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I just bricked my phone... flashed Leo_RADIO_15.28.50.07U_2.05.50.11 on my t mobile u.s hd2 it went to restart and now its dead.
I have the insurance for the phone,, how can i do this without it showing it was flashed? and what should i say?
nirvanafreak919 said:
I just bricked my phone... flashed Leo_RADIO_15.28.50.07U_2.05.50.11 on my t mobile u.s hd2 it went to restart and now its dead.
I have the insurance for the phone,, how can i do this without it showing it was flashed? and what should i say?
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Drop it on a rocky driveway , and by "accident" back over it with your car/truck , but be sure to pull the car/truck forward and back , just to make sure you actually ran over something by "Accident" ...
haha that worked it got tore up. i slanted it up on the tire and it just snapped. thats dude.
This is mad lol, was there no way of getting it into the bootloader screen!?!
nope,, it wouldnt do ****. i just recieved my brand new hd2 in the mail today... pretty surprised the deductable was 130...
Personally I think pictures are in order!
umm, you could have just returned it, lots of people have, it wont power on, right? so they cant see bootloader, so tehy cant see hspl, so they wont complain. Now, however, its an insurance claim rather han a warranty replace, they'l probably want an excess,
Yea if you really broke it your not too bright. You could have made some cash off some sucker or selling it for parts. Also: Pics or it didn't happen.
i hope you get caught for insurance fraud
I hope you don't get caught for insurance fraud and enjoy your new HD2.... If Windows and HTC would of created this phone with the RIGHT software you wouldn't have to be risking bricking it in order to make it work right... SO BLAME THEM!!!
skylinepigeon said:
i hope you get caught for insurance fraud
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Why would you say that , that is just mean .....
This is an illegal practice, as someone stated. Thread closed.
Ok so I had to use Mobile Odin to flash back to stock everything, but I still have the counter (no triangle).
I had bought a Jig that was recommended on here, but it didn't work tried it on several phones just to make sure.
So will it work even with the port messed up, that way I can get another?
It does charge though, but PC won't recognize it and yes I tried different PCs and cables.
It might, but if you're sending it back to AT&T I wouldn't worry too much as long as you're on stock, and erase your internal SD card.
I did that months ago, with a flash counter of 2, and they never did slap me with a charge because of breaking warranty. Plus man, worse comes to worse, you tell them that a "friend" told you he could fix your phone, and you trusted him, but you never did anything other than use the Android Market. They'll buy that, thinking he must of tripped the counter. That was my exit strategy at least, but nah, never got called up even. Shame really.
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It might, but if you're sending it back to AT&T I wouldn't worry too much as long as you're on stock, and erase your internal SD card.
I did that months ago, with a flash counter of 2, and they never did slap me with a charge because of breaking warranty. Plus man, worse comes to worse, you tell them that a "friend" told you he could fix your phone, and you trusted him, but you never did anything other than use the Android Market. They'll buy that, thinking he must of tripped the counter. That was my exit strategy at least, but nah, never got called up even. Shame really.
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Ok that is a good enough answer for me to head over there.
Got a new phone
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LiLChris06 said:
Got a new phone
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Awesome. Glad to hear they took care of you.
cwc3 said:
Awesome. Glad to hear they took care of you.
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The manager technician took out a paper and made sure it was stock by *#1234#.
His assistant didn't even know what phone it was.
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LiLChris06 said:
Got a new phone
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An actual new handset? or refurb?
Forgot to mention the guy in the AT&T store asked "how long have you had this screen protector?"
Mind you I don't and the screen was clean, I really felt like I got helped by morons but glad I was.
twiggums said:
An actual new handset? or refurb?
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Looks brand new to me.
LiLChris06 said:
Forgot to mention the guy in the AT&T store asked "how long have you had this screen protector?"
Mind you I don't and the screen was clean, I really felt like I got helped by morons but glad I was.
Looks brand new to me.
