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Help needed with Desire S

Had it in my pocket yesterday and it started vibrating really fast so I assume it was a call or something. Looked at it and there was loads of apps loaded up on the screen and it was just vibrating away with no incoming call.
Only way to stop it was a battery pull. Turned it back on and it went into safe mode. So turned off and on again and it took a long time to boot but did actually come on ok.
However, the screen didnt respond. So another battery pull and it just stops at the HTC logo on a white screen.
Also when it does boot the light to the left of HTC logo at the top seems lit up.
Any advice guys?

BlueArmy said:
Had it in my pocket yesterday and it started vibrating really fast so I assume it was a call or something. Looked at it and there was loads of apps loaded up on the screen and it was just vibrating away with no incoming call.
Only way to stop it was a battery pull. Turned it back on and it went into safe mode. So turned off and on again and it took a long time to boot but did actually come on ok.
However, the screen didnt respond. So another battery pull and it just stops at the HTC logo on a white screen.
Also when it does boot the light to the left of HTC logo at the top seems lit up.
Any advice guys?
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Take a look at this there some possible solutions in there

I get the device to boot after 10 mins on white screen with htc logo.
Still in safe mode. I tried adb reboot recovery but just goes to white screen with logo again.

Did you try ruu or something else inside the thread i linked?
Is your device s-off via revolutionary?

I got into recovery after waiting for a long while. But the only button to respond was the power button meaning I could only reboot.

BlueArmy said:
I got into recovery after waiting for a long while. But the only button to respond was the power button meaning I could only reboot.
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Try using adb within recovery
Swyped from my Desire S

Tectas said:
Try using adb within recovery
Swyped from my Desire S
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What you mean? I have done the adb reboot recovery numerous times but i cant navigate the menus

BlueArmy said:
What you mean? I have done the adb reboot recovery numerous times but i cant navigate the menus
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Good that means adb is working
Try the adb commands within the thread I linked
Or try to use an ruu to restore your partition table or another solution of the following link, but it's quiet strange that your volume buttons don't work or are they just not working within recovery? If they are don't also don't work within bootloader, it looks like there is more damaged than the partitions, your choice, try a ruu or another solution of the linked thread or send your device to repair for warranty (what you also can do after you have tried the other solutions)
Swyped from my Desire S

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
Swyped from my Desire S

I have managed to get it to boot with out safe mode being active. But screen isnt responding and I cant unlock the phone. Recovery still wont let me navigate the menus.
Is there any way I can return it to stock without having to navigate recovery so I can take it in for repairs?
Any way to put it back to s-on?

Sry man, but if you don't read what i'm linking there's not much hope, all possible solutions are in there, including ruu what would exactly do what you want to and not only that it also could fix your problem.
Ruu <- click on this
download the ruu for your region
Plug your device to usb
put your phone to fastboot (inside the bootloader)
Be sure that htc drivers are installed (maybe install AND uninstall htc sync [the drivers are still present])
Execute the the ruu and follow the instructions

I am about to try this, awaiting download of RUU. Although I am not sure which to use.
Mine is sim free stock from carphonewarehouse. So I am grabbing one of the HTC Euro RUU files.
Is there any way to tell which to get?
And I have read the links. Most of it doesnt work so trying the RUU

Just managed to get the buttons working. So doing a restore to see how that goes. Then will try RUU

BlueArmy said:
I am about to try this, awaiting download of RUU. Although I am not sure which to use.
Mine is sim free stock from carphonewarehouse. So I am grabbing one of the HTC Euro RUU files.
Is there any way to tell which to get?
And I have read the links. Most of it doesnt work so trying the RUU
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Will be the right one i think.
In common it depends on in which country or from which provider you bought it.
Sry, in some special cases (mostly related to alpharev/revolutionary) they don't, but for others they worked very well
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BlueArmy said:
Just managed to get the buttons working. So doing a restore to see how that goes. Then will try RUU
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Nice what was it?

