My phone fell in a puddle last night. Everything seemed to be working fine until this morning it got stuck in boot loop. I opened up the hboot menu.
s-on rl
HBOOT-1.44.0007
eMMC-boot
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The phone was never rooted it's 100% factory. I have no idea what to do. I did search but none of the answers were on point.
Thank you in advance!
Is there an option under the hboot menu to restore the phone to factory defaults?
If so, this would wipe out everything on your phone, but it may start booting again.
Having subjected the hardware to an unfortunate water incident puts the hardware into an unpredictable and unknowable state. The best we can do is guess at this point. T-Mobile is unlikely to RMA it, sadly, as they have water detector stickers on the phone.
It sucks being in this predicament, I know. I wish you the best of luck!
Take the battery out and put everything in a Noel of rice for at leather 48 hours to completely dry the phone. The worst thing you can do is turn on a phone once it has gotten wet. Dry it before trying anything else, this is very important!
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Kanerix said:
Is there an option under the hboot menu to restore the phone to factory defaults?
If so, this would wipe out everything on your phone, but it may start booting again.
Having subjected the hardware to an unfortunate water incident puts the hardware into an unpredictable and unknowable state. The best we can do is guess at this point. T-Mobile is unlikely to RMA it, sadly, as they have water detector stickers on the phone.
It sucks being in this predicament, I know. I wish you the best of luck!
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I see what your saying I tried that but it still wouldn't start up. Also the water damage stickers didn't get touched.
But thank you for your opinion!
Kanerix said:
Is there an option under the hboot menu to restore the phone to factory defaults?
If so, this would wipe out everything on your phone, but it may start booting again.
Having subjected the hardware to an unfortunate water incident puts the hardware into an unpredictable and unknowable state. The best we can do is guess at this point. T-Mobile is unlikely to RMA it, sadly, as they have water detector stickers on the phone.
It sucks being in this predicament, I know. I wish you the best of luck!
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Take the battery out and put everything in a Noel of rice for at leather 48 hours to completely dry the phone. The worst thing you can do is turn on a phone once it has gotten wet. Dry it before trying anything else, this is very important!
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That's exactly what I'm doing right now. Just sucks being phoneless haha
Thank you for your intput
wow, I didn't notice how many typos there was in my post! They are pretty funny. Damn you auto correct!
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wow, I didn't notice how many typos there was in my post! They are pretty funny. Damn you auto correct!
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Don't stress it! It was very helpful!
i would do the rice for sure. i stepped in the shower with my G2 in the pocket of my bathing suit..... the phone was wonky at first, then i kept it in dry white rice for a day or two, as long as i could, and eventually everything came back fully functional. i thought the vibrator was dead for good, but even that came back after a week or so!
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i would do the rice for sure. i stepped in the shower with my G2 in the pocket of my bathing suit..... the phone was wonky at first, then i kept it in dry white rice for a day or two, as long as i could, and eventually everything came back fully functional. i thought the vibrator was dead for good, but even that came back after a week or so!
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I'm currently doing that, praying to god I get some of that luck. In the mean while look for a new phone maybe a galaxys2 or an htc amaze
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I'm currently doing that, praying to god I get some of that luck. In the mean while look for a new phone maybe a galaxys2 or an htc amaze
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yeah cool, i hope it comes back to life for you. and we can help you restore the stock firmware if you want to try it as a last-ditch effort. it would seem more of a hardware thing, but i'd say it'd be worth a try.
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yeah cool, i hope it comes back to life for you. and we can help you restore the stock firmware if you want to try it as a last-ditch effort. it would seem more of a hardware thing, but i'd say it'd be worth a try.
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Actually that's what I'm planning to do. I would like to do it as soon as I possible actually. The phone has been soaking in rice for about a day and half I think it's dry enough, I think it just needs the stock file for the bootloader. I also wouldn't know how to load it up from there.
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Actually that's what I'm planning to do. I would like to do it as soon as I possible actually. The phone has been soaking in rice for about a day and half I think it's dry enough, I think it just needs the stock file for the bootloader. I also wouldn't know how to load it up from there.
