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Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
Liquid602 said:
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
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So from reading this the precious pictures are NOT on your external sd card (the small black card) or internal sd card, the one you can pull out. If the pics and vids are on either of those you can just take them out and buy a device where you can just plug those cards into your computer. Otherwise just get the screen replaced... I'm sure a Tmobile or even maybe a Best Buy store at a mall could replace the screen for a small fee so you can get your pics back.
OR, I'm pretty sure a tmobile store has some special equipment to extract data from your phone.. Just gotta ask!
you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
Liquid602 said:
you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
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hmm is the screen shattered or just black? also when you cut the phone on does it ring and stuff? if the digitizer still works then you can just press home,so that you know your at the home screen. then connect the it to the computer. then make the gesture that pulls the notification bar, then connect your vibrant as well so that you can tell what part of the screen needs to be touched on her vibrant to mount the sd to the computer. that should work. i had a psp with a cracked screen but i was still able to navigate because i knew where everything was by heart lol.
shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
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shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
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You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
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You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
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Yea you might as well get it repaired. Those pics are priceless
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Liquid602 said:
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant.
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Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
Drewstein said:
Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
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Not a bad idea and worth a shot. I have had great success pulling files from a hard drive with pin 1 missing and a corrupt fat table, using Easy Recovery Pro. That (windows based) app is also very useful for retrieving deleted files, as long as the source wasn't formatted. As far as using adb, usb debugging would have to be enabled as previously mentioned. Also, if the phone doesn't ring, are you able to tell if it actually turns on? Without power and usb debugging, adb is useless.
On the off chance, does she backup her pics with Lookout?
Good luck getting your files back.
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You can try android commander. Its worth a shot. I had a similar situation before I knew about odin my phone was in a continuous boot loop and couldn't mount the sd card, I used android commander to pull some pictures that needed for my work. I just had to make sure it the device was recognized through adb. Good luck.
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Just a thought, why don't you use the screen from your Vibrant and put it on hers. That will A.confirm it's the screen and B. get your pictures.
+1 on android commander if you don't want to do the hardware swap. If your phone is actually coming on just no screen it will pick it up. Wait, don't you have to be in debugging mode for that though?
Seems your best bet is the hardware swap.
I was using the latest DOW 14, ended up with the dreaded internal sd card not mounting. stl10 error!
Anyway, sending it back, but I don't have anyway of wiping the internal sd card. Is there something I can do to mount it to my pc like a USB drive.
xdarooted said:
I was using the latest DOW 14, ended up with the dreaded internal sd card not mounting. stl10 error!
Anyway, sending it back, but I don't have anyway of wiping the internal sd card. Is there something I can do to mount it to my pc like a USB drive.
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Try downloading Odin, and the stock image Do you know how to get into download mode on your phone? do a search for the "no brick" odin image, then go into download mode, load odin, flash it, then flash the stock odin image, and you should be good to go. The great thing about this phone is its almost impossible to brick. You can email me if you have any [email protected]
xdarooted said:
I was using the latest DOW 14, ended up with the dreaded internal sd card not mounting. stl10 error!
Anyway, sending it back, but I don't have anyway of wiping the internal sd card. Is there something I can do to mount it to my pc like a USB drive.
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What I did was I went to settings, sd and phone storage, then formated phone storage. That worked for me
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Try downloading Odin, and the stock image Do you know how to get into download mode on your phone? do a search for the "no brick" odin image, then go into download mode, load odin, flash it, then flash the stock odin image, and you should be good to go. The great thing about this phone is its almost impossible to brick. You can email me if you have any [email protected]
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Thanks for the reply. I've odined back to stock, no good. The only thing that gets my phone remotely working is Eugene's Froyo no Brick.
I can't mouth the phone's storage. There must be a work around thru the pc, BUT MY PHONE WON"T MOUNT TO PC EITHER. AND YES I HAVE THE RIGHT DRIVERS.
May be there's a voodoo rom that can be applied through odin. I know that voodoo recovery has some mount options.
xdarooted said:
I was using the latest DOW 14, ended up with the dreaded internal sd card not mounting. stl10 error!
Anyway, sending it back, but I don't have anyway of wiping the internal sd card. Is there something I can do to mount it to my pc like a USB drive.
