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I don't think best buy would even noticed if I return a rooted phone as long as the rom is as close stock as I can get. Any opinions?
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slinky1914 said:
I don't think best buy would even noticed if I return a rooted phone as long as the rom is as close stock as I can get. Any opinions?
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theres no guarantees but you are correct they probably wont notice that it doesn't work. What they will be looking for is if the phone works, water damage indicator and physical damage. They will probably once over the phone then return it as long as you are within your proper return period.
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theres no guarantees but you are correct they probably wont notice that it doesn't work. What they will be looking for is if the phone works, water damage indicator and physical damage. They will probably once over the phone then return it as long as you are within your proper return period.
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That's what I'm thinking. It works it just won't have as much bloatware on it. There just gonna resell it anyway. I tried to restore the nandroid of the original rom but once restored it gets stuck at the first samasung splash screen.
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slinky1914 said:
That's what I'm thinking. It works it just won't have as much bloatware on it. There just gonna resell it anyway. I tried to restore the nandroid of the original rom but once restored it gets stuck at the first samasung splash screen.
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Well with all returns what they do is send it back to Tmobile they will send it to Samsung and get turn into a refurbish unit (for exchanges and such) They will flash the OEM Rom back on it.
Flash stock using Odin? It brings the phone unrooted and all the bloatware back
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Flash stock using Odin? It brings the phone unrooted and all the bloatware back
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No I haven't yet. Seems like a lot of work if they are gonna do it anyway. And some people have had some issues.
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If you flash back via ODIN make sure the three button recovery works because if ODIN crashes mid-way (I've had this happen twice on my previous Vibrant) you've got a brick if you can't get it back into download mode via the buttons. Do a forum search. Or maybe if you wound up with the dreaded black screen of death that wouldn't be such a bad thing. They'd almost have to take it back then.
i just returned one the other day to best buy and the chick went through the phone for a couple of minutes, checked settings and menus and then also checked for physical damage. i had reflashed it back to stock anyways as bell's version comes with a bunch of specific apps. i was glad i did flash it back and i also relocked it to bell's network as i had unlocked it for use on rogers
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i just returned one the other day to best buy and the chick went through the phone for a couple of minutes, checked settings and menus and then also checked for physical damage. i had reflashed it back to stock anyways as bell's version comes with a bunch of specific apps. i was glad i did flash it back and i also relocked it to bell's network as i had unlocked it for use on rogers
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It is true every once in a while you will get a rep who knows their stuff (when i worked at t-mobile i would play with customers who had flashed new ROMs on their G1 ) However most of the time you will get minim wage joe blow and he could give a rats ass.
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It is true every once in a while you will get a rep who knows their stuff (when i worked at t-mobile i would play with customers who had flashed new ROMs on their G1 ) However most of the time you will get minim wage joe blow and he could give a rats ass.
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true, true
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No I haven't yet. Seems like a lot of work if they are gonna do it anyway. And some people have had some issues.
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It really isn't.. its better to be safe than sorry. At least thats how I feel.
And as far as that phone -- pc logo, I guess they would take it back but if they ask you how did it get that way? you're going to have to lie about it and its just going to feel really awkward.
Truthfully though, all they'd have to be trained to do is not accept returns if you see the superuser app. That'd be the easiest way to see if someone has rooted their phone & If you're not even going to take the effort to flash it back to stock, you're probably not going to delete that app either.
Just re-Odin it & call it a day. It took me less than 5 minutes to get back to stock & maybe another 5 to download the necessary files.
This will also ensure that you don't have any leftover contacts or log ins to facebook or anything like that on there (better safe than sorry).
Thanks guys. I was using my slide for the last couple of days by picked the vibrant back up and fell back in love. If I do decide to return it I'll put it back on stock. Thanks again guys.
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i dont think they care
just aslong as it lokks in good shape
but sometimes you get that one derp that feels the he/she needs to look through it
Why don't u install one clig lag fix from market and unroot it? Should be easy.
