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I have a small echo-like noise now that I hear during phone calls on my phone. I think it is a hardware issue because I don't hear it on my bluetooth headset. I called Verizon 800 number the other night because I was wondering about the 4G outage and mentioned my audio problem while I was on the phone with her. She said if I call back from another phone, tech support would connect to my Thunderbolt and troubleshoot the audio problem, and if its unfixable they would send me another Thunderbolt.
I am wondering if I need to unroot before I do this....would tech support be able to tell if my phone was rooted and thus void the warranty and not be able to do anything for me? What should I do?
Bare minimum I'd install the stock rom on there, I don't believe they would dig far enough to see if fastboot is unlocked.
As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
I don't think they can tell Cuz I called yesterday Cuz my screen is messing up they called me back on another line and wanted me to do a factory reset but didn't know that I was already on GB
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motorcycle said:
As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
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Tell us how
hallstevenson said:
Tell us how
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The only thing I can think of, and I'm no expert or anything so this is just a guess, is that they could look at the software version of the phone, and if it isn't the latest, or a previous release for this phone, then they could speculate that you are rooted, though I don't think that alone would hold up in court if it ever came to that.
When the support rep told the OP that they would "connect to my Thunderbolt and troubleshoot the audio problem", I think they were going by the standard "don't call tech support from the phone that's having the issue" practice.
Can they remotely connect to our phones ? I wasn't aware that they could.
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As for the title question Yes, they can tell if rooted.
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Over the phone? Absolutely Not
Correct, that's what they said ("don't call tech support from the phone that's having the issue" practice.)
So should I still unroot to be safe before I call them or no....
What ROM are you using ?
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If you want to be on the safe side, make a nand backup, flash a stock ROM, call them, then restore the backup. I'll pretty sure they can't tell if you have a custom recovery.
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Don't know how they do it, (simple user here) and not the first time I've seen this asked or answered. If you're bored jump on every TB forum your on and I'm sure you'll find your curiosity satisfied. Maybe it was on BAMF? I could care less how they do it. (No ins here) Call technical support and ask them what rom your on and how dare they know that.
via my mind while guzzling beer.
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Over the phone? Absolutely Not
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On the device in question, yes, why not... again I don't care and was just offering what I've read.
via my mind while guzzling beer.
I'm on many forums similar to this, including Team Bamf, rootzwiki, etc and haven't read anything like this.
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What ROM are you using ?
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Liquid AOSP 3.2.
I unrooted just to be safe and the tech rep never said anything and I got them to send me a new sim card and if that doesn't solve my problem (which I don't think it will), then they will send me a new thunderbolt.
When I rooted again after the phone call it wouldn't let me restore my rom and I got stuck in a boot loop. Luckily I had rom zip's on my sd card, so I installed one from scratch, reflashed cwm via rom mgr again, then it let me restore it.
Very weird, and I was terrified I jacked my phone up.
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I'm on many forums similar to this, including Team Bamf, rootzwiki, etc and haven't read anything like this.
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Hmm keep looking, I won't be at a pc till tomorrow maybe. But like I said I have no way to confirm only what I've read which is what I do. And that was second hand information. As most of this is. I'm really trying to remember because I know these site searching's are lacking at best.
I just recently used to work for at&t customer care and if vzw is anything like them, the only way they can maybe tell is if you have an unlimited data plan plus unofficial tethering app. Or if you send it in for warranty/Asurion replacement. Otherwise i don't really see how they could see in any way if it was rooted
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I just recently used to work for at&t customer care and if vzw is anything like them, the only way they can maybe tell is if you have an unlimited data plan plus unofficial tethering app. Or if you send it in for warranty/Asurion replacement. Otherwise i don't really see how they could see in any way if it was rooted
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That is understandable, thank you. Still gotta get to my pc. I know people have called in on their rooted devices for certain reasons and been called out only to deny. And of course unroot before going in. For whatever reason. Sticking to it.
That's why I asked what ROM. A support rep could simply tell the person to read them a version # that will be different than "stock".
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That's why I asked what ROM. A support rep could simply tell the person to read them a version # that will be different than "stock".
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this is true, didn't think about that. You could always just write the stock version number before flashing to be safe
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Just realized i meant to post this here
Been using ics passion for a couple months now as a daily driver and havent had many issues, but i recently read about the ics encryptiom bug that basically randomly bricks phones for no reason so im thinking about switching away till its safe...
I just wanna be sure what roms have this bug?
Also whats ics passion based on?
So would it be all ics or just CM9? Nexus ports? Aosp? Gsii?
Thank you in advance
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I encountered the deadly "Encryption Unsuccessful" bug while running doc masters ics rom v5. Now I don't know whether this is the case for all ics roms but just to be safe you should stay away from ics altogether. I was never able to fix my vibrant no matter what I did I couldn't bring it back to life...so you've been warned.
Of course things are much better now that I have a new Gnex with official ics 4.0.4
Very cool about the gnex... for the vibrant, have you tried unbrickable mod?? Maybe itll fix it
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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Jtagging.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-jtag-brick-repair/
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You mean Eugene's unbrickable rom? I've tried Eugene's rom with no success. I tell you I tried just about everything...nothing seems to work. Unless you know of some other method which I don't know of.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1273083
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The Jtagging method is not any different than odin. I am able to flash anything through download mode. But not CWM which doesn't exist in my case. I have lost complete access to my internal flash memory...it is unable to mount because it is encrypted with a key in which i don't know. And i don't know how to decrypt it at this point.
The second method which is the hard mod method seems to be a little risky. I won't even bother trying that method since it is useless in my case. You see my phone is not "hard" bricked it is "soft" bricked. With that being said my phone turns on...boots up...i can enter download mode...access stock recovery not CWM...and access external sdcard through adb...thats it.
The only way to save my phone would be to create a temporary partition on my external sd card to act as its main memory. All that while being done through adb commands if even possible. So at this point my phone is complete paperweight until someone finds a solution.
I think this will eventually become a widespread problem sooner or later on all ICS roms. When the time comes somebody out there on these forums will eventually find a solution. Or at least i hope.
Thanks for the help guys i really appreciate it but my phone is bricked for now.
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from my understanding, both jtag and unbrickable mod start at the primary bootloader level and rewrite everything up from there, which i would assume includes sdcard too..
Are you sure youre not confusing jtag with jig??
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My mistake. But i see that they charge $40 to fix your phone. There is no way I'm sending my phone to those guys. I have some personal data on my vibrant that I'll never let anybody get a hold of such as credit card info etc.
I am much happier now with my new Galaxy Nexus. I don't really care about my bricked vibrant that much anymore. But i still plan on fixing it in the near future when somebody comes up with a solution that is free of charge.
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Merio90 said:
My mistake. But i see that they charge $40 to fix your phone. There is no way I'm sending my phone to those guys. I have some personal data on my vibrant that I'll never let anybody get a hold of such as credit card info etc.
I am much happier now with my new Galaxy Nexus. I don't really care about my bricked vibrant that much anymore. But i still plan on fixing it in the near future when somebody comes up with a solution that is free of charge.
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I sent mine to them for a broken USB port, I just wiped beforehand just in-case (even though I left a backup). If I can't fix something myself, it's better to pay a little for it, than to have to buy a new phone.
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I sent mine to them for a broken USB port, I just wiped beforehand just in-case (even though I left a backup). If I can't fix something myself, it's better to pay a little for it, than to have to buy a new phone.
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True but the problem is that i can't wipe the internal storage because i don't have access to it. I can only wipe the external sd...but why do that when you can simply remove it.
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Merio90 said:
True but the problem is that i can't wipe the internal storage because i don't have access to it. I can only wipe the external sd...but why do that when you can simply remove it.
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Yeah youre sorta screwed.. even tho i dont think think theyll have any way of reading whats on your sd lol, i still understand why you wouldnt
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What part of "DO NOT POST QUESTIONS IN GENERAL SECTION" is so hard to understand
Post Questions in the Q&A........ Thank you..... Moderator
First, can you get into download mode? If so Download the stock att Rom and flash it through odin
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no i can't. i can't get into download mode.
the phone is basically 100% unresponsive. it's just turned off and doesn't respond no matter what i try (download mode, etc.).
usb jig? i don't have one but is it worth a shot (buying one)?
Flashing anything for a different device will definitely brick it. I think you're going to have to get it replaced.
If you fire up Odin and plug it in, wait a few mins, hold Vol down and power - does com port on Odin read anything even if the screen is off?
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The way you mentioned in your post Look like You have a hard brick your phone. If you cannot get into download mode in any kind of way That means you have brick your phone in a hard way. You will have to return the phone to the Samsung for repair.
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This have happened with me already two time on my Samsung Vibrant. completely dead. Send it to Samsung for repair or return the phone if you can.
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If you do manage to recover or get it fixed otherwise... Don't flash zImages at all. The non intl note uses a complete boot.img file containing the zImage, ramdisk, and a header, all packaged together.
That done with... Not sure how flashing just the zImage could have hard bricked unless you flashed over the recovery partition or wherever the bootloader (contains dowload mode) resides.
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RVD said:
i didn't not have clockworkmod installed so i used adb to load in a zImage. however, the zImage was for a N7000 galaxy note, not the ATT one.
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i would be interested what exactly you did,
like commands or so for the "loading" of a zImage
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...-clockworkmod-recovery-on-rooted-galaxy-note/
yeah, ur phone's a paper weight my friend. only debricking service qsload usb will fix it.
I read about this yesterday, supposedly there is a jig setup that will work. I'm not 100%, because I haven't had to do this (knocks on wood), check the forums, someone just did this yesterday. I think I read too that there's JTAG services for it.
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Haha seems like you went way out of your way to brick your phone. When Odin is throwing up errors you should know something is wrong.
Either way, you should always read up an entire post of a Rom. It usually states exactly what phone it was made for and should only be flashed on that phone model.
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Re-reading my post, it looks to me like it boils down to loading the zImage "CF-Root-SGN_XX_OXA_LB1-v5.0-CWM5.zip" that bricked my phone.
RVD said:
Re-reading my post, it looks to me like it boils down to loading the zImage "CF-Root-SGN_XX_OXA_LB1-v5.0-CWM5.zip" that bricked my phone.
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Yeah, wrote over recovery partition, and who knows what else. I know from my sprint days, we had to backup Wimax just in case. Some phones are partitioned differently than others, flashing any low level stuff like that might write over a different partition
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ok lesson learned. i don't do anything that doesn't specifically call out the AT&T I717 from now on.
thanks everyone. AT&T sent out my replacement phone. looks like it'll be a week or so before i get it though. until then, back to my old dell streak running one of dj_steve's ROMs.
This is what happens on this site. There are many people who are happy to help, but many who like to make you feel like a tool for asking for help. On the other hand, op should have done a lot of research before screwing around with the phone.
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Problem solved
Bricked galaxy s3?
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Al3xand3r# said:
Bricked galaxy s3?
Send From My Galaxy Gio and O2x
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Yes....
Trev186 said:
Hi,
I was in the wrong ROM forum and installed a custom ROM for the international version of the S3 on my Sprint version of the S3.
I assume at this point it is hopeless (yes I know I am an idiot please dont flame me I just lost $600)
The phone will not even power on
If anyone has any advice I would love to hear it
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Your phone is alright. Take a breath and go in Sprint and download an ROM when one is available. You just installed the wrong stuff but its an easy fix. Might take days some time for a rom to come online though
Just return it to sprint when they get some in stock and get a new one.
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Your phone is alright. Take a breath and go in Sprint and download an ROM when one is available. You just installed the wrong stuff but its an easy fix. Might take days some time for a rom to come online though
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How do I download a ROM or do anything at all at this point if I cannot even turn the phone on?
Trev186 said:
How do I download a ROM or do anything at all at this point if I cannot even turn the phone on?
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Can you get the phone into download mode?
To do this, pull the battery out (to make sure the phone is completely off), plug it in, hold the volume-down and home buttons then turn it on while holding those buttons.
If you can get it into download mode, then it should be possible to reflash the proper firmware using Odin.
Or at least, that's how things went when I had my Samsung Vibrant. I've only owned my S3 for a day.
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Can you get the phone into download mode?
To do this, pull the battery out (to make sure the phone is completely off), plug it in, hold the volume-down and home buttons then turn it on while holding those buttons.
If you can get it into download mode, then it should be possible to reflash the proper firmware using Odin.
Or at least, that's how things went when I had my Samsung Vibrant. I've only owned my S3 for a day.
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No power whatsoever.
Cannot get to download mode...
I tried removingthe power and powering on to download mode and had no luck ....
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Trev186 said:
Hi,
I was in the wrong ROM forum and installed a custom ROM for the international version of the S3 on my Sprint version of the S3.
I assume at this point it is hopeless (yes I know I am an idiot please dont flame me I just lost $600)
The phone will not even power on
If anyone has any advice I would love to hear it
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Sorry, you're qhsusb_dload (aka hard) bricked. I've spent about 3 days trying to fix mine after I bricked it flashing a kernel on a bad port of cwm. If I had a working S3 and another 3 days I might be able to un-hardbrick it, but yeah, will just be exchanging it as soon as they come back in stock.
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Just return it to sprint when they get some in stock and get a new one.
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LOL, another Crook. Just because you would commit FRAUD I guess others should. That's exactly what it would be. You ruin your device hacking it, you are at fault. Not the carrier or manufacturer.
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davidstech11 said:
LOL, another Crook. Just because you would commit FRAUD I guess others should. That's exactly what it would be. You ruin your device hacking it, you are at fault. Not the carrier or manufacturer.
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You know damn right that if you were in his position you would take it back and get a new one.
davidstech11 said:
LOL, another Crook. Just because you would commit FRAUD I guess others should. That's exactly what it would be. You ruin your device hacking it, you are at fault. Not the carrier or manufacturer.
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Exactly u would probably do the same I pay for insurance I expect them to insure my device
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Rev3ge07 said:
Exactly u would probably do the same I pay for insurance I expect them to insure my device
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Anyone know how I can buy a premade jig to try and frce boot odin ?
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Trev186 said:
Anyone know how I can buy a premade jig to try and frce boot odin ?
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EBay or amazon...
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Just take it to Sprint but don't tell em you was trying to download a custom rom.. Simple they probably don't know the issue yet until more people start taking they brick phones in because they tried to root..
I think you overpaid for your paperweight . Yes, I feel a little cruel for making a joke about someone who just lost $600, but you do still have a chance at exchanging it at Sprint. Bricking a phone is every custom rom users worst nightmare, but that's probably your best option. Good luck.
Same Probelm...Sort of
Yeah I did the same thing I think, tried to flash a kernel via cwm, said operation aborted...ok....so I reboot it and now it wont turn on, cant get it in download mode. Weird thing is though when i plug it in to my computer and hold down the power button, while nothing happens to my phone my computer will continuously make the connect disconnect sound like my phone is turning on for a nano second.
and if my phone is plugged in with battery out red charge light comes on, so I know something is going on in there.
any thoughts on how/if I can fix....
Yeah I may be a crook. But I would take the battery out and stick the headset in the microwave for about 3 seconds. You have insurance on it. Do what you got to do. They lie, cheat, and steal every chance they get.
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mbrow124 said:
Yeah I did the same thing I think, tried to flash a kernel via cwm, said operation aborted...ok....so I reboot it and now it wont turn on, cant get it in download mode. Weird thing is though when i plug it in to my computer and hold down the power button, while nothing happens to my phone my computer will continuously make the connect disconnect sound like my phone is turning on for a nano second.
and if my phone is plugged in with battery out red charge light comes on, so I know something is going on in there.
any thoughts on how/if I can fix....
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Sorry, you're hard-bricked. As I mentioned in a previous post, your phone is in "qhsusb_dload" mode, which is a Qualcomm firmware flashing mode. If you look in your Device Manager, that's what you'll see your computer is detecting. There's absolutely nothing you can do at this point as no one outside Qualcomm/Samsung has the proper tools/files to recover from this state.
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Anyone know how I can buy a premade jig to try and frce boot odin ?
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I did the same thing, but I flashed the Omega rom and it hard bricked my phone 3 days ago.
I got a JIG in and it didnt work.
im taking it to Sprint tech support to try to get the data off it. FINGERS CROSSED
Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know much about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry but looks like its gone. Have seen a few ppl able to recover with mskips fix but only if theyre able to turn phone on.
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Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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A compatible jig may be your only solution if you can't get into download mode manually. A jig would force the phone into download mode, once in download mode you'd be able to flash the stock AT&T firmware through Odin.
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Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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he's in oregon and I'm in california. I think he is freaking out. But he did say ODin was not recognizing the device.
ADB? ^^
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Error 1. Not reading
Error2. Wrong section... not reading
If he cant get cwm or screen to show something who knows what he did...fix: there is none get another device and read before u do stupid stuff.... u can't expect us to fix lack of reading or not knowing what ur flashing....
im on my phone. expect terrible typos.
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oh no. Its his first android phone. He only had it about a week. I can't believe this. I feel so bad for him.
Thanks for the reply
I have been looking for a jig that is compatible with the att samsung galaxy s3 sgh-i747 and had no luck. Do they exist?
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A jig is a jig the one I bought for my captivate works 100% on gs3, get the jig put into phone if don't boot into download mode, hold down power button with jig still in if that don't work ur screwed .... your better off trying make ur own jig ( YouTube it ) cause if the phone runs out of battery and won't charge then u have another issue...
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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Just cause "we " can't turn it on don't mean they eventually can't ..
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
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Moh_Jay said:
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
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Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
Some people actually have there phones just stop working. Happened to my friend that had a Samsung galaxy nexus, stock unrooted. Just died. There was nothing I could do to fix it.
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DeathGrind said:
Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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If you didnt know a rom could brick a phone you shouldnt be flashing period. Theres always ALWAYS bold letters that says this may brick your phone an or we are not responsible if this breaks your phone... no one with there first android should be flashing till they know android smoothly... *sigh*
Usually 90% of the time your always able to get into recovery mode. From what I've read this only happens when flashing the omega Rom. People make mistakes.
I've rooted and rom'd 100s of phones, and never not been able to get back to recovery.
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SiNJiN76 said:
The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
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The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
jcbofkc said:
The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
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If ppl read things 95% of there questions would be answered. The other 5% could be found by google
I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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DeathGrind said:
I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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Personally i wait a bit to root rom a brand new phone... however ive never had a issue untill i fried my gs mesmerize so im a lil hesitant
Yeah, this is the first serious issue I have ran into in almost 3 years of mod'ing android phones.
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