While my little sister and were at the doctor's office, I decided to let her play on my phone. I heard heard the phone buzz alerting that there was a new text message received. My sister told me she had won a $1000 Walmart gift card from the text message. I told her that it's a scam and could possibly be a virus and told her not to open. She decided to anyway... as soon as she clicked on it, it instantly rebooted. Now I'm paranoid that I have a virus on my phone! I already fully wiped it twice and installed a different ROM as well as kernel. Is there anything that could be wrong with my phone now? If so, what could I do to fix it?
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The only think I can think is that if you had any bank/credit card info on there, I would watch your statements very closely. Not Dating that anything will happen but you never know.
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You should be fine, but install Lookout Mobile Security from the Play store just to be sure.
I "won" one of those too, but it was for Best Buy, your phone may have restarted due to a memory leak. I know my phone and tablet restarts randomly when I visit a messy page with too much flash content.
*saying.... Not dating! Lol
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You should be fine, but install Lookout Mobile Security from the Play store just to be sure.
I "won" one of those too, but it was for Best Buy, your phone may have restarted due to a memory leak. I know my phone and tablet restarts randomly when I visit a messy page with too much flash content.
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I agree, I wouldn't think you have much to worry about. But with security Id still rather be safe than sorry.
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Just wondering what, if any, phone finding software people prefer. I had installed SeekDroid on my previous phone when it was a free download from amazon. Prior to that I remember at some point having wavesecur when it first came out but now that is mcafee. Not having insurance on this phone I'm thinking of installing SeekDroid back on it.
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Just wondering what, if any, phone finding software people prefer. I had installed SeekDroid on my previous phone when it was a free download from amazon. Prior to that I remember at some point having wavesecur when it first came out but now that is mcafee. Not having insurance on this phone I'm thinking of installing SeekDroid back on it.
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Wheres My Droid is the bomb diggy!
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Theft Aware is great. Especially if you're rooted.
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I'm using SeekDroid because it was free for a day and it works, I never lost a phone but you never know what can happen
seekdroid, also on the free amazon day. Does just what is says, and doesn't seem to cause any issues. Nice to see they added texting recovery/locking/wiping options recently also, so you don't need to have internet handy when you realize your phone is gone, you can just borrow someones phone.
How can I get Cerberus free license ?
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How can I get Cerberus free license ?
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This forum isn't the place to ask how to get a free license
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Just lost my phone in taxi I'm rooted also have face unlock and pattern unlock secondary. Is there anything I can do to assure the finder can't use it. Or can I track it. I'm on monthly 4g so no insurance!
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diamantericos said:
Just lost my phone in taxi I'm rooted also have face unlock and pattern unlock secondary. Is there anything I can do to assure the finder can't use it. Or can I track it. I'm on monthly 4g so no insurance!
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If your rooted and all that good stuff you should know how easy it is to just go into recovery and wipe everything. Sorry to say the driver has a new toy. He can't see your stuff tho if that's what you care about. And your pics are exposed as well since they are most likely on your sdcard.
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If your rooted and all that good stuff you should know how easy it is to just go into recovery and wipe everything. Sorry to say the driver has a new toy. He can't see your stuff tho if that's what you care about. And your pics are exposed as well since they are most likely on your sdcard.
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Doubt the driver will know how to do that, anyways unless you had an app like Where's my Droid or something similar to that, you are pretty screwed. Unless the driver is a nice guy and returns it
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If you have LookOut security
If you have installed something like lookout security/virus scan on the device (even the free version), you can locate the device and see it on a GPS map from their website sign in page. Also, you can set an alarm (annoying sound) to go off on the phone; nice feature...lets the person know you can tract the phone.
I'm sure (as other's have mentioned) there are other apps that do the same thing...maybe you had a Google Latitude account and you had it set up?? that would work also.
Good Luck, sorry to hear what happened to you...it sucks, I know how you feel!
I'm using "Lookout". What are you using?
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I haven't had a need for a security app yet. Has Lookout prevented anything malicious for you?
Don't waste the battery and cpu cycles on something that quite frankly is borderline worthless. The trust thing is ironic. You will trust an app you didnt write to protect you from other apps you didnt write
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Don't waste the battery and cpu cycles on something that quite frankly is borderline worthless. The trust thing is ironic. You will trust an app you didnt write to protect you from other apps you didnt write
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Not useless for the people who wish to remain secure in case their phone gets stolen or lost
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Not useless for the people who wish to remain secure in case their phone gets stolen or lost
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true, i only thought of the anitvir usage. i stand corrected
I use Avast. I have it just in case the phone is lost or stolen but it does give me piece of mind when trying non market apps.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antivirus
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I use Avast. I have it just in case the phone is lost or stolen but it does give me piece of mind when trying non market apps.
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Avast it is.... love the firewall *rooted* no more annoying adds when playing free games and apps.. and the anti lost.. awesome.. not laggy too..
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Avast for lost/stolen device tracking, allows device disable if the SIM is changed. Also allows you to lock, unlock, wipe, sound alarm by SMS. Hopefully I never need to use it.
From what i understand any perceived need for antivirus/malware scanning will disappear with 4.2 and the new Play Store.
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Antivirus apps are pointless.
For lost/stolen I've been loving SeekDroid for a while now. Very nice app and works with out fail any time I test it.
Search for pdroid !
Btw antivirus = gimmick nothing else !
That's a good app I used to use it but it gets owned by cerberus. Try that it has way more features for a one time 3.99 fee. U can test free for a week.
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Antivirus apps are pointless.
For lost/stolen I've been loving SeekDroid for a while now. Very nice app and works with out fail any time I test it.
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+1 for seekdroid. Got it for free from Amazon a while ago but have found that its pretty good. Haven't had to 'test' it for real just yet but gives me a bit of piece of mind.
Reality is that if your phone is stolen, likelihood of getting it back is pretty slim. For me, real important part would be able to wipe my data to protect myself from anything more than losing a couple hundred bucks on a device.
None, I don't believe in them. If my phone gets lost or stolen then that's that, little can be done afterwards. Police often times wont help and knocking on the persons door and demanding the phone will get you nowhere except property trespassing. Even then, I doubt my offender would want to use any of my information stored on my phone. Any smart thief would know to wipe the phone clean to avoid any of these apps which don't do much. As far a viruses go, really? The only reason anti-virus apps where made was to satisfy the needs of the paranoid, lets leave it at that.
I was mainly speaking of anti theft app, and not to get the phone back, but yes to wipe everything!
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cerebus. it's great. went to the washroom and left my phone in my meeting room. i come back and check my email and there's a photo of my co-worker trying to punch in the wrong PIN code. lol.
I dont have one installed right now, but when I do it's Lookout. I have had lookout stop installation for an app before, I was sideloading it. I dont keep one installed for normal use of the phone and Play Store, but if I was going to be sideloading apps again I would use it for that.
Cerberus is by far the best security app I've used.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5sc2Ryb2lkLmNlcmJlcnVzIl0.
Hi guys, recently lots of S3 owners encouter this scary issue that their S3's motherboards just failed randomly and the phones are dead.Here is the link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
However, after reading pages, I noticed most cases are in the UK, some in other europe countries, some in asia (india, south east asia). Not sure the US version (and Tmo version specificly) is suffering from this, so I made this thread to gather information about this. I know I am paranoid, but I was hoping my S3 would last at least 2 years til my next upgrade. And now Im living in fear after knowing that thread. My S3 (manufacture date is 06/27/12) is still performing very fine with zero issue since august except the SD card being removed unexpectedly 2 times by the phone itself.
(btw, you can check your manufature date by dial this code: *#12580*369# )
Edit: seems like only international version suffers from this issue.
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Thank you. you all need to get it.
elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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my phone comes with 1 year warranty. But I hate having a phone already opened up for repair.
Anyway, there is 1 case with Tmo US version....
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This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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Exactly. These phones are too damn expensive for them to keep sticking us consumers on the crap end of the stick when they screw up.
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as much as i hate to say this but if this does happen to mine, this will be the last time I buy from Samsung and might jump ship to Apple where I can take a phone in a get it fixed in time.
Im pretty happy with Samsung, I deal with warranty on a day to day basis in another way but there is an expected amount of devices that go out that a company knows is going to fail at some point and also rely on returns for warranted devices to see what went wrong in production in order to correct it.
The problem is you have "X" amount of people on the forum which is big in consideration to a regular site and "Y" with the same problem and people group in and make the issue bigger than it is. Any company that posts a recall is at the point that OVER 42% of the product with the same failure over the release.
With that said I haven't had one problem with mine that others have reported and after being let down by HTC time and time again I most definitely will buy another Samsung device, so far it's been the best I've had out of the collection of smartphones I have.
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I'm a Samsung convert
No one else has the cyanogen and miui teams working for them
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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it doesnt matter if youre rooted for hardware failure, they still have to warranty it
Its reasons like these I'm always so fearful to remove my warranty subscription. Oh, and because of all my phone hax0ring
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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You dont have to go to the store, call T-Mobile and they will send you one with an RMA, as soon as you get it put the old one in the box and send it out. All they do is check for water damage and put it up for refurbish they don't waste time putting it through testing they test the devices that may have account info on it if you can't power it up to format it before sending it back. They ask you that on the phone.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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Sounds to me like you might have activated something in developers options, go in settings and see if you selected anything that would flash the screen if long processes are in use.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Did you enable any traces? That would show depending on what you have checked. I was gonna try enabling a few to see what it does but it's not like it would ruin anything. I'll report back though to see if I can recreate it.
Edit nope that did nothing, hope you figure it out, I never had that happen before.
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havent heard anyone yet seem the us version are better than other version in the world
I just bought this GS3 off of craigslist and it was rooted with paranoid android 3.1 which didn't have hands free activation so we couldn't activate the phone. when I brought it home I tried to flash the stock 4.1.2 rom from freeza in order to get the phone activated. it softbricked the phone and I lost recovery mode with it. I have tried twice to unbrick using odin and can't get it to work. someone PLEASE HELP.
update. after several failed attempts with this method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
my final attempt turned it from a soft brick to a hard brick. the phone will no longer turn on for any reason. my computer does for whatever reason recognize if it is plugged in or not though so I'm getting something.
If the phone won't boot into anything but download mode i believe Odin is your only option.
Make sure it's a good usb cable and try different ports on your computer.
Sent from a planet far far away.
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tried the method in the video several times with different usb ports and different usb cables. still don't have recovery mode and can't get past the samsung screen. I've even tried a couple of the older firmware files just to see if it had something to do with that. does samsung not have a bootloader to sideload a custom recovery from an sd card? this is the first sammy I've owned. I'm used to htc.
my last attempt turned it from a soft brick to a hard brick. wtf!!!
The phone is a SPH-L710 correct?
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Yes. The model number is sph-l710. Would Samsung's warranty cover the phone since I'm not the origional owner?
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The last attempt I used the files from the video link. All the previous attempts were with two different files from Samsung-update.com. the guy I bought the phone from won't answer his phone either although it is next to impossible to ever get a refund from someone off of craigslist. Should have waited for the phone to be activated to pay him.
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The last attempt I used the files from the video link. All the previous attempts were with two different files from Samsung-update.com. the guy I bought the phone from won't answer his phone either although it is next to impossible to ever get a refund from someone off of craigslist. Should have waited for the phone to be activated to pay him.
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Yeah, scams are becoming more-and-more prevalent on Craigslist (although, it was never the most trustworthy place, in my opinion). It's becoming best policy to meet the person at the Sprint Store and have them activate the phone before you pay them.
The optimistic side of me says you should get the phone repaired (JTAG repair should work for you, this site has good reviews from XDA members). But the realistic side of me says that the person who sold you the phone probably reported it stolen to Sprint. As far as I'm aware, though, there's no way of checking without getting your phone fixed.
I'm sorry you got screwed on this. But you can take this as a life lesson, and insist on getting the phone activated before paying them money.
I don't think he reported it stolen. Tha part checked out at the store. The tech at the sprint store couldn't figure out how to activate the handset on paranoid android 3.1. A stock Rom should have fixed the issue but for whatever reason I screwed up recovery when I wiped the internal memory. I've done that several times on my nexus tablet and soft bricked it but was always able to fix it. I have no idea why the Odin method wouldn't fix the issue.
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Yeah, scams are becoming more-and-more prevalent on Craigslist (although, it was never the most trustworthy place, in my opinion). It's becoming best policy to meet the person at the Sprint Store and have them activate the phone before you pay them.
The optimistic side of me says you should get the phone repaired (JTAG repair should work for you, this site has good reviews from XDA members). But the realistic side of me says that the person who sold you the phone probably reported it stolen to Sprint. As far as I'm aware, though, there's no way of checking without getting your phone fixed.
I'm sorry you got screwed on this. But you can take this as a life lesson, and insist on getting the phone activated before paying them money.
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Can't really classify this as a scam he bricked the phone himself so it his problem the way I see it at least.
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I wouldn't call it a scam. Just a series of unfortunate events and very much in line with my luck lately.
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I don't think he reported it stolen. Tha part checked out at the store. The tech at the sprint store couldn't figure out how to activate the handset on paranoid android 3.1. A stock Rom should have fixed the issue but for whatever reason I screwed up recovery when I wiped the internal memory. I've done that several times on my nexus tablet and soft bricked it but was always able to fix it. I have no idea why the Odin method wouldn't fix the issue.
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If that's the case, the $60 JTAG repair might be exactly what you're looking for.
There has got to be a way to unbrick it myself. I'd rather not pay someone to do something I know I can do myself if I can find the method.
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There has got to be a way to unbrick it myself. I'd rather not pay someone to do something I know I can do myself if I can find the method.
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The JTAG repair involves shorting something on the motherboard. A search on Youtube might give you directions. When it comes to electronics of this level, I know I don't trust my skills enough to solder. But if you're comfortable, it might work for you.
Shorting the resistor is pretty strait forward and doesn't require resoldering anything. Just don't have the jig for the phone. One of the sprint repair facilities in my are is working with me on a replacement. It is open enrollment atm for all protection plans and it covers waranty work. Lucky me. I'm only out an HTC EVO 4g LTE instead of that and a gs3.
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