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Someone Please help me! I tried rooting my phone using the no flash counter methos. Long story short my computer froze and I did not know what to do, I unplugged my phone. Now it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again" At this point i dont care about my data, i just want my phone to work again! can anyone please help me, i only havce access to a computer for the next 4 hours!
Go into download mode and use Odin to get into the stock tar file then u should be cool. Check out the dev section
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Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696443
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how do i get into download mode when it is stuck on this screen that says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. PLease select recovery mode in kies and try again" please help me!
if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it! pretty much if i pull the battery and try to get it into download mode, and press volume up, it gets stuck on the screen i posted above, what can i do??
Its hold volume DOWN...and and hold power button....then when it comes on let go of power then releaseing volume ..that's download.. a menu will pop up
pull battery..get into download mode and reflash..or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483113
use Da_g method and worry about the counter reset at some other point in time!!
wish777 said:
Its hold volume DOWN...and and hold power button....then when it comes on let go of power then releaseing volume ..that's download.. a menu will pop up
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i think i am doing it correctly, it says warning a custom os etc etc. volume up continue, volume down, cancel. i press volume up then i get the screen firmware error.
can u get to cwm? press and hold power button and both volume up and ..upon first vibrste release power button
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can u get to cwm?
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please mejori please help me. how do i get to cwm? all i know is that when i hold power and volume down it asks if i want to instal a custom os. i hit volume up, then it gets stuck on the screen that says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again" What should i do? can anyone else help me or chat with me? i really need to fix my phone!
take it easy ... try pulling battery and getting into download mode again like wish777 described ..if that works then follow the link i posted..
does odin still recognize the phone???
I can't speak from experience because I've never owned the note but over in tmobile Galaxy S II theres a thread like this. Is it black screen with red font on it saying firmware error? If so its the same unrecoverable boot loop I saw.
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mejori said:
take it easy ... try pulling battery and getting into download mode again like wish777 described ..if that works then follow the link i posted..
does odin still recognize the phone???
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like i said i dont think it cant get into download mode, the poster above this stated its an endless loop, i think thats whats happening to me
Rileyrealz said:
I can't speak from experience because I've never owned the note but over in tmobile Galaxy S II theres a thread like this. Is it black screen with red font on it saying firmware error? If so its the same unrecoverable boot loop I saw.
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i think this is what i am having. is there any solution on that thread?
The mode your describing is download mode but you'll have to vol up to go into the mode. As for your cwm question, try a battery pull then insert while holding up and down and power, when you feel the first vibration let go of power and continue to hold the Vol buttons until your recovery opens,if it will. I would be pleased to know download mode works and forget about cwm of its not working. Odin back to stock then try again. Also when you think your phone or computer "freezes" give it more time to finish processes. Don't be hasty.
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you might be stuck fixing this for a while!! ..try these links..you will have to do some research .. these links are for international note DO NOT FLASH ANYTHING FROM THOSE LIKNS!!! its just to guide you in the right direction (hopefully)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515379&page=3
tyler79durdan said:
The mode your describing is download mode but you'll have to vol up to go into the mode. As for your cwm question, try a battery pull then insert while holding up and down and power, when you feel the first vibration let go of power and continue to hold the Vol buttons until your recovery opens,if it will. I would be pleased to know download mode works and forget about cwm of its not working. Odin back to stock then try again. Also when you think your phone or computer "freezes" give it more time to finish processes. Don't be hasty.
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i tried what you stated but i keep getting stuck in the first screen. how can i tell if odin recognizes the phone? is it when the yellow box comes up with the com? if i see that, what can i do to fix this?
if the yellow box comes up with a port number than yes it recognizes the phone..follow the odin instructions carefully ..
take your time !!!
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if the yellow box comes up with a port number than yes it recognizes the phone..follow the odin instructions carefully ..
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ok so odin is up and it is yellow, and says 0:[COM4] what are the next steps?
**edit** do i need to download any files?
Yes you do!!
appdroid said:
how to root your note????
There are two root methods for your att galaxy note!
1 which uses kernel to root.
2 this one flash with odin but in system level not boot kernel.
#1 root by da_g!
#2 root by mashi!
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I accidently booted my phone without loading a ROM onto it and now it won't even start. It doesn't even vibrate. HELP!!
Try holding volume up + volume down + power for a few seconds. If the phone vibrates, let go of the power button. You should have booted into recovery.
nope nothing
Have you tried restoring to stock using odin?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634087
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Have you tried restoring to stock using odin?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634087
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How do I put it back to stock if the phone doesn't turn on?
Can you put it into any boot/flash mode when connecting it to your computer?
If so, for a quick fix I would flash the device using Odin or Flashtool and load a Rom that way.
