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hi all, so i flashed the new SFR today, i have odined and flashed and rooted several times so i have a good background with this stuff..
I decided to odin the EE03 modem.
odin hung on modem.bin, so i pulled the battery and i was going to try again. I cant start my phone now. it gives this image of a phone then an "!" then the computer.
i am now trying to odin the full ec05 tar to start over, and its not working. it hangs on factoryfs.rfs and the screen turns a single color. the first time it was red, then next try was blue, next try was grey, next try was totally black.
PLEASE HELP!
DrKaotica said:
hi all, so i flashed the new SFR today, i have odined and flashed and rooted several times so i have a good background with this stuff..
I decided to odin the EE03 modem.
odin hung on modem.bin, so i pulled the battery and i was going to try again. I cant start my phone now. it gives this image of a phone then an "!" then the computer.
i am now trying to odin the full ec05 tar to start over, and its not working. it hangs on factoryfs.rfs and the screen turns a single color. the first time it was red, then next try was blue, next try was grey, next try was totally black.
PLEASE HELP!
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Sounds like you are sponged. Try a different cable, try a different port. Try checking repartition and put the Victory pit in. As long as you can get to download mode you are not bricked. There is hope. Have you used that tar before? Does it have an .md5 extension? If so remove it. You may try to redownload the tar. What version of Odin are you using?
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Sounds like you are sponged. Try a different cable, try a different port. Try checking repartition and put the Victory pit in. As long as you can get to download mode you are not bricked. There is hope. Have you used that tar before? Does it have an .md5 extension? If so remove it. You may try to redownload the tar. What version of Odin are you using?
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i am afraid you might be right. my other two cables are not readily available, but i used the one i ALWAYS have used to odin. my main comp is a mac and restored an older XP laptop for the specific purpose of using odin, it only has one USB port (weird I know), but again, i've always used this, probably odined my phone atleast 15 times since i got it. I did check repartition every time i tried. I always use the victory pit. yeah i have several TARs saved on that computer, DI18, EB13, EC05, again i have used all these TARs before as they are old saves from when that respective build was current (i tried them all). I am not at my computer but its odin v1.61? does that sound right, it should be the current version.
I talked to my sprint rep friend, they have a different software package they use that is used like odin would be, so i might stop in and try that. beyond that i have never seen anything like this before.
it hangs on factoryfs.rfs for a few minutes (not unusual especially when coming from a EXT4 rom) then the screen on the phone turns a random solid color. Very, VERY uncool.
i am leaving the battery out to discharge anything left in the phone. I will probably try again tomorrow after work.
anyone else experienced this before??
Try the (non?)-imagionary button that I have.
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Hay dude search video on YouTube make jig or buy at some site that work if you brick your phone if you phone not get in download mode just contact cable with computer and open Odin if port found just run original rom. It sutbe work I did my many time
badboysllll said:
Hay dude search video on YouTube make jig or buy at some site that work if you brick your phone if you phone not get in download mode just contact cable with computer and open Odin if port found just run original rom. It sutbe work I did my many time
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He is experienced. He odin-bricked.
Did the news get around about a guy named butcher pete?
marcusant said:
He is experienced. He odin-bricked.
Did the news get around about a guy named butcher pete?
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no who is that?
This happened to me, and I tried it with a different computer... my screen was going Green and getting stuck on factoryfs.rfs
You can also try setting up Heimdall. It iis more robust than Odin.
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
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Did the news get around about a guy named butcher pete?
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DrKaotica said:
no who is that?
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Ol' Pete just flew in to that tooowwn, he was choppin up all the women's meat.
I had that happen to me once. That image is the download mode thinking it isn't plugged int. I just power drained it (holding down the power key with the battery out) and eventually got back into a connected download mode after about 3 or 4 min.
FIXED
well guys i left the battery out of my phone today to fully "uncharge" any extra electricity running around the phone.
just just got home from work and successfully odined with the battery left out of the phone.
remember i was always able to get the phone into DL mode, just that odin would not complete. so im FIXED! thank jeebus.
i was about to try this heimball, my question for that is when i was looking at screenies of the UI, there appears to be different slots for each partition of the phone? so how would one go about using this to flash ohh say.. the EC05 TAR i have sitting on my desktop
DrKaotica said:
well guys i left the battery out of my phone today to fully "uncharge" any extra electricity running around the phone.
just just got home from work and successfully odined with the battery left out of the phone.
remember i was always able to get the phone into DL mode, just that odin would not complete. so im FIXED! thank jeebus.
i was about to try this heimball, my question for that is when i was looking at screenies of the UI, there appears to be different slots for each partition of the phone? so how would one go about using this to flash ohh say.. the EC05 TAR i have sitting on my desktop
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You have to use something like Winrar to pull the different sections out. Just learning this myself trying to Heimdall the EC05 modem in. I have to use winrar on the modem tar and pull out modem.bin.
kennyglass123 said:
You have to use something like Winrar to pull the different sections out. Just learning this myself trying to Heimdall the EC05 modem in. I have to use winrar on the modem tar and pull out modem.bin.
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I have read that 7-zip is best when altering zips. Has to do with 7-zip's ability to auto-convert the file exts. Saves tons of time when dealing with alterations. Probably doesn't matter if you use Winrar if you are just deleting or moving files though.
When I try to turn my phone on it shows the image of a cellphone a orange triangle with ! in it and a computer. What did I do? Please help!
No. you're not bricked. It just failed during an Odin flash.
Here's how to fix it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
That was what I did originally to get to this point. It gets stuck at set pit file
Is there anyway to fix it with cwm?
Give it another try. This time don't use the pit file. Just the SPH-D700-EC05-8Gb-REL.tar file in the PDA section and make sure there's a check next to it. Also, under option, just have "auto reboot" checked. Leave "re-partition" and "reset time" blank.
Before you posted your last message, i tried doing it again I got further but than my screen turned red and hung for 15 minutes. I pulled the battery and now my phone wont turn on at all. I cant even get it to dl mode
Read the unbrick post in delv sec than watch the videos from qbking77 before you do anything else and you wont have any problems.
Then thank qbking77 for educating the epic community on proper install procedures
I was going off that post when all of this happened. Doesnt matter now anyway it wont even turn on now. Tomorrow I have to go to the sprint store and hope they wont be able to know I was trying to flash.
thegameksk said:
I was going off that post when all of this happened. Doesnt matter now anyway it wont even turn on now. Tomorrow I have to go to the sprint store and hope they wont be able to know I was trying to flash.
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Try pulling out the SD card and battery, then put battery back in and boot into download mode without SD card.
Might take a few tries with removing the battery.
Ill try that. If that doesnt work do you think sprint wud be able to tell that odin didnt flash correctly/ Should I just call and say my phone was lost?
Also even if I plug it into the wall with battery in phone it doesnt show red light on that shows its charging.
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Ill try that. If that doesnt work do you think sprint wud be able to tell that odin didnt flash correctly/ Should I just call and say my phone was lost?
Also even if I plug it into the wall with battery in phone it doesnt show red light on that shows its charging.
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If it's a true brick, even sprint techs won't be able to get it to power on/boot, in which case, they won't know what's on it. If it's still under the 1 year manufacture's warranty, in most cases, it normally cost $35 for a replacement or free if you're lucky, YMMV tho.
Hope things work out for ya, I've felt your pain before my friend.
Dont give up sometimes just sitting for a couple hours with no battery helps.
I got this while trying to odin the new EF## or whatever...
I tried to reset it and it didnt work, i tried odin'ing the EC05 tar and pit and it didnt work, it stuck...
Then i got the EB13 tar and pit and odin'd and it worked
Try checking repartition in odin, could have possibly been checked during the bad odin session and doing it again should clear it up. Use the stock ef02 tar not the pre rooted one
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Ok So Like Im Not Sure What Happend But Ever since i Flashed The Epic Kang Mtd Rom ive been having problems like out of no were it froze so i took out the battery and when i restarted it , When Restarted the Bottom 4 Buttons ,That Usually Turn on once and continue to boot animation, blinks twice and it stays there forever
I Have
-Odin It To Stock
-Used K0anne's method
-Used Samsung Updater
Mos of them didint work and when they did work it was only for a short amount of time so.... Help?
-Forgot to mention that sometimes when im odin'inng it or using the updater it stops in the middle of the process and the screen turns one color
You have a bad cable your screen turning a solid color means its a bad flash/ connection try a blackberry cable and odin back to stock and reroot and flash the cm7 and it should work.
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Ok So I did That And During The Odin It Didint stop (big help) but when it restarted it went to the samsung logo , The Bottom main 4 buttons blinked twice ,&& it stayed there
Biggoron said:
You have a bad cable your screen turning a solid color means its a bad flash/ connection try a blackberry cable and odin back to stock and reroot and flash the cm7 and it should work.
Sent from my OG Epic
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Ok So Now i got to cwm i flashed the new cwm ,Flashed the Epic Kang, && rebooted it and it just keeps sending me to cwm but it takes like a couple of minutes to do so
I'm stumped it should have booted did you check repartion when you odin back to stock? If not that could be why its not booting into the bml partition
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When you odin are you checking repartition since you went over to mtd?
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Bump hopefully some one smarter can help this guy I tried for 2 hours.... anyways he odined back to stock properly but it just sticks at the sammy screen.
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MichaelCampos said:
Ok So Now i got to cwm i flashed the new cwm ,Flashed the Epic Kang, && rebooted it and it just keeps sending me to cwm but it takes like a couple of minutes to do so
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Are you trying to get back on CM7 or Odin to stock? The MTD conversion takes a couple of boots I heard. I imagine the first converted you to MTD and now the second should flash the ROM. Never did it so just going by what I read.
If you are trying to get back to EC05 with Odin then check repartition and reboot, make sure to use the included Victoryxxx.PIT, take out the battery and sd card, use a good cable and with Odin up plug phone into USB port then quickly put it into download mode. The computer will supply the power. It will not reboot at the end until you put the battery in.
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Are you trying to get back on CM7 or Odin to stock? The MTD conversion takes a couple of boots I heard. I imagine the first converted you to MTD and now the second should flash the ROM. Never did it so just going by what I read.
If you are trying to get back to EC05 with Odin then check repartition and reboot, make sure to use the included Victoryxxx.PIT, take out the battery and sd card, use a good cable and with Odin up plug phone into USB port then quickly put it into download mode. The computer will supply the power. It will not reboot at the end until you put the battery in.
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I've tried my hardest to get it to work it just won't. He odins back properly and it works but won't boot....
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Biggoron said:
I've tried my hardest to get it to work it just won't. He odins back properly and it works but won't boot....
Sent from my OG Epic
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Sounds like a bad partition table. If he repartitions with the PIT and the battery out, plus uses the stock EC05 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
He should be able to get it to boot.
kennyglass123 said:
Sounds like a bad partition table. If he repartitions with the PIT and the battery out, plus uses the stock EC05 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
He should be able to get it to boot.
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Should of had this earlier I got him to take it back to sprint I figured it was hardware related if he can't get a new phone then ill make sure to tell him.
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Nice job B. Don't forget to refer them to the thread on How to recover a semi-brick in Development. It will save you a lot of typing. I see you answering a lot of questions. Good for you! I try to let you handle it when you get the first answer in. Feel free to PM me whenever you need to. Thanks for the help.
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During an attempt to flash a rom using odin to my rooted sgs2, odin crashed and closed before it was finished. I tried restarting odin, wouldnt see phone.
Removed battery from phone, reconnected to odin and tried using the one click odin to reflash back to stock. Also tried using odin with other roms to flash back.
Heres my problem.
When i power on the phone, it says the Galazy S2 i9100 for a few seconds, then just turns off.
I can open odin, or odin one click, plug in phone, shows me yellow w/com and added. I click start, it gets to Setupconnection and then just sits there.
I have tried
- Different roms and both one click and normal odin.
- Different usb cables
- Different usb ports
- Multiple computers
Is there any way to get past this? God i hope someone can either point me somewhere or help me out.
Reinstall Samsung Kies to your laptop or pc so the proper drivers are re-installed. Once complete with that install, plug your phone into the pc and put the phone into USB mode, hopefully the pc will recognize your phone and install the NEW DEVICE drivers after a few moments. Depending on your pc, sometimes it takes many seconds for your pc to recognize and bring up the drop down menu for the newly recognized drive. BE PATIENT. If the pc does recognize your phone, start Odin again. If Odin also see's your phone, which it now should, you should see a COM:# connection in the ID:COM box of Odin. Doesn't matter what COM # is, as long as something is there. You can now use Odin because it see's your phone. Once you start Odin flashing, make sure not to disconnect anything until you see the upper left GREEN PASS box in Odin. Once its GREEN with PASS in that box, you're finished. You can d/c your phone from the pc and the phone is probably rebooting anyway.
OFC, if your phone will not stay power'd up, all of the above is for nought. Wish I could be more helpful.
Keep in mind that I do not intend to insult intelligence but everyone has limits in experience and I always try to explain in the simplest way I can. No disrespect intended.
Good Luck!
R
Thanks for the reply,
How am i supposed to put the phone in usb mode when i cant boot it?
That does create a problem, I would do some research on a USB Jig for your phone. Search at eBay for: Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch USB Jig
I'm not sure if this will help a phone that will not power up but it does have its uses for Root'd phone especially using Odin to flash and to remover that nasty YELLOW Triangle that comes from ROOT ROMS that are unsign'd.
Wish I could help you further.
R
Scribes said:
Thanks for the reply,
How am i supposed to put the phone in usb mode when i cant boot it?
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Try to put in download mode if not try a jig ... If that fails it's sprint or jtag
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It does power on, basically shows the sgs boot logo (black backgroud w/ white text) then goes dark, but its actually still on cause it gets hot.
I can get it into download mode and i can get it into the android recovery.
Theres gotta be a way to recover with an update.zip from the android recovery via the sd card........
There you go, you have two of us saying about the same thing. Just make sure you get the correct JIG if you go that route. It's like $2.00 and arrives from China in like 2 weeks.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...e+for+Samsung+Galaxy+S2/i9100/i9000/T959/i897
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humm, an idling phone shouldn't get hot. That tells me you've got something going on. I think you just progress'd passed my pay grade my friend.
Heres another thing, as i mentioned in my first post.
The boot logo says i-9100....
and this is a sprint phone, isnt it a d710?
So im gussing in my late night haze i screwed myself by loading an i9100 rom/bootloader/whatever the hell that is.
Samsung calls it: I9100
Sprint calls it: SPH710
We call it: Epic 4G Touch
I see, so thats not the problem?
Im just gonna keep posting here while i mess with this incase i trigger someones mind for a fix.
(picture was here apparently i cannot post an external link yet. Was just a picture of device manager and odin sitting at SetupConnection)
The only way to get odin to see my phone, is if i open odin, put phone in download mode, plug phone in, then uninstall the com port via device manager, reinstall it. When i rescan for hardware changes, odin goes yellow as seen in the picture, i click start, then it sits at SetupConnection all day, so im guessing its losing the connection after it finds it.
My only solution here is via usb card i think, but i cant find a signed package. Cant someone just pull theirs from a stock phone? Why wouldnt that work?
Well, if you can get Odin to work, unroot to full stock with this:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ISD9AOP0
Right, getting odin to work is the real problem though i think.
Stuck at SetupConnection forever
This is super frustrating... going without a phone is impossible, work emails, texts, calls, ahhhh
..and there is no way to completely reload the entire phone using an update.zip off the sd card, one that is signed?
I know i used to do that on my droid, and all though i know this is a totally different game, i still have android recovery, one would think it would be possible if the package was signed. unsigned ones just fail, but at least i can attempt to run them from there.
If someone can find a way to do that, and it works for my phone, i will paypal $50
Let me see what I can find for ya....
I have searched two different Forums for a flashable unroot to stock with NO luck. Everything I found requires Odin. Sorry Buddy.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the i-9100 a whole different phone??? Looking at the specs and release date I would believe so. Sounds like he did an ics update for a phone that wasn't the Sph-d710 or something..
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php
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not sure, all I know it by is: SPH 710
~ via My Epic 4G Touch & XDA'a app ~
Have you tried just flashing a kernel only in Odin
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You tried flashing ICS on your phone, didn't you? B/C I'm pretty sure that's why you are seeing I9100 while booting up. If that is the case, do a search here as there are multiple people who have done this, and none of them have been able to fix it.
Sorry, your only solution is exchange at Sprint if you can, or JTAG.
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beezar said:
You tried flashing ICS on your phone, didn't you? B/C I'm pretty sure that's why you are seeing I9100 while booting up. If that is the case, do a search here as there are multiple people who have done this, and none of them have been able to fix it.
Sorry, your only solution is exchange at Sprint if you can, or JTAG.
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does not mean he flashed ICS when you odin a kernel that is not signed ie with CWM you will get yellow triangle and it will say i9100 too ..... so does not mean he flashed ics ... if odin sees the phone on a com port he probably didnt .... try flashing a working kernel from our phone
I did attempt to flash ICS. I could find where i got it, but it was supposedly for the Epic 4G touch, aka sprint sgs2 variant.
I am a network and systems admin, i should have known better. I jumped the gun and got ahead of myself. I have rooted and put roms on the og droid, and the droid x, samsung is a different beast all together.
However, i went in to sprint the day after i did this, they looked at it, no insurance, no replacement warranty, they didnt ask me anything, and THEY determined it was a factory defect , they had me sign a sheet that said "After researching found phone to be a factory defect and the solution from SPRINT is to replace the phone. $37.41, and 22 hours later i had a brand new SGS2 in my hand.
They hadnt sent my phone in yet. I honestly am not sure if they are going to be able to tell if i did anything to it or not, i may have just hosed the bootloader enough that odin wont connect, so they probably will have to use something like jtag in house to reflash it, or replace the chip or whatever they do. Even so, if they do see that i was messing with it, and say it voided my warranty, i have a signed receipt showing my payment and agreeing to pay for the replacement at $37.41, and that THEY determined the flaw. My brother in law is a lawyer, so i asked him, because i was curious if they would look at my phone at the service center or hub or whatever, and determine it was my fault. He assured me they could try, but it would all fall back to the employee who had me sign the agreement, so even if they dont like what i did, they are beyond doing anything about it.
I doubt they will even notice it, im sure they will try to boot it, then just flash it or however they do it.
Either way, im not worried anymore.
So...someone wanna point my idiot ass to an actual good rom, with a good method, that works for my phone? lol. I cant stand touchwiz, huge icons and cant replace them ....wtf is that all about.
So I left my phone on the charger in the car because it was dying, came outside and it was stuck on the Galaxy Note II screen with the green light on. I unplugged the cord, the phone refused to come on so I did a battery pull. Upon powering it back on, I get this screen that looks like Poltergeist and phone does nothing. When in Poltergeist, I can't get the computer to see my phone, so that I can back it up before formatting. Volume up, menu, power doesn't get me into recovery mode. I can't get into safe mode either. ican however boot volume down, menu, power it into the mode where I can flash it, Odin will see it, but going straight to flashing means I lose everything.
Does anyone have an idea beforehand? I know I'm asking a lot, but these forums have gotten way over my head over the years. This is an isolated incident, so if you could even attach the file directly that I can attempt to flash vids Odin to fix my booting issue vs saying goto X thread because every thread seems to have it's own multiple files. I just wanna recover it so it'll come on, back up it and then I'll research on my own how to flash it completely. It's 6am my time and I've gotta be up by 1130am for work, so please reply for dummies as much as possible
Thank you ahead of time.
PS - phone is stock on 4.1.2 rooted using CF Auto Root and that's it.
Morning bump...no quick advice?
60 readings, no one comment? "Hey, flash XXXXX and see if the display drivers come back", etc? It'll boot into flash mode, looks normal and the compputer sees it. Safe mode or normal boot give me Poltergeist and the computer wont see it so that I can try to backup everything before flashing....that's a lot of boobies pics (just trying to get some sympathy here) to have deleted
79 views...for the love of god, someone throw me a bone here. I get it, these are old phones now, these forums are full of know-it-alls who can't be bothered (devs) and "search" nazis (me being one of them) as I should just figure it out on my own...but I'm not. I've got versions of ODIN, I've got CWM Recovery files, stock MC2 and NE2 ROM's, I even found myself a PIT file. NONE OF THEM ARE WORKING. No matter which ODIN I use, they all stick at PIT regardless of whether I have re-partition checked or not. I've tried flashing PIT, CWM recovery, stock recovery, CF Auto Root and/or stock 4.1.2 - 4.4 ROM's in just about any combination of one or two together using each version of ODIN. No bueno.
I've got a very nice and thick 24/28awg cord I'm using, I can boot into dowloader mode but can not go into safe, recovery or boot normally. I've watched brick recovery videos on YouTube, I've downloaded files from here on the forums and www.galaxynote2root.com using various downloading I have included a picture of.
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Holy crap you forget how nice the Note is when you're back on a Epic for two days while working 12hr days and going through 6 batteries each day...
m5james said:
Holy crap you forget how nice the Note is when you're back on a Epic for two days while working 12hr days and going through 6 batteries each day...
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Did you ever get this figured out? I'm in the same boat with the L900 Sprint Note 2...
Solved it by getting a working logic board from eBay
I broke down and bought a Note 3 off Craigslist for $300 but I'd still like to fix the Note 2 to make it into my backup instead of pulling the Epic outta the box again.