I used z4root to root my defy ....I don't know why i used that crap instead of using gingerbreak...But i used it.My Defy s firmware was written as Retail.2.xxxx something. I was not able to root it anyway.It used to force close.But after trying to root it,my phone suddenly started rebooting..IT showed up the moto symbol., then the screen went black and again the moto symbol..Its was going in a cycle..I was not able to boot it..!..i tried flashing it...Didn't work.!!...Any suggestions of why it happened??
My defy had a water damage ..I gave my phone to service on august 2011...I got that repaired on jan2011. I had a complete backup of cm7 with me...so was trying to restore it that night as soon as i got my defy..This thing happened.!!....So i had to again give it to the shop....But its repaired now.. Will get my defy tomorrow after 8 damn holy months of boring of without my pal!!!!!!!
I M THE ONLY ONE WHO SPENT 3000 BUCKS FOR THIS IDIOTIC WATER DAMAGE ON A WATER PROOF DEFY...!!!!...BUT I SIMPLY LOVE MY DEFY
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Hi everybody,
11 months ago I bought a brand new HTC Desire Z (bought in Belgium, in a retail shop, no webshop).
During the time I rooted the phone, installed several custom ROM's, for example: now it is running Andromadus Audacity B3.
Now I have a (hardware) problem with my phone:
sometimes the phone goes off. The phone doesn't shutdown (no software fault), but i think it is the battery that doesn't make contact with the motherboard.
I can reproduce the problem very simple: moving the battery a little bit when the phone is running.
Cleaning the contacts doesn't make sense; the battery have a solid contact with the 'clips'. So I think there is something wrong on the motherboard of the phone.
I want to send the phone back to HTC because it is still in warranty.
Should they make noise about the fact that the phone is rooted and there is a custom ROM installed?
Should I restore the phone back to factory defaults before sending it back?
How can I do this (setting the phone back to the original firmware/ROM and unrooted).
Or shouldn't it make sense?
Can someone help me?
Thx!
Most people don't seem to have a problem sending back rooted phones but some do. If you don't mind the small amount of effort involved nipqer has a guide to revert back, search the development thread
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It is understood that when you root your phone the supplied warranty is null and void. You are doing something to the phone that you were not meant to do by the manufacturer/retailer but is fully capable of doing it.
If you want to attempt to return the phone for a claim under warranty, you will have to revert your phone to it's original factory state. That means getting S-ON (if you achieved S-OFF), unrooting the phone, restoring the factory ROM and restoring the factory CID (if you achieved SuperCID).
There are people who have gotten their phones serviced while S-OFF and rooted, but it will be at the final discretion of the repair shop/manufacturer if they will go ahead on a repair on a device that is technically out of warranty.
Good luck.
Here, follow my guide to unroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442988
-Nipqer
Thx very much guys!
I won't take the risk that the serial number of my phone will be registrated as 'warranty void' if they see that the phone is rooted and no original ROM.
I will take a backup of the current ROM and all settings, and I will follow the guide posted in this thread.
Fingers crossed, I have to leave my Desire Z for about 4 weeks and going backup to a Nokia 6300
Thx for all the answers!
Can't understand it.
I followed the guide to go back to stock rom/settings succesful.
The phone was back in it's original state (thx for the tutorial!).
When I tried to reproduce the problem with original firmware: impossible, phone was working for 100%.
Now I rerooted the phone, clockworkmod installed and so on. I reflashed my backup of Audicity B3, and now the phone is working for 100%?
I can't understand... It couldn't be a software problem, or am I wrong? The phone didn't reboot but was 'shut off' in just 1/4 second.
What should I do?
Waiting further, to know if the problem comes back...?
Wow I thought I was the only one!!! I just had this problem a few days ago. Happened if I pushed the bottom of the metal door/cover for the battery. EVERY time I just pushed slightly on it, the phone would immediately shut off.
Seems I have fixed it by just taking the battery out and cleaning off the contacts. I haven't had the problem in a while now. Will report back if it does happen again. But maybe it cleaned itself off from you removing/replacing the battery so many times? lol sound stupid I dunno.
