[Q] Touch screen doesn't work anymore - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I just want to say I am not a noob at this!
I've successfully rooted/flashed 2 HTC Sensation with the new android 4.0. With the help of my brother IannEefje, as he is very active here.
So here is my problem.
I wanted to do the same thing for my Galaxy S2.
I've succesfully rooted the phone with Odin with this file => "CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXX_LPB-v5.2-CWM5-PROPER"
Then I wanted to flash it to android 4.0. I used their roms, one by one offcourse= > 'AndyX' , 'Ressurrection Remix' and iGio90'
All were succesfull in recovery mode. (install zip from sdcard)
All roms booted, wich is good! But here is my problem, the hardware buttons do work but my screen does not respond. If I press a hardware button, the screen comes up but I cannot type my pincode or unlock my screen. And this is with all roms (I tested 4 in total)
I wanted to go back to the stock rom, but I can not do this right now because Multiupload.com is down so I can not download the stock rom.
I've read that overclocking/undervolting may be the issue here but I never did that.
Any help would be great because I'm searching for 2hours. And yes I used the searh thingy
PS: I bought my phone this moring

Fastest fu999ked phone i have ever heard of .
You have got to revert to stock and reset the rom counter to test if its hardware and requires service .
jje

JJEgan said:
Fastest fu999ked phone i have ever heard of .
You have got to revert to stock and reset the rom counter to test if its hardware and requires service .
jje
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haha, indeed the fastest
Where can I find stock roms?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
his download links do not work ...
Hmmm Reset rom counter ... never came across that one. I'm gonna look it up!

I used CWM to restore my backup. And still no screen response.
I think the roms are ok, maybe wrong kernel? I can't be a hardware fault, if it is ... naah it is not
Still searching, anyone that had this before, feel free to post.

still no solution found, everything is back to stock. Counter is set to zero ...
Is this really a hardware fault?
I have this phone for 10 hours and it is already broken! I just wanted Ice Cream Sandwich

After reading hundreds of post ... really, I've been looking on at least 10 forums, 100 posts, a dozen videos ...
This is what I found out: Due to voltage problems via usb/charger, the screen can become unusable. There is no fix for this. Well, some people solved it by using another cable or outlet.
My problem: no touch screen even without a usb/charger connected.
Bringing my phone back to the store tomorrow. I'll ask why this has happened. If i know something more, I will let y'all know.

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[Q] white screen htc diamond 2 t5388i clon chinese [help me]

