worst case scenario on bricked phone - Hero, G2 Touch General

can anyone mentioned the worst case scenario ??

archaeongeryon said:
can anyone mentioned the worst case scenario ??
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it doesn't work anymore? i am not sure i get your question right...

Well, how about this for a scenario???
kendong2 said:
it doesn't work anymore? i am not sure i get your question right...
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I presume you mean 'What is the worst case scenario I could get into working on my Hero'
My answer to that would be :
Flashing a CDMA ROM on a GSM Hero
Then, before rebooting the custom recovery, flash a corrupt/wrong radio
And install a G1's Hard-SPL
Before rebooting and pulling the battery out during the radio/SPL flash
WARNING - DO NOT TRY ANY OF THE ABOVE!!! All of them would probably brick your phone. Some may even kill your cat
Just answering the question.

anon2122 said:
I presume you mean 'What is the worst case scenario I could get into working on my Hero'
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you could also get electrocuted while plugging it into the mains. or you could bruise your foreskin in the back cover while putting the battery in. still not really a question, there are so many ways to **** up your phone/life...
you can also make an image file from your ms office 97 cdrom and try to flash that. or from your golden girls dvd box. or the manual from your washing machine, so are we going to go through all these?

archaeongeryon said:
can anyone mentioned the worst case scenario ??
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Your phone is FUBAR'd, and you can't get it repaired under warranty.
Regards,
Dave

kendong2 said:
you could also get electrocuted while plugging it into the mains. or you could bruise your foreskin in the back cover while putting the battery in. still not really a question, there are so many ways to **** up your phone/life...
you can also make an image file from your ms office 97 cdrom and try to flash that. or from your golden girls dvd box. or the manual from your washing machine, so are we going to go through all these?
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Thank god I'm circumcised.
This added some much needed chuckles to my day, thanks.

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Can I bring back a bricked HD2 from TMOUS?

I flashed the right hspl 1024 version. Then I flashed the wrong rom. It was one from dutty on 3/28. Now I have no bootloader mode, no boot, no charging, It sometimes gives a error for drivers when I plug it in. It will not hard reset, or go into boot loader mode from the buttons on the phone. Could some explain how to bring this back because I cant return mine.
Mistakes happen and that is why the HD2 has this separate forum. I hope there is a way to bring yours back. I wish the different ROM versions weren't so different as to cause this to even be possible...
I've done it before for a g1
frankd14321 said:
I've done it before for a g1
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That's a completely different set of hardware, and has no bearing on whether or not someone can bring an HD2 back from the dead. Android phones are much, much harder to totally brick.
Let me tell you I did the EXACT same thing and I couldnt get mine to turn on or ANYTHING it was completely dead! I called Tmo and I had to send it back to them under "defective" and they sent me a brand new one and I will NEVER make that mistake again!
Sorry I miss understood. I thought he was asking if he could return the phone.
I have returned a g1 I bricked before.
lol
shokouhi said:
I flashed the right hspl 1024 version. Then I flashed the wrong rom. It was one from dutty on 3/28. Now I have no bootloader mode, no boot, no charging, It sometimes gives a error for drivers when I plug it in. It will not hard reset, or go into boot loader mode from the buttons on the phone. Could some explain how to bring this back because I cant return mine.
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I think I made this guide on another forums
SRY to break it up 2 u but you have a HARD BRICK
Yup! ^_^ sad I know No way of fixing this one
You should try this
Step 1: Enjoy staring at your cool new HD2 for hours
Step 2: Scream REALLY LOUD! cause you got a Brick phone
Step 3: find some one you REALLY DONT LIKE
Step 4: throw your cool new hard brick at them
Step 5: laugh out loud and say some guy from the internet told you to do it
Step 6: sue XDA and ME for inducing you to try new things with your cool phone
Step 7: have sex, drink a beer, watch a movie and Go buy a NEW phone
Step 8: ENJOY
-Note-
if you get another brick phone please follow steps 1 through 5 agn.
gthmcty1 said:
Let me tell you I did the EXACT same thing and I couldnt get mine to turn on or ANYTHING it was completely dead! I called Tmo and I had to send it back to them under "defective" and they sent me a brand new one and I will NEVER make that mistake again!
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While T-Mobile can send the phone back to HTC for a reflash, there is still overhead associated to this. I'm afraid too many of these "bricked" phones may lead HTC to harden the SPL security.
OCedHrt said:
I'm afraid too many of these "bricked" phones may lead HTC to harden the SPL security.
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That depends on whether they are able to start the phone enough to see the spl. If they can't, then they won't know it has a hard spl installed.
If it's within the return/exchange window I'd bring it back with a "I have no idea it just stopped working" look of innocence. I doubt most of the TMo sales staff even know how to check things like SPL numbers, etc.
If you deny any wrongdoing, and plead your case, i bet they swap it for you just to make you go away. And if you do get a no answer, I'd even try again with a different staff person, some are gonna be easier than others I'd imagine.
Or, alternatively, if you bought insurance, you could drop it in a bucket of water and bring it in soaking wet. Of course technically that's fraud, so let your conscience be your guide on that one.
Good luck.
I doubt most of the TMo sales staff even know how to check things like SPL numbers, etc.
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I'd like to point out a lot of them DO probably at least search these forms and have a slight understanding of the idea. they are people with really nice phones too you know Sorry, just had to throw that out there.
rickyzone said:
I'd like to point out a lot of them DO probably at least search these forms and have a slight understanding of the idea. they are people with really nice phones too you know Sorry, just had to throw that out there.
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The T-Mo salesman that sold me my HD2, told me about this sight. As well as flashing the ROM, doing cabs and dll files. So yeah, while most will not have a clue, there are a few that have a full understanding.
Here here my friend
a042349 said:
Or, alternatively, if you bought insurance, you could drop it in a bucket of water and bring it in soaking wet. Of course technically that's fraud, so let your conscience be your guide on that one.
Good luck.
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Conscience? What is this mystical thing you speak of?

I flash the wrong ROM

OK. After I installed HSPL and mistakenly installed the 1.43 ROM i thought it was just OK. So I let it go until it reach 100%, after that the phone just went completely off. It won't start, it won't charge and it won't turn on. I try to do a hard reset but same thing nothing works. So right now its completely no working. Do you its still fixable?
nope... you'll have to wait and see if one of the brilliant devs come up with a work around. till then you have a very nice paper weight. If you got it from t-mobile you might still be able to warranty it but you run the risk of them finding out that it has the HSPL on it.
Yes I got it from Tmobile. I just got it yesterday and I went back to the store and they're going to give me a direct replacement. I'm just trying if it might still be revive. I know it can be done but i think its difficult.
if it was just a bad/wrong rom you would be able to boot to bootloader and flash a different rom.
problem is that the official roms also include a radio, and it is the radio from the 1.43 that has bricked your phone, not the rom.
no one has yet managed to start their phone from this kind of brick.
I know..hopefully one of this days one of the developers will be able to crack it and find a cure for it.
There is no cure I can think over other then pulling the actual radio chip and putting in a new one. I would think it would be like killing a BIOS chip on your computers mother board.
paolodoctolero said:
I know..hopefully one of this days one of the developers will be able to crack it and find a cure for it.
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no replacement? it's still under warranty....
Wil Badger said:
There is no cure I can think over other then pulling the actual radio chip and putting in a new one. I would think it would be like killing a BIOS chip on your computers mother board.
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I agree. I don't think that there will ever be a cure for this kind of flash.
Question, though... I know HTC has some ways they can directly patch into a phone's hardware. Would it be possible for them to see the data on the ROM section?
I ask, because this would probably be the only way they could detect a Hard SPL or cooked ROM, I think...
no replacement? it's still under warranty....
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They're going to replace it but the store that I bought was out of stock when I went there. They said in 5 days they receive their new HD2 and they will call me.
samsamuel said:
no replacement? it's still under warranty....
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paolodoctolero said:
Yes I got it from Tmobile. I just got it yesterday and I went back to the store and they're going to give me a direct replacement. I'm just trying if it might still be revive. I know it can be done but i think its difficult.
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I think he is just talking in general.
sometimes a rookie mistake can ruin your life..or your phone just next time you flashed it read the whole post atleast 3 times and if you dont understand something read it again or google it so know what it means thats what I do all the time. flashing a rom takes time you cant really rush it and it happens to alot of us.
sometimes a rookie mistake can ruin your life..or your phone just next time you flashed it read the whole post atleast 3 times and if you dont understand something read it again or google it so know what it means thats what I do all the time. flashing a rom takes time you cant really rush it and it happens to alot of us.
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I really understand whats the do's and don'ts of flashing a ROM. I read it very carefully. It was just I'm so excited with it and didn't even read what I am clicking in my computer. I just hit NEXT..NEXT..NEXT. But what I am going to do the damage is done and there is no point of blaming my carelessness. As what most people say "learn from your mistake".

[Q] Device (hard) bricked?

I wanted to flash another rom version on my LG Optimus 7 with an official rom that was posted in the LG topic. During the process (before the actual flashing I think) I got an error. My device was still turned on at that moment and in Emergency Download mode. I thought that since the flashing didn't really start I could reboot my device and try it another time cause it was late but my phone wont turn on no matter what I do. I cant enter emergency download mode, nothing.
So is it possible that my device is now completely dead? It seems so hard to believe.
How low was your battery?
Take out your battery. Leave it out for a minute and then put it back in. Connect your phone to the power-adapter and let it charge for at least 5 minutes. Then try to switch on your phone.
owenw said:
How low was your battery?
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Battery wasnt really low, the phone was still on when I got the error. Can't say exactly how full it was cause it was in emergency mode for a while but it never turned off.
Heathcliff74 said:
Take out your battery. Leave it out for a minute and then put it back in. Connect your phone to the power-adapter and let it charge for at least 5 minutes. Then try to switch on your phone.
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I've charged it a whole night but nothing. The phone doesnt even get hot when its plugged into the charger.
renegadEEE said:
I've charged it a whole night but nothing. The phone doesnt even get hot when its plugged into the charger.
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Did you also take the battery out? Like I asked?
Heathcliff74 said:
Did you also take the battery out? Like I asked?
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Yes. I'm gonna leave it out now for half an hour and then plug it in. You never know.
Heathcliff74 said:
Did you also take the battery out? Like I asked?
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Did the whole thing but still the same.
renegadEEE said:
Did the whole thing but still the same.
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Hmm. That doesn't look good. Did you try key-combo's again after you took out the battery? You might get it into downloadmode now.
I made a jig for my Samsung. With the jig I can get a phone into downloadmode even when it is bricked. Maybe there's something like that for LG's.
Good luck!
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Hmm. That doesn't look good. Did you try key-combo's again after you took out the battery? You might get it into downloadmode now.
I made a jig for my Samsung. With the jig I can get a phone into downloadmode even when it is bricked. Maybe there's something like that for LG's.
Good luck!
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Wow, thanks for this! This might be exactly what I need. I just bought a Micro Usb Jig. When it arrives I'll post the result here.
renegadEEE said:
Wow, thanks for this! This might be exactly what I need. I just bought a Micro Usb Jig. When it arrives I'll post the result here.
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Hold on! Are you sure that is for LG devices? The post I referred to is a jig for Samsungs. I'm not sure there is something like that for LG's. Check that first!
Heathcliff74 said:
Hold on! Are you sure that is for LG devices? The post I referred to is a jig for Samsungs. I'm not sure there is something like that for LG's. Check that first!
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It's one that works on the Galaxy S devices and Omnia 7 so I'm not sure it will work on my device but it doesnt cost a fortune so I might as well try.
renegadEEE said:
It's one that works on the Galaxy S devices and Omnia 7 so I'm not sure it will work on my device but it doesnt cost a fortune so I might as well try.
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I'm afraid it only works for Samsung brand. You might want to consider RMA.
Please do not post device specific problems here in the WP7 dev forums!
~~Tito~~
Hello,
i´m new here and i know that i dig a old post out of the grave, but before christmas my boss get 3 LG E900´s for his kid´s and 2 of them where selled in demo modes.
Not official, but because it was early too christmas he ask if i have an idea.
So i read many hours in much forums (even here) how to flash.
The first one was not a big problem at my home pc(took a lil time if it´s start in emerg.-mode, but now it works perfect)
So i tried the same with the second one at my office pc, because this one arrives us at 23. dec. and i do the same steps as i do at home.
But while flashing i got a massage from the LGDP2_V36_UMTS prog. that there was an abort.
EM still worked, so i tried again (4 times) with an other abort (RAM error)
After the 5. try with this error i do same as before and shut it off.
I wanted to try it at home again, but since this i couldn´t it on.
Everthing i tried doesn´t work. Screen keeps black.
Anyone an idea?
PS: sorry if my english is bad, i´m german.

