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Taking the risk of GB radiofor the sake of science.

Just talked to a friend from vzw, he told me that if something happened he will hook me up with a replacement for my tbolt.
I've been using gb radio since the 1st day it was leaked, i have no problems on my phone, just some random FCs but that's given.
Since we don't have a solid demographics on how many people got bricked, Im going to take the risk and see if i get bricked.
This morning i just got into a bootloop but looks like its just the battery giving false stats. Its been more than 6 hours now in my external charger and i assume battery doesn't hold charge anymore, Im going tommorow to vzw to have it replaced.
Question is, will logcat be enough to monitor my phone in case i got bricked so i can pull some important data regarding how it happen?, that way we can find a clue on how to fix a radio-bricked tbolt.

Have you cleared battery stats under cwr advanced?
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Wow. Very cool that you're willing to do this. Looking forward to seeing what you find out.

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From what I've read, that's not possible as the bootloop happens even booting into recovery.

kudos to you. I would not do it. Thats a 600 dollar risk you are taking there.

dopediculous said:
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Yes i have cleared my battery stats. My previous battery is now dead. I think i discharged it too much, now its not holding any charge. My phone still runs on gb bamf and loving my lockscreen. Will let you know if i get bricked.
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i too am sticking it through, im too in love with this to revert back.

yakitori2 said:
kudos to you. I would not do it. Thats a 600 dollar risk you are taking there.
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Lol you obviously didn't read his post. No risk involved.

I hope someone could shed a light to my questions.
1st. How does the radio firmware work on our phone? Does it work like a driver where it acts a mediator between the roms(software) to the phone's hardware.
2nd. What are the possible trigger to recreate the bootloop of death? There are some cases that my phone overheats because of non responsive apps and ever since i flashed on GB rom there i times i can feel my phone hot, which could be the case from some of the boot loop victim that they fried something inside their phone.
3rd. What are the chances that same bootloop of death could also occur in froyo radio? Just because vzw officially released the radio doesn't mean it has same risk like the leaked GB radio. It is like how HTC manufactured the phone, they tested most of it but some are still lemons.
Everything is in theory right now, there are no fix because it happens in random and the reason is still unknown. I'd choose to participate for the fix instead of waiting for someone to figure out the fix. We all do take a bold step in rooting our phone, flashing different roms, putting our faith on the battery that it wouldn't fail during the flashing process. Once we modified our phone from its stock settings we acknowledge the risk, and that risk is the one of the few factors the fuels the development of the rom/kernel community.
I've noticed several repacks of the GB radio:
http://www.multiupload.com/HU471CMQI0 ----
MD5: EE2A824E51CB148A2256F93E30A3B9F9
http://www.worldofjohnboy.com/dhemke17/ROMFiles/PG05IMGGB.zip ---- MD5: fda2a314975dd829b4e3611ecc8cfa13
PG05IMG_gingerradio.zip <- from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1082001 links alread removed. This is the same radio from androidpolice.com----
MD5: 52DD83AA40E30186C9FBEFAFD1BAB534
For the record, i flashed mine with the MD5: EE2A824E51CB148A2256F93E30A3B9F9
right now im using das bamf 2.0-5 running on imoseyon_leanKernel_v2.5.4GBtest6
Im keeping a close watch on my temp running on "extreme settings" 1.4ghz extremely undervolt.
SetCPU profile set to minimum setting when temp goes more than 97F

I just called verizon 611. My phone is not bricked and still functioning properly, but i told the operator that my phone constantly reboots( I pretended that my phone was bricked), i was passed to higher level tier support and they said they will be sending a new phone to me and there will be an extra envelop where i need to put my old phone to return to them. The call only took me 10-15 minutes and I believe VZW is aware that Tbolt has this issue even if its GB or the stock froyo rom.

i reverted back last night but i will def be back once things are more stable.. i already miss it

Dropping Data is killing me!!!

Ok I have been reading some but cant find all that I need. I live in VA and right now the city I live in has no 4g it will soon I hope but I know what soon means to VZW because I had the fassy before. But anyways I went in and turned it on to cdma only for right now so it wouldn’t be always looking for 4g I hope that is the right thing to do. But even before I did that I keep dropping from 3g to nothing to 1x to nothing then back to 3g. The bars never change and it is at places I have full bars. It killing me because I use Pandora all the time and it will go about 2 songs then drop and I have to wait like 10 mins for it to work its self around to start playing again. I was only stock for one day but couldn’t take it anymore so I used odin and flashed gummycharge 1.9.1. I love the rom but the dropping data is killing me. Do any of yall know anything to do for this or do I need to call VZW about it and if I do should I flash back to stock before I call or what. My wife has a charge and its all stock she wont let me touch it and she hasn’t said anything about dropping data. Is this a phone problem or is it a sim card problem?

This is a common issue with no known workaround. Sorry.
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kvswim said:
This is a common issue with no known workaround. Sorry.
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So other words deal with it lol owell is it a bug that hits some phones and not others because if so I will try my luck with getting different phone.
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So other words deal with it lol owell is it a bug that hits some phones and not others because if so I will try my luck with getting different phone.
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Not really sure. It happens to me about once or twice a day. It only really bothers me when I am streaming Pandora. I have no idea if it happens to the HTC or LG.
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I was sent a new SIM card after complaining of this same problem. I would say it decreased the dropouts by 75% but they still happen occasionally.

Racer447 said:
I was sent a new SIM card after complaining of this same problem. I would say it decreased the dropouts by 75% but they still happen occasionally.
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**edit read it wrong

http://androidforums.com/samsung-droid-charge/386657-losing-signal-data.html
It's all over a LOT of forums out there. Flashing gummycharged has helped immensely for me, but YMMV.
You may believe it's the placebo effect, but straight up, its been a night and day difference. I'm a firm believe in the fact that it's software related and Verizon needs to get it fixed, and fast.
Their "resolution" for me was to send me a refurb phone, I told them to sit and spin cause I've been down that route before and it aint gonna happen again.

Yea I might flash back to stock tonight and see how it goes and if it keeps doing it I will see if a new sim card will help.
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tysdad08 said:
Yea I might flash back to stock tonight and see how it goes and if it keeps doing it I will see if a new sim card will help.
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I seen other posts that the changing of the sim card did wonders, Maybe it doesnt but does it hurt to try it?
Not putting salt in the wounds but i have no issues with data dropping, even when I am in 3G which is rare

Yea I'm going to flash to stock make sure it's going it and then call vzw.
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executor485 said:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-droid-charge/386657-losing-signal-data.html
It's all over a LOT of forums out there. Flashing gummycharged has helped immensely for me, but YMMV.
You may believe it's the placebo effect, but straight up, its been a night and day difference. I'm a firm believe in the fact that it's software related and Verizon needs to get it fixed, and fast.
Their "resolution" for me was to send me a refurb phone, I told them to sit and spin cause I've been down that route before and it aint gonna happen again.
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my bad...i read sdcard...yes, sim card may help...lol

Yea it happened so bad just now I had to restart 2 times for it to come back.
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Ok so get this last night after I dropped data for like the 100th time I got pissed I started opening all my apps as fast as I could. I was turning on data turning it right back off turning on WiFi turning it off like as fast as I could. well my phone went all to hell locked up tighter then a nun. But then it did so crazy stuff and the pull down menu thing was showing but I couldn't turn on or off anything like data or GPS. but I could hold in the power button and it would let me restart and stuff so I restarted it. on boot up it could not find my sim card so I was thinking great I f'ed it up well it made me restart again on this boot up it found my sim card. now with heavy Pandora uses I have yet to drop data. So in other words I kicked my phones ass and now it knows I'm the boss lol.
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phone keeps shutting off

In the past month I bought a used mytouch 4g slide off ebay in good working order. Lately though the phone keeps shutting off on me whenever I try to do anything. The phone is rooted with S-ON OFF.
I have installed many different roms but of late they all seem to be shutting off. I had this problem but it only happened every few days beforehand. After install of the rom I am waiting around 7 minutes before using my phone. Right now I'm back to my G2, which in my opinion feels better and battery last longer. I also dislike Sense but the camera is fantastic compared to the G2.
I have used Bulletproof 1.1, DoubleShot Lite 1.2.3, and MikTouch-0.7 and all had the same problem.

montusama said:
In the past month I bought a used mytouch 4g slide off ebay in good working order. Lately though the phone keeps shutting off on me whenever I try to do anything. The phone is rooted with S-ON OFF.
I have installed many different roms but of late they all seem to be shutting off. I had this problem but it only happened every few days beforehand. After install of the rom I am waiting around 7 minutes before using my phone. Right now I'm back to my G2, which in my opinion feels better and battery last longer. I also dislike Sense but the camera is fantastic compared to the G2.
I have used Bulletproof 1.1, DoubleShot Lite 1.2.3, and MikTouch-0.7 and all had the same problem.
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Are you doing full wipes between ROMS? Sounds like a hardware issue to me because MikTouch has Stock Kernel
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strapped365 said:
Are you doing full wipes between ROMS? Sounds like a hardware issue to me because MikTouch has Stock Kernel
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Yup, always wipe everything. As I got the phone used that limits my options for hardware issues.

montusama said:
Yup, always wipe everything. As I got the phone used that limits my options for hardware issues.
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Yep looks like you row the same boat I do and I pay outright for all my devices
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Definitely a hardware problem. Multiple roms should not all have that same problem. Either your battery, battery connection might be bad. But with such a general problem, it can be nearly anything
(exactly why I don't like buying used phones)

Phone Powering off by itself Solved!
So I have bought several phones over the past year cause of this same problem. I take it to the service provider for troubleshooting and all they keep telling me is its a hardware issue. They do a hard restart and blah blah blah. Long story short. IT NEVER FIXES THE PROBLEM... BUT.... I realized it was the battery slipping loose. every time you place the phone down it gently slips out of place. Of course it doesn't fall out cause the phone has a back. So. I just taped my battery to the inside of my phone. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Did this with my Samsung Conquer 4g... and with my friends 4g slide. It stopped the mysterious powering off, Try it and see it if works for you! Hope this helps someone!

kays123 said:
So I have bought several phones over the past year cause of this same problem. I take it to the service provider for troubleshooting and all they keep telling me is its a hardware issue. They do a hard restart and blah blah blah. Long story short. IT NEVER FIXES THE PROBLEM... BUT.... I realized it was the battery slipping loose. every time you place the phone down it gently slips out of place. Of course it doesn't fall out cause the phone has a back. So. I just taped my battery to the inside of my phone. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Did this with my Samsung Conquer 4g... and with my friends 4g slide. It stopped the mysterious powering off, Try it and see it if works for you! Hope this helps someone!
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I actually have had a problem like this before with the battery contacts. It seems very snug in the 4g slide.
gtmaster303 said:
Definitely a hardware problem. Multiple roms should not all have that same problem. Either your battery, battery connection might be bad. But with such a general problem, it can be nearly anything
(exactly why I don't like buying used phones)
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I'm going to say its a hardware problem but my phone has been on for days now, though I'm not using it as I'm using my old G2.
A part of me just wants to stay with the G2 but I miss the excellent camera on the 4g slide. Of course I need to find a use for the slide though. Gotta love turning a very minor decision into a big deal.

If you're going to go used . if you have your area supported in craigslist buy it from there. Then atleast you can check for full functionality before you fork any dough over. I dont think ive ever bought a new phone in my life and never got a lemon

I've bought most of my phone's used and never had a problem. I would get a new phone but my phone selection is limited due to the QWERTY and good camera I want.

My phone tends to turn off when connected to WiFi with WiFi calling on... or at least it used to with stock and the CM 7 kang, but I haven't tried other ROMs.
Since the CM 9 alpha just got WiFi calling, I haven't had much time to test for that yet.
Have you tried not using WiFi or WiFi calling?

Hi all,
I'm having a similar shut off issue, only mu phone is fully stock. No root, no s-off, and no rom. It seems to be completely at random either by using the browser or any app or no app at all(after I've set my phone down, I've tried using it only to find it shut off). I did a factory reset and the problem persist, though not as often. Any ideas? Thanks!

mojoffdawal said:
Hi all,
I'm having a similar shut off issue, only mu phone is fully stock. No root, no s-off, and no rom. It seems to be completely at random either by using the browser or any app or no app at all(after I've set my phone down, I've tried using it only to find it shut off). I did a factory reset and the problem persist, though not as often. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Sounds like warranty replacement is in your future...
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

Coug76 said:
Sounds like warranty replacement is in your future...
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
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Only if the phone came from TMO though

montusama said:
Only if the phone came from TMO though
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HTC doesn't care where it came from.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

wifi calling / replacement
mojoffdawal said:
Hi all,
I'm having a similar shut off issue, only mu phone is fully stock. No root, no s-off, and no rom. It seems to be completely at random either by using the browser or any app or no app at all(after I've set my phone down, I've tried using it only to find it shut off). I did a factory reset and the problem persist, though not as often. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Did you have any luck getting a replacement?
Was WiFi calling on? (My phone would reboot even stock randomly when WiFi calling was in use.)

qayshp said:
Did you have any luck getting a replacement?
Was WiFi calling on? (My phone would reboot even stock randomly when WiFi calling was in use.)
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I did. Same thing happened with the replacement. I rarely use WiFi and I make sure WiFi calling's off when I do use it. I thought it might be an app but so far, it's turned out to be the battery. I got the phone in February so I didn't think it would go bad so soon. Got an Anker and been restart free since.

[Q] Unpleasantness... Bricked phone?

So, while I'm no expert I'm not new to rooting and flashing. Did it quite a bit on my older Droid Inc 1, and have performed a few on my new SG3.
I have 3 backed up ROMs on my SD, Synergy, Beans and CM10. I was running Synergy and decided to give CM10 another shot to see if I could figure out what was killing NFC. So, flashed it up with ROM Manager (Used Odin previously) and everything went swimmingly. ROM was running, NFC was working, all my apps were reinstalled, no problems.....
Decided to see if I could get Wallet working on this install, so flashed it in, made the changes to build.prop and rebooted.
Heeerreeee's where the trouble started. Part way through the reboot the phone just shut down. Completely. 100%. Dead.
I had 87% battery when I started so it 'shouldn't be a battery problem. No power, no LED when I plug in the charger, no vol-up, home, power to get into recovery.
One interesting thing did happen while I was trying to get the phone up, I removed the battery for a bit, and plugged the USB cable in and got a red charging light. Put the battery back in, light still there. 1 minute later, light goes off and still nothing happening with the phone at all.
Anyone have any ideas beyond all the stuff I've given a shot to?

Will it show up when plugged in on your CPU?
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nexus995743 said:
Will it show up when plugged in on your CPU?
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Unfortunately not. Only thing that seems to show up is in the device manager, a QHSUSB_DLOAD device that's banged.

Hmmmm
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nexus995743 said:
Hmmmm
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Well, I called Verizon and they've shipped me a replacement. I guess throwing all my bit and pieces into a new main body should work fine...

Oh no. Another one sending a phone back because of rooting. That's why they lock bootloaders.
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+1

Have you tried borrowing someone's battery to see if you can also least boot? I have four samsung batteries for the S3 and would consider sending it to you before getting a replacement. I think the cost of a battery is $3 on Amazon.
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The reasons were different but i had the same thing happen to me, my phone wouldn't boot, wouldn't show up in the computer. Nothing, i tried my wife's battery, no change there either. I left it on the charger overnight and tried turning it on in the morning and after messing with it it came back on. Haven't had an issue since. Don't know what caused it, the phone just freaked out, turned off and wouldn't turn back on.
You can also try the resistor trick to see if that will bring your phone back. Here is a cheap way to do it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/03/saving-a-bricked-phone-with-a-pencil-lead/ Otherwise you can go to radio shack and pick up a resistor.
If Verizon sends you your phone back cause you messed with it, there is a brick repair service for like $60 bucks PM for the link if it comes to that.

Congrats on the new phone
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nexus995743 said:
Congrats on the new phone
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hehe.. I can't say I was pleased with having to go that route, (can't stand being defeated by electronics) but all in all I can't imagine a simple software change causing the entire unit to just go dead. Not booting properly, or locking up and such, sure... but not just dead.
By this morning I had tried another battery (a friend has an SG3 also) to no effect, but I didn't try leaving it plugged in overnight. I did check the battery with an external charger I have and it was showing fully charged....
So, I'll get a replacement and stay away from CM10 at the very least.
**ihavenewnike - Not sure why you're on an android developers forum really...

Ok, so the new phone got here at about 12:30. Plugged all my stuff into it and it fired right up.
Rooted and unlocked it, put my latest Synergy backup (1 day old) on the SD card and restored it.
Ahhhh... It's just like it never left. :victory:

keno1964 said:
Ok, so the new phone got here at about 12:30. Plugged all my stuff into it and it fired right up.
Rooted and unlocked it, put my latest Synergy backup (1 day old) on the SD card and restored it. . .
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. . . and then the display went black and it wouldn't power on! What the heck?!
. . .
Oh, sorry: I was just imagining a funny ending to this topic.
- ooofest

ooofest said:
. . . and then the display went black and it wouldn't power on! What the heck?!
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Oh, sorry: I was just imagining a funny ending to this topic.
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Don't like you.......

Same thing happened to me when I tried to mess with the NFC hack on my SGS III.
What saved me was a USB Jig I happened to have handy when I...accidentally... soft bricked a friend's Samsung Captivate a few months back. The USB Jig is used to put the SGS III into download mode when all else fails that tiny little gadget saves the day.

tekrhino said:
Same thing happened to me when I tried to mess with the NFC hack on my SGS III.
What saved me was a USB Jig I happened to have handy when I...accidentally... soft bricked a friend's Samsung Captivate a few months back. The USB Jig is used to put the SGS III into download mode when all else fails that tiny little gadget saves the day.
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I have looked into those and will most likely make one very soon. (I think I have everything I'd need, just may need to cobble some resistors together).
Couple of things I noticed throughout this 'process', regarding the CM10 (9-15 nightly) ROM, NFC and google wallet....
At first install of CM10 I noticed that NFC was active and working normally. It could read my tags without issue. After Wallet was installed though, NFC disappeared. It wasn't just disabled, it simply wasn't there any more. It was after noticing this that I decided to reboot, at which point my original problem started.
The reboot never came close to completing though, it shut down before it actually made it to the 'boot' phase, as in, while it was shutting down.
The actual cause of the power off is still a mystery to me, as I can't see a simple app change causing hardware failure.