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Probably is a refurb but I've found the refurbs are better than the new. Normally less issues. The people in the AT&T store are clueless, they have not a clue what they are doing but I feel bad for them since they deal with the dumbest people in the world everyday and that would be the average cell phone user blaming them for losing their contacts and pictures. I laugh. I always go in and tell them specifically I need nothing backed up, I also tell them I factory reset and have everything at home on my computer. They normally get me in and out of there within 5 minutes.
So yesterday I tried to use the Juopunutbear S-OFF method, I was super excited to get an s-off method that would not have to brick my phone. It made it even better that I had the live cd burned to my usb ready too go. So i got as far as the wire trick and I even got the screen with Juopunutbear loading on my phone, all the sudden it went black. An I ****ing knew it instantly. I pressed the power button--nothing at all. I must say these last two days without my evo have been so ****ty probably the ****tiest days Ive had since I got the evo 3d last year. But I sent an email to RMA, basically saying that I accepted an OTA and my phone became response less. The worst part is Ive adapted my life to XDA its just something that I do everyday without even thinking about it. And I am still going on when ever I get the chance or I am bored. Anyone have any tips? Experiences? Thoughts on how HTC RMA will respond?
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So yesterday I tried to use the Juopunutbear S-OFF method, I was super excited to get an s-off method that would not have to brick my phone. It made it even better that I had the live cd burned to my usb ready too go. So i got as far as the wire trick and I even got the screen with Juopunutbear loading on my phone, all the sudden it went black. An I ****ing knew it instantly. I pressed the power button--nothing at all. I must say these last two days without my evo have been so ****ty probably the ****tiest days Ive had since I got the evo 3d last year. But I sent an email to RMA, basically saying that I accepted an OTA and my phone became response less. The worst part is Ive adapted my life to XDA its just something that I do everyday without even thinking about it. And I am still going on when ever I get the chance or I am bored. Anyone have any tips? Experiences? Thoughts on how HTC RMA will respond?
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This is why I have insurance. For $10 a month, throw the phone at a sidewalk until the screen is shattered. free instant replacement.
yousefak said:
This is why I have insurance. For $10 a month, throw the phone at a sidewalk until the screen is shattered. free instant replacement.
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I have already had 2 replacements through asurion and Im pretty sure thats the limit.
This happened to me.
I'm planning on going to sprint tomorrow.
Weird thing is my device randomly starts working then stop working by itself.
zbergmark said:
I have already had 2 replacements through asurion and Im pretty sure thats the limit.
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Take it to a store, play dumb.. "I don't know what happened, it just quit". Won't count against your Asurion claims.
zbergmark said:
I have already had 2 replacements through asurion and Im pretty sure thats the limit.
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3 is the max per year I had to call and ask lol
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yousefak said:
This is why I have insurance. For $10 a month, throw the phone at a sidewalk until the screen is shattered. free instant replacement.
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GrandWorks said:
Take it to a store, play dumb.. "I don't know what happened, it just quit". Won't count against your Asurion claims.
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I hope it will work I might take it to best buy as a backup plan because thats where i bought it from.
ckoadiyn said:
3 is the max per year I had to call and ask lol
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Thanks
I should probably change my sig to BRICKED!
iTzLOLtrain said:
I should probably change my sig to BRICKED!
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Has your life sucked as much as mine has since youve bricked?
zbergmark said:
Has your life sucked as much as mine has since youve bricked?
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Lucky no. I have my device under warranty.
iTzLOLtrain said:
Lucky no. I have my device under warranty.
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Are you gunna hboot downgrade your replacement?
zbergmark said:
Are you gunna hboot downgrade your replacement?
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Yeah. That wire trick was a mistake.
I've bricked my device twice to downgrade its no big deal, I dont understand why people are still S-ON
JaY iZz BaKk said:
I've bricked my device twice to downgrade its no big deal, I dont understand why people are still S-ON
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there is ultrahardbricked, hard bricked, and sooft brick. Im talking ultra hard, no status light, nothing at all.
Do this in order:
1. Get a spare sprint phone
2. Change your ESN to that phone
3. After a day or two go back to the 3D and add insurance (you can always add insurance for up to 30 days on any device you activate)
4. Go into sprint get a new phone
5. ?????
