HOW TO CHECK IF YOUR ANDROID PHONE IS REFURBISHED OR FACTORY NEW.

If you are going out to purchase a smartphone, you should make sure that you are spending your hard-earned money on a Non-refurbished phone. Checking a refurbished phone may become a little tricky at times.I will show you multiple methods to check if any phone is refurbished or not.

There are two main types of refurbished phones

• Factory refurbished phones
• Locally refurbished phones                                        

    WHAT IS A REFURBISHED PHONE?

If a phone had a fault during manufacturing of it, Gets returned without being used, or gets replaced during warranty the company resells it in Factory refurbished batch. These phones are more likely to get faulty again and you should avoid getting them. Even the company wants to sell refurbished good as refurbished, Many of bad shopkeepers try to sell them as factory-new.

Another type of refurbished is made in local repair shops. These devices are those which are faulty and also in rough condition. So the repair workshop guys repair them and give them a new cheap housing (a.k.a casing). Some of the bad shopkeepers even convert london,American and  Korean phones into International models.

Now coming back to the topic. How to identify them?

How to identify Factory Refurbished Android phones?

Note: This method is only for some big smartphone companies. Like Samsung, LG etc. If you have some chinese or any cheap android phone, This wouldn’t work. As these cheap chinese companies don’t even bother to produce refurbished batch.

•         Open the phone dialer app.
• Type ##786# OR *#*#786#*#* ( No need to press Call button, it will automatically take you to the RTC screen)

• Now scroll down and you shall see refurbished status like shown in the image below.

 The method above may not work for every factory refurbished phone, but it may also work on many.

Now this section is gonna take a lot to describe. As you may have seen that LG, Samsung and many other multinational android OEMs make their phones differently for many markets.

So how can you identify them?

You can identify refurbished phones with these tips given below

• Check for the Build-Quality of the phone, If the phone has cheap quality of casing, Leave it immediately.
• Check the weight of the phone, Locally refurbished smartphones tend to be lighter than Original ones.
• Check LTE if the phone supports LTE bands and you have LTE coverage.
• If the phone is in Excellent condition, Double check it because it may have changed casing.
• Attach a hands free{headset} to the phone and start FM Radio, through yhe sounds, u can discover if the phone is refurbished or not.
• You can also ask the shopkeeper to open the phone to see if there is not anything wrong going inside. Like the images given below, The backpanel is of LG D802 but the internals are of D801.
  
  
  
  

   
       Don’t greed for 10/10 phone, if the phone has some little scuff here and there, it is a good to go. If you will look for absolutely new conditions, Remember All that glitters is not gold

If you still find it difficult to identify refurbished smartphones, You can post your query below and i get to you ASAP.