Just got my Galaxy Note 2 today..been trying to root it. Unsuccessful. At this point I'm just saying screw it and wanting to go back to stock.
When I boot the phone up it gets to the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen and just keeps flashing that every 2-3 seconds. PC recognizes it, Odin recognizes it, can enter download mode.
Everything I try in Odin FAILS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
YouTube that sh*t.
Actually: Read rules first. Dont post here. And then you tube that sh*t.
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jamesgrenard said:
Just got my Galaxy Note 2 today..been trying to root it. Unsuccessful. At this point I'm just saying screw it and wanting to go back to stock.
When I boot the phone up it gets to the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen and just keeps flashing that every 2-3 seconds. PC recognizes it, Odin recognizes it, can enter download mode.
Everything I try in Odin FAILS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Not supposed to post questions in development topics, but if on new 4.1.2 may not be possible yet, im not 100 percent sure, but when verizon updates the kill exploits amd lock bootloaders.
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My apologies. Mods feel free to lock
I know that feel.
jamesgrenard said:
My apologies. Mods feel free to lock
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I had the same thing happen to me months ago though I can't remember how I fixed it. I think I had to reflash the pit file maybe? Definitely YouTube that because that's how I fixed it.
The biggest thing is, just stay relax. It WILL get fixed, it's almost impossible to permanently brick it as long as you stay calm.
Rangizingo said:
I had the same thing happen to me months ago though I can't remember how I fixed it. I think I had to reflash the pit file maybe? Definitely YouTube that because that's how I fixed it.
The biggest thing is, just stay relax. It WILL get fixed, it's almost impossible to permanently brick it as long as you stay calm.
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Yes sir
I refreshed the PIT file and used the stock Verizon rom with Odin 3.07 and it worked
jamesgrenard said:
Yes sir
I refreshed the PIT file and used the stock Verizon rom with Odin 3.07 and it worked
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Fantastic, glad to see everything working for you! Don't give up on custom roms, they are FANTASTIC. You will not be able to go back, trust me!
Rangizingo said:
Fantastic, glad to see everything working for you! Don't give up on custom roms, they are FANTASTIC. You will not be able to go back, trust me!
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Thanks man! Yeah I worked on it all day long yesterday and now am using the Carbon rom. Takes some time getting used to. I'm used to jailbreaking my iPhone. Haha switched to this
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Okay, this is driving me nuts. I've found multiple posts on how to unroot my phone but ALL the links are dead for Odin and everything I need to do it. SOMEBODY PLEASE throw me some links that work and instructions! I rooted it with the one click root method thing. I gotta get this thing back to stock so I can get my replacement since the screen is cracked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
This is a great thread. It should have everything you need. Good luck
Partner420 said:
Okay, this is driving me nuts. I've found multiple posts on how to unroot my phone but ALL the links are dead for Odin and everything I need to do it. SOMEBODY PLEASE throw me some links that work and instructions! I rooted it with the one click root method thing. I gotta get this thing back to stock so I can get my replacement since the screen is cracked.
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You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
pma7779 said:
You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
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IMO its not worth the risk when it takes less than 5 minutes to Odin back to stock.
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pma7779 said:
You don't need to unroot your phone. I sent mine back rooted with a custom rom and got a replacement.
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Thats great...but when they go to test it and find out that its been hacked, Verizon is going trace that phone back to you and charge you for the replacement. As the poster above stated, its not worth the risk when it takes 5min to odin back to stock.
they actually still can tell that the phone has been flashed even if you odin back to stock. The only way to truly completely hide that the phone has been rooted is to use a usb jig and reset the custom binary download counter.
But they honestly don't care. This is all much ado over nothing.
bobloblaw1 said:
they actually still can tell that the phone has been flashed even if you odin back to stock. The only way to truly completely hide that the phone has been rooted is to use a usb jig and reset the custom binary download counter.
But they honestly don't care. This is all much ado over nothing.
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On the new devices that have flash counters yes...but from my understanding not on the fascinates or older devices. Maybe Im wrong tho?