I am a newbie in android and rooting. i previously had sony xperia x8 which i had rooted and installed custom roms. i shifted to galaxy tab 2 months ago. i had a harrowing experience with rooting since last two days. let me tell you how it all started. i rooted my device to install titanium backup. it worked fine for few days . then i installed cmw recovery and it worked fine too. no issues what so ever. there were random FC's and hanging about once or twice a day.
Then all of sudden while browsing tablet hanged and it went into bootloop. i tried everything .. from factory reset to flashing firmware. it did not work. it was stuck on samsung logo. when i had lost all hope after about 2 hours or so it started working again. i got scared and unrooted the device and removed cmw.
for two days it was working fine. Then again i had this urge to root it . i rooted it . it worked fine for a week or so .. And then all of sudden it started having force closes . TW and google play and all other apps. i got scared and removed root and cmw again. this time however i decide to take it to service center. i did not tell them i had rooted and all . just told them i was having problem with reboots and all . they gave me full warranty. After two days i got a call from them that it was not booting and they have to replace motherboard
i asked them to return the tab to me for a night and i will give it back to them in morning since it was going to take two days for board to arrive. when i checked i found it was possible to go into download mode and not recovery mode. i tried flashing firmware via odin but it was stuck at factory.img.
i read somewhere in Galaxy note forum that it was superbrick bug and i had to use .pit file to repartition. i downloaded the file from google and repartioned it and installed firmware for my country via odin.
and it worked
Now my question is ....
Should i get a motherboard replacement or demand a new tab ? or is this tab ok now ? will i get such problems in future .
om0 said:
I am a newbie in android and rooting. i previously had sony xperia x8 which i had rooted and installed custom roms. i shifted to galaxy tab 2 months ago. i had a harrowing experience with rooting since last two days. let me tell you how it all started. i rooted my device to install titanium backup. it worked fine for few days . then i installed cmw recovery and it worked fine too. no issues what so ever. there were random FC's and hanging about once or twice a day.
Then all of sudden while browsing tablet hanged and it went into bootloop. i tried everything .. from factory reset to flashing firmware. it did not work. it was stuck on samsung logo. when i had lost all hope after about 2 hours or so it started working again. i got scared and unrooted the device and removed cmw.
for two days it was working fine. Then again i had this urge to root it . i rooted it . it worked fine for a week or so .. And then all of sudden it started having force closes . TW and google play and all other apps. i got scared and removed root and cmw again. this time however i decide to take it to service center. i did not tell them i had rooted and all . just told them i was having problem with reboots and all . they gave me full warranty. After two days i got a call from them that it was not booting and they have to replace motherboard
i asked them to return the tab to me for a night and i will give it back to them in morning since it was going to take two days for board to arrive. when i checked i found it was possible to go into download mode and not recovery mode. i tried flashing firmware via odin but it was stuck at factory.img.
i read somewhere in Galaxy note forum that it was superbrick bug and i had to use .pit file to repartition. i downloaded the file from google and repartioned it and installed firmware for my country via odin.
and it worked
Now my question is ....
Should i get a motherboard replacement or demand a new tab ? or is this tab ok now ? will i get such problems in future .
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Superbick bug? Isnt that on leaked ICS kernels??
I had an issue like this a while ago it looked like my data partitions got corrupted. Just had to e2fs em
Well if they want to replace it, I'd let them. I personally don't think it was root and cwm causing your issues but that's just opinion
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nicduim said:
I had an issue like this a while ago it looked like my data partitions got corrupted. Just had to e2fs em
Well if they want to replace it, I'd let them. I personally don't think it was root and cwm causing your issues but that's just opinion
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What is e2fs? And is the OP saying there's a solution to superbrick bug?
--thanks for tolerating my lack of familiarity with repartitioning mobile devices (i still get nervous repartitioning regular HD's)
The indefinite microcosm becomes the indefinite macrocosm in a definite manner and by definite means...and vice versa.
aletheus said:
What is e2fs? And is the OP saying there's a solution to superbrick bug?
--thanks for tolerating my lack of familiarity with repartitioning mobile devices (i still get nervous repartitioning regular HD's)
The indefinite microcosm becomes the indefinite macrocosm in a definite manner and by definite means...and vice versa.
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Sorry tired but here is a link where to the thread I came across in the past
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25848578
I did something similar to what was posted in here after checking the partition thread. Looks like it's mentioned in the link. Hope it helps. Will look it over later and try to find the exact steps I had done and looked up but it did help fix my loops and they're been gone for like 2 months.
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Superbrick ?
i dont know if my tab was stuck on superbrick or not
it was stuck on factoryfs.img while odin flash. i read this thread where it mentions that if a phone is stuck on factoryfs.img then its super brick. i followed the method mentioned in this thread to get it unblocked and it worked .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656635
Nobody wants to ruin a $28 per square inch tablet, but I REALLY don't want to. So I'm just doing what research I can before the official ics update rolls out. It's looking alot sunnier knowing that the thing isn't DOOMED, even if samsung doesn't compensate for the superbrick bug...
i'd say they'd be fools not to, but we've all gotten real up close and personal with samsung and how they treat their customers with the release of the p6800, so....
Thanks ALOT guys for getting down into the trenches and figuring all this out.
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Dear all, my note 3 n9005 16G lte is currently sitting in the Samsung's service centre in Taipei city, Taiwan . Recently ive found out that my note 3 is having problems with its GPS, it wouldnt get a lock on for a long period of time (10-15 minutes), sometimes it doesnt get a lock at all, and i have tried everything restoring using odin, unrooted, gps status but no luck. So today i decided to take a visit to the local Samsung Repair centre in Taipei. The staff lady told me it will take about an hour to check for its problems and get back to me after. So i waited an hour and found out that my phone is completed dead they have lost my IMEI number due to reformatting the phone (ive tested the phone and everything seems fine except it will not detect my sim card). They give me an option to repair for a price of about 250 us dollars for placing the mother board, unfortunately due to rooting the phone ive lost all my warranties. Any help or suggestion will be extremely appreciated. Thanks in advance :crying:
My question is that are there any other ways to restore its IMEI by fixing it my self, kinda under budget right now. The phone was partial new just got it last November.
****Follow up UPDATES: Well guys the problem has been fixed(half fixed actually), lmao it turns out the guys at the samsung repair centre flashed the wrong firmware into my system have no idea how he did it, KOT49h n9005ztuenb5 this is the version he flashed into my system. After i got home from the repair centre along with my phone today i flashed the N9005ZTUENE2 via odin and voilà it all came back to normal 250 dollars saved!!!! however lost my 32 sgcard, GPS problem still exists and took them a week plus 4 pohone calls to them to get back to me. any ways i am very happy right now /cheers GO Brazil !!!!!GO Brazil GO Brazil!!!!
Tonyipad2 said:
Dear all, my note 3 n9005 16G lte is currently sitting in the Samsung's service centre in Taipei city, Taiwan . Recently ive found out that my note 3 is having problems with its GPS, it wouldnt get a lock on for a long period of time (10-15 minutes), sometimes it doesnt get a lock at all, and i have tried everything restoring using odin, unrooted, gps status but no luck. So today i decided to take a visit to the local Samsung Repair centre in Taipei. The staff lady told me it will take about an hour to check for its problems and get back to me after. So i waited an hour and found out that my phone is completed dead they have lost my IMEI number due to reformatting the phone (ive tested the phone and everything seems fine except it will not detect my sim card). They give me an option to repair for a price of about 250 us dollars for placing the mother board, unfortunately due to rooting the phone ive lost all my warranties. Any help or suggestion will be extremely appreciated. Thanks in advance :crying:
My question is that are there any other ways to restore its IMEI by fixing it my self, kinda under budget right now. The phone was partial new just got it last November.
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I had the same problem, baseband was unknown and INEI appears as null\null.
I have flashed a new factory rom and it solve my problem.
Try to download several factory roms and flash them, it migth help.
Another option is flashing this fix:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/k32kvbgb2dc9qde/Brick_Loop_FIX_afterRestoringBackup.zip
Good luck.
sagytb said:
I had the same problem, baseband was unknown and INEI appears as null\null.
I have flashed a new factory rom and it solve my problem.
Try to download several factory roms and flash them, it migth help.
Another option is flashing this fix:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/k32kvbgb2dc9qde/Brick_Loop_FIX_afterRestoringBackup.zip
Good luck.