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If my previos reply does not work, try connecting your vib to your pc, select usb connect and then you should get 2 options of drives, 1 for the external, and 1 for the internal sd
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Marvlet said:
If my previos reply does not work, try connecting your vib to your pc, select usb connect and then you should get 2 options of drives, 1 for the external, and 1 for the internal sd
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Marvlet, really, thanks for the answers again, but they are getting me no where. I've done the usual connect to computer and usb mount options
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Thanks for the reply. I've odined back to stock, no good. The only thing that gets my phone remotely working is Eugene's Froyo no Brick.
I can't mouth the phone's storage. There must be a work around thru the pc, BUT MY PHONE WON"T MOUNT TO PC EITHER. AND YES I HAVE THE RIGHT DRIVERS.
May be there's a voodoo rom that can be applied through odin. I know that voodoo recovery has some mount options.
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I have a no brick odin image, has always worked for me I just have to figure out a way for you to download it.....any suggestions?
Odin back to stock jfd (has to be jfd) and you should be fine
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I am sending my phone back and I am sure I am having the same problem as you are. Got my phone today thank god! So if it wont boot up T-Mobile cant see what you have done with it. They don't go and look what you have done they just use what parts they can and ditch the rest. I rooted and flashed CyanogenMod on my Mytouch 3g and the screen went out. I got a replacement under warranty then sent the phone back as is. Not one problem from T-Mobile. So just send it back and don't worry about what is on it.
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I am sending my phone back and I am sure I am having the same problem as you are. Got my phone today thank god! So if it wont boot up T-Mobile cant see what you have done with it. They don't go and look what you have done they just use what parts they can and ditch the rest. I rooted and flashed CyanogenMod on my Mytouch 3g and the screen went out. I got a replacement under warranty then sent the phone back as is. Not one problem from T-Mobile. So just send it back and don't worry about what is on it.
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I would not bank on that, I am sure that when they receive the phone, they will check it to determin and verify that the phone is still under warranty. And if they discover it is rooted, then your warranty is voided and you will be charged for the exchange
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I would not bank on that, I am sure that when they receive the phone, they will check it to determin and verify that the phone is still under warranty. And if they discover it is rooted, then your warranty is voided and you will be charged for the exchange
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I've heard stories like this, where you get a nasty bill a few months later. Though I think it really depends on where you are and who they have working on these things. I wouldn't be surprised to hear things like these swept under the rug, but I also wouldn't be surprised hear of people getting caught. I really don't know what they do with the bricked phones people claim "just stopped workin" maybe they send them to a company that specializes in smartphone autopsies...or the manufacturer even.
Well I got my replacement phone today... hell yes I paid the $20 for rush delivery (took 2 days). I did flash the JFD even though it wont boot up. If I do get charged for it I will let you all know.
drewdude007 said:
Well I got my replacement phone today... hell yes I paid the $20 for rush delivery (took 2 days). I did flash the JFD even though it wont boot up. If I do get charged for it I will let you all know.
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You will only get charged if its rooted, if you flashed back to stock you should be fine. Just never send in phone rooted cause thats the killer.
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Arkasai said:
I've heard stories like this, where you get a nasty bill a few months later. Though I think it really depends on where you are and who they have working on these things. I wouldn't be surprised to hear things like these swept under the rug, but I also wouldn't be surprised hear of people getting caught. I really don't know what they do with the bricked phones people claim "just stopped workin" maybe they send them to a company that specializes in smartphone autopsies...or the manufacturer even.
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Well, if its truly bricked and they cant get it to boot, then they just send back to manufacturer. But if they get it to boot, then they will try to determine why it bricked in the first place. So if unsure whether or not flash to stock removed root, then best bet is to file a claim with insurance to get it replaced. Because paying 130 deductible is better than paying full price. At least IMO
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BTW, If you have insurance on the phone the replacement cost is $150. Due to the fact that I have used the insurance to replace my phone more than 2 times in 1 year my insurance was canceled. When I did the warranty replacement now they tell me the cost billed to me is $238 if they find phone damage is not under warranty. Much less than buying the phone at full market price.
drewdude007 said:
BTW, If you have insurance on the phone the replacement cost is $150. Due to the fact that I have used the insurance to replace my phone more than 2 times in 1 year my insurance was canceled. When I did the warranty replacement now they tell me the cost billed to me is $238 if they find phone damage is not under warranty. Much less than buying the phone at full market price.
