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 keen 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 Korean phones into International models. Yeah, You read it right.
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)
Check if android is refurbished RTC RTC method of checking refurbished
Now scroll down and you shall see refurbished status like shown in the image below.How to check factory refurbished Android Phone
The method above may not work for every factory refurbished phone, but it may also work on many.
How to check locally refurbished Android Phones?

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. I will take LG G2 as an example here but you can identify any refurbished phone following similar steps.
So, LG G2 comes in more or less 8 models, F320K, F320L and F320S for korean markets, D800, D801, VS980, LS980, D802TA, D803 for American Markets and D802, the international version. So which model you think is the most valuable?
The international version, of-course. Shopkeepers out there in local markets, do import some Korean and American versions of smartphones in really bad condition then fix the faults and install a new housing a.k.a Casing. Some of them even go one step further andattach Fake box and accessories with them.
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So how can you identify them?

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These methods only work with phones that were officially refurbished and not dealer or seller refurbished..
If a dealer changes the casing or any parts of the phone it can never show as refurbished except the refurb was done by the manufacturer .

And even if the phone shows as refurbished, then it is safe and recommended to use since it was done by the manufacturer.

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This post and the posters thought were useless as he could not explain refurbished and unrefurvished .These codes are incorrect and advice you to do more researchers