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well i guess i just did another something stupid

hello all,
let me first say how much i have really appreciated all that i have learned by reading the forums here. I have enjoyed learning about how to customize my epic experience, but i fear i have made a ghastly mistake.
i was reading the thread about how to make an odin tar file as a means of backing up my current setup (which is srf 1.1.0, genocide kerenel 1.0, and erebos port theme) and thought i might try odin to see if it would work to write that tar back to the phone. well now i believe i am staring at a brick. it will not boot even to dl mode. no lights appear when attempting to charge. i have pulled the battery and even swapped in a fresh battery. any advice or help is appreciated.

Maybe using a different usb cord while having your phone (without battery) plugged into a computer/laptop might help.

Yes, try another cable with the battery out, plug into the computer and try to attain download mode. If that works you can pop the fully charged battery in.
You can also try the magic button that may or may not exist inside the back next to the camera lens.

tried a different usb cable with battery out. no luck. saw a thread a few days ago about the "magic button" so i tried that. no sure i did it right. still no life of any kind in my phone. looks like i bricked it good.

sorry, for your brick : (
But I'm sure you can get a replacement phone if you say you were trying update your firmware via update.zip and your phone dropped by accident leaving it as an result of what it is now

jarcher1971 said:
tried a different usb cable with battery out. no luck. saw a thread a few days ago about the "magic button" so i tried that. no sure i did it right. still no life of any kind in my phone. looks like i bricked it good.
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I saw the hole (pinsize) next to the camera lens. I was wondering if this was more of a circuit breaker type reset that only works if it pops. Or that some phones have nothing there depending on board revisions.
The good news is Sprint will probably replace it for free. It should still be under warranty.

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The good news is Sprint will probably replace it for free. It should still be under warranty.
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what is the best way to get that done. since i messed the phone up with a non-compatible tar?

jarcher1971 said:
what is the best way to get that done. since i messed the phone up with a non-compatible tar?
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Go to the store and tell them it was off this morning when you pulled it off charge and it won't turn on. They will play with for an hour to try to get it to turn on then depending on the store give you a refurb or get one sent to you in a day or two.

thanks for the help kennyglass i will be trying that soon.

jarcher1971 said:
thanks for the help kennyglass i will be trying that soon.
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You are welcome, and I am sorry for your loss. Hopefully you have a recent backup on your sd card.

since i seem to be a "flash-a-holic" always trying some new tweak i do the nandroid backup thing like every other day. so with a new phone i should be up and running again soon.

well, looks like i will be getting a new epic, under warranty thankfully -- store tech says that the usb port and a battery connector look bad. but they are out of stock on the phone and the replacement will not be in for 3-5 days. so for now i have to go back to my old webOS phone. man i already miss my epic. guess i'm jonesin' for a flash. maybe i'll head over to the webOS forums and see what they've got.

jarcher1971 said:
well, looks like i will be getting a new epic, under warranty thankfully -- store tech says that the usb port and a battery connector look bad. but they are out of stock on the phone and the replacement will not be in for 3-5 days. so for now i have to go back to my old webOS phone. man i already miss my epic. guess i'm jonesin' for a flash. maybe i'll head over to the webOS forums and see what they've got.
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HAHA. I still have my Palm Pre for a backup and saw somewhere that somebody was able to put Android on it.

cool!! might have to look that up!

@jarcher1971, I have unfortunately bricked my device as well (story here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090822) and I was wondering, what exactly did you tell the repair tech?
I'm planning to go with the story that it was working fine and then at one point it just wouldn't turn on. Maybe I should include it was after taking the phone off the charger?
Thanks, any help is appreciated!

Yeah, I listed all that a few posts back in this thread.

Here:
kennyglass123 said:
Go to the store and tell them it was off this morning when you pulled it off charge and it won't turn on. They will play with for an hour to try to get it to turn on then depending on the store give you a refurb or get one sent to you in a day or two.
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Was like 6 posts back

kennyglass123 said:
Here:
Originally Posted by kennyglass123
Go to the store and tell them it was off this morning when you pulled it off charge and it won't turn on. They will play with for an hour to try to get it to turn on then depending on the store give you a refurb or get one sent to you in a day or two.
Was like 6 posts back
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yep that was about how it went at the store too

GS3 Randomly bricked on me?

So my phone was working fine all day. I pull it out of my pocket and the screen is black. Tried to turn it off and back on with the power button but that did nothing. I pulled the battery out and put it back in and then it went to the first screen that says "Samsung Galaxy SIII" and permanently froze there. I did root it a few months ago and never had a problem with it. I'm able to load Odin on the phone but I can't get to the factory reset screen by doing Volume+UP+Power. I tried using Odin and putting back in the official firmware but it gets stuck at "NAND Write Start!!"
After working with it for a bit, now whenever I turn it on it and don't do anything else it goes straight to the Downloader and says:
"Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
I can still go into the downloader but that Nand Write issue still.
Seriously, any help will be appreciated.

Recovery is, power up & HOME & Power. Try that again hold it for about 5 seconds. After having the phone on the charger for a while though and not plugged in.
T-Mobile SGS III

mt3g said:
Recovery is, power up & HOME & Power. Try that again hold it for about 5 seconds. After having the phone on the charger for a while though and not plugged in.
T-Mobile SGS III
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Tried that and the same "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, Please select recover mode in Kies and try again" came up.
I'll send whoever can solve this issue $20 via Paypal.

anthony159 said:
Tried that and the same "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, Please select recover mode in Kies and try again" came up.
I'll send whoever can solve this issue $20 via Paypal.
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Since ODIN can see your phone have you tried to install CWM from ODIN and then restore a backup from CWM?
If you do not have a backup search the forum, there is a nandroid in there somewhere you should be able to use. Stick it on your extsd card, then flash it with CWM.

jcbofkc said:
Since ODIN can see your phone have you tried to install CWM from ODIN and then restore a backup from CWM?
If you do not have a backup search the forum, there is a nandroid in there somewhere you should be able to use. Stick it on your extsd card, then flash it with CWM.
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I know I had CWM installed at one point but I'll try and install it again.

Hey man, I literally just had this conversation with someone else a few days ago about the exact same error being throw but on an SGS2.
Here is a snippit of our PM (where it says I, that is me not him),
I have an S3 but my wife has an S2. Is your S2 also Tmobile or is it ATT, Skyrocket or I9100? This thread is for the Skyrocket but you'll get the idea of what to do. I also punched in firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again galaxy s2 in Google and got a crap-ton of answers. Seems pretty common. As long as you have power, you can usually get out of it. It is when you have no glint of power that you should worry, as you know from your S3's.
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Not sure if he got out of it, but I can shoot the two of you a PM to get you hooked up if you'd like.

Woody said:
Hey man, I literally just had this conversation with someone else a few days ago about the exact same error being throw but on an SGS2.
Here is a snippit of our PM (where it says I, that is me not him),
Not sure if he got out of it, but I can shoot the two of you a PM to get you hooked up if you'd like.
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Sure I'd appreciate that. As a last resort I'd bring it to a phone repair shop and give them a shot at it. If all else fails I'll screw it up beyond repair so Samsung won't be able to tell it was rooted.

It's called Sudden Death Syndrome, and it's when the eMMC chip (internal memory) dies. So far it's pretty common in i9300's (international S3). The only way to fix it is to get the motherboard or entire phone replaced because it's impossible to replace the parts that go bad.

Product F(RED) said:
It's called Sudden Death Syndrome, and it's when the eMMC chip (internal memory) dies. So far it's pretty common in i9300's (international S3). The only way to fix it is to get the motherboard or entire phone replaced because it's impossible to replace the parts that go bad.
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That's what I was afraid of. Does anyone know how I can make it so Samsung will not be able to tell that it was rooted?

anthony159 said:
That's what I was afraid of. Does anyone know how I can make it so Samsung will not be able to tell that it was rooted?
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The good news is that when the phone [basically] dies because of this, when you go into Download Mode (the screen that shows all the info in the top left corner), it will always say "CUSTOM", whether or not you're rooted, because it can't read from the internal memory chip. People have sent their phones in with custom ROMs and have gotten them repaired. Worst case, you play dumb.

Product F(RED) said:
The good news is that when the phone [basically] dies because of this, when you go into Download Mode (the screen that shows all the info in the top left corner), it will always say "CUSTOM", whether or not you're rooted, because it can't read from the internal memory chip. People have sent their phones in with custom ROMs and have gotten them repaired. Worst case, you play dumb.
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Even though that the binary counter says 4 it will be fine?

anthony159 said:
Even though that the binary counter says 4 it will be fine?
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Oh that I'm not sure about. You can say you tried to flash it through Kies if they ask or something.
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I've only read about 2 incidents where the company sent the phone back saying it was tampered with and that was since the MyTouch 3G... been stocking the forums for quite some time, I have serious doubts you will be able to do anything but send it in.

mt3g said:
I've only read about 2 incidents where the company sent the phone back saying it was tampered with and that was since the MyTouch 3G... been stocking the forums for quite some time, I have serious doubts you will be able to do anything but send it in.
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Bumping my thread back up. Those ****ers told me that it was repaired over live chat and on the phone. When I got the phone back it wasn't changed at all.I went on live support again and they told me that the device was rooted and that there was nothing they can do and ****ing left the chat.
If anyone has ANY advice it is greatly appreciated..
EDIT:
Getting a new error when I try to use Odin: There is no PIT partition.
Any solution to that?

Jtag
God promised men that he'd put beautiful women in all corners of the world. Then he laughed and laughed and made the world round

Need Media from phone I can no longer interact with.

Good afternoon folks. Got'a bit of a problem and thought if anyone could help', it'd be the XDA gang.
So a lady friend of mine has an HTC Inspire 4g 4'04'... and the other day she got it in her head that she'd like to see it fly! Long story short, it did. So now I can see the screen, but cannot interact with it... Have already tried 2 front assembly replacements,..... nothing.... This really wouldn't be that big of a deal except that her grandmother passed recently & there are some pics on the phone she'd like to recover.
The phone is not rooted, no custom recovery, don't even think debugging is turned on.. The most I can get to happen is a "removable drive that mounts when I hook it up to xp... and when I click that, it asks me to insert a disk.... The correct HTC drivers are installed.
Anyone have any ideas..... apart from the 1000 ways she could have backed it up before it'd death! It's almost like she tried not to. '''''' Any help would really mean alot.... Thanks in advance guys.
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SOLVED: HELP NEEDED!!! Note 2 wont turn on. BadgeProvider and Samsung has stopped!!!!

As the title reads my Note 2 will not turn on. It will not go into recovery mode. I have 5 batteries and none of them are working. Yesterday I got 2 weird messages that "BadgeProvider" and "Samsung" has stopped. The phone started acting weird by not letting me use anything but the notification bar. I couldn't even turn it off using the power button. I removed the battery and reinserted the battery a couple of times and still it didn't work only letting me use the notification bar. Finally it started working for some random reason and I restarted the phone and all was well.
I'm so use to having 5 batteries that I did not have the phone on the charger last night and it died. Now the phone will not turn on at all. Not into recovery mode. Not normal mode. It is totally unresponsive. Tried rapidly touching the contacts with the battery contact and nothing. What can I do to get my phone working????????????

Also to add to this, yesterday when I was taking the phone's battery out and in the phone would start booting by itself. Could this be a power button issue? I've only had the phone for about 10 months and never dropped it without the otterbox defender series on it.