6. Proceed to make a 'OMGGGMG GOT A NEW PHONE FROM SPRINT!!!111!1" thread in general or the Q&A
JaY iZz BaKk said:
Do this in order:
1. Get a spare sprint phone
2. Change your ESN to that phone
3. After a day or two go back to the 3D and add insurance (you can always add insurance for up to 30 days on any device you activate)
4. Go into sprint get a new phone
5. ?????
6. Proceed to make a 'OMGGGMG GOT A NEW PHONE FROM SPRINT!!!111!1" thread in general or the Q&A
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They told me 15 days. I don't know the phones are on back order. I have had a s off brick for over a week and finally got my tracking number this morning. I am excited...I have been using a 1970's piece of **** Samsung Instinct...it was the bomb 30 years ago. Ohhh btw LMAO at the guy who said smash his phone into the concrete that made me chuckle.
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Guys I have to close this thread and here's why.
It's been stated many times that rooting your phone voids the warrenty. You knowingly voided the warranty(as we all did), but the discussion has become how and what to do in order to rip off the insurance company to give you a new one after you voided the warranty and forgo your right to use the insurance or the right to get a warranty replacement through Sprint or HTC. That I cannot allow to take place. I hope you can understand, but leaving this open says that xda condones your actions, and I don't believe that's acceptable.
On a side note. That really sucks and I hope you can get your phone fixed, I couldn't imagine life without mine.
This was originally a post about how i stumbled on a problem Chainfire 3D causes which ends up soft bricking your phone. I got a replacement phone from verizon through my warranty and it came with MDK build on it. Apparently its not a good thing to figure out loopholes in the system and share them so ive changed this post to warn people about installing the drivers from the Chainfire 3D app.
Doing a factory reset doesnt wipe root. The root binaries are in system and a FDR only hits data partitions. People doing this is also why insurance deductibles are going up and caps put on how many claims you can file.
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Here goes more people frauding the system, people like you that make insurance claimed raise prices, just deal with what you have. We all want to be flashing yes but is this is what we are ultimately going to be doing for now on on new flagship devices? It's one of the reasons they actually lock bootloaders because if it were unlocked there will be even more cries about bricks and people attempting stuff without researching, we can all argue back and forth about all that but seriously guys? Breaking your phone on purpose, obsurd.
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hexitnow said:
Doing a factory reset doesnt wipe root. The root binaries are in system and a FDR only hits data partitions. People doing this is also why insurance deductibles are going up and caps put on how many claims you can file.
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Even if root isnt wiped during a factory reset they wouldnt see that. I would assume that once they try to boot the phone and it doesnt work theyll just use whatever software they use to set it back to stock and get it ready to send out to some other person. Im not saying this is the best idea. I just happened to stumble upon it and once i had an excuse to get a replacement i went for it. Obviously i very well could have used the stock tar file floating around and fixed it but i hate TouchWiz and the stupid features that came with the phone. I honestly doubt this is why insurance deductibles are going up considering i didnt use my insurance to get my phone replaced. it fell under the manufacturers warranty. if i wanted insurance to replace the phone i could have just dropped it "on accident".
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Even if root isnt wiped during a factory reset they wouldnt see that. I would assume that once they try to boot the phone and it doesnt work theyll just use whatever software they use to set it back to stock and get it ready to send out to some other person. Im not saying this is the best idea. I just happened to stumble upon it and once i had an excuse to get a replacement i went for it. Obviously i very well could have used the stock tar file floating around and fixed it but i hate TouchWiz and the stupid features that came with the phone. I honestly doubt this is why insurance deductibles are going up considering i didnt use my insurance to get my phone replaced. it fell under the manufacturers warranty. if i wanted insurance to replace the phone i could have just dropped it "on accident".
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You hate touchwiz but you bought a touch wiz based phone. Lol smh.
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hexitnow said:
You hate touchwiz but you bought a touch wiz based phone. Lol smh.
