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Ok, I tried root, installing a new recovery and then installing CM 7.2
1) Photon Torpedo for root - no problem
2) Installed CWM recovery apk - and then boot into CWM recovery - no problem
3) Backup system to sdcard - no problem
4) install CM7.2 + gapps - it flashed no problem
(now as you can tell, i forgot to unlock the bootloader)
5) reboot - PROBLEM
I got the "Failed to Boot 2" error, i had it plugged into AC and had 70-80% charge when i started, however, i let it set after the reboot for 20 or so minutes, was off doing something.
I tried rebooting a couple of time, same problem
EVENTUALLY: It would simply not turn on anymore, i think the battery is drained and it will not charge being plugged into wall socket or USB.
How do I get it to charge?
- Do I find a friend with a photon running stock that i can put my battery in, will it charge that way?
- Can a sprint store simply charge the battery for me?
I figure once I can get that going, I can run RSD lite and recover via an SBF image.
Thanks
This has happened to me.. battery drains and doesn't whant to boot.. what I do is.. take battery out., plug in ur charger.(sometimes you get a white light,) press power button, YOU KIGHT HAVE TO TRY SEVERAL TIMES until the green light comes on..but once you see it put your battery back in.. and it should start charging.
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When I say several times.. I ment unplugging your phone from charger, plug back in , push power button.. and again( until it powers on) not just pressing power button until. Didn't know if I specified well enough. Hope this helps.
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i actually tried a different usb port a bit ago and have a white indicator light on now while plugged in... not sure what that means
I will try your way in a bit if this doesn't mean anything useful tho... thanks
K, am nor really sure what the white light is either.. I just know, on stock when you plugged phone to charge (being dead) green light turns on,screen Motorola logo shows then goes to a battery charging animation.. the white light did nothing for me. But hope you run better luck.
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after about 5 minutes i got a green light now... maybe the software for the battery charge display got whacked when i wiped system and tried to install CM 7 - but the hardware part of the charge works.
The only thing I can think of is that white means: i'm charging, but don't try to boot me up at the moment.
I also notice, once it gets a charge it tries to automatically boot - anyway to avoid this?
If its charging you should be able to just boot into RSD lite mode without the phone trying to boot into a ROM..
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If the phone is off and u plug it to charge, it shouldn't boot into the ROM, yes the Motorola logo comes up as it does when u turn the phone on, but then goes to charging..
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Well, every time it boots i get the
"Failed to boot 2"
Something about NvFlash (can't remember the text)
"Battery to low to flash"
Then it is just stuck there, but not sure if it is charging at that point or not... but not sure if i have enough battery to RSD Lite an SBF image
t3xazboy said:
If the phone is off and u plug it to charge, it shouldn't boot into the ROM, yes the Motorola logo comes up as it does when u turn the phone on, but then goes to charging..
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Mine boots into *nothing* i forgot to unlock the bootloader so the rom i flashed gives me a "Failed to Boot 2" every time it powers on
K, let me power my phone off and kinda try to recreate the "not charging while plugged in" problem.. (sometimes it happens when I power off.) And ill see wich method gets the phone to just charging.. br
worse comes to worse, i know someone with a photon and i can ask if i can charge my battery in their phone
Just tried it.. and yeah phone wouldn't boot or charge by pressing the power button or connecting to charger.. but I did what I always do.. pull battery, connect charger, green light turns on, I insert battery, and goes to charging.. I also tried goin on RSD lite mode without battery inserted. And I got the same error about battery to low to flash. Have you tried this method I just wrote in this reply to get battery to charge?
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Here are a couple things i tried
1) remove battery
2) make sure phone is not connected to charger
3) plug in charger
4) logo appears - says "Failed to boot 2"
5) as "Starting RSD Mode" starts, i have inserted the battery
6) I still get "Battery is too low to flash"
also tried tried with vol-up (Fast boot mode) and vol-down (NvFlash recovery mode) - and ultimately i get "Battery is too low to flash" no matter what
Thanks for the help, however.
side note: found an external battery charger for the photon on amazon for $4, i might just buy one.
Did u insert battery before logo appears? If so, then I am out of ideas, lol hopefully you can get it working soon.
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I just tried something like that now. The charger is plugged into the wall outlet. Basically i plug it in, green light comes on, quickly snap the battery in place before logo appears
I get the logo and the messages at top as normal, but at that point, i don't think it is charging anymore
Lol darn it.. at that point am out of options.. sorry it didn't work.. btw how you forget to be unlocked lol.. anyhow I would go to your friends, borrow his charged battery just so you can get to stock, and start fresh, then return battery obviously, lol
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Yeah i have to charge it elsewhere - i just read some other threads here about people messing up their boot with a "Failed to boot 2" error, the system simply will nto charge a battery at the boot loading screens... so, I bought that charger off amazon for $7 (including shipping), be nice to have it if i continue to fiddle with the phone.
for the next few days... people can't call me... whoop de doo. However, I am pretty certain it is not bricked, so i'm not freaked anymore.
Still, thanks for all the help you tried!
Could you post a link for that charger, I have a second battery I would like to be able to charge.
Lol.. well there u go,
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was running quicksense from about january dont know exactly which version.
phone completely died on me,
connected it to the charger and it turned on to the green "htc" logo,
but then it turns off..
so i tried booting to recover; holding volume down + power, with no luck.
tried it via connected to computer, no luck.
with & without batter still nothing..
weird thing is, SOMETIMES the charging light will keep blinking.
also SOMETIMES, the screen stays off, and the vibration feedback when pressing the home, menu, back, and search keys, virbates..
do i have the first bricked amaze or what?
--the search key "restarts the phone"
i can tell because the keys no longer make the phone vibrate when pressed after pressing the search key.
I'm betting my money on you having a earlier recovery installed that doesn't allow proper boot if the battery is dead... crappy part about that? it doesn't let the battery charge either... Find someone with an Amaze, or Sensation, charge your battery in their phone for 30 minutes, then try your phone again. Also, after your phone is charged, you probably want to reflash your recovery to a new one that doesn't exhibit this problem.
*just a wild guess, but it makes sense, it's happened to me*
*note, you could just have unrelated catastrophic hardware failure, lol*
As long as you have s - off you can't brick it.
jimczyz said:
As long as you DON'T have s - off you can't brick it.
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S-Off isn't possible right now, S-On-Unlocked is safe. although having the recovery that doesn't support charging is like a temp-brick. You just need to charge your battery in another phone.
Or splice the battery directly to the wires for half an hour. That's how I charged when my charging port was the broked
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Can you at least get into adb? You could try accessing it and then using adb to reboot into bootloader/recovery via "abd reboot recovery" or "adb reboot bootloader"
Did this get resolved? Just wanted to know if my hunch was right.
It sounds like a dead battery. The blinking light means (from my experience) that its charging but not enough juice to use yet. Once my phone died and it blinked for a couple of minutes. I tried turning on, but battery wasn't juiced enough. After a few minutes, the light turned solid and was charging and had enough power to turn on.
I would try a new battery. Good news is you're not bricked, and most likely, not even soft bricked
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What version of CWM are you using?
thank you guys for all your replies,
i let it charge for about 30 minutes and then it finally turned on
tombeach22 said:
Or splice the battery directly to the wires for half an hour. That's how I charged when my charging port was the broked
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How exactly did you do this lol?
glacierguy said:
It sounds like a dead battery. The blinking light means (from my experience) that its charging but not enough juice to use yet. Once my phone died and it blinked for a couple of minutes. I tried turning on, but battery wasn't juiced enough. After a few minutes, the light turned solid and was charging and had enough power to turn on.
I would try a new battery. Good news is you're not bricked, and most likely, not even soft bricked
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superrskillz said:
thank you guys for all your replies,
i let it charge for about 30 minutes and then it finally turned on
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Thought that was the issue. Splice the battery or flash a new recovery? Lol let's cut off his hand to cure the mosquito bite lol
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i have the same issue i could get into hboot and recovery but i cant get passed bootload and i charge it for like an hour but it wont stop flashing what can i do is it the battery?
Amazing Brick
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
Throatchopper said:
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
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Yes, trash the phone. Ill give u my address and u can send me th trash, ill even gove u $10 for it
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Throatchopper said:
I've had a very similar issue to those mentioned here. I have the latest cwm recovery installed (five point something). After wiping battery stats my amaze went into a cycle of booting up normally then automatically restarting after about 30 seconds. Now it shows the amber light while charging, but will not boot at all, not even into recovery. adb says device not recognized, and the amber light flashes periodically and shuts off if i press the power button... should I trash this phone and get a galaxy s II ?
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Charge it for 30-60 minutes. Unplug it and do a battery pull. Put battery back on and reboot your phone
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superrskillz said:
was running quicksense from about january dont know exactly which version.
phone completely died on me,
connected it to the charger and it turned on to the green "htc" logo,
but then it turns off..
so i tried booting to recover; holding volume down + power, with no luck.
tried it via connected to computer, no luck.
with & without batter still nothing..
weird thing is, SOMETIMES the charging light will keep blinking.
also SOMETIMES, the screen stays off, and the vibration feedback when pressing the home, menu, back, and search keys, virbates..
do i have the first bricked amaze or what?
--the search key "restarts the phone"
i can tell because the keys no longer make the phone vibrate when pressed after pressing the search key.
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Did you resolve your issue?
It was a hardware issue so I Just did a warranty replacement on the defective phone. I now have the galaxy s2 and the wife uses the replaced amaze thanks all
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HTC Amaze won't turn on
Hi guys.
I'm having problem with my HTC won't turn on at all. I tried swapping out the battery with the new one but still won't work. And of course I can't get into adb to do reboot thru that so now i'm stuck. I'm running out of option and trying to turn on the phone. Please help if you can
thanks
darknight26 said:
Hi guys.
I'm having problem with my HTC won't turn on at all. I tried swapping out the battery with the new one but still won't work. And of course I can't get into adb to do reboot thru that so now i'm stuck. I'm running out of option and trying to turn on the phone. Please help if you can
thanks
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Does the phone charge when you plug it in?
My daughter's was using her phone while charging and then it shut off.
Now when she goes to turn it on nothing happens, not even the i9100 screen.
When plugging it in, it will begin to load the battery charging screen but then keep rebooting.
Tried plugging it in for about half an hour, still nothing.
Is it dead?
Is it rebooting, or not even turning on.
Can you see screen logo?
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No screen logo at all.
When plugged in it just keeps reloading the charging screen.
does it go in download mode (press volume down+home+power button) if u see the download screen u can flash via odin,,,,or u can eter recovery mode(press volume up+home+power button) here release the power button wen u c the samsung i9100 logo....post wat u c...
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No screen logo at all.
When plugged in it just keeps reloading the charging screen.
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Hmm, ask your daughter again what did she do. Seems like repair job
No download mode either.
She says she was on Facebook and it shut down.
Going to try another battery tomorrow I am clueless as to the issue.
Hard bricked is when there is no life at all, not even when plugged in to a power socket. So all is not lost yet. Get hold of a USB jig from ebay, " £0:99p-£3:99p ". This hopefully will get you into download mode. Flash a recovery using Odin. You can then wipe cache/delvik cache. Or flash a new firmware. Instructions here:-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21336847
If your a dab hand at DIY, try making your own USB jig:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRrTZayRxU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Curious do you have any case on your phone. I have known people who have played games on the phone whilst it was charging which makes that bit more heat and then due to a case its acted like an insulator. Could have overheated possibly causing damage.
Its like impossible to start the phone with charger plugged in..did you try to start it without it?
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decepticon said:
My daughter's was using her phone while charging and then it shut off.
Now when she goes to turn it on nothing happens, not even the i9100 screen.
When plugging it in, it will begin to load the battery charging screen but then keep rebooting.
Tried plugging it in for about half an hour, still nothing.
Is it dead?
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It seem like charger port liquid damaged, you can clean it with alcohol and toothbrush, if doesn't work then you need usb connector replace.
decepticon said:
My daughter's was using her phone while charging and then it shut off.
Now when she goes to turn it on nothing happens, not even the i9100 screen.
When plugging it in, it will begin to load the battery charging screen but then keep rebooting.
Tried plugging it in for about half an hour, still nothing.
Is it dead?
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If u see any display wen u connect the charger that means ur phone is not dead (Not Bricked)
try changing ur battery
also get a usb jig and try
it can get ur phone to download mode ....
Sounds like a USB jig is the way to go. Have had the same issue myself, and this was the only thing that worked to fix the issue.
My SGS3 just using the stock ROM, rooted and use Titanium freezing some stock Samsung softwares. install couple of apps, no games.
today, my SGS3 notify there was 5% battery left, so I finish my job, plugin the charging cable, and make sure it been charging. then I start to watch some RMVB movies on my SDCARD (using vPlayer) with charging cable plugged in. after I watched 1 hours or so, screen freeze ...... all the hard buttons, soft touching buttons and screen are all no response. few minutes later, screen off, I pull out the battery and re fill in, SGS3 still quiet, I think it become a brick.
temperature during issue occur: normal, nothing special (pretty sure)
charging light when charging cable plugin: no sign, no light
connect to computer: no recognized (driver installed, and worked fine before that)
download mode: can't get in
10 secs or more power button pressing: no response.
is there any possible I can get it back alive? any suggest will help.
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thanks for your reply Jarmezrocks
yes, it seems battery run out problem. after I do couple of things below, it has been shown the charging light, and my phone has been back!
I m not sure the order of how i did these, but I think one of these works.
pull out battery for 5 mins or longer..
push power button for a long time (tried both with battery and without it)
push volume up and down together as usb cable plugin in, then pull back in the battery. I try this couple of times.
using another stocked charger from my friend, to make sure that's not charger problem.
I do above as I ref the "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128" this is very good guide to the bricked android phones to try.
now, my phone is back alive, with all the settings and data as well, thank god!
either you wipe caches/ go to download mode and flash another firmware
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saywhatt said:
either you wipe caches/ go to download mode and flash another firmware
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Have you even read the OP?
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2anyone said:
My SGS3 just using the stock ROM, rooted and use Titanium freezing some stock Samsung softwares. install couple of apps, no games.
today, my SGS3 notify there was 5% battery left, so I finish my job, plugin the charging cable, and make sure it been charging. then I start to watch some RMVB movies on my SDCARD (using vPlayer) with charging cable plugged in. after I watched 1 hours or so, screen freeze ...... all the hard buttons, soft touching buttons and screen are all no response. few minutes later, screen off, I pull out the battery and re fill in, SGS3 still quiet, I think it become a brick.
temperature during issue occur: normal, nothing special (pretty sure)
charging light when charging cable plugin: no sign, no light
connect to computer: no recognized (driver installed, and worked fine before that)
download mode: can't get in
10 secs or more power button pressing: no response.
is there any possible I can get it back alive? any suggest will help.
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May I ask, what charger are you using to charge your phone?
I have a feeling that the wall chargers for S3s (especially LTE) and just plain crap!
If you can, see if you can borrow someones SGS2 or SGS1 charger for your phone. These look different they are not a USB cord plugged into a wall socket. they are a plain charger only with a box that has its own cord coming out of it.
Try plug it in and don't try turn it on at all. Leave it plugged in for a good hour or so and then come back, unplug it first (you must unplug it or the power button won't do ****! I think its a special fail safe embedded in the kernel so the device doesn't get a double shot 1 from the batter and one from the DC charger?) and then push the power button. Hold it in a few seconds, see if the device powers on?
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Jarmezrocks said:
May I ask, what charger are you using to charge your phone?
I have a feeling that the wall chargers for S3s (especially LTE) and just plain crap!
If you can, see if you can borrow someones SGS2 or SGS1 charger for your phone. These look different they are not a USB cord plugged into a wall socket. they are a plain charger only with a box that has its own cord coming out of it.
Try plug it in and don't try turn it on at all. Leave it plugged in for a good hour or so and then come back, unplug it first (you must unplug it or the power button won't do ****! I think its a special fail safe embedded in the kernel so the device doesn't get a double shot 1 from the batter and one from the DC charger?) and then push the power button. Hold it in a few seconds, see if the device powers on?
Report back here
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it has been done by some tricks, not sure which is effect, but it has been unbricked. I put details on the OP. thank you.
Last night i fell asleep and my phone died all the way, and now when i plug it in all i get is a lg logo then it goes away and then a dark lit up screen. ive let it charge for awhile now and i still get nothing, i cant get into cwm either.. the phone is unlocked and rooted and im running the base rom. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Happened to me... leave it on the charger at least 3 hours and check it. The battery completely drains when you unplug the charger if you charged with the phone off. gl
Edit: If it still won't work, turn phone on and plug in charger.
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Pony Express said:
Happened to me... leave it on the charger at least 3 hours and check it. The battery completely drains when you unplug the charger if you charged with the phone off. gl
Edit: If it still won't work, turn phone on and plug in charger.
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This happened to me too. I completely drained the battery and it kept going into a loop (black screen, LG logo, battery screen). I left it plugged in and off and let it boot up.
FYI
This has happened to several people. I have confirmed through testing, even exchanging my phone 2 days ago that this is an issue created when unlocking the bootloader. Rooting does not cause it. Once the bootloader is unlocked, you can not get around this by re-locking the bootloader.
The workaround is simple. Either leave your phone on while it is charging or if you charge with phone off, unplug your charger and hit the power button- you will still see the charge animation running- this is what causes the battery to drain. All you have to do is power up the phone at least to boot then it is ok to turn off. You can confirm it worked by touching the power button again and not see the charge animation. Hope this helps.
Wow thanks so much for the reply and help! I've got it working now and I guess I'll just avoid it by not letting it die lol
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well...
If you let it die all the way, its not a big deal. Plug it in, hold down the volume down button and the power button for 15 seconds, then it will work fine.
Threads like this makes this forum so great. Another potential problem to be avoided when using the phone.
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I could use some help guys, if this thread isn't too old. I've searched high and low to the answer here and nothing is working. I've tried download mode, fastboot, recovery, reset, holding power down, plugging it in and unplugging it. I've pulled the plate off of the battery, tried LGNPST, drivers, etc. No go on anything.
The phone is still dead, and will not turn on. The best I've gotten is a solid red light after holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. Then after about 3-5 seconds it resumes flashing (alternating between the red light and the key buttons). If I continue holding the power button down it will repeat this, showing solid red and then reverting to flashing.
I can not get the screen to display anything, not even the charging animation, and none of my computers will even recognize the device. I've been messing with it all day and I'm stuck. If anyone can help me, at all, please do. I hate going to Sprint. Anything but that, please.
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I could use some help guys, if this thread isn't too old. I've searched high and low to the answer here and nothing is working. I've tried download mode, fastboot, recovery, reset, holding power down, plugging it in and unplugging it. I've pulled the plate off of the battery, tried LGNPST, drivers, etc. No go on anything.
The phone is still dead, and will not turn on. The best I've gotten is a solid red light after holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. Then after about 3-5 seconds it resumes flashing (alternating between the red light and the key buttons). If I continue holding the power button down it will repeat this, showing solid red and then reverting to flashing.
I can not get the screen to display anything, not even the charging animation, and none of my computers will even recognize the device. I've been messing with it all day and I'm stuck. If anyone can help me, at all, please do. I hate going to Sprint. Anything but that, please.
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Dude i had the same isse like your did, so i search everywhere and endup here. I'd try many think like you said, when holding volume+ and power there nothing heapen but volume down and power, or just hold the power buton there red light of front led is flashed, and ... is realy dead.
I can't go to any sevice central, coz my friend bring this telus P973 for me from another contry, and im living at the mountian lol. So im about to take it to nake and try to reset by reputing the batery. Devil beside me, i have 2 extra LG Lu6200 but 1 got broken the touch system, the other been death after i take a shower, Optimus G is using small sim and i'hv cuted it, there no other phone i can use that sim for tomorow, my girlfriend sending me some monney tomorow, and i have to meet my new boss and taking a new job that's make me traveling alot, and i don't have a laptop.
Don't know what to say when looking at the black cold silent phone i used to like most....
Some body, please help!