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Searching the internet I came here to change the rom of my phone, use the hard reset and did not have any problem in the process, then asks me to restart the phone, restarted, and when a screen turns white and does not come out of it, no more than anything.
I'm a little desperate now, I know there is a high-value mobile but it cost me to raise the money to buy it, I hope you have a solution and can help me.
From already thank you very much
PS: sorry for my bad English, I am South American
Sounds like you flashed and incompatable ROM or didn't use hard_spl either way go over to the htc official website - click support find your device and it will list some stock ROMs download an official ROM using the S/N from underneath the battery - Make sure the battery has plenty of charge - plug into your PC and load the stock htc ROM file this should take you through all the standard ROM flash info and will then flash the stock ROM onto your device. Hopefully this will flash back to stock for you and no more white screen.
Good luck and let us know how it went
warlordxxx said:
Sounds like you flashed and incompatable ROM or didn't use hard_spl either way go over to the htc official website - click support find your device and it will list some stock ROMs download an official ROM using the S/N from underneath the battery - Make sure the battery has plenty of charge - plug into your PC and load the stock htc ROM file this should take you through all the standard ROM flash info and will then flash the stock ROM onto your device. Hopefully this will flash back to stock for you and no more white screen.
Good luck and let us know how it went
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I think that what you say is only for original phone htc diamond 2, since according to official rom I read are for the real htc diamond 2.
The mine is not original, as it says is a Chinese clone t5388i, please follow the screen in white, would greatly appreciate if someone helps me out of this problem is quite afflicted.
Again sorry for my bad English
sorry missed the clone bit on your topic . I don't have a clone myself so no ideas if the hard reset works. Might be a good idea to post which ROM you flashed to it
good day
the mobile screen just stayed white and does not know how I can flash now, there will be someone who has been the same and have a solution? I appreciate it, I would be very helpful.
Greetings
HTC_NEW, please check this topic. It's dedicated to the clone phones (except the T5388++ who has it's own topic)
There is a tool called k3AID available who could help you. It's posted in that topic about 50 posts ago. I have a copy if you need it.
There is also another possibility to do a blind flash. This means the screen is not working but the phone can still be flashed. First thing is get the correct firmware for your phone because each time you flash the phone can get bricked / defect.
If my feedback helps you to solve your problem, please give me a thanks on the post.
Eer said:
HTC_NEW, please check this topic. It's dedicated to the clone phones (except the T5388++ who has it's own topic)
There is a tool called k3AID available who could help you. It's posted in that topic about 50 posts ago. I have a copy if you need it.
There is also another possibility to do a blind flash. This means the screen is not working but the phone can still be flashed. First thing is get the correct firmware for your phone because each time you flash the phone can get bricked / defect.
If my feedback helps you to solve your problem, please give me a thanks on the post.
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hello friend
Reading that topic and searching for the tool by
internet gave me great hope, many users
have managed to solve the same problem, as no
I have a good English I can not understand how it's done
the process, did you guys could help me with a small
tutorial on how to fix my phone with that program?
I enter the program is that you give to download mode and
then I get 'EU entry Not calibration mode! (Mode =
0x00) 'and then does nothing else, I hope I can
help, thanks from now!
hello
I finally entered the discharge mode and while carrying on the idt went for something to eat when I returned I showed up he was 100% complete, the phone went off and did not catch more! Does anyone know it could happen? Is there any way to restart?
please help
K3 AID program
reeprich said:
OK - I can summarize my experiencies:
IDT flash... I think everybody who is doing this experiments have this software...
K3AID... h++p://www.ulozto.cz/6556122/k3firstaid-exe
can switch phone to "download" state even if the HW keys are not working
it suppose working ActiveSync connection (downloaded from mobileuncle com) not my own sw...
Sometimes may be a bit dificult to get K3AID working.. it can show some error message like "RTM state Error" - You need to install h++p://www.ulozto.cz/6556123/cabviaactivesync-1-5-setup-exe
and h++p://www.ulozto.cz/6556124/gb-ppc-2-1-3-20090929-cab
it is only summarize of my experiences - none of this utility is mine, so use it on your own risk
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@HTC_NEW: Did you do the following steps according to reeprich instructions? What was the end result?
I did read that you used the calibration menu but I expect that you should use the download firmware menu. Is that available? ( I had the software installed but my virus scanner complained that there is a virus in the tmp file...) What's more important if your phone does not work anymore... Please be aware that this is a possible virus.
Removing the battery for a couple of minutes can help for restarting the phone.
htc new
I have done the same thing with my t5388i clone from china.
I tryed to flah the ROM and now I have the white screen.
I used the SOLONOMI t5388i rom, and now it is BRICK - white screen.
Did you get your phone working back ?
Now i´m trying to use other ROM´s , but until now no success.
I used the SOLONOMI t5388i rom, and now it is BRICK - white screen.
Hi,
I had the same problem.
I used the rom postet from parabellum20000 (post # 1354) in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8573304&highlight=Electronic+star#post8573304
parabellum20000 said:
Electronic star finally sent me (what they claim to be) SD ROM for t5388i. (99.3MB) I personally do not want to verify if it is truth, I am the one fortunate owner of perfectly (in some degree) working phone. Please feel free to use it on your own risk and share results if possible.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ymgvo8bf2t3v4c5
P.S.Please remember, flashing your phone with a wrong ROM is the safest way to brick (damage) it. So do not do it if it isn’t really necessary!
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I hope this rom helps you to alive your phones again.
Cheers
5290