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You gotta get into download mode somehow either with computer and Odin or through different button combination on device try Heimdall as well might be able to use that but if you can't get into bootloader or recovery then it's a wrap
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UncleLester said:
Can you put it into any boot/flash mode when connecting it to your computer?
If so, for a quick fix I would flash the device using Odin or Flashtool and load a Rom that way.
Hope this helped if so click that Thanks button
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How exactly do I flash/boot via Odin?
There is no change when I plug in my phone into my computer
Yes, do as UncleLester has said. Try hold volume down + power for 10+ seconds. If you're able to go into download mode, you can restore to stock. If the phone doesn't turn on at all, I'm not sure what else you can do...
yeah, I held down the volume up + down + power for almost a minute. Nothing :/
I'm with jpark623 with that if none of the above work I'm afraid your a bit stuck.
What device is it by the way? And how did you get into this mess?
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Download mode is accessible by volume down + power. Recovery mode is volume down + volume up + power. Don't press volume up for download mode.
My phone is not even recognized in the ID:COM Section
Were you able to access download mode? If so, then you need to install drivers. If not, you NEED to be in download mode.
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How exactly do I flash/boot via Odin?
There is no change when I plug in my phone into my computer
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There is a thread with a link to a Flashtool download or do what I done and Google Odin and download that.
Odin and Flashtool are programs that make flashing a little easier, the device needs to be put in a fastboot/flash/recovery mode (depending on device it's usually a combo of volume up + volume down or sometimes including the home button) when it's in it, Odin or Flashtool will detect it thats when you can select your chosen Rom.
I use Odin more than Flashtool just because I came across it first and it's never let me down however I haven't used it in a while, when I downloaded it though it did have a little 'how to' guide so everything you need to know will be im there.
Hope this helped if so click that 'Thanks' button
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UncleLester said:
I'm with jpark623 with that if none of the above work I'm afraid your a bit stuck.
What device is it by the way? And how did you get into this mess?
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I was trying out different custom roms that I had downloaded. I had just finished one and decided to change it. After booting it into recovery mode, I had wiped the cache and reset it back to factory settings. I tried to load a roam named "JZO54K.N7000XXLS7". It errored and stopped trying to install. Afterwards I ended up wiping it again and resetting the cache to make sure there were no remnants. Following this, I rebooted the phone and now i'm in this position
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yeah, I held down the volume up + down + power for almost a minute. Nothing :/
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From just reading that I think your device has had it, if your getting no response from those combos them I doubt the computer will read it as it wont have power.
Sorry chum bad times
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UncleLester said:
There is a thread with a link to a Flashtool download or do what I done and Google Odin and download that.
Odin and Flashtool are programs that make flashing a little easier, the device needs to be put in a fastboot/flash/recovery mode (depending on device it's usually a combo of volume up + volume down or sometimes including the home button) when it's in it, Odin or Flashtool will detect it thats when you can select your chosen Rom.
I use Odin more than Flashtool just because I came across it first and it's never let me down however I haven't used it in a while, when I downloaded it though it did have a little 'how to' guide so everything you need to know will be im there.
Hope this helped if so click that 'Thanks' button
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It seems that i'm not even able to even get into recovery or download mode as it is a blank screen, no matter how long I hold down the buttons for.
Sounds like you somehow hard bricked your phone... Not sure how you can recover your phone without professional help. Sorry I couldn't help.
I had only just got this phone a day ago :/
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 that I recently rooted and when I rooted it it flashed a custom Kernel as well. Upon rebooting the phone, now my home button and back button soft key is not responding. I think I may have flashed a kernel from one of the Galaxy S2s that has the 4 soft keys along the bottom rather than the 2 soft keys and the home button, Whenever I try to flash anything through Odin now it says that a connection failure happens. If I put the phone into Download mode it is not recognized through Odin anymore either. Also, when I plug the phone into the USB of my computer and try to do anything with the phone through the USB it shuts it off and just shows the battery charging symbol. If I try to flash anything through recovery it says that Signature verification failed. I'm a bit stuck and I don't know what else to try.
kodyclarence said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 that I recently rooted and when I rooted it it flashed a custom Kernel as well. Upon rebooting the phone, now my home button and back button soft key is not responding. I think I may have flashed a kernel from one of the Galaxy S2s that has the 4 soft keys along the bottom rather than the 2 soft keys and the home button, Whenever I try to flash anything through Odin now it says that a connection failure happens. If I put the phone into Download mode it is not recognized through Odin anymore either. Also, when I plug the phone into the USB of my computer and try to do anything with the phone through the USB it shuts it off and just shows the battery charging symbol. If I try to flash anything through recovery it says that Signature verification failed. I'm a bit stuck and I don't know what else to try.
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Try another usb port/usb cable/pc.
If it sees you phone, don't forget to close all kies applications (if you don't have kies, download it!)
