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I had an 8525, and just upgraded to 8925. After some traveling, my 8925 just up dies. I got it on the 20th of Dec, and on the 30th it dies. I switch my card back over to the 8525 on that afternoon (after not being able to start it up), and start using it. Today (02Jan08), the 8525 died as well. Both are giving me similar issues. The 8925 gives a red light when I attempt to charge, and wont turn on at all. The 8525 gives no charging indications whatsoever, and refuses to turn on as well. I'm getting worried I'm radioactive or something. Anybody got any ideas as to what would cause to phones to die similarly like this. The only new things introduced were my trip to texas. I haven't change much of anything else. Any ideas would be appreciated, as I'm completely stumped. I've tried the straight to battery "jump-off" via usb and 3 AAA batts for the 8925, and I've got nothing out of it. I even went a got a new battery. Something I'm doing (I have no clue what) is absolutely killing these phones.
Thanks,
Doug
The only think I can think of in your case that might be common is the charger. Was the same charger being used on both devices? I wonder if it was bad could it have maybe damaged the phones.
I've been running through any possible connections, and that's the only thing I can come up with. Except one of them died on the charger, the other one I was hangin out with some friends and went to check it and it was dead. I imagine the charger could have caused an issue that eventually fried the phone. The charge I'm using came straight out of the 8925 box, brand new!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355232
Your not the only one...
Have a look at your mini USB port on the device. Is it slightly bowed??? Is tere a slight downward curvature creating a slight crescent shape to the device USB aperature?
@GSLEON3
I don't think so.
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I have become active in that thread. Seems like a growing theme.....
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feel free to delete this one, since the other one has taken like a wildfire in california (too soon?)
I had exactly same problem when switching from 8525, after phone kept dropping I called the at&t CS they sent me some kind of a fixed code over the air, but then it went worsen. Anyway, I called them back they told me to read out the card serial# and informed me that I had the old sim card although it has 3G logo on it and suggested me to go to any at&t store to pickup the new one(one with at&t and 3G logo). It still dropped call after that but about 1/2 less until I turned off the 3G stuff then it works like charm!! Even the at&t CS said the 3G is not guaranteed in every place so to turn it off was a good idea!!
Huh?
bunrieu2k said:
I had exactly same problem when switching from 8525, after phone kept dropping I called the at&t CS they sent me some kind of a fixed code over the air, but then it went worsen. Anyway, I called them back they told me to read out the card serial# and informed me that I had the old sim card although it has 3G logo on it and suggested me to go to any at&t store to pickup the new one(one with at&t and 3G logo). It still dropped call after that but about 1/2 less until I turned off the 3G stuff then it works like charm!! Even the at&t CS said the 3G is not guaranteed in every place so to turn it off was a good idea!!
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I actually don't see how our problems are at all the same. Thanks for replying tho.
Just a though... I had dropped call problems before the red light of death happened on my phone as well. Towards the end it couldn't even find a signal.
Thanks to my recent stupidity I just had the idea to make a thread that we might share some of our ridiculously stupid mistakes that we later found out could have been solved by simply thinking things through.
Hopefully this'll help new owners of the phone avoid our mistakes.
My mistake just happened 10 minutes ago, and I'm rather annoyed it happened... oh well... another 4 hours of setting up my Kaiser won't kill me...
Anyway, I refuse to carry my Kaiser with me until it is properly protected in its case, so it's just been sitting here around the house while I tamper with it and wait for my case to get here. Consequently, I'm using 2 phones, and I swap the sim card between them.
I turned on my Kaiser and got scared pantsless. It would only stay on for a few seconds, and then turn off. Of course it scared the heck out of me... the phone is only 4 days old. So after soft resetting failed, I resorted to the hard reset... well, apparently something got turned off when I flashed dutty's rom to the phone, and the little screen that reminds you about the sim door being unlocked doesn't come up.