[Q] phone brick? appears to be dead after flash crash, nothing on display, no usb

heya all!
i just got my GT-I9100 today; it was bought from A1 (part of vodafone) austria, but it does not have a simlock, they usually "lag behind" with those and business customers seem to be able to get some of the first models that do not have any lock yet.
but thats not the issue; i fiddled around with a few things, namely: root it with that superoneclick thingie, install rom manager, (unsuccessfully) try to flash clockworkmod recovery with it, ..
and then i realized that it does not actually replace the "android system recovery 3e" at all, for some reason. actually i seemed to have both the 2e and the 3e version available SOMEwhere, when i did an "adb reboot recovery" i got into the 3e version, with some key combo i managed to get into 2e (i think it was vol-down + power)
in any case, after searching forums for a while i found info that people have been installing "darky's 9.2 resurrection" in this case because it kind of completely wipes everything and gives a clean base to start with.
so i tried that, and i think it was a bad idea to actually re-partition with odin with the included PIT file. in any case, the flashing process completely halted right after it started; after many minutes i unplugged the phone, odin immediately gave me a red FAIL label, and since the phone didn't react anymore i power cycled it via its battery. i guess that was the second mistake
now i'm stuck in a state of complete darkness. the appearently common issue of "black screen after logo" is something different, i don't get ANY reaction from the phone WHATSOEVER. regardless of what keys i press in what combinations etc, it acts as if the battery was completely empty (which it definitely is not). USB does not do anything either.
i also noticed that the phone got unusually warm in the area of the camera, not like HOT, but warmer than i was able to get it by just toying around with it the hour before. i mean, if i try to turn it on and stuff, so it looks to me as if it is doing something, but it cannot even initialize the display or usb.
i ordered some components and will try this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551 even tho it explicitly states that it won't help against all-blackness, just in case.
anyone got any ideas of what i could still do? or is trying to get a replacement from the carrier my only option?
just for additional info, i also have 2 HTC desires, and never managed to brick them to death, i have some clues about adb and the sdk in general, i'm not completely clueless when it comes to android, but since i don't even get any kind of touchable interface (usb wise) i'm out of ideas...
thanks & regards
hi mate darkys rom is for the samsung galaxy s not the gaxy s 2 and clockwork mod wont work either
andypull15 said:
hi mate darkys rom is for the samsung galaxy s not the gaxy s 2 and clockwork mod wont work either
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hmn i kind of wasn't sure about darkys rom after my attempts anymore
in the beginning i thought the galaxy s2 was actually called i9000, until i opened it once again and say that it states 9100
but in any case - is there anything i can do, software wise?
anyone got any ideas of what i could still do? or is trying to get a replacement from the carrier my only option?
Fake /wrong rom they may reject it under warranty .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Try flash a stock rom .
jje
JJEgan said:
anyone got any ideas of what i could still do? or is trying to get a replacement from the carrier my only option?
Fake /wrong rom they may reject it under warranty .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Try flash a stock rom .
jje
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well thats the problem, i can't flash anything. i have no way of going into download mode, or any other mode, its just "dead".
Try to use the "magical cable", i think this cable work also on SG2 and not only the SG1 ... There is a lot sellers on ebay.
Sorry did i not mention the download mode recovery jig .
If it boots via the recovery jig to download mode you may be able to fix or at least fix enough to claim warranty .
jje
yep i guess i will get the components on monday (and i need to borrow a soldering iron
i already got info from the carrier that they will replace it, i just hope they won't look at it too much
can tyou tell us if tyou succeded ? I'm in the exact same situation.
makrook said:
can tyou tell us if tyou succeded ? I'm in the exact same situation.
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heys, i got a replacement from the carrier for free, and i'm not gonna brick it just to retest *g*
i ordered components for the usb rig and they already arrived, but i have not yet found time to test it, partly because i don't really need it - this time i did not make the mistake of flashing a wrong partition table......
regards
additional info: i'm on cognition S2 now. before i went there, i flashed 3-part stock 2.3.4 firmware, and this time, it was the right PIT file *g* so everything worked like a charm.

