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When I plug it into anything, nothing happens. Nothing happens when I push any combination of buttons. I think I flashed Entrophy's kernal in CWM while on Jugernaut 3.7
Not sure what to do, any ideas?
Tried to do a battery pull download mode?
While putting the battery back in, plug in the USB cable and volume down.
Or find a spare battery to test, or jig.
You flashed Juggernaut, for this phone?
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Spudnubs said:
When I plug it into anything, nothing happens. Nothing happens when I push any combination of buttons. I think I flashed Entrophy's kernal in CWM while on Jugernaut 3.7
Not sure what to do, any ideas?
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Given that Juggernaut 3.7 is for the T-Mobile T989, it is most likely what bricked your phone.
God only knows what trying to install it would do to an I777.
Believe that ROM included boot loaders which got you, well different mount points I believe as well. If you're within 30 days try talking your way into a replacement. If not then time to buy a new one and chalk it up to experience gained.
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You do have an I777, right?
I haven't seen anyone say anything about jtag for our phone, but if it was my phone, I think I'd look into jtag unbricking first, find out if it is possible, before replacing it.
There's a jtag for our phone from a trusted site. I'll pm you since I can't post link op
Pm sent.
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You do have an I777, right?
I haven't seen anyone say anything about jtag for our phone, but if it was my phone, I think I'd look into jtag unbricking first, find out if it is possible, before replacing it.
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I believe Connexion2005 does JTAG unbricks for the I777.
Actually, you're hosed. I saw in another one of your posts that you have the Telus "SGS 2 X" - which appears to be a rebadged T-Mobile T989 or maybe a rebadged ****rocket.
It has NOTHING in common with the I777. My kernel is ONLY for the SGH-I777. You probably overwrite something critical when you flashed something that was NOT intended for your phone. The T989 and ****rocket have a COMPLETELY different partition layout than the I9100 and I777.
I have no idea why you have been posting in the I777 forums and trying to flash I777 kernels when you don't have an I777, and you clearly knew this fact if you were running Juggernaut.
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Take out insurance and smash it.
Paperweight or possibly a coaster
They just gave me another phone.
And Entrophy, you don't need to take it so personally man its not your fault and it seems like you are upset that this happened. But everything is fine so no worries
It's going to be because of morons like you that warranty returns on Android phones are going to become a lot harder in future. I hope you exchanged it for an iPhone or something.
Mind you, I have no love for the carriers, but this is just so wrong.
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They just gave me another phone.
And Entrophy, you don't need to take it so personally man its not your fault and it seems like you are upset that this happened. But everything is fine so no worries
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Let me explain. Developers come to this forum to share ideas and give people the means to do things extraordinary with their devices that the manufacturers/carriers did not intend. The fact that you were flashing the WRONG software to your phone but included Entropy's name in the post, likely came off the wrong way.
Also take into account that people that abuse the system, yes, you're an abuser of the system, frustrate the rest of us honest customers. Next time I have a legitimate hardware issue that requires replacement and the rep gives me crap because they've "cracked down" on replacements, I'll be sure to send you the bill.
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Let me explain. Developers come to this forum to share ideas and give people the means to do things extraordinary with their devices that the manufacturers/carriers did not intend. The fact that you were flashing the WRONG software to your phone but included Entropy's name in the post, likely came off the wrong way.
Also take into account that people that abuse the system, yes, you're an abuser of the system, frustrate the rest of us honest customers. Next time I have a legitimate hardware issue that requires replacement and the rep gives me crap because they've "cracked down" on replacements, I'll be sure to send you the bill.
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Well I am glad that you got that out of you and hope you can carry on with your life. I hardly doubt that this little mistake will have any impact on Entrophy seeing as he is clearly a decent developer and his work speaks for itself.
It wasn't a warranty return and I didn't go through insurance I just knew the person at the booth and had just got the phone.
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Well I am glad that you got that out of you and hope you can carry on with your life. I hardly doubt that this little mistake will have any impact on Entrophy seeing as he is clearly a decent developer and his work speaks for itself.
It wasn't a warranty return and I didn't go through insurance I just knew the person at the booth and had just got the phone.
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I would not be all the surprised if they end up charging you for the new phone. Unless the phone is completely destroyed, they have ways of telling you rooted it, or at least tried too...