When I turn on the freezing HTC logo

Please help me!
I bought the HTC phone. My new machine is 100%.
When I turn on the freezing HTC logo.
I was going off and on again, but the machine is still the same.
I've tried so many times but still!
My phone is still able to be Hboot mode, but when I click on factory reset, reboot the machine to still be standing at HTC word!
This is my video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6b0Tb_Pro
This is a new device? What have you done to the device prior to this? You need to provide more info?
This is a new device! When I turned the machine on and then did so.
I am not against the machine!
duongthanhcong said:
This is a new device! When I turned the machine on and then did so.
I am not against the machine!
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Might wanna take it back from where you bought it if you havent done anything to it and its malfunctioning.
eqjunkie829 said:
Might wanna take it back from where you bought it if you havent done anything to it and its malfunctioning.
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Absolutely. Return it.
eqjunkie829 said:
Might wanna take it back from where you bought it if you havent done anything to it and its malfunctioning.
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I held him back from U.S. households on so I can not be sent back to America.
How should I handle this?
duongthanhcong said:
I held him back from U.S. households on so I can not be sent back to America.
How should I handle this?
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I don't understand what you're saying. Sorry.
mr mystery said:
I don't understand what you're saying. Sorry.
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I mean, I could not return the product manufacturer.
Please strategies for gap express my english a bit less
duongthanhcong said:
I mean, I could not return the product manufacturer.
Please strategies for gap express my english a bit less
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Okay so you can't return it, you've tried factory reset too right?
mr mystery said:
Okay so you can't return it, you've tried factory reset too right?
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I do not do anything to the machine at all.
I bought the machine was turned up so already.
This is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6b0Tb_Pro
Can i help me?
Please!
Can i help me?
Please!
Can i help me?
Please!
More info regarding how you came to the issue would be helpful. What did you do? that can be due to bad recovery.img bad boot.img or kernel while flashing. Tell us little more what happened so we can give you correct info.
At this point, nobody can help you. A fresh device that won't boot correctly, is unrecoverable. Send it to HTC America for warranty repair. Otherwise it's an expensive paperweight.
If the boot loader has not been changed and the stock radio is still the same then I would imagine you can get a warranty service still. By the way, in the video you only let the phone sit on the splash screen for like five seconds or so. Don't know if you have waited longer in the past, just something I wanted to point out.
Sent from my Panache powered mytouch4g from mobile XDA app
Can he use the pd15img, and have it clean install? I'm no expert but sounds like boot loop issue.
Sent from my 3.0 sense Glacier
PD15IMG said:
More info regarding how you came to the issue would be helpful. What did you do? that can be due to bad recovery.img bad boot.img or kernel while flashing. Tell us little more what happened so we can give you correct info.
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I turned the device and the device can only show that.
I do not know recovery.img, boot.img and how to use them.
I think it is a tool for ROM?
Jack_R1 said:
At this point, nobody can help you. A fresh device that won't boot correctly, is unrecoverable. Send it to HTC America for warranty repair. Otherwise it's an expensive paperweight.
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I know it but I can not return to the USA.
Because, I do not have people flying to the U.S.!

[Very, very sad] Losing touch screen !!!!

Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?
what is your build number? what ROM are you using? did you try reflashing it? wiping it might not do anything but reflashing could. did you use the nvflash method?
HungSanity said:
Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?
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Just because your tablet was faulty,doesnt mean all transformers are this way,you had some misfortune,but that doesnt mean to bring everyone else down with you.We will help you out as much as possible,but leave the negativity at home.
HungSanity said:
Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?
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Like said above, what ROM you're running? You can try flashing Prime 1.4 with nvflash and see if it helps.
Diablo67 said:
Just because your tablet was faulty,doesnt mean all transformers are this way,you had some misfortune,but that doesnt mean to bring everyone else down with you.We will help you out as much as possible,but leave the negativity at home.
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before I buy one, I have read many complaints about the hardware failure of the Transformer, but finally decided to buy. And I was the victim.
Maybe I was a bit negative, I'm very sorry about that, but the machine of my friends are facing a similar situation (not including loss of touch-screen error).
I'm using the rom Prime v1.4, by nvflash root machine, operating system Android 3.1. I tried to flash and install rom but do not be.
Who is have a better way?
HungSanity said:
before I buy one, I have read many complaints about the hardware failure of the Transformer, but finally decided to buy. And I was the victim.
Maybe I was a bit negative, I'm very sorry about that, but the machine of my friends are facing a similar situation (not including loss of touch-screen error).
I'm using the rom Prime v1.4, by nvflash root machine, operating system Android 3.1. I tried to flash and install rom but do not be.
Who is have a better way?
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Some people have been able to fix this issue by letting the battery drain completely. This might take a long time though since the device will go into sleep mode once every 15seconds or so and causing it to drain little battery. I suggest you booting into CWM and letting it sit there till it shuts down by itself and then charge it to full to see if it helps. Many have reported success doing this.
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Some people have been able to fix this issue by letting the battery drain completely. This might take a long time though since the device will go into sleep mode once every 15seconds or so and causing it to drain little battery. I suggest you booting into CWM and letting it sit there till it shuts down by itself and then charge it to full to see if it helps. Many have reported success doing this.
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Thanks so much, i will try it
I used nvflash to flash, should not be able to recovery, for trying to open up this screen. The fully charged battery,
If it comes down to it,just flash back to the stock rom and uninstall clockwork,send it back with the warranty card and the issue your having and Asus will fix your problem or send you a new tab,a friend of mine had to do that,he has a new tab now.
HungSanity said:
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger.
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What you say?
darkonex said:
What you say?
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Somebody set up us the bomb.
Underwater Mike said:
Somebody set up us the bomb.
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All your base are belong to us.
what country are you from and which country did you buy it from?
Malandro2011 said:
what country are you from and which country did you buy it from?
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So sorry, my english is bad. I live in Vietnam and bought this machine in Hong Kong.
My screen is now in the installation. It takes very little battery power, I don't know how long it takes to out of battery
Help me plz !!!!!!!!!!!
I had this problem too with my first TF ... i owned it about 1 hour.
As I went back to the shop they said to me that I wasn't the first with this problem. They just gave me a new one.
So flashing back to the stock rom and sending it to ASUS would be a good solution from my point of view.
No Asus in Vietnam?
darkonex said:
What you say?
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Except that for having so decided make to use even go need to do look more like, you still haven’t going really want to do not a twice as much to use go wish for that. I disagree for when anyone really been far even as decided once to use even go want, that they have really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like.
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Do you think that mocking somebody who can't speak good English is funny?
The person has a problem and is asking for help. If you can't help, then shut the **** up.
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Do you think that mocking somebody who can't speak good English is funny?
The person has a problem and is asking for help. If you can't help, then shut the **** up.
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What's especially funny is that we have a guy in Vietnam posting clearly enough in English that we know what's going on and have offered suggestions to fix his problem, which he is now following.
I wonder how many of us would be able to do the same in any foreign language forum, much less one in Vietnam.
Excuse the colorful language. I'm a Vietnamese expat who had to learn English, and these sort of grade-school behavior tend to get me hot under the collar. I wish I can help the OP, but I don't have a TF.
viking099 said:
What's especially funny is that we have a guy in Vietnam posting clearly enough in English that we know what's going on and have offered suggestions to fix his problem, which he is now following.
I wonder how many of us would be able to do the same in any foreign language forum, much less one in Vietnam.
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Unfortunately not many , which is very sad. If we are not careful we''ll be eaten up, spit out, & forgotten about if as a nation we don't change course.

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