Hi guys
I have galaxy sII about 6 months ago
Before 2 months I decided to upgrade it to cm10 and it worked fine .. but after jellybean stock firmware from Samsung released I flashed it via Odin before 22 days
And everything works good and the triangle gone..
Yesterday I tried to play music but there is no sound then there is no sound at all from internal and speaker..
Then I take it to Samsung centre .. they told me that the problem from rooting my phone and the motherboard broke down and it costs about 200$ !!
My question is : rooting and flashing ROMs broke down my motherboard? And my phone is working without any problem except the sound!!
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No. however, that's completely beside the point. You 'mess' (root or run non-stock firmware) with your phone, you have no business expecting warranty service. Doing so voids the warranty. This is no secret.
You want your warranty to remain valid, you don't mess with your phone in the first place. Simple.
Madridii said:
My question is : rooting and flashing ROMs broke down my motherboard? Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda premium
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MistahBungle said:
No. however, that's completely beside the point. You 'mess' (root or run non-stock firmware) with your phone, you have no business expecting warranty service. Doing so voids the warranty. This is no secret.
You want your warranty to remain valid, you don't mess with your phone in the first place. Simple.
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I knew that my warranty will not valid.. and I flashed custom ROM
But it will broke Down the motherboard?
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I answered your question, and again - for the slow kids up the back, I'll say it again - no. However, you can certainly wreck the NAND if a flash goes wrong (hard brick). But as I've already said, it's not relevant. They know you've been messing with it, the ruse is up. You're paying to have it fixed.
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I answered your question, and again - for the slow kids up the back, I'll say it again - no. However, you can certainly wreck the NAND if a flash goes wrong (hard brick). But as I've already said, it's not relevant. They know you've been messing with it, the ruse is up. You're paying to have it fixed.
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I'm so sorry
Thank you
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Well i'll thank the first person who summarize for me on what happened in 2days.. (Any dev fights,new rom,new noobs anything)
I totally bricked my phone (Paper Weight), gave it to LG service they replaced the main board (within 36 hours i am lucky).
While i was in service center i rooted the phone,installed recovery and i am back to custom rom. (If something went wrong i could just tell them they didnt do it properly. HeHe)
Advise: Do not play with LGMDP.[/QUOTE]
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Well i'll thank the first person who summarize for me on what happened in 2days.. (Any dev fights,new rom,new noobs anything)
I totally bricked my phone (Paper Weight), gave it to LG service they replaced the main board (within 36 hours i am lucky).
While i was in service center i rooted the phone,installed recovery and i am back to custom rom. (If something went wrong i could just tell them they didnt do it properly. HeHe)
Advise: Do not play with LGMDP.
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Dat's why I'm never gonna use it.
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Dat's why I'm never gonna use it.
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Welll i was playing with imei and hex editing nv backup and restoring wild stuff. Dont blame the tool. I say never restart a emergency mode yellow screen if you have it you can do something. (Even if update is not repomding) jut dont loose the yellow sccreen. And dont play witth the tool much. Its the best way to brick the phone.
Yup.thanks for the advice.I was thinking of playing with lgmdp.now no way.I love my op1.I don't. Want to loose my main board.cause am stable @825
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Congrates. You got it repaired under warranty?
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Congrates. You got it repaired under warranty?
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Yaa, I said to them I was updating through PC suit and something went wrong.. they said to me,don't brick it again as we just have 8 main board in stock, I said to keep them for me lol. I tried talk them into giving back the bricked board but they didn't, else it would be crazy to test some stuff.
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4silvertooth said:
Yaa, I said to them I was updating through PC suit and something went wrong.. they said to me,don't brick it again as we just have 8 main board in stock, I said to keep them for me lol. I tried talk them into giving back the bricked board but they didn't, else it would be crazy to test some stuff.
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Nice!
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I hate it too. I have used it several times but i was always nervous about it.
Lgmdp and kdz are pretty risky tools. Both tools used only once and both times I felt scared
I'm trying to avoid them.
