I don't think best buy would even noticed if I return a rooted phone as long as the rom is as close stock as I can get. Any opinions?
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I don't think best buy would even noticed if I return a rooted phone as long as the rom is as close stock as I can get. Any opinions?
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theres no guarantees but you are correct they probably wont notice that it doesn't work. What they will be looking for is if the phone works, water damage indicator and physical damage. They will probably once over the phone then return it as long as you are within your proper return period.
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theres no guarantees but you are correct they probably wont notice that it doesn't work. What they will be looking for is if the phone works, water damage indicator and physical damage. They will probably once over the phone then return it as long as you are within your proper return period.
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That's what I'm thinking. It works it just won't have as much bloatware on it. There just gonna resell it anyway. I tried to restore the nandroid of the original rom but once restored it gets stuck at the first samasung splash screen.
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slinky1914 said:
That's what I'm thinking. It works it just won't have as much bloatware on it. There just gonna resell it anyway. I tried to restore the nandroid of the original rom but once restored it gets stuck at the first samasung splash screen.
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Well with all returns what they do is send it back to Tmobile they will send it to Samsung and get turn into a refurbish unit (for exchanges and such) They will flash the OEM Rom back on it.
Flash stock using Odin? It brings the phone unrooted and all the bloatware back
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Flash stock using Odin? It brings the phone unrooted and all the bloatware back
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No I haven't yet. Seems like a lot of work if they are gonna do it anyway. And some people have had some issues.
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If you flash back via ODIN make sure the three button recovery works because if ODIN crashes mid-way (I've had this happen twice on my previous Vibrant) you've got a brick if you can't get it back into download mode via the buttons. Do a forum search. Or maybe if you wound up with the dreaded black screen of death that wouldn't be such a bad thing. They'd almost have to take it back then.
i just returned one the other day to best buy and the chick went through the phone for a couple of minutes, checked settings and menus and then also checked for physical damage. i had reflashed it back to stock anyways as bell's version comes with a bunch of specific apps. i was glad i did flash it back and i also relocked it to bell's network as i had unlocked it for use on rogers
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i just returned one the other day to best buy and the chick went through the phone for a couple of minutes, checked settings and menus and then also checked for physical damage. i had reflashed it back to stock anyways as bell's version comes with a bunch of specific apps. i was glad i did flash it back and i also relocked it to bell's network as i had unlocked it for use on rogers
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It is true every once in a while you will get a rep who knows their stuff (when i worked at t-mobile i would play with customers who had flashed new ROMs on their G1 ) However most of the time you will get minim wage joe blow and he could give a rats ass.
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It is true every once in a while you will get a rep who knows their stuff (when i worked at t-mobile i would play with customers who had flashed new ROMs on their G1 ) However most of the time you will get minim wage joe blow and he could give a rats ass.
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true, true
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No I haven't yet. Seems like a lot of work if they are gonna do it anyway. And some people have had some issues.
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It really isn't.. its better to be safe than sorry. At least thats how I feel.
And as far as that phone -- pc logo, I guess they would take it back but if they ask you how did it get that way? you're going to have to lie about it and its just going to feel really awkward.
Truthfully though, all they'd have to be trained to do is not accept returns if you see the superuser app. That'd be the easiest way to see if someone has rooted their phone & If you're not even going to take the effort to flash it back to stock, you're probably not going to delete that app either.
Just re-Odin it & call it a day. It took me less than 5 minutes to get back to stock & maybe another 5 to download the necessary files.
This will also ensure that you don't have any leftover contacts or log ins to facebook or anything like that on there (better safe than sorry).
Thanks guys. I was using my slide for the last couple of days by picked the vibrant back up and fell back in love. If I do decide to return it I'll put it back on stock. Thanks again guys.
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i dont think they care
just aslong as it lokks in good shape
but sometimes you get that one derp that feels the he/she needs to look through it
Why don't u install one clig lag fix from market and unroot it? Should be easy.
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Why don't u install one clig lag fix from market and unroot it? Should be easy.
