Something i've been seeing around the forums a lot is people defining their phone as "bricked." Please realize what a brick actually is.
In the strictest sense of the term, bricking must imply that software error has rendered the device completely unrecoverable without some hardware replacement.
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When your phone can't boot into recovery, has a little image of a "phone -> pc", or whatever it may be... this does not indicate a brick, rather just a software malfunction and for the most part, recoverable.
I wanted to make sure people that are new to phone mods and such are aware of what an actual brick is, rather then reading the confusing posts about "omg is my phone bricked!?!?".
For anyone that is new, i hope this clears things up for you a bit. For more information you can read up on it from this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricked
Have fun modding!
xplanowestx said:
Something i've been seeing around the forums a lot is people defining their phone as "bricked." Please realize what a brick actually is.
When your phone can't boot into recovery, has a little image of a "phone -> pc", or whatever it may be... this does not indicate a brick, rather just a software malfunction and for the most part, recoverable.
I wanted to make sure people that are new to phone mods and such are aware of what an actual brick is, rather then reading the confusing posts about "omg is my phone bricked!?!?".
For anyone that is new, i hope this clears things up for you a bit. For more information you can read up on it from this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricked
Have fun modding!
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sorry had to do it.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=757291
frankencat said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=757291
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Didn't see it Oh well, never hurts to have more tho rofl considering even after that post I still see more and more posts to this day
Talltex, LOL I was wondering when someone was going to do that, made my day thanks
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These devices right out of the box just don't seem ready for market. Whether its some draconian bootloader not letting one install the ROM he wants or tweaks and settings that arent right, out of the box they leave quite a bit to be desired.
But then i comes the people of this board. As i read through the extensive wiki and went through the process of flashing new ROMs on my Hermes I really came to appreaciate the MASSIVE amount of effort put in by this community in order to allow this PDA to really live up to its potential.
So thank you to all the contributors! I couldn't have even begun this process without your help.
i agreee with you
Me too. You folks are great!!!
ditto!
I would probably have sent this thing back were it not for sleuth255 and mikechannon and goestoeleven and others working on this forum.
fortunately htc has this free resource to fix their buggy phones.
i'm still eagerly awaiting the 8525 aku3.3 update. cingular had said it was due out by feb 1st, but here it isn't. maybe it will be soon. I still wake up with a locked up phone pretty often.
thanks to all of you that have helped make this feature rich thing useable.
wes
Thank you and I too like this community
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Mike
I agree with all the accolades given. I looked on this board before I bought the phone so I was prepared for what it was not when it came. I had also downloaded all the goodies and was ready to make it the way I wanted it. But since then, more and more things were discovered and shared. Right now, this phone is almost just right. There are a couple of things I am waiting for the new ROM to resolve, but it is currently the best device I have had yet.
As soon as a better toy comes out, I will quickly jump ship and take that one, but only if it has the kind of support this forum gives.
pvs said:
Me too. You folks are great!!!
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me three!!!
Just injecting a little humor into the 2.2 update debacle!
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I don't get it
cool story bro
draikz said:
I don't get it
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+1
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Preparation H will soothe your aching butt. Too many people are butt-hurt over the update not coming to fruition. Its really not funny when it has to be explained.
I'm sure this will just cause another argument resulting in a locked thread.
I think there needs to be a Vibrant Argument forum.
Dougefresh91 said:
I'm sure this will just cause another argument resulting in a locked thread.
I think there needs to be a Vibrant Argument forum.
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That would be great. Like an anger management class except we won't be yelling at stuffed animals and hitting stuff with whiffle ball bats.
I laughed so hard...
Lol , funny stuff
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
nyc3 said:
cool story bro
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9 total posts.....i think we can already tell what kind of member youre gonna be.......
I prefer Boudreaux's Butt Paste. much faster and uses way less battery.I have screen shots if anyone wants?
Ban this idiot pointless thread... please close
jnp1974 said:
Preparation H will soothe your aching butt. Too many people are butt-hurt over the update not coming to fruition. Its really not funny when it has to be explained.
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This was more humorous than the OP, maybe photoshop Samsung into the box...
Come on the op went for humor not straight complaining. Laugh don't laugh but it's actually the people who hate threads like this that fill them up. Is it so hard just to go on to the next thread. A person sees so many replies and they think it is of value. The flamers give these threads life. There should only be 1 post if this thread is pointless, 2 if the original post was confusing.
Just figured i would point this out incase no one else has seen it.
looks like we can get xoom based roms going.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11592840#post11592840
babybacon said:
Just figured i would point this out incase no one else has seen it.
looks like we can get xoom based roms going.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11592840#post11592840
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Okay, since no one on XDA knows how to operate the search function or even read a thread on the first pages of General or Android Development that they post in, I'll make this tutorial.