[Q] Bricked my phone?

So I had previously rooted my SGSII, and decided to try installing CM7 on it. I used CWM Recovery and ran it off the SD card, and everything appeared to work fine. I think I had a bad/not fully functioning CWM or something, as it didn't list an option to backup anything (I'm guessing because I flashed the stock kernel after rooting?) Anyway, it will no longer boot. I can access download mode, but Odin fails everytime I try to flash anything back on there. When I try to boot my phone, I just get a "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue" error.
EDIT: I just tried again as I was writing this, after rebooting, reinstalling my drivers and rebooting my computer. I was able to get the Firmware to flash properly in Odin. Now I have my phone booting and getting stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 splash screen... Doesn't seem to go any further than that though, unfortunately.
Any ideas what I can do? Is it possible that I need re-flash a bootloader or something ??
Any help would be supremely appreciated!
So I was just trying to re-install the Kernel, using the CF unsecured kernel, and it failed, but when I try to go into recovery mode, it looks as though it managed to install CWM Recovery. I have no idea what to do from here, and am sort of afraid to do anything for fear or bricking the phone completely...
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to fix this, I feel like such a tool
As long as you can get into download-mode, your phone isn't bricked.
If you switch from or to a TouchWiz-based ROM, you have to do a full-wipe in the recovery.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Go back to stock first via download mode via odin
Nah you're good. Similar thing happened to me at my first flashing attempt. Get your stock firmware from Intratech's thread, put the phone into download mode & flash the firmware via Odin.
Then maybe have another go at rooting the phone with the matching CFRoot kernel.
Porkchops said:
So I was just trying to re-install the Kernel, using the CF unsecured kernel, and it failed, but when I try to go into recovery mode, it looks as though it managed to install CWM Recovery. I have no idea what to do from here, and am sort of afraid to do anything for fear or bricking the phone completely...
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to fix this, I feel like such a tool
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yes, if you can still go in download mode it's no so difficult..this "small brick" it's on of "Android things to do" once in your SGS2 life
Hi guys. I'm in a worst situation. As my phone after a failed ODIN downgrade from Android 2.3.6 to one stock kernel is completelly dead - it doesn't boot anymore - not even managed to put it back into download mode or revert to fact defaults (no keys, no lights not even battery charging displayed when pluged in) - tryed the USB jig also. Nothing worked.
The question is: Will Samsung manage to repair and how much will it cost - an average ammount offcourse. Because I guess it's out of the question to be considered a warranty issue. I guess it will be visible somebody have done smth to the ROM by a software approach....
This is the short story because I would bore you to discuss all the things I have been through - it was only my faoult out of stupidity
HELP!
I don't see why Samsung wouldn't fix it ? As to how much they'll charge you, I think you'll find that will vary from country to country (labour costs being variable, etc). No, I don't think you'll be able to have it repaired under warranty.
