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Hi guys this is probably insane but my phone get deep scratches on all 4 sides because of a stupid cover so now I want to replace this phone and I think a hard brick is the only way so can u guys pls tell me how to brick my phone I m on stock 2.3.5.
And guys pls let me know that if I hard brick my phone thrgh your suggested method. HTC will replace and give me a new cell or not?
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The only way I know of to properly screw your phone is to flash an incompatible radio, but even then I'm not sure that HTC will replace it. First time I've come across someone who actually wants to bork their phone!
Downgrade to froyo. That will completely **** it.
Edit: HTC will probably replace the motherboard, almost as good as a new phone.
For what I known (at least in my country) phones are replaced with a new one if it has less than 7 or 14 days, after that they will repair your phone...
A myth through the web say that you could screw you phone by putting it in the micro-wave for a few seconds (obviously without battery); some people tell that it's detectable, others not, others say only if you cook for long time...
Thank you guys but I want more and exact suggestions by which HTC can replace my cell not only motherboard...I m from india.
Does anyone have an exact idea and yeah one more thing how to flash a radio.
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mohitgalaxy3 said:
And guys pls let me know that if I hard brick my phone thrgh your suggested method. HTC will replace and give me a new cell or not?
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I think no cause you loose manufacturer warranty after making a phoneflash
mohitgalaxy3 said:
Thank you guys but I want more and exact suggestions by which HTC can replace my cell not only motherboard...I m from india.
Does anyone have an exact idea and yeah one more thing how to flash a radio.
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I would be carefull because if you mess up your phone htc could say that it was caused by you when you got the marks on the case as they say you dropped it even if you didn't.
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Downgrade to froyo. That will completely **** it.
Edit: HTC will probably replace the motherboard, almost as good as a new phone.
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And how can I do it man??
incrediblealex said:
I would be carefull because if you mess up your phone htc could say that it was caused by you when you got the marks on the case as they say you dropped it even if you didn't.
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Hmm so I think I have to live with those scratches....right guys?
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Hmm so I think I have to live with those scratches....right guys?
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I don't think its worth the trouble, of you deliberately brick it, they will either not fix it, or maybe replace the motherboard.
Maybe you can take it somewhere to get the casing replaced? You can buy that sort of stuff in eBay
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And how can I do it man??
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No point really if there's nothing actually wrong with the phone besides cosmetic. Post a pic of the damage?
Idk how Urs in India, but Herr in Austria they just repair if phone never fell hard on the Ground or Water. My little Brother bricked his Samsung Galaxy Ace s Motherboard by flashing another Recovery. And Samsung has given us a new phone, it was rooted.
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See if there's an ota update, if so remove battery during update.
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itsbeertimenow said:
See if there's an ota update, if so remove battery during update.
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Yeah man even I was thinking abt it but phone is already upgraded to 2.3.5
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Silversniper said:
Idk how Urs in India, but Herr in Austria they just repair if phone never fell hard on the Ground or Water. My little Brother bricked his Samsung Galaxy Ace s Motherboard by flashing another Recovery. And Samsung has given us a new phone, it was rooted.
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Yeah, this is what happened to my IncS. It was little less than a month old when my wife dropped it on hard ground. The ambient light sensor went berserk, and the phone would restart every few minutes. Took it to a HTC center here in B'lore, and they gave me a new IncS In fact, I was given the choice to take any HTC phone for the same price.
Good luck if you decide on doing the same
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so they didn't ask why the light sensor went bad ? i mean does HTC replace a handset if it is damaged due to human error or natural causes?
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so they didn't ask why the light sensor went bad ? i mean does HTC replace a handset if it is damaged due to human error or natural causes?
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I never told them I dropped it But of course, unlike in your case, my phone did not have too many scratches on it. Very few, actually. The only apparent problem with it was the light sensor.
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AymaR13 said:
I never told them I dropped it But of course, unlike in your case, my phone did not have too many scratches on it. Very few, actually. The only apparent problem with it was the light sensor.
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mine is completely scratch free(one year old). just asking out of curiosity
AymaR13 said:
Yeah, this is what happened to my IncS. It was little less than a month old when my wife dropped it on hard ground. The ambient light sensor went berserk, and the phone would restart every few minutes. Took it to a HTC center here in B'lore, and they gave me a new IncS In fact, I was given the choice to take any HTC phone for the same price.