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Oh god thanks bro will give that a try
****Follow up UPDATES: Well guys the problem has been fixed(half fixed actually), lmao it turns out the guys at the samsung repair centre flashed the wrong firmware into my system have no idea how he did it, KOT49h n9005ztuenb5 this is the version he flashed into my system. After i got home from the repair centre along with my phone today i flashed the N9005ZTUENE2 via odin and voilà it all came back to normal 250 dollars saved!!!! however lost my 32 sgcard, GPS problem still exists and took them a week plus 4 pohone calls to them to get back to me. any ways i am very happy right now /cheers GO Brazil !!!!!GO Brazil GO Brazil!!!!
Tonyipad2 said:
****Follow up UPDATES: Well guys the problem has been fixed(half fixed actually), lmao it turns out the guys at the samsung repair centre flashed the wrong firmware into my system have no idea how he did it, KOT49h n9005ztuenb5 this is the version he flashed into my system. After i got home from the repair centre along with my phone today i flashed the N9005ZTUENE2 via odin and voilà it all came back to normal 250 dollars saved!!!! however lost my 32 sgcard, GPS problem still exists and took them a week plus 4 pohone calls to them to get back to me. any ways i am very happy right now /cheers GO Brazil !!!!!GO Brazil GO Brazil!!!!
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Hi there.
I follow this thread, but it is quite disappointing on the Samsung side.
I fully understand that you have rooted the device, and actually your warranty has been voided (legally).
BUT, from your story, unfortunately, it is not your mistake mate. Yes, you brought the device to be repaired regarding the GPS issue.
BUT again, not your mistakes to make it NULL IMEI. By right, the service center does the mistakes, they have to fix it without charges.
Anyway, glad to know you have fix back your IMEI by flashing the same firmware. congratulations
The perfect storm...
I broke my phone about a month ago, bought a hold over on craigslist until I fixed my phone. Left the phone stock and yesterday sold it to a truck driver via craigslsit. I did a factory reset handed over all good to go. He is now out of town
This morning he calls me and says the phone is locked in TWRP and is politely upset. Confirmed the phone worked when I gave it to him. I did not install or root this phone so the crap ass before me must have and did it and not mention it. The guy has no clue what happened, went to bed fine, woke up and stuck looping in recovery.
I tried to walk him through it. Reboot, says it lands right back at TWRP. He seems up to the idea of using a tool or utility to flash it.
I found this thread [Guide] Unroot/Unbrick - flash official factory firmware with LG Mobile Support Tool but it does not seem to cover the Verizon variant.
Can anyone point me to some instructions I can send this guy on getting this thing back to stock?
Bought a OTG from China, used one, left plugged into the phone as I slept...don't know if it's the cause of my troubles to start happening, or if the Twitter app I installed at the same time is the cause.
The phone became TROUBLE and I eventually decided to try going back to stock. I did manage to get stock on but couldn't use because the phone immediately would display the dreaded "Unfortunately.......", which pops up so often that you cannot do anything. So I decided to do a full wipe from factory recovery. Since then, the phone wont power on at all! I have left it to charge overnight, all day, NO POWER!!!! I have read many similar accounts. I lost as what to do! I had ZERO power issuses before. Saw a vid where a guy says the power switch is faulty. He ordered one from eBay and replaced it. 1) I don't think it's the case. 2) don't think I wanna try soldering, etc.
Any help would be appreciated!!!
I have the 910W8 from Rogers in Canada. ODIN flashed with no problems (used the latest firmware from sammobiles for my phone) but would get that error after the flash, causing it to be unuseable. I flashed a second time and same thing. That's when I decided to do a wipe from recovery. Now it won't boot up.
Wow! NOBODY?!
kojam said:
I have the 910W8 from Rogers in Canada. ODIN flashed with no problems (used the latest firmware from sammobiles for my phone) but would get that error after the flash, causing it to be unuseable. I flashed a second time and same thing. That's when I decided to do a wipe from recovery. Now it won't boot up.
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Cannot believe nobody has replied. I did get one of the usb things from a very nice member (i have to register myself as someone who now has one) but the phone is still not working.
Having done some confusing reading to try to fix mine but don't think i can.
Wondering if there's a good, reliable, store in the GTA (north end preferrably) that can do repair with JTAG? Wondering if there's any hope in recovering this phone. I get the impression that there's a good chance JTAG repair can bring it back to life.