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Okay, so I've been using my Eris for months now with no problems. Development has gone fine aswell - rooted to 2.1, installed a ROM or two, and most recently got ahold of 2.2 for my enjoyment (KaosFroyo).
Well, actually, all I remember from the time was that my phone was at 11%, and I had locked it and put it down. Upon picking it up, I couldn't unlock it. But the other side of the screen, the one to switch it to silent, went about half way over and stopped. I posted the same problem in the KaosFroyo thread for help too, so.
I've tried doing restores with Clockwork with no luck. I'm just confused as to why it was so sudden. And if it's physical for some reason, I'm gonna' have trouble finding $90 for ****-surion to replace my phone.
Unfortunately, clockwork recovery can potentially mess up the Eris very badly. Idk why but it doesn't work well with this phone. Maybe try flashing a different recovery, wipe, and flash Rom again?
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settlethestorm said:
Unfortunately, clockwork recovery can potentially mess up the Eris very badly. Idk why but it doesn't work well with this phone. Maybe try flashing a different recovery, wipe, and flash Rom again?
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Gonna give it a go. Any suggestions as to a better recovery?
I'm afraid though I've lurked, I'm still learning.
V1215 said:
Gonna give it a go. Any suggestions as to a better recovery?
I'm afraid though I've lurked, I'm still learning.
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Lol don't worry about it, I lurked for quite a while before I learned how to do the things I wanted. Do you have the app Rom manager on your phone?
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If you do (cause it puts clockwork on your phone) then you have the option to flash to an alternate recovery through the app. It's called amon ra 1.6.2 (numbers aren't exact lol) and requires no restart. If you don't have Rom manager, then search the Eris development subforum for the guide on how to safely flash from clockwork to amon ra. Hope this helps, if you have any questions feel free to pm me at anytime. I'm on a lot lol
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Well, I've used AR Recovery before, I just wasn't sure if there were any other/better ones. Obviously not Clockwork.
I successfully went back to AR Recovery using the guide I found on the forum.
Wiped data and dalvik.
Reflashed KaoFroyo v30.
Aaand... still no functionality on the left side. DAMN IT.
Any other suggestions? I mean, I could always go back to the stock 2.1 and take it back to VZW. Not that I really want to, but I can only assume it's hardware now.
Try reflashing a rom that hasn't caused you problems. If that doesn't work unroot and get a new phone. I don't know why you'd have to pay when it's a hardware issue that's the company's fault but whatever that's almost definitely the only thing you can do.
Hungry Man said:
Try reflashing a rom that hasn't caused you problems. If that doesn't work unroot and get a new phone. I don't know why you'd have to pay when it's a hardware issue that's the company's fault but whatever that's almost definitely the only thing you can do.
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I tried flashing back to CELB 2.8, and still nothing. D:
Yeah, I agree. I've already gone back to stock 1.5, and am currently awaiting a trip to the Verizon store to return it. Hopefully they don't play it off as physical damage and make me pay for it. <.< Kind of unfortunate though - I was on a roll.
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I tried flashing back to CELB 2.8, and still nothing. D:
Yeah, I agree. I've already gone back to stock 1.5, and am currently awaiting a trip to the Verizon store to return it. Hopefully they don't play it off as physical damage and make me pay for it.
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I messed up my Evo 3d and am waiting for a new one to come in. I dropped it and the touchscreen went crazy and wouldnt work. None the less I was able to create a nandroid backup in recovery. My guess is yes, but when I get my new phone in and root it, are there any issues at all with restoring the backup from my sdcard?
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I messed up my Evo 3d and am waiting for a new one to come in. I dropped it and the touchscreen went crazy and wouldnt work. None the less I was able to create a nandroid backup in recovery. My guess is yes, but when I get my new phone in and root it, are there any issues at all with restoring the backup from my sdcard?
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I would not do it, personally. You may be fine, but the possibility of messing things up does exist.
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Absolutely not. For one, you will fry your wimax keys, and never again be able to access 4g. And two, generally just not a good idea, as your system settings and other things could be incompatible. Just backup apps and thats it, no settings/system things.
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Absolutely not. For one, you will fry your wimax keys, and never again be able to access 4g. And two, generally just not a good idea, as your system settings and other things could be incompatible. Just backup apps and thats it, no settings/system things.
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Ok thanks. I wasnt able to backup apps and data as my touchscreen wasnt working. I was only able to do a nandroid backup from recovery. There's 1 app I have with important information and phone numbers that I was hoping to have restored. Is there anyway to pull this from the nandroid I created on my sdcard?
I think I just found the answer to my own question... AppExtractor! I will give this a try when my new phone gets in.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...-rom-manager-had-a-baby-with-titanium-backup/
Great find!
Now I want to start from scratch again. I would like to root and use a cleanrom.
I know how to do all this. However, what exactly do I need to delete from my computer? I still have all the files on here from the last time I rooted my rezound. But I want to start completely from scratch.
Thanks is advance
first, go to htc dev.com and unlock the device.
then download amon ra recovery and install
through cmd or cleanflash 1.0 tool from scott.
after installing, get su from advanced menu in recovery.
now you've been unlocked and rooted.
download the rom and kernel you want to install
then install using recovery.
Disagree. First test the speaker and telephone call quality. Then do some downloading or program updates and make sure the phone does not get too hot. Once you are sure you didn't get a lemon, then decide if you want to void the warranty.
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Disagree. First test the speaker and telephone call quality. Then do some downloading or program updates and make sure the phone does not get too hot. Once you are sure you didn't get a lemon, then decide if you want to void the warranty.
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yeah i'm on my 2nd replacement so far. i make sure to give phones at least a week of standard usage before i decide to unlock/root.
I found that alot of the phones have poor speakers/overheat or have dead pixels :x.
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Disagree. First test the speaker and telephone call quality. Then do some downloading or program updates and make sure the phone does not get too hot. Once you are sure you didn't get a lemon, then decide if you want to void the warranty.
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the question was how to get cleanrom on the phone..
read before writing..
don't you think testing the phone has been done already?
qudwis said:
the question was how to get cleanrom on the phone..
read before writing..
don't you think testing the phone has been done already?
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Verizon doesn't really check their phones. There are a ton of POS phones sent out as refurbs/CLNR.
qudwis said:
the question was how to get cleanrom on the phone..
read before writing..
don't you think testing the phone has been done already?
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Nope, he didn't say you were wrong by the way. Just trying to make sure someone who might be excited about the new phone tests out the phone first. Great logic, so don't get offended.
KORM via the beast known as the Rezound.
putney1477 said:
Now I want to start from scratch again. I would like to root and use a cleanrom.
I know how to do all this. However, what exactly do I need to delete from my computer? I still have all the files on here from the last time I rooted my rezound. But I want to start completely from scratch.
Thanks is advance
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the question was how to get cleanrom on the phone..
read before writing..
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No, that was not the question. Take your own "advice". I quoted the original question as well to make it easy for you.
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Nope, he didn't say you were wrong by the way.
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Even though s/he was wrong. But I said it so we're covered. lol.
Back to the question, which was ...what exactly do I need to delete from my computer?
I would probably not use the nands from your old set up on your new phone. I don't know if there's a way to access files in them other than from restoring them, but if there isn't I'd say get rid of them.
Also, you don't want to restore data from a Titanium backup if it's to a different ROM, don't know if it matters if it's to a different phone. So you can definitely use them to restore apps but might want to not restore data in case it causes any issues.
You'll need to get a new unlock code so you can delete that unlock_code.bin file you got last time.
Not sure what else you would have on there that you are wondering about. The folder you set up for using fastboot/adb can stay and be used again.
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No, that was not the question. Take your own "advice". I quoted the original question as well to make it easy for you.
Even though s/he was wrong. But I said it so we're covered. lol.
Back to the question, which was ...what exactly do I need to delete from my computer?
I would probably not use the nands from your old set up on your new phone. I don't know if there's a way to access files in them other than from restoring them, but if there isn't I'd say get rid of them.
Also, you don't want to restore data from a Titanium backup if it's to a different ROM, don't know if it matters if it's to a different phone. So you can definitely use them to restore apps but might want to not restore data in case it causes any issues.
You'll need to get a new unlock code so you can delete that unlock_code.bin file you got last time.
Not sure what else you would have on there that you are wondering about. The folder you set up for using fastboot/adb can stay and be used again.
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Thank you all for your help. I have tested the phone for a week now. Seems to be ok.
that was my question, about the adb and fasboot etc that's already on my computer.
I have no idea on my computer where my old unlock code is haha. Im.sure I will find it.
I can use the same drivers correct?
Thanks afaik for everyone's help. I appreciate it.