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What about installing the Galaxysrooter from the app market then unrooting it with this app?
Im a little new at all this so please excuse me if i sound dumb. Cant you just flash a nandroid backup and then undo root also?
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Im a little new at all this so please excuse me if i sound dumb. Cant you just flash a nandroid backup and then undo root also?
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Yup, that'll work as well. Or you could download a nandroid that is stock without root.
i got my vibrant the day it came out, from costco... $99
Swapped it a week later, Couldn't unroot it for some reason, but they didn't notice... then again it was costco
They won't care trust me i worked for tmo. These people don't even know what root is they might think its a plant. They just scan it out of their inventory and send it to samsung. If it has root on it they are not going to send it back to tmo just to find u or look to charge your account. That is soooooo tedious cuz u have to do an IMEI search which hardly works on TMOs internal network (i tried when i worked with them never really worked) so yea all they look for is hardware damage and the liquid damage indicator other then that ur golden.
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so i tried to flash the full rooted ruu rom via hboot, i had it sitting on my table with the batt door off and knocked it on the floor ( accident ofcourse ) and the batt came out halfway during the process so now it goes into the htc screen then blank htc screen then blank and i cant get into cwr so my question is can i salvage it or am i f**ked?
Have you tried hbooting to recovery? Volume up and power down when the phone boots up.
cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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eh im done with the tbolt, i took it to a wireless repair place here in slc and the tech guy gave me 100 for it for parts so im goin back to my dx and im much happier!! but thanks for the advice and help!!
Wow glad everyone doesn't give up that easy or we would never get any roms or root =P
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Feel good thread of the year! Or it could be the beer I just had.
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i wouldnt say i gave up way easy, i know i could have fixed it but im just not into the tbolt anymore!!
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
For some it's a good idea to have insurance too.
You can get a replacement minus the deductible if you "lose" your phone.
Just make certain you call VZW as soon as you lose it.
I don't suggest selling the phone for parts and saying it's lost, but I'm sure others have done this to cover their deductible.
Those without insurance...I have heard people have had great success with warranty replacement when using over the phone support when the phone doesn't boot or bootloops.
Since you send the phone back to VZW by mail, their replacement standards are much lower than dealing with their retail and face to face support.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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jaymccoubrey said:
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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Your the reason Verizon hates rooters you are wasting there money on a device that is out of warranty because you would rather send it back than fix it yourself.
Thanks, jerk.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Nonetheless YOU damaged ur phone so it really doesn't matter how long you spent trying to repair it...
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
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I believe you could start with os kitchen or another UI for extracting certain parts of a rom. I think in large part its knowing java script.
jaymccoubrey said:
F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Hey Chevy I crashed my car into a tree and now it doesn't work. Oh dont worry I spent hours trying to fix it with no luck. So yea go ahead and give me a new one don't worry its still under warranty.
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So I've been having problems with my phone, got a warranty replacement phone delivered yesterday. Got so excited that I forgot that I would need to do an OTA update on the old phone to get it back to stock, so maybe they wouldn't notice it had been rooted. Can they tell if had been rooted, even if its taken back to the original state? I can't seem to find Unaltered Froyo Odin tar files anywhere. I really don't know what to do anymore, I feel like I've searched everywhere.
just odin DL09 or DI01 and ota update from there... might take a little time but it'll be legit
That was the original plan, I guess my day was kind of chaotic. In the midst of things I already activated the new phone... So it won't let the old one get the ota. I think I really screwed up
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So I've been having problems with my phone, got a warranty replacement phone delivered yesterday. Got so excited that I forgot that I would need to do an OTA update on the old phone to get it back to stock, so maybe they wouldn't notice it had been rooted. Can they tell if had been rooted, even if its taken back to the original state? I can't seem to find Unaltered Froyo Odin tar files anywhere. I really don't know what to do anymore, I feel like I've searched everywhere.
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Luckily I'm on verizon & was able to go on and do a line swap quick. Whew dodged a bullet!
Actually all my replacements I've just done the dl09 and sent it back.
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Actually all my replacements I've just done the dl09 and sent it back.
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ok so i was running SH 3.9.1 and decided to go back to stock so i odined back to jfd and then tried to update with kies and now my phone will not even turn on anyone have any clue on what i need to do or if there is anything i can do
a)did you flash gingerbread bootloaders? If you so and you didn't flash back the froyo bootloaders before using keis your probally f***** up your phone. Need a jtag
b)if you didn't flash any bootloaders just call tmobile and tell them keis f***ed up your phone
c)you could just lie to tmobile and tell them keis f***ed up your phone
seconded... (holds up blank phone)
same issues here, odined JFD, all was working fine, went to update via Kies, and it completed, rebooted, and did not come up after waiting over a half hour
no lights, can't get to download or recovery modes..
Yes you need a jtag, I recently had the same problem. PM connexion2005 and he can hook you up for $50.
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Yes you need a jtag, I recently had the same problem. PM connexion2005 and he can hook you up for $50.
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Thanks I just contacted him.
Well luckily I was able to get a replacement phone. But thank you to everyone that helped.
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Well luckily I was able to get a replacement phone. But thank you to everyone that helped.
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Kies has a history of causing bricks FYI.
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lol yeah i see that now and funny thing is i was actually coming from your rom EB.
The "Kies" effed up my phone has got to be the #1 over used excuse. Probably used more often then it actually does, but IT DOES! so its easy to get by with. I'd have to imagine in this situation its bootloader related. People should honestly fess up when they bork up their own device and pay the fee to get it jtaged. Just my 2cents.
As the old Chinese proverb goes:
"You break, You buy!"
I agree with you on that and it probably was my fault it messed up but im also broke otherwise i would of gone that route
one of these days there gonna catch on
Wow..... you guys.... bootloaders for vibrant are backward compatible..... even still.... you could have built a custom jig for $1.19, some scotch tape, and an old car charger. read the stickies yo.... I've had bad bootloader flashes at least 20 times now with odin and my cheap little jig has me back in dl mode in seconds.
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Wow..... you guys.... bootloaders for vibrant are backward compatible..... even still.... you could have built a custom jig for $1.19, some scotch tape, and an old car charger. read the stickies yo.... I've had bad bootloader flashes at least 20 times now with odin and my cheap little jig has me back in dl mode in seconds.
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I might try that next time but I just got my new phone in now so time to root again and try a different rom or go back to the old one not sure yet.
Majin, you have not had a bad bootloader flash yet. You will know when you do and that jig won't help...
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So your saying there is something worse than the "phone-pc!" Sign? Honestly I thought that was as far as it would go. I mean..... what's worse than "fail" while flashing boot loaders?
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So your saying there is something worse than the "phone-pc!" Sign? Honestly I thought that was as far as it would go. I mean..... what's worse than "fail" while flashing boot loaders?
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Oh yea there is definitely a worse step than that screen. It's called NOTHING. Literally your phone is worthless at that point without a good JTAG technician. I see it over 100 times a month... . Not trying to be a smarty just letting you know that there are scenarios in which the JIG is worthless and you will need someone to JTAG there phone. Please remember me if it happens to you as I can fix that although I would never wish it upon you...
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I agree with you on that and it probably was my fault it messed up but im also broke otherwise i would of gone that route
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Here that! College is to damn expensive! Better be worth it in the end.... Because this life of poverty sucks
Okay, this is driving me nuts. I've found multiple posts on how to unroot my phone but ALL the links are dead for Odin and everything I need to do it. SOMEBODY PLEASE throw me some links that work and instructions! I rooted it with the one click root method thing. I gotta get this thing back to stock so I can get my replacement since the screen is cracked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
This is a great thread. It should have everything you need. Good luck
Partner420 said:
Okay, this is driving me nuts. I've found multiple posts on how to unroot my phone but ALL the links are dead for Odin and everything I need to do it. SOMEBODY PLEASE throw me some links that work and instructions! I rooted it with the one click root method thing. I gotta get this thing back to stock so I can get my replacement since the screen is cracked.
