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ive got an issue, i happened to drop my eris in a pool last night on accident. luckily it still works for the most part but i just came to find out that cant access my sd card but it charges just fine?? and my phone wont work in a call unless on speaker phone now... im really happy that it still works but not having access to my sd is kinda stifling being rooted, has this happened to anyone else?, cuz im really debating sending it back under its warranty,im just thinking itd be an easy fix and maybe cheaper than an insurance claim....
any feedback would be great....
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ive got an issue, i happened to drop my eris in a pool last night on accident. luckily it still works for the most part but i just came to find out that cant access my sd card but it charges just fine?? and my phone wont work in a call unless on speaker phone now... im really happy that it still works but not having access to my sd is kinda stifling being rooted, has this happened to anyone else?, cuz im really debating sending it back under its warranty,im just thinking itd be an easy fix and maybe cheaper than an insurance claim....
any feedback would be great....
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if ur phone is rooted ur warranty is void
Your SD card doesnt work cause the card itself is probably broken and the microphone shouldnt work cause its full of water. Try taking it all apart (remove battery, sd card, case back) and put it all in rice over night. maybe itll dry out more. best of luck!
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so i guess my best bet is to take it to a phone repair, i was afraid of that but i guess its the cheapest route but yeah thanks for your input cuz i thought i was able to unroot and send it back...
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so i guess my best bet is to take it to a phone repair, i was afraid of that but i guess its the cheapest route but yeah thanks for your input cuz i thought i was able to unroot and send it back...
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Yeah not much you can do, id try the rice trick or silica beads which are cheap, if not then return it
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Your SD card doesnt work cause the card itself is probably broken and the microphone shouldnt work cause its full of water. Try taking it all apart (remove battery, sd card, case back) and put it all in rice over night. maybe itll dry out more. best of luck!
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i thought my sd might be broke aswell but when i go to recovery i can flash from sd allday long but it doesnt want to mount for some reason when plugged into pc & it only shows battery charge... but yeah ive heard of the rice trick, thanks for the input il def try it b4 i go to a repairman....
good luck! also try mounting it from recovery
In amon_ra: USB-MS Toggle
Clockwork: Partitions-->USB SD (or something like that its the last option)
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good luck! also try mounting it from recovery
In amon_ra: USB-MS Toggle
Clockwork: Partitions-->USB SD (or something like that its the last option)
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yeah usb toggle thru recovery dont work either. im really suprised it still works aswell as it does, my past three phones have died from drinking too much liquid but they were blackberries, the Eris is pretty indistructable! thanks for your help guys...
I've bricked 4 Eris's. Rooted with custom recovery. I walk into the Verizon store, say it won't boot and walk out with a refurb. They don't really seem to care. The last time the guy even gave me the link to the 1-click root app. They *may* check the water damage indicators on yours, but I wouldn't bet on it. Worth a shot at least.
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I've bricked 4 Eris's. Rooted with custom recovery. I walk into the Verizon store, say it won't boot and walk out with a refurb. They don't really seem to care. The last time the guy even gave me the link to the 1-click root app. They *may* check the water damage indicators on yours, but I wouldn't bet on it. Worth a shot at least.
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id do that if i had a brick but mine is far from bricked; its just small minor problems that a good phone repair can do easily for proably alot cheaper.
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id do that if i had a brick but mine is far from bricked; its just small minor problems that a good phone repair can do easily for proably alot cheaper.
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Not that I condone such behavior, but they are relatively easy to brick... They'll switch it out free at the store. Claim it happened after the OTA.
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Not that I condone such behavior, but they are relatively easy to brick... They'll switch it out free at the store. Claim it happened after the OTA.
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Ive been debating on using the repair sd thru recovery but im not sure what that option does. since i cant mount sd ive been skeptical to try it.does anyone know if it might work?
Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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i just rebooted and this being the 3rd time since the incident & now im getting a notification saying i have a damaged sd card, i wonder if a reformat will do the trick?, it's really wierd cuz all my apps show up in drawer and are usable.
Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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i just rebooted and this being the 3rd time since the incident & now im getting a notification saying i have a damaged sd card, i wonder if a reformat will do the trick?, it's really wierd cuz all my apps show up in drawer and are usable.
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Dood, call it in or take in. Lie to em, I'm on my 3rd, both before were rooted. first was a complete lie bc I was trying to get droid. But I banged it up after I got my replacement. I really don't care anymore about what's "right" especially for verizon. Use ur warranty..