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I'm not on the OP's side by any means and I agree with the bashing of the OP for being not so smart. How ever the terms of mine and most others on ATT would have no issue returning a rooted phone. There is nothing that states flashing custom rom's voids warranty just water and extreme abuse.
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I'm not on the OP's side by any means and I agree with the bashing of the OP for being not so smart. How ever the terms of mine and most others on ATT would have no issue returning a rooted phone. There is nothing that states flashing custom rom's voids warranty just water and extreme abuse.
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Hmmm. This is an important issue. Do you know this for fact or are you making assumptions? What is peoples experience with returning rooted and bricked devices? I don't know, but I would predict that the answers will be mixed and highly varied and most likely due to how local stores deal with this on their own.
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I'm not on the OP's side by any means and I agree with the bashing of the OP for being not so smart. How ever the terms of mine and most others on ATT would have no issue returning a rooted phone. There is nothing that states flashing custom rom's voids warranty just water and extreme abuse.
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No... The whole reason behind flash counters and locked bootloaders is to enforce the warranty clauses that custom firmware = voided warranty.
We are fortunate that AT&T is lax about checking the counter as long as the ROM is not obviously rooted or custom, and also assumes that hardbricked devices are suffering from hardware failures, however - if more people do stupid **** like the OP, they'll be more likely to crack down and start waiting for Samsung to do a final determination on failure cause before refunding.
It has ALWAYS been AT&T policy that custom firmware (and even rooting) = voided warranty. Similarly - Barnes and Noble cashiers are specifically trained to identify rooted Nook Tablets/Colors and immediately reject the return and void the warranty if a device is rooted. (Which is why you need to unroot before a return...)
Hi All
Is it possible for any DEV to fix the USSD Problem in Photon.
I have looked into many threads and nothing helped.
Seems like there is some patch which needs to be applied
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TL;DR: It works for me. Try it. If it works, good for you.
I patched libril-qc-1.so in a way, that it sends a fixed length of 32 bytes instead of 4. (position 0xa8fc2).
Good luck,
hunderteins
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Problem running ussd code
USSD fix for 4xx based roms
Gingerbread and USSD QuD fix
+1
Not a questions forum
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Not a questions forum
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Might as well be, no one listens.
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Sent not from your device!
Omg. Are you kidding? I know about this fix at least one month. And try to hex edit our ril, even if I don't know where to search, even when I don't need ussd, searched in the framework too and probably this fix is not our problem.
I lost few hours with searching for this problem.
Did you try to fix it?
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Hi All
Is it possible for any DEV to fix the USSD Problem in Photon.
I have looked into many threads and nothing helped.
Seems like there is some patch which needs to be applied
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Not a questions forum
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Might as well be, no one listens.
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Sent not from your device!
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Apparently folks are not bothering to read the forum guidelines yet again and could obviously care less. This has gotten completely out of hand so on that note I give you the following...
Camel+straw=back injury
(I will no longer be releasing or maintaining anything on xda until this BS stops)
While it is annoying, there are probably 100 good users to every bad one. So all hope is not lost. All we really need is moderators that actually frequent these forums to enforce the rules. It's not the userbases responsibility to report things and hope the mods do something. It's the mods responsibility to do the job they were given.
You know this **** is getting out of hand when important devs can't stand to be here anymore. Sorry Loki :/
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While it is annoying, there are probably 100 good users to every bad one. So all hope is not lost. All we really need is moderators that actually frequent these forums to enforce the rules. It's not the userbases responsibility to report things and hope the mods do something. It's the mods responsibility to do the job they were given.
You know this **** is getting out of hand when important devs can't stand to be here anymore. Sorry Loki :/
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Seeing that both my primary and two backup drives failed today it's a moot point now, at least for me. I lost everything as far back as my custom PalmOS ROM days. Been fun guys.
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Seeing that both my primary and two backup drives failed today it's a moot point now, at least for me. I lost everything as far back as my custom PalmOS ROM days. Been fun guys.
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I've been a tech for years and have literally never seen three HD's die in rapid succession like that... Mother of God...
It's been a pleasure getting to use your work Loki. Hope to see you back around here sometime. Till then, take care.
wow, sorry about that Loki. Hope things get better. Your work has been appreciated by many here
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I had my hopes up seeing the heading..
Wow you just come to a dev section n post a question.. that too with a thumbs up sign as if u cracked it? I too want it fixed, but this is not right buddy.
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I've been a tech for years and have literally never seen three HD's die in rapid succession like that... Mother of God...