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nguyenmd said:
Why don't u install one clig lag fix from market and unroot it? Should be easy.
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What about installing the Galaxysrooter from the app market then unrooting it with this app?
Im a little new at all this so please excuse me if i sound dumb. Cant you just flash a nandroid backup and then undo root also?
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Im a little new at all this so please excuse me if i sound dumb. Cant you just flash a nandroid backup and then undo root also?
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Yup, that'll work as well. Or you could download a nandroid that is stock without root.
i got my vibrant the day it came out, from costco... $99
Swapped it a week later, Couldn't unroot it for some reason, but they didn't notice... then again it was costco
They won't care trust me i worked for tmo. These people don't even know what root is they might think its a plant. They just scan it out of their inventory and send it to samsung. If it has root on it they are not going to send it back to tmo just to find u or look to charge your account. That is soooooo tedious cuz u have to do an IMEI search which hardly works on TMOs internal network (i tried when i worked with them never really worked) so yea all they look for is hardware damage and the liquid damage indicator other then that ur golden.
I was using Bionix 1.3.1 with DoW. So this morning, when i tried to turn on my phone the screen was stuck at the green DoW screen. retried and same thing happened. So i decided to Odin back to stock, that failed and it shows "Data Wipe Failed" in recovery. So i looked up Eugene non-bricking froyo and tried that before odin back to stock.. and it still doesnt work and now i am out of options. Any ideas on what i can do? since i can still get into Download Mode all hopes isnt lost right?
Correct just keep trying sometimes odin can be a real pita
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that happened to a lot of phones (including mind) and there is no known fix.
Look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957615
But i can get into Recovery tho?
Your phone is bricked! Happened to me as well and there is no fix. I just flashed JFD back on the phone and got a new one from T-Mobile under the warranty.
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drewdude007 said:
Your phone is bricked! Happened to me as well and there is no fix. I just flashed JFD back on the phone and got a new one from T-Mobile under the warranty.
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iLOVe straight forward people , P but lets try to help out instead of tossing this vibrant out ?
There is no fix sorry but the only thing that boots it up is eugenes jk2 but it boots with unavailable storage. I tried to warn people when it first happened to me and they all began denying my advice. Well look what happened now, many people are bricking their phones because noone listened. My phone has been bricked for over a month but I wish you the best of luck.
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bartek25 said:
iLOVe straight forward people , P but lets try to help out instead of tossing this vibrant out ?
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I have tried to look for a fix and there is not one so no point in wasting their time in doing things that have been tried over and over again and don't work. The phone is bricked.
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I have tried to look for a fix and there is not one so no point in wasting their time in doing things that have been tried over and over again and don't work. The phone is bricked.
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you tthink i never had this problem ? if i gave up i wouldnt have a vibrant , but just send your phone back its the easiest way :> ( i dont give up after 6 hours ,at leats i put my phone away and come back to fix it next day if it takes me this long )
No one ever EVER helped me to unbrick 6 of my previous vibrants, NOBODY ON THIS FORUM at 7th vibrant i just cant brick my phone to the point of HARDBRICK , im not full of my self its just vibrant became alot easier after some time did u ever try to jump start your phone hooking up to AC outlet to make it work ? LOL i did i didnt give up and here i still got my 7th vibrant working next to me :>
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you tthink i never had this problem ? if i gave up i wouldnt have a vibrant , but just send your phone back its the easiest way :> ( i dont give up after 6 hours ,at leats i put my phone away and come back to fix it next day if it takes me this long )
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Read the thread that raulcota posted a link to... If you have anything else to offer on a fix for this problem then please do so.
i dont even remeber if i had this problem i had hundreds of problems with my vibrant .Whatever You do i dont care if You redo it 20 times ,it might start to work by 21st time ,Welcome to Vibrant world . ( not every one has time to sit and scratch their head to make phone to work after 48 hours , maybe you should resend your phone and get new one ,at least You will get new phone :> )
So is the moral of this story that dow bricks phones? Reading about ten pages of the thread one of the first few posters posted shows nothing but dow all over the pages...
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So is the moral of this story that dow bricks phones? Reading about ten pages of the thread one of the first few posters posted shows nothing but dow all over the pages...
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YUP DOW BRICKED MY PHONE ! i dont know why its still up honestly . not my bussines tho .
i think i had bricked a week or week and half ago but lucky me PP i got it to work again .
pull your battery out let the phone sit for ten min , hook up usb hold vol up vol down goot in to download reflash UVJFD with PIT 512 click repartition , u mean u givin up already ?
Just had the ROM update pushed to my device. Looks like the HTC security bug fix.
Security and performance update. Seems maybe a fit more responsive...could just be my imagination.
What the version number in the about phone software section?
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I said it once and ill say it again, DO NOT TAKE UPDATES if you want S-off when it's available. Those same "security fixes" are probably closing any exploits for our developers to crack.
1.36.531.6
HBOOT is 1.90.0004, still from Sept 15, 2011.
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I said it once and ill say it again, DO NOT TAKE UPDATES if you want S-off when it's available. Those same "security fixes" are probably closing any exploits for our developers to crack.
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damn it.. i downloaded it!! and installed it..
haha i thoght about that. but then i said maybe i will get more battery life..
but meh i got a little more.. not too much
yea i did the same, hopefully i didnt shoot myself in the knee with that
how long did the update take? I keep getting the black screen with the android and a triangle with a ! in it, and nothing happens that I can see......
no worries factory reset restores pre-update .... I think
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no worries factory reset restores pre-update .... I think
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WRONG!
After a factory reset you'll still have the updated software.
All a factory reset does is deletes the user files in the /data partition.
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how long did the update take? I keep getting the black screen with the android and a triangle with a ! in it, and nothing happens that I can see......
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took longer to install than download... took like 5 min to install... it went to that screen... then finally a bar showed up... then black screen... then green triangle... another bar, and then it reset
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Bit more battery?? It needs tons more...I am waiting to update.
Does the update allow you to root anyway with the One click method??
I don't want to screw that up... S-OFF and ON does not change to me.
biccio said:
Bit more battery?? It needs tons more...I am waiting to update.
Does the update allow you to root anyway with the One click method??
I don't want to screw that up... S-OFF and ON does not change to me.
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There is no s=off method yet, but this will remove perm root is you have done it. Supposedly, you just need to do the perm root again.
I have blocked the update so far as I do not see an immediate need for it. I had heard that the patch is for an HTC wide venerability fix.
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There is no s=off method yet, but this will remove perm root is you have done it. Supposedly, you just need to do the perm root again.
I have blocked the update so far as I do not see an immediate need for it. I had heard that the patch is for an HTC wide venerability fix.
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Venerability?? You typing with mobile I suppose...you meant Vulnerability I hope.
Anyway I would like to be sure I can root after the update and flash any rom with the recovery mode.
I did the update too... so what did this update do for us?
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I did the update too... so what did this update do for us?
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Should have fixed the fairly major security vulnerability in HTCLoggers.apk which let any app with Internet permission access your contacts, call logs, location tracking, etc.
This update started rolling out about a week and a half ago.. At least that's when I got it.. It was around 10Mb..
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took longer to install than download... took like 5 min to install... it went to that screen... then finally a bar showed up... then black screen... then green triangle... another bar, and then it reset
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Hmm, thanks. I let it sit for about twenty min. at work yesterday and was still on that screen. It just made me wonder if it was an error message or something! ill try it again later....
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I've noticed improvement of my battery life after updating, also the phone doesn't heat up as much as before...
Not really sure what this update did in regards to battery life, but my screen transitions does seem slightly smoother when going from a full page widget to another (example: weather to calendar).
Before installing it did state the package was for "optimisation"...whatever that means
I am not sure this was posted or not, however if it has, please point me to the right direction as I am not able to find it.
Situation:-
Using the phone as per normal. It auto lock or manual lock it. Wanna unlock/wake up the phone it doesnt. This happened once in awhile not sure when as unable to determine the cause as sometimes running a game and I lock it and sometimes lock it without running anything i.e. back to home. To wake up, I reboot the phone by long pressing on/off button. Was using CheckRom ICS... And at one occurance the phone really died on me and unable to reboot no matter what I did. Sent in to SC and got back a new Motherboard.
Now it is happening again. Now in JB 4.1.2 (OmegaRom). The phone just fell in to a deep sleep and cant wake up unless I reboot the phone. I hope I dont get the forever slumber/sudden death situation again.
Anyone can give guidance or advise on how to check what is the matter or anyone having the same experience?
Flash back to stock and check if it occurs. If it does use triangle away and send it back in mate
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I am not sure this was posted or not, however if it has, please point me to the right direction as I am not able to find it.
Situation:-
Using the phone as per normal. It auto lock or manual lock it. Wanna unlock/wake up the phone it doesnt. This happened once in awhile not sure when as unable to determine the cause as sometimes running a game and I lock it and sometimes lock it without running anything i.e. back to home. To wake up, I reboot the phone by long pressing on/off button. Was using CheckRom ICS... And at one occurance the phone really died on me and unable to reboot no matter what I did. Sent in to SC and got back a new Motherboard.
Now it is happening again. Now in JB 4.1.2 (OmegaRom). The phone just fell in to a deep sleep and cant wake up unless I reboot the phone. I hope I dont get the forever slumber/sudden death situation again.
Anyone can give guidance or advise on how to check what is the matter or anyone having the same experience?
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I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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tommy2601 said:
I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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Oh no... I like the phone and I hope I dont have to sell it off.... So I am hoping someone here woudl be able to help me out.... I am backing up nearly everyday with TiB....
Even I love my s3 but I love note 2 even more and I am buying a note 2....the main reason I am selling it is if it conk out one day here in India it's very difficult to claim warranty we really need to slug it out with Samsung India and I don't have the time or patience to do that...
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happened to me too
I don't recall it happened to me while using stock touchwiz roms.
However, since I've moved to AOSP roms (first AOKP M1 and then JellyBam), it happened to me 3 or 4 times now.
Do you get it also on touchwiz roms? Which OmegaRom are you using?
Wich kernel are using my mates? Maybe that is problem, combination firmware and kernel...
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using latest OmegaRom... as mentioned... first happened in CheckROm and even in Wanam...
Was using siyah kernel... so now testing Perseus and see wtr this happened or not...
Just happened when I have monster warlord running and locked it.. when I unlock... it happened again... must be something like not enuf ram or went into deep sleep... very strange indeed. Nevertheless change to Perseus to test out different kernel for now...
tommy2601 said:
I am experiencing exactly the same thing , so unrooted and back on stock ics now and even that doesn't seem stable...planning to sell it off next week... desperately hoping it doesn't slìp into deep slumber when I am selling it...
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If u sell a broken phone,that is such a douchebag move no offence to u but really i wud feel sorry for the man u sold it..
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Download this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en and post the screenshot. It might be SDS
Same happened with my phone. Go to see what it's up to and suddenly its not responding. The only option is to hold power down until it reboots.
It would also do it on in coming calls and managed to delete a text which arrived shortly before it froze.
Hoped upgrading to the latest firmware would help, didn't. Going without root, nope. Freezing apps in Titanium, still no joy.
Finally this morning I had enough and went for a full wipe. Very little installed but no problems since.
Would suggest doing the same, especially if you plan to sell the phone anyway.
CHEVYbarracuda1 said:
If u sell a broken phone,that is such a douchebag move no offence to u but really i wud feel sorry for the man u sold it..
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Hi buddy, selling a dying phone at a good price and buying something u love even more is douche bag move....then I really petty ur retarded and douche bag thinking
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Have the same problem with mine, using the latest wanam stock rom and every now and again the phone will either just restart or lock with the screen off (led notification will keep blinking however).
Just trying the official Vodafone rom now through Odin. If this doesn't solve it I think the phone will have to go back.
To note: issue appeared after installing some root apps. Notably adfree and beats drivers. Anybody else have either installed?
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Hi buddy, selling a dying phone at a good price and buying something u love even more is douche bag move....then I really petty ur retarded and douche bag thinking
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I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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Please keep this on topic:
Seems like a common issue, I've now unrooted my phone and loaded stock 4.1.2 from Sammobile using odin, reset the binary counter, removed SD card and i'm still having crashes and hangs. Seems my phone is on the way out?
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Please keep this on topic:
Seems like a common issue, I've now unrooted my phone and loaded stock 4.1.2 from Sammobile using odin, reset the binary counter, removed SD card and i'm still having crashes and hangs. Seems my phone is on the way out?
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Just return it to the nearest samsung store for repair.. I believe it is hardware failure
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Mine has just started doing this, literally a matter of days ago - coincidence??
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Mine has just started doing this, literally a matter of days ago - coincidence??
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When did it happen? Was it around Wednesday last week? Just thinking that maybe an updated app or something?
I have now updated again using kies with the official 4.1.2. I have no problems with restarts when using the stock apps. I have however had issues with the google servers and now believe this to have been the main reason for the crashes earlier (Christmas new phone activation traffic?).
Out of interest, have you been running adfree or the beats audio driver? I had mine working all day yesterday, installed both and then the hangs started coming back again.
Also worth noting that adfree now states that a newer version is available when loading up, but non exists (that i know of?)
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I said no hard feelings.. U said that u hope that it doesnt slips into deep slp when u r selling it.. so bassically u r trying to sell broken phone for a price of good one usable...also i havent insulted u before so why r u insulting me??That my friend is called lack of culture..
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I am not selling it to some innocent 3 person I am exchanging it with note 2 by paying the difference amount at a local Samsung retail store (just sending back there own Frankenstein to them)
And about culture my friend I don't need a lesson from a person who doesn't even have the sensibility to understand that his comments can hurt others(u started It fIrst)..
As today Is my last day in the s3 forum I don't want to sign off on a bitter note so sorry if I have hurt u in anyway.
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When did it happen? Was it around Wednesday last week? Just thinking that maybe an updated app or something?
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I can't say for sure, but around Wednesday isn't unreasonable.
Out of interest, have you been running adfree or the beats audio driver? I had mine working all day yesterday, installed both and then the hangs started coming back again.
Also worth noting that adfree now states that a newer version is available when loading up, but non exists (that i know of?)
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I do run AdFree, and yeah, I saw the notice about the new version - it's a different app entirely... still called AdFree, uninstall the old one, and install the new one. Not sure why they did that.
I'm at a loss - I just reinstalled XELL4, and it's still doing it. Short of doing a full wipe and starting afresh (which I really can't be bothered with), I don't know what else to try. Was working fine up until now.
I am now wanting to unroot as i have no use for it but i don't know how to. I am running stock firmware SCH-i545 galaxy s4 on kit kat. Is there a way to unroot?
SuperSu app itself has a full unroot option that works well most of the time. A quick Google search is often your friend
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Now that i did that, every time i reobbot my phone i still get the
Samsung
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CUSTOM
It boots and works fine i just need to know how to get rid of that.
Triangle away
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Triangle away
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Im like 99% sure that I had read somewhere triangle away does not work with our device...
npjohnson said:
Im like 99% sure that I had read somewhere triangle away does not work with our device...
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Never tried it myself, who cares about a splash screen anyway lol
I have no problem with the splash screen it is just that if i ever need to replace it with a warranty they might not accept it because of it
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I have no problem with the splash screen it is just that if i ever need to replace it with a warranty they might not accept it because of it
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Yeah I guess, although I've handed in multiple Sammy devices running AOSP to Asurion with no problems.