Oh have you tried the sd card in another phone. That'll explain a lot if works or doesn't.
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Dood, call it in or take in. Lie to em, I'm on my 3rd, both before were rooted. first was a complete lie bc I was trying to get droid. But I banged it up after I got my replacement. I really don't care anymore about what's "right" especially for verizon. Use ur warranty..
Oh have you tried the sd card in another phone. That'll explain a lot if works or doesn't.
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ive done my troubleshooting and it looks like sdcard reader ate it! lss i called for warranty.lol
now i need to figure how i really wanna send it back to em...
Just pay VZW 50 bucks for a new one.
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Just pay VZW 50 bucks for a new one.
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That's if he has insurance
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That's if he has insurance
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yea i have insurance but since ive filed a warranty claim and getting my new phone on wednesday, im just gonna keep my fingers crossed they dont charge me an arm & leg in the end... i proably shoulda just done an insurance claim
i told em the sd driver isnt reading, mounting doing anything its supposed too.
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yea i have insurance but since ive filed a warranty claim and getting my new phone on wednesday, im just gonna keep my fingers crossed they dont charge me an arm & leg in the end... i proably shoulda just done an insurance claim
i told em the sd driver isnt reading, mounting doing anything its supposed too.
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ive been trying to get back to 2.1 stock for the developers sake just so warranty doesnt see everything i have on the phone but adb processes and says device not found when trying jcase's flash for ruu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726885, unforrtunatly im not gonna b able to send it back looking stock, any recommendations?
I can confirm that I bricked my phone tonight. I was playing in Clockwork trying to get a ext4 partition using a sdparted.txt. I gave up with that because I could not get it to work properly. Well I decided to push my a rom from adb to sd and it was taking forever so I closed out cmd and proceeded to mount SD from recovery but it would not mount. So I figured the SD card was locked up with CMD or perhaps I corrupted the partitions. So I pulled the battery and popped the sd in my pc and everything was fine with the card. So I went back and put the sd card back in my phone and tried to boot it up and I got nothing. I then plugged the phone into my pc and got nothing.. No lights no boot nothing. It did try to install QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers. Which I know someone is already working on. I guess sprint will be getting a visit tomorrow with my brick. Sigh.. No matter how experienced you think you are you are always not experienced enough..
Just wondering have you tried turning it on while its not plugged in? It may take a few pushes of the power button. Well you mentioned you tried before you plugged it in but try a few times, one time it took me 6 presses of the power button.
Try pulling the battery out waiting for 5 to 10 minutes then put it back and try booting!
Sywped from mah Supasonic!
To answer both of you Yes I have tried many times of pushing the power button plugged and unplugged and also leaving the battery an for extended period of time. No charging light comes on and it prompts for the QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers. I am assuming this is what trevE has been working on. Thus leading me to believe it is a full brick.
Can you get to your Hboot?
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So, what exactly are you going to tell sprint after you bricked your phone by flashing a rom through a custom recovery?
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So, what exactly are you going to tell sprint after you bricked your phone by flashing a rom through a custom recovery?
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I was doing an OTA update and then it didnt turn back on.
Yeah, doesn't work like that. EVO 3D has emmc that is write protected that is designed to revert to stock if ota fails.
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Yeah, doesn't work like that. EVO 3D has emmc that is write protected that is designed to revert to stock if ota fails.
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He could just say his phone turned off and now it wont boot. The employees at a Sprint repair center don't have the time or resources to launch an investigation into exactly how your phone failed and if it was his fault or not. Unless he opens his mouth or its some kind of physical/liquid damage they will give him a replacement no problem.
This is correct. By this I mean above post. They won't take the time to really check and you are not lying by saying it won't boot.
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Just tell them that you flipped the score on angry birds and then some crazy government stuff started flashing on your screen before it burned out. And then tell them that you might be the new intersect.
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But what happens if he says that then the Sprint guys find out he was lying? Do they ever do anything?
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But what happens if he says that then the Sprint guys find out he was lying? Do they ever do anything?
Sent from my fingers.
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They won't find out if the phone wont turn on. The problem is that people are not smarter than the equipment they are working with and do stupid things like brick their phones, and return them while lying and in the end, the rest of us end up suffering. Before Android brought in a whole slew of retards who bricked their phones, insurance was a 50 dollar deductible. I fully expect it to be 150 soon.
If you are dumb enough to try stupid things and brick your phone, at least man up and be responsible and do the right thing. Yeah, thats not going to happen.
if you brick a phone why not do the right thing and get yourself a new one by manning up and paying for it. I mean dont we all talk about doing the right thing? If you dont wanna pay retail, I am sure they will let your renew your upgrade, if you tell them you can either buy a phone or pay the ETF and go elsewhere, they will usually let you upgrade the phone.
I cant believe you experiment with stupid **** when you know it might f up the phone.
If you have insurance you can just lose it and pay the 100.00 ded. the brick should be worth at least a 100.00 on ebay. I sold an og evo with a broken lcd and bad esn. in an auction it got 126.50 about a month ago.
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They won't find out if the phone wont turn on. The problem is that people are not smarter than the equipment they are working with and do stupid things like brick their phones, and return them while lying and in the end, the rest of us end up suffering. Before Android brought in a whole slew of retards who bricked their phones, insurance was a 50 dollar deductible. I fully expect it to be 150 soon.
If you are dumb enough to try stupid things and brick your phone, at least man up and be responsible and do the right thing. Yeah, thats not going to happen.
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Meh just a soft brick, it's not like he's shipping it to them in pieces or anything. It just needs reflashed. If he were to use insurance the deductible would be nearly pure profit for them.
I remember seeing in another forum (can't remember which atm) that something was buggy in clockwork and it would zero out parts of the eMMC when formatting/partitioning something. It may be a good idea for someone to try and find out what it was doing to see if our version is prone to it also.
I decided to come back to my post and say a few more things. To the few who harped and lectured about taking my phone to sprint, I just wanted to let you know I explained to the sweet girl behind the counter that I was formatting my sdcard and some how the phones emmc got erased with it. She had no freaking clue Wtf I was talking about and just gave me a different phone. I never had any intention of claiming insurance or lying about how it happened. So you guys who whined can settle down now. But on another note this all happened on clock work and yes I was repartitioning the SD card via clock work / recovery - adb shell - sdparted.txt script.
Something funky happened when I did the battery pull after I could no longer mount the sdcard from within recovery..
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Meh just a soft brick, it's not like he's shipping it to them in pieces or anything. It just needs reflashed. If he were to use insurance the deductible would be nearly pure profit for them.
I remember seeing in another forum (can't remember which atm) that something was buggy in clockwork and it would zero out parts of the eMMC when formatting/partitioning something. It may be a good idea for someone to try and find out what it was doing to see if our version is prone to it also.
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I think that's the NookColor. You *cannot* format your SD (or on any non-stock rom) or you would format a portion of the eMMC and could (would always?) brick, hard....though it probably happens elsewhere, it's the entire platform from what I recall (of which the NookColor is a near reference design)...I think it was from confusion caused by how the partitions were referenced since you could boot from SD or eMMC or have any number of partitions on either.
If there were never any "retards" trying unknown things, there would be no dev community.
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If there were never any "retards" trying unknown things, there would be no dev community.
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+1 I r tard
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Guys my note seems to be in the most dreadful state possible. It wont turn on, I can't put it in recovery, when I connect it to the computer I can hear a sound signalling it does recognize something, but adb cant find the device (seems like it turns off).
This happened after trying to put the cwm beta4 recovery.img , nobody except me is responsible, I was trying to put flash the image, after running the command however it dint seem to me it made any difference after trying to boot to recovery so, I tried running the command again, except this time, it gave me an error which said it ran out of space or disk space, I tried restarting and it wont turn on.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Please move this to the correct forum.
This forum is for development
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Return it and they'll give you a new one. They cant tell you bricked if it won't turn on.
G~Note "nuff said"
alperin1 said:
Please move this to the correct forum.
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I'm sorry I wasn't aware that this wasnt the right place.
N3RD420 said:
Return it and they'll give you a new one. They cant tell you bricked if it won't turn on.
G~Note "nuff said"
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Agreed, except I want to try and see if it can be recovered, else I'll get it switched.
Did u try to go to download mode by holding down. Then wait 15 sec press up even if it doesnt have anything on screen and see if odin sees it?
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Did u try to go to download mode by holding down. Then wait 15 sec press up even if it doesnt have anything on screen and see if odin sees it?
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Okay just noticed this, in the device manager it now says QHUSB_DLOAD, I'm guessing this is some form of download state, I have odin open, how do I know if its recognizing it?