I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
Anyway, I'll try to look into it if I get time.
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bobloblaw1 said:
I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
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I was unaware of this existing. Thanks for the fun fact.
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bobloblaw1 said:
I was pretty sure that the fascinated had this counter as it is triggered when Odin flashes the phone.
Anyway, I'll try to look into it if I get time.
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Yes, thank you for that info!
I'm new to this. Is there a way to return to 100% stock from ics without a computer and what do I need to do it.
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tat2messiah said:
I'm new to this. Is there a way to return to 100% stock from ics without a computer and what do I need to do it.
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You need a computer to go back to bone stock.
It is a hell of a lot easier to use a PC following this.
If you for some reason can't connect to any PC you will have to download around 300mb+ worth of files.
Let me know and I can explain how, not sure if there is a guide for this yet but its simple.
Nick281051 said:
You need a computer to go back to bone stock.
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No you don't, my USB was basically dead and I had to return to stock without a PC.
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I hope this is your new phone and your returning the GS2 to stock to sell it, if not your in the wrong forum.
The gs2 is the one I want to return to bone stock
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LiLChris06 said:
It is a hell of a lot easier to use a PC following this.
If you for some reason can't connect to any PC you will have to download around 300mb+ worth of files.
Let me know and I can explain how, not sure if there is a guide for this yet but its simple.
No you don't, my USB was basically dead and I had to return to stock without a PC.
I hope this is your new phone and your returning the GS2 to stock to sell it, if not your in the wrong forum.
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Lol my mistake then
I could've returned it to bone stock. All you had to do was say it. Anyways, the easiest way like others are saying is, to use "Odin" and flash the OEM stuff with the PC.
Courtesy of these thumbs to your face
LiLChris06 said:
It is a hell of a lot easier to use a PC following this.
If you for some reason can't connect to any PC you will have to download around 300mb+ worth of files.
Let me know and I can explain how, not sure if there is a guide for this yet but its simple.
No you don't, my USB was basically dead and I had to return to stock without a PC.
I hope this is your new phone and your returning the GS2 to stock to sell it, if not your in the wrong forum.
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I would like to know how you did it. My usb connection is very unreliable and it would be good to know how to go to stock if needed.
I think there is a mobile Odin out there or you can download a stock rooted version. I sent the gs2 to tat2messiah in a trade.
Courtesy of these thumbs to your face
I'll post a quick how to with the file, since this question comes up a few random times.
I agree use Mobile Odin or better yet use your PC Odin to re-stock to absolutely new.
And everyone has issues with the USB! Just keep trying it works eventually.
LiLChris06 said:
I'll post a quick how to with the file, since this question comes up a few random times.
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I would love to see a guide for this.
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Here it is, waiting to upload the files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26970235
Hits devhost servers with a hammer
Mobile ODIN guide is awesome
LiLChris06 said:
Here it is, waiting to upload the files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26970235
Hits devhost servers with a hammer
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LilChris - I found this a little while ago and did a rebuild just for the practice. Great way to completely wipe and start fresh! Thanks for making so easy. Now to root and get back on Task's AOKP build 38 coming out later. Cheers. b.
Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know much about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry but looks like its gone. Have seen a few ppl able to recover with mskips fix but only if theyre able to turn phone on.
DeathGrind said:
Hello all, I was walking my friend through rooting his phone over Google talk. He rooted all went well a few days later he wanted to Rom it. He made a mistake and flashed the international omega Rom on his US ATT samsungi747. His phone is now dead. No way to get into recovery or download mode. Just dead. Bricked. What can I do to help him? As I am partially responsible cause I was helping him. I did not know about the Rom he was flashing.
I was reading about a possible fix with a jig but can not find a jig for.the Samsung i747.
Please any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
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A compatible jig may be your only solution if you can't get into download mode manually. A jig would force the phone into download mode, once in download mode you'd be able to flash the stock AT&T firmware through Odin.
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Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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DakiX said:
In the blacked Screen try flash with Odin.