It's been a pleasure getting to use your work Loki. Hope to see you back around here sometime. Till then, take care.
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Multiple pre-failures on primary (SMART monitor lit up like a christmas tree), must save data, grab backup (I have pets) hard impact with hardwood floor, grab second backup and in my haste plug directly into wall and (cue power surge) smoke not figuratively but literally. Three hard drives in about five minutes.
The only time I've ever seen multiple drives go at once was a voltage controller for the pci slots short and take out a RAID5 array in one stroke.
Well anyways, I will eventually get up and running but at this time it's really not a priority. Thanks to those that have donated and supported photon development and my work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223352&page=4
I was planning on bring my SGS2 to the repair center, since its been giving me so much trouble lately, unfortunatley i dropped it in water before i could get there
As far as i can see there are 2 water indicators on the phone - on the phone itself to the right of the battery, and also one on the battery.
I actually used a Q-tip and bleach and both are no longer red, but are there any more anywhere else on the phone? And are there any other ways they will be able to tell it has water damage?
Are you really asking the forum for help in scamming AT&T for you? Take responsibility for yourself.
Wow....
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There are more than you can see. Just fess up and get another one
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Are you really asking the forum for help in scamming AT&T for you? Take responsibility for yourself.
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O god forbid someone scam ATT!!!!!!:crying: We should all be so careful to treat this honest and ethical company with nothing but respect. They get what they give after all.
Ive been paying for insurance for 2 or 3 years now, have never made a claim, and they raise the deductible for a claim to 200 dollars? Screw you ATT. The phone was faulty before it got water in it. Im saving someone else the trouble of getting this device refurbed, because you know ATT would just repackage this phone and give it to some poor SOB.
Whether AT&T is an evil company or not is not the issue. This is not the forum to be asking for help to scam them or anyone else.
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Whether AT&T is an evil company or not is not the issue. This is not the forum to be asking for help to scam them or anyone else.
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hmmmm so im guessing you have a problem with the threads entitled: how to put your phone back to stock for warranty replacement. You clearly voided the warranty when you rooted your phone, so by flashing back, you are scamming samsung and ATT.
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hmmmm so im guessing you have a problem with the threads entitled: how to put your phone back to stock for warranty replacement. You clearly voided the warranty when you rooted your phone, so by flashing back, you are scamming samsung and ATT.
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Hey genius, it's only a scam if by flashing a ROM you mess the phone up and then try to get AT$T to replace it. What you are trying to do is get AT$T to pay for your clumsiness. Fine, go right ahead and try, but trying to enlist people in here to be your accomplice in that scam is against the forum rules. This thread is destined to be closed.
Don't even try it. They check more than the indicators. The check corrosion on solder points etc......... they will know.
Reminds me of money over.......
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Hey genius, it's only a scam if by flashing a ROM you mess the phone up and then try to get AT$T to replace it. What you are trying to do is get AT$T to pay for your clumsiness. Fine, go right ahead and try, but trying to enlist people in here to be your accomplice in that scam is against the forum rules. This thread is destined to be closed.
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You voided warranty, end of story. By flashing back you are faking that the phone was never rooted.
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Don't even try it. They check more than the indicators. The check corrosion on solder points etc......... they will know.
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I dont know, I doubt they will even bother to check anything besides the obvious. They make so much money on these phones, the amount it would cost to pay someone to analyze what happened to a phone wouldnt pay off.
You don't deserve help. Scamming is not supported here, a mod will most likely shut this down...so inb4lock?
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hmmmm so im guessing you have a problem with the threads entitled: how to put your phone back to stock for warranty replacement. You clearly voided the warranty when you rooted your phone, so by flashing back, you are scamming samsung and ATT.
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There is a distinct and significant difference between returning software to stock to enable a user to return the phone for hardware defects that were not caused by the user (failed usb ports, power buttons, etc.) and trying to return a device that was physically damaged by careless use/abuse. The reason deductibles go up is because of this type of behavior.
I'm sorry don't mind me but you guys are so funny!!! Takecare...
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There is a distinct and significant difference between returning software to stock to enable a user to return the phone for hardware defects that were not caused by the user (failed usb ports, power buttons, etc.) and trying to return a device that was physically damaged by careless use/abuse. The reason deductibles go up is because of this type of behavior.