So it turns out my phone was turning off just because the sim door wasn't locked... and now I have the task of installing and re-configuring everything I had on the Kaiser... which I'm about to start now. 4 hours of repeating history here I come!
My buddy threw up all over mine at a party.. luckily it cleaned up nicely!
So the dumbest thing i've done with it, is leave it somewhere other than my pocket? lol
Believing the hype !!! and getting one. Well maybe. Because this is one "son of a ***** " phone to get working
Bought one. No video drivers FTL.
Besides that....nothing really. just being clueless on how to flash a ROM I guess even though I want to return it because of video drivers!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO....
Dropped mine (and did not notice) while running across a busy street in downtown Calgary.
It was consequently run over by at least 1 car! I lost the back case, the battery was all banged up, and the power button was permanently pushed in, but guess what....it still turned on and I could make calls!!!!
Anyway, with no insurance, I thought I was up a creek with no paddle. AT&T hooked me up with a new one at 1/2 cost. I guess they heard the pain in my voice when I explained what happened.
last week end i made the stupid mistake of making an infinite loop on my today screen.
i was messing around trying to find a way to hide the VitoFindMe text at the bottom of my today screen, and since SPB Pocket plus (for some reason) didn't hold the plugin, i tried PocketBreeze, it put it in and it worked. so i put PocketPlus as a tab in it also just to get it to how i like, but it didnt allow me to put a personal tab as the default and i didnt need all of the extras, so i turned it off and put SPB back on the today. I decided to try one more time to put FindMe in SPB before i gave up, but i accidentally put PocketBreeze in it, and since PocketBreeze had SPB in it, it basically looped, froze and stopped on trying to boot when reset... so now i had to hard reset and i had to go through the task of putting all of my programs and stuff back on!
Yey what fun.
I bricked mine
ericc191 said:
My buddy threw up all over mine at a party.. luckily it cleaned up nicely!
So the dumbest thing i've done with it, is leave it somewhere other than my pocket? lol
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Wow. My friend would have had to die after that one
tyeo098 said:
I bricked mine
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how?!?!
RLoD very simple
I picked it up to check if SK Tools had finished cleaning ....................
while making whoopie with the ole' lady. Yeah, I got slapped upside the head with my Tilt & no more nookie for 2-weeks.
& boy, does she hate Lori now. (That's my Tilt name because I like the slightly *****y tone of Lori TomTom's voice)
Pwnt !
I accidentally locked my SIM card tryin to set up my keypad lock everytime u take the phone out of sleep mode. I was scared ****less. I could barley even hold the stylus in my hand to try and fix. basically, i had to log in to my wireless account on at&t, found my PUK code and everything was straight after that.
When I first got my Tilt, I kept it plugged in, since I have heard you should fully charge when you first get it. Well, I went to sync it, and it simply would not sync at all. I unplugged it, and replugged it. Still nothing. I checked all cables. Everything was properly hooked up on PC and ppc.
I was so mad, because it just would not work. So, I called ATT tech support. They made me soft reset, hard reset etc.
Finally they said, phone must be broken, they would exchange it for me. While I was waiting for her to do the exchange request (or whatever you call it), I just happened to notice that I had it plugged into the WALL charger, NOT the usb on computer (both cables were sitting right next to each other).
OMG, I felt so dumb, I hung up on AT&T, and had quite a chuckle at my stupidity
hmm, the dumbest thing I done that has to do with my kaiser?
I bought it!
Poetique said:
Thanks to my recent stupidity I just had the idea to make a thread that we might share some of our ridiculously stupid mistakes that we later found out could have been solved by simply thinking things through.
Hopefully this'll help new owners of the phone avoid our mistakes.
My mistake just happened 10 minutes ago, and I'm rather annoyed it happened... oh well... another 4 hours of setting up my Kaiser won't kill me...
Anyway, I refuse to carry my Kaiser with me until it is properly protected in its case, so it's just been sitting here around the house while I tamper with it and wait for my case to get here. Consequently, I'm using 2 phones, and I swap the sim card between them.
