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What's the fastest way to brick your phone??

I'm trying to send my old galaxy back to Tmobile because I got a new one... it was rooted I don't feel like unrooting and installing a stock ROM.... So Id rather just brick it like a free throw from Shaquille Oneal in his prime...
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flash an incompatible rom, just pick a random one...say an HD2 ROM

Just flash Any pit file thats not for the gs2
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You can actually brick the damn thing and send it back to them isn't that telling them your phones rooted and it voids the warranty?
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peppersu812 said:
You can actually brick the damn thing and send it back to them isn't that telling them your phones rooted and it voids the warranty?
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No because as far as they know, it was a hardware failure.

Damn so from now on I'll just brick it before I send it back lol cool hell I didn't know that
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If you're going to flash just to brick it, why not just flash a stock rom? ... Oh well. Lol, brick away, install a tablet rom.

gabriel713281 said:
I'm trying to send my old galaxy back to Tmobile because I got a new one... it was rooted I don't feel like unrooting and installing a stock ROM.... So Id rather just brick it like a free throw from Shaquille Oneal in his prime...
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Flash android revolution superwipe fir sensation theres no way phone lives back i accidentaly flashed on my first s2 and tmous send me a new one cause samsung declare the phone dead by warranty i only paid 16 bucks
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blackerwater said:
Just flash Any pit file thats not for the gs2
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Thanks guys I did this lol
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tmobile dont care if its rooted or not anymore.
my brother sent back his gs2 rooted for replacement without any issues and I just recently sent mine back aswell about a month ago. I got the text letting me know they got the phone ok and everything is good. I think they kind of figured if they continue to be hard on the root community we will just send a brick back to them and declare it a hardware issue..

Just bought this phone, should I root?

Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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funziebear said:
Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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Thanks! Does T-Mobile have some sort of 30 day warranty or something? Lol my mom says I should wait just in case
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I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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funziebear said:
I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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Lol thanks for opinion!
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I rooted on second hour after I got my phone .
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eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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mike102871 said:
Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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galaxy nexus is better than the s3 IMO. but I'm getting it for a decent price so I couldn't turn it down. I will look like such a nerd with aokp galaxy nexus and a galaxy s3!!!
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eggydrums said:
Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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Awesome! Let me know how difficult it is to do! Lol
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You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything

mjhay19 said:
You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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Imei is in my box, don't know if that's the one, I plan on keeping the box cuz it's awesome
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mjhay19 said:
You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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This.
Save yourself from any future headaches and head on over to Peoplearmy and GeeK's threads and back up your IMEI with both methods just in case.
I ran with stock rooted for a good week after getting my GS3 just to make sure there weren't any defects (since stock is the most stable).

Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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Some people where having issues and there imei was lost, there's a tool to back it up in development section just back it up you shouldn't have issues I haven't seen people inquiring about lost imeis lately,
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eggydrums said:
Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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For some odd reason, people have been reporting that their IMEI information on the phone was wiped while flashing ROMs through recovery. That information isn't supposed to be touched, but nobody has really found out the reason why that data gets wiped during the flashing process for some users.
When this happens, the phone loses its ability to connect to your mobile network (because it has no IMEI information to present to the network), so it's essentially an iPod. Last week I randomly lost my IMEI from restoring a nandroid backup from CWM (luckily I backed up my IMEI information and was able to restore it within minutes), but I've heard people saying that it happens on TWRP as well.
I'm not saying that it will happen to you whenever you flash a new ROM, but when it comes to these things it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Also, welcome to the SGS3 forums . Leaving the childish drama behind in the Amaze forum alone was worth the upgrade for me.

eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Really up to you... me personally i always root my phones :cyclops:

I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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eggydrums said:
I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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How'd it go bro? Was it difficult???
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Trial and error always the best course with roms. I would root mine was rooted a few hours after I pulled it out the box.
Very easy to do and with our development section well worth it.
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Charging paused...battery temp to low...

After pluggung in my 2 day old note, which is rooted and running stock, I cant get the device to charge and thar message keeps popping up...any help?
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umm, step out of the void between galaxies and into some heat
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reinaldistic said:
umm, step out of the void between galaxies and into some heat
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Im not really sure what this means?

finchp1 said:
Im not really sure what this means?
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It means move to a warmer location.

I live in houston...its warm all the time.
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Are you using the supplied charging cable or a previous one? Mine wouldnt charge with my old cable, switched cables and all is fine.
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I am a tech for sprint and we could not get this to work. Un rooted and still had the same error. Ended up having to take it back and exchange it. Now I am nervous about rooting my new note 2...

finchp1 said:
I am a tech for sprint and we could not get this to work. Un rooted and still had the same error. Ended up having to take it back and exchange it. Now I am nervous about rooting my new note 2...
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could be a defective battery.
i am sure you tried multiple cables and such, right?
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finchp1 said:
I am a tech for sprint and we could not get this to work. Un rooted and still had the same error. Ended up having to take it back and exchange it. Now I am nervous about rooting my new note 2...
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no need to be nervous because rooting did not cause this

New firmware for Bell Galaxy note 2?

I just got ny note back from Samsung I had to send it for repairs and I got it bqck with this nice surprise. Multitasking... it was not there when I sent it in and from the posts I've read the firmware is different. Take a look at the screenshot and let me know.
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Another pic
Just to clarify. I'm with Bell Canada.
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Verry nice!!!!!!! In borat voice
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You definitely got an early Christmas gift from Samsung! With any luck maybe this means that we'll see an OTA soon (or Samsung will see a sudden influx of people sending their phones in for repair after reading this thread haha)

Same for me on my Rogers note 2... sent it in for screen repair and it came back with same updated rom
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Thats great so wait they just holding the updates then wonder if they holding at&t update and not putting it out there
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mizz lia said:
Thats great so wait they just holding the updates then wonder if they holding at&t update and not putting it out there
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Can someone confirm this by updating their stock note 2¿

Ill cheak my gfs
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Nope no update....I suspect jan 19 ish
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Is it possible to pull the firmware straight from the phone and maybe sending it to a developer whos interested in it?
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Yes! Called a system dump I think....idk dont quote me on this but I think its done with odin
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I'd be willing to so that and help a dev out PM me instructions
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I dont think it would be helping a dev out ,, more the people that would want stock multiveiw
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elnovato said:
I just got ny note back from Samsung I had to send it for repairs and I got it bqck with this nice surprise. Multitasking... it was not there when I sent it in and from the posts I've read the firmware is different. Take a look at the screenshot and let me know.
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Elnovato when you got your phone back was it the same one or a different one that was a refurbished?
I'm curious because I need to send mine in for the battery as it's mildly warped and causes the phone to reboot when jostled, but it's lame as Samsung wants me to send the whole phone in rather then just the battery. I don't want to if they give a refurbished one back.
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twanskys204 said:
I dont think it would be helping a dev out ,, more the people that would want stock multiveiw
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But wouldnt it be better to have a rom based off of an i317 instead of an international version?
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It was the same phone, though I had to set eveything back up as the devised was flashed with the new software.
dbzgod said:
Elnovato when you got your phone back was it the same one or a different one that was a refurbished?
I'm curious because I need to send mine in for the battery as it's mildly warped and causes the phone to reboot when jostled, but it's lame as Samsung wants me to send the whole phone in rather then just the battery. I don't want to if they give a refurbished one back.
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jyazzie110 said:
But wouldnt it be better to have a rom based off of an i317 instead of an international version?
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Somone will do it ....maybe try that guy who made clean rom.. scott I think....he did the last stock rom for rogers thanks to turilos system dump
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elnovato said:
It was the same phone, though I had to set eveything back up as the devised was flashed with the new software.
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Thank you.
Can't wait to get mine back from Samsung repair center to hopefully see the same update if not a newer one!.
If it comes loaded with a December 4.1.2 firmware I will be doing a system dump on it for sure!. ^_^
Oh btw how long was it until you got it back in the mail? The tech guy on the phone said I will be it back in 2 weeks tops, I hope sooner though I miss my Note II so bad!. However I'm using an S2 as a back up lol.

Help. Phone will not turn on at all

I'm new to the S3 and I have rooted a few devices previously. I just got my S3 yesterday. I rooted it with no issue. Installed a custom recovery with no issue and even installed a custom ROM (wicked v10) with no issue other than ,once the ROM booted up I had no data. I did some searching and found a firmware/modem zip that I thought might fix my issue. It said that it will only install on a T999 T-Mobile version of the S3. Good, so I install it. Well I have a T-Mobile S3 but mine is a T999L. Now my phone does nothing. Will not start will not boot into safe mode. Doesn't even have a LED when on the charger. Somebody please please help.. Thanks in advance
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Pretty sure you just hard bricked it. Sorry man, I know that sucks. But if you can't get any response from the device.....
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So do you think I can return it to where I got it and tell them it just stopped responding and get another one without any issues?. I just bought it yesterday at my local wal mart..
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tj gamino said:
So do you think I can return it to where I got it and tell them it just stopped responding and get another one without any issues?. I just bought it yesterday at my local wal mart..
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depends if they take returns
they can't know what's wrong since it won't run at all
so give it a try act like you don't know anything about phones and say i was just charging it

Update: I was able to return the bricked phone and get another phone. Lady tried to say I might have "over charged" the phone. I just shook my head and said wow! I never heard of that before.. Good to be back
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tj gamino said:
Update: I was able to return the bricked phone and get another phone. Lady tried to say I might have "over charged" the phone. I just shook my head and said wow! I never heard of that before.. Good to be back
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Lol "over charged".
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tj gamino said:
Update: I was able to return the bricked phone and get another phone. Lady tried to say I might have "over charged" the phone. I just shook my head and said wow! I never heard of that before.. Good to be back
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hahaha LOL glad it worked out for you

That's great haha, congrats!
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Lol nice. Good thing you did it soon
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Lmaoooo brilliant!
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