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 that I recently rooted and when I rooted it it flashed a custom Kernel as well. Upon rebooting the phone, now my home button and back button soft key is not responding. I think I may have flashed a kernel from one of the Galaxy S2s that has the 4 soft keys along the bottom rather than the 2 soft keys and the home button, Whenever I try to flash anything through Odin now it says that a connection failure happens. If I put the phone into Download mode it is not recognized through Odin anymore either. Also, when I plug the phone into the USB of my computer and try to do anything with the phone through the USB it shuts it off and just shows the battery charging symbol. If I try to flash anything through recovery it says that Signature verification failed. I'm a bit stuck and I don't know what else to try.
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If you can acces recovery mode (Volume UP+Home+Power) you can save yourself:
-If you can't access the SD card by USB, try to remove your external SD card and connect it to PC through a card reader, if you don't have one, buy it because it's far cheaper than an new SGS2 (or 3)
-Download Phil'z kernel that suits your current ROM and copy it to your SD card
-Put SD card back into phone and flash this kernel (See post #3 of the above thread), depending on what kernel you have flashed, read the appropriate instructions (usually: Install Zip from SD Card > Choose Zip from SD card > select and apply)
-You are done :laugh:
BTW, can you provide a link to the kernel you flashed ?
Hope this helps
I have tried that. Everything I try to flash through recovery it says "signature failure" or something along those lines.
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kodyclarence said:
I have tried that. Everything I try to flash through recovery it says "signature failure" or something along those lines.
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Put your phone in download mode and flash philz kernel by downloading the tar and flashing through odin
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I have tried that. Everything I try to flash through recovery it says "signature failure" or something along those lines.
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Signature check error means that you are trying to flash a custom kernel (I may be wrong) on non rooted phone
Philz kernel could bypass this
Have you tried cwm flashable philz kernel ??
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xiFIL said:
Put your phone in download mode and flash philz kernel by downloading the tar and flashing through odin
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He already said that download mode is not available
Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9100 avec Tapatalk
Download mode is available, but when I plug it into the USB port Odin won't recognize it. But all of the drivers are installed. I've tried to flash philz through Odin but it won't recognize my device as being plugged in unless the phone is actually booted into Android OS. Then when I try to flash it just shuts the phone off and pops up the battery charging image.
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AS Leech4 said what kernel did you flash?
kodyclarence said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 that I recently rooted and when I rooted it it flashed a custom Kernel as well. Upon rebooting the phone, now my home button and back button soft key is not responding. I think I may have flashed a kernel from one of the Galaxy S2s that has the 4 soft keys along the bottom rather than the 2 soft keys and the home button, Whenever I try to flash anything through Odin now it says that a connection failure happens. If I put the phone into Download mode it is not recognized through Odin anymore either. Also, when I plug the phone into the USB of my computer and try to do anything with the phone through the USB it shuts it off and just shows the battery charging symbol. If I try to flash anything through recovery it says that Signature verification failed. I'm a bit stuck and I don't know what else to try.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294574
I used
CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LQP_-PROPER-v5.4-CWM5.tar
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And when it is in Download mode it says
Product Name: GT-i9100
Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 count)
Current Binary: Samsung Official
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kodyclarence said:
And when it is in Download mode it says
Product Name: GT-i9100
Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 count)
Current Binary: Samsung Official
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Regardless of what it says there, what does it say for model on the label under the battery?
ctomgee said:
Regardless of what it says there, what does it say for model on the label under the battery?
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It says GT-I900.
But everything worked fine, then I flashed that file through ODIN and ever since the home button and the back button soft key wont recognize. So I'm pretty sure whatever I flashed was for the Galaxy S2 model with the four soft keys rather than just the two with a home button.
So flash another kernel for I9100.
Get it at xda tho.
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I've been trying. Odin won't recognize my device when in Download mode, when i boot into Android and try to do anything through USB it shuts down to the battery charging logo, through recovery I get "signature verification failure" all of these suggestions are helpful, but I have already tried them.
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kodyclarence said:
I've been trying. Odin won't recognize my device when in Download mode, when i boot into Android and try to do anything through USB it shuts down to the battery charging logo, through recovery I get "signature verification failure" all of these suggestions are helpful, but I have already tried them.
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Try keep phone and pc linked through USB cable and restart the phone in download mode.
and don't forget to close all kies process running on the background.
Try all usb ports, usb cable and / or another pc / laptop.
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Hi
Have u tried flashing another kernel through mobile-odin ?
I'm still new to this stuff but I think it should work for you.
If u want to try it look for the thread with same name dl it ..free version, you will also need another file in same thread called
MobileODIN_FlashKernel_I9100-v2.0 (in same thread further down)
you can dl them on pc, put on card install them try.
or try rom-customiser u should be able to flash a diff kernel or Rom without pc-odin or recovery mode.
Good luck
Peace
I tried keeping it connected and restarting it. I also tried stopping all Kies processes and that didn't work so I uninstalled it but kept the driver. That didn't work. So I tried reinstalling the drivers.
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kodyclarence said:
I tried keeping it connected and restarting it. I also tried stopping all Kies processes and that didn't work so I uninstalled it but kept the driver. That didn't work. So I tried reinstalling the drivers.
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So you can get to DL mode right?
And you're sure It's a I9100 Model.
- You've re-installed kies already, so we good there. If you've unistalled it, please re-install again & close all 4 kies applications running on background.
- Get a couple of USB cables (along with the original I9100's cable) and start trying them one by one on each USB port.
- Still don't work? Try it out on another PC, same drill.
- No luck? Try the same steps in "Windoze".
- If all above fail, try it all again.
You gotta make that PC see your device, it already did, so it can do it again.
Phone not connected to anything. Power and volume down buttons and still I see that message. Also battery pull and no luck. I any help would be appreciated.
Is holding the home + vol down + power a option? Haven't tried that yet. At work now.
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jdfrye said:
Is holding the home + vol down + power a option? Haven't tried that yet. At work now.
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That would goto download mode. Try volume up+power+home to see if you can access recovery. We need more info. What were you doing, are you rooted/unlocked? Explain the situation or we can't help you
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It was running a rooted injected stock rom So it had stock recovery and I guess would be a locked bootloader. Then we followed a guide for returning to 100% uprooted stock from Android Central, downloaded the link to return to stock and the Odin failed with the green bar on the phone only about 10% done. We clicked the Odin reset and disconnected the phone and then we get the message "firmware encountered an issue" also something about Kies and try again. Did battery pull and vol dwn +pwr and still same message. Didn't try the the vol+pwr+home yet. Maybe that will get me out of this loop?
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Had my son try at home and no go. Still message says "firmware encountered an issue. Please connect to recovery using Kies and try again. Do I have to have Kies running or drivers downloaded? Is this something like iTunes that you have to have connected to the phone to get it to restore?
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Son wasnt holding buttons down long enough. got it into the download mode and the stock file would still fail. had to download the alternate stock file to get it to pass sboot.bin and now all is fine
alternate restore file here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040264
See you never said you took the ota. With holding very important info sir...
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son said he never did..but I guess he did. Didnt even know there was one for that device..its his phone not mine. But your right.
If you wanna root your phone you have to be active on these forums to keep up with whats going on..thats why I'm done with rooting, think my son is also. Dont get me wrong Android would not be what it is without you guys helping us that just show up when we need you..I just wanna say again THANKS!. I have contributed a little to this forum so I feel okay when I ask for help. Thanks for reading :
Hi guys! I've been having problems with my Mega. My phone works really fine. I just got it the other day. But whenever I try to go to download mode or recovery I only get a blank screen but I know that it goes to download or recovery because my phone could detect it. I've been reading some forums that I have to reflash the bootloader of my phone so I could fix that error. Does anyone here confirm this and could anyone provide me a flashabble copy of the bootloader? Thanks!
Here's what I found on the other forums:
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Your problem sounds similar to this one. I assume when you say 'blank screen' that the screen is powered on?
Power off the phone, hold down VolUp + VolDown + Power for 4 to 5 seconds. Then release ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Now press Volume Up. Now hopefully you will be in download mode even if you can't see that you are. If it doesn't work try it again a couple of times. The reason that you have to press Volume Up is that a warning screen is actually displayed before the phone lets you into download mode.
The phone will give you no other indication that its in download mode and won't 'recognise Odin' when not in download mode. Make sure you have Samsung USB drivers (comes with Samsung Kies) installed on your PC.
Oh yeah and by the way the thread I've linked to suggests you have to reflash the bootloader to fix the 'blank screen' problem.
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Could anyone help me out on this one? Thanks
Is this a question with answer? That's a first lol.
Glad you sorted the problem.
This is a question. I need to get the bootloader..
Another question, if I flash the stock rom will it also fix the bootloader? And is it safe to flash with this kind of problem like with the blank screen (but the computer could detect the phone is in the download mode)
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Why would you put a Q&A type thread in the Development threads....moved here and please read the Forum Rules on posting...
neilenore said:
This is a question. I need to get the bootloader..
Another question, if I flash the stock rom will it also fix the bootloader? And is it safe to flash with this kind of problem like with the blank screen (but the computer could detect the phone is in the download mode)
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If you can get to bootloader and ODIN recognises the device then it is worth a try, can you get to recovery to backup first?
Can't use recovery to backup. I was still using the original recovery not cwm. But i finally flashed a rom on my phone but it still has the blank screen. Atleast I'm not scred anymore that my download manager is not working
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