Dont know how the buttons were fixed. Just rebooted and they worked. Restore didnt work.
RUU just completed and screen not responding still. Looks like dead touch screen.
Hopefully carphonewarehouse wont notice the s-off

BlueArmy said:
Dont know how the buttons were fixed. Just rebooted and they worked. Restore didnt work.
RUU just completed and screen not responding still. Looks like dead touch screen.
Hopefully carphonewarehouse wont notice the s-off
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Sad to here that , is it booting regular?

Its booting fine now. And the RUU has put s-on now.
Only problem is now there is no service on it.....

BlueArmy said:
Its booting fine now. And the RUU has put s-on now.
Only problem is now there is no service on it.....
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Which provider of which country are you using?
Is the screen now responding?

Its talkmobile uk.
Phone is not branded.

Could you choose your provider at initial setup?
Which network type are you using, is the apn set the right way?
Have you tried searching for networks within the settings?

need help with bricked phone

I just wanted to use revolutionary to root my phone, but nothing happened. After that the phone just rebooted and then turned off. Now I can't turn it on and it even doesn't charge!
help please

Your phone is not brick, can you still boot into HBOOT? Volume down key and press hold power button.
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no, it seems completely dead. Even when I connect it to the charger the charging light doesn't turn on!

did you have cwm installed on your phone already and if so what version

remove battery.. then try powering the phone.. if nothing happens.. follow this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
and if still nothing happens..then I would say that it's bricked...

william1985 said:
did you have cwm installed on your phone already and if so what version
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I don't have CWM, because the problem happened when I tried to root it!

Quakeworld said:
remove battery.. then try powering the phone.. if nothing happens.. follow this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
and if still nothing happens..then I would say that it's bricked...
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I tried another battery but it didn't work

at least someone tell me if I can return it or report it as lost phone? I am on tmobile

"make sure" there is no way to boot on then just bring back to T-mobile to get a new one; Just say "I got no cure" "whatever they asked.

kai2314 said:
"make sure" there is no way to boot on then just bring back to T-mobile to get a new one; Just say "I got no cure" "whatever they asked.
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it wont boot, is there anyway they can read any logs or something from the phone memory to see what happened?

mzangui said:
it wont boot, is there anyway they can read any logs or something from the phone memory to see what happened?
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Same happened to me (exactly) and after being advised by network provider rang HTC repairs, phone picked up next day, returned to me repaired 6 days later, no charge, hassle at all!

Phone stuck on reboot

I tried downloading the new update. It was fully charged. It finished the download bar and then a red triangle over the phone came up and rebooted. It was stuck on the black screen with the buttons lit up for about 15 min. I restared it by holding down the power button and same thing its still stuck on the black screen. ANy way to fix? I really hope I didnt brick my phone or something

FranciscoBoss said:
I tried downloading the new update. It was fully charged. It finished the download bar and then a red triangle over the phone came up and rebooted. It was stuck on the black screen with the buttons lit up for about 15 min. I restared it by holding down the power button and same thing its still stuck on the black screen. ANy way to fix? I really hope I didnt brick my phone or something
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plug it in a windowa machine
and check device manager see if you have a qbusd devicd...
if yes...then yes...
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

niceppl said:
plug it in a windowa machine
and check device manager see if you have a qbusd devicd...
if yes...then yes...
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
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I dont know what qbusd means. What do you mean by that? Im going to try and factory restore. The screen is on its just black,the buttons are lit up and the green notification light is blinking. So definately going to try a factory reset

The same thing just happened to me. How can I fix this thing?

Same thing here, downloaded the update fine but when installing got to about 0% and phone locked up with a big red x. Hard reboot got me back in but says update failed. I am rooted but not unlocked, will this affect anything (other than breaking root).

badduck43 said:
Same thing here, downloaded the update fine but when installing got to about 0% and phone locked up with a big red x. Hard reboot got me back in but says update failed. I am rooted but not unlocked, will this affect anything (other than breaking root).
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Hard reboot is where you hold the power button for ten seconds right? Because I did that like 5 times. Factory reset is my last option. Maybe I could try running the 1.85 ruu if that can be provided to me and tell me how to use it

FranciscoBoss said:
Hard reboot is where you hold the power button for ten seconds right? Because I did that like 5 times. Factory reset is my last option
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Yes, after this my phone tells me the update failed but should work as before, although for some reason my custom ringtone was gone.

badduck43 said:
Yes, after this my phone tells me the update failed but should work as before, although for some reason my custom ringtone was gone.
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Yup hard reset didn't work again. I got two options left. Run 1.85 ruu or factory reset

FranciscoBoss said:
Yup hard reset didn't work again. I got two options left. Run 1.85 ruu or factory reset
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Here is the 1.85 ruu, tell me how it goes. I'm willing to give up root for some sense enhancements, all I used it for was to remove crapware anyway.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1670238

Is there any way for me to install a stock rom? The only thing I can access is the menu by holding down the volume and power buttons. Please help.

AndroidForMe said:
Is there any way for me to install a stock rom? The only thing I can access is the menu by holding down the volume and power buttons. Please help.
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My understanding is you can download the stock 1.85 ruu and run it from your pc while your phone is connected. Should restore phone to stock. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...

badduck43 said:
My understanding is you can download the stock 1.85 ruu and run it from your pc while your phone is connected. Should restore phone to stock. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
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Can someone please verify this?

Yes. I assume that you locked the bootloader with a custom rom or recovery installed.

gunnyman said:
Yes. I assume that you locked the bootloader with a custom rom or recovery installed.
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I've been 100% stock from day one. I've made no mods to my phone.

AndroidForMe said:
I've been 100% stock from day one. I've made no mods to my phone.
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then what happened? The phone spontaneously wipe its OS?

gunnyman said:
then what happened? The phone spontaneously wipe its OS?
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I did the "search for update" last night. Downloaded the new rom fine....it was doing its thing and then the screen was on but blank. Now all it does is show the first splash screen and then the screen remains blank and the buttons light up.

AndroidForMe said:
I did the "search for update" last night. Downloaded the new rom fine....it was doing its thing and then the screen was on but blank. Now all it does is show the first splash screen and then the screen remains blank and the buttons light up.
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I see. I'm sorry I missed that part. The only thing you can do is call AT&T and get a warranty exchange.

gunnyman said:
I see. I'm sorry I missed that part. The only thing you can do is call AT&T and get a warranty exchange.
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I actually downloaded the 1.85 RUU from HTC's website, and just finished running it now. I am glad to report that my phone is working again and I am now on 1.85 again. The utility indicated that I was on 2.20.

AndroidForMe said:
I actually downloaded the 1.85 RUU from HTC's website, and just finished running it now. I am glad to report that my phone is working again and I am now on 1.85 again. The utility indicated that I was on 2.20.
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that's great. You got lucky because the update rewrite your Hboot.

FranciscoBoss said:
I tried downloading the new update. It was fully charged. It finished the download bar and then a red triangle over the phone came up and rebooted. It was stuck on the black screen with the buttons lit up for about 15 min. I restared it by holding down the power button and same thing its still stuck on the black screen. ANy way to fix? I really hope I didnt brick my phone or something
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sounds like you have bricked your phone !!! if possible you can try a hard reset, i guess it will remove the problem

[Q] Random rebooting does not stop

Hi
This is a well known issue with the nexus 5. My device permanently starts rebooting. The google Logo occurs and then it rebotos again. There is no start animation. If I press the power and volume down bottom I just see the bootloader screen and after half a second it reboots. I can't do anything.
My phone is rooted (no custom ROM) and before I go back to the shop I want to unroot it. However, with this behaviour I'm not able to do it, or is there any chance? Does someone know at least, how I can boot normaly to unroot it.
thanks for your help
crampas

majorcrampas said:
Hi
This is a well known issue with the nexus 5. My device permanently starts rebooting. The google Logo occurs and then it rebotos again. There is no start animation. If I press the power and volume down bottom I just see the bootloader screen and after half a second it reboots. I can't do anything.
My phone is rooted (no custom ROM) and before I go back to the shop I want to unroot it. However, with this behaviour I'm not able to do it, or is there any chance? Does someone know at least, how I can boot normaly to unroot it.
thanks for your help
crampas
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Hello, take a look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701

Is this really a well known issue? What were you doing directly beforehand? What have you tried to do to fix it? Have you tried using fastboot commands to reload factory images? Are you a toolkit only user? Have you tried a factory image through that?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda app-developers app

sorry, i overlooked that you cant enter fastboot.take a look here instead http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521691&page=3

kboya said:
Is this really a well known issue? What were you doing directly beforehand? What have you tried to do to fix it? Have you tried using fastboot commands to reload factory images? Are you a toolkit only user? Have you tried a factory image through that?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda app-developers app
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Well IMHO it is a well known issue (see for example the wikipedia page or just have a look in tech forums). Directly before, I was writing an SMS and put it in my pocket (everything seems fine at that moment). 10 minutes later I just want to check my SMS and then it was already rebooting all the time. This was not the first time, I had this issue 2 todays before, but after approximatley 20 reboots it started correctly.
So far I was not able to use fastboot commands, since I can't enter fastboot. I didn't use a toolkit.

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Madpiercing said:
sorry, i overlooked that you cant enter fastboot.take a look here instead http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521691&page=3
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Thanks for the link. I will check it later, 'cause I have to leave. I will write again and let you know if I'm able to enter fastboot.

majorcrampas said:
Thanks for the link. I will check it later, 'cause I have to leave. I will write again and let you know if I'm able to enter fastboot.
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no problemi, i hope you can unbrick it!

Use this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
Or you can use this toolkit (some people are not fans of these but I am):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525026
I have never heard of the issue where it was only rooted and it just randomly decides to reboot and keeps doing it for no reason at all without the user flashing something that it did not like. So are you saying that you cannot even turn the phone off it just keeps going into a bootloop and trying to enter fastboot does nothing?
I don't think this is a really well known issue.. Have not seen to many support threads about this.

mistahseller said:
Use this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
Or you can use this toolkit (some people are not fans of these but I am):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525026
I have never heard of the issue where it was only rooted and it just randomly decides to reboot and keeps doing it for no reason at all without the user flashing something that it did not like. So are you saying that you cannot even turn the phone off it just keeps going into a bootloop and trying to enter fastboot does nothing?
I don't think this is a really well known issue.. Have not seen to many support threads about this.
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If the wall charger is plugged into the phone, the nexus just starts rebooting. I see the white Google logo and after one or two seconds it reboots. Sometimes you see the boot animation (4 circles) but after a short time it restarts the phone not able get to the point where you unlock the SIM. Trying to get into fastboot mode is also not possible. The fastboot mode appears but after half a second the phone reboots again. If the nexus is not connected to a charger it repeats rebooting for about four times after that just a black screen appears. If I'm not able to get into fastboot mode I can't unroot the phone, right? So the links you shared are not useful in my case
I have the nexus now over a week and the phone worked perfectly fine the first week.
I have uploaded two films of the problem to youtube, see this link. One film is with the nexus plugged into the chrager and one where it isn't.

That is very strange.
I would definitely use Madpiercing's post and link to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521691&page=3 to try and fix it.

Madpiercing said:
no problemi, i hope you can unbrick it!
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I tried the method described in your link without success. Still the same behavior. See my last post, there I add a youtube-link where you can see what exactly happens.

Saw your video that is very strange

mistahseller said:
Saw your video that is very strange
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The very strange thing is, that it worked well over a week. the random rebooting starts two days ago, first time it starts again correctly after 5 min. Now it seems to hang in a loop.

mistahseller said:
Saw your video that is very strange
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After a while I was able to get into the fastboot mode: I plugged my nexus into the wall charger for about 1 hour. Then it booted correctly. I had plugged my nexus into the charger before (over night) without leading to the same result. It seems that it just starts working correctly as random as it crashes
Do you think it is a bug in the bootloader or that something happened while to rooting the phone?

majorcrampas said:
After a while I was able to get into the fastboot mode: I plugged my nexus into the wall charger for about 1 hour. Then it booted correctly. I had plugged my nexus into the charger before (over night) without leading to the same result. It seems that it just startes working correctly as random as it crashes
Do you think it is a bug in the bootloader or that something happend due to rooting the phone?
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It's most likely a hardware issue, bad cache memory on the cpu. I'd rma it.

jd1639 said:
It's most likely a hardware issue, bad cache memory on the cpu. I'd rma it.
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I set it up again and give it another try. If something similar should happen again, I will rma it.

majorcrampas said:
I set it up again and give it another try. If something similar should happen again, I will rma it.
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make sure you unroot and relock the bootloader and do this now while it is working.

mistahseller said:
make sure you unroot and relock the bootloader and do this now while it is working.
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And triangle away or reset the flag or whatever.
Sent from my Nexus 5

[Q] Google Nexus 5 bricked? [Resolved]

Issue resolved
Hey, I was messing with ROMs on my Google Nexus 5 trying to return it to stock as it was getting a bit bloated, and wanted to try customize it using Xposed modules, after following this tutorial: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restoreunroot-nexus-5-by-flashing-factory-images/ It seems my phone has been bricked, anyone got any idea what to do to fix the phone?

VincibleStatue4 said:
Hey, I was messing with ROMs on my Google Nexus 5 trying to return it to stock as it was getting a bit bloated, and wanted to try customize it using Xposed modules, after following this tutorial: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-restoreunroot-nexus-5-by-flashing-factory-images/ It seems my phone has been bricked, anyone got any idea what to do to fix the phone?
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Can you enter bootloader?

krystyuc said:
Can you enter bootloader?
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No, after I exited the boot loader the phone was stuck on teh booting "Google" message and that lasted about 5 mins, I tried to restart it, turned it off and now nothing will happen.

VincibleStatue4 said:
No, after I exited the boot loader the phone was stuck on teh booting "Google" message and that lasted about 5 mins, I tried to restart it, turned it off and now nothing will happen.
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I believe it's fixable
So try this.
Keep pressing power button till shut down,then try to enter bootloader by power button + volume down.

The guide you linked....if followed properly will not brick you.
Any more details? What you did exactly....errors....anything??
Did you press the power button for a very long time to see if anything happens?
Are you sure its fully charged? Any sign of life when plugged into charger....or computer???

KJ said:
The guide you linked....if followed properly will not brick you.
Any more details? What you did exactly....errors....anything??
Did you press the power button for a very long time to see if anything happens?
Are you sure its fully charged? Any sign of life when plugged into charger....or computer???
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I get a sound when plugged into the computer, I'm not sure if I extracted the right files to the platform-tools thing or whatnot, I also entered "fastboot flash boot boot.img" not sure if any of those was ment to be the name of my image.
This is what my platform-tools folder looks like.
http://i.gyazo.com/799347219207e1d45cb6ed52b9970357.png
Edit: Holding the power button for a very long time got the phone to show the "Google" logo again, I'll try and get it to boot into bootloader.
The phone is now in bootloader.

VincibleStatue4 said:
I get a sound when plugged into the computer, I'm not sure if I extracted the right files to the platform-tools thing or whatnot, I also entered "fastboot flash boot boot.img" not sure if any of those was ment to be the name of my image.
This is what my platform-tools folder looks like.
http://i.gyazo.com/799347219207e1d45cb6ed52b9970357.png
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Stop doing commands!
You can't do anything until you get your phone into bootloader!
So try again to enter it!!!
PM me with your skype and ill help fix it just don't do any more stupid things!

krystyuc said:
Stop doing commands!
You can't do anything until you get your phone into bootloader!
So try again to enter it!!!
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I only did the 1 command and the phone is now in bootloader.

VincibleStatue4 said:
I only did the 1 command and the phone is now in bootloader.
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Good,give me your skype or yahoo id and ill guide you to every process.It'll show you a easyer method.
Don't worry the phone will be fixed.
Or check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzX5XHNy8S8

krystyuc said:
Good,give me your skype or yahoo id and ill guide you to every process.It'll show you a easyer method.
Don't worry the phone will be fixed.
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I will PM you my skype now, thank you.

It's fixed no more problems.

yuhuu very helped bro