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Damn, dude you go through phones like candy!
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Damn, dude you go through phones like candy!
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Yes I do.. live and learn... live and learn. LOL
I have sent plenty of phones into t mobile. I have the full handset protection so i can send in any phone i want so long as it doesnt have a crack or water damage or dents and they will replace it. Have done it with phones bought off of craigslist they will replace any phone, confirmed straight through a rep.
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Will Odin and JFD unroot phone, so when I send it back it should be clear.
You aren't alone, fella. There's a lot of us in the same boat right now after using DOW. (And yes, we've all tried to flash back to stock with Odin - any stock.)
To the poster who said reformatting the internal storage worked for him -- congrats, you got lucky if you really had the same issue. I tried that. Didn't help at all on my phone. I wish it had!
Good luck, xdarooted. Let us know how it goes.
Getting this message for some reason, and can't find a resolution. Copying my important stuff off now, then will probably reformat with the phone.
It started when I put the card in the replacement 3VO I ordered, because my first one was acting funny. About half a day later it game me the SD message, (sent it right back). Ever since I put it back in my first one it's been giving me that message.
Anyone have any ideas? Is my SD actually just going bad? Is it a corrupt file? Something entirely different?
Thanks to anyone who can help me get this figured out. Been searching Google since, but haven't found anything really relevant to the Evo 3D.
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Getting this message for some reason, and can't find a resolution. Copying my important stuff off now, then will probably reformat with the phone.
It started when I put the card in the replacement 3VO I ordered, because my first one was acting funny. About half a day later it game me the SD message, (sent it right back). Ever since I put it back in my first one it's been giving me that message.
Anyone have any ideas? Is my SD actually just going bad? Is it a corrupt file? Something entirely different?
Thanks to anyone who can help me get this figured out. Been searching Google since, but haven't found anything really relevant to the Evo 3D.
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Hard to say, but you're doing the right thing coping everything off and then reformatting. My suggestion would be to also reformat it in the phone too. If this still happens, try another sdcard in the phone so you know for sure if it's the phone or the card.
Ok. Just went through with it. Seems like it's good so far. Didn't format it on the PC, just the phone, then reset the phone, then copied only my original stuff back on. So far so good. I'll add another reply in a couple days stating whether or not it holds up.
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johnequickiii said:
Ok. Just went through with it. Seems like it's good so far. Didn't format it on the PC, just the phone, then reset the phone, then copied only my original stuff back on. So far so good. I'll add another reply in a couple days stating whether or not it holds up.
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i've had the same issue with an aftermarket class 6 8GB sdcard I used in my EVO for a year. my experience has been once you start getting errors with an sdcard, they are on their last leg.
i would look into getting a replace or have a spare, just to be prepared, as its rough modifying your phone w/o an sdcard! too bad there isnt a tool which could give us more detail on the life/reliability of the sdcard!
hope it all works out!
i had the same problem....i do not think it is the sdcard
i believe the software is forgetting parts of the sdcard and sending the error.
it happened to me on my 16gb class 10
also happened on my wife's evo 3d with the stock card.
FIX: only fix i found is to get all info off with your pc then format the card and load everything back on through the phone or pc.
if anyone knows more i would like to know.
So far so good here. Took everything off my card, formatted it in the phone, put my stuff back on, and everything seems ok. Seems like if you just take your card out and toss it in another phone that'll happen. Didn't have that issue between my Hero and this one, so I'm not sure what the issue was.
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My Thunderbolt has just decided to completely crash at once and I was wondering if anyone here knew of any possible solution.
The charging port on my phone has broken so I cannot charge it or connect it to my computer. I took it in to Verizon to get it replaced and was told to put the factory rom back before they would replace it.
I didn't think that would be a problem until about 20 minutes later when my phone stopped reading my memory card. I have tried several different memory cards so I am sure it is my phone broken, not the card.
While at the Verizon store, the CS rep gave me another Thunderbolt to use to charge my battery with until I could get a replacement (I found this very strange) so I am able to at least charge my phone for now.
any ideas here?
Yea don't ever take a phone into a Verizon store and expect to get any real help. You're better off calling it in over the phone and letting them figure it out later than dealing with the retards at the stores. They know nothing most of the time and are a huge hassle.
