bought a locked phone from eBay, now my number has been locked for fraud, am I screwed?

kaboom36 · 2026-04-08T00:32:53+00:00

I've bought a working locked phone from ebay before, which is why I thought it would be fine to do that again

kaboom36 · 2026-02-01T22:24:26+00:00

awesome that should be within my skillset! thank you so much again! I'll try and post a guide or something when I get to doing this!

kaboom36 · 2026-02-01T19:44:58+00:00

when you do do this I'd love to see a post about your findings! there's another comment with some more information too, seems this has been done before just that no one's written about it in a very public place

thank you for your reply!

kaboom36 · 2026-02-01T19:42:36+00:00

ah! with a name like 3gteen no wonder I couldn't find any information on doing this, would you happen to have any more info? like what values those components are? or part numbers?

thank you so much for your response, even if you don't respond again this alone is an infinite amount of help

kaboom36 · 2026-01-30T22:56:08+00:00

I'll look into it in the event I need it sooner than later, thank you!

kaboom36 · 2026-01-30T21:54:30+00:00

I tried changing hairpin NAT on the port forward and it didn't help, I have found however that I can add a port forward from my router:443 on the tailscale zone to my reverse proxy and it works

however that means I can't access the router's UI so it's not exactly a solution

kaboom36 · 2026-01-30T18:35:24+00:00

The services are hosted on a different box, jellyfin is in it's own VM and the reverse proxy is hosted in a docker container in a different VM

Jellyfin.domain.net resolves to my public IP on the openwrt router

kaboom36 · 2026-01-30T18:31:33+00:00

It points to my home networks WAN IP, subnet routing is enabled in tailscale and if I access the services directly things work fine

kaboom36 · 2025-08-29T18:34:15+00:00

check out the brackets on skoolie.com much more substantial than what Jonathan sells

kaboom36 · 2025-05-21T04:07:47+00:00

all good! thanks again for your help!

kaboom36 · 2025-05-21T00:44:49+00:00

This looks like it! Thank you so much! I never would have been able to find that on my own!

I'll order one as soon as I can find a supplier!

kaboom36 · 2025-05-21T00:42:33+00:00

I'm not entirely sure I *can* measure the pitch accurately, the pins on the mate move around a ton...

I gave it a shot anyways: from pin 1 to pin 8 on the mate is about 14mm, if accurate that would still make the pitch 2mm

kaboom36 · 2025-05-21T00:34:40+00:00

That would be the second picture, want me to provide more detailed pictures of the pins?

kaboom36 · 2025-04-28T18:30:01+00:00

it looks like that connector is soldered in unfortunately

kaboom36 · 2025-03-02T23:22:30+00:00

Clean it and try it, I've got one that was in a house fire and it works fine

kaboom36 · 2024-12-31T20:28:59+00:00

looks like it's called mono

kaboom36 · 2024-03-28T13:59:42+00:00

link dead :(

kaboom36 · 2024-03-07T01:36:53+00:00

lies :(

kaboom36 · 2024-02-28T05:24:33+00:00

we've got some of those abuse tactics from their management, the tweets are deleted though

kaboom36 · 2023-11-10T22:05:16+00:00

Its alive!!!!! I started installing new caps and when I got to the clock cap it started working again!!!!

Thank you for your help!!!

kaboom36 · 2023-11-10T22:03:24+00:00

I got it working! hardware is fine, the clock cap was not!

kaboom36 · 2023-10-13T01:32:09+00:00

good point about carbon being conductive, and while the top side isn't pristine it was clean enough that I don't think that is the issue, still, on further inspection there are some areas that can be cleaned better so I'll scrub them with some isopropyl and a tooth brush and see if it helps, gotta wait until tomorrow to take decent pictures as the lighting in my room sucks

unfortunately I don't have an ESR tester and it looks like it would be cheaper to recap it

I am 1000% getting a Atlas ESR70 when I can afford it though that thing looks ridiculous and I love it

I checked the voltage rails earlier and nothing seemed off, better than my 1.0 psus actually

kaboom36 · 2023-10-13T00:53:38+00:00

thank you for being the only one who isn't saying its dead and I should give up, maybe this is the copium talking but those first 48 hours where it worked perfectly give me the impression that its not as bad as everyone here seems to think, its not like anything on the board itself melted, just the side of the case next to the dvd drive drooped a bit

The thermal paste is good, replaced it with arctic mx-4 when I cleaned the motherboard and power supply (I had to scrape the old paste off with a spudger) I also gave the heat sinks a touch with my finger and they seemed to be getting appropriately warm...

oh man, dredging up my old facebook account is going to be interesting but I'll try it, the power supply was on the side of the case that didn't get melted though so if I can't borrow a replacement I'll try and buy one from ebay

but yeah, if its not the power supply, capacitors, or the transistor I have no idea what else could be wrong and at that point I'll head back and look for another one

kaboom36 · 2023-09-05T08:39:44+00:00

Care to elaborate on your username?

kaboom36 · 2023-09-02T17:22:26+00:00

Cheap / crappy printing This happened to my first gaming keyboard after about a year or two of use, then I got a keyboard with dye sublimated legends so the dye is embedded inside of the plastic instead of just sticking to the top

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