Why do people always say to wipe the cache 2 to 3 times when flashing a fresh ROM?
Is there a bug in the wipe code that leave little bits left behind?
If there's no bug, then doing it ONCE is plenty. Anything else seems like ignorance and ghetto science.
It was common practice back when we were sharing a recovery not specific to our device. We now have the correct recoveries and this is no longer needed.
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Maybe it is needed process since some noobs been known to ignore the processes or simply forget and results in bad flash. I sometimes I even forget to do a nandroid backup as well and go through that annoying process of setting up everything again.
I had been flash wiping once and no problem what so ever with sk8's.
Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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I have been using this practice since SKYJB. It may not be necessary but for the time it takes it really does not hurt either. As a result when installing various ROMS I do not have issues that some have.
So can only be a good practice to take...aside from the couple of extra minutes.
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Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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So, the software is buggy? Is there someplace to report the bug?
A wipe should do just that and not leave anything behind.
Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Yep. I've never wiped more than once and have never had any issues. Plus the way I look at it is storage has a usable life span. By doing all those extra wipes you're wasting that life span. Just the way I look at it.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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I'm equal parts OCD and paranoid. One of my first flashes on my Captivate almost went horribly wrong (brick-level wrong) because CWM failed to wipe a couple pieces of system data while switching from stock to an AOSP ROM. FC's all over the place, unusable phone, and on the third try after fixing permissions, it refused to boot to the system. Ever since then, wipe x3 for everything.
That said, it's really unnecessary with sk8's CWM and TWRP, and my doing so is merely further proof of my insanity.
Lol tj
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If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
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If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Because they refuse to believe xcrazy is correct lol.
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i usually now recommend 2x, why..... old habits, ive seen stuff stick after only 1 wipe(rare), i'm paranoid and i forget if i wiped a certain partition or not, if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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How many flash drives go bad? Not a large percentage but the ones that do do so because of being corrupted. I'd rather do as little as possible to achieve the same result.
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Yeah, in terms of memory forensics. With one wipe its easy to deduce your last rom of choice memory. BUT one correct wipe will clear your rom for a fresh install.
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Check out the new Odin Flashable version here:
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Nice guide, good work. Now have a beer!
This is just asking for trouble. You are overwriting and deleting system files that are in use.
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Well Krylon I've done it several times and it works. If you actually had this phone you could try it yourself. While I can't write a custom recovery, I do have some experience with android and don't mind using unorthodox methods if it benefits my phone as much as it did.
BTW, what's with all the negative nay-saying?
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Well Krylon I've done it several times and it works. If you actually had this phone you could try it yourself. While I can't write a custom recovery, I do have some experience with android and don't mind using unorthodox methods if it benefits my phone as much as it did.
BTW, what's with all the negative nay-saying?
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its not naysaying, but the first person people hit up is krylon when they brick their phones, and he's just trying to limit that until they come up with a SURE FIRE way to do it. Dont take it as an insult
I wouldn't have posted it unless I thoroughly tested it on my own phone. My only thing is don't come in criticizing people who are trying if you've been gone for 2 weeks while everyone else has been trying to figure this out. It may not be the way Krylon would do it, but it works. And if for some reason it doesn't for you, by all means, flash back to stock. The risk is worth the reward.
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perhaps if you would read my tweets, you would see why I was gone for 2 weeks.
As far as being negative, I'm not. I'm saying this isn't a good idea due to the fact you are deleting proprietary system files/drivers that are currently in use, which results in a hardware failure. This poses a risk of burning/frying the hardware or causing the drivers you are copying back over to become corrupt.
Here is an easier/safer way to do this.
Download MagicISO, Download my Tar (which I think you already have), and download the deodexed rom.
Extract the tar
Open MagicISO
within magic, open factoryfs.rfs (you will need to change the drop down to look for all files)
This opens /system
delete app and framework dir's
open the deodexed /system
copy over app and framework dir's into magic
close, retar everything you extracted from the original
odin
dbl post. My bad.
Much more constructive, thank you. I appreciate the help and advice and I will make those changes later tonight.
P.S. I don't tweet so that's probably why. Tried it and used it a few times but just didn't like it.
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Much more constructive, thank you. I appreciate the help and advice and I will make those changes later tonight.
P.S. I don't tweet so that's probably why. Tried it and used it a few times but just didn't like it.
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ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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hope the job hunt goes well, glad to have u on the case now, us gs4g owners need some love! lol
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ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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Wow, sorry to hear that man. You were working for ABD right? That's enough to put anyone one down for a good two weeks. Good luck with the search.
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Wow, sorry to hear that man. You were working for ABD right? That's enough to put anyone one down for a good two weeks. Good luck with the search.
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ADP
here's the tar command you will want to use.
Download and install cygwin if you dont have linux installed.
move the files to cygwin/home/(profilename)/
tar --format=ustar -cf FILENAME.tar factoryfs.rfs cache.rfs modem.bin zImage
change filename to what you want the tar to be called.
OK I had the parameters wrong in cygwin when I retried it. I'll try these next.
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any word on this process?
Also Krylon,
I heard some rumors that TW may already have some ROM's ready for this phone once we get a working CWM. Is this true? and is so could you maybe give a hint to what we might be seeing from TW?
thanks for the hard work and sorry to hear about the job.
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any word on this process?
Also Krylon,
I heard some rumors that TW may already have some ROM's ready for this phone once we get a working CWM. Is this true? and is so could you maybe give a hint to what we might be seeing from TW?
thanks for the hard work and sorry to hear about the job.
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Black Ice and Frost for now. I'll have to work with Som porting over V.
Stupid ass phone...there's not a single rom that doesn't either freeze, randomly reboot or flat out just not work properly. Not talking **** on dev's. But **** this phone seriously. One of the most expencive pieces of junk ever.
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I know you say pretty much all the roms do this, but can you give a list of the ones you have tried? Maybe we can give some suggestions or OC/UV settings or kernel selections.
Anything really.
NeKr0MAtiK said:
Stupid ass phone...there's not a single rom that doesn't either freeze, randomly reboot or flat out just not work properly. Not talking **** on dev's. But **** this phone seriously. One of the most expencive pieces of junk ever.
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I understand feeling pissed about hacking these phones and it not working right. I suggest if you have properly installed a custom recovery that you flash a simple rooted Gingerbread rom. Everything will work like a charm, all features. Make sure to go into clockwork mod, wipe data, wipe partition, wipe dalvic cache and flash the rooted gingerbread rom. Reboot and enjoy.
If you don't like gingerbread and you want a great ICs rom, use the EaglesBlood AOSP 4.04 ICS rom. I think it works great. Some things do not work on this rom though. Because the devs do not have the source code from Nvidia they can not make the video camera work. Netflix will not display video. The wifi calling does work. Data drops have been addressed.
So there is my two cents. Hope that is helpful.
or better yet, if you haven't already, update the phone to the stock 2.3.4 update that was just released and see if it solves your phone problems.
If your phone is in warranty then call t-mobile and tell them how your phone is freezing and yadda yadda. They should exchange it for a new one
Appreciate the feed back. I think I'm done with tmo altogether though. My data speed with them is like 1.5 mbs compared to my buddy's Verizon which is at 11.5 mbs were in Riverside ca
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Lol
I actually am trying to make my phone use stock 2.3.3 and I find that it froze overnight while charging, froze overnight without even plugged in!!!!!
And the only reason I'm even going for STOCK is because the dam Simple Mobile Sim will not work on CM7. It runs better on CM7 but the unreliable GPS, and other settings I needed to apply just so that it wouldn't freeze anymore.
I moved on the GS2 T989 for now. I'm not thrilled with the phone honestly, but wins points for reliability. Never fails, just works. Only had 1 random reboot in the month I've used it.
I want to give away my G2X to a friend or relative, but I don't want to, because I know they will hate me for it. Its cruel to give someone a phone like this and trash talk and blame Android for it. Its not the ROMS or the OS, its the piece of **** phone.
Thankfully I don't have to deal with it so much on a regular basis.
Ohh I know like I said I'm not blaming devs or android for that matter. I mostly blame myself for going "first dual core phone, err I want dat" and goin and buying it rather than researching first.
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LG seems to have some piss poor quality control. I must have gotten lucky with mine, though it had some issues of its own that got fixed by flashing roms/kernels.
To your last point, I will never again buy a phone without scoping out the development and opinion from these forums. Even if it means I have to wait a few months and not have the phone right away.
Try a euroskank... Haven't had a problem with it... I flashed it on my girls phone and she hasn't complained yet.
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chrisram88 said:
Try a euroskank... Haven't had a problem with it... I flashed it on my girls phone and she hasn't complained yet.
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By the way, geek talk is an amazing thing. If I told my wife I was "upgrading her to euroskank and that will solve her problems" I'm pretty sure I'd get a kick in the nuts.
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Try a euroskank... Haven't had a problem with it... I flashed it on my girls phone and she hasn't complained yet.
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Girlfriend didn't complain?
She's a keeper.
you guys just have defective phones. I have no freezing etc in mine
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I've been experiencing the same thing. I get so many crashes, lag, reboots on CM 7.1 stable which is the latest I have been running. Ive tried EB and some others, and they were all plagued with similar issues.
I'm essentially done with Android. You never know what the hell you're going to get as far as how the phone works, and it takes way too much time and effort to get things to work correctly. I just want something that works well out of the box. I had the G1, Nexus S, and this, and I can't stand Android anymore. Google doesn't even care enough about it to update their Nexus line on time.
I love my POS
NeKr0MAtiK said:
Stupid ass phone...there's not a single rom that doesn't either freeze, randomly reboot or flat out just not work properly. Not talking **** on dev's. But **** this phone seriously. One of the most expencive pieces of junk ever.
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Ever heard of user error?
IRASadPanda said:
Ever heard of user error?
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That goes to Mr. "I'm done with android" as well... I can flash back to stock and live with the little things that are a little messed up, just can't stand stock battery life, but with any of the cm7 roms my phone is better then most my friends, and even help convince some of my iOS friends to go android. I'm sure either you guys got lemons or just don't understand android!
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PEBKAC
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NeKr0MAtiK said:
Ohh I know like I said I'm not blaming devs or android for that matter. I mostly blame myself for going "first dual core phone, err I want dat" and goin and buying it rather than researching first.
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The phone has been out for over a year. There are many options. Running gigglebead for a new experience. Did you purchase the phone new from T-Mobile?
Ranting at a forum will not satisfy your issues. Pm me if you need help..
NeKr0MAtiK said:
Stupid ass phone...there's not a single rom that doesn't either freeze, randomly reboot or flat out just not work properly. Not talking **** on dev's. But **** this phone seriously. One of the most expencive pieces of junk ever.
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You should probably get an iPhone, both of us will be happier.
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So I went to rooted stock herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366041an d everything's just been screwed up every since, but I've been to busy to deal with it... now I'm sending it in for a warranty replacement and it's stuck...nothing will flash on cwm,I only get an error, Odin won't even detect it.. how can I get this back to stock? I need to send it soon cause I don't want to end up paying for 2 phones... thanks!
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Aaustinnn said:
...nothing will flash on cwm,I only get an error, Odin won't even detect it...
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What error is it giving you in CWM? What version of CWM? In reference to Odin - do you have the drivers installed, usb debugging checked, etc.? Have you tried different usb cords/ports/computers?
I'm not at my phone right now but the cwm error was somethin bout a file missing from /data... I literally just rooted and flashed tweaked to the refurbed one they sent me and all is well, the old one won't be detected in any way by my computer tho n it's been doing funny **** every since I left eclipse.. I know it's not the computer or hardware, but any attempt to flash on cwm OR Odin results in failure.. should I even worry since it looks like stock anyway? Lol idk if they really check at Verizon..
