i bricked it by flashing the villianrom 3.0. i realized my mistake and what i want to know is 1) Is my Phone COMPLETELY bricked? 2) Will a usb Jig work on a COMPLETELY bricked device?
I do have the option of easily replacing it, but that is the last resort thing. I want to know answers to these questions, not our $0.02 on this. i was fully aware of the hardware differences but did not know the VillianROM was for ATT GS2.
If you say you are fully bricked I would assume you tried to get into download, recovery etc...
I would just get a warranty swap to not have to deal with the hassle
Except flashing a ROM Voids your warranty.
Yeah. I have decided that i will, but i still wanna weather the Jig would work on such a device. Thanks.
EDIT: How will they ever know if it wont turn on or respond? lol
to be honest t-mobile does not even care, i used to revert to stock but after the time I sent in a G1 with a custom splash animation and rom by mistake I just wipe my data and send all my phones back the way they are
I can also say they really don't check I returned my vibrant when I messed it up. Never heard back also returned a working g2x rooted because of screen bleed so I think u should be ok
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aranurea said:
i bricked it by flashing the villianrom 3.0. i realized my mistake and what i want to know is 1) Is my Phone COMPLETELY bricked? 2) Will a usb Jig work on a COMPLETELY bricked device?
I do have the option of easily replacing it, but that is the last resort thing. I want to know answers to these questions, not our $0.02 on this. i was fully aware of the hardware differences but did not know the VillianROM was for ATT GS2.
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1. Yes its completely bricked
2. Nope, won't work if it's completely bricked
I feel your sorrows, I bricked my phone last week too, had to buy a new one. I will agree with what everyone else is saying though. T-Mobile typically doesn't care if its been rooted / bricked, they'll still send you another phone.
Thanks guys. I took it to the store and got it replaced wihin a matter of minutes. The guys justed picked up a new one from the back and did dome things on the computer and handed it to me. Lol. I wont be rooting for another year. (warranty)
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Ive had this phone since the day it came out, and since then its been dropped several times. My phone is rooted and now my usb crapped out on me.
It does not charge properly(very slow charging) on top of that when i connect it to a computer it will not recognize it at all. I know its not the wire either cause i tried with a different phone and a different computer, my phone wasnt being recognized as a mass storage.
I took it back to tmobile and a new phone is sopposed to come in but, im scared about the warranty being voided because my phone is rooted. I tried making it as stock as i could by flashing a stock rom. But that actually kinda made things worse cause now i dont have cwr , no root, and no usb so i cant use download mode to odin flash. My phone still has darkside's kernel on it too and i tried looking for a stock kernel and theyre all for odin.
So i guess when it comes right down to it, is there a way to get a stock kernel on my phone? I really dont want them coming back to me and saying the warranty is voided cause its rooted :/ is there anything i can do?
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Ive had this phone since the day it came out, and since then its been dropped several times. My phone is rooted and now my usb crapped out on me.
It does not charge properly(very slow charging) on top of that when i connect it to a computer it will not recognize it at all. I know its not the wire either cause i tried with a different phone and a different computer, my phone wasnt being recognized as a mass storage.
I took it back to tmobile and a new phone is sopposed to come in but, im scared about the warranty being voided because my phone is rooted. I tried making it as stock as i could by flashing a stock rom. But that actually kinda made things worse cause now i dont have cwr , no root, and no usb so i cant use download mode to odin flash. My phone still has darkside's kernel on it too and i tried looking for a stock kernel and theyre all for odin.
So i guess when it comes right down to it, is there a way to get a stock kernel on my phone? I really dont want them coming back to me and saying the warranty is voided cause its rooted :/ is there anything i can do?
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Most the time they won't really care a whole lot if it is still rooted
I sent a fully bricked on back that had the flash counter still up, rooted, custom rom and kernel. Not a word
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Most the time they won't really care a whole lot if it is still rooted
I sent a fully bricked on back that had the flash counter still up, rooted, custom rom and kernel. Not a word
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I sent my Vibrant to Mobile Tech Videos to get my USB port replaced. They charge $35.00 and it got back to me in 10 days. Just giving you another option if your scared to send it to T-Mobile.
Well i already contacted tmobile and they going to send me a new phone. It wont be in for another week.
Ill just turn it in and cross my fingers lol
what will they do if they mark it for voided warranty anyways?
Worst they can do is charge you money
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Worst they can do is charge you money
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Actually ..the worst they can do is keep your phone for a month and a half, call you and tell you its ready, make you go pick it up only to find out it hasn't been fixed because it was damaged by liquid (even thought all stickers are 100% clean).
Yes indeed.. this is indeed what Telus did to me.
In any case, I called Samsung and they took care of the problem for me. Turned out to be a defective USB jack that they just replaced, and they ignored my CM7 install (although they did seem to reflash it back to stock for some reason)... They did not find 'water' damage so the repair was done under warranty.
I don't know about TMo but Telus tends to drop the ball in these kind of situations.
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Actually ..the worst they can do is keep your phone for a month and a half, call you and tell you its ready, make you go pick it up only to find out it hasn't been fixed because it was damaged by liquid (even thought all stickers are 100% clean).
Yes indeed.. this is indeed what Telus did to me.
In any case, I called Samsung and they took care of the problem for me. Turned out to be a defective USB jack that they just replaced, and they ignored my CM7 install (although they did seem to reflash it back to stock for some reason)... They did not find 'water' damage so the repair was done under warranty.
I don't know about TMo but Telus tends to drop the ball in these kind of situations.
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TMobile does not fix it, they replace your phone first (usually) and you send in your old one
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I've sent mine back 3 times rooted and never had a problem. They just send you a refurbished one. I wouldn't worry about it. Worst case you can always brick it then they definitely won't know it was rooted.
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I've sent mine back 3 times rooted and never had a problem. They just send you a refurbished one. I wouldn't worry about it. Worst case you can always brick it then they definitely won't know it was rooted.
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Ok I really dont know what I've done but somehow I have made it completely impossible for any pc to recognize my device. I have installed all drivers with no luck. I went on terminal emulator and tried to run some simple adb commands and I get "device not connected."
Im not new by any means nor do I claim to be an expert but I have tried EVERYTHING I can think of and no dice. The only thing that my phone will do when connected to the computer is charge. But I have noticed when in hboot mode the charging light is not lit so I can't say for sure if its charging. Im completely stumped on this problem so I welcome any and all suggestions. Please help!
Rooted? Rom? S-off?
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Are you actually running the ROM when you try it or in the bootloader?
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Rooted s-off running miui4. Switched back to ukb ii w/ same results. Went to a aosp rom thinking maybe I set my phone to "fast charge mode" or something same results. I think I have to face the fact that my usb port is shot out and I need to replace it. (The one in my phone)
Yep that's the problem. I just got done putting my phone back together after removing the micro usb connection and saw that the internal part that's soldered to the ribbon is loose. Son of a b%#$#.
That sucks dude
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Rooted s-off running miui4. Switched back to ukb ii w/ same results. Went to a aosp rom thinking maybe I set my phone to "fast charge mode" or something same results. I think I have to face the fact that my usb port is shot out and I need to replace it. (The one in my phone)
Yep that's the problem. I just got done putting my phone back together after removing the micro usb connection and saw that the internal part that's soldered to the ribbon is loose. Son of a b%#$#.
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This is what scares me about rooting.
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This is what scares me about rooting.
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A broken usb port has nothing to do with rooting...
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A broken usb port has nothing to do with rooting...
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It does if you root and s-off and then the port breaks leaving you with no way to return to stock if returning for warranty replacement.
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It does if you root and s-off and then the port breaks leaving you with no way to return to stock if returning for warranty replacement.
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Ah, I see. I've been out of warranty for a while so I didn't think about it. It sounded like you were saying a rom caused his issue.
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It does if you root and s-off and then the port breaks leaving you with no way to return to stock if returning for warranty replacement.
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Meh, if something like that happens drop it in the "toilet" and tell them you need a replacement. You shouldn't be scared to root your device, you are missing all the excitement of flashing and testing new roms and thinking you bricked your phone when it goes into a boot loop and all that fun stuff. Give it a go!
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Meh, if something like that happens drop it in the "toilet" and tell them you need a replacement. You shouldn't be scared to root your device, you are missing all the excitement of flashing and testing new roms and thinking you bricked your phone when it goes into a boot loop and all that fun stuff. Give it a go!
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Dropping it into the toilet assumes one has insurance (and even then a deductible applies). Standard warranty wouldn't cover water/accidental damage.
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Dropping it into the toilet assumes one has insurance (and even then a deductible applies). Standard warranty wouldn't cover water/accidental damage.
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Best buy mobiles warranty does.
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Dropping it into the toilet assumes one has insurance (and even then a deductible applies). Standard warranty wouldn't cover water/accidental damage.
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True, but I was being a little sarcastic. I was really nervous about rooting my device especially reading all the "I'm not responsible if you brick your phone." disclaimers. But after a few days of reading on the forums and going over the tutorials I decided to give it a go. I am not the least bit sorry that I did. But, I only paid $75 for my phone so if I bricked it I would not be out a boat load of money. I really do like the freedom of a rooted device. If you do decide to give it a go, I followed Prototype7's tutorial like it was the bible and had absolutely no trouble.
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True, but I was being a little sarcastic. I was really nervous about rooting my device especially reading all the "I'm not responsible if you brick your phone." disclaimers. But after a few days of reading on the forums and going over the tutorials I decided to give it a go. I am not the least bit sorry that I did. But, I only paid $75 for my phone so if I bricked it I would not be out a boat load of money. I really do like the freedom of a rooted device. If you do decide to give it a go, I followed Prototype7's tutorial like it was the bible and had absolutely no trouble.
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I've been rooted and back more times than I should admit. It is really FUN to root and flash Roms. It's also nice to not be FORCED to have things installed that you don't want installed. If I don't want "Let's Golf" installed, I want to be able to remove it. It's just the cautious side of me that keeps me on stock, in the event something physically happens to the phone.
Just do what I did, get a micro SD card adapter, slap it in your PC and slap the stock PG32IMG.zip on it then load into hboot
Then send back for a replacement and root your new phone
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I just got the gs3 on black friday and rooted it without any problems but on my first attempt to flash a new rom, i bricked it by flashing an international rom. I paniced and figured sprint probably wouldn't be able to detect that i was ever rooted and returned the next day. Sprint as i suspected was not able to tell what was wrong with it other than it seemed completely dead when the tech hooked it up and tried to fix it. So they gave me another phone and said they were going to just flag it as defective. Now my question is what is gonna happen with that phone? I would assume there is a way for samsung to find out what happened to the phone but i really don't know and thought it couldn't hurt to ask around in the forums. Please if anyone can help me, thank you in advance.
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I just got the gs3 on black friday and rooted it without any problems but on my first attempt to flash a new rom, i bricked it by flashing an international rom. I paniced and figured sprint probably wouldn't be able to detect that i was ever rooted and returned the next day. Sprint as i suspected was not able to tell what was wrong with it other than it seemed completely dead when the tech hooked it up and tried to fix it. So they gave me another phone and said they were going to just flag it as defective. Now my question is what is gonna happen with that phone? I would assume there is a way for samsung to find out what happened to the phone but i really don't know and thought it couldn't hurt to ask around in the forums. Please if anyone can help me, thank you in advance.
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more than likely nothing is going to happen.
