money /firstworldproblems
@caffeine_dude no I can see my history of how much i have made. I have about $6 banked.
Touch whiz puke
@ThoR294 Dad gave me his old S4 a couple of years ago. I gave up on it after a week. Just couldn’t embrace Touch Wiz. I despise having to spend so much effort learning how to use a tool that’s supposed to make my life easier.
TL;DR? Touch Wiz=Not intuitive
@ruouttaurmind S4 was nice though because it was rootable and unlockable, and even carrier unlockable right at the beginning.
so, designed for at&t, but will work with verizon?
edit…i know it says all carriers, but i’m also always skeptical
@jaybird if it works with verizon, i think im in. But im like you, skeptical. Like if it did work with verizon, wouldnt meh just say it does?
@jaybird so searching the model number and seeing a similar model on amazon it specifically says will not work on sprint or verizon. why are there no good deals on verizon phones?
@nayrreirg exactly.
@jaybird
What one of the sellers said, but I really can’t say for sure if it’s true or not.
Q: Does it work with the carriers in usa only (verzion, at&t,t mobile) or with other carriers outside usa also?
Answer this question
A: Will not work with verizon or any CDMA provider. Will only work with gsm carriers like att or tmobile. see less
@nayrreirg I think you might have to do some manual configuring to make sure it’s compatible with your network.
@jaybird It will not work with VZW. There are a few phones that are universal and none of them are Samsungs.
@Potatoboy Thanks. Guess i’ll have to keep sporting my droid maxx w/unlimited data.
@jaybird GSMArena says there’s a G920P for Sprint, G920V for Verizon, G920T for T-Mobile, etc. Taking Sprint for instance, in the 3G bands, the vanilla G920 shows HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 while the G920P shows CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.
My conclusion, may work on all carriers, but only in LTE bands.
I’m fairly certain that LTE/4G works on any phone now, but if you’re outside those service areas with a CDMA on a GSM phone you’ll get nothing. Nothing.
This phone definitely WILL NOT WORK ON VERIZON OR SPRINT.
/youtube you get nothing srslysirius
@jaybird Man that’s pretty crappy advertising meh…
@jaybird i have a Galaxy S6 SM-G920V I am using on Verizon, it’s what they provided, not an unlocked one.
@Yoda_Daenerys You definitely need this one too so you’re covered on GSM!
@jaybird I used to be in the business. This is a GSM phone which means it uses a SIM card. Sprint and VZ uses CDMA which is sans SIM I do not believe it will work at all outside of a 4GLTE area and even in one, I wouldn’t bet on it.
@jake5snooze @spectrum201 Thanks. I was on the fence about trying to get some cash for this since I have a galaxy s3 with a very cracked screen that’s been slowing down and it looked like a good price. Gotta work on sprint with ting though, so no good.
@Pantheist Want a sprint g4?
@elysiumplain how much?
@Pantheist Why not use on T-Mo w/ Ting?
@readnj Absolutely wrong. Verizon has used SIM cards since 4G was rolled out. They do still use a seperate 3G radio for fallback, so you do need a phone that is compatible with Verizon CDMA bands to use it properly on Verizon.
@xaronax I believe you are cofirming what i said. CDMA outside of 4G is not compatible with a GSM device and even on 4G it may not work.
@jaybird I had a S4 when I switched from Verizon to Tmobile. It worked, kinda. Ok for a week, I wouldnt recommend it long term.
@readnj Verizon uses SIM cards. But Verizon used to not allow you to connect a non-Verizon phone to its network. It wasn’t a tech issue, it was a business policy. There are so many bands on phones these days that there are very little tech issues stopping you from using a network.
@TPS little to no service near me
Is this a Note 7? I want a Note 7. I’ll pay up to $268. Thank you.
@warpedrotors man you and me both wish… sadly no. Its an Galaxy 6. Still a great phone, but I’ll wait…
Till my note 3 craps out.
@warpedrotors the note 7 is more than $850!!! i want one as well… but that’s a butt load of money
This is a weird deal for you guys. Good price, though. Shame most Americans are in the locked-smartphone-camp; you’d get better sales on this if you sold to Europe.
@bjartur I disagree. There are a lot of “pay-as-you-go” carriers here that use the big networks, have the same service quality and cost less. Why the big networks sell them the ability to do this and undercut themselves, I have no idea.
I use straighttalk, which is an att/tmo MVNO. Its $45/30day (not a month, which is bullshit, because me renewal date slowly marches backwards) 5 gigs lte then unlimited 2g potato speed, unlimited talk and sms/mms.
Also, most of the big carriers will let you BYOD.
@givemeyoursoul MVNOs get lower priority when traffic is heavy, they typically do not offer roaming, and CS may be less accessible than the main companies.
@narfcake try ting. CS may be the best ever in any business. An actual human answers on the first ring every time. Plus they are Canadian which means they are nice to the point of sickening.
@givemeyoursoul Oh yeah, you totally can do BYOD or use a cheaper MVNO, and I recommend it. I’ve used Ting myself. My point was more that even despite the availability of all of those services, most people in the US still get their phones on-contract or leased and from their carriers. It’s a lot of the reason Sony phones flopped so much in the US (well, especially in the US).
@givemeyoursoul
I appreciate the fact that they allow me to beat my own dick. Or am I misunderstanding the BYOD thing?
@narfcake I need help. What does CS stand for?
@getkind Customer Service.
So if I put a Tmo sim in it will it download the Tmo firmware or am I stuck without WiFi Calling?
@Jetlag It won’t, unfortunately.
@ials Yeah, you have to buy a phone directly from T-mobile to get the WiFi calling feature.
@Jetlag Don’t worry, this phone saves you from having to go into settings and disabling WiFi calling so that way you can actually place a call, and you won’t be stuck with it “connected” to a WiFi network 30 miles away and not have any phone/sms/data connectivity till you reboot.
WiFi calling is a joke at best, and a pain in the ass at worst.
@Froggy No way. My verizon phone would not call over wi fi. That ability on Tmobile is awesome. Press the freaking button.
@Froggy Wow, maybe its your phone? I have had a note 4 for well over a year and love t-mo wifi calling. I have had no issues with swapping to the wifi where I am, call quality is fine. Being in the middle of a cube farm, having wifi calling is the only way I can get calls or texts. Works flawlessly for me, but YMMV.
@tagbiker Nope, I’ve had 4 different Wifi calling devices now, all of them worked like shit until I disabled Wifi calling. What really pissed me off was I was staying in a cabin in the middle of nowhere last fall, there was no phone service but I had good Wifi. It took 15 tries (not exaggerating) to get wifi calling to finally go through. Skype call worked on the first try.
@Froggy Not questioning your experience, but curious: How does one get good WiFi in the middle of nowhere without phone service? We have a cabin too, and would love to have WiFi.
@compunaut I believe they had DirectTV, I remember they had TV in the lodge and looking at pictures on their website I do see a small dish mounted to the side of the building. Internet service worked ok, or at least good enough for me to do basic facebooking and a few skype calls at the end of the day.
@Froggy Yep, I can see where that would suck. The only issue I have had was when wifi calling service ports were blocked by the company firewall, then it wouldn’t work. Hard cheese, old man. Hard cheese.
@beokabatukaba You don’t actually have to buy from T-Mobile to get Wi-Fi Calling - I walked into the store with a fresh iPhone SE straight from Apple and all it took was a phone call for them to activate the feature. It works BRILLIANTLY for me.
@SilentBob3rd yes but thats a iphone. android phones are a whole other nightmare when it comes to carrier exclusive features
If it’s “designed for AT&T network” is it really the SM-G920A with the AT&T ROM?
