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Selling vibrant that's stuck at pc-!-phone screen

hey guys,
I have a basically new vibrant (no scratches or scuffs) that is stuck in the phone-!-pc screen after using odin to flash a new firmware. I'm kinda new at this and am tired of trying to figure out how to get it working.
I'm willing to sell it for low price.. if there's anyone interested hit me up at [email protected]
Thanks
Ryan
EDIT: Sold. mods you can delete this thread

ryanolson7 said:
hey guys,
I have a basically new vibrant (no scratches or scuffs) that is stuck in the phone-!-pc screen after using odin to flash a new firmware. I'm kinda new at this and am tired of trying to figure out how to get it working.
I'm willing to sell it for low price.. if there's anyone interested hit me up at [email protected]
Thanks
Ryan
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Pull out the battery.
Wait 30 seconds.
Put USB cable in.
Hold both volume buttons.
Put battery in while holding both volume buttons.
Your in download mode.
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you can also pull battery, put battery back in. hold vol+/vol- while plugging in USB, that might work too.

I'll take it off your hands for $100

i dont blame you, but remember the vibrant is almost unbrickable. if you cann see pc screen or charging status icon your good. keep trying then sell it for max profit

Ill send you 110.
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Sell it full price dude people r gonna try to scam u but u can fix this in 5 minutes.
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well you dont need to pull a battery either... you just hold the up down volume toggle along with the power but and when the screen goes black immediately remove your finger from the power button while still holding up down volume toggle. this will place u back into download mode. don't sell your phone because of frustration. you cant brick this phone.

120 right now. Me me me!
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And how is that a scam? Person offers deal, person accepts deal. Sounds more like capitalism to me....
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$121.00 . We're going by Price is Right rules, right?

monstah_rain said:
$121.00 . We're going by Price is Right rules, right?
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**suspense**
**can't take it anymore**
$150!!!!! And that's my final offer!

sent my payment
Hey Ryan - thanks for selling the phone to me for $130.
You received my PayPal payment and I am still waiting to receive tracking information.
Under normal circumstances, a message like this would be more appropriate to send through private channels, but I have tried emailing you for three days and calling you back at your google voice number without success. You were very easy to get a hold of before I paid, but seem to have vanished the moment I requested tracking information.
I hope you are not up to something sneaky. I assume with your online presence on twitter, in your blog, and elsewhere, that you're not trying to deceive me, and that you've simply decided to take a break from the internet and from your phone for a few days.
Hmm, except your twitter account was updated just hours ago?
Further googling shows you're actually an Android Developer. Therefore, you probably pretty much know this phone is permanently bricked, but when we talked you came across as though you weren't familiar with procedures for recovering from a soft brick. I find that difficult to believe given your Android experience.
Send me my brick, or send me a refund.
I bought a bricked phone, yes, but right now I feel like my brain is bricked for buying it.
Due diligence folks, due diligence.

I'm on my third one. Just call tmobile tell them your not sure what happened. It's a known issue and if it's in good physical condition they will send you a new one.
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Pancake345 said:
I'm on my third one. Just call tmobile tell them your not sure what happened. It's a known issue and if it's in good physical condition they will send you a new one.
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You missed something here man the OP sold the phone to the person above you and is acting like he's going burn him by not giving him the phone he promised to sell. Sad hope OP does what's right.
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Pancake345 said:
I'm on my third one. Just call tmobile tell them your not sure what happened. It's a known issue and if it's in good physical condition they will send you a new one.
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Do you have to buy it from tmobile to get this privilege?

tonie972 said:
Do you have to buy it from tmobile to get this privilege?
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Don't mention that you didn't but from tmo. As long as it show you are using a vibrant on there system they will give the replacement.
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Don't give up cuz I was in the same position. Plus the best way to learned is from your mistakes. YouTube & Google good tools to learn. YouTube give you visualization & Google the reading understanding part. I believe you can fix your phone no need to sale it. One thing you need to be patient if not you are not going to learn. Without being patient is important in doing all this learning about Android OS. Modifying, rooting & flash customs roms.
Me... sometimes I want to take my hair off cuz it gets to be but I remember to be patient.

