My phone recently quit charging so took it to an AT&T store (i747) and they said they can send it back that it is still under warranty but my phone is rooted, has about I'd say 14-15 flashes counted (trouble flashing CWM.. had to manually reboot), and has a (custom?) APN (restored stock and data wasn't working). I told them I'd be back tomorrow and then I can get my new phone. So can someone tell me how to get my phone legal for warranty again?
Side question: When my data was not working I used an APN for an AT&T phone but instead of having the little 4g symbol about the signal bars it has its on 4G symbol in the status bar.. will restoring to complete stock fix this?
Extra stuff: About a month I rooted my phone, flashed custom rom, got stuck in a bootloop, restored to stock, rerooted and reflashed custom rom, bootloop, and again but with different rom and still bootloop. And now my phone is just rooted, has CWM, and is on stock rom.
You should be able to unroot it if your on stock anyways. Just Google how to unroot your device. If you wanna be really safe I recommend using ODIN to flash a complete unrooted stock ROM. Best of luck!
Sent from my Galaxy S3
i agree with @TheKucho statement but always back-up your IMEI DATA FILES BEFORE ROOTING/DOWNLOADING a custom Rom yu'll thank me for that cuz yu will never have problems with data again (learned the hard way and ended up HARD bricking my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket) it got fixed but i learned the lesson. THANK GOD FOR MOBILETECHVIDOES
At this point all yu can do is restore to stock and everything will be fine using ODIN (relief) att will give yu a new phone but as an experinced guy in rooting yu should lay off the flashing since thats what led to bootloops,
i have done alot but igotta say flashing alot is like getting your phone high 24/7 so yu SHOULD LEARN to stick with a ROM that suits your needs/expectations and i gurantee yu that rooting with cautions and being on the safe side will be a success and never an issue
having a warranty is like an insurance for the car so treasure it dont take it for granted use it as many times as yu want but just make sure your phone is in warranty cuz at some point you might have to send it to mobiletechvideos if its out of warranty and a new phone isnt an answer
THE GUYZ AT ATT DONT CARE IF ITS ROOTED JUST DONT LET THEM FIND OUT THAT YU DID IT........ happy rooting
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So annoyed right now. For the second time, my phone has randomly gone in to a boot loop. Completely stock, never unlocked or rooted or anything. So bloody annoying because now I have to reflash stock with ODIN which will wipe my phone again.
I suppose to send it back under warranty I have to pay for shipping and wait a month for a replacement?
case0 said:
So annoyed right now. For the second time, my phone has randomly gone in to a boot loop. Completely stock, never unlocked or rooted or anything. So bloody annoying because now I have to reflash stock with ODIN which will wipe my phone again.
I suppose to send it back under warranty I have to pay for shipping and wait a month for a replacement?
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If you know how to use Odin, you can figure out how to root, flash a ROM, and use a custom kernel.
See if that helps out your phone with the boot loops. If it doesn't you could always just flash back to stock and send it back.
You're right actually, I suppose I could use this as an excuse to root it. I've held off from doing it though because I always thought if I got a Nexus device I wouldn't need to bother with flashing new roms, but it would be quite nice to upgrade from 4.0.2 I guess.
At least then if it decides to do it again I'll have a nandroid. Still annoyed that this has happened for the second time though
case0 said:
You're right actually, I suppose I could use this as an excuse to root it. I've held off from doing it though because I always thought if I got a Nexus device I wouldn't need to bother with flashing new roms, but it would be quite nice to upgrade from 4.0.2 I guess.
At least then if it decides to do it again I'll have a nandroid. Still annoyed that this has happened for the second time though
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Bootloops are usually software related, so rooting and flashing an entire new ROM will probably help you.
Just use the toolkit if you're not comfortable rooting
Oh, and since you were having boot loop issues
I would
Make nandroid
wipe data
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
Format System
Format Cache
Install Rom
Install Gapps (if required by your ROM)
Reboot and Enjoy
Oh, and then pick a kernel of your choice
I'm sorry you getting random bootloops, and I understand you're expecting them to go away merely by reflashing the same rom, but why are you using ODIN (a leaked, unsupported SAMSUNG flashing program), instead of FASTBOOT, officially supported by Google/AOSP?
bk201doesntexist said:
I'm sorry you getting random bootloops, and I understand you're expecting them to go away merely by reflashing the same rom, but why are you using ODIN (a leaked, unsupported SAMSUNG flashing program), instead of FASTBOOT, officially supported by Google/AOSP?
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I'm assuming it's because he comes from an SGS/SGS2 and isn't ready yet to step out of his comfort zone. But I agree that learning how to use fastboot is the way to go. And that the process of repackaging the images for odin may actually be the source of the problem (although I know little about such things that I may be wrong).
The last time it happened I just searched for a thread to reflash stock and the first thing I came across was ODIN, what difference does it make? And what do you mean it's leaked? I got it from the Samsung website last time. It's not because it was out of my comfort zone hehe, I'm quite experienced using adb etc, even did a bit of theming before on my Hero.
As an update to my situation - I unlocked/rooted/installed AOKP this morning. Has some nice additions and seems a bit snappier, looking forward to seeing if I have better battery life with it. Oh and I used fastboot not the one-click program. It's only a couple of lines in the terminal after all.
Hello,
My Gnex was in a bootloop 1 week after purchasing it, (I was running ICS then) now I have JB, after wiping all my data, I decided I should root it, (stock ROM) and unlock it, so I could make Nandroids, now once again, it got in a bootloop, I know how to relock it, but I can`t unroot it for some reason( I am using WugfreshDkit).
My problem is now, my computer crashed with the back up I made before installing Custom blue Softkeys, I need to send it back to the service center, and I am afraid I will get the response ""This is your own mistake for tampering with your phone"" I already backed everything up, and I am able to Lock the device, but it still has root, Will they mind this? does anyone have experience with this? and does anyone know for a fix for the softkeys?
I know it has one hardware defect,( Connecting the chargedock to the Motherboard) and the bootloops...
Also, If I get a new phone, is it save to just Unlock & Root it and use my Nandroid backups on it? or does this give a chance that it will get bootloops again?
I know Sprint and Verizon make a big deal about this, and even charge people for it... Will samsung do this too?
Already got it, Also after Wiping I got updates to 4.2.1
Hello everyone thanks for checking out my post for assistance.
I was running the OpTimuS 2.2 yesterday when my phone jumped into a boot-loop. The phone will be on for about 20-40 seconds then reboot. During that time I have no service and when I update the profile I get a message that I don't have any service. I can get into recovery and Download mode. I tried to just wipe and install the rom again. That process resulted in the same boot loop. I have a back up but that was done before the "spark" update and I didn't want to restore that because I know there will be an issue with the radio. I downloaded the stock rooted rom but the phone will not stay on long enough to transfer the file and when I try and load via recovery it will not allow me to transfer the file. (never shows up on computer I might be doing that wrong) I then attempted to bring the phone back to stock following this process http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=96 but when I get down to step 13 the program will not respond anymore. I am going a friends house to try on a different computer but I wanted to get this out there just in case that has the same result.
Thanks again for any info that you could provide.
usvi525 said:
Hello everyone thanks for checking out my post for assistance.
I was running the OpTimuS 2.2 yesterday when my phone jumped into a boot-loop. The phone will be on for about 20-40 seconds then reboot. During that time I have no service and when I update the profile I get a message that I don't have any service. I can get into recovery and Download mode. I tried to just wipe and install the rom again. That process resulted in the same boot loop. I have a back up but that was done before the "spark" update and I didn't want to restore that because I know there will be an issue with the radio. I downloaded the stock rooted rom but the phone will not stay on long enough to transfer the file and when I try and load via recovery it will not allow me to transfer the file. (never shows up on computer I might be doing that wrong) I then attempted to bring the phone back to stock following this process http://www.rwilco12.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=96 but when I get down to step 13 the program will not respond anymore. I am going a friends house to try on a different computer but I wanted to get this out there just in case that has the same result.
Thanks again for any info that you could provide.
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Flashing back to stock won't work, I had the same thing happened.......it's the EFS Partition (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451390) If you made a EFS Partition Backup, then flashing that will be your best hope.....I didn't make a backup so I went to sprint cuz I have insurance and they are ordering me a new phone
Shadow_God said:
Flashing back to stock won't work, I had the same thing happened.......it's the EFS Partition (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451390) If you made a EFS Partition Backup, then flashing that will be your best hope.....I didn't make a backup so I went to sprint cuz I have insurance and they are ordering me a new phone
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They replaced it even though your phone was rooted?
Try installing an updated modem for your variant from this thread. It's worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
If you get it working, definitely make an EFS backup right away.
usvi525 said:
They replaced it even though your phone was rooted?
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I used the LGFlashTool to bring it back to stock unrooted.......but my phone had no sevice and rebooted every couple minutes, plus the touchscreen wasn't working either.....I told them I took the Spark update and thats when it happened, he said they had alot of issue with touchscreen stopped working and rebooting issue with the spark update......so they didn't look at it long...lol
I have tried back to stock numbers of times....installing modems....restoring my backups....nothing would get it to work, so I gave up and went to sprint...lol
On the rom you were using, have you tried enabling airplane mode to prevent reboots? You could try to get a stock-based flashable zip on the device if possible.
alone-together said:
Try installing an updated modem for your variant from this thread. It's worth a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451426
If you get it working, definitely make an EFS backup right away.
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Thanks for the option. I was able to install the radio but the issue remains.
usvi525 said:
Thanks for the option. I was able to install the radio but the issue remains.
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Have we ruled out the possibility to flash a stock ROM in TWRP? If by any chance you have a USB OTG cable, you could try to connect a flash drive with another ROM.
This is my last ditch effort. Small back story: I somehow wiped EVERYTHING on my G2. EFS partition, ESN, data, SIM info., everything with dialer codes. All of my network information reads "unknown". I tried many methods from here on the forums to get this data back and it turns out I have lost my EFS partition- DNA for the network? I sent it to LG to get it fixed, having done a hard reset and leaving no trace of root. They sent it back without even asking and did no repairs. The note said "board bent". WTF?? How does the user bend the main board, especially when I never opened it? They voided my warranty and ripped off my IMEI/MEID sticker from the back of the phone.
Anyways, I am here with a brick. No network still. Here is what I have done:
1) .tot method to ZVC. Several more times... once to ZV7 where I lost touch capability. Luckily saved my arse with a micro->usb cable and a mouse.
2) attempted to root with ioroot25. Failed because the phone WILL NOT find recovery mode. adb, voldown+pwr then again from power off, and apps are unable to force the phone into recovery mode. I assume it is possible that my recovery mode is deleted?
3) Would have tried all of these "rewrite your efs/imei/etc" things but I can't do any without root. Can't root without recovery, can I?
4) Spent the last two weeks scouring the internet for a fix and going back to my Epic 4G temporarily.
Please help me, has anyone seen this before? Can anyone help me fix it? I am to the point where I would pay to have it fixed. Any experts out there? XDA has yet to let me down... I just need to know if I can fix it or if it is a brick so I can go searching for an old Sprint GS3.
Thanks all,
baublitz
So i have to give a little history here. A while ago i put CM on a buddies phone, he didnt care for it, and we put it back to stock and i think we just left it rooted (this was months ago, so im not completely sure) anyways hes been doing OTA no problem, and the other night i guess he did the new one from ATT. i think this is 4.4.2, from doing tons of research it looks like his Knox got tripped, no big deal he just wants the phone to work.
As of now it boots up to the ATT logo and the globe freezes and thats it.
I was able to install TWRP, and then reinstall CWM (through Odin) thinking that might help. I've tried to flash i think 4.3 JB stock on there and then i get the "Auth Failed" line at the end.... i've tried factory resets, and attempted to update from his sd card but the files zip files are not being recognized...
in case its not obvious, ATT, Galaxy s3
Any ideas???
petersami said:
So i have to give a little history here. A while ago i put CM on a buddies phone, he didnt care for it, and we put it back to stock and i think we just left it rooted (this was months ago, so im not completely sure) anyways hes been doing OTA no problem, and the other night i guess he did the new one from ATT. i think this is 4.4.2, from doing tons of research it looks like his Knox got tripped, no big deal he just wants the phone to work.
As of now it boots up to the ATT logo and the globe freezes and thats it.
I was able to install TWRP, and then reinstall CWM (through Odin) thinking that might help. I've tried to flash i think 4.3 JB stock on there and then i get the "Auth Failed" line at the end.... i've tried factory resets, and attempted to update from his sd card but the files zip files are not being recognized...
in case its not obvious, ATT, Galaxy s3
Any ideas???
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You can try to flash a NE4 ROM on it through TWRP or CWM. If that doesn't work, try to flash NE4 with Odin.
Have you tried a factory reset?
crazymonkey05 said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
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ya tried everything, tried flashing through odin... absolutely nothing. i think guess my buddy has done the 4.3 updates for a while, and the latest bricked his phone... i guess we may have left it rooted, im not entirely sure. but he went and got an s5. i feel bad since i originally rooted it. but he's been doing updates without taking any time to research if he was causing any problems.
My current concern is my s3 was rooted as well and was thinking of going back to a stock rom and bootloader, but im worried if i update to 4.3 if that will cause a brick.... anyone know??
Have you tried the 4.3 firmware? Enewman17 has it in a thread in the development section I think.
I just bought myself a galaxy note 3. The first thing I did was allow an update from Samsung which I learned was a huge mistake. Something about Samsung using a new bootloader that blocks custom recoveries and roms from being flashed. I have achieved root and unfortunately tripped Knox. If anyone knows how I can get back to 0x0 unmodified i would really appreciate it. I tried flashing clockwork mod recovery using Odin with no luck. Someone found a version of Team Win Recovery that works but won't mount USB storage to be able to install a custom rom like cm12. Since I'm now banned from official updates due to my device being modified I'd really like a way to flash my own roms. Any help would be appreciated!
To my knowledge there is not a way to get back to 0x0you can follow the first few parts of effortless, that will take you back to stock. Then immediately run kies, I actually made a huge mistake not too long ago and tried to update through a custom recovery by accidentally clicking on wipe internal storage add well as dalvik data and cache. ..I was able to get kies to work where Odin would not see the phone at all, I couldn't even get to download or recovery.
I'm now on DomPop, and my phone runs better, stays cooler, is less flaky, more stable, and has better battery life overall than it ever did stock. The stock t mobile rom, with software like the bloomberg, stock prices, Amazon mp3 etc... that should in no way affect your phone to operate at all, and can't be removed by the end user or phone owner, to my thinking is worse than any amount of piracy, it holds us hostage. As much as buying a car, only to find that your wife or girlfriend can't sit next to you because there is a Ronald Mcdonald statue welded to the passenger seat, and you don't like fast food at all. .. or put in the form of a question? Why would Samsung think a phone that may be given to a 12 year old would need to have stock ticker software installed?there are multiple markets to get it if needed or wanted, leave the fluff as things that can be easily removed. ..
Note3 has 2 separate flags: Knox flag is used with Knox secure environment and it can't be reset, yet anyway. That flag only affects Knox software.
Another flag tells if you're running official or custom firmware. This flag can be reset and this is the flag that will stop OTA updates. If you reload stock firmware, you should be able to get flag back to official. As a matter of fact I was rooted and still showing official, don't remember how, but after latest, nk3 update, I can't get it back to official anymore without loosing root. Triangle away could reset that flag as well, but not the latest one.
Also Wanam has something to fool system into official mode, but then I would think you need to disable updates, because OTA update on custom phone could at least make you loose root, or even brick the phone
Sent My Note 3 into Samsung Repair- with KNOX tripped
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2637718