Alright so lets start with the basics. This phone has been rooted (cf auto root) and still contains factory recovery. All these issues popped up at the exact same time, Saturday morning.
1.) The volume control (not just button, but also in the software side to load it up) will lag for about 30 seconds and nothing is responsive except for the power button. If I hit the power button I will be in a loop for about 2 minutes of the screen staying black with the buttons lighting up. But the button works perfect in recovery.
2.) The camera has server connection issues or pops up with the camera failed issue. Once when i was exiting the camera during one of its laggy moment to try and load the image portion (the software buttons would load sometimes but the "view finder" wont) of the camera and the camera actually popped up for a second or two as I hit the home button to exit it and has only done this once. For this I tried clearing cache and data which did not fix it.
3.) Most programs (stock apps or 3rd party) randomly crash including system.
I also tried loading in safe mode before the reset which just told me it was not a 3rd party based issue.
I have already performed a factory reset and wiped cache but has not fixed this. Is the hardware actually messed up or is there some random chance that the software is just so messed up that even the reset will not fix it? Cat logs needed?
I left the S3 for power button failure and don't want another hardware issue (had it for 2 years before the button failed).
TIA
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4.) Now lockscreen is hardly letting me load into the phone.
I think I'm just going to go to the store and throw this phone at someone.
Go into a store and get it replaced. Hope that they don't check knox.
You tried flashing stock via Odin and see what happens ?
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mahanddeem said:
You tried flashing stock via Odin and see what happens ?
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I wouldn't bother. If it's within 14 days, you have a right to a working phone.
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I wouldn't bother. If it's within 14 days, you have a right to a working phone.
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I would bother if it's just a matter of stock odin flash then everything comes back to normal, you can never know if next device would be defective or not, will you replace AGAIN ?
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I would bother if it's just a matter of stock odin flash then everything comes back to normal, you can never know if next device would be defective or not, will you replace AGAIN ?
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Yeah I would. If I pay $700 for a phone it better work properly or I'm going to keep exchanging it.
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Went to the store with it rooted and had to go home to unroot it, after that the paperwork was started. They are overnighting a phone out to arrive Tuesday. The problems just keep popping up too, can no longer send message or make phone calls. I had the phone for 26 days so I was still in the grace period for buying the warranty, which I now did and the cost of replacement is only $5. I think I was unable to buy a warranty on day one due to some bs with plan changes (I was on an ancient plan with unlimited data and zero throttling for cheap back from when the Vibrant came out). My brother who also got an S5 a week later on the same plan was unable to buy a warranty as well for the same reason.
The only thing I did not do was odin a stock rom but with the cheap cost I figured it was worth it to just get a new phone. This phone has come into contact with many chemicals (had a pocket full of powdered sanitizer that broke open all over me) and plenty of barley dust so I figured why not just exchange.
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I would bother if it's just a matter of stock odin flash then everything comes back to normal, you can never know if next device would be defective or not, will you replace AGAIN ?
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Just a risk have to be willing to take I guess.
DeadDoc said:
Went to the store with it rooted and had to go home to unroot it, after that the paperwork was started. They are overnighting a phone out to arrive Tuesday. The problems just keep popping up too, can no longer send message or make phone calls. I had the phone for 26 days so I was still in the grace period for buying the warranty, which I now did and the cost of replacement is only $5. I think I was unable to buy a warranty on day one due to some bs with plan changes (I was on an ancient plan with unlimited data and zero throttling for cheap back from when the Vibrant came out). My brother who also got an S5 a week later on the same plan was unable to buy a warranty as well for the same reason.
The only thing I did not do was odin a stock rom but with the cheap cost I figured it was worth it to just get a new phone. This phone has come into contact with many chemicals (had a pocket full of powdered sanitizer that broke open all over me) and plenty of barley dust so I figured why not just exchange.
Just a risk have to be willing to take I guess.
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Yeah, see the chemical thing would have been good to mention in the OP.
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Yeah, see the chemical thing would have been good to mention in the OP.
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Was mostly just powdered sanitizer and none got inside the case. And at the same time, my Vibrant and S3 were both in the same work environment. I wonder if the phone can handle falling in beer....
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To get to the point, people DON'T UPDATE YOUR VIBRANTS and T-MOBILE HANDLES THE ISSUE HORRIBLY! Obviously this is not a universal problem, but if you do happen to be one of the lucky ones that bricks their phone with the update there is no saving it (at least with the help of T-mobile).
I just got off of the phone with tech support and they were less than helpful. After the regular punching in numbers, talking to two different people, and trying to re-boots that everyone with half a brain have tried, they informed me that they would replace the phone but I had to PAY for shipping. While I realize this is a normal policy when it comes to random malfunctions, which may or may not have been the users fault, this is absolutely ridiculous when the problem is 100% their fault. Seriously, T-mobile ships a top of the line phone that has some major flaws and inactivated software (media hub), then breaks the phone with it's official update, and somehow this is MY responsibility to pay to get fixed? The rep even asked if I at this point wanted to add insurance so next time I wouldn't have to pay for shipping and if I wanted to pay extra for expedited shipping! They were trying to make an add-on sale while fixing an issue THEY caused!
That's not even the end of it, because I was so irritated they sent me to a "loyalty specialist" (who sounded like a used car salesman). He rambled on about how he would waive the shipping fee (he made it sound like he just saved my first born child). I told him I appreciated that but it didn't fix the fact that T-Mobile was not handling the issue well. When a large number of phones break from an issue originating from the provider they should either 1) have re-furbished phones (or even set aside new phones if necessary) to replace these broken phones as they come up or 2) offer free over night shipping of the replacement phone. He told me that these options were too expensive for T-Mobile, and that if I like I could sign up for either of their two insurance plans, as they would allow me to do an in-store replacement (he later noted that one of them was only available within the first 14 days of owning the phone...). I couldn't believe they were trying to another add-on sale! The best part being, I later called around to all my local T-Mobile owned stores and none of them have the Vibrant available for in-store replacement (and never have).
So the Cliff-Notes of my rant:
1) DON'T UPDATE YOUR VIBRANT
2) If you did brick your phone, make sure to complain and they should refund the ridiculous shipping charge
3) If you don't own a Vibrant and are thinking about it consider the following (Don't let it stop you, just consider it):
- Still on 2.1, when Nexus One has been on 2.2 for months (and the Galaxy S 2.2 official ROM has been leaked so it does exist in some form.) => Meaning updates are super scarce and extremely late.
- T-Mobile is selling a good phone with many flaws, and their first attempt to fix it bricked many phones (do a google search I am not the only one).
- While it may be better than other companies, T-Mobiles customer service is FAR from flawless
P.S. My phone was completely stock (so please don't mention how I did this with a lag fix, etc.). I waited at least 15 mins before I pulled the battery, before which I had noted the T-Mobile sound starting without the animation (seems like a timing issue or something). And finally, I realize this is a duplicate post to many others but I want people to find this info (not be at the bottom of a really long thread) to get the word out how T-Mobile deals with their errors.
I hate when people mess with their phones then get angry at a company for "breaking" their phone. Im running stock rom with root and also got bricked, but, I manned up and knew I was in the wrong and accepted what happened. I didn't put the blame on TMo, because completely untouched vibrants that I was aware of had no issues with this OTA. If you added functionality to it after the fact that it wasn't originally on there before when you initially purchased it; then its YOUR fault that it bricked, NOT T-mobiles. Take some responsibility and stop crying.
Had the same problem but this is a pretty fix using Odin.
If you install an update from an OTA T-Mobile should be held responsible
I don't know about you guys but when you have been a customer for 10+ years, T-Mobile will pretty much suck your balls.
Either way, if you guys rooted it, then that takes the fault from T-Mobile to you. You changed the phone. The update was designed for a pristine un-edited Samsung Vibrant, if you changed anything in the system by rooting or flashing it is your fault for changing the equation. T-Mobile is NOT at fault for your actions.
Yeah why warranty the phone when you can just ODIN and fix it yourself? Do a xda search. If you're gonna use xda to complain at least use it to solve your own problems as well. Unless your phone is hardware locked it is 100 % fixable.
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I hate when people mess with their phones then get angry at a company for "breaking" their phone. Im running stock rom with root and also got bricked, but, I manned up and knew I was in the wrong and accepted what happened. I didn't put the blame on TMo, because completely untouched vibrants that I was aware of had no issues with this OTA. If you added functionality to it after the fact that it wasn't originally on there before when you initially purchased it; then its YOUR fault that it bricked, NOT T-mobiles. Take some responsibility and stop crying.
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P.S. My phone was completely stock (so please don't mention how I did this with a lag fix, etc.). I waited at least 15 mins before I pulled the battery, before which I had noted the T-Mobile sound starting without the animation (seems like a timing issue or something). And finally, I realize this is a duplicate post to many others but I want people to find this info (not be at the bottom of a really long thread) to get the word out how T-Mobile deals with their errors
Did you not read that part?
I bricked two stock Vibrants with the update. The second one failed during Mini-Kies update and was hardware locked.
It is a known issue according to the Tech guy that I spoke to while getting my replacement.
First phone wouldn't power on after failure, second phone was hardware locked so un-fixable.
No, no.
This happened to me, I had a rooted phone I had uninstalled the inflight internet, etc on it and hadn't overclocked or anything like that. Phone kills itself. I went to the tmo store and they only make you pay for shipping if you take the overnight option.
PROTIP - DON'T ASK FOR EXTRA SPEEDY SHIPPING AND THEY'LL PAY FOR IT.
so i guess we are just SOL for the data on the phone? I just lost an entire vacation of pictures. I had not had a chance to root this phone either. this is ****ing awesome.
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so i guess we are just SOL for the data on the phone? I just lost an entire vacation of pictures. I had not had a chance to root this phone either. this is ****ing awesome.
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I guess this is just an example of "store your pictures on the external SD card"
Then if you brick it you can still get your pictures back ....
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I guess this is just an example of "store your pictures on the external SD card"
Then if you brick it you can still get your pictures back ....
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Word. That's one of the first things I did when I got the phone and was playing with the features. Switched it from phone storage to memory card.
Sorry to hear you lost photos.
Protip: Pay the damn overnight shipping fee...it'll be deducted from your bill (flex pay) which makes it free: )
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If I am T mobile every time some person has a problem and I offered free shipping, the Every moron would be shipping the device back for Any problem. Way way costly, so that is not going to happen. If you Really believe the phone is factory defective then, pay the shipping and move on. If you messed with it at all then the burden to resolve is yours and be honest about that. Remember the reason people are in here is to customize the phone and improve it. Like the XDA mantra sez.......... It is not just the result... but the journey....
Like one of the other posts stated:
If you rooted it, then that takes the fault from T-Mobile to you. You changed the phone. The update was designed for a pristine un-edited Samsung Vibrant, if you changed anything in the system by rooting or flashing it is your fault for changing the equation. T-Mobile is NOT at fault for your actions.
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First phone wouldn't power on after failure, second phone was hardware locked so un-fixable.
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There is a hardware lock fix now, you really should flash that before you do anything else. Yeah, you run the risk of bricking with the hardware unlock, but it's probably a safer bet than flashing away.
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so i guess we are just SOL for the data on the phone? I just lost an entire vacation of pictures. I had not had a chance to root this phone either. this is ****ing awesome.
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If you Odin it with the JI6 update, you might still be able to get a working system out of it. Worth a shot to see if you can get it without having to flash to stock first (which will wipe).
With all the time you spent with tech support, you could have found the thread that delineates how to fix your phone and update through odin. Its very easy and, frankly why be on a developers forum when you are not willing to tinker around a bit.
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dechire said:
so i guess we are just SOL for the data on the phone? I just lost an entire vacation of pictures. I had not had a chance to root this phone either. this is ****ing awesome.
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As long as the phone still powers on you can still use ADB Pull and save the data from the /sdcard folder. This update isn't a totally bricking the phone (at least it didn't mine) just making the display and inputs not work. To quote Billy Crystal: "He's only MOSTLY dead"
Odin was really simple to reflash the stock ROM and then I was able to do a nandroid restore from there.
The T-Mobile OTA update left my phone only booting to the vibrant screen, but it was a pretty simple fix with Odin. The hardest part was getting the proper drivers installed in windows!
Mini kies wouldnt even let me update,so I rooted and flashed bionix 1.8,works great.**** tmo.
Fyi to the people with hardware lock. I did the update on my gf's phone which was hardware locked and it failed. The phone would only boot to the vibrant screen. The good news is the ota update unlocks the hardware because her phone is able to get into recovery and download mode even thought the update failed. The point is don't worry if ota fail on you because you can just use odin to fix it since it unlocks the download mode.
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Fyi to the people with hardware lock. I did the update on my gf's phone which was hardware locked and it failed. The phone would only boot to the vibrant screen. The good news is the ota update unlocks the hardware because her phone is able to get into recovery and download mode even thought the update failed. The point is don't worry if ota fail on you because you can just use odin to fix it since it unlocks the download mode.
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If the update even gets that far...
Hi,
I read and followed lots of excellent threads on here and successfully rooted my S2. I then flashed it with the Revolution ROM which worked fine, later tried the VK + Siyah which also ran fine.
Today I decided to try WajkIUI but after flashing and rebooting, the phone reset, the button lights came on and then it hung. Now I can't get a thing out of it, no booting, no recovery mode and no sign of it in ODIN.
It sounds completely hard-bricked but I don't really understand how it can be.
Any ideas?
Have tried soft and hard resetting but nothing.
Cheers
Without recovery mode your last best (remote) chance before you send it to Samsung would be a jig.
That's what I was thinking but why would it hard brick if the flash had worked?
And if I send if back to Samsung the warranty will be void anyway won't it?
Unfortunately that one's like asking how long a piece of string is (in other words, who knows ?). If it's a case of the NAND being stuffed as a result of the flash, a JTAG repair may fix it, but you won't know that until/unless you send it to a JTAG repairer.
It may be a hardware issue, cpu might have carked it or something.
Yeah, you've pretty much voided the warranty by putting non-stock firmware on it, but at the end of the day if Samsung can't tell it's been messed with you might get away with a warranty repair/replacement.
You'll only know that if you send it in to them to be looked at. So I guess you've got two choices to consider (not including the remote chance of the jig getting you into download mode).
I guess you could try another battery. Always the possibility it might have died.
Crap. Well, I'll give a jig a go and if that doesn't work then send it back and see what happens.
@ op
did you tried the key press combination to get into download mode? the things you have done has a very less possibility of hard brick.
That's what I thought, but no combination seems to work.
Was the battery full when you flashed?
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Think it was about 96%.
You never know, it might just be a completely knackered battery. If you're planning on getting it fixed come what may, spending 20 bucks or whatever they cost in your country on another battery won't be the waste of money you might initially think.
If it doesn't fix this problem, at least you'll have a 2nd battery when you do get it fixed. I know I've found having a 2nd battery a godsend since I got mine a month ago, has come in really handy on trips where I've been away for more than a day and has meant I haven't had to worry bout bringing a charger along.
Could a battery just die like that? Seems a bit of coincidence.
Dunno. Anything's possible I guess. Yeah you're right, that would be coincidence. Given what you were doing when it died, I'm betting the NAND is shot & it will need to be JTAG'd either by Samsung or someone else.
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Could a battery just die like that? Seems a bit of coincidence.
