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I know its been hashed a thousand times, and this thread can be deleted if its too redundant. I regret thoroughly getting the 2.1 leak on my wife's phone. I love my rooted eris and ELB rom has made it absolutely functional and keeps getting better with constant updates and feedback, while my wife's eris is stagnant and hopeless. Constant dropped calls, and sound outages, and I cannot get a replacement because Verizon's system doesn't show it on 2.1 so until it is (which cant be done because we cant get the OTA when you have the leak) they wont even consider sending a refurb. To make matters worse, even if I could get a refurb, they are coming shipped with 2.1 that cant be rooted. At least if I got a refurb and the problems continued we would be able to complain enough to get a discounted upgrade maybe. I don't think anyone is working on this issue anymore as the phone has been left behind in the dust without root, and I don't blame them. I would too if I was a dev. I will NEVER NEVER install another leaked ROM. I will always be patient enough to wait for root. Yeah Frisco you were right, and all the others that waited patiently. Sigh OK done venting. Now to go "accidentally" drive over my wife's phone and pay the damn insurance.
I too regret installing the leak, however I have had none of the problems you have described. My phone may be a bit sluggish at times, but I've never had a dropped call since I've gotten the phone, or any other problems for that matter. Sorry to hear your having ask these problems though.
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I didn't have any problems whatsoever with getting a refurb while I was on leak. I called them up and mentioned having a couple of the common problems(I actually did have issues), told the guy that I had done the factory reset and it hadn't helped and the new phone was on the way. Sorry to hear that's not how it happened to work for you. Did they specifically say they could tell she wasn't on the OTA? I'm surprised they were able to tell with the similarities between the two versions. Maybe you can try and install the OTA manually on hers and A) see if it helps in general, or B) see if Verizon can tell she has the regular version then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695593
As far as I know, you cannot upgrade to the ota if you are running one of the leaked roms because of the hboot version.
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orkillakilla said:
As far as I know, you cannot upgrade to the ota if you are running one of the leaked roms because of the hboot version.
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Acutally you can go OTA from one of the leaks, just not root from a leak. Now going OTA does not change the hboot version of the leaks, so even with the OTA you cannot leak. But if for some reason you want the OTA instead of a leak ( and with V3 leak they are the same anyway) follow this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695593 make sure to read it all, but from what I have read and understand that is the offical OTA release that can be manually installed on the phone, so if it ever needs to go back to verizon they cannot hit you for having unoffical software on the phone
Ah, this I did not know, but very useful. Thanks for posting the link.
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If you want root that bad, you can do like I did. I had Leakv1 on my phone and just went ahead and loaded the new RUU OTA update onto it. Found someone on Craigslist that was willing to sell an eris that had the OTA on it for like $150 and ship it to me. Rooted it, then put my old phone on ebay for auction. It sold for like $170 with free shipping. Everyone came out happy and I got a rooted phone and like $10 in my pocket.
Be careful when buying phones on craigslist/ebay/etc. and look out for those Bad ESNs.
Anyway, just another option for ya...
Every now and then when I activate the screen to unlock my Rezound I get a blue screen. Sometimes it's a split screen and others it's the whole screen. It flickers back and forth between the unlock screen and the blue screen.
Sometimes after maybe 15 seconds it just goes back to normal. Other times if I turn the screen off, it will turn back on just fine.
Has anyone else had this issue? What was the solution?
Here's a video I made of it happening. Sorry it's sideways I had to use my DInc
http://youtu.be/YHuhUiUGgKg
return it asap. my friends does the same thing but she's a dumbass and won't let me swap it out for her at the store because she's lazy lol
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Had a similar problem with my DInc. Didn't deal with it early, and it came to be a real problem. Take it back ASAP.
I have that problem too once in a while, not that big of a deal yet.
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I have that problem too once in a while, not that big of a deal yet.
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Not that big of a deal lol? Don't even know what to say about that.
Wow, that is messed up.
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Have you tried a factory reset? I would guess that is a software bug.
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Just got my Rezound last week and just experienced this blue screen exactly how you described, any ideas why this happens? I pretty sure i'm going to exchange it for a new one but just wondering what the cause is...
Does anyone know if this is a hardware issue or a software issue? I've had it happen three times now, and I'm wondering if I should call VZW for a replacement before it's too late and I have to settle for a refurb POS.
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return it asap. my friends does the same thing but she's a dumbass and won't let me swap it out for her at the store because she's lazy lol
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So wait, if we work at the store, we could just swap our **** out whenever **** happens, instead of waiting 3 days for a refurb?
Damn, makes me hope I get the job even more now, lol
nah lol my store has a 2 week return policy..if it's a defective unit, we swap it out for them, and send the defective one right back to verizon.
My first one did that too occasionally... About 5 times in the second month of owning it... And then one day the screen just never turned back on.
Return it.
I would take that back. As many have said, it could lead to more serious problems down the line. Give the Verizon rep a link to your youtube video.
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I called them this morning and they are sending me a new one out. I hope it doesn't cause an issue that I unlocked it. I'm going to flash back to gb and relock it, but I guess I should have waited.
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I thought this had something to do with the ROM. i remember i have seen it before... i think it was on my Dinc as soon as sense 3.0 roms came out and eventually it got worked out so i think it is just a bug.
It did it the first time with me on stock gb. But it has happened twice since then on nils business.
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I just bought one used but looks brand new cosmetically and I've had it less than 24 hours it's happened 4 or 5 times already. So I'm sending it back. As for a cause only thing that comes to mind is maybe it's the result of somebody overclocking the piss outta it and now the GPU is permanently damaged, although some people in other forums claim the same thing has happened to brand new phones as well so who knows...
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I just bought one used but looks brand new cosmetically and I've had it less than 24 hours it's happened 4 or 5 times already. So I'm sending it back. As for a cause only thing that comes to mind is maybe it's the result of somebody overclocking the piss outta it and now the GPU is permanently damaged, although some people in other forums claim the same thing has happened to brand new phones as well so who knows...
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hmm, never overclocked my rezound and I get it occasionally. There were a couple of stock ics kernels that had this problem pretty severely. I would update it first and see if that resolves it.
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hmm, never overclocked my rezound and I get it occasionally. There were a couple of stock ics kernels that had this problem pretty severely. I would update it first and see if that resolves it.
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It's still on GB but I'll try that.. Do you happen to know what the latest stock GB software number is? Mine is on 2.01.605.11 I don't have a sim card at the moment so I can't check if it's fully updated till I get one. Thanks
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I'll try that.. Do you happen to know what the latest stock GB software number? Mine is on 2.01.605.11 I don't have a sim card at the moment so I can't check if it's fully updated till I get one. Thanks
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dev section should have all the stock roms, I would probably flash the newest GB stock ROM, RUU would be best to make sure it isn't a software problem.
In an attempt to start with the whole 2 phone replacement process to try and score a different phone, I went into Verizon today to complain to them about our phones many issues (music skips, battery issues, random freezes etc.) After that whole deal they said an update for our phones is noe available and is being currently pushed to all DX2 users, that being the case the Verizon rep said to wait until the update and then come back if the issues persist at which point I said under my breath "oh they will" lol so I guess I'm waiting a couple more days until we get the 2.3.5 update. Just figured I would give all of the annoyed DX2 owners an update on what's going on! As always thanks to everyone on these forums for keeping us sane with this phone. Also, does anyone have 2.3.5 on a stock DX2 yet? Has it fixed any issues?
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Should really go through one of the topics about getting a new phone and grab that number someone posted I used to get them to let me early upgrade. Btw I doubt it fixed the problems. I actually would bet it did not.
Hmm I'll have to try that! the only reason I'm trying to get a new phone right now is because my 3G signal has recently gone south whether im on stock or CM7. Ill have to browse the forums to find that number, Thanks!
Hold on..I'll get it for you..
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866-221-4096..I want trying to get another, but rather complained about the replacement they sent me (the search key was stuck) but interesting enough the phone was on 2.3.5, anyhow the dude was actually cool, asked I wanted a droid 3, our htc since.went with the htc cause im through with motto..good luck
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So after my wife complaining how annoyed she is with the OTA request popping up every 12 hours, i decided to get her phone to accept. She was on a 4.0 version of AOKP, so i safeboot restored her stock rom and uninstalled safeboot.
the update went well but now she has no 4g and cannot send any emails. Is there a fix for this? I found one thread where people said there is no fix as somehow the hardware got corrupted (apparent happened to a lot of people). Some people were lucky and were still under warranty and others just bought a new phone or got one from ebay. Well shes just over a year so the warranty is out of the question, and we cant really afford a new phone at the moment.
This is kinda bull**** as she had an LG ally before this that broke with an OTA and verizon refused to do anything about it.
Hopefully there is some workaround.
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So after my wife complaining how annoyed she is with the OTA request popping up every 12 hours, i decided to get her phone to accept. She was on a 4.0 version of AOKP, so i safeboot restored her stock rom and uninstalled safeboot.
the update went well but now she has no 4g and cannot send any emails. Is there a fix for this? I found one thread where people said there is no fix as somehow the hardware got corrupted (apparent happened to a lot of people). Some people were lucky and were still under warranty and others just bought a new phone or got one from ebay. Well shes just over a year so the warranty is out of the question, and we cant really afford a new phone at the moment.
This is kinda bull**** as she had an LG ally before this that broke with an OTA and verizon refused to do anything about it.
Hopefully there is some workaround.