Lucky you that he sold the phone to you.

falafelfro said:
Hey Ryan - thanks for selling the phone to me for $130.
You received my PayPal payment and I am still waiting to receive tracking information.
Under normal circumstances, a message like this would be more appropriate to send through private channels, but I have tried emailing you for three days and calling you back at your google voice number without success. You were very easy to get a hold of before I paid, but seem to have vanished the moment I requested tracking information.
I hope you are not up to something sneaky. I assume with your online presence on twitter, in your blog, and elsewhere, that you're not trying to deceive me, and that you've simply decided to take a break from the internet and from your phone for a few days.
Hmm, except your twitter account was updated just hours ago?
Further googling shows you're actually an Android Developer. Therefore, you probably pretty much know this phone is permanently bricked, but when we talked you came across as though you weren't familiar with procedures for recovering from a soft brick. I find that difficult to believe given your Android experience.
Send me my brick, or send me a refund.
I bought a bricked phone, yes, but right now I feel like my brain is bricked for buying it.
Due diligence folks, due diligence.
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That's what you get for trying to rip him the **** off.

So odin will not work for neither my computers.. and bricked.

So i accidently bricked my phone trying to update my modwm to the newest froyo one.
Now I keep trying too odin back to stock but it wont work. Ive bricked before and used my laptop and it restored but now it doesnt work on my laptop nor my desktop. They either both say the device is unknown or it connects and when I try to flash it either freezes on file analyses or param.
Im going to go to the sprint store later today and try to get a new one. When I try to turn my phone on i get the little phone arrow computer sign. Do you think if I tell them that my phone froze so I took out the battery and that happened they will believe me? Idk how much of rooting the sprint employees know. Should I deny everything?

You will likely need to tell the tech that you had some bugs (force closes or something) and tried to do a reset through recovery mode and ended up with a non-working phone. Techs will likely know a bit about rooting and roms, especially if they have their own android phone. They also know that rooting and 3rd party roms void your warranty and they are supposed to deny claims where the phone was running 3rd party roms.

Can they tell if I rooted it just by the phone to computer sign? I went to a sprint store earlier and they told me to go to the corperate store because he didnt know what that meant.. Also I bought it from bestbuy so if sprint doesnt cover it would bestbuy?

sasha101 said:
Can they tell if I rooted it just by the phone to computer sign? I went to a sprint store earlier and they told me to go to the corperate store because he didnt know what that meant.. Also I bought it from bestbuy so if sprint doesnt cover it would bestbuy?
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Bestbuy won't cover it. And if you plan on exchanging the phone, you'll have to go to the Sprint Corporate center. I bricked my phone the other day and it was only a $35 exchange for a new Samsung Epic. I only had to wait a day for a new one. They won't give you a new battery or SD card, so make sure to hold on to those.
Sorry about your phone.

If the phone is off can you hold the 1 button on the keyboard and power button and does a yellow downloading screen come on?
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tphillips78 said:
If the phone is off can you hold the 1 button on the keyboard and power button and does a yellow downloading screen come on?
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I don't think it would matter, truthfully. If the computer doesn't recognize the phone to begin with, putting the phone into download mode won't have any effect.

acer1096xxx said:
I don't think it would matter, truthfully. If the computer doesn't recognize the phone to begin with, putting the phone into download mode won't have any effect.
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Different usb cable maybe? If sasha101 can get into download mode the phone isn't bricked and there is at least still hope. Maybe re downloading odin and other files as well. Just a thought.
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I usually have to rotate between the different pits (512, 513, 528, and no pit) before I can get it to succesfully flash, so this is something you can try.

I would definitly try a different cable. I wasn't able to use odin to load 2.1 and in fact I bricked (I think). Tried 2 different cables and tried someone else's pc. NO go. Went back to the best set of directions I had found, redownloaded all the software needed, borrowed my wife's cable and started over. Everything worked like I was told it should. I really believe I had cables. Will try to find a new good one for the next time I try Odin.
Good luck and Marry Christmas.
George MacDonald
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Randyshear on youtube explains this process flawlessly very informative
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Umm.. if its not recognizing your phone you either didn't download the drivers; or they didn't install right. So.. (re)install them..
If this doesn't work its your cable; you'll need a new one.
Also; android isn't bricked until you can't get into download mode anymore.
Just because it doesn't boot doesn't mean its not bricked.
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Samsung Vibrant Hard Bricked, Any solutions?

Hi, I just tried flashing an official froyo rom for Odin3 and it was a sucess, but after it suceeded, my phone just shut off on its own. I tried pressing the power button and nothing happens. I have also tried many methods such as taking out battery, hold volume down+up buttons, then plug usb and put back battery. Another method that I tried from my first hard-brick was holding the Volume up and power button then putting in back the battery which does not work on the second break. Are there any solutions other than using a JIG? Thanks for the responses and help.

