So is there a jtag service near Arizona, as the one someone posted in these forums that I found through searching was France. And while I don't mind that, was just trying to save some money. I bricked my VZ S3 by putting Android Revolution HD 15.2, meant for a I9300 or I9305 on it. Tried everything but it's non responsive. Screen and led lights stay black.
So if there's one at least within the US that'd be better. And I was hoping for cheaper but reliable is the most important thing.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-jtag-brick-repair/
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Awesome thank you so much!
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I have to take my Cappy in for some warranty work and I am almost certain that they will just end up replacing the phone for me. However, when I was in the att store the other day I couldnt help but notice the super sleek 4.5 in screen on the infuse. Does anybody know when att will no longer carry the captivate so that when I go into the store they will replace it with the infuse instead?
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Anybody?
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i'm not sure when it's going to be discontinued, but are you sure they'd give you the Infuse 4G as a replacement? usually they give you the same phone if they can or something of lesser value? but i'm not sure, i just remember reading someone taking in their Vibrant and then it was replaced with something called Galaxy S standard or something (prob one of the lower-end Galaxy S phones i'm assuming?)
Unfortunately that's not how the insurance policy works. The insurance company that ATT uses (they all use) will carry the phone at least 6 months after its discontinued. The only way they will replace it with something different is if it its been replaced multiple times for reasons out of your control and if you are a good customer and the stars align. Even then they decide what phone they give you as a replacement, you don't get to pick. Believe me this almost never happens though.
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Hi there,
My roommate owns a Samsung Infuse, and had to send it back after he threw it and it wouldn't turn on. Now he got the replacement infuse last night and he ran it over with his car on our way to the tanners.
My question is, what will AT&T do? Will they replace the second phone since it hasn't even been 24 hours? Or since he damaged it physically, will they not take it back?
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My suggestion is if you are not the same retardness as your friend, get far away from that person.
Just a matter of time he will throw you out and run you over.
votinh said:
My suggestion is if you are not the same retardness as your friend, get far away from that person.
Just a matter of time he will throw you out and run you over.
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Right , sounds like your friend is as mentally damaged as his phone is physically damaged, I would suggest he just gets one of the old nokia brick phones if he wants to throw and drive over his handsets, haha
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Well, stock Infuse is infuriating, so I can't really blame him. But it was on the roof of his car when we pulled out, and when we got back we saw it completely shattered. So he didn't run it over on purpose.
He just has some anger issues But he needs his phone, since we go out of town every weekend for work. Currently, he's using an old Palm with a shattered screen. I was hoping somebody with AT&T replacement experience would be able to help us out. We're considering just calling and saying the replacement arrived like that. But we'll see.
Well if you are looking for a replacement I would def say go with the Galaxy Note. It's pretty much an amazing phone/tablet.... thing. I am waiting for it to come to Sprint
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Well if you are looking for a replacement I would def say go with the Galaxy Note. It's pretty much an amazing phone/tablet.... thing. I am waiting for it to come to Sprint
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I do have the Note. But he needs to get through this phone to get a model swap. Now we just have to get AT&T to either model swap his phone!
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I accidentally flashed a ROM for the Galaxy S II SGH-I777 instead of for the Sykrocket. Now my power button won't work at all. I'm afraid I may have completely hosed it. Anyone here who has a lot more knowledge than me have any suggestions on what I could possibly do to get my phone to at least turn on enough to flash a skyrocket rom?
It's done for. Flashing an i777 rom screws up the partitions and the ONLY. and I repeat, ONLY way to get it working again is to send it and get it JTAG'ed. Search. You'll find plenty. This is a recurring issue with users here, sadly. Just saw a topic yesterday about this.
Try download mode, or a usb jig to get into download. Basically your phone is bricked. If the jig does not work. You will want to consider a jtag service. Thank you, bye bye now.
I did the same thing in January, pretty dumb on my part. Totally bricked.
Wow
Android 4.0.4 AOKP
It gets better and better that's 2 in two days ha
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The explosion of ignorance lately has been amusing, discouraging, intriguing, and worrisome all at the same time.
I did it in January, not yesterday, and yes,it was pretty stupid in hindsight. I had done lots of ROM installs on my old Captivate, for some reason I didn't pay close enough attention to the ROM I was flashing on the Skyrocket and used the wrong one. I'm sure there are lots of people on here who have done the same thing but haven't admitted it.
LOLOLOLOL .. owned.
Why u know reads model numers?? So many trashed phones, what a shame.
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This is the case of someone who buys a Ferrari that only ends up wrecking it. Same thing.
Android 4.0.4 AOKP
Read read read. If you think your sure check again. Double check. Triple check. That's not something you want to learn from.....
Android 4.0.4 AOKP
Schools out for alot of kids who want to be hip and flash romz 2 theyre fonz
I hard bricked 2 weeks ago when i tried to flash a non-skyrocket recovery while riding a rom flashing high
If its been less than 1 year and it cant be turned on go to an at&t store that is certified for warranty replacements play stupid and tell them you plugged it in to a computer to charge and it just blacked out they replaced minw immediately
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I had CM9 On my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3, and my phone would crash randomly in the middle of changing songs on playerpro or in the middle of phone calls, so I tried to download SiyahKernel hoping it would add some stability to my ROM. Well I had 2 different versions of the kernel somehow. One was SiyahKernel 3.something, and the other was 2.5. I assumed the 3.something would be for the S3 and the 2 something was a false download that I got on accident and was made for the S2 or something, but when I tried to flash the 3.something it didn't work, versus when I tried flashing the 2.5 it installed perfectly fine. So, here's the fun part...when I went to reboot my phone it died COMPLETELY. I can't start the phone in download mode to odin it, can't get into recovery to flash an old nandroid. Phone won't turn on, won't charge, will do absolutely nothing, and I know for sure the battery was charged to 90% when it crapped out. I've done battery pulls, I actually did a 3 hour battery pull at one point...I don't have insurance, and I don't have the $$$ to go buy another phone, so if anyone has some ideas on how I could either get my phone back operational, or a cheaper solution (like a jigg) it would be MUCH appreciated. I wasn't just a noob jumping into it on my S3, I've been rooting, romming, and flashing **** since 2009, and it's my 10th smartphone, but my first brick ever. Please help!
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If you can't get into odin mode or recovery then your phone is deffo hard bricked n will be costly to repair mate. Be careful flashing kernels n use odin to do it not recovery mode
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I had the gs2 and I was trying to unroot it and I couldn't even get Odin to work because it didn't recognize the phone. So I called samsung and told them that got an update, but after it finish updating it cut off and never came on, and the battery was fully charged. So, if I was you I'll go that route. And good luck
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search jtag.
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Could I do the JTAG process MYSELF, or is paying them 60 dollars the only way to solve my problem?
That seems like the only way to fix this, because as of right now I seem pretty much screwed.
Atreux said:
Could I do the JTAG process MYSELF, or is paying them 60 dollars the only way to solve my problem?
That seems like the only way to fix this, because as of right now I seem pretty much screwed.
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I think you need equipment to do it.
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Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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I think you need equipment to do it.
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Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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This post is ridiculous. Asurion blows, never have had a good experience with them over using 5 phones insured by them. Only ever had 2 crap out on me (hardware-wise. If it was ever software related I did it, and knew exactly how to handle it, but the 2 that were done were spidered screens). They gave me a broken refurbished evo back for the very first phone I ever had that I rooted, rommed, and hacked on for DAYS trying to learn the entire process...all those manhours and they send me a refurbished phone with nothing on it, and a screwed up LCD digitzer...do NOT recommend asurion whatsoever, and will never use them again no matter what carrier I go with.
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If you can't get into odin mode or recovery then your phone is deffo hard bricked n will be costly to repair mate. Be careful flashing kernels n use odin to do it not recovery mode
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Why would you use odin to flash a kernel? I use cwm all the time for roms and kernels alike. Odin for radios or to return to stock. Cwm does everything else I need it to do. Same mistake could have been made on a computer guy downloaded two kernels and flashed the wrong one.
OP I am sorry for your loss.
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annoyingduck said:
Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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imo insurance fraud is not the right answer. the right thing to do is research then flash, dont flash then research. ofcourse its now standard in america to be bailed out for every mistake we make, so perhaps your right.... I have yet to cave in and accept this kind of mentality.
The profit margins these companies make is ridiculous to begin with. It's not fraud, the only thing that may be considered even close to it is claiming that the phone is missing or damaged beyond repair due to something that was out of your control. Non the less your insurance covers all these avenues twice a year.
In reality, a bricked phone should be covered under insurance, and I'm sure if you have the proper legal knowledge you could argue that further and make them cover it without having to tell a white lie. Insurance is simple, covering a loss. And a loss is technically a brick (that's not open for debate either, that's correct), but there is a loophole they use where they can refuse to honor a claim if they feel to do so (hence modifications).
F that. I pay for insurance, I do my part. Not to mention when I actually signed up for the insurance, I asked the vzw rep if a rooted phone is covered, and his response was exactly this: don't take a chance, smash it up and send it back, or disappear the device.
I do not abuse or condone anything of what I said, I have yet to make a claim, but be assured, if I brick my device after 5 years of carrying ins. I am getting my money's worth out of it.
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There was an Evita Unbrick thread that died months back and I was curious if any new methods have been discovered for fixing phones that don't enumerate their partitions and are stuck in QDL.
Today I fat fingered an update from the terminal emulator. I stuck TWRP 2.3.3.1 in P4. Aaaand I'm never using terminal emulator again. It was a really busy day at work and I was totally not thinking about what I was doing. It was one of those moments where you're staring at your phone thinking "oh my God what did I just do". All this so I could try out the new CleanROM that doesn't work in 2.5.0.0. I haven't failed this hard since I put the power connectors on wrong on a pentium motherboard. Don't judge, I know at least a few of you guys did that too!
I doubt anything new has been discovered since I wasn't able to uncover anything when searching, nor could I find much on the RIFF Box (not like I'm actually going to rip it apart and JTAG it or anything). HTC wouldn't quote me a repair cost just "send it in and we'll see if it's covered under warranty".
If anyone has any info they can link me to it would be much appreciated. I may just have to send it in to HTC and hope they're feeling generous. Honestly though if they want me to pay $200 to replace the board I'll probably just say no. That's pretty poor customer service when they could be fixing these for a reasonable cost.
No other method unfortunately, why not send for jtagging?
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No other method unfortunately, why not send for jtagging?
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It's expensive and from my experience it doesn't always work.
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It's expensive and from my experience it doesn't always work.
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That's why I won't send it to get it j-tagged. Paying $60-100 to have someone else crack open my phone and take a whack at it v.s. seeing if HTC will be reasonable about the repair. I love HTC. Their phones are awesome, their customer service is extremely friendly, it's just their repair practices (from what I've read from others) that may leave something to be desired. I did read other posts of them fixing it under warranty when the people told them straight up how they broke it like I did, but then others ended up paying for a new mainboard. HTC can totally fix a bad flash without replacing hardware. If they wanted to be real nice they could release those tools to the community.
I dusted off my old EVO (running SOS ROM) and I'm using that in the mean time. One X on Straight Talk > EVO on Boost. Phone still runs like a champ though. Except for the water damage to the screen from putting on a skinomi. I had one of the first EVOs where they didn't seal the screens right.
Worst case scenario if they want too much to fix it I use this as an excuse to buy a RIFF box, crack my phone open, and probably destroy it so I can convince myself to buy the One X+ or whatever AT&T calls it. I just realized I have passwords and what not that would be sitting in the open on that phone if I sold it and someone managed to fix it without destroying all the data, so my idea of selling it for parts went out the window. I have to either repair it myself or let HTC do it, or destroy the phone. I'm a geek and I love tampering with things as long as I don't think I'll totally break it. I've messed with my phones, my PCs, and my car. I modded a wii, a PS3, and an xbox 360 just for the fun of it even though I don't play console games. It's an addiction.
HTC will bill you just for sending the phone in even if you choose for them not to fix it.
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Flash img gui is only 99 pennies j/s. Sucks dude
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