1shotsniper said:
Could this be a power button issue? I've only had the phone for about 10 months and never dropped it without the otterbox defender series on it.
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From that statement above, having the otter box doesn't mean you'll be protected against drops. Yes it'll protect the phone but still suffered inside the device! I had a friend crack his screen on the corner, with an otter box on with one drop!
Now back to the phone:
Since you can get into recovery have you tried a factory data reset to see if that fixes your problem..
Just my 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
From that statement above, having the otter box doesn't mean you'll be protected against drops. Yes it'll protect the phone but still suffered inside the device! I had a friend crack his screen on the corner, with an otter box on with one drop!
Now back to the phone:
Since you can get into recovery have you tried a factory data reset to see if that fixes your problem..
Just my 2¢®
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He said that he can't get into recovery mode. He said it won't turn on at all.

mrtopdog2000 said:
He said that he can't get into recovery mode. He said it won't turn on at all.
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It was turning on if you read the whole post!!
Hey I try to help here, but most of the time the people never come back to check to see if they got a response.
Me 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
It was turning on if you read the whole post!!
Hey I try to help here, but most of the time the people never come back to check to see if they got a response.
Me 2¢®
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I plan to read all responses as soon as I can because I'm in dire need of help. The phone WILL NOT turn back on. The first day I had the problem it gave me the "BadgeProvider" has stopped working and also the "Samsung" has stopped working error messages. The only thing that was responsive was responsive was my notification bar. I could slide it down turn wifi on and off etc from there but when I hit the setting button on the notification bar it would not open up the settings immediately and there was maybe a 2 minute delay (I walked away from the phone and came back to it) and it would finally open it up but giving me the 2 error messages "BadgeProvider" and "Samsung" has stopped working. Read online that clearing the BadgeProvider data under "Application Manager->All->BadgeProvider" would fix this issue so thats what I did. Wallah it worked fine.....fell asleep without my phone on the charger and it died but I have 5 batteries so who cares. Woke up noticed the phone was dead then I swapped batteries (OEM Samsung battery). Tried to turn it on and it will not turn on. Tried putting it on the charger (even though it should be a freshly charged battery) and the red charging light will not even come on. Tried to boot into recovery mode and still unresponsive.
As of now I CANNOT boot into revovery mode, turn on the phone in any way, get the charging light to come on when plugged in (I have 5 other batteries plus an external battery charger so its definitely not truely dead battery wise), I cannot get the phone to do anything what so ever. Tried removing external storage from it, tried removing sim, tried 5 different fully charged batteries and nothing.
Anyone that can give me some insight on what the problem may be and a possible solution I would greatly appreciate it.

Bajanman said:
It was turning on if you read the whole post!!
Hey I try to help here, but most of the time the people never come back to check to see if they got a response.
Me 2¢®
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True, true.....Or, they post the same question in five forums....lol.
What do you guys think about using Odin? Can he get into the phone if it won't go to recovery? Can you install TWRP or CWM, they may automatically set the phone to restart in recovery mode? Just some thoughts....I am not a dev., just an avid user.
Something here might help as well. :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779
Keep us posted on what you try, and your status. Good luck.

Also if it helps any, I have had my phone restart by itself randomly way before rooting it. After rooting I still had the restarts just as I have always had (maybe once every 3 weeks). Rooting it gave me no errors at all and it has been working fine for months being rooted. Not sure if letting you guys know of the restarting issue is going to help anything but I'm telling you all I know to try to debug this issue.

1shotsniper said:
As of now I CANNOT boot into revovery mode, turn on the phone in any way, get the charging light to come on when plugged in (I have 5 other batteries plus an external battery charger so its definitely not truely dead battery wise), I cannot get the phone to do anything what so ever. Tried removing external storage from it, tried removing sim, tried 5 different fully charged batteries and nothing.
Anyone that can give me some insight on what the problem may be and a possible solution I would greatly appreciate it.
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So there is no power at all, not even a loop. I had a similar problem with a LePan tab, but when I plugged it into my laptop via USB, it would start.....Sorry. Sounds hardware....
Good luck

1shotsniper said:
As the title reads my Note 2 will not turn on. It will not go into recovery mode. I have 5 batteries and none of them are working. Yesterday I got 2 weird messages that "BadgeProvider" and "Samsung" has stopped. The phone started acting weird by not letting me use anything but the notification bar. I couldn't even turn it off using the power button. I removed the battery and reinserted the battery a couple of times and still it didn't work only letting me use the notification bar. Finally it started working for some random reason and I restarted the phone and all was well.
I'm so use to having 5 batteries that I did not have the phone on the charger last night and it died. Now the phone will not turn on at all. Not into recovery mode. Not normal mode. It is totally unresponsive. Tried rapidly touching the contacts with the battery contact and nothing. What can I do to get my phone working????????????
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Bajanman said:
It was turning on if you read the whole post!!
Hey I try to help here, but most of the time the people never come back to check to see if they got a response.
Me 2¢®
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I did read the whole post, hence my reply. Towards the end of his post, he says that the phone won't turn on at all. Maybe you should read the whole post.

dmxinc said:
So there is no power at all, not even a loop. I had a similar problem with a LePan tab, but when I plugged it into my laptop via USB, it would start.....Sorry. Sounds hardware....
Good luck
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Thanks man. I'm thinking it's hardware too. Herd of motherboard problems early on with this phone that would cause it to randomly shut off and not come back on.
Has ANYONE had any experience with samsung repair centers???? Do they care if the device is rooted even if its a known hardware issue?
Thanks for any help

mrtopdog2000 said:
I did read the whole post, hence my reply. Towards the end of his post, he says that the phone won't turn on at all. Maybe you should read the whole post.
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Yes I understand that. And let me tell ya I did read the whole thing lol.
You don't read the OP you miss everything...
1shotsniper said:
Thanks man. I'm thinking it's hardware too. Herd of motherboard problems early on with this phone that would cause it to randomly shut off and not come back on.
Has ANYONE had any experience with samsung repair centers???? Do they care if the device is rooted even if its a known hardware issue?
Thanks for any help
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I've read a few people having that problem with the phone randomly turning off.
[Q] did you get the phone New or used? If its used you have a lot of people out there selling devices with problems that they couldn't fix! FYI
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Does it get recognized by the PC?
When you plug it in? If so then you should be able to try the Kies recovery!
If not then kies won't help..
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Bajanman said:
I've read a few people having that problem with the phone randomly turning off.
[Q] did you get the phone New or used? If its used you have a lot of people out there selling devices with problems that they couldn't fix! FYI
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Does it get recognized by the PC?
When you plug it in? If so then you should be able to try the Kies recovery!
If not then kies won't help..
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I brought it directly from AT&T new. And nope. Tried pluggin it into the PC and not recognized. Tried Kies and Odin and neither had any affect. The phone is just completely unresponsive now.
Thinking about trying to take it to Samsung before AT&T so I can try to miss the deductible.

Remove the battery ...then plug the device in to USB connection with your PC...
Then attempt to boot the phone into download mode..
If successful ....then immediately push the rooted stock rom from Mr. Robinsons thread in the development section...
If no download mode exists while attempting boot with the battery removed ...then the likelihood of device damage is high...
This of course does not rule out the possibility of a stuck power button ...but that hardware failure generally presents a repeated and uncontrolled loop which in this case we are not seeing...
Odin mode failure generally means a defective or damaged Chipset...g
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gregsarg said:
Remove the battery ...then plug the device in to USB connection with your PC...
Then attempt to boot the phone into download mode..
If successful ....then immediately push the rooted stock rom from Mr. Robinsons thread in the development section...
If no download mode exists while attempting boot with the battery removed ...then the likelihood of device damage is high...
This of course does not rule out the possibility of a stuck power button ...but that hardware failure generally presents a repeated and uncontrolled loop which in this case we are not seeing...
Odin mode failure generally means a defective or damaged Chipset...g
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Thanks. Just tried it but still doesn't work. I'm going to try to bring it to Samsung repair center today. Hopefully they can fix/replace it very very soon....TODAY :crying: . Will update the thread of any useful info that I receive.

