[Q] Lock up recovery... - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II

Is there anyway of locking up recovery? i hate it when my friends just turn off my phone and go to recovery and factory resets T-T pls help me

Note2Hunter said:
Is there anyway of locking up recovery? i hate it when my friends just turn off my phone and go to recovery and factory resets T-T pls help me
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Lock up recovery by not letting them get your phone
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Why would your friend do that? I would punch him in the face, then he wouldn't touch the phone again.
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Imagine if you lost the recovery pass word and your phone is soft bricked or worse. Prob the reason why theres no pw for recovery.
Heres the solution:
Dont give phone to friend?
Time for new friends?

LittleRedDot said:
Why would your friend do that? I would punch him in the face, then he wouldn't touch the phone again.
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Probably cause there kids with these phones. We as adults don't do silly childish things like that... Can guarantee there under 21!!
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Also it prevents theives from doing it too
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Good point. ..
Thieves can wipe the device from recovery and your hosed.
A button lockout would serve the same purpose, coupled with a screen password to prevent button unlock. ..
We can do that already with a market application i think. ...g

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Screen broken need data off phone!Help!

Girlfriend got pissed and threw my phone at the wall.Screen doesnt work at all now and is super shattered.Im rooted and have CWM recovery and I want to get the data off the phones storage.I know you could do this with adb but i dont have it installed.If some one could just tell me the button presses to get into mounts and storage in recovery it would be greatly appreciated.
...what if you just turn the phone on and, ya know, plug it into your computer?
When I do that I get the internal and external storage under the phone device without having to tell it to mount anything. Then you can yank all your data off.
Or I'm missing something?
Sorry, don't have cwm installed.
Jump on irc (sticky at the top) and be very polite and precise about what you need.
Don't appear newbish, or they'll bite your head off
I'm sure someone will give you the keypress combination in no time.
First, get rid of the girlfriend, then worry about fixing your phone. Life's too short to mess with crazy chicks.
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Hold volume down and power and put it into download mode and then flash crawj's stock rom... Its in the development section
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Punch her in the face. Rinse&repeat..
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oboroninja said:
Punch her in the face. Rinse&repeat..
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Actually I find mental abuse alot more effective. Just call her fat and she'll beat herself up for the rest of her life
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SAShady said:
Actually I find mental abuse alot more effective. Just call her fat and she'll beat herself up for the rest of her life
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Haha.
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I bricked my phone....

So i was messing around on rom tool box and tried to install some fonts and bricked my phone! Now it wont power on! Im so mad at myself... i tried everything, battery pull, battery out for 2 hours, left it charging all night and nothing. Any body got any ideas as to what happened? And also i only had it for 5 months so its still under warranty, do you think tmobile will know it was rooted? There was no custom rom installed just a kernal. Any thoughts?
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Are you able to get it into download mode?
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Hi there u should try some reset methods simply search on google
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Download Odin 1.85. Pull the battery out then plug the USB cable in to the phone and computer. While holding both volume keys put the battery back in. Should get you to download mode. But before that try to get to recovery and restore a nand. Anymore questions feel free to pm me
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The phone does nothing, no download mode, no recovery, does not power on, does not even charge. I have tried all methods to get the darn thing to boot. Thanks guys for the input. I called tmobile and they can replace/exchange for me. Just hoping they dont find that i rooted it.
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rvdangel630 said:
The phone does nothing, no download mode, no recovery, does not power on, does not even charge. I have tried all methods to get the darn thing to boot. Thanks guys for the input. I called tmobile and they can replace/exchange for me. Just hoping they dont find that i rooted it.
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If you tried all those methods and couldn't get it to turn on then chances are that won't be able to get it to turn on either..
Sent and most importantly they won't be able to see that it was rooted
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Lol i hope so. I miss my phone already. Im using my galaxy tab 2 in the mean time. Im in utah and i wont home for atleast a week! I live in PA! Im a truck driver btw. This week will surely suck....
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would they take the old phone back ? if they dont would you be of help to send the defective piece ?
Sorry tmobile wants it back
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same thing happened to me when i tried to install a font, no custom room, just a kernel but i can boot into recovery and hboot and phone wont boot past the at&t screen

Just bought a S3 from Craigslist -- May be bricked?

Hi,
I just bought a Pebble Blue S3 from craigslist without checking it out properly. (I know, shame on me). The phone is in physically mint condition, the water damage tab is not red and there are no signs of dropping.
The phone's screen does NOT turn on. When I hold the power button to have it load up normally, I can hear the T-mobile jingle and then a constant blue indicator would stay on the top left corner.
I have tried flashing it back to stock through download mode (Power, volume down, and home --> volume up mode) and it seems to make no difference to the screen's issue.
Flashing it back to stock might have made it worse because I can't even access the phone's internal memory through USB anymore.
Any help towards fixing my screen would be great!
Thanks.
So out of curiosity how much did you pay for a phone that you did not check to see if it turned on?
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I paid $250 for it, came with original box and accessories. I thought it was too good to be true, and it seems that way. At worse I can probably break even and sell it as-is.
Is the battery low?
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What does windows report it as in device manager?
If you can get to download mode it may not be hard bricked.
You could flash twrp recovery with idin, then boot recovery and try flashing something from thrre.
Also twrp has a builtin file manager so you can try to see if you can find sny problems that way. (Look for logfiles)
Are you sure its an SGH-T999?
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DocHoliday77 said:
What does windows report it as in device manager?
If you can get to download mode it may not be hard bricked.
You could flash twrp recovery with idin, then boot recovery and try flashing something from thrre.
Also twrp has a builtin file manager so you can try to see if you can find sny problems that way. (Look for logfiles)
Are you sure its an SGH-T999?
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I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark.
Positive it is a SGH-T999, before I flashed the stock PDA in ODIN, Windows Device manager would list that. How do I flash TWRP? Do I need the screen to do it?
Oh the battery is fully charged.
Xiaoazn said:
I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark.
Positive it is a SGH-T999, before I flashed the stock PDA in ODIN, Windows Device manager would list that. How do I flash TWRP? Do I need the screen to do it?
Oh the battery is fully charged.
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Here is the thread for TWRP. But you get to download mode by starting with the device completely powered off, then pressing the volume down, home and power button at the same time until it powers on. I dont understand what you meant by "I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark"
Button mashing I guess?
And just fyi, to boot recovery from power off
Hold volume up, home and power. When you see blue text flash on top of the screen release.
Also, flashing recovery in Odin will trip the flash counter. Prob doesn't matter considering the situation, but just so you know.
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If you can get the phone in download mode, odin back to stock. Then boot into recovery using power +home + vol up and do a factory reset. This step is important. I borked my phone with a bad jb install and using odin on its own doesnt completely reset the phone. Using the factory reset fixed this in my situation
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Send it to Samsung and cross your fingers?
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By saying I'm able to access recovery mode, I got in by basically doing the sequence of buttons, without seeing any display on the screen. I know it is in download mode because it reads on ODIN.
No matter what I click or what mode it is in, the screen is still completely off. Sorry for the confusion.
Xiaoazn said:
By saying I'm able to access recovery mode, I got in by basically doing the sequence of buttons, without seeing any display on the screen. No matter what I click or what mode it is in, the screen is still completely off. Sorry for the confusion.
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Well that's a different story lol. Seems like a hardware fault. If you feel comfortable, take it apart and check all connections. And use a very bright light to look for any cracks on the LCD (not the digitizer) but the underlying LCD.
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elesbb said:
Well that's a different story lol. Seems like a hardware fault. If you feel comfortable, take it apart and check all connections. And use a very bright light to look for any cracks on the LCD (not the digitizer) but the underlying LCD.
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Ugh, I guess it might come down to that. If anyone else have any more tips before I go a head and check the connections, please do tell!
Or you can see if Samsung can repair it under warranty
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Is there no way you can contact the seller? Woulda been the first thing I did!
You may not resolve anything but you could at least try to find out what they did to break it in the first place...then have some fun and blow off some steam till they hang up on you!
Just a thought.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Is there no way you can contact the seller? Woulda been the first thing I did!
You may not resolve anything but you could at least try to find out what they did to break it in the first place...then have some fun and blow off some steam till they hang up on you!
Just a thought.
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That was the first thing I tried. Seller is dodging my calls / not replying to my texts -.-.. Shady guy.
Just contact samsung and send it for repair. Still uder warranty.
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mike102871 said:
Just contact samsung and send it for repair. Still uder warranty.
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I tried that with my s2. Warranty only applies to original buyer :\
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elesbb said:
I tried that with my s2. Warranty only applies to original buyer :\
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I've had Samsung service my SGS1 that I bought off Kijiji while it was still within its one-year warranty. It doesn't just apply to the original owner, just call them and tell them it was a gift, they'll ask for the phone's IMEI, and then they'll be able to tell if it is still within its warranty period.
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I've had Samsung service my SGS1 that I bought off Kijiji while it was still within its one-year warranty. It doesn't just apply to the original owner, just call them and tell them it was a gift, they'll ask for the phone's IMEI, and then they'll be able to tell if it is still within its warranty period.
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Thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot!

Off topic square trade and gn2

Have to send my gn2 for a cracked screen. Prefer to keep my info and phone from prying eyes. How do I lock it down. Since its just the screen do they need access and if it lock will they not repair?
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Suzook1 said:
Have to send my gn2 for a cracked screen. Prefer to keep my info and phone from prying eyes. How do I lock it down. Since its just the screen do they need access and if it lock will they not repair?
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Make a back up. Then flash a stock rom , when ya getyur phone back restore your back up
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I can do that but my question is if its just a screen repair can I just lock the phone and leave it at that
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Suzook1 said:
I can do that but my question is if its just a screen repair can I just lock the phone and leave it at that
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Ya could try and hope they don't ask for the code or anything. I don't see why they would though for a screen repair
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I most definitely would backup my data and flash a stock rom. You want them to verify everything works on the new screen before they ship it back to you
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informal question to original poster. How exactly did the screen crack and what type of case were you using if any? Not bashing you if you weren't using a case just kind of interested
BACK UP YOUR DATA
I had a screen crack on my Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sent it to them locked down, and it came back with a factory flashed image. I assume they need to do testing on it.
Milkman00 said:
BACK UP YOUR DATA
I had a screen crack on my Galaxy Tab 10.1. Sent it to them locked down, and it came back with a factory flashed image. I assume they need to do testing on it.
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I concur, they are going to ensure operation of the device.
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ok guys thanks for the replies. I am just going to wipe it and throw a basic rom on there.

[Q] Busted up Screen and LCD?

Yesterday I dropped my phone, and busted up the screen, and the digitizer, I believe its called... The touch screen no longer responds, but the phone still works, can receive calls etc.
If I choose to replace it through insurance or something like that, they will charge me full price if I sent back a rooted phone correct?
Just trying to way my options... one thread talks about going through ATT's Device Support Center, which maybe the cheapest route.
Any suggestions on getting this baby unrooted without a functional screen/?
Bsmith0731 said:
Yesterday I dropped my phone, and busted up the screen, and the digitizer, I believe its called... The touch screen no longer responds, but the phone still works, can receive calls etc.
If I choose to replace it through insurance or something like that, they will charge me full price if I sent back a rooted phone correct?
Just trying to way my options... one thread talks about going through ATT's Device Support Center, which maybe the cheapest route.
Any suggestions on getting this baby unrooted without a functional screen/?
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Well since you have insurance then just pay the deductible! It's not FULL price tho! Think it's like$125/150 and they'll send you out a new one!! Just tell em it fell broke apart. I don't think they'll want to to send in a busted up phone!!
That is what I did when I broke my phone. Plus it's like 2 day turn around for them too get you the phone..
Just my 2¢®
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Bsmith0731 said:
Yesterday I dropped my phone, and busted up the screen, and the digitizer, I believe its called... The touch screen no longer responds, but the phone still works, can receive calls etc.
If I choose to replace it through insurance or something like that, they will charge me full price if I sent back a rooted phone correct?
Just trying to way my options... one thread talks about going through ATT's Device Support Center, which maybe the cheapest route.
Any suggestions on getting this baby unrooted without a functional screen/?
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Without touch screen or visual screen interactions. ..unroot is not possible...
You need screen touch to run triangle away. .
But I think you can get both changed by a repair shop for about $250..
And they don't care about root. .
That sucks. ..very sorry. ..g
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gregsarg said:
Without touch screen or visual screen interactions. ..unroot is not possible...
You need screen touch to run triangle away. .
But I think you can get both changed by a repair shop for about $250..
And they don't care about root. .
That sucks. ..very sorry. ..g
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What about unrooting it and removing that flash counter? They won't try to come back and charge me later will they?
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Please close thread. Problem solved.
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Bsmith0731 said:
What about unrooting it and removing that flash counter? They won't try to come back and charge me later will they?
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Flash counter reset needs touch screen interactions. ..and acceptance of downloads via touch. ..
Sorry. ..g
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Memorize it
Edit.... Screen is unresponsive, can't do that lol
twanskys204 said:
Memorize it
Edit.... Screen is unresponsive, can't do that lol
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I tried that. ..it didn't work. ..lol
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