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[Q] Does the G2x ship pre-rooted?

I just got a g2x from the t-mobile store tonight, and it's already got root. Does the g2x ship pre-rooted, or did I get someone else's return?

heldc said:
I just got a g2x from the t-mobile store tonight, and it's already got root. Does the g2x ship pre-rooted, or did I get someone else's return?
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sounds like you got a hand-me-down. they do not come pre-rooted.

heldc said:
I just got a g2x from the t-mobile store tonight, and it's already got root. Does the g2x ship pre-rooted, or did I get someone else's return?
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Maybe a refurbished G2x?
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heldc said:
I just got a g2x from the t-mobile store tonight, and it's already got root. Does the g2x ship pre-rooted, or did I get someone else's return?
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Did they pass it off as new? Brand new in a sealed box? I'd be all over this with TMO management if they tried to slip such an item past me as being new.

heldc said:
I just got a g2x from the t-mobile store tonight, and it's already got root. Does the g2x ship pre-rooted, or did I get someone else's return?
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ouch, you might want to take that back! tell them you found root software on the phone. that phone cost too much for them to sell someone a used phone. especially when they're buying it new. i can see if it was a warranty exchange but come on! they don't even do those in stores anymore.

wow thats BS I'll take it back and demand a credit r something

Does it show uptime?

T-MO's policy is that even if they return the phone after 5 minutes of use, not even leaving the store, so long as the box is open, its a refurbished device and is sold as such. If a rep tried to pull that I'd go back and ask whats going on. Honestly, it's probably a phone that a rep was messing with.

i actually live in northern va too and rooted a phone then returned it cause something was wrong with the battery, maybe you got my return! lol

A big worry would be if you went in and they tried to give you the run around about honoring your warranty by saying you rooted your phone and now you're on your own. Who knows why it was returned in the first place so there is a chance you would need to get support for it.
I'd make sure you clearly explain why you are bringing it back and demand one with the manufacturer's tape still on it and then watch them cut it open!

It actually also had a problem with randomly shutting down, so I just took it back and said I needed to exchange it cos of that, cos I was worried about them saying I'd rooted it and thus voided my warranty. The guy at the kiosk actually said he's had several returns of G2xs with power problems. My replacement seems ok so far tho, and was NOT already rooted.
The pre-rooted phone was in pristine state, all the little stickers on it and no fingerprints or anything, so I dunno. My guess would be someone at the factory or something. It was just a really odd thing.
I did have the market do the automatically downloading apps thing, but even if the market had automatically downloaded Superuser, I don't think that would have resulted in a rooted phone, right? And Superuser was definitely in /system, cos it was still there after I wiped the phone before I returned it. Does the market download of Superuser put Superuser into /system? Plus I'd never actually downloaded Superuser via the market. I just really dunno!

[Q] Should Verizon replace my phone?

I was running cm7 on my phone, and was throwing on the audio fix to get better speaker volume, which sent the phone into a boot loop. I tried to put my phone into hboot (power+volume-) which it does not. It tries to boot every time. I've tried probably 50+ times and same result. I'm guessing it has to deal with the poor built buttons on this phone and the volume down just does not work. My question is despite the fact I'm rooted and running cm7, am I safe to say this is a hardware issue? I just don't want to send in my phone to Verizon and get billed for the fact the phones "tampered" with.

Should verizon replace your phone after you borked it? I think you already know the answer

xebryus said:
I was running cm7 on my phone, and was throwing on the audio fix to get better speaker volume, which sent the phone into a boot loop. I tried to put my phone into hboot (power+volume-) which it does not. It tries to boot every time. I've tried probably 50+ times and same result. I'm guessing it has to deal with the poor built buttons on this phone and the volume down just does not work. My question is despite the fact I'm rooted and running cm7, am I safe to say this is a hardware issue? I just don't want to send in my phone to Verizon and get billed for the fact the phones "tampered" with.
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long of it, no they shouldn't. will they? who knows, depends on if you tell them the truth or not.

