Hi,
Google was not friendly this time - but I might have asked the wrong question...
Anyway, I want to root a Cricket Samsung r720 - any leads?
Thanks,
Currently on the same quest, Samsung fascinate usb drivers work for this phone. All methods Ivs tried dont work, z4, gingerbreak, oneclick..... nothing. I cant even get this phone into recovery.
EDIT.... Recovery ( Vol down + back button + power)
i have original firmware for this phone...
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i have original firmware for this phone...
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Can you please elaborate what this means
So now that this device is official (Vitality), any chance to get some "root love"?
Well since metropcs and this phone is the same, most likely the root metro has will root it.
You can find it here. http://androidforums.com/admire-all...e-sch-r720-windows-mac-linux-9-12-2011-a.html
Tried that
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Well since metropcs and this phone is the same, most likely the root metro has will root it.
You can find it here. http://androidforums.com/admire-all...e-sch-r720-windows-mac-linux-9-12-2011-a.html
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Thanks, tried it, didn't work
Rooting Huh?
Well after spending a second day trying to solve my problem I had superuser on my phone well someone elses phone, but something went wrong so I am throwing in the towel before I have to by someone a phone because this is how I got myself into this I tried to help someone get more business turns out the guy is a loser so I am stuck with having to give someone some free technical features, but rooting wont be one of them, I am going to figure some other ways to spice the phone of for them I just really don't have the time nor the patience with all the reading and materials and the drivers that won't run on my system some of this is a headache for people who are not that good with this sort of machinery.
And I have found that there are so many who say there good but when it comes down to it, I have had two bad experiences this is why I was trying to show some people some new ways to have there phones done, but I realize a few things I am not helping people out no more fu*k'em I got my phone done and complete and I am tired of helping others out and just about everyone who I went to meet up with in Philadelphia and this other guy who answers and gets back to you when he's ready this phone thing is a little much, like you guys say if you don't have the experience then leave it alone.
Because I have to return this phone to someone tomorrow but I thought I was bringing in some business for people but I know now some people just want to stay living at home with mother. So good luck watching Jerry all your life. Anyone
who has someone who can refer me to a real flasher or tech person no more people in the state of Pennsylvania all of them have been crooks. Sorry S. Bonner but you are hitting the #2 on the list. But anyway I need to get in touch with someone who will get paid as long as the job is done 100% and I am talking remote flashing nothing more and rooting. Remember if you live in the State of Pennsylvania don't bother me I want people who want to work.
total noob and i need help.... here is my problem... I unlocked my new infuse and then rooted the phone. everything was fine fo several hours and all of the sudden it started vibrating and would reset with out turning all the way off. the android drop screen does not function. everytime you try to pull it down it starts the above issue. if a text comes thru it does it again. i did a factory reset and this didnt help. i still have superuser on the phone but cant seem to get phone to function it has power and works to an extent. you can tap apps and go thru most of the phone but it will reset and go back to main screen and vibrate and start process all over.... any ideas. i am a noob and not very technical, prob why my phone is f'ed up right now. using my samsung captivate for now. please help the new guy. i looked for threads with similar issues but found nothing with search bar. thanks ahead of time
I'm not familiar with unlocking...i do know if I'm not mistake you have to root first then unlock....but that should not effect your phone...but phones are so different....even though we all have the same model....
I would reload stock and re root....then re unlock....ate you runnning stock or custom rom?
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thanks
running stock roms, i have no idea how to reload stock 2.2, any ideas?
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running stock roms, i have no idea how to reload stock 2.2, any ideas?
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Why yes glad you asked...check my signature...for the iset page....
You will find a **** ton of info....since your somewhat new...do a lil reading....ok ....do a lot...
Look for the one click methods by qkster....although the new odin links are great also....your choice....
And any questions the op for those threads can provide you with great help and you can pm me also...
And don't forget to thank the op dev that provided you with what you need...kk
In that case I like to suggest you to unbrick the cellphone (restore again to FROYO) and test the cellphone... If you do it, you will loose the root, however the unlock will remains
You can re-root the cellphone later... the issue could be also being caused by an app that you had installed
*** If your cellphone is from AT&T you can use the GTG's Ultimate Unbrick tool, to go back to FROYO
Remember that you must have ODIN to unbrick the cellphone..
Some helpfull links:
Complete Stock (FOR ROGERS USERS ONLY)
GTG's Ultimate Unbrick - Return to stock - For AT&T
thanks!!!
Thanks for the info bigjoe2675 & dantespec...well I feel real stupid now... I looked over all that info and its way above my head. is there anyone I can send my phone to that does this type of work and is trustworthy enough not to steal my phone? i have already trashed it once I dont want a $230 paper weight. I also have a Sprint galaxy s2 epic i would like to have flashed to verizon. i have no clue what I am doing and willing to pay to fix my two phones. mine and the ol ball and chains.
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Thanks for the info bigjoe2675 & dantespec...well I feel real stupid now... I looked over all that info and its way above my head. is there anyone I can send my phone to that does this type of work and is trustworthy enough not to steal my phone? i have already trashed it once I dont want a $230 paper weight. I also have a Sprint galaxy s2 epic i would like to have flashed to verizon. i have no clue what I am doing and willing to pay to fix my two phones. mine and the ol ball and chains.
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ok,
First not a good Idea...sending your device anywhere. And some advice trust no one, not saying we are not trust worthy around here, but...not a great idea...ok
now lets see what we can do...it would be a great learning experience for you to attempt the task at hand...
lmao ok i can try
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ok,
First not a good Idea...sending your device anywhere. And some advice trust no one, not saying we are not trust worthy around here, but...not a great idea...ok
now lets see what we can do...it would be a great learning experience for you to attempt the task at hand...
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I can try. ok this is what i have installed on my phone.... superuser v2.3.6.1 also rom toolbox pro and ti back up. but i have noidea how to use it. i also hvae odin v1.81 on my cpu
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Thanks for the info bigjoe2675 & dantespec...well I feel real stupid now... I looked over all that info and its way above my head. is there anyone I can send my phone to that does this type of work and is trustworthy enough not to steal my phone? i have already trashed it once I dont want a $230 paper weight. I also have a Sprint galaxy s2 epic i would like to have flashed to verizon. i have no clue what I am doing and willing to pay to fix my two phones. mine and the ol ball and chains.
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If you can not figure out how to go back to stock, then i know mobiletechvideos. They got my old infuse running again when the usb port got borked. If you need a link ask me, idk were the link is lol. Trust me though, it worked well. Only thing is it costs money. Better off to learn how to do it unless if hardware is actually broken, not software.
Btw you may want to learn how to unbrick and learn your basics before you attempt at doing something like this again. Just making a very logical suggestion.
For sure check out the Odin videos... I have a feeling that they are going to come in handy a few times..
Everyone has to start somewhere and we all had to learn, I was really overwhelmed when I first started looking into it, but then it was like "oh! That's it?"
Most people here are super helpful (I'm not... I'm a n00b) but don't be mailing your phones to someone you don't know or anything like that... you're begging for someone to rob ya..
Just take it slow and read, read, read... when you have read enough to have a handle on it.. read some more!
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For sure check out the Odin videos... I have a feeling that they are going to come in handy a few times..
Everyone has to start somewhere and we all had to learn, I was really overwhelmed when I first started looking into it, but then it was like "oh! That's it?"
Most people here are super helpful (I'm not... I'm a n00b) but don't be mailing your phones to someone you don't know or anything like that... you're begging for someone to rob ya..
Just take it slow and read, read, read... when you have read enough to have a handle on it.. read some more!
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Thanks for all the help guys, it worked using odin and youtube.
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Thanks for all the help guys, it worked using odin and youtube.
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See....what did i tell you...lessons being learned....good **** huh?
Now keep going....slap a custom ROM from one of these great dev we have....
And don't forget to thank the dev that provided you with the odin package....don't thx us we just punted you to threads for you to do learning...k
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Thanks for all the help guys, it worked using odin and youtube.
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Awesome brother!
Welcome to the addiction!
It is so interesting to me what can be done with minor and major changes how simple things make HUGE differences.
Next thing you know, you will be grinding out apktool changes and making themes!
Hi everyone,
I would like to clear out some points before posting my issue.
1-I have been reading hard brick threads on this device in this forum for 3 days, I am posting my question because I want to get clear answers on what my options are at this point. I have not seen not even 1 solution via Jig, which seems to be the easiest method.
2- The reason I bricked my phone is [most likely] I flashed a kernel that was intended for the N7000 model, although this might not make sense to some of you , for the sake of getting proper help, please hold back on comments that point out how much of a non skilled fan I am and how could I have got caught on such an obvious mistake. Comments like the ones I am describing just wont help so please you might as well keep them to yourselves.
3- Please do not take me as a pedantic person, I just happened to have read enough answers to know that there are highly skilled people who want to help others while some others just love to spend their free time spamming threads. I certainly do not have enough knowledge and skills to perform the jtag method since I cant even solder.
I was trying the JellyBeer rom and I flashed their kernel on TeamWin Recovery, what I do not understand is why did it brick, because I actually realized my mistake soon enough and I performed a restore to my previous rom/kernel, to my understanding, this brick should not have happened in the first place. But when I went ahead and rebooted the phone, it just turned off in the middle of rebooting never to turn on again. Its dead, it wouldnt even charge nor go into download mode or recovery, no vibration no nothing...
Returning the phone to the store is not an option for me as I brought this phone from the states to my country (Dominican Republic ) and is out of warranty.
To me it almost means that I dont have no choice but to keep using my sisters pink motorola that btw is like 10 yrs old until I can wait till some day to have that kind of money again and get a new one. I am leaving the final answer to the experts in this forum.
..If you actually read the whole thing I must thank you, because I know its waaay to long. Counting on you guys.
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Hi everyone,
I would like to clear out some points before posting my issue.
1-I have been reading hard brick threads on this device in this forum for 3 days, I am posting my question because I want to get clear answers on what my options are at this point. I have not seen not even 1 solution via Jig, which seems to be the easiest method.
2- The reason I bricked my phone is [most likely] I flashed a kernel that was intended for the N7000 model, although this might not make sense to some of you , for the sake of getting proper help, please hold back on comments that point out how much of a non skilled fan I am and how could I have got caught on such an obvious mistake. Comments like the ones I am describing just wont help so please you might as well keep them to yourselves.
3- Please do not take me as a pedantic person, I just happened to have read enough answers to know that there are highly skilled people who want to help others while some others just love to spend their free time spamming threads. I certainly do not have enough knowledge and skills to perform the jtag method since I cant even solder.
I was trying the JellyBeer rom and I flashed their kernel on TeamWin Recovery, what I do not understand is why did it brick, because I actually realized my mistake soon enough and I performed a restore to my previous rom/kernel, to my understanding, this brick should not have happened in the first place. But when I went ahead and rebooted the phone, it just turned off in the middle of rebooting never to turn on again. Its dead, it wouldnt even charge nor go into download mode or recovery, no vibration no nothing...
Returning the phone to the store is not an option for me as I brought this phone from the states to my country (Dominican Republic ) and is out of warranty.
To me it almost means that I dont have no choice but to keep using my sisters pink motorola that btw is like 10 yrs old until I can wait till some day to have that kind of money again and get a new one. I am leaving the final answer to the experts in this forum.
..If you actually read the whole thing I must thank you, because I know its waaay to long. Counting on you guys.
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Hello, a week ago I was trying to restore my phone back to the stock rom, it is a Samsung Galaxy i727, and now is dead or HardBrick, I´m from Dominican Republic, searching in the internet I found a local Mobile Repair Center offering the Jtag service in just 24 hour my phone is back, their name is ALUMUN, if you are in Dominican Republic they are the best, you can find them in google as ALUMUN
I agree with you, we need help not lip service. I too bricked my phone, the site I got my roms added the galaxy 2 rom to the site not thinking it would be a bad thing to add it since they added it to the group of roms I could download for my phone, well that was the wrong thing to do!! I don't live in the Dominican Republic so I need to fix this myself.....HELP PLEASE!! Thanks guys
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I agree with you, we need help not lip service. I too bricked my phone, the site I got my roms added the galaxy 2 rom to the site not thinking it would be a bad thing to add it since they added it to the group of roms I could download for my phone, well that was the wrong thing to do!! I don't live in the Dominican Republic so I need to fix this myself.....HELP PLEASE!! Thanks guys
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Hopefully this will help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2083353
THIS GUIDE IS FOR ANYONE WITH A GALAXY SERIES PHONE WHO BELIEVES THEIR DEVICE IS "BRICKED," IN A NON-WORKING STATE, IN A BOOTLOOP (CAN'T GET PAST SPLASH SCREEN,) OR WITH A STUCK POWER BUTTON
In no way am I a connoisseur of these android devices, but look around on the forum, I couldn't find any guide for anyone with a bricked phone, or at least for my device, so I'm all you've got.
I'll list the steps that I took in order. My device wasn't bricked after all, it was just the power button, and I'll cover that later.
STEP 1: Stay calm. I was pissed when I thought my device was bricked, but you need to be careful, they aren't literal bricks and they can't take too much of a beating. I emphasize on too much because these devices are quite durable, but don't throw yours through the living room wall because it wont turn on for you. If your device is easily repairable and you break it in a rage fit, whose fault is it then? Keep calm and continue with this guide.
STEP 2: MAKE SURE YOUR POWER BUTTON ISN'T STUCK! DO NOT continue past STEP 2 until you've tried everything to make sure its not the power button. IF, and ONLY IF, you've spent about 30 minutes wiggling that little bastard and cleaning it thoroughly can you continue to the next step. If you haven't tried anything yet, then I'll begin. You're gonna start by taking your device, facing the side with the power button downwards, and gently, but not very gently, tapping it on a table, your hand, something to get your power button unstuck. Tap it on something for about 30 second intervals, trying to turn your phone on in between intervals. If you've done this about 10 - 15 times, then let's move on. We're gonna try what fixed my phone. If there's a possibility that it's still the power button being stuck that's keeping your device from booting, it's gonna be the next thing I talk about. Something is in your button. A sticky substance, I should say. You've gotta clean it out thoroughly, and I have two ways that will work.
Method 1: Go purchase yourself a can of keyboard dust-off spray. Stuff comes in handy for a lot of electronic applications, and it fixed my device, so I'm grateful. Anyway, you're gonna take your can of dust-off spray, and spray it towards the power button on your device, trying your best to get most of the spray in the gaps around the button. Do that for 30 second intervals, powering on in between, etc etc. If that hasn't worked, there's two things you can do. Continue with this method further, or move on to method 2. Continuing with Method 1 requires a knowledge of electronics. You're gonna have to open up your device, by removing all the screws showing under the battery cover. IF YOU'VE NEVER OPENED YOUR DEVICE BEFORE, LOOK UP A GUIDE ON YOUTUBE. I can't really show you a visual, so look for a youtube video on how to disassemble your device. Once you have pried open your device, check out the little white button where the power button lays over. Is there anything sticky on or around it? If so, CAREFULLY scrape it off with a needle or a razor blade CAREFULLY. If there isn't anything sticky on it, spray some more of your dust-off into the small white button. Don't worry if it looks like the spray is turning into liquid on contact with your device, the liquid will vaporize almost instantly. After you've sprayed a decent amount into the button's area, take your battery, and hold it in the position it would be in your device, parallel with the rest of your phone, and touching the contacts. Once you're holding the battery securely to the contacts with one hand, take a pen or your fingernail and press the small white button with the other hand. Does it turn on, and if so, does it get past the boot loop? If you've gotten past the boot loop like I did at this step, then congratulations, you've saved a bunch of money on phone insurance! If your device isn't turning on at this step, and it was turning on beforehand, your battery isn't all the way touching the contacts, or you've disconnected a flex cable. Check for both of those things. If its not either, then you've probably broken your device when you opened it, which isn't my fault. If you're still at a boot loop, try some more spraying and repeat the steps. If you've done this a couple times, and it's still boot looping, continue to method 2, or go on to step 3.
Method 2: Open your device how I explained in the last method. Get rubbing alcohol, and a Q-tip or a toothpick. Dip your applicator into the alcohol, and apply generously to the white button where the power button overlays and surrounding areas. Let it air-dry, or blow it all out, then take your battery, and hold it in the position it would be in your device, parallel with the rest of your phone, and touching the contacts. Once you're holding the battery securely to the contacts with one hand, take a pen or your fingernail and press the small white button with the other hand. Does it turn on, and if so, does it get past the boot loop? If it doesn't turn on after this method, and it was turning on prior, check to see if the battery is all the way in, and check if you disconnected any flex cables when you opened your device. If its not those two things, you've probably broken your device when you opened it, good job. If you got past the boot loop. congratz, you never had a bricked device. I made the same misinterpretation. If it's still boot looping, try this method 2 or 3 more times before continuing.
IF NEITHER OF THE TWO METHODS FOR STUCK POWER BUTTON WORKED, YOUR DEVICE IS PROBABLY BRICKED. MOVE ON TO STEP 3.
STEP 3: Step 3 is just about where I bid you ado. You have a bricked device, and I'm quite sorry for your loss. You have a couple of options at this point.
OPTION A: SEE IF YOU CAN GET YOUR DEVICE IN DOWNLOAD MODE. If you can't get it in download mode, then I'm sorry. If you got it in download mode, YOU MIGHT BE SAVED. I couldn't keep mine in download mode for more than 2 seconds. Once she's in download mode, start up Odin, and boot your stock ROM. NOT CYANOGEN, NOT A CUSTOM ROM, get your stock ROM on the phone ASAP. If you can't get this option to work, move on to the next options.
OPTION B: Take your phone to [insert service provider here] and check if she's under warranty. You better hope, since the other options aren't very bright/cheap. If she's not under warranty, or they're gonna charge you over 100 dollars to replace her, then try some other options.
OPTION C: Get the USB dongle. It'll be your lord and savior if it keeps your device in download mode. Purchase one of these either way, they're dirt cheap and useful as hell. Once she's in download mode through the dongle, connect to your PC, start up Odin, and BOOT YOUR STOCK ROM. NO CUSTOM ROMS. Google your device's stock ROM, download and install it. If the dongle did you no good, then go to option D.
OPTION D: JTAG device wipe. That doesn't even sound healthy, does it? Think of it as open heart surgery for your device, but its a lot safer. Go to bricked my phone . com (I can't post links) they will unbrick your device for a short fee, and it'll be good as new. These are just about your only options. I went to multiple phone repair stores and they denied me service based on the fact they thought my phone was bricked, and mine wasn't even bricked. Get it JTAG unbricked, and you're good to go.
If this guide helped you in any way, there's no need to thank me. Thank a good sum of the community for attracting me to this site, as well as not putting up a guide for unbricking SGH-i727, motivating me to do one. If your device was broken due to my guide, not my fault. You're either a noob at electronics, or you opened your device with a hammer and nails. Thank you xda community for everything you've helped me with device-wise, I'm returning the favor.
Or see vincom's stickies in the development forum.
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good post but if you did search you could of found your answer, below is from from the q&a sticky
30) Q. my phone only vibrates, is it hard bricked
A. no, if it has any signs of life its not hardbricked, if you can get it into download mode and install stock firmware, howto HERE , if you cant it might be a sticky power button, read Q#32 and #33
31) Q. will a usb jig unbrick my skyrocket
A. no, only jtag repair will fix a hardbricked phone that has no signs of life, look HERE in the info section for a company
no signs of life(nsol)=hardbricked
32) Q. why does my phone bootloop every few seconds
A. could be a "sticky power button", read the next question and the info section in the 1STOP STICKY
33) Q. how do i test for a stuck "sticky" power button
A. test: remove then reinsert the battery and if the phone turns on by itself and then takes approx 10 sec's to turn off and vibrate then its for sure a power button problem, its stuck, goto the link in the previous answer for a possible fix
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i searched i couldnt find anything on bricked i727s
dannyblunts said:
i searched i couldnt find anything on bricked i727s
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You didn't look too hard.
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dannyblunts said:
i searched i couldnt find anything on bricked i727s
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Lmfao you didn't look at all. Don't bull**** us OK its been discussed umpteen billion freaking times.
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dannyblunts said:
i searched i couldnt find anything on bricked i727s
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All the info's here but I appreciate the time you put in. Popped ur thanks cherry.
I bricked my i727 once it was beyond unbricked it was a paper weight
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I bricked my i727 once it was beyond unbricked it was a paper weight
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Did you confuse yourself? Was it bricked or unbricked?
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EQ2192012 said:
Did you confuse yourself? Was it bricked or unbricked?
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I think it was an unbricked brick with a little bit of bricking on top.
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mtdew said:
Lmfao you didn't look at all. Don't bull**** us OK its been discussed umpteen billion freaking times.
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this ^ is exactly why. there are far too many rude people on here. someone comes on here thinking he/she is out a couple hundred bucks since their phone could be a paper weight and a good sum of people arent helpful at all. i didnt find a guide, im glad you did. now get the stick out of your ass.
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this ^ is exactly why. there are far too many rude people on here. someone comes on here thinking he/she is out a couple hundred bucks since their phone could be a paper weight and a good sum of people arent helpful at all. i didnt find a guide, im glad you did. now get the stick out of your ass.
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Learn the forum rules 420 blaze. Your no better then JD by calling him out.
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MrGriffdude said:
Learn the forum rules 420 blaze. Your no better then JD by calling him out.
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+1 also google is your friend. LoL. Or Bing or even Yahoo.
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now get the stick out of your ass.
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:laugh:
It's not just one stick and one ass . how many ? wait and count this post's replies and count the thanks for every one of those ,it's like a bootloop..About 3 to 4 already checked in here.
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It's not just one stick and one ass . how many ? wait and count this post's replies and count the thanks for every one of those ,it's like a bootloop..About 3 to 4 already checked in here.
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King of the noobs!
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It's not just one stick and one ass . how many ? wait and count this post's replies and count the thanks for every one of those ,it's like a bootloop..About 3 to 4 already checked in here.
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Just checking in. lol You noob defenders make me laugh. It's got nothing to do with sticks and everything to do with the level of entitlement some people show around here.
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Just checking in. lol You noob defenders make me laugh. It's got nothing to do with sticks and everything to do with the level of entitlement some people show around here.
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first off, everyone was a noob at one point. thats undeniable. and second, im not here to defend noobs. im here to defend every person who comes on here having not the slightest idea what to do with their could-be-bricked device, and they end up getting ripped on for not knowing what to do, or for asking a stupid question. do you honestly think everyone who buys an android knows everything about it down to its core? it literally makes me laugh, the incompetence of some people on here. im not even looking for arguements though, just trying to prove a point, and id like to make that clear to everybody on here.
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first off, everyone was a noob at one point. thats undeniable. and second, im not here to defend noobs. im here to defend every person who comes on here having not the slightest idea what to do with their could-be-bricked device, and they end up getting ripped on for not knowing what to do, or for asking a stupid question. do you honestly think everyone who buys an android knows everything about it down to its core? it literally makes me laugh, the incompetence of some people on here. im not even looking for arguements though, just trying to prove a point, and id like to make that clear to everybody on here.
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The issue being you said the info isn't out there we say otherwise. The guide is not the issue the issue is the level of disregard for the rules in the first place rule number 1 which is search. Had you followed you would have seen you are far from the first to brick nor are you the first to receive answers on the subject. I applaud the effort but again had you followed the rules from the start it never would have been necessary.
Edit: please remove any and all profanities from your posts or I will be forced to report as it is in violation of xda rules.
Edit2: this guide really only covers power button issues so your title is misleading. Also the dongle aka jig does not work for fixing anything on the skyrocket if it puts it in DL mode that means you could do it normally anyway without it. Also if you have access to DL mode its unlikely you will not have access to your recovery partition as such you could just flash a new ROM. Really about 90% of the info is power button stuff the other 10% is either incomplete or incorrect.
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first off, everyone was a noob at one point. thats undeniable. and second, im not here to defend noobs. im here to defend every person who comes on here having not the slightest idea what to do with their could-be-bricked device, and they end up getting ripped on for not knowing what to do, or for asking a stupid question. do you honestly think everyone who buys an android knows everything about it down to its core? it literally makes me laugh, the incompetence of some people on here. im not even looking for arguements though, just trying to prove a point, and id like to make that clear to everybody on here.
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First, that comment you quoted want't directed at you. Second, I can appreciate your wanting to help but this info has been covered a lot. And, no offense, but that so called guide basically says:
Clean your power button. If that doesn't work I can't help you any further.
As far as everyone being a noob at some point you're right. It's how I came here for the first time a little over two years ago. I soft bricked my SGS 4G. I looked around the forums and found all the info I needed to fix it. I never posted a single question asking for help. Then I realized all the other things I could do and started to get involved. I still don't ask for help much. WHY? Because the answers are all already here.
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first off, everyone was a noob at one point. thats undeniable. and second, im not here to defend noobs. im here to defend every person who comes on here having not the slightest idea what to do with their could-be-bricked device, and they end up getting ripped on for not knowing what to do, or for asking a stupid question. do you honestly think everyone who buys an android knows everything about it down to its core? it literally makes me laugh, the incompetence of some people on here. im not even looking for arguements though, just trying to prove a point, and id like to make that clear to everybody on here.
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agreed if the answer was hard to find but........the answer was in the sticky above your post