#1:Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G, 128GB, Cloud Navy - Unlocked (Renewed)
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Power of 5G, get next-level power for everything you love to do with Samsung Galaxy 5G, more sharing, more gaming, more experiences and never miss a beat.
Customer reviews
Works good!
Just needed a decent, durable phone for my father that wouldn't break the bank. My father is HARD on phones, drops his on the daily, throws it, loses it, shoves it in pockets with keys and God knows what else. I mean, it's almost torture what his poor devises go through. After a long 4 year term with my father, his phone finally succumbed to its abuse, and thus a new one had to step to the plate. He's had this one for a few months now, and it's passed so far! No scratches so far, he likes the size and says it's perfect for his hand and pocket (he's 6 foot and pretty stout, so not a small man), he says it works fast and that the camera is better than his last!
UNLOCKED!! Great Phone - Like New!
For some inexplicable reason, the product description says "Verizon LOCKED" -- See attached screenshot. I ordered this phone before I noticed this. I contacted the seller and was told these phones are Verizon Factory UNLOCKED. It arrived as UNLOCKED as the seller told me. I popped in the SIM card and it connected to my network and began working immediately. NO PROBLEMS. This phone is UNLOCKED and can be used on most USA cell networks.
I use fingerprint unlock for apps. Fingerprint on this phone works great. It's ON SCREEN. You do not need to find a hidden fingerprint sensor somewhere on the phone. A circle appears and you place your finger in that circle. It fingerprint unlocks immediately.
This phone is fast. It executes commands without delay and has a LOT of internal RAM memory so you can store data and install many apps.
Because it's an older phone, I'm not sure if it will receive future Android OS updates, but it does still receive SECURITY updates, so it's fine for now.
There is one annoying aspect to this phone, but it can be FIXED. You may see repeat notifications that say, "SIM card is not Verizon". You can try every setting, but will never be able to kill this notification. You can kill it by downloading, installing, and purchasing (for $2) the app from Play named, "AutoNotification".
If you long press the notification it will give you the source of the notification. Then, use Autonotification to kill it FOREVER.
It this forever notification doesn't bother you, then you will not need AutoNotification, but if you're like me, it's well worth the $2 to make it go away forever.
If you want to save money buy purchasing an older used phone, this is a great choice.
Great condition! UNLOCKED, one issue called a network unlock code, read review!!
I took photos of the phone the day of arrival but now cant find them.. but the phone came in EXCELLENT condition although the packaging was just a box with little to ensure a safe delivery. The phone was unlocked but a **NETWORK UNLOCK CODE** kept popping up when sim card was insterted. (Thats the photo in this review.) So I swore the phone wasnt unlocked. Reached out to the seller and my carrier which was walmart family mobile. I was told by my carrier i needed a new sim card. So i ordered it and when it finally arrived, boom same error. My carrier reset the sim many times and still no luck. When i had messaged the seller they gave me a code that wasnt right and when i reached out again, still another wrong code. What the phone fails to warn you is that only after a few attempts it will lock you out completely. It will then say **MASTER KEY CODE** needed. I googled what that was and it seemed like a hopeless code to obtain. The startup on the phone says AT & T. So i took it to their store and they had said that yes the phone was unlocked!! But the network was locked to walmart family mobile
which was my carrier . So come to find out the code i needed, the first code, the network unlock code, I needed from my carrier! They absolutely missed it and after days of this mess and ongoing phone calls, finally the walmart family mobile agent on that day in the At&T store had told me the codes i needed from day one. Idk how they just skipped the option and blamed my sim card. The codes arent a secret and im still unsure why they didnt recommend theirs to fix it. I guess they just assumed it wasnt their codes needed. But it was!!! Unbelievable right!! So then were now stuck on master key code and no one, my carrier, nor AT&T, nor samsung can help with that. Due to the sellers wrong codes, me googling the wrong codes, and most of all my carriers support line not mentioning their codes, I was locked out and was gonna return the phone. However AT&T did show me other sim cards put into the phone by other carriers were working. It was still unlocked but just couldnt now be used on family mobile and possibly all tracphone carriers due to the master key code lock. So with that said I swapped to AT&T prepaid and got their sim card and it all worked great! It was recommended to get the sim card from the AT&T store directly because sometimes those sim kits at walmart dont always work correctly and are nonrefundable. So if this issue happens to you just be sure to ask your carrier for those network codes!! The seller now knows what to suggest if this happens to another and I'm telling you that the carrier has the codes and all will be fine. Also the seller offered me a replacement phone and partial refund for this issue. I declined a replacement only because I couldnt send this phone back and await a new one. I was already without a phone long enough dealing with this for days. So the seller at least still gave me a partial refund and that was okay with me. So the customer service is well and fair from them!!! Also even AT&T said the phone itself was in such great shape! So far so good on the phone itself, everything is working as it should.
Very good condition, as advertised
No screen or body scratches. Like new condition, IMO. Charges fast with supplied charger and cable. Battery life too soon TBD. Also purchased a milspec phone case with screen protectors, which I do for all of my devices and suggest for everyone.
Installed and used Samsung Smart Switch app to transfer all my old S8+ phone apps, settings and files to the new one, using wifi direct phone-to-phone. Easy to do but took almost 5 hours to complete due to lots of apps plus huge number of files on the old phones SD card, which automatically transferred to the main 128gb system storage on the new phone. A few settings, like themes and wallpapers, were not applied during this process, but were easy to fix after. I also have a couple of apps that are licensed and locked to a specific device, (Norton360 and IGO Navigation) and had to uninstall them from both phones then reinstall on the new one. For Norton, I also had to go to my Norton account on PC, remove the old phone and add the new one. Not an issue, just a consideration and a few extra steps.
Would have liked to have SD card support, but had researched and knew going in that the 128gb built-in storage would be more than adequate for my needs, including for about 70gb of photos and MP3 audio files I had on the 128gb SD card of my old S8+ phone. I do wonder why it needs 39gb of storage for system files though. Almost 4GB more than on the old phone. That seems extremely excessive to me, but might just be the difference between Android 9 on the old phone vs Android 13 on the new one (after all system updates).
Another consideration, which is not really a complaint, as I knew it would happen, is that getting all of the 30+ OS, security and other updates took almost 2 full days to accomplish from a freshly factory reset phone, which this is. This is something that should not be allowed to happen according to the default automatic processes and schedule, as that could take weeks. You need to manually go to Settings / Software Update / Check for Updates, and download and install the recommended system update. Then repeat and repeat and repeat again, as many times as needed, until it says no more updates are needed. If you ever need to do a factory reset, you may need to do it all over again. If you ever sell your phone, remember to do a factory reset to remove all of your personal apps, settings and data, and let the new owner know that they might need to redo this system software update process.
Final note: If you are upgrading to 5G for the first time, and have an old 4G SIM card in your old phone, you will need to get a new 5G SIM from your carrier in order to have 5G capability. For the phone I bought, and my carrier, this was Verizon. I chose to do this only after finishing all of the Smart Switch and system upgrades described above, which only needed wifi. Verizon swapped out my SIM card for no charge.
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