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he's in oregon and I'm in california. I think he is freaking out. But he did say ODin was not recognizing the device.
ADB? ^^
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Error 1. Not reading
Error2. Wrong section... not reading
If he cant get cwm or screen to show something who knows what he did...fix: there is none get another device and read before u do stupid stuff.... u can't expect us to fix lack of reading or not knowing what ur flashing....
im on my phone. expect terrible typos.
DeathGrind said:
oh no. Its his first android phone. He only had it about a week. I can't believe this. I feel so bad for him.
Thanks for the reply
I have been looking for a jig that is compatible with the att samsung galaxy s3 sgh-i747 and had no luck. Do they exist?
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A jig is a jig the one I bought for my captivate works 100% on gs3, get the jig put into phone if don't boot into download mode, hold down power button with jig still in if that don't work ur screwed .... your better off trying make ur own jig ( YouTube it ) cause if the phone runs out of battery and won't charge then u have another issue...
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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Just cause "we " can't turn it on don't mean they eventually can't ..
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
Moh_Jay said:
Btw you maybe able to save your friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743757
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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Moh_Jay said:
Has anyone ever tried just returning it and saying it randomly died? If they can't turn it on then there's no way to tell it's rooted
Only joking
"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
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The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
Some people actually have there phones just stop working. Happened to my friend that had a Samsung galaxy nexus, stock unrooted. Just died. There was nothing I could do to fix it.
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DeathGrind said:
Thanks man! I ordered him one. Hopefully it will work. He's also going to make one tomorrow.
A huge thank you to all the people that provided helpful information and friendly advice.
I was actually expecting more ridicule, but it was minimal. . I know we messed up, but I never knew you could "brick" a phone from flashing a Rom.
Anyway thanks again guys! I will keep you posted on if the jig works or not.
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If you didnt know a rom could brick a phone you shouldnt be flashing period. Theres always ALWAYS bold letters that says this may brick your phone an or we are not responsible if this breaks your phone... no one with there first android should be flashing till they know android smoothly... *sigh*
Usually 90% of the time your always able to get into recovery mode. From what I've read this only happens when flashing the omega Rom. People make mistakes.
I've rooted and rom'd 100s of phones, and never not been able to get back to recovery.
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SiNJiN76 said:
The morning I was picking up my phone...a dude walks in and says that his phone doesn't turn on anymore after having it a week. I thought to myself..."he flashed an international ROM...what a douche".
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The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
jcbofkc said:
The good and bad of brand new phone on the market. Some people do not like reading and want to be handed the solution.
Noobs....read.....read...read some more....go to bed....get up...read some more...have cookies for snack time....read some more... and then read some more... and for the love of GOD....read some more before flashing anything!
I mean that in the nicest way, becasue I have questions on a semi-regular basis also.
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If ppl read things 95% of there questions would be answered. The other 5% could be found by google
I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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DeathGrind said:
I understand telling him to read. And he did so for about a week. He succesfully used odin to root his phone. A few days later he said he wanted to Rom, and asked me how to do a proper back up with titanium backup. I ran him through the backup procedure.
I mean I totally thought that if he made it through the rooting procedure that he was good to go. Rom'ing has always been to me something fairly easy, and if something went haywire, just boot to recovery.
I've had people ask for help that flashed an incomplete or corrupted download, but have always been able to at least power the phone on, or at the very least have it recongnized in adb.
I have been reading and googling about a fix, but information seems minimal on this current circumstance. So I reached out to the community for advice.
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Personally i wait a bit to root rom a brand new phone... however ive never had a issue untill i fried my gs mesmerize so im a lil hesitant
Yeah, this is the first serious issue I have ran into in almost 3 years of mod'ing android phones.
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If you were me, what would you do in this situation? I had to get a replacement Note 2 and the replacement thankfully came with the VRALJB software installed. I deferred the update to L4 for 5 days.
Would you just root and unlock the bootloader now the easy way, or take the L4 update and do it the harder way? Would either way be beneficial or does it not really matter?
