Hello everyone,
My phone has had some annoying thing since 2 days ago, everything was fine and it just worked the way it had to, but now i have to press the on/off button atleast like 4 times to get the screen on, at very rare occasions its an 2 times click but mostly 3+
im going back to t-mobile to ask what their advice is, what is your advice?
How to minimize the chance they find out i had done root and unlocked bootlaoder ? ^^
Root will be removed after flashing any rom, as for bootloader, someone said flashing taiwan JB relocked theirs, whether it will stay locked when going back to euro is another thing. If it doesn't flash ICS and pray they dont update it
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@non4 said:
Root will be removed after flashing any rom, as for bootloader, someone said flashing taiwan JB relocked theirs, whether it will stay locked when going back to euro is another thing. If it doesn't flash ICS and pray they dont update it
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ill unroot it with supersu or just something else if i have to send it, i think they gonna try if it is hardware or software failure, so i hope they do not see i installed cwm and unlocked bootloader xd
i think its hardware failure :S
Tomaat said:
ill unroot it with supersu or just something else if i have to send it, i think they gonna try if it is hardware or software failure, so i hope they do not see i installed cwm and unlocked bootloader xd
i think its hardware failure :S
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Flash ICS, you're less likely to be found out
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Flash ICS, you're less likely to be found out
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Also, if it's a hardware failure and you've bought their phone in Europe, they really can't deny fixing it because you have an unlocked bootloader and/or a rooted phone. Read more about it here, so you can go to them with all the information you might need
ain`t you pressing it hard enough? Mine used to be perfect, after a couple of months using it the button became faulty and now I have to press kind of hard otherwise it doesn`t work. But every time I press it hard enough it works.
Hardware
Me too
gabrielgon said:
ain`t you pressing it hard enough? Mine used to be perfect, after a couple of months using it the button became faulty and now I have to press kind of hard otherwise it doesn`t work. But every time I press it hard enough it works.
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nguyenthanhphong said:
Hardware
Me too
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If someone as skills, can try to open the device and check how are the metalic parts that activate the hardware.
Its not hard but, take care! Its your phone, your choice.
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I need to update my g1, but my home and call buttons are not working. I tried resetting my phone as well (I need to sell it and need to take out my personal info) but it wont reset with cyanogen mod. Without my home button working I can access the installer either. Is it possible to install it from terminal emulator?
do you have adb set up on your computer? what exactly are you trying to do? and yes, just to be an ass, this is in the wrong section... there now no one else can tell you and hopefully you wont get flamed...
zboost300 said:
I need to update my g1, but my home and call buttons are not working. I tried resetting my phone as well (I need to sell it and need to take out my personal info) but it wont reset with cyanogen mod. Without my home button working I can access the installer either. Is it possible to install it from terminal emulator?
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Hopefully you still have warranty? If you do, call Tmobile to send you a new phone.
mackster248 said:
Hopefully you still have warranty? If you do, call Tmobile to send you a new phone.
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he will have to unroot first though...
Why dont the buttons work? How can you sell it if the buttons dont work on it? I agree, they will not honor the warranty if it has custom software on it.
UNROOT
oshizzle1991 said:
he will have to unroot first though...
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this is not true
JackD3ath said:
Why dont the buttons work? How can you sell it if the buttons dont work on it? I agree, they will not honor the warranty if it has custom software on it.
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got wet, I can sell it for parts i guess on ebay. people still buy them like that. I tried setting up adb, but no avail.
just go to settings>sdcard phone storage>factory reset from there...and the only voided warranty from rooting is the software not hardware. But I guess it would be hard to prove that the phone isn't damaged cause of rooting...
mt3g said:
just go to settings>sdcard phone storage>factory reset from there...and the only voided warranty from rooting is the software not hardware. But I guess it would be hard to prove that the phone isn't damaged cause of rooting...
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i tried that, but it didnt do anything
Can't you download Quick Boot from the market? I don't really understand the scenario here, but if you need to get into recovery or bootloader mode that will do the job..
I'll give you £25 for it
Can't you get into bootloader by typing reboot-bootloader in the terminal? SU needed of course.
Moved as not Android Development.
if you want to send it in, it will have to be unrooted first. that is coming from my experiences will t-mobile. and what tutorial did you use to set up adb? i suggest using this one here
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Opera...-need-to-modify-your-Android-phone/m-p/173248
just scroll down for the "how to install ADB on XP/VISTA link, and click it. it is a very detailed tutorial, and very easy to use. good luck!
