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See the thing is I have been thinking about stylus development a lot lately. The Stylus on my Wizard was fine for the first few months but started to come lose eventually. Now with my new Hermes its all nice and Toight again but I almost feel guilty when I pull it out to use it.
THEN it hit me
Why not go to one of those fancy nail shops and ask the kind lady there to give me a fake nail on my index finger, but shape the tip just like a stylus! Now I know what you are thinking "Dam thats clever, Why didn't I think of that"
Just think you will always have a stylus at hand and it will be much easier to use than any other.
You will of course need to take care when picking your nose as to avoid doing some serious harm to yourself
The thing is people will think your a fruit cake when you try and explain why you have a pointy bit on the end of your finger, but if there are thousands of XDA users who all have "little pointy bits" on the end of the fingers I won't feel so strange.
Hmmm maybe those people are right huh!
Yours in Jest
Jules
or you could have just bought something like this
http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=14951&cat=2380&page=1
Would save you the humiliation of telling your friends you have to go get your nails done
I hope your signficant other doesnt mind that you are now high maintenance..... lol
Yes... and could be a problem picking your nose... and wiping your a**.
and ppl will suspect that the nail is for sniffing drugs
Hey, you're not weird .... I was thinking about this some time ago, especially if you use your pda in your car. In the Germany, you'r not allowed to kepp it in your hands while driving.
My idea was some kind of glove or something you can stick on your finger, like accountants use for sorting paper. If you play guitar, you'll know that there's an item especially for fingerpicking (you wear it like a ring) ... maybe this will do if you find one made of plastic, cause i only know them made of steel, waht definitly will kill your screen.
Regards,
Some one did just that quite a while ago, IIRC there were photos posted at the same time either BA or Uni section - can't find it now though.
Only problem is you can't opperate the reset with your fingernail, and your other half might have something to say about it! - Mike
Fingerpicks ...
.. this is what you are looking for ...
http://www.truetip.com/
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Yes... and could be a problem picking your nose... and wiping your a**.
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Well that's one way to stop me biting my nails.
dedication!!! i love it
Hey guys..
I have scratched the fluck nuggets out of my beautiful Raphael.
I have a one year warranty on the phone.
The following is worth the bad karma for me..., so please.. if you have only negative comments to make- please save it for someone who cares!!
I would like to kill/bomb/grenade my phone so that it appears completely toasted .. with little to no evidence it was damaged.
This probably means software .. since any physical damage will void the warranty.
I was thinking, restore the default SPL, flash the stock ROM back onto it, and then try to re-flash the stock ROM but pull out the battery half way into it.
Will this kill my phone worthy enough for AT&T to replace it for me? Or do you think they repair it (not ideal).
P.S. I have searched, I guess I dont know what terms to use or no one has the balls to go through with my type of evil plan.
All Advice (except negative comments) appreciated!
thanks guys
The reason why prices rise
Thank you for the extraordinarily helpful advice! I'll try that. Thanks!!
For the third time, i have selflessly helped others in this forum quite a bit. IF you have a negative comment that does not help me, mumble it to yourself and giggle. Do not waste your valuable time posting it here. You will not change my mind.
Any friendly people who can actually help address the questions I have posed are welcome to respond.
I understand what I want to do is frequently frowned upon ... but at the same time, charging $.20 to send some kilobytes through the air isn't exactly a nice thing to do to your loyal customers.
P.S. If AT&T offered equipment warranty on this phone .. this would not be an issue.
They decided to screw their customers by not offering it, and so I will work the system.
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P.S. If AT&T offered equipment warranty on this phone .. this would not be an issue.
They decided to screw their customers by not offering it, and so I will work the system.
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Maybe your idea is the reason behind that
Maybe so but that is irrelevant to the questions I have asked.
Are the scratches deep enough for a fingernail to get caught on them? thats what they ask you over the phone when turning in a device for a warranty exchange. If so then warranty is void.
On to the fun part
You could try unplugging the battery halfway through a flash which will cause the device to start up in bootloader mode. From their its easy to just restart the flash and be on your way. If you go to an At&t Device Support Center, most of the guys their aren't trained to each device specifically, they're mainly trained to rule out physical damage and go from there.