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Which sucks. That said, according to a site in the UK it costs about £8 plus postage. Have ordered a USB jig just in case, and for £3 it's worth a go.
The really annoying thing is whether to root again if/when I do get it sorted. Am also checking with my network, see if they'll have a go under warranty and I'll forget to mention I was rooting it.
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Dunno. Anything's possible I guess. Yeah you're right, that would be coincidence. Given what you were doing when it died, I'm betting the NAND is shot & it will need to be JTAG'd either by Samsung or someone else.
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On that note....if I wanted to upgrade to ICS, how would that be done without rooting - ie. would the counter look the same? (Long shot)
Yeah if you're going to get it fixed, chances are you'll end up flashing/rooting it again, so the jig will come in handy.
I guess that's something you'll need to decide when you get it back/get a new one. What happened to you isn't the norm tho. The large majority of flashes go smoothly for most people. But the reality is, every time you do it, you do run that small risk of it barfing for any number of a gazillion reasons (which are normally impossible to discover once it's happened). That's the risk people like us who frequent sites like this take.
Yeah if they/Samsung can't tell what happened to it, you'll possibly get away with it. And the fact you rooted it isn't information you have to volunteer to them by any means As to exactly what you should tell them, that's up to you.
Edit to add - Let us know how you get on once you have it sorted. Always useful to have people's experiences on here to give other people it happens to some kind of idea of how it might go down.
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Which sucks. That said, according to a site in the UK it costs about £8 plus postage. Have ordered a USB jig just in case, and for £3 it's worth a go.
The really annoying thing is whether to root again if/when I do get it sorted. Am also checking with my network, see if they'll have a go under warranty and I'll forget to mention I was rooting it.
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Well, according to the boffins online I have to go into a store to see if they can repair it. Hopefully they won't be able to check whether it's been rooted or not instore. In fact, if they can't power it on, I don't see how they could.
Random technical question: how can a software/firmware fault stop the hardware from even starting?
My only reference is building a PC - even if you knacker the BIOS and the harddrive, it will still power on so you can access them to put them right.
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Random technical question: how can a software/firmware fault stop the hardware from even starting?
My only reference is building a PC - even if you knacker the BIOS and the harddrive, it will still power on so you can access them to put them right.
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Firmware includes the boot sequence and recovery sequence on Android .
power goes to boot on file in effect
Or key combination goes to load recovery or download .
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Is that a bit of a flaw, for circumstances just like this?
And, does this mean that the USB jig has no chance of working - or is that the exact reason it might work?
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Firmware includes the boot sequence and recovery sequence on Android .
power goes to boot on file in effect
Or key combination goes to load recovery or download .
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i thing jig can solve the problem
I sent my Galaxy Note into Samsung to get the screen repaired.
When I sent it off, I realized that I forgot to reset the flash counter.
I was scared ****less.
Anyway, they repaired it and it is about to be sent back to me.
I just thought I would let everyone know that there is nothing to worry about.
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I sent my Galaxy Note into Samsung to get the screen repaired.
When I sent it off, I realized that I forgot to reset the flash counter.
I was scared ****less.
Anyway, they repaired it and it is about to be sent back to me.
I just thought I would let everyone know that there is nothing to worry about.
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I think you just got lucky bud and I would not encourage anyone else to do the same thing. Just because they agreed to fix your phone doesn't mean that everyone else will be as fortunate. Samsung and your phone carrier clearly stated that if you do flash a non OEM ROM you will be voiding your warranty.
Also, lets wait till you get your phone back before you consider this a success.
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I think you just got lucky bud and I would not encourage anyone else to do the same thing. Just because they agreed to fix your phone doesn't mean that everyone else will be as fortunate. Samsung and your phone carrier clearly stated that if you do flash a non OEM ROM you will be voiding your warranty.
Also, lets wait till you get your phone back before you consider this a success.
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Yeah. I wouldn't recommend it. I feel like if I sent my phone in for some sort of software issue I would be out of luck.