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Didnt hate it until after i had used it. I had planned on putting a custom rom on the phone as soon as i had gotten it. Ive seen how much faster the GS4 performs when its running a pure android rom. My phone is at least twice as fast now that ive switched from the stock rom to an AOSP based rom. i know it doesnt really mean anything but i also scored almost 2000 points higher on my Antutu benchmark test.
I wish there was an "unlike" or "thumbs down button" Don't break your phone on purpose people...
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If Verizon would just unlock everything people wouldn't have to accidentally break their phones. I personally bought the phone outright to keep my unlimited data I feel that since I did that I should be able to do what ever I want to MY PHONE! ! ! Plus I pay every month for my insurance and in doing so the insurance company takes the risk that something might happen to my phone to where they have to replace it and if nothing happens to my phone well that make out like bandits because I'm still paying each month for their insurance that I don't use.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"
"Oderint Dum Metuant"
haza12d said:
I wish there was an "unlike" or "thumbs down button" Don't break your phone on purpose people...
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Agreed
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stvn2569 said:
If Verizon would just unlock everything people wouldn't have to accidentally break their phones. I personally bought the phone outright to keep my unlimited data I feel that since I did that I should be able to do what ever I want to MY PHONE! ! ! Plus I pay every month for my insurance and in doing so the insurance company takes the risk that something might happen to my phone to where they have to replace it and if nothing happens to my phone well that make out like bandits because I'm still paying each month for their insurance that I don't use.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"
"Oderint Dum Metuant"
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I agree with you there. What i do with my phone is my business exspecially since i payed for the phone outright instead of getting it through an upgrade for free and i also pay for insurance. I didnt figure out how to break my phone then break it. i just figured out one thing on accident and decided not to fix it on my own (which i could have done very easily). The phone also had several issues right out of the box that would never seem to happen when id go into verizon. All the negative feedback to my post has forced me to change it to a warning about chainfire 3D. but that wont stop someone from figuring out they can get their phone replaced this way, but im also not forcing anyone to do this, its your phone do what you want with it.
Wtf is this thread all about? Warranty fraud isn't cool.
Lets not start a debate judging others morality/immorality or ethical/unethical decisions. This is so subjective, we might as well start arguing about whether there is a god or start debating about when the age of viability is for a fetus. Just keep your opinion to yourself, I don't care if you want to screw the system or not, theres not right or wrong in the grey area. Just dont be annoying about it like the people who knock on my door trying to convince me to join their religion, preaching they carry "the message of god". Like I tell them, then sing a prayer about it instead of annoying me, god damnit. This should be locked, the entire thread is a logical fallacy.
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Agree, this thread should be locked.
Users who think XDA is a site to perpetuate fraud are mistaken...To ask for help recovering from a bricked device is fine, you all should be fully aware of the chances you take when you came here, using fraudulent recovery maneuvers is not how we do things...be adult about your mistakes, claim accountability on your own and pay up.
And, for those who are offended about this, thanks, but instead of replying, next time just report the thread and a moderator will handle from there. Thanks
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Well everybody my Mega is there at Samsung in Plano, TX hopefully getting reflashed or repaired or whatever the hell they're gonna do to it. Hopefully it's FUBAR and they can't tell it's been rooted lol.
Sub'd. I need to know how this goes, because I am getting sick of not having my phone work. I don't trust them, but my distrust is being outweighed by my massive lack of patience.
cbass said:
Sub'd. I need to know how this goes, because I am getting sick of not having my phone work. I don't trust them, but my distrust is being outweighed by my massive lack of patience.
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The lack of patience is why I didn't wait more than a day before sending it lol. I'll keep ya posted for sure. If it works, i'll tell you exactly what I did to mess it up as bad as I did.
I think you'll be fine. Like three years ago when I was a android rookie I had brick my vibrant and couldn't figure out how to fix it. It was rooted and bricked and I couldn't fix it so I said **** it and I sent it to samsung on the hopes they wouldn't discover my unlawfulness. Well two weeks after I got it back fresh in a new box. Perfectly fixed.
Also one time I had an iPhone 3gs that was jailbroken but the screen was broken and wouldn't recognize any touching on it. So I just handed it to the guy and he couldn't slide to unlock it to check it out so they gave me a refurbished one without even checking if I had messed with it. Got lucky on both days I guess haha :good:
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I sent mine out monday morning,got there today.Its already fixed and being sent out today,should be back by monday.I soft bricked mine trying to achieve root and it wouldn't boot passed the samsung galaxy mega statup.They fixed with just a stock firmware update,which I could of done myself if I had the stock odin firmware tar file,o well at least it ffixed and ill have it back within 7 days,not bad thought it would take at least two weeks
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I sent mine out monday morning,got there today.Its already fixed and being sent out today,should be back by monday.I soft bricked mine trying to achieve root and it wouldn't boot passed the samsung galaxy mega statup.They fixed with just a stock firmware update,which I could of done myself if I had the stock odin firmware tar file,o well at least it ffixed and ill have it back within 7 days,not bad thought it would take at least two weeks
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Oh nice! How the hell is yours fixed and all the way back to you? I even called to expedite mine lol.
PhilupBlunts said:
I think you'll be fine. Like three years ago when I was a android rookie I had brick my vibrant and couldn't figure out how to fix it. It was rooted and bricked and I couldn't fix it so I said **** it and I sent it to samsung on the hopes they wouldn't discover my unlawfulness. Well two weeks after I got it back fresh in a new box. Perfectly fixed.
Also one time I had an iPhone 3gs that was jailbroken but the screen was broken and wouldn't recognize any touching on it. So I just handed it to the guy and he couldn't slide to unlock it to check it out so they gave me a refurbished one without even checking if I had messed with it. Got lucky on both days I guess haha :good:
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Yeah but back then I dont think samsung had the counter flash... If you send a phone witch is brick and wont go to download mode is possible they will never find out but it is obvious that if JTAG works it was not a hardware issue
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Oh nice! How the hell is yours fixed and all the way back to you? I even called to expedite mine lol.
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Any updates? I'm really not stoked on how long this entire process is taking, and I'm not even the guy whose phone they have!
cbass said:
Any updates? I'm really not stoked on how long this entire process is taking, and I'm not even the guy whose phone they have!
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Maaaaaaan I've been checking on this crap every day lol. On Friday afternoon I got a call saying that my LCD was damaged and had to be replaced. That fee was $200, but I raised hell for like 30 minutes telling them to just use my old LCD because it still worked and I just wanted my phone reflashed. Needless to say, my LCD was replaced free of charge and that I should have my phone back by Friday 11-1-13 or before. This was on Friday and I called yesterday and they couldn't tell me anything because there were no updates in the system. I checked today and still no updates in their system.
Side note: Did you see a message in Kies saying that the firmware was now available for our device? I swear I saw something to that effect the last time I got on my computer. Would that help you out at all?
ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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Just checked on my phone and it should be shipping back to me today so I hope like hell i'll get it tomorrow. I honestly think you'll be ok. Two of the CSRs mentioned to me that they reflash the devices before they even inspect them.
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There is a new firmware update, but it's not supported by AT&T due to the locked bootloader.
Send it on!!!!!!
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ODIN flashable firmware is my last hope, i suspect it will work, but only time will tell. I keep searching, checking sammobile, but nothing yet.
I'm to the point where I am holding off on buying car mods to do this winter because I have a sinking feeling I will be buying a new phone in the near future.
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Hey i got my phone back. It took 8 business days, but because i was refuising to pay for the lcd repair. I have my phone back. They reflashed it at no charge and all that. They told me they do that before they inspect anything. I would imagine your would be reflashed and returned fairly quickly.
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Hey i got my phone back. It took 8 business days, but because i was refuising to pay for the lcd repair. I have my phone back. They reflashed it at no charge and all that. They told me they do that before they inspect anything. I would imagine your would be reflashed and returned fairly quickly.
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Nice to hear and it works likes it should again. :good: