So I check tapa talk everyday and literally everyday there is either a post about someone bricking their phone and what not and you see that makes sense because we aren't perfect but one thing is just like a duh for me . why are you flashing a ROM that isn't compatable with the phone if you are using Verizon s3 then use the ROMs made just for that . most of the posts I read are about people flashing a international ROM or something like stop haha . xda is well organized to the point where you should know where to browse for what you are looking for . so for all of you beginning flashers make sure the ROM is compatible with your phone /service before you end up bricking . well thanks for reading thought I'd just put my input up
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Thanks for that but if they do not read the giant capital letters in the international section stickies that say "DO NOT FLASH THESE ROMS UNLESS ON THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION" They are not going to read this. BUT they will AFTER they brick their device. Suddenly they know exactly where to look for help even though it is too late.
I get my roms from goo.im anyways, rarely do I go through XDA for that. Although I once flashed a Rom without unlocking the bootloader, and it's not like I didn't know that I had to unlock it, it's just a stupid mistake that can be easy to make, same with flashing wrong roms
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Thanks for that but if they do not read the giant capital letters in the international section stickies that say "DO NOT FLASH THESE ROMS UNLESS ON THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION" They are not going to read this. BUT they will AFTER they brick their device. Suddenly they know exactly where to look for help even though it is too late.
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Yeah i know i should have put this in the other forum jk that would be wrong forum but its just read and do your research before you flash
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I get my roms from goo.im anyways, rarely do I go through XDA for that. Although I once flashed a Rom without unlocking the bootloader, and it's not like I didn't know that I had to unlock it, it's just a stupid mistake that can be easy to make, same with flashing wrong roms
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Yeah understandable but flashing a wrong ROM can seriously mess up your phone but I mean if this problem occurs rarely then yeah you know its fine but if it occurs often then its a problem considering most of the "bricked" posts on Q/A are about people flashing wrong romz
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Yeah i know i should have put this in the other forum lol jk that would be wrong forum . some people just need to read and research before they flash
Yeah understandable but flashing a wrong ROM can seriously mess up your phone but I mean if this problem occurs rarely then yeah you know its fine but if it occurs often then its a problem considering most of the "bricked" posts on Q/A are about people flashing wrong romz
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Yeah i know i should have put this in the other forum jk that would be wrong forum but its just read and do your research before you flash
Yeah understandable but flashing a wrong ROM can seriously mess up your phone but I mean if this problem occurs rarely then yeah you know its fine but if it occurs often then its a problem considering most of the "bricked" posts on Q/A are about people flashing wrong romz
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Oh my phone was messed up lol, I had to get a new one
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Please if its been posted,tell me where and ill read it but a quick search revealed nothing. I just picked up my inspire and when I check for HTC update it shows there is one. Do I need to update before rooting? Also what changes are there as far as any major steps to flashing a Rom. Like if I want inspired ace can I just root,flash recovery and install Rom? Or does the bootloaders need to be flashed before flashing a gingerbread Rom? Sorry for the 838393 million questions but I'm a long time Samsung user lol,I know my way around rooting and flashing but I know HTC phones can be a little different
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Please if its been posted,tell me where and ill read it but a quick search revealed nothing. I just picked up my inspire and when I check for HTC update it shows there is one. Do I need to update before rooting? Also what changes are there as far as any major steps to flashing a Rom. Like if I want inspired ace can I just root,flash recovery and install Rom? Or does the bootloaders need to be flashed before flashing a gingerbread Rom? Sorry for the 838393 million questions but I'm a long time Samsung user lol,I know my way around rooting and flashing but I know HTC phones can be a little different
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No. You Do not need to update first.
Read the sticky at the top of the forum for the rest. There you will get only answers.
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No. You Do not need to update first.
Read the sticky at the top of the forum for the rest. There you will get only answers.
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hahahaha
anyway, like he said do that .. as far as the update first or not:
you can flash whatever radio you want after you are done rooting; for me i rooted before the OTA, but for wifey we did the update first.. it doesn't matter, as the info will be destroyed during the root anyway.
you cannot OTA after root from what i gather, as i was never offered the update as i was rooted
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No. You Do not need to update first.
Read the sticky at the top of the forum for the rest. There you will get only answers.
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Lol sorry for putting it like that. It's just sometimes someones question sounds like one that's been answered already,but they mean it in a different specific way. Here lately people have been a little rude about the whole "its been answered" but really I just have a hard time explaining exactly what I mean in text. I don't mind reading the stickies but sometimes it gets confusing if you are new to a device and don't know what stage the development is at lol. But thanks man,ill go read the stickies and if I have any problems ill just post back here lol. Appreciate the kind answer
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Lol sorry for putting it like that. It's just sometimes someones question sounds like one that's been answered already,but they mean it in a different specific way. Here lately people have been a little rude about the whole "its been answered" but really I just have a hard time explaining exactly what I mean in text. I don't mind reading the stickies but sometimes it gets confusing if you are new to a device and don't know what stage the development is at lol. But thanks man,ill go read the stickies and if I have any problems ill just post back here lol. Appreciate the kind answer
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Well don't take it to harshly most are just sarcastic. I mean I am just sarcastic.
What doesn't help is when you can't truly tell for sure if its a playful sarcasm or mean sarcasm. It sometimes is hard to tell considering we are talking to each other in text form. There have been some posts I've read, not by you, but others, that I couldnt particularly tell if they were being mean or just being a smart @ss just to mess with someone without offending. I just wanna say something to the ones who have meant there sarcasm in a mean way. My wife's cousin coined these 2 phrases, and I like using them a lot. "Can't we all just smoke a bong!" And, "Life's a ***** and then you die, f*** the world let's get high!" Lmao ;D
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My favorite method is to apply the OTA and then use Gingerbreak. Chainfire is a fantastic developer and I used gingerbreak to install rom manager, flash CWM, and get your flashing on.
2 basic questions. I'm running an atrix 2 right now but have been looking at this phone. I like the way Motorola runs android, and I remember having an epic 4g and I didn't like it. So obviously I don't wanna go stock, is the bootloader locked? And how good are the ROMs that have been released? Any input is greatly appreciated
A far as out community its awesome devs are nice, roms are smooth no major issues. samsungs are easy to root and UN root plus using Odin is super easy if you're soft bricked
I use nexusmod4 btw
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unlocked bootloader, and rooting is easy. Good rom support and devs are really good. No ics support as we wait for an official release, but in the mean time work is being done from scratch by jo and others in an aosp release
Sounds good, you guys respond fast too, I like it there's no way to hard brick is there? Lol happened once to me with the first atrix -.-
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There's a forum about it something about Qualcomm recovery and unable to get out without Samsung it can be jtagged for 50
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droid512 said:
There's a forum about it something about Qualcomm recovery and unable to get out without Samsung it can be jtagged for 50
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there's a forum on preventing that though right? I'm guessing it happens if you try to downgrade?
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there's a forum on preventing that though right? I'm guessing it happens if you try to downgrade?
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People here are bricking their phones by flashing ROMS for other devices or restoring a backup from a different phone that they saved, and some have checked repartition in Odin which is a big NO NO. That's what mostly is going on here for an unfortunate few. If you read and follow instructions, you'll have a pleasant time.
Edit: Don't feel bad, I bricked an Atrix the first day I got it. I did learn to read more before attempting unlocking BL and rooting.
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i had a stock rom...rooted it, then went to install one of the roms from the website here and the custom kernel...now i keep getting this lame message...detected unauthorized software please take your phone to a verizon store. what am i doing wrong here??
Are you trying to use odin or have you flashed a custom recovery, cm or twrp?
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I'm guessing you didn't use the right recovery to flash a kernel. What recovery did you use.
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This really should be in the general discussions not in development. At the leased it should be in a post in the development for the ROM you were trying.
Probably just didn't use Kexec
You didn't read the OP of whatever it was you were doing.
Time to download stock images to odin
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fredderf81 said:
i had a stock rom...rooted it, then went to install one of the roms from the website here and the custom kernel...now i keep getting this lame message...detected unauthorized software please take your phone to a verizon store. what am i doing wrong here??
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You're posting in the wrong forum, that's what you're doing.
Odin back to stock.
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geeze just help the boy out
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geeze just help the boy out
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I did.
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sid8911 said:
geeze just help the boy out
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He did. Now in the future he will post in the right forum, create a thread with useful info for other people, and not get flamed by some xda members.
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He did. Now in the future he will post in the right forum, create a thread with useful info for other people, and not get flamed by some xda members.
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Impossible. XDA has more flamers than a gay bar.
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Impossible. XDA has more flamers than a gay bar.
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I wouldn't go that far lol
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He did. Now in the future he will post in the right forum, create a thread with useful info for other people, and not get flamed by some xda members.
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Way too many d-bags on XDA. Yes, he posted in the wrong forum, now he knows and I'm sure a mod will move it. Saying it over and over again and being a d-bag while doing it, doesn't help anyone.
OP, as others have stated, you are probably best off going back to a stock rom from Odin and ensuring you have a proper recovery flashed. Then start over with whatever it was you were trying to do.
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really, what a DB (probably doesn't know the answer anyway).
I hate it when posters can't just help someone out.
wow!!!
lol wow guys, i didnt check this for a few days and honestly i will probably never post here again. i downloaded ez-recovery as i was told to do in many posts. i installed a kexec recovery...cwm 6.0.1.0. i followed the instructions in the synergy rom page and installed it through cwm. i then downloaded the Imoseyons Lean Kernel and installed it in cwm, rebooted and received the error message.
i have flashed several roms and recoveries over the years with the droid inc, droid inc2. and now the samsung. sorry to start a flame war. i will not post here again. i was simply trying to help report issues to developers.
good day.
fredderf81 said:
lol wow guys, i didnt check this for a few days and honestly i will probably never post here again. i
good day.
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Can't say I blame you....
today i accidently deleted all roms without even knowing it, when i went to flash another rom i did the wipe data and all that and when i went to choose another rom thier wasnt any now my phone just goes to the samsung screen and thats it ..how do i fix iT? and i am using a mac so i cannot download odin
can you get in to cwm recovery, if yes, then it depends where you put your rom, internal or external sdcard, copy the rom to both
So you wiped everything then didn't flash anything then tried to reboot?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
More research for you
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today i accidently deleted all roms without even knowing it, when i went to flash another rom i did the wipe data and all that and when i went to choose another rom thier wasnt any now my phone just goes to the samsung screen and thats it ..how do i fix iT? and i am using a mac so i cannot download odin
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I'd say the easiest route(if you can get it into download) might be to find a friend with a windows computer that you can borrow for a few minutes to load up odin and drop the stock rom back on it.
He still has recovery he's just a noob who lacks common sense pull battery replace battery go back to recovery Mount USB storage DL a ROM zip on your Mac place ROM on phone do wipes and flash. :banghead: derp
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Stop helping these guys they brick Cuz they jump in thinking oh I'm a [email protected] they refuse to do research the don't read the stickys they don't read the threads the warning the precautions or the troubleshooting steps then when they screw up they expect us to fix it. I say make them realize they f'd up make them sweat make them Google and read and think.
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You're not bricked; you're just having a panic attack. Get into download mode and restore stock through ODIN. And, going forward, don't try to boot a phone with no OS...
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He still has recovery he's just a noob who lacks common sense pull battery replace battery go back to recovery Mount USB storage DL a ROM zip on your Mac place ROM on phone do wipes and flash. :banghead: derp
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Stop helping these guys they brick Cuz they jump in thinking oh I'm a [email protected] they refuse to do research the don't read the stickys they don't read the threads the warning the precautions or the troubleshooting steps then when they screw up they expect us to fix it. I say make them realize they f'd up make them sweat make them Google and read and think.
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You ever hear..."If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything ? ".
I've always believed in that, but find myself going against it by posting this.
I realize some of the newer members get annoying by constantly nagging & flashing wrong things & generally messing up their phone. Then asking for help.
But what good comes from laughing at someone or flaming someone who just smoked a $400 phone ?
Seems you get pleasure from that, if so ....why are you here ?
Isn't xda all about being a community to share thoughts & ideas and generally help one another out if we get in a jam ?
I haven't been at xda as long as you...so maybe I'm way off.
And I'm in no way posting this to be a jerk...I know you've helped alot, I just don't get the bitterness towards the unfortunate .
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T.J. Bender said:
You're not bricked; you're just having a panic attack. Get into download mode and restore stock through ODIN. And, going forward, don't try to boot a phone with no OS...
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Lol T.J, did you read the op. He's on a Mac lol no odin
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Lol T.J, did you read the op. He's on a Mac lol no odin
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I'm running on two hours of sleep with a heavy dose of cold medicine. Forgive me for assuming he was like everyone else who comes in here and says "What's ODIN?" after they brick.
But, yeah, my bad for skipping the last sentence.
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I'm running on two hours of sleep with a heavy dose of cold medicine. Forgive me for assuming he was like everyone else who comes in here and says "What's ODIN?" after they brick.
But, yeah, my bad for skipping the last sentence.
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Hehe, I just teasing you
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he can just use a stock zip file if hes on nonstock recovery, no windows required that way, but me thinks the op is gone!
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So you wiped everything then didn't flash anything then tried to reboot?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
More research for you
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You're always so helpful.
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You're always so helpful.
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Because spoon feeding these kids all the answers really helps them get off your high horse xda is no longer a haven for the technical to share knowledge its now an online help desk for you clowns
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Because spoon feeding these kids all the answers really helps them get off your high horse xda is no longer a haven for the technical to share knowledge its now an online help desk for you clowns
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Hah, no need to take it so serious. I know what you're saying. I never understand how people brick their phone as often as they do.. especially from flashing roms from other phones.
Anyways, this thread shall be locked soon lol.
i fixed
thanks everyone for your guys help i fixed my phone!
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Hah, no need to take it so serious. I know what you're saying. I never understand how people brick their phone as often as they do.. especially from flashing roms from other phones.
Anyways, this thread shall be locked soon lol.
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I am serious about it because I enjoy android and its a great hobby for me but watching this place burn like it has sucks because its no longer what it used to be I used to be able to find info and learn now I see nothing but the same thing its no longer about seeing how deep the rabbit hole is. Its fix my phone cuz I don't want to learn anything
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I am serious about it because I enjoy android and its a great hobby for me but watching this place burn like it has sucks because its no longer what it used to be I used to be able to find info and learn now I see nothing but the same thing its no longer about seeing how deep the rabbit hole is. Its fix my phone cuz I don't want to learn anything
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Hard words, but truer ones were never spoken.....
Dinman said:
You ever hear..."If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything ? ".
I've always believed in that, but find myself going against it by posting this.
I realize some of the newer members get annoying by constantly nagging & flashing wrong things & generally messing up their phone. Then asking for help.
But what good comes from laughing at someone or flaming someone who just smoked a $400 phone ?
Seems you get pleasure from that, if so ....why are you here ?
Isn't xda all about being a community to share thoughts & ideas and generally help one another out if we get in a jam ?
I haven't been at xda as long as you...so maybe I'm way off.
And I'm in no way posting this to be a jerk...I know you've helped alot, I just don't get the bitterness towards the unfortunate .
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No research equals bricked phones. Let them suffer. Laziness has a price.
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I figured that I might post this to help some people as I see this posted a lot.
Are you one of the ones that tried to install a custom recovery on the MF3 update? Are you facing a never ending boot sequence or device just freezing at boot screen?
Try this to help you get a normal boot so your phone is at least usable. (Note that your factory recovery will no longer work!)
First off, do a battery pull.
After you put the battery back in (make sure it's not plugged up) go into download mode.
Click Cancel instead of continuing into download mode. Chances are your device will boot up normal. I've tried this with a device I own and also tried it on a few others (through PM and chat online).
If this works for you please let me know!
Lol I figured this out in 2 mins of owning the phone.
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You should change the title...EXTREMELY misleading...sounds more like a thread for a workaround to install a custom recovery lol
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You installed a custom recovery on the MF3?
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You should change the title...EXTREMELY misleading...sounds more like a thread for a workaround to install a custom recovery lol
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Fine I'll change it. I was just trying to help some folks that post the same things every day that you get mad at and bash around.
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Your doing fine...you just got my hopes up lol. But something a little more specific like workaround for failed recovery flash or fix mf3 bootloop or similar
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Your doing fine...you just got my hopes up lol. But something a little more specific like workaround for failed recovery flash or fix mf3 bootloop or similar
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Sounds good I'll do that now
Very sleepy lol..wasn't thinking clearly when I posted it.
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Sounds good I'll do that now
Very sleepy lol..wasn't thinking clearly when I posted it.
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Yeah it'd be good to have this info in a better titled thread than it was...and an even better titled thread than this one.
Maybe: [How To] Unbrick MF3 after (stupidly ignorantly) attempting to install a custom recovery
Anyways, it was first discovered here, as far as I can tell:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2398336
(post 11)
And there's an alternative method too, if that didn't work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2404970
Guys I'd appreciate it if you didn't spam up this topic with nonsense.
The phone is not bricked for one.
It was never publicly announced what to do one these forums that I could find.
Edit: I just read your posted topics and neither one says to do this
The questions are asked every day by people.
This post has potential to stop some messages.
Stop posting here just to get your post count up. If you don't have anything relavent to say then find another topic.
For the guys post above me thanks for adding more ways to help try to do a workaround even though you tried to undermine me here.
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no worry bro--you did good--many new folks don't know that
and, you can't please everyone
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Guys I'd appreciate it if you didn't spam up this topic with nonsense.
The phone is not bricked for one.
It was never publicly announced what to do one these forums that I could find.
Edit: I just read your posted topics and neither one says to do this
The questions are asked every day by people.
This post has potential to stop some messages.
Stop posting here just to get your post count up. If you don't have anything relavent to say then find another topic.
For the guys post above me thanks for adding more ways to help try to do a workaround even though you tried to undermine me here.
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If you're stuck in download mode and cannot get to your OS, I think that counts as a brick! Yes, btw, post 11 in the first thread I linked shows the solution which I have been telling others to do...which you did us the favor of making a post about as well. I agree that it's good to make this post, though I think your thread title could be more useful if you edited it.
Also, should this method not work for some people, an alternative method is a good thing to have.
Thanks again and have a nice day! :good:
I seem to be helping folks with the issue I have posted here in many other post. Have also had some PM's about it. Any suggestions on making this more searchable?
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I seem to be helping folks with the issue I have posted here in many other post. Have also had some PM's about it. Any suggestions on making this more searchable?
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Don't assume people are searching...
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Don't assume people are searching...
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Search? What's that. Lol
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Search? What's that. Lol
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Funny lol. Well, I tried. And failed lol. Was just trying to save some others time that keep getting so stressed about answering some of the same questions over and over.
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Funny lol. Well, I tried. And failed lol. Was just trying to save some others time that keep getting so stressed about answering some of the same questions over and over.
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I think my suggestion in post #8 is still a good one.
Your current thread title makes it sound like you tried to flash a custom recovery on MF3 and it didn't work. There's no way anyone would read that title and think there's a "How To" guide in it.
Alright maybe that will work.
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Lol I found this thread after I figured it out for myself. I was kind of hoping this would lead me into a way to get back my recovery.
This is how I fixed my brick.
Flashed this file in ODIN. Now my phone boots normally. Got it from another thread with a diff issue here on XDA. I tried it and it worked. Wish I could remember where and what the thread was called. I believe it was this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360859