@ObliteRon I love it when you talk dirty.
@dave You probably want to clarify “all GSM carriers”. Sprint and Verizon are CDMA and will not work.
Does this have dual sim? I dream of one phone, the same phone, for both my personal and business lines.
@elimanningface nope, this one does though: Samsung Galaxy S6 Duos SM‑G920FD
@elimanningface I have the Huawei Honor 5X with dual sim and it’s a decent device for under $200.
@xerdkwa I have the Huawei P8 Lite and its not that good. Any experience w/ it and if so, how does it compared to the Honor 5x?
I’ve had the Samsung Galaxy 2, 3, 5, 6 and currently have an S7. Apparently I need 1 and 4
@heartny Gota catchem all. I’ll fight you for a 1 in the TouchWiz gym.
@heartny I currently have a 4, but if we’re all being honest here, I miss my old 2; when it fell in the ocean, I did the opposite of everything useful after fishing it out - including turning it back on immediately (but before taking it apart and laying the pieces in direct sunlight). If the metals weren’t already corroded enough after a few hours, the lumpy battery looked ready to fight.
@Cakestripe I actually like my S6 more than my S7. I find the S7 processing to be slower, but it might be because I have a gazillion apps installed. The main reason I moved to the S7 is for the removable SD card, which I mostly use for phones, music, videos and the like. I still miss being able to pull the battery, like I could do with my prior Galaxies. What I really miss most is my HTC EVO. Best phone ever, except for the extreme lack of memory.
Hey. I work in tech support for Verizon Wireless. This isn’t an official post or anything, but unlocked GSM phones will not work unless they’re one of the select few ones designed to be universal.
@Potatoboy thanks, but i guess we could roll the dice since the specs say will work with all carriers and then make @moose pay us back if it doesn’t work on verizon.
@jaybird I don’t care if anyone thinks it’s mehfficial, I just don’t anyone calling my employer and saying “your guy on meh.com said blah blah blah.”
@Potatoboy lol, good point. they wouldn’t believe me anyway, i think i have one of those notes on my account that says not to listen to me already.
@Potatoboy THat is it I am calling Verizon and ask to talk to Potatoboy’s boss, NOW!
No idea how an “unlocked” phone works. I use a Pay As You Go plan so I am not familiar with “smartphones” and “unlimited data” usage. It would be nice to switch to something that does, though, as long as it doesn’t have a plan that’s something like $50 a month.
@JT954 Unlocked means the phone isn’t tied to one particular carrier. You would be able to use this with any carrier as long as the frequencies match (different carriers operate on different bands, for example this phone wouldn’t work with Sprint). You can check compatibility between phones and carriers at www.willmyphonework.net.
@JT954 if your pay as you go phone uses a sim card, you can use this phone. Even some pay as you go plans include data.
@JT954 Start a new thread - what you’re using now, what your needs are, and what’s your budget. This phone might not be the answer.
This is a rare meh listing that I will have to sleep on. (in other words, ask the wife for permission when she wakes up)
Confusion! Verizon customer here. Better clarify before this gets out of hand…
@n8mack33 Don’t buy it or you’ll be sads.
@n8mack33 It definitely won’t work on Verizon!
Which LTE bands does this particular model support? I use SaskTel in Canada (which roams out of province on Bell and Telus), and have a T-Mobile SIM for when I’m in the US (need band 12 LTE for when I go to the Dakotas).
Good deal but let me just say, unless you like storing everything on “The cloud” you’re going to run out of memory quickly. I bought the Galaxy Note 5 that came out around the same time. My son bought the Galaxy s6. I wanted the white one. The white ones where 32 GB and the black ones where 64 GB in the US with no expandable MEmory on the note 5 or s6. I’m kicking myself now.
Gotta clarify which SM-G920 it be, we could assume it’s G920A but there’s literally a dozen different G920* models
http://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26440
Waiting for refurbished iPhone 6s
Will this work with Samsung vr?
@rickbaron Yes. Samsung VR is compatible with Galaxy Note7, S7, S7 edge, Note5, S6 edge+, S6, S6 edge.
While Verizon uses GSM for their LTE, it is not the same bands as AT&T. Also do not expect it to fall back to Verizon 3G network like it would with AT&T and T-Mobile. The claim above is way too broad to be stated as is.
Carrier 4G LTE Bands / Frequencies
AT&T 2, 4, 5, 17* / 1900, 1700 abcde, 700 bc
Verizon Wireless 2, 4, 13* / 1900, 1700 f, 700 c
T-Mobile 2, 4*, 12* / 1900, 1700 def, 700 a
Sprint 25*, 26, 41 / 1900 g, 850, 2500
Europe 3, 7, 20 / 1800, 2600, 800
China, India 40, 41 / 2300, 2500
*main band for each carrier is marked in bold
@Woody1 So is there no way to get it to work with Verizon other than leaving it on roaming at all times?
Great price. Swap in a fresh battery and add a 128GB micro-SD and you have a - - - What? You can’t? Oh, never mind . . .
@knavekid When I was using my S6, I carried around one of these tiny USB drives that I got from Meh. Worked like a charm. I almost didn’t miss being able to add a bigger micro-SD card.
Is this the one where you can increase the screen sensitivity so you can use it when you are wearing gloves?
@miko1 are you looking for resistive and capacitive touch screen combo?
No, there was one android phone that was waterproof and you could use it with gloves. You could dial up the screen sensitivity so it can sense your fingertip through gloves. I was being lazy and was hoping someone here knew. Guess I can bing it. I want one to use as a gps and radio on my bike.
@miko1
/youtube samsung galaxy s6 gloves mode
@miko1 Looks like it was the s5 that had the special setting. s6 doesn’t?
Edit: one site claims “The GS6/GS6 Edge have the increased sensitivity activated by default and no extra setting change is required.”
@miko1 There use to be special gloves to be used in the winter so that you could use your capacitive devices without taking your gloves off. Google it.
@growyoungagain yup i bought a couple last year. works great in the winter
Posting this from my Galaxy S6 (64GB).
It’s a great smartphone and this is a great price. If I was in the market for a smartphone I would be tempted by this.
The only thing that would give me pause would be that it’s only 32GB. You’ll fill that up pretty fast if you take much video or lots of photos, which you probably will thanks to this phone’s excellent camera.
Another angle to consider… Grab this for $258 plus the $99 GearVR and you’ve got one of the least expensive VR experiences available. GearVR is hecka fun.
@The_Tim I succumbed to the deal so I could have a dedicated GearVR phone. I like to show off the vr experience, and it makes me feel much more comfortable handing someone a phone I don’t rely on; no more worrying about them dropping it or the battery dying. Added bonus, I won’t need to remove the case to use it.
I’m stuck with a dumpy but paid off ATT Next iPhone 5 and really don’t want to continue dealing with the Next plan by getting a new phone but having to pay their prices.
Would this be worth it? It seems worth it…
@vanslaterco AT&T GoPhone (prepaid) is pretty cheap and you can use this phone for that.
I have a Note 5 that I love and a Galaxy S6 thru work. These are the best “budget” phones on the market. And when I say budget I mean you can get them for 250-300 refurbished. I had an Iphone 6 and sold it. The galaxy phones are faster, have MUCH better screens(think OLED vs LED) and work within Googles infrastructure, which I prefer to Apple.
@gdog2009 Budget? My phone was $25. That’s budget!
Disclaimer: I’m a 1%-er too. That is, the 1% that uses a Windows Phone.
@narfcake how is your windows phone holding up?
@communist It does what I need it to. Phone, emails, text, web, office, pics, and GPS. The app gap wasn’t a big deal for me. The low cost, reliability/stability, and day-to-day usability were my factors.