I turned on my Kaiser and got scared pantsless. It would only stay on for a few seconds, and then turn off. Of course it scared the heck out of me... the phone is only 4 days old. So after soft resetting failed, I resorted to the hard reset... well, apparently something got turned off when I flashed dutty's rom to the phone, and the little screen that reminds you about the sim door being unlocked doesn't come up.
So it turns out my phone was turning off just because the sim door wasn't locked... and now I have the task of installing and re-configuring everything I had on the Kaiser... which I'm about to start now. 4 hours of repeating history here I come!
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At first I thought the dumb thing was refusing to carry your phone without a case.
Dumbest thing I did was using it while walking fast inside best buy. I dropped it and happend to land on the toe of my shoes while I happen to take a step. I kicked it about 30-40 feet accross the floor. The phone, battery, and the cover all went 3 directions. Luckily the floor was carpet. No scratches on the phone, reboot still works fine. I WAS PISSED.
People keep saying buying it is the dumbest thing they did but it's not. Keeping it beyond 30 days is the dumbest thing. If you bought it, own it, be proud. If you felt that buying the tilt is the worst mistake you've ever made, you should have returned it within the return period. There are other people from CDMA carriers wish they can get the Tilt.
I gave my phone to my Girl friend for a day (DUMB !!!!)
Now I neednt explain what happens when phones go into women's hands
she dropped it from the 3rd floor in her hostel
luckily I got it replaced (rich girlfriend's dads )
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I picked it up to check if SK Tools had finished cleaning ....................
while making whoopie with the ole' lady. Yeah, I got slapped upside the head with my Tilt & no more nookie for 2-weeks.
& boy, does she hate Lori now. (That's my Tilt name because I like the slightly *****y tone of Lori TomTom's voice)
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I know what you are talking about.
My dumbest thing was to give the kaiser to my girlfriend to play with it. She loves the bubble breaking game, and now everytime I am with her she is playing the f**king game.
So I decided that i wanted to try hero the other day so i did some searching and made sure i had everything required ....newest radio... check.....pvt board...check...rom ready to flash...check...i went through the whole proccess and got KiNgxKxROM up and running for at least a day and a half...then lastnight i was playing around with the phone and it reboot on its own (kinda like the random reboots i used to get when i first got the phone)...it went to the G1 screen then just went black..so i pulled the battery and tried to reboot...now i have no response from the phone what so ever...its totally dead as far as i can tell
i saw that someone had success by putting another sd card in and trying to boot but that does nothing for me
I am trying everything i can because somehow enough moisture crept into the phone to cause the little "your not getting another g1" sticker to turn red
any way i am hoping that some how my situation has a remedy but i doubt it does
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So I decided that i wanted to try hero the other day so i did some searching and made sure i had everything required ....newest radio... check.....pvt board...check...rom ready to flash...check...i went through the whole proccess and got KiNgxKxROM up and running for at least a day and a half...then lastnight i was playing around with the phone and it reboot on its own (kinda like the random reboots i used to get when i first got the phone)...it went to the G1 screen then just went black..so i pulled the battery and tried to reboot...now i have no response from the phone what so ever...its totally dead as far as i can tell
i saw that someone had success by putting another sd card in and trying to boot but that does nothing for me
I am trying everything i can because somehow enough moisture crept into the phone to cause the little "your not getting another g1" sticker to turn red
any way i am hoping that some how my situation has a remedy but i doubt it does
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this is not caused by the software sounds like your phone got a little wet some how and it messed up. try putting it in bowl of rice and if that does not work try a new battery.
tried a battery today at the store
i guess if it did get wet it could manifest itself a long time after the fact
well worth a shot regardless thanks for the advice
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tried a battery today at the store
i guess if it did get wet it could manifest itself a long time after the fact
well worth a shot regardless thanks for the advice
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yeah i split soda on a keyboard once it did not start acting strange for 3 or 4 days after that. and pull the battery and take it out then complete submerge it for at least a day. but the damage is most likely done
Hey, something similar happened to me a few months back.
I use to get a lot of random reboots and it was quiet annoying and then one day my phone rebooted and it had a black screen, I took the battery out and put it back in and the phone was unresponsive.
When you plug in the charger does the red LED turn on or is it dead?
Mine, the led never turned on but it go warm because it still charged the battery.
My motherboard in the phone was fried somehow, I can assure you this isn't from the Hero rom at all because my phone died before I was even into roms.
Call HTC America (or where ever your from) and then tell them your problem and ask for an RMA repair, if the same thing happened to your phone as mine then you don't have to worry about them finding any "illegal software" (Root, and anything else that didn't come on the phone besides apps) I had root enabled and that voids the warranty but there would be no way for them to check so they would just replace the mainboard and send it back. In total it cost me 8 dollars to ship the phone and I had it back within a week - two weeks.
I hope this helped out!
EDIT: Is your water damage sticker red? I wasn't able to understand weither it was or not. I think it is and I just spent this entire time typing this long post for nothing then eeep! If it is, get an LG Vu Battery and replace the sticker with the one on the battery, I'm pretty sure they are identical.
Eh both stickers are red
thanks again ...it actually makes me feel better that it wasn't me messing around with hero that got me here
It just sucks having to pay the same amount as they are currently charging new customers for the phone under contract through the stupid insurance
So basiclly my g1 doesn't accept any kind of sim card at all. My sim card used to work but now it doesn't. I tried changing sims already like alotta times but still it says "NO SIM CARD" when there is one. Everything works perfectly fine except for the sim card part. My phone isn't rooted. It's pretty stock. Can Anyone help me?! Please!?
Its a common problem that is occuring since a couple of months... Im having the same problem except mine recognize my sim card from time to time and then I loose signal and the sim card problem occurs again... Nobody on the forum know what to do about it so Im clueless about it...
May be hardware, not quite sure. You might want to get another phone.
My friend had this problem after water damage - he got lucky and warranty replaced it. I would guess it's a hardware problem as well, so your best bet is a new phone or see if you still have a warranty.
Yeah it used to happen to mine too but now it doesn't recognize at all. I have no idea what to do. I love my G1...
the answer is, hit T-Mo up on your warranty..... or buy a new phone....
im on G1 number 7 or 8.... T-mo keeps shipping em out under warranty
ESKIMOn00b said:
the answer is, hit T-Mo up on your warranty..... or buy a new phone....
im on G1 number 7 or 8.... T-mo keeps shipping em out under warranty
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Holy ****, bro.
its the sad truth....
but it has actually been benifical...
T-Mo's warranty policy is that you get another year warranty if the phone is replaced with a NEW phone, and if it's replaced with a Re-Furb then youi get 90 days, or the remainderof your existing warranty
my frist 3 phones were NEW replacements
and after that i got Re-Furbs
i was told this by a T-Mo warranty repair tech, on the Employee line, as i used to sell t-mo at radioshack....
also this was confirmed by checking my warranty expiration date (t-mo MUST provide this date on your request) as it MUCH later than 1 year from my first purchase....
ESKIMOn00b said:
its the sad truth....
but it has actually been benifical...
T-Mo's warranty policy is that you get another year warranty if the phone is replaced with a NEW phone, and if it's replaced with a Re-Furb then youi get 90 days, or the remainderof your existing warranty
my frist 3 phones were NEW replacements
and after that i got Re-Furbs
i was told this by a T-Mo warranty repair tech, on the Employee line, as i used to sell t-mo at radioshack....
also this was confirmed by checking my warranty expiration date (t-mo MUST provide this date on your request) as it MUCH later than 1 year from my first purchase....
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I see how that could work out... I would just be so pissy having to wait for a new phone over and over. Unless they replace it on spot.
well with the risk of continued thread jacking, T-Mo cross ships replacements, as in you get the newone before you have to resend the old one...
you have 7 days from the date your new phone activates on their network to return the phone, just has to be postmarked by that date (scanned into UPS's system)...
plus if your phone is totally BORKED, you can request a loaner from a local store while you wait the one or 2 days it takes for the replacement to arrive
also at this point i'll probably ***** and moan next time it breaks and try to get a free MT3G slide outta em on my next replacement..... they tried to give me a Dash 3G last time, and i told em to shove it...... (i want a damn HTC android phone, with a keyboard,1Ghz+ preferably, but if its free i'll take the upg to a MT3G Slide, no contract extension ofcourse )
[Q] Same problem, SIM recognition is sketchy
I've recently been having the same problem...
The phone, HTC Dream (EBI1) from Rogers, sometimes recognizes my perfectly functional SIM card, and most other times does not. This has been happening for a while now, and usually a reboot or two would solve the problem, but now it seems like it has finally quit (I've been rebooting/powering off/battery pulling for the last 2 hours, and removing and inserting the SIM card). I've changed ROMs, (well between different versions of CyanogenMod but it worked fine with it before) and nothing.
The strange part is, after rebooting 10 to 30 times and it actually recognizes the SIM card, if the device is left on, it will continue to recognize the card... I live in an area of s*** reception, and frequently go in and out of service, I've enabled disabled 3G, WiFi on/off, and it will still work for days, UNLESS the radio is turned off for whatever reason (Airplane mode, or power off/reboot).
Basically my only hope is to pray to the G1 Gods that it'll recognize my SIM card, and if it does, then do not loose power for any reason...
If anyone has any info what so ever, please let me know.
Also, If anyone knows how to get a log of everything that happens from boot, I'd love to know how.
My phone is the HTC Dream (EBI1) from Rogers, currently running: CyanogenMod 5.0.7 test2
Danger SPL
RA Recovery 1.7.0R
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (DREA21000)
RADIO-3.22.26.17
Possible temporary FIX!
Okay, so as my last post states, my phone will sometimes recognize my SIM card after a bunch of rebooting... I've been rebooting a lot today (3 hours straight almost, with no success) and my battery was getting pretty low, which reminded me that usually when it starts working again is in the morning... weird I know...
I would turn off my phone over night and usually in the morning, within a couple boots, it'll work again, which led me to think, maybe for some reason, when the phone is too warm, it won't boot the radio properly or something strange...
Either way, I put my phone in the freezer for 10 minutes, took it out and booted it, WORKS!!!
Also, the battery was just about out, and the cold shortened it even more, it died, I plugged it in and booted again, STILL WORKS!!!
If anyone else has this "No SIM card" message, even though the SIM is good, try turning it off, sticking it in the freezer for 5-10 minutes and then boot... it's worth a try...
Like I said in the previous post, once it works, don't power down, so next time I run out of battery, I'm going to try putting it in the freezer while it's on to see if it fixes while running...
I know this sounds dumb, but it does make a little sense. I just can't figure out why it will keep working under all conditions as long as it has power to it?!?
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Okay, so as my last post states, my phone will sometimes recognize my SIM card after a bunch of rebooting... I've been rebooting a lot today (3 hours straight almost, with no success) and my battery was getting pretty low, which reminded me that usually when it starts working again is in the morning... weird I know...
I would turn off my phone over night and usually in the morning, within a couple boots, it'll work again, which led me to think, maybe for some reason, when the phone is too warm, it won't boot the radio properly or something strange...
Either way, I put my phone in the freezer for 10 minutes, took it out and booted it, WORKS!!!
Also, the battery was just about out, and the cold shortened it even more, it died, I plugged it in and booted again, STILL WORKS!!!
If anyone else has this "No SIM card" message, even though the SIM is good, try turning it off, sticking it in the freezer for 5-10 minutes and then boot... it's worth a try...
Like I said in the previous post, once it works, don't power down, so next time I run out of battery, I'm going to try putting it in the freezer while it's on to see if it fixes while running...
I know this sounds dumb, but it does make a little sense. I just can't figure out why it will keep working under all conditions as long as it has power to it?!?
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You know this actually sounds like a hardware problem. Or possibly an issue with the sim card. Try going to your local carrier and ask for a new sim card. T-Mobile US charges $20 I believe. I had this issue and a new sim card solved everything. If the new sim card doesn't solve the problem then it's definitely hardware related. And if it's hardware related it MIGHT be why you're getting bad reception. It's a long shot I know but I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone putting their phone in a wet freezer! Anyone that does consider this I suggest placing it in an air tight container to keep it from getting wet. We don't want your leaking quart of vanilla ice cream messing up your phone.
Solved!!
Hi, buddy!
I have a samsung captivate and I was having the same trouble.
I'm brazilian and my sister send me the phone unlocked from US.
It was working for 5 months.
When I changed the SIM it has began asking me for the code(??!). It was programed for not asking PIN code so I got surprised. I typed my code several times until get the phone locked.
I spent more than 2 weeks to find the solution: Galaxy S Unlock, a free program available at the Market. It's necessary to root and install Busy Box (I installed mine with Titanium Backup).
Try something close to this for your device!
I hope this can be usefull!
Guys, I have a problem with my HTC One M7. Phone is an AT&T phone however it's off contract (on AIO/Cricket) and has been S-OFF'ed, flashed to 4.4.4 with TWRP, etc.
I was commuting home from work on my motorcycle yesterday and got caught in rain/hail. Long story short, I was drenched by the time I got home and my phone got wet.
It's been in a bag of rice since I got home at 6:30PM.
From about 6:30-7:30PM the phones screen was black, but I heard the severe weather warning going off a few times. Then, from 7:30PM till about 1AM, it was in a reboot loop. I tried getting into recovery, etc. with no luck (as soon as I VOL DOWN to go to Recovery from Fastboot, it reboots) At that point, I went to bed so I don't know what it did all night.
Needless to say, this is my last HTC device unless they started making phones with removable batteries again. Regardless of what happens with this phone, I'm going to buy an LG G3 from T-Mobile today off contract.
I don't care what happens with this phone, but my issue or help request is: how do I get it to stay on so I can get my data off? That's the ONLY thing I am concerned with at this point.
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I was commuting home from work on my motorcycle yesterday and got caught in rain/hail. Long story short, I was drenched by the time I got home and my phone got wet.
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Ok let me understand... because the phone got wet and now it refuse to boot, you are saying:
Needless to say, this is my last HTC device unless they started making phones with removable batteries again
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the phone hardware was damaged with water, not related to the non-removable battery...
I don't care what happens with this phone, but my issue or help request is: how do I get it to stay on so I can get my data off? That's the ONLY thing I am concerned with at this point.
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Water damaged the phone, if it can't boot its probably an hardware problem and unless you replace the defective component, there is no way to make it boot and backup your data. You should consider making backups of your data on your pc each weeks/months (depending on your needs) with you future phone so if something happen, you'll be able to recover almost everything. Unfortunately you did not and you lost everything, sorry.
I know its frustrating but
the phone got wet by the user fault
data was lost because the user omitted to make backups
So I dont think HTC is to blame here...
keep you phone in some sort of desiccant or even in a bag of rice like you did and hopefully it will be able to boot someday.
My point about the battery was that the phone is a sealed unit and thus I can't get to ANY of the internals without doing some serious taking-apart-this-POS work (which I'm probably going to do now that I have my new phone). If the phone had a removable battery, I'd be able to dry the internals a bit more manually with a cotton q-tip, etc.
The other reason why I mention that I'll never get another phone without a removable battery is because there is NO WAY to stop the phone from rebooting other than letting it die. You know how long it took for the phone to die (I keep it on charge all day)? I literally had to put it in the other room under a pillow to f'in shut that thing up. It went on and on for HOURS.
And thanks for stating the obvious...lol.
Btw, this new LG G3 is SUHWEET.