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I rooted my phone using gingerbreak and like a wiseazz, loaded a custom recovery image of "recovery-RA-GNM-thunderg-1.2". Although the costom recovery loaded fine, I am stuck with a phone which has only blue and green colors. I loaded one of the custom 2.3 ROMs by Andy and it loaded fine, but still the graphic display is all messed up, only green an blue and some other tinges. When I look at the About phone I see that it says the model number as LG P500 , although mine is LG P506. Any help people??
My wife will kill me. Its her phone!!
why would you flash a P500 ROM to a P506 ? did you make a backup ?
I made a backup of the ROM, but I did not backup the recovery.img.
Can I try NAND restore of the old ROM. I have my doubts if that would work, because as soon as I put the custom recovery in it. It started getting messy colors. But I will try. If any one else has any pointers please let me know.
Also, I ready in one of these posts that Thrive and Phoenix are just variants of Optimus One, architecturally same. Bad decision
Ok. An update. I did a Nandroid backup and I have the ROM which came with the phone. It sucks. But I guess I will have to wait till one of the brainys in here come up with a good "Custom Recovery" and "Custom ROM" for LG Thrive.
I have a LG Optimus T and the LG p500 roms work fine with no problems. I would of expected the same for the att version. I guess you have to wait for one that supports it.
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More bad news. I thought if I can mix and match boot.img of LG506 with the system.img of P500, I can get away by loading the Custom ROM.
Bad Bad Bad decision. Right now, its in a bricked stage. Basically stuck in something called..fastBoot udc_start()...
Its not getting to recovery mode whatever I do. I wanted to get to recovery so I can restore NAND backup. I can even get to adb so I can start in recovery....
Somebody help please
Can anyone help me. I tried all possible routes to unbrick my phone. It keeps getting wosre and worse. Right now its stuck in "Emergency Mode". I have the NAND backup file with system.img and boot.img, but cant do anything with it since no ADP or customer recovery. I tried to do a KDZ update, but I think i need the v11e_00.kdz file for P506. Can anyone give me some pointers to recver my phone.
I have a thrive as well and I get the weird blue green screen using the unofficial cm7 rom from the optimus dev section. Luckily I back up the phone with rom manager first so now im back to where I started.
edit: Well after your post I decided to try it again... mistake. Now im stuck at the cm7 logo and im not really sure how to fix it...
edit 2: cant load recovery either... ****
I have tried out the custom roms and i get the strange color problem too. It's strange how the cell phone board is P500 but the model is P506. The phone must be different somehow hardware wise. Hmm....
Ok. An update.
I bricked my phone trying to experiment. I sent it out to LG repair and they put in the stock ROM and sent back. I will not be continuing my experiments again
Can any big hearted rooters help the LG thrive owners please..
Do experiments but cautiously
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I have a similar problem with my phone now. I flashed rom and now my phone gets stuck on boot screen. I can get to recovery. But my backups not there for sum reason.
Edit: I found what was supposed to be tha stock rom for my phone but didnt work. Gets stuck after lg screen goes away. It will go to recovery. Does anyone have a copy of a nand
Backup for a P506 thrive?
I've managed to get myself in the same situation would you happen to recall the LG number you called or have a lead on who I can contact at LG. I will continue to search also. Thanks in advance.
Ok wow. You need to go to WWW.androidcentral.com once there go to the Phoenix/ thrive thread. We have a custom kernel made by joban to run the p500 roms without the color issue. Also have how to threads for rooting, CWM, and flashing.
Running oxygen v1.1 w/ joban kernel,cwm on my LG Phoenix. And its awesome. Fast, great battery
Don't forget to hit the thanks button!
Sorry that it took me forever to get back to this, but just one question. Are the kernels for the Phoenix and Thrive exactly the same?
No issues that i can recall being specific to the kernel.
Question: I have rooted the phone and installed ROM Manager. Set up Rom Manager as Optimus One. Here is the issue: I am able to reboot normally and keep root. But when I select to reboot into recovery from ROM Manager, the phone does a default setup and I'm back to factory default. When I try to get into recovery by using the PWR+Home+Vol up (and vol down at times), I get into fastboot with "udc_start()". Which I'm guessing is normal. What am I missing to get into recovery?
Thanks.
Assuming you have a thrive. You may want to check this out.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-lg-phoenix-thrive/138186-how-clock-workrecovery-mod-cwm-6.html
There appears to be a hickup with thrive and CWM.
lg thrive p506 EMERGENCY MODE!
my lg thrive come on and immediately goes into emergency mode. i have been searching for about two weeks for anything that will help me in xda forums, and youtube and phandroid. i cant find anything that conclusively brings the phone out of emergency mode. can anyone direct me to a program or forum that might be of assistance?
need more info. are you on stock unrooted, just rooted, or rooted with custom recovery and rom?
what were you doing when this happened?
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try this and let me know what you get. hold at same time Home+vol down+power.
Reading the boards I've noticed quite a few people who have possibly bricked their phones by using this horrendous piece of garbage. Leave it to LG. Regardless, I would strongly recommend against using it and either waiting for an OTA update or using xboarder's flashable, rooted update here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179748 .
As far as I can tell, no one has been able to fix the s/w updater issue, which is leaving phones either with no recovery or unable to boot past recovery/restore ROMs.
This isn't the first time either. Just google "LG Software update bricking phones".
Oh wait, I did: http://www.google.com/search?source...gc.r_pw.&fp=79f73547dc11dcbf&biw=1366&bih=667
For those of you who possibly bricked your phones; hang on, I'm sure some of the great minds on this board will come up with a fix. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them.
ALSO! For those of you who don't know this already -- you MUST restore the stock recovery BEFORE trying to upgrade. That's also been causing problems. Just use NVFlash to restore the stock recovery, THEN upgrade using LG software if you must.
The stock camera app doesn't focus as quickly or have nearly as good quality (unacceptable quality IMO) as the LG app. I use my camera frequently and would not have updated if I knew it would be gone (reason why I didn't flash CM7).
Does anyone know of a way to restore to stock? I installed Nvflash at one point or another...
I was stock rooted and update killed that. No more root. But phone works great so far.
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Update: I was able to restore Clockwork Mod (or had it from before, didnt check) with NVFlash. Then restored one of my NANDroid backups from before.
Bye bye ****ty LG gingerbread update.
I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
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I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
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It come back, I brick it the same way, once's before, if you didn't root, hold the power button and volume up at the same time, or if you did root, uses NVflash or clockwork to recover. And don't recommend using a 64bit OS for any type of programming or flashing, just install VMware player, it uses your CPU virtualization to run a different OS, while in your host OS and it's free, that allow you to run XP on a virtual partition, and use USB devies from host machine. The nice thing is if you mess something up, it won't effect the rest of the machine, and you can run the 32bit XP version of the tool.
Works great on mine. I backed up, used tga gunmans stock restore, replaced with stock recovery, unrooted using super one click. rebooted, installed the update, reflashed to custom recovery with tga gunmans app and installed the rooted version from xboarder56. Time consuming would be my only complaint and I love screwing with this thing so who cares.
Yes, my phone is too bricked by this app. Did any of you that are now bricked get to 4% after the download and during the update process, then windows popped up a dialog and claimed the app was no longer responding? this is what happened to me and boom, now i can't get back. I even tried doing the nandroid restore of the stock rom from CWM. Still can't get out of the S/W updater screen. Is there anyway to reflash the bootloader? I did try a live chat with a LG tech and he wanted me to do a hard reset. which is basicly holding down the vol-down and power button. so i did a nvflash back to stock recovery and tried it. It showed the box and android screen but then rebooted back to the S/W updater screen. So I called Tmobile and they won't do a replacement since i used LG's app. Said I HAD to go through LG to either fix or replace the phone. Called LG and have a RA# to send it in. Unfortunatly I have to pay for shipping there and it could take about a week to get it back. This really blows.
MuzzRock said:
I will agree with you. My phone is now bricked. Stuck on the S/W screen with no sign of ever getting it back. I was stock non rooted. And yes I did it on a win 7 64bit machine. Damn you LG and your ****ty updater.
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Mine worked fine on a 64bit windows 7 machine. I have not had no issues at all. The update is great (I think). The only problem I have is that the camera on the update sucks.
Here's an APK for the stock camera, but I haven't tried it on the update yet because I'm waiting for my phone to restore. Feel free to be a guinea pig
http://www.mediafire.com/?p9aiay5zofq5c1m
pvtodorov said:
The stock camera app doesn't focus as quickly or have nearly as good quality (unacceptable quality IMO) as the LG app. I use my camera frequently and would not have updated if I knew it would be gone (reason why I didn't flash CM7).
Does anyone know of a way to restore to stock? I installed Nvflash at one point or another...
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maybe you should have waited all of 30 minutes from when it came out for someone to say that it was the vanilla android camera app? either way, just flash your recovery again and just restore a stock nandroid...