Should they? Technically no. Will they? Sure. They would be happy to.

but he didnt break it if the loop comes from a hardware defect,all he did was get it to fail sooner than later basically what happened to others,so technically yes they should,or can anyone prove the software killed the hardware.
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satseaker said:
but he didnt break it if the loop comes from a hardware defect,all he did was get it to fail sooner than later basically what happened to others,so technically yes they should,or can anyone prove the software killed the hardware.
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Honestly, it doesn't matter if anyone can prove the software did it or not. He voided his warranty by rooting. But they likely will replace his phone, driving up the costs for future phones.
You rooted your phone. Take it for what it is...a non-warrantied phone.

Touchy
I will start off by saying I don't have a solid answer but being as it is a hardware problem they "should" fix it. Will they? Probably not. They'll take one look, see it's rooted, and tell you that you broke it by tampering with it. All bets are off as soon as the phone is rooted...unless you can unroot and take it in I think you're in trouble but since the button is broken you can't do anything with it. Good luck and let us know what you were able to get done.

I see what you guys are saying from a moral standpoint. I'm just angry cause I know for a fact my buttons are not up to par to what they're supposed to be. I don't want to fraud the companies over something that is my fault, but in this case I'm almost positive it's related to the fact this phone was not built too well. I dunno, do "authorized retailers" handle claims with faulty hardware or just official Verizon wireless stores?

This is why you should have ADB installed and working on your computer. Hook up the phone via USB, get into ADB and reboot into recovery. There are a few threads out there for ADB you should be able to find them using Google, hopefully that will be able to help you.

If you can get into the boot loader with and then you might be able to save your phone.. Maybe, not clear take your as card out and import the rhi, they might work...
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if you can prove that the failure was not caused by rooting, then they should fix it for you under warranty. but that is hard to prove.

xebryus said:
I see what you guys are saying from a moral standpoint. I'm just angry cause I know for a fact my buttons are not up to par to what they're supposed to be. I don't want to fraud the companies over something that is my fault, but in this case I'm almost positive it's related to the fact this phone was not built too well. I dunno, do "authorized retailers" handle claims with faulty hardware or just official Verizon wireless stores?[/QUOTE
Did you try BOTH volume buttons at the same time? This got me to bootloader.
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Just say you tried to install the last update and your phone wont boot now. They won't know the difference.

dpham00 said:
if you can prove that the failure was not caused by rooting, then they should fix it for you under warranty. but that is hard to prove.
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Caused by rooting or not, there is NO warranty once a phone is rooted. Has nothing to do with what caused the malfunction.
ADB reboot bootloader or recovery should work though, as long as he catches it with the right timing during the loop.
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Well update on the situation. I called Verizon telling them I can't turn on my because it "freezes" when it tries to boot up every time. He told me to try a hard reset (try to go into hboot) and I told him I tried that at least 30 times and it won't. I said I think there's something wrong with my buttons because they're not very responsive and stick really easily (which they do) and he said they're overnighting a phone to me. That was yesterday, its waiting for me at home. I'm gonna send my old phone back asap.
I'm wondering, if they have a way to find out I'm rooted, will they charge me for the phone? I don't think they'll be able to though because if I can't get into hboot, how will they? I tried adb into bootloader, but as many times as I tried, no devices were found.

