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I flashed the jellybean port over in the i9100 section and it booted but then i restarted my phone and it didnt boot so i had to repartition and flash all the pits and stuff and now when i boot it goes straight to recovery and dosnt let me select things or get into download mode
Odin flash back to stock pics or pics rom?
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I flashed the jellybean port over in the i9100 section and it booted but then i restarted my phone and it didnt boot so i had to repartition and flash all the pits and stuff and now when i boot it goes straight to recovery and dosnt let me select things or get into download mode
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Did you try selecting with the home button, please tell me you did
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Yes I did and it won't let me go into download mode
Can you force download mode by plugging in while holding sound up and dowb and power buttons or is it just sound up and down?
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On the i9100 thread you already asked in.
lys2002123 said:
Grab a pit file for your i777 and push it with odin. Then your partition will be recovered.
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I saw you asked if it worked for i777 if its not in this section don't try to flash it to this phone. There the same phone but its not exactly the same so that's why we have ports from the i9100 from the first 5-6 pages I read they are hardly able to get things fully working and a list of broken items like wifi camera ect.
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I called att and got a replacement for free
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moneyover said:
I called att and got a replacement for free
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How'd that happen?
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Had the same problem trying to root and flash 1900. Phone did some weird things when I kept trying to boot it but, finally it went to the download screen (don't know y it didn't the 10 other times) and I flashed the original.zip and went through the motions again and all is fine now.
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How'd that happen?
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They said since its under one year warranty they would take care of it and today i got my replacement working good
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moneyover said:
They said since its under one year warranty they would take care of it and today i got my replacement working good
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did it still have stock recovery? If not, you might get a 500 dollar bill from att when they discover that...
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did it still have stock recovery? If not, you might get a 500 dollar bill from att when they discover that...
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I was just gonna say, when they get into Download mode and check that flash counter, or see that yellow triangle, that replacement is gonna cost you full price.. And you can bet they'll automatically tack it on to your next bill.
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I'd like to let him sit and squirm thinking he'll get it full price and someone will get grounded but if it didn't flash would it count?
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thanitos said:
I'd like to let him sit and squirm thinking he'll get it full price and someone will get grounded but if it didn't flash would it count?
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You're mean
I don't know for sure, but I would imagine if it didn't flash, the counter won't trigger and he'll be OK. That's why I asked about the recovery - if it's still stock the flash probably didn't take. If it is a custom recovery, it probably means that the flash took and borked his phone...that would be the case where I would think he could expect a hefty phone bill when they catch on...
Well they would charge him for shipping the new phone checking the old phone, won't be pretty lol. This is what you get for just diving into flashing formware , I read the topic he flashed from and I knew it wasn't good for our phone yet it wasn't ported to i777 so there's no way I'd flash that.
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Lol no i reset the counter before i bricked and it is stock i9100 recovery so they look the same but the button configuration is different
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Well they would charge him for shipping the new phone checking the old phone, won't be pretty lol. This is what you get for just diving into flashing formware , I read the topic he flashed from and I knew it wasn't good for our phone yet it wasn't ported to i777 so there's no way I'd flash that.
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Hey atleast it booted i got to play with jellybean
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Its stock i9100 recovery? So it isn't i777 stock? Yeah, that'll totally pass the radar lol
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I called att and got a replacement for free
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Your phone was totally recoverable. In my view, you should have taken responsibility for your actions, and stayed with the issue till you fixed it.
It's a shame, and just plain wrong, when people abuse the warranty to get a new phone for free when the problem was due to their own actions. It's like stealing. From my time in the forum, however, it seems to be rather common behavior. I even see a post from time to time where one person advises another to do this.
At least AT&T/Samsung wind up with a phone which can be repaired and resold.
And now, since you sent them an I777 which boots to stock I9100 recovery, you will have a month or two of existential anxiety while you wait to see if they charge you full price for the phone, as written in their warranty.
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Oh goodie! You messed up your phone and got AT&T to fix it by giving you a new phone, the cost of which they can easily pass on to their other users.:good:
If u screw up yer phone, and u don't want to bother with trying to get "technical" and figure it out, there is a good chance this cycle will repeat itself. I would suggest taking a few days and just pouring over all information available here on how to do things and getting things properly understood before u go about flashing again.
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Mobile Tech Videos just added the AT&T LGOG to his JTAG Service. JTAG fixes permanent bricks where the device won't even boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRXhJxbtYY
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/lg-optimus-g-jtag-brick-repair/
I bricked my OG when my computer crashed in the middle of a LGNPST. I shipped mine out to him earlier this week. I'll let you know how it goes.
Damn that's actually a really cool idea. Wish I knew more about this stuff. I would totally open a shop in the mall that specializes in all kinds of phone repair.
I wish I knew what they did Lol
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daboyal006 said:
I wish I knew what they did Lol
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Basically what he does is, he uses his JTAG device and program to reflash the bootloader/download mode to the device. This is why he has to open the phone up and solder wires directly to the mainboard. Once the bootloader is all working, he can put the phone back together and reboot the phone into download mode. From there he most likely uses LGNPST to flash back all the other partitions.
This is just my best guess from watching the video.
Lol the phone in the video is my actual phone. The one I'm responding on right now. He did a great job. Thanks josh @ mobiletechvideos.com.
Im not scared to try anything on my phone anymore since I know I can always get it fixed lol
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Lol the phone in the video is my actual phone. The one I'm responding on right now. He did a great job. Thanks josh @ mobiletechvideos.com.
Im not scared to try anything on my phone anymore since I know I can always get it fixed lol
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Well thanks to you now the many LGOG xda-ers don't have to be afraid either. Glad to see your return, not that you really left though.
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I'll be sending my HTC One X out to him soon. Be nice to have a back up phone. Love that phone.
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This should be stickied imo
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This should be stickied imo
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I don't think it should be sticked but the info should go into either Pony's FAQ thread or Carrett's Everything Thread. If someone bricks they are most likely to look there first.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for Verizon that I ran Casual on unlocked the bootloader, rooted it and put a custom Rom on. Then it all when to heck!! Loaded CleanRom on it but didn't like the Storage and SD card thing so I Flashed the changeup but apparantley I missed something in there becuse it wasn't right it would put apps on the sd card memory but pictures on the internal memory. Said I was out of space for updates and so on. Couldnt get it fixed and flashed Mean Bean to it. It worked for 3 days and began boot looping and I tried factory restore and It says something about efs files E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid Argument). Sent it to repair shop in Irving Tx. they have had it 2 weeks and they say if they can't fix it by Monday, there going to ship it back to me, still broken. Can this be fixed or do I have a $600.00 paperweight
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073654
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073654
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Thank you very much for the link, looks pretty complicated, I have only rooted 3 phones. 2 Motorola Droids 1 was an X2 and an LG Spectrum. This is very complicated stuff. The shop that had my phone is sending it back to me tomorrow, no charge they say the only way it can be fixed is under warranty, which I have voided by unlocking the bootloader and rooting it.
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Thank you very much for the link, looks pretty complicated, I have only rooted 3 phones. 2 Motorola Droids 1 was an X2 and an LG Spectrum. This is very complicated stuff. The shop that had my phone is sending it back to me tomorrow, no charge they say the only way it can be fixed is under warranty, which I have voided by unlocking the bootloader and rooting it.
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If anyone knows someone in the DFW area or anywhere who can fix this, send me a link and I will give them a try. I just want my phone working again. It's pretty stupid to be able to keep your unlimited data with Verizon you have to buy a phone at full price. I have a lot invested here!!! Thanks everybody!!
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Thank you very much for the link, looks pretty complicated, I have only rooted 3 phones. 2 Motorola Droids 1 was an X2 and an LG Spectrum. This is very complicated stuff. The shop that had my phone is sending it back to me tomorrow, no charge they say the only way it can be fixed is under warranty, which I have voided by unlocking the bootloader and rooting it.
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This is really not a very complicated procedure. Everything you would have to do you can look up and find out how to do it via Google. Its better than having to pay $60 to have it JTAGed. I'm not even sure if JTAGing it would be the way to go seeing as how it giant hard bricked and the steps to fix it are fairly explained in that thread. If you cant do what the thread explains find a techie family member or friend, show them the thread and ask them to do it.
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I have talked to some cellphone repair people and they all have said that you can't JTAG a Note 2 yet. I appreciate your help, but I took it to Dallas today to the shop, I don't want to take anymore chances.
romotx said:
I have talked to some cellphone repair people and they all have said that you can't JTAG a Note 2 yet. I appreciate your help, but I took it to Dallas today to the shop, I don't want to take anymore chances.
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The people you have been talking to apparently don't know jack diddly ****, look up MobileTechVideos. He is the communities go to guy and has been JTAGing Note 2s for quite a while. Don't believe everything you hear from these repair shops, most of them won't even know what the hell a JTAG is let alone if its available, which it is.
I have a very bad feeling about this shop, I'm pretty sure they're going to screw you pretty hard when you could've sent it off for $60 and had it JTAGed.
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Repair shop? I bet you also inherited millions from your dead Nigerian Prince uncle.
Send me a G and I'll fix it.
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Solution: JTAG $60
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Repair shop? I bet you also inherited millions from your dead Nigerian Prince uncle.
Send me a G and I'll fix it.
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Solution: JTAG $60
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He doesn't like to listen to people on the forums who have gone through this **** before, he only listens to repair shops that don't even know what JTAGing is.
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He doesn't like to listen to people on the forums who have gone through this **** before, he only listens to repair shops that don't even know what JTAGing is.
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He's what slimy salesmen call a "hot lead".
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He's what slimy salesmen call a "hot lead".
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Hence why I avoid said slim salesmen like the plague.
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Romotx - You jumped into the pool when you started flashing, but then you didn't want to learn how to swim. Did you even try typing the commands in the linked thread? That's how it works you type commands carefully and when you get an error you look that error up and try it again. Got a new error, look that one up, and so on. The more you do, the more help you get here. But it sounds like you were not very careful to start with to bork your phone that bad.
It's too late for you, but for others, when something goes wrong take a step back and take a breath. Do some reading, make sure you understand where you went wrong, and what and why you are doing next to your phone. What ever you did should have been an easy fix at some earlier point in time.
But good luck in getting your phone repaired.
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Romotx - You jumped into the pool when you started flashing, but then you didn't want to learn how to swim. Did you even try typing the commands in the linked thread? That's how it works you type commands carefully and when you get an error you look that error up and try it again. Got a new error, look that one up, and so on. The more you do, the more help you get here. But it sounds like you were not very careful to start with to bork your phone that bad.
It's too late for you, but for others, when something goes wrong take a step back and take a breath. Do some reading, make sure you understand where you went wrong, and what and why you are doing next to your phone. What ever you did should have been an easy fix at some earlier point in time.
But good luck in getting your phone repaired.
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The answer is no he didn't try the commands, he seafood it was to difficult.
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The answer is no he didn't try the commands, he seafood it was to difficult.
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Thanks for all of ya'lls help. Come here asking questions and get beat over the head. GEEZ!!!
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My phone will only go into download mode and when you try to do a recovery I get this
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Yes and that link that was posted earlier tells you exactly how to fix it. You just don't want to use it. If you can't get into CWM or TWRP try it on what shows up when you boot into recovery, for Christ's sake it's even telling you to use ADB commands which is exactly what that thread tells you to do. If you had pages attention you would know that.
Instead of taking it to a "shop" that obviously doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground you should listen to the people in the community who have been through this before.
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romotx said:
Thanks for all of ya'lls help. Come here asking questions and get beat over the head. GEEZ!!!
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We did help you! You now know that you don't take your phone to a "repair shop"! Lol.
But seriously, listen to dude above, or wait for droidstyle or kintwofan to pop in. They'll answer the same way they do every other time this happens. Search for "bricked note 2 xda" and add "kintwofan" or "droidstyle" to the mix (WILDCARD) and see how many hits you get. Doesn't matter if the symptoms aren't exact - TRY IT.
What bad can happen? You gonna brick your phone? Hell, it may even start working again!?
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We did help you! You now know that you don't take your phone to a "repair shop"! Lol.
But seriously, listen to dude above, or wait for droidstyle or kintwofan to pop in. They'll answer the same way they do every other time this happens. Search for "bricked note 2 xda" and add "kintwofan" or "droidstyle" to the mix (WILDCARD) and see how many hits you get. Doesn't matter if the symptoms aren't exact - TRY IT.
What bad can happen? You gonna brick your phone? Hell, it may even start working again!?
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I got this reply from mobiletechvideos.com
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You can get into download mode, correct? I bet someone here can fix you up.
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I got this reply from mobiletechvideos.com
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Its very odd that it was advertised recently then, hmmm I have to see what I can find out.
As for the option that someone else linked earlier, have you tried it yet? It seems like the perfect solution to your problem. Granted you can't get into recovery the screen it shows you tells you to use ADB which is exactly what the fix uses.
As for beating you over the head, what the hell do you expect? You come asking for advice and then don't take ANY of it and act like we are all fools.
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Its very odd that it was advertised recently then, hmmm I have to see what I can find out.
As for the option that someone else linked earlier, have you tried it yet? It seems like the perfect solution to your problem. Granted you can't get into recovery the screen it shows you tells you to use ADB which is exactly what the fix uses.
As for beating you over the head, what the hell do you expect? You come asking for advice and then don't take ANY of it and act like we are all fools.
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I never acted like anybody was a fool. I have been lurking and reading for years on here. I respect everyone's advice here! I have a $600.00 phone that I screwed up,yes thats what you have to do with Verizon to keep your unlimited data plan that they grandfathered you into and now when you want to upgrade it's pay full price for the phone or you get 2Gb. plan, and I don't feel confident enough to fix it like you guys suggest. I have never used ADB, I have never had a brand of phone where you could unlock the bootloader, I'm not a command and scripts and whatever voodoo you guys do to these phones.kind of guy. I can build computers and I have rooted and put roms on 2 other phones. I can't afford to buy another phone and in this backwoods hick town when you talk to anybody about rooting a phone they have no idea what the heck your even talking about.
Just acquired a incredible 4g, finally get to upgrade forums. I need some questions answered tho. I have a unaltered device and use page plus. The following are things I need to know please. Yes I have searched but nothing real recent and prefer advice from people here.
**how to flash for use on page plus. Step by step.
**should device be rooted prior to the page plus flash.
**phone still has SIM card with it, should this stay?
SIM need to be altered in anyway?
Best to remove SIM if no global travel.
**any other advice that anyone feels useful. Very excited to get started. Thanks in advance.
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Surely somebody has something. Even a hey dumbass.
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Guess not. Wasted money I suppose.
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Go to one of your locale page plus dealers. They should be able to tell you if it is compatible with the network and flash or for you.
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did not really have the extra cash but ended up having it flashed. had hoped to find some way of saving that $50 but well worth the cost.
I have looked in the proper threads , but not finding anyone that has done the bootloader unlock manually in a long time.
Had some odd complications with the one click casual , I know user error right.
I feel I can do this manually if I knew the proper sequence of what to push and install to the phone .
Im pretty confident in my skills with ADB, Fastboot, and Odin.
I also am aware of the dangers . So if anyone would like to chime in Id be grateful.
I have already downloaded the lastest nightly CASUAL jar and extracted it. Just need to know what needs to go where and so forth.
Thanks in advance!
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I have looked in the proper threads , but not finding anyone that has done the bootloader unlock manually in a long time.
Had some odd complications with the one click casual , I know user error right.
I feel I can do this manually if I knew the proper sequence of what to push and install to the phone .
Im pretty confident in my skills with ADB, Fastboot, and Odin.
I also am aware of the dangers . So if anyone would like to chime in Id be grateful.
I have already downloaded the lastest nightly CASUAL jar and extracted it. Just need to know what needs to go where and so forth.
Thanks in advance!
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Uhhh.. I had problems with it too cause I run a weird distro that was angering it with paths and versions of various things.
I would up unpacking it, and repacking it and running it that way. It took several attempts to get all the paths right and so fourth. Can you post some straces or logs here and we can see what's horking up?
IIRC, there's a master script in there that does most of the heavy lifting and a lot of dynamically compiled progs and a few statics once you extract it all by hand.
