[Q] Please Please Please Help! phone wont turn on :( - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I think this thread was posted but i thought it will be more helpful now
My phone was rooted do i downloaded ROM toolbox pro and then decided to install a new theme for wifi button in notification bar
When i pressed install it began to give me errors as "Unfortunatly ....has stoped " about 50 error
then i killed rom toolbox and tried to enter it again the gave me " Unfortunatly jan has stopped " and i also tried to uninstall the app but it also gave me " unfortunatly ...." ( it was a greek word or a german one "
so the i tried to enter any other app and it gave me the same thing
Then i tried to restart the phone
But the phone never turned on! :'(
Help is DESPERATLY NEEDED
HOW TO FIX IT ??????????????????????????????????
P.S. Will i have to pay for another phone or for getting it fixed?

So the phone won't boot into recovery (power/home/volume up) or download mode (power/home/volume down) ? Keep trying this. If it won't, try a jig. If the jig doesn't work, try King Rat's trick where he tries to boot the phone without the battery (find a recent post of his then search his old posts, the thread/reference to his method will be there somewhere).
If none of that works, phone's probably borked. JTAG or service centre.
But definitely try the stuff I've suggested above. It ain't borked until you've tried everything.
P.S - If you do manage to fix it, stay away from Rom Toolbox. You're not the first to have it cause problems when using it to try and change fonts/system icons/etc.

If you can acess recovery mode restore your backup.

Hey..
Thanks for the advice but i went to a shop and fixed it..
They installed me a stock kernel with odin
Anw thx for replying
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[Q] Phone doesn't start any ideas?

I have tried to reboot to recovery via Rom Manager now my ace doesn't start anymore, the sceen is black, even when usb is pluged in
can anyone help me?
Just start to download mode an try flash firmware... follow flash tutorial...
to flash another rom, the phone must start
it doesn't matter whitch buttons are pressed, nothing happend
So read how to unbrick galaxy ace...
doesn't work :'(((((((((
try to remove th battery and thec klick ok+vol down +power and when you doing that connect the battry again
it worked with me
P1tt187 said:
I have tried to reboot to recovery via Rom Manager now my ace doesn't start anymore, the sceen is black, even when usb is pluged in
can anyone help me?
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Well you mest up with rom manager without any knowledge about it. AFAIK Your phone is now fully brick. You need to replace your motherboard(GOOD LUCK WITH WARRANTY )
Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk
If Flashing and Unbrick not working, what ever you do or how you try, then you probably messed up your boot ROM and it´s BRICKED. SORRY FOR YOU, but always, I MEAN ALWAYS read and search the forum 10 TIMES, before you start up messing your phone. It can very yeasely BRICKED.
I hope you can change it from service for free. Say that you trying restore to FACTORY setting(just make up some story[believable], why you was need to restore to FACTORY settings). Maybe they belive you and change your BRICKED phone to new one. Thumbs up for you and dont do anything stupid next time!!!
P1tt187, just out of curiosity - how did you even do that?
When I tried to use ROM Manager it told me to install the correct drivers, but Galaxy Ace isn't supported, so I just resigned. Which drivers did you use?
P1tt187 My friend had the same thing, he used a ROM Manager to back up the ROM in the ACE. Identical symptoms. Only the Samsung service will help. Tell him that you turned off phone and not turn on (Phone) . Samsung Service exchanged him motherboard in ACE (on guarantee).
Galaxy Ace not supported yet by ROM manager! Sorry for you but search the forum(or just GOOGLE it) before trying something first. There is always GOOGLE to helping(if you not found it here). Just USE it!
I have rooted and customized all my phones(HTC, SAMSUNG), JAILBREAKED AND UNLOCKED all my IPhones(3G and 4G), just waste some time, for GOOGLE! But you must be patient. Everything is not coming in first search(but everything is there, TAKE THE TIME and be sure for right thing).
CHEERS!
Hey,
I just have the same problem, but I didn't touch to the ROM or anything else
I just rooted my phone with SuperOneClick, turn it off and it never turn on again...
Since my phone is rooted, I don't know if the warranty is lost, but I think so...
I already tried to remove the battery and then put it back while holding ok + volume down + power, but it didn't work, the screen stays completely black...
I'll let my phone rest a few days and then send it to Orange while I pray --'
Any other idea guys ?
( sorry for my bad english...)
raphdu57 said:
Hey,
I just have the same problem, but I didn't touch to the ROM or anything else
I just rooted my phone with SuperOneClick, turn it off and it never turn on again...
Since my phone is rooted, I don't know if the warranty is lost, but I think so...
I already tried to remove the battery and then put it back while holding ok + volume down + power, but it didn't work, the screen stays completely black...
I'll let my phone rest a few days and then send it to Orange while I pray --'
Any other idea guys ?
( sorry for my bad english...)
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Try to reflash with original version. Read this and try:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
or try to unbrick it, here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071970
I'v tried to unbrick my phone, but it stucks on Odin at <1> setup connection..
I've let it run for 1 hour, but nothing changes
On the thread you gave me someone say that there is no solution for that...
What I don't understand is that I neither Flashed or tried to change the Rom of my phone, I only rooted it with SOC...
Anyway thanks for the help, I'll send it to Orange in a few days...
raphdu57 said:
I'v tried to unbrick my phone, but it stucks on Odin at <1> setup connection..
I've let it run for 1 hour, but nothing changes
On the thread you gave me someone say that there is no solution for that...
What I don't understand is that I neither Flashed or tried to change the Rom of my phone, I only rooted it with SOC...
Anyway thanks for the help, I'll send it to Orange in a few days...
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Of course I dont know what you exactly done or not but if its stuck in black screen and cant flash with ODIN, then I think its TOTALLY bricked. Sorry for you, hope you get it changed to new one! THUMBS UP FOR YOU!