I started with a 521 shortly after it came out, “downgraded” to a 635 for a few months, then got a $20 640 last Black Friday.
@narfcake I miss my windows phone dearly.
I don’t want to be a further buzz-kill, but the S6 was just declared EOL by AT&T this week. Others to follow. Which means clearance.
Note 7 just launched (SKU’s in stores next week) and the S7 is going down in October.
Weird, I was planning on getting me a new phone! Weird shit happening! lol
Samsung? Meh. Do yourself a favor and pick up a Nexus, and hop on Project Fi.
@TenaciousBe Fi is not available in my area, and Fi cost more than Republic Wireless. (but I have to leave RW because I want a Nexus 6p but the new 3.0 phones and plan does not work in my area either) Thinking about boost mobile.
@TenaciousBe i really want google fi, but nexus phones are pieces of crap overpriced. its BS they limit you to their own phones only. (the whole garbage about only phones on the market to have all the bands to support two carriers is a lie. many cheaper, higher spec phones from indie type of companies have both set of bands you need, simply because they want to market their phone to every consumer)
@caffeine_dude I used to use republic wireless. Now I’m with TPO
@TenaciousBe Agreed. I had Project Fi for a little while. Customer service was excellent (so was the price) but I ended up switching to AT&T prepaid due to coverage. If you have a compatible Nexus phone and are usually in a good TMo or Sprint coverage area, I highly recommend it.
As for Nexus phones being bad, I disagree. The 6P has great specs for much less money than the latest flagships for the carriers. The 5X is a solid midgrade phone. Plus, you can shop around for the best plan prices because the Nexi are truly unlocked.
That being said, I might pick one of these up. I have a shameful cell phone habit and it’s been a while since I’ve played with a Samsung.
@upbeatanime You are insane if you think Nexus phones are overpriced and pieces of crap. The Galaxy Note 7 costs $850 compared to a Nexus 6P costing $450-500 and the Nexus isn’t loaded with crapware.
@connorbush Funny you mention TPO, got my kid a 6p because of the BYOP for plan 3.0 with RW, RW failed to mention they were changing radios with 3.0. The 3.0 has shitty coverage where I am at. Put him on TPO until I can get 5 on boost ($95 a month for 5 phones but you need 5 phones go get that great of a deal eg 4 phones cost $95 a month too.) That would be less than 20 a phone for 5 phones unlimited call and text with 2gb per phone.
@rcade81 Agreed! I had one of these S6s for a work phone, and it took me 45 minutes just to remove all the duplicate Samsung apps (why do I need TWO web browsers, TWO file managers, TWO music players, etc.?).
@Keslynn My experience with Fi was similar - good price, great customer service, not so good coverage in my rural area. I loved the Nexus 5X – amazing phone for the price. One caution: when my Nexus 5X died (water damage, my fault, not covered by warranty), my options were to buy a new Nexus phone at full price or leave Fi. I left.
@xerdkwa Fi would probably be better now with the Addition of US Cellular to the list of Fi Networks.
Meh. Definitely not the thing I have the cash for. Just got a new G5 because my carrier couldn’t replace my under-warranty G4 with an identical phone, so free upgrade!
But yeah, not really the thing I’d buy from Meh.
How does the 90 day Service Reg work? What is included, if it is even honored?
no root access, so no thank you.
@upbeatanime Can I use custom roms on this?
@caffeine_dude @upbearanime it can be flashed so yes
According to this Web site, http://willmyphonework.net/ ,if this is the AT&T model SM-G920A, it will not work with my carrier, Sprint
@DM396 No boost either (same network I think)
@caffeine_dude Yes, Boost is a Sprint MVNO. As is Virgin Mobile.
What does refurbished mean for this phone? New battery? The screen was cracked and they replace the display?
@caffeine_dude refurbished…something was not working to specs and was replaced, or something got broken, and was covered by warranty and they swapped a fresh phone for the old one.
@elysiumplain is part of the process checking the whole phone out and replacing the battery? WHo did the repair?
@caffeine_dude depends on the guy you got. could be just a checklist type, or a quality worker.
@caffeine_dude I’m speculating these were not refurbished by Samsung. If they were, they probably would have a Samsung warranty rather than Servicereg123 warranty.
I am seriously, seriously, still crying over missing the LG 10" and was going to post my tears in that thread today again. I was over there a few hours ago, signed in, and just looked at that tablet. I finally got a sad gify to post, whenI heard a voice say “Wew, no one wants to hear you whine about missing that tablet again.”
So, I’m not getting a new phone till I get a tablet. I’m still using my Palm Pixi Plus with webOS. The ringer and buzzer don’t work, so I have to try to psychically predict when someone’s calling. No games on it–sad face. But it’s got that wonderful “Touchstone”, so I just throw my phone on it when it needs charged.
@wew Aw, I liked the Pixi. I liked webOS. Hohum.
@wew Good on you! Loved WebOS and I still have my Palm Pre somewhere.
Anyone know if this has a FM radio chip in it?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
MEH AS FUCK!! A shitty phone that was a step back from its predecessor the S5 and is now a shitty version of its successor, the S7!!
@Dizavid Stop yelling
For slightly more you can get a 32gb Nexus 5X brand new (if you agree to be Google’s guinea pig for their Project Fi phone service like i did and activate within 30 days, no contract though and the phone is still unlocked, don’t sign up within the period you get charged the full price which is… 349 right now i think.) it would ship free too. It’s due for a price drop though with the new Nexus phones due to be announced any day now, it might not be called Nexus though.
Worth looking into if you don’t mind a bunch of your micro USB cables instantly becoming obsolete and maybe needing a few A to C type cables (please sell these soon, @snapster)
@Twiminy I have Fi and I’m pretty happy with it. The Nexus 6 is not the best phone I’ve ever pwned by far, but the price per month is fantastic. I’m hoping the next gen of Nexus phones will be carried by Fi. Fortunately, I’ve hit my break even point months ago by switching out of Verizon, so now my savings can go towards buying a phone outright.
@wickhameh my wife and I both have a Nexus 6 on AT&T. Totally my favorite phone (Motorola Razr V3i is tied for 2nd). I got into Fi when they offered the one day of open enrollments that were given instantly. So I have 2 Fi sim cards but still owe too much to pay off the phones to unlock them… Once they’re paid I’ll unlock them and make the switch… The fact that wireless providers don’t subsidize the cost of phones was a dumb move… I will always buy an unlocked phone from now on…
@Twiminy make sure you buy a quality USB C cable… Studies have shown over half of them aren’t up to spec…
I like my micro USB and separate headphone port. If Google pulls the Apple rumored drop of a 3.5mm port I’ll lose my mind… I want 2 ports on my phone not just 1.
@gwrankin I’ve definitely seen some of the work of that Google staffer reviewing all the type c cables he can get a hold of in a super granular way-nerdier-than-i-can-comprehend manner. Luckily he boils them down into a “pass/fail.”
I don’t listen to music on my phone much but i wouldn’t mind bluetooth headphones, in theory. Not a big loss.
I hope these are better than the “refurbished” ones Amazon sells.
I have a strange feeling that these may not even have been checked for a clean ESN…
@elysiumplain Off the back of an 18 wheeler that over-turned on rt 80 somewhere in the Midwest. Meh’s crack recovery team got away with just over a thousand before the police arrived on scene.
Bonus: the refurbishing company loaded a slightly modified image so they have remote root for each device.
@gwrankin That must be how all that porn got on my device…damn
no sd card slot is no fun
@Logear truth
/giphy word
Hard to understand what refurbished means these days.
It used to mean the manufacturer checked out all the parts, replaced parts that got worn, etc.