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Thanks SamsungSOB. There is another interesting twist add well. If my Internet connection is active. It will not go further than the start text. Click "do it" and nothing. I have to disconnect internet then it will goto download mode and fail trying to push the pit file.
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Been trying on Linux Mint 15 today and same issues. Have to disable internet, then when you click "do it" it will try to load the pit but it fails.
Linux and Windows both have the same issue. I don't know what Casual tries to look for on the Web but there is something to this.
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icem237 said:
Been trying on Linux Mint 15 today and same issues. Have to disable internet, then when you click "do it" it will try to load the pit but it fails.
Linux and Windows both have the same issue. I don't know what Casual tries to look for on the Web but there is something to this.
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You may want to post in the CASUAL thread and see if Adam or any of the other guys/gals on there can help you out, they'll no doubt know more seeing as how they deal with this all the time.
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shangrila500 said:
You may want to post in the CASUAL thread and see if Adam or any of the other guys/gals on there can help you out, they'll no doubt know more seeing as how they deal with this all the time.
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Your right. Just my posts are not high enough yet to do that. Almost there though!
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icem237 said:
Your right. Just my posts are not high enough yet to do that. Almost there though!
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Gotcha, I figured that was part of it.
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Gotcha, I figured that was part of it.
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Thanks! I've read read till I'm blue in the face trying to find someone that has had the same symptoms but not found it yet.
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icem237 said:
Thanks! I've read read till I'm blue in the face trying to find someone that has had the same symptoms but not found it yet.
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Well there was a case similar to yours where they had flashed stock using the Note 2 Toolkit and it was a pre-release version and AFAIK it had to be JTAGed. Mainly because one user tried doing a lot of stuff and I think the guy who got it back just didn't want to or have the time to fool with it anymore.
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Well there was a case similar to yours where they had flashed stock using the Note 2 Toolkit and it was a pre-release version and AFAIK it had to be JTAGed. Mainly because one user tried doing a lot of stuff and I think the guy who got it back just didn't want to or have the time to fool with it anymore.
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Oh boy. I'm familiar with jtag but not with phones. Sounds like a learning experience.
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icem237 said:
Oh boy. I'm familiar with jtag but not with phones. Sounds like a learning experience.
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Well you would have to send it off to MobileTechVideos to do it.
And just in case you are wondering the JTAG they use for our phones is called a Riff Box, you can find them on eBay for $50-$200 depending on how lucky you are.
The way it works, just in case you don't know how it works with phones, is they pull the MoBo and solder the Riffs little interface wires (they're just individual pieces of ribbon cable) to the phones JTAG contacts. You can actually build an interface for your phones MoBo for the JTAG with breadboard that way you don't have to solder directly to it, AdamOutler has a video in which he uses a Riff box and uses the custom breadboard piece to JTAG the phone (I think it was the VZW S3) back to life.
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shangrila500 said:
Well you would have to send it off to MobileTechVideos to do it.
And just in case you are wondering the JTAG they use for our phones is called a Riff Box, you can find them on eBay for $50-$200 depending on how lucky you are.
The way it works, just in case you don't know how it works with phones, is they pull the MoBo and solder the Riffs little interface wires (they're just individual pieces of ribbon cable) to the phones JTAG contacts. You can actually build an interface for your phones MoBo for the JTAG with breadboard that way you don't have to solder directly to it, AdamOutler has a video in which he uses a Riff box and uses the custom breadboard piece to JTAG the phone (I think it was the VZW S3) back to life.
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Checking into it now. Thanks!
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I think my phone is okay. As adb works flawlessly and download mode will work perfect with Odin.
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icem237 said:
I think my phone is okay. As adb works flawlessly and download mode will work perfect with Odin.
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Yeah but from what the other person experienced there was no way to get off that version therefore there was no way to unlock or accept updates. What exactly is your version number?
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exactly! Avoid that prerelease firmware like its the plague!! Whever it came from, go back and tell them to pull it asap!!!!
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exactly! Avoid that prerelease firmware like its the plague!! Whever it came from, go back and tell them to pull it asap!!!!
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I know in the other thread it cane from the Toolkit. Its probably where this came from as well, that is the only source of it I have been able to find.
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