I will update this thread when I actually get the phone back.
it might depend on the repair in question. A screen replacement is just hardware so they may not mind the software being a custom ROM. I sent in a GT 10.1 with AOKP installed to fix a screen issue. I'm sure they noticed the angry rainbow unicorn when they booted it up. They fixed it no problem though annoyingly, they actually WIPED my entire device, sdcard and everything back to stock. On the GT 10.1 boards, no one has had that happen except me.
I have to send my note in for a repair on my SD card slot, which keeps popping out the microsd. My phone has a custom rom and probably 3 on the flash counter. I was hoping they didn't care since it was a hardware issue. On a side note, it sucks that AT&T doesn't give out loaner phones while it's being fixed.
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it might depend on the repair in question. A screen replacement is just hardware so they may not mind the software being a custom ROM. I sent in a GT 10.1 with AOKP installed to fix a screen issue. I'm sure they noticed the angry rainbow unicorn when they booted it up. They fixed it no problem though annoyingly, they actually WIPED my entire device, sdcard and everything back to stock. On the GT 10.1 boards, no one has had that happen except me.
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Makes me wonder if they just gave you a different phone? Or you memorized the hardware numbers? I agree with you being a hardware issue, they are probably not going to care about the flash counter. If you sent them a boot looping device that had the flash counter up high, then i would suspect they might say something.
No real worries guys. I had to send my phone in to Sammy for a screen issue a couple days before braway released the counter reset. They repaired it with no issues, wiped the ROM and reset the counter for me lol. This was back in late March.
Edit- in my case, they gave me the same phone because the Bluetooth physical address was the same. They replaced the screen including the front glass, so I didn't get my screen protector back.
Im pretty sure the techs there get paid by the hour and Im also sure that they themselves(techs) flash custom software on their devices. If I worked in that dept, I would spend the extra time resetting your flash counters and reverting you to stock, only to make my day go by quicker... I wouldn't recommend betting the farm on that. IMHO
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I have to send my note in for a repair on my SD card slot, which keeps popping out the microsd. My phone has a custom rom and probably 3 on the flash counter. I was hoping they didn't care since it was a hardware issue. On a side note, it sucks that AT&T doesn't give out loaner phones while it's being fixed.
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It depends on the store. I threw a fit, called customer service and they have me a credit for ****tiest prepaid phone they have. Least its mine now as a total emergency backup. I was not gonna be out of a phone for days.
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It depends on the store. I threw a fit, called customer service and they have me a credit for ****tiest prepaid phone they have. Least its mine now as a total emergency backup. I was not gonna be out of a phone for days.
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I sent it off Monday and I already have the tracking number for the return shipping. In any case, I am using my old iPhone 3g until I get my phone back. It's always good to have a spare.
So people wouldn't recommend it, but who here has actually been denied service with an upped counter?
Traditionally, going all the way back to my Nexus One, the phone manufacturers don't care about root/s-off/flash counter if it's a clear hardware issue. If your button stops working or your screen doesn't respond anymore or your phone doesn't charge, they generally fix it.
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I sent it off Monday and I already have the tracking number for the return shipping. In any case, I am using my old iPhone 3g until I get my phone back. It's always good to have a spare.
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Of course its best to have a backup, but at the time I didn't. I didn't expect a loaner, but when the CSR on the phone said I'd get one...then the store says no...well, we have problems.
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I have been running Siyah 1.7rc1 dual booting Omega v30 as primary and AOKP milestone 1 as secondary. I also have the 4.2 camera and keyboard mods installed. The phone has been working fine until last night.
Last night the phone was fully charged. This morning the phone was off and wouldn't turn on when I pressed the power button. Hoping it was just a depleted battery, I put the phone on the charger for a couple of hours. However, it still won't turn on. I can't get to either recovery mode or download mode with the vol_up+home+power or the vol_down+home+power.
There is no reaction from the phone to any combination of buttons. I have removed the battery a few times with the same results.