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Wohoo man now seriously I'll brick it....just tell me one thing earlier I was using Samsung galaxy 3 and I used to flash roms directly using a software(Odin) now if I disconnect the data cable in the meanwhile phone will get bricked off course (dead).
Now I m new to inc s pls tell me a similar procedure I m on stock 2.3.5 no root nothing just tell me how to brick it in a similar fashion...pls man pls..
Edit: just one more thing I don't wanna s-off it bcs HTC will caught then I think just tell me how to make it dead pls man eagerly waiting for ur reply
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mine is completely scratch free(one year old). just asking out of curiosity
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Oh, sorry! Mistook you for the thread creator. He apparently has a few scratches on his phone.
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Hello Guys,
I recently PICKED up a DEAD VIVID from a fellow XDA'r for a really cheap price hoping I can UNBRICK it and use it
As I have understood , This phone was bricked during the ICS update Process. Looks like the Original Owner did not know what he was doing LOL,
The phone should be here in a WEEK
Can anypone shed any light on how this can be fixed and what are the possible options ?
JTAG ??? HTC service
I live in INDIA BTW
bump....
Hope I wasn't a Idiot to buy a bricked VIVID ??
I don't think any solution has been found so far. If you hadn't already known, our vivid section is really small with not a ton of development going on. The people that couldn't follow directions were sort of left in the dust, and I don't know of anyone working on a fix for the bricks.
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mally2 said:
Hello Guys,
I recently PICKED up a DEAD VIVID from a fellow XDA'r for a really cheap price hoping I can UNBRICK it and use it
As I have understood , This phone was bricked during the ICS update Process. Looks like the Original Owner did not know what he was doing LOL,
The phone should be here in a WEEK
Can anypone shed any light on how this can be fixed and what are the possible options ?
JTAG ??? HTC service
I live in INDIA BTW
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How "bricked" is it? Will it power on? Get to HBOOT?
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How "bricked" is it? Will it power on? Get to HBOOT?
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I assume he's talking about the worst kind we've seen. Like the noob who pissed off PG and made him leave.
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If it powers on and you are able to go to HBoot it can be saved.
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If you can get into Qualcomm dload mode, you should still have a shot at fixing it. If it literally can't get into dload mode, does not boot into fastboot, or any other possible method of pushing files to the phone, then yes, it is bricked. You will have to find a way to use JTAG or send it to an HTC service center.
Thank you all !!!!! hoping for RIFF box to work
I started a similar thread.....I also have a bricked Vivid.....I have been able to get mine to be recognized by QPST on com6 in phone download mode.....the question is, what do I do now? QPST seems to be pretty straight forward, but I have no idea where to find the necessary files to flash the phone. Any ideas?
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I haven't been able to find any .hex files for our device. Tried opening the various .img files extracted from the PH39IMG.zip in a hex editor and saving them as .hex files but QPST returns an error. I don't have any experience in hex editing, but I know I can't brick the phone any worse. My g/f has went back to an HTC Inspire so I am going to keep this hope alive as a side project.
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Whether this guy who bricked his phone was a NOOB, isnt really an issue now is it? Nor if he is one of the ones whom ticked off PG.. I bricked my Vivid, and 1) I'm not a NOOB. 2) I followed Directions to the letter ... did everything right and it still bricked.. but i had insurance through BestBuy , sent it in and got a new phone 2 days later.. re-tried the same steps i did before which bricked my phone, and it went through without a hitch... We arent here to judge people nor start up another thread which can potentially lead to another mass exodus from XDA
Well I just got off the phone with HTC....seems I was wrong about their warranty policy. Even though I was not the ORIGINAL purchaser the PHONE is still under warranty. I will be shipping it back to HTC first thing in the AM.
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Haha. Sucks for the guy who let it go so cheap. Lol
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djelement1 said:
Well I just got off the phone with HTC....seems I was wrong about their warranty policy. Even though I was not the ORIGINAL purchaser the PHONE is still under warranty. I will be shipping it back to HTC first thing in the AM.
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Wow, I didn't even know that. All you have to do is send back the phone, no receipt, no nothing?
