Sell your Galaxy S10 for cash

It comes down to storage, carrier and condition. A 512GB unlocked in Good shape is $61. The same phone in Fair is $37. A 128GB with a cracked screen is $7. Run your own combination through the quote box at the top for the exact number.

This is a 2019 phone and the prices reflect that. They are not big and we are not going to pretend they are.

It does, on the bottom edge, and it is the last one Samsung put on a Galaxy S. The Galaxy S20 dropped it in 2020 and nothing in the line has carried it since.

It is a genuine reason people still want these phones, and it is also a moving part on a seven year old device. A jack that has stopped working puts the phone in the Faulty row, so it is worth ten seconds of your time before you pick a grade.

Yes. Samsung grading works on one broad rule rather than a list: if something on the phone does not work, the phone is Faulty. A jack that only plays one channel, or that needs the plug held at an angle, is not working. On a 512GB that takes you from $61 to $12.

The same rule catches everything else, so there is no point hunting for exceptions. A buzzing loudspeaker, an earpiece nobody can hear you through, a fingerprint reader that will not read, a camera that will not focus, a power button you have to press twice, wireless charging that has stopped: all of them are the same answer.

One thing that is not a fault. If the socket is packed with pocket lint and nothing plays, clear it out with a wooden cocktail stick with the phone switched off, and try again. Plenty of jacks that people wrote off were just full.

Yes. It pays $7 at 128GB and $12 at 512GB.

Those are small numbers next to an undamaged phone, and we would rather say so here than surprise you later. Any crack or chip anywhere grades Faulty even when the phone works perfectly, and this screen curves over both long edges, which is precisely where a dropped phone lands.

Peel any screen protector off before you judge it, because a cracked protector over a perfect screen is common and it is not a fault at all. Choose Faulty in the quote box and there is nothing to renegotiate when the parcel arrives.

Burn-in makes a phone Faulty, and every Galaxy S screen is OLED, so this one can get it. After seven years of the same clock in the same corner it is worth actually looking. Brightness to maximum, a plain white image, a dark room, then tilt the phone so the light sweeps across the panel. A permanent faint shadow of the clock, the status icons or the navigation bar is burn-in. The long version of this test, and the on-device tool Samsung provides for it, lives on the Galaxy S23 Plus page.

Do not grade yourself down for a single stuck pixel, or for the blue or green tint that appears when you look at any OLED from the side. Neither is burn-in.

No. Samsung phones have no battery percentage rule here, so there is nothing to look up and no health screen to find. The Galaxy S10 shipped with a 3,400 mAh battery and after seven years it will not be what it was. That is expected and it is priced in already. The battery only matters if it has actually failed, and that falls under the same rule as any other part that has stopped working.

Look at the front camera cutout, top right. One round hole is a Galaxy S10. A wide pill holding two lenses is the Galaxy S10 Plus. The Galaxy S10e also has one round hole, so use the back for that one: the S10 has three rear cameras in a row and the S10e has two.

Sizes settle any argument. The S10 is 6.1 inches and 157 grams, the Plus is 6.4 inches and heavier, the S10e is 5.8 inches with a flat screen rather than one that curves over the edges. The certain answer is Settings, About phone, where this phone reads SM-G973U or SM-G973U1.

Not for a payment, no. A phone with no power cannot be tested and your data cannot be cleared off it, so pricing it would be guesswork on both sides. Try a full hour on a wall charger with a plug and cable you know work, because a phone that has been flat in a drawer for years often needs longer than you expect before it shows anything. If it stays dark, put it on the free label anyway and we will recycle it at no cost, Department of Defense wipe included, or return it to you free. On a phone at these prices recycling it properly is frequently the sensible answer.

No, not while it is under a financial obligation, which is what a carrier installment plan or a lease counts as. Clear the balance first and it quotes like any other phone. Most seven year old phones are long since paid off, and the moment yours is, the carrier owes you a free unlock too.

No, and three different things can block a sale here, so check all three.

Google account lock, which Samsung calls Factory Reset Protection. Remove your Google account and your Samsung account in Settings first and factory reset second. Do it the other way round and the lock survives the reset, the next owner cannot get through setup, and we have to mail the phone back.

Knox. Rooting the phone or flashing unofficial software trips the Knox counter for good, and a tripped counter means we cannot buy it at any grade.

IMEI. Lost, stolen or carrier blocked all fail. Dial star hash zero six hash to see yours, and check it before you post anything.

Yes, quite a lot. A Good 512GB is $61 unlocked, $51 on AT&T, $46 on T-Mobile, $33 on Verizon and $31 on any other network.

The prices on this page are the unlocked ones, so change the carrier in the quote box if that is not your phone. If it is paid off, ring the carrier and ask them to unlock it before you sell. It is free, it usually takes a day, and on this model it is worth around a third to a half more.

No. Prism White, Prism Black, Prism Blue, Prism Green, Flamingo Pink and Cardinal Red all pay identically. Color has never moved a Buyback price here and it never will.

Rarely, on a phone from 2019, and the two things are not really comparable anyway. A trade-in number is promotional. It is attached to buying a specific new handset, and it usually reaches you as credit spread over 24 or 36 monthly bills, which only keeps arriving while you stay on that plan.

A Buyback is us buying your Galaxy S10 outright. The money is cash, it arrives in days rather than years, and what you do with it is your business. Put the two numbers side by side and read the small print on the credit.

Back up first, then two steps in this order. Settings, Accounts and backup, Manage accounts, and take out your Google account and your Samsung account. Then Settings, General management, Reset, Factory data reset. Accounts always come out before the reset, because that is what turns the Google account lock off. Our erase your device page walks through it with pictures.

Then remove the SIM and the microSD card, and delete any eSIM. Your photos, your messages and your saved passwords are erased and they cannot be recovered. We wipe it again to Department of Defense standards when it reaches the building.

Pick one of four at checkout. A gift card by email, which averages about 3 percent more because the brands add a bonus. PayPal, instant, minus PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee. A bank transfer in 2 to 4 days. A check in 3 to 5. All of them go out the same day the phone passes inspection. At this level the gift card usually comes out ahead, since the bonus is added and the PayPal fee is taken away. Sealed Brand New phones can only be paid by PayPal.