Well then i suppose i just got damn lucky lol.... just for future reference, is the only way to recover from flashing an international rom with a jig right?
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Well then i suppose i just got damn lucky lol.... just for future reference, is the only way to recover from flashing an international rom with a jig right?
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No. You cannot recover from this with a jig. The only recovery is jtag; which I think is available for $60.00 for the S3. The jig is completely worthless in this situation.
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I just got the gs3 on black friday and rooted it without any problems but on my first attempt to flash a new rom, i bricked it by flashing an international rom. I paniced and figured sprint probably wouldn't be able to detect that i was ever rooted and returned the next day. Sprint as i suspected was not able to tell what was wrong with it other than it seemed completely dead when the tech hooked it up and tried to fix it. So they gave me another phone and said they were going to just flag it as defective. Now my question is what is gonna happen with that phone? I would assume there is a way for samsung to find out what happened to the phone but i really don't know and thought it couldn't hurt to ask around in the forums. Please if anyone can help me, thank you in advance.
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Sprint doesn't have a policy against rooting/roms. You are fine.
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I'd imagine they'll run a reformat to all the correct partitions and send it out as a refurb.
I cant even get it to start in bootloader
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I cant even get it to start in bootloader
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Are you asking for help? Or just announcing?
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help
Whiplashh said:
Are you asking for help? Or just announcing?
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Help please
I hit the power button nothing happens not even boot loop please help
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I hit the power button nothing happens not even boot loop please help
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Give us the story of what you were doing before or when it crapped.
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Give us the story of what you were doing before or when it crapped.
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I tried to flash cwm touch
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I tried to flash cwm touch
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Hold volume down and power and home
Does it do anything? If so, get Odin and flash a stock tar for jellybean.
******WARNING: THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON PHONE (not external sdcard, the PHONE).*******
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Whats the name of the cwm file you flashed and how you flashed it
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Whats the name of the cwm file you flashed and how you flashed it
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This ^
Also, if you did it through the app, I've heard a lot of reports lately of people bootlooping after updating their recovery.
So if you can get it recognized in ODIN, flash a recovery through that and then see if you can get into it
I think i did the same. i was installing liquidsmooth for the S3 and went to reboot it and bam! bricked. i realized i did not do a wipe i just did an install on top of the rom. I have since then tried all button combos but no luck. I have installed odin and seems like when i plug in the phone to the computer and hold VOL UP+home+power my PC recognizes it but i dont think odin does. So I plan on going and buying one off craigslist and activating it in the morning if i cant do anything by then.
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This ^
Also, if you did it through the app, I've heard a lot of reports lately of people bootlooping after updating their recovery.
So if you can get it recognized in ODIN, flash a recovery through that and then see if you can get into it
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My phone is dead can't get it in to Odin or recovery nothing happens
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My phone is dead can't get it in to Odin or recovery nothing happens
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Then it sounds to me like you have yourself a fancy paperweight. Where did you find the ROM you were flashing when it occurred?
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Then it sounds to me like you have yourself a fancy paperweight. Where did you find the ROM you were flashing when it occurred?
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He was trying to flash cwm touch
I sent my phne to mobiletechvideo and got it fixed to stock. Cheaper than buying a new phone
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They fix a hard brick
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FYI if you had a hard brick call Samsung and tell them it just stopped working and they will send you a box pre paid to send your phone in and a refurbished phone for your replacement. I end up getting a new phone as a replacement as I bricked mine a few weeks after the phone can out. I did this three times and the last time got a refurbished one. You don't pay nothing and the phone come in about a week the only thing that stuck is you have to setup your phone all over again. There really nice on the phone and didn't ask me about flashing or rooting my phone they just tried to have me trouble shoot the phone which I couldn't. Oh one thing our phone I's covered for one year manufacture warranty that has nothing to do with the carrier.
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FYI if you had a hard brick call Samsung and tell them it just stopped working and they will send you a box pre paid to send your phone in and a refurbished phone for your replacement. I end up getting a new phone as a replacement as I bricked mine a few weeks after the phone can out. I did this three times and the last time got a refurbished one. You don't pay nothing and the phone come in about a week the only thing that stuck is you have to setup your phone all over again. There really nice on the phone and didn't ask me about flashing or rooting my phone they just tried to have me trouble shoot the phone which I couldn't. Oh one thing our phone I's covered for one year manufacture warranty that has nothing to do with the carrier.
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Shouldn't be doing this when you hard brick your phone, that's for actual phone defects and your dumb mistake doesn't fall into that category... :banghead:
SPRINT GS3 FAQ
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FYI if you had a hard brick call Samsung and tell them it just stopped working and they will send you a box pre paid to send your phone in and a refurbished phone for your replacement. I end up getting a new phone as a replacement as I bricked mine a few weeks after the phone can out. I did this three times and the last time got a refurbished one. You don't pay nothing and the phone come in about a week the only thing that stuck is you have to setup your phone all over again. There really nice on the phone and didn't ask me about flashing or rooting my phone they just tried to have me trouble shoot the phone which I couldn't. Oh one thing our phone I's covered for one year manufacture warranty that has nothing to do with the carrier.
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You hard bricked three times!!!! Don't experiment use stuff you know will work!!!
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bonebeatz1234 said:
FYI if you had a hard brick call Samsung and tell them it just stopped working and they will send you a box pre paid to send your phone in and a refurbished phone for your replacement. I end up getting a new phone as a replacement as I bricked mine a few weeks after the phone can out. I did this three times and the last time got a refurbished one. You don't pay nothing and the phone come in about a week the only thing that stuck is you have to setup your phone all over again. There really nice on the phone and didn't ask me about flashing or rooting my phone they just tried to have me trouble shoot the phone which I couldn't. Oh one thing our phone I's covered for one year manufacture warranty that has nothing to do with the carrier.
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This is called fraud. It's not a manufacturer defect that you screwed up. It's a you defect :thumbdown: people like you are the reason prices keep going up instead of going down.
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bonebeatz1234 said:
FYI if you had a hard brick call Samsung and tell them it just stopped working and they will send you a box pre paid to send your phone in and a refurbished phone for your replacement. I end up getting a new phone as a replacement as I bricked mine a few weeks after the phone can out. I did this three times and the last time got a refurbished one. You don't pay nothing and the phone come in about a week the only thing that stuck is you have to setup your phone all over again. There really nice on the phone and didn't ask me about flashing or rooting my phone they just tried to have me trouble shoot the phone which I couldn't. Oh one thing our phone I's covered for one year manufacture warranty that has nothing to do with the carrier.
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Please do not encourage other members to commit fraud.
Fraud: A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed—that deceives and is intended to deceive another so that the individual will act upon it to her or his legal injury.
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Whether or not they do replace it is irrelevant. When you decided to root your phone, you voided any and all claims on your warranty (which covers manufacturers defects only). If all of the people who hard-brick their phones claim it on the sprint warranty, you'll see a drastic increase in one (or all) of the following:
Phone Costs
Plan pricing
TEP Costs
"Premium Data" charges
By "claiming ignorance," you are willfully misrepresenting your situation to Sprint, with the intent to deceive Sprint so that they may pay for your mistake. This, by definition, is fraud. Now, you probably won't be sitting in front of a Grand Jury because of one (or three) replaced phones, but it honestly speaks volumes to your moral character if you see no problem with this.
What you're doing is passing the buck on your mistake off to Sprint. Sprint, in turn, will pass that cost onto us. Please don't recommend this course of action again.
First off my device is unlocked and rooted but that is it and I did that weeks and weeks ago when the latest android patch came out.
It has been working fine but I had a sleep over with the kids last weekend and they like to play with it as usual. After they left, hours later I noticed the device showing the google start screen like it was stuck there. I tried to get it into the boot loader or recovery and nothing. Now it appears dead, no lights, etc.
I tried charging and tried using the volume and power thing, etc to no avail. When connected to the pc I am gettng the dreaded QHSUSB_Dload thing.
#First question is there a fix for this? I have searched every where and have yet to find anything substancial other than the volume thing which is not working.
# second question is can I rma this or will it not be accepted due to it being rooted? There is no way I can bring it back to stock without accessing the bootloader.
#last question - If I cannot rms it can I take it apart and do something to repair it or is there anything I can do?
Thanks guys. This really sucks. i have never had an issue up until now and this thing is totally stock besides being rooted and unlocked.
Have you tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381582
That will not work with a hard brick. I cannot get into bootloader or adb.
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Do you guys think I can do an RMA?
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Thanks for the outpouring of support here. :banghead:
I think it is clear I'm screwed.
Pretty unbelievable as I'm all stock except for recovery.
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Do you guys think I can do an RMA?
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I'd try to send it back for repair. What do you have to lose?
What I have to lose is money. If I RMA it is possible for Google to keep the payment and I'm not about to buy another unit because one fails through nothing I did.
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Richieboy67 said:
What I have to lose is money. If I RMA it is possible for Google to keep the payment and I'm not about to buy another unit because one fails through nothing I did.
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I understand that, but right now you have a $200 paper weight. So why not gamble on the s/h for the rma?
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying.
Google basically makes you pay for a replacement. Upon inspection they refund the money. If they do not refund the money then I am out the full cost.
I could find that reasonable if I was playing around or something but I have kept my devices all stock ever since the latest version came out except for unlocking and rooting.
I guess the other option would be to find someone to do a jtag repair and I could only find one guy and I don't think he touches Nexus 7s. Not sure though but waiting for him to reply. This sucks! My device was perfect and I loved it.Great battery, no touch screen issues. Not a single issue and then all of a sudden this. i really cannot understand what caused it.
Thanks for the reply. I really figured there would be others this happened too but everyone gets Hard Brick mixed up with soft brick and every hard brick post I read is not a hard brick. Hard Brick = F#cked :crying:
I gotcha. I thought you paid to send it back & then you had the option to pay to fix it if it wasn't covered by warranty.
That could be through Asus directly but not sure.
I think though if they go to repair it they will see the unlocked boot loader. That voids the warranty
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If it was mine I would take the back cover off and unplug the battery and let it sit for ~5 min. If there is a physical reset plug then push that in a couple times.
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If it was mine I would take the back cover off and unplug the battery and let it sit for ~5 min. If there is a physical reset plug then push that in a couple times.
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Yeah, if you know an RMA is a very very very poor shot / don't want to try it. I guess a tear down is your second best bet.
You should check out Adam Outler's tear down videos if you feel you might be able to take this on. I'll link Outler's videos below. They MAY help you in deciding if you want to go through with it (and what you may expect to see).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMzi4K_PwPs (Transplant Nexus 7 Boards)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOFpY1nXFew (Nexus 7 Unboxed the XDA way)
Thanks guys.
I finally got an email back from those guys that do Jtag repairs and he said it was a hardware issue but I am not sure if he understood my issue.
I do not think taking it apart and unplugging the battery will work here if the bootloader is corrupt. I am going to try to let the battery go completely dead though and then try to do the volume/power key thing to see if there is any chance.
I do not know much about this but what I read is that if the bootloader is stopped somehow while loading it can become corrupt in some cases and you cannot do anything without it and there is a device specific key involved. That is why only someone with some specific software can fix it. I thought this key as called Jtag but again, I do not know much about this. The Jtag guy said it was hardware.
Man, I have an Hp touchpad that I got years ago. I installed Android on it years ago and have it overclocked it to over 1700mhz and that thing is still going strong. The kids even dropped it and it has a crack in the screen and it still will not die. Here I have a Nexus only a few months old fully stock except for root and unlock and it is dead. Kills me especially after the way I always stand up for the Nexus line. Still loving my Nexus 4 though and it is well over a year old. Oh well, if that one goes like this one I am jumping off a high bridge. :laugh:
Richieboy67 said:
What I have to lose is money. If I RMA it is possible for Google to keep the payment and I'm not about to buy another unit because one fails through nothing I did.
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I am confused as to why you are so sure what is wrong with it, how do you know the bootloader is corrupt if you claim no wrong doing. Also technically speaking you did do something to begin with, you knew full well that you would be voiding the warranty by rooting and installing a custom recovery. More than likely if kids messing with it actually did end up with it how it is now they probably accepted an OTA and it corrupted the boot, on the LG G2 they have figured out how to delete the FOTA information that it continuously tries to boot from and return normal boot sequence.
But I reiterate you cannot blame this on anyone but yourself right now, being angry with ASUS or the kids will do you no good. You knowingly voided your warranty now it is time to put your nose down and see if you can fix it, there are a lot of resources here to do such.
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I am confused as to why you are so sure what is wrong with it, how do you know the bootloader is corrupt if you claim no wrong doing. Also technically speaking you did do something to begin with, you knew full well that you would be voiding the warranty by rooting and installing a custom recovery. More than likely if kids messing with it actually did end up with it how it is now they probably accepted an OTA and it corrupted the boot, on the LG G2 they have figured out how to delete the FOTA information that it continuously tries to boot from and return normal boot sequence.
But I reiterate you cannot blame this on anyone but yourself right now, being angry with ASUS or the kids will do you no good. You knowingly voided your warranty now it is time to put your nose down and see if you can fix it, there are a lot of resources here to do such.
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First off, I am not sure what is wrong with it which is why I am posting here. I stated numerous times that I do not know much about this.
And yes, I know this that rooting and unlocking voids the warranty. I also know that it is my fault for doing it but I have been doing it for around 3 years now and have used various roms and kernals in the paqs and have never had an issue. Perhaps it is a hardware issue. I just do not think this issue was caused by me.
In terms of the kids playing with the device. They play games, things like that. The desktop is locked and they have no access to settings or anything. When I said messing with it I just meant playing games though sometimes they open new games and leave the old ones running. I do not know how that would cause this.
There was no ota or update.
I am not sure what you are saying about LG.
And again, I am not angry with Google or Asus. My point was that this issue was most likely not caused due to rooting or unlocking and an ota would not cause a dhsusb issue even if it did go bad.Lets try to remember that nearly everyone here roots, unlockes and installs roms, etc. I have done so as well but not on this device. This one I wanted to keep pretty much vanilla but I wanted to be able to use Titanium back up, etc. And also, I rooted and unlocked months ago when I first got the device and had to root again when the latest version came out which was awhile ago.
In terms of fixing I have not found a solution for this. I do not know if it is a hardware issue or a software issue. That is why I am posting here. I am looking for some information from people who know this stuff. I know nothing but what I have read and so far I have read many different things. I am here to learn.
OK so here is what I meant with the G2..
I had a stock/rooted/TWRP G2 and half asleep accepted an OTA Update, when it does this it downloads the update into a partition that the device checks before booting. Because I had the custom recovery obviously the update failed but it left that code in the boot partition that would now allow me to even get into download mode. See this post here for how it was fixed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
I am not sure if this would be the same problem or how to go about fixing it because of the device difference, but maybe it could help? I didn't mean to come off as a ****, just far too many people like to get into their devices and void the warranty then blame everyone else.
It is really not difficult to pull the back cover off and unplug the battery, I suggest doing this it could very well help just be careful not to crack the back while pulling it off, a credit card/ID and a butter knife should do the trick without leaving marks.
No worries. I appreciate the help.
I agree with you totally.
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