It would show a yellow square with a com port.... But i think that error is very bad one of our devs in skyrocket got it and it was return phone or jtag service online.
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you might have had a typo in your last flash...
if you typed mmcblk0p2 instead of mmcblk0p22, then it would explain the out of space, and possibly also the boot error...
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It would show a yellow square with a com port.... But i think that error is very bad one of our devs in skyrocket got it and it was return phone or jtag service online.
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Odin doesn't show anything, I mean I doesn't show the yellow exclamation mark.
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you might have had a typo in your last flash...
if you typed mmcblk0p2 instead of mmcblk0p22, then it would explain the out of space, and possibly also the boot error...
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Very likely thats what I did, is there anyway out?
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Very likely thats what I did, is there anyway out?
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probably not, or only with lots of effort
returning it is probably the fastest
I do understand, but since I'm a total noob on android, .and that nothing else could possible go any wrong, I would sure like to try.
drop 5 bucks on a jig
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UUCT0Y/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details
or similar.
this wont reset the counter like on certain devices but it will put the sgh-i717 at&t note into download mode just by plugging it in
then flash back to stock with odin. all of the info to do that is located in this forum
edit.. alot of these guys are right though, if it doesnt react to being plugged in or turned on no matter what, nobody in the at&t store will figure it out, they will mark it defective and give you a new one
Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
My phone will eat your Apple!
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Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
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I agree. Return. Been there twice with an infuse and skyrocket. No questions asked...swap out. I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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brittoking said:
Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
My phone will eat your Apple!
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I kind of just thought about that, I'll leave it as is, and get it swapped.
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I agree. Return. Been there twice with an infuse and skyrocket. No questions asked...swap out. I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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Yep will do this.
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I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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I, for one, couldn't wait to tear into my new $300 gem
As for the brick, i concur, returning it at this point would be best. I hate using dd to flash things, one typo can screw up the entire device.
if it turns on at all... you may risk getting it found to be modded. just sayin.
if i were you. Id find an old ac adapter cut the wires and seperate. then zap the prongs where the battery connects. in my experience, old laptop chargers work the best. be sure to cut the end off of the cord that plugs into the laptop. the brick will protect you from fatal or even harmful shock so dont worry.
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I agree. Mine was rooted the day I got it.
If you do decide to root the replacement, reading is your friend. Read, read again, and read it a third time. Then don't be afraid to read it more if necessary, and a you're doing the steps.
Well on the way to my fairytale!
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probably not, or only with lots of effort
returning it is probably the fastest
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It happened as you had said missed a 2
ashies7 said:
I agree. Mine was rooted the day I got it.
If you do decide to root the replacement, reading is your friend. Read, read again, and read it a third time. Then don't be afraid to read it more if necessary, and a you're doing the steps.
Well on the way to my fairytale!
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I had it rooted, it was while trying to install cwm, I did read it a few times, perhaps needs more reading, I had tinkered with iphones quite a bit, but I never had a bricked device ever in like 4 years, I never thought it could goto a state where the only real way to bring it back would it be to connect to a jtag device.
I sent my Galaxy Note into Samsung to get the screen repaired.
When I sent it off, I realized that I forgot to reset the flash counter.
I was scared ****less.
Anyway, they repaired it and it is about to be sent back to me.
I just thought I would let everyone know that there is nothing to worry about.
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I sent my Galaxy Note into Samsung to get the screen repaired.
When I sent it off, I realized that I forgot to reset the flash counter.
I was scared ****less.
Anyway, they repaired it and it is about to be sent back to me.
I just thought I would let everyone know that there is nothing to worry about.
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I think you just got lucky bud and I would not encourage anyone else to do the same thing. Just because they agreed to fix your phone doesn't mean that everyone else will be as fortunate. Samsung and your phone carrier clearly stated that if you do flash a non OEM ROM you will be voiding your warranty.
Also, lets wait till you get your phone back before you consider this a success.
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I think you just got lucky bud and I would not encourage anyone else to do the same thing. Just because they agreed to fix your phone doesn't mean that everyone else will be as fortunate. Samsung and your phone carrier clearly stated that if you do flash a non OEM ROM you will be voiding your warranty.
Also, lets wait till you get your phone back before you consider this a success.
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Yeah. I wouldn't recommend it. I feel like if I sent my phone in for some sort of software issue I would be out of luck.