I called HTC and gave them my contact info and all the info about the phone....IMEI#, serial #, and part #.....told them what the problem was....and they emailed me the info about sending the phone in...worst case is the problem won't be covered under warranty, in which case I will have to pay $135 to have it fixed. Hopefully it will be covered under warranty though....
Hi I seen your problem to me step and follow these steps to get here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20807914&postcount=2 download from here http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/ version for AT & T is this RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_CINGULAR_3.26.502.52 install it from your computer and running.
Forgive my English.
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I called HTC and gave them my contact info and all the info about the phone....IMEI#, serial #, and part #.....told them what the problem was....and they emailed me the info about sending the phone in...worst case is the problem won't be covered under warranty, in which case I will have to pay $135 to have it fixed. Hopefully it will be covered under warranty though....
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did you send the phone to them? did you got it back? did you had to pay anything?
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Wow, I didn't even know that. All you have to do is send back the phone, no receipt, no nothing?
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did you send the phone to them? did you got it back? did you had to pay anything?
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yeah i've sent them many phones, a couple of hd2, touch pro, touch pro2
can't remember what else but yeah if ur not original owner from a store they go by production date of the phone, i've been lucky that i always got them fixed for free, only once they said that said that the damage to my screen was due to physical damage and didn't fix it, and they charged me $40 (they call it a triage fee) other than that, i had to pay to ship it to them but it's worth the $5 using usps priority mail, they ship back at their cost with a nice box and HTC lint free cloth lol
You need the H-BOOT
mally2 said:
Hello Guys,
I recently PICKED up a DEAD VIVID from a fellow XDA'r for a really cheap price hoping I can UNBRICK it and use it
As I have understood , This phone was bricked during the ICS update Process. Looks like the Original Owner did not know what he was doing LOL,
The phone should be here in a WEEK
Can anypone shed any light on how this can be fixed and what are the possible options ?
JTAG ??? HTC service
I live in INDIA BTW
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If you need the H-BOOT let me know i,ll give you a copy once you have it leave it as is just put the zip file (PH39IMG.ZIP) to the root of the sd card hold down vol button and power at the same time once you see it boot let go and the phone will do the rest it will unbrick it for sure.
so i switched my phone off to get out the SD card but it won't switch on again....not in recovery mood...not i download mood...nothing its just black screen !
i tried several things like 1)removing the battery and waiting for several hours and pluging the battery again
2)charging the mobile (the mobile got hot from the back though as if it was charging)
3)connecting it to a laptop
when i lost hope and was just about to go to Samsung one of my friends whose brother is a mobile expert and a developer told me to give the mobile to him and he can fix it for me so i gave it to him but before i do i dropped my mobile into a bag filled with acetone.....he said that it is not a problem he can clean it for me and find out why its not working he kept working on it for 2 days but no results...he just cleaned it from the aceton (he said he knew because the camera was white but now it's normal) and he tried opening it but he couldn't catch the problem ! so i am planning to go to the insurance company but i am scared that they will refuse to help me because 1)the phone was opened from the inside 2)i used it wrongfully which caused the dis-function 3)it was a rooted phone
i know i talked alot but i would really appreciate it if someone told me if i can just fix it myself or do i really have to go and is it a good possiblity that they will refuse to fix it for me and if they did what should i do ?
i know the problem is complicated but can someone please help me or tell what to expect at the warranty center
You have to pay almost half of the amount you paid to bought it to get it repaired at warranty centre
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Try jig or jtag
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Why did you have a bag of acetone laying around? :thumbdown:
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warranty is void . You cant take it to insurance company it'll be turned down instantly . Its probably a dead board . Or something shorted.
i recently purchased a phone and the phone is clean but the bugger sold me a phone which is locked and i mean hardlocked is there any way to get around it i do have the unlock code but it wont accept it.
this is a brand new phone and i cant use it at all.
any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
please post in the corect section.
Just send it back to the person you bought it off,,,
Have you tried the power on and volume up button trick? Press and hold them both untill it vibrates 3 times
I think he is talking about SIM lock, which will be locked down completely after too many failed attempts.
Until now there is no known solution other than to sell the phone and buy another one. Or try to get a refund through the seller. If you bought it using PayPal you can always use their services if you buy something that isn't what was offered/expected (complaints center)
Good luck!
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Unless it's just got a gesture or password unlock when it boots then flashing a different rom would help?