I didnt have any problems on win7 64bit installing via the update tool... follow the freaking directions and stop getting so antsy and messing with things... mine was stuck on the S/W screen for a bit but all i had to do was unplug pull the battery and put it back in and plug back in and the update kept going...
deanp0219 said:
Here's an APK for the stock camera, but I haven't tried it on the update yet because I'm waiting for my phone to restore. Feel free to be a guinea pig
http://www.mediafire.com/?p9aiay5zofq5c1m
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stock camera does not work. try it already. thanks though.
i tried the LG updater on my win7 machine. let it sit @ 5% for 48mins.
then i tried the KDZ on the win7 machine, it crashed.
got out an old laptop w/ winXP SP3 - tried the KDZ method a few times, the final time it gave me model dll msg not found error 100 times, after that it rebooted the phone into gingerbread.
do it the KDZ method on a winxp computer before you mail these phones! i tried for 2 hrs and finally got it working!
edit: my phone was rooted & stock (no nvflash installed)
JHaste said:
maybe you should have waited all of 30 minutes from when it came out for someone to say that it was the vanilla android camera app? either way, just flash your recovery again and just restore a stock nandroid...
I didnt have any problems on win7 64bit installing via the update tool... follow the freaking directions and stop getting so antsy and messing with things... mine was stuck on the S/W screen for a bit but all i had to do was unplug pull the battery and put it back in and plug back in and the update kept going...
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just because you had no issues doesn't mean others aren't. relax dude. i'm very adept at upgrading/modifying,recovering what seem to be bricked phones. much experience with haykuro's 1.33 death spl. but my win 7 64 bit machine would not install the update. NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I UNPLUGGED ETC. it was stuck on s/w upgrade. i nvflashed recoveries,did nandroid backups. tried everything i know of. different cables/ports....nothing worked. until i installed xp on a spare partition. finally kdx worked on the first try,even after the lg update tool failed on xp.
No one has bricked their phones. NVFlash and your back to life. Mine wouldn't even power on... No display... No boot logo... Nothing.
NVFlash and your good.
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player911 said:
No one has bricked their phones. NVFlash and your back to life. Mine wouldn't even power on... No display... No boot logo... Nothing.
NVFlash and your good.
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my point exactly... nobody really understands what bricking is... the definition of a brick means its literally nothing more than a paperweight... it is IMPOSSIBLE do anything to get it to work because the phone will not respond to anything... the fact that its on the S/W screen means it has life yet and as already pointed out just use NVFlash to breathe life into it...
Mine worked fine on the update with XP Pro
JHaste said:
my point exactly... nobody really understands what bricking is... the definition of a brick means its literally nothing more than a paperweight... it is IMPOSSIBLE do anything to get it to work because the phone will not respond to anything... the fact that its on the S/W screen means it has life yet and as already pointed out just use NVFlash to breathe life into it...
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How? I have NV flasher and tried to flash to stock and it still sits on the s/w update screen. Please if you know what to do, feel free to pm me or respond here. I am at a loss as to what to do.
chrisdepew said:
How? I have NV flasher and tried to flash to stock and it still sits on the s/w update screen. Please if you know what to do, feel free to pm me or respond here. I am at a loss as to what to do.
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Take your sd card and hook it to your computer. Create a folder named "clockworkmod". Open that folder and create a folder named "backup". Place TGA Gunman's stock recovery in the folder.On your phone hold down the volume down and start button at the same time. You will then see a new screen, release the buttons. Go to "backup and restore". You navigate using the volume up and down buttons and select with the power button. Choose the back up that you will see there. When it is finished navigate back and choose "wipe data-factory reset". Reboot. Power on and you are back to the day you purchased it. Or download a ROM from the developers section. I liked "Ultimate ROM". Then choose "install zip from sdcard. You are now better than when you purchased it.
i been seeing a lot of threats online when people flashed the 2x rom to the g2x and get the phone to boot up
they say everything works and the phone gets the lg ui
well they say that it also flashed the baseband and your phone wont work with t-mobile usa bands. does that means your phone is bricked?
i just wanted to know if y'all figure out how to flashed the g2x baseband back to it
and if this the case why our devs havent customized a 2x rom with the g2x baseband?
i'm just asking because i'm curious, and i willing to test it on my phone.
when i got my phone i almost accidently a 2x rom to my g2x cause i got confuse on the forums
gypsy214 said:
i been seeing a lot of threats online when people flashed the 2x rom to the g2x and get the phone to boot up
they say everything works and the phone gets the lg ui
well they say that it also flashed the baseband and your phone wont work with t-mobile usa bands. does that means your phone is bricked?
i just wanted to know if y'all figure out how to flashed the g2x baseband back to it
and if this the case why our devs havent customized a 2x rom with the g2x baseband?
i'm just asking because i'm curious, and i willing to test it on my phone.
when i got my phone i almost accidentally a 2x rom to my g2x cause i got confuse on the forums
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There is NO WAY to flash a G2X baseband outside of the LG Updater or KDX process, so if you mess with it it is bricked (unless the KDX tool would work after-the-fact).
gaww said:
There is NO WAY to flash a G2X baseband outside of the LG Updater or KDX process, so if you mess with it it is bricked (unless the KDX tool would work after-the-fact).
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not even restoring a nandroid back up would help?
No
your options if they work are
a.LG updater tool
b.KDZ method
both can flash the original/newer basebands to your device.
or c. Return to LG and get a replacement.
Everybody out there is asking, how to unbrick this, how to unbrick that? Or if you're in the Evo 3D thread, how do I brick my Evo 3D?
What I'd like to know is, why, or how does a phone get bricked? If you have a USB with corrupted files, you can just totally wipe it and start fresh. If there's no hardware troubles, why isn't there a way to just do a wipe of everything and start fresh?
And also, how is it that a phone gets bricked in the first place? I've heard about things with Emmc boot, getting stuck there, wiping bootloader, etc. But I've flashed multiple different bootloaders, and you have to dabble with Emmc boot while getting S-OFF, so why is it impossible to get out of these if you get stuck in them? Isn't it just software holding you back?
Honestly, if you really just wanted, couldn't you just use an ultra powerful magnet to the NAND Memory to ultra wipe everything? I mean phones aren't assembled with bootloaders or any data in them, in a sense they're factory bricked when they're first created... no?
Ah well, I suppose that's all.
Hungry for information,
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Phones get bricked when you go somewhere in the software that you can't get out of,or you edit the software wrongly, so it doesn't work right anymore. Of course,you could always break something,and kill your phone.
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But why is it you can't do a total erase and obliterate every trace of memory from the phone and re-write it? I know the on board memory in a phone doesn't come pre programmed with memory...
thebeastglasser said:
But why is it you can't do a total erase and obliterate every trace of memory from the phone and re-write it? I know the on board memory in a phone doesn't come pre programmed with memory...
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No but things like the eMMC chip DO come pre-programmed. If you simply wiped every trace of memory from any phone then it would have no idea how to boot up, how to interface to the USB, how to do anything.
Most of the time a 'Bricked' phone is actually caused by someone not reading properly first and not following the instructions correctly, or by thinking they know better than everyone else and can skip a step or take a shortcut.
On the HTC Desire S there was a problem with the eMMC chips 'frying' - normally caused by people who insisted on pulling their batteries after a lock-up and then re-inserting them quickly before the circuitry had discharged fully
The reasons why phones get bricked :
-Because of a nooby brain
-Corrupted ROM that is not Welly built
-Flashing wrong updates, kernels, ROMS...
-Messing up build.prop
.....many numerous other reasons.
You will understand what bricking means only when you brick your beloved phone
That moment is just like a Mini-Heart attack.
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No trust me, I semi bricked my old E4G for Sprint as well as my Transformer Prime and was stuck in fastboot with my Evo 3D... trust me, I'm kind of the definition of mini heart attack...
But why can't you get out of a "hard brick?" And what is it that defines a hard brick that makes it so that you can't do anything else?
EDIT: And does abhardbbrock have to be a hardware error? Or can it be a software error?
EDIT2: Although I suppose I already knew it could be a software error... It can happen easily while getting S-OFF on the EVO 3D.
Probably the most obvious case of "hard brick" is when you can't even start the phone, or open the bootloader, which means that there is no way to reverse the situation as you can't get access. Not sure what's the actual reason these things happen though.
thebeastglasser said:
No trust me, I semi bricked my old E4G for Sprint as well as my Transformer Prime and was stuck in fastboot with my Evo 3D... trust me, I'm kind of the definition of mini heart attack...
But why can't you get out of a "hard brick?" And what is it that defines a hard brick that makes it so that you can't do anything else?
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Most of the time a hard brick is the result of a part of memory getting wiped that you don't have access to flash to e.g emmc chip,if it gets damaged you can't just flash it as its preprogrammed
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zacthespack said:
Most of the time a hard brick is the result of a part of memory getting wiped that you don't have access to flash to e.g emmc chip,if it gets damaged you can't just flash it as its preprogrammed
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ALRIGHT, now that makes sense. Thank you for clarifying. I salute you sir.
Yup, when a device is hard bricked, memory that contains drivers for the boot sequence has been erased or corrupted. Thus, the device quite literally doesn't know how to boot. Data has been erased that can only be manipulated during hardware assembly.
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DD-Ripper said:
The reasons why phones get bricked :
-Because of a nooby brain
-Corrupted ROM that is not Welly built
-Flashing wrong updates, kernels, ROMS...
-Messing up build.prop
.....many numerous other reasons.
You will understand what bricking means only when you brick your beloved phone
That moment is just like a Mini-Heart attack.
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if im using goo manager and check for updates,, does that automatically show me the updates for my phone {verizon s3} and my rom or are they for every phone???
Micromax a76
i have successfully changed my recovery , then i booted my phone with custom UI from zip file... it worked ... then i made factory reset ... my phone stucked in boot loop ... i tried to get into my recovery mode but its not working , phone is going in default factory mode which is in chineese i translated it but it consist of option of testing hardware only .... what to do? how can i get into recovery mode ? is there a way to install custom recovery via USB ? micromax A76
AbleAmazing said:
Yup, when a device is hard bricked, memory that contains drivers for the boot sequence has been erased or corrupted. Thus, the device quite literally doesn't know how to boot. Data has been erased that can only be manipulated during hardware assembly.
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it was built and programmed this way, probably so people won't root their phone its a win win cause you don't get to change what you get and if you do and **** this up its your fault and you need to buy a new one(from them) cause who will stay without a phone now days?
Welp, my phone got hard bricked for no reason... I just tried to turn it on, but I get nothing but a LED flash... and that's only if it is charging. My phone is a Moto G, and I have had no problems with it until recently... I can't even get the files to show on my chromebook... I am screwed, aren't I?
So... why can't you just change those little parts to working one that are preprogrammed and why aren't phones made like PC??? You do some s*** with OS... just reinstall it
How to repair soft bricked android?
Okay so first of all I will let you know why a phone gets bricked-
>Corrupted Rom
>Some system files got deleted
>Rooting
>Modding
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I always keep two phones with me like one for my experiments and one as a backup. In this case I'll be talking about my LYF WIND 3 that got bricked.
>Actually I was trying to install TWRP onto that phone but first I had to root it, and due to the upgraded android security, I wasn't able to do via KingoRoot so I tried I-ROOT and it did the job but instead of kingo-superuser I got some ****ty superuser so i tried granting permission to the actual SUPERUSER and while doing so I accidentally double rooted my phone (First with I-ROOT and then with KingoRoot), which was kinda stupid, so it just deleted some system files and my phone wouldn't boot after that. It just got stuck on the boot logo.
>The second time I was trying to replace the boot animation and logo but did something wrong so the same situation arose again.
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So my phone uses a Qualcomm CPU so i just guessed I'll flash it again.
*After Intense Googling*
I found this software QFIL (Qualcomm Flash Image Loader)
I downloaded this file and the drivers for my device. *Google it you'll find for yours too*
Then I downloaded the Stock Rom for my device *Google it again*
Now I just went over to Flat Build in that software and loaded the firehose file and the rawprogram.0 and Patch.0
Now I had just put my device in Download Mode (Volume Keys and Power Key)
Connected via USB and it detected it and then just clicked on DOWNLOAD
It takes about 5 minutes.
After this your phone gets good as new (Unroot, Full Reset)
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Hey, I'm kinda new to this, but uh, I have a LG730 (Venice) And I want to flash cyanogen to my phone but I honestly have no idea what I need to use... When I first rooted I was new and dumb, so as a idiot I just immediately tried putting in on my phone and I used Rom Manager.... Bad choice either way but, as I was saying it didn't have my phone listed, but it had the LG Optimus L7 Which is the LG Venice but not LG730 the Optimus was like P700 I think? And I used that and I downloaded Cyanogen from Rom Manager and booted into Clockwork mod and it gave me a screen as soon as it booted that I had to wait because it was downloading and it also said not to disconnect the cable but I didn't have a cable in it? So i tried booting into recovery but, no luck. So I then realized I messed up and bricked my phone, I was nervous knowing that I couldn't simply send it back since it was rooted so that voids the warranty, it was out of the question, so I looked it up and I got lucky and reinstalled my stock rom and drivers so I rooted again and it's back to normal now but, I do want to Flash Cyanogen mod onto my phone so if you guys could help me out here it would be appreciated :angel: