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Well my captivate is repaired. I didn't think it was possible but Josh Groce of the famed rom in a flash review videos was able to fix it for me.
Price is great and turn around time, atleast for my phone was awesome.
You can find more info at mobiletechreview.com
It is well worth the time it takes to contact him. Chances are if you have bricked your phone he will be able to fix it for you and it's a lot cheaper than buying a new phone.
I can't say enough good things about him and his work, he is a brilliant young man and we should all be thankful that he is a part of the xda community and wants to help people. I don't believe he does it for the money, off he did he would charge alot more than he does.
I hope this helps some of you that are in a bind with your phone, he certainly helped me.
Thanks Josh, for saving my phone.
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How did you brick it?
Your phone wasn't bricked if a jig fixed your problem.
P.s. you can't make jigs yourself for $5. That's not buying the supplies at a bulk discount. Takes approximately 1 minute to make when you have everything you need in front of you. So charging 8-10$ is actually a huge profit. Say 3$ Evey minute you work times 60 minutes in an hour. $180 an hour for what equates to monkey work. Not to shabby.
Edit: yes I oversimplified the process and math to exaggerate my opinion. Point remains the same.
I don't think he was talking about a jig. Probably he had to have his flashed.
His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...
Don't quote me. But I think be is talking about a jtag type flash
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His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...
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Pretty sure it involved a riff box and removing the motherboard. That's the only way to recover a completely bricked phone.
How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...
I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...
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I shipped it out last fri, he got it yesterday and is shipping it out today. How long ago did you order the jig? I would just ask him about it, he seems like a very nice person. Ill let you know more when I get the phone back, shouldn't take long.
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To be honest I'm not 100% sure how he fixed it, I dont really care about that. Just glad I will have it back. Ive tried 3 inspires and then bought an atrix. They may be slightly faster than the captivate but screen quality doesn't come close to me. Maybe my eyes are getting old.
I am pretty sure though that he had to use his jtag box on it, I could be wrong. All I know for sure is that he fixed it and I can't wait to get it back.
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I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.
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i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.
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I did try the odin version that dg put out but for some reason no matter what I tried my phone would just shut down. I'm not very tech savvy. I know just enough to get into trouble.
I'm glad you were able to fix yours, I just thought I'd post this for dummies like myself that tinker too much and beak things. Hopefully it will hellp someone.
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Got my phone back today and it works like new.
My thanks goes out to Josh
Now just have to wait for the infuse to come out so I can screw it up too.
Wife will someday kill me.
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Hi All,
My little sister has an Inspire 4g. She's not very tech savvy and wouldn't know the difference between a rom and a skin. She is now on her 3rd inspire because of what sounds to me like a bricking problem. Any help in diagnosing this problem would be great. I searched the forum, but everything i found had to do with rom flashing.
Symptoms:
Phone won't power on unless battery is removed. Once it starts powering up, it gets to the HTC logo and freezes. She waited about 15 minutes and nothing would happen.
This happened over night one night, she woke up and couldn't power on.
It also happened 10 days later with a replacement phone while playing a game.
Any thoughts on the matter?
Thanks,
Ratkid2271
Has the phone been rooted?
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Has the phone been rooted?
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No, the phone was not rooted. She wouldn't know how to root. Everything is stock, except for a few apps she installed from the market place.
You say she's on now on phone #3. The symptoms you describe occurred on #3, or on all three phones?
In other words, has it been the same exact symptoms that caused her to go through two other phones?
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The first phone bricked over night, the second while she was playing the game. Her third phone has not bricked yet, but I want to help her prevent it from bricking if I can. She's getting fed up with the phone...
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Have you tried a new or different charger?
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Have you tried a new or different charger?
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Or especially car charger. Never turn the car on with the phone plugged in. Bad mojo.
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First phone that bricked, it was charging from a wallwart over night. The second time it was not plugged in at all...
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First phone that bricked, it was charging from a wallwart over night. The second time it was not plugged in at all...
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Where are these phones coming from? ATT store, best buy, Costco?
I find it hard to believe you'd get 2 bad phones, and be fearing for a third, if the place you got them from are giving you new, not refurbished replacements. I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that it seems unlikely, especially with this phone, from this manufacturer.
Just for piece of mind, you may want to give a closer look at your what/how your sister is using/handling the phone, as well, just to make absolutely sure the problem is indeed a bad batch of phones.
That way if it does happen a third time, you can confidently articulate the symptoms to the place of return. After having to replace more than a couple phones, places might start to get a little more reluctant to keep doing replacements.
FWIW
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The original phone was purchased at an at&t store. The replacements came from the same store. They were NIB. The only thing that i can think of is that an OTA update was pushed (are they able to force the update, they prompt on my atrix) and she didn't let it finish. Would that brick the phone?
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The original phone was purchased at an at&t store. The replacements came from the same store. They were NIB. The only thing that i can think of is that an OTA update was pushed (are they able to force the update, they prompt on my atrix) and she didn't let it finish. Would that brick the phone?
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I'm telling you its the midget porn. All the kids are watching it these days
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ratkid2271 said:
The original phone was purchased at an at&t store. The replacements came from the same store. They were NIB. The only thing that i can think of is that an OTA update was pushed (are they able to force the update, they prompt on my atrix) and she didn't let it finish. Would that brick the phone?
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An failed OTA update could definitely brick a phone, and I have heard of Verizon or some carrier doing a "silent" update, but I don't think one has occurred for this phone yet, though an update is in the works from att.
Besides, I don't think they'd do a major, potentially brick-causing OTA anyways, after what happened with the bell/rogers captivate, or whatever it was, fiasco awhile back.
If the replacements were NIB and from att, that makes me even more skeptical that the cause was a bad batch of phones, especially if the replacements were spaced several days apart, as they get new shipments in, further decreasing the likelihood of 2 bad ones from the same batch.
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The whole issue of brick by ota update can easily and practically be solved by manufacturers of Android phones distributing desktop update software, similar to blackberry manager software. I know with the Samsung captivate, you can download the kies program to update. But it wasn't distributed with the phone so most users aren't going to be aware. I still yet have to be explained why this isn't in practice.
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my first inspire did this. This was on day one without root. I would think it was probably a bad coincidence. I bet she's in the clear.
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my first inspire did this. This was on day one without root. I would think it was probably a bad coincidence. I bet she's in the clear.
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Do you know what you were doing when this happened?
I wish i actually saw the phone(s) in their bricked state. I feel like i could give better information to everyone. It seems like this is not a very common issue or i would have found at least one other post about it. I'm hoping it was just a fluke. Thanks for all the suggestions guys.
XDA members rock!
I think she's going to have to take a good long look at what she has done with each phone...
- How has she been charging it?
- Did she download the same apps every time? What were they?
- Does she have any friends who have offered to help her tweak the settings or anything on the phone that may have inadvertently messed up something or tried to flash it?
- What sort of environment is it kept in?
- Protective case? Other accessories?
I think these need to be investigated to properly identify the cause. 3 phones dying that quickly may be indicative of a situation that she is creating without KNOWING that she is doing so.
If it bricks after failing a OTA update, and you still got it to boot I don't see why you couldn't run the RUU. Even then if it doesn't fully boot you shouldn't have a problem getting into the boot loader and using a pd98img to recover. It is really hard REALLY hard to completely brick this phone.
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If it bricks after failing a OTA update, and you still got it to boot I don't see why you couldn't run the RUU. Even then if it doesn't fully boot you shouldn't have a problem getting into the boot loader and using a pd98img to recover. It is really hard REALLY hard to completely brick this phone.
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D'oh, you beat me to it...was just thinking the same thing about using a stock RUU and the bootloader.
I had CM9 On my rooted Samsung Galaxy S3, and my phone would crash randomly in the middle of changing songs on playerpro or in the middle of phone calls, so I tried to download SiyahKernel hoping it would add some stability to my ROM. Well I had 2 different versions of the kernel somehow. One was SiyahKernel 3.something, and the other was 2.5. I assumed the 3.something would be for the S3 and the 2 something was a false download that I got on accident and was made for the S2 or something, but when I tried to flash the 3.something it didn't work, versus when I tried flashing the 2.5 it installed perfectly fine. So, here's the fun part...when I went to reboot my phone it died COMPLETELY. I can't start the phone in download mode to odin it, can't get into recovery to flash an old nandroid. Phone won't turn on, won't charge, will do absolutely nothing, and I know for sure the battery was charged to 90% when it crapped out. I've done battery pulls, I actually did a 3 hour battery pull at one point...I don't have insurance, and I don't have the $$$ to go buy another phone, so if anyone has some ideas on how I could either get my phone back operational, or a cheaper solution (like a jigg) it would be MUCH appreciated. I wasn't just a noob jumping into it on my S3, I've been rooting, romming, and flashing **** since 2009, and it's my 10th smartphone, but my first brick ever. Please help!
search jtag.
If you can't get into odin mode or recovery then your phone is deffo hard bricked n will be costly to repair mate. Be careful flashing kernels n use odin to do it not recovery mode
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I had the gs2 and I was trying to unroot it and I couldn't even get Odin to work because it didn't recognize the phone. So I called samsung and told them that got an update, but after it finish updating it cut off and never came on, and the battery was fully charged. So, if I was you I'll go that route. And good luck
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Could I do the JTAG process MYSELF, or is paying them 60 dollars the only way to solve my problem?
That seems like the only way to fix this, because as of right now I seem pretty much screwed.
Atreux said:
Could I do the JTAG process MYSELF, or is paying them 60 dollars the only way to solve my problem?
That seems like the only way to fix this, because as of right now I seem pretty much screwed.
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I think you need equipment to do it.
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Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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I think you need equipment to do it.
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Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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This post is ridiculous. Asurion blows, never have had a good experience with them over using 5 phones insured by them. Only ever had 2 crap out on me (hardware-wise. If it was ever software related I did it, and knew exactly how to handle it, but the 2 that were done were spidered screens). They gave me a broken refurbished evo back for the very first phone I ever had that I rooted, rommed, and hacked on for DAYS trying to learn the entire process...all those manhours and they send me a refurbished phone with nothing on it, and a screwed up LCD digitzer...do NOT recommend asurion whatsoever, and will never use them again no matter what carrier I go with.
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If you can't get into odin mode or recovery then your phone is deffo hard bricked n will be costly to repair mate. Be careful flashing kernels n use odin to do it not recovery mode
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Why would you use odin to flash a kernel? I use cwm all the time for roms and kernels alike. Odin for radios or to return to stock. Cwm does everything else I need it to do. Same mistake could have been made on a computer guy downloaded two kernels and flashed the wrong one.
OP I am sorry for your loss.
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Note for the future: always a good idea to carry the cheaper (just asurion) insurance if your gonna root and flash. It's $5.18/month. A quick "oops I drove over my phone, or its on the bottom of the Atlantic", and boom.. New phone for a C note.
Sorry for no solution, it's more for others reading post.
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imo insurance fraud is not the right answer. the right thing to do is research then flash, dont flash then research. ofcourse its now standard in america to be bailed out for every mistake we make, so perhaps your right.... I have yet to cave in and accept this kind of mentality.
The profit margins these companies make is ridiculous to begin with. It's not fraud, the only thing that may be considered even close to it is claiming that the phone is missing or damaged beyond repair due to something that was out of your control. Non the less your insurance covers all these avenues twice a year.
In reality, a bricked phone should be covered under insurance, and I'm sure if you have the proper legal knowledge you could argue that further and make them cover it without having to tell a white lie. Insurance is simple, covering a loss. And a loss is technically a brick (that's not open for debate either, that's correct), but there is a loophole they use where they can refuse to honor a claim if they feel to do so (hence modifications).
F that. I pay for insurance, I do my part. Not to mention when I actually signed up for the insurance, I asked the vzw rep if a rooted phone is covered, and his response was exactly this: don't take a chance, smash it up and send it back, or disappear the device.
I do not abuse or condone anything of what I said, I have yet to make a claim, but be assured, if I brick my device after 5 years of carrying ins. I am getting my money's worth out of it.
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There was an Evita Unbrick thread that died months back and I was curious if any new methods have been discovered for fixing phones that don't enumerate their partitions and are stuck in QDL.
Today I fat fingered an update from the terminal emulator. I stuck TWRP 2.3.3.1 in P4. Aaaand I'm never using terminal emulator again. It was a really busy day at work and I was totally not thinking about what I was doing. It was one of those moments where you're staring at your phone thinking "oh my God what did I just do". All this so I could try out the new CleanROM that doesn't work in 2.5.0.0. I haven't failed this hard since I put the power connectors on wrong on a pentium motherboard. Don't judge, I know at least a few of you guys did that too!
I doubt anything new has been discovered since I wasn't able to uncover anything when searching, nor could I find much on the RIFF Box (not like I'm actually going to rip it apart and JTAG it or anything). HTC wouldn't quote me a repair cost just "send it in and we'll see if it's covered under warranty".
If anyone has any info they can link me to it would be much appreciated. I may just have to send it in to HTC and hope they're feeling generous. Honestly though if they want me to pay $200 to replace the board I'll probably just say no. That's pretty poor customer service when they could be fixing these for a reasonable cost.
No other method unfortunately, why not send for jtagging?
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No other method unfortunately, why not send for jtagging?
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It's expensive and from my experience it doesn't always work.
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It's expensive and from my experience it doesn't always work.
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That's why I won't send it to get it j-tagged. Paying $60-100 to have someone else crack open my phone and take a whack at it v.s. seeing if HTC will be reasonable about the repair. I love HTC. Their phones are awesome, their customer service is extremely friendly, it's just their repair practices (from what I've read from others) that may leave something to be desired. I did read other posts of them fixing it under warranty when the people told them straight up how they broke it like I did, but then others ended up paying for a new mainboard. HTC can totally fix a bad flash without replacing hardware. If they wanted to be real nice they could release those tools to the community.
I dusted off my old EVO (running SOS ROM) and I'm using that in the mean time. One X on Straight Talk > EVO on Boost. Phone still runs like a champ though. Except for the water damage to the screen from putting on a skinomi. I had one of the first EVOs where they didn't seal the screens right.
Worst case scenario if they want too much to fix it I use this as an excuse to buy a RIFF box, crack my phone open, and probably destroy it so I can convince myself to buy the One X+ or whatever AT&T calls it. I just realized I have passwords and what not that would be sitting in the open on that phone if I sold it and someone managed to fix it without destroying all the data, so my idea of selling it for parts went out the window. I have to either repair it myself or let HTC do it, or destroy the phone. I'm a geek and I love tampering with things as long as I don't think I'll totally break it. I've messed with my phones, my PCs, and my car. I modded a wii, a PS3, and an xbox 360 just for the fun of it even though I don't play console games. It's an addiction.
HTC will bill you just for sending the phone in even if you choose for them not to fix it.
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Flash img gui is only 99 pennies j/s. Sucks dude
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So I see this seems to be working for Sprint users... Anyone tried this for verizon?
I have a second stock Verizon GS3 sitting here and all the other required bits to try it if someone can give me a little help on how/what to extract from the working phone.
BTW I bricked my stock ROM rooted phone by plugging in a usb flash card adapter I have used in the past. I'm wondering if the paragon ntfs mounter app is partially to blame... SuperSU had recently started giving notifications paragon had been granted SU access ever time the screen was enabled.
