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[Q] Partitions Borked?!

Well long story I just obtained my new replacement E4GT and well decided to root it and after running calks ics rom for a while decided to flash aokp from gb, everything ok but after seeing aokp have cwm decided to flash the new version but with a data cache wipe first, well it stucked in wiping data i really freaked out and after a moment decided to take out the battery and left it to the luck i saw the sgsii screen and felt so relieved but when trying to restore something it just stops or in system or in data in the backup and in the installing part so will odin help me with something or did i just bricked the device by borking the partitions and need new phone

check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808.
try odin'ing a full stock rom (i suggest one of sfhub's one click el29).

Same thing happened to me I was trying to restore from aokp 30 cwm to gingerbread and it did finish but when I reboot just a blue light of death.I sent my phone to mobiletechvideos.com for jtag.
I am using nexus s 4g right now and it slow lag like hell oh I missed my touch.
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Hmm i guess if f"""ked well if my dad see this well no more smartphones for me in a long time (2 epic 4g touches in 3 months)

*GalaxyDev* said:
Hmm i guess if f"""ked well if my dad see this well no more smartphones for me in a long time (2 epic 4g touches in 3 months)
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Try to Odin the full el29 from sfhub first like a guy above said I think urs still could be revived but mine was just blue light of death.
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I cant. until tomorrow , right now I will be with this HTC hero but I hope so because a guy above posted a thread I read it all and well if it is like all guys in that thread thats a no go and i don't have insurance so ill buy an EVO shift or something cheap and don't root it :banghead: a jtag would work?! Or don't knowww SOMETHING!!!!
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This is karma for not sticking to your word.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1564470

*GalaxyDev* said:
Hmm i guess if f"""ked well if my dad see this well no more smartphones for me in a long time (2 epic 4g touches in 3 months)
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Yeah if I were your dad you would definitely not be getting any new phones. You'd think you would have educated yourself after the first brick...
Btw you can send the phone to Samsung for repair. You don't have to buy a new one. Just slow down and think. Panicking = bad.
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Hmmm Samsung do you know how much would it cost?!
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Hmmm Samsung do you know how much would it cost?!
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i dont know about samsung, but with sprint:
When enrolled in Total Equipment Protection (TEP):
•$0 for normal wear and tear and mechanical and electrical failure.
•$50 or $100 non-refundable deductible applies depending on device model for loss, theft, or physical or liquid damage per approved claim filed with the insurance administrator, Asurion.
When not enrolled in Total Equipment Protection (TEP):
•$35 for wear and tear, and mechanical or electrical failures.
•Upgrades or new device purchases are at Suggested Retail Price for loss, theft or physical or liquid damage.

I swear I never touched your phone.
I keep getting accused of this too often..

So I go to a repair center and here's what went down

I called today and made an appointment to see a sprint technician I go in and the manager stops me at the door and says can I help you with anything now any rooting veteran kn rows when u go into a repair center to play dumb so I said hum I have an appointment and he's like okay well come here and I'll look at the phone. That right there got me worried because and untrained cashier jockey was about to take a look at my phones sub port. The first mistake he made as I watched him carefully was he jammed his fingernail in the sub port and pryed the back cover off backwards and forcefully and almost throws my phone across the room. I wanted to say something but I did not want to spark him as he seemed to have attitude as it is. Well he outs a sub cable in ( first upsidedown) and he closely compares mine to the store cable I guess he doesn't know what micro sub looks like. And he says it charges just fine and decides to finally bring it to a technician and they ran a detailed test on my sub cable and determined it was frayed on the inside so I said to myself no buggy I then decided to ask if he cud do something about this crack in the screen bezel just about the volume rocker. And he employees and talks to me as if I'm 5 years old. The worst part is because he wasn't a technician I never got the survey call from sprint to rate his poor performance
Edit pleasebignor the subs* I opined back time stock today and you all know how shifty Samsung's spell check is
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...Huh?
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This is pointless Im a sprint technician and I'm sorry they way they treated you but I'm not sure what message your trying to convey here it was mostly gobberish
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Yeah im a tmobile technician and I didnt understand your point. Can you clarify?

Why was this thread started???

Well of course he treated you "like a 5 year old"... You were playing dumb and you probably over-played it.