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You do realize that even if you "void" your warranty, its easy to still return it for a replacement. Just put in the stock ROM and stock recovery and re-lock and you're good to go. You don't even need to re-lock, Verizon doesn't check.
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You do realize that even if you "void" your warranty, its easy to still return it for a replacement. Just put in the stock ROM and stock recovery and re-lock and you're good to go. You don't even need to re-lock, Verizon doesn't check.
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She's already done that, believe me... we went through it together. lol.
putney... you can keep all the drivers and the whole fastboot/adb folder you have set up. That's just for your computer and not phone specific. Well, the drivers are HTC but you got the same phone so you're set.
No big deal on the Unlock_code.bin. If you end up with the old one and it doesn't work you can always generate a new one any time from what I've heard. I just keep mine in the fastboot/adb folder so it's always available. I also do that with Amon Ra. Then I don't have to go looking for them.
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She's already done that, believe me... we went through it together. lol.
putney... you can keep all the drivers and the whole fastboot/adb folder you have set up. That's just for your computer and not phone specific. Well, the drivers are HTC but you got the same phone so you're set.
No big deal on the Unlock_code.bin. If you end up with the old one and it doesn't work you can always generate a new one any time from what I've heard. I just keep mine in the fastboot/adb folder so it's always available. I also do that with Amon Ra. Then I don't have to go looking for them.
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Thanks so much, again lol. You are awesome!
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
Flashing with ODIN did not good either. I tried to revert back to stock. It uploaded with no issues apparently, and then when it rebooted I was back in ICS with everything as it was... argh.
Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
welchertc said:
Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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johnnyb82 said:
Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
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I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
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Greatly appreciated! Thanks for posting the link. I will try it tonight and let you know how it works out.
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash.
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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Well I was impatient and tried 2 different roms right away. Neither worked. Odin showed "pass", no errors. Then it does its auto-restart and bam, back where I was. Not having the best of luck with this right now.
Any other ideas would be appreciated!
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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LOL I actually waited a few days before posting here too. I was hoping that maybe uninstalling and reinstalling some, or updated, or clearing cache and all that would help. As you can see, it did nothing. Heck, after I restart my updates didnt even stick and Google Play is trying to download them again!
Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
Try taking out your sd card and running it for a while. First note i got was acting that way from the get go. Took it back and got a new one. It started doing the same thing. Finally took out sd card and ran great. Card was going bad. I had replaced the 8 gb stock card with the 16 gb one i had in another phone and apparently the mote didn't like it.
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Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
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Did you, by any chance, install a custom kernal? IIRC, one of them messed with the mount points. By far, the only way to fix your issue immediately will involve restoring to stock through ODIN, then rerooting and reflashing CWM. This will 100% mark your Note as either defective, or prove that it's a problem in another area. However, I don't believe your problem is with your SD Card, unless you've been using an app like apps2sd.
If you're weary about doing this, try to reflash CWM, or TWRP to figure out if it's something going on with the recovery partition and/or settings. I'm no expert, but the only thing I'm aware of that sticks around through a wipe, and multiple flashes are our recovery, our internal SD files (possible), and sometimes the modem. Also, the one click leaks include a not loader, which could prevent you from restoring a GB Nandroid.
By flashing CWM, then TWRP, then CWM again, or sticking with TWRP, you at least knock out one variable...and by reformatting your internal SD, you ensure no resources are sticking around.
Edit:are you using TiBu to backup and restore/migrate after a flash? Verify your backups under the batch lost.
What could be happening, is you're restoring data in CWM, or TiBu, or w/e ap you're using, and then the Google account sync restore is restoring your settings, and replacing the desired ones, or vice versa.
Edit again: Which launcher are you using? Which utilities do you use? What are your main root apps?
The backup verify is a must...but some launchers will scoot icons out of the way. If you're having a touch screen issue, or an S Pen issue, you could be draggn items around when you're not aware of it.
I'll see this through. You've caught my interest.
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johnnyb82 said:
So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
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Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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Jamesyboy said:
Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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I had installed a custom kernel on Gingerbread before, but obviously that was replaced with the one I used with FJmod. It had been operating fine for over a month.
Also, I removed my SD Card, and tried everything without it. I have tried restoring gingerbread stock and ICS stock through both ODIN and CWM. Even formatting through CWM does nothing as when I restart I am back to normal.
