Yes - Chinese settle primarily for safe and efficient delivery, and (again, on average) do not put as much detail on how it gets done. Same for many services, medical or other. End result means more than the process, and in child delivery historically there are more valid reasons for that.

In case of foreigner experiences as described above, this goes deep in the system and the people working in the field are not (yet?) equipped to even consider other or better processes, because only the results in big picture matter.

In other words, "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice"...

@Misfit:

I dare to say that there is a cultural(?) difference in what sort of quality average Chinese vs average foreign, let's say consumer, is looking for. Even more so in matters of services related to life and death as is case in delivering babies.

Reviving another old thread.

My Samsung phone has started complaining about deteriorating battery performance, which I can also observe from slow recharge times.

It is a few years old model (2018), with no warranty left or anything of the kind.

Still it functions well otherwise, so I would want to replace the battery instead of buying a new phone. However, it's new enough for battery replacement not being a simple plug and play thing.

The phone was bought abroad, which apparently is a problem.

My wife called the official Samsung service where they do these operations in Kunming, who told that they only do this service for phones bought in China. I first thought they might have misunderstood for service under warranty, but that's not the case here.

In theory I could replace the battery myself if I can acquire the replacement battery and the needed set of tools.

But I want to double-check that the information given to my wife is correct - has anyone else ran into this sort of restriction, with Samsung or other brands?

@AlPage48: "app finally relented and let me get setup correctly"

After the total failure, did you have to reinstall the app, or did it magically start work without reinstalling?

@AlPage48

I have the same. No QR code showing in the app front page. It kind of loads and flashes there when the app is started, but quickly disappears leaving only the text.