I sold my Android phone recently, which was only 3 months old and in perfect condition. However, the person I sold it to was using it for around a month without any problems. Then all of a sudden he said the phone was stuck on the Android logo/Boot up screen and does not go to the Swipe screen to unlock screen. I am assuming he has tried to root the phone or install, flash a custom ROM, but messed it up. Is it possible to find out whether or not someone has attempted (incorrectly) to root the phone or install a custom ROM, causing it to be stuck on the boot menu, by looking at the phone? Note: Power ON + Volume Up/Down is still functional on the phone. Or is there another possible reason as to why this could of happened?
Chances are the phone has been tampered with and incorrectly.
Just buy the phone back for 1/3 of the original cost informing him that he bricked it and move on. You don't need liabilities like that floating around and coming back to haunt you, or worse, shoot/stab you because they're retarded. I never sell a phone to somebody I know is too stupid to use it properly in whatever fashion they'll likely think of. Just something I found out over the years selling used items to idiots on Craigslist and having to play tech support for them later for stupid simple things.
My LG G2 stopped working last week. The screen totally went dead out of nowhere, and I went to the store and ordered a replacement. I have the new phone so everything is good, but how do I go about returning the old one? I rooted it like 2 weeks ago, how can I unroot without a working screen? The phone won't even connect as a usb device to my computer anymore (and I can't change the settings cause of the screen..).
Will verizon know it is rooted even if the screen doesn't work? I don't want to get shafted with a $500 charge just for rooting. I'm sure this has to have happened to people before so if anyone has any info I'd appreciate it.
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My LG G2 stopped working last week. The screen totally went dead out of nowhere, and I went to the store and ordered a replacement. I have the new phone so everything is good, but how do I go about returning the old one? I rooted it like 2 weeks ago, how can I unroot without a working screen? The phone won't even connect as a usb device to my computer anymore (and I can't change the settings cause of the screen..).
Will verizon know it is rooted even if the screen doesn't work? I don't want to get shafted with a $500 charge just for rooting. I'm sure this has to have happened to people before so if anyone has any info I'd appreciate it.
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Throw it in download mode and get the KDZ or whatever it's called for your device. it'll install a completely stock ROM on your device.
the last time i had to return a phone for non-functionality after i'd gained administrator access, they didn't even look at the phone before they gave me a replacement. that's what my money's on here, too, especially with a broken screen and no usb function. they probably won't even attempt to repair it, it's just not worth it. they'll try to recover the precious metals from it and be done.
no promises of course, but that's my guess.
Long story short, i dropped my phone, screen cracked but still worked, a month later screen went totally black, got screen replaced but returned to factory settings.
I have had this phone for the past year and have hundreds of photos and videos of my newborn son that i think i have lost forever.
Is there anyway to recovery this data? I honestly am like a 6 year old when it comes to this, so take it easy on me please.
the phone is a Verizon galaxy S6 with 5.1.1
Ive tried to root the phone with kingo root(admittedly not knowing what the heck im doing) but have learned they can not root 5.1.1
I am desperate, i just want these videos and photos i could care less if the phone is worthless afterwards..
let me know if you need any more info
thank you very much in advance!
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Long story short, i dropped my phone, screen cracked but still worked, a month later screen went totally black, got screen replaced but returned to factory settings.
I have had this phone for the past year and have hundreds of photos and videos of my newborn son that i think i have lost forever.
Is there anyway to recovery this data? I honestly am like a 6 year old when it comes to this, so take it easy on me please.
the phone is a Verizon galaxy S6 with 5.1.1
Ive tried to root the phone with kingo root(admittedly not knowing what the heck im doing) but have learned they can not root 5.1.1
I am desperate, i just want these videos and photos i could care less if the phone is worthless afterwards..
let me know if you need any more info
thank you very much in advance!
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If it returned to factory settings then no you cant unless you had google photos backup on which you should since its free.
Check the google photos app and see if you had it on maybe without realizing it. It'll have backed up all your photos to the cloud
So, long story short, I just got off the phone with Samsung and Verizon and basically I'm looking at a turn around time of 3 weeks to have my phone sent to Samsung because some how my samsung account got unlinked with my phone. I went to do a factory reset today, not knowing this had happened, and now I'm completely locked out of my phone. The reactivation lock is preventing me from doing anything because my account and my phone aren't linked anymore. If anyone has any sort of workaround or knowledge of the verizon store being able to give me a loaner phone or whatever it would be greatly appreciated. I'm panicking pretty hard at the moment. I can't be without a phone for that long.
