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My screen just went out. Everything us black. It rings so its alive though. Question is that since I flashed coredroid on it should I try for a warranty replacement? I know the warranty is void but I just got this phone a week ago as a replacement for the original phone. Can they charge me once they get it back and figure out it was customized?
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If you pull the battery, then try to go into hboot does anything happens?
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Screen is dead. Pulled the battery. Nothing. Tried to get into recovery.black screen. funny thing is it will ring when you call it. It also gets texts and email notifications. Just can't read them! Lol
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I doubt they would check. Especially if you got it from att, they will just replace it as its within the 30day window. Since only the screen is dead you could try and getting it back to stock with the ace hack kit if you wanted to try that
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What I realized from Captivate's forums some time back:
AT&T would replace it, and send it to Samsung. And IF Sansungs checks and realizes foul play, u would be slapped a $600 bill from AT&T.
Not sure if the same holds good here too.

[Q] Is there a way to turn S-On again?

Does anyone know how to turn S back on?
I encountered a strange issue yesterday when my phone just became dead and wouldn't respond to anything. I tried pressing the power button, tried removing the battery but no go. I knew the battery was about 70 % when this happened but I still plugged it into the charger and the LED wouldn't come on either. I even tried a different charger. ADB wouldn't detect it at all when plugged into the computer.
I then took the battery out again and about 5 minutes later put it back in and this time it turned on.
I've S-OFF and I am on 4.0.0.9 recovery. I would like to go back to complete stock with S-On in case this thing is hardware related and I have to send it for a replacement.
Any ideas?

Honestly just send it back as is. They don't look for that kind of stuff. I've sent back over 12 s off devices and never got charged for one of them. So you should be good to go.
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I would also like to get S-on again. I have the Sensation and there is a method for it, but it's said you can brick if done wrong. My wife has the MT4GS and I have it S-off, but it is having issues. Hopefully someone can come up with a method before too long.

Running the stock PD59IMG gets you back to stock, but still s-off.

If there is no way to turn S-ON then I shall have to take a chance with sending it back as is.
Undead did you send it through T- Mob or directly to HTC ?
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Tmobile directly.
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Further updates: phone is getting hotter than normal so I'm going to get it back to stock asap.
On a side note, have anyone else noticed these kinda issues. Could it be a side effect of revolutionary?
Anyway, thanks all for your help.
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Nope. No issues at all. Are you running my new ROM update and flash my new kernel...no overheating to report on this combo.
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Shivansh said:
Further updates: phone is getting hotter than normal so I'm going to get it back to stock asap.
On a side note, have anyone else noticed these kinda issues. Could it be a side effect of revolutionary?
Anyway, thanks all for your help.
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My phone has always gotten hot below the battery where the sim card is when I make it do work or charge it. I guess thats why they put what looks like thermal tape on the cover above that area.

ratchetrizzo said:
My phone has always gotten hot below the battery where the sim card is when I make it do work or charge it. I guess thats why they put what looks like thermal tape on the cover above that area.
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Exactly the area where I'm experiencing it as well. I had a mt4g before but that never got as hot as this slide.
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This has a dual core processor. It's a diff beast then the mt4g
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Placebo affect in reverse, it gets hot, thus the added heatshield on the plastic back cover, you want a thin fone but are upset when they feel the heat of the processors.... Dont blame every hiccup as a result of root/s-off.
Your phone will run faster, save battlife, and someday (if we can get back some of the system partition) that was bloated with tmob crap
Bhang
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Exactly.
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Quick question, anyone else have ''revolutionary'' in magenta above everything else in hboot?

YES. That's normal.
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bhang said:
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Your phone will run faster, save battlife, and someday (if we can get back some of the system partition) that was bloated with tmob crap
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What I did with all the free space I got on my system partition was put all the apps there that I wanted on my phone that will run from system.
Some won't, like Google Earth, amongst others, but most will. Count on no games being able to run from system.
I didn't use all the space freed by removing what I consider to be bloatware, but I did save a bunch of space elsewhere on my phone by putting what I could in the system partition.

Phone crash with camera flash

I've noticed that when I take a picture with my inspire 4g, with the flash turned on, the entire phone shuts down right away, but when it's turned into automatic, it works fine, has anyone else has this problem, or know of a solution?
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Need a few more details. What ROM, mods,etc. Folks here like to help, but we need to know what you may have modded on the phone.

I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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trashbag said:
I'm running stock 2.3.3, rooted, but no custom roms.
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That's odd. I have never heard of that on a stock ROM. But maybe someone else here has. Good Luck

You have a bad or shorted flash led.
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I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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trashbag said:
I can use other apps that use the flash, like tazer, and flashlight...
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You should try wiping everything and installing a custom Rom or a rooted stock Rom and see if problem persists, could be a software issue. There are plenty of stock rooted gb Roms buried a few pages back in dev forum.

Check my sig. Stock roms. There is a rooted gingerbread PD98img, stock. I think it's the 3rd one,iirc.

With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.

Agoattamer said:
With the phone plugged into the charger take a pic with flash on and see if your phone resets. Could be a battery issue.
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It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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trashbag said:
It worked fine when plugged into the charger, should I get a new battery?
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That would be my recommendation. If you knew someone with another inspire you could try their battery. Actually your battery should be under warranty. If your phone is stock looking then you could probably take it to an ATT store and let them check it out and get 1 for free. Or even a call to 611 ATT support might get you a new battery for free. Just tell them it won't hold a charge and the flash causes your phone to reboot and you tried a friends battery and it fixed the issue. ATT has very understanding customer support.

It definitely sounds like a battery issue. I had a very similar issue. My phone would shut off at random times, and one thing that caused it was the camera flash. I picked up a new HTC battery on eBay for like $14, and it runs like a dream! If you cant fork over the money for the HTC brand battery, there are lots of cheaper chinese batteries for like $2 a piece. They would be good to just test and see if the battery is the issue if you cant find a buddy that could let you use a battery for troubleshooting, before you buy an HTC battery.

Absolutely! the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. A new battery solved the issue. If you have a warranty/protection plan call up At&T and they'll take it from there.

Man, I love forums! I was just having this problem this week! I guess my brutal punishment to my battery over Winter break has cost me (I was running the phone down to 0% multiple times a day). Time to get a new battery.
- Jim

Digging into the problem
I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.

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I was going crazy with this problem! I wonder now what is the problem with the battery, because mine it seems like it keeps current like a good battery. Does anyoane has any "hardware-electrical" explanation?
Anyway, at least I have one solution and I am partially happy with it.
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I'm assuming when you say it "keeps current" you have been using a current widget. The camera flash puts a heavy load on the battery. On an older battery, it may look like it's fine at idle or doing simple tasks, but it can no longer handle the tough tasks.

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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Phone randomly goes into bootloop. Wtf?

I was on youtube listening to in dying arms and I kept getting email notifications in my status bar but when I opened my email no new emails were found. It sketched me out! I all paranoid with security and what not. Well I went to shut down my phone then reboot into recovery but it went into bootloop instead.
My phone would only go into bootloop as long as power was connected. Otherwise it was like it was completely dead(had full battery tho). I re-flashed cwmr and booted into it and restored.
I'm just going to wipe everything's and start fresh. That bugged me out!
Happen to anyone before? Anyone know a possible cause?
CM7 Trinity kernel regular voltage
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It happened to me once. Overheating was the culprit. I can't remember the app right now, but something I had installed was causing crazy issues. I removed it and have never had another problem.
Are you still on CM7?

jcbofkc said:
It happened to me once. Overheating was the culprit. I can't remember the app right now, but something I had installed was causing crazy issues. I removed it and have never had another problem.
Are you still on CM7?
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Yeah I'm back to CM7. I was using CM9 but not being able use the cam corder or watch videos that were recorded on a cam corder was enough for me to go back to CM7!! CM7 randomly shuts off tho. It is a pain in my freaking butt!!!!!!!!
I might try eagles blood and see if this stops happening. Cuz I'm not beat for searching/combing through apps to see if one of them are the cause.
UPDATE: It may be a hardware issue. I was on the phone and put the person on speaker and placed the phone down and it reset. It was very lightly too. Come to think of it, anytime my phone reset it was in my pocket or somewhere I couldn't see the actual phone. So the back of the phone could have hit my thigh too hard and it could have shut down.
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I'm using the New Clip mod of the Weapon Rom and have no issues right now. A lot of long time posters are still using it. Very stable. My other thought is swapping the battery at a Tmobile store. My wife's phone used to get hot and reboot when she used edmondo and the GPS. New battery fixed it. I still believe there was a bad batch of batteries with the initial launch.

jcbofkc said:
I'm using the New Clip mod of the Weapon Rom and have no issues right now. A lot of long time posters are still using it. Very stable. My other thought is swapping the battery at a Tmobile store. My wife's phone used to get hot and reboot when she used edmondo and the GPS. New battery fixed it. I still believe there was a bad batch of batteries with the initial launch.
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This happens when I hit the back of the phone. Like if I place on the table, it will shut off. No overheating issues. Ill try a new battery first and report back here.
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codecaine21 said:
This happens when I hit the back of the phone. Like if I place on the table, it will shut off. No overheating issues. Ill try a new battery first and report back here.
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Fold a piece of paper a few times and put it in between your battery and the case. Could be the battery terminals losing contact briefly.
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Klathmon said:
Fold a piece of paper a few times and put it in between your battery and the case. Could be the battery terminals losing contact briefly.
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Excellent idea. Hope that fixed it for him.

I haven't tried yet. I'm busy working on my car. I had a blown head gasket and had to replace it. Im stuck with my distributor timing. As soon as I'm done, ill have a crack at my phone. I have an extra battery lying around somewhere. Ill try the paper trick first! Ill let y'all know in a day or 2. Thanks
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Hell yeah, the paper fixed the issue!!! Thanks klathmon
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