you're probably aright since they might just get it and toss it in the "to be refurbed" bin. It costs a lot of money to test every return. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

xebryus said:
I'm wondering, if they have a way to find out I'm rooted, will they charge me for the phone? I don't think they'll be able to though because if I can't get into hboot, how will they? I tried adb into bootloader, but as many times as I tried, no devices were found.
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If they do find out, they will charge you. Don't know if they will, but be prepared for the worst.
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Yes, they get broken down abd only really check for water/physical damage
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xebryus said:
Well update on the situation. I called Verizon telling them I can't turn on my because it "freezes" when it tries to boot up every time. He told me to try a hard reset (try to go into hboot) and I told him I tried that at least 30 times and it won't. I said I think there's something wrong with my buttons because they're not very responsive and stick really easily (which they do) and he said they're overnighting a phone to me. That was yesterday, its waiting for me at home. I'm gonna send my old phone back asap.
I'm wondering, if they have a way to find out I'm rooted, will they charge me for the phone? I don't think they'll be able to though because if I can't get into hboot, how will they? I tried adb into bootloader, but as many times as I tried, no devices were found.
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Congrats on getting a new phone I guess.
I have noticed Verizon has been VERY accomodating with these phones. One call is all that's needed to get a new phone. Im guess they're so generous because they devices have been so finnicky so far and they just want to keep people pleased for now.
I envision them cracking down hard sooner or later though. They're not stupid. They've already come down on tethering and such, so it probably wont be long until they get hardcore on replacements.

My son works for VZ...
and he takes your calls... and this is what he told me. Anything covered under insurance (Asurion), they really don't check/don't care about rooting. VZ, on the other hand, will look pretty extensively if it's covered under the warranty. They will look for rooting or anything else that would break warranty coverage.

Did i just brick my phone?

I think i just bricked my phone. I am trying to return to S-on and after following all the instructions in the main sticky, i wrote the SUPERCID back to tmobile, and put in the writesecuflag 3 command, and rebooted the bootloader. Now the phone will not turn on at all. Won't power on regular and cannot turn it on into the bootloader. When i plug the phone into the computer QHUSB-DLOAD comes up in the device manager as to what it is saying it is attatched as. Adb shows no devices and RUU's cannot find the device. Omg i really hope i didnt hose this phone.

Did you flash first the ruu that came with your phone?
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and1kar said:
Did you flash first the ruu that came with your phone?
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Nope i used the tmous 1.50.

I am pretty sure you forgot to run the RUU, and sadly yes I have to inform you that it is bricked :/

xsteven77x said:
I think i just bricked my phone. I am trying to return to S-on and after following all the instructions in the main sticky, i wrote the SUPERCID back to tmobile, and put in the writesecuflag 3 command, and rebooted the bootloader. Now the phone will not turn on at all. Won't power on regular and cannot turn it on into the bootloader. When i plug the phone into the computer QHUSB-DLOAD comes up in the device manager as to what it is saying it is attatched as. Adb shows no devices and RUU's cannot find the device. Omg i really hope i didnt hose this phone.
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Sounds like you bricked it, yes :s

Thanks for the replies guys.

Since i got it from craigslist my only hope is paying htc to repair it i'm assuming?

It should still be covered by the original warranty right?

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It should still be covered by the original warranty right?
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Just got off the phone with HTC. It is still covered under their warranty. Hopefully since all my void stickers in good standing, I have no physical damage, was able to get the CID back to Tmous and the write secureflag3 went through, there will be no reason to deny it. Here is hoping! I think EXT4 recovery is still on there though. Hopefully it will be so bricked that they will have to reset it and reload the software to be able to do anything with it

Hope you manage to get it fixed!
A question, I have yet to root my XE, but is SUPERCID a must on a sim free phone if you want to flash roms?

the fact is that if it is so bricked that it won't turn on at all they won't check it further. many members achieved to get a new phone as replacement

Just make sure you tell HTC you are the original owner and didnt get it from craigslist.Also DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Mention any hacking forums like XDA,or ROOT, Just claim that it said "an update was available" so you chose to update and the battery died.I've had free repairs under warranty by using that same advice, A friend of mine mentioned root on his nexus one and they charged him for repair even though it was a month old as he voided the warranty

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Just make sure you tell HTC you are the original owner and didnt get it from craigslist.Also DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Mention any hacking forums like XDA,or ROOT, Just claim that it said "an update was available" so you chose to update and the battery died.I've had free repairs under warranty by using that same advice, A friend of mine mentioned root on his nexus one and they charged him for repair even though it was a month old as he voided the warranty
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I definitely didnt mention xda or flashing roms or anything, and I told them i received it as an anniversary gift (even though i really did get it from craigslist). Told them i rebooted the phone and it just never came back on. Which really is what happened while leaving out a few details lol.

I wonder what would them HTC guys think if they are already among us

same thing happened to me the other day on my evo 3d...gonna send it in to htc as well...hope they won't know...what are the chances of them getting the phone to turn on??
xsteven77x said:
I think i just bricked my phone. I am trying to return to S-on and after following all the instructions in the main sticky, i wrote the SUPERCID back to tmobile, and put in the writesecuflag 3 command, and rebooted the bootloader. Now the phone will not turn on at all. Won't power on regular and cannot turn it on into the bootloader. When i plug the phone into the computer QHUSB-DLOAD comes up in the device manager as to what it is saying it is attatched as. Adb shows no devices and RUU's cannot find the device. Omg i really hope i didnt hose this phone.
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poktangju said:
same thing happened to me the other day on my evo 3d...gonna send it in to htc as well...hope they won't know...what are the chances of them getting the phone to turn on??
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From everything i read online it really seems hit or miss depending on the technician you get. More often than not they seem to let things slide even if it seems obvious that they should have been able to see it was rooted etc. Here is hoping . I'm gonna send it out tomorrow and will keep this thread updated with developments if anyone is interested in how it went. I have read some HORROR stories about people sending there phone to HTC and it become missing in action for MONTHS. I really pray to christ that does not happen to me.
O/T a little bit, but how come with just about any other "thing" in life a warranty is good and is tied to the object and not to the person. Even though i got this phone off of craigslist, why should that have ANYTHING to do with it. The phone is the phone and the warranty is the warranty regardless of whose possession it is in. I just don't think tmobile should be able to do that. Also i think it's BS that if you buy a brand new phone and it breaks 2 days later, they give you a refurb and not a new one. How do they get away with this ****!

i think im gonna take my chances as well...the person i talked to at htc did say that if the damages were caused by me then i would have a choice to pay them to fix if not i would have to pay $35 to get the phone back...so this could end up costing the shipping to send phone and the $35 to get the phone back.
xsteven77x said:
From everything i read online it really seems hit or miss depending on the technician you get. More often than not they seem to let things slide even if it seems obvious that they should have been able to see it was rooted etc. Here is hoping . I'm gonna send it out tomorrow and will keep this thread updated with developments if anyone is interested in how it went.
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Just wondering how this has progressed. Did you send your phone to HTC? Did they say what the potential repair costs could be?

Well i sent it out on 12/21 and they received it on 12/28. On the tracking website, it says "In repair". From experience, if it is going to have any issues or gonna charge you any money, it says under review until you have spoke to them and made arrangements or paid them. One thing that is pissing me off good is that every day, the day it says it was received is changed. So everyday i have checked, it went from saying received on 12/28, to 12/29, to 12/30, and now 1/1. So i dont know if that is just the way the system works, or if they are trying to sheist me and take forever and a day like some of the horror stories i have read. Not really sure what their is to do but send a replacement since it is hard bricked and cannot be resuscitated even with professional tools from all the research i have done online. In the meantime, i bought a galaxy s 2 and am LOVING it, except for the lack of development in comparison to here in sensation land!

did you get your phone back?
xsteven77x said:
Well i sent it out on 12/21 and they received it on 12/28. On the tracking website, it says "In repair". From experience, if it is going to have any issues or gonna charge you any money, it says under review until you have spoke to them and made arrangements or paid them. One thing that is pissing me off good is that every day, the day it says it was received is changed. So everyday i have checked, it went from saying received on 12/28, to 12/29, to 12/30, and now 1/1. So i dont know if that is just the way the system works, or if they are trying to sheist me and take forever and a day like some of the horror stories i have read. Not really sure what their is to do but send a replacement since it is hard bricked and cannot be resuscitated even with professional tools from all the research i have done online. In the meantime, i bought a galaxy s 2 and am LOVING it, except for the lack of development in comparison to here in sensation land!
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[Q] Htc Shift battery / device issue

I have an HTC Shift that is now a replacement phone Sprint sent because the other Shift bricked on a OTA update. The phone itself looks brand new. (we have had it since Apriil) The problem with the phone is that it will never charge the battery. I actually have 3 spare batteries so in total 4 batteries are charged to 100% but as soon as I put them into the Shift device the battery status will range from 0% to 8% an occassionally will charge to 12% but no higher. If I take the battery out and put it into another HTC it will show 95% or better as charged - to be clear this is the same battery that just seconds before registered 12% or less.
I've tried everything. I've changed Roms (the good thing about this is that I can tell you the ins and outs on about 12 different Roms and kernels now) I've changed up kernels. I installed Bettery Battery, battery calibration tools, spare parts...booted it up empty, let it stay off and "charge" all night, on and charge all night, factory reset, everything but RUU because it just won't do it and HTC update, won't do that either because of the battery being below 30%.
OK, so you say - take it back to Sprint and get a new one - can't do that because I can't unroot it with the RUU as it still shows s-off -
I'm brain dead on this one.
I'm not a newbie at this. I've rooted several phones, HTC, LG, Palm Pre, even turned the Palm Pixie to a wifi goddess in it's day by switching out the radio(you know). I've jailbroke the Iphone and Ipad. Rooted my Thrive and turned a pandigital into a sweet little android.
I don't want to take the phone back like it is. I want to figure out what the heck is the issue. (i know...i know) When I plug the phone in the led comes on as though it is charging but it never charges...any ideas? you know it's probably something simple and I've just fried my brain at this point. Any ideas? Anybody??
Thanks in advance for any input, ideas or helpful tips!
Sondee
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I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.

jesuscash said:
I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.
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Excellent advice... FAIL... COME ON MAN...
Make sure you are wiping the system partition as well... Going from sense to aosp needs a thorough system (not data) wipe... To wipe system, it's located in mounts and storage in recovery if using cwm...
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My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!

jkrlvgn said:
My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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strapped365 said:
Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point

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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point
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How I got stuck was I was having like extremely poor service and was waiting on a call back from them, and through reading what people said about them never calling I thought I was safe, about 30 minutes after I flashed cm7 a rep called and wanted me to go into epst and at that time I was so new to being a rooted user I had no idea it wasn't in aosp. So I tried the ## code and when she asked what happened I said nothing she said ok hang on while I flag your account. My first words to the rep was are you fu**ing kidden me! So I stabbed back by tethering to my ps3 while playing Modern Warfare lol
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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So...unroot before taking. As it says, there's an issue with reading the battery correctly. It's charging the battery, because when it goes into another phone, it shows the correct percentage.
It -has- to be a hardware issue. Unroot, RUU, whatever... there isn't an easy fix for this without messing with the hardware (which will likely result in ruining the device).
If the flex cables were shot, you'd all recommend the same thing. What's the difference with this?

There is a newer and easier way to unroot HERE

No power to phone

Now I did search the forums and I didn't find anything thing like I have going on. First a little background. I was an iPhone user since iPhone was iPhone. I decided to try Android and was hooked. I got the SGH-i727. I have been flashing since day one. Well, here's my dilemma. I d/l'd a ROM that I thought was for the Skyrocket, but after I read more carefully and already flashed. It was for a i9000. Everything went fine during the ROM, but after a reboot my phone wont power on. No Lights, no vibration, nothing. I'm not sure if this was the dumbest thing I have done yet or if this is an easy fix. I know I should have read more carefully, but I got excited and couldn't help myself. I was running AOKP CM10 with no problems since the first ROM was out, but I got greedy. I hope some of you geniuses can help. I have taken the SIM, SD, battery out. But too no avail! Thanks guys!

If you flashed a ROM from a different phone, it's more than likely bricked. You try getting into download mode and all that already?

Apparently you didn't read enough, your phone is hard bricked you'll have to pay 50$ to get it repaired through jtag.

kishke said:
Apparently you didn't read enough, your phone is hard bricked you'll have to pay 50$ to get it repaired through jtag.
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Look them up. Think I am going to try to return back to AT&T today and see what they say. I looked up JTAG and it's like 60 when all is said and done. I also contacted Samsung. What are the odds they will repair it. I opened a repair ticket and the guy I talked to said free repair unless it was water damaged. This sucks!

you could say you were upgrading to ICS through kies when the cabled got disconnected in the middle, may work and may not.

You might be not need jtag. Have you looked into a usb jig? You can buy them off of ebay for less then 10 bucks. If your in a hurry and have a spare micro usb cable and are good with your hands you can also make one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604707
That should force DL mode then from there flash back to stock.

You are hard bricked. The thing the dude above me said doesn't work for hard bricks.
Call ATT if you have warranty and tell them your phone won't turn on this morning and you don't know what's going on.
If you don't have warranty then jtag it.
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Thanks for all the help guys. I have had this awesome phone for 5 weeks, so I am passed the 30 day "trial" period ATT allots you, but I think being a customer for about 15 years may pay off. If not JTAG will work, because I think Sammy will charge me because it had been flashed, and thus warranty voided. Will let everyone know of my successes after Monday evening when I attempt the upgrading to ICS and now it's not working thing.
Going back to Apple for a few days is about to kill me.

Do you have AT&T warranty? Wait nvm, you got a 1 warranty so AT&T will replace it free of charge.
Just tell them you were upgrading to ICS thru kies and when your phone went to reboot it didn't turn on. It's been happening for some reason. People call it the UCLF6 brick bug.
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awesome! being that i am working monday and going to school in the evening, my wife needs something to tell them. so this may work. cant wait to flash again. it was becoming more than a habit
specter07 said:
Do you have AT&T warranty? Wait nvm, you got a 1 warranty so AT&T will replace it free of charge.
Just tell them you were upgrading to ICS thru kies and when your phone went to reboot it didn't turn on. It's been happening for some reason. People call it the UCLF6 brick bug.
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Thanks for all the help guys. I have had this awesome phone for 5 weeks, so I am passed the 30 day "trial" period ATT allots you, but I think being a customer for about 15 years may pay off. If not JTAG will work, because I think Sammy will charge me because it had been flashed, and thus warranty voided. Will let everyone know of my successes after Monday evening when I attempt the upgrading to ICS and now it's not working thing.
Going back to Apple for a few days is about to kill me.
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I'm not sure how tough Samsung is on this. I had a custom rom on mine, running fine for a month or so. One day, I go to grab my phone off the dresser and it's so hot I can barely hold it. I powered it off, let it cool down, and went to power on and got nothing. I had a jig and tried it to no avail. Finally, I called ATT and told them what happened. They sent a new (well, refurbished) phone, and I sent mine back to ATT. I was so worried they were going to charge me since it was rooted and running a custom rom, and my wife HATES that I flash and just looks for a reason to get me to stop, but I never heard anything else about it. They said on the phone that it sounded like the processor ws fried. You could use that story too.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app

Ahh, got my phone back. AT&T gave me a bit of a hard time, but oh well that is what a warranty if for. Back to flashing away! Loving MindMajic's!

Smittiegee19 said:
Ahh, got my phone back. AT&T gave me a bit of a hard time, but oh well that is what a warranty if for. Back to flashing away! Loving MindMajic's!
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Nice!