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my friend can you try doing rsd lite with fastboot files again like a clean install of the jb update using fastboot files and see if that helps or not. sometimes the ota is corrupted but the fastboot install fixes them. try and let me know thanks
Well everybody my Mega is there at Samsung in Plano, TX hopefully getting reflashed or repaired or whatever the hell they're gonna do to it. Hopefully it's FUBAR and they can't tell it's been rooted lol.
Sub'd. I need to know how this goes, because I am getting sick of not having my phone work. I don't trust them, but my distrust is being outweighed by my massive lack of patience.
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Sub'd. I need to know how this goes, because I am getting sick of not having my phone work. I don't trust them, but my distrust is being outweighed by my massive lack of patience.
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The lack of patience is why I didn't wait more than a day before sending it lol. I'll keep ya posted for sure. If it works, i'll tell you exactly what I did to mess it up as bad as I did.
I think you'll be fine. Like three years ago when I was a android rookie I had brick my vibrant and couldn't figure out how to fix it. It was rooted and bricked and I couldn't fix it so I said **** it and I sent it to samsung on the hopes they wouldn't discover my unlawfulness. Well two weeks after I got it back fresh in a new box. Perfectly fixed.
Also one time I had an iPhone 3gs that was jailbroken but the screen was broken and wouldn't recognize any touching on it. So I just handed it to the guy and he couldn't slide to unlock it to check it out so they gave me a refurbished one without even checking if I had messed with it. Got lucky on both days I guess haha :good:
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I sent mine out monday morning,got there today.Its already fixed and being sent out today,should be back by monday.I soft bricked mine trying to achieve root and it wouldn't boot passed the samsung galaxy mega statup.They fixed with just a stock firmware update,which I could of done myself if I had the stock odin firmware tar file,o well at least it ffixed and ill have it back within 7 days,not bad thought it would take at least two weeks
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I sent mine out monday morning,got there today.Its already fixed and being sent out today,should be back by monday.I soft bricked mine trying to achieve root and it wouldn't boot passed the samsung galaxy mega statup.They fixed with just a stock firmware update,which I could of done myself if I had the stock odin firmware tar file,o well at least it ffixed and ill have it back within 7 days,not bad thought it would take at least two weeks
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Oh nice! How the hell is yours fixed and all the way back to you? I even called to expedite mine lol.
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I think you'll be fine. Like three years ago when I was a android rookie I had brick my vibrant and couldn't figure out how to fix it. It was rooted and bricked and I couldn't fix it so I said **** it and I sent it to samsung on the hopes they wouldn't discover my unlawfulness. Well two weeks after I got it back fresh in a new box. Perfectly fixed.
Also one time I had an iPhone 3gs that was jailbroken but the screen was broken and wouldn't recognize any touching on it. So I just handed it to the guy and he couldn't slide to unlock it to check it out so they gave me a refurbished one without even checking if I had messed with it. Got lucky on both days I guess haha :good:
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Yeah but back then I dont think samsung had the counter flash... If you send a phone witch is brick and wont go to download mode is possible they will never find out but it is obvious that if JTAG works it was not a hardware issue
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Oh nice! How the hell is yours fixed and all the way back to you? I even called to expedite mine lol.
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Any updates? I'm really not stoked on how long this entire process is taking, and I'm not even the guy whose phone they have!
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Any updates? I'm really not stoked on how long this entire process is taking, and I'm not even the guy whose phone they have!
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Maaaaaaan I've been checking on this crap every day lol. On Friday afternoon I got a call saying that my LCD was damaged and had to be replaced. That fee was $200, but I raised hell for like 30 minutes telling them to just use my old LCD because it still worked and I just wanted my phone reflashed. Needless to say, my LCD was replaced free of charge and that I should have my phone back by Friday 11-1-13 or before. This was on Friday and I called yesterday and they couldn't tell me anything because there were no updates in the system. I checked today and still no updates in their system.
Side note: Did you see a message in Kies saying that the firmware was now available for our device? I swear I saw something to that effect the last time I got on my computer. Would that help you out at all?
ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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Just checked on my phone and it should be shipping back to me today so I hope like hell i'll get it tomorrow. I honestly think you'll be ok. Two of the CSRs mentioned to me that they reflash the devices before they even inspect them.
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Side note: Did you see a message in Kies saying that the firmware was now available for our device? I swear I saw something to that effect the last time I got on my computer. Would that help you out at all?
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There is a new firmware update, but it's not supported by AT&T due to the locked bootloader.
Send it on!!!!!!
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ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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Hey i got my phone back. It took 8 business days, but because i was refuising to pay for the lcd repair. I have my phone back. They reflashed it at no charge and all that. They told me they do that before they inspect anything. I would imagine your would be reflashed and returned fairly quickly.
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Hey i got my phone back. It took 8 business days, but because i was refuising to pay for the lcd repair. I have my phone back. They reflashed it at no charge and all that. They told me they do that before they inspect anything. I would imagine your would be reflashed and returned fairly quickly.
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Nice to hear and it works likes it should again. :good: