So i have been having a battery issue where my phone reads 20% and than dies. It will last the whole day but will die before i know its going to. To try and fix this problem i thought it might be kernel related, Im on a JB rom and was flashing Franco kernel from his app. I finished dwl and i was prompted with the "YES lets do this" to reboot the phone. Once i hit it my phone shut off. I'm like 90% sure it was due to my battery actually being dead. I've had it plugged in for 20 mins with no luck of anything happening when i hit power on or try getting into recovery. At one point it viberated and showed that I have zero battery but that was it. I can't get the thing to do anything. I also only have a MAC computer. PLEASE HELP! I've rooted and flashed a hundred phones and never ran into my phone not powering up at all. Did i brick it?
Anyone that could help please!
I can't think of anything short of getting another battery to see if thats the issue or finding a way to get some juice into the one you have. There was a trick somewhere in the rezound forum to get some charge to dead batteries that wouldn't charge due to an issue with clockwork mod. You should search for those threads and see if it helps.
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Milly7 said:
I can't think of anything short of getting another battery to see if thats the issue or finding a way to get some juice into the one you have. There was a trick somewhere in the rezound forum to get some charge to dead batteries that wouldn't charge due to an issue with clockwork mod. You should search for those threads and see if it helps.
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Yeah i read something about ripping the power cord apart and moving wires etc. . I'm not to keen on doing that myself. **** if its not charing i guess the only thing i can do is go to verizon (i have warranty) but will they be able to tell im rooted?
dincfool said:
Yeah i read something about ripping the power cord apart and moving wires etc. . I'm not to keen on doing that myself. **** if its not charing i guess the only thing i can do is go to verizon (i have warranty) but will they be able to tell im rooted?
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No they will not, i had to get mine replaced for a charging issue Friday and i was rooted, custom everything. As long as your phone wont charge they wont be able to tell.
Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Lol Did they give you a temp phone?
Just to throw it out there have you tried getting into download mode? I had a similar problem with my razr where the battery died while flashing and it was bricked. I had to make a factory cable (allows you to flash in download mode without battery power). With this phone though I've noticed that if you leave the cable in and pull the battery while in download mode it will stay on which seems like it's doing what my factory cable did. It's volume down/power/home to get in to download see if you can do this with the phone plugged in.
EDIT: maybe I misread but if the firmware didn't install properly you can be missing even the software required to charge the battery. This means you can't charge up the phone until you flash some firmware in Odin via download mode, which you may be able to do with only the cable attached (direct power to the phone in dl mode and bypassing the dead batter).
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Just went in no go. I did indeed BRICK my phone from running a verizon gs3 with franco milestone 5. Everyone beware! Although it was my fault, If people have ran with kernel on the regular these past couple years, It was instinct. Verizon said i'd have to send my phone in and get a new one in two days
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Research then flash, dont flash then research! i need to put this in my sig.....
Yeah but I had to go to two vzw stores to only end up going to the third and having someone i knew that worked there replace the phone. But since im on a company plan, and used someone else upgrade for this to keep unlimited data, They said there 75% sure i'll have lost my unlimited data for whatever reason.
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Yeah but I had to go to two vzw stores to only end up going to the third and having someone i knew that worked there replace the phone. But since im on a company plan, and used someone else upgrade for this to keep unlimited data, They said there 75% sure i'll have lost my unlimited data for whatever reason.
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Fight them, if you had unlimited data they can't take your plan away. Fight the living hell out of them. You will win.
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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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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.
Matt
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.
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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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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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So my wife is out of town and i just got a frantic call from her on her moms phone telling me that her Inspire is constantly been shutting down.
We live in Texas and she's visiting family in Ft. Lauderdale since before Christmas. She's said since she's been there that the phone has been acting wonky, but starting today the phone will not stay powered on when not on the charger.
When it's on the charger she says she has 80% battery life, but when she unplugs it and tries to do something with it the phone powers down.
She's done the battery pulls, she's cleared the cache and removed unnecessary apps. I'm really not sure what to tell her other than go to AT&T and get a different battery, and fi that does't work - plug it into your laptop, copy all of your pictures and necessary data then do a factory reset.