Nowadays it frequently just means used.
Is this refurbished for real or just used? Who refurbished them?
@OnionSoup I’ve had moderate luck with meh and refurbished electronic computers. (bought 9 Toshiba Chromebooks had to exchange 3 because they were the wrong model, and had to send 3 back to Toshiba because of problems right out of the box. Toshiba makes you pay $30 shipping for each one… Kinda makes the deal less reasonable)
I’ve had great luck with refurbished everything else. (vacuum sealer, nutra ninja, crock pot)
@OnionSoup I buy a lot of “refurbished” items, from lawnmowers to cameras, including several phones. Most times they seem to be brand new, but with a much reduced warranty period. For instance, Olympus are just about to release their Mark 2 model of their OM E1 camera, so they recently had a big sale of “refurbished” (but actually new) Mark 1’s, with a 90 day warranty instead of the one year they have to offer, by law, on a “new” camera.
I have only sent one refurbished product back out of perhaps 20.
@OnionSoup I have a bit more confidence in manufacturer refurbished versus third party, but I agree that it can be a crapshoot these days. Refurbished gets slapped on used products because for some reason, people are afraid of used, never minding that it’ll be used after they use it too!
It’s akin to the dealers which label their used cars as “pre-owned” – and I’m not taking about just the newer models with a comprehensive warranty. They’re slapping on big “pre-owned!” letters on 8 year old cars with 100k on them too.
On the electronics end, hard drives tend to abuse the refurbished label a lot. A good number are data center pulls with 25k+ hours on them. They got a zero-fill and it’s call “refurbished”.
Flip, keeping my Verizon flip. $10 a month. I could run my phone for over 2 years for the cost of this.
@Felyne but could you play pokemon go?
@Felyne How? My Dad had a Verizon flip up until a few months ago when he went to get a new one an iPhone was cheaper than what the monthly flip charges would have been… (Maybe you’ve had it for awhile and haven’t needed a new one recently)
@Yoda_Daenerys Wish I had the time. If meh sold extra time, I might be in.
thank you circuit breaker
/giphy hallowed militant gremlin
/image hallowed-militant-gremlin
Ugh, I’ve been wanting a new phone for a while now but haven’t found the right deal. This is a good deal, but bad timing for my bank account. Ugh, I mean meh.
Is there a way to put KitKat on this?
Never going to buy a refurbished phone… Who knows how many battery charge/discharge cycles have been used…
Besides, I’ve decided I like my Nexus 6 so much that my next phone will be the Nexus Marlin a year after it comes out when prices are reasonable…
Can this be upgraded to Android 6?
The timing was perfect for me on this. I bought three. Any carrier recommendations? Consumer Cellular will cost me $70/month for 3 lines sharing 3GB and 1000 minutes talk. (And why do people post their order # phrases?)
@getkind Can anyone tell me about the “servicereg” warranty?
@getkind It’s just something we do. We like to search for images related to the order phrase. That is why when you use the slash buy option it generates a picture for you. We are just silly people.
@getkind cricket is the cheapest if you are in a group
its 5 people for $100 tax included
https://www.cricketwireless.com/5for100
all lines get unlimited talk,text, and 2.5gigs of high speed data each
its owned and operated on ATT network
they charge an activation fee depending where you activate the line(online vs in store)
Wow. I’ve been thinking of switching from my apple to a Samsung. I love my iPhone, but it’s getting old, and a bit fussy. And, while I’m tempted to jump on this, the timing is horrible. With people owing me money and going on a vacation I’ve now determined I can’t afford…I cannot justify buying this even though I want it. Hmm, wonder if I can convince a bunch of people to give me a few bucks each before the end of the day so I can buy one?
@savvysapphire It is also terrible timing because the new iPhone is being announced on September 9. Good or bad, fan or not, it will impact the resale value of all phones for the worse. I’d not buy a phone until after that announcement.
@JonCBK ah, thank you. That is a very valid point, and one I had not thought of. I will wait and see what the release of the new iPhone brings. I may just find a better deal on a phone. Thanks for saving me from what could have been a bad decision.
I love my S6 so much I am going to buy another one. I also must be close to closing out my contract with Verizon and am going to look into Google Fi that people have mentioned here. The do cover my area.
minor-noble-hill
@mfladd S6 won’t work with Fi though.
@mfladd This phone is not compatible with Project Fi. It’s only available for Nexus 6, 5X, and 6P. Of course people have used other phones with varying success, but outside those 3 phones, they are not officially supported.
@Keslynn @carl669 Oh Crap!
/giphy Crap
Be aware that, unlike the S5 and the new S7, they didn’t include a microSD slot on the S6, so no expandable storage. If they had, this would be tempting. Hopefully the S7 will be available via a similarly great deal next year and I’ll make the jump directly from S5 to S7. No expandable storage is a deal-breaker for me.
Im a Galaxy owner. Started with the S3, had the S4 and S6, now the S7. The battery life on the S6 was HORRIBLE!
Not just mine, my son in laws was just as bad. The S7 is far better.
Sorry Meh. : (
@fast100 Sorry to hear that. I have no battery life issues with mine at all.
Closest deal on Amazon now is $318, so much less compelling.…
/giphy wailing-thick-hornet
Please do this deal again in the future. Would have 100% jumped on this had I seen it before it sold out.
@darcy get vmp? It seems like it’s actually worth it now. I’ve been able to get two deals in the last month (including this one) that I wouldn’t have been able to get without vmp.
Hey everybody
Just got confirmation that these are universal after being unlocked and should work on all networks/carriers, not just for GSM/AT&T or whatever.
cc: @jaybird @nayrreirg @Stoicgent @Potatoboy @jake5snooze @spectrum201 @n8mack33
@Moose just read this about at&t phones, “Although Verizon uses the CDMA standard and not GSM, you still may be able to use your AT&T 4G LTE device on Verizon’s LTE network, as they both run on the same spectrum; so LTE data should, theoretically, work fine. However, it’s unlikely that you will be able to make or receive calls and texts, or access data over Verizon’s 3G service.”
if we could have the last letter of the model number that would clear alot of this.
@Moose if you go to www.vzw.com/activateyourdevice I’m pretty sure it won’t recognize the imei which means it won’t work.
@JesseA420 yeah, the “GSM/AT&T or whatever” is not terribly reassuring.
@Moose - what’s the full model number on there? the write up just says SM-G920. there should be a letter after that.
(since the write up said AT&T, i assumed the full model number for this phone was SM-G920A)
according to willmyphonework.net, these phones will work on Verizon’s 4G/LTE network. they will not work on Verizon’s 3G/2G fallback network. no big deal if you’re in a fairly populated area. but if you’re out in BFE, you might be SOL.
they will not work at all on Sprint.
again, this is all on the assumption the full model# is SM-G920A. if it’s the G920F - you’ll get some love on both sprint and verizon’s 4G/LTE networks.
@Moose chalk this one up to impulse, cancel my order please.
@JesseA420 You’ll probably be best served contacting support for this.
https://meh.com/support
@Moose way to drop some info and bail again, lol
a) would have bought it if it was a week or two earlier. just got a new phone.
b) these are refurbs, and were offered on woots at the same price. while its a nice phone, I think these are hard to root. and since refurb watch out of KNOX app set up by previous owner. you’ll be effed.
Now that it’s mostly OOS, anyone still wanting one of these might look for a used/refurb Note 3 or Note 4 (both w sd slot and removable battery) or a used/refurb Nexus 6. All likely for similar $ if you look around. All phablets.
@f00l unlocked att note 4 starting at $234 at swappa https://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-note-4-att/us
best thing about the note 4 is the micro sd card and the removeable battery
If the past history of inventory holds for VMPs remains the same (at 5%), there’s just 11 phones still available come 4 PM EDT.
@narfcake close . 15 left for vmp. sold out in 60 seconds
@communist There were some order cancellations in the interim. The sales were at 218 earlier.
@communist
/giphy gone in sixty seconds
Hazzah! 2 gold ones
What type of paint works best on phones?
@rileyper
@jmkiii I like the gold one. So shiny!
@rileyper It was me, I had 2 and could not add the 3rd.
/giphy not-sorry
holy cow I didn’t have a chance at 3pm cst
It’s times like these I’m proud to be a VMP. In for the gold!
@mattsayar olympic effort
@mattsayar USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
The Gold, they be all gone.
I kept adding phones only to see some weird half screen. Figured out (too late that you were out of some colors.) Got 2 of the 3 I wanted.
To be honest if it does not work with Spint, Boost TPO whatever I really do now want them. I figured it would work because:
Unlocked for use with just about any carrier this side of Mars
mine still says “processing”
My contract ended 2 days ago. sniffle
@elysiumplain Estimated Delivery
Friday, August 26th - Monday, August 29th
if you dont get a shipping update by friday
contact meh.com/support
@communist Really? My plan rolls over on the 28th or 29th and I’d really like it to be here by then…
@jdeha 24 hours without poke’mans 2 hard.
@elysiumplain That’s why I’ve bought a new phone - my current phone won’t run Pokemon GO and it’s so tragic!
@elysiumplain Mine still says processing as well and the charge on my credit card is no longer there. I’m seriously starting to wonder if my order was canceled or delayed so they removed the charge till it ships/cancels. Contacted meh support and am waiting for a response.
@masteraero Maybe yes, maybe no. If they don’t follow through on the fee-hold within X days, it automatically releases and they have to reapply it when they ship. So it could just be that. Or it could be they’re in a serious discussion with the vendor about which providers the phones will absolutely and completely work with, and people are having conniptions and figuring out what to do with it. (Me, I want to run this at Consumer Cellular, and they’ve got ATT compatibility out the wazoo. So I definitely want the phone even if other providers will choke on it’s frequencies.)
@getkind Thanks, I did not know about the hold release. Good information for future pending charges as well
@getkind Looks like there was a problem on my end as well. Due to recent move my billing address has changed. Bank was sluggish to change card billing over to new address (over a month, after putting in request) but now of all times decided to require new address for purchases.
Updated it on my account and sent email to support. Hopefully they will get it and try to charge with new address when they attempt to ship item.
All Fixed. Shipped status.
Where’s MIne lol
@kylero Same place as mine.
/giphy sad
Where’s yours
@kylero With yours. /Sarcasm
/giphy Waiting is the hardest part
Serious:
I am here having fun, if you need to know sooner you need to get customer service
https://meh.com/support
Text [a phone number]
@kylero This is a discussion area for customers to chat amongst themselves/ourselves. If you’re looking for an answer from customer service, you have to ask them directly. Click on Account at the top of the page, choose “my orders”, and on the order for your phone click the “I need help with this” button.
hey @thumperchick @moose whatever mod is here… can you 555 this persons number (and this post?) ???
So much impatience here
@mfladd trying my damndest not to be impatient. I’ve already got a cute case for it!
@lucasoutloud got a picture of the case?
@lucasoutloud Is it purple?
@communist
It’s got these little hearts that float around in whatever liquid they’ve put in there.
@narfcake not quite
here’s some pants being filled with tacos to entertain you all while you wait. (or maybe they’re hot dogs. whatever.)
@carl669 those are hot dogs
Better hurry my new phone is here… wife and kid waiting on me.
/giphy potential riot
@caffeine_dude Edit wife and kid are waiting on Meh. (phone’s spell check edited “meh” to “me”)
To be clear I ordered a different phone after I could not get one for me from Meh.com and wife and kid are getting a refurbished Galaxy s6 from Meh.com (some day).
PSA
Don’t forget to order sim chips if you need them.
Well the charge showed back up on my bank statement, so that’s progress, of a sort. Yo, Meh, what the hey?
@getkind Yay! Shipped, and made it to Hutchins, TX, to arrive here by Thursday Sept 1.
Shipped.
/giphy celebrate
@caffeine_dude SO that is where kids learn to strap roman candles to their bodies.
Don’t worry guys, FedEx sent me an email especially to remind me that I will receive updates on this shipment to my phone.
Still waiting…
But I can play Combo Pool while I wait!
Wow another fedex update pushing delivery back another 2 days. I don’t care so much about meh service on my contigo cups or the salad bento boxes i am stockpiling -
but something like a 259.00 phone - i sorta thought it would actually be handled a little better.
@YETB when did you get your shipping confirmation/tracking number? I haven’t even gotten that yet. Sent them another email this morning asking for an update. I’ve ordered several things from Meh with no problems before. This was ridiculous a week ago. Now it’s to the point that if there isn’t an update I will be seeking a refund or disputing it with my credit card company. Very vague communication on their part as to what the issue is. Very unprofessional and very poor business demeanor.
@YETB You should clarify your point - but know that encapsulation is one of the goals behind the mail service…We’re all disappointed to not have them yet.
@philly Shipping says 26-29th. I would give it till the end of the day and contact customer support to make sure it went through.
@elysiumplain I messaged support earlier this morning asking for an update. They just now replied and simply referred me back to the email they sent last week which said there was a delay in receiving the phones to their warehouse, and that I would receive an update when my purchase ships. It appears from the comments above that some people have received shipping confirmation/tracking numbers, so that’s reassuring. Just curious what the delay is on mine and support doesn’t seem to want to say anything beyond your typical “customer service speak.”
@philly My order is still “processing” too. It’s frustrating that some people are getting shipment confirmations while the rest of us hope the order will ship this week.
@uncfanjustin - When I emailed support this morning they reiterated it would ship “this week.” I asked if they could give a more specific time frame for shipment and received this reply. Interpret as you will:
“AUG 30, 2016 | 10:38AM CDT
Holly replied:
We’re shipping these out the door as soon as we can, but I can’t be more specific than today, tomorrow, or Thursday at this time. I promise we’re working on it to get everything out as fast as we can.”
It’s Tuesday the 30th…My phone is 60 miles away, sitting in a fedex shake container going through the package durability testing. Delivery estimated to be on Friday the 2nd. I guess the guys at the fedex hub want first dibs on their new phone.
@nfi Same for me. My phone is exactly 100mi away and finally switching hands from Fedex to USPS. Supposed to arrive on the 2nd. I have never been more impatient.
Just for clarification - my shipping notice was 8/25
@YETB Yep…mine too…
Just got mine. It thinks it is a verizon phone
. I have yet to try my t-mobile sim on it…
@jmkiii Did it come with credit card swiper on the side?
@jmkiii Keep us posted. I want to activate mine on Sprint. Crossing my fingers for no issues but since this is coming from meh I’m trying not to have high hopes…
@fakhourydn see below
So is it only VMP members that have gotten notification of shipment on these? It appears most people commenting about shipping/tracking have the VMP indicator by their username.
Just curious.
@philly Meh sends out the VMP orders first. https://mediocre.com/vmp
@Barney That’s what I figured. I was a VMP member for a few months but got to where I wasn’t ordering often enough to make it worth it. Guess it would have been helpful in this instance though. Oh well.
@Barney WAIT ! What !!! VMP orders get shipped first? Did NOT realize that. Guess I should read the details of the exclusive clubs I belong to. So many…
I feel special - and somehow Justified…
@YETB Congratulations on being special.
@Barney Well looks like us peons have finally made it to the front of the line
Got notification of shipping last night
Woo, finally shipped!
I ended up with one sprint branded (G920A) and one verizon branded (G920V). The V seems to work for calls, but not data, and it has a notification complaining about my non-verizon sim card. The A seems to work for data and calls. I’m wondering if I just need to root them to remove the branding stuff, or maybe that wouldn’t do it. Maybe I need to talk to Meh. They came with warranty cards saying that rooting voids the 90 day warranty
.
KNOX is valid on both.
@jmkiii G920A is AT&T. Sprint would be G920P I believe. What network are you using them on? And just to be clear did you order both of these from this meh sale? I thought the description somewhere said they were all AT&T, unlocked.
@philly Sorry, had not had my coffee yet… Both phones were ordered from Meh. I should have said AT&T instead if Sprint, but everything else is correct. I got one G920V and one G920A. Additionally, I tried Pingpongroot and it failed to run on both phones.
@philly I’m on T-Mobile.
@jmkiii See this has me a little concerned as to which model I’ll get. When the phone first listed on Aug. 18 I recall the listing saying these were the AT&T version unlocked. I ordered because an AT&T phone would work for me. If I get a Verizon version then I may be SOL. The ironic thing is Woot.com had these on sale a couple days after meh for almost the same price. Much better description of which phone you were ordering. I had already ordered this one though assuming it was AT&T model. Now the shipment has taken twice as long as they originally said and it sounds like I could end up getting a Verizon phone contrary to the original description (that seems to have vanished from the product listing). Not impressed with this one Meh.
@jmkiii Not totally sure what’s going on there but shoot us a message if you haven’t already. https://meh.com/support.
@philly I’m pretty pissed as well - for 15$ more I could have gotten the same thing from another site, verified AT&T model. Instead I wanted to support the company I trusted, and now I am paying by limited service without 4G or LTE capabilities due to a Sprint model phone.
@elysiumplain I’ve got my fingers crossed that I’ll get the AT&T version that was advertised. If not hopefully Meh will make it right. If all else fails I will dispute the charge with my credit card issuer. I like Meh and am happy to support them with purchases. But at the end of the day they are a company promising products to customers. It’s one thing to flub on a $5 item. Different story when you’re talking a couple hundred bucks a pop and multiple customers having the same issues.
Received my phone today. When I try to activate my (Sprint branded) phone on Ringplus, the website says “This device has failed the Financial Eligibilty Date (FED) check.” I have contacted Meh about this. Anyone else having a similar experience?
Additionally I cannot register the device for warranty because it doesn’t recognize the serial number.
@fakhourydn if you haven’t already, shoot us an email. https://meh.com/support
@hollboll Already sent one earlier although I haven’t heard back yet. Appreciate you following up.
Update: Meh is processing a return and refund.
Wow. Suffice it to say, I’m greatly disappointed with meh at this point. Having purchased several other items in the past with no foul-ups, this instance is making me question their business model. The morning these went on sale, I though, Ok, I’ll wait till the halt period ends and place my order. I have the original Galaxy S, and thought it must be time to retire it since no current apps will load on the old OS. However this “waiting” around for a shipment notification on a $250 purchase is getting old already. Hey meh, when you “sell” something, you should probably have it “in stock” so the customer feels like what they just spent their money on was actually worth the effort of a purchase. At this point (looks like it will be over 2 weeks for me to experience the new phone) its beginning to feel like a bad HS relationship, where you realize the the cheerleader isn’t actually going to put out like she did for the rest of the football team. I say get it together sessakcaj. When you accept money for the sale of an item that you do not have, and cannot seem to deliver on, it constitutes an act of fraud. You may actually make good on the “Gr8 deal”, yet I can assure you that the lingering sour taste that this transaction has left in my mouth will greatly limit any future purchases from you regardless of the perceived value…
@lwobaekoms So you say you have purchased several items “with no foul-ups” and now that there has been one screw up, you are accusing Meh of fraud. Shit happens even with the best of companies. Don’t worry, Meh will make it right. But if I were Meh, I’d be looking for a better quality of customer.
@Barney
A-fucking-men. So say we all.
The phone is unlocked and registered with sprint network (so it’s encoded for sprint) but will work on any carrier. That’s the theory anyway…
NOTE: must register servicereg within 14 days of purchase, the serial number is not the one on the shipping label, nor is it the IMEI, it is the serial etched in the phone backing. It is easier to read with a flashlight.
Off to ATT store for nano-sim clone and upon return will validate Sprint phone working on ATT network.
@elysiumplain But I am leaving for a month or more for family emergency stuff and will never see the phone until later. @hollboll, I shall be emailing you about this.
@mfladd You don’t need any authentication for registering. just someone you trust.
@elysiumplain well - for 15$ more I could have gotten the same thing from another site, verified AT&T model. Instead I wanted to support the company I trusted, and now I am paying by limited service without 4G or LTE capabilities due to a Sprint model phone.
@elysiumplain what number exactly is it? can you give more details about how to identify the serial number? Thanks!
@elysiumplain same issue here. I received an SM-G920SP. I can’t find on the internet what provider this phone originally belonged to. I can only get 3G so far with AT&T. Great. Just great.
Wow, i totally would have bought if i could have selected a verizon model. Glad i didn’t though…this time.
@jaybird You wouldn’t happen to be in Austin, would you?
@jmkiii my phone is the Verizon model and I’m on T-Mobile. I’m sending Meh an email to start the return process but if you’re in Austin and wanting the Verizon model I’m down to give you all the stuff for the price I paid for it.
@bardicwarrior @jmkill…i need to pay attention more…sorry. Not in Austin. Would have been nice though…thanks.
Received my phone today- a SM-G920V and locked to Verizon. Red Verizon loading screen on startup and error notification that it is a non-Verizon SIM card. Data and calls do not work on my AT&T SIM, so this phone is useless to me. Not at all what I expected from an “unlocked (will work with all carriers)” GSM phone.
I’ve spent $1,000+ here and been a VMP member since September 2014, but this will likely be my last meh purchase. Great deals and they do their best to set things right, but I just don’t have time for this hassle.
@mgroppo We all knew going in on this item that it was questionable. I wouldn’t write them out completely. That is - I’ll be happy to give them time to make things right. The frustration with a phone is REAL though.
@mgroppo unlocked does not under any circumstances mean ‘will work with all carriers’. Unlocked means that it’s not locked to a specific carrier. Technological limitations still apply and there is nothing about locking or unlocking your phone that will make a GSM unit work on a CDMA carrier or vice versa. Verizon is a CDMA provider, AT&T is GSM, you received a CDMA model and need to contact support to have things made right.
Here is the message I just sent Meh just in case anyone else is going through it with their phone.
This phone is not unlocked. Upon inserting my t-mobile sim card, a pop-up appeared “SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN” and then “ENTER NETWORK LOVE CONTROL KEY”. Since I don’t have any numbers I exited these windows. Then the drop down menu displayed “Invalid sim card. Network locked sim card inserted”. After a lot of phone calls to both t-mobile and AT&T, an AT&T rep sent me to att.com/deviceunlock where I was able to insert my imei code and immediately received the message “This device isn’t eligible to be unlocked now because all the installment payments have not been paid. Login to your account to check your payoff information and pay the installments online. You can submit a new request 24 hours after you make the payment.”
Please help!
@tatims The legal code on this states the carrier must unlock phone, provided your contract term is up, and phone does not belong to active user on another provider who has not paid off the phone which was sold to you.
2)the phone is registered with another account which is not paid off. (this one would 100% verify that Meh got shafted by a bad Vendor…let us know if you can find any further info).
