Hard Bricked - HTC Droid DNA

So. Removing write protection from this device has proven itself extremely difficult. While I had my phone mounted as removable storage, I was fishing with /system trying to get SU to sick. Well yea. No.
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kaliblazin707 said:
So. Removing write protection from this device has proven itself extremely difficult. While I had my phone mounted as removable storage, I was fishing with /system trying to get SU to sick. Well yea. No.
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Can you get to bootloader and/or recovery?

Jtag time

paulhoop said:
Can you get to bootloader and/or recovery?
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Lol nope. She's a paper weight. Verizon will have a new one here Tuesday. So will amazon. Hopefully between the referb I'm getting from vzw and the brand new replacement from amazon I'll have a 1.xxx device
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How did you mount your phone as external storage without a custom recovery?

The replacement from Verizon if from asurion they send new phones with ota installed.
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ickedmel said:
The replacement from Verizon if from asurion they send new phones with ota installed.
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I can confirm that. Just got my replacement yesterday due to a shattered screen. I am so disappointed now. I HATE not being rooted and HATE Verizon for being the dough bags they are about it.
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Jetdr said:
I can confirm that. Just got my replacement yesterday due to a shattered screen. I am so disappointed now. I HATE not being rooted and HATE Verizon for being the dough bags they are about it.
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You broke it !!!
Why you crying???
Switch to Sprint if you don't like it, don't whine.

kaliblazin707 said:
Lol nope. She's a paper weight. Verizon will have a new one here Tuesday. So will amazon. Hopefully between the referb I'm getting from vzw and the brand new replacement from amazon I'll have a 1.xxx device
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Verizon replaced mine 2 weeks ago under the warranty, no ota, I made that mistake. Good luck.

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The replacement from Verizon if from asurion they send new phones with ota installed.
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Not from asurion. Referb center n texas. Plus getting a brand new one from amazon.
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wakkadojo said:
How did you mount your phone as external storage without a custom recovery?
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Used Ubuntu
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kaliblazin707 said:
Used Ubuntu
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Har har
what did you do on Linux to mount the internal memory without a custom bootloader?

RLGL said:
You broke it !!!
Why you crying???
Switch to Sprint if you don't like it, don't whine.
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Wasn't crying... Was only stating my frustration. Like everyone else on here but hey... Thanks for the suggestion.
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wakkadojo said:
Har har
what did you do on Linux to mount the internal memory without a custom bootloader?
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The internal SD is Ext4 formatted, meaning it is impossible to mount as removeable storage without root. Though I tried anyways. Doesn't mean Ubuntu doesn't see it. So I tried a few things to reassign permission for the drive. Wound up formatting the "drive" aka internal SD
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Jetdr said:
Wasn't crying... Was only stating my frustration. Like everyone else on here but hey... Thanks for the suggestion.
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**** sprint
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Digitizer is ****ed

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Help
What exactly you want with this thread? If your digitizer is broken, buy another and replace it
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Try this link. It's a weird fix that might work. If not you'll just have to buy a new digitizer and replace it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27595402
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Will try when I'm home thanks!
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My back cover is really crappt and won't stay on so the solution didn't work......maybe my pds is just messed up and I can flash a fix
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michaelatrix said:
My back cover is really crappt and won't stay on so the solution didn't work......maybe my pds is just messed up and I can flash a fix
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Highly doubt it. Atrix 4G is known for having issues with the digitizer. I myself have a dead stripe vertically too. Let us know how it goes tough.
djluis48 said:
Highly doubt it. Atrix 4G is known for having issues with the digitizer. I myself have a dead stripe vertically too. Let us know how it goes tough.
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Same here. I upgraded to a new phone. I was hoping I would be able to stick with Motorola, but nope.
At some point I'll probably drop $30 on the new digitizer and try to resurrect it.
Sir_Brizz said:
Same here. I upgraded to a new phone. I was hoping I would be able to stick with Motorola, but nope.
At some point I'll probably drop $30 on the new digitizer and try to resurrect it.
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Im thinking the same thing. Im going to buy something used though. Maybe a S2 or something. Only requisites are that it must have official ICS and great dev support.
I'm thinking about the note 2
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Yeah lie everyone said either a new phone or replace the digitizer. There are "fixes" on the software side but mine like many other the digitizer was just broken. I can report I successful my replaced mine
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jonnyboyC13 said:
Yeah lie everyone said either a new phone or replace the digitizer. There are "fixes" on the software side but mine like many other the digitizer was just broken. I can report I successful my replaced mine
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Couple of question:
1) Did you replaced the digitizer yourself?
2) Where you bought it?
3) Was it hard to replace?
4) How much it costed?
I have an upgrade in November so I'm thinking note 2
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Just get a new phone. There's still a chance that the replacement digitiZer won't work either.
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IUH1991 said:
Just get a new phone. There's still a chance that the replacement digitiZer won't work either.
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Yeah. I hope it doesn't happen with my phone. I just bought a digitizer. Will get it by next week. I will see.
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I'm thinking about the note 2
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michaelatrix said:
I have an upgrade in November so I'm thinking note 2
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Don't you think we got it by now?
ravilov said:
Don't you think we got it by now?
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Not sure what you are asking lol
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And wifi keeps dropping signal and I have to reconnect... I don't know if this has anything to do with it but thought I'd share
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For visual purposes
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The digitizer is super easy to replace.
I used ifixit.com's teardown and was able to figure out everything I needed. In fact I was actually replacing a water damaged lcd but I had to tear the phone down in exactly the same way. 20 minute job for someone with almost no experience inside of electronic devices.

For those with the new update

Does anyone know if someone is working on a possible root method for it, I'm dying to root again. Had to get a replacement device and came with the update already on it.
Thanks
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They are working on it no ETA but they said they dont need anymore testers so maybe thats a good sign.
123421342 said:
They are working on it no ETA but they said they dont need anymore testers so maybe thats a good sign.
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Nice. Time to get excited again.
Apparently they have root on the ota, but not unlock or s off.
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Bigandrewgold said:
Apparently they have root on the ota, but not unlock or s off.
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So will we still be able to flash custom roms or do we need to be unlocked?
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kreep22 said:
So will we still be able to flash custom roms or do we need to be unlocked?
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You need to be unlocked
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Don't forget you can attain s off with a jtag flash I think it costs $45 bucks, there's a great guy here on XDA that has the equipment and after talking to him I good bit I feel safe sending him my device which is my baby, and I'm very picky especially since I had to drop 7 Benjamins on this phone
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CharliesTheMan said:
Don't forget you can attain s off with a jtag flash I think it costs $45 bucks, there's a great guy here on XDA that has the equipment and after talking to him I good bit I feel safe sending him my device which is my baby, and I'm very picky especially since I had to drop 7 Benjamins on this phone
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Yes, but most people want their phone to be opened up, voiding the warranty and whatnot.
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Purchased a Note 2 off Craigslist... need to Rom it but have questions

The phone has superuser on it already. I downloaded ROM manager to check the recovery and it has CWM and TWRP. Is it safe to install custom roms or is there other steps that I need to take? The baseband is vraljb.... Android version 4.1.1
Thank you in advance.
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omnia38 said:
The phone has superuser on it already. I downloaded ROM manager to check the recovery and it has CWM and TWRP. Is it safe to install custom roms or is there other steps that I need to take? The baseband is vraljb.... Android version 4.1.1
Thank you in advance.
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Have you booted into recovery at all?
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If you can boot into the custom recovery, you can flash a custom rom.
Great idea I will try that. Thats why you guys are the best.
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So I was able to get into twrp recovery just fine. Does mean thatvi am good to download one of the many roms and flash away?
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Yes sir.
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Thanks guys worked flawlessly...although I didnt get an aroma menu at all, the Rom just flashed. Will have to look into that. Still cant believe I only paid 200 bucks off craigslist for this phone. Nice upgrade from my S3.
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omnia38 said:
Thanks guys worked flawlessly...although I didnt get an aroma menu at all, the Rom just flashed. Will have to look into that. Still cant believe I only paid 200 bucks off craigslist for this phone. Nice upgrade from my S3.
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Wow 200! Nice
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omnia38 said:
Thanks guys worked flawlessly...although I didnt get an aroma menu at all, the Rom just flashed. Will have to look into that. Still cant believe I only paid 200 bucks off craigslist for this phone. Nice upgrade from my S3.
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Yeah man where'd you get a deal like that???? That's crazy!
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200 and esn is clean? Usually they don't ban it for a little while. Let us know what happens. Sounds like a scam.
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imablackhat said:
200 and esn is clean? Usually they don't ban it for a little while. Let us know what happens. Sounds like a scam.
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This.
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I did a trade for my iphone 5 for the note 2.
Seems like an even trade. Although I feel like the iphone has a better resale.
imablackhat said:
200 and esn is clean? Usually they don't ban it for a little while. Let us know what happens. Sounds like a scam.
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Awwh man I hope not... That would really suck, especially after getting used to the size of this screen.... nothing else would compare. The guy seemed straight up though. If this comes back to bite me them I am done with craigslist for devices. I'll keep you guys up posted.
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omnia38 said:
Awwh man I hope not... That would really suck, especially after getting used to the size of this screen.... nothing else would compare. The guy seemed straight up though. If this comes back to bite me them I am done with craigslist for devices. I'll keep you guys up posted.
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Must be a clean ESN if you were able to activate it.
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If you do an insurance job and get another phone. They don't ban your original for weeks. So he could activate it. But it's still on a list to be banned.
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If you do an insurance job and get another phone. They don't ban your original for weeks. So he could activate it. But it's still on a list to be banned.
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Thanks for the nervousness guys....lol.
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omnia38 said:
Thanks for the nervousness guys....lol.
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Ha Ha Just give Verizon a call and have them check it.
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omnia38 said:
Thanks for the nervousness guys....lol.
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Stay optimistic! And I think I heard somewhere that when the note 2 phone is reported the Sim gets "burned" and So I've read... You can get a new Sim card from Verizon and have it work? Here look at this........ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2214899 .. I mean just in case it happens
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Stay optimistic! And I think I heard somewhere that when the note 2 phone is reported the Sim gets "burned" and So I've read... You can get a new Sim card from Verizon and have it work? Here look at this........ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2214899 .. I mean just in case it happens
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Thanks for the link....good read. Hope the guys that sold it to me doesnt get greedy. Seemed like a cool guy. Plus he mentioned that he was a member of the xda forums.
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omnia38 said:
Thanks for the link....good read. Hope the guys that sold it to me doesnt get greedy. Seemed like a cool guy. Plus he mentioned that he was a member of the xda forums.
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If its legit, then you got a killer deal. The cheapest GN2 that I've seen was $350 but it had a cracked screen. I see some for $200-250, but I am sure those are scams. The next time you buy a Verizon phone, call *611 and verify the ESN status before handing over money or trading phones. A legit seller will not mind at all.
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Any advice on a new phone