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like i said the phone was failing before it got water damaged. Disagree with you on the second reason. the deductible went up because of ATT's greed. I can outright buy this phone off contract for not much more than their deductible, plus what i pay every month - it doesnt make any sense.
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Reminds me of money over.......
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Hopefully he joins him...soon.
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Hopefully he joins him...soon.
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I'm actually surprised he hasn't tried defending the OP. It was pretty funny when he had his brother try to defend him in a thread exactly like this, trying to scam AT&T.
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I'm actually surprised he hasn't tried defending the OP. It was pretty funny when he had his brother try to defend him in a thread exactly like this, trying to scam AT&T.
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Yeah, that was funny. I love these threads simply because my Thanks go up about 20 points each time.:laugh:
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Yeah, that was funny. I love these threads simply because my Thanks go up about 20 points each time.:laugh:
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Haha thanks is all that counts here eh?
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Yeah, that was funny. I love these threads simply because my Thanks go up about 20 points each time.:laugh:
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So this is going to sound odd, but hear me out. I like many of you got the ME7 update. On sunday I tried rerooting and reflashing. Soft bricked my phone. Used ODIN to re-install ME7 firmware. All runs fine. In the midst of this however I panicked and called verizon for a replacement under warranty. I made the claim that "I unplugged my phone during the ME7 update" and that's how it bricked. If the phone they send me is MDK can I send my ME7 back? Should I "re-brick" my ME7 and send it back to them or just do a data wipe and re package it? Would they be able to tell?
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So this is going to sound odd, but hear me out. I like many of you got the ME7 update. On sunday I tried rerooting and reflashing. Soft bricked my phone. Used ODIN to re-install ME7 firmware. All runs fine. In the midst of this however I panicked and called verizon for a replacement under warranty. I made the claim that "I unplugged my phone during the ME7 update" and that's how it bricked. If the phone they send me is MDK can I send my ME7 back? Should I "re-brick" my ME7 and send it back to them or just do a data wipe and re package it? Would they be able to tell?
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Be honest.
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Be honest.
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You mean, send back the new phone they're sending me? I can't think you would want me to tell them I'm rooting and re-flashing my device. . .
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You mean, send back the new phone they're sending me? I can't think you would want me to tell them I'm rooting and re-flashing my device. . .
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Why not, that's exactly what you did after all...
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Why not, it's exactly what you did after all...
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True. . . but I'm not sure I want to pay the full price for the phone they sent me under warranty. I would rather send the replacement back and wait for the ME7 bootloader to be cracked.
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Be honest.
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Yup
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You mean, send back the new phone they're sending me? I can't think you would want me to tell them I'm rooting and re-flashing my device. . .
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I mean if your device does not have any faults why are you getting a replacement? I understand you requested before you realized it is actually ok. You came here asking for advice on how to trick a company that is honoring a defective device that actually is not defective. So yeah send back your replacement or find a legit defect with your device. Sounds like an integrity issue to me.
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I mean if your device does not have any faults why are you getting a replacement? I understand you requested before you realized it is actually ok. You came here asking for advice on how to trick a company that is honoring a defective device that actually is not defective. So yeah send back your replacement or find a legit defect with your device. Sounds like an integrity issue to me.
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Alright the point is taken about being honest. You don't really need to make an underhanded comment about my character over something like this though.
I would tell them that you just fixed it with Odin..
I called them and said I fixed my phone. Sending the replacement back. Goodbye MDK=/.
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Alright the point is taken about being honest. You don't really need to make an underhanded comment about my character over something like this though.
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Why be underhanded about your character? Your title is how to trick Verizon? What this really is though is a hey look at me guys I commited fraud to replace a device that I knowingly and willingly violated my warranty with and had verizon send me a replacement device only to find out my original device wasnt broken after all. To add to the character comment even though you've fixed your device you're still contemplating continuing with the fraud by purposely bricking a device that you repaired...
I think this whole thread speaks volumes about your character or lack there of. You posted this on the internet. You screwed up the device. You fixed it. Own it.
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I called them and said I fixed my phone. Sending the replacement back. Goodbye MDK=/.
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The one thing I hate about the XDA forums is the rudeness of some people. It's completely up to the OP regarding his conscience in the matter. I will give you my opinion:
I have never read about anybody getting back charged for returning phone that was modded / rooted. Those of us that have been long time VZW customers have seen the decline of trust with them. I know it's too late for you to change course now but in the future you should have no regrets if you decide for another equipment swap. With the root / unlock bounty reaching towards $6K you can ask any of them how they feel. VZW sneaked in the so called OTA update with minor improvements overall; and completely locking down the phone.
It's up to you in the end but I wouldn't worry..... You would be the first casualty.
Edit: The title of your thread didn't help matters either
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The one thing I hate about the XDA forums is the rudeness of some people. It's completely up to the OP regarding his conscience in the matter. I will give you my opinion:
I have never read about anybody getting back charged for returning phone that was modded / rooted. Those of us that have been long time VZW customers have seen the decline of trust with them. I know it's too late for you to change course now but in the future you should have no regrets if you decide for another equipment swap. With the root / unlock bounty reaching towards $6K you can ask any of them how they feel. VZW sneaked in the so called OTA update with minor improvements overall; and completely locking down the phone.
It's up to you in the end but I wouldn't worry..... You would be the first casualty.
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I agree with you completely, it's on the person. The question was how do I trick verizon....so my answer was don't. If you don't want the feedback, don't ask. No rudeness was intended. I am fairly sure the lack of ownership on mistakes is frowned upon in the XDA community. Oh well, my opinion was to be honest. Enjoy your decision
Nothing rude was said to the op. The fact of the matter is that the very premise of this thread was to seek advice on warranty fraud, which is illegal.
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It probably wouldnt even matter if you sent back the "broke" one back fixed, they probably don't open each phone package to verify it functions, probably just check for water damage and cracks
Alright, alright, I dug my own grave on this one. I don't want to resort to such tactics but like everyone else I'm a little peeved with Verizon so I'm contemplating doing things I normally wouldn't do. Not that it's an excuse but making sweeping judgments about my character is a little overboard. It's not like I sneak out at night punching babies or anything. I'm annoyed that I was hoodwinked into an update that prevented me from modding my phone. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I just saw a potential way out and wanted to know if anyone had any experience with getting charged for sending back a rooted phone. If you think I should just be honest, say so. This whole "you lack integrity," stuff is B.S. If Verizon had any integrity I wouldn't even be contemplating pulling a stunt like this.
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It probably wouldnt even matter if you sent back the "broke" one back fixed, they probably don't open each phone package to verify it functions, probably just check for water damage and cracks
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The Verizon rep said something similar. He said they check for water damage, broken screen, etc.
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Alright, alright, I dug my own grave on this one. I don't want to resort to such tactics but like everyone else I'm a little peeved with Verizon so I'm contemplating doing things I normally wouldn't do. Not that it's an excuse but making sweeping judgments about my character is a little overboard. It's not like I sneak out at night punching babies or anything. I'm annoyed that I was hoodwinked into an update that prevented me from modding my phone. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I just saw a potential way out and wanted to know if anyone had any experience with getting charged for sending back a rooted phone. If you think I should just be honest, say so. This whole "you lack integrity," stuff is B.S. If Verizon had any integrity I wouldn't even be contemplating pulling a stunt like this.
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Here's the deal, no one thinks you are a bad person. Strike me down, but verizon is not lacking integrity here. Never once was this device advertised as being unlocked or unlockable and they have never said they support modding. If this was a nexus that they locked the bootloader on then yes, problem. I said be honest, my point was this decison is an integrity one, not you lack integrity. If you wanted to know if will VZW charge you for returning a rooted phone, that would have been a more appropriate question and thread, not how do I trick Verizon. Lesson learned, not beating up on you.
The OP owned it, he said he was sending the replacement device back. Good for him. Like others I wasnt trying to come across as being rude as much as appalled at the blatant disregard of personal responsibility. At the same time posting this type of title and thread up on XDA is kinda asking for it, which again, the OP has acknowledged.
We know we hate the carriers locking devices down. Locking them actually presents more of a risk of bricking than unlocked devices that you can always flash back to stock. Almost every thread here has something to the effect of "by following such and such your warranty is now void and we are not responsible", come on, we're registered here at XDA, we all know this. If we want an open device get a dev or nexus device and get an extended warranty or insurance option, they're out there.
Congrats to the op for staying classy, your choices are your choices and you'll live with whatever choices you decide to make.
And as we all should know by now, dont post on the interwebz if you dont want to hear what people, trolls and non-trolls alike have to say...
