How to damage a Galaxy S3 in order to get warranty replacement?

kalashcc · Oct 4, 2012

What's up. So the basic question is :
"How to damage a Samsung Galaxy S3 in order to get warranty replacement?"

The story is short: I kinda badly fucked up the sides of my new phone, which can't be replaced. (Or can, but you need to buy whole screen which costs 1/2 price of the actual ohone). The idea is simple, to damage the processor or the screen, I mean anything, just to make it look like factory spoilage.

Any GOOD ideas hehe?

Appreciate.

kalashcc · Oct 4, 2012

all ideas welcome.

Theabove · Oct 4, 2012

try to fry the processor using wrong mA charger or something similar.

akinova · Oct 4, 2012

Bro first check what they cover and don't cover in warranty and then try all methods.

http://www.samsung.com/in/support/warranty/spp3_Mobile_Phones.html

Badger · Oct 5, 2012

who are you getting warranty under, your carrier, asurion or what? if its your carrier you can just say the phone drops calls and keeps rebooting randomly. theyll run thru troubleshooting and just tell them its persisting even after that and theyll send a replacement.

kalashcc · Oct 5, 2012

Badger said:
who are you getting warranty under, your carrier, asurion or what? if its your carrier you can just say the phone drops calls and keeps rebooting randomly. theyll run thru troubleshooting and just tell them its persisting even after that and theyll send a replacement.

It's not under the carrier, cause I bought SIM free. All new Samsung devices has warranty for 2 years, so my plan is to send directly to Samsung, so those "randomly" won't work.

Thameswater · Oct 5, 2012

get insurance, wait 3 weeks then claim it was stolen?

Badger · Oct 5, 2012

if you have insurance with your carrier it does NOT matter where the phone is from its still covered AND if its under manufacturer warranty your carrier will deal with the replacement.

kalashcc · Oct 5, 2012

Brothers and sisters, my question was how to brake it internally to look like a manufacturer fault. It's obvious, that If I could use the methods u mentioned, I wouldn't ask u for help =] thnx for real advices

akinova · Oct 6, 2012

kalashcc said:
Brothers and sisters, my question was how to brake it internally to look like a manufacturer fault. It's obvious, that If I could use the methods u mentioned, I wouldn't ask u for help =] thnx for real advices

Not sure it will work but try this..

Take two big magnets and place your phone between them and near some hot place then run some benchmark apps to heat up processor and move magnets in this direction, It will might create some stress and maybe your processor or anything else stops working XD

scorpyo · Oct 19, 2012

a friend of mine had one of those apple pods from a large chain electronic store ))
he microwave it for 2 seconds, tried to see if it power on, it did. so nuke again for two seconds ))
keep doing this -- there is no microwave tamper detect

StrictlyBusiness · Oct 23, 2012

Yea nuking it will be best option.

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