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My phone is being replaced under warranty by AT&T. My question is: I had my phone rooted and flashed several different roms before unrooting and installing official Ics ROM. I have reset the flash counter. Is there anything else I should be worried about or need to do before sending my phone back to the warranty dept. Any advise would be much appreciated.
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jamess0621 said:
My phone is being replaced under warranty by AT&T. My question is: I had my phone rooted and flashed several different roms before untiring and installing official I've ROM. I have reset the flash counter. Is there anything else I should be worried about or need to do before sending my phone back to the warranty dept. Any advise would be much appreciated.
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I dropped my first note and had a cracked screen. I returned it and while I did flash back to stock, I did not reset the flash counter to zero. That was probably six weeks ago and I had no issues. I think we make too much of that counter and they're really just curious to see how many people are flashing more than using it as a penalty. So I would say you are all set to return it.
Okay, Im an ass so I say that up front. I flashed a bad kernel and I hardbricked my 5 day old galaxy s3 fro Tmobile. I took it to the local repair place that does JTAG repairs, which btw, does not work on the weekends. according to them the JTAG'ing takes 40 hours which I think is more because I kept calling and seeing if the phone was showing any signs of life. Anyone know how long the actual JTAG procedure actually takes cause 40 hours seems like a long time to me. Even after they said there was no guarantee that it would work and bring my phone back from the dead.
I am not new to rooting or flashing roms and kernels and things of that nature. So for the record I did not read first about bad kernels floating about so again Im an ass.
First mistake was flashing anything from this forum, this is for the international version ONLY.
Secondly a jtag should bring it back to life.
I'm not sure of the timeframe but 40 hours seems like a lot of time to do anything.
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Okay, Im an ass so I say that up front. I flashed a bad kernel and I hardbricked my 5 day old galaxy s3 fro Tmobile. I took it to the local repair place that does JTAG repairs, which btw, does not work on the weekends. according to them the JTAG'ing takes 40 hours which I think is more because I kept calling and seeing if the phone was showing any signs of life. Anyone know how long the actual JTAG procedure actually takes cause 40 hours seems like a long time to me. Even after they said there was no guarantee that it would work and bring my phone back from the dead.
I am not new to rooting or flashing roms and kernels and things of that nature. So for the record I did not read first about bad kernels floating about so again Im an ass.
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Could you describe how exactly you hardbricked your phone? As far as I know hardbricking is pretty much impossible on the s3 and probably extremely rare (this is the first case I've heard about it).
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Whoosh13 said:
Could you describe how exactly you hardbricked your phone? As far as I know hardbricking is pretty much impossible on the s3 and probably extremely rare (this is the first case I've heard about it).
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Flashing a kernel for the international version on a US version will send you on the road to brick town.
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Flashing a kernel for the international version on a US version will send you on the road to brick town.
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Ah sorry my bad, I read it again and saw its the T-Mobile version
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Well..on youtube you can see how the jig works and it doen't take that long.
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A kernel won't hardbrick a phone. If you flash a correct kernel it should boot. A way to brick it is to flash a wrong firmware from here. Cause the first thing being flashed on a firmware with odin is bootloader. Then you will have an expensive paperweight.
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afaik s3 has separate kernel and recovery where flashing a kernel dosent touch the recovery , so practically it should not be hard bricked
If I were you I would approach to XDA forum first! where all the " DO DOES " happen!
are you 100% sure its bricked?
I dont really know about it, but from my experience bootloader flash and emmc bug are the only ways to hardbrick S3, flashing wrong kernel should make your phone unbootable, but shouldnt do a **** to your download mode (if flashed right, put under pda in odin), however if you put it under bootloader box, than it might flashed kernel on bootloader partition which deffinatly makes hard brick.
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Can you enter download mode with 3 button combination?
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Phone is already at the servicecenter as you can read... So those questions do not add anything.
JTAG doesn't take 40 hours btw, takes a lot less.
