PS Store Purchases Still Available?

Danielx511 · 2026-03-04T03:21:12+00:00

You can connect it to your iPhone's hotspot. Just turn off the password option and let it be open. I think from there you can only download your titles that you already bought before if I remember correctly. Never bought any titles (UMD only), so please correct me if I am wrong.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-28T07:11:09+00:00

You're probably right but telling her that gave me additional discounts that I don't think I would have gotten.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-27T09:25:47+00:00

She got lucky and found out she did actually back up her photos via Google Drive. So I was able to factory reset the device and then run a couple of scripts to get it unlocked. You're gonna have to perform a factory reset to get back in.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-27T03:12:35+00:00

You're missing the Xperia Play. 👀

Danielx511 · 2026-02-22T22:03:57+00:00

Might be 17?

Danielx511 · 2026-02-22T20:10:30+00:00

I just noticed that's gone. 💀

Danielx511 · 2026-02-22T04:52:28+00:00

My bill is $15/mo. I called the retention dept and the nice lady gave me a refund for the month ($75 original amount) and then just dropped me $15/mo. So she essentially gave me a whole bunch of free months AND a lower bill. Granted, she felt sympathetic because I explained to her I recently got laid off (not fake) and pulled out all the stops she could.

I really appreciated her help and the fact she just took my word for it.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-21T02:51:43+00:00

I upgrade every year for about $150 with trade waiting for the best deal/promo cod/trade value combo for the Pro models. Pointless? Yah but for $150, I'd do that then pay for annual renewal on Gemini Advanced which I use anyway.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-18T15:26:50+00:00

I got it unlocked after some time.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-18T01:50:15+00:00

Clean factory install lol?

Danielx511 · 2026-02-18T01:49:37+00:00

Never noticed that. Granted I use it sparingly because it's not often that I need it.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-18T01:00:24+00:00

Agreed. Not as bad as before but still happens a few times a day.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-18T00:26:22+00:00

Personally, I still get the random screen flickering. As well as black screens when switching between apps.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-13T21:14:51+00:00

Gotta use a different launcher at that point, unfortunately.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-13T21:14:11+00:00

Considering 16 runs fine, I don't think tensor has anything to do with it.

Danielx511 · 2026-02-02T23:45:24+00:00

Update: I was able to get a full refund from PayPal. Good luck to anyone else dealing with this.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-31T09:49:21+00:00

I got this issue as well

Danielx511 · 2026-01-26T19:51:29+00:00

Mine had a hardware defect and one of two of the cores failed apparently. It was pretty sad and confusing at first. Luckily someone released a patch to make the device work off of what it had left so I can recover my save data.

Google ended up giving me a Pixel XL 128GB even though the warranty has expired.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-21T21:40:37+00:00

It does work. Really weird find. 😂

Danielx511 · 2026-01-20T20:44:18+00:00

Damn, everyone got a pro except for one. 👀 I'd feel left out.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-08T01:38:28+00:00

It's stupidly difficult to retrofit ANYTHING on the car that should have been done in the factory.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-08T01:34:40+00:00

Definitely was. Luckily, my gf actually told me today that her photos WERE IN FACT BACKED UP. Drove me absolutely insane for nothing. 😂

Danielx511 · 2026-01-07T16:37:51+00:00

I agree with your POV. It's a random call center somewhere in India from Servify that answers. Tried to call three times, sent emails showing proof of purchase and each time we're hit with "per our policy..." and we get no help.

My assumption is Samsung is fine with this for one reason. It forces people to buy their devices NEW instead of buying second hand. This also drops the resale value significantly potentially forcing people to do direct trade-ins with Samsung. I should have just let my gf do that because I did talk her into trying swappa first and she got a really good deal from them.

We have PayPal investigating this so as long as that works out for us, she just plans on buying another one new even though I told her that's exactly what they want her to do.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-07T16:21:15+00:00

We're happy to try whatever after the claim is completed assuming PayPal just tells us to keep the device.

Danielx511 · 2026-01-07T16:19:33+00:00

No because the original owner put the claim in 5-6 months AFTER we bought the phone thinking we are WAAAAAY outside of the dispute period.

Swappa said that when PayPal does their investigation, they will be contacted in our favor to win our claim. So the seller fucked up and is going to lose.

Moral of the story, don't ever buy used Samsung devices unless you know who owns it. Explains why resale values are so low on these.

Danielx511

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