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I'm not at my phone right now but the cwm error was somethin bout a file missing from /data... I literally just rooted and flashed tweaked to the refurbed one they sent me and all is well, the old one won't be detected in any way by my computer tho n it's been doing funny **** every since I left eclipse.. I know it's not the computer or hardware, but any attempt to flash on cwm OR Odin results in failure.. should I even worry since it looks like stock anyway? Lol idk if they really check at Verizon..
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Uh yes they check. Dont you think that if you know how to do this then their techs would too. I can tell you that is the first thing they look for. If they determine your phone is rooted you WILL receive a bill for full retail price.
While I would agree is there proof of it happening irl? I personally would raise hell if they did to me. I bought the charge at full price because of the possibility of loosing unlimited. It went from flagship phone to abandoned before my contract was done. Luckily I had an upgrade to burn and got a S3 but even then they pulled the locked bootloader ****. I know why, to keep people buying devices but they really like to treat their customers like ****
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While I would agree is there proof of it happening irl? I personally would raise hell if they did to me. I bought the charge at full price because of the possibility of loosing unlimited. It went from flagship phone to abandoned before my contract was done. Luckily I had an upgrade to burn and got a S3 but even then they pulled the locked bootloader ****. I know why, to keep people buying devices but they really like to treat their customers like ****
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Dude, development is exploding as I type. They have working cm10. Lil buggy but come on 2 weeks? Bootloader is no issue to those devs. Not even irl. It's cracked.
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bairste said:
Uh yes they check. Dont you think that if you know how to do this then their techs would too. I can tell you that is the first thing they look for. If they determine your phone is rooted you WILL receive a bill for full retail price.
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They don't check every device.
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They don't check every device.
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Yeah, that's what I understood. I just didn't want to take the chance to. Btw, I finally figured out to busy do a restore(which I'd never done before) and it was detected good as new, flashed ep4d or p stock with the pit and everything seems good.. anything left to do now before I send it in?
Thanks everyone :]
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Updated the phone to the latest PA 10/15 build, flashed SU then gapps. After letting everything settled in, boot into recovery and flashed IX kernel 6.3.6 like I always do after every PA updates,but this time my phone won't boot at all, wont even boot into download mode. Stays on the black screen, won't even vibrate. I tried taking off the battery and plugging it in on the computer and outlet. Nothing works. Its hard-bricked. I sure don't have the money to sent it over for JTAG since I don't get paid till next week plus this is my work phone. WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO?
Those USB JIG works from Ebay?
Jig probably won't work.
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Jig probably won't work.
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It doesn't hurt to try those usb jigs its only less than 2 dollars plus free shipping. Won't hurt a bit,but knowing those won't ship in for a week or two.
Any other alternative rather than sending it for JTag service?
Z33type said:
It doesn't hurt to try those usb jigs its only less than 2 dollars plus free shipping. Won't hurt a bit,but knowing those won't ship in for a week or two.
Any other alternative rather than sending it for JTag service?
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Build your own jig with resistors today and find out if it works.
Try taking out the battery and plugging it in and putting the battery back in.
I'm doubting what you did is what bricked It if indeed it is bricked. Doesn't make sense.
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I'm doubting what you did is what bricked It if indeed it is bricked. Doesn't make sense.
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I honestly don't know. Before I flashed the PA 10/15 build I normally wipe cache, dalvik, format/system then flash the rom/su/gapps then reboot. After that I just installed InstigatorX kernel, rebooted then went on to a blank screen, never to turn on again no matter what I do.
I have never experienced this on the previous PA build with instigator X not saying its new builds fault,but thats honestly what I did.
I've had my faults of flashing roms on wrong devices before,but I greatly learned from that. So don't think I flashed the wrong kernel since I only have one kernel saved up on my computer and saved on on my device sd card.
Had your phone been acting funny beforehand? Seems like you did everything right, and others are running the 10/15 PA build just fine. You might have had one of those wonderful fluke bricks...
Sounds like a bad kernel flash. That's usually what bricks a skyrocket.
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Sounds like a bad kernel flash. That's usually what bricks a skyrocket.
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Is there a counter for that? Fix? or just JTAG is the only solution?
If you're hard-bricked, JTAG or warranty are the only ways out.
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Had your phone been acting funny beforehand? Seems like you did everything right, and others are running the 10/15 PA build just fine. You might have had one of those wonderful fluke bricks...
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Never experienced anything unusual and I know I did things right. Only weird funny things that happen to my phone is a few screen flickers on the previous build and I used build.prop to smooth those out. And on PA 2.15 my phone will occasionally randomly shutdown,but gets back on within seconds. I never OC btw. Always keep on stock frequency.
Can I lie to Samsung about the device not being rooted?
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Never experienced anything unusual and I know I did things right. Only weird funny things that happen to my phone is a few screen flickers on the previous build and I used build.prop to smooth those out. And on PA 2.15 my phone will occasionally randomly shutdown,but gets back on within seconds. I never OC btw. Always keep on stock frequency.
Can I lie to Samsung about the device not being rooted?
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Sure, you can do whatever your heart desires.
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Sure, you can do whatever your heart desires.
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Lol would they investigate if the phone is rooted?
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Lol would they investigate if the phone is rooted?
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They can't investigate anything if it doesn't turn on
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They can't investigate anything if it doesn't turn on
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I pretty much told them I did the ICS update then my phone won't turn on from there. And that I barely bought the phone from Craigslist yesterday.
They believed it just a little scared if they found out that my phone is rooted and starts to charge me restocking fee or whatever they do.
This what they told me
Arwyn: Please hold while check the warranty details.
Visitor: ok
Arwyn: I'm sorry for the delay. I'll be right with you.
Arwyn: Thank you for holding.
Arwyn: I see that device is in warranty till March 5th, 2013.
Visitor: awesome
EDIT: This Arwyn Samsung tech support really something
Arwyn: Are you using the same charger and the battery that came with the device?
Visitor: yes its all oem
Arwyn: Do you see any error message on the device?
Visitor: none
Visitor: Like I said the phone does not turn on at all
Visitor: soft keys don't even light up
Visitor: no vibrations, no boot screen, no boot animations or anything
Arwyn: What do you see on the device screen?
OK NOW THEY ARE TELLING ME TO SEND MY DEVICE FOR SERVICE AND REPAIRS COVERED BY WARRANTY. IS THIS A GOOD IDEA TO DO? SINCE MY PHONE IS COMPLETELY ROOTED, HAS A ROM AND CUSTOM KERNEL. LET ME KNOW PLEASE BECAUSE THIS ARWYN PERSON SAID THEY ARE GOING TO DIAGNOSE WHAT CAUSED IT.
I don't think its a huge deal. Just send it in.
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Are they asking you to send it in without issuing you out a replacement device or to send it in once you receive a replacement device? If its the first option it doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Sounds like they might actually check it out.
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Are they asking you to send it in without issuing you out a replacement device or to send it in once you receive a replacement device? If its the first option it doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Sounds like they might actually check it out.
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Samsung never gives you a replacement device. They will just flash a new firmware to it. If they can't they'll give you a new phone. I'd do it if I where you.
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OK NOW THEY ARE TELLING ME TO SEND MY DEVICE FOR SERVICE AND REPAIRS COVERED BY WARRANTY. IS THIS A GOOD IDEA TO DO? SINCE MY PHONE IS COMPLETELY ROOTED, HAS A ROM AND CUSTOM KERNEL. LET ME KNOW PLEASE BECAUSE THIS ARWYN PERSON SAID THEY ARE GOING TO DIAGNOSE WHAT CAUSED IT.
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1. Stop shouting.
2. Just do it. Worst thing that can happen is they say no. That said, if they can't get the phone to boot, they'll just send a refurb. If they can get it into download mode, they'll just flash the new firmware and wipe your tracks. Even if they do somehow see that it was rooted (i.e., they boot it into the OS), they'll just tell you that the warranty is void, and the repairs will cost X if you choose to go ahead with them.
Well I sent it in this morning and see whats going to happen from here and then. Hopefully it all goes smoothly.
So probably a stupid question and I'm guessing I already have the answer. When roms come out and we want to flash them, does that mean every single time any pictures, screenshots, downloads, etc I have on my phone I have to backup every single time? I'm guessing the answer is yes but I haven't had a phone without an external SD card slot. I also haven't had a new phone in a long time.
The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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You don't have to as the internal storage does not get wiped. It is advisable however to back up every time that you fiddle with your system. Most of the times you won't need it...but there will be that one time that you will...
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You don't have to as the internal storage does not get wiped. It is advisable however to back up every time that you fiddle with your system. Most of the times you won't need it...but there will be that one time that you will...
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jmtjr278 said:
The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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Hey thanks guys. It's been awhile since I had a good phone that I could flash and do stuff on. Appreciate the answers.
also get used to using adb to flash the roms in twrp. makes it a bit easier than having to move the rom over and then flash.
pbanj said:
also get used to using adb to flash the roms in twrp. makes it a bit easier than having to move the rom over and then flash.
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Been getting pretty acquainted with ADB these last couple days. I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
crackedvenom2 said:
Been getting pretty acquainted with ADB these last couple days. I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
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this should be helpful https://twrp.me/faq/ADBSideload.html
jmtjr278 said:
The answer is no. Just don't wipe internal storage. Factory reset also does not wipe internal
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"Factory reset also does not wipe internal"
What? You mean factory reset from custom roms? Because factory reset from stock roms wipe everything
smartuser8 said:
"Factory reset also does not wipe internal"
What? You mean factory reset from custom roms? Because factory reset from stock roms wipe everything
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From twrp custom recovery. Which is what he was asking about. Please, don't be difficult.
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pbanj said:
this should be helpful https://twrp.me/faq/ADBSideload.html
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Thank you. That seems to be similar to the regular side load but with TWRP it looks like. I was messing around with the regular side load the last couple days with Android Q. By the time roms come out, I'll be nice and ready with all the tips and messing around with it myself.
crackedvenom2 said:
Thank you. That seems to be similar to the regular side load but with TWRP it looks like. I was messing around with the regular side load the last couple days with Android Q. By the time roms come out, I'll be nice and ready with all the tips and messing around with it myself.
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I hope so. The pixel 2xl was notoriously difficult and finicky. What worked with my device may not work with the next. Hope that we don't have that kinda experience with the 3a
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Battery cases abound. I'd kill for a micro-SD case for the pixel phones. Throw a card in, put the case on, boom: internal storage. Wouldn't have to be too thick of a case, righter - they could probably make a decently thin case if all they are adding is the microSD slot and power/data passthru for the USB-C...
...or even a tiny flash-drive with US-C/Data passthru that I could just leave connected to the device.
jmtjr278 said:
I hope so. The pixel 2xl was notoriously difficult and finicky. What worked with my device may not work with the next. Hope that we don't have that kinda experience with the 3a
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Hopefully. I haven't had a good phone to flash roms in awhile. Really hoping we get some good ones on this. And it would be nice if it wasn't difficult like the 2xl problems you're talking about.
PhoenixPath said:
Battery cases abound. I'd kill for a micro-SD case for the pixel phones. Throw a card in, put the case on, boom: internal storage. Wouldn't have to be too thick of a case, righter - they could probably make a decently thin case if all they are adding is the microSD slot and power/data passthru for the USB-C...
...or even a tiny flash-drive with US-C/Data passthru that I could just leave connected to the device.
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Man, that would be amazing. I'm still wondering if I'm gonna get a case. I'm usually really good with my phones.
oh another thing that comes in real handy when you dont have an sd card is a smb share or network drive/nas. i will move stuff to mine from my pc and then just move it to my phone using solid explorer(lots of other file managers support this too). works really fast, especially if you have a router that supports ac wireless
Just a question... I obviously don't have my 3a yet. Need to wait until next month, but isn't the 3a full VNDK treble? If so wouldn't flashing a GSI work just fine? I.E.: "fastboot flash system GSI.img"?