You might want to look at having it JTAG repaired by someone other than Samsung. This will possibly be cheaper than having Samsung repair it. Do a search on here/Google.
alexdonc said:
The question is: Will Samsung manage to repair and how much will it cost - an average ammount offcourse. Because I guess it's out of the question to be considered a warranty issue. I guess it will be visible somebody have done smth to the ROM by a software approach....
HELP!
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Thank you very much. I have searched alot to actually understand - unfortunatelly for me it will cost... I saw on youtube a JTAG in action right now (cannot post the link yet). I understand now it is the only way. I'll keep you posted guys. Tomorrow I'll go to service.
I'm sorry it's going to cost Alex. A difficult thing to happen, I know
Here's a link for a JTAG repairer in the US who is also a member here, tho I see you've already found one. I'm sure doing it this way will be cheaper/probably faster than having Samsung do the repair as well.
alexdonc said:
Thank you very much. I have searched alot to actually understand - unfortunatelly for me it will cost... I saw on youtube a JTAG in action right now (cannot post the link yet). I understand now it is the only way. I'll keep you posted guys. Tomorrow I'll go to service.
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Thax. Funny thing is that this is exactly the thing I found - the same mobiletechvideos in US Now I allready have an ideea of how much should cost that. Hopefully I'll find a local GSM repair shop with the posibilitty to unbrick it cheep - or at least not much than 50USD - in local currency ofcource.
I'm still thinking if it is possible to use an ATMEL copy process - like in the old times for EEPROMS - I have done that in the past. In theory it might work but I will never do it - alredy scared about what happened to my beloved droid.
Thx again Mistah and have a gr8 day and a wonderfull new 2012!
Yeah I've seen a report or two on here from people who have used his service & have been happy. Must admit I found his page when thought I'd bricked my phone after my first flash attempt messed up. Yeah you might be able to get it done cheaper somewhere local, and that will mean less time without the phone for you without the phone in mail from you to the US & back again.
Let us know how you get on, your experience will be a good guide for people in future who have the same problems as you.
No probs man, happy to give you the little help I did. You too Alex Hope you have a great year & you get your phone back & working soon
alexdonc said:
Thax. Funny thing is that this is exactly the thing I found - the same mobiletechvideos in US Now I allready have an ideea of how much should cost that. Hopefully I'll find a local GSM repair shop with the posibilitty to unbrick it cheep - or at least not much than 50USD - in local currency ofcource.
I'm still thinking if it is possible to use an ATMEL copy process - like in the old times for EEPROMS - I have done that in the past. In theory it might work but I will never do it - alredy scared about what happened to my beloved droid.
Thx again Mistah and have a gr8 day and a wonderfull new 2012!
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Hello again. Solved right now. The service didn't charged me at all - I was kind of lucky after all. Unfortunately there are still some issues I have from the start. I'll keep on digging - software related.