Seriously, i wrote better than this and communicated myself across with more cohesion at 5 years of age. What exactly is going on here?
You took your phone into a Sprint store and..........???

ks2332 said:
This is pointless Im a sprint technician and I'm sorry they way they treated you but I'm not sure what message your trying to convey here it was mostly gobberish
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excuse my gibberish i angerly rage posted this on stock tw with the stock sammy keyboard and the spell checkis horrible basically what i was trying to say was that the manager tried to mess with my phone and failed , then gave up and went to a technition and then gave me attitude about it

I'm pretty sure I understand and that really really really sucks! I've always done my own repairs I will never trust someone else!
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matrixzone5 said:
excuse my gibberish i angerly rage posted this on stock tw with the stock sammy keyboard and the spell checkis horrible basically what i was trying to say was that the manager tried to mess with my phone and failed , then gave up and went to a technition and then gave me attitude about it
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Get swiftkey.
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jamcar said:
I'm pretty sure I understand and that really really really sucks! I've always done my own repairs I will never trust someone else!
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as do i amigo but this time would have been impossible as i could not tell wther my usb cord was funky or my usb port was damaged i also do not have the equipment to repair a busted usb port if that is at all possible.

yousefak said:
Get swiftkey.
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i didnt have time to i odin'd back to stock and ran out of the house

matrixzone5 said:
i didnt have time to i odin'd back to stock and ran out of the house
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Rooted phones are covered by sprint tep....no reason to play dumb
Definitely sounds like a communication issue.
Did they get you a new USB cable?
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00mred00 said:
Rooted phones are covered by sprint tep....no reason to play dumb
Definitely sounds like a communication issue.
Did they get you a new USB cable?
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thats tep im not paying 100 dollars for what could have been a bad usb port that wasnt my fault and no they did not get me a usb cable i actually didnt talk to a technician at all the manager was playing mr fixit with me and he told me i wud have to go buy a new usb cord. actually his exact words (he was american not indian nor hispanic he spoke perfect english no accents of any sort) "uhmm well uhh uhm you see this uhm this cord its uhh not good very bad so you need a new one its uhm cut inside and if you look at your uhm port (usb port) you can see that its bent (looked at it and compared to floor model mine was straight as a bullet).
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matrixzone5 said:
as do i amigo but this time would have been impossible as i could not tell wther my usb cord was funky or my usb port was damaged i also do not have the equipment to repair a busted usb port if that is at all possible.
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It's possible I've done it! It just takes a high level of a skill with a soldering iron and steady steady hands...
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I am very gud with a soldering gun I just don't have one with a thin enough tip to. E used on mobile electronics
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L2English

Enough posts about how shi** I spell when I'm pissed off please the topic is sprint treated me like dirt today and I'm pretty sure t
What the manager did could have been a big mistake on his part had he splipped up worse.
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matrixzone5 said:
Enough posts about how shi** I spell when I'm pissed off please the topic is sprint treated me like dirt today and I'm pretty sure t
What the manager did could have been a big mistake on his part had he splipped up worse.
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I have a good relationship with the tech supervisor at the local repair center. The thing that kicked it off was when I brought my OG Epic in back when I was trying to get MIUI on it (before MIUI was release for it), he thought it was pretty cool that I was tweaking the phone like that and asked me if I could do anything with his Evo......free service/repairs ever since, no questions asked.

shiftr182 said:
I have a good relationship with the tech supervisor at the local repair center. The thing that kicked it off was when I brought my OG Epic in back when I was trying to get MIUI on it (before MIUI was release for it), he thought it was pretty cool that I was tweaking the phone like that and asked me if I could do anything with his Evo......free service/repairs ever since, no questions asked.
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I had a similar situation with a technitian we would keep up with each other me being a Sammy fan boy and her being an HTC fanatic we always had good debates about which xhipset was more efficient and blab blah blah any ways she left sprint to go work for Microsoft and since then getting any sort of repair has been a living hell.
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HELP! Is Wifi permantly broken?

My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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lovenokia said:
My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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Physical damage can only be fixed by insurance claim. Will set your friend back 130 bucks. Now, the bigger issue is why would your friends mom stab a phone? Was he protecting himself with the phone from getting stabbed!?
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Physical damage can only be fixed by insurance claim. Will set your friend back 130 bucks. Now, the bigger issue is why would your friends mom stab a phone? Was he protecting himself with the phone from getting stabbed!?
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Extremely long story, basically she wanted to break the phone somehow. Is there any chance I could replace that part of the phone myself? Is it part of the motherboard or not? Thanks!
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Are you five?
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Move out?
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Smgdh
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Okay, can the WiFi be fixed? Sheesh it may be a really strange situation but I am not five... Some places the WiFi will work normally but very few of them
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lovenokia said:
Okay, can the WiFi be fixed? Sheesh it may be a really strange situation but I am not five... Some places the WiFi will work normally but very few of them
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XDA is great at fixing things, hacking and tweaking things.
but if you read all the threads here, you will soon realize 99.999999% of the things people do here are all software related.
You have physical damage done to the phone, there is really no way to figure it out..
Get a new or used phone!

fastfed said:
XDA is great at fixing things, hacking and tweaking things.
but if you read all the threads here, you will soon realize 99.999999% of the things people do here are all software related.
You have physical damage done to the phone, there is really no way to figure it out..
Get a new or used phone!
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+1 I honestly don't know if it can be fixed. Even so, it will be less trouble just to do a insurance claim, that is if you have it.
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If u have the technical knowhow then it's possible to fix it.. You could search YouTube and see what pops up in ways of some kind of tutorial /guide.. But if you are not the kind of person who knows how to do it then it would be way easier just to get it professionally repaired..
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+1 I honestly don't know if it can be fixed. Even so, it will be less trouble just to do a insurance claim, that is if you have it.
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Do you know what component would need to be replaced? The back cover of the phone is being eroded by the way. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
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lovenokia said:
Do you know what component would need to be replaced? The back cover of the phone is being eroded by the way. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
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Its the fact there is erosion that tells me you can't just replace a piece. How far has the erosion spread? Had it got to the motherboard?
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that component is eroding, and the back cover, the plastic one is close to having a hole into it.

lovenokia said:
My friend has a tmobile galaxy s2 and his mom stabbed the phone right in what I believe is the Wifi reciever. There is corrosion appearing, and there is a terrible smell to it. The wifi radius is severely limited in zone, and wont read every network. There is a picture below, and is there anything I can do to revive the phone wifi receiver?
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this is sad but very funny sorry haha dang she stabbed it?! thats insane..
what about replacing the wifi reciever.. once you smell the bad smell that seems like its cooked..

You sure it's not electrical current damage?

abesgs2 said:
this is sad but very funny sorry haha dang she stabbed it?! thats insane..
what about replacing the wifi reciever.. once you smell the bad smell that seems like its cooked..
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it has a very bad smell to it

Look up t989 teardown. It looks like that is not the WiFi module, but the signal lead. Seems like its part of the mother board I believe. None the less, if it's just a copper lead it should be repairable. Being exposed may be causing some shorting out leading to the damage and bad connection. Repairing may not make it perfect though.

I was trying to find a tear down video, but couldn't find one. What component would I have to change?

lovenokia said:
I was trying to find a tear down video, but couldn't find one. What component would I have to change?
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a link to that component anyone, thanks a lot though

How hard is it to change the screen? Shattered screen and I can't connect USB

So my screen is broken and when I connect to PC I cannot see internal memory and kies sais that usb debugging is not enabled but I always enable that so no idea why it isn't working.
Phone is rooted with calks 3.0 GB rom and CWM, I know the phone works because you can hear alerts coming in for messages. Pretty sure I have all the pics and docs backed up via dropbox but I would like to possible save the phone and replace screen.
Never done this before so I am a newb, how much would the screen cost and does anyone know a good parts website for this phone?
Thanks

Raistlin1 said:
So my screen is broken and when I connect to PC I cannot see internal memory and kies sais that usb debugging is not enabled but I always enable that so no idea why it isn't working.
Phone is rooted with calks 3.0 GB rom and CWM, I know the phone works because you can hear alerts coming in for messages. Pretty sure I have all the pics and docs backed up via dropbox but I would like to possible save the phone and replace screen.
Never done this before so I am a newb, how much would the screen cost and does anyone know a good parts website for this phone?
Thanks
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Here

My screen was cracked as well i lokked around online for the screen but the lowest i saw them was like $150 i called samsung and theyvsaid theyd do it for $164 so i just sent it in and they replaced it for me
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Try www.ifixit.com. they have most phones listed with easy to follow directions. You can also buy your parts directly from them.
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I could do the repair for 100
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tuscani1821 said:
I could do the repair for 100
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I have a shattered screen too, but I don't know if the board is cracked too (it looks like someone sat on the phone). Is there a way to check that the phone still functions? It might be worth replacing the screen to have a dev device to mess with...

gfxmla said:
I have a shattered screen too, but I don't know if the board is cracked too (it looks like someone sat on the phone). Is there a way to check that the phone still functions? It might be worth replacing the screen to have a dev device to mess with...
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I didn't think about this, my phone turns on and off but no sound and not sure what it is turning onto. Maybe I will unscrew it and try and pry the screen off to see the board.

Its super easy to fix yourself but the problem is paying for that replacement screen. Almost cheaper to buy a whole another phone
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my board is fine...I can adb to the device. Does anyone have a tutorial on replacing the screen?
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gfxmla said:
my board is fine...I can adb to the device. Does anyone have a tutorial on replacing the screen?
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I posted how I done it somewhere
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I agree just getting a replacement phone is the way to go, but I need to make sure I did not lose anything on the internal storage of my wifes broken phone. I have all photos backed up to dropbox, but I just need to make sure. Also, the used phone I replaced her broken phone with has a little bit of a beaten up trim around the screen but screen is fine.
When I connect with USB I do not see any drives and Kies says that the phone needs to have USB debugging enabled, which I could have sworn I did on her phone. I had her phone running on Calks 3.0 GB ROM and it was rooted so pretty sure I did it but who knows.
Any tutorials on how to access the internal storage in my situation? If I could do that then no need to replace screen.
Thanks
I may take up that offer to replace for $100, not a bad option at all.

How much does sprint charge to replace the screen? Hell it's just as easy to take this phone apart as my old Evo was and they only charged $35 to replace the screen. Bezel and all. With no warranty on phone
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wotandsdwys said:
How much does sprint charge to replace the screen? Hell it's just as easy to take this phone apart as my old Evo was and they only charged $35 to replace the screen. Bezel and all. With no warranty on phone
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I will have to give that a try, maybe they will do it for a reasonable price. Problem is very long lines at the Sprint store.

wotandsdwys said:
How much does sprint charge to replace the screen? Hell it's just as easy to take this phone apart as my old Evo was and they only charged $35 to replace the screen. Bezel and all. With no warranty on phone
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Sprint does not replace physically damaged screens
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Sprint does not replace physically damaged screens
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They did for my Evo maybe 3 or 4 times. Cost $35 each time.
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Dropped my phone, black screen (replace with D710 screen?)

Well I dropped my phone a few days and now all I have is a black screen. I figure I need a new digitizer and lcd screen but all the parts for the t989 are really expensive. So I was wondering if I could use the digitizer/lcd screen from the Sprint Galaxy S2 D710 since both our phones have the same sized screen, that way I could save myself a lot of money.
Hopefully someone can help me out I'm already tired of using a blackberry!

anyone?

Iconic24 said:
Well I dropped my phone a few days and now all I have is a black screen. I figure I need a new digitizer and lcd screen but all the parts for the t989 are really expensive. So I was wondering if I could use the digitizer/lcd screen from the Sprint Galaxy S2 D710 since both our phones have the same sized screen, that way I could save myself a lot of money.
Hopefully someone can help me out I'm already tired of using a blackberry!
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Oh no lol a blackberry ewwww lol, it may work, but remember just because it's the same size does not mean it will work , there may be different connections and hardware issues connected to the different (hardware anyway) phones
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Oh no lol a blackberry ewwww lol, it may work, but remember just because it's the same size does not mean it will work , there may be different connections and hardware issues connected to the different (hardware anyway) phones
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Lol tell me about it, you don't even know how much I miss my S2 right now. Yeah I know the dimensions of the screen are the same but I don't know if the connections are the same

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Lol tell me about it, you don't even know how much I miss my S2 right now. Yeah I know the dimensions of the screen are the same but I don't know if the connections are the same
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Yeah that's what I'm talking about, it may be the same dimension, but it could be completely different hardware lol and that's a whole new issue u don't want, I was without my gs2 for almost 4hrs due to a bad update through kies lol worst 4hrs ever, looked at my trusty backup (zte merrit z990g) and almost cried, luckly it was a very easy fix
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Isn't the amoled display different than the one you want to replace? I mean its just the calibration so I guess it won't matter, and I'm almost positive the connectors are different. I would go for it though, and you might learn something too
Well anyways sucks for your screen :/ and that you can't use your sg2
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try finding one of those indian/chinese shops that can fix your phone 50

Iconic24 said:
Lol tell me about it, you don't even know how much I miss my S2 right now. Yeah I know the dimensions of the screen are the same but I don't know if the connections are the same
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I am in the same situation. Did the d710 work for you?

khaledq said:
I am in the same situation. Did the d710 work for you?
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I ended up buying a new phone, my s2 is still broken
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