Does anyone have any ideas? I might try and see if Samsung service can fix this but wanted to know if there was any advise from XDA.
Well if you do want to go to samsung service """ you have a freaking rooted phone bro"""""",,,BTW your phone is dead.
As repair is chargeable i would first try a new battery or borrow one and a USB jig to boot to recovery mode .
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*sob*
Mine has gone exactly the same way.
Had it on charge. Took it off charge and checked emails then left it on my desk. Came back 30 minutes later, picked it up and phone was completely dead.
No light when plugged into a charger, phone won't power on.
Plugged it into a computer, no luck.
Different chargers, different cables, no luck.
Tried a USB jig, no luck.
I've NOT tried a new battery yet, that's next on my list. I suspect this won't make any difference either.
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
LemonPlusTea said:
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
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take it back to the shop first, if you havent had it too long them may just swap it out. If not then they will send it back for you and should lend you candybar phone to use if you leave them a deposit (depends on the shop though).
Sammy wont even both to check if its been rooted, they will just replace it.
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
zaphy42 said:
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
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Like i said its a paid for repair .
Totally dead mobo that requires change you will probably get away with warranty .
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I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
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I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
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I've just got round to trying a friends battery too. Likewise, no go.
I think it's probably more likely a design flaw on Samsungs part.
I wonder if they've produced a different revision of the S3 circuit board to fix it? I've heard on other threads that Samsung just replace the system board when it's sent back for warranty repair...
Well there certainly has been quite a lot of them over the last 4 weeks or so. Probably some sub-standard motherboards found their way into the production line every now and then (given the number of units produced), or a design flaw as noted above. It's going to be a reasonably expensive exercise for Samsung if they end up having to replace a lot of them though...
I just hope that the new one they put in my phone isn't going to commit suicide again in 4 months time
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I have the exact problem.
But it was my fault in this case. Flashed an "unmatched" md5 file of WanamLite.
It booted up normally. Then i proceeded installing TiBu & restore apps. After 10mins, i came back with a dead phone.
After some googling & advice from phone shops, there's a possibility that the motherboard may be fried.
I sent to Samsung Service Centre, and within 2 working days, my S3 is alive.
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Ok so, I'm bumped and this morning my screen cracked, and became unresponsive to touch, but was acting as if I was making selections. (as in Pandora started playing on its own because I had the widget on my homescreen and I couldn't get it to stop without a battery pull). I have insurance on the phone so I can get a replacement, but its on backorder.
Now before I send it in for a replacement, I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to how to remove the bumped TWRP, and go back to stock recovery, without a touchscreen lol. I can't even unlock my phone on my own...sometimes it will do it itself, but that's only if I'm lucky :/ I think right now as it is, I'm stuck. But I'd really like to send it back without it being bumped, in case of voided warranty purposes and me not getting a phone, or even worse, them finding the method to achieve the bumped unlock, and then them end up patching it!!
What do you guys think? Any ideas or feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
You're going to have to try and do this blind, but how about tot city to reflash everything to stock?
Here's a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/development/tot-vs985-10b-share-t2832488
There are instructions on how to go into download mode on the flash tool by using your volume & power key. The flash tool will probably tell you when/if you have a connection. Just make sure you have the lg drivers installed and you should be able to flash the tot file and get your phone back to stock. Good luck
startswithPendswithOOH said:
You're going to have to try and do this blind, but how about tot city to reflash everything to stock?
Here's a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/development/tot-vs985-10b-share-t2832488
There are instructions on how to go into download mode on the flash tool by using your volume & power key. The flash tool will probably tell you when/if you have a connection. Just make sure you have the lg drivers installed and you should be able to flash the tot file and get your phone back to stock. Good luck
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Thank you so much for that suggestion! I'll be sure to give that a shot in a bit and see how it goes! No screen selections will have to be made in the process, other than signing in once its up and running, correct?
Yes. It should just flash once you get it connected and hit a button on the flash tool.