Hard Bricked my phone.

I'm running stock JB with siyah kernel on my SGS3 GT-I9300. I wanted to try out a rom from CyanogenMod but when I was flashing it through CWM, my phone froze!! Now, it's not powering on. It's not going to download mode or recovery mode. I'm scared now. I flashed the right file, I know that. But somehow, it didn't work. Any ideas?
Also, I wanna know, that if I take it to Samsung Care, will they be able to make out that my phone was rooted before? Because device status was modified & flash counter was around 12 before I hard-bricked (atleast that's what I think) my phone.
Please help me out.
P.S. I'm new here. So, move my thread to any category which you think is suitable for it. I thought it should be in this category, so I posted here.
saurabh_goyal93 said:
I'm running stock JB with siyah kernel on my SGS3 GT-I9300. I wanted to try out a rom from CyanogenMod but when I was flashing it through CWM, my phone froze!! Now, it's not powering on. It's not going to download mode or recovery mode. I'm scared now. I flashed the right file, I know that. But somehow, it didn't work. Any ideas?
Also, I wanna know, that if I take it to Samsung Care, will they be able to make out that my phone was rooted before? Because device status was modified & flash counter was around 12 before I hard-bricked (atleast that's what I think) my phone.
Please help me out.
P.S. I'm new here. So, move my thread to any category which you think is suitable for it. I thought it should be in this category, so I posted here.
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That`s weird, did it just froze during the flashing? I can`t imagine how that could hardbrick your phone since Cyanogenmod doesn`t touch the bootloader. At least download mode should work. BTW what version of Siyah Kernel did you use?
Yeah if you can`t even access download mode then there is probably nothing you can do. You can try a USB Jig but if that`s not working too then take it to a Samsung Service Center and play dumb. Say the phone just wouldn`t come on. And if they can`t access download mode then I highly doubt that they can see if your phone is rooted.
Thanks a lot
Scarface1991 said:
That`s weird, did it just froze during the flashing? I can`t imagine how that could hardbrick your phone since Cyanogenmod doesn`t touch the bootloader. At least download mode should work. BTW what version of Siyah Kernel did you use?
Yeah if you can`t even access download mode then there is probably nothing you can do. You can try a USB Jig but if that`s not working too then take it to a Samsung Service Center and play dumb. Say the phone just wouldn`t come on. And if they can`t access download mode then I highly doubt that they can see if your phone is rooted.
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Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm an experienced flasher and I flash roms on daily basis that's why I'm also very shocked at this.
I have a USB jig from the days when I used to have Samsung Galaxy S2, but it's not working with my S3.
Anyways,I'll take my phone to Samsung Care only I guess. :crying:
P.S. Even after changing the motherboard or something, they won't know? Cuz otherwise I'm out 40000 rupees!! (I live in India)
EDIT: I was using Siyah kernel v1.8.9.
If Samsung get it to boot then its no warranty but probable that they will put it down to SDS and just change the motherboard .
jje
saurabh_goyal93 said:
Thanks a lot for your answer. I'm an experienced flasher and I flash roms on daily basis that's why I'm also very shocked at this.
I have a USB jig from the days when I used to have Samsung Galaxy S2, but it's not working with my S3.
Anyways,I'll take my phone to Samsung Care only I guess. :crying:
P.S. Even after changing the motherboard or something, they won't know? Cuz otherwise I'm out 40000 rupees!! (I live in India)
EDIT: I was using Siyah kernel v1.8.9.
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Ok that`s really weird. I suppose it`s just some hardware failure then. Of course that it happened while you flashed a ROM is very unfortunate.
If they change the whole mainboard then all information that was on the old mainboard will be gone. There is no way after they change the mainboard that they will see if you were rooted or not.

No boot or recovery

Hi everyone,
Complete Noob here, and not proud of it.
I've been searching through your awesome forum now for the past few days trying to get an answer to a problem I have with my GT-I9300, but unfortunately i just seem to keep coming up with more and more problems. So begrudingly I have come to beg for help in the form of a new thread.
I had the phone running rooted with CWM and Cyanogen 10.1 with a fair amount of problems, it kept locking up.
So i was advised one of the best solutions would be to use a more stable version of Cyanogen so re flashed with 9. It worked pretty brilliantly up until some apps were updating and it just completely froze, at the time this was not a strange occurance because of the previous freezing issues i had. So i just restarted the phone.
I then get a message that the firmware has become corrupted and i need to re-install emergency firmware with Kies, tried this. nothing happened.
It has now come to only allowing me to boot into download mode, if i attempt a standard boot, or a recovery boot it goes into a white screen, which almost looks like static on an old analogue TV.
I am at my complete end with this phone, I have tried many re-flashes and versions of PDA files via ODIN and nothing has worked, I always seem to get a PIT Partition error.
I have now been trying to get this to work for at least 20 hours of my life and its finally enough, I would just be incredibly thankful if someone could let me know the problem and if there is a solution to this, I am yet to find anyone else suffering with this white static picture on boot.
When i boot into download mode, i get the red ODIN MODE setting, no product name, no custom binary download, the current binary is 'Samsung official' and the system status is custom.
I have tried reflashing to samsung stock, and that even fails.
Many thanks in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
JJEgan said:
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
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Agreed.
Please people, don't go back to ICS! It is unable to prevent your eMMC from death.
I heard that version 9 doesn't have the sudden death fix :/ Sorry mate you gotta take to to repair center.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
Service centre say my phone wont boot i this the sudden death syndrome .
Is what i would ask and just look dumb .
jje
coop_80 said:
cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
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Sudden death :/

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