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Got a phone that was flashed in Phone and Not PDA

Which is now a Brick. No matter what I do I can not get past the plug the phone into Keis and run recovery. This is a friends phone (he brought it to me this way) Is there anything I can do to get the phone back or is it doa? he does not mind returning it But I'd like to know if there is any way to fix this without him returning it.

cidica said:
Which is now a Brick. No matter what I do I can not get past the plug the phone into Keis and run recovery. This is a friends phone (he brought it to me this way) Is there anything I can do to get the phone back or is it doa? he does not mind returning it But I'd like to know if there is any way to fix this without him returning it.
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I flashed mine in phone instead of Pda it hosed my modem but was able to Odin to stock and then Odin a radio...Hope you luck..get a jig and it should go into download all I did was pull battery plug phone into wall hit power it didn't come on put battery back and try download mode
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[Q] Complete restore without USB

My GNEX is having some issues. A couple of weeks ago, the phone froze when I started the camera app. Not a disaster in itself, but when I pulled the battery, the phone wouldn't boot afterwards.
Now, since I've got CWM, a backup and factory reset was a breeze. I could now boot the phone again. But if I tried to restore from the backup, the phone would go back to bootloop.
The phone has been acting a "bit off" since then, with the occasional freeze and quite a few FCs.
Yesterday, a new problem surfaced. The phone refuses to connect via USB, and windows complains that it cannot recognize the USB device. The phone also either refuses to charge, or believes that it is charging when the cable is not plugged in.
So, I tried a complete reset and a new rom. No joy, the USB-problem still occurs. I've tried leaving the battery out for a while, without success.
So now I'm hoping to restore the phone completely and return it for service. Problem is, how can I do this without USB? Flashing the stock rom from CWM is easy, but how can I flash the bootloader and recovery image?
Transferring files to the phone is easy via eg. Dropbox.

You can use the Odin repacks and flash them with mobile Odin.

gokpog said:
You can use the Odin repacks and flash them with mobile Odin.
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Excellent, that was easier than I thought.

repvik said:
Excellent, that was easier than I thought.
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You still can't lock without usb though =[

Jubakuba said:
You still can't lock without usb though =[
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True. But my bootloader is locked. I re-locked it after installing CWM.

Oh you lucky fart.
I'd neeever get that lucky to have my bootloader locked and my phone ****s out.

You have this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23789 Please star and/or kommenter.

Melhouse said:
You have this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23789 Please star and/or kommenter.
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"kommenter" ja
Looks like my issue. New charger port ordered. Thanks a bunch!

[Q] Can I get root w/o USB?

So the short question is if there is any way for me to get root without a working usb port?
Last week I plugged in to charge my phone overnight with the phone off. In the morning, I was surprised to find that the screen was on and what should have been a full green battery was instead a scrambled image that kind of looked like a battery. I powered on the phone and it worked so I thought nothing of it but later on that night I needed to pull a file off my phone via usb and realized that the phone will no longer detect the usb host, ie. no mtp options whatsoever. It at least does still charge.
Since then I have tried cleaning the usb connector, pulling the battery/sim, setting the UART using *#7284#(PDA, mtp+adb), multiple computers, and multiple cables(including the Samsung one) and the phone still doesn't ever think its connected to a host. So today I decided to use my php warranty service which meant I had to restore stock recovery and rom. So I grabbed mobile odin and a stock UVLDJA image. Ran Triangle away once to clear the counter, and another time to verify it was at zero, and installed the full image via mobile Odin. When the phone booted back up, it successfully installed the rom only the flash counter is back at one and now I have lost root. If I had used my head I should have flashed just the recovery first but I wasn't thinking....
Any suggestions on how to get root back? I read these forums quite a bit and I am thinking that I am SOL but hoping maybe someone has a suggestion I haven't seen yet.

Dlkiser said:
So the short question is if there is any way for me to get root without a working usb port?
Last week I plugged in to charge my phone overnight with the phone off. In the morning, I was surprised to find that the screen was on and what should have been a full green battery was instead a scrambled image that kind of looked like a battery. I powered on the phone and it worked so I thought nothing of it but later on that night I needed to pull a file off my phone via usb and realized that the phone will no longer detect the usb host, ie. no mtp options whatsoever. It at least does still charge.
Since then I have tried cleaning the usb connector, pulling the battery/sim, setting the UART using *#7284#(PDA, mtp+adb), multiple computers, and multiple cables(including the Samsung one) and the phone still doesn't ever think its connected to a host. So today I decided to use my php warranty service which meant I had to restore stock recovery and rom. So I grabbed mobile odin and a stock UVLDJA image. Ran Triangle away once to clear the counter, and another time to verify it was at zero, and installed the full image via mobile Odin. When the phone booted back up, it successfully installed the rom only the flash counter is back at one and now I have lost root. If I had used my head I should have flashed just the recovery first but I wasn't thinking....
Any suggestions on how to get root back? I read these forums quite a bit and I am thinking that I am SOL but hoping maybe someone has a suggestion I haven't seen yet.
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Checking your flash counter in TA trips your counter, that's why it's at 1. Use mobile Odin to flash root66 to get rooted again.
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Towle said:
Checking your flash counter in TA trips your counter, that's why it's at 1. Use mobile Odin to flash root66 to get rooted again.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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Ok, thanks for the explanation on the counter. Don't I need root already to run mobile Odin?

Dlkiser said:
Ok, thanks for the explanation on the counter. Don't I need root already to run mobile Odin?
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Oh, duh! Yes lol you do. There would be no other way. Have you tried a factory reset then try to connect your phone? You could also try to install Kies on your PC to make sure all drivers are correctly installed.
If you wouldn't have said you have tried other cables, I would have for sure thought defective cable. Some cables are also charge only.
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Towle said:
Oh, duh! Yes lol you do. There would be no other way. Have you tried a factory reset then try to connect your phone? You could also try to install Kies on your PC to make sure all drivers are correctly installed.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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Yeah, did the factory reset along with all of the other suggestions I could find. I typically try to avoid Kies and since I cannot even get the device to enumerate I'm pretty sure it's not driver related.
I think my only hope would be getting root or twrp intalled via stock recovery or adb over wifi.
Thanks, I appreciate the help.

download Odin3 v1.85
Put your phone in download mode (vol down=menu=power then after the screen comes up press vol up
plug the phone usb to the computer,
run odin
the first box on the top left should have a colored highlight (the ID:COM )
if that pops up, your phone is 99% functioning correctly, and only problem is in your computer.
When trying do do a regulad usb transfer to the computer:
I have noticed, sometimes I have to connect, wait a bit (like maybe 2 minutes)
then disconnect the cable for about 15 sec then connect again, and it pops up after a minute
you could also try this:
open explorer on the computer(double click on my computer) and see if there is a t999 in your left pane. Sometimes the autorun function in the
computer gets farkled and it does not open automatically and you have to do it manually,
Good luck & Aloha !

Go to galaxys3root.com and follow his t.mobile root tutorial WORD FOR WORD. USE THE USB THE PHONE CAME WITH AND KILL SAMSUNG KIES. also run Odin before you connect the phone to Pc, should be no problem bruh once it took me a couple of hours making love to my comp before I got a colored com box. And use a windows PC Mac suxx for this kind of.
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I've basically given up trying to get the usb port working... I am convinced this is a hardware issue. Nothing shows up in the device manager when I plug in the phone whether USB debugging is on/off or I am in normal mode or download mode. The phone will never bring up the MTP options in the notification bar either. Again this is with multiple cables on 2 different comps where it used to work just fine. I think whatever bad charge experience I had last week damaged the USB host controller on the phone.
I think what looks promising now is using adb over wifi(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26844535) along with root via adb(http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-u-s-canadian-dual-core-galaxy-s3-on-mac-osx/). I can't do this at work but I'll follow up tonight on what will hopefully be success in case this could help someone else out.
Edit: Ugh, some quick googling shows that I need either root or working USB to make adb over wifi work.

Would you want to replace your chatging port?
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AppzTheGawd said:
Would you want to replace your chatging port?
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I don't think so.... the micro usb port is mounted on the main board and short of replacing that entire board it would be a ton of time/effort for something that I don't exactly think is the problem.