Take a look at this link as well just in case the other link doesn't help. It has good visuals to help you out some more:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2014/07/how-to-unroot-lg-g3-all-variants.html
FYI- at step 2, hold your vol up button for @ 5 sec and then plug in your USB - it should vibrate when it connects... I believe. Doing it blind sucks but I'm sure you'll get it.
startswithPendswithOOH said:
Yes. It should just flash once you get it connected and hit a button on the flash tool.
Take a look at this link as well just in case the other link doesn't help. It has good visuals to help you out some more:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2014/07/how-to-unroot-lg-g3-all-variants.html
FYI- at step 2, hold your vol up button for @ 5 sec and then plug in your USB - it should vibrate when it connects... I believe. Doing it blind sucks but I'm sure you'll get it.
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Man thanks again for that suggestion!!! I knew about it but figured since I had an unresponsive screen, that I wouldn't be able to complete the process and because I've never had to reset this particular phone before, I just wasn't 100% sure it would work. Thankfully to your suggestion it did and is now sitting on the starting screen. Just what I needed.:good::good::highfive::victory:
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Ok so, I'm bumped and this morning my screen cracked, and became unresponsive to touch, but was acting as if I was making selections. (as in Pandora started playing on its own because I had the widget on my homescreen and I couldn't get it to stop without a battery pull). I have insurance on the phone so I can get a replacement, but its on backorder.
Now before I send it in for a replacement, I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to how to remove the bumped TWRP, and go back to stock recovery, without a touchscreen lol. I can't even unlock my phone on my own...sometimes it will do it itself, but that's only if I'm lucky :/ I think right now as it is, I'm stuck. But I'd really like to send it back without it being bumped, in case of voided warranty purposes and me not getting a phone, or even worse, them finding the method to achieve the bumped unlock, and then them end up patching it!!
What do you guys think? Any ideas or feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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If you have insurance then your G3 being bump'd should not make a bit of difference. I have returned several unlocked and rooted phones to Asurion with no problem. You're paying for insurance mainly for physical damage. Your screen is obviously cracked and damaged due to that so there should be no worries. Also, if your insurance provider wanted to try and figure out how the Bump method works they could easily get their own G3 and Bump it. Having your Bump'd phone is not going to give them any more of an inside look into Bump than if they got their own device and did what everyone else has done.
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If you have insurance then your G3 being bump'd should not make a bit of difference. I have returned several unlocked and rooted phones to Asurion with no problem. You're paying for insurance mainly for physical damage. Your screen is obviously cracked and damaged due to that so there should be no worries. Also, if your insurance provider wanted to try and figure out how the Bump method works they could easily get their own G3 and Bump it. Having your Bump'd phone is not going to give them any more of an inside look into Bump than if they got their own device and did what everyone else has done.
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Ahhh thank you for that bit of info that would have been great to know earlier (for my own sanity's sake lol) but at the very least, I have wiped all my data clean which I would have preferred to do anyways before sending it back
I've returned 3 Samsung captivate phones to att that still had Cyanogenmod or MIUI on them, same with the 7 or 8 Samsung Galaxy S 3 phones I brought back on my insurance plan with Best Buy Mobile. They request it be stock, but if the screens broke they can't check it until the screen is fixed, at which point they will just flash it anyway.
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Doesn't the insurance cover it, if it's lost or stolen? Sounds to me like you lost it.
It's good to know that they accept devices with 3rd party/modified software. I was never sure if the insurance companies did or not. If you send it to a factory service center they'll tell you your warranty is void for sure. Its all about finding a way to charge you $.
But I do think it's wise to wipe your device if you can. I used to do phone repairs for a large anonymous Korean company and I've seen a lot of amateur porn, credit card info, social security #'s and other personal info that really shouldn't be out there. People forget what is on their phones a lot of the time. Definitely take the time to wipe your device before you send it somewhere. Its ok to be a little paranoid sometimes