Hit thanks if helped.
Cheers,
Lunar.
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To be honest it's a sim lock issue cause I was going through cellunlocker.net and they are the ones who told me there is no unlock for it being hardlocked since no tries left. I'm looking for a way to use the phone cause I purchased it in person locally and lost the person info so I need to use this phone
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What you get buying a nicked phone.
merseyman said:
What you get buying a nicked phone.
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the phone is brand new in box except it wasnt sealed. other then that i have everything. stolen means esn will be flagged that i called and confirmed but nothing to do with it like that.
Try contacting Sony, MAYBE they can help you
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I have they said only carrier can help me but the carrier doesn't help me either cause I am not customer of them
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Anyway to unlock. A. Sony Xperia t that is hard lockrd
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My Samsung galaxy s advance is not booting up at all no download mode no recovery nothing only one thin happens is whenever I connect my phone to pc it displays a unknown device in device manager u8500 Rom now the main issue is I searched the internet for the issue I came across some video using jtag box riff method and it is the most easiest method but I don't have any money to buy the box whereas I know how to use it but I want any other method whatsoever to unbrick it and I have commited a big mistake it's my dad's phone
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How did you brick it in the first place...?
And no, I don't think there's another method.
panda00 said:
How did you brick it in the first place...?
And no, I don't think there's another method.
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USB jig can it be possible
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I bricked it by flashing only xxle2.md5 file to make it jb it didn't happen so tell me will the USB jig work
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Mohhamad Rehan said:
I bricked it by flashing only xxle2.md5 file to make it jb it didn't happen so tell me will the USB jig work
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If you can go to downlad mode, than you are not bricked your phone. Reflash or use guide to get back to GB.
P.S. Oh, didn't see your first post. You can go to some service to see if they can fix it with Jtag.
xxle2 is GB, not JB.
shut_down said:
If you can go to downlad mode, than you are not bricked your phone. Reflash or use guide to get back to GB.
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Bro I have been in all sort of things and I believe in my self its not going to the download mode and it would never but I did one thing I have gone to the our famous repair market as they have the jtag riff box I will be buying soon wait for my to phone to repair I will post the status of it I was just asking if I can use the USB high method but not an issue now the riff box cost 5100 Indian rupees way to go to buy I will be making threads to solving all the issues of the phone thanx for the help bbrothers until then my Indian friends would understand my mother is saying mera jutta fake leather dil chi chi leather getting hit by the shoes of my mother
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usb jig will work only if your device is not dead that mean when you press power button if you get some splash screen or stuck at boot logo then usb jig will work but if no response from power button then usb jig will not work for you.
And the solution for the boot repair is using jtag riff box. Its not good idea to buy riff box just for your one phone its better to take it to service centre for repair.
And also there is a elite developer Adam Outler who can fix it messing with the hardware you can see his threads.
Anyway good luck :good:
tts
ManzzaShahi said:
usb jig will work only if your device is not dead that mean when you press power button if you get some splash screen or stuck at boot logo then usb jig will work but if no response from power button then usb jig will not work for you.
And the solution for the boot repair is using jtag riff box. Its not good idea to buy riff box just for your one phone its better to take it to service centre for repair.
And also there is a elite developer Adam Outler who can fix it messing with the hardware you can see his threads.
Anyway good luck :good:
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no the service centre ppl of a piece of an ass they are giving me a solution of replacing the motherboard i am sure the ppl to whom i have given the phone will repair the issue i have seen the threads on other website i wont mention them i am sure and inshallah they will fix it and about the jtag riff box see dude u mentioned the name of the person i idolize the most after our prophet and my dad i want to become like him i wanna have a career as a developer just some of my small mistakes i have to look over thats why i am buying the box
Mohhamad Rehan said:
no the service centre ppl of a piece of an ass they are giving me a solution of replacing the motherboard i am sure the ppl to whom i have given the phone will repair the issue i have seen the threads on other website i wont mention them i am sure and inshallah they will fix it and about the jtag riff box see dude u mentioned the name of the person i idolize the most after our prophet and my dad i want to become like him i wanna have a career as a developer just some of my small mistakes i have to look over thats why i am buying the box
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buy a USB Jig (you can also make it by your own!) and try if it will work! good luck!:angel:
Mohhamad Rehan said:
no the service centre ppl of a piece of an ass they are giving me a solution of replacing the motherboard i am sure the ppl to whom i have given the phone will repair the issue i have seen the threads on other website i wont mention them i am sure and inshallah they will fix it and about the jtag riff box see dude u mentioned the name of the person i idolize the most after our prophet and my dad i want to become like him i wanna have a career as a developer just some of my small mistakes i have to look over thats why i am buying the box
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ohhh good luck! Some service centres are just a piece of crap.Its good you plan to buy a riff box it will be very useful in future as well as you can work repairing hard bricked mobiles. Just try and share the progress with us.Hope you fix your device soon..:laugh:
USB jig is the only way to get into downloading mode & what you have experienced is a hard brick. I faced the same issue with samsung galaxy mini and luckily I got the motherboard replaced for free under warranty in service center acting innocent,.
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USB jig is the only way to get into downloading mode & what you have experienced is a hard brick. I faced the same issue with samsung galaxy mini and luckily I got the motherboard replaced for free under warranty in service center acting innocent,.
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But bro I have the only way out the motherboard replacement would cost me a hell amount of money whereas just solving the issue either jtagbox would only cost me 1000 rs I appreciate it concerns bro the service centre ppl have the only way out of changing the motherboard but we as modders have to find a way where as the phone does not belong to me it belongs to my father but I felt a pain in my chest when my father said that I am the only one who can repair the phone and no one else can I decided that I have to prove him right so when the unbrick project is completed on Monday I will surely post the thread of unbrick project in Samsung galaxy advance troubleshoot section I have my own works of roms to release of my phone that is LG p920 to be released on 20th but now I have to postpone it for one day I have my own phone to take care of too and am developing a tweaking app for LG p920 and other phones as well so let's see when my projects are done will surely share my experiences with everyone on xda
My Rom is based on stock LG xperia ubuntu and s4 I have been making the Rom since last week and I completed it last night and then bricked my father's device
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Mohhamad Rehan said:
But bro I have the only way out the motherboard replacement would cost me a hell amount of money whereas just solving the issue either jtagbox would only cost me 1000 rs I appreciate it concerns bro the service centre ppl have the only way out of changing the motherboard but we as modders have to find a way where as the phone does not belong to me it belongs to my father but I felt a pain in my chest when my father said that I am the only one who can repair the phone and no one else can I decided that I have to prove him right so when the unbrick project is completed on Monday I will surely post the thread of unbrick project in Samsung galaxy advance troubleshoot section I have my own works of roms to release of my phone that is LG p920 to be released on 20th but now I have to postpone it for one day I have my own phone to take care of too and am developing a tweaking app for LG p920 and other phones as well so let's see when my projects are done will surely share my experiences with everyone on xda
My Rom is based on stock LG xperia ubuntu and s4 I have been making the Rom since last week and I completed it last night and then bricked my father's device
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Do you have warranty? Why don't you act dumb and say phone do not boot suddenly?
And what did you do with that file, you pushed it to wrong partition?
no i dont have warranty thats the issue and i am not gonna shell out the money for the Motherboard i have booted the phone to download mode just need to download the files to flash for the stock rom for india does anyone has the link
Mohhamad Rehan said:
no i dont have warranty thats the issue and i am not gonna shell out the money for the Motherboard i have booted the phone to download mode just need to download the files to flash for the stock rom for india does anyone has the link
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sammobile.com or samsung-updates.com
Search in there.
Thank you do all of u need a unbrick thread here
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Mohhamad Rehan said:
no i dont have warranty thats the issue and i am not gonna shell out the money for the Motherboard i have booted the phone to download mode just need to download the files to flash for the stock rom for india does anyone has the link
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How can you not have warranty? The phone is barely an year old right? I think it launched in Europe during April 2012 or something.
Grey market purchase?
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arkadeep94 said:
How can you not have warranty? The phone is barely an year old right? I think it launched in Europe during April 2012 or something.
Grey market purchase?
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Bhaiyya I don't have the bill
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I am pleased to say that I have finally repaired the Samsung galaxy advance by myself using the jtag box and flashing a European version of the stock GB maybe vdjl1 can someone help me I want to upgrade it to jellybean or ics
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Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2198341
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