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bricking

normally this isnt asked but how can i force a brick on this phone

Use adb or terminal emulator and delete a few partitions... that ought to do the trick.
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how bad do u wanna brick it lol like full or soft brick

full to the point i need a new one

mouse69 said:
full to the point i need a new one
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Ahhh I get it.
Posted from my ICS'd Captivate

mouse69 said:
full to the point i need a new one
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Delete everything.
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root
install rom manager free from market
start it
flash clockworkmod
it will offer to flash for Optimus 2X (wrong model)
give it the go
after a couple min., remove battery.
I was able to recover one after that, but it took a while, and some knowledge to do so

Install cm7 then format your sd card then take out your sd card then turn phone off you should get a full hardware brick if they haven't fixed it yet try one of the early nightlys I formatted my sd card on cm7 and got almost full hardware brick noway to fix this need new logic board

Recover optimus thrill after installing wrong cynogen 2x rom
dcardozo said:
root
install rom manager free from market
start it
flash clockworkmod
it will offer to flash for Optimus 2X (wrong model)
give it the go
after a couple min., remove battery.
I was able to recover one after that, but it took a while, and some knowledge to do so
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Hi can you please tell me how you recovered your optimus thrill i am jus in a very bad situation i am not able to recover mine and also cant get it repaired here in India please tell me Please

I'm going to say that this thread should stop now.
Fraud is not condoned on XDA, yo.
Yeah, yeah. It's a "cool" way to get a new phone, but why don't you just get an actual replacement the normal way.

Hi,
I did the same mistake. Now my phone is not booting. When power on, it shows LG logo and then black screen.
Can you help me with the steps you used to recover your phone?

im in the same boat...then i tried to flash the kdz file into my fone but the lg mobile support tool keeps on saying connect to the internet i click on connect and it goes back to the same thing to re connect... if some body can help me plz it would be great thanks
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looks like i got it lol

well i got it working i flashed the software... it started up then it went blank... dont no what to do

mofotrucker said:
well i got it working i flashed the software... it started up then it went blank... dont no what to do
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LG Flash Tool

got it working thanks

I bricked mine by installing ics then rooting and trying to install unsuported cwm then did a data factory reset. Had to use my warranty just to get a new one not even they could fix it. BUT I ADVISE U DONT DO IT IT SUCKS
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Superbricked the phone and then recovered it using PIT files

I had bricked my phone when I did a factory reset. I was running stock ICS. I managed to revive the phone using PIT files and have now installed stock GB. when I try to update the firmware from the settings option, it downloads the new ICS firmware but on reboot the installation fails and I am back to GB. Also the phone keeps restarting when I try to install an app. I bought my galaxy note in India, but currently reside in USA so warranty is ruled out. Are the above problems caused by the faulty eMMC chip. Is it possible to repair the chip using JTAG or any other method.
Thanks

how?
illuminati5288 said:
I had bricked my phone when I did a factory reset. I was running stock ICS. I managed to revive the phone using PIT files and have now installed stock GB. when I try to update the firmware from the settings option, it downloads the new ICS firmware but on reboot the installation fails and I am back to GB. Also the phone keeps restarting when I try to install an app. I bought my galaxy note in India, but currently reside in USA so warranty is ruled out. Are the above problems caused by the faulty eMMC chip. Is it possible to repair the chip using JTAG or any other method.
Thanks
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how did you manage to do that PIT file stuff?, could you please explain me? thanx! i did it manually MS-DOS but after that, almost any rom, freezes when i`m using it, the only friendly rom after superbrick eMMC bugged, (lol) is PARANOID ANDROID, tried criskelo and kingdroid and crash and freeze after a couple of minutes, PARANOID ANDROID freezes too, but at least lets me be for hours on my phone...
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spetsnazzz said:
how did you manage to do that PIT file stuff?, could you please explain me? thanx! i did it manually MS-DOS but after that, almost any rom, freezes when i`m using it, the only friendly rom after superbrick eMMC bugged, (lol) is PARANOID ANDROID, tried criskelo and kingdroid and crash and freeze after a couple of minutes, PARANOID ANDROID freezes too, but at least lets me be for hours on my phone...
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as far as i know, yeah mate, we´ve got the horrible (SAMSUNGS FAULT) eMMC bug, i would suggest you make it manually MS-DOS by using the 4PDA KERNEL for text writing MS-DOS and the ABYSS KERNEL for testing roms and stuff. it took me a week and counting trying this re-partition stuff, but i´m becoming an expert as i walk the road lol let me give you the two guides i´m based: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26285877&postcount=12 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26428986&postcount=1. i actually tried the PIT FILES stuff, but i managed to get only 2gb of storage, and now by doing it manually i got 8gb of storage, half of stock, but not bad huh? xD... by the way , this is so frustrating, and i KNOW THA FEEL BRO lol, keep up the good work and make research in this two guides. CHEER UP! it´s not all lost, hope SAMSUNG releases a fix to this SHAME!

spetsnazzz said:
how did you manage to do that PIT file stuff?, could you please explain me? thanx! i did it manually MS-DOS but after that, almost any rom, freezes when i`m using it, the only friendly rom after superbrick eMMC bugged, (lol) is PARANOID ANDROID, tried criskelo and kingdroid and crash and freeze after a couple of minutes, PARANOID ANDROID freezes too, but at least lets me be for hours on my phone...
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as far as i know, yeah mate, we´ve got the horrible (SAMSUNGS FAULT) eMMC bug, i would suggest you make it manually MS-DOS by using the 4PDA KERNEL for text writing MS-DOS and the ABYSS KERNEL for testing roms and stuff. it took me a week and counting trying this re-partition stuff, but i´m becoming an expert as i walk the road lol let me give you the two guides i´m based: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26285877&postcount=12 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26428986&postcount=1. i actually tried the PIT FILES stuff, but i managed to get only 2gb of storage, and now by doing it manually i got 8gb of storage, half of stock, but not bad huh? xD... by the way , this is so frustrating, and i KNOW THA FEEL BRO lol, keep up the good work and make research in this two guides. CHEER UP! it´s not all lost, hope SAMSUNG releases a fix to this SHAME!
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Hey spetsnazz
I used the tutorial by hg42 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886 to revive the phone. I lost 3 gb of space in the process.

Another dead s3 mini

I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]

DomagojR said:
I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]
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There's nothing else you could do - unless you have the equipment in order to JTAG it. Either claim warranty on it or search for repair stores nearby.

You think so? When I connect it to the pc, it keeps connecting and disconnecting, if that helps... There's nothing more to try?

DomagojR said:
I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]
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Give it back to your seller, they won't know that it's rooted and they would probably replace it. Don't bother trying to get it out of hard brick.

KoolKid98189 said:
Give it back to your seller, they won't know that it's rooted and they would probably replace it. Don't bother trying to get it out of hard brick.
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Yeah, softbrick is easy to fix, but hardbrick means you've got a hard brick instead of a phone now xD Do what he said ^ and don't admit nothing, just say that suddenly it broke down

Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?

DomagojR said:
Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?
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We have hope xD

So, there is a possibility?

DomagojR said:
So, there is a possibility?
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Well, if the phone can't boot up and the guys aren't technicians, then yes, there is a pretty good chance noone will know what you've done to your phone!

DomagojR said:
Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?
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Well if they can't switch it on then they can't see the custom binary...?
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koragg97 said:
Yeah, softbrick is easy to fix, but hardbrick means you've got a hard brick instead of a phone now xD Do what he said ^ and don't admit nothing, just say that suddenly it broke down
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Yeah, that happened with my S3 mini, it had semi hard brick... Well it could go into download mode and I flashed all kinds of stock ROMs, recoveries and params and it made no change whatsoever! How did I know this? I tried flashing stock recovery and when I booted into recovery, it just showed TeamWin splash screen for 1 second and shut off. So I determined that the eMMC chip is screwed up! I tried a repair shop but they gave up so I spoke to Amazon customer service saying that my phone just won't turn on so they gave me a free replacement (no quibbles) with a free complementary upgrade to first class. I just drained the battery by leaving it on download mode so they wouldn't easily found out! The contract of sales lies with the seller, not for you to wait a month for the manufacturer to fix it. Since then I haven't rooted it as I'm scared that it could brick again. That's why I wanted an official KitKat upgrade which Samsung don't give for bs reasons!