Thanks!
Go ahead and unlock/root. You don't have to do anything further if you don't want to and you never know how difficult it would be to unlock in the future.
When I purchased mine outright it had the older software. I used the jailbreak method and that worked like a charm.
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Either way. Just do it on the current software and save a step. Same end result.
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As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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kintwofan said:
As others said doesn't matter. Once you flash aROM you could just flash the LL4 radio and it would be the same as the OTA.
So I guess Odin didn't fix your last one?
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im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
Well if you were me you wouldnt think about it and just root when I got my phone I didnt even sign into google first I skipped all that and was rooted within half an hour of owning my phone...Lol so root away mang
mine came with the ota last Saturday night, i waited til Monday to root just because I've always had htc phones, had to get familiar with touchwiz. took me 10mins to root after i couldn't take all the bloatware anymore
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droidstyle said:
im guessing it had a emmc failure that some have reported.
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Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Yeah guys, odin didn't fix it. I consider myself somewhat of a veteran with phones, rooting, etc. This time it stumped the hell out of me. Absolutely nothing that I did worked.
I want to thank you all for the help, info, etc. I will be back in business soon!
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Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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kintwofan said:
Ya man I've seen you around, I think from the s3 also. I knew you actually knew what you were doing that's why it was so strange Odin didn't fix it. Guess with this beast of a phone we get beast of bugs
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Yup, I had the S3 for a while and was over there. Yeah man, I was chatting to the developer of the Jedi ROM and I sent him the meta folder of the ROM that I flashed for beta testing and he saw some problems. He said it was touching some partitions that it shouldn't be touching.
Anyhow, I guess I learned the hard way to be careful of testing ROMs from devs that I don't really recognize.
Time to root this bad boy and get back in business lol.
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kintwofan said:
Good idea. I thought with that failure it went black with no signs of life, but haven't read up on it. It was a strange that Odin of stock didn't fix it for him.... That's usually a guarantee unbrick
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normally yes...i was just throwing that out there. something was corrupted since recovery was borked.
So I was trying to root my mother's samsung galaxy s 3 using the toolkit version 7.0.0.
I only backed up internal storage and apps. I forgot to do a nandroid back up before I tried the all in one.
On the toolkit, her device wasn't completely supported. It's JZO54K. Android 4.1.2 and it's sprint lte. Her build number wasn't there.
So the guy OP in the toolkit says to use the one closest to you. So I used international 4.1.2 JZO54K.
I got to the odin part, it failed the first time. So I restarted everything. Then tried again. It said RESET as the toolkit said it would. But it was blue instead of green. I though he just made a mistake in the toolkit so I closed it. But it never restarted like it said it would. So I tried to turn on the s3 and it wouldn't do anything. I did a battery pull and tried again. It just flashed samsung for about a second and disappears. Then does absolutely nothing. I tried going into download and recovery mode. Neither worked. Just flashing "samsung" for a second and does nothing.
Help me! This is my mom's device that she wanted me to root and she needs it to work.
UPDATE! I can get it into download mode but nothing else
I know I posted this literally 6 minutes ago and I don't know if anyone can help me now.
But I really need help fast. My skype is JeremyIsLate
This is the international gt-i9300 forum. We can't help. Please try your sprint s3 forum.
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rootSU said:
This is the international gt-i9300 forum. We can't help. Please try your sprint s3 forum.
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It says I may not post a new thread there and nobody there seems to have my problem.
If you can tell me anything I can do to at least get the phone to boot to android, it will be very much appreciated.
Samsung is now offering free repairs on bricked phones. The first time it's free but, the second time you'll have to pay.
I don't know if this will help you but if nothing works you can always try it
Good Luck!
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RaggleFraggles said:
It says I may not post a new thread there and nobody there seems to have my problem.
If you can tell me anything I can do to at least get the phone to boot to android, it will be very much appreciated.
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I can't because im not familiar with your model. I could cause more damage. You can't post in dev. Only Q&A. Click the /!\ report button top right of your post to have it moved
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