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ok my track ball wont go down... im past 30 days but i guess i have a 1 year warrenty that comes with it. since my ball wont go down i cant properly use my recovery menu. or half my apps -.-"... well my main question is if im at 2.1root can i return it like that or will they notice ive been playing with it and ill be stuck.. please reply my dad planned on taking me for tomarrow n i need to know if i should downgrade or whatever
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Palmbxr said:
ok my track ball wont go down... im past 30 days but i guess i have a 1 year warrenty that comes with it. since my ball wont go down i cant properly use my recovery menu. or half my apps -.-"... well my main question is if im at 2.1root can i return it like that or will they notice ive been playing with it and ill be stuck.. please reply my dad planned on taking me for tomarrow n i need to know if i should downgrade or whatever
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There is a chance that they would notice, but if it's simply the trackball that's problematic, I doubt they'll go into your system info that much.
Option A.) Downgrade and don't risk it (your getting a new phone most likely anyway if it is truly broken.
Option B.) Take the new weather/clock widget and other stuff that is obviously from 2.1 off your home screen(s), and try to use the ones that look like they are from 1.5. That would be enough to trick a random person who doesn't have any experience with an eris I would think...
I would recommend calling customer support. They don't ask that many questions. Just, if its rooted, restore to 1.5 using jcase's method.
thanks alot so its possable to downgrade without needing my trackball to go down?? lmao
hmm... does anyone know if this is a problem with 2.1 in general? I'm still on 2.1leak (dont want to upgrade to anything else in fear that leak will be able to root before whatever i upgrade to) and my ball wont go down.
I was going to go into verizon tomorrow to get it replaced so i could go root instead... but if anyone thinks that's a bad idea let me know.
ur track ball won't go down either?
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yep, I just went to the verizon store, a new unit is being sent to me in a couple days.
but,back on topic. I'm fairly certain 2.1 voided the warranty over the air. When i went to go in to get a replacement unit, they couldn't figure out why my phone was out of warranty when i just got it back in november/december.
Is there anyway that updating to 2.1 verizon pinged the phone or the phone pinged verizon and they marked it out of warranty?
the representatives there just did some work around in the computer to give me my warranty, thankfully they weren't too smart to look at the firmware number (it was locked even if they tried).
(one representative just had a can of compressed air blowing directly on the trackball for like 2 minutes... i couldn't believe he even tried that :/ )
think ill be ok if I don't go back to stock 1.5? reply ASAP in leaving in an hour
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Of course you'll be fine, think about how much money they get from your account with this type of phone, they dont want to loose you as a customer...
thanks on my way now... ill repost when (if) I get my new Eris
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ok I went to Verizon and I showed the guy my broken phones trackball. nothing else is wrong it goes down n everyting. he typed on the computer for a seccond n then he said ur new Eris will be delivered to ur house by Friday latest. so all he did was send an order out and I get a brand new out of the box Eris! and I keep my old one!!! can't get any better now I have 2 erises to play with with another 8th SD card!
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ok I went to Verizon and I showed the guy my broken phones trackball. nothing else is wrong it goes down n everyting. he typed on the computer for a seccond n then he said ur new Eris will be delivered to ur house by Friday latest. so all he did was send an order out and I get a brand new out of the box Eris! and I keep my old one!!! can't get any better now I have 2 erises to play with with another 8th SD card!
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Lucky.... now you have one you can brick
verizon doesn't make you send back your old phone? sweet! i'm getting a new one sent to me as well. I'll love having this extra one around to practice changing the trackball and development and stuff.
also, does the replacement unit still come with the 8gb sd card? that's a freaking deal right there.
I have received many (many!) replacements from big red and they have always required that I send the "bad" device back. You are given 10 days from the time you receive the replacement, then the old one goes back or you pay The only way you may be able to keep the old one is via insurance claim, not sure on this.