@elysiumplain The latter applies, I have no problems with contract. I have tmobile and the s6 is at&t. After I wrote the previous message I checked the camera and noticed the images on rear-facing have about 3 dozen dark spots ranging in size and color… and it’s not a dirty lens (on the outside, anyway)… Also the glass on both sides didn’t seem level with the borders. I mention this because even if you did get a phone that works with your carrier the refurbishing can be crappy so make sure to check it thoroughly.
I was really excited for the phone, I had already bought the ballistic screen protector and 3 phone cases. I can return screen protector and 1 phone case but I already tossed the packaging for the others:/ Kinda my fault for purchasing before I saw the phone but didn’t see these problems coming
The people at Meh have been great at responding through customer service emails. Super fast, too : )
I think we all noticed Meh got gypped, I hope they don’t have too much trouble recuperating their investment from their vendor
Very disappointed. Mine arrived looking in decent enough shape. Just got back from T-Mobile today, this phone is LOCKED TO VERIZON. Just unbelievable.
False advertising much?
Sounds like this is a pervasive issue based on all of the comments. Depending on how this pans out probably would not buy from Meh again, nor recommend it.
I sent an email to support, hopefully there’s a fix for it, or if not they at least cover the shipping for me to send this dud back to wherever it came from. Get what you pay for, eh?
Also, 2 week shipping, but you must register within 14 days from the invoice date. Anyone else see the problem with that?!
@Theroop they might be slow to reply but they are not a scam they will make it right I guarantee it.
Signed,
A random person from the internet
@Theroop few things:
From what a lot of y’all are saying, I’m very nervous to be getting the phone in the mail. This was my first ever meh purchase and this so far isn’t making a great impression.
@lucasoutloud They might have been ripped off by their vendor, but they’re not ripoff artists themselves. If it ain’t good, they’ll make good on it.
@lucasoutloud what he said…be angry about the switch up, but be wise with where you direct your anger.
@getkind It seems to me that they should have done their due diligence in ensuring they were actually selling what they said they were.
@lucasoutloud they had yet to take delivery of the devices from the supplier. Meh is not a large company, they can’t afford to float tens of thousands of dollars in a single SKU long-term so I would expect that the listing went up within days of the purchase agreement being signed. I sincerely believe that everything posted to the listing in terms of information was true to the best of Meh’s knowledge.
The issues described thus far, except for the model type issue which can most likely be blamed on the vendor who sold Meh the phones, are all limited to either carrier mismanagement when they took in the returned phone (mind that these are refurbs) or user ignorance of the differences between different cell providers and their attempts to activate CDMA configured phones on GSM networks, all of which stems from the model issue.
@jbartus thanks for the wall of text, but everything already turned out for the best if you’ll scroll down just a bit
My phones arrived today and I’ll email customer service. I ordered 3 phones with the intention of running them as 3 lines. Offering described them as ex ATT but unlocked and suitable for all carriers. They are from 3 carriers. One is SM-G920P, the second is SM-G920V, the third is SM-G920A.
I called Consumer Cellular and set up my 3 line account and ordered 3 SIM cards before I realized they are all different carriers/models. Consumer Cellular terms for BYOD say “Your phone should either be a Consumer Cellular phone, a phone previously used with AT&T or T‑Mobile, or an unlocked GSM phone”. I hope I’m not out of luck.
Plus the warranty info says the phone must be registered with them within 14 days of invoice date. Would that be the date meh billed my card?
@getkind these are unlocked so they should qualify. However that does come with the negative fact that for those on ATT who did not get ATT model phone, you will not have 4g/LTE service. only 3g
@getkind Let’s suppose that meh had some cash flow problems with this deal, so they ran the sale without product in hand to collect the cash to pay the vendor to deliver the product to them so they could ship it to the purchasers. Purchasers paid $55,856. Meh conceivably could have to refund that money while chasing after the vendor to recover the cash laid out. Ouch. Cash flow problems intensify.
@getkind cost of doing business. That’s why most have warranty, as it only qualifies while the company exists and isn’t bankrupt.
I was very close to buying this. Hopefully the carrier stuff is sorted next time* they sell them. 'Cause if I know they’re good on ATT, I’m’a jumping on it.
*If there is, but more likely when
Am I the only one to get one with a bunch of small scratches on the front? front
@putterwonder looks like the previous owner loved to have sand in their pocket.
@putterwonder That is horrible!
I think Meh got scammed by their supplier on this one. Can not use on Verizon. Previous owner didn’t pay their bill. WHAT! Will not activate. Blah… Plus the thing looks “used and abused” not “refurbished.” I think these might be “repo” phones.
I received my phone today (16 days after invoice date) and the Warranty registration refuses to register the serial number. sent a note to meh service.
ps. I did receive an AT&T version. will update if i can get it activated etc. (trying to activate on Cricket)
@YETB no activation is needed if it’s an existing line, just swap the SIM card over… if it’s a new line they sell the cricket sim kits at target, walmart, gas stations, etc.
@thismyusername
Hey - thanks a bunch for posting this TIP - not a phone wiz - did NOT realize it was that easy. you saved me a trip to Cricket (and the eye roll and disdain of the clerk as they explained the same thing).
Appreciate the help ! (ps - it worked fine !)
Crap both my phones are not compatible with TotalWireless. (My nexus 6p phones are).
I found something else out too. I need to contact customer service.
@caffeine_dude TotalWireless is a CDMA carrier operating on Verizon’s network, the advertised phone was never meant to work on your carrier.
@jbartus It said any carrier. One of my phones was a Verizon phone.
@caffeine_dude ugh the sale listing got edited it seems. What happens with the Verizon one?
@jbartus I am not sure I should say in the forums.
@caffeine_dude … O_o woah, cryptic
@caffeine_dude that sounds ominous…
Has anyone attempted to get a refund from Meh on these? Mine is still en route but just curious what to expect if don’t get an AT&T version or it won’t activate or if I get a damaged phone like some are getting. Is Meh working to resolve these issues?
@philly no @snapster is halfway to costa rica now!!! he is on the run and you will never catch him!!!
/s
yes they will make it right if it is wrong, just remember it’s meh… give them time to respond to the overload.
@philly So at least one person in this thread is getting a refund- others probably are, but there’s at least one person who posted about it: https://meh.com/forum/topics/unlocked-samsung-galaxy-s6-32gb-smartphone-refurbished#57c978364de1a8140a4f0e96
@philly customer service wants me to wait until I get my SIM cards from Consumer Cellular to test the phones (one ATT, one Sprint, one Verizon) to see which, if any, won’t work on their network before they’ll authorize a return.
@getkind Just received my shipment. I received a Sprint branded phone (920P) instead of the AT&T version that was originally advertised. The phone I received is not compatible with my wireless network. I contacted support and will see what they say about a return.
UPDATE: Decided to give it a second try on my network (Cricket) and lo and behold it worked this time. Not sure what the difference was as I followed the same process as I did when I got the phone. Anyway glad it works.
@getkind Consumer Cellular operates on AT&T and T-Mobile’s GSM networks, you’re lucky in that you have a Sprint model which has decent GSM support but is not going to be able to access the full network for either carrier. The Verizon phone doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
@jbartus @getkind I might have mixed up the Verizon variant with the US Cellular one, you still might want to check this out: https://meh.com/forum/topics/unlocked-samsung-galaxy-s6-32gb-smartphone-refurbished#57cd44d4fb66ff400a234b63
It says unlocked mine came in locked to sprint. Tried to call sprint to unlock said I need to old user pin. Which did not come on paperwork… Now I have expensive paper weight?
@deathrow goto your orders page, click the “I need help with this” button under the order and explain your issue.
Give them time, customer support won’t be back till monday and I am guessing they are a bit deluged in issues with these phones. It might not be quick but they tend to make things right, fear not.
@thismyusername And Monday’s a holiday
I hope so
What is servicereg123? Who runs it?
Despite my doubts from other posts, the phone works just peachy! I got the Sprint model but it works perfectly on Cricket, which is GSM. Well done, Meh.
@lucasoutloud Thank you for posting this.
@lucasoutloud
Mine too - also Cricket activation - no issues (some ATT bloatware-but all else seems OK)
@lucasoutloud Just got mine (Sprint model) working on Cricket as well. So far so good.
@lucasoutloud @philly you should be aware that you will have a fair amount of network access to the network Cricket uses (AT&T’s) but not full 4G FDD LTE access. It’s up to you to determine how significant an issue that is.
@lucasoutloud I received the Sprint model. When I tried to activate it with Ting, they could not activate it because the previous owner had an unpaid balance with his phone company. Now I am stuck.
@martyc I can’t help you. File a ticket with meh.
Hows you get ur sprint model to work on cricket, did cricket unlock for u?
@deathrow power off both phones, remove sim from current phone, insert sim into new phone, power on
edit: if you are getting a SIM LOCK error… then there is an issue wait for customer care to get back to you about how to proceed
@deathrow After doing as @thisismyusername says, you’ll also need to update your APN settings on the phone to match cricket’s in order to get mobile data and MMS working properly
@lucasoutloud I got a text message from cricket with the settings. Just hit install and it set everything up it came automatically within minutes
@deathrow Cricket should work fine on a Sprint model because the Sprint model covers all of the AT&T model’s GSM bands but not all of the 4G FDD LTE bands which will limit your access to 4G depending on band coverage in your area as compared to a proper AT&T model. (Cricket uses AT&T’s network)
@jbartus Actually the Sprint version seems to fully support Cricket’s LTE bands. Cricket operates on bands 2, 4, 5, and 17 (which AT&T also broadcasts as band 12 through MFBI). This phone supports, among others, bands 2, 4, 5, and 12. It does not support band 17 directly, but since AT&T allows interoperability between bands 17 and 12 this does not seem to be an issue. For instance, I am currently showing connected (on my sprint branded Galaxy S6) to AT&T band 17 even though this model does not directly support band 17. The frequencies utilized in band 17 are a subset of the entire range of frequencies of band 12. It would appear AT&T has allowed interoperability between the two bands, whereas they used to not. This is a good thing in terms of being able to keep your same device between carriers.
@philly yeah I was mixing up a couple of models in my head, it’s kind of hard to keep them all straight at times!
Sprint models should be in good shape for AT&T as it hits all of the important spots, Verizon on the other hand is missing all of the 700 MHz range which is unfortunate as it really screws it for AT&T customers. U.S. Cellular’s variant is totally screwed unless you’re in a solid LTE coverage area for use on AT&T as it doesn’t support any of the 2/3G bands/frequencies.
@jbartus Interoperability has gotten better with the move to LTE but with various bands and all the variants in phone models it is definitely confusing. So far I seem to have my normal network coverage though so that’s good.
@philly yeah with LTE things got way better but there are coverage concerns for people who live or travel outside the larger metro areas and suburbs potentially having service issues if LTE is under developed in their area
@deathrow I received the Sprint model. When I tried to activate it with Ting, they could not activate it because the previous owner had an unpaid balance with his phone company. Now I am stuck.
im stuck, phones still locked and sprint wont unlock without last owners pin code plus phone number
A Brief Commentary on Phone Unlocking
I need to clear up what seems to be a popular misconception here, namely the definition of ‘unlocked’ as pertains to cellular telephones. Unlocked does not mean compatible with all carriers, it means that a given phone is not restricted to a specific carrier.
When a phone is ‘locked’ it is restricted by software such that it can only be used with a specific network or carrier, you cannot take a ‘locked’ T-Mobile phone and insert an AT&T SIM card card into the phone, the software will prevent the phone from loading the foreign SIM card and it will effectively be a paper weight until such time as it is either unlocked or an appropriate SIM card is inserted into the phone.
With that said, let’s move on to more important matters…
On The Topic of Network Compatibility
Assuming the supplier did their job right (so far it looks like they didn’t) all of the phones received should be unlocked. With that said, they are not all compatible with a given carrier, there are five main models (there may be limited availability of a sixth but I don’t think the global variant was sold here in the states and the rest of the variants are all international versions) of the Samsung Galaxy S6 sold in the United States, they are as follows:
See those voice and data columns? They’re really important, and what sucks is even with all of those acronyms nobody understands it gets even more complicated! Even though Sprint and Verizon and US Cellular all share EV-DO and LTE they don’t necessarily operate within the same frequencies bands as each other meaning a phone designed for one network might not be compatible with another, at least not with every feature.
I’ve tried to assemble a table using what is publicly available regarding the frequencies and bands each carrier operates within and then cross-indexed each model according to Samsung’s specs regarding network compatibility. Some information is not entirely clear or is explicit on one source but missing or slightly different on another. In general, you should look at the checked off bands for your carrier’s version of the phone and compare them against the other variants’ coverage of those same bands within your carrier’s operating frequencies to get a general idea of what kind of service might suffer depending on the coverage in your area.
Spreadsheet
I cannot emphasize enough how important band coverage matters, and further how important it is that your carrier’s coverage is matched by any phone you wish to use. The carriers all worked directly with Samsung to develop the phones for their network, so any coverage areas listed on this chart were considered important enough to spend money on R&D for by the carrier. If you do not have full coverage of the bands your carrier specified with the model you received you should really think carefully about how important that service is to you, if you don’t use LTE much then it might not matter if you’re dead in some areas other customers of your carrier aren’t, it’s just something you’ll have to decide for yourself.
Some things of note. AT&T is phasing out their GSM / EDGE service by January 1, 2017 so it’s not something you want to be dependent on. Similarly, Verizon will be shutting down their 3G CDMA network by December 31, 2019.
@jbartus more notes I got edit blocked on before I could share:
T-Mobile is removing UMTS / HSPA+ 3G coverage from their 1700/2100 MHz band 4 to make room for more LTE coverage.
As for US Cellular customers… nice to meet you, didn’t know there still were such people! You guys have so few frequencies and/or bands you should probably treat each one as vital.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jbartus I forgot to mention one more thing. Lots of people aren’t using one of the big five carriers. Check this list and look at the requirements for whoever your carrier leases from on my sheet to see if the phone you got will work to your satisfaction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators
@jbartus Quality post. Meh forums on top.
@vanslaterco thanks.
So, if meh receives any verizon models back and wants to sell one to me (at a substantial markdown of course), i could be parted with tens of dollars
@jaybird Contact Customer Service, meh.com/support. I’m not sure if they always read this thread.
@Barney OOOH! you mean like a side deal? maybe that could be another lab experiment.
of course my comment is more tongue and cheek, but i am at least 2/3 serious. maybe i should message @hollboll
@Barney also, i suspect that the returned phones are going to go directly back to the supplier who messed the whole thing up in the first place so meh wouldn’t necessarily have any leftovers for me.
@jaybird Maybe, maybe not. Meh could get stuck with them. Who knows? It wouldn’t hurt to check in with Customer Service. I’d hate to see you get stuck with tens of dollars in your pockets.
@Barney You make an excellent point. Nobody wants tens of dollars in their pockets.
@jaybird I want tens of dollars in my pockets, please feel free to allow me to relieve you of your burden.
I got stuck. My phone company will not activate the phone because the previous owner has an unpaid balance with his phone company.
@martyc Did you write to Meh support? https://meh.com/support