[Q] ): Can't upgrade using Download mode and more

Hi guys ! First of all , I'm sorry for being a noob ,as this is just my 2nd android phone ...
So,my problem is that after an upgrade(android 2.3.7 MIUI interface beta2) I get spammed with errors after I boot(all I can do is "Force Close" them) ...
-I can't enter Recovery Mode(freezes ,I had this problem on all my other android versions except CMs)
-When I try to upgrade my OS using download mode+RUT v1.1.4 I wait for it to finish but after it finishes and I take out the battery(to exit DL mode) and reboot,nothing is changed (same OS,same errors)
Things I Tried
-Hard Reset(done it 3-4 times,no luck)
-Take out the battery and restart the phone
-Restarting it several times(30 times or so)
-Removing SD card / SIM card
Phone : Orange Boston
Any help is highly appreciated! Thanks
this has happend to me before. all i had to do was flash a backup and it was working.as long as your phone can enter download mode theres a good chance you can restore it.but i cant help much since im using a galaxy s and i can just use odin to do this
superalphajellybean said:
this has happend to me before. all i had to do was flash a backup and it was working.as long as your phone can enter download mode theres a good chance you can restore it.but i cant help much since im using a galaxy s and i can just use odin to do this
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yeah,but the bad thing is that it won't replace the current OS files with the ones i'm flashing i'm out of ideas for flashing a new os...
Danii. said:
yeah,but the bad thing is that it won't replace the current OS files with the ones i'm flashing i'm out of ideas for flashing a new os...
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yeh this happens to some people and there only option is to send there phone back to the manufacturer for repairs.but anyway good luck in fixing it
superalphajellybean said:
yeh this happens to some people and there only option is to send there phone back to the manufacturer for repairs.but anyway good luck in fixing it
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My warranty has expired I'll try to find someone who knows how to fix this thing ,in the meantime I'll search for other ways of flashing it :| ...thanks for your help
Danii. said:
My warranty has expired I'll try to find someone who knows how to fix this thing ,in the meantime I'll search for other ways of flashing it :| ...thanks for your help
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even if you still had a warranty once you root your device it voids your warranty
Still haven't found a solution ... anyone knows any way I could fix it?
bump
** FIXED
I ,somehow ,managed to enter Recovery Mode --> I plugged my phone to USB ,reboot using Fastboot Mode(which freezed) and disconnected the USB .My phone shut down and then I tried booting in Recovery Mode ,and tadaaa ! Then I just flashed using update.zip and now I'm using a new ,working ROM

Urgent help .. my phone is dead !!