When you get a referb form VZW it will be bare bones device without battery, back cover, SD. Nothing but the phone (again insurance claim may be different).
otoh. I opened it when I got home... hope I don't have to send back
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Yes, you have 10 days to return your old device on a warranty claim, or you are charged the retail price of the phone.
question i have though... what happens when they get my old phone and see firstly a nexus one boot screen, and secondly, it's 2.1?
they probably won't care its too late
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This time I have really f***ed up guys. I really think this time I have actually bricked my Thunderbolt. I was on Bamf Remix 1.63 I believe and everything was running great. I was obviously rooted also. I was bored and decided to flash Protekks Battery Sipper Kernel. Right after I flashed it, the phone would not boot. I pulled the battery and booted up again and it got stuck in a boot loop. So after a few tries I finally got it to boot into the bootloader. I got into recovery and tried to flash a backup and it rebooted in the middle of restoring it. I tried that a few more times. I then let the battery die. Then I charged it up a lot and tried to power it on and got nothing. The screen will not even turn on. When plugged into my computer it sometimes vibrates and my computer detects it and then my computer makes the sound like it was disconnected. I think it is still stuck in the boot loop with the screen off though. BTW the charging light does light up when plugged in. I tried the stock and extended battery to make sure it was not a battery problem. I finally called up Verizon and after I told them it would not turn on he said he is shipping me a free replacement. I told them that after a OTA update the phone would not boot. He warned me that if there is any evidence that the phone was rooted or hacked, I would be charged the retail price for the phone. That is really the only thing I am scared of. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Sorry for the long post, I wanted to get in all the details that I could.
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Try putting it in download mode and flash back to gongerbread using odin
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Try putting it in download mode and flash back to gongerbread using odin
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Wtf? This isn't Samsung. OP do you bootloop in bootloader? I recommend you go to the irc and give them any info you can.. you will probably end up flashing a stock ruu through the bootloader but first go to irc.
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Thanks for the quick reply! How would I get into download mode. And I was on froyo before.. Shouldn't I download a froyo based rom?
Yeah I did not think we have Odin for HTC phones, and I already have the stock zip file on my MicroSD card but my screen will not turn on at all. I can not get into anything. Any advice?
Talk to jcase. Hopefully you have some adb knowledge.
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Yeah I did not think we have Odin for HTC phones, and I already have the stock zip file on my MicroSD card but my screen will not turn on at all. I can not get into anything. Any advice?
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Go to irc.. someone with actual Dev experience can help you there try #thunderbolt
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OK thanks for the replies. Do you think the Verizon warranty center people will actually go to the trouble of getting it to work and then charge me full retail for a new one if they see it is rooted. I already have the stock zip on the SD card so when it does boot up, it will return everything to stock. I have read online that some people have been charged retail because there phones have been rooted but most of them have gotten away with with it..
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OK thanks for the replies. Do you think the Verizon warranty center people will actually go to the trouble of getting it to work and then charge me full retail for a new one if they see it is rooted. I already have the stock zip on the SD card so when it does boot up, it will return everything to stock. I have read online that some people have been charged retail because there phones have been rooted but most of them have gotten away with with it..
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I think you're almost certainly fine. It's a lot of work and time for big red over one phone. Plus, your etf is less expensive than a replacement device
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thanks for the response man. etf= early termination fee? I might not have said in my original post but they are sending me a free replacement device. The rep on the phone specifically said that if they find my phone to be rooted or hacked, that I will be charged around 629$ for the refurb replacement. I really cannot afford that (
Call back and tell em you accidentally dropped it out of moving vehicle and that it was run over 5 times...and that it was raining outside. Then pay your deductible.
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Call back and tell em you accidentally dropped it out of moving vehicle and that it was run over 5 times...and that it was raining outside. Then pay your deductible.
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I decided that if I ever bricked, that I'd post on here asking what horrible things I should do previous to sending it in to get a replacement. Then post pics. XD
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Please check out this thread when you get a moment, might help the community and we would greatly appreciate it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130407
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I got out of a bootloop on my friend's Insipre 4G (which is very similar to the TB) by mounting the microSD on my computer, and then putting a stock ROM on it. I had to rename the stock ROM PG98IMG (PG05IMG on Thunderbolt), and flash it through the bootloader, but it did work.
Thanks for the post man but the Thunderbolt does not show any signs of life at all besides the flashing orange LED at the top blinking and the computer detecting it on and off every 5 minutes. The stock zip is already on the SD card so when it finally boots up it will flash and hopefully Verizon won't charge me out the @ss for a replacement.
powered on! for a second...
UPDATE: I just had it hooked up to my laptop and it booted on the the white HTC screen and I almost had a heart attaack :O but then it powered off and wont come back on. FML
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UPDATE: I just had it hooked up to my laptop and it booted on the the white HTC screen and I almost had a heart attaack :O but then it powered off and wont come back on. FML
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how long have you had your phone and what hardware revision was it? did you try to run the RUU yet?
i think some people just got a batch of faulty phones because this doesn't seem to affect many.
I highly doubt verizon is going to receive your broken phone and boot it up and it will magically work. The only way it will auto-update is if they boot it into HBOOT. If they somehow just power it on it won't automatically apply anything. Keep that in mind. But I really wouldn't worry too much about it. If they charge you call them and tell them wtf I wasn't rooted. I don't even know what that means lol.
I have had the phone since the very first days it was released. Another slight annoying thing I have had happening prior is the glue on the screen has not been holding it down very well and and I can easily get a nail under it. And it wont let me do anything. I have a Droid X as a backup for now but I miss my beast
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I have had the phone since the very first days it was released. Another slight annoying thing I have had happening prior is the glue on the screen has not been holding it down very well and and I can easily get a nail under it. And it wont let me do anything. I have a Droid X as a backup for now but I miss my beast
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that's what im starting to think as htc has since released a revision 2 thunderbolt. i know as i just bought mine a few weeks ago. im wondering if the faulty phones were version 1 phones and have since been fixed. i also do not experience the high battery drain most of you guys do either.
I can confirm that I bricked my phone tonight. I was playing in Clockwork trying to get a ext4 partition using a sdparted.txt. I gave up with that because I could not get it to work properly. Well I decided to push my a rom from adb to sd and it was taking forever so I closed out cmd and proceeded to mount SD from recovery but it would not mount. So I figured the SD card was locked up with CMD or perhaps I corrupted the partitions. So I pulled the battery and popped the sd in my pc and everything was fine with the card. So I went back and put the sd card back in my phone and tried to boot it up and I got nothing. I then plugged the phone into my pc and got nothing.. No lights no boot nothing. It did try to install QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers. Which I know someone is already working on. I guess sprint will be getting a visit tomorrow with my brick. Sigh.. No matter how experienced you think you are you are always not experienced enough..
Just wondering have you tried turning it on while its not plugged in? It may take a few pushes of the power button. Well you mentioned you tried before you plugged it in but try a few times, one time it took me 6 presses of the power button.
Try pulling the battery out waiting for 5 to 10 minutes then put it back and try booting!
Sywped from mah Supasonic!
To answer both of you Yes I have tried many times of pushing the power button plugged and unplugged and also leaving the battery an for extended period of time. No charging light comes on and it prompts for the QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers. I am assuming this is what trevE has been working on. Thus leading me to believe it is a full brick.
Can you get to your Hboot?
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So, what exactly are you going to tell sprint after you bricked your phone by flashing a rom through a custom recovery?
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So, what exactly are you going to tell sprint after you bricked your phone by flashing a rom through a custom recovery?
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I was doing an OTA update and then it didnt turn back on.
Yeah, doesn't work like that. EVO 3D has emmc that is write protected that is designed to revert to stock if ota fails.
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Yeah, doesn't work like that. EVO 3D has emmc that is write protected that is designed to revert to stock if ota fails.
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He could just say his phone turned off and now it wont boot. The employees at a Sprint repair center don't have the time or resources to launch an investigation into exactly how your phone failed and if it was his fault or not. Unless he opens his mouth or its some kind of physical/liquid damage they will give him a replacement no problem.
This is correct. By this I mean above post. They won't take the time to really check and you are not lying by saying it won't boot.
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Just tell them that you flipped the score on angry birds and then some crazy government stuff started flashing on your screen before it burned out. And then tell them that you might be the new intersect.
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But what happens if he says that then the Sprint guys find out he was lying? Do they ever do anything?
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But what happens if he says that then the Sprint guys find out he was lying? Do they ever do anything?
Sent from my fingers.
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They won't find out if the phone wont turn on. The problem is that people are not smarter than the equipment they are working with and do stupid things like brick their phones, and return them while lying and in the end, the rest of us end up suffering. Before Android brought in a whole slew of retards who bricked their phones, insurance was a 50 dollar deductible. I fully expect it to be 150 soon.
If you are dumb enough to try stupid things and brick your phone, at least man up and be responsible and do the right thing. Yeah, thats not going to happen.
if you brick a phone why not do the right thing and get yourself a new one by manning up and paying for it. I mean dont we all talk about doing the right thing? If you dont wanna pay retail, I am sure they will let your renew your upgrade, if you tell them you can either buy a phone or pay the ETF and go elsewhere, they will usually let you upgrade the phone.
I cant believe you experiment with stupid **** when you know it might f up the phone.
If you have insurance you can just lose it and pay the 100.00 ded. the brick should be worth at least a 100.00 on ebay. I sold an og evo with a broken lcd and bad esn. in an auction it got 126.50 about a month ago.
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They won't find out if the phone wont turn on. The problem is that people are not smarter than the equipment they are working with and do stupid things like brick their phones, and return them while lying and in the end, the rest of us end up suffering. Before Android brought in a whole slew of retards who bricked their phones, insurance was a 50 dollar deductible. I fully expect it to be 150 soon.
If you are dumb enough to try stupid things and brick your phone, at least man up and be responsible and do the right thing. Yeah, thats not going to happen.
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Meh just a soft brick, it's not like he's shipping it to them in pieces or anything. It just needs reflashed. If he were to use insurance the deductible would be nearly pure profit for them.
I remember seeing in another forum (can't remember which atm) that something was buggy in clockwork and it would zero out parts of the eMMC when formatting/partitioning something. It may be a good idea for someone to try and find out what it was doing to see if our version is prone to it also.
I decided to come back to my post and say a few more things. To the few who harped and lectured about taking my phone to sprint, I just wanted to let you know I explained to the sweet girl behind the counter that I was formatting my sdcard and some how the phones emmc got erased with it. She had no freaking clue Wtf I was talking about and just gave me a different phone. I never had any intention of claiming insurance or lying about how it happened. So you guys who whined can settle down now. But on another note this all happened on clock work and yes I was repartitioning the SD card via clock work / recovery - adb shell - sdparted.txt script.
Something funky happened when I did the battery pull after I could no longer mount the sdcard from within recovery..
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Meh just a soft brick, it's not like he's shipping it to them in pieces or anything. It just needs reflashed. If he were to use insurance the deductible would be nearly pure profit for them.
I remember seeing in another forum (can't remember which atm) that something was buggy in clockwork and it would zero out parts of the eMMC when formatting/partitioning something. It may be a good idea for someone to try and find out what it was doing to see if our version is prone to it also.
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I think that's the NookColor. You *cannot* format your SD (or on any non-stock rom) or you would format a portion of the eMMC and could (would always?) brick, hard....though it probably happens elsewhere, it's the entire platform from what I recall (of which the NookColor is a near reference design)...I think it was from confusion caused by how the partitions were referenced since you could boot from SD or eMMC or have any number of partitions on either.
If there were never any "retards" trying unknown things, there would be no dev community.
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If there were never any "retards" trying unknown things, there would be no dev community.
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+1 I r tard
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---See Update below at end of this post---
The phone was running fine till yesterday however it got discharged. Upon reaching home, I put the phone on charge forgot to turn it on. I remember the orange light on phone was on. About 2 hours later, I noticed that there was no notification light. I tried to turn on the phone but it didn't turn on
I removed the battery and tried again, the same thing. I put the charger cable back in, the orange light blinked a couple of time and it became steady orange. Tried to turn the phone on again and the light again went off. I tried the same thing over and over its the same result. I connected the phone to windows, its detected as qhsusb_dload and need drivers for it. I've searched around xda for it, I've found it means the phone is bricked for phones having qualcomm chipset, but the strange thing is it usually happens because of bad flash. My phone was running fine without any problems for past couple of weeks and I hadn't had flashed anything for last 2-3 days, I don't know what went wrong
Any idea how should I proceed ?
I bought my phone from eBay about 3 weeks back. I'm thinking of contacting the eBay seller and ask if they have tmobile warranty for it?
The other thing I could do is purchase squaretrade warranty and ask them for a repair 45 days later.
But I don't know, I had unlocked the bootloader and installed a custom ROM on it (although I was on stock kernel). Do you guys think, HTC or squaretrade will honor the warranty on it ? I know the second option is kind of immoral, but i dont want to lose $400 I just spent
--- UPDATE 03/31 ---
I got the replacement battery from HTC, using it my phone started. Later on, I changed to X's touch recovery and kernel to Faux 009 and guess what I was able to revive my dead battery also by charging via phone itself... I dont know where the bug lied exactly as somebody mentioned at other place the stock kernel in NRGZ thread is different from tmo stock and causing problems. My guess is bad recovery though as the CWM 5.0.2.6 for Amaze here doesn't support off charging...
--- UPDATE 04/05 ---
Member andy55 confirmed this bug is due to bad recovery and the stock kernel itself is fine.
I would suggest everyone to not use official CWM 5.0.2.6 recovery. Rather switch to Xboarder56's version of ClockworkMOD 5.5.0.4 or Touch 5.8.0.9 RC2
If a mod can put this above information in the reference thread for Amaze..It would save a lot of potential probs in Amaze's in here
Battery fail sounds more right... You didn't brick the phone charging it, I can promise that
Try a different battery if possible
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Battery fail sounds more right... You didn't brick the phone charging it, I can promise that
Try a different battery if possible
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Yes, I know its the most strange thing ever happened.
Do you or anybody know if sensation battery works on it. My room mate has a sensation I can ask him for his battery and try it out
sounds like the same thing that happened to my backup amaze. I swapped batteries and the same issue was affecting the other one, so its the battery. One of my amaze's is rooted rom'd etc and the other is stock, and the same issue affected the stock one, so its not a brick.
Good time to upgrade to an anker
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Yes, I know its the most strange thing ever happened.
Do you or anybody know if sensation battery works on it. My room mate has a sensation I can ask him for his battery and try it out
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Idk myself... Do you have a tmo store nearby? They would prolly have one for you to test with and to buy... But don't buy there.... Way too overpriced
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^Yes, that's a good idea, I have one nearby..I'll go there in evening, as I'm on work now.. which makes me wonder glacier what you do, you're always here
By the way is there any way to reset the battery like shorting it or something like that which discharges it...I think it might just work, however I'm not quite sure how to do it
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^Yes, that's a good idea, I have one nearby..I'll go there in evening, as I'm on work now.. which makes me wonder glacier what you do, you're always here
By the way is there any way to reset the battery like shorting it or something like that which discharges it...I think it might just work, however I'm not quite sure how to do it
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Lol I'm a bill collector... So pay your medical bills!
Not your avg collector making $10/hr in a cubie either. I have my own office, some clients of my own, and a lofty salary+commission package . While I wait for ppl to answer there phones, I browse the forum as a time killer...
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HTC also replaces any accessory once, you could call and they'd probably send you a free battery.
I just got another back cover from them, since my old one was creaking.
To Discharge the battery, you could get a couple led lights and tape them to the + and - terminals of the battery and just let it die.
Radioshack has leds.
Probably not the easiest way... But it would work.
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HTC also replaces any accessory once, you could call and they'd probably send you a free battery.
I just got another back cover from them, since my old one was creaking.
To Discharge the battery, you could get a couple led lights and tape them to the + and - terminals of the battery and just let it die.
Radioshack has leds.
Probably not the easiest way... But it would work.
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I tried to shorten it using just a simple wire and connecting the positive and negative terminals..however it doesn't seem to be doing anything
Already gotten the back cover myself..now I have both black and white covers
Will they send out second accessory also ?
I think they will send as many accessories just as you only ask for one of each. That's what it said on the paper they sent in the mail.
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ok went to the TMO store on my way back...but guys at there refused to test it out saying they don't have any tester battery's...moreover I'm not a TMO customer so they said they can't me help much either
Anyway, I called up HTC customer service, it seems they do honor warranty on tmobile sets, however I just asked them to ship me a replacement battery for now, if that doesn't work, I'll send the phone over to HTC for repair...
BTW customer support guy said the notification light blinks in case the battery is extremely dead. I hope it does work with new battery...I don't know how will they take it when they find unlocked bootloader and custom ROM installed on it...
Dont worry, they wont even get to know about it ..
Because they are not that knowledge about it ...
Ya sensation battery will work. I have tried it
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ok went to the TMO store on my way back...but guys at there refused to test it out saying they don't have any tester battery's...moreover I'm not a TMO customer so they said they can't me help much either
Anyway, I called up HTC customer service, it seems they do honor warranty on tmobile sets, however I just asked them to ship me a replacement battery for now, if that doesn't work, I'll send the phone over to HTC for repair...
BTW customer support guy said the notification light blinks in case the battery is extremely dead. I hope it does work with new battery...I don't know how will they take it when they find unlocked bootloader and custom ROM installed on it...
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Good stuff... It will work
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Just talked to my buddy. EXACT same thing just happened to him the other day. Getting a replacement battery
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ok went to the TMO store on my way back...but guys at there refused to test it out saying they don't have any tester battery's...moreover I'm not a TMO customer so they said they can't me help much either
Anyway, I called up HTC customer service, it seems they do honor warranty on tmobile sets, however I just asked them to ship me a replacement battery for now, if that doesn't work, I'll send the phone over to HTC for repair...
BTW customer support guy said the notification light blinks in case the battery is extremely dead. I hope it does work with new battery...I don't know how will they take it when they find unlocked bootloader and custom ROM installed on it...
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With your phone being s-on, you can't technically brick your phone. So as long as it's a hardware failure, and you don't have s-off and haven't been holding out on us you should be fine.
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glacierguy said:
Just talked to my buddy. EXACT same thing just happened to him the other day. Getting a replacement battery
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Seems this problem is common enough then...we already have 3 people including me which have this since I started this thread
Wondering, if an after market independent battery charger can revive the battery, I'll get one if everything works fine with replacement battery..
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Ya sensation battery will work. I have tried it
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I thought about it, but don't want to go ahead...I will just wait for replacement battery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
If you have a qsb_load brick caused in any way, plz try to identify your phones emmc like they did here in the link for the sensation in a Linux environment. You can only access this mode on a bricked phone.
I think we may be able to s-off using a version of this method. Ultimately intentionally bricking a phone and achieve installing a cracked boot loader and s-off.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
If you have a qsb_load brick caused in any way, plz try to identify your phones emmc like they did here in the link for the sensation in a Linux environment. You can only access this mode on a bricked phone.
I think we may be able to s-off using a version of this method. Ultimately intentionally bricking a phone and achieve installing a cracked boot loader and s-off.
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Ok, I went through the thread to make out, what they are trying to do, however, without much success...
I couldn't find the pin they use on sensation to ground it to SD card frame, to put it in download mode. See the image attached, its kind of different from sensation. Also I can't find it any instructions for Linux environment, its mostly windows based (drivers and software). Can you point out the post or do a write up ? I have a mac with me, I'm guessing it would be same for os X also..
Anyway I don't know, if I should be doing all this...since I plan to RMA the phone to HTC incase it doesn't work with new battery.
However, if its indeed battery related and it does work with new battery, what I can do is ship you the battery which causes the brick. You can try the things on your Amaze, if you want to...since you seem better technically sound than me
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Seems this problem is common enough then...we already have 3 people including me which have this since I started this thread
Wondering, if an after market independent battery charger can revive the battery, I'll get one if everything works fine with replacement battery..
I thought about it, but don't want to go ahead...I will just wait for replacement battery...
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HTC Sensation Battery DOES work in the Amaze.
Independent battery charger DOES work as well.
I use Anker battery 1900 mAh from Amazon.
I use an external charger also found on Amazon (white- about $10).
so I odined my vzw note II back to stock using the alt tar package. It booted up fine, but then I rebooted back into recovery (stock android) and stupidly, or curiously... flashed the CWM Touch 6.0.32 recovery image in recovery, it attempted to reboot, but nothing. All I'm getting is a dim red light flashing everytime I try to boot my phone up. I've switched out the battery and still the same. btw, my battery was full when I did this. Potential brick? Or should I try to use a usb jig to get it it to boot back up and go into download mode?
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so I odined my vzw note II back to stock using the alt tar package. It booted up fine, but then I rebooted back into recovery (stock android) and stupidly, or curiously... flashed the CWM Touch 6.0.32 recovery image in recovery, it attempted to reboot, but nothing. All I'm getting is a dim red light flashing everytime I try to boot my phone up. I've switched out the battery and still the same. btw, my battery was full when I did this. Potential brick? Or should I try to use a usb jig to get it it to boot back up and go into download mode?
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This is most likely a brick but possibly just a soft brick. I did the same thing on my S3 and was able to get it back up and running using a jig and flashing the stock kernel in Odin.
Can you get to Download mode at all or does it just flash the red LED when you try to boot into recovery? I would at least try the jig before having it JTAG'ed cause there is at least a chance it'll work.
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This is most likely a brick but possibly just a soft brick. I did the same thing on my S3 and was able to get it back up and running using a jig and flashing the stock kernel in Odin.
Can you get to Download mode at all or does it just flash the red LED when you try to boot into recovery? I would at least try the jig before having it JTAG'ed cause there is at least a chance it'll work.
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yeah, it doesn't turn on at all. Even being plugged in. It just flashes a red light for like a second and that's it. I can't get it to turn on for the life of me.
edit: any chance I can borrow that jig? lol.
You sure can, I made it myself. If you have any soldering skills I can send you the instructions if you would rather not wait on it to come thru the mail or if you live in Alabama I will meet you and give it to you.
There is also a page on XDA about USB jigs that has a list of people willing to loan theirs out, there may be one near you if you would rather not wait.
Its easy to make them though, all you have to do is have basic soldering skills, a micro USB end, and a resistor (which I believe was a 300k resistor, its been so long since I made it though the value could be off. I still have the supplies to make 10+ more though so I could look to make sure if you did go the route of making your own).
Either way its up to you, I can send you mine thru the mail or if you're game to build one I can send you the instructions.
Also the jig may not work, it depends on how badly bricked you are, but it worked so me when I did the exact same thing and had the exact same problem on my S3. You may have to get it JTAG'ed though, which I really hope you're able to fix it with a jig.
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I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
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I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
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$8 dollars is a little high seeing as how you can buy then for 5 on Amazon. Considering what goes into it $5 is almost to high.
And biting your tongue about flashing in stock recovery? If it had been the recovery zip he would have been fine, I've even made the mistake of flashing a tar.md5 in my recovery when I knew better simply because I wasnt paying enough attention to it because I wasnt at home and eas downloading it on my phone. It's an easy mistake to make of you're on the move and arent on a computer, especially when considering the TWRP update is either tar.md5 for Odin or a zip for your recovery. I thought I had seen CWM recovery flashable zips around on here but I may have been wrong seeing as how I dont use CWM anymore and dont keep up with it.
Also jigs are fairly easy to make seeing as all you have to have is a micro USB end and a 300k resistor. I bought the micro usb end that came with a shell for a cord and while there is a hole on one end it still looks better than having a hacked wire hanging around.
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Here are some pictures of the one I made. The hole on the end is because the shell was made for a wire to go out to another USB end but I just used the shell for this instead of having a hacked cord lying around or a wire running out of the opening and connecting to the resistor outside of plastic shell. Having the resistor out of the shell would be easier to short circuit whereas it is completely stable in the shell.
The little piece you see in the opening is the very end of the 300k resistor that is covered with heat shrink tubing so none of the metal is exposed. I'd you want to make your own you can follow the instructions from here:
http://galaxys2root.com/galaxy-s2-hacks/how-to-make-a-usb-jig-for-your-galaxy-s2/
The male micro USB ends I used I got off of eBay:
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=390363690475
They come from China and take a while to get here but you could just as easily get them from Digi Key
Also the 300k resistors I got off of Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/E-Projects-30...1369827313&sr=8-2&keywords=300k+watt+resistor
If you still want to use mine I will send it to you no questions asked, just let me know.
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I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
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lol, what's sad is i should've known not to try it. I'm nit new to android, and that was honestly a stupid noob choice. but thanks! yeah I'm definitely looking into buying one, does anyone know per chance if i need one exactly for the note 2 or can i just buy one for any phone and try it that way?
EDIT: hopefully i can get one for cheap and super quick, i definitely feel naked without a phone on me, lol
EDITdos: and I bought a jig. it should be at my house by friday. at least let's hope it is. I'm ready to get this bad boy back and working again.
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lol, what's sad is i should've known not to try it. I'm nit new to android, and that was honestly a stupid noob choice. but thanks! yeah I'm definitely looking into buying one, does anyone know per chance if i need one exactly for the note 2 or can i just buy one for any phone and try it that way?
EDIT: hopefully i can get one for cheap and super quick, i definitely feel naked without a phone on me, lol
EDITdos: and I bought a jig. it should be at my house by friday. at least let's hope it is. I'm ready to get this bad boy back and working again.
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When I was messing with jigs there were a few different ones but as long as it is made for Samsung or works on Samsung products you should be fine.
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When I was messing with jigs there were a few different ones but as long as it is made for Samsung or works on Samsung products you should be fine.
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yeah, I hope to god it works though. Do you know of any JTAG/sd card unbrick for the i605? I emailed the seller about JTAG on the note II and he said it wasn't possible, they're using the sd card method, which I can't seem to find anything on unfortunately.
also, here's what i ordered:
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yeah, I hope to god it works though. Do you know of any JTAG/sd card unbrick for the i605? I emailed the seller about JTAG on the note II and he said it wasn't possible, they're using the sd card method, which I can't seem to find anything on unfortunately.
also, here's what i ordered:
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That one should work fine, if it doesnt let me know and I will try to find you one that does.
As for the SD card JTAG I dont think that has worked since the 4.0 update on Samsung phones, I may be wrong on that though because I never messed with it. The only surefire way I know to JTAG a Samsung phone is to either buy a JTAG, which is around $150 and is called a RIFF box, or to send it to MobileTechVideos and get him to do it for $60.
There is a thread on XDA about using an SD card to JTAG an international S3 but im unsure if the software you had to load on the card is out for the Note 2.
The downside to doing it yourself is you have to take the phone apart and solder the wires to the JTAG contacts on the MoBo, on some phones you can make a piece out of breadboard so you dont have to solder the wires to the contact points on the MoBo but I dont know if you can do that with the Note 2.
If you went the route of getting it JTAG'ed you definitely need to send it to MobileTechVideos, he has been doing this for quite a while and is very very good at what he does.
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That one should work fine, if it doesnt let me know and I will try to find you one that does.
As for the SD card JTAG I dont think that has worked since the 4.0 update on Samsung phones, I may be wrong on that though because I never messed with it. The only surefire way I know to JTAG a Samsung phone is to either buy a JTAG, which is around $150 and is called a RIFF box, or to send it to MobileTechVideos and get him to do it for $60.
There is a thread on XDA about using an SD card to JTAG an international S3 but im unsure if the software you had to load on the card is out for the Note 2.
The downside to doing it yourself is you have to take the phone apart and solder the wires to the JTAG contacts on the MoBo, on some phones you can make a piece out of breadboard so you dont have to solder the wires to the contact points on the MoBo but I dont know if you can do that with the Note 2.
If you went the route of getting it JTAG'ed you definitely need to send it to MobileTechVideos, he has been doing this for quite a while and is very very good at what he does.
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Yeah, hopefully I won't have to go that route, but if I do I'm planning on sending it to mobo, and hopefully can get it back rather quickly. Guess we'll find out tomorrow... Which sucks, but what can you do? Hopefully, if you had the same problem on the s3 and a jig worked for you then it'll work for my note 2. Honestly I don't see how the hell flashing a recovery zip in stock recovery could brick me. I've never ever heard of it doing that.
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Yeah, hopefully I won't have to go that route, but if I do I'm planning on sending it to mobo, and hopefully can get it back rather quickly. Guess we'll find out tomorrow... Which sucks, but what can you do? Hopefully, if you had the same problem on the s3 and a jig worked for you then it'll work for my note 2. Honestly I don't see how the hell flashing a recovery zip in stock recovery could brick me. I've never ever heard of it doing that.
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Well I flashed the recovery img, that bricked me immediately. I rebooted the recovery and thats when I figured out how bad I screwed up. Hopefully this will work for you, these suckers are hard to hard brick so I'm crossing my fingers that the jig will get you up and running.
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Well I flashed the recovery img, that bricked me immediately. I rebooted the recovery and thats when I figured out how bad I screwed up. Hopefully this will work for you, these suckers are hard to hard brick so I'm crossing my fingers that the jig will get you up and running.
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yeah, hopefully I can get it up and running. because I've honestly tried everything I can think of to revive the damned thing, lol
EDIT: just to update ya'll, got the JTAG today, and it didn't work. It acts like it's trying to work, but doesn't power on the phone just shows the same damned red led light... damn. now I gotta get some jtag work.