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[Q] I think my phone died...

Hello! Frist of all, I want to say that I'm new and I just learned this page from Google when I searched for a situation like mine.
I have Samsung Galaxy S Advance.
Back in January, when the new Russian firmware came out, I updated my phone via odin, successfully.
Yesterday, I updated again with the newer Italian firmware successfully. I reset it in order to work better and then I reinstalled the apps that I wanted. (I reset it becasue I have many apps that I didn't want)
Anyway, the phone worked fine for almost 24 hours. When my phone turned off 'cause of the battery, I charged it and then I turned it on fine.
The next morning I unplagged it from the charger and it was fine.
After half an hour that I wanted to call someone, it didn't work. I was pressing thw power button all over again and nothing.
I tried to put it on download mode etc. and nothing with none of them.
I seems to me dead.
I read stuff you said to other people about up volume, down etc. I tried everything, but nothing.
Is there anything else that I can do?
Please help me.

Italian firmware or Indian? there is no Italian jb firmware as of now...
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rushilkr said:
Italian firmware or Indian? there is no Italian jb firmware as of now...
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You're right, sorry. I meant India firmware.

you can't get into recovery mode (vol up +home+power) ?
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Yes, I tried that too.

i think it's bricked man.. although i can't understand why.. let us wait for someone else to reply..
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rushilkr said:
i think it's bricked man.. although i can't understand why.. let us wait for someone else to reply..
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But how? That what I don't understand either...
Can it be fixed?
Here it is 21:24 so tommorow at about 14:00 I'll take it to the store I bought it...
Can they understand that I updated it?

What happens wen u have connect it to charger... If u can see the big battery icon then its nt dead. It might be just 0%charge
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i think they can,but just say the phone died and nothing else..even if they get to know, as this is the stock firmware from Samsung, your warranty still holds good..that is not a problem..
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rushilkr said:
i think they can,but just say the phone died and nothing else..even if they get to know, as this is the stock firmware from Samsung, your warranty still holds good..that is not a problem..
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I guess a STOCK firmware but of different country void warranty..
I am not sure
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Chirag_Galani said:
I guess a STOCK firmware but of different country void warranty..
I am not sure
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it doesn't void your warranty as long as it is a stock firmware..
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The phone does absolutely nothing. I tried to charge it for about an hour, nothing appeared. I tried to connect it with PC, nothing happened.
The warranty says that it covers me only in Europe... So, now that I have installed an Asia firmware, I don't think that it covers me.
For some reason, although I bought from a Greek Store (I'm Greek) but the firmware it is Europe one and not the Greek One. The same thing says at the box too.
Oh, I don't know...
Bad lack maybe. They stole my iPhone 4S, my SE X10 broke and now that. And all that from January to April...

rushilkr said:
it doesn't void your warranty as long as it is a stock firmware..
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Unfortunately, I'm not sure about that...

talk about bad luck man.. phew.. take it to the store tomorrow.. act dumb and say you don't know what the hell happened..hope for the best..
and your warranty is not void as long as it is the stock firmware. that is certain. i had this doubt too when i flashed the Russian firmware.. one of the Devs here told me that it doesn't void the warranty..
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Panagiotis477 said:
The phone does absolutely nothing. I tried to charge it for about an hour, nothing appeared. I tried to connect it with PC, nothing happened.
The warranty says that it covers me only in Europe... So, now that I have installed an Asia firmware, I don't think that it covers me.
For some reason, although I bought from a Greek Store (I'm Greek) but the firmware it is Europe one and not the Greek One. The same thing says at the box too.
Oh, I don't know...
Bad lack maybe. They stole my iPhone 4S, my SE X10 broke and now that. And all that from January to April...
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Go to the service centre and try convincing them it happened suddenly while charging or while upgrading it with KIES.
I mean try to fool them.

do let us know what happens..
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Yeah, I'll try that.
Good luck to me, then!
Thanks everybody!

Edit- Deleted.
Beause, I Didn't meant to hurt anyone .

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Express ur thanks to all of who helped you by clicking the 'Thanks' button at the left.
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he already did that before your post man.. and i think he has much more on his mind right now.. i mean i would ****ting bricks ( no pun intended!) if my third phone died on me like this :s
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Oh, it doesn't matter!
I tried to give thanks in every post but then I see that there is a limit!
My phone died, I'm not gonna die! (I just wanna hit someone )

Sand inside the power button

So I decided to take my awesome waterproof phone to the beach and I took amazing photos however, there is sand inside the power button! I hear and feel the crunch when I press it, also some inside the volume keys, I've searched online and I can't find any answers...no surprise there but if I was to send my phone off to Sony would they repair my phone as its under warranty? I am afraid they will reject it because its not "Sand proof"
Please help
I am running a custom ROM but if Sony do accept to repair it, it won't be a problem to revert it back to stock.
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It is supposed to be "Dust proof".
But the User guide clearly states "No swimming", "No sand", "No sea water", so...

Damn! So I presume if I were to send the phone to repair they will tell me its not covered under the warrenty?
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Most likely your problem is qualified as misuse, those reparations are not covered by warranty.

Ahhh no! Well this sucks, thank you anyway, I'm going to talk to Sony in the morning, see what they say but I'm sure they'll tell me what you've just told me
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If anyone has any tips or suggestion they would be highly appreciated
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youu5395 said:
If anyone has any tips or suggestion they would be highly appreciated
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Just say u accidentally drop it in the sand at the beach. Maybe they understand

Mist on the mirror of camera

Mornin'! (at least here in PL)
Yesterday when i was in jacuzzi i decided to take some underwater pictures using my Z. Ive heared it isnt designed to be submerged, though of course SONY promotes it as it does. Ok but lets move to a problem. After first picture taken accuracy gone bad, the water was clean but pictures of even close localised things were blurred. I remember someone here on forum showed his underwater pictures and they were great actually. Mine were not worth a penny... After bathing i had swab the water all of my device and then i saw the mist on the interior site of mirror of camera. Now its already gone but had been there for few houres. Camera still works perfect after mist had gone, no problems there, however mist is an evidence of water coming somehow through. All of the indicators are white, so its not where the problem comes from. So my question is are you guys facing with such a thing after bathing, is it normal or is it as i said evidence of malfunction? Next question if i bought my Z from polish network Play does it mean warranty is ensured only by them or i can take it to SONY Center and they can fix up this issue too?
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Some people are def. confused. XZ was never designed as underwater camera. Keep it safe and out of water.
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MinedSafe said:
Some people are def. confused. XZ was never designed as underwater camera. Keep it safe and out of water.
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Actually i said that in my post no need to say it again. Ppl please focus and follow the questions
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It's condensation. Nothing to worry about
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paprkut said:
It's condensation. Nothing to worry about
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I hope so, anyway Im going to take it under warranty to check whether everything is ok. And back to my question: can I take it directly to SONY Center rather than taking it to local network provider who sold me my phone?
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Probably. Along as you have proof of purchase. But if there's nothing wrong theres nothing they are going to find. And probably charge you for wasting their time
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Kondzioz said:
I hope so, anyway Im going to take it under warranty to check whether everything is ok. And back to my question: can I take it directly to SONY Center rather than taking it to local network provider who sold me my phone?
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Please use the search button, this question has been asked many times already and also been answered many times.

Kondzioz said:
Actually i said that in my post no need to say it again. Ppl please focus and follow the questions
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And you Sir use search button next time.
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DRM keys

I am just curious really. When you unlock your bootloader you, as we all know, lose the DRM keys. Why can't we get them back? What's the actual mechanism that prevents you from say taking them from someone else's Z and copying them over or something?
Are they unique to the indictable device?
I have a permanently locked bootloader so can't really try anything. Just interested to know about it.
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Sony creates these keys with a yet to be cracked algorithm.
And yes they are device specific, most likely bound to your IMEI.
And this is checked in the earliest stage of booting.
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crazymister said:
Sony creates these keys with a yet to be cracked algorithm.
And yes they are device specific, most likely bound to your IMEI.
And this is checked in the earliest stage of booting.
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Exactly the answer I was looking to get. Thanks for that.
So we have to wait until some of the genius devs can create a work around. Hopefully soon lol.
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Auto load speaker in recieved calls

Hi guys,
I have issue when i recieve calls,when i slide to answer the call, the phone automaticlly goes to load speaker!?
I tried to fix it with wipe data factory reset but no luck.
The firmware is 1.136 the device is C6903
Any ideas how to solve that?
Thx
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fast78 said:
Hi guys,
I have issue when i recieve calls,when i slide to answer the call, the phone automaticlly goes to load speaker!?
I tried to fix it with wipe data factory reset but no luck.
The firmware is 1.136 the device is C6903
Any ideas how to solve that?
Thx
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That exactly what's happening to me since I updated also don't know what's going on!
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auto speaker
Same Here V 14.2.A.1.136

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2667388
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Headphone trick didn't work here,tried several times...
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Have the same problem on 290 maybe is some updated app that is messing it up I will investigate more
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Same here. The first two weeks after the update to 136 everything was fine but now in almost 10% of my calls the speakers go on. Not social app or headphones trick had worked for me
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Same here, C6943 all stock, no root .136

Have you guys ever connected your phone to Bluetooth device such as external speaker, hands free etc? I have this problem too, and it seems everything started when I connected my phone to my mini boombox (using Bluetooth). Somehow the problems gone, I don't know how. But I remember I've restore my nandroid backup several times, not because of this issue, but I've crashed my camera after trying Xperia z2 camera app and libraries.
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omegahanggara said:
Have you guys ever connected your phone to Bluetooth device such as external speaker, hands free etc? I have this problem too, and it seems everything started when I connected my phone to my mini boombox (using Bluetooth). Somehow the problems gone, I don't know how. But I remember I've restore my nandroid backup several times, not because of this issue, but I've crashed my camera after trying Xperia z2 camera app and libraries.
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I haven't connected anything of sorts to my phone, only the headphones that came in the box with the phone.
But I have been using headphones with the Z1 since last November, and the glitch started to show up since last week only.
And it seems there are a lot of users affected by this, saw a similar post on Sony's forums, which is already eight pages long.
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same problem here very strange