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You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
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You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
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IMO its not worth the risk when it takes less than 5 minutes to Odin back to stock.
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You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
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Thats great...but when they go to test it and find out that its been hacked, Verizon is going trace that phone back to you and charge you for the replacement. As the poster above stated, its not worth the risk when it takes 5min to odin back to stock.
they actually still can tell that the phone has been flashed even if you odin back to stock. The only way to truly completely hide that the phone has been rooted is to use a usb jig and reset the custom binary download counter.
But they honestly don't care. This is all much ado over nothing.
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they actually still can tell that the phone has been flashed even if you odin back to stock. The only way to truly completely hide that the phone has been rooted is to use a usb jig and reset the custom binary download counter.
But they honestly don't care. This is all much ado over nothing.
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On the new devices that have flash counters yes...but from my understanding not on the fascinates or older devices. Maybe Im wrong tho?
I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
Anyway, I'll try to look into it if I get time.
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I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
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I was unaware of this existing. Thanks for the fun fact.
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I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
Anyway, I'll try to look into it if I get time.
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Yes, thank you for that info!
I am not sure this was posted or not, however if it has, please point me to the right direction as I am not able to find it.
Situation:-
Using the phone as per normal. It auto lock or manual lock it. Wanna unlock/wake up the phone it doesnt. This happened once in awhile not sure when as unable to determine the cause as sometimes running a game and I lock it and sometimes lock it without running anything i.e. back to home. To wake up, I reboot the phone by long pressing on/off button. Was using CheckRom ICS... And at one occurance the phone really died on me and unable to reboot no matter what I did. Sent in to SC and got back a new Motherboard.
Now it is happening again. Now in JB 4.1.2 (OmegaRom). The phone just fell in to a deep sleep and cant wake up unless I reboot the phone. I hope I dont get the forever slumber/sudden death situation again.
Anyone can give guidance or advise on how to check what is the matter or anyone having the same experience?
Flash back to stock and check if it occurs. If it does use triangle away and send it back in mate
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I am not sure this was posted or not, however if it has, please point me to the right direction as I am not able to find it.
Situation:-
Using the phone as per normal. It auto lock or manual lock it. Wanna unlock/wake up the phone it doesnt. This happened once in awhile not sure when as unable to determine the cause as sometimes running a game and I lock it and sometimes lock it without running anything i.e. back to home. To wake up, I reboot the phone by long pressing on/off button. Was using CheckRom ICS... And at one occurance the phone really died on me and unable to reboot no matter what I did. Sent in to SC and got back a new Motherboard.
Now it is happening again. Now in JB 4.1.2 (OmegaRom). The phone just fell in to a deep sleep and cant wake up unless I reboot the phone. I hope I dont get the forever slumber/sudden death situation again.
Anyone can give guidance or advise on how to check what is the matter or anyone having the same experience?
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I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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tommy2601 said:
I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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Oh no... I like the phone and I hope I dont have to sell it off.... So I am hoping someone here woudl be able to help me out.... I am backing up nearly everyday with TiB....
Even I love my s3 but I love note 2 even more and I am buying a note 2....the main reason I am selling it is if it conk out one day here in India it's very difficult to claim warranty we really need to slug it out with Samsung India and I don't have the time or patience to do that...
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happened to me too
I don't recall it happened to me while using stock touchwiz roms.
However, since I've moved to AOSP roms (first AOKP M1 and then JellyBam), it happened to me 3 or 4 times now.
Do you get it also on touchwiz roms? Which OmegaRom are you using?
Wich kernel are using my mates? Maybe that is problem, combination firmware and kernel...
Regards
using latest OmegaRom... as mentioned... first happened in CheckROm and even in Wanam...
Was using siyah kernel... so now testing Perseus and see wtr this happened or not...
Just happened when I have monster warlord running and locked it.. when I unlock... it happened again... must be something like not enuf ram or went into deep sleep... very strange indeed. Nevertheless change to Perseus to test out different kernel for now...
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I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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If u sell a broken phone,that is such a douchebag move no offence to u but really i wud feel sorry for the man u sold it..
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Download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en and post the screenshot. It might be SDS
Same happened with my phone. Go to see what it's up to and suddenly its not responding. The only option is to hold power down until it reboots.
It would also do it on in coming calls and managed to delete a text which arrived shortly before it froze.
Hoped upgrading to the latest firmware would help, didn't. Going without root, nope. Freezing apps in Titanium, still no joy.
Finally this morning I had enough and went for a full wipe. Very little installed but no problems since.
Would suggest doing the same, especially if you plan to sell the phone anyway.
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If u sell a broken phone,that is such a douchebag move no offence to u but really i wud feel sorry for the man u sold it..
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Hi buddy, selling a dying phone at a good price and buying something u love even more is douche bag move....then I really petty ur retarded and douche bag thinking
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Have the same problem with mine, using the latest wanam stock rom and every now and again the phone will either just restart or lock with the screen off (led notification will keep blinking however).
Just trying the official Vodafone rom now through Odin. If this doesn't solve it I think the phone will have to go back.
To note: issue appeared after installing some root apps. Notably adfree and beats drivers. Anybody else have either installed?
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Hi buddy, selling a dying phone at a good price and buying something u love even more is douche bag move....then I really petty ur retarded and douche bag thinking
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I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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CHEVYbarracuda1 said:
I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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Please keep this on topic:
Seems like a common issue, I've now unrooted my phone and loaded stock 4.1.2 from Sammobile using odin, reset the binary counter, removed SD card and i'm still having crashes and hangs. Seems my phone is on the way out?
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Please keep this on topic:
Seems like a common issue, I've now unrooted my phone and loaded stock 4.1.2 from Sammobile using odin, reset the binary counter, removed SD card and i'm still having crashes and hangs. Seems my phone is on the way out?
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Just return it to the nearest samsung store for repair.. I believe it is hardware failure
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Mine has just started doing this, literally a matter of days ago - coincidence??
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Mine has just started doing this, literally a matter of days ago - coincidence??
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When did it happen? Was it around Wednesday last week? Just thinking that maybe an updated app or something?
I have now updated again using kies with the official 4.1.2. I have no problems with restarts when using the stock apps. I have however had issues with the google servers and now believe this to have been the main reason for the crashes earlier (Christmas new phone activation traffic?).
Out of interest, have you been running adfree or the beats audio driver? I had mine working all day yesterday, installed both and then the hangs started coming back again.
Also worth noting that adfree now states that a newer version is available when loading up, but non exists (that i know of?)
CHEVYbarracuda1 said:
I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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I am not selling it to some innocent 3 person I am exchanging it with note 2 by paying the difference amount at a local Samsung retail store (just sending back there own Frankenstein to them)
And about culture my friend I don't need a lesson from a person who doesn't even have the sensibility to understand that his comments can hurt others(u started It fIrst)..
As today Is my last day in the s3 forum I don't want to sign off on a bitter note so sorry if I have hurt u in anyway.
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THEsirloin said:
When did it happen? Was it around Wednesday last week? Just thinking that maybe an updated app or something?
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I can't say for sure, but around Wednesday isn't unreasonable.
Out of interest, have you been running adfree or the beats audio driver? I had mine working all day yesterday, installed both and then the hangs started coming back again.
Also worth noting that adfree now states that a newer version is available when loading up, but non exists (that i know of?)
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I do run AdFree, and yeah, I saw the notice about the new version - it's a different app entirely... still called AdFree, uninstall the old one, and install the new one. Not sure why they did that.
I'm at a loss - I just reinstalled XELL4, and it's still doing it. Short of doing a full wipe and starting afresh (which I really can't be bothered with), I don't know what else to try. Was working fine up until now.