So you bricked your phone, just like a few of us did yesterday.
What did you call Verizon saying in order for them to send you a new phone?

AB_ said:
So you bricked your phone, just like a few of us did yesterday.
What did you call Verizon saying in order for them to send you a new phone?
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I told them what happened, just left out a few bits of info.
"I rebooted it, and it never came back on." and that was that.

Nice.
I should have gone that method, but ended up paying for the repair service from MobileTechVideos

A friend has the qhsusb-dload showing up as well.. phone won't turn on.. flashed a bad kernel or rom I forget which.. red light comes on.. that's it.. its a Verizon i535 .. tried the resistor jig and nothing happens.. any ideas to fix?
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Guess he had aokp rom then flashed neak kernel and that's when it died..

Weird screen problem, was turning blue and now is off

My Skyrocket started from having a small blue airbursh type dot on the screen and it moved to the whole phone throughout the day, After a while the screen got really dark blue, but was still functional until today, I think the problem came from charging my phone. But I am using the same charger, so I'm not 100% sure why it would suddenly stop working.
It started in the morning and progressively got worse throughout the day after charging it throughout the night, and then last night I charged it again and now the screen just doesn't display anything. I can still use muscle memory to unlock my phone with the pattern, and it will still receive notifications.
Does anyone have any ideas? The only difference between how it was charged yesterday and today is that I'm in South Carolina instead of Kentucky.

Go back to Kentucky! Jk. It could be a hardware issue but I'd rule that out by trying a different rom. You didnt say what rom you're currently on.
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I am running CM10.0, the stable version of it. I haven't upgraded because I didn't really find it necessary as I was happy with the way it was. It's a really weird problem though.
It seems to be because of the charger, but I'm still not 100%. Should I just try to recover to the original GB rom through Odin?

Here is a picture of the phone when it was blue. Hopefully it uploaded perfect.
Sorry about the black, wanted to make sure none of my friends got mad at me for showing their picture and/or texts on the interwebs. Just in case thing.

xdflames said:
I am running CM10.0, the stable version of it. I haven't upgraded because I didn't really find it necessary as I was happy with the way it was. It's a really weird problem though.
It seems to be because of the charger, but I'm still not 100%. Should I just try to recover to the original GB rom through Odin?
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I'd try a different rom to see if out I'd rom related. But I haven't heard of anyone else having this issue. Odin'ing back to gb or a newer os, should tell you if it's hardware or software related.
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Okay, it appears to be a hardware problem. Flashed the stock GB tar from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398 and have absolutely no luck. Odin worked successfully and the phone still seems to be having the same problem.
Has anyone ever heard of or seen this problem before? It's pretty random. I think I have the phone under insurance, where as I will just tell them I lost my phone.. Otherwise looks like I'll be without a phone for a while unless I go out and buy an unlocked one, as I wanted to switch carriers next year when my contract was up!

If youre still under the one year warranty, AT&T should be able to give you a refurbished one. This is the first blue screen issue I've seen or heard of.
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SKyRocKeting727 said:
If youre still under the one year warranty, AT&T should be able to give you a refurbished one. This is the first blue screen issue I've seen or heard of.
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It wasn't under warranty, as I've had it for a year and a week almost exactly.. And they want a whopping $200 for it through insurance. I'm not doing that. I'm tired of the Skyrocket and I'm not going to pay $200 to get it through insurance. It isn't on warranty, but it was under insurance. I can tell you this is the last time I insure a phone.
I'm going to be buying a Nexus 4 and re-use my SIM, and if it doesn't work I will just ask AT&T for another SIM card and deactivate my old one.

So, it is pretty much 100% where the phone isn't going to work anymore, and I'm not really sure if a screen replacement will work. So yeah, looks like I am going to go with the Nexus 4 and be happy with it.
I do have a question kind of unrelated, and I'd be happy if someone can point me in the right direction and give me an answer here so I don't have to gunk up the forums with another topic.
Is there anyway to grab my phone's data virtually or through the recovery file? Fortunately I was smart enough to make a backup to my sdcard right when it started turning blue. Is there some way I can get my pictures and some important notes from my phone?