As for root, I only had 2-3 programs with access. ES File Manager/Task manager, and I tried one called Lucky Patcher (I will verify this evening). All of these had been on for at least a week prior to all this beginning.
I havent been using TiBu for anything at all actually.
The launcher I am using at the moment is Nova.
Other than that, I am going to try a few of your suggestions once I am done work. I will post my results tonight!
Thanks for the suggestions and info, greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Just to be clear. I am formatting then restarting and all my apps, icon placements and wallpaper return. Even my call history is stuck up to the 13th and erases recent calls. I am also trying to revert to stock ICS and Gingerbread through both ODIN and CWM. After it is done installing through ODIN and reboots, I return to the way my phone was before. Same with CWM. After flashing through CWM I return right back to the way it was. I am not doing any restoring or anything. I have done this plenty of times in the past before. The only thing I can possibly imagine at this point is that my SD is somehow stuck on read only. Yet it is weird because again, I can delete files and apps (and even windows shows them as gone), but after a restart they are all back! I can remove apps, but they are still in the app menu too.... I can even run them lol (even after deleting their folder). The phone is stuck in stasis.
All of this just happened one day out of the blue. No new apps (for at least a week) too.
I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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Jamesyboy said:
If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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Well its currently stuck on FJ Mod (which I think is a great rom), and then it just started acting up. I cannot restore Gingerbread stock, or ICS stock, or anything else. ODIN and CWM both show completed on my attempts, but upon reboot my device is back exactly where it left off on the 13th.
I picked up the S3 and I like it, but I miss my note badly
Hello everyone, my friend rooted and moved from stock to CM just before VZW pushed out the locked down bootloader. This also appears to have been the time CM was reorganizing things on the qualicom/siii side. Long short is that ever since he has been having MMS issues on CM builds since.
I would like to do as full a wipe as possible in order to hopefully resolve his issues, but was wondering if running a nvrestore command is going to break his phone. Im fairly certain he did not done a nv backup before all of this.
On the SIII side, it appears that the nv backup that came with our phones is corrupt and restoring it can break the device. Is that the case for the note ii, or is the one that came with the phone reliable.
Thank you all.
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Hello everyone, my friend rooted and moved from stock to CM just before VZW pushed out the locked down bootloader. This also appears to have been the time CM was reorganizing things on the qualicom/siii side. Long short is that ever since he has been having MMS issues on CM builds since.
I would like to do as full a wipe as possible in order to hopefully resolve his issues, but was wondering if running a nvrestore command is going to break his phone. Im fairly certain he did not done a nv backup before all of this.
On the SIII side, it appears that the nv backup that came with our phones is corrupt and restoring it can break the device. Is that the case for the note ii, or is the one that came with the phone reliable.
Thank you all.
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Can you clarify what a "nv backup" is. .never heard that term before
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lacoursiere18 said:
Can you clarify what a "nv backup" is. .never heard that term before
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Its apparently a custom mount point in the GS3 bootloader. It doesn't exist on Note 2.
lacoursiere18 said:
Can you clarify what a "nv backup" is. .never heard that term before
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Sure, and again I want to clarify in case anyone reads this, that I am not in any way implying there is an issue, but rather want to make sure an issue from this phones younger brother(siii) is not also present here. I have seen no indications of it from searching your forums.
Ok back to the problem at hand. Unfortunately, I am coming from the SIII so my knowledge is in relation to that, and i will be putting in links related to it. To my understanding, the NV Data contains IMEI, IMSI, MEID, EFS, etc data. On the sIII we were having issues in which people would sometimes loose their IMEI when they flashed new ROMS. As I understand it, the partitions that were getting corrupted were supposed to be automatically restored by the nv data backup, except the one on our phones was corrupt. The suggestion was to do a run a nvbackup from adb or terminal manually prior to having any issues. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/32397-tutorial-imei-backup-nv-with-qpst-us-variants/
Flash forward to now, the current wisdom on the SIII side seems to be that if you started having mms/sms/apn issues after upgrading to an affected nightly, and still experienced them post the issues being fixed in recent builds, that you may need to do a combo of restoring your nvbackup, returning to stock, and re-provisioning your phone with verizon, and then ultimately going back to a recent nightly. The clincher is that supposedly if you did not manually backup the nv data, manually restoring it could brick your phone. See mastamoon's first post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569769
Again, doesn't exist on Note 2.
akellar said:
Again, doesn't exist on Note 2.
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Thanks much akellar!