1shotsniper said:
Thanks. Just tried it but still doesn't work. I'm going to try to bring it to Samsung repair center today. Hopefully they can fix/replace it very very soon....TODAY :crying: . Will update the thread of any useful info that I receive.
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Ok since you want to take it in to Sammy. And you did state you got it New from the AT&T store. Then you can take it into one of the DSC. (Device support center)
Check HERE:
http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB91429&cv=820#fbid=CS_QLPeF54-
Hopefully there's one in your area. I have one like 10 mins away from me
Hopefully they can help you get back up and running. No charge either. It's a warranty center. Member no Rom talk in there.. LOL:sly:
But if they can't get it to turn on you'll be getting another the same day. Takes about a total of 15 minutes and you'll be on your way with your new toy!! Yay and good luck to you. Lety us know what you're outcome is!
Just my 3¢® <_>
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Bajanman said:
Ok since you want to take it in to Sammy. And you did state you got it New from the AT&T store. Then you can take it into one of the DSC. (Device support center)
Check HERE:
http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB91429&cv=820#fbid=CS_QLPeF54-
Hopefully there's one in your area. I have one like 10 mins away from me
Hopefully they can help you get back up and running. No charge either. It's a warranty center. Member no Rom talk in there.. LOL:sly:
But if they can't get it to turn on you'll be getting another the same day. Takes about a total of 15 minutes and you'll be on your way with your new toy!! Yay and good luck to you. Lety us know what you're outcome is!
Just my 3¢® <_>
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Thanks. There are a few in my area. Hopefully I don't get lost since I won't have a gps

1shotsniper said:
Thanks. There are a few in my area. Hopefully I don't get lost since I won't have a gps
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You're welcome bruh... lol
on the GPS...
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Got a new phone. It was a painless process. Just walk in play dumb and talk as least as possible. They never asked a question about rooting. I'm guessing because I seemed like an idiot . Going to let it do all the updates it can then going to root it tomorrow using CFroot.
Thanks all for the info.
Anyone reading this in the future let me know if I can help in anyway.

Glad you got a new device ..and for the record ...I personally believe you had a bad device from day 1...
Normally I would frown on anyone taking back a device that has been modded ...but I can see no evidence in your case that indicates your doing anything that would break your chipset ...
And I know that others feel the same way ...
You tried your guts out ...and the device just didn't act properly from day 1...
Please place a "Solved" in the thread title if you don't mind ...
That way ...everyone knows the issue has been corrected ..
Many thanks ...and....
Happy flashing ....g
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Help with data recovery please. Very important data.

Here's the story.
My note 4 froze on me one day, so I pulled the battery to reset it. I guess I pulled it at the wrong time bc it wouldnt turn on after that. I tried plugging the charger in for 24 hours and the charge light won't even come on.
My wife of 11 years passed away Aug 27th 2015. I have a lot of pictures of her on there that I would really like to have. Borderlining on needing. I called data recovery places ,and they cost like almost 2 grand, and possibly more depending on what they have to do to save it. If there is no other way, I will save up and pay for it. I dont even make alot of money, but that's how important the pics are.
Ive looked into disassembly videos on YouTube for the chance I can find a donor phone and take the internal memory chip into it from mine.
Does anyone know where the internal memory is? I didnt see it in any of the teardown videos I saw.
If anyone has any ideas , please tell me.
Thank you for reading.
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Very sorry for your loss. Something like this probably makes it all the more difficult. Your best bet is probably to use a professional data recovery service. I've tried to restore data on my phone and have never been able to do so.
Not sure if Samsung could help you or not... But I think you need professional assistance.
Something as precious as this, I don't know what else to say.
Good luck.

It sounds like your phone is in a hard brick state, If it is hard bricked then the good news is that it can be fixed with a unbrick/debrick.img, the bad news is to create a debrick.img you need another working at&t note 4 running lollipop. To check if your phone is indeed hard brick plug it into a computer and open device manager check to see if QHSUSB_BULK driver error