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Got my TB, have to return it.

So the phone, and extended battery came in today. Small problem with the sides around the screen creaking and clicking when pressed. Took it in to the store, the display models didn't do it. Manager said to call support and have them ship a replacement.
Called support, they said they were noting the issue. Said to take it back to the manager for a new replacement, and an apology. Lol.
Oh well. Still freaking excited to be in this thing! (gonna wait till the weekend to root tho.)
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Are u talking about the creaking of the back cover when pressed?

No, front near the volume buttons. Seems the screen is mounted incorrectly.
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[Q] Bricked Thunderbolt??

So I think my thunderbolt is bricked
I've had this phone since it was first released. Been running BAMF for a few months now.
Running BAMF Remix 1.8.6, Imoseyon's Sense leankernel (extreme), Official MR2 Radio
This morning I was getting lockups. I was just browsing FB, checking the interwebs... I did a battery pull and turned it back on. After a few more minutes of browsing, I hit the vol down key and it locked up again. I did a battery pull and the phone would not turn back on. Pulled the battery, SIM, and SD card and re-inserted and no luck. Plugged the phone into a charged and the charge light does not turn on.
Brought it to verizon store and they are sending me a replacement although they said my moisture sticker is missing (I never touched it) Tried a new battery and didnt work. One of their chargers did light up the charge LED though...
Anyone have any ideas?

This has me thinking perhaps I should revert back to the shipped radio.
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ddgarcia05 said:
This has me thinking perhaps I should revert back to the shipped radio.
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Based on this one experience or has there been multiple reports?
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There was another somewhere in the cm7 thread but i think that was a third person relay. I'm not reverting back, just gonna use stock kernel and rom.
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Hmmm. I'm using the leaked non bricked mr2 radio and all is well here, fingers crossed!
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There is no evidence to indicate that causality is the new radio. It could just as easily be damage done to your phone by overclocking it or (gasp!) a legitimate warranty return. Phones can and do stop working for other reasons.

Btw, tbolt doesn't have a "moisture strip." The battery does. Dumbass VZW reps. Can only trust a handful of them at most.
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People really need to stop trying to start the bricking paranoia for TBs. I bet Verizon doesn't have any more replaced TB then it does other android phones.
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ProTekk said:
Btw, tbolt doesn't have a "moisture strip." The battery does. Dumbass VZW reps. Can only trust a handful of them at most.
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They actually opened up a new thunderbolt and showed me the "moisture strip". The only thing I can think of is that they forgot to put it in earlier models and more recently started shipping with them. They told me that they are going to inspect my thunderbolt for moisture when it gets sent back.

Where is the moisture strip, and what does it look like?

I haven't seen one either,can't even find the cute little dot other phones have. Please send pic of it so we know. Had my TB. Sence week 3 of release.
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None here.
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On the thunderbolt the moisture strip is supposed to be in the little crevice opposite of the volume buttons where the two antenna leads are sticking up to contact the back cover.
I'll confirm once my replacement phone comes in a few hours. Hurry up UPS guy!

Dropped phone in liquid

So I dropped my phone in a bowl of soup... Yes lmao! But anyways my back cover save it big time, only the top half of my phone when in, I pulled the battery off, sim card and sd card, wipe it and I checked it and both water marks are still white then I put it in a bag with rice. 24 hrs later I put the battery in, it turned on and everything works, except it was showing the headphones icon, I clean out the headphone hole again, turn it off, turn it back on and it was gone, I unroot it just incase it started to act up I could swap it out.( i have insurace) It's been a full day and no issues
OK so my question is should I root it again now or wait to see if something stops working? I think by now something should of been affected already but what do you think?
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if you have insurance and won't cost you anything to replace the phone, then use it.
Other than that, rooting or unrooting won't matter on a phone that's been dropped in water.
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wyldkard said:
Other than that, rooting or unrooting won't matter on a phone that's been dropped in water.
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I'm sure he is asking about the rooting of the phone is cause trying to swap a phone with root/custom rom will not go well for him.
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mt3g said:
I'm sure he is asking about the rooting of the phone is cause trying to swap a phone with root/custom rom will not go well for him.
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Sorry I guess I didn't make my question clear, what i was really asking was that my phone is working right now, but does my phone run a high risk of something going bad in the next few days or I'm just lucky and nothing broke?
Might be a dumb question but I never had any phone dropped in liquid so I'm not aware if the phone stops working right away or it takes a few days for it to go bad
Don't want to root and then something stops working and I won't be able to flash stock.
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I would try to root it, after all it's dry now and everything functions.

Thanks, I wasn't sure if it takes a while for the phone to malfunction or not lol.
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My experience has been if it turns on the next day its all good for many more bowls of soup lol. Or washer and dryer like my olllld bb
Making bad decision's one at a time.

Lmao, I hope it don't happen again lol, but yea everything working good, I haven't tried hdmi output, don't have a cable and I never used it lol, so I'll keep this phone. (rooted of course lol) till some thing else goes wrong, then ill swap it out, thanks for the replies
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Bricked?

I think I may have bricked my phone. I was trying to download a game but it said I was out of room. I decided to delete some music to free some space. I opened Fx and deleted some of my music and my phone turned off. Now I can't get it to respond by holding down the power button. I've tried 'adb devices' and it won't list my phone and Device Manager says "QHUSB_DLOAD." I have a custom recovery and am running TrickDroid... anyone have any ideas or am I screwed?

You cannot brick a device with deleting music.
Did your battery run out of juice? Do you have CWM recovery?
Because CWM with dead battery is bad news for some.
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That happened to me I tried everything I could think of to get it to turn back on but no good. :/
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Mine happened in the exact way I was trying to delete a file while at the same time downloading one

I can't get into anything at all, including recovery or fastboot. I'm not sure why it happened like this but it's really frustrating.
Any chance I can return it to T-Mobile? Do you think they could even check that I unlocked my phone?

I returned it to them without any problems. So I'm sure you could too
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core123 said:
I returned it to them without any problems. So I'm sure you could too
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I guess I'm more concerned about them getting back to me and charging me for it later on... How long ago did you return your phone?

It's been a month. So I think I would of heard from then by now
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I just want to say that it is possible for a phone to just die. Entering QHUSB_DLOAD spontaneously is bad news and I would think it's some kind of hardware/software fault. Your best bet is try to exchange it at t-mobile, and if they won't take it warranty it to HTC.

I didn't tell tmobile I was rooted because I don't think it had anything to do with it. I just told them what I was doing( deleting files) and that it just turned off and wouldn't turn on. They walked me through their steps to try to fix it. After a while they warranty swap it
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It's a glitch on the phone deleting big files I've seen this issue somewhere else on the forums just return it to T-Mobile and the HAVE to give u another one its some kinda bug
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I'm just going to take it T-Mobile.... ugh

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I'm just going to take it T-Mobile.... ugh
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Just got home... they are shipping me a phone on Friday.

Were you within 30days of getting the phone or did you have warranty on it? Or did t-mobile just take it back no questions asked?

dc211 said:
Were you within 30days of getting the phone or did you have warranty on it? Or did t-mobile just take it back no questions asked?
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I bought it the day it was released. I took it to the same store I bought it from. The lady tried to turn it on and couldn't, then plugged it in and saw the LED wouldn't turn on. It was near closing and she didn't seem too interested in continuing to troubleshoot so she sent typed a few things in her computer and told me I would get a replacement on Friday. I just need to put the defective phone in the box the new one came in and send it back.
I do have insurance on the phone and was glad I didn't need to use it. Hopefully there are no issues going forward. I'm not sure if I'm going to hack it again... Jelly Bean is tempting though...

I've had this same problem also was using trickdroid rom
Is there any way around warranty exchanging it. I don't want to lose info on my phone or trust it to a random employee.

If your led light doesn't turn on I'm pretty sure there's no way to get your stuff back. They will send you a completely new phone. It's what T-Mobile did for me anyway
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k1llacanon said:
It's a glitch on the phone deleting big files I've seen this issue somewhere else on the forums just return it to T-Mobile and the HAVE to give u another one its some kinda bug
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Do you have any more information on this? I'd love to know what went wrong. I doubt I did anything to cause this but would like to know why... I'm wondering if I should hack it again.

Phone occasionally locks and drops data

So, I love this phone but have one issue that seems odd to me. As an example I am currently running pandora and tried opening the xda app which caused what appeared to be a fc but my phone kept running pandora and went to a black screen for a minute then a faded screen which eventually lead to a drop in data (briefly). Every thing was briefly unresponsive... It acted exactly like a reboot without rebooting. When I was able to unlock the screen I had no data service (briefly) and all apps closed. Xda app often fc's which is not a big deal to me but causing the black screen and data drop is concerning to me. I also had this happen when opening the phone info app while running nothing else. Should I be concerned about this? Software or hardware? I am running stock.
Edit: Have also had to reboot due to dropped data but it may have been during a switch between 4G or 3g even 1x.
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Ryno77 said:
So, I love this phone but have one issue that seems odd to me. As an example I am currently running pandora and tried opening the xda app which caused what appeared to be a fc but my phone kept running pandora and went to a black screen for a minute then a faded screen which eventually lead to a drop in data (briefly). Every thing was briefly unresponsive... It acted exactly like a reboot without rebooting. When I was able to unlock the screen I had no data service (briefly) and all apps closed. Xda app often fc's which is not a big deal to me but causing the black screen and data drop is concerning to me. I also had this happen when opening the phone info app while running nothing else. Should I be concerned about this? Software or hardware? I am running stock.
Edit: Have also had to reboot due to dropped data but it may have been during a switch between 4G or 3g even 1x.
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same thing happens to me, not sure why. I went through and froze all bloat with titanium backup, and it still happens

It's not something I can make happen, just happens randomly. I have 5 days to return this so I would like to figure it out. If a software update would fix it I would just deal with it for now but I'm not sure what the problem is.
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I just talked to Samsung on their live chat and they recommended I return the phone and exchange for new. I am still in the 14 day return window so I will ask for brand new even if I have to pay their $35 fee.

Ryno77 said:
I just talked to Samsung on their live chat and they recommended I return the phone and exchange for new. I am still in the 14 day return window so I will ask for brand new even if I have to pay their $35 fee.
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The policy is there is no $35 reatocking fee for the same phone swap. Don't let them tell you different. Your phone is DOA. Its a warranty exchange.
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ancashion said:
The policy is there is no $35 reatocking fee for the same phone swap. Don't let them tell you different. Your phone is DOA. Its a warranty exchange.
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Thanks. I already exchanged and they did not charge me anything. Hopefully I won't encounter that problem again.
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Replacement phone just did the exact same thing..... Seriously only one other person has this problem?
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No.. tons of us have data issues. My phone hot booted in my hands the other night and it was the first time I experienced it, but I've seen reference to it before.
Your issues are not isolated.
I gave up with tech support and wishing a new phone would fix it and turned to third party development. My first time flashing a ROM. I used synergy and have been really thrilled with it.
Sucks to have to fix a brand new phone. Sucks to be a beta tester for Samsung and vzw.
Sorry for your troubles though.
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Not the dropped data, the unresponsive black screen... Sorry, should have been more specific.
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Ahh.. no. Sorry. Have you tried wiping/restoring the phone? Lame, I know...
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I did not try wiping the phone because the first one was only nine days old and I had not done much with it. The second one lasted a day and now I am on my third. I really hope this does not happen again. The people at the Verizon store said they have never heard of this..... They think it's an app... I only have 12 apps installed. I don't know what I'm going to do if this happens with this phone. This is frustrating. I do not want to get stuck with a phone that has a problem like this.
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I did not try wiping the phone because the first one was only nine days old and I had not done much with it. The second one lasted a day and now I am on my third. I really hope this does not happen again. The people at the Verizon store said they have never heard of this..... They think it's an app... I only have 12 apps installed. I don't know what I'm going to do if this happens with this phone. This is frustrating. I do not want to get stuck with a phone that has a problem like this.
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Mine does the same thing. Besides the stock stuff, I loaded Pandora, Google Music, Amazon MP3, and Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas game. It was nice enough to wait until just after the 14 day return window to start locking up and misbehaving. The only way I could get it back was to do a battery pull. Of course, when I brought it to the store it ran like a champ! If you can get another replacement, make sure it says 'UPDATED' on the box. Those have a newer kernel / baseband and seem to be working better.

All of mine have said updated on the box. I am trying to limit apps for now and will slowly add them if I have no issues.
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