But what if they are able to fix it with jtag box or something?

KoolKid98189 said:
Well if they can't switch it on then they can't see the custom binary...?
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Since then I haven't rooted it as I'm scared that it could brick again. That's why I wanted an official KitKat upgrade which Samsung don't give for bs reasons!
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You can just use VRoot. It's easy to achieve root with it After rooting and installing a custom recovery ALWAYS do a nandroid backup before trying to flash or modify ANYTHING! That's what I do and never spend more than 10 mins (the time required to restore my nandroid) with a bricked phone

koragg97 said:
You can just use VRoot. It's easy to achieve root with it After rooting and installing a custom recovery ALWAYS do a nandroid backup before trying to flash or modify ANYTHING! That's what I do and never spend more than 10 mins (the time required to restore my nandroid) with a bricked phone
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But the thing is that I had KitKat by Maclaw for a while. Then one evening it was charging and it just died without warning. It was dead for one day and then it switched on but it just showed bootlogo and switched off. That's when I realised it was semi hard bricked.

KoolKid98189 said:
But the thing is that I had KitKat by Maclaw for a while. Then one evening it was charging and it just died without warning. It was dead for one day and then it switched on but it just showed bootlogo and switched off. Then when I realised it was semi hard bricked.
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That's why I stick with stock-based custom ROMs, zero or very little or minor bugs. No problems with me so far

This also happened to me. Without warning. I have the same experience as the OP. I keep hearing the connecting/disconnecting sound on my laptop when I connect it to my laptop.

koragg97 said:
That's why I stick with stock-based custom ROMs, zero or very little or minor bugs. No problems with me so far
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But then wouldn't I lose the warranty? And Maclaw's CM11 ROM was the best, I miss out on so many good features on stock and it's so much slower than CM11. I just don't want to end up having another bricked S3 mini though.
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hleotangco said:
This also happened to me. Without warning. I have the same experience as the OP. I keep hearing the connecting/disconnecting sound on my laptop when I connect it to my laptop.
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Don't bother trying to revive it if it's hard bricked. Because they won't find out about the root if they can't turn it on.

KoolKid98189 said:
But then wouldn't I lose the warranty? And Maclaw's CM11 ROM was the best, I miss out on so many good features on stock and it's so much slower than CM11. I just don't want to end up having another bricked S3 mini though.
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Don't bother trying to revive it if it's hard bricked. Because they won't find out about the root if they can't turn it on.
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thats the thing tho. my warranty just expired last month. now im thinking if i should buy a moto g. i just have to live without the sd card...

hleotangco said:
thats the thing tho. my warranty just expired last month. now im thinking if i should buy a moto g. i just have to live without the sd card...
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Oh, void or just finished?

KoolKid98189 said:
Oh, void or just finished?
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finished. I only have a year warranty for my phone. After it ended, I terminated my contract with my carrier cause it's more cost effective for me to just use pay-as-you-go sims...

[Q] Finger print issue and now extreme lag

OK guys, if any one can actually help me with this... I will be eternally grateful, as my return time frame is up.
Stupidly I flashed a rom that clearly said before wiping anything to remove the finger print settings... Of course I forgot and flashed anyways. Regardless the flash failed, so obviously i recovered a nandroid. But thats is where the problem escalated. After recovery I noticed that i was getting an error on the finger print set up. OK, whatever I Odin flashed back to stock (sammobile of course) after the device was back to stock... LAG... not just a little lag... ridiculous lag. Since this has been the case I have Odin flashed repeatedly trying to resolve, with very little luck.
I have disabled in dev settings the Animation scale, to no avail...
PLEASE GOD SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME GOOD NEWS ON THIS. I early hardware upgraded this from rogers and paid out the ass for it, and of course have lost my ability to return the device as it was working flawlessly before I unleashed my stupidity on it...
*bangs head on desk*