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ah ok, did you try booting it up, is it still bootlooping?
also, might you wanna try and get S-OFF first? it would give you more freedom, and if you flash one of the factory ROM files with S-ON, you might get to where S-OFF wouldn't be possible anymore, with what we know at this moment.
or if you don't care about S-OFF, you could check this out and download the 1.55.531.3 ROM file... and follow the directions for flashing it.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17424340&postcount=24
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ah ok, did you try booting it up, is it still bootlooping?
also, might you wanna try and get S-OFF first? it would give you more freedom, and if you flash one of the factory ROM files with S-ON, you might get to where S-OFF wouldn't be possible anymore, with what we know at this moment.
or if you don't care about S-OFF, you could check this out and download the 1.55.531.3 ROM file... and follow the directions for flashing it.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17424340&postcount=24
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Even with S-On there's always flashing the boot.img file to the phone via Fastboot.
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Even with S-On there's always flashing the boot.img file to the phone via Fastboot.
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And how would I do that? I'm new at this.
actually I think I got it started it updating. I pray to god this works.
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So now how would I achieve S-off while the phone is boot looping?
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Well yeah, it may or not work, depending on the state your device is in..... but could be worth a try?
Basically, go to Revolutionary.io, download the program, and run it while your phone is trying to boot up.
If it doesn't work, I think you'll have to try and flash a higher stock ROM version thru the bootloader.
Also it could be worth noting, there was guy around who said he knew the fix for water-damaged phones.... it had something to do with opening it up and scraping off some corrosion somewhere...? Not sure if this would apply to you or not. And in any case, it can't hurt trying to restore the device software-wise.
boot into recovery and run it
I followed the instruction for the this link that yogi2010 provided me and the phone did update but still no progress, the phone is still under boot loop even after it updated.
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I followed the instruction for the this link that yogi2010 provided me and the phone did update but still no progress, the phone is still under boot loop even after it updated.
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Unfortunately, it sounds like the hardware is dead.
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Unfortunately, it sounds like the hardware is dead.
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Guess I'll wait for the HTC One S haha
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My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
Help! Same problem
I have no power to the device. Tmobile sent me a new sensation but i would like to try and fix the old one before i send it back, only have 5 more days.
Its not the battery or the sd since they both work fine in new phone.
Windows reads the same thing when on usb. No drivers. No power No nothing????
Can anyone help please or am i done for?
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My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
Matt
Yes i would also like toknow what You did please
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mrg02d said:
Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
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10Char
If you did brick there is a thred in the dev's that can and will show you how to unbrick and you can shop and decide on witch Rom you won't to go with look at it this way you have the best of both worlds good luck
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Had an issue today similar to yours, unlocked the bootloader today and kept the stock rom. Tonight I started deleting the bloatware, mainly using root explorer, no issues really. Used titanium backup to "force remove by exploit" I think its called. Did that and phone went black, tried powering back on, pulled battery etc, nada.
Ended up plugging device to usb charger and booted into bootloader, rebooted from there and its fine.
I ran into this tonight. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
Short story -- Clockwork Recovery is bugged and won't charge the phone. Your battery level is too low to power on, so you need to use another method to get some power into it.
I did this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15034469/tmp/recovery_fail.jpg
And yeah it's a lame problem.
Ahh, so this is not really a bricked phone, but a case of CWM dead battery! Good to know, as its an "easy" fix then. I was afraid that the phone, simply S-off and perm rooted, had somehow crashed permanently.
Matt
Straight Bricked
For me its not the battery, when tmobile sent me a new sensation i used my old battery, sdcard and sim and the battery still had around a 75% charge. I cant boot from usb i cant do anything. Its completely dead.
As for what i did?
I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.
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I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.
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Ahh..So it wasnt the silly CWM ordeal then. That sucks!
Try to pinpoint what you were doing right before this happened. Were you wiping something? (what were you wiping) Were you flashing a ROM? (What were to flashing)
Try to provide more details, as I am sure some of the devs here will be looking to jump all over it shortly.
EDIT: Were to making sure to check that the ROM you were flashing was meant for your version of the phone as well as the files not corrupted? I know it sounds silly, but its something to rule out.
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happened to me too on two batteries. I believe that it is due to overclocking the cpu. because the battery stats are calibrated for a slower CPU speed, it drains it past the failsafe point to pure failure. CWM will recognize CPU for the given ROM. i flashed back to S-ON and regular RUU 1.29 and charging my batteries again for the correct CPU + battery stats. wish me best of luck
Wow, am i that stupid
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino
blackstarnino said:
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino
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They'll know....
actually... having worked in a few cell phone repair / refurbish facilities... i can tell you that they won't even look. they just plug the phone up to their bench and it overides everything and does a fresh flash. from there they just replace plastics to make it look like a brand new phone. if they are unable to flash it at the bench, they replace internals. so relax... no one will know or care what you did to it. these places get thousands of phones a day. and each tech at the bench has a quota to get through.
Thanks for your feedback guys. Shipping it off now...
Still cant believe it. Still have my n1 from launch day and it took everything i could throw at it. Still kicking like a beast. **** my g1 is still running cm4 i think lol.
anarchyuk said:
My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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I'm in the same situation. This sucks. I tried to get back S-ON. Did you receive a new phone?
So you flashed a desire ROM.... Well no ****...
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....i think? Running bamf ginger remix and the latest OTA radio not the leaks. I fixed my permissions and noticed my 4g kept going in and out. The phone got warm so i rebooted and got the splash screen, then it hung and rebooted two more times before booting normal. I literally freaked out for a second. Phone seems ok now. Should i be worried? What could cause this?
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....i think? Running bamf ginger remix and the latest OTA radio not the leaks. I fixed my permissions and noticed my 4g kept going in and out. The phone got warm so i rebooted and got the splash screen, then it hung and rebooted two more times before booting normal. I literally freaked out for a second. Phone seems ok now. Should i be worried? What could cause this?
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Sounds like the radio to me. That's the thing that will suck up power the worst if it can't get it's crap together finding a signal, even to the point of heating that thing up. Mine starts cooking if I tether it and watch movies on it. Never had boot loops though, and I use the 1.70 radio for weeks.
im glad i have full insurance on this phone in case. so far, so good today. in case i do brick is there a way to set the phone back to stock before returning it?
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im glad i have full insurance on this phone in case. so far, so good today. in case i do brick is there a way to set the phone back to stock before returning it?
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In that event, I say "Brick? What brick? It fell out of my pocket and sank to the bottom of a VERY deep lake." I've never had Asurion ask me for a phone back. The whole "My CRAZY ex stole it!" worked just fine.
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In that event, I say "Brick? What brick? It fell out of my pocket and sank to the bottom of a VERY deep lake." I've never had Asurion ask me for a phone back. The whole "My CRAZY ex stole it!" worked just fine.
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yeah but there has to be a way to set it to stock in case right?
How do you "almost brick" a phone ? How does one know it was "almost" ?
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yeah but there has to be a way to set it to stock in case right?
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I think if there was a way to set things back to stock, you wouldn't actually be bricked.
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How do you "almost brick" a phone ? How does one know it was "almost" ?
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it started to endless reboot, that's what people say happened when they bricked.
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I think if there was a way to set things back to stock, you wouldn't actually be bricked.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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I don't really know what to describe the "brick situation" we were having back in the day with the first leaked gingerbread as. Technically, it's not REALLY a brick because many of them could be fixed. It was more of a boot-loop issue. That whole situation muddied the waters of what defines a brick, but before that I always understood a brick to be a completely useless device beyond any help. Whether it could be powered on to view the hboot S-on or S-off state, I don't know because thankfully I've never had that problem.
There's always the option of electrocuting it until it won't power on though. Take an electronic lighter, remover the piezo igniter, and use that to zap sensitive parts of it's guts until it never worked again. That's like a few thousand volts. Not much inside there will survive that for long. (Yes, I really do sit around thinking about how to destroying things in undetectable ways.)
it's funny because everytime i hear about someone getting insurance for their cell phone i think "lol.. sucker!" but broke 2 phones so far and had to "craigslist" like crazy to find replacements at decent prices.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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When the boot loop of death thing happened people were still able to get into hboot. So from there you would just flash an RUU and get back to s-on. If it truly is the same issue people were having the phone will be s-on after the RUU, but it will still just bootloop. If you are using the patched hboot I don't know if you would be able go get back because I don't know if fastboot was functioning.