Dlkiser said:
I've basically given up trying to get the usb port working... I am convinced this is a hardware issue. Nothing shows up in the device manager when I plug in the phone whether USB debugging is on/off or I am in normal mode or download mode. The phone will never bring up the MTP options in the notification bar either. Again this is with multiple cables on 2 different comps where it used to work just fine. I think whatever bad charge experience I had last week damaged the USB host controller on the phone.
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This happened to me, and it was from using different devices in the same port (with same cable). I switched ports and it worked. Might not work for you, but worth a mention - it really stumped me and I tried everything including restoring the OS to an earlier point.
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Dlkiser said:
I don't think so.... the micro usb port is mounted on the main board and short of replacing that entire board it would be a ton of time/effort for something that I don't exactly think is the problem.
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Now that S3's are getting older, more people will be losing their functional USB ports. I found holding the phone vertically with steady even pressure on the plug was the trick to getting a solid connection on my flaky port, at least enough to get stock back (to send it back). That was the longest 15 minutes of my life (OK, not, but it was in the top 10, mostly because it was simultaneously nerve-wracking and insanely boring).
I tried de-soldering a usb port on a Galaxy S. Yeah.... To say it mildly, the way Samsung sets them up is booby-trapped. You can't get the existing silver solder hot enough to melt without toasting the board somehow. The boards are also wafer-thin and dimensional on both sides. Despite generally having a knack for fine tuning and detail work (thanks to estrogen or something), I felt like an ogre in a doll house. I definitely would suggest having all the (exactly) right tools in place before tackling it. Even then it might not be the port itself, but something between the actual port and the other components.
One other thing to note, Mobile Odin is an amazing tool, but it's even ***more crucial*** than regular Odin to get your ducks in a row before you flash. Know exactly what you are flashing what your next steps are, and what your results are supposed to be. One thing in particular: if you flash a stock ROM, it includes stock recovery, and you will lose root. make sure you've run Triangle Away before you flash stock (which won't trigger your counter, but anything else will).
I plan to keep the Triangle Away and Mobile Odin apk's ready on ExtSD to install, and a copy of a stock image (ROM) as well, from now on, on all my phones. You never know when that port is going to give up the ghost.

Just thought I'd add a couple things here. More times than not, when someone thinks their usb port on the phone is bad, it's actually just the cable. Even if the cable works on something else, or works to charge the phone. They ruin much, much, more easily than anyone wants to believe! Especially when you plug/unplug it as often as with a phone.
As for Mobile Odin, I fully agree! It's one of my favorite apps by far! But if you're going to keep stock firmware handy, which I highly recommend, you may as well keep the root66 version. Flash back with that, then run triangle away, then in SuperSU, choose full unroot. Then all you need is a factory reset. Making TA the last step makes for far fewer user mistakes.
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[Q] Unrooted GS3 with mobile odin. Broken now and can't fix

Long time listener first time caller (this is my first post here) I'm going to try not to leave out any details. Bear with me.
I rooted my Tmobile Galaxy s3 for the first time and installed CM10.1. It was great for a few months, then it started getting glitchy. So I would flash the nightly release and it would be fine for a while. I decided to unroot and start fresh. It was then that I discovered the PC wouldn't recognize the device. I followed a youtube tutorial to unroot with Mobile Odin. I extracted and flashed a stock image called Tmobile_GS3_SGH-T999_4.0.4 after clearing counter with Triangle Away.
Well it seemed to go well, unrooted my device, but now the OS is incomplete. No internet app, messaging won't work at all, and it keeps crashing and freezing. The usb port is still not working so I cannot root with my computer, and the flash counter still says 1 and status says modified.
Tmobile sent me a new one on warranty, but I'm really worried they're gonna charge me 500 bucks because it's "modified". I have a few days before I have to send it back, Is there anyway that I can fix this without connecting it to my computer? Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks

re: flashing stock rom.
empire-1 said:
Long time listener first time caller (this is my first post here) I'm going to try not to leave out any details. Bear with me.
I rooted my Tmobile Galaxy s3 for the first time and installed CM10.1. It was great for a few months, then it started getting glitchy. So I would flash the nightly release and it would be fine for a while. I decided to unroot and start fresh. It was then that I discovered the PC wouldn't recognize the device. I followed a youtube tutorial to unroot with Mobile Odin. I extracted and flashed a stock image called Tmobile_GS3_SGH-T999_4.0.4 after clearing counter with Triangle Away.
Well it seemed to go well, unrooted my device, but now the OS is incomplete. No internet app, messaging won't work at all, and it keeps crashing and freezing. The usb port is still not working so I cannot root with my computer, and the flash counter still says 1 and status says modified.
Tmobile sent me a new one on warranty, but I'm really worried they're gonna charge me 500 bucks because it's "modified". I have a few days before I have to send it back, Is there anyway that I can fix this without connecting it to my computer? Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks
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First thing to do is to put the phone into DOWNLOAD mode to TEST it and see if ODIN will recognize it.
If Odin recognizes it then there is NO need to send it back to Samsung, all it needs is a proper Odin flash.
Just because when all those missing apps and the usb had issues it does not necessarily mean that Odin will not recognize the phone.
If your computer is not working or you don't have a windows computer find a relative or a friend who has one.
Even a laptop computer would do just fine.
Good Luck!