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disconnecktie said:
Yea don't ever take a phone into a Verizon store and expect to get any real help. You're better off calling it in over the phone and letting them figure it out later than dealing with the retards at the stores. They know nothing most of the time and are a huge hassle.
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He was actually very helpful. I just went in today to talk to the same guy and found out he doesn't work at that store anymore. He is the regional manager now
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My Thunderbolt has just decided to completely crash at once and I was wondering if anyone here knew of any possible solution.
The charging port on my phone has broken so I cannot charge it or connect it to my computer. I took it in to Verizon to get it replaced and was told to put the factory rom back before they would replace it.
I didn't think that would be a problem until about 20 minutes later when my phone stopped reading my memory card. I have tried several different memory cards so I am sure it is my phone broken, not the card.
While at the Verizon store, the CS rep gave me another Thunderbolt to use to charge my battery with until I could get a replacement (I found this very strange) so I am able to at least charge my phone for now.
any ideas here?
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Honestly, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is stick the memory card in a computer by putting it in an adapter or SD slot if your computer has one and then reformat it to FAT32. If your computer reads it, save your pics and videos first to the computer so that you'll have them. I had this problem before and it just happened in my back pocket. I'll never know what happened. Anyways... since you're rooted and everything is already installed to your phone, it won't hurt your phone at all by reformating the SD entirely via computer. Remember, if the computer will read it, its not a memory card issue... normally its a format issue and the phone reading it.
Once your SD is newly formatted, put it back in and immediately backup your ROM just in case.
You shouldn't have any further issues with it.
Proceed with the unrooting process. All those files that existed would pretty much needed to have been deleted anyways.
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He was actually very helpful. I just went in today to talk to the same guy and found out he doesn't work at that store anymore. He is the regional manager now
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Roflmao. Still though. It is easier to deal with customer service when you return a rooted device because they don't get to see until after you get the new device so you have a chance to unroot before they know you're rooted.
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So I picked up my VZW GS4 yesterday from Best Buy. I was out to dinner with my cousin, and the battery died (after a full day of very heavy usage). I tried to turn it back on to check something quickly, and when I did, the Samsung boot screen showed the unlocked bootloader symbol, with the words custom underneath it. I thought I was crazy and seeing things, so I rebooted again, and it was still there. Has anyone else run into this? I find it hard to believe that my bootloader just randomly unlocked itself.
I attached an image so people can tell me if that really is what it seems. Let me know if anyone has any idea what is going on.
Achievement unlocked!
Hey, less work for you in the end. (if you like to flash and rom that is)
I say Congrats!
Did you root and not flash the original kernel back on?
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Did you root and not flash the original kernel back on?
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No. I had decided not to fiddle with anything until I decided how I liked the stock Touchwiz UI. I had the GNex before this, and messed with that to my hearts content, running clockworkmod recovery and cyanogenmod 10.1., but was waiting to try anything on this. That's why I'm confused, I've done absolutely nothing to it to customization wise. I haven't even set a wallpaper yet lol.
Maybe they shipped you a dev unit. Wouldn't be the first time lol
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shuddle13 said:
So I picked up my VZW GS4 yesterday from Best Buy. I was out to dinner with my cousin, and the battery died (after a full day of very heavy usage). I tried to turn it back on to check something quickly, and when I did, the Samsung boot screen showed the unlocked bootloader symbol, with the words custom underneath it. I thought I was crazy and seeing things, so I rebooted again, and it was still there. Has anyone else run into this? I find it hard to believe that my bootloader just randomly unlocked itself.
I attached an image so people can tell me if that really is what it seems. Let me know if anyone has any idea what is going on.
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That's awesome, lucky you
If I got a dev edition, that is awesome :laugh:, saves me a lot of work down the road if I decide to run a custom rom. I swear I had rebooted it at least once (I feel like it might have been 2 or 3 times) prior to this, and don't remember it being there before. But now I'm second guessing myself - maybe I hadn't rebooted up to that point, or I did and just didn't notice it. That's what is throwing me off more than anything, I thought it just happened randomly, which I found hard to believe considering the amount of work that goes into finding a way to unlock a phone's bootloader.
