I was using my Galaxy S5 on Ting, then the charging port went bad. A buddy's buddy fixed it. It was factory reset because someone else was going to use it, and they broke the SIM card when they tried to take it out.
They decided not to buy it, so I tried re-activating it on Ting with a new SIM card (from Ting). It wouldn't activate. For what it's worth, there were zero bars of signal, even when I walked outside (and we get perfectly good signal inside our house).
Ting sent me a 2nd SIM; same result.
My questions are:
1) When my "buddy" fixed it, could he have damaged something (antenna?) that is preventing the S5 from communicating with the towers?
2) If so, how easy/difficult would this be to troubleshoot/diagnose/fix? I am an advanced beginner when it comes to electronics repair.
Thanks.
They decided not to buy it, so I tried re-activating it on Ting with a new SIM card (from Ting). It wouldn't activate. For what it's worth, there were zero bars of signal, even when I walked outside (and we get perfectly good signal inside our house).
Ting sent me a 2nd SIM; same result.
My questions are:
1) When my "buddy" fixed it, could he have damaged something (antenna?) that is preventing the S5 from communicating with the towers?
2) If so, how easy/difficult would this be to troubleshoot/diagnose/fix? I am an advanced beginner when it comes to electronics repair.
Thanks.