Any other advice from more experienced members?
Sounds like your on the right track. You could try downloading the ruu from HTC as well and do a clean install. If all else fails just do a warranty.
I had the same problem. It was the battery, bought a new stock HTC battery and it works perfectly don't try a reset or any of that. You will lose you're stuff, tell her to just charge it until she can get it replaced I kept mine on charger for 4 days until I bought it and got it in the mail. Phone works perfectly now
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We had to get the screen replaced so AT&T wouldn't help her because hey could tell it's been opened
It was opened about 4 months ago, and has been working fine until she went to Florida. She has had battery issues though since she go the device back in February.
She said the AT&T person tried to do a factory reset and that "it wouldnt take" which i found was odd. More than likely the AT&T person was doing it while the phone was on, rather than doing the volume down + power button to load into recovery and do it that way.
Anyone know why a factory reset wouldn't go through?
Selecting it through the phone just boots into hboot to finish the process, but if the phone is freezing and powering down it would probably keep it from completing. Try it through hboot. Did the att guy at least test a different battery in the device? Some of those att employees really shouldn't be helping people troubleshoot. Too bad they aren't all as educated as zel.
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Selecting it through the phone just boots into hboot to finish the process, but if the phone is freezing and powering down it would probably keep it from completing. Try it through hboot. Did the att guy at least test a different battery in the device? Some of those att employees really shouldn't be helping people troubleshoot. Too bad they aren't all as educated as zel.
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They didnt even entertain the idea of a different battery. They took the battery door off and could tell that it had been opened. Right then and there they basically sent we can't help you because it's out of warranty and HTC will charge you full price for a new phone, but then whispered to her that she could go to a local shop.
Needless to say i was a little pissed that they wouldn't even let her try a different battery.
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They didnt even entertain the idea of a different battery. They took the battery door off and could tell that it had been opened. Right then and there they basically sent we can't help you because it's out of warranty and HTC will charge you full price for a new phone, but then whispered to her that she could go to a local shop.
Needless to say i was a little pissed that they wouldn't even let her try a different battery.
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That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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The screen was replaced.
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That is one of the risks of Modding your phone or someone else's. All support now relies on the phones owner.
As for the rep. He couldn't do anything without possibly losing his/her job. I used to work for them so I really can't blame the employee.
Now for her prob the only thing I would suggest is that she get another battery which may or may not be the issue.
Why was it opened? If you don't mind me asking?
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Tx Redneck is correct. As I stated the screen had to be replaced.
I understand about the rep not being able to do anything because of potential job loss, but does that mean they can't even let her borrow a battery to test it?
MikeIsCore said:
Tx Redneck is correct. As I stated the screen had to be replaced.
I understand about the rep not being able to do anything because of potential job loss, but does that mean they can't even let her borrow a battery to test it?
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By the rules as much as I hate to say it. Yes. If they see that the phone was modded they cant even allow the use of another battery for testing. I normally kept a few extra personal batteries to help people out but had to do it off the clock. ATT is very strict about it.
I was written up once when I was helping someone with an issue and my boss looked over my shoulder and noticed the sticker was missing. HE asked me if I noticed and I said yes i did but it had nothing to do with what I was helping with. He took the phone, handed it back to the owner, said sorry there is nothing we can do for you. Then sent me home and when I came back in I was written up with a final warning.
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By the rules as much as I hate to say it. Yes. If they see that the phone was modded they cant even allow the use of another battery for testing. I normally kept a few extra personal batteries to help people out but had to do it off the clock. ATT is very strict about it.
I was written up once when I was helping someone with an issue and my boss looked over my shoulder and noticed the sticker was missing. HE asked me if I noticed and I said yes i did but it had nothing to do with what I was helping with. He took the phone, handed it back to the owner, said sorry there is nothing we can do for you. Then sent me home and when I came back in I was written up with a final warning.
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Well that sucks. Appreciate the information though. Thanks Zelendel.
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Well that sucks. Appreciate the information though. Thanks Zelendel.
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Yeah it does. No prob.