So this leads me to a more important question. As I said earlier, I planned on keeping stock rom with Touchwiz for now (I know how many people feel about it, please don't give me 20 replies telling me how awful it is) but my main concern at this point is that I'm getting the bootloader unlocked symbol, and the word custom. When I go into settings and check the info on my phone, it tells me that device status is 'custom'. Now, correct me if I am wrong (but I'm fairly certain I'm not) I won't be able to get any OTA updates, because it will read my device as custom - and this is where I'm fairly certain something wonkey has happened, because I remember playing around in settings yesterday and seeing that it said device status 'official'. Basically, any speculation as to what the heck might happened (it isn't something any app could have done either, if that's even possible. I'm still setting up the device and barely have anything on there, and certainly not anything that would cause my phone to say custom) and any way at this point to get it back to device status official? I know a root method had just been released, but I wasn't sure about unroot.
That is not indicating an unlocked bootloader. Your phone has been rooted and the person that did it either did not odin back to the stock kernel or he flashed a custom recovery.
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brizey said:
That is not indicating an unlocked bootloader. Your phone has been rooted and the person that did it either did not odin back to the stock kernel or he flashed a custom recovery.
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I have the same screen out if the box. So I decided to root and install cwm but it failed. Reading more they say it fails because the locked boot loader. So I'm confused
After rooting i flashed the stock kernel back. And that screen as seen in the first screenshot has not changed..
What do you think?
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That is not indicating an unlocked bootloader. Your phone has been rooted and the person that did it either did not odin back to the stock kernel or he flashed a custom recovery.
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So I'd go with my phone being rooted, which doesn't really make sense unless someone at the Samsung Factory rooted it before sending it out, except I have a weird development. I pulled the sd card I bought (64GB Samsung Pro MicroSDXC Extreme Speed (UHS-1) Class 10 Memory Card), from Amazon directly, not a retailer on Amazon) turned it back on, and now I'm not getting the unlocked symbol and device status is back to official. I rebooted, turned it off, did a battery pull, and turned it back on, every combination of restarting the device I could think of, and every time it says official. I put the memory card back in, and at first it says official. Then I reboot, and it goes back to being unlocked and custom. Going to try formatting the SD card to see where that gets me, but at this point, it makes no sense to me.
I flashed back to the stock kernel after flashing the exploit one and I have the same screen on start up. Not sure why but it doesn't really bother me.
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Since rooting I've randomly had that screen too. I just rebooted and didn't have it this time. No clue what's going on.
I tested the memory card theory, and that is in fact the problem. Tried formatting it, but it still causes my phone to read custom. Not sure if it is a faulty memory card, if the phone can't read this type of memory card (I know some devices can't read SDXC UHS-1 cards, but I thought I researched and the S4 should), or it's a software issue with the phone that needs patched. I'm leaning toward the last one, but got in touch with Amazon and they are sending me a replacement card. Will update once I get the new card. If anyone else is experiencing the same or similar issues, or has any idea what is going on, I would appreciate the input. Like I said before, it's not a major issue until I need to do an OTA update. At that point, worst case scenario, if the problem isn't fixed, I can always just pull the memory card. But don't want to go through the hassle if I can pinpoint the problem and fix it.
shuddle13 said:
I tested the memory card theory, and that is in fact the problem. Tried formatting it, but it still causes my phone to read custom. Not sure if it is a faulty memory card, if the phone can't read this type of memory card (I know some devices can't read SDXC UHS-1 cards, but I thought I researched and the S4 should), or it's a software issue with the phone that needs patched. I'm leaning toward the last one, but got in touch with Amazon and they are sending me a replacement card. Will update once I get the new card. If anyone else is experiencing the same or similar issues, or has any idea what is going on, I would appreciate the input. Like I said before, it's not a major issue until I need to do an OTA update. At that point, worst case scenario, if the problem isn't fixed, I can always just pull the memory card. But don't want to go through the hassle if I can pinpoint the problem and fix it.
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That's weird, my 32gb sandisk microsd doesn't effect it.
Have the same issue with the lock showing on bootscreen randomly. I haven't tried this morning but I think I am on something. Setup a link with foldermount, something from internal memory to the SD card. After a reboot and foldermount sets up the link at boot up, reboot and see if you get the lock /custom boot screen
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I have the same issue and have another thread going on it. It said it once when reboot and device status changes from custom to original randomly in settings. Bought the phone brand new from Verizon yesterday.
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Very odd. I get that now, but I rooted to get it.
Root has nothing to do with being unlocked though therefor I think it would do it bone stock like mine as well.
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