Tried that
Thanks for your response, I have tried connecting it to Odin in download mode and it still will not see it. I really don't know what the problem could be. the usb used to work fine and there has been no physical damage.

re: try this.
empire-1 said:
Thanks for your response, I have tried connecting it to Odin in download mode and it still will not see it. I really don't know what the problem could be. the usb used to work fine and there has been no physical damage.
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Try a different usb cable and or plug usb into different port,
if that fails, re-install the Samsung usb drivers for the phone.
Remember, if the phone goes into download mode 99.999% of the time the phone
can be flashed successfully using Odin.
The main reasons for usb issues in "download mode" are either loose connection to computer's usb ports,
usb cable intermittant or the Samsung usb drivers in the computer are corrupted in one way or another.

Thanks again
I guess I should have put this in my first post. I have tried 2 different cables in every port on 2 different computers. I have re installed the drivers multiple times as well. Also the new phone they sent me is recognized just fine.

empire-1 said:
I guess I should have put this in my first post. I have tried 2 different cables in every port on 2 different computers. I have re installed the drivers multiple times as well. Also the new phone they sent me is recognized just fine.
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You are in a tough spot. I don't know if you have the stock recovery or not but if not you can either download the stock rom on the phone again...you know the best way although unethical really...being that the usb port is down is to re root it and flash a rom like the gt 1300 or whatever the international version is and intentionally hard brick your phone. Hard brick meaning won't even turn on withOut jtag and that even just clears everything out and reloads software like from the factory.If the phone won't boot up then there's no way for the person to tell its been modified. Majority of the time samsung doesn't get the damaged phones its some idiot making 8 bucks an hour to refurbish phones. That's what I would suggest you do being that the counter is still saying one flash
tmobile s3 running wicked. best rom i've ever used

Pretty sure I'm on stock recovery. it does give me an option to "apply update from external storage"
Thanks for all your help, I'll try to flash the stock rooted rom through the stock recovery although i'm not optimistic.
I will check out the wicked rom you mentioned, although I am a little hesitant to root my new one after this ordeal.

but how do I re root it if I have no usb or custom recovery?

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empire-1 said:
but how do I re root it if I have no usb or custom recovery?
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If you can get your phone to boot normally with any stock rom rooting will not be a problem at all.
If you get the phone working and booting properly you would be very lucky but from reading
everything you have wrote so far I highly doubt that you can successfully flash any rom at all
unless you have forgotten to tell us something.
Don't worry about rooting, worry about getting the phone to boot and work properly with stock rom.

yep. running stock recovery. hopeless?

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empire-1 said:
yep. running stock recovery. hopeless?
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I never said a word about stock recovery, I said STOCK ROM.
Invest in a JIG, it puts your phone into download mode instantly even if you cannot
do it manually with the three buttons as long as the phone is not completely dead.
You can buy a jig for less than $4.00 shipped on eBay, it's great little tool.
All you do is remove the battery from the phone and put it back in then simply plug
the jig into the usb port then in a couple seconds it will be in download mode then you
can unplug the jig and the phone is ready to be odin flashed..
Remember what I said before, just because the usb did not work with some
rom you flashed it does not mean that it will not work for download mode.
The jig was one of the best investments I have made when I started using these samsung android phones.
Once in download mode it will allow you flash the stock or stock rooted Jellybean 4.1.1 rom.
This is my best advice.

I am not having a problem getting into download mode, I will take your advice and buy a jig though in case I ever need it. Again, thanks for all your help, I think I may have to send it back and hope for the best.

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I am not having a problem getting into download mode, I will take your advice and buy a jig though in case I ever need it. Again, thanks for all your help, I think I may have to send it back and hope for the best.
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Before sending it back, if I were you I would find a friend or family member who has
a windows computer and just for the hell of it install the usb drivers in the computer
just to see for sure that while in download mode and connected usb cable if Odin still
is not lighting up the [COM:xx] top left rectangle on Odin screen.
I have odin flashed many phones dozens of times in the past 3 years and I have yet
to come accross one which goes into download mode but odin is not reconized
unless there is something wrong with the windows computer or usb ports and drivers.
That only happens as I said before, if there is something wrong with the drivers,
usb ports and or usb cables or some other malfunction in the windows computer.
Just think, if it works no need send the phone to samsung plus you would have learned
something too.

I did try my other computer with the same results, tomorrow I will try it with my girlfriends laptop, I am starting to think something happened to the usb jack. It didn't work before I unrooted it either, that's why I used Mobile Odin. I am all about learning this stuff though. I plan to root every new phone I get, this has just been a little frustrating.

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empire-1 said:
I did try my other computer with the same results, tomorrow I will try it with my girlfriends laptop, I am starting to think something happened to the usb jack. It didn't work before I unrooted it either, that's why I used Mobile Odin. I am all about learning this stuff though. I plan to root every new phone I get, this has just been a little frustrating.
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This is the first I heard that the usb did not work before and the usb socket might be broke.!!!
In that case since you cannot use the Wifi in your phone to transfer and install apps since it cannot boot normally
(unless I am missing something again) and you cannot use usb and it would not even help to remove the external
sd and copy any apps at all since you would have no way to install the apps.
Then you are right, you have to send it back, exchange it and hopefully you can come up
with a good enough excuse why it's not working so samsung will not charge anything )which I doubt)

I must not have been clear, I can use the phone. it makes calls, the wifi works, i can use third party messaging and browser apps. again, there has been no physical damage. the socket worked a few weeks ago when I rooted it. I only noticed it not working when I went to unroot it.
So basically it sounds like there is no way to root or install custom recovery without usb, correct?

empire-1 said:
I must not have been clear, I can use the phone. it makes calls, the wifi works, i can use third party messaging and browser apps. again, there has been no physical damage. the socket worked a few weeks ago when I rooted it. I only noticed it not working when I went to unroot it.
So basically it sounds like there is no way to root or install custom recovery without usb, correct?
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I don't know of any way unfortunately
tmobile s3 running wicked. best rom i've ever used

Josh McGrath said:
I don't know of any way unfortunately
tmobile s3 running wicked. best rom i've ever used
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Can you flash it through mobile odin? I don't know anything about the mobile version.
tmobile s3 running wicked. best rom i've ever used

Need help. accidentally wiped os after flashing recovery and now have trouble

So I have had this device since February and finally decided I wanted to Unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery and get some cool new roms on it. I have the GPE by the way.
Anyways so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP and then rooted the device by flashing a zip file for root. I assumed the tablet got rooted so I then decided to try the multi window hack and flashed that. Well it caused some apps to corrupt (the phone app in particular) and they would keep crashing preventing me from doing anything. I decided to go back into recovery and try to do a data and cache wipe but that did not help. Eventually I wiped the entire OS which was a mistake. I was still able to get into recovery mode but I have no SD card to load up with a rom to flash and it was late to go buy one. I also tried ADB through the recovery mode that did not seem to work.
I did some searching and found out that I could download the LGMlauncher and it could get me back to stock but to use that I needed my serial number which is on the box (which I had at the office). So I plugged it in (and got the little battery icon) and a few hours ago went to the office to get the box. I tried the LGMlauncher and it keeps on crashing while trying to update and now I am not able to get into recovery mode. What are some other steps I can take to try and recover it?
Thanks.
Edit: I tried the LGMlauncher again and it said my battery was low so I plugged it back in. is there a trick to charging it while it is off? I assume that could be why recovery mode wont work.

Hi, if you have twrp recovery and it is working you can install your missing system by following this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53744333
Good luck
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schalmers said:
Hi, if you have twrp recovery and it is working you can install your missing system by following this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53744333
Good luck
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Yeah It appears as though the battery was not charging even though I had plugged it in and now it is dead. I cannot seem to get it to go into recovery or anything. Is it safe to say it is bricked?

When my HP Touchpads battery was to low to take a charge from the wall charger, the only way it could get enough charge to be able to use the wall charger was to trickle charge it from my computer usb port for a couple of days.

Jubeldum said:
When my HP Touchpads battery was to low to take a charge from the wall charger, the only way it could get enough charge to be able to use the wall charger was to trickle charge it from my computer usb port for a couple of days.
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Yeah it has been plugged into my PC for a few days and nothing.