I have the same problem, I'm going to try to flash stock kitkat and use one of the working methods form there. Samsung's method is beyond flawed, they somehow don't seem to have the capacity to take care of this issue remotely and my phone is way out of warranty so no way am I paying them anything to fix this.
I have had extremely bad luck and all sorts of dramas including frying the mainboard of my T-865 while attempting to flash TWRP on my way to get it rooted. I will get my tablet back a few days later after paying 550 bucks for the repair on top of the purchase price of the tablet itself 10 days ago (of course of out warranty since I unlocked the bootloader and tried to install "unauthorized software" according to their warranty terms)
My simple question now is, is there is a way to get the T-865 rooted without having to install a custom recovery (which under no circumstances I will attempt again)? All I need is root, nothing else.
Thanks for the advice
@VeEuzUKY may I ask how your motherboard got fried?
Did you follow the steps mentioned in this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s6/development/recovery-twrp-3-3-1-t3975587?
Usually if something goes wrong while attempting root, Odin flashing stock rom will bring back the device to working condition..
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@VeEuzUKY may I ask how your motherboard got fried?
Did you follow the steps mentioned in this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s6/development/recovery-twrp-3-3-1-t3975587?
Usually if something goes wrong while attempting root, Odin flashing stock rom will bring back the device to working condition..
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Dearest jaidev.s.. it's quite of a long story (and a surprising one at that) as I have been flashing, testing and even helping build several custom ROMs for Samsung deviced in the past 12 years without ever getting stuck in a truly unforeseen situation.
To make a very long story short, after doing all my homework through all the available threads and feedback I could find on the matter, I ventured to unlock the bootloader, install TWRP custom recovery, required custom kernel and magisc root files for my T865. And yes, I followed precisely the available guides on it from our community. Things all went pretty much as planned and I eventually booted into a successful fully rooted session on my tablet. I tested all of the tablet's native apps and functionality, installed Root Explorer and a few other apps that I had backed-up APKs for. My session was about 30 minutes long, I never connect to any data in stayed always offline, after which I decided to reboot the tablet. And then, meltdown.
The tablet immediately refused to restart again, completely bypassing the initial standard Samsung splash screen, and going directly into a warning screen that it had been locked due to the "installation of unauthorised software". From that point on any attempt to get the tablet from that state or to simply flash the stock firmware, failed completely. With the help of some other developers we all ventured together if my firmware was actually from another region, all of which I tried without any success. Eventually the tablet got stuck in a state that would not even turn off anymore even if I forced it via the volume down and power button commands. I eventually just waited out until the battery exhausted itself and then that was that.
Upon taking it to Samsung for repair where within seconds they realised that I had unlocked the bootloader and had tried to install a custom recovery, they came back about half an hour later explaining me that the hardware itself would not read or write any data any more despite their efforts, for which they would have to replace the mainboard.
I am yet to try and understand how the the tablet stopped functioning upon a reboot when up to that point everything had been flashed correctly and I had managed to do a session with everything properly configured. This said, I'm facing a $550 repair to what was an $800 tablet purchased just 10 days ago. I will obviously now not venture to try to install custom recovery again. I believe my tablet might have been a one-off with some sort of a preexisting hardware glitch that got ignited by the custom flashing that I did.. I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. At this point as I am about to collect the repaired tablet in a couple of days, the only thing I am interested in doing (a must for me on any device) is to achieve root and let it be. I don't want custom recoveries, kernel overrides or anything else other than having root. Thus my search on what will be be the best venue I have how to get the tablet safely rooted without messing with TWRP again or trying to mod the bootloader. And that's pretty much it..
And let me state, I have received nothing other than truly overwhelming support and help from lots of members of the community on my particular case for which I am extremely thankful and appreciative.
PS - I also have a Note 10 plus, recently purchased to finally replace my daily driver Note 8 that I've had for almost 3 years. Needless to say that I am absolutely dreading about the thought of installing a custom recovery on it as well and achieving root, and having again any kind of bad luck to get myself stuck in another nightmare again. I will first deal with the tablet, and if that eventually goes well, I will try to gain the necessary courage to get myself to flash TWRP and root on it without destroying it next. More than 12 years doing these things with nothing but success on dozens of devices, and suddenly here I am.
Part of me is wondering if Knox's eFuse tripping could have been the reason the board got fired? Perhaps a fault in that. Can't see any other reason reason why modifying software would cause a catastrophic hardware failure.
Anyway, as far as I'm aware the only other way to achieve root is to patch your stock OS in Magisk, then flash the modified file as detailed in this thread...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-10+/how-to/guide-how-to-root-note-10-t3960031
Which is originally linked from This Thread
I've not tried it myself and it's a process from before TWRP was developed for the Tab S6 - So, you should do further research on it before jumping in to ensure nothing has changed.
Precisely why I am not installing twrp. The threads pages are having so many varied info and people getting bricks following steps, i feel discouraged to try root.
Tab s6 gonna be my first phone in 10 years that m gonna not root. I am using android since éclair and rooting.
"Samsung splash screen, and going directly into a warning screen that it had been locked due to the "installation of unauthorised software". From that point on any attempt to get the tablet from that state or to simply flash the stock firmware, failed completely. "
I had the same experience. I installed everything and rebooted to see this. Was only annoyed that oem unlock won't be an available instantly but it was. I went to download mode flashed stock, installed twrp again and it was fine. If you couldn't go to download mode (with cable inserted into pc! I assume you must know it because you flahed it, thie was another new idiotic introductement by gnus, i thought i have broken tablet because i couldn't get into download mode, when i found out cable must be in not mentioned anywhere in the instructions, just like we must know it, when it never in the universe been the case) then it's weird bug. Because what you are describing sound like standard behavior for these tablets, but why you couldn't get out of it right away i don't kno, because i could. Moreover i had the same on s9 snap. On s9 i also has issues when oem unlock will never appear, until i run some command checking it status and it got instantly unlocked. I shared it tp developer but he only laughed. When i knio there is nothing to laugh, sung's firmware has millions of such unexplainelable behaviors, a lot of people are faced with it. If you had another tablet and got the same result then just pick up non tgy one and it will be good, i promise. Also who knows why you want note 10 and t s6
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"Samsung splash screen, and going directly into a warning screen that it had been locked due to the "installation of unauthorised software". From that point on any attempt to get the tablet from that state or to simply flash the stock firmware, failed completely. "
I had the same experience. I installed everything and rebooted to see this. Was only annoyed that oem unlock won't be an available instantly but it was. I went to download mode flashed stock, installed twrp again and it was fine. If you couldn't go to download mode (with cable inserted into pc! I assume you must know it because you flahed it, thie was another new idiotic introductement by gnus, i thought i have broken tablet because i couldn't get into download mode, when i found out cable must be in not mentioned anywhere in the instructions, just like we must know it, when it never in the universe been the case) then it's weird bug. Because what you are describing sound like standard behavior for these tablets, but why you couldn't get out of it right away i don't kno, because i could. Moreover i had the same on s9 snap. On s9 i also has issues when oem unlock will never appear, until i run some command checking it status and it got instantly unlocked. I shared it tp developer but he only laughed. When i knio there is nothing to laugh, sung's firmware has millions of such unexplainelable behaviors, a lot of people are faced with it. If you had another tablet and got the same result then just pick up non tgy one and it will be good, i promise. Also who knows why you want note 10 and t s6
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Thanks for all the info. The Note 10+ is my girlfriend's phone. I use sometimes as well when I don't feel like holding the tablet. The Galaxy A 8" with S-Pen is the perfect device.. not too small, not too big and has the pen. Unfortunately stupid Samsung decided to make it ridiculously low-end with atrocious specs, can't use it for any productivity.
VeEuzUKY said:
Thanks for all the info. The Note 10+ is my girlfriend's phone. I use sometimes as well when I don't feel like holding the tablet. The Galaxy A 8" with S-Pen is the perfect device.. not too small, not too big and has the pen. Unfortunately stupid Samsung decided to make it ridiculously low-end with atrocious specs, can't use it for any productivity.
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and now Samsung has 11 and 12 inch tablet versions for the s7...lol (next thing will be maybe a 14 inch or 17 inch 'tablet') 8 to 8.9 is the right size for a tablet. Anything bigger is basically looking at an old-school tv screen from the '70s or '80s just 6 inches or so away from your eyes with your entire face lit up by the screen lol
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and now Samsung has 11 and 12 inch tablet versions for the s7...lol (next thing will be maybe a 14 inch or 17 inch 'tablet') 8 to 8.9 is the right size for a tablet. Anything bigger is basically looking at an old-school tv screen from the '70s or '80s just 6 inches or so away from your eyes with your entire face lit up by the screen lol
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Haha, I absolutely agree with you
I'd love a 17" Tablet. Lol. Personally, I don't like any Tablet less than 10" - If I want something small, I'll use my phone.
@VeEuzUKY did you get your Tab rooted?