So it wouldn't hurt to try that. Unplug battery during flash and see what they'll do. I'll be surprised if they flash a rom because i've turned in one device that was stuck on a white screen and they just handed me a replacement fairly quick.
Now, the next thing you could try i figured out accidently by trying to improve GPS reception on my Tilt. Actually scratch that, just found out it won't work on the Raphael. With my tilt i took a copper wire (taken from an old landline telephone) and plugged it into the antenna extender port on the back of the device.
This greatly improved my GPS reception, then i stuck it in the other port (phone antenna) and i got 5 bars, but when i took it out, i couldn't get any service. I think it fried the antenna.
I took that device into the At&t Device Support Center and the guy at the desk handed it to the Tech who just looked at it, handed it back to me asked me if i wanted to back anything up and gave me another device (refurbished)
One last thing. Although i turned in a flawless At&t (no scratches nothing) in for a 5th warranty exchange and they gave me the Raphael, it ended up having 2 deep scratches on the frame of the keyboard of the device. When i called in they told me since it was my 5th return its not under any warranty.
this is kinda a crappy question to ask, and it's the reason we pay such high amounts for our beloved phones. BUT.... just zap the sh!t outta it with a stungun simplest way I can think of. maybe microwave it for 5 or 10 seconds? nah.. that'd just start a fire. stungun.
I wonder what a few seconds in the microwave would do or near a moderately strong electro magnet would do.
thankfully my fingernail does not get caught in the scratches .. its just abrasion scratches, kind of like what sandpaper would do. I can barely see the scratches when the screen is on .. unless I'm thinking about it.
I will try to F up a flash today. Maybe even when changing the bootloader so that there is nothing there to "take" a new rom. If anything, this will serve as a test-case for those wonder what would happen if your electricty goes out the next time your flashing (prevent it: use a laptop!)
for those that have contributed something useful so far. I THANK YOU. This forum is for sharing information, not morals.
I will post back with the results of the suicide and warranty exchange so others can learn from it
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for those that have contributed something useful so far. I THANK YOU. This forum is for sharing information, not morals.
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Actually if you read the forum rules it clearly states:
9. Don't get us in trouble.
Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things that will obviously lead to legal trouble
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I'd have thought discussing insurance fraud is certainly pushing & bending that, if not breaking it completely.
Deliberately breaking your phone to claim under warranty or insurance is fraud. Please don’t drag our forums down to your level.
Live with it
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Actually if you read the forum rules it clearly states:
I'd have thought discussing insurance fraud is certainly pushing & bending that, if not breaking it completely.
Deliberately breaking your phone to claim under warranty or insurance is fraud. Please don’t drag our forums down to your level.
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Exactly. Maybe you could learn a lesson and invest more care in your next device. Mods should close this thread.
ok, well under that logic, fraud will also be damaging your own phone, even if by accident, and then getting a warranty replacement and mentioning you have done so on the forum.
So that means everyone that flashes their phone and F's it up, then gets it replaced is also "getting the forum in trouble" because it is also technically warranty fraud.
How exactly the forum is now "in trouble", I will never know. Its not like you gave me the idea to screw my phone. I simply asked for advice and experiences. How dare I use a forum that has always been a help to me, for getting information, similar experiences, and help. I dont know what I was thinking.
Go ahead and lock the thread.. you guys are all whiney nannies anyway. Save me the trouble of having to hear you guys.
P.S. You should get out in the real world where cut throat tactics happen every day. Its kill or be killed in corporate America. (I work for a very large company and I know that so intimately, I couldnt give you the details if I wanted to .... i would fear for my way of life.)
Good luck on your crusade to right all the wrongs in the world. I learned its not worth the effort .. Playing their own game is far more beneficial.
one more thing. the worst thing that could have happened is I get denied the warranty exchange. That is my own risk and I acknowledge I'm taking it.
How would my attempt at warranty exchange EVER "obviously lead to legal trouble", ESPECIALLY for the forum???