I will update this thread when I actually get the phone back.
it might depend on the repair in question. A screen replacement is just hardware so they may not mind the software being a custom ROM. I sent in a GT 10.1 with AOKP installed to fix a screen issue. I'm sure they noticed the angry rainbow unicorn when they booted it up. They fixed it no problem though annoyingly, they actually WIPED my entire device, sdcard and everything back to stock. On the GT 10.1 boards, no one has had that happen except me.
I have to send my note in for a repair on my SD card slot, which keeps popping out the microsd. My phone has a custom rom and probably 3 on the flash counter. I was hoping they didn't care since it was a hardware issue. On a side note, it sucks that AT&T doesn't give out loaner phones while it's being fixed.
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it might depend on the repair in question. A screen replacement is just hardware so they may not mind the software being a custom ROM. I sent in a GT 10.1 with AOKP installed to fix a screen issue. I'm sure they noticed the angry rainbow unicorn when they booted it up. They fixed it no problem though annoyingly, they actually WIPED my entire device, sdcard and everything back to stock. On the GT 10.1 boards, no one has had that happen except me.
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Makes me wonder if they just gave you a different phone? Or you memorized the hardware numbers? I agree with you being a hardware issue, they are probably not going to care about the flash counter. If you sent them a boot looping device that had the flash counter up high, then i would suspect they might say something.
No real worries guys. I had to send my phone in to Sammy for a screen issue a couple days before braway released the counter reset. They repaired it with no issues, wiped the ROM and reset the counter for me lol. This was back in late March.
Edit- in my case, they gave me the same phone because the Bluetooth physical address was the same. They replaced the screen including the front glass, so I didn't get my screen protector back.
Im pretty sure the techs there get paid by the hour and Im also sure that they themselves(techs) flash custom software on their devices. If I worked in that dept, I would spend the extra time resetting your flash counters and reverting you to stock, only to make my day go by quicker... I wouldn't recommend betting the farm on that. IMHO
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I have to send my note in for a repair on my SD card slot, which keeps popping out the microsd. My phone has a custom rom and probably 3 on the flash counter. I was hoping they didn't care since it was a hardware issue. On a side note, it sucks that AT&T doesn't give out loaner phones while it's being fixed.
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It depends on the store. I threw a fit, called customer service and they have me a credit for ****tiest prepaid phone they have. Least its mine now as a total emergency backup. I was not gonna be out of a phone for days.
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It depends on the store. I threw a fit, called customer service and they have me a credit for ****tiest prepaid phone they have. Least its mine now as a total emergency backup. I was not gonna be out of a phone for days.
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I sent it off Monday and I already have the tracking number for the return shipping. In any case, I am using my old iPhone 3g until I get my phone back. It's always good to have a spare.
So people wouldn't recommend it, but who here has actually been denied service with an upped counter?
Traditionally, going all the way back to my Nexus One, the phone manufacturers don't care about root/s-off/flash counter if it's a clear hardware issue. If your button stops working or your screen doesn't respond anymore or your phone doesn't charge, they generally fix it.
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I sent it off Monday and I already have the tracking number for the return shipping. In any case, I am using my old iPhone 3g until I get my phone back. It's always good to have a spare.
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Of course its best to have a backup, but at the time I didn't. I didn't expect a loaner, but when the CSR on the phone said I'd get one...then the store says no...well, we have problems.
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This was originally a post about how i stumbled on a problem Chainfire 3D causes which ends up soft bricking your phone. I got a replacement phone from verizon through my warranty and it came with MDK build on it. Apparently its not a good thing to figure out loopholes in the system and share them so ive changed this post to warn people about installing the drivers from the Chainfire 3D app.
Doing a factory reset doesnt wipe root. The root binaries are in system and a FDR only hits data partitions. People doing this is also why insurance deductibles are going up and caps put on how many claims you can file.
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Here goes more people frauding the system, people like you that make insurance claimed raise prices, just deal with what you have. We all want to be flashing yes but is this is what we are ultimately going to be doing for now on on new flagship devices? It's one of the reasons they actually lock bootloaders because if it were unlocked there will be even more cries about bricks and people attempting stuff without researching, we can all argue back and forth about all that but seriously guys? Breaking your phone on purpose, obsurd.
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Doing a factory reset doesnt wipe root. The root binaries are in system and a FDR only hits data partitions. People doing this is also why insurance deductibles are going up and caps put on how many claims you can file.