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So I see this seems to be working for Sprint users... Anyone tried this for verizon?
I have a second stock Verizon GS3 sitting here and all the other required bits to try it if someone can give me a little help on how/what to extract from the working phone.
BTW I bricked my stock ROM rooted phone by plugging in a usb flash card adapter I have used in the past. I'm wondering if the paragon ntfs mounter app is partially to blame... SuperSU had recently started giving notifications paragon had been granted SU access ever time the screen was enabled.
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Are you able to boot into recovery or download mode? Doesn't sound like a hard brick.
If you can't then the only way to recover from it is jtag, that method stated in the thread you linked wouldn't work.
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Are you able to boot into recovery or download mode? Doesn't sound like a hard brick.
If you can't then the only way to recover from it is jtag, that method stated in the thread you linked wouldn't work.
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its a hard brick. no lights even while charging, no response from buttons or usb jig
I went ahead and cracked it open anyway and sure enough... if a similar solution does exist, we would definitely need another leaked document. boards are completely different.
JTAG it is.
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its a hard brick. no lights even while charging, no response from buttons or usb jig
I went ahead and cracked it open anyway and sure enough... if a similar solution does exist, we would definitely need another leaked document. boards are completely different.
JTAG it is.
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This is the second thread I've seen where a device was bricked by plugging in a peripheral device. This definitely shouldn't happen.
I would call up Samsung and tell them what happened, they might fix your phone or give you a new one for free. This isn't your fault this happened.
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This is the second thread I've seen where a device was bricked by plugging in a peripheral device. This definitely shouldn't happen.
I would call up Samsung and tell them what happened, they might fix your phone or give you a new one for free. This isn't your fault this happened.
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Are the situations occurring from the same ROM and/or Kernel?
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Are the situations occurring from the same ROM and/or Kernel?
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That's a good question, the user in the other post used Cyanogenmod 10.1.
Either way, I don't see how a peripheral device could overwrite a bootloader and hard brick a phone. But it's definitely happened twice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374046
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That's a good question, the user in the other post used Cyanogenmod 10.1.
Either way, I don't see how a peripheral device could overwrite a bootloader and hard brick a phone. But it's definitely happened twice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374046
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I was on no-wipe jelly bean.
Being that its hard bricked is there any reason they would not replace it? (ie no way to tell it was rooted etc) The top right corner of my frame has a dent in it (dropped while removing a difficult clam shell case) but other then that, no wear or damage.
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I was on no-wipe jelly bean.
Being that its hard bricked is there any reason they would not replace it? (ie no way to tell it was rooted etc) The top right corner of my frame has a dent in it (dropped while removing a difficult clam shell case) but other then that, no wear or damage.
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If your phone honestly got bricked by a peripheral device, I'd call Verizon and they will send you a refurbished phone. But if it was your fault I'd pay the 60 bucks and get it jtag. My phone had lots of dents but Verizon still didn't charge me for a replacement but then again I could have gotten lucky
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If your phone honestly got bricked by a peripheral device, I'd call Verizon and they will send you a refurbished phone. But if it was your fault I'd pay the 60 bucks and get it jtag. My phone had lots of dents but Verizon still didn't charge me for a replacement but then again I could have gotten lucky
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took it to verizon store today. told the guy what I did, he played with it for a few minutes, looked at his screen for a while, checked to make sure there was no obvious damage to the usb port then told me my new phone would be arriving at my home tomorrow. warranty claim through samsung, NOT assurian insurance claim.
That is a lot better then what samsung told me via the live chat... They tried to have me load recovery, then said I would have to mail them the phone (usually 2 days) wait for repair (usually 5 days) then wait for return shipping (usually another two days).
I'm glad it worked out and I didn't have to pay for JTAG. I wonder what rom the replacement will ship with...