celkin said:
OK guys, if any one can actually help me with this... I will be eternally grateful, as my return time frame is up.
Stupidly I flashed a rom that clearly said before wiping anything to remove the finger print settings... Of course I forgot and flashed anyways. Regardless the flash failed, so obviously i recovered a nandroid. But thats is where the problem escalated. After recovery I noticed that i was getting an error on the finger print set up. OK, whatever I Odin flashed back to stock (sammobile of course) after the device was back to stock... LAG... not just a little lag... ridiculous lag. Since this has been the case I have Odin flashed repeatedly trying to resolve, with very little luck.
I have disabled in dev settings the Animation scale, to no avail...
PLEASE GOD SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME GOOD NEWS ON THIS. I early hardware upgraded this from rogers and paid out the ass for it, and of course have lost my ability to return the device as it was working flawlessly before I unleashed my stupidity on it...
*bangs head on desk*
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I forgot to wipe my fingerprint settings my first time, too. Not a big deal. Totally fixable.
First things first.
Have you done a factory reset?

Yeah, I'd start with a factory reset, as well.
Rogers is the Canadian version correct?
How many stock versions of the firmware do you guys have?
We have 2 in America. Anj and ank.
If you guys have more than one which are you flashing?
The lag is the stuff you did after you messed up the finger printer scanner trying to fix it.
Does your private mode work?
If not have you tried the private mode fix?

Factory reset has been attempted repeatedly, to no avail...
Privacy mode does work actually.
Rogers has 2 firmwares on sammobile, i have odin flashed both. But lag is still persisting.
Its literally every other word i type. Driving me MENTAL LOL
Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 4

You guys are awesome for the assistance btw. This is the first time in 4 Samsung devices ive done something that im SERIOUSLY concerned was going to be... Unfixable.
I could care less about the finger print scanner, the lag is... Bad.
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Are you using team win recovery or clockwork mod.
And, what if anything have you wiped through recovery?
Which rom did you flash?

Attempted flashing ib4stids rapture rom.
At the moment im stock unrooted, was using twrp, his instructions advised to factory reset, then advanced wipe data, system, cache, dalvic... I think that was it without looking at the page.
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I'd re root. And then try firekat.
Making sure of course you didn't leave old fingerprint files.
Then try out the fp scanner and check for lag and report back.

Im experiencing the same exact thing, tried to go stock rom and factory reset three times. I even redownlaoded everything and did it all over again. Tried firekat, dynamic rom, and even cm12 runs a little sluggish. I'm getting a replacement phone at least
So does this lag come from not wiping your fingerprint from your STOCK rom before you flashed a new rom?
Weird thing is, on my other note 4 I never experienced this. I'm pretty sure I forgot to delete fingerprints and then I flashed firekat and no lag.

Thanks guys, MERRY XMAS, if you guys are into that. I have a few thoughts atm, but am away from my pc till tonight. I am determined to get this resolved, and will be checking back and updating on progress as it happens.
Thank you all for the assistance, definitely renewing my faith is Xda.
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Maybe we're talking defective units.
I think btort may have the right idea by getting a replacement.
My scanner works and if there's lag I'm too full of Christmas cheer to see it.
This is my current set up:

I'll tell you how I got that set up and try to describe what I did when I forgot to clear the finger print scanners memory before I flashed.
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I mean I soft bricked before and everything and there were no problems like this.
ok
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When I do a start over flash at the moment I flash anj.
I don't know what tmobile put into ank and until I do its not going on my phone.
(The canadian fellow would flash the earlier version of the rogers stock rom).
Using Odin 3.04. (I'm just not as happy with the later versions of Odin).
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I flash chainfire.
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Then the team win recovery.
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I flash firekat before the phone tries to update.
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I do the sd card fix with the team win recovery.
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I do the private mode fix with the team win recovery.
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I update my modem to ank with the modem trick.
(Canadian users do not have the modem.bin files to do this at this time and should leave their modems alone). I'll try to rip them. It doesn't matter anyway. The 2 modems available are the same anyway.
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My root apps come back automatically.
Adfree, cachemate, titanium, etc
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I freeze the bloat.
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I love firekat btw and all the other roms, of course.
But I'm recommending it because it's the longest running rom. Known to work on the Canadian version of the note 4 and he's been fixing lag / and it's similar enough to stock to fix errant flashing.
And from the set up described you could flash any TouchWiz based rom.

That's about right.
Throwing a factory reset in the mix can help as well. I'm coming back from stock Odin flashes with the same background and ring tones and settings etc.
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I wanted to run this by you guys. If i were to intentionally mess up the phone. IE pull the cable mid odin flash. then repair via kies... would that fix this issue?
Thoughts? Concerns? Input? Obviously I am going to wait for input from people before i do something this drastic. But I think it might resolve?

I wish it was a defective issue. The devise was used to 2-3 weeks before I decided to flash a rom, causing this... The phone was flawless until i messed it up.
Android_Monsters said:
Maybe we're talking defective units.
I think btort may have the right idea by getting a replacement.
My scanner works and if there's lag I'm too full of Christmas cheer to see it.
This is my current set up:
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I will definatly give that a go. I am willing to attempt anything. Thank you for the input. I think this thread might assist some others as well. As inevitably this is going to happen to others...
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I'll tell you how I got that set up and try to describe what I did when I forgot to clear the finger print scanners memory before I flashed.
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I mean I soft bricked before and everything and there were no problems like this.
ok
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When I do a start over flash at the moment I flash anj.
I don't know what tmobile put into ank and until I do its not going on my phone.
(The canadian fellow would flash the earlier version of the rogers stock rom).
Using Odin 3.04. (I'm just not as happy with the later versions of Odin).
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I flash chainfire.
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Then the team win recovery.
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I flash firekat before the phone tries to update.
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I do the sd card fix with the team win recovery.
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I do the private mode fix with the team win recovery.
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I update my modem to ank with the modem trick.
(Canadian users do not have the modem.bin files to do this at this time and should leave their modems alone). I'll try to rip them. It doesn't matter anyway. The 2 modems available are the same anyway.
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My root apps come back automatically.
Adfree, cachemate, titanium, etc
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I freeze the bloat.
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I love firekat btw and all the other roms, of course.
But I'm recommending it because it's the longest running rom. Known to work on the Canadian version of the note 4 and he's been fixing lag / and it's similar enough to stock to fix errant flashing.
And from the set up described you could flash any TouchWiz based rom.
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Good luck. I'll help in any way I can.

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Good luck. I'll help in any way I can.
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Maybe you guys should try this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56276338&postcount=5
someone said it worked for them

10 words

Rapture was the ROM i flashed that got me in this mess lol. I should not say that, firstly, i got myself in this mess. Second, iB4stid is a dope developer, been using his builds for years now.
If flashing this will help i gladly will. But i have a feeling im going to have to send this phone for manufacturer repair :-/
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Requesting Upload Backup of Lollipop rooted

Is it possible someone can upload this to see if those without a PC will be able to upgrade like this? Just a full Twrp backup of the Lollipop. Please and thank you.

That would not be advised at all.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

So can you enlighten me on how this would be bad?

chris0160 said:
So can you enlighten me on how this would be bad?
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It really won't update everything and you won't have the full COD6 update. Suggest you buy/borrow a windows computer and use odin.

Along with most backups if I made one it would have a lot of my back up info. What do you think would happen if I am using let's say twrp 2.8.4 and your not. Or it uploaded with my efs. You flash then wonder why you have a brick. Or lets say a file got curroupted in upload or download. Way to much gonna go wrong. Ur free to try but I doubt you will find this a good path.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

Somebody's got to do this. I'm pretty much screwed with work today, but it doesn't look tricky: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2163974
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Why not just flash Jovy's stock rom for now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2915737

That method is what I was trying to do, but if it was a kit Kat rom fine but every one keeps saying you have to use Odin before you can install lollipop. Also that's what led me to flashing the cod modem through twrp.

.....The name says it all. But I don't need a laptop currently, I'm away from my desktop and I don't know when I'll be near it again. I drive in a semi, throughout the states. That's why I made this unusual request. Later down the line I may get one but for now I like desktops.

That's why I was saying stock.... I should have also said before you actually complete the.......hmm times like this I wish mobile Odin would work for this phone.