Welp my sister just dropped my phone because a bee was near her and now she owes me a new one.... Would you guys go for a newer phone like the HTC one or gs4 or recommend me just repace the screen?
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I was also thinking about the nexus4
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Well if you're on Verizon, you can't use the Nexus 4. Get the SGS4 if you need a phone asap, if you can wait get the One.
shobon said:
Well if you're on Verizon, you can't use the Nexus 4. Get the SGS4 if you need a phone asap, if you can wait get the One.
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Yea but I can always drop off my moms line...
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firespitta said:
Yea but I can always drop off my moms line...
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If that's the case then get the HTC One.

[Q] Rom installation Question

My BL is locked so im using SafeStrap. I really dont want to brick my phone so I was wondering if this will work for my MK2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2343355
Im a big noob when it comes to this stuff.
Thanks!!!!
Did you read the last 2 posts of that thread ? Lol
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High_Rez said:
My BL is locked so im using SafeStrap. I really dont want to brick my phone so I was wondering if this will work for my MK2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2343355
Im a big noob when it comes to this stuff.
Thanks!!!!
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For what it's worth, I would not, and I haven't read anything beyond the first post. It's not made for your phone. You become a test pilot, although I suspect some have had success with it.
douger1957 said:
For what it's worth, I would not, and I haven't read anything beyond the first post. It's not made for your phone. You become a test pilot, although I suspect some have had success with it.
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No one could have success with it it's based on a different kernel
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Josh... You left us? On a One Max now?
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Mistertac said:
Josh... You left us? On a One Max now?
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Not sure yet lol bought this off a friend who needed the money. It's pretty cool but there's no development for it. I might keep the s4 for roms.
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joshm.1219 said:
Not sure yet lol bought this off a friend who needed the money. It's pretty cool but there's no development for it. I might keep the s4 for roms.
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Was going to ask you how Dev was for that phone. Well. always cool to have a new toy anyways. Like that phone myself just correct me if I'm wrong... No removable battery?! No deal then lol
Hey we could go on forever with comparisons lol I was jw.
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Was going to ask you how Dev was for that phone. Well. always cool to have a new toy anyways. Like that phone myself just correct me if I'm wrong... No removable battery?! No deal then lol
Hey we could go on forever with comparisons lol I was jw.
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That's what scares me lol. It has a 3300mah stock battery and it has pogo pins on the back so you can connect a flip case they sell that has a 1200mah battery built in. So 4500mah is pretty good but it doesn't beat the piece of mind of having a few charged batteries ready to go.
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