Eclair~ said:
Can't you download Quick Boot from the market? I don't really understand the scenario here, but if you need to get into recovery or bootloader mode that will do the job..
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awsome, got it to the recovery, but I can't wipe or update since I can't "confirm" by pressing the home button... this sucks.
OK, I finally fixed adb and have acces to the phone.... What command can I type in to flash or wipe everything and basically return the phone to normal? (without all my info on it?) I tried fastboot -w but im not sure it works.
use an older recovery...
JF original or Cyan original dont need home to confirm
if you searched the forum
I answered this same thing like a week ago...
SAME EXACT QUESTION
junkdruggler said:
use an older recovery...
JF original or Cyan original dont need home to confirm
if you searched the forum
I answered this same thing like a week ago...
SAME EXACT QUESTION
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I'm sorry for the late reply if this problem isn't already solved, flash an older version of that room you're using. Then if you want, flash back to the new one. WOrked for me.
Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
Rom manager flash the wong recovery fr other devce
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DeadSp1d3r said:
Rom manager flash the wong recovery fr other devce
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+10000000 it's so easy
Thanks. Just downloading a Rom for the S5830i to try out. Wouldn't you be able to re-flash the correct rom this way and get it to work again? Also if it does brick this way, would it leave traces when Sammy Techs investigate?
Gizmotech said:
Thanks. Just downloading a Rom for the S5830i to try out. Wouldn't you be able to re-flash the correct rom this way and get it to work again? Also if it does brick this way, would it leave traces when Sammy Techs investigate?
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if you use rom manager samsung will not find out anything
if you flash other devices rom like acei on ace then it might brick but not for 100% sure but there is lots and lots of change that it will brick since it uses other flash scripts and binarys
Gizmotech said:
Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
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Just download a galaxy s3 ROM and kernel...bricked right there.
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Ok Just tried to load up the firmware file for a Ace Plus on odin 4.38 but it wont accept it and comes back with "out of memory" error on the PC screen. Will try Rom Manager.
Bingo! Bricked it. I take it there's no way that I can attempt to revive it? Also I hope there is no traces of CWM Rom Manager, Superuser or Busybox
I don't know about the traces. But the only way to revive it is JTAG or replacement motherboard.
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Next time, I'd rather make a backup in CWM and then restore it from another Recovery. What this does is delete the boot.img, so now your phone can't do anything and Samsung can't get any logs etc. from the device.
Also REMEMBER! Play dumb when taking it to the Samsung store! Don't mention Roms etc..
PulseDroid said:
Next time, I'd rather make a backup in CWM and then restore it from another Recovery. What this does is delete the boot.img, so now your phone can't do anything and Samsung can't get any logs etc. from the device.
Also REMEMBER! Play dumb when taking it to the Samsung store! Don't mention Roms etc..
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Or rename a text file to boot.img and flash it as a ROM. This gives a totally faulty ROM.
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Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated. I like the above method as it definitely would not leave traces of CWM, Superuser or Busybox. Duh, why didn't I think of that:silly: but too late now. maybe next time or someone else.
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Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated. I like the above method as it definitely would not leave traces of CWM, Superuser or Busybox. Duh, why didn't I think of that:silly: but too late now. maybe next time or someone else.
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Do you not ever think there is someone in samsung softwere development reading this...
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Best way to hardbrick your phone is to use rom manager
I got transformed into a potato while writing this post
athe_s said:
Do you not ever think there is someone in samsung softwere development reading this...
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I do. That's the good thing about having a screen-name
Updates!!!
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Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated.
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Any updates dude?
Wow. No wonder phone manufacturer doesn't honor warranty nowadays.
Seriously if u want to do such scam u should do it quietly without creating thread asking howto do so.
This is nice.... You can brick your phone in the last month of you year warranty and get a new phone/motherboard
Once my friends phone switched off suddenly... Non rooted stock
It happened suddenly and also out of warranty
She had to pay 5k to the Samsung people to get it repaired... And the plus point she got 14GB internal memory with the new motherboard
Her phone was the Samsung galaxy S i9000
it would've been done in free if she had warranty
So maybe you might get the GT S5830i.. The new version mother board or something
Best of luck
Gizmotech said:
Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
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ohh !!!! so easy !!! install rom manager... 100% sure samsung won't find out what went worng with your ace ...
ysrini said:
Any updates dude?
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Yes, the phone was repaired. They apparently replaced the motherboard.
an0nym0us_ said:
Wow. No wonder phone manufacturer doesn't honor warranty nowadays.
Seriously if u want to do such scam u should do it quietly without creating thread asking howto do so.
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I would have done it quietly if I didn't need the help. Duh! Besides, I doubt this is the reason why they don't honour warranty. I think it is more to do with that they are greedy corporate companies who would rather save at any cost irrespective of whose fault it is. I mean why should they penalise someone because of something someone else done? After all you are all paying customers. They scam people everyday and no one complains. I guess people only complain when it happens to them. You can buy a new phone and have it go faulty within 2 months. Do you think you can get a new phone under warranty from them? No it will be a refurbished one and doesn't mater how much you scream and shout for a new one, they don't care. A neither do I.
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So maybe you might get the GT S5830i.. The new version mother board or something
Best of luck
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No, I think it is the same motherboard. What I don't understand is, whether it is the same motherboard they repaired or a replacement one, as this phone was initially locked to the Three network. I had it unlocked. So a new motherboard would have meant that the phone would be locked again. But when I received it back, it would still accept any sims.
Hello,
I followed this thread to root my phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2186368
Then i installed this custom recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2187363
Then i wanted to overclock using this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2172888
But my phone need's unlocked bootloader in order to do this. (and i don't want to unlock it)
Any kernel that allow overclock with locked bootloader ?
Thanks
Im afraid not,AFAIK there is only one kernel that allows overclocking,and that is the DoomKernel by the awesome DoomLord
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Then i'll wait a way to unlock bootloader without loosing warrantly thanks
Poustic said:
Then i'll wait a way to unlock bootloader without loosing warrantly thanks
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You will be waiting for a looong time. No one has managed to get the DRM keys back after relocking the bootloader.
Poustic said:
Then i'll wait a way to unlock bootloader without loosing warrantly thanks
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You may actually want to have a good read of the terms and conditions of the Sony website for unlocking. It doesn't specifically mention that it breaks your warranty. It states that if your phone is send back for repair, it has to be on stock firmware. IF you are unable to do this they will charge you a service fee to have a technician repair the software (I'm guessing J-tagging or something more professional?). They do mention the fee for that was expensive. So basically if say for example you permanently lost radio (signal) because of a hardware issue that you in no way caused by flashing some ROM or tweak that messes with the drivers for that, it should be fine. It's a hardware thing - you didn't cause it. If you hardbrick your device and they have to bring it back from the dead, they'll charge you. If you overclock it like a mofo and burn out the CPU they will likely charge you for the initial software flash and charge you again for either repair/replacement of the logic board or complete phone.
That's the gist of it from memory. There may of course be some little clause or something that they could get out of it if they wanted that I skimmed too quickly, but you'd probably find if it's a genuine problem from them they would repair it. If you'd clearly messed with it and stuffed it, they wouldn't. Sounds like a normal warranty to me
EDIT: just had a quick gander at it again and here we go "Please note that you may void the warranty of your device and/or any warranty from your operator if you unlock the boot loader". I think the key word from that would be "may".
and also " In addition, if you brick the device, it is your own responsibility. " The same thing could be said with a locked bootloader and you stuffed something up trying to root it or hack it in some other way.
ROMAur allows to to change the cpu speed, how well this works is another thing. I have heard somewhere that there is some type of throttling within the standard kernel which still prevents the phone reaching the full potential, but custom kernel gets around this.
I have rechecked this and they have removed the overclock in the downloadable version
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I have rechecked this and they have removed the overclock in the downloadable version
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So where i can get the overclock version please ? Cause in the official thread look's like it was removed indeed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2167064
Poustic said:
So where i can get the overclock version please ? Cause in the official thread look's like it was removed indeed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2167064
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I will have a look to see if I still have that version
Thank you i wonder why they removed it :silly:
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Thank you i wonder why they removed it :silly:
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Probably because it didn't work properly, I have had a look and just cleaned those up about 5 days ago, on all my devices
I pickup a used S3 LTE phone from 2nd bidding in very low price, everything functional good, but I notice that the flash mode showing strange messages.
See attachment, does anyone know what happen to this phone, I was bring told this phone was bring repaired.
Thanks
James
Nothing's strange . Is the download mode for phone with 4.3 Knox bootloader .
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I pickup a used S3 LTE phone from 2nd bidding in very low price, everything functional good, but I notice that the flash mode showing strange messages.
See attachment, does anyone know what happen to this phone, I was bring told this phone was bring repaired.
Thanks
James
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^ correct.
You would want to be careful with rooting that though, flashing stuff on knox bootloader gives you warranty voided. If you have no warranty all is well and good though.
There also have been reports of new bootloaders causing lag/fc on certain roms though, so ask around if planning to install custom roms.
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Nothing's strange . Is the download mode for phone with 4.3 Knox bootloader .
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Is this 4.3 knox bootloader non Samsung factory ?
How can I return to factory version ?
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This is the official samsung bootloader. Press power+home+vol up to go into stock recovery. You can reset factory settings in there.
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what exactly do you find strange in those messages? it is exactly how it's suppose to be...
make sure you backup everything (efs/nvram/nandroid) before playing with it... you will lose warranty (if you have any) if you try to root or install another rom
My AT&T Galaxy Note 3 is no longer recognizing touches, but the soft buttons works, any ideas? I am not sure if it happened after an update since I have so many phones I can't keep track.
I know I had an AT&T Galaxy Mega with a replaced screen stop responding to touches after an update. Maybe this one has the same issue? Not sure... But AT&T should stop stripping out drivers on their kernels (that way aftermarket digitizers keep working after updates....)
Thanks!
m4f1050 said:
My AT&T Galaxy Note 3 is no longer recognizing touches, but the soft buttons works, any ideas? I am not sure if it happened after an update since I have so many phones I can't keep track.
I know I had an AT&T Galaxy Mega with a replaced screen stop responding to touches after an update. Maybe this one has the same issue? Not sure... But AT&T should stop stripping out drivers on their kernels (that way aftermarket digitizers keep working after updates....)
Thanks!
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You hit the nail on the head!
Unfortunately @att not the only ones, Google doing the same thing...I've got an nexus 4 that quit responding to touch after the 5.1 update. ..after a lot of head scratching I finally determined that Google removed a lot of aftermarket drivers. ..so either stuck on old firmware or have to replace screen again with genuine OEM.
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You hit the nail on the head!
Unfortunately @att not the only ones, Google doing the same thing...I've got an nexus 4 that quit responding to touch after the 5.1 update. ..after a lot of head scratching I finally determined that Google removed a lot of aftermarket drivers. ..so either stuck on old firmware or have to replace screen again with genuine OEM.
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I kinda figured that's what happened. What I haven't tried yet is using the pen.... Will have to wait 'til I get home. It's sad, Google started being all about open source, now they are locking bootloaders, voiding warranty if rooted, bleh....
EDIT: Since we can root this device, is there a way to add the missing drivers and have them load on boot?
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I kinda figured that's what happened. What I haven't tried yet is using the pen.... Will have to wait 'til I get home. It's sad, Google started being all about open source, now they are locking bootloaders, voiding warranty if rooted, bleh....
EDIT: Since we can root this device, is there a way to add the missing drivers and have them load on boot?
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Not that I know of...unfortunately, unlike the nexus, the bootloader is locked so no way to flash a custom kernel with the missing drivers.
Only fix I know is to flash back to the old firmware that did support the aftermarket digitizers.
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Not that I know of...unfortunately, unlike the nexus, the bootloader is locked so no way to flash a custom kernel with the missing drivers.
Only fix I know is to flash back to the old firmware that did support the aftermarket digitizers.
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How can I do that? It won't let me flash an older Kernel...
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How can I do that? It won't let me flash an older Kernel...
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Downgrade back to 4.4.4
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Downgrade back to 4.4.4
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Im on 4.3... Hmmmm.... I don't have the locked bootloader then?
BTW, the pen works...
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Im on 4.3... Hmmmm.... I don't have the locked bootloader then?
BTW, the pen works...
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Yes bootloader is locked , but you can still downgrade/flash stock official firmware. Interesting that the pen is recognized, but not touch.
You can downgrade back to whatever the last working firmware was.