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Alright, alright, I dug my own grave on this one. I don't want to resort to such tactics but like everyone else I'm a little peeved with Verizon so I'm contemplating doing things I normally wouldn't do. Not that it's an excuse but making sweeping judgments about my character is a little overboard. It's not like I sneak out at night punching babies or anything. I'm annoyed that I was hoodwinked into an update that prevented me from modding my phone. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I just saw a potential way out and wanted to know if anyone had any experience with getting charged for sending back a rooted phone. If you think I should just be honest, say so. This whole "you lack integrity," stuff is B.S. If Verizon had any integrity I wouldn't even be contemplating pulling a stunt like this.
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Think of it like this. What do you use your phone for? To talk on the phone. Send messages. Email. Take pictures. Surf the web. Play games. Watch videos. Video chat. The other 20% is customization. If this was the year 1999 you would only be able to use your phone to make calls send messages and half-assed surf the web. Your phone is used for those types of things. Just because an update happened to a phone doesn't mean that you cannot use your phone to do those things it only limits you from updating to a different ROMS. ATT Verizon and them paid the money so they could have the locked boot loaders for the phones. If you didn't want restrictions then you wouldn't have used the upgrade you had and went and paid full price for the GPE s4 or other phone. Not saying that I like having a locked boot loader but since Obama came into office this is how its going to be because he's UN Americanized. But there are people working hard to get the boot loader unlocked it just takes time. You can still root it. Just my 2 cents
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I bought this phone on craigslist and everything seemed fine with it, but the rom seemed a bit odd and it keeps dropping calls and freezing up on some applications so i thought i'd check which rom was installed and maybe install a better one.
Turns out it is running on 4.1.9...............View attachment 2189224
When i try to enter download mode this icon appears:View attachment 2188643
And when i try to go into recovery mode i cannot select any option from the menu, the only thing it lets me do is scroll over them.
Other than that the phone boots up fine and works decently but the call quality is really low and calls drop all the time or i can hear people on the other end but they can't hear me at first.
Please help!
I've tried using Kies and Odin but the phone is not recognised. I don't think it's a driver issue as it seems they are installed properly.
Thanks in advance!
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but it's a clone
Not to be rude, but blunt. This is not something you needed an expert to tell you. Just reading it has 4.1.9 makes it obvious it is not genuine.
continued - thank you for answering so fast
Well,orgive my ignorance. I'm not a complete noob but i didn't know that there were such clones. it looks just like an s3, i thought maybe they had flashed a weird custom ROM or something.
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So i guess there's nothing to be done, i just got ripped off.
timaloud said:
Well,orgive my ignorance. I'm not a complete noob but i didn't know that there were such clones. it looks just like an s3, i thought maybe they had flashed a weird custom ROM or something.
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So i guess there's nothing to be done, i just got ripped off.
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yep sry man its a clone.. not genuine... :S
There are quite a few forums out there for these phones and some custom firmware, but if you can raise an issue with craiglist and try for refund
Try to connect it to your PC and then to KIES and check if it connects?
wangdaning said:
Not to be rude, but blunt. This is not something you needed an expert to tell you. Just reading it has 4.1.9 makes it obvious it is not genuine.
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No need to be rude at all, especially at a time like this for the poor person.
Go away and learn some social skills
joevik said:
Try to connect it to your PC and then to KIES and check if it connects?
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If its a clone kies won't recognize better talk to craiglist guys
sent from the state where Marijuana is NOT illegal !
timaloud said:
Well,orgive my ignorance. I'm not a complete noob but i didn't know that there were such clones. it looks just like an s3, i thought maybe they had flashed a weird custom ROM or something.
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So i guess there's nothing to be done, i just got ripped off.
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Look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896199
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app
slaphead20 said:
No need to be rude at all, especially at a time like this for the poor person.
Go away and learn some social skills
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Again, I was not trying to be rude, just didn't want to beat around the bush. It does not take an expert. I know it is messed up for the OP, lost money, lost time, but hopefully it will never happen again to them. Also, hopefully others who might read this post think hard about buying devices from places like craigslist. Nothing wrong with it but make sure you research the device thoroughly.
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Well thank you anyway guys.
I don't think complaining to Craigslist will do anything as they clearly state that they are not responsible for any transactions that take place from the adds posted there.
And it makes sense because it is the buyer who has to be looking out for this kind of stuff. I've been buying stuff on Craigslist for a long time now so i know better than to fall for shipping frauds or that sort of thing... I just didn't imagine that they made clones that looked this good.
Thanks for all your posts, you've been truly helpful.