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Even if root isnt wiped during a factory reset they wouldnt see that. I would assume that once they try to boot the phone and it doesnt work theyll just use whatever software they use to set it back to stock and get it ready to send out to some other person. Im not saying this is the best idea. I just happened to stumble upon it and once i had an excuse to get a replacement i went for it. Obviously i very well could have used the stock tar file floating around and fixed it but i hate TouchWiz and the stupid features that came with the phone. I honestly doubt this is why insurance deductibles are going up considering i didnt use my insurance to get my phone replaced. it fell under the manufacturers warranty. if i wanted insurance to replace the phone i could have just dropped it "on accident".
bkob024 said:
Even if root isnt wiped during a factory reset they wouldnt see that. I would assume that once they try to boot the phone and it doesnt work theyll just use whatever software they use to set it back to stock and get it ready to send out to some other person. Im not saying this is the best idea. I just happened to stumble upon it and once i had an excuse to get a replacement i went for it. Obviously i very well could have used the stock tar file floating around and fixed it but i hate TouchWiz and the stupid features that came with the phone. I honestly doubt this is why insurance deductibles are going up considering i didnt use my insurance to get my phone replaced. it fell under the manufacturers warranty. if i wanted insurance to replace the phone i could have just dropped it "on accident".
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You hate touchwiz but you bought a touch wiz based phone. Lol smh.
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hexitnow said:
You hate touchwiz but you bought a touch wiz based phone. Lol smh.
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Didnt hate it until after i had used it. I had planned on putting a custom rom on the phone as soon as i had gotten it. Ive seen how much faster the GS4 performs when its running a pure android rom. My phone is at least twice as fast now that ive switched from the stock rom to an AOSP based rom. i know it doesnt really mean anything but i also scored almost 2000 points higher on my Antutu benchmark test.
I wish there was an "unlike" or "thumbs down button" Don't break your phone on purpose people...
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If Verizon would just unlock everything people wouldn't have to accidentally break their phones. I personally bought the phone outright to keep my unlimited data I feel that since I did that I should be able to do what ever I want to MY PHONE! ! ! Plus I pay every month for my insurance and in doing so the insurance company takes the risk that something might happen to my phone to where they have to replace it and if nothing happens to my phone well that make out like bandits because I'm still paying each month for their insurance that I don't use.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"
"Oderint Dum Metuant"
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I wish there was an "unlike" or "thumbs down button" Don't break your phone on purpose people...
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Agreed
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If Verizon would just unlock everything people wouldn't have to accidentally break their phones. I personally bought the phone outright to keep my unlimited data I feel that since I did that I should be able to do what ever I want to MY PHONE! ! ! Plus I pay every month for my insurance and in doing so the insurance company takes the risk that something might happen to my phone to where they have to replace it and if nothing happens to my phone well that make out like bandits because I'm still paying each month for their insurance that I don't use.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"
"Oderint Dum Metuant"
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I agree with you there. What i do with my phone is my business exspecially since i payed for the phone outright instead of getting it through an upgrade for free and i also pay for insurance. I didnt figure out how to break my phone then break it. i just figured out one thing on accident and decided not to fix it on my own (which i could have done very easily). The phone also had several issues right out of the box that would never seem to happen when id go into verizon. All the negative feedback to my post has forced me to change it to a warning about chainfire 3D. but that wont stop someone from figuring out they can get their phone replaced this way, but im also not forcing anyone to do this, its your phone do what you want with it.
Wtf is this thread all about? Warranty fraud isn't cool.
Lets not start a debate judging others morality/immorality or ethical/unethical decisions. This is so subjective, we might as well start arguing about whether there is a god or start debating about when the age of viability is for a fetus. Just keep your opinion to yourself, I don't care if you want to screw the system or not, theres not right or wrong in the grey area. Just dont be annoying about it like the people who knock on my door trying to convince me to join their religion, preaching they carry "the message of god". Like I tell them, then sing a prayer about it instead of annoying me, god damnit. This should be locked, the entire thread is a logical fallacy.
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Agree, this thread should be locked.
Users who think XDA is a site to perpetuate fraud are mistaken...To ask for help recovering from a bricked device is fine, you all should be fully aware of the chances you take when you came here, using fraudulent recovery maneuvers is not how we do things...be adult about your mistakes, claim accountability on your own and pay up.
And, for those who are offended about this, thanks, but instead of replying, next time just report the thread and a moderator will handle from there. Thanks
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