Once she's returned from her trip i'll come back and post whether or not i was able to fix the issue or if we need to procure a new phone.
Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL
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Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL
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jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.
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jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.
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Hello,
thanks for the reply!
if the problem really is, as you may have kindly pointed out, with the circuit board or bad battery terminal, do you think it's unrecoverable even by the AT&T technicians (or mobiletechvideo's jtag service)?
Also, this is my first time dealing with warranties on smartphone.
If they happen to find out that I have voided the warranty by rooting the phone, the worst thing that could happen is not getting a replacement device right? they can't charge me or penalize me right?
Thanks in advance!
You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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did you go to a retail store? or an official device support center?
thanks!
A retail store
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A retail store
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ok, i thought I was supposed to go to device support center..
i guess i'll go to retail first and then device support center if they should redirect me there..
anyways,
thanks man!
Yeah it all depends on the person, most are pretty cool and try to help.
But others just send you away to support
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I have an HTC Shift that is now a replacement phone Sprint sent because the other Shift bricked on a OTA update. The phone itself looks brand new. (we have had it since Apriil) The problem with the phone is that it will never charge the battery. I actually have 3 spare batteries so in total 4 batteries are charged to 100% but as soon as I put them into the Shift device the battery status will range from 0% to 8% an occassionally will charge to 12% but no higher. If I take the battery out and put it into another HTC it will show 95% or better as charged - to be clear this is the same battery that just seconds before registered 12% or less.
I've tried everything. I've changed Roms (the good thing about this is that I can tell you the ins and outs on about 12 different Roms and kernels now) I've changed up kernels. I installed Bettery Battery, battery calibration tools, spare parts...booted it up empty, let it stay off and "charge" all night, on and charge all night, factory reset, everything but RUU because it just won't do it and HTC update, won't do that either because of the battery being below 30%.
OK, so you say - take it back to Sprint and get a new one - can't do that because I can't unroot it with the RUU as it still shows s-off -
I'm brain dead on this one.
I'm not a newbie at this. I've rooted several phones, HTC, LG, Palm Pre, even turned the Palm Pixie to a wifi goddess in it's day by switching out the radio(you know). I've jailbroke the Iphone and Ipad. Rooted my Thrive and turned a pandigital into a sweet little android.
I don't want to take the phone back like it is. I want to figure out what the heck is the issue. (i know...i know) When I plug the phone in the led comes on as though it is charging but it never charges...any ideas? you know it's probably something simple and I've just fried my brain at this point. Any ideas? Anybody??
Thanks in advance for any input, ideas or helpful tips!
Sondee
We be - Riding With The Nerd Herd
I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.
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I'm no expert on this, but if i were you i'd just brick the thing and take it to sprint.
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Excellent advice... FAIL... COME ON MAN...
Make sure you are wiping the system partition as well... Going from sense to aosp needs a thorough system (not data) wipe... To wipe system, it's located in mounts and storage in recovery if using cwm...
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My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!
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My girlfriend's phone has the EXACT SAME ISSUE. No idea how to fix, I figure there's a contact or sensor hw at fault. It's not ROM specific, flashing a new rom won't make a diff. As soon as the gf or I get a new phone, I'll mess with the device itself.
Best advice - return it!
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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Been there.....not fun at first, but once CS knew I knew more than they did it was no longer an issue to have my account credited for the service I WASN'T getting. Most ever off was 165 from a 180 dollar bill
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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point
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Well that's a lot of money. When i was buying the Evo LTE i didn't know i would have to give them my phone and so when she asked for it i was like ummm... I need to go home and do something real quick. She gave me a weird like and ask what i need to do and told her that i can't say. I think she knew i was rooted cause she told me i won't get in trouble but i just was like nope i don't want a flagged account so i'll be back in 30 minutes. She gave up at that point
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How I got stuck was I was having like extremely poor service and was waiting on a call back from them, and through reading what people said about them never calling I thought I was safe, about 30 minutes after I flashed cm7 a rep called and wanted me to go into epst and at that time I was so new to being a rooted user I had no idea it wasn't in aosp. So I tried the ## code and when she asked what happened I said nothing she said ok hang on while I flag your account. My first words to the rep was are you fu**ing kidden me! So I stabbed back by tethering to my ps3 while playing Modern Warfare lol
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Can't return something rooted unless you want your account flagged lol
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So...unroot before taking. As it says, there's an issue with reading the battery correctly. It's charging the battery, because when it goes into another phone, it shows the correct percentage.
It -has- to be a hardware issue. Unroot, RUU, whatever... there isn't an easy fix for this without messing with the hardware (which will likely result in ruining the device).
If the flex cables were shot, you'd all recommend the same thing. What's the difference with this?
There is a newer and easier way to unroot HERE
My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
JaceB said:
My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
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If won't boot they have no way to check it. They have to reflash it (JTag) which wipes any trace. They send to Texas to refurbish and they don't even look.
Are you sure your battery is OK? It's really a rare thing for a phone to completely go through a sds issue like that.
Plug it in to your computer, and see if it mounts it as a qusb_dload drive to see if you're hard brick. Also, plug it in without a battery and see if the red light comes on.
I'm assuming Verizon would be able to tell you were rooted if your phone is bricked like that. Either way it's committing insurance fraud for turning that in and claiming it wasn't your fault. They would likely look for any reason to charge you $500 for a new device.
If it's the battery it's an easy fix, if you're hard bricked you still have options to fix it, if it's a hardware problem Samsung will fix it despite it being rooted. No need to go through Verizon.
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JaceB said:
My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
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I had the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I used a sd card and img file to debrick the phone.
BadUsername said:
Are you sure your battery is OK? It's really a rare thing for a phone to completely go through a sds issue like that.
Plug it in to your computer, and see if it mounts it as a qusb_dload drive to see if you're hard brick. Also, plug it in without a battery and see if the red light comes on.
I'm assuming Verizon would be able to tell you were rooted if your phone is bricked like that. Either way it's committing insurance fraud for turning that in and claiming it wasn't your fault. They would likely look for any reason to charge you $500 for a new device.
If it's the battery it's an easy fix, if you're hard bricked you still have options to fix it, if it's a hardware problem Samsung will fix it despite it being rooted. No need to go through Verizon.
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When I plug it in without a battery the red light comes on for awhile then turns off. That means it's bricked right? Plugging it into a Mac yields no response.
My phone was working fine for a year+ after rooting, I never flashed a ROM or kernel. It just randomly started crashing a week ago for no discernible reason (reading the boards it sounds like what others experienced after the SDS fix). I don't think this is my fault correct?
jmxc23 said:
I had the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I used a sd card and img file to debrick the phone.
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Is this relatively simple to do? Happy to try all other options, but it feels like a hardware/Dummy File Generator issue.
JaceB said:
When I plug it in without a battery the red light comes on for awhile then turns off. That means it's bricked right? Plugging it into a Mac yields no response.
My phone was working fine for a year+ after rooting, I never flashed a ROM or kernel. It just randomly started crashing a week ago for no discernible reason (reading the boards it sounds like what others experienced after the SDS fix). I don't think this is my fault correct?
Is this relatively simple to do? Happy to try all other options, but it feels like a hardware/Dummy File Generator issue.
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Ya I'm pretty certain it's bricked, it's not a really hard process, but you need to follow the directions exactly and it takes persistence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397145
That's the Verizon thread, the sprint thread gives specific directions, just use the debrick image used in this thread.
Other option is jtag or taking your chances and turning it back in, prdog knows what he's talking about more than I do, I'm just extra paranoid dealing with something potentially that expensive.
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BadUsername said:
Ya I'm pretty certain it's bricked, it's not a really hard process, but you need to follow the directions exactly and it takes persistence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397145
That's the Verizon thread, the sprint thread gives specific directions, just use the debrick image used in this thread.
Other option is jtag or taking your chances and turning it back in, prdog knows what he's talking about more than I do, I'm just extra paranoid dealing with something potentially that expensive.
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Thanks! And thanks prdog for the peace of mind! If anyone else has an opinion/experience with this let me know, don't want to do anything stupid.:fingers-crossed: