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Power button problems

Starting today my phones lock/power button quit working completely surprisingly after I flashed the latest miui... I thought it was the rom so I went back and redid everything... I'm now on Inc deck and have to use a crappy trackball wake app that works sometimes.... any suggestions?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222056

I really don't want to open it up... I'm still under warranty... but don't have a computer to use unrevoked to get back to stock... I'm kinda stuck... is there a back to stock thread if so could somebody post the link? I've searched and looked but come up with nothing
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thebasuke said:
I really don't want to open it up... I'm still under warranty... but don't have a computer to use unrevoked to get back to stock... I'm kinda stuck... is there a back to stock thread if so could somebody post the link? I've searched and looked but come up with nothing
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It is polite when someone asks for help on subject that they are unfamiliar with to post a link. It's not polite to ask for someone to do the work you could do in 120 seconds. It's out there, but I'm not going to search it for you and post the link. Just search the dev forum for unrooting and restoring to stock. You'll find what you're looking for.

it's also impolite to troll... i thought you had a thunderbolt gtfo

Ok so I'm getting a replacement I made a boo boo though I flashed the pb31img file of the Rom b4 unrevoked s-on and can't for the life of me get into recovery... anybody know what to do?
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thebasuke said:
Ok so I'm getting a replacement I made a boo boo though I flashed the pb31img file of the Rom b4 unrevoked s-on and can't for the life of me get into recovery... anybody know what to do?
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open it up,
desolder the on-board memory,
throw it in the microwave for a minute,
resolder the memory to the board;
Good as new

Key test in recovery can tell you if it's hardware or software

Bricked phone?

Well i tried putting a theme on my phone after i put beastmod 3.0 (no beastmod did not brick my phone.. was working fine before i tried flashing my own theme) and now idk what to do.. when i turn my phone on.. it passes the whole "synergy kernal" animation but after that its a black screen with force close pop ups.. something about my twlauncher is failing.. it wont let me get passed that.. whats there to do?

A reflash of beast should fix it. Since the 3.0 just came out today I doubt any themes are ready for it.
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jasontx said:
A reflash of beast should fix it. Since the 3.0 just came out today I doubt any themes are ready for it.
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well how can i get into the mode of reflashing it?

ixJay said:
well how can i get into the mode of reflashing it?
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Just get into recovery and flash beastmod over it...to get into recovery hold vol up n down keys and turn on ur phone while holding them, then let the power button go n keep holding volume keys and that would take you into recovery...
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qasimzia512 said:
Just get into recovery and flash beastmod over it...to get into recovery hold vol up n down keys and turn on ur phone while holding them, then let the power button go n keep holding volume keys and that would take you into recovery...
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YES, got it.. was trying this.. but in a wrong way? haha.. so happy.. was so scared and lonely without my phone.. haha.. problem solved!

ixJay said:
YES, got it.. was trying this.. but in a wrong way? haha.. so happy.. was so scared and lonely without my phone.. haha.. problem solved!
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Dang app wasn't refreshing, glad you got it
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Glad your problem was quicked so fast, OP. This is in the wrong thread, but should be addressed if it's a ROM problem - should be in the BeastMod thread or in another forum.

Mod please delete.
From a glaxay better than yours.

This is not a development questions nor were you even close to bricked. Please in the future search before posting because if you had you would have seen that since your phone even partially booted you were completely safe. Also, do NOT post in the development section unless you are posting something you developed.

kenvan19 said:
this is not a development questions nor were you even close to bricked. Please in the future search before posting because if you had you would have seen that since your phone even partially booted you were completely safe. Also, do not post in the development section unless you are posting something you developed.
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+1.... Bricked = phone is a paper weight, doesn't turn on, doesn't go into hboot, recovery, odin mode, nothing, completely unresponsive.

Hur hur hur
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Flash23 said:
Hur hur hur
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um, RIIIIIIGHT

[Q] Bootloops/Screen Issues. Perhaps I bricked it?

So recently I applied the stock rooted 4.0.4 rom to my CDMA Nexus. After this, it would have this strange problem where occasionally the screen would just not respond to any touch. I would battery pull many times over before it would start working again. Tonight I finally got fed up and tried to apply the factory image (4.0.2) to it through Wug's root toolkit v1.3. When it completed the phone went into a serious bootloop, not getting past the google logo. What happened? Did I just make a very expensive paperweight?

Restore everything to an earlier time including the bootloader, recovery, radios, and rom through adb. You can also use a toolkit like the one found below to restore your phone to stock then redo everything:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310

Yeah, I've tried that a few times and it's still stuck on the Google image and won't move forward. Just restarts and restarts.

Another evidence that 1 click methods leads to ppl doing stuff without any understanding

Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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thurstroubadours said:
Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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There really are tons of threads here telling you exactly what to do in a case like yours - you just have to use the search and take the time to read through them.
And no, it's not bricked as long as you can get into the recovery.

thurstroubadours said:
Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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While I understand your anger, he does also make a valid point. 2 reasons why. If you didn't use a one click method maybe your phone would be working fine. 2nd by doing it the hard way hopefully you learned something and when you have a problem you know how or at least understand what is involved with fixing it.
Hope you get it fixed.
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exactly, my intention was not to make you feel bad.
I was hoping this example would make ppl learn the proper way.
As if you did, you wouldnt be in this predicament.
You would also know that you haven't bricked your device, not freak out over it and just fix it.
Cold hard facts are generally blunt and I understand your frustration, I also appreciate that you didnt start a flame war.
Hope you've sorted it out and and learned something in the process.
Good luck.

Ok. I did manage to fix it by learning how to manually flash the stock image. Perhaps I did need the hard line!
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help please!

i think i bricked my epic 4g touch. i had ics fb21 on it and i tried to restore a gingerbread rom back onto it via cwm and something went terribly wrong. i tried all the steps in qbking77s youtube video about unbricking/unrooting. my phone successfully went through the steps but when it reboots it just boot loops. when i try to boot into recovery it continues to bootloop. download mode is still available? any suggestions? thanks in advanced

Have you tried putting it into download mode and then using one of the one click restores via odin? If its bootlooping, your not at a total loss
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r2hudson said:
i think i bricked my epic 4g touch. i had ics fb21 on it and i tried to restore a gingerbread rom back onto it via cwm and something went terribly wrong. i tried all the steps in qbking77s youtube video about unbricking/unrooting. my phone successfully went through the steps but when it reboots it just boot loops. when i try to boot into recovery it continues to bootloop. download mode is still available? any suggestions? thanks in advanced
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Did you have cwm touch on it ?
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rshudson---use this lick
use this link and it will restore your epic completely with roon access and than find the recovery zip/tar and you will be fixed ...the link has directions and videos
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
GOOD LUCK BRO !!!!!!!!!!!

andhow said:
Have you tried putting it into download mode and then using one of the one click restores via odin? If its bootlooping, your not at a total loss
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i tried these but they seem to get stuck right before it completes. it freezes right before the end, no reboot, no nothing

Epix4G said:
Did you have cwm touch on it ?
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actually i did, installed it straight from rom manager. has this been a common problem?

r2hudson said:
actually i did, installed it straight from rom manager. has this been a common problem?
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so in odin it stops at data. something ...u got A BRICK should have read what all the devs were saying and the other 10 threads that did the same as you ..... read read read ... when going from ics to gb always odin back to stock first then restore ... look in general you will find many threads about this already
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509795
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509886&page=3

rocketman228 said:
use this link and it will restore your epic completely with roon access and than find the recovery zip/tar and you will be fixed ...the link has directions and videos
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
GOOD LUCK BRO !!!!!!!!!!!
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i have tried this, it just gets stuck at the data.img step, been stuck for over an hour. thanks all for your help

Epix4G said:
so in odin it stops at data. something ...u got A BRICK should have read what all the devs were saying and the other 10 threads that did the same as you ..... read read read ... when going from ics to gb always odin back to stock first then restore ... look in general you will find many threads about this already
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wow, thought so, i guess there hasnt been a way to undo this? it only gets stuck when i use the one click odin. when i use the regular odin it completes but just bootloops. could i take this to a sprint repair center?

read links
u have a bad data partition and are bricked .... read before doing anything like this ....many people before you did this and there is no way back besides jtag ....
you can take to sprint and they may replace but who knows they may turn you away

r2hudson said:
actually i did, installed it straight from rom manager. has this been a common problem?
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Oh man...ROM Manager and Touch recovery?... not sure if that's fixable
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I believe a few people have said it already. But don't use from manager to flash recoveries. Especially the touch one. You will brick your phone and can't fix it. Only a JTAG service would fix it or a replacement by sprint. Either way good luck and read up on stuff before you try it out.
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How many bricks does this make now? I had one. Lol
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musclehead84 said:
How many bricks does this make now? I had one. Lol
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I swear more than 30 but who knows how many didn't post and such
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OH Shix, Dang Dawg, I didn't know there was a such thing as a soft/full brick! I am lucky, I was using mobile odin and flashed the md5 check instead of the tar for fb21 modem and my phone was acting very similar but I just flashed the ONE CLICK EL29 and I was back to stock. hope if you havent tried that, you do and it works for you. I didn't like the touch cwm. but now I am deleting it from sdcard so i dont mistakenly soft/full brick my device. Keep us updated!

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after using odin to unroot/unbrick my epic4gt and having still it fail to turn on passed the boot screen, i took my busted phone back to sprint on monday. told them what the problem was, "my phone wont go passed the first screen when i turn it on". they said "ok, we'll just erase everything off, should be as good as new".
i stood around waiting for about 45 minutes, i was so bored i even shamefully sent out a tweet from an iphone..smh. sales associate then came back to me saying," ive never seen anything like this, nothing will work on it, you must have rooted this phone?" my response was "i have done nothing to that phone".
with a kinda upset smirk on his face he says, "it had to be rooted buuuuut since we have no proof we will order you a phone for free, come pick it up friday."
life has been so tough w/out my epic for a whole week, happy that i get my new one on friday

You know...
I'm starting to wonder how I feel about ppl that brick their phones, through fault of their Own, then take them into sprint claiming the "update broke it!", "i never rooted that! i have No Idea what you're talking about!", and I wonder if this is going to make it harder for people with Legitimate issues to get replacements, and affect the way Sprint looks at rooting our phones in general. This Affects Their Bottom Line.
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kingdazy said:
You know...
I'm starting to wonder how I feel about ppl that brick their phones, through fault of their Own, then take them into sprint claiming the "update broke it!", "i never rooted that! i have No Idea what you're talking about!", and I wonder if this is going to make it harder for people with Legitimate issues to get replacements, and affect the way Sprint looks at rooting our phones in general. This Affects Their Bottom Line.
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I wonder this same thing....I get that people want their phone working g but on the other hand its not Sprints fault you bricked it. And then just flat out lying? Its a grey area for sure .
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dodgerbluehero said:
I wonder this same thing....I get that people want their phone working g but on the other hand its not Sprints fault you bricked it. And then just flat out lying? Its a grey area for sure .
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Uh Oh here comes the moral police.... Not saying you are wrong but really if people can get something replaced for free, do you really think the majority would not try it... We live in a grey world.... It is what it is
Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Never Lies - "Jay-Z" Just felt like saying that....lol
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r2hudson said:
UPDATE
after using odin to unroot/unbrick my epic4gt and having still it fail to turn on passed the boot screen, i took my busted phone back to sprint on monday. told them what the problem was, "my phone wont go passed the first screen when i turn it on". they said "ok, we'll just erase everything off, should be as good as new".
i stood around waiting for about 45 minutes, i was so bored i even shamefully sent out a tweet from an iphone..smh. sales associate then came back to me saying," ive never seen anything like this, nothing will work on it, you must have rooted this phone?" my response was "i have done nothing to that phone".
with a kinda upset smirk on his face he says, "it had to be rooted buuuuut since we have no proof we will order you a phone for free, come pick it up friday."
life has been so tough w/out my epic for a whole week, happy that i get my new one on friday
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Congrats... next time dont start a new thread about something that already had a million other threads and a Official How I Bricked my phone thread.... I KNOW YOU SAW IT.....lol

Yeah say what you want but I pay 8 dollars a month to sprint for insurance so weather its my fault or not they should replace my device which they did and I could give a **** less how it effects everything because I pay for insurance.
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Whats the trick for a Hard Brick??

I can get Qhsusb_dload to show up from time to time on my PC when it connects. but I went to try and flash the Slim Rom from the original android section and it bricked my phone. no screen light up or anything. no LED flashing. i just get Qhsusb_dload when i connect to a PC.
What tricks can i do to get odin to see this.

Did you try the 3 button combination ? Volume down, home key?
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[email protected] said:
Did you try the 3 button combination ? Volume down, home key?
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yes i did. idk if im doing it right tho.

And power on button,What phone you using?
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billard412 said:
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You need an attitude check. This was posted in Q&A, he had a question and needs help. If this was posted in the wrong forum, I could MAYBE see this kind of attitude but not here. You were helpful in giving him a link to get his device repaired, but the rest of it was just uncalled for.
kyhassen said:
I did research and no one gave a straight answer anywhere. i googled countless places. a lot of them said to do these button combinations and none worked. some say the only way to do it is through a jig. as you say Jtag. i do everything the way i usually do it by reading the posts before flashing.. idk what went wrong here.
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As far as I know, he is right about JTAG being your only repair option. This may sound like an obvious question, but I have seen this happen before. Are you sure you were downloading from the right forum? (i.e. not accidentally downloading a ROM meant for another carrier.)

I'm kind of curious how this happens. Never heard of bricking from simply flashing a rom.
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mulhiny said:
I'm kind of curious how this happens. Never heard of bricking from simply flashing a rom.
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If rom is for another carrier or the international version of the S3 (i believe the I9300) then it'll brick it quick.

I thought the i9300 is the sprint version. i had looked it up... but oh well. I did more research i missed one step which may have caused it, or my download corrupted. But my next option is to find someone with a Jtag in my area.

kyhassen said:
I thought the i9300 is the sprint version. i had looked it up... but oh well. I did more research i missed one step which may have caused it, or my download corrupted. But my next option is to find someone with a Jtag in my area.
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Sprint is the SPH-L710. So yeah.. may have flashed the wrong rom.. Always double check.. and if your in doubt.. ASK! lol

Use a jig. Will boot up into download mode. You need to use Odin and flash stock. Qbking video is really helpful. Good luck.
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kyhassen said:
I thought the i9300 is the sprint version. i had looked it up... but oh well. I did more research i missed one step which may have caused it, or my download corrupted. But my next option is to find someone with a Jtag in my area.
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Yup you flashed the wrong ROM. I had this happen on my Evo 3D, I don't remember which ROM it was but someone had linked to it from the CDMA forum and I took their word for it being a CDMA ROM. It was GSM. Fortunately I was still able to load hboot and loaded clockwork mod via fast boot. I'm sure you've tried going into download mode or recovery a hundred times by now, but one hundred and one wouldn't hurt. Make sure you are pressing the right buttons in the right combination and letting go at the right time. Honestly I think the SIII is a pain to get into D/L or recovery mode. It always takes me a few tries. If you can do that, you won't need to JTAG it. Good luck!
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smokeadrians said:
Use a jig. Will boot up into download mode. You need to use Odin and flash stock. Qbking video is really helpful. Good luck.
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Ah that's right, he has some really nice instructional videos. Here is his YouTube page. I would also suggest looking him up on XDA.
Http://youtube.com/user/qbking77

smokeadrians said:
Use a jig. Will boot up into download mode. You need to use Odin and flash stock. Qbking video is really helpful. Good luck.
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jig wont work its done for. Only hope is jtag

evo4gnoob said:
jig wont work its done for. Only hope is jtag
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Thats what i was thinking. i cant even get the thing to turn on.

kyhassen said:
Thats what i was thinking. i cant even get the thing to turn on.
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these guys do wonders http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-jtag-brick-repair/

evo4gnoob said:
these guys do wonders http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-jtag-brick-repair/
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so i have heard. Im gonna look for one near by my area. if not i will use those guys. i have heard they are good form several of you guys here and other sites. thank you. At least i have my Nexus 7 and free txting app lmao. quite a giant cell phone if you ask me...

Q&A is for questions
No one should be vilified for asking a question, in the proper place, after researching - and no one should be made to feel worse than they already do when they've got an expensive paperweight they're trying to resurrect. We were all new once. Have patience and teach - especially to those who really seek to learn from their mistakes.

Bummer! good to see a lot of evo guys making thier way over.
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At least the plus side is i got to play stupid and get a replacement for 35$ bucks from sprint. screw that 60 bucks and I get it with in a 2-3 days. this time im gonna make sure i dont flash a i9300 rom lol.... oops