19-09-2025 07:41 PM - last edited 19-09-2025 07:43 PM
Hello, I received and "fixed" an old SM-N930F. No, I am not joking. I replaced the screen, which meant taking out the board and placing it into the new midframe that already had some of the components.
Now, after turning it on, only the notification LED lit up, pulsing in blue, the phone vibrated a bit as it does, and nothing else happened. So far I've tried:
-Messaging Samsung about it, they told me to go to a walk-in repair store (there are none in my city)
-Going to a 3rd party repair shop (They looked around, poked around, checked all the connections, didn't find any problems)
-Messaging the person who sold me the replacement screen (I charged the battery for ~1h, disconnected the screen and battery from the board, then reconnected, same result)
Any help would be appreciated. Also please don't ask me why I have an SM-N930F.
19-09-2025 08:02 PM
19-09-2025 08:03 PM
Trust me, I wish I could. The only one in my city was shut down, ironically, around the time when the s8 came out.
19-09-2025 08:29 PM
20-09-2025 09:53 AM
Bumping this a bit, but I've scheduled a small checkup at a 3rd-party service center for Monday. I'll see what they'll say. I doubt it's a board problem, but it could be.