If you want to quote the rules, you should interpret them as they are written. No where does it say "have good morals" and "dont bring the forum down to your level". I'm pretty sure it does say
2. Be polite and respect your fellow xda-dev user.
There is no need for cursing, flaming, racism or personal attacks. There are a lot of different nationalities on this forum all with different cultures, this means that no matter what you're like, you'll have to adjust to people that are most definitely not like you. It will gain you a lot of respect if you help to keep the peace. It's disrespectful and therefore not permitted to create Alias Member names in an attempt to deceive others.
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Further, my intentional doings and my reports of what happened could actually help someone who has done the same, but by other unintentional means.
I am, as always, in the spirit of the forum, here to help and be helped.
Stick it to the man!
FWIW, you could get an Invisible Shield that would make the scratches less noticable.
HAHA
Ok the deed is done. The hitman has collected. The eagle has landed
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HAHA
Ok the deed is done. The hitman has collected. The eagle has landed
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Since you've gone to such great lengths to explain how this enterprise is going to benefit the community, and how anybody judging you is such a whiner, how about you explain the details?
Yeah I wanted to help people, but all the **** I got made me rethink the whole posting on the forum thing. I figured spilling more information will only get more people to chime in with their nasty nanny comments..... so I wasn't going to.
BUT since you asked, and you specifically were not one of the nannies (or atl east one that kept quiet.. i thank you!)... I would be happy to share the details.
I thought I would be able to kill it through software .. but it turns out bricking a phone intentionally is NOT an easy thing to do.
1) Pulling the battery is not enough to stop the flash. It will continue just fine on USB power only! Therefore I dont know how bad batteries could cause problems with flashing...
2) Stopping the flash of a ROM by pulling battery and USB almost always (for me, 10 out of 10 times) just causes the bootloader to complain "bad data" when you reset the phone, or something to that effect. You can reflash easily every time, I guess unless you stop it at the PERFECT moment ( I wasn't able to)
3) Stopping the flash of a Bootloader is absolutely impossible. I tried maybe 15 times (switching between stock SPL and the 1.90 SPL), but each time it loaded up just fine....
4) So,now getting desperate (Like I wasn't already...) I went to further measures. The stock battery is 3.7v DC. I applied 5 volts AC to the battery connector first, very quickly as fast as I could touch leads to the battery pins. Each time.. nothing happened and the phone booted fine.
So I stepped it up to 7.5, then 10. applying 10 v AC on the 3rd time was the charm. The LED flash blinked once very quickly, and then the phone ceased to turn on. I was nervous doing this.. I didnt want anything to physically fry. It turned out very well, it didnt get hot at all, no smoke and no burning smell.
Then I went to an AT&T store and turned it in for a new one. The guys there told me this wasnt the first time the Fuze came back completely dead!!! Imagine that.....
If the software bricking worked easily .. I planned on trying to recover it as a test case .. but alas it was damn tough. Thats also why I didnt really give many details.
This just goes to show everyone flashing your phone is really, really safe. I would say- flying in an airplane safe. When it fails, it does so rarely, and spectacularly and catastrophically... enough for all the media to hear about it (everyone on the forum). I wouldn't be worried tho, stepping on to a plane is just fine and chances are very good (you can round those chances to "always") it will work fine.. even if it screws up during the process some how.
So, GO FLASH THAT NEW ROM!!
A sincere thanks for the forum for putting up with an opinion/viewpoint that the majority clearly and rightfully disagrees with.
All I can say is WOW - what a mean thing to do; torture your phone like that. You could also have tried waterboarding, because in America that is not considered torture.
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P.S. If AT&T offered equipment warranty on this phone .. this would not be an issue.
They decided to screw their customers by not offering it, and so I will work the system.
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I have a warranty for my Fuze via ATT
Warning:
- This will void your warranty.
(But if you're doing this, you probably don't have a warranty anyway.)
- You need to be smarter than the average bear.
(I'm not responsible if this doesn't work, you pick a bad donor phone, you get stabbed while buying said phone, you somehow burn your house down while attempting these directions, you somehow manage to injure your cat when you open your phone, look its not my fault)
First:
Make sure you have a real brick. If you can get to anything other than a white G1 screen you DON'T have a real brick.
Please try:
1. Home + Power
2. Back + Power
3. Camera + Power
If you get anything other than a Tmobile G1 screen you don't have a real brick and DON'T need this guide.
What you need:
1. A donor G1.
Look for a G1 that got smashed up, scratched, broken screen, whatever. Just make sure it didn't go for a swim. I recommend craigslist. Make sure it starts at least. You can remove the back panel and check the void stickers to see if it changed color to check for water damage.
The point is that true hard bricks are caused by a major failure of the SPL. No one has figured out how to come back from this yet by software, but everyone that has seen an HTC repair bill knows you can fix it by replacing the mother board. New motherboards direct from HTC are prohibitively expensive though. Thats where the donor G1 comes in. I expect a lot more of them to be turning up for cheap now that there are some new android phones on the market.
I paid about $50 bucks for one without a working back light and a few scratches.
2. http://www.portatronics.com/guide/T-Mobile-Smartphone-Repair-Guide/
The second guide (first from the bottom). Its not that hard, just be careful. The point is that you have to slip the donor motherboard into your phone. It took me about 35 minutes and I lack fine motor skills.
Once you have it all buttoned up again:
1. format an SD card to FAT32
2. Put http://g1upgrade.com/DREAMIMG-RC29.zip in the root directory
3. Insert SD card in phone
4. Start with Camera+power and flash the same way you probably rooted your phone the first time.
I feel like this was known in the upper echelons of the community before, but I had never seen it explicitly spelled out in its own thread. Unfortunately I bricked a professors phone last Friday night and had to make it right using the minimum amount of cash possible by next Monday morning.
Wouldn't you know, its running kingklicks 2.0 right now.
- Faylix / Local
If you liked this,
Donate to Local's Broke Law school fund
Its so funny you post this because I actually have a white G1 with a cracked screen and heavily scratched face and a black G1 thats perfect but has the Haykuro brick. Maybe I will throw the nice stuff on the working phone once I go buy some tools. lol
It works. Just be gentile with the connections when removing the motherboard, and a little scotch tape goes a long way to holding the connections in when you re-attach them to the donor board.
Taking the G1 apart is surprisingly easy. Do yourself a favor though, take the motherboard from the white one and stick it in the black one. Much easier than transferring the screen.
Go fix that brick.
- faylix
this is hardly a fix, essentially a new motherboard is a new phone, it just has your old case on it, so there's no actul fix apart from replacement. my opinion while it's great use of imagination, it's not by any means a fix. for all you know, the phone you're buying may be a blacklisted phone and will not work, it could even have the spl brick itself, so this is neither a true fix, or reliable
sorry
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this is hardly a fix, essentially a new motherboard is a new phone, it just has your old case on it, so there's no actul fix apart from replacement. my opinion while it's great use of imagination, it's not by any means a fix. for all you know, the phone you're buying may be a blacklisted phone and will not work, it could even have the spl brick itself, so this is neither a true fix, or reliable
sorry
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Call it what you will I guess.
On Friday I had a bricked G1, $50 bucks and 35 minutes later I have a working G1.
There should be lots of used G1's turning up on craigslist right now with the CLIQ / DEXT out, and even more as the other new phones drop.
I recommend you make sure the phone you buy at least turns on, but selecting an appropriate donor / making sure you aren't buying a stolen black listed phone is up to you.
Your Mileage May Vary.
The title of this thread is *extremely* misleading.
This does not in any way unbrick a phone. It is simple replacement.
Let me guess... are you an automotive mechanic in your day job? Seems like that's all they do these days... replace parts until it works.
What you need to understand is that the part that you are replacing is basically the brain of the thing.
To put this into perspective... if you got brain cancer and the doctors said they could cure you by a brain transplant, would the resulting "person" be you? Or would it be someone else?
I suggest that you find some way of renaming this thread (as a moderator to help you if needed) to something like "get a working phone again by changing the mainboard". At least that won't trick people into reading through it just to find that you are talking about something completely uninteresting.
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The title of this thread is *extremely* misleading.
This does not in any way unbrick a phone. It is simple replacement.
Let me guess... are you an automotive mechanic in your day job? Seems like that's all they do these days... replace parts until it works.
What you need to understand is that the part that you are replacing is basically the brain of the thing.
To put this into perspective... if you got brain cancer and the doctors said they could cure you by a brain transplant, would the resulting "person" be you? Or would it be someone else?
I suggest that you find some way of renaming this thread (as a moderator to help you if needed) to something like "get a working phone again by changing the mainboard". At least that won't trick people into reading through it just to find that you are talking about something completely uninteresting.
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agreed... i thought this post was going to have actual flashing method of curing a brick, not some replacement part way.
PS- I really liked that brain transplant metaphor lol
Hehe Thought someone actually beat those of us working in the unbrick thread to the method. this is simply a replacement, cant call this an ubrick thread, should be titled "how to replace G1 motherboard"
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The title of this thread is *extremely* misleading.
This does not in any way unbrick a phone. It is simple replacement.
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To be fair, the title states it requires a donor.
After the task is preformed your phone is no longer a brick.
Let me guess... are you an automotive mechanic in your day job? Seems like that's all they do these days... replace parts until it works.
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Actually I'm a law student that builds motorcycles in his off time.
If a part is broken, it can be obtained cheaper than a whole new unit, than the best "fix" in my mind is to just replace the part no?
What you need to understand is that the part that you are replacing is basically the brain of the thing.
To put this into perspective... if you got brain cancer and the doctors said they could cure you by a brain transplant, would the resulting "person" be you? Or would it be someone else?
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Existential questions aside... if your phone is bricked, you can pay $400 for a new off contract phone, $200 and sign up for another 2 years, or $50 bucks and have a working phone using most of your own hardware. I know what I'd choose.
I suggest that you find some way of renaming this thread (as a moderator to help you if needed) to something like "get a working phone again by changing the mainboard". At least that won't trick people into reading through it just to find that you are talking about something completely uninteresting.
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Wow. You're a hostile one.
I'm very sorry I wasted 5 minutes of your day in reading about the best, cheapest, way *so far* to fix a bricked a phone.
I'm also very sorry you lack basic reading skills, don't seem to understand what (requires a donor) means, and seem to have a dislike of mechanics. I suggest you re-read the top of the thread, realize since you are clearly dumber than rocks, this thread is not for you
Anyway, lets try and keep this on topic.
I was in a bad position, figured out the best fix I could given the current state of affairs, and thought it might help some other users on this board.
Mods, Please delete, change, do as you will.
If you have real questions about this process I'll answer them, I'm done with the back and forth.
Great thread, I agree, the time these guys have wasted trying to resurrect bricked fones, the fix seems easy enough. Always better to follow the path of least resistance. Good thinking.
"requires a donor" could mean anything.
-SOFTWARE donor.
-it could mean that you are temporarily hijacking one to run the second.
I'm sorry that you don't see HOW MANY people got tricked by your misleading title into thinking that this thread was about something that it WAS NOT.
And motorcycle mechanic.... same thing. Just how did I guess?
And law student? I guess you must have taken too much from "how to mislead 101". Bloody (wannabe) lawyers...
Great thread, I agree, the time these guys have wasted trying to resurrect bricked fones, the fix seems easy enough. Always better to follow the path of least resistance. Good thinking.
And there is a big difference between fixing a device and a human.
When the cpu on my computer dies, i replace it, not the whole computer.
Or if the ECU goes out in my car, I replace it, not the whole car.
Dont listen to these punks, the fix you provided is indeed a fix for bricked phones. It may not be a software fix, but it is a fix.
The automotive comment made shows just how ignorant some people are. In fact, people do the same thing with vegetables at a store. Pick 1 up, its not satisfactory, pick up another, still not good, pick up another, this one is good! No difference.
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Dont listen to these punks, the fix you provided is indeed a fix for bricked phones. It may not be a software fix, but it is a fix.
The automotive comment made shows just how ignorant some people are. In fact, people do the same thing with vegetables at a store. Pick 1 up, its not satisfactory, pick up another, still not good, pick up another, this one is good! No difference.
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i aggree... give the guy a break the title may have been a little misleading but has anyone got any better ideas that work? i thought so...
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Great thread, I agree, the time these guys have wasted trying to resurrect bricked fones, the fix seems easy enough. Always better to follow the path of least resistance. Good thinking.
And there is a big difference between fixing a device and a human.
When the cpu on my computer dies, i replace it, not the whole computer.
Or if the ECU goes out in my car, I replace it, not the whole car.
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This isn't about a fried CPU. The CPU is fine. It is about a BIOS FLASH gone bad (quite common). When you do a bad bios flash, do you replace the mainboard? No. You yank the BIOS FLASH chip out and "hotflash" it in another mainboard to resurrect it! http://www.overclock.net/faqs/102206-how-hotflash-your-bios-chip.html
So what do you do when there isnt another motherboard available to fix the flashing? (G1 Software fix)
You replace the motherboard.
Yeah ok so why dont you just do that then. I dont see your solution realized in the other thread.
Your the one comparing apples and oranges. I mean brain surgery.
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Dont listen to these punks, the fix you provided is indeed a fix for bricked phones. It may not be a software fix, but it is a fix.
The automotive comment made shows just how ignorant some people are. In fact, people do the same thing with vegetables at a store. Pick 1 up, its not satisfactory, pick up another, still not good, pick up another, this one is good! No difference.
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Actually, you've just shown YOUR ignorance with your vegetable nonsense. Picking through a bunch of the SAME KIND of vegetable is not the same as replacing parts until something works.
Fact is this;
When you bring your car in to be "serviced", all they do is *replace parts*. Even if they don't know what part is giving you problems... they just keep on replacing parts until the problem goes away and stick them all on your bill. And this is despite the fact that things can usually be *repaired*. The correct way to repair things is to find what isn't working (done -- it doesn't boot), figure out why (IPL and SPL are incompatible), and correct the problem (rewrite IPL and SPL). Instead, you take the "automotive approach" and just replace parts until something works... except that in this case, you are not actually repairing the "bricked" phone, you are repairing the "smashed" phone and giving up entirely on the bricked one since it is the mainboard that defines what phone is what.
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Yeah ok so why dont you just do that then. I dont see your solution realized in the other thread.
Your the one comparing apples and oranges. I mean brain surgery.
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No? So instead of waiting a few more days to see if the jtag solution comes through, you're going to go out and spend $xxx on a new *broken-and-possibly-useless* phone in the off-chance that you might be able to repair it with parts from your phone, which is actually perfectly fine and is simply in need of reprogramming?
Your choice.
And I'm not telling you not to.
My only complaint is in the misleading nature of the TITLE of this thread, which suggests a solution to reprogramming the phone.
Where exactly did you learn that mechanics replace parts until its right? I am a trained technician, yes certified, and 95% of mechanics I know do not do this.
I never said it was the same kind of vegetable. That was your assumption.
I got my tab back from RMA (doa) they replaced the screen and there is now a speck between the screen and glass... I can live with the light bleed but this speck is frikin annoying Its not a dead pixel with the device off it is clearly seen under the glass... HELP i am sooo annoyed and I dont want to rma again! How do you take this thing apart?
Thanks!
You don't want to risk taking the thing apart. If you **** it up it's your fault and Asus will NOT give you free warranty service after the fact.
If you can't live with it you have to call Asus and tell them you want them to fix this. They'll probably tell you to prove that they did this by taking a picture of something that's impossible to take a picture of.
Good luck. Another casualty of ****ty Asus QC and an even ****tier RMA service.
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You don't want to risk taking the thing apart. If you **** it up it's your fault and Asus will NOT give you free warranty service after the fact.
If you can't live with it you have to call Asus and tell them you want them to fix this. They'll probably tell you to prove that they did this by taking a picture of something that's impossible to take a picture of.
Good luck. Another casualty of ****ty Asus QC and an even ****tier RMA service.
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Why do you **** on every thread that has anything to do with with Asus support or QC of these devices?
If you hate the thing, sell it and buy something you like.
sassafras
mmmmmk I rooted so I don't care about warranty... I am pretty good at this stuff... if not I know a guy that is a freakin meticulous electronical surgeon.... he made me new insides of the left button on my g9x mouse when the copper wore out.. if I mess it up he'll fix it. Best part hes fam so he does it for free ;D
Would just like a rough idea before I tear into it.
If you hate the thing, sell it and buy something you like.
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No. (LOL)
I don't hate the TF, I do hate the way service is handled. Your whole post and your line of reasoning is so ****ing flawed it makes me embarassed just to see how embarassing you are. A case of serious contact embarassment. I should sell the TF and I must hate it because I hate how Asus runs things and I hate their QC? Are you stupid or just deficient?
By the way, ****ting on threads would be like what you're doing, making a moronic post that doesn't even begin to answer the OP on a thread, instead you sidetrack the whole discussion. Great job you selfish asshole. I don't "**** on" threads, I tell it like it is. I don't lie about the RMA process or QC, it's the truth (in less than flattering terms) and it's relevant to the OP. Next time you want to send me a love letter go do it by PM instead of hijacking another persons thread.
mmmmmk I rooted so I don't care about warranty...
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You can unroot it and "preserve" that warranty. This isn't really a good reason to go ahead and rip through it.
I am pretty good at this stuff...
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Sounds good until you miss a clip and break it. It doesn't really matter how good you or your fam is at doing this. There's a chance for anything to break especially when you're dealing with a particular device you haven't had any experience disassembling before.
Would just like a rough idea before I tear into it.
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There was a disassembly thread somewhere here that shows a minor teardown. Do a google search for it. Although I'm not sure it goes as far as the screen and glass. In addition you have no way to guarantee that you won't introduce more dust since I doubt you own a clean room. I highly advise you contact Asus first, you don't want to do this. There are too many risks that outweigh removing a stupid fleck from between the screen and glass. You'll end up breaking clips that hold the back to the bezel and then you finish up the job, fire the unit up and FUUUUUUUUUUU there are eight huge pieces of dust under the screen. Oops.
My I noticed a spec of dust last night on my TF and concur that its driving me crazy! Would asus' warranty cover something like this?
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daazncandyman said:
Would asus' warranty cover something like this?
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Yes, but I don't know, if a single dust speck is enough.
Im done with this tab... it burnt the hand that uses it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15637454#post15637454
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figured I would post one last update and fix for anyone else affected. I (accidentally) dropped it and it went away as well as the sd card heating up issue. So if anyone else has any issues with this tablet try smacking it into the floor (Hard wood is preferred but it should also work with tile)
kthnxbie
Use Google Translate to read in English.
http://www.mobiflip.de/nexus-5-verbesserte-version-aufgetaucht/
Hi all. I saw this posted on Reddit. I did a search here but came up with nothing. What's the take on this? False rumor? Any possible truth? If it is true I wonder how it affects early adopters? Would they still be able to RMA? I love my N5 but my power button is indeed loose. Not audibly loose but you can definitely feel it. Love this thing regardless.
alexhendershott said:
Use Google Translate to read in English.
http://www.mobiflip.de/nexus-5-verbesserte-version-aufgetaucht/
Hi all. I saw this posted on Reddit. I did a search here but came up with nothing. What's the take on this? False rumor? Any possible truth? If it is true I wonder how it affects early adopters? Would they still be able to RMA? I love my N5 but my power button is indeed loose. Not audibly loose but you can definitely feel it. Love this thing regardless.
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good info, i wonder if the 312k builds are like this
alexhendershott said:
Use Google Translate to read in English.
http://www.mobiflip.de/nexus-5-verbesserte-version-aufgetaucht/
Hi all. I saw this posted on Reddit. I did a search here but came up with nothing. What's the take on this? False rumor? Any possible truth? If it is true I wonder how it affects early adopters? Would they still be able to RMA? I love my N5 but my power button is indeed loose. Not audibly loose but you can definitely feel it. Love this thing regardless.
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Sorry but a loose power button (not even audibly loose) seems an extremely petty thing to complain about. I've seen this complained about repeatedly but really?? It just seems so ridiculous to me. This is not directed at the OP, just at this complaint in general.
marleyfan61 said:
Sorry but a loose power button (not even audibly loose) seems an extremely petty thing to complain about. I've seen this complained about repeatedly but really?? It just seems so ridiculous to me. This is not directed at the OP, just at this complaint in general.
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Petty or not, if there is truth to the article Google is treating it as a mistake. Hard to know though since there is no other sources besides this German website.
i also think that the "loose" power button thing is just people being REALLY picky. i wouldnt of even noticed it if people didnt point it out in the forums. As for the larger speaker holes. Its a "meh" type thing. Your not going to get that much more sound with bigger holes.