1. Click this button:
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2. Type in what you think is a useful post:
3. Check the threads that result.
4. If they don't pertain to what you want to talk about, then make a post. Might want to do a few searches.
5. If search is down, at least look past the first thread.
For the love of God, please do not make any more HC threads.
The Nook Color has a very ghetto-rigged version of HC that barely works. We don't have it because the AOSP hasn't been released and the boot.img hasn't been grabbed from the Xoom (more important than the system dump). Another issue is Nvidia hasn't released the Tegra 2 proprietary libraries.
No one on XDA knows how to read apparently. Just a few threads for HC:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966565
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966792
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961375
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966816
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965341
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965053
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965134
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962645
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=854632
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960729
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919836
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957095
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945530
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932922
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=930207
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908416
Really? 14 threads in General about HC and 2 threads in Android Development (not counting deleted/moved threads).
If you don't want to be flamed here, don't post things that have been posted.
P.S. Sorry to go all out on you, but I and many others have gotten tired of sifting through all this clutter.
Ugh... Nevermind.
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Ugh... Nevermind.
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Thanks for seeking to be involved. I am sure that TheJesus (non-deity for sure) meant no ill will.
Search can be daunting to say the least as it's not very intuitive - I do know that some changes are in the works for searching at an undetermined time...
Closing this thread to stop flaming.
Okay so I was given this random phone from a friend who owned me money. Anyways I am wondering how much of a POS this thing is or is it decent? I will post some benchmark stuff and my issue too. I really hope someone can help with this download mode issue as I wanna rom this thing if possible.
Here is stuff you all need to figure this thing out! Hopefully.....
http://imageshack.com/a/img23/2783/s0b2.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img35/6987/lhmr.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img35/3008/67iw.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img713/9964/ecw5.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img15/433/ol3e.png
I am getting this when I try to go into download mode
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XDA dont give support to CLONES. Sorry
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Anyways I am wondering how much of a POS this thing is or is it decent?
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A huge one.
Be patient, you might be waiting for a while for help. Only people who have this clone are going to be able to give you any meaningful help based on their experience with it, there aren't many on here (we see a handful a week). Maybe search for similar threads & see if you can dig up some info (search 'China S4 clone'/similar). It's not even remotely the same as I95x phones firmware-wise at least.
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A huge one.
Be patient, you might be waiting for a while for help. Only people who have this clone are going to be able to give you any meaningful help based on their experience with it, there aren't many on here (we see a handful a week). Maybe search for similar threads & see if you can dig up some info (search 'China S4 clone'/similar). It's not even remotely the same as I95x phones firmware-wise at least.
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:angel:
He could send Mr.Miyagi a p.m
Joku1981 said:
XDA dont give support to CLONES. Sorry
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Well thank you. This phone is useless then to me. Thanks for all the replies. :good:
Why useless?
Just a question... Why useless? Any issues ur facing and might wanna share?
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Just a question... Why useless? Any issues ur facing and might wanna share?
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Well it being a clone I just wanna rom it and see where I what I can do with it. Only issue is the Chinese download mode :silly:
Spoiler: WHAT AM I
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Hi @jenneh just wanted to say thanks for your commitment and that you contribute to the somewhat dusty nvidia area to keep alive.
The shield is such a cool device, what you could not do everything with it.
Unfortunately, I personally lack the time and the know-how to bring the whole thing something forward.
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Hi @jenneh just wanted to say thanks for your commitment and that you contribute to the somewhat dusty nvidia area to keep alive.
The shield is such a cool device, what you could not do everything with it.
Unfortunately, I personally lack the time and the know-how to bring the whole thing something forward.
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Thank You So Much Dear~! I completely understand the lack of time part, it's kind of what motivated me to start writing things down and figuring out ways to automate more and now I am working on the "delegate" part xD
I do agree that the shield is Really Neat! It's the perfect little android box, for myself at least, to play and learn to hack with.
Nvidia at Least Tries to make it easier to get Root than others but it still could be easier XD
I found out the Answer! I think this was a mis-spelled image and was actually supposed to be "dtb.img" If anyone else would like to learn more about what this dtb.img is for, see this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/learning-about-the-boot-img.4516537/
Well now I'm not so sure bc this article
Android Verified Boot (AVB) - postmarketOS
wiki.postmarketos.org
I don't know right now if dtb and dtbo.img are the same thing, all I know is it is related to AVB android verified boot which absolutely is engaged on both the STOCK and DEVELOPER firmwares. I will absolutely be back whenever I find out for sure what it all means
Praise the robots. ChatGPT was able to explain once and for all
I wasn't intentionally looking for this answer but it appeared. Finally. Haha.
Also, the robot told me how to turn the avb off. Will try that later but know that it is able to explain that if you would like to try