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Ok, what I don't really undertand how all people got the idea that he's speaking about the US version. Yes, he said he got it from t-mobile, but if you buy in germany from t-mobile you'll get the international version also.
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Why he or she doesn't give us the answer?
Really weird guy.
NEXUS 7
I bet its not hard bricked, it would just be soft bricked, if the correct firmware is flashed it shud be back to life...
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Ok, what I don't really undertand how all people got the idea that he's speaking about the US version. Yes, he said he got it from t-mobile, but if you buy in germany from t-mobile you'll get the international version also.
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Because if you do some research and look at the persons other post on xda it is in the T-Mobile galaxy SII section.
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I tried
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Can you enter download mode with 3 button combination?
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I tried the three combo until my fingers went numb I tried so many cables and computers and then I was like this thing isnt doing ANYTHING no vibration NOTHING. The JTAG didnt take the first time around so now they are still "trying" according to them ofcourse. I tried ODIN but it did not recognize my phone so that was no good. I tried everything I knew to try and that why I finally caved and gave it to the JTAG guys.
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I tried the three combo until my fingers went numb I tried so many cables and computers and then I was like this thing isnt doing ANYTHING no vibration NOTHING. The JTAG didnt take the first time around so now they are still "trying" according to them ofcourse. I tried ODIN but it did not recognize my phone so that was no good. I tried everything I knew to try and that why I finally caved and gave it to the JTAG guys.
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Since its 5 days old have u tried warranty replacement?
help!
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Can you enter download mode with 3 button combination?
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this happened to my phone. and yes i can enter odin but idk what to flash!
Hello all
I have hardbricked my SGII after a bad flash and will not power on at all, completely black screen. It is not very old and still under warranty so will be sending back to Samusung. They will ask for description of fault. What is the best story I can give them as to how the fault happened.
Thanks for you opinions.
Thanks Lou
Sammylou said:
Hello all
I have hardbricked my SGII after a bad flash and will not power on at all, completely black screen. It is not very old and still under warranty so will be sending back to Samusung. They will ask for description of fault. What is the best story I can give them as to how the fault happened.
Thanks for you opinions.
Thanks Lou
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just tell them that while updating the software via 'KIES' it hung up and its not booting any more now
Sun90 said:
just tell them that while updating the software via 'KIES' it hung up and its not booting any more now
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Will do. I was on Gingerbread, what software would I have been allowed to upgrade to withouth voiding warranty. I could do this via Sammy's own site! Wow didnt know, I only used XDA
Thanks again.
Lou
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Will do. I was on Gingerbread, what software would I have been allowed to upgrade to withouth voiding warranty. I could do this via Sammy's own site! Wow didnt know, I only used XDA
Thanks again.
Lou
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tell them that, was trying to update to ICS and it failed in the middle
I have just got back from a warranty repair . I bricked mine but told them that I plugged it in to the pc to charge and it wouldn't turn on. They changed the motherboard
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Thanks again, how long did it take.
Sammy
My i9100m was having some problems so I sent it in to samsung under the manufacturers warranty. I flashed the stock rom but forget to reset the flash counter. Is this a bad thing and what will happen if they figure out that my phone has been rooted?
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My i9100m was having some problems so I sent it in to samsung under the manufacturers warranty. I flashed the stock rom but forget to reset the flash counter. Is this a bad thing and what will happen if they figure out that my phone has been rooted?
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What did you send it to them for?
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My phone wasn't recognized on my computer.
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My phone wasn't recognized on my computer.
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i have sent back a alot phones for repairs in past to samsung only 1 time i did the same thing forgot to reset counter... i sent back phone for hardware issue and they still fixed it .... they have 2 departments software and one hardware,, so if going to software not sure what will happen being its a software issue... just cross your fingers .....
No point fretting about it now. Not like you can do anything about it. If they check it, they're well within their rights to deny you warranty service/replacement.
If they don't check it/don't care, then you have nothing to worry about.