The best way to fix it is to go to a T-Mobile store, tell them you flashed your phone to a custom rom and everything went perfect, until it rebooted. Then ask them to exchange it for a new vibrant at no charge even though you voided your warranty. Then ask them if they sell the jigs also because that might come in handy the next time you brick your vibrant.

djquick said:
The best way to fix it is to go to a T-Mobile store, tell them you flashed your phone to a custom rom and everything went perfect, until it rebooted. Then ask them to exchange it for a new vibrant at no charge even though you voided your warranty. Then ask them if they sell the jigs also because that might come in handy the next time you brick your vibrant.
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The problem is I don't have warranty for this phone, I'm not sure if they would exchange it.

You didn't get it....hmmmm.

TheSneakerWhore said:
You didn't get it....hmmmm.
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I would've got the warranty but my parents bought for me lol, the warranty cost alot when it first came out so my parents didn't want it

snowball34 said:
I would've got the warranty but my parents bought for me lol, the warranty cost alot when it first came out so my parents didn't want it
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No, it's a lil more snarky than that--he was BS'ing you all the way.
JTAG might do the trick.

TheSneakerWhore said:
No, it's a lil more snarky than that--he was BS'ing you all the way.
JTAG might do the trick.
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So they are no solutions on how to un-brick my phone other than jigging it?

Try removing everything and open ODIN , plug the usb cable in to your pc & phone... hold down the volume down & power button & put the battery in...just to make sure you tried all combinations...
In actuality, you should do the steps above but hold the volume up & down buttons and put the battery in to get to download mode.
You can also try and remove everything, have odin open, plug the usb into your pc only, hold the volume up&down buttons, put the battery in(keeping the buttons pressed) and then plug the usb into the phone.
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if you can't add to the conversation, then move along and stop bashing someone looking for help...just sayin..

I hard bricked my Vibrant about two months ago when I tried to odin the boot loaders and I didn't buy a warranty when I bought the phone. Samsung gives you a one year warranty on your vibrant from the day of purchase. Since Vibrants were released last July, you should still have the manufacturer's warranty. Just call up Samsung and tell them your phone didn't turn on after you tried updating to 2.2 from 2.1. They will have you send in it in and they'll fix it free of charge. As long as the phone is a true hard brick they won't know you messed with it since they won't be able to turn it on. This process worked for me.
Edit. Make sure you say that you tried updating through Kies.
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+1, to the reply above.
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onajjar1012 said:
I hard bricked my Vibrant about two months ago when I tried to odin the boot loaders and I didn't buy a warranty when I bought the phone. Samsung gives you a one year warranty on your vibrant from the day of purchase. Since Vibrants were released last July, you should still have the manufacturer's warranty. Just call up Samsung and tell them your phone didn't turn on after you tried updating to 2.2 from 2.1. They will have you send in it in and they'll fix it free of charge. As long as the phone is a true hard brick they won't know you messed with it since they won't be able to turn it on. This process worked for me.
Edit. Make sure you say that you tried updating through Kies.
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So Samsung automatically gives my Vibrant a one year warranty starting the day I bought it?

Yes. All new phones come with a one year warranty including Samsung phones.
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power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers

Hidden download mode on Vibrant?

Guys. Just playing around with my used Vibrant. I flashed it with a few odin variations from I9000 (noob me). I guess you know what happens. It failed to boot up with a scary screen of Phone-!-PC sign (of course Odin didnt complain at all).
I tried so many combinations of keys (in panic) to get it to download mode and nothing worked. That horrible sign would just be there as soon as the phone is reset thru all methods...(3-buttons, 2-buttons, battery pullin, usb pullin, hair pullin)
However, then I noticed Odin screen say "Added!" message with a yellow comport sign while I was still trying in panic...and feeling hopeless as the screen is still with the deadly sign Phone-!-PC.
So I thought it probably was a fluke since there's no Android Download sign on screen... I decided to push my luck and flashed a different version with Odin. It worked!
Just a tid bid to share in case you hit this condition. If Odin sees the fone, you might have a chance.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention how it gets to the "Added" message on Odin. I hit power button and reset fone until it comes up. Then hit vol +/- buttons at once. Odin would says "Added!" message... you're good to go.

This is well known by most of the community and has been covered multiple times.
No troll intended.
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Lol when I saw the pc to phone sign I immediately bought a $15 jig and didn't notice that it was in download mode still until the day I received the jig
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Rofl, Alan, fail, you noob. <3
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Duh for me. Now I'm at a worse nightmare. I dont think its been solved. While I was successfully flashed the Vibrant to new 2.3.4 firmware. I got mixed up with my 2nd Vibrant by plugin the cable to my SGS4G. As I had laid it on the same work table while trying to get SIM card out for testing. It is hard-bricked!
No power activity no lighting whatsoever after the successful flash. So... i set out to build a USB JIG... after many trials. The JIG worked well on the Vibrant everytime, yet still not able to resurrect the SGS4G...
God damn these fones are almost exactly the same. Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?

theexel said:
Rofl, Alan, fail, you noob. <3
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I had a blonde moment!
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bricked1t said:
Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?
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I'm really Stephen Hawking. I can build you one for $550,238,295,588,299.99 OR you can just buy yourself a new phone. I think the new phone is a much wiser option since it's 2,751,191,477,941 times cheaper.
But really... just because you're phone is a paper weight doesn't mean you can use the parts. Just look at what you have. The 4g camera itself is at least $25. There are people that want to use the battery cover and spend at least $10 just for that. Then there are other things such as the digitizer, etc. Look at this here. This person is selling his/her phone for $100 as a broken device. Just some advice.

bricked1t said:
Duh for me. Now I'm at a worse nightmare. I dont think its been solved. While I was successfully flashed the Vibrant to new 2.3.4 firmware. I got mixed up with my 2nd Vibrant by plugin the cable to my SGS4G. As I had laid it on the same work table while trying to get SIM card out for testing. It is hard-bricked!
No power activity no lighting whatsoever after the successful flash. So... i set out to build a USB JIG... after many trials. The JIG worked well on the Vibrant everytime, yet still not able to resurrect the SGS4G...
God damn these fones are almost exactly the same. Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?
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You can try selling it on ebay or CL. I've seen some listings there. But before you do that, PM me first.

Got it back
Hehe. Yeah thanks u all posting good advices. I did search around for options for a bit while keep marveling it on my desk... just a beautiful piece of gadget.
Parting it out, the screen would be $100+ already. I saw some on eBay $115~$130 range. And quite some time and effort to get it sold....
I registered on Samsung with the IMEI number, it shows still in-warranty. Talked to the tech, obviously it's a user service issue since I caused the brick. They say its a flat-fee service of $75. Whoa! ... got my heart jumped again. I was about to send it in... then I saw some CL items with cracked screens (of the 3G model)... bought one for $45 and decide to take the risks.
You know what I gonna do. ...I gut the SGS3G and use the screen/frame of my dead SGS4G. Of course, this'd be a downgrade dead 4G->3G. I tested the cables/plugs & parts (mainboard doesnt fit yet), put in battery, hit power button and voila! it came to life!
The circuit board of the 3G doesn't fit flush into the 4G screen frame. it has 2 protruding thingy about 1mm high... Just clip off those 2 metal markers and replace the 3.5mm jack/earpeice/light sensor assy over from the 3G and its all perfect again (the plug is slightly/wider & different in the 4G model, though layout/design & fit is exactly the same).
PHEW! A hasty second costs me $45 and quite a few hours on the net. I thanks to this forum for most of the help. This is just great.
P.S: The flat-fee service is for ANYthing except screen replacement which is around $165 parts & labor (in case some of u wonder, i did too since some ppl selling really cheap busted screen SGS3G out there)

[Q] Can I replace build.prop with Stock Recovery or Odin

Ok, I've looked around for the answer and from what I've ready, I don't think I can do this but I want to make sure I properly understand what I have read.
My phone came stock with AT&T's MF3, i was able to successfully root and debloat the phone without issues. I was very careful the entire process and everything works perfectly. But then what did I do? I modded the build.prop (it was late and I was tired... I shouldn't have done it) file without thinking "I don't have a recovery method if this fails"... I KNEW there was no MF3 firmware available for recovery in Kies, and I knew no one has found an workable solution in Odin... But these didn't cross my mind that night. So, when I rebooted my phone, it would go past the samsung boot logo but never show AT&T's logo. The screen goes black after the Samsung logo, the remains black. After about 10 - 20 seconds the LED at the top left of the phone will turn on blue and throb. If I plug my phone into a USB port, it will try to install drivers as "MTP USB Device" but fail. The longer I leave the phone the warmer it gets regardless of whether or not it's plugged in.
I can boot into Download Mode and Stock Recovery
I've tested the drivers with my wife's phone and everything works as expected
I can boot into Stock Recovery and sideload files (I tried to flash an OTA file another user hosted here, it was sent via ADB sideload but it failed due to my debloating the /system/apps folder)
I've tried using stock recovery to flash a zip file to replace build.prop, but failed (not signed by samsung)
I've successfully flashed the "MF3_BTL_FIX" file another user created to kick a person out of the yellow triangle, when Kies fails.
I've tried best buy, but the samsung specialist will not even plug my phone into their computer
I have a backup build.prop, I just can't figure out how to get it on my phone without a custom recovery.
So, is there any way to replace the build.prop file with Odin/Heimdall or flashing or sideloading something from stock recovery?
My wife has the same phone, so I can also get files from her phone if I need to.
Any help or advice (even if it's "you have to wait for MF3 to be released in kies") would be greatly appreciated.

I'd find another bestbuy and see if you have better luck there.

jd1639 said:
I'd find another bestbuy and see if you have better luck there.
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I think this is my best option too, but the next closest best buy is 1.5 hours from this one.... Getting time to go there will be the hardest part for me... that's what I get for living in the middle of nowhere...

dustyhughes said:
I think this is my best option too, but the next closest best buy is 1.5 hours from this one.... Getting time to go there will be the hardest part for me... that's what I get for living in the middle of nowhere...
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Road trip!

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Road trip!
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HAHAHA! seriously! "Come on Kids, we're going on a field trip for science... COMPUTER science!"
But really, I may be heading out there Friday. They actually have 2 full stores there and 2 "mobile" stores.... I guess I'll see if I can get someone in one of those places to help.

Did you try a factory reset in Stock recovery?
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graydiggy said:
Did you try a factory reset in Stock recovery?
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Unfortunately, yes... It formats /data and /cache... it doesn't touch /system at all (from what I could tell), so the build.prop isn't restored to factory.
What stinks is, I believe ALL i have to do is replace that ONE file! Granted it's a major file... but still, ONE file, keeping me from booting to the OS. I've even been tempted to send it to one of the guys that does the jtag repairs, but to be honest I don't know enough about what they do to know if it would even help or if I could trust them (I assume I could from what little I've read)...
I may just have to go best buy hunting.

dustyhughes said:
Unfortunately, yes... It formats /data and /cache... it doesn't touch /system at all (from what I could tell), so the build.prop isn't restored to factory.
What stinks is, I believe ALL i have to do is replace that ONE file! Granted it's a major file... but still, ONE file, keeping me from booting to the OS. I've even been tempted to send it to one of the guys that does the jtag repairs, but to be honest I don't know enough about what they do to know if it would even help or if I could trust them (I assume I could from what little I've read)...
I may just have to go best buy hunting.
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I assume you're referring to mobiletechvideos.com and I didn't use them for jtag however I used them to fix a power button and they are awesome!
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HiTideBlastoise said:
I assume you're referring to mobiletechvideos.com and I didn't use them for jtag however I used them to fix a power button and they are awesome!
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I know I've heard of mobiletechvideos before, and I know they would be trust worthy, I've heard GREAT things about them... The other place I saw unbricking phones I ran across on youtube, they have a link to an ebay store (if you search ebay for "Unbrick Service Hard Bricked Samsung Galaxy S4 i337" you'll find them). They are actually a whole lot cheaper than mobiletechvideos, which is one of the reasons I looked into them and also why I'm suspicious. Not to discredit them at all, because I personally don't know what kind of work they do.
I don't even know if Jtag will allow them to fix my build.prop file. The ebay place says if the phone doesn't boot normally after doing a repair, they will restore the latest stock ROM and since i'm on MF3, well... They couldn't do much. It also makes me suspicious that in their ebay description it says:
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By purchasing this auction you agree to the following.
1. Jtag service will avoid your warranty.
2. There is no guaranty 100% to fixed your phone, but we do our best.
3. If the phone can not fix, we will refund only $ 30.00, minus $5.80 for shipping cost.
4. If you claim for any problem after successful unbricked the phone, you need to send it back for inspection. Because we tested it before ship.
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I mean, some of the wording used makes me uncomfortable... I could just be paranoid, the address on the auction IS Carrollton, Texas after all

Just thought I'd update everyone... never found a fix myself, but I did drive to the next nearest best buy with my phone in the yellow triangle mode and the guy said he knew exactly what to do. He was very friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful... He even knew how to get the phone in download mode We talked a bit, he never asked about what I may have done to the phone, but during our conversation I had told him I had backed everything up and he kind of winked and said he would take care of me. It seemed like he knew what happened, but he didn't say anything, and the "head Samsung rep", his boss was right there talking with us too. He did a full restore, and I was up and running in 10 minutes. If you get a friendly and knowledgeable employee it's pretty painless.
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This is great to hear. Glad you got it fixed. That road trip was worth it

jd1639 said:
This is great to hear. Glad you got it fixed. That road trip was worth it
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Thanks! I'm really glad to get it back. The road trip was well worth it. My wife and I decided to make a date out of it, we went to a nice restaurant while we were out without the kids, something they wouldn't have enjoyed and we wouldn't normally go to with them
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