Urgent help .. my phone is dead !
here is what happened exactly :
- i was running twitter normally as i used to do .. suddenly " Stopped working " error appeared
- tried to open twitter again or facebook app .. it keep says stopped working all the time
- i restarted the phone .. it stuck on the kernel screen .. tried to restart again , it stuck on the kernel screen again
tried to open in recovery mod .. once i opened the recovery mode it says :
Cant amount xxx.log
cant amount xxx.log
i don't remember exactly what the name
- tried to restore old recovery backup .. it keep says cant amount
- tried again to restore the backup .. this time the phone turned off forever !
now i cant even turn it on again
tried with 3 batteries but no way .. i cant turn it on again
tried to charge it .. but the charger light didn't appear
i am using RR JB 3.1.2 and dorimanx kernel v7.8
help please
MamomaN said:
Urgent help .. my phone is dead !
here is what happened exactly :
- i was running twitter normally as i used to do .. suddenly " Stopped working " error appeared
- tried to open twitter again or facebook app .. it keep says stopped working all the time
- i restarted the phone .. it stuck on the kernel screen .. tried to restart again , it stuck on the kernel screen again
tried to open in recovery mod .. once i opened the recovery mode it says :
Cant amount xxx.log
cant amount xxx.log
i don't remember exactly what the name
- tried to restore old recovery backup .. it keep says cant amount
- tried again to restore the backup .. this time the phone turned off forever !
now i cant even turn it on again
tried with 3 batteries but no way .. i cant turn it on again
tried to charge it .. but the charger light didn't appear
i am using RR JB 3.1.2 and dorimanx kernel v7.8
help please
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Do you cant enter downloading mode?
If not. You phone get hard bricked.
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i cant even turn it on at any mode
no download mode .. no recovery mode !
it seems like i didn't press the power key
MamomaN said:
i cant even turn it on at any mode
no download mode .. no recovery mode !
it seems like i didn't press the power key
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It's not a hard brick -_- if your phone shows any kind of activity, be it even battery charging animation when it's off.
Try to get a USB Jig, that'll take you to download mode and then flash anything via Odin.
if it is a Hard brick JTAG could be helpful. Also try to contact AdamOutler http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236273 He is develpoing a SDCard Recovery for hardbrick devices.
He need a device for it, and if he get it in time it will help you.
No .. my phone didn't show any kind of activity
no light .. no charging animation .. nothing at all
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/explaining-and-advancing-the-unbrickable-mod/
Hard Brick-The device is unresponsive and will not enumerate USB, a hardware based solution is the only method which will recover this type of brick
Soft Brick -The device shows something on the screen or possibly nothing at all, firmware download is possible because this is a “Download Mode”.
UnBrickable-The device has been modified to accept a debug-mode flash which cannot be altered.
Lucky Brick- The device ends up in UnBrickable debug mode and the Ultimate UnBrickable Resurrector can be used without a hardware modification to resurrect the device.
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pull out the battery and waith 5 minutes. afther try to go on download mode.
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tried to remove the battery for 7 hours .. no way !
so , i should go to the repairing shop ?
no way ?
Seems like something got fried inside
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^ oK , good
any help ?
What kind of help are you expecting ? Tho it's obviously not what you want to hear, it doesn't sound like it's a firmware issue that might mean it's (relatively) easily fixable.
If its under warranty, send it in to Samsung/authorised repairer & hope they don't care or don't notice you've been running non-stock firmware on the phone. You never know, they might fix it under warranty. If they won't, then you can look at having it JTAG'd or repaired locally by a 3rd party repairer given that will probably be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it if they do decide to charge you.
Anything anyone here tells you to try is just delaying having your phone fixed/depriving you of your phone for as long as you delay having it fixed.
i mean i need to make sure there still a hope !
based on a previews experience .. anyone saw this problem before ?
also it's the first time to know about the Hard brick
based on what i said , is my phone having a hard brick ?
so , it will be a software problem or something like that ?
Try this ^^ CLICKY
can't hurt by sounds of things :good: :fingers-crossed:
The repairing shop told me that the mother board burned !

[Q] HELP! My Samsung Galaxy S3 International I9300 is stuck in bootloop!

Hi,
I have the exact same problem as some of the other bootlooped/bricked Galaxy S3's, i was on a custom samsung 4.1.2 rom for about a month and while browsing the net today it crashed went in bootloop now i cant get out, went into cwm recovery mode and factory reseted but didnt do anything.
The problem now is i cant go back into clockwork mod at all, so i went into download mode by pressing power + voloume down and menu button and went into download mode and opened odin flashed a stock rom, however it just keeps saying fail after nand write.
I now tried a custom rom and the same issue occurs and it fails, now when i pull the battery out and turn it back on all i get is a error message saying 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again' can somebody please helppppp me i literally have no phone at use at the moment!
Thanksssss :highfive:
Vishs87 said:
Hi,
I have the exact same problem as some of the other bootlooped/bricked Galaxy S3's, i was on a custom samsung 4.1.2 rom for about a month and while browsing the net today it crashed went in bootloop now i cant get out, went into cwm recovery mode and factory reseted but didnt do anything.
The problem now is i cant go back into clockwork mod at all, so i went into download mode by pressing power + voloume down and menu button and went into download mode and opened odin flashed a stock rom, however it just keeps saying fail after nand write.
I now tried a custom rom and the same issue occurs and it fails, now when i pull the battery out and turn it back on all i get is a error message saying 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again' can somebody please helppppp me i literally have no phone at use at the moment!
Thanksssss :highfive:
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If you have a jig you might be able to bring it back to life and get in downloadmode and retry flashing a stock rom again. Pull the battery for a minute, reinsert it and use a jig. If you don`t have one try to buy one. Good luck
factory reset is your only way
yes a reply!
gee2012 said:
If you have a jig you might be able to bring it back to life and get in downloadmode and retry flashing a stock rom again. Pull the battery for a minute, reinsert it and use a jig. If you don`t have one try to buy one. Good luck
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heyyy thanks for the reply, i'm going to attempt to try flash another custom rom, worth a go, by the way what is a jig? also could you possible send me a link as to where i could by it, if i were to send it back to Samsung would they repair it you think?
Thanks buddy!
I'm haveing the same issue my friend. I was going to send it into mobiletechvideos.com, they have jigs for sale too. I'm about to try and flash another rom or something, it just keeps failing. I think we both have SDS or something. I can't even flash CWM through odin without it FAILING! I f I fix it I'll let you know, please do the same, I'll try different versions of odin and see what happens.
i tried a factory reset but
XeactorZ said:
factory reset is your only way
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i tried a factory reset in cwm when i managed to get it running by pressing volume up menu and power but it did not do nothing brought it back to boot loop again this thing is going to ruin my weekend :crying:
finally there is two of me!!
navymoss35 said:
I'm haveing the same issue my friend. I was going to send it into mobiletechvideos.com, they have jigs for sale too. I'm about to try and flash another rom or something, it just keeps failing. I think we both have SDS or something. I can't even flash CWM through odin without it FAILING! I f I fix it I'll let you know, please do the same, I'll try different versions of odin and see what happens.
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of course if i make a break-through i will definatley let you know, btw are your from the states.. because i'm from the UK, is yours an international S3 to? let me know how you get on, i will check out mobiletechvideos to but if they are based in the states then i'm in trouble lol :good:
Vishs87 said:
of course if i make a break-through i will definatley let you know, btw are your from the states.. because i'm from the UK, is yours an international S3 to? let me know how you get on, i will check out mobiletechvideos to but if they are based in the states then i'm in trouble lol :good:
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Yea, I'm in the states. I have the International version. I'm having th eexact same issue as you my man, even with the CWM not doing a Wipe. There has got to be a fix. I Know if I can get ODIN to stop failing then we can flash, but it's not working. I'm about to give up. Been calling everyone with Google voice on my computer.
damnnn
navymoss35 said:
Yea, I'm in the states. I have the International version. I'm having th eexact same issue as you my man, even with the CWM not doing a Wipe. There has got to be a fix. I Know if I can get ODIN to stop failing then we can flash, but it's not working. I'm about to give up. Been calling everyone with Google voice on my computer.
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yeah ima about to give up to, got to wait another 35mins for my rom to download, if it dont work gonna go bed try tomorrow its approaching 11pm here in London, let me know what your plan b is! :good:
Vishs87 said:
yeah ima about to give up to, got to wait another 35mins for my rom to download, if it dont work gonna go bed try tomorrow its approaching 11pm here in London, let me know what your plan b is! :good:
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It's only 2pm here in Cali, I'll be trying all night. Plan b is to send it into Mobiletechvideos, they do international shipping too, 5 star rating. But in the mean time, I'm going to do some ODIN trouble shooting, maybe try the Mac OSX alternative, Heimdall, and see if I can get it to connect.
cool check this out:
navymoss35 said:
It's only 2pm here in Cali, I'll be trying all night. Plan b is to send it into Mobiletechvideos, they do international shipping too, 5 star rating. But in the mean time, I'm going to do some ODIN trouble shooting, maybe try the Mac OSX alternative, Heimdall, and see if I can get it to connect.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNaQfdOi56E
someone managed to do it, give it a go, i"ll try it tomorrow, if it doesnt work hit me back with a message so i know not to try tomorrow, have a good day homie!
That's three of uss folks
I relate to you guys for that's exactly the same problem I'm going through. After successfully updated to the Jelly Bean 4.1.2 UK BTU international version and beautifully restored all my apps via Titanium backup I then proceeded to restore as well my EFS folder through a program named kTool, ignoring its warning message cuz I was just following a tutorial put out on a S3 Brazilian forum believing there was no danger at all.
Well, to my sadness and despair it returned on a bootlooping mode, if you will, and I did everything firstly tried to recover then wiped cache, dalvik, data, formatted the whole stuff and finally installed again via odin in download mode the same jelly bean 4.1.2 all to no avail
Now I got the bootlooping and when I press volume up + power + home I get a screen with a seemingly dead robot with a exclamation sign in its chest. Please what do I do in order to fully recover my S3?? this situation is killing me.
check the youtube link
Elban73 said:
I relate to you guys for that's exactly the same problem I'm going through. After successfully updated to the Jelly Bean 4.1.2 UK BTU international version and beautifully restored all my apps via Titanium backup I then proceeded to restore as well my EFS folder through a program named kTool, ignoring its warning message cuz I was just following a tutorial put out on a S3 Brazilian forum believing there was no danger at all.
Well, to my sadness and despair it returned on a bootlooping mode, if you will, and I did everything firstly tried to recover then wiped cache, dalvik, data, formatted the whole stuff and finally installed again via odin in download mode the same jelly bean 4.1.2 all to no avail
Now I got the bootlooping and when I press volume up + power + home I get a screen with a seemingly dead robot with a exclamation sign in its chest. Please what do I do in order to fully recover my S3?? this situation is killing me.
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hey mate try the youtube link, almost worked for me it actually flashed after continously getting nand write fail, however after i flashed factory reseted and got the same error, still trying to find a way round, i suggest avoiding factory reset and reboot straight away after trying that flash on the youtube link, let me know how u get on
I've already watched the YT vid.
Vishs87 said:
hey mate try the youtube link, almost worked for me it actually flashed after continously getting nand write fail, however after i flashed factory reseted and got the same error, still trying to find a way round, i suggest avoiding factory reset and reboot straight away after trying that flash on the youtube link, let me know how u get on
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Dude, I've watched that vid but haven't tried that procedure so far, matter of fact I will do that however flashing an earlier version of the ROM, perhaps JB 4.1.1 or 4.0.4 or yet the current one from another country since the UK BTU version I downloaded was somehow corrupted. Anyhow thanks for the heads up to avoid factory reset and reboot it instead, hopefully I'm going to manage to get the CWM recovery screen cuz now I get only this:
Android system recovey <S3>
Volume up/down to move to highlight:
power button to select.
Reboot system now
apply update from ADB
Apply update fom external storage
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply update from cache
Right below it appears, along with the fallen/dead robot, the folowing message:
# MANUAL MODE #
Applying Multi-CSC....
Applied the CSC-code: ZTO
Succesfully applied multi-CSC.
Solved
Here is the solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38780087#post38780087

[q] help please.galaxy s2 bricked with home button not working

so i know this topic probably been issued many times over google and this page but no one gave a solution to our hands.
I found myself in a situation where my beatup galaxy s2 (gt.i9100) HOME BuTTON NOT working AND sience yesterday im stuck
on a loop on startup S logo. sometimes it gets thru to pin type, but tells me there is some kind of UID inosense.i looked it up and i have to delete my partitions and restore the phone-SO MY QUESTION IS...HOW DO I GET TO DOWNLOAD MODE VIA COMPUTER TO RECOVER THE PHONE...REMEBER NO HOME BUTTON...AND PLEASE DONT TELL ME ODIN COUSE THAT IS FOR FLASHING PURPOSES.
i know u can do it via cwm but my phone wont start...so i need a computer-like solution...
Thanks to the guy who gives me a straight anwser....google doest have it..
ErZahani said:
so i know this topic probably been issued many times over google and this page but no one gave a solution to our hands.
I found myself in a situation where my beatup galaxy s2 (gt.i9100) HOME BuTTON NOT working AND sience yesterday im stuck
on a loop on startup S logo. sometimes it gets thru to pin type, but tells me there is some kind of UID inosense.i looked it up and i have to delete my partitions and restore the phone-SO MY QUESTION IS...HOW DO I GET TO DOWNLOAD MODE VIA COMPUTER TO RECOVER THE PHONE...REMEBER NO HOME BUTTON...AND PLEASE DONT TELL ME ODIN COUSE THAT IS FOR FLASHING PURPOSES.
i know u can do it via cwm but my phone wont start...so i need a computer-like solution...
Thanks to the guy who gives me a straight anwser....google doest have it..
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Alright, so I myself am a Motorola guy myself, but I do have some experience with Samsung..
You don't really have that many options here. If you were able to get into cwm, then by all means you could recover all of your data. But really, all you can do here is restore with odin. You're pretty much out of luck. Sorry

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