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I finally managed to do it. I officially bricked my Infuse. No clue how I did it but it's finally borked for good. Cant access download mode when I try nothing happens. Used 4 different computers, 5 different cords and approx 23 different USB slots. 3 different batteries(just incase it was a bad battery) Nothing haha. Infuse is completely dead!.... My backup infuse is pretty messed up as well (screen is cracked all to hell) This happened after I Heimdall'd my phone phone to clean the slate. It booted up, then bootlopped once then just didnt turn on again.
i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
(i once messed mine up badly enough that when you put in in download mode it was a black screen with red green and blue dots on it, using gtg unbrick fixed it for me !
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.
if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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also try you could always send it in under warranty
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i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.
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The batteries been out for a bit now gonna leave it out and put it in tomorrow see if maybe that does something. If anything theres a couple Infuse 4G's on Craigslist for pretty cheap. And if this one doesnt end up working, I'll throw it up on there for parts, might be useful to someone.
Also I dont have an actuall plan with AT&T so thats a no go haha
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if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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Yeah, after paying a $200 deductable. That's how much it would have been to replace my stolen infuse even under warranty.
Try a pizza taco sometime, if you don't know what it is, look it up then
Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope
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Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope
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Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse
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Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse
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if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major
warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.
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if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major
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Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched
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Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched
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Nice!!
Win win situation!!
Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
But now I finally have a camera that doesn't take ****ty pics haha
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Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
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glad its up and running
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glad its up and running
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Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me
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Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me
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its running great!! Switched from Trebuchet Launcher to Nova (found in Google Play) and its buttery smooth
camera works flawlessly..
front facing camera is zoomed in for some reason but i dont really use it so
who cares lol
but i think for a DD is good
at least for me haha
If your cracked screen infuse still works then I would just swap out the internals. Should be easy enough. I did it to my wife's phone.. screen cracked and we had an identical backup phone that my daughter played with. Swapped out the boards and all was well.
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I thought I did something similar but then tried a different method of reverting back to stock & it worked.
It wasn't going into download mode either and the screen was all pixilated but it worked. Maybe try a different method of reverting back to stock (gtg unbrick)
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The Jack of Clubs said:
warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.
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Yup..what jack said. Someone else went that route too
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I just flashed MIUI and im getting this error. I cant get to my SD card via USB cable/PC either.
Wtf is going on? Im out of my 30 day return period with radioshack and AT&T wont let me exchange the phone because I got it from radioshack
****ing bull****
Same question as your other post. Don't make multiple threads (cross post) about the same topic.
And don't return your phone under warranty because you were messing with the phone and screwed it up. Crap like that is the reason they lock bootloaders in the first place.
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Gave suggestion in other thread....
Look, I'm not trying to come off as a ****, but this is what I think.
You voided your warranty by unlocking the bootloader. You knew that by doing this, you won't be able to return it to HTC. You are the one who flashed the ROM, knowing that it could very well screw up your phone.
AT&T and HTC didn't do anything to push you to do that. So for you to turn around and say that they are "bull$hit" is utter and completetly stupid. They didnt do anything to your device. They provided you with an excellent phone that you turned around and screwed up. If you had any sense of moral, you wouldn't return your phone, because it is your fault that you screwed your phone up.
So next time, don't get mad at the carriers. Get mad at yourself for f'ing up your device.
Think twice before you do anything that will void your warranty. It's people like you unfortunately that cause locked bootloaders and very quick patches for root exploits for the rest of us.
I agree with everything said about this being your fault. However, try seeing if you can format the SD card inside recovery. Or try relocking the boot loader and ruu back to stock and see if that fixes the SD card. If it does, be glad you dodged a bullet.
Sent from my MIUI'd HTC One X
rohan32 said:
Look, I'm not trying to come off as a ****, but this is what I think.
You voided your warranty by unlocking the bootloader. You knew that by doing this, you won't be able to return it to HTC. You are the one who flashed the ROM, knowing that it could very well screw up your phone.
AT&T and HTC didn't do anything to push you to do that. So for you to turn around and say that they are "bull$hit" is utter and completetly stupid. They didnt do anything to your device. They provided you with an excellent phone that you turned around and screwed up. If you had any sense of moral, you wouldn't return your phone, because it is your fault that you screwed your phone up.
So next time, don't get mad at the carriers. Get mad at yourself for f'ing up your device.
Think twice before you do anything that will void your warranty. It's people like you unfortunately that cause locked bootloaders and very quick patches for root exploits for the rest of us.
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lessthanzach said:
I agree with everything said about this being your fault. However, try seeing if you can format the SD card inside recovery. Or try relocking the boot loader and ruu back to stock and see if that fixes the SD card. If it does, be glad you dodged a bullet.
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I had the EXACT same issue as the OP. What worked was this.
Get into FastBoot mode and connect via usb. Relock your bootloader (htcdev site tells you how), then RUU back to stock. If you try to ruu back to stock without relocking your bootloader it will not work.
After I went back to stock, I re-unlocked the bootloader (took liek 20 tries) and all is well again.
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most ironic username EVER!
gunnyman said:
most ironic username EVER!
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Whats even more ironic is that I'm in high school...
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Whats even more ironic is that I'm in high school...
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u must be so smrt bro!
rohan32 said:
Whats even more ironic is that I'm in high school...
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it's like raiaiiaaaaaaaaain on yer wedding day....
Posting.
This is going to be long!
If anyone has insight to this would be appreciated
Precursor: I am on CM9 nightly (7-27-12) with 6.0.1.0 non touch recovery (NS4G)
So last night I go to open my opera web browser and it would flash like it would open and instant close (no error message). I say OK thats weird and decide to reboot. Upon rebooted I am greeted with never ending amount of FC's from every app and service imaginable. I again say OK EXTREMELY weird and decide its time to restore my backup from yesterday.
I reboot in recovery and what do I get greeted with? Unable to mount /sdcard! Long story short after scouring google for about an hour I find that if I do a fastboot oem lock/unlock I should get back up and running. Thankfully that works and I install the newest 7/31 CM9 nightly.
I wake up today without my phone alarm going off when it should. Weird huh? I go to open the clock and get a FC from the clock application. Reboot and it works just fine. OK weird again.
Go to work and leave my phone on the counter to help a customer. I come back to the desk and my phone is in recovery mode? Uhhh what? I reboot the phone and it says "encryption unsuccessful" and the phone needs to wipe data and reboot to continue use...
I decide WTF why not, not like I can use it. At this point I'm worried though. The phone reboots to recovery and I guess does a data wipe (takes 3-5 mins) and reboots. Now I am stuck on the CM9 bootscreen and won't go past.
I have some ideas as to get the phone (hopefully) back up and running. Just curious what this sounds like to anyone more knowledgeable then me (especially the part where it tried to encrypt my phone without me touching it!)
Any thoughts or help is appreciated!
Edit: I tried copying files to sdcard from recovery using mount usb storage. The files copy over and as soon as I leave the mount menu and go to install the zip files WHICH I SAW ON THE SDCARD they ARE NOT THERE anymore.
Edit2: It still lets me install the CM9 7/31 nightly which I had saved on the phone yesterday. Even after wiping everything and reinstalling the ROM I can't get past the CM9 bootscreen
Edit3: Tried fastboot, odin, nothing works. Even after odin I still get the CM9 boot screen. Pretty sure something is messed up to the point of I need a new phone. FML!
YESS!!!
YES I WANT ATTENTION.
I Have exactly the same. Mother of smartphones Somebody help us!
Its the internal Memory thats messed up yes, But Please somebody fix this Bullcrap. We don't have the knowledge but I will gladly donate to you who fixes it!
I just bought a brand new screen for my phone and I don't freaking want to buy a new Phone At the moment, So if you find a way to help us then let us know since that could be lifesaving right now.
Pretty sure I've given up. Everything I've tried has failed... looks like it might be gnex time.
NYYFan325 said:
Pretty sure I've given up. Everything I've tried has failed... looks like it might be gnex time.
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Have you tried just going back to the stock rom/recovery/bootloader with the samsung application?
ronnygunz said:
Have you tried just going back to the stock rom/recovery/bootloader with the samsung application?
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I would Love to get an link to that. if it helps us out i'd sh1t goldbricks. seriously.
Moonystorm said:
I would Love to get an link to that. if it helps us out i'd sh1t goldbricks. seriously.
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I couldn't post the link because I have less than 10 posts here so I pm'd you. At least I hope I did. Let me know if you didn't get it.
Can you send me the PM as well. I know of the tool you are referring to but can't seem to find it anymore
NYYFan325 said:
Can you send me the PM as well. I know of the tool you are referring to but can't seem to find it anymore
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I tried to send it, I hope it worked but it doesn't show up in my sent messages so I am in the dark.
Stock ROM. All the way back to Gingerbread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307
Well nothing officially works
The samsung simple dl tool just says "error" when I hit "start download" nearly immediately. Now I have no recovery or anything. Going to sprint right after I get out of work to get a gnex
NYYFan325 said:
Well nothing officially works
The samsung simple dl tool just says "error" when I hit "start download" nearly immediately. Now I have no recovery or anything. Going to sprint right after I get out of work to get a gnex
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Ugh... I'm sorry people Who will get to our problem. Paid samsung services can Help. Nothing else. I be a smart guy and do like NYYFan here and get a galaxy nexus. thank You everyone for help. i set up 48hours for anybody to help me or i get a new device. Might sound rude but its a choice i made.
-Moon
I HAD THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM
Temporary solution: heat the phone up with a hair blow dryer. get it hot but not so hot that it melts things. it will be able to boot up and work. I used this method so i could copy my sd card to my computer and wipe everything off
Permanent solution: turn your phone in for repair. there is no remedy to fixing this. apparently the circuit board or chip is bad and you can't fix it.
Luckily I had best buy black tie protection and I am waiting on my new replacement phone.
NicholasQ said:
I HAD THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM
Temporary solution: heat the phone up with a hair blow dryer. get it hot but not so hot that it melts things. it will be able to boot up and work. I used this method so i could copy my sd card to my computer and wipe everything off
Permanent solution: turn your phone in for repair. there is no remedy to fixing this. apparently the circuit board or chip is bad and you can't fix it.
Luckily I had best buy black tie protection and I am waiting on my new replacement phone.
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I work in a computer repair shop and going by that solution...sounds like a problem I may be able to repair using a similar method as some of the board-level repairs I do pretty often...anyone want to send me a dead lab rat? Lol
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Xaelius said:
I work in a computer repair shop and going by that solution...sounds like a problem I may be able to repair using a similar method as some of the board-level repairs I do pretty often...anyone want to send me a dead lab rat? Lol
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You can have mine lol x) And Yep i fix computers for friends and so on their friends and this sounds like Nvidia was behind the chip... xD
It wouldn't matter who actually makes a chip if the heating it up is a temporary fix. That is a OEM issue. Basically think xbox360 rrod with the warped boards the solder melting/failing and the chips get loose etc.
Unless heating up failed flash storage temporarily makes it work. Which I doubt is the case but don't actually know. Brings back memories of putting failing HDD drives in the freezer though.
Well this is my official goodbye to the Nexus S forums (not like anyone cares haha). Just got my shiny new Galaxy Nexus. Have a great night everyone and happy modding!
NYYFan325 said:
Well this is my official goodbye to the Nexus S forums (not like anyone cares haha). Just got my shiny new Galaxy Nexus. Have a great night everyone and happy modding!
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Ugh. Congraz. xD
Try Adam outler unbrickable mod for nexus s
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
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Unfortunately that is good only if software screwed up your phone. In my case and I'm sure others when it is hardware failure, that won't work :\